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Bad Santa (2003) More at IMDbPro »

• The word "fuck" and its variations are used 159 times in the movie. The term "shit" appears 73 times amid a total of approx. 300 profanities.
  
  
• Larry David was considered for the role of Willie.
  
  
• Bill Murray was signed on as Willie but dropped out for Lost in Translation (2003).
  
  
• Jack Nicholson read the script and wanted to do the film, but had to turn it down because he was already committed to Something's Gotta Give (2003).
  
  
• Billy Bob Thornton admitted that he was genuinely intoxicated during the filming.
  
  
• The unrated version of the film furthers the record for the most profanities in a Christmas film, including 170 uses of "fuck", 74 uses of "shit", 31 uses of "ass", 10 uses of "bitch", and 1 use of "bastard", in variable forms.
  
  
• John Bunnell (Police Chief) is actually a sheriff who regularly hosts "World's Wildest Police Videos" (1998).
  
  
• Joel Coen, Ethan Coen and Terry Zwigoff revised the screenplay.
  
  
• According to his report card, the name of "The Kid" is Thurman Merman.
  
  
• Billy Bob Thornton's character "Willie" last name is revealed as Stokes when he is in the hotel room in Miami, on the answering machine.
  
  
• First movie in Ireland to be rated the new 16 certificate.
  
  
• This was John Ritter's final acting appearance in a movie and it is dedicated to his memory.
  
  
• Sarah Silverman appears in a deleted scene portraying a Santa Trainer.
  
  
• In the film, Wille cracks a safe called the Kitnerboy Redoubt. There is no such safe company. It's an obscure reference to the film Jaws (1975) in which one of the sharks victims was that "little Kintner boy".
  
  
• When Bernie Mac catches the child in the store trying to steal a video-game, the video-game is 'Halo 2 (2004) (VG)'.
  
  
• Tony Cox ad-libbed the "You probably shouldn't be digging in your ass" line. Director Terry Zwigoff found the line so funny that he admitted to repeatedly cracking up on set and even waking up in the middle of the night laughing.
  
  
• Tony Cox was referred to as "you people" in both this movie and Me, Myself & Irene (2000).
  
  
• Ajay Naidu's character calls Billy Bob Thornton's character an "ass clown." Naidu was in Office Space (1999), the movie that made the term "ass clown" popular when Michael Bolton (the singer) was referred to as a "no talent ass clown".
  
  

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