Trivia / The Elves and the Cobbler

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  • Hark! A Vagrant: KISS elves make questionable shoes. They later moved to Santa's workshop where they continued their trend.
  • Crayon Shinchan has one of its many, many Fractured Fairy Tale shorts, with Shin-Chan and friends as the elves. They end the story becoming humans and adopted by the elderly shoemaker, who became a billionaire thanks to the elves.
  • Doraemon: One of Doraemon's many gadget-of-the-week is a mechanical house storing a dozen pint-sized robotic elves, who can perform literally any given task as long as it's user happens to be asleep. Nobita actually lampshades the story by mentioning "that fairytale with the lucky cobbler where helpful elves does everything for him" when his mother Tamako reprimands him for taking a nap before finishing his homework.
  • The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap: The Minish make shoes for a shoemaker named Rem, whose work only gets done in his sleep.
  • Elf: Making shoes while a cobbler sleeps is stated to be one of three jobs that an elf can do. The other two are baking cookies in a tree (a reference to the Keebler elves) and making toys for Santa.

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