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"The Fight Before Christmas" is the tenth Christmas-themed episode of the animated sitcom The Simpsons, and the first Christmas episode of the series to be produced in high-definition, originally aired on December 5, 2010. Aired as the eighth episode of the show's 22nd season, it features four short stories (similar to how "Simpson Christmas Stories" was done), including one where Martha Stewart appears, and one where Maggie imagines the Simpsons as puppets.

Synopsis

SPOILER: Plot details or story follow.

It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Springfield, but while Marge gets in the holiday spirit, the rest of the family are not feeling cheerful.

Bart's dream

Bart, angry that he did not receive the dirt bike that he wanted last Christmas, stays up late to shoot Santa. He falls asleep and dreams that the Polar Express, with Otto Mann as the conductor, lands in front of the house and flies him to the North Pole, where after working his way up the corporate ladder, Bart is able to meet with Santa. Santa (Krusty) tells Bart that he is broke, and feeling pity since giving out free toys in exchange for cookies is not a sustainable business for him. Bart decides not to shoot Santa and leaves. It is revealed that Santa was lying, saying that children are dumb, afterward throwing a party. Upon leaving, the train is chased by police. Otto jumps off the train, leaving Bart stranded.

Lisa's dream

Lisa, who objects to Christmas trees on ecological grounds, dreams that it is December 1944 and that Marge - not Homer - is away at war. Due to Marge being taken suddenly for overseas deployment (by MPs Patty and Selma) while buying a Christmas tree last year, Lisa has grown to dislike all trees because of the emotion involved. Homer tries to comfort the girl, but they soon after get a telegram saying that Marge disappeared. After hearing the news, Lisa runs away to the place where she had last seen her mother, the Christmas Tree Farm. The owner of the place says that last year Marge had paid for a tree but never took it home, and then trims the tree to make it look like Marge. Lisa takes the tree home and the family decorate it together, believing it to be a symbol that Marge is okay. Marge is then seen assassinating Adolf Hitler in a movie theatre in France (a reference to Inglorious Basterds) as he watches a propaganda film of an evil Dumbo bombing London; she walks away from the scene before the theatre explodes. As Lisa wakes up, she declares that she will never take her stuffed elephant toy and the book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich together to bed again.

Marge's dream

Meanwhile, disappointed that she is alone spreading the holiday cheer, Marge sends a letter to Martha Stewart to help her save the family's Christmas. Martha comes to the rescue and transforms the house into the North Pole chalet Marge has always dreamed of, but when the family is noticeably absent from the perfectly trimmed holiday home, she realizes that it is Homer and the kids who make the holidays special; and then wakes up to Homer and the children taking her out for breakfast the next morning.

Maggie's dream

In a final short segment, the Simpsons, as puppets, get ready to go to Hawaii, and decide to have Moe be their housesitter. Mr. Burns then arrives (unexpectedly) at the Simpson home, saying he was visited by three ghosts the night before and wants to be happy and cheerful during the holiday season. Seeing their bags, and with Moe's girlfriend Katy Perry saying that it is Moe's bachelor pad, Mr. Burns learns that Homer feigned a neck injury to get a week off work. However, after calling the hounds, one of the hounds (a crude sock puppet) reveals they have none due to the budget being spent on Katy Perry, which does not seem to flake Mr. Burns. Afterward, the Simpson family, Mr. Burns, Katy Perry, and Moe all sing a rendition of "39 Days of Christmas". Finally, Moe attempts to kiss Katy Perry but is not tall enough to reach her mouth. Instead, he opts to "kiss her bellybutton."

Spoilers end here.

