Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q179051: 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: Airplane! (1980); Fletch (1985); D2: The Mighty Ducks; Game of Death.

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)

Saturday Night Fever (1977): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Airplane! (1980), which they acted in: Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Airplane! (the host's read). Airplane! parodies this film's romance scene three years later with Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty.
    “The airplane parody scene.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:50:19 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.50 sure it was them)

Spartacus (1960): 1 line

  1. unmapped (reference) · through Airplane! (1980), which they acted in: Spartacus ⇒ Airplane! (the host's read). The Spartacus bath-scene joke is the joke in Airplane and it still works.
    “there's a reason that it's it's the fucking joke in airplane and that the joke still works so well.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:44:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

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 (4) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (filmography): Kareem Abdul-Jabbar → Airplane!. Kareem's IMDb run: Game of Death, Airplane, and Fletch; later Mighty Ducks D2.
    “which inexplicably has that Bruce Lee movie, Airplane, and Fletch.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:39:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.