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).
56 lines
Showing 1–56 of 56 lines.
-
fun, about
Saturday Night Fever:
Merchant says the original cut is a brutal working-class story, not the pop touchstone people remember.
“is a very brutal, tough working class story of a guy who's sort of going nowhere and just living for the weekends”
The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:46:59 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Saturday Night Fever → Grease.
Merchant says people think of Saturday Night Fever as a Grease-like musical, but it is a much tougher, grittier film.
“like a companion piece to Greece, but it's actually a much tougher, grittier film”
The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:47:32 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Fighting with My Family → Saturday Night Fever.
Merchant treats the wrestling matches like the dance numbers in Saturday Night Fever, each with different moves building to a big finale.
“the way that the wrestling sequences are almost little dance numbers.”
The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:47:51 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them) -
programming (programming):
Rocky → Saturday Night Fever.
Watching Rocky made Chris Ryan want to watch Saturday Night Fever as a double feature.
“This movie made me want to watch Saturday Night Fever for some reason.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:44:41 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them) -
career (career):
John Travolta → Saturday Night Fever.
Travolta added surf, Batman and other late-50s/early-60s dances to the twist scene from his own memory; the dance scene would be stupid in any other movie.
“So that's why he introduced like the surf wave and the Batman dance and all this other stuff because he was like, I remember the late 50s, early 60s dances.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:27 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
career (career):
John Travolta → Saturday Night Fever.
Travolta's apex is Saturday Night Fever, since 70s stardom was bigger, like Stallone and Rocky.
“I think it's Saturday Night Fever.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 2:00:54 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
theme (genre neighbor):
A Bronx Tale → Saturday Night Fever.
Speaker puts Saturday Night Fever in the same Italian-movie situation.
“Oddly enough, I put Saturday Night Fever in that Italian movie situation”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:21:07 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Saturday Night Fever → Jaws.
Jaws, Rocky, Star Wars and this film mark the 70s run where pop culture and the business changed direction.
“75, we have Jaws, which creates the summer blockbuster.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:07:23 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Saturday Night Fever → Rocky.
Rocky modernized the sports movie in the 1976 slot just before this film's 1977.
“76 we have Rocky, which basically modernizes the sports movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:07:28 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Saturday Night Fever → Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope.
Star Wars and this film arrive in 1977 and each creates a piece of pop culture.
“We have Star Wars and Saturday Night Fever, which for different reasons, kind of create at least a piece of pop culture.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:07:34 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Saturday Night Fever → Annie Hall.
Annie Hall added to the loaded 1977 movie year.
“And Annie Hall, yeah, it was a loaded movie year.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:07:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Saturday Night Fever:
Re-released as a PG in 1979, heavily dubbed, with the dialogue changed from a vulgar word to 'pig'.
“And they re-released this movie as a PG movie in 1979.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:09:29 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Saturday Night Fever → Mean Streets.
70s and 80s films tried to capture a city or group; Scorsese did it in Mean Streets with people who are not great either.
“like, you know, mean streets, Scorsese does that.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:10:57 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Saturday Night Fever → The Sopranos.
Simmons wonders whether the producers knew these men were bad guys, unlike David Chase on The Sopranos.
“I know for the Sopranos, for instance, you know that David Chase knows that these are bad guys”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:11:32 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Saturday Night Fever → Nik Cohn.
The film comes from a 1976 New York magazine article, later admitted to be mostly fabricated.
“this article written by Nick Cohen”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:17:23 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Saturday Night Fever:
The dance contest is rigged for Tony; he hands the trophy to the Puerto Rican couple, who were better.
“Tony Minero takes his check and hands it to the Puerto Rican couple and the trophy too.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:20:03 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Saturday Night Fever:
Joke: the Puerto Rican couple got a second-place check as well, so Tony should have swapped checks.
“So they got a double dip.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:20:24 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.55 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Saturday Night Fever → Equus.
Best Actor field that year included Richard Burton in Equus, which Kimmel says is unfair for plays adapted to film.