External links

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20th Century

Movies

Miracle on 34th Street (1955 remake) (1973 remake) (1994 remake) • Die Hard • Die Hard 2 • Home Alone • Home Alone 2: Lost in New York • George Balanchine's The Nutcracker • Trapped in Paradise • Jingle All the Way • Home Alone 4 • The Family Stone • Deck the Halls • 12 Men of Christmas • Home Alone: The Holiday Heist • Jingle All the Way 2 • Home Sweet Home Alone

Television episodes and specials

20th Television
**MASH***	"Dear Dad" • "Dear Sis" • "Death Takes a Holiday" • "All About Christmas Eve"
Tracey Ullman	"Santa Baby" • "Kay's Gift" • "Merry Catnip"
The X Files	"Christmas Carol" • "Emily" • "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas"
Malcolm in the Middle	"Christmas" • "Christmas Trees" • "Pearl Harbor" • "Hal's Christmas Gift
Bones	"The Man in the Fallout Shelter" • "The Santa in the Slush" • "The Goop on the Girl"
How I Met Your Mother	"How Lily Stole Christmas" • "Little Minnesota" • "False Positive" • "Symphony of Illumination" • "The Over-Correction" • "The Final Page, Part 1" • "The Final Page, Part 2"
Glee	"A Very Glee Christmas" • "Extraordinary Merry Christmas" • "Glee, Actually" • "Previously Unaired Christmas"
New Girl	"The 23rd" • "Santa" • "LAXmas" • "Christmas Eve Eve"
The Mindy Project	"Josh and Mindy's Christmas Party" • "Christmas Party Sex Trap" • "Christmas" • "When Mindy Met Danny"
Last Man Standing	"Last Christmas Standing" • "Putting a Hit on Christmas" • "Elfie" • "Wedding Planning" • "Gift of the Wise Man"
Other shows	"Christmas Story" • "The Worst Noel" • "Haus Arrest" • "Amends" • "Blue Christmas" • "A Christmas Story" • "Cookies for Santa" • "In God We Trust" • "Road to Tradition" • "Afternoon Delight" • "Christmas" • "The Glitch That Stole Christmas" • "Secret Santa"

20th Television Animation
*The Simpsons*	"Simpson Christmas" • "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" • "Marge Be Not Proud" • "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace" • "Grift of the Magi" • "Skinner's Sense of Snow" • "She of Little Faith" • "'Tis the Fifteenth Season" • "Simpson Christmas Stories" • "Kill Gil, Volumes I & II" • "The Fight Before Christmas" • "Holidays of Future Passed" • "White Christmas Blues" • "I Won't Be Home for Christmas • "The Nightmare After Krustmas" • "'Tis the 30th Season" • "Bobby, It's Cold Outside" • "The Way of The Dog" • "A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas" • "Manger Things" • Feliz Navidad
King of the Hill	"The Unbearable Blindness of Laying" • "Pretty, Pretty Dresses" • "Hillennium" • "'Twas the Nut Before Christmas" • "The Father, the Son, and J.C." • "Livin' on Reds, Vitamin C and Propane" • "Ms. Wakefield"
**Family Guy, American Dad!, and The Cleveland Show**	"A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas" • "The Best Christmas Story Never" • "The Most Adequate Christmas Ever" • "Rapture's Delight" • "A Cleveland Brown Christmas" • "Road to the North Pole" • "For Whom the Sleigh Bell Tolls" • "Murray Christmas" • "Season's Beatings" • "Die Semi-Hard" • "Jesus, Mary and Joseph!" • "'Tis the Cleveland To Be Sorry" • "Minstrel Krampus" • "Christmas Guy" • "Dreaming of a White Porsche Christmas" • "The 2000-Year-Old Virgin" • "How the Griffin Stole Christmas" • "Ninety North, Zero West" • "Gifted Me Liberty" • "Don't Be a Dickens At Christmas" • "Santa, Schmanta" • "Christmas is Coming" • "Yule. Tide. Repeat." • "The First No L" • "Christmas Crime" • "The Return of the King (of Queens)"
*Futurama*	"Xmas Story" • "A Tale of Two Santas" • "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular" • "I Know What You Did Next Xmas"
Bob's Burgers	"God Rest Ye Merry Gentle-Mannequins" • "Christmas in the Car" • "Father of the Bob" • "Nice-Capades" • "The Last Gingerbread House on the Left" • "The Bleakening" • "Better Off Sled" • "Have Yourself a Maily Linda Christmas" • "Yachty or Nice" • "Gene's Christmas Break" • "The Plight Before Christmas" • "The Nightmare 2 Days Before Christmas"
Other cartoons	"Hook's Christmas" • "A Christmas Surprise for Mrs. Stillman" • Olive, the Other Reindeer • Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas • "The War on Grafelnik" • "Miracle on Culpepper Slims Boulevard" • "A Very Solar Holiday Opposites Special" • "Dip the Halls Adventure" • "Xmas with The Skanks Adventure"

