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The Lorax

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The Lorax	comment	The Lorax is a computer-animated family feature film based on the book of the same name by Dr. Seuss. It is the third film by Illumination Entertainment and the second animated film from the team from Despicable Me, as well as the writers from Horton Hears a Who!. Danny DeVito voices the Lorax. New characters include Ted (Zac Efron), a 12-year-old boy living in the synthetic city of Thneedville who has a crush on a high school girl, Audrey (Taylor Swift), who says that Truffula Trees once populated this area before a city was built over it, and wishes to see them for herself. In an attempt to win over her affection, Ted seeks out the home of the Once-ler (Ed Helms), who tells the regretful tale of how he brought down the forest. But once he's discovered leaving town, Aloysius O'Hare (Rob Riggle) and his air company that oversees Thneedville wants to ensure that Ted stays in the city and nobody discovers the wasteland outside the limits.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The film was released worldwide on March 2, 2012 (coincidentally on which would've been the 108th birthday of the original author).
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The Lorax / int_112f8ee1	type	Look Behind You
The Lorax / int_112f8ee1	comment	Look Behind You: The Once-ler pulls this on the Lorax.
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The Lorax / int_113480b7	type	Canon Foreigner
The Lorax / int_113480b7	comment	Canon Foreigner: Ted's family, Audrey, Marie, Wesley, Dan, Rose, Cy, O'Hare, among many others, never appeared in the book nor the 1972 animated short.
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The Lorax / int_118a41d5	type	Daydream Surprise
The Lorax / int_118a41d5	comment	Daydream Surprise: An elaborate sequence where Ted daydreams of getting a Truffula Tree for Audrey's birthday. Cue Smooch of Victory and before the lips meet...
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The Lorax / int_1305f045	type	Vanity License Plate
The Lorax / int_1305f045	comment	Vanity License Plate: The Once-ler has one on his horse-drawn wagon.
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The Lorax / int_137f2d7	type	Card-Carrying Villain
The Lorax / int_137f2d7	comment	Card-Carrying Villain: When the antagonist bursts out into a rendition of "Let It Die", it's safe to say that subtlety is out the window.
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The Lorax / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
The Lorax / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: The second trailer tells you the book's ending! This is harmless to the movie itself though — the storyline is expanded to continue after those events.
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The Lorax / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
The Lorax / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: "How Bad Can I Be?" Well, Once-y, since you asked so nicely...
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The Lorax / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
The Lorax / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Part of the Once-Ler's motivation is to please his fickle mother. Ultimately, she manipulates him and rejects him after she ruins his business and the forest.
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The Lorax / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
The Lorax / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: During the end of "How Bad Can I Be", the Once-ler's family provide a backup chorus. It sounds like generic chanting, but the official soundtrack reveals lyrics that were muffled.
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The Lorax / int_18565557	type	Descent into Darkness Song
The Lorax / int_18565557	comment	Descent into Darkness Song: The Once-ler's Villain Song seems fine and dandy for most of the song. That is until he starts talking about not caring if the trees are dying, while you see him destroying said trees with the soundwaves from his guitar and carelessly hacking down every tree left and right while the forest creatures run for their lives. Not only does the song get so much darker, his voice gets a distinct malevolent echo at the end. And then "Biggering" extends the whole descent into darkness, to the point where at the end, it sounds like the Once-Ler descended also into madness.
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The Lorax / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
The Lorax / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: Some people had to think that Ted was going to meet the Lorax even though he never did. The fact that the young version of the Once-ler looked strangely like him doesn't help. The TV spots for the DVD release include as little footage of Ted's story as possible.
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The Lorax / int_1b38f6b7	type	Shout-Out Theme Naming
The Lorax / int_1b38f6b7	comment	Shout-Out Theme Naming: The main human characters are named Ted (short for Theodore, Dr. Seuss' real name) and Audrey (Dr. Seuss's wife).
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The Lorax / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
The Lorax / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: The Once-ler, of the pretty boy variation. He did a lot off shaking his butt and hips, bending over, and allowing his legs to be open at the audience. He once crawled across a table, as well as stripped down partially on screen.
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The Lorax / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
The Lorax / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: A model of one of Despicable Me's minions can be seen as Ted looks through his drawer for a screw (in keeping, since both movies come from Universal and Illumination Entertainment). There is also a picture of one on his Converse-looking sneakers, right where the logo should be.
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The Lorax / int_1ccad9a3	type	Villain Song
The Lorax / int_1ccad9a3	comment	Villain Song: "How Bad Can I Be?" Among the soundtrack's cut songs, "Biggering", a darker Rock Opera-esque song that was eventually replaced by "How Bad Can I Be?" O'Hare's section of "Thneedville" (soundtrack version). It's a shame that part was cut, as it sums things up so nicely.
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The Lorax / int_1d515cb4	type	One-Wheeled Wonder
The Lorax / int_1d515cb4	comment	One-Wheeled Wonder: Ted's scooter has only one wheel, looking like a big ball. This doesn't stop him from doing impressive stunts with it.
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The Lorax / int_1dea3034	type	Cool Shades
The Lorax / int_1dea3034	comment	Cool Shades: The Once-ler gets some during "How Bad Can I Be?"
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The Lorax / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
The Lorax / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: Towards the end of the Disney Acid Sequence during "How Bad Can I Be?", the Once-ler is flattening truffula trees with the soundwaves from his electric guitar. In other words, he's using his axe as an axe.
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The Lorax / int_1f14978d	type	Talking Animal
The Lorax / int_1f14978d	comment	Talking Animal: The crowd during the Everybody Needs a Thneed number includes a random cat riding and singing atop a guy's helmet.
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The Lorax / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
The Lorax / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: The Once-ler is completely oblivious to the arrival of the Lorax, despite storm clouds darkening the forest, accompanied with thunder and lightning, and lightning striking the stump itself. The Lorax lampshades this.
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The Lorax / int_21f3e32e	type	Chekhov's Boomerang
The Lorax / int_21f3e32e	comment	Chekhov's Boomerang: The Onceler's axe. It is the implement he uses when he first ventures down his dark destructive path (by chopping down the first tree) and it is likewise the implement he uses when he is redeemed (by cutting down the boards enforcing his self-imposed exile).
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The Lorax / int_222969af	type	All There in the Script
The Lorax / int_222969af	comment	All There in the Script: The bar-ba-loots (brown forest critters), except for one easily missed line, are not named in the film, although they are mentioned in the soundtrack album version of "This is the Place" and in the DVD special features. They are named in the book and special, however, along with the Swomee Swans and Humming Fish.
