Bad Santa
WHAT WENT WRONG
Sad Boom Media
4.8 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
When 'Bad Santa' hit theaters in 2003, audiences got a filthy, chaotic Christmas classic. What they didn’t get was the movie director Terry Zwigoff or producers the Coen Brothers intended to make.
In this episode, Chris and Lizzie uncover how Bob Weinstein became the real villain of 'Bad Santa'—seizing Zwigoff’s cut, alienating the Coens, and waging war on anyone who tried to protect the film. Plus: why Billy Bob Thornton was nowhere near the first choice to play Willie, and why Zwigoff’s controversial director’s cut is the Christmas miracle you absolutely need this year.
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| 0:00.0 | What went wrong? What went wrong? What went wrong? What went wrong? |
| 0:15.0 | What went wrong? What went wrong? What went wrong? What went wrong? What went wrong? What went wrong? What where wrong? What where wrong? What where wrong? What where wrong? Wartes are striking actors are fighting suits or demanding budget cuts. |
| 0:42.3 | Someone puts a PCP in all suits, |
| 0:44.3 | Kevin Costner's whiteress, but a lawsuit. |
| 0:47.3 | Cameron is drowning, Spielberg is frowning, |
| 0:50.3 | glitches confounding, coal-o loungering |
| 0:52.3 | Rimi might be a psycho |
| 0:54.5 | And Terrence Malick is staring at a bird |
| 0:57.7 | Don away just through her pissing Roman |
| 1:00.0 | The ghost is killing crew fresh on the omen |
| 1:02.6 | We're never covering the greatest showman |
| 1:05.2 | Mountains and pounding young |
| 1:07.0 | Demball shouting Tom Hooper thought cats had an Oscar shot. |
| 1:14.2 | Hello and welcome back to another episode of What Went Wrong, your favorite podcast, full stop that just so happens to be about movies, and how it is nearly impossible to make them, let alone a good one, let alone the feel bad, feel good movie of the holiday season. |
| 1:30.4 | As always, I am Chris Winterbauer, joined by my ever-misanthropic co-host. |
| 1:35.9 | Just kidding. That's Billy Bob in this movie. |
| 1:37.9 | Lizzie Bassett. Lizzie, how are you doing this evening? |
| 1:40.4 | I'm doing great, and I am honestly, unbelievably excited to talk about Bad Santa, which is the |
| 1:48.2 | movie we have. Not only is this our first of the Christmas season, and we are doing a couple |
| 1:53.7 | Christmas episodes, this episode and the next episode. And then for the second half of December, |
| 1:57.8 | we have a little surprise in store for you all that truly is. We've already |
| 2:00.8 | told them what it is. That's true. I'm sorry. The Christmas gift of James Cameron. We're going to do a lot of James Cameron. It's going to be a very Cameron Christmas for the last two weeks of December. Yep. Aliens and Avatar. What he gives his wife every year for Christmas. No. I'm just kidding. Yeah, Lizzie, I am also really excited. I had never in a million of years would have thought that you would have picked bad Santa. Not that there's anything bad about this movie or that I wouldn't, but I just wouldn't have expected it. So I'm excited and explain yourself. I will explain myself. So, you know what? I also would not have expected to pick bad Santa. but what happened was, you know, we knew we wanted to cover some Christmas movies. And so I was looking around, doing some digging, trying to figure out what I wanted to do. And this movie kept popping up. And I was just like, I don't know. Like, what are we even going to talk about here? Had you seen it? No. Oh, wow. realized that I did not know this was a Terry's Wygoth movie at all. |
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