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''Marcel the Shell with Shoes On'' is a series of three Website/YouTube shorts, released in 2010, 2011, and 2014. They were directed by Dean Fleischer Camp and written by Fleisher Camp and Creator/JennySlate. In them, the titular Marcel (voiced by Slate) relates anecdotes, jokes, and pearls of wisdom to an unseen human documentarian (voiced by Fleischer Camp), all while going about his day-to-day life as an inch-high ambulatory seashell.
In 2021, a [[Film/MarcelTheShellWithShoesOn2021 feature film]] was released to the festival circuit, directed by Fleisher Camp, written by Fleisher Camp, Slate, Nick Paley, and Elisabeth Holm, and featuring Slate and Fleisher Camp reprising their roles from the shorts, joined by Creator/IsabellaRossellini as Connie, Marcel’s grandmother. In it, Marcel attempts to find his family. Creator/{{A24}} picked up the distribution rights and gave it a wide release on June 24, 2022. The first trailer can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k98Afd7Nf3Y here]].
In 2021, a [[Film/MarcelTheShellWithShoesOn2021 feature film]] was released to the festival circuit, directed by Fleisher Camp, written by Fleisher Camp, Slate, Nick Paley, and Elisabeth Holm, and featuring Slate and Fleisher Camp reprising their roles from the shorts, joined by Creator/IsabellaRossellini as Connie, Marcel’s grandmother. In it, Marcel attempts to find his family. Creator/{{A24}} picked up the distribution rights and gave it a wide release on June 24, 2022. The first trailer can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k98Afd7Nf3Y here]].
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''Marcel the Shell with Shoes On'' is a series of three Website/YouTube shorts, released in 2010, 2011, and 2014. They were directed by Dean Fleischer Camp and written by Fleisher Fleischer Camp and Creator/JennySlate. In them, the titular Marcel (voiced by Slate) relates anecdotes, jokes, and pearls of wisdom to an unseen human documentarian (voiced by Fleischer Camp), all while going about his day-to-day life as an inch-high ambulatory seashell.
In 2021, a [[Film/MarcelTheShellWithShoesOn2021 feature film]] was released to the festival circuit, directed by Fleisher Camp, written byFleisher Fleischer Camp, Slate, Nick Paley, and Elisabeth Holm, and featuring Slate and Fleisher Camp reprising their roles from the shorts, joined by Creator/IsabellaRossellini as Connie, Marcel’s Marcel's grandmother. In it, Marcel attempts to find his family. Creator/{{A24}} picked up the distribution rights and gave it a wide release on June 24, 2022. The first trailer can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k98Afd7Nf3Y here]].
In 2021, a [[Film/MarcelTheShellWithShoesOn2021 feature film]] was released to the festival circuit, directed by Fleisher Camp, written by
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''Marcel the Shell with Shoes On'' is a series of three Website/YouTube shorts, released in 2010, 2011, and 2014. They were directed by Dean Fleischer Camp and written by Fleisher Camp and Creator/JennySlate. In them, the titular Marcel (voiced by Slate) relates anecdotes, jokes, and pearls of wisdom to an unseen human documentarian (voiced by Fleischer Camp), all while going about his day-to-day life as an inch-high ambulatory seashell.
In 2021, a [[Film/MarcelTheShellWithShoesOn2021 feature film]] was released to the festival circuit, directed by Fleisher Camp, written by Fleisher Camp, Slate, Nick Paley, and Elisabeth Holm, and featuring Slate and Fleisher Camp reprising their roles from the shorts, joined by Creator/IsabellaRossellini as Connie, Marcel’s grandmother. In it, Marcel attempts to find his family. Creator/{{A24}} picked up the distribution rights and gave it a wide release on June 24, 2022. The first trailer can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k98Afd7Nf3Y here]].
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!!Guess what ''Marcel the Shell with Shoes On'' contains examples of.
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: The documentarian's reactions to Marcel's antics are usually subdued, but occasionally they'll crack a laugh.
* AmbiguousSituation: What exactly Marcel ''is'' is left unclear in the shorts. He makes allusions to friends and relatives, but they never appear. Similarly, to what end the documentarian is filming Marcel is never mentioned. The feature film seems set to clear some of this up, as Marcel's grandmother shows up in the trailer, as do dozens of other tiny beings who bare wildly varying degrees of resemblance to Marcel.
* {{Balloonacy}}: The second short contains the story of Marcel's sister Marissa, who became the namesake for what Marcel tells us is an epidemic of kids being carried away by balloons, never to return. Assuming Marissa was Marcel's size, this isn't necessarily implausible.
* BambooTechnology:
** Much of the first short concerns Marcel's delight in informing the documentarian of the various tiny things he's turned into replicas of human technology, such as a beanbag made of a raisin, or an ice skate made of a human toenail.
** The impracticality of this gets a lampshade in the second short, specifically the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Flintstones]]''-esque creature-as-tool variant: bugs make very inconvenient cars unless you're fine going wherever the bug wants.
* BlackComedyBurst: With twenty seconds left in the first short, Marcel abruptly drops an anecdote about the time his brother killed someone with a brush.
* CatchPhrase: Marcel will almost always begin a bit by asking the documentarian to "guess what" something, to which the documentarian will inevitably reply with a dry "what."
* CompanionCube: Marcel mentions in the first short that his one regret is not being able to have a dog. To fill the void, he's adopted Alan, a piece of lint on a string.
* CrossdressingVoices: Jenny Slate as Marcel.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Marcel tells the story of his departed sister Marissa while standing on a laptop keyboard, causing a string of [=Zs=] to appear in a word processor window behind him.
