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The Happy Elf
Directed by John Rice
Produced by Scott D. Greenberg
Sidney Clifton
IDT Entertainment
HC Productions
Written by Andrew Fishman
Scott Landis
Starring Rob Paulsen
Harry Connick, Jr.
Carol Kane
Mickey Rooney
Kevin Michael Richardson
Mae Whitman
Lewis Black
Distributed by IDT Entertainment
Release date(s) TV December 2,
DVD December 6, 2005
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Language English
Budget $53,000,000
IMDb profile

The Happy Elf is a 3D-animated family holiday special, which first aired December 2, 2005 on the NBC television network in the USA. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Based on Grammy-winner Harry Connick, Jr.’s original song, The Happy Elf. Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Jr (born September 11, 1967) is an American singer, Pianist, Composer, Actor, "The Happy Elf" is a holiday song with music and lyrics by Harry Connick Jr.

Production on the special is by Film Roman, an IDT Entertainment company, the same animation company known for producing The Simpsons. Film Roman is an animation studio founded by Phil Roman, best known for producing the animation for the television shows The Simpsons and Starz Media (formerly IDT Entertainment) is the Motion picture, Animation, Television, and Home video division of Starz

Contents

Plot

The story centers on the lovable character Eubie the Elf, whose quest is to bring Christmas joy to an entire town of naughty children in a gloomy little town called Bluesville.

Bluesvill is a dark miserable town completely surrounded by cliffs on all sides, completely blocking the sun so that it only shines on Bluesville for a short time, when it's directly over the town. Because the town is so dark and gloomy, people never smile, and are put off by seeing Eubie smiling all the time, as his optimistic happiness makes him stick out in the gloomy town. Because people are so miserable in Bluesville, nobody knows how to tell a joke properly. Most of the people work at a place known as "The What Factory", where all the world's question marks are manufactured (this has resulted in confusion when people ask each other where they work). The question mark (? also known as an interrogation point, question point, query, or eroteme, is a punctuation mark that replaces Also, at the school in Bluesville, recess only lasts for one minute (the bell that signals recess' end rings the moment all the children are outside).

Eubie talks to the mayor about what is wrong with Bluesville, he explains everything in a song. Eubie asks the mayor if there's anything about Bluesvill that makes him feel proud, to which the mayor replies that Bluesvill is the world's largest manufacturer of non-flammable coal, which children enjoy throwing at people. The mayor then makes a deal with Eubie. The mayor promises Eubie that if he can find another use for non-flammable coal, he'll put a Christmas tree up in the town square. A Christmas tree, Yule tree, holiday tree or Tannenbaum (fir tree is one of the most popular Traditions associated with the celebration Public square and city square redirect here For Public Square Cleveland see Public Square and for City Square in Leeds see Leeds City Square.

Eubie's first plan on getting the kids to help him make Bluesville a happier place is having them gather on a busy street and start a pie fight, but that only makes all the people angry. To search for more help, Molly (Mae Whitman) takes Eubie to downtown Bluesville, the most miserable part of Bluesville, for a meeting of a group called S. Mae Margaret Whitman (born June 9, 1988) is an American Television, Movie and voice actress. Downtown is a term primarily used in North America to refer to a city's core usually in a geographical commercial and community sense L. O. B. (Smile League Of Bluesville), which only has one member of its group. While there, Molly and Eubie meets up with Curtis (Candi Milo), who is there because he brought along his foreign friend Yope, who doesn't speak English, but is happy to be there. Candi Milo (born January 21, 1966) is an American voice actress and Singer. Molly soon decides that Eubie's plans are hopeless, and tells him to just take all his big ideas home. At the mention of that, Eubie gets another idea, and is about to implement it when the lights in the room go off and Eubie is taken back to the North Pole.

