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  1. lineage (lineage): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → MASH. Friday Night Lights is a movie that led to a TV show, like MASH, Buffy and Parenthood.
    “there's been really good movies that led to better TV shows.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:04:01 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Another movie that led to a TV series, named as precedent.
    “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:04:13 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → Parenthood. Another movie-to-TV precedent; there is an argument the show is better.
    “I think parenthood, there's a really good argument.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:04:15 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → Friday Night Lights (TV series). The TV show's excellence overshadowed the film, which has become underrated.
    “And then this one, which I think the TV show kind of overwhelmed the movie, and now the movie has become weirdly underrated.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:04:23 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  5. programming (programming): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → Friday Night Lights (TV series). The reboot will use the title as a bucket for different stories about Texas high school football.
    “use the title as a bucket to tell different stories about high school football in Texas.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:06:46 · Mallory Rubin (0.80 sure it was them)
  6. lineage (lineage): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → Against the Grain (NBC show). Earlier Texas football entries that Friday Night Lights outdid; the NBC show failed.
    “there was against the grain, an NBC show with Ben Affleck as the quarterback that failed.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:09:40 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  7. lineage (lineage): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → Varsity Blues. Both took viewers into the Texas football world; Friday Night Lights nailed it and the TV series went further.
    “Then this movie nailed it?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:10:01 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  8. craft (craft): Peter Berg → Friday Night Lights (2004 film). Berg reread the rejected scripts and the book and realized the story is about what football means to the community.
    “Peterburg read all of them and reread the book and he was like, what did they get wrong?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:12:49 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  9. craft (craft): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → Friday Night Lights (TV series). The film's quick cuts and documentary feel read differently now than they did in 2004.
    “It has that kind of like documentary footage quality to it where the camera is right there inside of the play on the bench”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:14:34 · Mallory Rubin (0.80 sure it was them)
  10. industry (industry): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → Tin Cup. Tin Cup (1996) belongs to the 3.0 era of sports movies that preceded Friday Night Lights.
    “Tin Cup was 96.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:15:49 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  11. industry (industry): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → Moneyball. The film points toward the next wave of dramas that happen to be about sports.
    “And Friday Night Lights is moving us toward this kind of next iteration of whatever that was, and it's leading to stuff like money ball and win-win and like dramas that also happen to be about sports.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:16:15 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  12. lineage (lineage): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → The Bad News Bears. Bad News Bears and Rocky, the same year, were the first time good guys did not win.
    “Bad news bears and Rockies, same year.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:19:17 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  13. 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)
  14. lineage (lineage): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → Tin Cup. Ron Shelton's twist ending in Tin Cup is another example of the good guy not winning.
    “And Ron Shelton Twist said it in the ending in Tin Cup.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:19:55 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  15. lineage (lineage): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → A League of Their Own. Whether the good guys won depends on your viewpoint in A League of Their Own.
    “A league of their own, which is earlier than Tin Cup”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:19:58 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  16. verdict (verdict): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → Rocky. Other than Rocky, Friday Night Lights is probably the best film where the good guys do not win.
    “That's probably the other than Rocky, probably the best one.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:20:13 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  17. craft (craft): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → Friday Night Lights (TV series). The film score and the TV score are in conversation with each other.
    “I love the way that the movie and the television scores are like in conversation with each other.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:27:52 · Mallory Rubin (0.80 sure it was them)
  18. verdict (verdict): Roger Ebert → Friday Night Lights (2004 film). Ebert gave it 3.5 stars and praised the power of sports to involve us.
    “The movie demonstrates the power of sports to involve us.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:31:22 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  19. lineage (lineage): Varsity Blues → Friday Night Lights (2004 film). Varsity Blues ripped off the Boobie Miles injury beat with its Lance Harbor injury, and the TV show flipped it with Jason Street.
    “I love varsity blues we've done on the rewatchables, but they rip it off with the Lance Harbor injury.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:35:23 · Mallory Rubin (0.50 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about Friday Night Lights (2004 film): Mike is holding a toy car in the Coach Gaines visit, a reminder these are kids.