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The Lorax / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
The Lorax / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: The movie expands on the Frame Story with the boy seeking out a tree to impress a girl he's in love with and then we see his struggle to undo the environmental devastation the Once-ler created in the face of his municipal government's opposition. The boy is given the name Ted, and his mom, Grammy Norma, Audrey, and O'Hare (indeed, the entire Thneedville population save for Ted) were never in the book.
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The Lorax / int_243cbd0d	type	Dope Slap
The Lorax / int_243cbd0d	comment	Dope Slap: One of the fish dope-slaps another fish after it touches the stump and the storm preceding the Lorax starts.
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The Lorax / int_26480103	type	Mechanical Animals
The Lorax / int_26480103	comment	Mechanical Animals: One of O'Hare's surveillance tactics is a robot cat with cameras in its eyes that meows when it's alerted.
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The Lorax / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
The Lorax / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: The Once-ler's gloves are green. His arms were all green in the book and cartoon. "Everyone Needs a Thneed" returns with reworked lyrics. When the Once-ler is trying to sell Thneeds at the local town, he advertises them being sold for $3.98. This is the price he managed to bargain off with the first man who bought one in the book. The box of the toy plane Ted lands in Audrey's house is labeled "Geisel's Gadgets". Geisel is Dr. Seuss's last name. Ted and Audrey share names with Ted and Audrey Geisel, with Ted Geisel being Dr. Seuss' real name and Audrey his wife and the film's executive producer. "How Bad Can I Be" is basically a short musical summary of the main plot of the 1972 special. It even features the words "schloppity schlop" and "smogulous smoke".
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The Lorax / int_26e5c183	type	Polluted Wasteland
The Lorax / int_26e5c183	comment	Polluted Wasteland: The land surrounding Thneedville is this for a while; the air is full of smog, and unexplained oil-like substances are being leaked (if not deliberately pumped) into the water outside the town.
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The Lorax / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
The Lorax / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Ted's father and grandfather are never seen or mentioned in the film. It's never made clear if the old man in the Once-ler's family is his Father or Uncle. However, since the Once-ler is supposed to be like Ted (in a sense), and the original book says he called his uncles, brothers, and aunts, it might be his uncle, so both Ted and the Once-ler would have missing fathers.
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The Lorax / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
The Lorax / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: The Humming Fish don't actually hum; they sing a capella.
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The Lorax / int_321704ed	type	Anticipatory Breath Spray
The Lorax / int_321704ed	comment	Anticipatory Breath Spray: Ted does this before he enters Audrey's house.
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The Lorax / int_331d9f32	type	Silent Snarker
The Lorax / int_331d9f32	comment	Silent Snarker: Melvin the donkey.
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The Lorax / int_33f18ad1	type	Appeal to Inherent Nature
The Lorax / int_33f18ad1	comment	Appeal to Inherent Nature: The chorus of the Once-ler's Villain Song begins with the line "How ba-a-a-ad can I be? I'm just doing what comes naturally."
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The Lorax / int_347fef9a	type	The Coconut Effect
The Lorax / int_347fef9a	comment	The Coconut Effect: When the rock hits one side of the Once-ler's bed before it goes over the waterfall, there is a "sproing" sound as if tension has been released (like a diving board) — but there was never any tension in the bed — the rock simply landed on the opposite side, sending him off as if it was a seesaw.
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The Lorax / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Lorax / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: In perhaps the fastest, blink-and-you-miss-it example, in the song "How Bad Could I Be", you see the a bar-ba-loot pick up what looks like one of the last few truffula fruit, and the largest is going to let the small one eat it... only to have Once-ler pick it right out of their hands and eat it in front of them.
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The Lorax / int_3767d6f9	type	Ruder and Cruder
The Lorax / int_3767d6f9	comment	Ruder and Cruder: O'Hare says "damn it" twice by the end, which is the only reason the film got a PG rating. Naturally, the Dr. Seuss children's book on which the film is based had no such language.
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The Lorax / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Lorax / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: One of the fishes hums the theme to Mission: Impossible III. Coincidentally, Arturo Mercado Jr. (the young Once-ler's Latin American VA) voiced Ethan Hunt in that film.
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The Lorax / int_39f27cae	type	Bedmate Reveal
The Lorax / int_39f27cae	comment	Bedmate Reveal: The Once-ler wakes up in his bed... and sees the face of the Lorax yawning next to him. Cue both freaking out.
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The Lorax / int_3a88a563	type	Vocal Dissonance
The Lorax / int_3a88a563	comment	Vocal Dissonance: Does Ted even sound close to a twelve-year-old? Cy's voice sounds very young, soft, and high-pitched for a moustachioed, middle-aged delivery man.
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The Lorax / int_3b79029a	type	Crapsaccharine World
The Lorax / int_3b79029a	comment	O'Hare pretends he's remorseful over how he's monopolized air and made his town such a thinly-veiled polluted crapsack. He then tries to get the crowd to let the Truffula die. It only makes the town want to plant the tree more.
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The Lorax / int_3f7678af	type	Gasp of Life
The Lorax / int_3f7678af	comment	Gasp of Life: The Once-ler shoots upright and gasps after the Lorax revives him via a Magical Defibrillator made out of two Bar-ba-loots.
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The Lorax / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
The Lorax / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: The Once-ler's family ditches the Once-ler once he has chopped down every tree in the land. Nevermind the fact he let them enjoy his fortune.
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The Lorax / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
The Lorax / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: Despite the message about saving the planet, Ted spins donuts in his motor scooter, which is spewing out smoke, instead of just stopping and waiting for his love interest. That’s not even getting into the insane amounts of merchandise it received (for an anti-industrial environmental film), much of which uses a ton of plastic. And the ad for Mazda cars.
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The Lorax / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
The Lorax / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Once-ler tells one after chopping down a tree:
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The Lorax / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Lorax / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The townspeople don't really learn any lesson, they simply continue to blindly follow whoever makes an impression on them (not to mention how they don't have a mayor or canned air salesman anymore!), the Once-ler gets redemption from the Lorax, but he can't get his life back, and never really discovers his "full potential", instead he just fixes what he broke, and Ted's ending is neutral. The only character that really ends up with a truly good ending is "nature", if you want to count that. On the other hand, though, if the townspeople did learn anything, it's the fact that not everything is as perfect as they thought it was now that they've seen how bad things were this whole time just outside their city. It's also implied that they helped to restore the environment after the seed was planted in Thneedville, so maybe they did have an epiphany about nature's natural beauty and that having an artificial city isn't such a good thing after all. As for Ted, considering he both helped the Once-ler correct his mistakes and the implication that he and Audrey finally got together, which were his two main goals, his ending qualifies as being a positive one too. Oh, and Audrey herself got to not only see a living tree as she'd wished, but to contribute to their reintroduction.
