The Fight Before Christmas

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"The Fight Before Christmas" is the eighth episode of Season 22 and it aired on December 5, 2010. This is a Christmas episode in the style of Simpson Christmas Stories.

Plot
The structure of the episode is similar to the structure of the Treehouse of Horror episodes, only that it's divided in four stories instead of three.

The first story is focused on Bart as he goes on a journey making a spoof to the film "The Polar Express", to find Santa Claus and climb through the social ladder of the elves to finally meet him and ask for his gift of desire only to find out that even in the North Pole there is crisis. But when Bart leaves, it is revealed that the North Pole is not in crisis, but economically sound.

The second story takes place in the Second World War as Marge is fighting while Homer is taking care of the kids. During Christmas, Homer buys a Christmas tree to the despair of Lisa who is traumatized because last year she went to buy a tree with Marge only to find out that her mother was called to war. Marge's war scene ends with a reference to the theatre act from the film "Inglorious Basterds" after which she goes back home to her family. It is then revealed that this segment was just a dream that Lisa had.

In the third story, Marge receives a night time visit from the most powerful force in the universe who teaches her the 'true meaning' of Christmas: Martha Stewart.

In the final segment, the Simpsons appear as puppets (as a parody of the Muppets), as they prepare to leave for Hawaii leaving Moe to take care of their place in the company of his girlfriend Katy Perry. In the end of the episode Mr. Burns arrives telling everybody he has received a visit from three spirits making an allusion to "A Christmas Carol". And finally they sing a rendition to "The Original, Unabridged 39 Days of Christmas".

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