Adam Sandler

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q132952: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Uncut Gems, which Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show credits them on.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Big Daddy (1999); Punch-Drunk Love (2002); Old School (2003); Bedtime Stories (2008); Funny People (2009); Just Go with It (2011); Men, Women & Children (2014); Pixels (2015); Uncut Gems (2019); Hustle (2022); Anger Management; Happy Gilmore 2; Hubie Halloween; Murder Mystery; Reign Over Me; Sandy Wexler; The Wedding Singer. Count them as composer (1 film) 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.

Animal House (1978): 2 lines

lineage (genre lineage) · through Old School (2003), which they acted in: Animal House ⇒ Old School (the host's read). Animal House started the habit of a winnable conflict set-piece that comedies copied for ten years, and Old School revived it.
“I think Animal House started it and then the next 10 years of comedy is ripped off”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:34:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (genre lineage) · through Old School (2003), which they acted in: Animal House ⇒ Old School (the host's read). Old School is the latest in a frat-movie cycle that returns every 10 to 15 years, starting with Animal House.
“It is in keeping with the kind of every 10 to 15 years frat movie that we now get.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:05:23 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

After Hours (1985): 1 line

lineage (influence) · through Uncut Gems (2019), which they acted in: After Hours ⇒ Uncut Gems (the host's read). Uncut Gems owes a heavy debt to After Hours; Go is also described as owing it royalties.
“could a movie owe more of a debt to after hours than the cut gems.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:31:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Back to School (1986): 1 line

craft (shared structural flaw) · through Old School (2003), which they acted in: Back to School ⇒ Old School (the host's read). The late competition-element plot is a flaw borrowed from Back to School and also seen in Stripes' war.
“when it starts to become too much like back to school, you know, where there's like a competition element to it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:34:32 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Frat House (1998): 1 line

lineage (creator precursor) · through Old School (2003), which they acted in: Frat House ⇒ Old School (the host's read). Phillips' frat documentary is a template for the movie.
“Frat House, which is this really interesting kind of template for the movie that we're going to talk about.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:09:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Futurama (1999): 1 line

lineage (ripped off) · through Pixels (2015), which they acted in: Futurama ⇒ Pixels (the host's read). The premise of Pixels is said to be ripped off from a Futurama episode.
“It is very much ripped off from Futurama.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:49:15 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Ghostbusters (1984): 1 line

unmapped (tonal model) · through Pixels (2015), which they acted in: Ghostbusters ⇒ Pixels (the host's read). Pixels is called a Ghostbusters knockoff, with Adam Sandler trying to do Ghostbusters with Chris Columbus.
“Hixels is Ghostbusters.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:48:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Ivan Reitman: 1 line

lineage (filmmaker lineage) · through Old School (2003), which they acted in: Ivan Reitman ⇒ Old School (the host's read). Phillips and Armstrong's movie owes a lot to Ivan Reitman's 80s comedies; it is their son.
“it owes a lot to the Ivan Reitman comedies of the 80s.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:05:45 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Pixels (short film): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Pixels (2015), which they acted in: Pixels (short film) ⇒ Pixels (the host's read). The speaker says the feature grew from a viral short that was a visual effects show reel made by an aspiring VFX artist, who was paid millions in a studio bidding war but had no stake in the movie.
“I believe the person was like an aspiring visual effects artist and he made it”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:49:29 · Bobby Finger or Lindsey Weber (0.30 sure it was them)

Popeye (1980): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Punch-Drunk Love (2002), which they acted in: Popeye ⇒ Punch-Drunk Love (the host's read). Wesley says PTA's debt to Altman runs deep, down to the Shelley Duvall Popeye song used in Punch-Drunk Love.
“the way that that Shelley Duval song from Popeye functions in punch trunk love”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:21:58 · Wesley Morris (0.85 sure it was them)

Road Trip (2000): 1 line

people (same director groundwork) · through Old School (2003), which they acted in: Road Trip ⇒ Old School (the host's read). Road Trip, Phillips' first narrative film, laid groundwork for the R-rated run; it is set at an upstate New York college like Old School.
“Todd Phillips's 1st movie. First narrative movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:09:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

There's Something About Mary (1998): 1 line

unmapped (groundwork) · through Old School (2003), which they acted in: There's Something About Mary ⇒ Old School (the host's read). Farrelly brothers hits like Mary laid the ground for Road Trip and the R-rated wave.
“All of those kind of laid the ground for, uh, road trip.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:08:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

Warren Zevon: 1 line

unmapped (cover) · them, directly: Warren Zevon ⇒ Adam Sandler (the host's read). Sandler recorded and performed Werewolves of London live on Letterman for the Zevon tribute album Enjoy Every Sandwich.
“Sandler did werewolves of London as recording, but also performed it live on Letterman. it's incredible.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 2:16:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Life of the Party (2018): 1 line

unmapped (borrowed from) · through Old School (2003), which they acted in: Old School ⇒ Life of the Party (the host's read). Melissa McCarthy's Life of the Party is basically a solo Old School, down to the closing pop-star performance.
“That is basically like a solo old school about how she goes back to school.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:28:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

career (career): Uncut Gems → Adam Sandler. Sandler's Uncut Gems was an Oscar-worthy performance in a career spent making movies near family.
“he can still turn in a what we felt was an Oscar worthy performance”
The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:28:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

contrast (era contrast): Old School → Adam Sandler. Old School has a maturity and more ideas than the earlier silly Sandler/Carrey era, despite being juvenile.
“Old school has like a maturity to it, even though it's really juvenile”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:08:29 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

programming (2)

programming (programming): Just Go with It → Adam Sandler. Sandler takes his friends to a beautiful destination; compared with Zohan and Murder Mystery.
“Adam Sandler takes all of his friends to a beautiful destination for an extended period of time films.”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:30:36 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Hubie Halloween → Adam Sandler. It's Hubie Halloween season; a pointed plug.
“it's Hubie Halloween season”
The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:28:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

unmapped (cover): Adam Sandler → Warren Zevon. Sandler recorded and performed Werewolves of London live on Letterman for the Zevon tribute album Enjoy Every Sandwich.
“Sandler did werewolves of London as recording, but also performed it live on Letterman. it's incredible.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 2:16:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

verdict (verdict): Adam Sandler → Uncut Gems. Number one on the Blankies' (gender-neutral) leading-performance list.
“Number one, Adam Sandler Uncut Gems.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:01:20 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

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