Botte di Natale
Tags: cult

Plot synopsis:
The structure of the episode is similar to the structure of the Treehouse of Horror episodes, only that it is divided in four stories instead of three.
=== Bart's Story ===
Bart stays up late on Christmas Eve to kill Santa Claus for not bringing him a dirt bike three Christmases ago. He eventually falls asleep and dreams that the Polar Express, driven by Otto Mann, lands in front of the house and flies him to the North Pole. Bart meets Santa (Krusty the Clown) only to find out that he has run out of money, since giving out presents in return for cookies every year is not a sustainable business model. Feeling pity, Bart decides that Santa no longer has to give him a dirt bike and leaves with Santa throwing a party in his office after revealing how stupid kids are.
=== Lisa's Story ===
Lisa dreams that it is December 1944 and that Marge is a soldier in World War II. Due to Marge being taken suddenly for overseas deployment while buying a Christmas tree the previous year, Lisa has sworn to never see another Christmas tree until Marge returns home safely. However, during Christmas of 1944, the family gets a telegram saying that Marge is missing in action. 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 Marge paid for a tree the previous year but never picked it up. Lisa, believing the tree to be a symbol that Marge is alright, takes it home and decorates it together with Homer and Bart. Marge is then seen assassinating Adolf Hitler with an MP40 in a movie theater in France as he watches a propaganda film. When she walks away from the scene, the theater explodes behind her.
=== Marge's Story ===
Marge dreams that she has sent a letter to Martha Stewart asking for her to help save the family's Christmas. Martha promptly arrives and fills the house with the Christmas decorations Marge has always dreamed of, but the other family members end up as part of the decorations instead of being able to enjoy the holiday with her. Marge quickly realizes that it is Homer and the children that make Christmas special for her, so Martha gets rid of all the decorations with a magic wand. Marge then wakes up on Christmas Day to find that her family has brought her the ingredients for breakfast in bed. Their attempts to cook it go awry, so they go out for breakfast instead.
=== Maggie's Story ===
Maggie dreams that the entire family has become puppets in a theater. As the Simpsons prepare for a trip to Hawaii and ask Moe to house-sit for them, Homer's boss Mr. Burns pays a surprise visit. He soon learns that Homer has feigned a neck injury to get time off work for the trip and calls his attack hounds on him. However, only one arrives (represented by a crude sock puppet), since the show has spent its budget on Katy Perry, who appears as herself and Moe's girlfriend. Noticing that Burns is disappointed by the lack of his attack hounds, Katy gives him a kiss. Touched by this, Burns decides to forgive the Simpsons and allows them to enjoy their trip in Hawaii, and then everyone sings a parody of "Twelve Days of Christmas" which plays during the credits. At the end of the credits, Moe attempts to kiss Katy but is not tall enough to reach her mouth, so he instead opts to kiss her bellybutton through her dress. Katy retorts that he is not kissing her bellybutton, meaning that he is actually kissing her vulva, but also says she does not want Moe to stop.

Review: Sequel in which Hill and Spencer team up again as the valiant and roguish brothers.
The film deals about the famous brothers , Trinity and Bambino , both of whom are two likable bounty-hunters - Terence Hill and Bud Spencer - who hate each other .
Their mother attempts to reunite them for the celebration of Christmas .The film is based on a notorious poem , ¨ night before the Christmas ¨ , whose title was exhibited in many countries and is developed on an heart warming story .
As always , they will confront enemies by means of continuous struggles without blood , neither gore , nor brutal murders .
The fights are with no violence and predominates comedy and parody , the choreographic quarrels are lights and clean .
The humor is continuous , laughters are based on physical differences and diverse personalities of the protagonists .
Terence Hill plays as a sympathetic and rogue gunslinger with beautiful eyes and fast weapon .
Bud Spencer as a corpulent, bouncing and grumpy man but with good heart , helping children and poor people and of course his weakness eating beans .
Their silly characters have a certain resemblance to Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy .
Storyline is a little bit ridiculous but has its enjoyable moments here and there .
