Tim Matheson

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q712457: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Fletch, which ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan credits them on.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Animal House (1978); Fletch (1985).

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.

Gregory McDonald: 1 line

  1. lineage (source material) · through Fletch (1985), which they acted in: Gregory McDonald ⇒ Fletch (the host's read). Fletch adapts the McDonald novels; the noir voiceover feels like the book, the ad-libbed scenes deviate.
    “So it's a Gregory McDonald novel”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:25:35 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Old School (2003): 2 lines

  1. lineage (genre lineage) · through Animal House (1978), 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)
  2. lineage (genre lineage) · through Animal House (1978), 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)

Confess, Fletch (2022): 1 line

  1. unmapped (reboot) · through Fletch (1985), which they acted in: Fletch ⇒ Confess, Fletch (the host's read). Chris describes it as a riff on the long-promised Fletch franchise reboot, with Jon Hamm taking the role Chevy Chase made iconic.
    “Chevy Chase did an iconic turn as a Fletch character, a journalist come detective in Los Angeles.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:08:48 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)

Hollywood Nights: 1 line

  1. unmapped (knockoff) · through Animal House (1978), which they acted in: Animal House ⇒ Hollywood Nights (the host's read). Hollywood Nights is called an Animal House runoff set in the past.
    “That was like an animal house runoff”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:41:00 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Ryan Reynolds: 1 line

  1. theme (persona successor) · through Fletch (1985), which they acted in: Fletch ⇒ Ryan Reynolds (the host's read). Reynolds stole the Chevy Chase playbook; Deadpool is Fletch.
    “Deadpool is Fletch.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:15:11 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (2) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

people (1)

  1. people (casting symmetry): Tim Matheson → Animal House. Otter was written for Chase, so Matheson's Animal House turn is a Chase impression; in Fletch Matheson hunts a lookalike to kill.
    “So then when you watch Animal House, Tim Matheson is just doing a Chevy Chase impersonation, it's not actually Chevy Chase.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:38:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Tim Matheson → Raiders of the Lost Ark. Tim Matheson was the closest in the screen test, but not Harrison Ford.
    “Tim Matheson is Interesting, but not Harrison Ford.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 1:06:46 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.60 sure it was them)

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