Judd Apatow

Made films the shows talk about.

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Counted as producer, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they produced, which the two lists below run through too: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006); Knocked Up (2007); Superbad (2007); Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007); Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008); Pineapple Express (2008); Step Brothers (2008); Funny People (2009); Get Him to the Greek (2010); Bridesmaids (2011); Girls (TV) (2012); Neighbors (2014); Old School era comedies. Count them as director (6 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Walk the Line (2005): 2 lines

  1. unmapped (parody target) · through Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), which they produced: Walk the Line ⇒ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (the host's read). Amanda argues effective parody must work from something that works, and watched the two back to back; the buzz-saw brother incident mirrors Walk Hard's setup.
    “for something, to be an effective parody, it has to be working from something that actually works.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:04:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (parody of) · through Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), which they produced: Walk the Line ⇒ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (the host's read). Walk Hard is a beat-for-beat demolition of Walk the Line (and Ray), pairing contempt with affection.
    “it is such a perfect note for note, beat for beat, cliche for cliche, demolition of this kind of movie, with just the right amount of contempt and affection”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:28:10 · Adam Nayman (0.90 sure it was them)

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004): 1 line

  1. unmapped (title formula) · through Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), which they produced: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy ⇒ Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (the host's read). The Ballad of Ricky Bobby echoes the Legend of Ron Burgundy naming pattern of the 2006 era.
    “Honestly, that's a 2006 thing is titling movies like this.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:02:38 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40 sure it was them)

Days of Thunder (1990): 1 line

  1. unmapped (parody target) · through Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), which they produced: Days of Thunder ⇒ Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (the host's read). The film is not a direct parody but spoofs movies like Days of Thunder; Reilly was in both.
    “I don't think this movie is like a direct parody of that, but it is parodying movies like Days of Thunder.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:05:52 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50 sure it was them)

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Get Him to the Greek (2010), which they produced: Forgetting Sarah Marshall ⇒ Get Him to the Greek (the host's read). Get Him to the Greek is the quasi-sequel/spinoff of Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
    “They made kind of a spinoff.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 2:09:29 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Happy Gilmore (1996): 1 line

  1. unmapped (shared gag) · through Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), which they produced: Happy Gilmore ⇒ Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (the host's read). Ricky Bobby signing a woman's chest echoes Happy Gilmore.
    “there's a scene when Ricky Bobby signs a woman's chest and it's exactly like Happy Gilmore when he signs the woman.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:15:11 · Craig Horlbeck (0.70 sure it was them)

Knocked Up (2007): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Bridesmaids (2011), which they produced: Knocked Up ⇒ Bridesmaids (the host's read). Bill frames Bridesmaids as Apatow's answer to the criticism of the female lead in Knocked Up.
    “And bridesmaids is the mic trap, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:11:00 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)

Mean Girls (2004): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they produced: Mean Girls ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read). Bill thinks Mean Girls may have been the first to figure out 'more funny than romantic, but also having the romance'.
    “I feel like mean girls might have been the 1st one that figured out.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:03:37 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)

Ray (2004): 1 line

  1. unmapped (parody of) · through Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), which they produced: Ray ⇒ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (the host's read). Walk Hard arrived in the wake of Ray and Walk the Line and skewers their clichés.
    “that film coming out in the wake of things like Ray, and especially walk the line”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:27:51 · Adam Nayman (0.90 sure it was them)

Starting Over: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they produced: Starting Over ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read). Bill offers Starting Over (Burt Reynolds, a love triangle in Boston) as an early prototype of Apatow movies.
    “It's got, it feels like a very early prototype of these Apatow movies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:05:59 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)

The Doors (1991): 1 line

  1. industry (marketing mimicry) · through Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), which they produced: The Doors ⇒ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (the host's read). Walk Hard's poster of John C. Reilly was modeled on Val Kilmer in The Doors so it would pass as a real biopic.
    “the poster of John C. Riley is modeled on Val Kilmer in the doors, right?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:30:27 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)

Weird Science (1985): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Superbad (2007), which they produced: Weird Science ⇒ Superbad (the host's read). Weird Science's ending was 'completely ripped off by super bad'.
    “Uh, really satisfying ending, then just completely ripped off by super bad.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:42:03 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

