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Elf

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Elf	label	Elf
Elf	page	Elf
Elf	comment	Elf is a 2003 Christmas comedy film, directed by Jon Favreau from a screenplay by David Berenbaum and starring Will Ferrell.Ferrell stars as Buddy, a human who was raised by Santa Claus (Ed Asner), Papa Elf (Bob Newhart), and the rest of the elves at the North Pole after accidentally crawling into Santa's sack at the orphanage where he was left as a baby. Realizing that he's not competent as an elf and discovering his true lineage, he decides to head to New York City to meet his birth father Walter Hobbs (James Caan), an executive at a children's publishing firm who was unaware he'd had a son. Walter initially doesn't believe Buddy is his son, but eventually brings him home to meet his wife Emily (Mary Steenburgen) and their son Michael (Daniel Tay), who are won over by Buddy's innocent charm.Buddy's adventures in the city include taking a seasonal job at Gimbels department store, where he has a confrontation with a fake Santa and falls in love with Jovie (Zooey Deschanel), a fellow store employee dressed as an elf. Meanwhile, his father gradually begins to warm up to him. But after Walter â€” who's under heavy pressure from his boss due to lackluster quarterly sales â€” yells at him for accidentally screwing up a book deal with a famous but temperamental children's author (Peter Dinklage), Buddy runs away, feeling he never belonged in New York.Santa's sleigh then crashes in Central Park, where the big man himself tells Buddy that a lack of Christmas spirit has caused the engines to fail. Now it's up to Buddy to repair the sleigh and get everyone to believe in Santa before Christmas is ruined.A big commercial and critical success on its release, Elf continues to be seen as a funny, charming, and (mostly) family-safe Christmas movie, and is widely regarded by critics and general audiences alike as one of the best Christmas movies of all time. A musical Screen-to-Stage Adaptation had limited, holiday-season engagements on Broadway in 2010 and 2012 and has since launched a touring production. An Animated Adaptation, Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas, aired on NBC in 2014.
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Elf / int_10937270	type	Noisy Nature
Elf / int_10937270	comment	Noisy Nature: Buddy encounters a raccoon that chitters five times. When he tries to hug it, it attacks him and lets out a screech that sounds like a monkey. (Unlike the other animals in the film, it's not from Christmas Town, so there's no reason it shouldn't behave like an ordinary raccoon.)
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Elf / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
Elf / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: When one of the bullies that ambushed Buddy and Michael in the snowball fight gets hit by a snowball from Buddy, he runs away literally sobbing.
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Elf / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Elf / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Jon Favreau appears as both the doctor Buddy visits and as the voices of the stop-motion animals.
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Elf / int_12c6bf73	type	Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Elf / int_12c6bf73	comment	The four, ominous-looking rangers on horseback.
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Elf / int_14180452	type	Instantly Proven Wrong
Elf / int_14180452	comment	Instantly Proven Wrong: Walter tells Emily that Buddy thinks he's a Christmas elf. She says she's sure he doesn't actually think that, only to open the door and find that Buddy has filled her apartment with Christmas decorations. Downplayed in that this doesn't actually prove that Buddy thinks he's a Christmas elf, but it does support Walter's claim. In fact, Buddy had stopped thinking he was an elf relatively recently.
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Elf / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Elf / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: The four, ominous-looking rangers on horseback. Watch the Patterson-Gimlin film of Bigfoot (allegedly), and then watch the scene of the news camera filming Buddy walking through the trees in the park...
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Elf / int_17a45ff5	type	Misplaced Wildlife
Elf / int_17a45ff5	comment	Misplaced Wildlife: Arctic Puffin is not this trope, but there's a high probability he exists to poke fun at it. Superficially, he resembles a penguin, which are not found at the North Pole but frequently appear there in various media. His name being Arctic Puffin all but screams, "Nope, no penguins here!"
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Elf / int_17e8daa3	type	Adoring the Pests
Elf / int_17e8daa3	comment	Adoring the Pests: Buddy tries to befriend a vicious raccoon, who attacks him for his troubles.
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Elf / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Elf / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Peter Billingsley, Ralphie from A Christmas Story, appears briefly as Ming Ming, one of the elves.
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Elf / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Elf / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: When the Gimbels manager sees Buddy at his store dressed as an elf, he naturally assumes that Buddy works there. Buddy also doesn't try to clear up the misunderstanding any further than telling the manager he didn't know that he shouldn't be shopping on company time.
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Elf / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Elf / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Morris (Andy Richter) and Eugene (Kyle Gass), the two staff writers at Greenway Publishing are never seen apart and share most of their dialogue.
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Elf / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Elf / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: While he doesn't lose his temper, Walter isn't pleased when Mr. Greenway is rude to Michael.
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Elf / int_1fa5ae07	type	The Prima Donna
Elf / int_1fa5ae07	comment	While Miles Finch is clearly a hotheaded Prima Donna with quite an ego, itâ€™s hard to blame him for being pissed off with someone who, as far as he's aware, is going out of his way to insult his dwarfism and refuses to stop.
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Elf / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Elf / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Santa's sleigh being powered by "Christmas spirit" aka belief in Santa. In the musical, Walter brushes off Buddy by having him work with his secretary and the office shredder, with her telling him that 'It makes snow'. In the second half of the musical, Buddy uses Walter's fake manuscript to 'make snow', meaning he didn't spend thousands of dollars on what Mr. Greenway later casually drops that he's already turned down as fake.
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Elf / int_233da103	type	Cordon Bleugh Chef
Elf / int_233da103	comment	Cordon Bleugh Chef: Buddy's insistence on adding maple syrup to everything. He also adds candy and sweets to spaghetti.
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Elf / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Elf / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: The musical version has a few elements not present in the original movie, including an entire scene where Buddy enters a Chinese restaurant to sulk after Walter tells him to get out of his life, where he finds a bunch of department store Santas complaining about their jobs, and how disrespectful and ill-behaved today's kids are. Jovie is given a much-needed Backstory that explains why she's such a humbug when we first meet her; she grew up in Los Angeles, where she describes Christmas as being, "surreal", because it never snowed; she had been living in New York for two years, and even then, she still never saw snow, so Christmas never felt special to her. That, and apparently she went out with a bunch of jerkasses over the years. In the movie, Mr. Greenway and Miles Finch don't appear much, but in the musical (in which they're combined into one character), Mr. Greenway comes back in the final act as the Big Bad, and also reveals that Buddy shredded a completely fake manuscript earlier.
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Elf / int_23781532	type	Ironic Name
Elf / int_23781532	comment	Ironic Name: Jovie, who initially is anything but jovial.
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Elf / int_23c68854	type	Mall Santa
Elf / int_23c68854	comment	Mall Santa: Department store Santa, technically. But Buddy is not fooled because the guy smells like beef and cheese, not milk and cookies.
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Elf / int_2538a3c9	type	Big Little Man
Elf / int_2538a3c9	comment	Big Little Man: Miles Finch is talked up as a legend in the children's book business, and everyone treats his arrival with the utmost of seriousness. We don't see him get off the elevator, we don't see him walking down the hall, we do see everyone reacting excitedly to him, we get a brief Feet-First Introduction, he arrives at the conference room, and... it's Peter Dinklage.
