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* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: Seen on Elmo as he is trapped in a cave by Huxley's gang.


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* ICantLookGesture: Big Bird covers his eyes just mere moments before Elmo, Telly, and Super Grover crash into each other and land in a heap.
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* 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.
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* SmashCut: While the Sesame Street gang are in Grouchland, Big Bird spots a grouch police and Zoe decides to ask him for help finding Elmo. Which immediately cuts to the gang being thrown in jail.
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* SayMyName: While Elmo is trapped in a tunnel, the offscreen children's audience have to scream his name so he knows they can see him.
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* OldTimeyCinemaCountdown: The film begins with an old film reel. Seeing as the film was based on an EdutainmentShow, Ernie [[FakeInteractivity has the audience count down along with the numbers]].

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* CompanionCube: Elmo loves his blanket so much he talks to it, acts like it's alive, sleeps with it, and refuses to share it.

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Elmo loves his blanket so much he talks to it, acts like it's alive, sleeps with it, and refuses to share it.



* DownerEnding: Discussed in-universe by Bert and Ernie.

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* DownerEnding: Discussed in-universe by Bert and Ernie.Ernie; Ernie is sure audiences wouldn't want to see a movie with a sad ending only for Bert to name several famous examples.



* MacGuffin: Elmo's blanket.

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* MacGuffin: Elmo's blanket.blanket is the main reason he goes on his quest after Zoe rips it, the wind blows it away, and Huxley steals it.



* ToiletHumor: Grizzy's Soggy-Pants Sandy doll's main feature is the ability to wet her pants.

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Grizzy's Soggy-Pants Sandy doll's main feature is the ability to wet her pants.



* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: While we can assume Huxley for his many crimes of theft was sent to the same jail that the Sesame Street gang looking for Elmo went to, it's unknown what happened to the Pesties. They were last seen running away. It is ultimately subverted, however, in the follow-up spin-off, Elmo in Grouchland Sing and Play Along video as the Pesties are revealed to now live in Grouchland in the trash cans.

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: While we can assume Huxley for his many crimes of theft was sent to the same jail that the Sesame Street gang looking for Elmo went to, it's unknown what happened to the Pesties. They were last seen running away. It is ultimately subverted, however, subverted in the follow-up spin-off, Elmo ''Elmo in Grouchland Sing and Play Along video Along'' video, as the Pesties are revealed to now live in Grouchland in the trash cans.
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* CuckooClockGag: Elmo is awakened by a clock that has a little bird come out of it and scream, "WAKE UP!".
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* AscendedExtra: Elmo did appear in ''[[Film/SesameStreetPresentsFollowThatBird Follow That Bird]]'', but it was only in a background cameo during the ending scene. In this film, he's the star and title character.

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* AscendedExtra: Elmo did appear in ''[[Film/SesameStreetPresentsFollowThatBird Follow That Bird]]'', but it was only in a background cameo during the ending scene. In this film, he's the star and title titular character.



** When Ernie says that nobody would want to see a movie with a DownerEnding, Bert namedrops ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'', ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'', and ''Film/DoctorZhivago''.

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** When Ernie says that nobody would want to see a movie with a DownerEnding, Bert namedrops ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'', ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'', and ''Film/DoctorZhivago''. (In the French dub, Bert mentions ''Film/LoveStory'' [[BilingualBonus instead of ''Gone With the Wind'']].)
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* CardCarryingVillain: Huxley revels in being evil and greedy, stealing everything just because he can.

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* CardCarryingVillain: Huxley revels in being evil and greedy, stealing everything just because he can. He's notably the first true ''villain'' ever to appear in a ''Sesame Street'' story.
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* ArtShift / BigBudgetBeefUp: Like the previous film, as opposed to shooting on the TV budget New York set, they opted to build a bigger, more feature-laden set somewhere else (Wilmington, NC) with new elements not seen in the show, including a laundromat, deli and a variety of outdoor vendors. (As a side note, it was also the last time characters and elements from the TV show's 1993 expansion "around the corner" were seen.)

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* ArtShift / BigBudgetBeefUp: Like the previous film, as opposed to shooting on the TV budget New York set, they opted to build a bigger, more feature-laden set somewhere else (Wilmington, NC) with new elements not seen in the show, including a laundromat, deli and a variety of outdoor vendors. (As a side note, it was also the last time characters and elements from the TV show's 1993 expansion "around the corner" were seen.)) There's also a few quick scenes featuring full-bodied muppets with greenscreen removal for the puppeteers.
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* TokenGoodTeammate: Out of all the inhabitants of Grouchland USA, Grizzey, Stuckweed, the fireflies, The Queen of Trash, the caterpillar, [[spoiler:and Bug]] are the nicest sheep you'll meet there.

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* TokenGoodTeammate: Out of all the inhabitants of Grouchland USA, Grizzey, Grizzy, Stuckweed, the fireflies, The Queen of Trash, the caterpillar, [[spoiler:and Bug]] are the nicest sheep you'll meet there.



* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: While we can assume Huxley for his many crimes of theft was sent to the same jail that the Sesame Street gang looking for Elmo went to, it's unknown what happened to the Pesties. They were last seen running away.

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: While we can assume Huxley for his many crimes of theft was sent to the same jail that the Sesame Street gang looking for Elmo went to, it's unknown what happened to the Pesties. They were last seen running away. It is ultimately subverted, however, in the follow-up spin-off, Elmo in Grouchland Sing and Play Along video as the Pesties are revealed to now live in Grouchland in the trash cans.
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** Grizzy also has her Soggy-Pants Sandy doll. She loves it and is first seen in the movie playing with it and singing a song about how her doll wets herself and does the Soggy-Pants dance.


