491: The Yellow Ones Don't Stop

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Get out your flask of maple syrup, warm up your Lite Brites and Etch-A-Sketches, and check the Clausometer, because it’s time to tell the story of Buddy the Elf. It’s 2003’s “Elf”, the modern Christmas classic starring Will Ferrell. What are the theological implications of the seven levels of the candy cane forest? Why so many “Lord of the Rings” references? How can James Caan and everyone else at the publishing company be so bad at their jobs? Wait a second… this isn’t maple syrup!

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0:00.0	The incomparable number 491, December 2019.
0:09.0	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:12.0	I'm your host, Jason Snell, and it's the holiday season,
0:16.0	and I'd like to tell you a little story once upon a time at the North Pole.
0:19.0	Santa was there, and there were a lot
0:21.0	of elves, and one of them was Bob Newhart. Santa was Ed Asner, by the way. But there was a little,
0:25.7	there was a little surprise in a, in Santa's bag. And it was, it was Will Farrell. But he was small then,
0:32.3	but then he got bigger. Yes, we're going to talk about Elf from 2003. Are you sure?
0:37.8	Because you could have just described like seven different movies.
0:40.7	And there was stop motion animation of a snowman.
0:44.6	Oh, now it's 30 movies.
0:45.8	Yeah.
0:46.3	Uh-huh.
0:47.3	But this one in particular has Bob Newhart and Will Farrell and of course Ed Asner as Santa Claus the most perfect casting of all time.
0:57.4	So, Elf, Elf is it.
0:59.4	We're going to talk about Elf.
1:00.3	It's a modern Christmas movie classic.
1:02.2	I love it and I want to talk about it here in the holiday season.
1:06.2	Our continuing saga of trying to come up with something to talk about during the holidays
1:10.3	before Star Wars movies are
1:11.9	released. You know, it's a challenge. So let me, let me introduce the people who are going to talk
1:17.1	about Elf with me. Annette Weirstra is here. Hello. Hello, I am here with a nice warm cup of
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