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* MallSanta: Félix disguises himself as Santa Claus to advertise a strip-tease show. A boy start asking him questions and finally pulls off his beard. In return, Félix slaps him in the face. Then someone from the department store notices Félix and tells him to go away. Since Félix does not obey, he orders a black mall santa to chase him.
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* MallSanta: Félix disguises himself as Santa Claus to advertise a strip-tease show. A boy start starts asking him questions and finally pulls off his beard. In return, Félix slaps him in the face. Then someone from the department store notices Félix and tells him to go away. Since Félix does not obey, he orders a black mall santa to chase him.
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* MallSanta: Félix disguises himself as Santa Claus to advertise a strip-tease show. A boy start asking him questions and finally pulls off his beard. In return, Félix slaps him in the face. Then someone from the department store notices Félix and tells him to go away. Since Félix does not obey, he orders a black mall santa to chase him.
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* CoitusUninterruptus: Pierre and Thérèse are having sex in the shower. Josette enters the bathroom, but they do not even notice it and do not stop.
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* CoitusUninterruptus: Pierre and Thérèse are having going to have sex in the shower. Josette enters the bathroom, but they do not even notice it and do not stop.
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* VerbalTic: "C'est cela, oui" ("That's it") for Pierre.
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* OldMaid: Thérèse is one. Her hobbies include volunteering for a suicide crisis line and knitting clothes for the Third World.
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* OldMaid: Thérèse is one. Her She is uptight and her hobbies include volunteering for a suicide crisis line and knitting clothes for the Third World.
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* OldMaid: Thérèse is one. Her hobbies include volunteering for a suicide crisis line and knitting clothes for the Third World.
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* TheFilmOfThePlay: It is adapted from a 1979 play of the same name. The same actors played in on stage.
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* EnsembleCast: Several characters have an important role: Pierre, Thérèse, Josette, Félix, Jean-Jacques, Madame Musquin, and Preskovic.
* TheFilmOfThePlay: It is adapted from a 1979 play of the same name. The same actors playedin it on stage.
* TheFilmOfThePlay: It is adapted from a 1979 play of the same name. The same actors played
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* CoveredInKisses: Jean-Jacques kisses Pierre's forehead when he leaves and a lipstick mark is left.
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* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: All night, Pierre tries to get rid of Preskovic, Félix, and Jean-Jacques.
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* BadassGrandpa: The pharmacist. This old, distinguished man knocks Félix down when he gets mad.
* BungledSuicide: In the pharmacy, Félix swallows pills and hair lotion in an attempt to kill himself. It fails: he just vomits a lot.
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* DrivenToSuicide: The film is about a suicide crisis outline. One of the people calling actually commits suicide: he is holding a gun against his head when he makes the phone call. He has a bad connection; at some point, Thérèse tells him to push the button and he pulls the trigger of the gun.
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* DrivenToSuicide: The film is about a suicide crisis outline. One of the people calling actually commits suicide: he is holding a gun against his head when he makes the phone call. He has a bad connection; at some point, Thérèse tells him to push the button and he pulls the trigger of the gun. Later in the pharmacy, Félix tries to commit suicide by swallowing pills and hair lotion.
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* ElevatorFailure: The elevator breaks down when Madame Musquin is inside it. She is locked inside for a long time. Finally, she has to pee and Pierre helps her to go out through the ceiling of the cabin. At that point, the elevator starts up and Pierre and Madame Musquin very nearly fall down in the elevator shaft, then are nearly crushed between the cabin and the ceiling. Later, Madame Musquin uses the lift again and again she is locked inside it.
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* ElevatorFailure: The elevator breaks down when Madame Musquin is inside it. She is locked inside for a long time. Finally, she has to pee and Pierre helps her to go out through the ceiling of the cabin. At that point, the elevator starts up and Pierre and Madame Musquin very nearly fall down in the elevator shaft, then are nearly crushed between the cabin and the shaft's ceiling. Later, Madame Musquin uses the lift again and again she is locked inside it. Finally, Monsieur Leblé, the neighbor, gets her out of it.
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* VomitDiscretionShot: After swallowing pills and hair lotion, Félix has to vomit in the back of the pharmacy. The scene is filmed from the entrance door, and Félix is vomiting behind a partition wall.
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* GroinAttack: Jean-Jacques delivers one to Félix in the zoo.
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* 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 and fed to the animals of the zoo.
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* 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 carved, his limbs are hidden in Christmas gift packages and they are fed to the animals of the zoo.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Pierre is married, but he has sex with Thérèse in the shower.
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* WideEyedIdealist: Pierre and Thérèse are idealists who volunteer to help people in need. Josette and Félix, the people they want to help, are yobs who do not hesitate to commit crimes and they use them cynically.
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* WideEyedIdealist: Pierre and Thérèse are idealists who volunteer to help people in need. Josette and Félix, the people they want to help, are yobs who do not hesitate to commit crimes and they who use them cynically.
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* WideEyedIdealist: Pierre and Thérèse are idealists who volunteer to help people in need. Josette and Félix, the people they want to help, are yobs who do not hesitate to commit crimes and they use them cynically.
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* IronicNickname: Jean-Jacques, a crossdresser, is called by his father "Creator/CharlesBronson".
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* ImperiledInPregnancy: Félix beats his girlfriend Josette even if she is pregnant.
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* JustGotOutOfJail: Félix just got out of jail. He does not reform.
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* 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 and fed to the animals of the zoo.
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* FunnyForeigner: Preskovic, the Bulgarian émigré, has a strange accent and prepares disgusting specialities.
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* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: [[spoiler:Josette accidentally kills an elevator technician while emptying Félix's gun.]]
