472: My Big Fat Greek Wedding
I Hate It But I Love It
Kat Angus and Jocelyn Geddie
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I hate it! |
| 0:02.0 | I hate it! but I love it! |
| 0:25.9 | I hi-Baila, everybody! |
| 0:27.3 | Hi-hi-Bala, one and all. |
| 0:28.5 | Welcome to I hate it, but I love it. |
| 0:29.7 | I'm Jocelyn Gettie. |
| 0:30.7 | I'm Kat Angus, and this is the podcast about all the pop culture you love and hate simultaneously. |
| 0:34.6 | We are closing out sort of romantic movie month this week with |
| 0:37.5 | 2002's My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Yes, as we mentioned at the end of last week's episode, |
| 0:42.7 | the most profitable romantic comedy of all time grossed approximately $350 million on a $5 million |
| 0:49.9 | budget. A real sleeper hit in the conventional sense in that it was not doing any business at all |
| 0:57.6 | until maybe something like it's 23rd week in theaters. |
| 1:00.6 | Wow. |
| 1:01.0 | Which is also what a time that it was even in theaters. |
| 1:04.3 | Even possible. |
| 1:05.4 | Like this movie would have been just like dropped on Netflix and nobody would have |
| 1:08.9 | noticed it if this came out today. |
| 1:11.0 | Yes, although maybe it would have spread by word of mouth again. Maybe. Perhaps. And also, |
| 1:16.5 | Neo Vardalov's got an Oscar nomination for the script. She did. I suspect that's partially |
| 1:21.2 | because this was such a cultural phenomenon. Sure, yeah. Although there's a lot going on in |
| 1:26.0 | this movie that I'm interested to talk to you about. |
| 1:28.0 | So why did you put this on the list, Kat? So I love this movie, to be clear. I think it's lovely. I think it's very funny. Seeing this in the theater in 2002 was a wonderful experience. Just being around everybody laughing and crying at the same time. I was with my dad. He also cried. It was great. not the crying, you know. |
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