Bad Santa

Bad Santa

Instantly qualifying as a perennial cult favorite, Bad Santa is as nasty as it wants to be, and there's something to be said for comedy without compromise. The Coen brothers conceived the basic idea and served as executive producers, but it's director Terry Zwigoff (Crumb, Ghost World) who brings his unique affinity for losers and outcasts to the twisted tale of Willie T. Stokes (Billy Bob Thornton), a hard-drinking, chain-smoking, foul-mouthed sexaholic safe-cracker who targets a different department store every holiday season, playing Santa while he cases the joint with his dwarf elf-partner Marcus (Tony Cox). With comedic support from Bernie Mac, Lauren Graham, Cloris Leachman, and John Ritter in his final film, Thornton milks the lowbrow laughs with a slovenly lack of sentiment, warming Bad Santa's pickled heart just enough to please a chubby misfit (Brett Kelly, hilariously deadpan) who may or may not be mentally challenged. As dry as an arid martini and blacker than morning-after coffee, Bad Santa is an instant cure for yuletide schmaltz, and if you think this appropriately R-rated comedy is suitable for kids, your parenting skills are no better than Willie's. --Jeff Shannon

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Production: Miramax Films
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 11 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
70
Rotten Tomatoes:
78%
R
Year:
2003
91
Website
21,156 Views
He's very naughty . . . and not very nice.
He doesn't care if you're naughty or nice.
Get Naughty this Holiday Season.

Marcus:
It won't happen again. I can promise you that. Willie here has low blood sugar. That's all.

Willie:
That's right. I forgot to take my pill.

Bob Chipeska:
It's not just the swearing. Forgive me for prying, but did one of you, um, fornicate...

Willie:
Fornicate?

Bob Chipeska:
Yes. With a heavy-set woman in the big-and-tall dressing room?

Willie:
Look, I've boned alot of fat chicks in my time, sure. But, as far back as I can remember, I've never fornicated anybody.

Bob Chipeska:
Yes... Well, even still, I think it's best for all parties considered if we...

Marcus:
If we what?

Bob Chipeska:
Well, I have somebody else interested in the position.

Willie:
Before you do something stupid you might want to think about this sh*t.

Bob Chipeska:
What are you talking about?

Willie:
I'm talking about firing a little black midget. A small, colored, African-American small person. That's what I'm talking about. I'm talking about your face all over goddamn USA Today, that's what I'm talking about. I'm talking about 150 of these little motherf***ers all over the sidewalk out there. Holding pickett signs and using bullhorns and sh*t like that. Screaming and hollering your name out. Unfair practices, get me?

Bob Chipeska:
Oh no, this is not a handicapped thing. I have nothing against you people.

Willie:
You people? Did you hear that Marcus? He said 'You People.'

Marcus:
Who the hell is us people?

Bob Chipeska:
No... He said... But... what... No no. Um, I think it's best if we just forget we had this conversation.

Willie:
Good thinking. And don't worry about us. We'll be fine. Let's get the hell out of here Marcus.

Willie:
You're pathetic.

[Chipeska is seen arguing with a man who had been the Chamberlain's Santa for years.]

Bob Chipeska:
Harrison, will you listen please? Financially--

Fired Santa:
Well, you get what you paid for, Chipeska. Five Christmases I've been here, and now you flip me for some stranger who'll do it for peanuts and happens to work with a real midget. Well, let me tell you something, though: nobody cares! Nobody comes for the elf; Santa's the main attraction. I do Burl Ives songs. Does this schmoe even play guitar?

Bob Chipeska:
Look, Harrison, it's not about the money or the midget. Believe me if it was-- I don't think they like the term midget. I think you're supposed to call them--

Fired Santa:
Oh, just forget it! [Walks away as Willie and Marcus enters the store, then yells to them] Hacks!

Bob Chipeska:
[to Marcus and Willie] Hi. Bob Chipeska. Welcome. Great photo and resumè by the way.

Marcus:
Thanks. You know, we've been at this for a long time and all, so we like to think we do a good job.

Bob Chipeska:
I'm so glad you two can come at such a short notice. You two are perfect for this job, truly.

[Willie drones out the conversation between Bob and Marcus, eyeing a woman's ass as she walks]

Bob Chipeska:
So, I don't want his unpleasantness affect your performance in any way.

Marcus:
Oh, no, we--

Willie:
Performance?

Bob Chipeska:
Yes. Your performance. You know, the...

Willie:
Performance, like, sexual?

[Bob looks up at Willie in confusion]

Bob Chipeska:
Excuse me?

Marcus:
Willie.

Willie:
Are you saying there's something wrong with my gear? Is that what you're saying to me?

Bob Chipeska:
I'm sorry, your gear?

Marcus:
Willie...

Willie:
My f*** stick!

[Bob makes a shocked and disgusted look, Marcus quickly saves the situation by shoving Willie]

Marcus:
Willie, take a seat. You know how your blood sugar is.

Bob Chipeska:
He's not going to say "f*** stick" in front of the children, is he?

Marcus:
No! It was just a joke. An adult joke for us adults. It's a joke. Just a joke.

Willie:
[in a letter to Thurman] Dear Kid, I hope that you got my present and that there wasn't too much blood on it, although there was blood on the presents you gave me which didn't keep me from enjoying it, so maybe the blood doesn't matter so much, I guess. Just in case they took it as evidence, I'm also sending you a T-shirt, I hope it's the right size. I'm healing up good and they tell me that I will soon be 100%, even with eight bullets dug out of me cause they didn't hit any vital organs, just my liver, which is f***ed anyway. Hahaha. Anyways, I told the cops you had no one to take the f*** care of you so they set it up with Ms. Santa's Sister to watch you till your dad gets back in one year and three months. They made her a guardian pro tem, or some such sh*t. Anyway, she makes better money than bartending and seems to like you, your house, and Jacuzzi. As for my little helper, I'm sorry to tell you that him and his prune-faced, mail-order wife are gonna be exploring mountains with your dad. I hope your dad doesn't go sucking sh*t for them like I did. Thank you for giving that letter to the cops, I forgot to ask you to do it, but it's a good thing you did or Santa's little helper would've plugged his ass, and now the cops know I wrote it which is gonna keep my ass outta jail. That plus everyone agreeing that to Phoenix police department shooting an unarmed Santa was even more f***ed up than Rodney King. Cops are treating me like f***ing royalty now, which is new in my experience. They're gonna make me the sensitivity counselor, so that tragedies like this will never again embarrass the whole f***ing department. Whatever. So I'll be staying in Phoenix now telling the police how screwed up they are, which is not a bad job as jobs go. They're supposed to let me out of this hospital room soon, so I'll see you when I come over and f*** Ms. Santa's Sister in the Jacuzzi. Until then, don't take no sh*t from nobody, least of all, yourself. Anyway, see you soon. Santa.


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