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Elf / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Elf / int_25524784	comment	In another scene, he mistakes children's book author Miles Finch for an elf due to his dwarfism; said author then beats the crap out of Buddy. Despite the massive amount of force in his beating, he appears to be completely unhurt.
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Elf / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
Elf / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice King: Walter softens up considerably towards the end of the movie. Jovie also counts, as she's rather bitter and standoffish at the beginning but softens up as well.
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Elf / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Elf / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Buddy's birth mother Susan Wells put him up for adoption shortly after giving birth to him because she was not intending to have him. She also never told his birth father Walter, who never knew Buddy even existed until his arrival years later.
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Elf / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Elf / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: The Central Park Rangers are an infamous group of rabid cops whose special brand of Police Brutality got them a permanent spot on Santa's naughty list. The film frames them as if they were the freaking NazgÃ»l.
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Elf / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
Elf / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka: With snowballs! They even make bullet sounds as they whiz by, as Buddy temporarily becomes a blizzard in human form to repel a group of bullies who assailed them.
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Elf / int_2b851bd4	type	The Scrooge
Elf / int_2b851bd4	comment	The Scrooge: Mr. Greenway, who schedules a meeting for Walter and his staff to pitch a new book for him on the evening of December 24, not caring that it's Christmas Eve.
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Elf / int_2f52c0af	type	Accidental Pervert
Elf / int_2f52c0af	comment	Accidental Pervert: When Buddy hears Jovie singing in the shower, he goes in to listen and sing along with her. Being as naÃ¯ve and childlike as he was, he had no idea that what he did would get him in a lot of trouble.
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Elf / int_2fc4ac67	type	Black Knight
Elf / int_2fc4ac67	comment	Black Knight: "Oh no. It's the Central Park Rangers." Indeed, the Rangers, in their charge, resemble galloping Ringwraiths.
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Elf / int_2fd7200b	type	Dead Guy Junior
Elf / int_2fd7200b	comment	Dead Guy Junior: Blink and you'll miss it, but in the ending sequence, Buddy and Jovie's daughter is named Susie, after Buddy's late birth mother.
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Elf / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Elf / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Buddy's adoptive father, Papa Elf, isn't in the musical. Santa takes over his role as Buddy's adoptive father figure and the narrator.
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Elf / int_35e6593b	type	Accidental Passenger
Elf / int_35e6593b	comment	Accidental Passenger: Infant Buddy ends up at the North Pole by crawling into Santa's bag, right before getting loaded onto the sleigh.
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Elf / int_36c64123	type	Gentle Giant
Elf / int_36c64123	comment	Gentle Giant: Buddy stands at six feet tall and is a swell guy through-and-through.
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Elf / int_393da8a1	type	Secret Message Wink
Elf / int_393da8a1	comment	Secret Message Wink: When Buddy expresses interest in asking Jovie out, Michael tells him to just ask her, calling it a secret code girls have. Buddy asks Jovie out in an unknowingly uneasy way and awkwardly winks at her, thinking he's passing on the "secret code" to her. She's visibly confused until Michael gestures at her to say yes.
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Elf / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Elf / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: The reporter mentions an incident at a 1985 Simon and Garfunkel concert that has made the Central Park Rangers "controversial" to this day. Truth in Television, except it was in 1981, the park rangers essentially did a cavalry charge as a crowd control method. Another incident involves an ex-racehorse named Captain Cutter that they nicknamed "Captain Goofy" for his propensity to spin around in circles at random, panicking the crowd. Basically, in real life it's a bit of a Noodle Incident as well.
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Elf / int_3c4348b2	type	Big, Stupid Doodoo-Head
Elf / int_3c4348b2	comment	Big Stupid Doo Doo Head: By our standards, Buddy calling himself a "cotton-headed ninnymuggins" qualifies for this. But if the elves' reactions are anything to go by, then it's definitely not by an elf's standards.
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Elf / int_3dd3951e	type	Cowboy Cop
Elf / int_3dd3951e	comment	Cowboy Cop: The Central Park Rangers are implied to be this, with offhanded mention of their "controversial" actions at a 1985 Simon & Garfunkel concert. They also apparently know Santa is real and have a personal vendetta against him for putting them on the naughty list (perhaps after what they did at the 1985 Simon and Garfunkel concert!).
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Elf / int_3e353a08	type	Accidental Kidnapping
Elf / int_3e353a08	comment	Accidental Kidnapping: Santa didn't realize that a baby had crawled into his sack until the young baby gets out at the North Pole. Even so, he considers either returning the child or raising him. Guess what Santa chooses.
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Elf / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Elf / int_3ed23024	comment	At the beginning of the movie, Papa Elf mentions how one of the other two jobs for elves is baking cookies in a tree, a reference to Keebler and the elf mascots. Unfortunately, it includes Surprisingly Realistic Outcome to having a hot oven inside a dry tree during the Fall.
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Elf / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
Elf / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Papa Elf volunteered to raise Buddy and loves him like a son.
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Elf / int_3f13413a	type	Staggered Zoom
Elf / int_3f13413a	comment	Staggered Zoom: The first time Buddy sees Jovie, the camera does a staggered zoom in on her face as it's illuminated by the Christmas tree she's decorating.
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Elf / int_3f7b645d	type	The Insomniac
Elf / int_3f7b645d	comment	The Insomniac: Elves apparently only need 40 minutes of sleep per night, and Buddy, somehow, manages to cope with this.
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Elf / int_46097bd9	type	Mistaken for Santa
Elf / int_46097bd9	comment	Mistaken for Santa: Two examples, justified since Buddy was raised by Christmas Elves and thus knows Santa is real: When he sees a man on the street who happens to be wearing red and have a white beard, he says, "Santa!", only to realise he's not actually Santa. When Buddy learns that "Santa" will come to the mall, he thinks it's gonna be the real Santa, so when he sees him, he gets angry at the "impostor", eventually leading to a fistfight between them.
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Elf / int_46290b93	type	Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Elf / int_46290b93	comment	Manic Pixie Dream Guy: Buddy. Zooey Deschanel, who usually plays this role, instead plays the Defrosting Ice Queen Jovie.
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Elf / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Elf / int_469e3e2f	comment	In-Universe. "Buddy, your father... he's on the naughty list." Cue Big "NO!" from Buddy.
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Elf / int_471b2ede	type	Obviously Not Fine
Elf / int_471b2ede	comment	Obviously Not Fine: When Buddy is in shock after finding out he's human and not a Christmas Elf, he says that he's fine and only needs a drink of water, while in the process of passing out.
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Elf / int_48dfb7e4	type	Stock Sound Effects
Elf / int_48dfb7e4	comment	Stock Sound Effects: The laughter from the jack-in-the-boxes is a recording of Dallas McKennon that was first used in Lady and the Tramp, and is also heavily associated with Ripper Roo from Crash Bandicoot.
