Weirdhouse Cinema: Santa Claus, the Movie
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 85 minutes
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In this episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe discuss 1985’s “Santa Claus: The Movie,” starring Dudley Moore as an elf, John Lithgow as a scheming tycoon and David Huddleston – the Big Lebowski himself – as Santa.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.6 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:17.0 | Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb. |
| 0:20.4 | And this is Joe McCormick. And today on Weird House Cinema, we are going to be talking about the 1985 holiday classic. Should we say classic? Santa Claus. Santa Claus. |
| 0:30.9 | Santa Claus, the movie starring David Huddleston, The Big Lobowski from the Big Lobowski, as Santa Claus. |
| 0:39.0 | That's right. This is our third bona fide Santa Claus movie that we've looked at on |
| 0:44.7 | Weird House Cinema. We'd previously done episodes on 1959 Santa Claus, aka Santa Claus versus |
| 0:51.4 | the devil, the Mexican Santa Claus film. |
| 0:54.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.5 | As well as 1964s, Santa Claus conquers the Martians. |
| 1:02.3 | I think in their own ways, both actual holiday classics. |
| 1:02.9 | Yes. |
| 1:07.4 | This movie, you know, I don't want to be mean, but I'm going to be honest right up front. |
| 1:13.0 | This movie is nowhere near as interesting to me as the other two, but I think we're going to have a great time talking about it. Yeah, it's mostly interesting to me because |
| 1:17.4 | I saw it as a child. And I remember the feeling of, I honestly can't remember if I saw it in the |
| 1:25.1 | theater, which is possible, or I saw it on VHS, which is perhaps more likely. |
| 1:30.6 | But I remember there being a sense of grandeur and excitement about it, because Joe, this wasn't just Santa Claus. |
| 1:36.2 | This was Santa Claus the movie. |
| 1:38.5 | That's right. |
| 1:39.1 | It feels like it's the authorized Santa Claus film. |
| 1:42.6 | Yeah, it did. |
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