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The Lorax / int_413e6726	type	Deliberately Cute Child
The Lorax / int_413e6726	comment	Deliberately Cute Child: 3-year-old Marie, even earning a big aww from the crowd.
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The Lorax / int_43d612b7	type	Disney Acid Sequence
The Lorax / int_43d612b7	comment	Disney Acid Sequence: The song the Once-ler sings while he and his family cut down the forest and build their factory.
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The Lorax / int_4582ef5b	type	Ultimate Authority Mayor
The Lorax / int_4582ef5b	comment	Ultimate Authority Mayor: Ohare seems to have so much power he had the ability to ban people from leaving town.
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The Lorax / int_462e2f79	type	The Outside World
The Lorax / int_462e2f79	comment	The Outside World: The film has Ted wanting to go to the Outside World to find a real live tree for a girl he likes. However, he finds that the outside is a really bleak and dark Crapsack World.
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The Lorax / int_46e53efd	type	Screams Like a Little Girl
The Lorax / int_46e53efd	comment	Screams Like a Little Girl: The Once-ler's scream when he wakes up and finds the Lorax next to him is really high-pitched. He does this when the forest animals attack him, as well. The man who's having a bath when Ted drives into his house to get out of the city.
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The Lorax / int_49d18492	type	Scenery Gorn
The Lorax / int_49d18492	comment	Scenery Gorn: The environmental devastation outside Thneedville.
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The Lorax / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
The Lorax / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The vistas of Thneedville.
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The Lorax / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
The Lorax / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: The Once-ler is human in this adaptation, at least in the flashbacks. Even he didn't start out a bastard, but his parents clearly were and drove him to become one too.
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The Lorax / int_4da65e15	type	Working Class Anthem
The Lorax / int_4da65e15	comment	Working Class Anthem: "How Bad Can I Be?" has elements of this, showing that the Once-ler's success is corrupting him and doing harm to the world around him, including environmental degradation and Fake Charities.
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The Lorax / int_4e5c2fb2	type	Glass Smack and Slide
The Lorax / int_4e5c2fb2	comment	Glass Smack and Slide: When villain O'Hare, flying with one of his goon thanks to rocket headgear, slams into a delivery truck driven by another of his goon, he gets squished on the windshield and, as he's sliding down, yells "You're fired!"
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The Lorax / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
The Lorax / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: The Once-ler.
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The Lorax / int_4f52ac6a	type	World Limited to the Plot
The Lorax / int_4f52ac6a	comment	World Limited to the Plot: Thneedville and the former Truffula forest are treated like the only places left in the world in the main (post-Lorax) story, despite the Once-ler traveling to various locations on his quest for Thneed material and having grown up in a rural area far away enough from Thneedville that his family needed an RV to get there.
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The Lorax / int_51a3ba7	type	We Used to Be Friends
The Lorax / int_51a3ba7	comment	We Used to Be Friends: After "How Bad Can I Be", the Lorax asks the Once-ler if his presence makes him remember the promise he broke and the person he used to be. Once-ler doesn't take this well.
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The Lorax / int_51c70be6	type	Obliviously Evil
The Lorax / int_51c70be6	comment	Obliviously Evil: Once-ler during his "How Bad Can I Be" sequence.
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The Lorax / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
The Lorax / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: The first song, "Thneedville", and the last song, "Let it Grow", are both Crowd Songs. To further this, the first line of "Thneedville" - "In Thneedville, it's a brand new dawn" - is repeated as an echo at the very end of "Let it Grow".
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The Lorax / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Lorax / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: The Once-ler isn't maliciously evil; he just fails to recognize the consequences of his actions until it's too late.
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The Lorax / int_53c3fa83	type	Granola Girl
The Lorax / int_53c3fa83	comment	Granola Girl: Audrey has some shades of this; her desire for a natural Truffula tree provides Ted's motivation.
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The Lorax / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
The Lorax / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: The Once-ler's face was never revealed in the book or the movie, and it's unknown if he is even human (given his spindly green arms and yellow eyes, plus the fact that most of Dr. Seuss's characters are weird creatures), although he does say he "speaks for men" and talks about "human opportunities". In the movie, he's fully seen and his younger self is a pretty human.
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The Lorax / int_56b53152	type	Green Aesop
The Lorax / int_56b53152	comment	Green Aesop: Lifted straight from the novel and given extra oomph with the addition of O'Hare and the modern Thneedville.
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The Lorax / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
The Lorax / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: Ted and the Once-ler are this to each other.
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The Lorax / int_5967d6df	type	Melismatic Vocals
The Lorax / int_5967d6df	comment	Melismatic Vocals: The first line of each verse of "Thneedville" is punctuated with a melisma. And of course, "How ba-ah-ah-ad can I be?"
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The Lorax / int_59d7839f	type	Animal Lover
The Lorax / int_59d7839f	comment	Animal Lover: The Lorax often hangs out with the forest animals and describes them as "nature's innocent creatures".
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The Lorax / int_5ad80bf8	type	It's All My Fault
The Lorax / int_5ad80bf8	comment	It's All My Fault: The Once-ler laments that the trees are gone because of his past actions.
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The Lorax / int_5da3f522	type	Big Brother Is Watching
The Lorax / int_5da3f522	comment	Big Brother Is Watching: The leaders of the city don't like the idea of anyone trying to leave, and they have cameras everywhere.
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The Lorax / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
The Lorax / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: According to the producers, five years passed once the Once-ler and his family started their Thneed operations. The "How Bad Can I Be?" montage is meant to be the passage of time going by as they destroy the Truffula forest.
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The Lorax / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
The Lorax / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: The fat bar-ba-loot naturally seems to have shades of this.
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The Lorax / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
The Lorax / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: The Once-ler's face is shown because it would be near to impossible to hide his face during an entire feature film. Also this film indicts the environmental blight of urban sprawl as well as unchecked industrialization. There's also the fact that trying to film the story exactly would make for a really depressing movie if you didn't have Ted's struggle to put things right.
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The Lorax / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
The Lorax / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: The Once-ler gets more committed to "biggering" the more the Lorax calls him out on the effects of his operations. It isn't until the last tree falls that he comes to his senses.
