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" Every Wednesday we show you a great scene from film history you may remember, you may not \u2014 and then we break it down for you. Bad Santa (or Badder Santa or the Bad Santa Director&amp;#039;s Cut, or whichever of the several circulating editions you&amp;#039;re watching) is the ultimate Christmas movie for people who hate Christmas movies. And for people who hate Christmas. Billy Bob Thornton&amp;#039;s small-time recidivist, whose racket is infiltrating shopping centers as a mall Santa Claus and then ripping them off, feels like he&amp;#039;s made entirely of the residue the holiday season tries to sweep under the rug. Drunk, horny, self-loathing, terminally exhausted: Thornton&amp;#039;s Willie is everyone who&amp;#039;s ever shifted their weight through an uncomfortable Christmas dinner, every parent who&amp;#039;s waited in line for an hour to buy their kid the newest whatzit only to have their credit card declined, every hungover retail employee who&amp;#039;s ever had to work Christmas Eve and Boxing Day.  Given what an unrepentant asshole Willie is, it&amp;#039;s little surprise that Bad Santa&amp;#039;s best scenes are the ones that come at his expense. In the film&amp;#039;s most memorable sequence \u2014 though really, Bad Santa is one of those rare comedies that&amp;#039;s shot-for-shot memorable, line-for-line quotable \u2014 Willie bothers to receive a line of children eager to tell Santa what they want for Christmas. After getting snot and chocolate blown on his face by one kid, and his foot stepped on by another, Willie&amp;#039;s exasperation reaches a breaking point when a child tells him he wants a &amp;quot;Fraggle-stick car&amp;quot; for Christmas.  It&amp;#039;s such a perfect joke: a toy that sounds so made up to the point of being unfathomable. Thornton&amp;#039;s drained delivery of the line, &amp;quot;What the fuck is that?&amp;quot; is one of his character&amp;#039;s few honest moments. This is a man so worn down by bogus holiday cheer (the booger-y children, the flat mall Muzak) that his fatigue with the season feels totally validated. He&amp;#039;s a hero for anyone who has ever harrumphed &amp;quot;Bah, humbug!&amp;quot; when assaulted by the opening strains of &amp;quot;Deck the Halls.&amp;quot; Watch the scene below:      Follow The Culture Blog on RSS and on Twitter at @ESQCulture. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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