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  1. contrast (contrast): Weird Science → Better Off Dead. Weird Science is one of eight 'semi-deranged' 1985 teen movies; Better Off Dead parodies the teen movie while being one.
    “Um, which is almost like parodying the teen movie as they're making a teen movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:05:09 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): Weird Science → Teen Wolf. Teen Wolf is on the list of weird 1985 teen movies and was already a Rewatchables episode.
    “There's Teen Wolf, which we've already done in the movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:05:13 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. theme (theme): Mischief → Weird Science. Mischief goes back to the 50s but has the same premise of kids trying to get laid.
    “And then mischief, which goes back to the 50s, but is basically the same premise of kids trying to get laid.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:05:41 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. theme (theme): Weird Science → Splash. Before Weird Science, the 80s had magical beautiful women appearing to ordinary guys; Splash's mermaid loves Tom Hanks.
    “So before weird science, we have Splash, where there's this beautiful mermaid that comes out of the water and loves Tom Hanks, all right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:06:40 · Kyle Brandt (0.75 sure it was them)
  5. theme (theme): Weird Science → National Lampoon's Vacation. The red-Ferrari woman who keeps appearing in Vacation is another magical 80s dream woman.
    “You have vacation where like the dorky dad's driving cross country and, 0 my god, in a red Ferrari.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:06:49 · Kyle Brandt (0.70 sure it was them)
  6. theme (theme): Weird Science → Mannequin. Mannequin, a couple years later, is a weirder version of the magical woman who finds the dorky guy; Weird Science is the best known of them.
    “Like these magical women who are almost science fiction, but are so beautiful, come and find the dorky guy, and weird science was right in the middle of that.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:07:06 · Kyle Brandt (0.75 sure it was them)
  7. theme (theme): Weird Science → Can't Buy Me Love. Can't Buy Me Love is another version of the 80s premise of guys trying to get laid, by buying a fake girlfriend.
    “And you left out Can't Buy Me Love, which is another version of this where the guy's like, what if I used all my lawnmower money for a couple years and bought a fake girlfriend for a couple months?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:07:17 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them)
  8. lineage (lineage): Superbad → Weird Science. Weird Science may be the biggest influence on Superbad.
    “Like, I feel like, I don't know which was the biggest influence on Superbad.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:07:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  9. craft (craft): Superbad → Weird Science. Both end with the two friends going off with girls separately and reconvening, the friendship being the real subject.
    “Superbat ends with the 2 guys separately going with these girls that they like and then reconvening at the end”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:08:17 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)
  10. lineage (lineage): Weird Science → WarGames. Both movies are about teenage computer hackers, and both end up with a nuclear missile; Weird Science's kids are more premeditated.
    “I think they're a little bit more premeditated than in war games, but they, ironically, they both end up with a nuclear missile.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:11:14 · Kyle Brandt (0.60 sure it was them)
  11. programming (programming): Weird Science → Sneakers. The last pod Bill and Kyle did was Sneakers, also a computers-in-the-dark-ages movie.
    “this isn't interesting because the last pod you and I did, we did sneakers, which is in the 90s, and we still didn't know what computers could do.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:12:19 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  12. industry (industry): Pump Up the Volume → Weird Science. Pump Up the Volume is named as a movie that clearly created podcasts; the question is whether Weird Science created Alexa.
    “And we've talked about this in the past, like pump up the volume, clearly created podcasts.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:13:26 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  13. lineage (lineage): Weird Science → Her. Weird Science did years earlier what Her does: making a fake hot woman because you cannot meet a real one.
    “Like, that was the movie 15 years or so later, whatever that was that weird science was doing.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:14:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  14. theme (theme): Weird Science → Her. Derek Thompson's male-loneliness podcast ties the 1985 premise to today: kids who cannot meet anybody would not leave the house.
    “Derek Thompson just did a podcast for us about male loneliness”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:15:07 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
  15. career (career): John Hughes → Weird Science. Weird Science feels like Hughes heat-checking, coming right after Breakfast Club.
    “Also, the weird science to me feels heat checking for Hughes too.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:16:35 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)
  16. lineage (lineage): Weird Science → The Breakfast Club. Gary's girlfriend in Canada is a gag taken from Breakfast Club.
    “Like, that's the thing directly from Breakfast Club.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:17:25 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)
  17. lineage (lineage): Weird Science → Planes, Trains and Automobiles. The Hughes-verse crosses over; the insurance seminar joke is also in Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
    “Neil Page talks about insurance seminars and plane strains and automobiles.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:17:31 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)
  18. contrast (contrast): Weird Science → Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Hall's Gary is charismatic and confident, more like Ferris Bueller than a nerd.
    “Gary feels more like Ferris Bueller to me.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:19:50 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)
  19. lineage (lineage): Weird Science → Al Feldstein. The movie is based on a 1951 pre-Code comic by Al Feldstein.