When Harry Met Sally (1989): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they produced: When Harry Met Sally ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read). Bill dates the rom-com boom as starting with When Harry Met Sally and running to the mid 2000s, with Knocked Up on the other side of the shift.
    “It starts with when Harry Met Sally.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:03:12 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Elvis (2022): 2 lines

  1. unmapped (prefigured by) · through Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), which they produced: Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ⇒ Elvis (the host's read). A scene in Elvis (the subject thinking over his life before going on stage) is almost beat for beat preceded by Walk Hard.
    “there is a scene that is almost beat for beat preceded by walk hard 15 years ago.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:26:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (parody of a parody) · through Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), which they produced: Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ⇒ Elvis (the host's read). Elvis seems to parody Walk Hard's parody of women ripping open shirts at the star.
    “somehow this movie is doing a parody of the Walkhard parody of the scene of like women like busting open.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:09:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)

This Is 40: 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they produced: Knocked Up ⇒ This Is 40 (the host's read). Bill says halfway through the movie it becomes a Rudd and Mann movie, which becomes This Is 40.
    “the movie pretty much becomes like a Rudd and man movie by the end of it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:12:53 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them)
  2. programming (programming) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they produced: Knocked Up ⇒ This Is 40 (the host's read). Bill says the sequel is a more complicated movie than Knocked Up; Juliet says she doesn't like it as much.
    “This is 40, that it was looming, which I think is a more complicated movie than this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:44:31 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013): 1 line

  1. unmapped (repeated joke) · through Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), which they produced: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ⇒ Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (the host's read). Anchorman 2 recycled the pretending-to-be-blind gag from Talladega's paralyzed scene.
    “And like, that's just the Talladega paralyzed scene.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:21:14 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)

Bridesmaids (2011): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they produced: Knocked Up ⇒ Bridesmaids (the host's read). Bill frames Bridesmaids as Apatow's answer to the criticism of the female lead in Knocked Up.
    “And bridesmaids is the mic trap, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:11:00 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)

Get Him to the Greek (2010): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), which they produced: Forgetting Sarah Marshall ⇒ Get Him to the Greek (the host's read). Get Him to the Greek is the quasi-sequel/spinoff of Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
    “They made kind of a spinoff.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 2:09:29 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Jay-Z: 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), which they produced: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ⇒ Jay-Z (the host's read). A host theorizes the Jay-Z and Beyonce song "Apeshit" (video shot in the Louvre) only exists because this film made "ape shit" a thing.
    “I do not think that Beyonce and Jay-Z make a song called Apeshit without this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:33:15 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)

Misery (1990): 1 line

  1. programming (programming) · through Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), which they produced: Forgetting Sarah Marshall ⇒ Misery (the host's read). Dracula the Musical award is borrowed from Sarah Marshall; given to the Misery books.
    “We relate, so in, in, uh, forgetting Sarah Marshall.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman · 0:57:17 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

This Is the End (2013): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Pineapple Express (2008), which they produced: Pineapple Express ⇒ This Is the End (the host's read). A weird spiritual sequel to Pineapple Express; Pineapple Express is the double feature pick.
    “this is kind of like a weird spiritual sequel to Pineapple Express anyway.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:03:18 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

Weird Science (1985): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Superbad (2007), which they produced: Superbad ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read). Weird Science may be the biggest influence on Superbad.
    “Like, I feel like, I don't know which was the biggest influence on Superbad.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:07:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Producing (17) everyone in producing

Directing (6) everyone in directing

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (6)

  1. career (career): Judd Apatow → Knocked Up. Bill lists everything Apatow produced 2005 to 2011, the best comedy producing run anyone has had.
    “That's got to be the best comedy producing run anyone's had.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:10:54 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Judd Apatow → Girls (TV). Juliet says during the run Apatow was developing Girls for HBO.
    “he was developing girls, which then came out on HBO in 2012.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:15:37 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Judd Apatow → Lena Dunham. Juliet says the dude-movie run gave way to Bridesmaids and launching Lena Dunham's career.
    “after doing all these movies with the dudes, gave way to bridesmaids”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:15:44 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Judd Apatow → Superbad. Craig says Apatow gave all these guys their own movie, such as Superbad for Jonah Hill.
    “He like gave Jonah Hill his movie super bad.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:17:35 · Craig Horlbeck (0.80 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Judd Apatow → Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Craig says Apatow then gave Segel his own movie in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
    “Then he gives Siegel it and forgetting Sir Marshall.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:17:37 · Craig Horlbeck (0.80 sure it was them)
  6. career (career): Judd Apatow → Girls (TV). Juliet says Apatow took the criticism to heart, evolving into Girls and Bridesmaids.
    “I also do think he took the criticism to heart.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:28:11 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Judd Apatow → Nora Ephron. Juliet says the rom-com era of female writers like Nora Ephron and Nancy Meyers was changed when Apatow arrived with his crew.
    “And then Judd Appatow comes to town with his crew and changes that.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:05:09 · Juliet Litman (0.75 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Judd Apatow → The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Bill says Apatow put idiot 22-year-old men into a rom-com, a trick he also used in 40-Year-Old Virgin.
    “Judd figured out how to like put them in a rom-com and make it work.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:08:05 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

