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  1. unmapped (spinoff): Look Who's Talking → Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Heckerling made three films that spawned TV shows, including Clueless and Fast Times.
    “Amy Heckerling has created 3 films that spawn TV shows.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:14:38 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. career (career avoidance): Look Who's Talking → Fast Times at Ridgemont High. After Fast Times she refused to be pigeonholed in female teen sex comedies, leading to Johnny Dangerously.
    “I don't want to get pigeonholed into the like female coming of age teen sex comedy.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:40:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): David Lynch → Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Cameron Crowe approached Lynch to direct Fast Times.
    “He was also approached by Cameron Crowe to direct Fast Times at Ridgemont High.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:06:16 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Jennifer Jason Leigh → Fast Times at Ridgemont High. In Flesh+Blood she feels like the Fast Times girl transposed to the medieval period.
    “she kind of just feels like the Fast Times of Brisbane High Girl transposed into this time.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Flesh+Blood · 1:10:19 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
  5. career (career arc): Judge Reinhold → Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Reinhold's rise runs from Fast Times (1982) through Ruthless People; Vice Versa was his solo breakout attempt that failed.
    “Vice versa was his big chance to break out on his own. Didn't work, and then the wheels kind of came off after that.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:56:28 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. career (career breakout): The Color of Money → Fast Times at Ridgemont High. In 1986 audiences knew Forest Whitaker only as the guy from Fast Times, and this was his 'I'm on the map' part.
    “hey, the guy from Fast Times. That was the reaction”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:32:52 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. lineage (lineage): Mean Girls → Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Simmons proposes a championship-belt lineage of smart teen movies starting with Fast Times and running through Mean Girls.
    “I feel like Fast Times at Ridgemont High was the 1st one.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:02:07 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Fast Times at Ridgemont High: Cameron Crowe went undercover in high school as a grown-up to learn how teens talked.
    “he actually went undercover in high school as a grown up to try to learn how people were talking.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:06:26 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)