    “this was based on the 1951 pre-comics code comic made of the future by Al Feldstein.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:30:25 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  20. verdict (verdict): Weird Science → Roger Ebert. Ebert gave it 3 stars and called Kelly LeBrock wonderful.
    “Roger Ebert, 3 stars.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:30:44 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  21. lineage (lineage): Weird Science → Frankenstein. Ebert's review says the movie combines male teenage fantasy with Frankenstein's monster.
    “Inflamed male teenage fantasies and Frankenstein's monster.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:31:04 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  22. fun, about Weird Science: The sleepover scene: kids rewound the computer-rendered chest-enlarging moment; the scarcity of nude images in the 80s made it a scrambled-porn apex mountain.
    “This is a scrambled porn apex mountain.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:34:14 · Kyle Brandt (0.30 sure it was them)
  23. industry (industry): Weird Science → The Breakfast Club. Anthony Michael Hall's Pryor-style drunk scene was test-driven in The Breakfast Club, so execs wanted more of it in the next movie.
    “They, uh, they soft tested the Richard Pryor too.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:35:31 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)
  24. lineage (lineage): Weird Science → Superbad. Weird Science's ending was 'completely ripped off by super bad'.
    “Uh, really satisfying ending, then just completely ripped off by super bad.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:42:03 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  25. verdict (verdict): Danny Elfman → Weird Science. Elfman is not a fan of the title song and is dismissive of it in interviews, though the speaker likes it.
    “So Elfman, like not a fan. He's kind of dis about it, which is really annoying.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:45:35 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
  26. lineage (lineage): Weird Science → The Breakfast Club. Weird Science was shot at the same high school as The Breakfast Club, here called Shermer High School.
    “You mentioned this movie was filmed at the same high school as the Breakfast Club and it was actually called Shermer High School.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:48:32 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
  27. craft (craft): Weird Science → Back to School. Downey's Back to School look and this character are very similar, hair included.
    “because the back to school and this character are very similar.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:49:21 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)
  28. craft (craft): Weird Science → Poltergeist. The party-scene effects, objects moving around the living room, hold up like Poltergeist.
    “like poltergeist.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:50:19 · Kyle Brandt (0.35 sure it was them)
  29. theme (theme): Weird Science → Risky Business. The parents-away-and-clean-up-before-they-return trope runs through Weird Science, Risky Business and Adventures in Babysitting.
    “Adventures and babysitting, risky business.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:50:32 · Kyle Brandt (0.40 sure it was them)
  30. contrast (contrast): Weird Science → Dazed and Confused. Ilan Mitchell-Smith as lead is compared to Wiley Wiggins as Mitch Kramer: a lot put on a young unproven lead.
    “very similar too, is the Wiley Wiggins dazed and confused performance as Mitch Kramer.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:05:31 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  31. what-if (what-if): Robert Downey Jr. → Weird Science. Downey would have been the right Wyatt, with Hall and Downey as the two stars.
    “I think you could have realistically put him in that in that Wyatt spot and it would have played.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:07:02 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  32. lineage (lineage): Weird Science → Mad Max 2. The climactic biker-gang sequence is an homage to The Road Warrior with the same actor and makeup.
    “it's pulled right from this movie that had just come out, same actor, same makeup, same everything, they're like doing an homage to it”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:08:03 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
  33. craft (craft): Weird Science → Mad Max 2. The Road Warrior homage is a nine-minute sequence, about 10% of the movie.
    “It comprises 10% of the whole movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:08:58 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  34. contrast (contrast): Weird Science → St. Elmo's Fire. St. Elmo's Fire has a title song but does not work the plot in.
    “But it doesn't really work the plot into it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:11:47 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)
  35. contrast (contrast): Weird Science → Purple Rain. Purple Rain's song barely advances the plot; it is just Prince kicking ass with a song.
    “It's just basically him kicking ass with a song.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:12:33 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)
  36. contrast (contrast): Weird Science → Against All Odds. Against All Odds is the speaker's stealth entry, circled a couple times on the pod.
    “we're going stealth against all odds.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:12:45 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)
  37. craft (craft): Weird Science → Oingo Boingo. The speaker imagines the title song was written after the band was told the plot and shown the film, Frankenstein vibe included.
    “I'm making this movie. It's about these 15 year old kids that create basically like the perfect woman and she comes out of the computer and has sex with them.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:13:46 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
  38. contrast (contrast): Weird Science → Footloose. The best 80s theme song with the movie's title in it: Footloose is the finalist opposing Weird Science, but Loggins wrote it first and the title followed.
    “I feel like Loggins did Footloose.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:14:27 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)
  39. contrast (contrast): Thomas Dolby → Weird Science. Dolby is joked to be the biggest loser of the title-song debate because his own science song came two years later.