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* IconicItem: Elmo's blanket and Grizzy's Soggy-Pants Sandy doll.


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* JabbaTableManners: The Grouches have terrible manners..., to say the least.


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** The citizens of Grouchland, the Grouches, also burp and fart at inopportune times.
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** There is also the giant chicken, who complains he has gas..., then proceeds to burp and fart at the same time!
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Bug gives a short, direct one to Huxley following his HeelFaceTurn:
-->'''Bug''': You're a greedy selfish villain, and nobody likes to be friends with a greedy selfish villain.

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* DownerEnding: Discussed in-universe by Bert and Ernie.



* HeelFaceTurn: Bug eventually turns good.

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* HeelFaceTurn: Bug eventually turns good. The same applies to the Grouches on a marginal level.


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* HiddenDepths: Oscar brings out the best in the Grocuhes by rallying them to fight back against Huxley.
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* AscendedExtra: Elmo did appear in ''Film/SesameStreetPresentsFollowThatBird'', but it was only in a background cameo during the ending scene. In this film, he's the star and title character.

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* AscendedExtra: Elmo did appear in ''Film/SesameStreetPresentsFollowThatBird'', ''[[Film/SesameStreetPresentsFollowThatBird Follow That Bird]]'', but it was only in a background cameo during the ending scene. In this film, he's the star and title character.
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* AscendedExtra: Elmo did appear in ''Film/SesameStreetPresentsFollowThatBird'', but it was only in a background cameo during the ending scene. In this film, he's the star and title character.
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* JerkassRealization: Elmo has one when the Queen of Trash [[NotSoDifferent compares him to Huxley]]. Just to drive the point home, there's a flashback of Elmo's behavior at the beginning of the movie, screaming at Zoe that his blanket is "Mine!" when Zoe asked him to share... which is the same way ''Huxley'' acts.

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* JerkassRealization: Elmo has one when the Queen of Trash [[NotSoDifferent [[NotSoDifferentRemark compares him to Huxley]]. Just to drive the point home, there's a flashback of Elmo's behavior at the beginning of the movie, screaming at Zoe that his blanket is "Mine!" when Zoe asked him to share... which is the same way ''Huxley'' acts.



* NotSoDifferent: Elmo has this realization thanks to the Queen of Trash. Specifically, Huxley's constant attitude is "Mine!", because he can't share anything. Elmo acted the same way at the beginning of the film, refusing to share his blanket with Zoe "because it's mine!"

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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: Elmo has this realization thanks to the Queen of Trash. Specifically, Huxley's constant attitude is "Mine!", because he can't share anything. Elmo acted the same way at the beginning of the film, refusing to share his blanket with Zoe "because it's mine!"



* SmallRoleBigImpact: Despite appearing in a very small role, the Queen of Trash is proven to be a powerful influence as she managed to make Elmo [[JerkassRealization see that]] [[NotSoDifferent he can be like Huxley]]. And all it took was giving him an ArmorPiercingResponse.

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* SmallRoleBigImpact: Despite appearing in a very small role, the Queen of Trash is proven to be a powerful influence as she managed to make Elmo [[JerkassRealization see that]] [[NotSoDifferent that he can be like Huxley]]. And all it took was giving him an ArmorPiercingResponse.
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* TemptingFate: "Why should Elmo be afraid of a little chicken?" ''(cue giant chicken foot landing in front of the little red monster)''
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* CreatorCameo: According to Matt Vogel (who performed a goat in the scene where several forest animals are fleeing from the humongous chicken), the donkey screaming, "CHICKEN!" was played by Brian Henson, who served as an executive producer for the film.
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* UnconventionalFoodUsage: It's revealed that Grouches, who are a whole species of [[ThePigPen pig-pens]] [[note]](with the [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch exception]] of [[NeatFreak Felix]] from one episode of the show)[[/note]], wash with cheese because shampoo is illegal.
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* BreakoutCharacter: Bill the Bug, who would later go on to be one of main characters for ''Panwapa Island''.

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* BreakoutCharacter: Bill the Bug, who would later go on to be renamed "Bill the Bug" and become one of main characters for of ''Panwapa Island''.
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* CrowdChant: After Oscar's RousingSpeech, he leads his friends and all of [[CrapsackWorld Grouchland's]] citizens in chanting, "When they take our goo, we gotta do!"

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* CrowdChant: After Oscar's RousingSpeech, he leads his friends and all of [[CrapsackWorld Grouchland's]] citizens in chanting, "When they take our goo, we gotta do!"do!" as they march to Mt. Pickanose.
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* CrowdChant: After Oscar's [[RousingSpeech]], he leads his friends and all of [[CrapsackWorld Grouchland's]] citizens in chanting, "When they take our goo, we gotta do!"

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* CrowdChant: After Oscar's [[RousingSpeech]], RousingSpeech, he leads his friends and all of [[CrapsackWorld Grouchland's]] citizens in chanting, "When they take our goo, we gotta do!"
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* CrowdChant: After Oscar's [[RousingSpeech]], he leads his friends and all of [[CrapsackWorld Grouchland's]] citizens in chanting, "When they take our goo, we gotta do!"
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* AGiftForThemselves: Huxley tries to justify his stealing by calling it "giving to himself".
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* TearApartTugOfWar: A downplayed example; Zoe wants to hold Elmo's blanket, but Elmo is reluctant to let her borrow it even for a minute. When Elmo tries to take it back, he and Zoe have a tug-of-war over it, causing the blanket to rip. Fortunately, the blanket doesn't rip in half, but Elmo is still mad at Zoe and tells her she isn't his friend anymore.

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