History Film / SantaClausIsAStinker

* NaiveEverygirl: Thérèse and Josette are both called out for this at some point. Thérèse states in the very beginning that she can't figure Pierre cheating on his wife. A few hours later, she will be the one Pierre will be cheating with. As for Josette, she is the only character who never realized that "Katia" (Jean-Jacques) [[HilarityEnsues wasn't an actual woman.]]

* TwistedChristmas: The events happen during Christmas Eve and they involve a man beating his pregnant girlfriend and threatening everyone with a gun. [[spoiler:An innocent elevator technician]] is shot down. His body is carved, his limbs are hidden in Christmas gift packages and they are fed to the animals of the zoo.

** The champion is [[TheChewToy Felix]], knocked by Josette with an iron, slapped by Madame Musquin, punched by a pharmacist, then by an ape, and Jean-Jacques finish him with a GroinAttack.
** Jean-Jacques gets shot in his foot, barely avoid a door slammed on his hand, and is [[TapOnTheHead knocked out]] with a chair, all by Felix. Pierre also accidentally slams a door in his face.

* AnAssKickingChristmas: Not only the cast fight frequently, [[spoiler:but someone end up murdered]].

* CrazyHomelessPeople: Félix and Josette live in a slum. Félix is a shoplifter. He beats his girlfriend Josette. He threatens people with a gun. [[spoiler:He has no qualms about carving a body.]] Josette does not make a much better impression: [[spoiler:she carelessly empties Félix's gun and accidentally kills someone. She helps Félix to carve his body.]]
* DismemberingTheBody: [[spoiler: The poor elevator technician, carved by Felix and Josette. Then, they wrap the members to make them pass for Christmas presents.]]
* DisposingOfABody: Félix and Josette carve the body of [[spoiler:the elevator technician who Josette accidentally killed]] and they wrap the cuts up in gift packages. In the end, they throw the packages in the cages of the zoo with Pierre and Thérèse.

* HarassingPhoneCall: A stalker calls two times, in order to insult women. The first time, he pretends to be terminally ill and asks to talk to Thérèse. Josette takes the second call and yells at the pervert when he insults her; Madame Musquin takes the phone and "calms him down" while pretending to be interested in his speech, until the confused pervert hangs up.
* HereWeGoAgain: In the end, Pierre ask Thérèse if she will volunteer too on New year eve night.

* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: [[spoiler:Josette accidentally shoots down an elevator technician while emptying Félix's gun.]]

* IntimateHealing: Thérèse is under shock. While she is naked in the shower, she asks Pierre to hug her to warm her up. It ends up in a sexual intercourse.

* IronicNickname: Jean-Jacques, a crossdresser, is called by his father "Creator/CharlesBronson".

* ShowerOfAngst: {{Subverted|Trope}}. When Thérèse realizes that [[spoiler:the elevator technician is dead]], she is under shock and she needs a shower. When she is in the shower, she seems to be still under shock and she asks Pierre to hug her to warm her up, but it ends up in a [[ShowerOfLove sexual intercourse]].

* TakingTheHeat: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Pierre proposes to tell the police that [[spoiler:he accidentally killed the elevator technician instead of Josette, who is pregnant, so that her baby will not be born in prison]]. Finally, he does not have to do it because Félix has devised a way to get rid of the body.

Pierre (Lhermitte) and Thérèse (Anémone) work as volunteers in a suicide crisis line. They have to spend Christmas Eve together in the office of the association. The night will go awry: the elevator will break up and quirky people will show up: Josette (Chazel), a homeless woman, her violent boyfriend Félix (Jugnot), a Bulgarian neighbor and a crossdresser (Clavier).

* HesNotMyBoyfriend: In the bar scene, Josette bluntly asks Thérèse if she's in love with Pierre, she immediately denies it despite Josette insists that [[ShipperOnDeck she can feel it.]] Cue to [[InstantlyProvenWrong Thérèse sleeping with Pierre later this same night]].