    “The thing I love best in that scene is, Mike is holding like a toy car.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:36:34 · Mallory Rubin (0.70 sure it was them)
  21. contrast (contrast): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → Hereditary. In the ring-search scene the fear of a Hereditary-style horror turn flickers by.
    “I like, 0 my god, is this hereditary going to happen again?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:38:40 · Mallory Rubin (0.50 sure it was them)
  22. lineage (lineage): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → Friday Night Lights (TV series). The bus-ride sequence before the Astrodome game influenced the TV series' team-bus tradition.
    “I feel like this is the TV series. I think was the most influenced by this sequence.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:42:24 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  23. fun, about Friday Night Lights (2004 film): Halftime speech was improvised the night before.
    “And he does his big speech, which apparently was improvised the night before.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:44:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  24. lineage (lineage): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → Friday Night Lights (TV series). The halftime speech contains the ingredients later assembled into clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose.
    “the ingredients for clear eyes, full hearts can't lose are present here”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:45:50 · Mallory Rubin (0.80 sure it was them)
  25. fun, about Friday Night Lights (2004 film): The most 2004 thing is the football hits, which look like borderline beheadings now.
    “There's like 45 borderline beheadings.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:51:32 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  26. verdict (verdict): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → The Longest Yard. Football scenes are great, though The Longest Yard is still Bill's favorite.
    “They're about longest yard is still my favorite for football stands, but this is way up there.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:52:02 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  27. theme (theme): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → Dazed and Confused. The this-is-the-peak-of-your-life theme also drives Dazed and Confused.
    “But even like movies, other, like days been confused. It was a theme for the for that movie too.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:53:42 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  28. 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)
  29. fun, about Friday Night Lights (2004 film): Dallas Carter never punts or kicks, always going for it on fourth: a modern analytics approach.
    “they never punt, they never kick. They go for it on fourth.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:56:23 · Mallory Rubin (0.60 sure it was them)
  30. fun, about Friday Night Lights (2004 film): Mallory's pick for a better sex scene: Coach Gaines and Sharon, because the show is the best portrayal of a marriage.
    “What it really is is like the best portrayal of a marriage and the history of TV.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:01:11 · Mallory Rubin (0.90 sure it was them)
  31. fun, about Friday Night Lights (2004 film): Coach Gaines lying that Boobie will be fine, never getting an MRI: the hottest take is that he is a bad coach.
    “Coach Gaines, maybe just a bad coach.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:04:26 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  32. lineage (lineage): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → Friday Night Lights (TV series). Character map from the 88 team and film to the TV show.
    “Winchell's mom, Sarah's grandma, Booby is smashed, Billingsley is Riggins, John is Buddy, Gary's Eric, Sharon's, Tammy, et cetera.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:15:37 · Mallory Rubin (0.60 sure it was them)
  33. what-if (what-if): Alan J. Pakula → Friday Night Lights (2004 film). Pakula planned to direct the film in the mid-90s before dying in 1998.
    “was planning to direct this film in the mid 90s.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:18:35 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  34. what-if (what-if): Richard Linklater → Friday Night Lights (2004 film). A Linklater version would have been personal and Texan, like a football take on Everybody Wants Some.
    “link leader version of this is really interesting to think about.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:20:03 · Mallory Rubin (0.60 sure it was them)
  35. what-if (what-if): Matt Damon → Friday Night Lights (2004 film). A mid-90s Matt Damon, as in School Ties, would have been ideal for Winchell, but he was too old by 2004.
    “And what I realized was that this would have been an amazing mid 90s Matt Damon part.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:21:52 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  36. fun, about Friday Night Lights (2004 film): Jokes about Chris Collinsworth narrating Boobie's injury.
    “I think I, I was able to really like clearly feel, and hear Collinsworth when Booby got hurt though”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:22:40 · Mallory Rubin (0.60 sure it was them)
  37. fun, about Friday Night Lights (2004 film): Real Boobie Miles plays an assistant coach in the film.