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The Lorax / int_64c38832	type	Inevitable Waterfall
The Lorax / int_64c38832	comment	Inevitable Waterfall: It makes the practical joke that the Lorax plays on the Once-ler a lot more serious, and brings the two together for a short time. Played with: Once-ler and Pipsqueak only face relatively passable rapids at first, and once they clear those... they see the huge roaring waterfall the trope normally deals with.
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The Lorax / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
The Lorax / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Audrey is clearly supposed to be producer (and widow of Dr. Seuss) Audrey Geisel and her views. Ted (named after Dr. Seuss) less so.
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The Lorax / int_669c4caa	type	Produce Pelting
The Lorax / int_669c4caa	comment	Produce Pelting: When Once-ler tries to sell his Thneed, the townsfolk respond by pelting him with tomatoes. One enterprising old man sets up a stall to sell tomatoes to the crowd.
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The Lorax / int_68832e62	type	Human-Focused Adaptation
The Lorax / int_68832e62	comment	Human-Focused Adaptation: The focus is now more on the Boy (Ted) and the Once-ler than the Lorax. Arguably the Once-ler was the main character of the earlier versions too, but in those it's unclear if he is supposed to be human.
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The Lorax / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
The Lorax / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: At the beginning of the movie, The Lorax introduces himself: "I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees." In the climax, Ted does the same thing the Lorax does: "My name is Ted Wiggins, and I speak for the trees!" A visual example, also with the Lorax and Ted, is the ring of stones that they placed around trees. When the older Once-ler finally steps out of his house he is revealed to have grown bushy eyebrows and a big moustache, like the Lorax's. The Lorax even tells him "nice moustache".
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The Lorax / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Lorax / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Ted, the actual name of Dr. Seuss, and Audrey, named after his second wife. The Once-ler, as in the original.
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The Lorax / int_6d5fb1e0	type	Waistcoat of Style
The Lorax / int_6d5fb1e0	comment	Waistcoat of Style: Young Once-ler sports one.
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The Lorax / int_6e6cf344	type	"Everybody Helps Out" Denouement
The Lorax / int_6e6cf344	comment	"Everybody Helps Out" Denouement: The movie ends with the musical number "Let it Grow," where the population of Thneedville agrees to start helping the environment after realizing what a horrible state it's in. The shot of the Lorax's home at the end suggests they've succeeded.
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The Lorax / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
The Lorax / int_6f059863	comment	Oddly Small Organization: Once-ler's Thneed Company only seems to ever have his family as its workers despite how big it gets. O'Hare's company only employs O'Hare himself, his two goons, and the one delivery man. This is especially noticeable in the climax, where O'Hare feels the need to join the chase himself.
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The Lorax / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
The Lorax / int_7130202a	comment	Jewish Mother: Ted's mom has this in spades, which would technically make him Ambiguously Jewish.
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The Lorax / int_71748a39	type	Named by the Adaptation
The Lorax / int_71748a39	comment	Named by the Adaptation: Ted isn't named in the book, due to its Second-Person Narration.
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The Lorax / int_73f38fe0	type	LEGO Genetics
The Lorax / int_73f38fe0	comment	LEGO Genetics: A boy turns into a bioluminescent mutant after going into the local polluted swimming pool.
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The Lorax / int_7a3dd888	type	Real Men Wear Pink
The Lorax / int_7a3dd888	comment	Real Men Wear Pink: While sewing his first thneed, Once-ler insists to himself that there's nothing unmanly about knitting. He also ends up wearing a pink thneed scarf.
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The Lorax / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
The Lorax / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: Present-day Once-ler is this, until the final scene (and also not in the flashback sequences). This departs from the book, in which his face is never seen.
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The Lorax / int_7c9dcc1	type	THeUnfavorite
The Lorax / int_7c9dcc1	comment	The Unfavorite: The Once-ler is implied to be this before he sets out to find his fortune. He manages to shake it for a while after becoming a success, but it doesn't take long for his mother to choose his other brothers over him once more. Out loud. To his face.
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The Lorax / int_7ccd3698	type	Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever
The Lorax / int_7ccd3698	comment	Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: The Once-ler at the end of "How Bad Can I Be?"
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The Lorax / int_7d0b02c9	type	Ramprovisation
The Lorax / int_7d0b02c9	comment	Ramprovisation: Ted's attempt to jump over the gorge using a barrel and a board doesn't quite go as planned. Good thing too, because if it did, he wouldn't have had a way back.
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The Lorax / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
The Lorax / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: The Once-ler.
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The Lorax / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Lorax / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: The Once-ler gets this when he arrives in the Truffula Forest. When he unloads the van while singing he carelessly throws everything behind him, barely missing killing anyone; the animals are not amused. The Lorax gets one when he's first summoned and looks at the chopped down tree. He mourns for the chopped down tree before going after the Once-ler.
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The Lorax / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
The Lorax / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The film starts with all the trees gone and most of the film is the Once-ler telling the story of what happened to them.
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The Lorax / int_80d2d71c	type	Air Quotes
The Lorax / int_80d2d71c	comment	Air Quotes: The Once-ler does this when being confronted by Lorax about cutting down all the Truffula trees.
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The Lorax / int_82518cf7	type	Motor Mouth
The Lorax / int_82518cf7	comment	Motor Mouth: The Lorax, when the Once-ler asks him how his bed got in the river, he says, "Iputyourbedinthewater."
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The Lorax / int_83a70d46	type	Ostrich Head Hiding
The Lorax / int_83a70d46	comment	Ostrich Head Hiding: When the Lorax first arrives, a bunch of birds plunge their heads into the ground and a bear tries to do likewise but its head just rebounds off the ground.
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The Lorax / int_86af7ab0	type	Badass Biker
The Lorax / int_86af7ab0	comment	Badass Biker: When Ted gets on that scooter, awesomeness ensues.
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The Lorax / int_86daf505	type	Parental Bonus
The Lorax / int_86daf505	comment	Parental Bonus: The non-fiction book Too Big to Fail (about the current global economic crisis) is referenced in one scene. The film's producers seem to be in love with referencing topical news events (see Despicable Me).
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The Lorax / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
The Lorax / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: The Once-ler is made far more sympathetic. In the animated special, he's not outright bad, but he is ignorant, careless, and greedy. In the film, he's really only cutting down trees by pressure from his family who aren't sympathetic in the least, until the "How Bad Can I Be" number, where he becomes much less likable. The film's other main antagonist, however, is on-par with a Captain Planet villain. Thus we have Once-ler (Gray) and O'Hare (Black).