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Elf / int_4c8e8078	type	All of the Other Reindeer
Elf / int_4c8e8078	comment	All of the Other Reindeer: Played with. Although he doesn't really fit in, the elves all treat Buddy warmly. When he dubs himself a "cotton-headed ninnymuggins", they immediately insist that he's not. Later a couple do admit he doesn't fit in and drags down their production, while thinking he's pretty stupid for not realizing he's a human. This isn't particularly mean-spirited, but Buddy is still devastated to overhear them.
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Elf / int_4d97e2b9	type	Urine Trouble
Elf / int_4d97e2b9	comment	Downplayed for Leon, who loves all animals in New York except dogs because of Urine Trouble.
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Elf / int_4dbd3706	type	Clap Your Hands If You Believe
Elf / int_4dbd3706	comment	Clap Your Hands If You Believe: People's belief in Santa is what powers his sleigh. Recently, Christmas spirit hasn't been enough, so he added a 8500 RP (reindeer power) jet turbine engine. You better believe it becomes a plot point later.
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Elf / int_4dc35c7	type	Snowlems
Elf / int_4dc35c7	comment	Snowlems: An expy of a snowman from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer appears during the North Pole scenes, only that his name is Leon.
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Elf / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Elf / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: One line Buddy overheard from one of the elves discussing about him In-Universe. In-Universe. "Buddy, your father... he's on the naughty list." Cue Big "NO!" from Buddy. Not a line so much as an inflection, but while Walter generally has an air of repressed frustration, the only time he ever raises his voice in flat-out rage is when he screams at Buddy to get out of his life.
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Elf / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Elf / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: Buddy writing a "Dear John" Letter saying he's running away... on an Etch-A-Sketch.
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Elf	hasFeature	Elf / int_4e7f703c
Elf / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Elf / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: When Buddy calls out the mall Santa for being a phony, the man threatens to kill him. Then actually attempts it after Buddy pulls his beard off. Discussed in the climax, where news anchor Laura believes that dispatching the Central Park Rangers to deal with what she believes to be a hoax qualifies as this.
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Elf / int_53a7089a	type	Pint-Sized Powerhouse
Elf / int_53a7089a	comment	Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Miles Finch is a short person, but he shows some damn impressive fighting moves while beating the snot out of Buddy.
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Elf / int_53a7089a	featureConfidence	1.0
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Elf / int_58626d87	type	Genius Ditz
Elf / int_58626d87	comment	Genius Ditz: Buddy acts like a 7-year-old trapped in an adult's body, but while his being human makes it harder for him to keep up with elf builders, he certainly builds faster and better than any human (you try making 85 Etch-A-Sketches in a day, let alone 1,000). He single-handedly decorates an entire store for Santa's arrival in less than one night, complete with a LEGO replica of New York City and The Mona Lisa on an Etch-A-Sketch, to the point that Jovie's boss is afraid that someone is trying to steal his job.
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Elf / int_58962105	type	White-and-Grey Morality
Elf / int_58962105	comment	White-and-Grey Morality: Nobody in the film is inherently mean. Walter is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold (well, really deep down), and even Mr. Greenway and Jovie's manager at Gimbel's are just trying to do their jobs, albeit in abrasive ways. Miles Finch may be a Jerkass Prima Donna Director, but he has the talent to back it up, mellows slightly once he gets down to business, and takes a tremendous amount of (unintentional) insult from Buddy before hitting his limit. The closest thing to antagonists are the Central Park Rangers, about whom the audience learns very little.
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Elf / int_59d7839f	type	Animal Lover
Elf / int_59d7839f	comment	Animal Lover: Played straight for Buddy, who paints a butterfly, gets excited about a dog, tries to hug a raccoon, and has a few animals as friends. Downplayed for Leon, who loves all animals in New York except dogs because of Urine Trouble.
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Elf / int_5f252b8b	type	One Phone Call
Elf / int_5f252b8b	comment	One Phone Call: Buddy gets one after being arrested for attacking the mall Santa.
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Elf / int_62fd5552	type	Bavarian Fire Drill
Elf / int_62fd5552	comment	Bavarian Fire Drill: Buddy pulls off an unintentional one, when he walks into Gimbles dressed in an elf suit the manager assumes he works there. Due to his limited understanding of how jobs work he continues to show up to Gimbles claiming he works there and no one ever realizes he doesn't. Eventually he's simply fired for starting a riot.
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Elf / int_64cde060	type	Christmas Elves
Elf / int_64cde060	comment	Christmas Elves: Apparently, making toys in Santa's workshop is the most coveted job in the elf world. Mention is also made of the other two traditional roles this type of elf is associated with, making shoes for a poor cobbler and making Keebler cookies.
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Elf / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Elf / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Michael is constantly wearing New York Jets apparel, no doubt because Jon Favreau is a fan of the team.
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Elf / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
Elf / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: As they're pelted with snowballs, Buddy takes the lead and shows Michael how elves retaliate, producing an armful of snowballs and showering all of the would-be bullies.
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Elf / int_6acebb1e	type	Mistaken for Insane
Elf / int_6acebb1e	comment	Mistaken for Insane: Buddy's claims that he's an elf from the North Pole who works for Santa make people whom he meets understandably think he's nuts after they realize he isn't joking. A doctor he sees theorizes that it's Emotional Regression.
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Elf / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Elf / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Thereâ€™s no denying that Fulton Greenway, Walter's superior at the publishing company, is a Mean Boss. However, he had every right to be furious with Walter for knowingly approving a release of books that had been misprinted due to Walterâ€™s negligence, because it cost the company a lot of money and tarnished their reputation. Walter himself was right to repo the books from the nuns due to lack of payment. They were sold, not donated. He also harshly disowns Buddy after the failed meeting with Miles Finch. However, he isn't entirely without justification as Buddy bursted in the room just to tell him that he is in love with Jovie and distracted them. Not only that but he called Miles Finch an Elf pissing him off and then leaving. Buddy ignored Walter's statements to send out when they were busy. As Jovie points out, the manager at the mall has a right to be angry with Buddy. Redecorating an established display makes it seem like the manager is about to be replaced, and it is not cool to expose a Mall Santa as a fake in front of children. She also acknowledges that Buddy doesn't seem to know better. While Miles Finch is clearly a hotheaded Prima Donna with quite an ego, itâ€™s hard to blame him for being pissed off with someone who, as far as he's aware, is going out of his way to insult his dwarfism and refuses to stop.
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Elf / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Elf / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: You'd think that writing children's picture books wouldn't be that big of a deal, wouldn't you? You'd be very wrong.
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Elf / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
Elf / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: By the end of the film, Buddy and Jovie have an infant daughter.
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Elf / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Elf / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Ed Asner as Santa Claus, a role he's voiced in numerous other productions. Peter Billingsley (Ming Ming), whose most famous role was as a kid who's obsessed with getting a certain toy for Christmas, plays an elf in Santa's toy shop.
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Elf / int_71152dd	type	One Dialogue, Two Conversations
Elf / int_71152dd	comment	One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Buddy thinks he's met another compatriot in calling Miles Finch an elf, but Finch sees it only as being made fun of for his height — and he's not happy about it.
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Elf / int_775a1af6	type	Married to the Job
Elf / int_775a1af6	comment	Married to the Job: A downplayed example, we see Walter take his dinner into his room to catch up on work. The look his wife and son give each other implies it's not the first time.
