Harold Ramis

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q286890: 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: Ghostbusters (1984); Baby Boom (1987); As Good as It Gets (1997); Knocked Up (2007); Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021). Count them as director (3 films), writer (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.

Amblin-era Spielberg films: 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), which they acted in: Amblin-era Spielberg films ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read). The kids-and-mom coming-of-age setup reads as Amblin or Ron Howard, though speaker says that is too generous.
“a bit of an amblin, like Ron Howardy, early Spielberg kind of a movie.”
The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:04:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Ghostbusters (1984): 1 line, within their own work

lineage (lineage) · through Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), which they acted in: Ghostbusters ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read). Afterlife is a revival of the original series by Ivan Reitman's son, loaded with its mythology.
“This is Jason Reitman's revivification of his father, Ivan Reitman's famed film series.”
The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Marvel's Avengers: 1 line

industry (industry) · through Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), which they acted in: Marvel's Avengers ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read). Afterlife and the 2016 film both chase the Marvel model of serialized connected stories to succeed at the box office.
“trying to recreate what Marvel has done and just that's the only way you have success at the box office now is by latching onto that serialized story.”
The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:10:08 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)

Mean Girls (2004): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they acted in: 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)

Michael Ovitz: 1 line

industry (super-packaging precedent) · through Ghostbusters (1984), which they acted in: Michael Ovitz ⇒ Ghostbusters (the host's read). Ovitz's famous packaging example: assembling the cast, director and effects on paper and forcing studios to bid, as with Ghostbusters.
“His famous example of this is that he puts together like Ghostbusters and goes to all of the studios and is like, like, it's on everyone's table, you know, like, start bidding.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 0:57:34 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015): 1 line

craft (craft) · through Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), which they acted in: Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read). Afterlife does what Force Awakens did, saving the old franchise's greatest hits for the back half.
“It's basically trying to do the same thing that the Force Awakens did”
The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:06:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Starting Over: 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they acted in: 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)

When Harry Met Sally (1989): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they acted in: 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.

Look Who's Talking (1989): 2 lines

unmapped (autobiographical) · them, directly: Harold Ramis ⇒ Look Who's Talking (the host's read). The speakers say the film is Heckerling's personal grievance about Ramis, who fathered her daughter Molly while Neil Israel believed the child was his.
“The child that Neil Israel thought was his own was actually the byproduct of a years-long affair that she had had with Harold Ramos.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:24:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (roman a clef) · them, directly: Harold Ramis ⇒ Look Who's Talking (the host's read). Kirstie Alley's character Molly shares a name with Heckerling's daughter and echoes Ramis's leave-my-wife promise.
“Kirsty Alli's character is named Molly. Amy Heckerling and Harold Ramos's illegitimate daughter is named Molly.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:21:13 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

This Is 40: 2 lines

lineage (lineage) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they acted in: 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)
programming (programming) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they acted in: 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

lineage (lineage) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they acted in: 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)

Chill Factor (1999): 1 line

people (people) · through As Good as It Gets (1997), which they acted in: As Good as It Gets ⇒ Chill Factor (the host's read). Gooding and Skeet Ulrich supposedly bonded on this set and made Chill Factor together.
“They clearly just hit it off so hard at the craft service table on as good as it gets that they said, we got to find a vehicle for the 2 of us”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 0:58:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021): 1 line, within their own work

lineage (lineage) · through Ghostbusters (1984), which they acted in: Ghostbusters ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read). Afterlife is a revival of the original series by Ivan Reitman's son, loaded with its mythology.
“This is Jason Reitman's revivification of his father, Ivan Reitman's famed film series.”
The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Jason Reitman: 1 line

people (people) · through Ghostbusters (1984), which they acted in: Ghostbusters ⇒ Jason Reitman (the host's read). Reitman has said he wants to honor his father's franchise; Jason was on set of some of the originals.
“Jason Reitman was on the set of some of these movies”
The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:16:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Pixels (2015): 1 line

unmapped (tonal model) · through Ghostbusters (1984), 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)

What the speakers said they did

Other (1) everyone in other

biological father of Heckerling's daughter Molly; target of the film's subtext, Look Who's Talking (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis)

What was said about them, by kind

people (1)

people (people): Bill Murray → Harold Ramis. Murray and Ramis did not speak for years after disagreeing over Groundhog Day's tone.
“Murray was like, I want Groundhog Day to be more dramatic.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Flesh+Blood · 0:38:15 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

unmapped (roman a clef): Look Who's Talking → Harold Ramis. Kirstie Alley's character Molly shares a name with Heckerling's daughter and echoes Ramis's leave-my-wife promise.
“Kirsty Alli's character is named Molly. Amy Heckerling and Harold Ramos's illegitimate daughter is named Molly.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:21:13 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (autobiographical): Look Who's Talking → Harold Ramis. The speakers say the film is Heckerling's personal grievance about Ramis, who fathered her daughter Molly while Neil Israel believed the child was his.
“The child that Neil Israel thought was his own was actually the byproduct of a years-long affair that she had had with Harold Ramos.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:24:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

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