History Film / TheAdventuresOfElmoInGrouchland

* StudioAudience: Similar in vein with ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'', offscreen childrens' voices would respond to Elmo at some points, such as helping him find where his blanket went, or shouting out his name when trapped in the tunnel. Doubles as FakeInteractivity.

** While Huxley spitefully gloats to Elmo about stealing the latter's blanket, Bug blurts out specifically synthetic details about Elmo's blanket, Huxley asks him if he really knows how to ruin a villainous moment and tells him to get in the cartoonishly evil vehicle and drive.

* BrokenAesop: Elmo has a blanket, and an argument over whether his friend Zoe should play with it leads to it landing in Grouchland and being stolen by a kleptomaniac hoarder named Huxley. At one point, the Queen of Trash says that Elmo's clinginess over his blanket makes him "sound like Huxley", which ties into the anti-greed moral. However, Elmo's and Huxley's behaviours were fundamentally different -- Huxley was taking other people's belongings and saying they were his, while Elmo's blanket really was his.

* FriendshipDenial: Played with, then subverted; Oscar ''almost'' calls Elmo his friend whilst he is imprisoned with the search party looking for Elmo, and even ''Big Bird'' caught what he was going to say at the last minute. Oscar denies it and says that instead he was going to say ''French Fry Fish Hips''. Oscar then admits, at the encouragement of the others, that Elmo ''is'' his friend.

* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Bert first appears in his shower cap.

** Huxley: "Oh how I love to make it MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE!!!"

** Huxley: "Oh how I love to make it MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE!!!!!!!!"

* LargeHam: Huxley gets a whole song about how evil he is, and spends much of his screen time hamming it up.

* AlphabetSong: While everyone is locked up, Big Bird sings this in an attempt to make the best of it and cheer them. The two grouches in his cell obviously did ''not'' like hearing it.

* GrumpyBear: The Grouches, particularly Grizzy, are grouchy but not ''bad''.

''The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland'' (1999) is the second ''Series/SesameStreet'' movie, following ''Film/SesameStreetPresentsFollowThatBird''. This one centers around the lovable red Muppet Elmo.

Elmo loves his furry blue blanket more than almost anything in the world. When Zoe wants to play with it, he refuses, as it's his. They tug, and Elmo's blanket is nearly ripped--and a gust of wind blows it into Oscar's trash can and through a portal to Grouchland.

* BigDamnHeroes: In the movie, Elmo shouts, "STOP!" for Huxley to release Grizzy; Oscar, normally a grouchy Grouch, rallies up the Grouches of Grouchland to fight against Huxley; and Bug does a complete HeelFeaceTurn when he gives Elmo his blanket back.

* BigDamnHeroes: In the movie, Elmo shouts, "STOP!" for Huxley to release Grizzy; Oscar, normally a grouchy Grouch, rallies up the Grouches of Grouchland to fight against Huxley; and Bug does a complete {{HeelFeaceTurn}} when he gives Elmo his blanket back.

* AlphabetSong: While everyone is locked up, Big Bird sings this in an attempt to cheer everyone. The two grouches in his cell obviously did ''not'' like hearing it.