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Elf / int_781c70a3	type	Rascally Raccoon
Elf / int_781c70a3	comment	Rascally Raccoon: Buddy meets a rather nasty one in a forest.
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Elf / int_782fdff	type	Storybook Opening
Elf / int_782fdff	comment	Storybook Opening: The film begins with a storybook opening as Papa Elf narrates the story. The film's opening credits are also shown as pages in a book.
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Elf / int_788130a2	type	Emotional Regression
Elf / int_788130a2	comment	Emotional Regression: Discussed. The doctor believes that Buddy acts like a Christmas elf because Buddy is "reverting to a state of childlike dependency" due to having grown up without his birth parents. The doctor doesn't know that Buddy actually was raised by Santa's elves in the North Pole.
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Elf / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Elf / int_792bb47a	comment	Heroic Bastard: Goes right over the kids' heads obviously, but when you're an adult, and you stop to think about it, it becomes clear that Buddy was born illegitimately.
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Elf / int_79da445d	type	Oblivious Adoption
Elf / int_79da445d	comment	Oblivious Adoption: Despite Buddy growing up to be so much taller and deeper-voiced than his elf peers, he never suspected that his real parents weren't elves, but humans. Before he learns the truth, he assumes he's just a defective elf who can't do anything right.
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Elf / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
Elf / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: The Central Park Rangers, who are always either heavily shadowed or filmed at angles where you don't see their faces.
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Elf / int_7d36715f	type	Gasshole
Elf / int_7d36715f	comment	Gasshole: Buddy swallows an entire 2-litre bottle of Coca-Cola in one gulp and then lets out a very loud burp (dubbed in by Maurice LaMarche).
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Elf / int_7e345221	type	Snowball Lie
Elf / int_7e345221	comment	Snowball Lie: The lie that Buddy was told by the other elves (starting with Papa Elf) that he's just another elf. As he aged, it became increasingly difficult to maintain this lie. Buddy's toy-making speed lags in comparison to the other elves and when he's demoted to simply testing toys for defects and flaws, Papa decides it's well past time to break it down to Buddy that he's really a human.
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Elf / int_7eccbb3d	type	Shower Scene
Elf / int_7eccbb3d	comment	Shower Scene: Both Buddy and Jovie get one, though Buddy is fully clothed and sitting on the conoises.
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Elf / int_7ef728b1	type	Tsundere
Elf / int_7ef728b1	comment	Tsundere: Jovie, to the point that some viewers interpret her character's constant repressed anger as flat boredom.
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Elf / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Elf / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Everytime Buddy describes the obstacles he overcame to make it to New York from the North Pole: When Buddy is writing a note apologizing for the trouble he caused with his new family:
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Elf / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Elf / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Will Ferrell is in top form as a hyperactive goofball with an unquenchable love of the Christmas season.
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Elf / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Elf / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: We never see the nun from Buddy's orphanage again after Santa accidentally kidnaps him, nor do there seem to be any ramifications for a child vanishing in the middle of the night. An in-universe example happens when Walter's publishing company sends out a misprinted book because he doesn't want to take a loss; children are left wondering what happened to the main characters because the last two pages are completely blank.
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Elf / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Elf / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Miles Finch tells Buddy that he gets more action in a week than Buddy has had in his entire life. Buddy (and hopefully the intended audience) has no idea what he's talking about.
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Elf / int_921d06e8	type	This Explains So Much
Elf / int_921d06e8	comment	This Explains So Much: When Walter and Michael meet Santa when he's grounded in Central Park, they both have this expression when Buddy talks to the big guy and asks how he can help, since they learn Buddy was telling the truth the whole time. Michael then takes charge of the situation.
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Elf / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Elf / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: Buddy feels like he's not an elf. He also realizes that the human world doesn't seem to have a place for him. In the end, he splits his time between the North Pole, visiting Papa Elf and Santa and helping with repairs on the sleigh, and New York, where he writes childrens' books and spends time with the family.
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Elf / int_9622c172	type	Christmas Carolers
Elf / int_9622c172	comment	Christmas Carolers: When Buddy first meets Jovie and has trouble reaching her, he tries to lift her spirit by telling her, "The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear." Later in the movie, when she learns Santa's sleigh has lost its power source because nobody has Christmas spirit, she remembers Buddy's words of wisdom, and tries to boost everyone's spirit by leading a round of spontaneous Christmas caroling, singing, "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town". (In the musical, it uses the generic "Christmas Song", in both cases, due to licensing issues.)
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Elf / int_967b9ebe	type	How Can Santa Deliver All Those Toys?
Elf / int_967b9ebe	comment	How Can Santa Deliver All Those Toys?: Inverted when Buddy is told that some kids think their parents give them toys for Christmas and Buddy protests that parents couldn't deliver all those toys in one night.
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Elf / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Elf / int_970c790a	comment	In the movie, Mr. Greenway and Miles Finch don't appear much, but in the musical (in which they're combined into one character), Mr. Greenway comes back in the final act as the Big Bad, and also reveals that Buddy shredded a completely fake manuscript earlier.
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Elf / int_970ccfec	type	Big "YES!"
Elf / int_970ccfec	comment	Big "YES!": Miles Finch lets one fly while discussing ideas for his next book.
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Elf / int_973291cd	type	Pardon My Klingon
Elf / int_973291cd	comment	Pardon My Klingon: Parodied: in elf culture, the insult "cotton-headed ninnymuggins" is apparently considered profanity. Most elves find it so offensive that they gasp upon hearing it.
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Elf / int_98576799	type	Throw the Dog a Bone
Elf / int_98576799	comment	Throw the Dog a Bone: After Walter denounces him, Buddy feels like he doesn't fit in anywhere. Then the sleigh crashes in Central Park, but Buddy doesn't feel he'll be of any help. Santa calls Buddy a true elf and says there isn't anyone but him that he'd want to work on his sleigh.
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Elf / int_985795ab	type	Medium Blending
Elf / int_985795ab	comment	Medium Blending: When Buddy leaves the North Pole, he meets pastiches of stop-motion Christmas characters as we transition to the real world, most likely as a homage to the iconic animated Christmas films of Rankin/Bass Productions.
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Elf / int_98f94ce6	type	Parent Service
Elf / int_98f94ce6	comment	Parent Service: Zooey Deschanel in the shower. A lot of dads (and maybe a few moms) likely had a new favorite movie after this scene.
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Elf / int_9a50173f	type	Follow the Bouncing Ball
Elf / int_9a50173f	comment	Follow the Bouncing Ball: The Buddy's Sing and Cheer Along Edition DVD and digital copy have lyrics to the songs and Pop-Up Trivia appear onscreen.
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Elf / int_9bf3470e	type	Santa Claus
Elf / int_9bf3470e	comment	Santa Claus: Obviously. And a rather stern, no-nonsense one at that, though obviously he's still the jolly, warm fellow underneath it all.
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Elf / int_9c6da41b	type	Spot the Imposter
Elf / int_9c6da41b	comment	Spot the Imposter: Buddy is able to tell almost instantly that the mall Santa is not the real deal, and he's not very pleased about it.