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-"'''The Fight Before Christmas'''" is the tenth [[Christmas]] episode of ''[[w:c:simpsons:Main Page|The Simpsons]]'', and the first one to be produced in high-definition, aired in the show's 22nd season. It features four short stories (similar to how "[[Simpson Christmas Stories]]" was done), including one where [[wikipedia:Martha Stewart|Martha Stewart]] appears, and one where [[Maggie Simpson|Maggie]] imagines the Simpsons as puppets.
+"'''The Fight Before Christmas'''" is the tenth [[Christmas]]-themed episode of the animated sitcom ''[[w:c:simpsons:Main Page|The Simpsons]]'', and the first Christmas episode of the series to be produced in high-definition, originally aired on December 5, 2010. Aired as the eighth episode of the show's 22nd season, it features four short stories (similar to how "[[Simpson Christmas Stories]]" was done), including one where [[wikipedia:Martha Stewart|Martha Stewart]] appears, and one where Maggie imagines the Simpsons as puppets.
 ==Synopsis==
 {{Spoiler}}
-It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Springfield, but while [[Marge Simpson|Marge]] gets in the holiday spirit, her family is not feeling cheerful.
+It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Springfield, but while Marge gets in the holiday spirit, the rest of the family are not feeling cheerful.
 ===Bart's dream===
 [[File:The Fight Before Christmas -00059.jpg|thumb|250px]]
 [[File:TFBC - Santa Claus rich.png|thumb|250px]]
-[[Bart Simpson|Bart]], angry that he did not receive the dirt bike that he wanted last Christmas, stays up late to shoot [[Santa Claus|Santa]]. He falls asleep and dreams that [[the Polar Express]], with [[Otto Mann]] as the conductor, lands in front of the house and flies him to the North Pole, where after working his way up the corporate ladder, Bart is able to meet with Santa. Santa ([[Krusty the Clown]]) tells Bart that he is broke, and feeling pity since giving out free toys in exchange for cookies is not a sustainable business for him. Bart decides not to shoot him and leaves. It is revealed that he was lying, saying that children are dumb, afterward throwing a party. Upon leaving, the train is chased by police. Otto jumps off the train, leaving Bart stranded.
+Bart, angry that he did not receive the dirt bike that he wanted last Christmas, stays up late to shoot Santa. He falls asleep and dreams that [[the Polar Express]], with Otto Mann as the conductor, lands in front of the house and flies him to the North Pole, where after working his way up the corporate ladder, Bart is able to meet with Santa. Santa (Krusty) tells Bart that he is broke, and feeling pity since giving out free toys in exchange for cookies is not a sustainable business for him. Bart decides not to shoot Santa and leaves. It is revealed that Santa was lying, saying that children are dumb, afterward throwing a party. Upon leaving, the train is chased by police. Otto jumps off the train, leaving Bart stranded.
 ===Lisa's dream===
-[[Lisa Simpson|Lisa]], who objects to Christmas trees on ecological grounds, dreams that it is December 1944 and that Marge - not [[Homer Simpson|Homer]] - is away at war. Due to her being taken suddenly for overseas deployment (by Patty and Selma) while buying a Christmas tree last year, Lisa has grown to dislike all trees because of the emotion involved. Homer tries to comfort her, but they soon after get a telegram saying that Marge disappeared. After hearing the news, Lisa runs away to the place where she had last seen her, the Christmas Tree Farm. The owner says that last year Marge had paid for a tree but never took it home, and then trims the tree to make it look like her. Lisa takes it home and the family decorate it together, believing it to be a symbol that Marge is okay. She is then seen assassinating Adolf Hitler in a movie theatre in France (a reference to ''Inglorious Basterds'') as he watches a propaganda film of an evil Dumbo bombing London; she walks away from the scene before the theatre explodes. As Lisa wakes up, she declares that she will never take her stuffed elephant toy and the book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich together to bed again.