industry (2)

  1. industry (industry): Judd Apatow → Adam McKay. Bill says McKay and Ferrell were doing the same improvise-and-keep-rolling thing at the same time as Apatow.
    “Adam McKay and Will Ferrell and those guys are kind of doing the same thing at the same time.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:10:25 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Neighbors → Judd Apatow. Neighbors is the Apatow track: low scale, high premise, comedians, cheap and opened big.
    “The the Appatau track.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:43:08 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Judd Apatow → Ivan Reitman. Bill asks whether Apatow is, for Craig's generation, what Ivan Reitman and Lorne Michaels were for him.
    “people like Ivan Reitman, just really revering them as I was like in college”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:17:14 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)

people (6)

  1. people (people): Mike Nichols → Judd Apatow. Chris could have met Nichols through Apatow to talk about early improv.
    “and he mentioned that he had just met Mike Nichols.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 1:19:52 · Chris Gethard (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Judd Apatow → Freaks and Geeks (TV). A speaker notes the cast had worked together before in Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared.
    “Well, they were in freaks and geeks and undeclared together too.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:09:50 · Juliet Litman (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): Paul Rudd → Judd Apatow. Speakers read Rudd's character as a proxy for Judd, with Apatow's own wife and kids on screen.
    “It's his wife and his 2 kids, but with Paul Rudd not playing him”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:13:19 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. people (people): Judd Apatow → Lena Dunham. Juliet recalls spending a day with Apatow in 2009 where he always named Lena Dunham as his favorite in comedy, right after Tiny Furniture.
    “without a doubt, always said Lena Dunham.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:28:27 · Juliet Litman (0.85 sure it was them)
  5. people (people): Martin Starr → Judd Apatow. Starr, from the Apatow TV circle, is cast as Amadeus Cho, a major Asian character in the comics.
    “Martin Starr is in this movie and he plays a character.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:43:22 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. people (people): Shauna Robertson → Judd Apatow. Robertson, now married to Norton, produced the early Apatow comedies and is compared to Polly Platt as a quiet shaper of a comedy movement.
    “She's like a quiet, like she's like the Polly Platt of the Appital comedy movement,”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:12:34 · Griffin or David (0.35 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (produced by): Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story → Judd Apatow. Walk Hard was produced and shaped by Judd Apatow, in his big year of Knocked Up and Superbad; one of his better credits.
    “it is produced by, and shaped in a good way by, by, by Judd Appital, right?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:30:12 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (verdict): Judd Apatow → The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Hall of Fame plaque for Apatow: 40-Year-Old Virgin vs Freaks and Geeks vs this movie.
    “I think I would go with a 40-year-old virgin, but this is close.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:12:17 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Judd Apatow → Freaks and Geeks (TV). Hall of Fame plaque for Apatow: another speaker goes with Freaks and Geeks.
    “I think he would go with freaks and geeks.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:12:22 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Judd Apatow: Bill on why the hangout scenes work: guys just busting each other's balls for five hours at a poker game or fantasy draft.
    “all we're doing is making fun of each other for 5 hours.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:08:57 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Judd Apatow: Apatow shot reportedly a million feet of film and let the guys keep going.
    “like a 1000000 feet of film for this thing.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:10:15 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Judd Apatow: Bill reads the Rudd character as a stand-in for Judd, with Apatow's own wife and kids on screen: 'Judd's really going through something'.
    “Judd's really going through something.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:14:17 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)