* TheIllegible: The end credits for the shorts are written in intensely scratchy cursive, and each line almost overlaps the previous until the screen is full.
* LimitedAnimation: Marcel's only articulated features are his mouth and his single eyeball, which gives his walk cycle a jerky, ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' feel as he bobs to and fro. The feature film finally gives him the ability to move his feet--though it still looks odd, given his lack of legs. It also gives him an eyelid.
* LiteralMetaphor: Marcel asks in the first short if the documentarian wants to see him talk ''on'' the phone.
* LockedInARoom: Marcel mentions enjoying this trope in the third short.
* MinimalistCast: The shorts feature just Marcel, the documentarian, a dog, and--in the third short--the hand of an additional unidentified person who shares Marcel's house. The feature film expands the cast significantly.
* {{Mockumentary}}: The premise and style of the shorts.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: In the third short, Marcel was planning a big reveal of ''a grape'' to the documentarian, and subsequently wants to show off the documentarian to his (presumably tiny) friends, who don't believe anyone could ''eat a whole grape.''
* OrphanedSetUp: In the third short, Marcel sneezes and falls over before he can finish his anecdote about a friend who got stuck in a spiderweb, then never circles back to it.
* SelfAppliedNickname: Marcel discusses the impossibility of making this stick in the second short, but if he could he would be called Ace. And if he had a PenName it would be [[PunnyName Sheldon]] [[SpeciesSurname Conch]].
''Marcel the Shell with Shoes On'' is a series of three Website/YouTube shorts, released in 2010, 2011, and 2014. They were directed by Dean Fleischer Camp and written by Fleisher Camp and Creator/JennySlate. In them, the titular Marcel (voiced by Slate) relates anecdotes, jokes, and pearls of wisdom to an unseen human documentarian (voiced by Fleischer Camp), all while going about his day-to-day life as an inch-high ambulatory seashell.
In 2021, a [[Film/MarcelTheShellWithShoesOn2021 feature film]] was released to the festival circuit, directed by Fleisher Camp, written by Fleisher Camp, Slate, Nick Paley, and Elisabeth Holm, and featuring Slate and Fleisher Camp reprising their roles from the shorts, joined by Creator/IsabellaRossellini as Connie, Marcel’s grandmother. In it, Marcel attempts to find his family. Creator/{{A24}} picked up the distribution rights and gave it a wide release on June 24, 2022. The first trailer can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k98Afd7Nf3Y here]].
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!!Guess what ''Marcel the Shell with Shoes On'' contains examples of.
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: The documentarian's reactions to Marcel's antics are usually subdued, but occasionally they'll crack a laugh.
* AmbiguousSituation: What exactly Marcel ''is'' is left unclear in the shorts. He makes allusions to friends and relatives, but they never appear. Similarly, to what end the documentarian is filming Marcel is never mentioned. The feature film seems set to clear some of this up, as Marcel's grandmother shows up in the trailer, as do dozens of other tiny beings who bare wildly varying degrees of resemblance to Marcel.
* {{Balloonacy}}: The second short contains the story of Marcel's sister Marissa, who became the namesake for what Marcel tells us is an epidemic of kids being carried away by balloons, never to return. Assuming Marissa was Marcel's size, this isn't necessarily implausible.
* BambooTechnology:
** Much of the first short concerns Marcel's delight in informing the documentarian of the various tiny things he's turned into replicas of human technology, such as a beanbag made of a raisin, or an ice skate made of a human toenail.
** The impracticality of this gets a lampshade in the second short, specifically the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Flintstones]]''-esque creature-as-tool variant: bugs make very inconvenient cars unless you're fine going wherever the bug wants.
* BlackComedyBurst: With twenty seconds left in the first short, Marcel abruptly drops an anecdote about the time his brother killed someone with a brush.
* CatchPhrase: Marcel will almost always begin a bit by asking the documentarian to "guess what" something, to which the documentarian will inevitably reply with a dry "what."
* CompanionCube: Marcel mentions in the first short that his one regret is not being able to have a dog. To fill the void, he's adopted Alan, a piece of lint on a string.
* CrossdressingVoices: Jenny Slate as Marcel.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Marcel tells the story of his departed sister Marissa while standing on a laptop keyboard, causing a string of [=Zs=] to appear in a word processor window behind him.
* TheIllegible: The end credits for the shorts are written in intensely scratchy cursive, and each line almost overlaps the previous until the screen is full.
* LimitedAnimation: Marcel's only articulated features are his mouth and his single eyeball, which gives his walk cycle a jerky, ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' feel as he bobs to and fro. The feature film finally gives him the ability to move his feet--though it still looks odd, given his lack of legs. It also gives him an eyelid.
* LiteralMetaphor: Marcel asks in the first short if the documentarian wants to see him talk ''on'' the phone.
* LockedInARoom: Marcel mentions enjoying this trope in the third short.
* MinimalistCast: The shorts feature just Marcel, the documentarian, a dog, and--in the third short--the hand of an additional unidentified person who shares Marcel's house. The feature film expands the cast significantly.
* {{Mockumentary}}: The premise and style of the shorts.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: In the third short, Marcel was planning a big reveal of ''a grape'' to the documentarian, and subsequently wants to show off the documentarian to his (presumably tiny) friends, who don't believe anyone could ''eat a whole grape.''
* OrphanedSetUp: In the third short, Marcel sneezes and falls over before he can finish his anecdote about a friend who got stuck in a spiderweb, then never circles back to it.
* SelfAppliedNickname: Marcel discusses the impossibility of making this stick in the second short, but if he could he would be called Ace. And if he had a PenName it would be [[PunnyName Sheldon]] [[SpeciesSurname Conch]].