+Lisa, who objects to Christmas trees on ecological grounds, dreams that it is December 1944 and that Marge - not Homer - is away at war. Due to Marge being taken suddenly for overseas deployment (by MPs Patty and Selma) while buying a Christmas tree last year, Lisa has grown to dislike all trees because of the emotion involved. Homer tries to comfort the girl, but they soon after get a telegram saying that Marge disappeared. After hearing the news, Lisa runs away to the place where she had last seen her mother, the Christmas Tree Farm. The owner of the place says that last year Marge had paid for a tree but never took it home, and then trims the tree to make it look like Marge. Lisa takes the tree home and the family decorate it together, believing it to be a symbol that Marge is okay. Marge is then seen assassinating Adolf Hitler in a movie theatre in France (a reference to ''Inglorious Basterds'') as he watches a propaganda film of an evil Dumbo bombing London; she walks away from the scene before the theatre explodes. As Lisa wakes up, she declares that she will never take her stuffed elephant toy and the book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich together to bed again.
 ===Marge's dream===
 [[File:The_Fight_Before_Christmas_-_Promo_1.jpg|thumb|250px]]
-Meanwhile, disappointed that she is alone spreading the holiday cheer, Marge sends a letter to Martha Stewart to help her save her family's Christmas. Martha comes to the rescue and transforms the house into the North Pole chalet Marge has always dreamed of, but when the family is noticeably absent from the perfectly trimmed holiday home, she realizes that it is them who make the holidays special; and then wakes up to them taking her out for breakfast the next morning.
+Meanwhile, disappointed that she is alone spreading the holiday cheer, Marge sends a letter to Martha Stewart to help her save the family's Christmas. Martha comes to the rescue and transforms the house into the North Pole chalet Marge has always dreamed of, but when the family is noticeably absent from the perfectly trimmed holiday home, she realizes that it is Homer and the kids who make the holidays special; and then wakes up to Homer and the children taking her out for breakfast the next morning.
 ===Maggie's dream===
 [[File:Screenshot-SimpsonsFightBeforeChristmas.jpg|250px|thumb]]
-In a final short segment, the Simpsons, as puppets, get ready to go to Hawaii, and decide to have [[Moe Szyslak]] be their housesitter. [[Mr. Burns]] then arrives (unexpectedly) at the Simpson home, saying [[A Christmas Carol|he was visited by three ghosts the night before]] and wants to be happy and cheerful during the holiday season. Seeing their bags, and with Moe's girlfriend, {{w|Katy Perry}}, saying that it is his bachelor pad, Mr. Burns learns that Homer feigned a neck injury to get a week off work. However, after calling the hounds, one of them (a crude sock puppet) reveals they have none due to the budget being spent on Katy, which does not seem to flake Mr. Burns. Afterward, the Simpsons, Mr. Burns, Katy, and Moe all sing a rendition of "[[The Twelve Days of Christmas|39 Days of Christmas]]". Finally, Moe attempts to kiss Katy but is not tall enough to reach her mouth. Instead, he opts to "kiss her belly button."
+In a final short segment, the Simpsons, as puppets, get ready to go to Hawaii, and decide to have Moe be their housesitter. Mr. Burns then arrives (unexpectedly) at the Simpson home, saying [[A Christmas Carol|he was visited by three ghosts the night before]] and wants to be happy and cheerful during the holiday season. Seeing their bags, and with Moe's girlfriend {{w|Katy Perry}} saying that it is Moe's bachelor pad, Mr. Burns learns that Homer feigned a neck injury to get a week off work. However, after calling the hounds, one of the hounds (a crude sock puppet) reveals they have none due to the budget being spent on Katy Perry, which does not seem to flake Mr. Burns. Afterward, the Simpson family, Mr. Burns, Katy Perry, and Moe all sing a rendition of "[[The Twelve Days of Christmas|39 Days of Christmas]]". Finally, Moe attempts to kiss Katy Perry but is not tall enough to reach her mouth. Instead, he opts to "kiss her bellybutton."
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