“Richard Burton in Eckus.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:22:53 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Saturday Night Fever → The Goodbye Girl.
Richard Dreyfuss won the Best Actor Oscar over Travolta for The Goodbye Girl; Simmons calls it a do-over.
“And then our winner, Richard Dreyfus and the Goodbye Girl.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:23:17 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Saturday Night Fever → Thriller.
The soundtrack album was the top seller in history for six years until Thriller.
“was the top selling album in history for 6 years until thrillers showed up.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:25:24 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Saturday Night Fever → The Bodyguard.
The soundtrack was the biggest of all time until The Bodyguard, 16 years later.
“until the bodyguard with Whitney Houston popped it out like 16 years later.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:25:29 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
Roger Ebert → Saturday Night Fever.
Ebert gave it 3.5 stars and called the dance sequences dazzling.
“Roger Ebert.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:27:55 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Saturday Night Fever → Mean Streets.
Ebert, read aloud, ties the film to Little Italy as Scorsese saw it in Mean Streets: characters with few aims and no way out.
“it reminds him of New York's Little Italy, as Martin Scorsese saw it”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:28:04 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Saturday Night Fever:
Gene Siskel bought the white suit at a 1979 charity auction for $2,000 and sold it in 1995 at Christie's for $145,000.
“Cisco bought the fucking suit.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:28:25 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
Gene Siskel → Saturday Night Fever.
Siskel loved it more than Ebert, saw it more than any other movie and bought the suit.
“This is his favorite movie of all time.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:28:40 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Saturday Night Fever:
Opening credits: Tony walks the street with a paint can and stacks two pizza slices; Kimmel says his wife has seen just the first minute.
“I bet you've seen the 1st minute of it and that's it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:29:35 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.80 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Saturday Night Fever:
Kimmel and Clito named a body part Father Frank Jr. after the Father Frank scene.
“called our penis's Father Frank Jr.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:38:25 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.80 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
Saturday Night Fever → Chinatown.
Simmons ranks the dance floor takeover among the five most iconic scenes of the 70s next to Chinatown and The Godfather.
“I actually think this is one of the 5 most iconic scenes of the 70s.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:40:36 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Saturday Night Fever → Serpico.
Tony's bedroom has Serpico, Bruce Lee, Wonder Woman, Rocky and Farrah Fawcett posters.
“there's posters of Serpico, Bruce Lee, Wonder Woman, Linda Carter, Rocky and Farrah Fawcett.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:45:36 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Saturday Night Fever:
Tony's room posters include Serpico, Bruce Lee, Wonder Woman, Rocky and Farrah Fawcett.
“there's posters of Serpico, Bruce Lee, Wonder Woman, Linda Carter, Rocky and Farrah Fawcett.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:45:36 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Saturday Night Fever:
The famous pose on the poster was a joke at the end of a long photo shoot, and it became one of the great posters.
“he kind of did that at the end as a joke”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:46:33 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Saturday Night Fever → Taxi Driver.
A list of distressed-New-York movies made in about six years, with this film among them.
“Mean streets, taxi driver, Death Wish, the Warriors”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:47:58 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Saturday Night Fever → Manhattan.
Woody Allen's Manhattan is the polished version of New York against Brooklyn in this film.
“Annie Hall in Manhattan, the good version”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:47:58 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Airplane! → Saturday Night Fever.
Airplane! parodies this film's romance scene three years later with Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty.
“The airplane parody scene.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:50:19 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.50 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Saturday Night Fever → Mad Magazine's Saturday Night Fever parody.
Kimmel says he read the Mad parody before he saw the movie.
“I think maybe I probably read the parody of the movie before I saw the movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:50:52 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.80 sure it was them) -
programming (programming):
Saturday Night Fever → Dance Fever.
Kimmel adds Dance Fever, the syndicated dance show, as a thing that aged well from the film's influence.
“I was going to throw in Denny Terrio's Dance Fever show”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:51:04 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.70 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Saturday Night Fever → The Warriors.
The Barracudas fight should have been better compared with The Warriors and other great 70s fight scenes.
