Elf

Elf (2003)

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Buddy: We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns and syrup.

[Buddy sees the mail room for the first time.]
Buddy: It's just like Santa's workshop! Except it smells like mushrooms, and everyone looks like they want to hurt me.

Buddy: You sit on a throne of lies!

Buddy: [explaining cabs.] Watch out for the yellow ones. They don't stop!

Buddy Hobbs: I didn't know you had elves working here!
Miles Finch: You're hilarious, my friend.
Walter Hobbs: He doesn't, uh...Get back to the story, please.
Miles Finch: So, on the cover above the title.
Buddy Hobbs: Does Santa know that you left the workshop?
Miles Finch: You know, we're all laughing our heads off.
Buddy Hobbs: Did you have to borrow a reindeer to get down here?
Walter Hobbs: Buddy. Go back to the basement!
Miles Finch: Hey, Jack-weed! I get more action in a week than you've had in your entire life. I've got houses in LA, Paris and Vale, each one of them with a seventy-inch plasma screen. So I suggest you wipe that stupid smile off your face before I come over there and smack it off! You feeling strong, my friend? Call me elf one more time!
Buddy Hobbs: He's an angry elf!

Buddy: [Answering the phone.] Buddy the Elf, what's your favourite colour?

Emily: We can't just throw him out in the snow.
Walter: Why not? He loves the snow. He's told me 15 times.

Elf Teacher: Now, before we learn how to build the latest in extreme graphic chipset processors, let's recite the code of the elves, shall we?

Buddy: What's your favorite color?

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Visible crew/equipment: In the scene where Buddy and Michael are leaving the school, a crew member is visible in the bottom left of the shot. At first, he is just standing there, but he then tries to hide inside a doorway. (00:52:00)

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Trivia: Originally, the store Buddy and Jovie work in was supposed to be a Macy's. However, Macy's quickly dropped out of the project when they got the script and saw that there was a scene where Buddy confronts a fake mall-Santa in the store for not being the real Santa. Reportedly, Macy's representatives indignantly told the studio that "Macy's Santa is the REAL Santa!"

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Question: Has anyone noticed what looks exactly like a Buddy Elf doll standing on the kitchen counter during the breakfast scene where Buddy is pouring syrup for the mom? If you pause when the camera pulls back to show Buddy pouring syrup and the back of the moms head, you'll see the elf doll on the right side of the scene (our right, Buddy's left) facing away from the camera. It's on the counter directly below the cabinet knobs; behind the back of a chair and in front of what looks like a radio that sits against the counter wall. Ideas? Looks just like a Buddy doll to me.

Answer: It might just be a regular elf doll that, coincidentally, is dressed in real elf clothes.

Answer: This was probably deliberately added to the scene. Movies often add in-jokes like this. I believe it was "HP and the Chamber of Secrets" that while Harry, Ron, and Hermione are in Diagon Alley, the entire Harry Potter book series can be seen on a shelf in the background. In "Raiders of The Lost Ark," there are a little C-3PO and R2D2 carved into the stone hieroglyphs in the Well of Souls. "Jurassic Park" openly displayed JP merchandise, the same merchandise that was sold in stores. Filmmakers love to add little "Easter eggs" like that for audiences to find.

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