In his bid to get Bluesville off the Naughty List, Eubie violated several rules in one day. As punishment, Santa had Eubie turn in his hat, which, at the North Pole, meant his Christmas happiness and powers were taken away. When Gilda, Eubie's friend, learns of this, she motivates him to go back to Bluesville to finish his job, and gives him her hat to restore his powers and happiness. He then returns to Bluesville and explains to the kids his plan, and why they should do it in the form of a song, they get to work. That night, they give the mayor of Bluesville a bottle of anti-snore medicine in his sleep, while Eubie spends the night waxing all the cliffs surrounding Bluesville. While he is doing this, Derek, another friend of his, notices Gilda doesn't have her hat on, he soon figures out what is going on and, trying to follow the North Pole rules, he notifies one of the higher-ups.

When Eubie has finished waxing the cliffsides of Bluesville, he says to himself that he has one thing left to do, but before he can do that, the same elves who took him back to the North Pole the first time come back to retrieve him again. This time, both are put on punishment and are sentenced to clean up the toy factory, with both their hats taken away. Derek, now alone at the Christmas office party, is sad and mad with himself for betraying his friends, and confesses to what he did to Eubie and Gilda. They forgive him, but it only makes him feel worse about himself, considering what he did to them. While wondering what he can do to make it up to them, they have him do the one thing Eubie intended to do to finish making Bluesville a happier place.

When the sun shines over Bluesville again, people once again expect it to only last it usual four seconds, but after it disappears over the cliffsides again, leaving the people disappointed at not having the sun shine on them longer, the sun reflects of the freshly-waxed walls, filling the whole town of Bluesville experience more sun than it's ever had before, making them feel happier than they had ever been in their lives. At the What Factory, the machien had been tampered with, so rather than grey question marks, the machine now produced different-coloured exclamation points of all shapes and sizes, which pleasantly surprises the factory workers. At the school, when recess starts, the bell has an elve's shoe placed over the ringer, blocking it from ringing the bell, which makes the kids ecstatic that they can continue playing. Molly comes out of the school, where Derek meets her. He tells her to find the mayor and give him a jar of wax, and a piece of non-flammable cole that was squeezed into a diamond (implying that Eubie stuck the non-flammable coal squeezed into diamonds to the waxed cliffsides), and to tell her that Eubie was sorry he couldn't be there. In Mineralogy, diamond is the allotrope of carbon where the carbon atoms are arranged in Molly happily goes to leave the schoolyard to find the mayor, but stays for a while to allow Curtis to tell a story that's actually funny. Molly finds the mayor and shows him the items in question, showing the mayor that there was indeed another use for non-flammable coal, and the mayor makes good on his word, putting up a Christmas Tree in the town square.

That Christmas, Santa decides to make Eubie, Gilda, and Derek his sleigh crew that year for bringing joy to Bluesville, which has soon changed its name to Joyville.

Settings

Eubie the Elf is one of Santa's helpers, and part of the plot takes place at the North Pole, other parts of the plot takes place where Eubie sets out to bring Christmas joy, in a town called Bluesville. Santa Claus, also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, or simply " Santa " is the The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is subject to the caveats explained below defined as the point in the northern A town is a type of settlement ranging from a few to several thousand (occasionally hundreds of thousands inhabitants although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan

Bluesvill is a dark miserable town completely surrounded by cliffs on all sides, completely blocking the sun so that it only shines on Bluesville for a short time, when it's directly over the town. Because the town is so dark and gloomy, people never smile, and are put off by seeing Eubie smiling all the time, as his optimistic happiness makes him stick out in the gloomy town. Because people are so miserable in Bluesville, nobody knows how to tell a joke properly. Most of the people work at a place known as "The What Factory", where all the world's question marks are manufactured (this has resulted in confusion when people ask each other where they work). The question mark (? also known as an interrogation point, question point, query, or eroteme, is a punctuation mark that replaces Also, at the school in Bluesville, recess only lasts for one minute (the bell that signals recess' end rings the moment all the children are outside).

Eubie talks to the mayor about what is wrong with Bluesville, he explains everything in a song. Eubie asks the mayor if there's anything about Bluesvill that makes him feel proud, to which the mayor replies that Bluesvill is the world's largest manufacturer of non-flammable coal, which children enjoy throwing at people. The mayor then makes a deal with Eubie. The mayor promises Eubie that if he can find another use for non-flammable coal, he'll put a Christmas tree up in the town square. A Christmas tree, Yule tree, holiday tree or Tannenbaum (fir tree is one of the most popular Traditions associated with the celebration Public square and city square redirect here For Public Square Cleveland see Public Square and for City Square in Leeds see Leeds City Square.