** Thérèse gets kicked in the nose by Madame Musquin while helping her out of the elevator, then slapped by Pierre while she was on the verge of {{Fainting}}. Pierre stuck a finger in a fuse box, Mr Perskovic in a door, and Josette was nearly strangled by Felix.

* BickeringCouplePeacefulCouple: "Couple" may be a bit of a stretch in the case of Pierre and Thérèse, given they rather in a WillTheyOrWontThey relation. But anyway, they are the only persons who never fight with each other during the movie. Meanwhile, Josette and Félix are the bickering couple, as they fight physically (and Félix will go as far as holding her at gunpoint).

* TitleDrop: When Thérèse states that Pierre and she have a TwistedChristmas because of Josette and Felix, Josette states that "This Santa Claus is a stinker". Later on, others characters call Felix a "stinker" a couple of times.

* TitleDrop: When Thérèse states that Pierre and her have a TwistedChristmas because of Josette and Felix, Josette states that "This Santa Claus is a stinker". Later on, others characters call Felix a "stinker" a couple of times.

* ThrowItIn: When the pharmacist notice that his white jacket is stained with kloug, and ask if it is shit, Anémone (Thérèse) can be seen repressing her laughter behind him.

''Santa Claus Is a Stinker'' (in French ''Le père Noël est une ordure'') is a 1982 French comedy film directed by Jean-Marie Poiré and starring some of the Splendid' theatre troupe -- Anémone, Creator/JosianeBalasko, Marie-Anne Chazel, Creator/ChristianClavier, Creator/GerardJugnot and Creator/ThierryLhermitte. It is adapted from a 1979 play of the same name by that troupe, which also made the similarly slapstick ''Film/FrenchFriedVacation'' films.

''Santa Claus Is a Stinker'' (in French ''Le père Noël est une ordure'') is a 1982 French comedy film directed by Jean-Marie Poiré and starring some of the Splendid' theatre troupe -- Anémone, Creator/JosianeBalasko, Marie-Anne Chazel, Creator/ChristianClavier, Gérard Jugnot and Creator/ThierryLhermitte. It is adapted from a 1979 play of the same name by that troupe, which also made the similarly slapstick ''Film/FrenchFriedVacation'' films.

''Santa Claus Is a Stinker'' (in French ''Le père Noël est une ordure'') is a 1982 French comedy film directed by Jean-Marie Poiré and starring the Splendid' theatre troupe -- Anémone, Creator/JosianeBalasko, Marie-Anne Chazel, Creator/ChristianClavier, Gérard Jugnot and Thierry Lhermitte. It is adapted from a 1979 play of the same name by that troupe, which also made the similarly slapstick ''Film/FrenchFriedVacation'' films.

* AnAssKickingChristmas: Not only the cast fight frequently,[[spoiler: but someone end up murdered]].

''Santa Claus Is a Stinker'' (in French ''Le père Noël est une ordure'') is a 1982 French comedy film directed by Jean-Marie Poiré and starring the Splendid' theatre troupe -- Anémone, Josiane Balasko, Marie-Anne Chazel, Creator/ChristianClavier, Gérard Jugnot and Thierry Lhermitte. It is adapted from a 1979 play of the same name by that troupe, which also made the similarly slapstick ''Film/FrenchFriedVacation'' films.

''Santa Claus Is a Stinker'' (in French ''Le père Noël est une ordure'') is a 1982 French comedy film directed by Jean-Marie Poiré and starring the Splendid' theatre troupe -- Anémone, Josiane Balasko, Marie-Anne Chazel, Creator/ChristianClavier, Gérard Jugnot and Thierry Lhermitte. It is adapted from a 1979 play of the same name by that troupe, which also made the similarly slapstick first two ''Film/FrenchFriedVacation'' (''Les Bronzés'') films in 1978-1979.