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The Lorax / int_887d6d58	type	Hipster
The Lorax / int_887d6d58	comment	Hipster: The Once-ler, in this incarnation.
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The Lorax / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
The Lorax / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: The Once-ler, as in the original book. Of course, he's more sympathetic here.
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The Lorax / int_8abec76d	type	Even the Dog Is Ashamed
The Lorax / int_8abec76d	comment	Even the Dog Is Ashamed: Melvin, the Once-ler's mule who has been with him since they arrived in the forest, walks away from him along with the forest critters in their exile and refuses to return to the Once-ler because of his actions. As an additional Gut Punch, Pipsqueak, the Bar-ba-loot who the Once-ler befriended with marshmallows, sadly refuses to return to him.
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The Lorax / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
The Lorax / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: The Once-ler undergoes a jarring change in temperament (as part of a Face–Heel Turn in a Descent into Darkness Song) when his Thneed business becomes a success, turning from a mostly good-natured guy into a greedy, arrogant Corrupt Corporate Executive, carelessly abusing and exploiting the forest creatures he'd previously befriended.
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The Lorax / int_8d189cee	type	Nothing Can Stop Us Now!
The Lorax / int_8d189cee	comment	Nothing Can Stop Us Now!: The Once-ler tells the Lorax that nothing will stop him from chopping down truffula trees to make more thneeds. Cue the very last tree falling...
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The Lorax / int_8f04c3f	type	Photo Op with the Dog
The Lorax / int_8f04c3f	comment	Photo Op with the Dog: Literally, as part of "How Bad Can I Be?"
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The Lorax / int_9053903	type	Ignored Epiphany
The Lorax / int_9053903	comment	Ignored Epiphany: O'Hare's portion of "Let it Grow":
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The Lorax / int_9335ac5d	type	Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold
The Lorax / int_9335ac5d	comment	Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: The elderly Once-Ler.
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The Lorax / int_946a1600	type	Not Good with People
The Lorax / int_946a1600	comment	Not Good with People: The Once-ler ironically seems to be more comfortable around the animals than other people.
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The Lorax / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Lorax / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: O'Hare in Ted's story. The Once-ler in his own story.
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The Lorax / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
The Lorax / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: The Once-ler's mother pins all the blame for the Thneed business failing on him.
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The Lorax / int_9a6fbae7	type	Hurt Foot Hop
The Lorax / int_9a6fbae7	comment	Hurt Foot Hop: This happens to the Lorax on a DVD special feature that lets viewers watch the characters playing with things from the Once-ler's cart. If the viewer selects the cart to get more items, then the Lorax kicks it to make the items appear, then hops off the screen, clutching his foot in agony. This is a reference to the 1972 TV special, in which the same thing happens to the Lorax when he kicks the Once-ler's Super Axe Hacker, which "whacks off four Truffula trees in one smacker!"
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The Lorax / int_9de7a5d0	type	Fix Fic
The Lorax / int_9de7a5d0	comment	Fix Fic: The amount of time devoted to things that weren't part of the source material, the way a large portion of the original story was abridged into a single song sequence, and the fully resolved happy ending in place of a thought-provoking question-mark ending make it like one to an extent.
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The Lorax / int_9df812ad	type	Tiny Guy, Huge Girl
The Lorax / int_9df812ad	comment	Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Ted and Audrey. Justified since he's twelve and she's in high school. (Incidentally, Taylor Swift really is taller than Zac Efron, though not to quite the same extent.)
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The Lorax / int_9e1e14ea	type	Ambition Is Evil
The Lorax / int_9e1e14ea	comment	Ambition Is Evil: The Once-ler is ambitious from the start, but success leads to his desire for more and more until he becomes corrupted by it.
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The Lorax / int_9e8e5e8f	type	Acting Out a Daydream
The Lorax / int_9e8e5e8f	comment	Acting Out a Daydream: When Ted imagines himself kissing Audrey, he actually kisses the cereal box. Ms. Wiggins implies that this has happened before.
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The Lorax / int_9f00986d	type	Gut Punch
The Lorax / int_9f00986d	comment	As an additional Gut Punch, Pipsqueak, the Bar-ba-loot who the Once-ler befriended with marshmallows, sadly refuses to return to him.
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The Lorax / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Lorax / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: As in the original book, the Once-ler once he sees the deforestation. The effect is added when he realizes he's losing all of the friends he made. O'Hare pretends he's remorseful over how he's monopolized air and made his town such a thinly-veiled polluted crapsack. He then tries to get the crowd to let the Truffula die. It only makes the town want to plant the tree more.
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The Lorax / int_a2e84479	type	Slowly Slipping Into Evil
The Lorax / int_a2e84479	comment	Slowly Slipping Into Evil: The entire theme of the How Bad Can I Be? song. Over the course of the song, the Onceler makes more and more compromises to his morals until by the end he no longer has any qualms about destroying the environment and driving his former friends out of their homes.
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The Lorax / int_a3f6fcb0	type	Action Mom
The Lorax / int_a3f6fcb0	comment	Action Mom: Ted's mother during the chase scene.
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The Lorax / int_a48a05c4	type	Rotten Rock & Roll
The Lorax / int_a48a05c4	comment	Rotten Rock & Roll: The Once-ler's Face–Heel Turn is accompanied by the rock song "How Bad Can I Be?"
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The Lorax / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Lorax / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: From the song "How Bad Could I Be" to the Polluted Wasteland resulting from the very actions the song was about.
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The Lorax / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
The Lorax / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: The boy who's listening to the Once-ler's story is given a name (Ted) and an expanded role in the film (searching for the trees in order to impress a girl).
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The Lorax / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
The Lorax / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: The Once-ler spreads his story out and stops in select areas so Ted has to come back another day to hear the rest. It takes three days/visits for him to get the whole story.
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The Lorax / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Lorax / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: The Once-ler's family after manipulating him into despoiling the forest, ruining his business and rejecting him afterward. They leave and are never seen from again.
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The Lorax / int_a9645365	type	Man Hug
The Lorax / int_a9645365	comment	Man Hug: There is a particularly emotional one near the end of the movie between the Lorax and the Once-ler.
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The Lorax / int_aa8d0ef0	type	Spell My Name with a "The"
The Lorax / int_aa8d0ef0	comment	Spell My Name with a "The": "The" Once-ler.
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The Lorax / int_ac781948	type	Cartoon Creature
The Lorax / int_ac781948	comment	Cartoon Creature: All of the inhabitants of the Truffula forest.