    “The real Booby Miles plays a permanent assistant.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:23:27 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  38. fun, about Friday Night Lights (2004 film): Charlie Billingsley's loss in the finals in 1968 means the ring he throws is a number 2 ring.
    “Don Billingsley's father, Charlie, lost the finals in 1968.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:23:44 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  39. what-if (what-if): Tom Cruise → Friday Night Lights (2004 film). A Cruise Coach Gaines would be deranged but mesmerizing, mixing calm and mania.
    “I think the cruise version of this would be deranged, but kind of mesmerizing.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:30:35 · Mallory Rubin (0.80 sure it was them)
  40. what-if (what-if): Tom Hanks → Friday Night Lights (2004 film). Producer Craig breaks the tie: Hanks can pull off the southern personality; Cruise is too small.
    “The answer is Tom Hanks.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:30:56 · Craig Horlbeck (0.80 sure it was them)
  41. fun, about Friday Night Lights (2004 film): The coin toss scene is rife with picking-nits.
    “Every frankly, everything with the coin toss belongs in picking nets, all of it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:32:48 · Mallory Rubin (0.50 sure it was them)
  42. fun, about Friday Night Lights (2004 film): Coin toss at an undisclosed truck stop, with Coach Gaines flipping a 1969 Buffalo nickel.
    “1969 Buffalo nickel.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:32:59 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  43. what-if (what-if): Danny Trejo → Friday Night Lights (2004 film). Trejo as Chavez's dad, in one rowdy bar scene.
    “he ends up fighting 2 guys in the bar and just does Danny Treyo stuff”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:35:34 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  44. verdict (verdict): Explosions in the Sky → Friday Night Lights (2004 film). Picks the Explosions in the Sky score as the one Oscar the film should win.
    “Just one Oscar who gets it. Probably the explosions in the sky.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:37:20 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  45. theme (theme): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → Everybody Wants Some!!. Sports movies where there is clearly a best guy, as in Everybody Wants Some.
    “I like when sports movies, there's also like clearly a best guy.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:39:05 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  46. verdict (verdict): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → The Longest Yard. Bill's football-movie ranking: Longest Yard first, then Friday Night Lights, North Dallas Forty, Titans, Rudy and Any Given Sunday in some order.
    “I think longest yard is just number one.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:39:56 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  47. fun, about Friday Night Lights (2004 film): Odds: with Boobie, near +350; in the title game Carter is a huge favorite.
    “Dallas Carter, probably like 16 and half point underdogs.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:41:47 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  48. programming (programming): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → Varsity Blues. Best double feature: the serious Texas version after the super fun one.
    “We get the super fun Texas version, then we get like the serious version.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:42:43 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  49. fun, about Friday Night Lights (2004 film): Best life lesson pick: keep your helmet handy.
    “I'm going with always keep your helmet handy.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:44:20 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  50. fun, about Friday Night Lights (2004 film): Gaines' 1978 nickel is the best unintentional comedy in the coin toss.
    “Coach Gaines has a 1978 nickel.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:45:59 · Craig Horlbeck (0.60 sure it was them)
  51. verdict (verdict): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → Remember the Titans. Craig's favorite movie is Remember the Titans, which sits between ridiculous and serious.
    “I remember the Titans is my favorite movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:47:03 · Craig Horlbeck (0.90 sure it was them)
  52. contrast (contrast): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → Remember the Titans. Craig finds the film closer to Moneyball than The Replacements, with no Hollywood ending like Titans.
    “So it's definitely closer to Moneyball than it is, like the replacements by a long shot to me.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:47:15 · Craig Horlbeck (0.90 sure it was them)
  53. fun, about Friday Night Lights (2004 film): Craig: Tim McGraw watching his son hook up is the most harrowing scene of the 2000s.
    “I think that is a fucking horrific moment.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:48:57 · Craig Horlbeck (0.90 sure it was them)