Box Office Bombs: The Lone Ranger, Waterworld, and Showgirls with Aisha Harris and Andrew Jupin

The Big Flop

Wondery

Society & Culture, Comedy, Business

4.6 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Join us as we break down THREE cinematic catastrophes: The Lone Ranger, Waterworld, and Showgirls. Find out why Johnny Depp thought it was a good idea to play a Native American, how Kevin Costner ignored Stephen Spielberg’s sage advice, and who was actually responsible for the NC-17 madness of Showgirls.

Movie and pop culture experts Andrew Jupin (We Hate Movies) and Aisha Harris (NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour) join MIsha to unpack these truly wild films and their legacies.

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to the Big Flop early and ad free.
0:05.3	Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:14.3	It's just crazy that he was an alleged cannibal, and there's like a little bit of cannibalism in this movie.
0:24.6	Oh, I forgot about that.
0:26.0	Maybe that's why he signed up.
0:31.2	We are on a sinking ship.
0:37.3	From Wondery and at Will Media, this is The Big Flop, where we chronicle the greatest flubs, fails, and blunders of all time.
0:47.8	I'm your host, Misha Brown, social media superstar, and box office bombshell at don't cross a gay man.
0:56.0	And on today's special bonus episode, we're talking about one of my favorite types of failure.
1:03.7	The extravagantly expensive, often embarrassing, and sometimes misunderstood box office flop.
1:37.5	Today I'm joined by Aisha Harris from NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour and Andrew Jupin from We Hate Movies.
1:38.6	Welcome to the show.
1:39.7	Hello, Misha.
1:41.9	Hello, thank you for having me.
1:46.2	So, the show today is going to go a little differently than usual.
1:53.5	Instead of telling you about one particular flop, I'm going to tell you about three box office bombs,
1:58.1	the Lone Ranger, Waterworld, and Showgirls.
2:00.9	But before we jump into the first flop, I wanted to turn it over to you,
2:03.2	Andrew and Aisha.
2:04.8	What are your favorite box office flops?
2:07.9	Something that maybe didn't pull in huge audience
2:09.9	is in the theater,
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