'WWW' on 'No Such Thing': Why Are There so Many Twin Films?

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🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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On this week's episode, the boys chat with Chris and Lizzie, the hosts of the What Went Wrong podcast about why Hollywood produces so many "twin films," movies that have very similar concepts and that release within a year of each other. They also debate whether A Bug's Life or ANTZ is the better movie, and talk through some controversial Hollywood development rumors.

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0:00.0	I'm Annie. I'm N'Ne. I'm Noah.
0:14.9	And this is no such thing, the show where we settle our dumb arguments and yours by actually doing the research.
0:21.7	On today's episode, we're getting to the bottom of the twin film phenomenon.
0:28.8	There's no such thing.
0:30.0	No such thing.
0:33.0	No such thing.
0:34.6	No such thing.
0:35.8	No such thing. No such thing. Okay. Okay. We're here to talk about twin films and why they happen so frequently.
0:53.7	But first, obviously, we have to know what a twin film is.
0:57.6	So we're talking about a pair of movies that have extraordinarily similar premises.
1:04.9	I like that. I like that pronunciation, too. And that release within a year of each other. There are some outliers with this.
1:14.2	Like, there are some twin films that come out more than a year apart. And there are some outliers
1:19.8	that have to do with the plot as well. Like, there are some movies that seem similar at first,
1:24.4	but then when you watch them, they're not really that similar. We're dealing with that right now with Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein in this movie coming
1:31.4	out next year from Maggie Dillon Hall.
1:33.4	I think it's called The Bride.
1:35.4	Sometimes both of the twin films are popular, like Finding Nemo and a Shark's Tale.
1:42.7	Oh, yeah.
1:43.5	I forgot about a Shark's Tale. I was a Finding Nemo home, so we didn't watch no Sharks Tale. Finding Nemo was definitely, I think, the more popular one. Yeah, for sure. Shark Tale was big. Sharktail was a classic, like, substitute teacher. Yeah, that's like I remember renting that, I think, renting the DVD or something. Yeah, you weren't going to theaters for that one. But, you know, finding Nemo, we had the tape. Yeah. You own that. And Will Smith delivers a master class in Shark Tale. Now, my man Sykes has just begged me not to murderize all y'all up in here, all right? Now, I might listen to him, but then again, I might not.
2:19.5	And that depends on the individual behavior of all the individuals in here individually.
2:25.7	In other instances, one twin film is just way more popular than the other one,
2:29.7	to the point where you might not have even heard of the other one.
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