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* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: [[spoiler:Josette accidentally kills shoots down an elevator technician while emptying Félix's gun.]]
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* AgonyOfTheFeet: Félix shoots at Jean-Jacques's foot when Jean-Jacques tries to grab his gun.
* TheDoorSlamsYou: Pierre opens the bedroom's door and the door hits Jean-Jacques's nose.
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* PercussiveMaintenance: The elevator is locked. Josette knocks on the button and it starts up.
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* 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.
* PercussiveMaintenance: The elevator is locked. Josetteknocks on punches the button and it starts up.
* PercussiveMaintenance: The elevator is locked. Josette
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* CoitusUninterruptus: Pierre and Thérèse are having sex in the shower. Josette enters the bathroom, but they do not even notice it and do not stop.
* CrankyNeighbor: Monsieur Leblé, the neighbor who always complains about the noise made by the association.
* CrankyNeighbor: Monsieur Leblé, the neighbor who always complains about the noise made by the association.
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* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: [[spoiler:Josette accidentally kills an elevator technician while emptying Félix's gun.]]
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* PottyEmergency: Madame Musquin is locked in the elevator and she has to pee. Finally, she can get out of it. She runs to the toilet, but Josette has just locked herself inside to escape from Félix. Madame Musquin breaks the door open with the help of Félix.
* SuicideAsComedy: The whole film is about a suicide crisis line. A suicide is played for laughs: someone is holding a gun against his head when he calls the suicide crisis line. He has a bad connection; at some point, Thérèse tells him to push the button and he pulls the trigger of the gun.
* SuicideAsComedy: The whole film is about a suicide crisis line. A suicide is played for laughs: someone is holding a gun against his head when he calls the suicide crisis line. He has a bad connection; at some point, Thérèse tells him to push the button and he pulls the trigger of the gun.
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''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 Anémone, Josiane Balasko, Marie-Anne Chazel, Creator/ChristianClavier, Gérard Jugnot and Thierry Lhermitte. It is adapted from a 1979 play of the same name.
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''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 Anémone, Josiane Balasko, Marie-Anne Chazel, Creator/ChristianClavier, Gérard Jugnot and Thierry Lhermitte. It is adapted from a 1979 play of the same name.
name. ''Film/MixedNuts'' (1994) is an [[ForeignRemake American remake]] of this film.
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* DrivenToSuicide: The film is about a suicide crisis outline. One of the people calling actually commits suicide: he is holding a gun against his head when he makes the phone call. He has a bad connection; at some point, Thérèse tells him to push the button and he pulls the trigger of the gun.
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* ElevatorFailure: Madame Musquin is locked in the elevator. Twice.
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* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:Josette accidentally kills an elevator technician while emptying Félix's gun.]]
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* BlackComedy: A comedy about a suicide crisis line, domestic abuse, accidental murder, poverty...
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* ElevatorFailure: Madame Musquin is locked in the elevator. Twice.
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* BadSanta: Félix disguises himself in Santa Claus to advertise a strip-tease show. He wears this outfit during the whole film. He is a violent man: he beats his girlfriend Josette and he threatens everybody with a gun.
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* 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.
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* TheDitz: Josette is not very bright. The way that she fills in an administrative form is very revealing. She also asks for the oyster shells to make ashtrays.
* DomesticAbuse: Félix beats his girlfriend Josette.
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* HomemadeSweaterFromHell: Thérèse gives Pierre as Christmas gift a hand-knitted cardigan that is so awful that Pierre initially thinks it is a floorcloth.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Pierre, who is initially very polite with everybody, ends up telling Preskovic that he has gotten on the nerves for years.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Jean-Jacques/Katia is a crossdresser who is presented as a relatively "normal" person compared to the other characters.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Pierre, who is initially very polite with everybody, ends up telling Preskovic that he has gotten on the nerves for years.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Jean-Jacques/Katia is a crossdresser who is presented as a relatively "normal" person compared to the other characters.
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''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 Anémone, Josiane Balasko, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot and Thierry Lhermitte. It is adapted from a 1979 play of the same name.
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''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 Anémone, Josiane Balasko, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier, Creator/ChristianClavier, Gérard Jugnot and Thierry Lhermitte. It is adapted from a 1979 play of the same name.
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''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 Anémone, Josiane Balasko, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot and Thierry Lhermitte. It is adapted from a 1979 play of the same name.
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''Santa Claus Is a Stinker'' (in French ''Le Père père Noël est une ordure'') is a 1982 French comedy film directed by Jean-Marie Poiré and starring Anémone, Josiane Balasko, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot and Thierry Lhermitte. It is adapted from a 1979 play of the same name.
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''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 Anémone, Josiane Balasko, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot and Thierry Lhermitte. It is adapted from a 1979 play of the same name.
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.
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* BadSanta: Félix disguises himself in Santa Claus to advertise a strip-tease show. He wears this outfit during the whole film. He is a violent man: he beats his girlfriend Josette and he threatens everybody with a gun.
* 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.
* DumbassHasAPoint: Josette, who is not very clever, immediately guesses that Pierre and Thérèse are in love with each other.
* ForeignQueasine: The Bulgarian specialities prepared by Preskovic are disgusting for all the other characters.
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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.
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!!''Santa Claus Is a Stinker'' provides examples of:
* BadSanta: Félix disguises himself in Santa Claus to advertise a strip-tease show. He wears this outfit during the whole film. He is a violent man: he beats his girlfriend Josette and he threatens everybody with a gun.
* 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.
* DumbassHasAPoint: Josette, who is not very clever, immediately guesses that Pierre and Thérèse are in love with each other.
* ForeignQueasine: The Bulgarian specialities prepared by Preskovic are disgusting for all the other characters.
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