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The Lorax / int_accd97de	type	Actionized Adaptation
The Lorax / int_accd97de	comment	Actionized Adaptation: The film adds action scenes that weren't present in either the book or the TV special, like the Lorax and the woodland creatures having to rescue the Once-ler from his bed falling off a waterfall, or Ted having to fight against O'Hare chasing him during the climax.
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The Lorax / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
The Lorax / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: If O'Hare would've kept his mouth shut after he sang the first part of his song during the "Let It Grow" song, he probably would've been allowed to stay as mayor even if his air company went bankrupt.
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The Lorax / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Lorax / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Ted has one just before he's launched up in the air when he rings the Once-ler's doorbell.
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The Lorax / int_ad641426	type	Trademark Favorite Food
The Lorax / int_ad641426	comment	Trademark Favorite Food: The Once-ler loves marshmallows and uses them to win over the forest creatures.
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The Lorax / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Lorax / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Old Once-ler. The younger Once-ler has shades of this.
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The Lorax / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Lorax / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: The Once-ler's mother. First, she derails his dreams, which hurt him for a long time. Then she pressures him into breaking his promise for the Lorax. Finally, when his business ultimately fails, she throws him away like garbage.
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The Lorax / int_b2cb7993	type	Brains and Brawn
The Lorax / int_b2cb7993	comment	Brains and Brawn: Once-ler's brothers are a threat because they can't tell a difference between a bear and a football. Once-ler's mother is a threat because she can.
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The Lorax / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Lorax / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: "How Bad Can I Be?" is a musical one against every popular modern excuse for corporate excesses you can think of. O'Hare's bottled air business is an obvious jab at the bottled water business. The advertisement proposed to O'Hare, on the other hand, looks like a jab at beer commercials.
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The Lorax / int_b5959fa1	type	Hereditary Hairstyle
The Lorax / int_b5959fa1	comment	Hereditary Hairstyle: Ted's mother and Grammy Norma. The only difference between them is color (justified, due to Grammy's age).
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The Lorax / int_b64d389f	type	Invisible Backup Band
The Lorax / int_b64d389f	comment	Invisible Backup Band: Partially averted during the Once-ler's song, "This Is the Place". The music comes from his electric guitar, without an amp. Lampshaded as he asks the animals what happened to his backup when the music comes to a sudden stop.
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The Lorax / int_b7a18b59	type	Opening Chorus
The Lorax / int_b7a18b59	comment	Opening Chorus: "Thneedville"
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The Lorax / int_b808f0b3	type	Scarily Specific Story
The Lorax / int_b808f0b3	comment	Scarily Specific Story: The Once-ler is mad at Ted Wiggins for interrupting his story of the past, so he tries to intimidate him by claiming that the story will soon feature a musical number about "the kid who kept interrupting the story and was never heard from again".
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The Lorax / int_b88eda46	type	Conspicuous Gloves
The Lorax / int_b88eda46	comment	Conspicuous Gloves: The Once-ler dons elbow-length green gloves from the moment his business takes off to the end of the movie, as a Shout-Out to the original character.
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The Lorax / int_b8e38fc5	type	Metaphorically True
The Lorax / int_b8e38fc5	comment	Metaphorically True: The Once-ler promises the Lorax he won't cut down any more trees. And he doesn't. He gets others to do it for him.
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The Lorax / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
The Lorax / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: The title character. He is more or less a supporting character in the second act of the story, never appears in the main story (except at the end) and his story (the main story of the book) takes a back seat to the story of Author Avatars Ted and Audrey.
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The Lorax / int_b9922ce5	type	Literal Ass-Kicking
The Lorax / int_b9922ce5	comment	Literal Ass-Kicking:
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The Lorax / int_ba32d232	type	Busby Berkeley Number
The Lorax / int_ba32d232	comment	Busby Berkeley Number: The opening "Thneedville" song.
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The Lorax / int_bbf4027d	type	Unscientific Science
The Lorax / int_bbf4027d	comment	Unscientific Science: Whereas the book shows the devastation and pollution the Once-ler has wrought on the land (which is bad enough), the film adaption keeps emphasizing the very air everyone breathes as being affected. It becomes its own plot-arc with O'Hare. Trees are carbon neutral, as in, they release as much oxygen during the day as they absorb during the night. Deforestation presents us with all kinds of problems - soil erosion, landslides, loss of habitat, loss of wildlife etc, but it doesn't affect our air quality.
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The Lorax / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
The Lorax / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: Young Once-ler after his Face–Heel Turn. Bonus points for having a Knight Templar Song while Affably Evil and appearing as an Eldritch Abomination to the animals and the Lorax at the song's end during the Disney Acid Sequence.
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The Lorax / int_bcba27a1	type	Putting on the Reich
The Lorax / int_bcba27a1	comment	Putting on the Reich: During "How Bad Can I Be?", the Once-ler's Family marches as an army behind him, swinging their hatchets like in a rifle drill.
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The Lorax / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
The Lorax / int_bd4264a3	comment	Slasher Smile: Once-ler gives one at the very end of "How Bad Can I Be?"
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The Lorax / int_bda474d2	type	Last Note Nightmare
The Lorax / int_bda474d2	comment	Last Note Nightmare: HOW BAD CAN THIS POSSIBLY BEEEEEEEE?!?! And the cut song, "Biggering". I DON'T WANNA HEAR YOUR CRYING!!!
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The Lorax / int_c1a545d0	type	Defacement Insult
The Lorax / int_c1a545d0	comment	Defacement Insult: O'Hare gets back at Ted for defying his order not to go back outside Thneedville (and possibly bringing back trees) by painting over Audrey's tree mural with gray paint and writing "Courtesy of O'Hare, Inc." where it once was.
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The Lorax / int_c1d1d6ad	type	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?
The Lorax / int_c1d1d6ad	comment	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Subverted. At first glance, "Once-ler" appears to be his actual name. His mom calls him "Once-y." His brothers, on the other hand, are named Brett and Chet, which proves that there ARE normal names... but then, it would seem his real name is Wuncler. The only time we actually see his name written is during "How Bad Can I Be?", and Once-ler seems like a nickname that stuck.
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The Lorax / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
The Lorax / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": O'Hare yells "No!" when the residents of Thneedville banish him with a rocket helmet as comeuppance for his greed.
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The Lorax / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Lorax / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Although it's subverted by the Foregone Conclusion, in the past, the Once-ler nearly gives up on his Thneeds before he manages to sell one, and later is willing to honor his promise to stop cutting down Truffula Trees before his mother gets greedy and manipulates him into it.