Characters

The following are the characters in the show:

** Characters who are hearing or telling the story about Eubie

Cast

Quotes

Lil Farley: There was very little laughter in Bluesville, either. This article is about the voice actor Rob Paulsen For the Fight Club character Robert Paulson see Fight Club. Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Jr (born September 11, 1967) is an American singer, Pianist, Composer, Actor, Carolyn Laurie Kane (born June 18 1952) is an Emmy Award -winning and Oscar -nominated American actress, known for her work Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule Jr; September 23, 1920) is an American Film Actor and Entertainer whose Kevin Michael Richardson ( October 25, 1964) is an American voice actor and Actor, one of the most prominent voice actors in the field Mae Margaret Whitman (born June 9, 1988) is an American Television, Movie and voice actress. Lewis Niles Black (born August 30 1948) is a Grammy Award -winning American stand-up comedian, Author, Playwright Candi Milo (born January 21, 1966) is an American voice actress and Singer. Liliana Berry Davis Mumy (born April 16, 1994) is an American child actress and voice talent. It was so dark and depressing that people who lived there didn't know how to tell a joke.
Curtis: When is a cup of milk like a ballerina?
Man 1: I don't know
Curtis: Tuesday.
Eubie: I thought I made the sleigh team.
Norbert: As usual, what you think and reality have nothing to do with one another.

Various information

Soundtrack

The Happy Elf Soundtrack
The Happy Elf Soundtrack

Some DVDs come with a free soundtrack

  1. "The Happy Elf" - 03:43 - vocal track, sung by Harry Connick, Jr.
  2. "Smile on Christmas Day" - 01:00 - vocal track, sung by Rob Paulsen
  3. "Bluesville" - 01:34 - vocal track, sung by Kevin Michael Richardson
  4. "Lil' Farley's 'Happy Elf'" - 00:22
  5. "Old Santa Claus" - 02:25
  6. "Eubie and Friends Pole Adventure" - 00:43
  7. "Gingerbread House Test" - 00:46
  8. "Eubie's Toy Car Test" - 00:36
  9. "Coffee Shop Theme" - 00:56
  10. "Department of Naughty and Nice" - 01:18
  11. "Norbert's Orders" - 00:33
  12. "Eubie's Naughty & Nice Tally" - 02:15
  13. "Eubie Lands in Bluesville" - 00:59
  14. "Bluesville Street Theme" - 01:31
  15. "Molly and Friends Coal Toss" - 02:09
  16. "Down Town Theme" - 01:05
  17. "S. "The Happy Elf" is a holiday song with music and lyrics by Harry Connick Jr. Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Jr (born September 11, 1967) is an American singer, Pianist, Composer, Actor, This article is about the voice actor Rob Paulsen For the Fight Club character Robert Paulson see Fight Club. Kevin Michael Richardson ( October 25, 1964) is an American voice actor and Actor, one of the most prominent voice actors in the field L. O. B. Meeting" - 01:27
  18. "'Try'" - 01:33
  19. "Molly and Gang's Christmas Mission" - 02:40
  20. "Santa's Elves Wrap Party" - 00:38
  21. "Santa Getting Ready for Xmas" - 00:26
  22. "Mayor Gives the Town a Tree" - 01:03
  23. "'Bluesville' Reprise" - 01:21
  24. "Lil' Farley's 'Happy Elf' Reprise" - 01:05
  25. "'Happy Elf' Wrap" - 00:19

Adaptation

The holiday special has been adapted into a full-length musical. Andrew Fishman has reworked the book for stage, with music and lyrics by Harry Connick Jr. who has added five new songs for the musical, for example "That Magic Hat". Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Jr (born September 11, 1967) is an American singer, Pianist, Composer, Actor, The show premiered at Coterie Theatre at Crown Center in Kansas City, Missouri on November 13, 2007 to generally good reviews. Kansas City Missouri only Items for the metro area Kansas City Kansas or North Kansas City MO should go on their respective pages [1] [2]

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