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Elf / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Elf / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: Buddy can get run over by a taxi cab and walk away as if it didn't happen (all while apologizing for getting in the way). In another scene, he mistakes children's book author Miles Finch for an elf due to his dwarfism; said author then beats the crap out of Buddy. Despite the massive amount of force in his beating, he appears to be completely unhurt. The first time it happens to Buddy is when he encounters a raccoon. Said raccoon apparently mauls him after he ignores its pretty obvious warnings, and yet he walks away without a single scratch on his face.
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Elf / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Elf / int_9e0c3153	comment	Most likely why Buddy calls Miles Finch an elf the last time. "Call me an elf one. more. time."
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Elf / int_a10775b7	type	Mean Boss
Elf / int_a10775b7	comment	Mean Boss: Fulton Greenway, Walter's superior at the publishing company, is easily angered and not terribly friendly.
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Elf / int_a15af1f3	type	Sugar Bowl
Elf / int_a15af1f3	comment	It appears that the North Pole is an almost literal Sugar Bowl.
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Elf / int_a188ac4b	type	Overly Long Gag
Elf / int_a188ac4b	comment	Overly Long Gag: Buddy burping after eating spaghetti with syrup.
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Elf / int_a42d348c	type	Snow Globe of Innocence
Elf / int_a42d348c	comment	Snow Globe of Innocence: When the optimistic and childlike elf Buddy is told that his father lives in New York City, instead of a map he's given a snow globe featuring the Empire State Building. He uses it to find his way to where his dad works, though in spite of the snow globe's (and his own) idyllic image, he discovers New York is actually quite more chaotic than he expected.
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Elf / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Elf / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Immediately following Buddy's comedic fight with Miles Finch, we get what is most likely the saddest moment in the film with Walter not only giving his son a vicious verbal beating, but practically disowning him in front of his face.
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Elf / int_a54534a0	type	Parental Neglect
Elf / int_a54534a0	comment	Emily calls Walter out for neglecting Michael.
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Elf / int_a58e5ad7	type	Naked People Are Funny
Elf / int_a58e5ad7	comment	Naked People Are Funny: Walter demands that Buddy get rid of his elf outfit "as soon as possible." Cue Buddy dropping his pants and exposing himself right as Emily walks into the room.
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Elf / int_a58e5ad7	featureConfidence	1.0
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Elf / int_a8cbf649	type	I Should Write a Book About This
Elf / int_a8cbf649	comment	I Should Write a Book About This: Buddy writes a children's book about his adventure as the first book of his family's new publishing company.
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Elf / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
Elf / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: In the Animated Adaptation, Buddy is instantly smitten with Jovie the second he sees her, complete with little hearts floating around his head.
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Elf / int_a9b99f04	type	NaÃ¯ve Animal Lover
Elf / int_a9b99f04	comment	NaÃ¯ve Animal Lover: Buddy runs into a raccoon and goes over to pet it. The raccoon hisses at him, but Buddy thinks he just needs a hug. That's when the raccoon attacks him.
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Elf / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Elf / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Buddy may be naÃ¯ve and ditzy, but he can throw snowballs crazy hard and fast, enough to take out a whole group of bullies by himself.
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Elf / int_aac6c42d	type	Skip of Innocence
Elf / int_aac6c42d	comment	Skip of Innocence: Buddy does this at one point. Jovie joins in with him on their date.
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Elf / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Elf / int_ab5eea65	comment	When the floor manager tells Buddy to look out for whoever set up the amazing decor, he gives him a radio and tells him to report to him with the code-phrase, "Santa's got a brand new bag".
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Elf / int_ab729e43	type	Disappointed in You
Elf / int_ab729e43	comment	Disappointed in You: After Walter's Wham Line, the clients look at him in disappointment for disowning Buddy on the spot like that.
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Elf / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Elf / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The elf Buddy collapses onto when he faints from shock reacts like this to seeing Buddy fall towards him (understandable, since Buddy is easily twice his size). Jovie's half-scared, half-confused face when she hears another (male) voice singing with her in the women's locker room. The look on Morris' (Andy Richter) face when Buddy calls Miles Finch an elf.
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Elf / int_af696bef	type	Fish out of Water
Elf / int_af696bef	comment	Fish out of Water: The man-child-ish Buddy in his elf outfit.
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Elf / int_b0ad6a1e	type	Wrestler in All of Us
Elf / int_b0ad6a1e	comment	Wrestler in All of Us: Miles Finch begins his assault on Buddy via a running front dropkick.
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Elf / int_b3de4c5b	type	Sex God
Elf / int_b3de4c5b	comment	Sex God: From the musical, at the end when the Hobbs family visits Santa with Buddy and Jovie's new baby in tow, Buddy remarks that she was the result of a "new way of snuggling Jovie showed me that I never heard of before, but really like it!"
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Elf / int_b406648	type	Singing in the Shower
Elf / int_b406648	comment	Singing in the Shower: Jovie sings "Baby It's Cold Outside" during the shower scene.
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Elf / int_b55698cd	type	Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond
Elf / int_b55698cd	comment	Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Buddy initially thinks he's a defective elf because he can't keep up with toy production or decoration. In New York, he makes over the mall Santa display in one night.
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Elf / int_b6c60ed5	type	A Mistake Is Born
Elf / int_b6c60ed5	comment	A Mistake Is Born: Inverted, when one considers that Buddy was the result of a brief high school romance between Walter Hobbs and his high school sweetheart, Susan Wells; Susan became pregnant with the baby, never told Walter, and put the baby up for adoption after he was born. Even when Buddy sets out in search for Walter, and DNA tests confirm he's his son, Walter is at first unwilling to embrace Buddy or even acknowledge that he is indeed his son. The Broadway musical version directly acknowledges that Buddy was born as the result of "consequences" between Walter and Susan Wells.
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Elf / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Elf / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Miles Finch shoots down the other writers' ideas for Christmas books about tomatoes and farm life, because tomatoes are "too vulnerable" and "everyone is pushing small town chic, it'll drown in white noise". Yet when the writers find his notebook full of pitches, apparently one of them is about a peach living on a farm.
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Elf / int_b7afd95e	type	Un-Duet
Elf / int_b7afd95e	comment	Un-Duet: Jovie is singing "Baby It's Cold Outside" in the shower, however soon Buddy joins in... much to her shock and surprise.
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Elf / int_b7bc7d28	type	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!
Elf / int_b7bc7d28	comment	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: When Buddy sees the buttons on an elevator light up, he thinks they look beautiful and he presses every button until it looks like a Christmas tree. Buddy is also distracted by the "sucky" vacuum tubes in the mail room.
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Elf / int_b8dbbc07	type	Ink-Suit Actor
Elf / int_b8dbbc07	comment	Ink-Suit Actor: The snowman Buddy talks with before leaving the North Pole bears an uncanny resemblance to Leon Redbone, and is even called Leon.
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Elf / int_b99f51b2	type	An Odd Place to Sleep
Elf / int_b99f51b2	comment	An Odd Place to Sleep: Buddy makes the mistake of sleeping in a storefront display because he was Raised by the Supernatural. When he wakes up, he sees Walter and pounds on the glass, but Walter ignores him.