The picture was realized twenty some years later of ¨ Trinity ¨ and ¨ Trinity is still my name ¨ by E.
B. Clucher that obtained much success , however this recent version was a flop because of Trinity and Bambino time had passed .
Supposed to be the third part but due copyright problems it couldn't be and is converted in an unofficial sequel.
The film provided a nostalgic and familiar reunion of the agreeable pair and is only for their hardcore fans .
Atmospheric and lively musical score by the Italian musician Pino Donaggio.
The motion picture is regularly directed by Terence Hill who also directed and interpreted ¨ Lucky Luke ¨ in similar approaching to this one..
enjoyable rental for longtime fans.
The story and the acting are up to the Trinity standard, but whose voice did they use for Bud Spencer?
Far from the grainy growl supplied in Trinity, the big man sounds like a chipmunk in Troublemakers.
Really distracting.
If you are a fan of the 1972/1973 Trinity movies, you will enjoy this later release as a sort of bittersweet reunion of the two actors in a similar western.
If you have no history with the originals, I highly recommend you pick up the Trinity movies first.
The Troublemakers is very hard to find in the US but can usually be found on ebay (VHS).
I only wish they had done My Name is Nobody with Bud Spencer instead of Henry Fonda-- that's how essential Bud Spencer is to the team..
TERENCE HILL AND BUD SPENCER ARE FINALLY BACK!.
Terence and Bud, after 9 years, finally made another movie together!
It was just what I expected!
Fights, romantic sub plot, and beans.
The plot is Travis and Moses mother wants them to come home for christmas, but theres a problem.
Moses wont go back to his ma's house because years ago, she let all the horses he stole go free.
I liked this movie!
The best scene is where Moses is going to get hanged and when they pull the lever the gallow falls apart!
It couldnt support Moses' weight!
Not as good as a small few of thier movies like Im for the Hippopotamus and Watch out Were Mad but still its a good hill/spencer outing.
Supposedly this is supposed to be the third "Trinity" movie, but due to legal hassles, it couldnt be done.
Its been 6 years and I'm still waiting for Terence and Bud to make a new comedy!
My rating is 7/10..
Terrific.
I rented this movie last week.
My son and I are true "Terrence and Bud"-fanatics, and I must say that this movie doesn't make anybody in that genre disappointed.
Although the dialog and acting is as "bad" as it was 25 years ago, in the Trinity movies", it is still worth watching, just for the h#ll of it.
Recomended for any Trinity-fans out there..
Affectionate reunion for Bud and Terence; only for their fans..
It's a pretty weird experience, watching this movie.
An affectionate, warm-hearted reunion for Bud Spencer and Terence Hill, it is also a bittersweet farewell to an old era of movies.
It will probably appeal only to fans of the duo, as they once again go through their familiar motions (Spencer's mutterings, Hill's smiles, bean-eating, fist-fighting, helping the poor, etc.), only this time there are some serious dramatic moments as well.
On the other hand, considering their age, you can't help but wonder if perhaps this film should never have been made, if they should have retired more gracefully a few years earlier.
But if you insist on seeing it, try to avoid the DVD version, as the image has been blown up way out of proportion to fill the entire screen - perhaps in keeping with the tradition of the awful full-screen versions of the "Trinity" films (to which this film is without a doubt an unofficial sequel - I wonder why they couldn't make it "official").
A pleasant surprise at the video store.
It had been 9 years since Bud and Terence had done a movie together and I'd viewed every single one of them by the end of the 80s.
I figured we'd never see anymore.
However one day while looking through the new releases at the video shop I got a wonderful surprise.
A new Bud and Terence movie!
Woohoo!It was a good laugh and wonderful to see the two of them back together again, although even Hill (in his 50s) was getting a little too old to do fight scenes.
In one fight, Spencer, who was now in his mid 60s even got to watch Hill from a distance rather than get involved himself.
It was definitely not going to be a revival.
In fact it was done as a 25th anniversary special for "They call me Trinity" and only intended to be a one off reunion.
