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The Shoemaker and the Elves

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The setup

A fairy-tale shoemaker's magical helpers start slacking off on purpose, hoping he'll punish them.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

After many nights of help from his magical elves, a storybook shoemaker wakes to find nothing but half a boot on his bench. The two elves apologize and keep nudging him toward a punishment, ideally a physical one, but he just asks them to try harder. The next morning they have made nothing at all and push harder, eagerly proposing hair-pulling, paddling and a plastic sheet spread across the floor, until one bends over for a spanking. The flustered shoemaker finally confesses how badly he wants to dominate them, only for his wife to walk in having overheard. Told to choose between her and the elves, he turns to the camera and asks viewers to decide by text vote.

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Highly quotable.

Look, elves, come on. You don't know how much I want to dominate you both right now.

I'm making so many pairs of shoes in my mind right now!

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

This was the first of three Naughty Elves sketches listed by SNL Archives; announcer Steve Higgins voices the storybook narrator.

ScriptEnglish · 47 turns

Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.

  1. 00:01

    After enjoying many nights of assistance from the magical elves, the shoemaker awoke to find an unpleasant surprise.

  2. 00:08

    Shoemaker ?

    time Time to see what the elves have left. What is this? This is odd. Just one half-done boot. This is not like them. Our family will go hungry.

  3. 00:29

    Elf ?

    Master Shoemaker, we are here to serve. What seems to be the problem?

  4. 00:34

    Shoemaker ?

    It's just that this is not like you. I-I feel like you're letting me down a little bit.

  5. 00:39

    Elf ?

    Oh, no.

  6. 00:42

    Elf ?

    So sorry. That was not our intention at all.

  7. 00:47

    Elf ?

    No, sir.

  8. 00:49

    Elf ?

    Probably the best thing to do is to teach her some kind of a lesson. You know, so we get the message.

  9. 00:55

    Elf ?

    Yeah, like some sort of punishment.

  10. 01:01

    Shoemaker ?

    Punishment? Like... like what?

  11. 01:03

    Elf ?

    What? Whatever you think is fair. It could be physical.

  12. 01:10

    Elf ?

    Yeah, like some kind of physical discipline.

  13. 01:14

    Shoemaker ?

    Look, that's not my style. Why don't I just say try harder and then leave it at that?

  14. 01:21

    Elf ?

    Oh, so no punishment?

  15. 01:23

    Shoemaker ?

    No, just do better.

  16. 01:26

    Elf ?

    We won't let you down, Mr.

  17. 01:40

    Elf ?

    Good morning, Mr. Cobbler.

  18. 01:43

    Shoemaker ?

    Good morning to you. you guys this is all you've done I mean you've done nothing

  19. 01:48

    Elf ?

    oh no are you kidding we just won't learn will we

  20. 01:54

    Elf ?

    how are you gonna handle this sir

  21. 01:56

    Shoemaker ?

    don't do that this is serious I have customers who need shoes and I don't feel like making them

  22. 02:07

    Elf ?

    totally probably calls for some physical punishment

  23. 02:11

    Elf ?

    yeah you must You must be so horny, I mean, mad. If I were you, I'd just grab me by the hair and shake me.

  24. 02:20

    Elf ?

    Yeah, and I'd tie me up over here and stuff a crabapple in my mouth.

  25. 02:25

    Elf ?

    Then take a paddle and crack it across both of our rear ends.

  26. 02:30

    Elf ?

    Yeah, I think that would be a good motivator.

  27. 02:33

    Elf ?

    That would definitely put a fire under my butt.

  28. 02:37

    Elf ?

    Speaking of butts, I wanna go ahead and just flop over here and see if it tempts you to give me the spanking I deserve.

  29. 02:47

    Shoemaker ?

    You guys, just try it. All right, maybe just one little...

  30. 02:53

    Elf ?

    Ha! Harder! Oh, it's gotta be harder. Woo!

  31. 02:59

    Shoemaker ?

    Oh! Look, forget this is insane. You guys are starting to really make me angry.

  32. 03:07

    Elf ?

    It's completely justified.

  33. 03:10

    Elf ?

    I guess you're gonna want to go to the restroom on us now.

  34. 03:16

    Elf ?

    I guess I'll just unfold this plastic sheet you know to like protect the floor but also to collect it just in case we want to use it for something later I don't know everything is up to you

  35. 03:32

    Shoemaker ?

    I'm not going to go to the restroom upon you now put that sheet away I'm beginning to regret rescuing you from that windowless cottage at the edges of forest

  36. 03:41

    Elf ?

    so act on that act on that

  37. 03:43

    Shoemaker ?

    frustration look elves come on you don't know how much i want to dominate you both right now i so want to call you both the nastiest of names i can think of

  38. 03:58

    Elf ?

    do it do exactly that

  39. 04:00

    Shoemaker ?

    i want to take my pants off and parade around in front of you in my underwear

  40. 04:05

    Elf ?

    great idea i'm making so many pairs of shoes in my mind right now

  41. 04:11

    Shoemaker ?

    I want to make you call me daddy and then I force you to wash the kitchen floor with sponges on your bottoms

  42. 04:18

    Elf ?

    I'm ready to

  43. 04:19

    Shoemaker ?

    it but alas I can't do any of those things and do you want to know why because I'm married

  44. 04:28

    Shoemaker's Wife ?

    husband

  45. 04:29

    Shoemaker ?

    oh no how much did you hear

  46. 04:34

    Shoemaker's Wife ?

    enough to know that you must choose between me and the elves

  47. 04:39

    Shoemaker ?

    well you heard her what do you think I should do if you think I should stay faithful to my wife text the number one to 1-800-555-0199 if you think I should sexually dominate the elves text to back later with the the results.

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