“if you're comparing it to movies like the Warriors and some of the great 70s fight scene movies.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:54:01 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Saturday Night Fever → Midnight Run.
Network edits of R-rated films were painful; Midnight Run was the worst with 200 swears to remove.
“Midnight Run's the worst one because Bendet Run has like 200 swears in it”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:57:09 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Saturday Night Fever → Boz Scaggs.
Columbia Records refused to clear Lowdown, so another song went into the rehearsal scene.
“Columbia Records would not grant legal clearance.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:00:04 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
Fran Drescher → Saturday Night Fever.
Fran Drescher wins the Dion Waiters heat-check award for a short, big impact.
“I have to say Fran Drescher made.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:02:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Saturday Night Fever:
Production was harassed by gangs and fire bombings, forcing fake call sheets; Kimmel says it still goes on.
“They had to like put out fake call sheets”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:03:39 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Saturday Night Fever:
The first mainstream Hollywood movie to use the word blowjob, confirmed by the hosts.
“It'd never been said in a movie before.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:04:55 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Saturday Night Fever → Stevie Wonder.
Scenes were shot to Stevie Wonder and Boz Scaggs, not the Bee Gees; the Bee Gees songs came after.
“It was Stevie Wonder and Boz Skaggs, which was what he was dancing.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:06:33 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
career (career):
Bee Gees → Saturday Night Fever.
The Bee Gees were dead in the water in 1975 and the film revived their career.
“This movie revives their career.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:07:07 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Saturday Night Fever:
Paramount execs wanted more Farrah Fawcett footage after the mirror scene; hence the nipple close-up of the poster.
“asked for more Farrah Fawcett footage, which is why we ended up with the close-up of the poster and then the nipple.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:07:26 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them) -
career (career):
Saturday Night Fever → Grease.
Grease follows this film and Travolta filmed the two back to back; Simmons argues Grease was his apex.
“He's in 2 of them back to back.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:09:59 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them) -
what-if (what-if):
Olivia Newton-John → Saturday Night Fever.
Imagining an Olivia Newton-John-caliber partner for Tony in this film, since she was Travolta's equal in Grease.
“Imagine if he had someone of the caliber of an Olivia Newton-John in Saturday night.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:10:28 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.55 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Saturday Night Fever → Welcome Back, Kotter.
Old Brooklyn as a pop-culture location: Kimmel picks Welcome Back Kotter over this film and The Warriors.
“Well, I'm going to have to go with Welcome back Cotter”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:11:35 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.55 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Saturday Night Fever → Annie Hall.
The Brooklyn Bridge is used by Woody Allen as well, but Simmons says this film is apex Brooklyn Bridge.
“Woody Allen's making his movies right at the same time as this”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:11:56 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.60 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Saturday Night Fever → Goodfellas.
Italian family dinners recur in mafia movies; Goodfellas has the visit to mother after the body scene.
“every mafia movie's got one.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:12:40 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Saturday Night Fever → Rocky.
Kimmel notes the film never gives Tony a Rocky-style triumphant moment.
“there's no like, you know, there's no rocky moment.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:13:44 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.55 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) -
lineage (lineage):
Saturday Night Fever → Staying Alive.
The sequel; the hosts agree it is a bad one but Simmons is glad it exists and thinks it did not ruin the original.
“I'm glad it exists.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:17:52 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Staying Alive → Saturday Night Fever.
Staying Alive is so different that it did not ruin the original the way most sequels would.
“it's just so different from Saturday Night Fever that it didn't ruin it in the same way most sequels would.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:18:06 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them) -
career (career):
Saturday Night Fever → Welcome Back, Kotter.
Travolta went from the TV goof Barbarino to this part, a surprise that he was a real actor.
“Going from Barbarino to this part, I think was surprising in a good way”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:22:15 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them) -
programming (programming):
Saturday Night Fever → Good Times.
Kimmel's live ABC recreation specials led to the Good Times mention.
“Oh, since we're talking about good times.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:26:36 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.80 sure it was them)