The podcast corpus

12,078 claims and 5,127 fun items from 206 episodes, about 7,690 films and 5,411 people, with 657 personality sketches. Search reads claims and fun items (SQLite full-text search).

4 lines

Showing 1–4 of 4 lines.

career (career trail): Cocktail → All the Right Moves. Cruise's early film at number five leads to a riff on Cocktail's drama-minded reshoots.
“And then at some point they were just like, we got to make it a fucking Tom Cruise movie.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 1:48:04 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → All the Right Moves. A good version of the good guys not winning, with a devastating rain touchdown.
“All the right moves is a really good version of this where they, they, they messed around in a couple ways.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:19:23 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → All the Right Moves. All the Right Moves earlier dug into the idea that the mill is waiting if you do not get out, so this is as good as it gets.
“If you beat these guys, you're a mortal in this town.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:55:10 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Saturday Night Fever → All the Right Moves. All the Right Moves runs the same formula: a kid trapped in a dead-end town might get out.
“It's basically the same formula, right?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:17:07 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)