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Elf / int_ba253095	type	Baffled by Own Biology
Elf / int_ba253095	comment	Baffled by Own Biology: Buddy gets pricked on his finger for a DNA test to see if he's actually Walter's son. He then wonders why his finger is pulsating.
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Elf / int_bac9f95d	type	Sweet Tooth
Elf / int_bac9f95d	comment	Sweet Tooth: Buddy. Will Ferrell actually got a headache eating all of the sweets Buddy makes for himself. It appears that the North Pole is an almost literal Sugar Bowl.
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Elf / int_bbc77237	type	Elevator Buttons Mash
Elf / int_bbc77237	comment	Elevator Buttons Mash: Buddy presses the buttons in the elevator to look like a Christmas tree. He even provided the page image.
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Elf / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Elf / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Call Miles Finch an elf, one... more... time.
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Elf / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
Elf / int_bd4264a3	comment	Slasher Smile: Miles Finch gives a wicked grin just before he attacks Buddy.
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Elf / int_beb932ca	type	Big Applesauce
Elf / int_beb932ca	comment	Big Applesauce: Buddy goes to NYC. The network that catches Buddy on camera is real. According to the DVD commentary, the bearded guy who Buddy mistakes for Santa during the "Pennies from Heaven" scene when he first gets to New York was also real and unaware that he was being filmed for a movie.
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Elf / int_bee8baee	type	Faint in Shock
Elf / int_bee8baee	comment	Faint in Shock: Buddy faints and lands on top of the elves when he realizes he's not an elf.
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Elf / int_c1967d3e	type	Retro Universe
Elf / int_c1967d3e	comment	Retro Universe: While the musical is set in modern times (Santa has an iPad instead of the traditional paper list), it does have some nuances, characteristics and feel of the 2000s, particularly the fashion and phones. If it weren't for the technology and shout-outs, it could almost be any time prior to the 1990s.
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Elf / int_c213d569	type	Snowball Fight
Elf / int_c213d569	comment	Snowball Fight: Buddy befriends Michael after proving incredibly competent at one.
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Elf / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Elf / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Buddy's reaction to finding that his father is on the naughty list.
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Elf / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Elf / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: "Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town" is the song that lifts Christmas spirit enough for Santa to leave town.
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Elf / int_c3c91506	type	Depraved Dwarf
Elf / int_c3c91506	comment	Depraved Dwarf: Averted with Miles Finch, as he is a well-known children's book author, despite his issues towards those who mock his dwarfism.
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Elf / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Elf / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Buddy. He's an overall good-natured man and speaks politely with his childlike innocence to everyone around him.
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Elf / int_c5ef2d50	type	Cringe Comedy
Elf / int_c5ef2d50	comment	Cringe Comedy: The scene where Buddy makes up a song on the fly to sing to Walter. The cringiest part about it is that Buddy is singing the song in front of Walter's coworkers in a professional office setting, while wearing an elf outfit.
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Elf / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Elf / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: At the beginning of the movie, Papa Elf mentions how one of the other two jobs for elves is baking cookies in a tree, a reference to Keebler and the elf mascots. Unfortunately, it includes Surprisingly Realistic Outcome to having a hot oven inside a dry tree during the Fall. When Jovie accuses Buddy of messing with her, she asks if Crumpet put him up to it. Crumpet was David Sedaris'note His sister Amy Sedaris appears as Walter's assistant elf name when he worked at Macy's, as told in The Santaland Diaries When the floor manager tells Buddy to look out for whoever set up the amazing decor, he gives him a radio and tells him to report to him with the code-phrase, "Santa's got a brand new bag". The scenes with the Central Park Rangers are shot in a way that makes them reminiscent of the NazgÃ»l, and their badges look like Judge Dredd's.
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Elf / int_c88256d	type	Gross Gum Gag
Elf / int_c88256d	comment	Gross Gum Gag: Santa warns Buddy not to eat "gum from the street" in New York City because "it isn't free candy." Later, when Buddy is walking around New York for the first time, he sees some gum stuck to a fence and, as it wasn't from the street, grabs it and puts it in his mouth.
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Elf / int_caa6ae69	type	Warm-Hearted Walrus
Elf / int_caa6ae69	comment	Warm-Hearted Walrus: A walrus is among the cutesy animated North Pole animals. He cries when Buddy leaves the North Pole, and has to be comforted by Arctic Puffin.
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Elf / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Elf / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Walter Hobbs is the kind of guy who sells a shipment of children's books on an installment plan (to what's implied to be an orphanage or at least a poorly funded school) and then personally brings in the customer to demand she return them because of a missed payment. And knowingly approve a run of misprinted books (a misprint that was due to his negligence in the first place) rather than take a loss. There is also his boss, Mr. Greenway, who is far worse as he makes Walter work on Christmas Eve and then chews him out in front of his son when he has to leave to look for his other son who's gone missing, making Walter look like a saint in general.
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Elf / int_cd64ca2f	type	Crazy Consumption
Elf / int_cd64ca2f	comment	Crazy Consumption: In one memorable scene which would give dentists nightmares, Buddy eats for breakfast: a plate of spaghetti topped with maple syrup, several fistfuls of candy and a crumbled Pop-Tart.
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Elf / int_cdd835ce	type	Dude, Not Funny!
Elf / int_cdd835ce	comment	Dude, Not Funny!: Miles is a little person, and takes grave offense to Buddy calling him an elf. When threatening Buddy to stop doesn't work, Miles challenges him before beating him up.
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Elf / int_cf2cef75	type	Silly Animal Sound
Elf / int_cf2cef75	comment	Silly Animal Sound: The raccoon that attacks Buddy makes monkey sounds. Whereas the funny scene of Buddy burping really loudly for twelve seconds (as provided by Maurice LaMarche) sounds a whole awful lot like a screaming camel.
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Elf / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Elf / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: In an effort to get Santa's sleigh running by raising everyone's Christmas spirit, Michael takes Santa's book containing the Nice and Naughty list and goes on live television with reporter Charlotte Dennin, who doesn't believe him at all. Deciding to prove his point, Michael goes through the book and explains several of the citizens' identities and gifts that they desire for Christmas, including Charlotte's gift to have a Tiffany engagement ring and for her boyfriend to stop dragging his feet and commit, which inspired several citizens to raise their Christmas spirit and briefly power up the sleigh as promised. Unfortunately, these revelations left Charlotte so embarrassed that she ordered her crew to turn off the cameras before leaving in anger, still refusing to believe Michael's truthful claims.
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Elf / int_d080f396	type	The Napoleon
Elf / int_d080f396	comment	The Napoleon: Miles Finch, played by none other than Peter Dinklage, whom Buddy mistakes for an elf.
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Elf / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Elf / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Emily and Michael both tell off Walter. Emily calls Walter out for neglecting Michael. After learning that Buddy ran away, Michael calls Walter out for putting his greed before his family.
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Elf / int_d4c98786	type	Writing Around Trademarks
Elf / int_d4c98786	comment	Writing Around Trademarks: The musical omits the Gimbels department store, instead having Jovie working at a diner. Buddy's encounter with the fake Santa also takes place there.
