The craze started after author Carol Aebersold penned the children’s book of the same name in 2005. Now it is a Christmas decoration sitting on the shelf of the homes but parents are supposed to move the puppet around the house each day. Why? They help Santa so that the little elf can watch over the children and report back to Santa whether they should be on the naughty or nice list.

However, the elf on the shelf has taken on a new meaning to Internet friends in the last few years who have hilariously turned the elf on the shelf into a meme.

The rhyme in the name elf on the shelf has grabbed the attention of meme lovers on the internet since 2017 and it also appeared on Instagram in 2020 as well.

The meme constitutes the creator typing ‘You’ve heard of Elf on the Shelf’ and then a picture of the meme with another rhyming pair of things.
In 2020 thanks to Instagram, a new meme challenge was born where celebrities are superimposing images of other celebrities that rhyme with their name into their pictures.

Elizabeth Banks shared a red-carpet photo of herself with Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump imposed sitting on her shoulder.

Reese Witherspoon also responded to Banks, writing “Oh hey @elizabethbanks! I see your Hanks-on-Banks and I raise you a Grease-on-Reese. #myelf” with a photo of Grease’s Sandy and Danny dancing on her shoulder.

Queen of Christmas tunes Mariah Carey shared a picture of Jim Carrey as the Grinch tiptoeing on her shoulder, writing: “Throwing some tinsel on this challenge and presenting you #CarreyOnCarey 😄”

sources (articles; video and picture; Meme picture): Metro, The U.S. Sun; Elf On A Shelf, Michael Bublé, Youtube; Celebrities Pose with ‘Elf on a Shelf’ Memes, Daily Blast LIVE, Youtube

Itt pedig meghallgathattok egy kedves dalt ebben a témában:

source: The Elf on the Shelf’s Night Before Christmas Song & Music Video, The Elf on the Shelf, Youtube

The time for holiday cheer is here.

With Halloween behind us, Michael Bublé is ringing in the holiday season with a music video for his cover of the classic “It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas”.

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The music video for the song opens in the style of an old TV broadcast from the ’50s, with Bublé walking around a home decked out for the holidays. As the video goes on, the time period progresses, with the TV becoming colour and high-definition.

The cover of the Meredith Wilson-penned classic was original featured on Michael Bublé’s 2011 album Christmas.

Over the last decade, the album has sold over 16 million copies and has been streamed over four billion times.

In a quick video on TikTok, the Canadian crooner, 46, laughed off the memes that infiltrate the Internet every holiday season and finally sharing his reaction.

ICYMI, because of his super successful Yuletide album, Christmas, fans hilariously tease the singer about only emerging during the holidays to sing those classic tunes.

A TikTok videót itt tudjátok megtekinteni: Bublé’s reaction

“Every time the holiday season comes around, it’s like clockwork,” Bublé says in the TikTok. “I hear the jokes, I see the memes, ‘Buble coming out of the crave’, ‘Buble is defrosting’ and ‘Christmas is near’. And do you ever wonder why someone might spend that much time in a cave?”

“It’s because I’m f**king Batman. You a**holes,” he joked while in a Dark Knight mask. “And now you’ve probably cost me that job so I’m forced to have to sell these t-shirts.”

Bublé added, “Happy Holidays! Missed you!”

Bublé is rereleasing his version of “Let It Snow” off Christmas this year, in honour of the 10th anniversary, by recording the tune with the BBC’s Big Band Orchestra at the famous Abbey Road Studios in London.

sources (articles; videos): Michael Bublé Rings In The Holiday Season With ‘It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas’ Music Video, ET Canada; Michael Bublé Reacts To Hilarious ‘Bublé Coming Out Of The Cave’ Memes That Emerge Every Holiday Season, ET Canada; https://www.facebook.com/MichaelBuble/videos/435135061575822; TikTok Michael Bublé

A következő feladatban a dal szövegét kell kiegészítenetek a megadott opciókból választva.

sources (video; lyrics): Michael Bublé – It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas [Official HD Audio], Michael Bublé, Youtube; azlyrics.com

interesting info:

‘A pair of hopalong boots…’

The song refers to popular costume boots from the ’40s and ’50s modeled after the ones worn by the cowboy Hopalong Cassidy in a series of books and films. Originally conceived by author Clarence E. Mulford in 1904, Hopalong was crude, rough-talking, and dangerous. For the 66 (!) films starring William Boyd that came out in the ’30s and ’40s before re-running on TV and finding an even wider audience in the ’50s, Hopalong was rebranded a clean-cut, valiant hero—and his boots were the prize of little boys everywhere.

source: the Daily Beast

source (video and picture; lyrics): Michael Bublé Carpool Karaoke – Stand Up To Cancer, The Late Late Show with James Corden, Youtube; azlyrics.com

A videó megnézése után válaszolj a következő kérdésekre.

1. How many Bublés are mentioned at the beginning of the interview?
2. Why did James show a picture of Michael to his trainer?
3. Is Michael bothered by his look? Why/not?
4. Why did James mention superman? (give 2 reasons)
5. What is James’s opinion about the opening of the song “Everything”?
6. What does Michael do during his live shows in an arena?
7. What did they try?
8. What did Michael think of saxophones?
9. What did James’s father ask Michael?
10. Why did Michael mention spiderman and superman?

extra vocabulary: In scat singing, singers improvise melodies and rhythms using the voice as an instrument.

keys/megoldások:
1. 2, there’s a fat, chunky Bublé and one who should stop eating Slurpees and work out more.;
2. because it (Michael’s shape in the picture) is his goal to achieve;
3. No, he doesn’t care about his look because he has a beautiful wife who loves him.;
4. Because Michael looks like a superman now and the Michael in the picture looks like a man who ate superman.;
5. He thinks that Michael was fully aware that it would be played in the radio.;
6. He takes the microphone away and without amplification his voice reaches the audience everywhere in the arena.;
7. They tried to order coffee by using the power of Michael’s voice.;
8. They bothered him, they were creepy for him, he didn’t like them.;
9. He asked Michael to come along and sing some songs at a charity event he organized/compiled in November and he asked for Michael’s phone number.;
10. Because he thinks they are fake heroes, the real hero is his son who’s battled with cancer at the age of 3.
(Now 6-Year-Old Noah survived liver cancer at 3. Diagnosed at 3 with a liver cancer, the singer’s son, Noah, underwent surgery and chemotherapy. Bublé dropped everything to be by his son’s side. Along with his wife, Luisana Lopilato, their 2-year-old son Elias, and their extended families, Bublé relocated from Vancouver to Los Angeles, where Noah was treated for seven months.)