Awesome / Elf

• Buddy making an incredible Christmas display at Gimbel's. It was so complicated for the filmmakers to assemble that they could only film one take of the Mall Santa destroying it.
  • There's a Fridge moment here too: as much as Buddy doesn't fit in either world, he's the only elf who can hang decorations from the ceilings without using a ladder. A "real" elf would have had some trouble getting the decorations up.
• The snowball fight, where Buddy pretty much becomes a proverbial snowball gatling gun because of his time spent at the North Pole (a large pile of snowballs in one arm while his other hand is rapid-fire throwing the snowballs), winning the fight in his and Michael's favor. Clearly, while he never had the energy of a true elf, he picked up something while living there and likely engaging in several snowball fights against his fellow elves for fun. And to top it off, he used the one snowball Michael made to snipe a boy that was fleeing from the fight.
  Michael: Wow... Where did you say you were from?
• Buddy's elf dancing in the mailroom. Doubly awesome since it won over everyone working there.
• Christmas cheer saving the day, and it is Walter's singing that helps Santa's sleigh fly, punctuated by the awesome shot of the sleigh flying over his head at he hits that last note.
  • It's small, but Michael's dead serious utterance of "Dad...!" when he scolds his father for not actually singing.
• Walter and his son making a stand to Greenway, who is threatening to fire the former if he walks out of the meeting room to find Buddy:
  Walter: Well...up yours.
  Michael: Yeah, up yours!
  • And then Walter scolds him for cursing.
  • And just as well, Michael's the one who convinced his father to stop being so selfish by bringing up that his other son cares about everybody while Walter himself has been a self-centered workaholic.
• Miles Finch beating the crap out of Buddy after he keeps calling him an elf. It just goes to show that no matter what he’s in, you don’t mess with Tyrion Lannister.
  • It's not just a beatdown. Finch opens with a dropkick, then transitions to a judo flip, and from there into a chokehold. Those are not moves that any asshole could pull off; the guy clearly trains in martial arts.

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