The Happy Little Elves
The Happy Little Elves are a fictional childrens program, often resembling a cross between The Smurfs, Snorks, Astrosnik and Care Bears. The characters in the Happy Little Elves are often crudely drawn and aimed at younger children. Spawned several direct-to-video films. Merchandising includes posters, lunchboxes, shirts, dolls, etc. [1]
Contents
Movie and TV show listings
- The Return of the Happy Little Elves (MG37)
- The Happy Little Elves Meet the Curious Bear Cub Some Enchanted Evening (7G01)
- The Happy Little Elves in Tinkly-Winkly Town Saturdays of Thunder (8F07)
- The Happy Little Elves Meet Fuzzy Snuggleduck (Rated R) Homer Alone (8F14)
Cast of Characters
According to Roger Meyers, Jr., the complete character listing for the Happy Little Elves are as follows:
- Moldy – the elder. He has bottle-thick lenses, dark green skin w/ darker green ‘liver spots’ all over, carries a cane
- Bubbles – He has 2 buck teeth, 3-button shirt, cone hat leaning backwards
- Yendor – He has the blue-striped shirt, hat flopped-over backwards
- Doofy – He has a single star on his shirt and a cone-shaped hat leaning forward
- Cheery – The chick with big, blonde hair
- Brainy – He has no hat, big skull, and glasses
- Chilly – (“the elf that cannot love”,) Frowns, seen on the cover of the video in “Enchanted”, hat flops over to the side.
- Gloomy – The self-hating elf
Their co-stars in Elfland include:
- Nosey Bear – the curious cub, who is green, with a smile and a big nose; and, Fuzzy Snuggle Duck – named, not shown; Captain Kook – their resident bad guy, with a Jolly Roger prate hat, snaggle-tooth, eyepatch, and pegleg.
Additionally, in Moe Baby Blues (EABF17), there was a different female Elf on Maggie’s wall, and there was a completely different, bearded elf (possibly “Gloomy”) pictured in the poster for “Return of the Happy Little Elves” in the Tracey Ullman short Scary Movie (MG37).
Episode Appearances
References
Happy little Elves Guide Hill, Dave. The Happy Little Elves Mini-Guide.
