Other relatively newfangled holiday traditions have often started slowly and gained traction-watching Will Ferrel's Elf, for instance (no relation, by the way), or Love, Actually (whose reviews were tepid, actually, before it gradually won us all over). You Can Give a Boy a Doll, but You Can't Make Him Play With It And the whole certificate of-adoption thing? Straight out of the Cabbage Patch. The doll is a bit of Disney's Pinocchio mixed with Peter Pan, the book a plodding rhyming thing slightly less well-written than your average greeting card. All this for a book and doll that cobbles together elements from the pop-cultural junkheap in a not-very-original way.
#Elf on the shelf doll movie
In November 2011, an Elf on the Shelf movie aired on CBS. By the end of 2010, they had sold 1.5 million copies. Chanda and her mother, Carol Aebersold, wrote up their elf's story and Christa took a leave of absence from her job with QVC to help them self-publish the book in 2005 (after several publishers had turned them down). Sisters Chanda Bell and Christa Pitts grew up with an elf, Fisbee, who arrived at their house on Thanksgiving, took up a new position each day in their house, and departed at Christmas. It's a marketing juggernaut dressed up as a "tradition." Yes, all traditions are ultimately man-made and therefore artificial, but there's something uniquely fake about the Elf. How do I hate the Elf on the Shelf? Let me count the ways.
#Elf on the shelf doll plus
It's massively popular, with annual sales of $10 million and an expanding product line that now includes several versions of the Elf doll, plus book and DVD. Parents warn their kids that the Elf is watching them to be sure they're being good. If you're unfamiliar with the phenomenon, this is what you need to know: It's a doll that parents place around the house during run-up to Christmas. A lot depends on whether or not you have kids, and how old they are (the Elf's target consumers are families with very little kids) and where you live (the Elf hails from Marietta, Georgia, and an informal poll of my Facebook friends indicates that his biggest fan base is suburban-more on that later).
You may have heard of the Elf on the Shelf, or you may not have.
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