Joe Don Baker

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q962579: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Walking Tall (1973); The Natural (1984); Fletch (1985); GoldenEye (1995); Mitchell (the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode).

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.

Babe Ruth: 1 line

  1. people (people) · through The Natural (1984), which they acted in: Babe Ruth ⇒ The Natural (the host's read). The Whammer is a stand-in for Babe Ruth; real names and fictional creations blend.
    “I like the whammer as a cover.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:32:24 · Mallory Rubin (0.60 sure it was them)

Bama Rowell: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Natural (1984), which they acted in: Bama Rowell ⇒ The Natural (the host's read). The scoreboard-clock home run was inspired by Bama Rowell breaking a clock at Ebbets Field in 1946.
    “inspired by Bammer Roell of the Boston Braves doing it to Ebbitt's Field.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:06:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Bernard Malamud: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Natural (1984), which they acted in: Bernard Malamud ⇒ The Natural (the host's read). The film is adapted from his 1952 novel, but its ending is very different.
    “Written in 1952 by Bernard Malamud.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:13:28 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

Eddie Waitkus: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Natural (1984), which they acted in: Eddie Waitkus ⇒ The Natural (the host's read). The novel borrowed from the 1949 shooting of Eddie Waitkus of the Phillies.
    “Borrowed from this bizarre shooting of Eddie Waitkiss in 1949 in the Phillies”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:13:33 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

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)

Roy Campanella: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Natural (1984), which they acted in: Roy Campanella ⇒ The Natural (the host's read). Roy's line about a lot of little boy in you was actually a Campanella quote.
    “It was actually a quote by Ray Campanella.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:07:50 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Ruth Ann Steinhagen: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Natural (1984), which they acted in: Ruth Ann Steinhagen ⇒ The Natural (the host's read). A real person, Ruth Ann Steinhagen, inspired Harriet.
    “a real person, Ruth Ann Steinhagen inspired Harriet”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:12:40 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Shoeless Joe Jackson: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Natural (1984), which they acted in: Shoeless Joe Jackson ⇒ The Natural (the host's read). The book's ending, with a boy saying it ain't true, Roy, is a clear Shoeless Joe Jackson rip-off.
    “which is a clear shoeless Joe Jackson, rip off thing.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:14:00 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Ted Williams: 1 line

  1. people (people) · through The Natural (1984), which they acted in: Ted Williams ⇒ The Natural (the host's read). Hobbs was loosely modeled after Ted Williams.
    “Hobbs was loosely modeled after Ted Williams, lefty number nine”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:11:12 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

The Odyssey (Homer): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Natural (1984), which they acted in: The Odyssey (Homer) ⇒ The Natural (the host's read). The movie maps onto Homer: Roy is Odysseus, Harriet and Memo play siren/Calypso figures, Iris is Penelope.
    “So basically it's Roy Hobbs is Odysseus.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:14:21 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Bret Hart: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Natural (1984), which they acted in: The Natural ⇒ Bret Hart (the host's read). Bret Hart took his catchphrase from this movie.
    “Took his catchphrase from this.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:11:47 · Bill Simmons (0.60 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)

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 (5) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Joe Don Baker → John Goodman. Joe Don Baker is the best Hollywood Babe Ruth; Goodman's version looks less athletic by comparison.
    “Compared to John Goodman and Dave Ruth.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:31:47 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (career origin): Joe Don Baker → Walking Tall. Baker is recognized by people 35 and over from Walking Tall, and later roasted in the MST3K episode Mitchell.
    “Yeah, walking tall was kind of a borderline phenomenon when it came out.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:55:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

  1. unmapped (mocked on MST3K): Joe Don Baker → Mitchell (the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode). Bill's favorite MST3K episode, Mitchell, mocks Baker's heavy breathing.
    “They do Mitchell, and it was my favorite one out of all of them.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:56:24 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (tonal mismatch): Joe Don Baker → Fletch. Baker plays Chief Carlin as a 1970s exploitation movie villain, apparently unaware it is a comedy.
    “he's playing it as like a 1970s exploitation movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:57:08 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Joe Don Baker: Joe Don Baker is the Joey Pants award for best That Guy; hosts debate overacting between Baker and Libertini.
    “Joe Don, I don't know what movie he's in, but it's not the movie that we're watching.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:57:02 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Joe Don Baker: Joe Don Baker as the Whammer is called the best Hollywood Babe Ruth; Roy versus the Whammer is a top rewatchable scene.
    “the best version of Babe Ruth from a Hollywood version was actually Joe Don Baker is the whammer.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:31:27 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)