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Elf / int_d545b2	type	Belly-Scraping Flight
Elf / int_d545b2	comment	Belly-Scraping Flight: Santa's sleigh loses its booster rocket when it clips a statue on takeoff.
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Elf / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Elf / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: At one point, Buddy berates himself as a "cotton-headed ninnymuggins". Later on, he exclaims "Son of a nutcracker!" after being hit with a snowball.
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Elf / int_dec54a8c	type	Avoid the Dreaded G Rating
Elf / int_dec54a8c	comment	Avoid the Dreaded G Rating: Easily the edgiest things in this entire film are when Jovie tells Buddy that management is "pissed" about his elaborate decorations and when Walter says "up yours" to his boss.
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Elf / int_dfe57573	type	Historical In-Joke
Elf / int_dfe57573	comment	Historical In-Joke: A Macy's store is used as a stand-in for Gimbels. The real Gimbels, famous as Macy's long-time Herald Square rival, went out of business in 1986.
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Elf / int_e150c4c7	type	Manchild
Elf / int_e150c4c7	comment	Manchild: Buddy. This is most likely because as Papa Elf said, Buddy grew twice as fast as the elf children, meaning by the time he was an adult, he was only elementary school age for an elf.
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Elf / int_e2a41c3b	type	Literal-Minded
Elf / int_e2a41c3b	comment	Literal-Minded: In the musical version, Gimbel's manager (Macy's in the play) sees Buddy has the hots for Jovie, and suggests he take her out... including suggesting he walk her home, and take her into the bedroom. Buddy's childlike innocence and naivete turns the rest into a Double Entendre as he assumes that, "Getting into bed and snuggling her" means just that. Santa warns Buddy that when he gets to New York, if he sees a sign that says "Peep Show", it doesn't mean they're letting him look at presents before Christmas. Most likely why Buddy calls Miles Finch an elf the last time. "Call me an elf one. more. time."
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Elf / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
Elf / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: In the musical, Mr. Greenway and Miles Finch are combined into one character.
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Elf / int_e49c0cbd	type	Interspecies Adoption
Elf / int_e49c0cbd	comment	Interspecies Adoption: A human raised by Christmas elves? Stranger things have happened.
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Elf / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Elf / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: The living snowman and talking animals at the North Pole are clearly based on the characters from Rankin/Bass Christmas specials.
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Elf / int_e54482ee	type	Keet
Elf / int_e54482ee	comment	Keet: Buddy, to an extent.
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Elf / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Elf / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Walter's boss Fulton Greenway, who runs his publishing company with an iron fist and treats his employees (including Walter) like crap, as he criticized Walter for publishing a failed children's book with several missing pages and forced him and his team to pitch in a new book on Christmas Eve. When Walter is about to pitch his next book (based on one of Miles Finch's ideas) to Greenway, the meeting is interrupted by Michael, who berates Walter for making Buddy run away thanks to Walter's I Have No Son! speech. A remorseful Walter then tries to rectify this by trying to convince Greenway to reschedule as he intends to help Michael search for Buddy, but Greenway impatiently refuses by threatening to fire Walter if he walks out to search for Buddy, even rudely telling Michael to wait by the door. This incited an outraged Walter to stand up to Greenway by quitting his job and leaving with Michael to search for Buddy, much to Greenway's anger.
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Elf / int_e73f6217	type	Feet-First Introduction
Elf / int_e73f6217	comment	Feet-First Introduction: The first we see of Miles Finch is his expensive shoes.
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Elf	hasFeature	Elf / int_e73f6217
Elf / int_e8d46c29	type	Backstory
Elf / int_e8d46c29	comment	Jovie is given a much-needed Backstory that explains why she's such a humbug when we first meet her; she grew up in Los Angeles, where she describes Christmas as being, "surreal", because it never snowed; she had been living in New York for two years, and even then, she still never saw snow, so Christmas never felt special to her. That, and apparently she went out with a bunch of jerkasses over the years.
Elf / int_e8d46c29	featureApplicability	1.0
Elf / int_e8d46c29	featureConfidence	1.0
Elf	hasFeature	Elf / int_e8d46c29
Elf / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Elf / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words Santa tells Buddy not to eat any gum off of the street, but he never said anything about railings. Later, Walter tells Buddy that he needs to lose the tights "as soon as possible". You can probably guess what happens next...
Elf / int_e9e35e8f	featureApplicability	1.0
Elf / int_e9e35e8f	featureConfidence	1.0
Elf	hasFeature	Elf / int_e9e35e8f
Elf / int_efa2d938	type	Homage Shot
Elf / int_efa2d938	comment	Homage Shot Like George Bailey from It's a Wonderful Life, Buddy finds himself standing on the edge of a bridge one night, suffering feelings of worthlessness, until he notices a falling ethereal being in need of his rescue. In this case, Santa's sleigh. The image of Buddy walking among a large, shoulder-to-shoulder crowd in the streets of Manhattan mirrors the famous shot from Tootsie of Michael Dorsey in his Dorothy Michaels get-up doing the same.
Elf / int_efa2d938	featureApplicability	1.0
Elf / int_efa2d938	featureConfidence	1.0
Elf	hasFeature	Elf / int_efa2d938
Elf / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Elf / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: There's a two-liter bottle of Coca-Cola on the Hobbs' dinner table. Buddy chugs the whole thing. The Hobbs have a box of Pop Tarts in the kitchen, which Buddy crumbles over his spaghetti and candy breakfast.
Elf / int_f511ea9b	featureApplicability	1.0
Elf / int_f511ea9b	featureConfidence	1.0
Elf	hasFeature	Elf / int_f511ea9b
Elf / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Elf / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Buddy reconnects with his father, becomes a successful children's writer, and starts a family with Jovie with their newborn daughter. It is also revealed that Walter and Buddy have established their own publishing company thanks to Buddy's first book being a bestseller.
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Elf / int_f64a9cf7	featureConfidence	1.0
Elf	hasFeature	Elf / int_f64a9cf7
Elf / int_f6f2ff1	type	Insult Backfire
Elf / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: Miles' trash-talking completely goes over Buddy's head, with Buddy just nodding along while looking impressed before taking Miles' "Call me an elf one more time" threat at face value.
Elf / int_f6f2ff1	featureApplicability	1.0
Elf / int_f6f2ff1	featureConfidence	1.0
Elf	hasFeature	Elf / int_f6f2ff1
Elf / int_f8214d	type	CoolBigBro
Elf / int_f8214d	comment	Cool Big Bro: Michael initially wanted nothing to do with Buddy, but after he fights off an entire gang of bullies in a snowball fight, he sees Buddy as this.
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Elf / int_f8214d	featureConfidence	1.0
Elf	hasFeature	Elf / int_f8214d
Elf / int_f8ffd45	type	Pictorial Letter Substitution
Elf / int_f8ffd45	comment	Pictorial Letter Substitution: On the poster, Buddy stands in for the "L" in the title.