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The Lorax / int_c4c4004a	type	Treachery Cover-Up
The Lorax / int_c4c4004a	comment	Treachery Cover Up: The greenery you see in the town? It's plastic to cover up the environmental destruction.
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The Lorax / int_c691d3f4	type	Offscreen Teleportation
The Lorax / int_c691d3f4	comment	Offscreen Teleportation: After the Once-ler tells the Lorax that he's not going anywhere, he walks into his house and shuts the door only to discover the Lorax standing there.
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The Lorax / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Lorax / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: One plot point regards a salesman selling canned air, in actual soda cans. Thneed-Ville is a lot like the Village in The Prisoner. The trees on the ski course are from Lego sets. The Humming Fish hum the Mission: Impossible theme when the Lorax and the Barbaloots carry Once-ler's bed to the river. Audrey's design is reminiscent of Pontoffel Pock of Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You?/And his Magic Piano. Ted has a Minion keychain in a desk drawer. A guy tries to impress a sweet-natured young woman named Audrey by growing a fantastic plant? Why does that sound familiar? The queue of people waiting to pelt the Onceler seems familiar. The Onceler's Fat Bitch aunt being named Grizelda could be a reference to The Monkees song "Your Auntie Grizelda".
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The Lorax / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
The Lorax / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: The Once-ler had a dreary childhood and parents who thought he would never amount to anything; thus his determination to prove himself, even at the expense of the forest.
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The Lorax / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Lorax / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: None of the forest creatures are referenced by name during the course of the movie, though the movie's official site seems to give some of the creatures names. In one of the cut songs included on the Soundtrack, "This Is the Place", they're all named and introduced by the Once-ler one at a time as he tries to find material for his Thneed.
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The Lorax / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
The Lorax / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: O'Hare is the standard type, while the Once-ler at his worst is more self-deluded about himself than anything else.
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The Lorax / int_cdd0cc3a	type	Earth Song
The Lorax / int_cdd0cc3a	comment	Earth Song: The movie's climax ends with a song where the entirety of Thneedville agree to let the truffela tree seed grow in the song "Let It Grow."
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The Lorax / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
The Lorax / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: The Once-ler was changed from a blatant greedy villain to a naive and sympathetic anti-hero. The musical numbers and expanded plot distract from the original main plot of The Once-ler destroying the environment. The original book ended on a dark and pessimistic tone. In the original book, it was uncertain whether or not The Lorax would return, the forest of Truffula trees would regrow, and The Once-ler's destruction would be reversed. Meanwhile, the film decided to go straight for a happy ending.
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The Lorax / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
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The Lorax / int_d080f396	type	The Napoleon
The Lorax / int_d080f396	comment	The Napoleon: O'Hare is bout three times shorter than Ted and very grumpy.
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The Lorax / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
The Lorax / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: After the Once-ler's entire business goes under, a young O'Hare is working on cleaning the area. His co-worker looks at the old advertisement board for Thneeds and sarcastically wonders what the next big idea is going to be. He then coughs due to the horrible air quality, which gives O'Hare an idea to create an air business.
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The Lorax / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
The Lorax / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Ted's grandmother.
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The Lorax / int_d3beb0de	type	Precocious Crush
The Lorax / int_d3beb0de	comment	Precocious Crush: 12-year-old Ted's crush for high school girl Audrey.
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The Lorax / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
The Lorax / int_d52d28b6	comment	That’s not even getting into the insane amounts of merchandise it received (for an anti-industrial environmental film), much of which uses a ton of plastic. And the ad for Mazda cars.
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The Lorax / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
The Lorax / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: The Once-ler and the Lorax. When the Thneed fails, they become genuine Heterosexual Life-Partners... until the masses come clamoring for Thneeds and even then, he tries to listen to the Lorax and keep his promise, until Mom points out that production is slow thanks to picking the truffs from the trees... then it all goes downhill from there.
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The Lorax / int_d9563969	type	Failed Attempt at Drama
The Lorax / int_d9563969	comment	Failed Attempt at Drama: The Lorax is in the Once-ler's room to deliver a dramatic warning. He does this and attempts to open the door and walk out... only to be unable to reach the door handle. The Once-ler helps him, and the Lorax tries warning him again.
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The Lorax / int_d96e8b29	type	Rock Opera
The Lorax / int_d96e8b29	comment	Among the soundtrack's cut songs, "Biggering", a darker Rock Opera-esque song that was eventually replaced by "How Bad Can I Be?"
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The Lorax / int_dbfd6b8	type	Lyrical Dissonance
The Lorax / int_dbfd6b8	comment	Lyrical Dissonance: The entire "Thneedville" number is a bouncy and upbeat song about how there is absolutely nothing natural or organic about the city, and their blissful ignorance regarding what happens to the waste. The "How Bad Can I Be?" song segment shows obviously unpleasant and horrid things happen to the environment and those that live within it while the lyrics constantly try to convince us that it's all for the greater good and is completely understandable.
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The Lorax / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
The Lorax / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: "Well that's it... The very last one."
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The Lorax / int_dec54a8c	type	Avoid the Dreaded G Rating
The Lorax / int_dec54a8c	comment	Avoid the Dreaded G Rating: O'Hare drops a "damn it" to express his frustration during the climax. Given how out-of-tone it is with the rest of the movie and that just an annoyed look would have sufficed there, it seems quite obvious this is why they put it in.
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The Lorax / int_def7c6ec	type	Artificial Outdoors Display
The Lorax / int_def7c6ec	comment	Artificial Outdoors Display: Thneedville run by O'Hare looks lush and clean... but then you see that the "trees" are all fakes, the "grass-filled ground" conceals actual soil beneath it, O'Hare is selling air to the citizens, and most of all, the bright blue sky is just a painting on a giant wall. Which Ted, the hero of the story, later breaks, to reveal to the other citizens the real world out there: a desolate ground with gray cloudy sky with no signs of life in sight.
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The Lorax / int_e0040f41	type	Start of Darkness
The Lorax / int_e0040f41	comment	Start of Darkness: The song "How Bad Can I Be" demonstrates Once-ler's Face–Heel Turn as he justifies his actions to himself.
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The Lorax / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
The Lorax / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Although not immediately obvious, Ted's mom becomes this in the climax. In the presence of Mr. O'Hair, the woman is practically trembling and clearly wants to make a good impression. The moment she sees him threatening her son, she insults the guy to his face and demands he leave.
