Zooey Deschanel: Jovie

Elf

Jovie

Buddy: Sounds like somebody needs to sing a Christmas Carol.
Jovie: No way.
Buddy: The best way to spread Christmas Cheer, is singing loud for all to hear.
Jovie: Thanks, but I don't sing.
Buddy: Oh, well, it's just like talking, except longer and louder, and you move your voice up and down.
Jovie: I *can* sing, I just choose *not* to sing. Especially in front of other people.
Buddy: If you can sing alone, you sing in front of other people. There's no difference.
Jovie: Actually, there's a BIG difference.
Buddy: No there's not. Wait...
[Starts singing loud and off-key]
Buddy: I'm singing/I'm in a store/and I'm siiiiiingiiiiing!/I'm in a store/and I'm siiiiiingiiiiing!
Gimbel's Manager: HEY! There's no singin' in the North Pole!
Buddy: Yes there is!
Gimbel's Manager: No there's not!
Buddy: We sing all the time!
Gimbel's Manager: No you don't!
Buddy: Especially when we build toys!
[Back to Jovie]
Buddy: See?

Jovie: Why were in the women's locker room?
Buddy: I heard you singing.
Jovie: Are you sure it had nothing to do with the fact that I was naked in the shower?
Buddy: I didn't know you were naked.

[as Santa flies away with Buddy, Papa Elf finishes narrating his story]
Papa Elf: And so, with a little help, Buddy managed to save Christmas. And his spirit saved a lot of other people, too.
Jovie: [singing "Auld Land Syne" with Walter at the piano] Should Auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind. Should Auld acquaintance be forgot...
[singing fades]
Papa Elf: Walter started his own independent publishing company. His first book was written by a brand new, critically acclaimed children's author. The book was "Elf" - a, uh, fictional story about an adopted elf named Buddy who was raised in the North Pole, went to New York, ate spaghetti, worked in a shiny mailroom, and eventually saved Christmas.
Buddy: [reading his book at Gimbels to amazed kids] First, I traveled through the seven levels of the candy cane forest, passed the sea of twirly-swirly gumdrops, and then, I walked through the Lincoln Tunnel.
Papa Elf: [talking to the camera] And as for me, I can't complain. Buddy comes up to visit from time to time.