Shauna Robertson

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q3481590: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

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: Mystery, Alaska (1999); Meet the Parents (2000); Elf (2003); Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004); The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005); Knocked Up (2007); Superbad (2007); Pineapple Express (2008).

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.

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)

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)

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.

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)

Bridesmaids (2011): 1 line

  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)

Something's Gotta Give (2003): 1 line

  1. programming (programming) · through Meet the Parents (2000), which they produced: Meet the Parents ⇒ Something's Gotta Give (the host's read). Nicholson may have seen Meet the Parents and wanted a piece of that audience.
    “Do you think he saw meet the parents and was like, I can do that too?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:05:06 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006): 1 line

  1. unmapped (title formula) · through Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), 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)

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 (8) everyone in producing

What was said about them, by kind

people (1)

  1. 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)

Fun items about them

None.