    “Thomas Dolby, who 2 years later did, she blinded me with science.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:14:52 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)
  40. what-if (what-if): Kelly Emberg → Weird Science. Kelly Emberg was first cast as Lisa and left after two days over creative differences.
    “initially, Kelly Emberg, a motto who had been in Sports Illustrated was cast as Lisa, left after 2 days for creative differences.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:16:33 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  41. what-if (what-if): Demi Moore → Weird Science. Demi Moore auditioned for Lisa and did not get it.
    “Also auditioning for the part of Lisa and not getting it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:16:57 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
  42. what-if (what-if): Robin Wright → Weird Science. Robin Wright, a soap actress, auditioned for Lisa and did not get it.
    “Well, the other one was Robin Wright, who would go on to become the most beautiful woman in the world and Princess Bride.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:17:18 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
  43. what-if (what-if): William Zabka → Weird Science. Zabka should have been the bully against Hall in Weird Science, as in all the 80s movies.
    “Like Zabka just should have been in all these movies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:20:36 · Kyle Brandt (0.40 sure it was them)
  44. contrast (contrast): Weird Science → Home Alone. Chet is a top asshole older brother in a comedy; his competition includes Home Alone's Buzz, though Uncle Frank is worse.
    “He's competing against the Home Alone, older brother.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:22:37 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)
  45. theme (theme): Weird Science → Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Hughes always adds a sentimental scene at the end, like Ferris, and Weird Science's 'like me for me' speech.
    “Like Hughes will always give you a little bit of green beans on the side.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:24:16 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
  46. fun, about Weird Science: Kyle ranks its party scene, with the mansion, lake, magic food and bartenders, the number one high school party in any decade.
    “This is number one high school party movie in any decade.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:24:46 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)
  47. contrast (contrast): Weird Science → Risky Business. For houses cleaned up before the parents return, Risky Business still beats Weird Science.
    “I still think it's risky business.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:25:22 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  48. what-if (what-if): Tom Cruise → Weird Science. Cruise would have been a Wyatt, though the pick was early-80s Cruise or Losing It Cruise.
    “Cruise is Wyatt, like early 80s cruise, like outsiders cruise?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:25:34 · Kyle Brandt (0.40 sure it was them)
  49. what-if (what-if): Philip Seymour Hoffman → Weird Science. Hoffman would have been a great Chet in a recasting.
    “What role of Feeble Philip Seymour Hoffman had played clearly, Chet?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:27:05 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  50. fun, about Weird Science: The Chicago-suburbs nitpick: the 85 Bears are nowhere in the movie.
    “It drives me nuts that there's no 85 bears in this.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:28:56 · Kyle Brandt (0.70 sure it was them)
  51. fun, about Weird Science: The Playboy-trunk souvenir wish.
    “My souvenir bill will be, uh, Wyatt's incredible full ass treasure chest of Playboys.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:38:45 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)
  52. programming (programming): Weird Science → Mannequin. Kyle's double feature pick is Mannequin, another magical-woman 80s movie.
    “I'm doing Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cattrell, nothing's going to stop us now.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:40:14 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)
  53. programming (programming): Weird Science → The Breakfast Club. Bill's double feature is The Breakfast Club, making it an Anthony Michael Hall night.
    “My double feature is Breakfast Club for the same reason”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:40:35 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
  54. industry (industry): Weird Science → The Breakfast Club. Making Weird Science was reportedly the condition for Hughes being allowed to make The Breakfast Club.
    “this was how he was allowed to make the Breakfast Club if he also agreed.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:44:13 · Kyle Brandt (0.40 sure it was them)
  55. industry (industry): Weird Science → Pretty in Pink. Hughes just wanted to finish Weird Science fast so he could make Pretty in Pink.
    “So he's just trying to get through this because he wants to make pretty and pink.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:44:22 · Kyle Brandt (0.40 sure it was them)
  56. fun, about Weird Science: Craig's reaction on learning LeBrock married Seagal is called the favorite moment of the pod.
    “Craig, if we could rewind this pod, the part where you had a natural reaction to Kelly LeBrock, we married to Steven Seagal was my favorite moment.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:44:36 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  57. career (career): Bill Paxton → Weird Science. Bill first knew Paxton as Chet in Weird Science, then he became a classic.
    “I knew Bill Paxton initially is Chet and weird science.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:13:27 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  58. industry (industry): Thief → Weird Science. Joke about shopping malls hosting Weird Science filming.
    “They're filming weird science at our mall this week.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:12:38 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  59. theme (shared location): Ferris Bueller's Day Off → Weird Science. Shermer High is the location for Weird Science, Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, and Ferris.
    “Shermer High is the location for weird science, um, 16 candles, Breakfast Club, and Ferris Bueller.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:01:12 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)