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Elf / int_f8ffd45	featureConfidence	1.0
Elf	hasFeature	Elf / int_f8ffd45
Elf / int_f951f89b	type	Bad to the Last Drop
Elf / int_f951f89b	comment	Bad to the Last Drop: Buddy naively believes a Greasy Spoon's claim to have "the world's best cup of coffee", despite it being anything but (at least in Jovie's opinion). Changed in the musical to "The World's Best Hotdog", with Jovie giving the putdown.
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Elf / int_f951f89b	featureConfidence	1.0
Elf	hasFeature	Elf / int_f951f89b
Elf / int_fb724048	type	Real After All
Elf / int_fb724048	comment	Real After All: In-universe, Michael and Walter are very shocked to learn Santa Claus is real, and that Buddy was telling the truth about being raised in the North Pole. Their expressions read This Explains So Much as Santa explains how he got stranded in Central Park. Then Michael gets serious on realizing the Park Rangers will be coming, and says they need a plan.
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Elf / int_fb724048	featureConfidence	1.0
Elf	hasFeature	Elf / int_fb724048
Elf / int_fc151e9d	type	Department of Redundancy Department
Elf / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: The four Elf food groups are candy, candy canes, candy corns, and syrup.
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Elf / int_fc151e9d	featureConfidence	1.0
Elf	hasFeature	Elf / int_fc151e9d
Elf / int_fdee2c8f	type	Singing Telegram
Elf / int_fdee2c8f	comment	Singing Telegram: Invoked. Buddy the Elf goes to the Empire State Building to meet his birth father, Walter Hobbs, who never knew Buddy was born to his late former girlfriend. Because Buddy is in his elf suit, Walter initially assumes Buddy is there to sing for him, calling it a "Christmas-gram."
Elf / int_fdee2c8f	featureApplicability	1.0
Elf / int_fdee2c8f	featureConfidence	1.0
Elf	hasFeature	Elf / int_fdee2c8f
Elf / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Elf / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: One of the jack-in-the-boxes that Buddy had been in charge of testing makes a surprise reappearance late in the film. Buddy considers getting his dad red lingerie for Christmas. Not only does Walter receive the lingerie in a gift box a few scenes later, but he regifts it to his wife at the end.
Elf / int_fe0330fb	featureApplicability	1.0
Elf / int_fe0330fb	featureConfidence	1.0
Elf	hasFeature	Elf / int_fe0330fb
Elf / int_fe64d5a1	type	Evil Is Petty
Elf / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil is Petty: The Central Park Rangers are fully aware of Santa's existence and hold a grudge against him for putting them on the naughty list. And the reason why is this: they are infamous for their controversial and brutal tactics of controlling park crowds, especially with a Simon and Garfunkel concert held at Central Park in 1985.
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Elf / int_fe64d5a1	featureConfidence	1.0
Elf	hasFeature	Elf / int_fe64d5a1
Elf / int_fea27091	type	Buffy Speak
Elf / int_fea27091	comment	Buffy Speak: Buddy, after seeing his father's coworker Sarah: "That's a nice, purple dress. It's very purple-y."
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Elf / int_fea27091	featureConfidence	1.0
Elf	hasFeature	Elf / int_fea27091
Elf / int_ff17ccf1	type	Innocently Insensitive
Elf / int_ff17ccf1	comment	Innocently Insensitive: Due to his childhood in the North Pole, Buddy has no idea how offensive it is to call a person with dwarfism an elf. Miles Finch teaches him this the hard way. And Buddy is still none the wiser afterwards, concluding that Miles must be "a South Pole elf" and, as far as we can tell, never being told why what he did was wrong.
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Elf / int_ff17ccf1	featureConfidence	1.0
Elf	hasFeature	Elf / int_ff17ccf1
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Elf / int_name	comment
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Elf	hasFeature	Elf / int_name
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Elf	hasFeature	A Mistake Is Born / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Accidental Passenger / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Adaptation for Child Performers / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Adored by the Network / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Adoring the Pests / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Aerith and Bob / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	All of the Other Reindeer / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	An Odd Place to Sleep / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Animal Lover / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Animated Credits Opening / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Babies Ever After / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Bad to the Last Drop / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Baffled by Own Biology / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Bail Equals Freedom / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Belly-Scraping Flight / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Big Applesauce / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Bizarre Taste in Food / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Caper Crew / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Character in the Logo / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Character Narrator / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Christmas Carolers / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Christmas Elves / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Clap Your Hands If You Believe / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Crazy Consumption / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Cross-Cast Role / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Crowd Song / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Daddy DNA Test / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Delayed Explosion / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Deranged Park Ranger / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Dissimile / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Distant Finale / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Don't You Like It? / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Dreaming of a White Christmas / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Dude, Not Funny! / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Elevator Buttons Mash / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Elf Works / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Emotional Regression / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Fancy Toilet Awe / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Far-Out Foreigner's Favorite Food / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	"Friends" Rent Control / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Gassy Gastronomy / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Gross Gum Gag / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Historical In-Joke / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Hold Your Hippogriffs / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Human Raised By Fairies / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	I Just Like Saying the Word / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	I Should Write a Book About This / int_585e42e5
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Elf	hasFeature	Inspiration Nod / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Instantly Proven Wrong / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Interspecies Adoption / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Iris Out / int_585e42e5
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Elf	hasFeature	Kids' Meal Toy / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Little People Are Surreal / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Luke, You Are My Father / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Mall Santa / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Manic Pixie Dream Girl / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Media Watchdog / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Misplaced Wildlife / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Mistaken for Insane / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Mistaken for Santa / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Mistaken from Behind / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	NaÃ¯ve Animal Lover / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	New York Is Only Manhattan / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Noisy Nature / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Nonsense Classification / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Nutritional Nightmare / int_585e42e5
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Elf	hasFeature	Obvious Stunt Double / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Obviously Not Fine / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	One-Take Wonder / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Over-the-Top Christmas Decorations / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Pardon My Klingon / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Parent Service / int_585e42e5
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Elf	hasFeature	Pictorial Letter Substitution / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Pop Culture Holiday / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Practical Effects / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Protagonist Title / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Raised by Natives / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Raised by the Supernatural / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Recursive Adaptation / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Repeating Ad / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Santa Claus / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Saving Christmas / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Scary Jack-in-the-Box / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Screen-to-Stage Adaptation / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Secret Message Wink / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Shower of Awkward / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Singing in the Shower / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Singing Telegram / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Sink or Swim Fatherhood / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Small Parent, Huge Child / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Snow Globe of Innocence / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Snowball Fight / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Staggered Zoom / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Still Believes in Santa / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Storybook Opening / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Sweet Tooth / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Tagline / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	That Liar Lies / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	That Russian Squat Dance / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	The Danza / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	The Foreign Subtitle / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	The Napoleon / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Themed Stock Board Game / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	This Is a Song / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Triumphant Reprise / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Un-Duet / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Unconventional Food Order / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Urban Fantasy / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Urine Trouble / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Warm-Hearted Walrus / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Was Too Hard on Him / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Wink "Ding!" / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Yellow Snow / int_585e42e5
Elf	hasFeature	Younger Than They Look / int_585e42e5
Elf (Music)	seeAlso	Elf
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