It was even supposed to be the third in the Trinity series, but they couldn't get the rights to use the Trinity and Bambino characters, so they gave the characters different names and even different backgrounds.
This was truly the final act for these two as a team.
There was never to be another Bud and Terence Movie ever again.
RIP Bud..
The best and the worst of nostalgia.
Great, tragic actor Helmut Berger once said about aging and loosing his good looks: "I'm sorry that I had to grow old.
If I knew it meant so much to you, I would have died younger." Watching this movie is like attending a high-school reunion after 15-odd years: yeah, it's a happy occasion but at the same time odd and (despite we usually don't want to admit it to ourselves) a tad bit depressing.
Good to see the old faces and see that they've been doing well – at the same time, many haven't aged that well and you discover, that you no longer share the same interests with your former best buddies.
It's not only that Spencer and Hill got older but the chemistry has changed to a point where the old 'vibe' can no longer be replicated.I was looking forward to seeing this film as much as I was afraid of it.
Not because Spencer and Hill had aged but rather because I had been rather disappointed with their prior solo work in the late 80's and early 90's.
Spencer had almost become a parody of himself with TV works like "Noi Siamo Angeli" and "Extralarge" while I was less than impressed with Hills "Renegade" and version(s) of "Lucky Luke".
After all, kids from my generation here in Germany grew up with the original "Trinity"-films, mostly knowing most lines by heart and replicating them in the schoolyard (that and the fight-scenes, which often led to some rather painful situations, but that is another story).
Some even made it a tradition to eat cook up tins of beans during the TV-reruns, just in time for the notorious eating-scenes.In its defense, "The Troublemakers" by itself isn't a bad film.
It's slower, less light-hearted and misses the direction of seasoned hands like E.B Clucher or Michele Lupo.
Like a rock-band from the 70's playing a reunion-gig, they still know their moves and tunes, but the movement is no longer as graceful, the show is no longer as innovative (and certainly don't expect any new hit-songs).
Sure, I'd watch a rerun of "The Troublemakers" on TV, but I certainly wouldn't watch it in a row with the "Trinity"-films.A couple of years ago there were rumors about Bud and Terence getting together one more time for a variation on the Jeckyll & Hyde theme.
The project apparently fell through and is now in nirvana.
Even as a loyal, seasoned fan, I'm not ashamed to say: "Maybe for the better." Best to leave the party at the zenith, not when the party is fading out already.5/5 (and don't think that I didn't wish I could give it more).
The final movie of Hill & Spencer with beans!!!.
They made me happy in my wanderer teenage years in every movie, l'm so sure they are unsurpassed in their style,l' have a huge collection from them, of course this last and final movie from this amazing duo characters it's far from those previous ones in early days, but l'm a die hard fan like me whenever they do l've find it fantastic, the chemistry between them is hard to see then and after, a kind of unique really, Sad news about recent Spencer's death, the bad temper actor was a key of the duo success, always eaten a lot of beans becomes their famous trademark, this picture followed the same successful formula, although a weak in some points is funny anyway!!!Resume:First watch: 2018 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.
noble intentions...but this should have never been filmed.
I understand that this is a 'merely for the fans' movie...the tomb stone of the 'Trinity' series.However, the result is pretty embarrassing.
First, while Hill aged rather well, Spencer looks significantly older than he actually was, much as if he was sick or something.
Second, they don't know what kind of movie they want...is it a Trinity movie...a parody of a Trinity movie...a western-styled Piedone movie with lots of kids around...?
Beans, belching and a (very moderate) amount of fist-fights do not automatically make a good Spencer/Hill movie.
They push the envelope but I am not sure about what.Who knows...
Maybe it's that the atmosphere of 1960-70s Trinity movies, or late 1970s-early 1980s Spencer/Hill is gone.I find the final scene in which they come to get them but loose their guns listening to children singing the corniest and lowest moment in all S&H movies, including Banana Joe & similar.Ruth Buzzi as their mother is ugly as puke...you can see she's wearing a wig and that jaw...that horrible jaw...Intentions behind this were noble, but I maintain it shouldn't have been filmed.