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The Lorax / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
The Lorax / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: In the song "Biggering" The Lorax gives Greed itself one of these describing it as a small pet that when fed will only get hungrier because the little pet known as "Greed" has a parasitic worm inside that itself is always demanding more food but can never be full no matter what, the worms name? Pride
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The Lorax / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
The Lorax / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: The Once-ler, due to his feminine behaviors and interests.
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The Lorax / int_e39affdb	type	Evil Makeover
The Lorax / int_e39affdb	comment	Evil Makeover: The Once-ler gets this treatment during the "How Bad Can I Be?" number.
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The Lorax / int_e3c70df1	type	Mister Big
The Lorax / int_e3c70df1	comment	Mister Big: O'Hare.
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The Lorax / int_e4d079c1	type	Greek Chorus
The Lorax / int_e4d079c1	comment	Greek Chorus: The Humming Fish occasionally show this in the Once-ler's flashbacks, at one point, they start resembling the mice from Babe.
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The Lorax / int_e5421161	type	Expy
The Lorax / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Aloysius O'Hare is pretty much identical to Lord Farquaad in both height and haircut, but as a Corrupt Corporate Executive instead of a medieval noble.
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The Lorax / int_e62dfb96	type	No Endor Holocaust
The Lorax / int_e62dfb96	comment	No Endor Holocaust: The movie implies that with the planting of the last remaining truffula tree seed, all is (eventually) made right again. However, in the long-term, the trees would probably go extinct anyway. Much like trying to rebuild the human race with only one man and one woman, trying to rebuild a forest with only a single tree would probably fail due to the available gene pool being too small to build a large population from.
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The Lorax / int_e88d37c3	type	Too Unhappy to Be Hungry
The Lorax / int_e88d37c3	comment	Too Unhappy to Be Hungry: The Once-ler tries to cheer up Pipsqueak with a marshmallow after he's sad about being forced to leave home. Pipsqueak rejects it.
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The Lorax / int_eac7bacb	type	Gratuitous Disco Sequence
The Lorax / int_eac7bacb	comment	Gratuitous Disco Sequence: The Oak-a-matic has four settings: summer, fall, winter, and disco!
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The Lorax / int_ec1a9500	type	Paying for Air
The Lorax / int_ec1a9500	comment	Paying for Air: In the city of Thneedville, inhabitants have to buy air in bottles due to the lack of trees, until they come back and Aloysius O'Hare is overthrown near the end.
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The Lorax / int_ece6f910	type	Moment Killer
The Lorax / int_ece6f910	comment	Moment Killer: Ted and Audrey nearly kiss, but Ted's mother yells, "We don't have time for that!"
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The Lorax / int_eda30d58	type	0% Approval Rating
The Lorax / int_eda30d58	comment	0% Approval Rating: O'Hare, the Ultimate Authority Mayor, due to his company running everything, gets this near the end of the movie when Ted reveals the corrupt nature of both his business and character. Even his goons turn on him.
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The Lorax / int_ee9bf817	type	Sanity Slippage Song
The Lorax / int_ee9bf817	comment	Sanity Slippage Song: The Cut Song "Once-ler's Traveling Madness" is one of these.
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The Lorax / int_f16f631d	type	Crowd Song
The Lorax / int_f16f631d	comment	Crowd Song: "Let It Grow", "Everybody Needs a Thneed" and "Thneedville".
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The Lorax / int_f1dcfb69	type	Unconventional Food Usage
The Lorax / int_f1dcfb69	comment	Unconventional Food Usage: Grammy Norma bounces her jello around on her plate, causing her daughter Mrs. Wiggins to scold her for playing with her food.
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The Lorax / int_f234ed63	type	Food Coma
The Lorax / int_f234ed63	comment	Food Coma: Some bar-ba-loots and the Lorax himself are seen looking groggy after eating nine servings of pancakes.
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The Lorax / int_f27ec906	type	Identical Stranger
The Lorax / int_f27ec906	comment	Some people had to think that Ted was going to meet the Lorax even though he never did. The fact that the young version of the Once-ler looked strangely like him doesn't help.
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The Lorax / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
The Lorax / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: The Once-ler. At the end, when he helps an attempt to regrow trees, the Lorax returns and tells him "you done good."
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The Lorax / int_f3fd818b	type	Dark Reprise
The Lorax / int_f3fd818b	comment	Dark Reprise: When the Lorax leaves, the beggining of the music sounds like the song sang by the Humming Fish when the Once-ler first arrived to the forest.
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The Lorax / int_f506d08c	type	Broken Masquerade
The Lorax / int_f506d08c	comment	Broken Masquerade: Ted discovers the world outside of Thneedville, and O'Hare and his minions stop at nothing to re-conceal it.
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The Lorax / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
The Lorax / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Thankfully avoided in the movie itself, but some of the crossmarketing hasn't been without controversy.
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The Lorax / int_f5289c99	type	Shaking the Rump
The Lorax / int_f5289c99	comment	Shaking the Rump: Mostly from the Once-ler, who bends over to shake it at the viewers quite a few times. And also Ted's mom when disco dancing; she wiggles her butt directly at her son.
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The Lorax / int_f97b5d33	type	Shoo Out the Clowns
The Lorax / int_f97b5d33	comment	Shoo Out the Clowns: The three Humming Fish disappear when it's time to be serious.
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The Lorax / int_fc45bac0	type	Wouldn't Hit a Girl
The Lorax / int_fc45bac0	comment	Wouldn't Hit a Girl / Lady Looks Like a Dude: The title character is about to open a can of fury on a relative of The Once-ler's, who objects saying:
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The Lorax / int_fd1f1a63	type	Ridiculously Cute Critter
The Lorax / int_fd1f1a63	comment	Ridiculously Cute Critter: Many of the animals in Truffula Valley. Mostly Pipsqueak.
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The Lorax / int_ff16efbf	type	Heroes Want Redheads
The Lorax / int_ff16efbf	comment	Heroes Want Redheads: Ted falls for redheaded beauty Audrey (who's older than him by a few years, mind you) and decides to find out about the fate of the trees for her sake.
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The Lorax / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
The Lorax / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Exploited. Made worse by the fact that he had a legitimate Pet the Dog moment earlier with the very same animal. After promising to never cut down trees again, (until his family manipulates him into doing so again) he switches to just picking small tufts off of the trees and makes about 9 courses of pancakes for the wildlife. On a subsequent visit, Ted brings the Once-ler a bag of marshmallows, much to his delight.
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