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*The story was spoofed in ''[[The Sesame Street ABC Storybook]]'' as "The Sockmaker and the Snuffleupagus". In the story, the sockmaker went to bed and [[Big Bird]] has gotten much help from [[The Snuffleupagus Fairy|the Snuffleupagus fairy]] who finishes the socks that the shoemaker promised to sew for the whole town by morning. The story was later reprinted in ''[[The Sesame Street Library]]'' and ''[[The Sesame Street Treasury Volume 12]]''.
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*The story was spoofed in ''[[The Sesame Street ABC Storybook]]'' as "The Sockmaker and the Snuffleupagus". In the story, the sockmaker went to bed and [[Big Bird]] has gotten much help from [[The Snuffleupagus Fairy|the Snuffleupagus fairy]] who finishes the socks that the shoemaker promised to sew for the whole town by morning. The story was later reprinted in ''[[The Sesame Street Library Volume 9]]'' and ''[[The Sesame Street Treasury Volume 12]]''.
 
*[[Kermit the Frog]] plays the Shoemaker in the 1994 direct-to-video special ''[[Muppet Classic Theater]]''. The Shoemaker makes shoes so ugly that nobody will buy them, and the banker demands that he and his nephew [[Robin the Frog|Robin]] pay half of what they owe him the next day. Robin wishes for a miracle, and [[The Elvises|three elves]] (who resemble [[Elvis Presley]]) come and make blue suede shoes that people will buy. Business improves, and the Shoemaker soon figures out how to make shoes that are no longer ugly.
 
*[[Kermit the Frog]] plays the Shoemaker in the 1994 direct-to-video special ''[[Muppet Classic Theater]]''. The Shoemaker makes shoes so ugly that nobody will buy them, and the banker demands that he and his nephew [[Robin the Frog|Robin]] pay half of what they owe him the next day. Robin wishes for a miracle, and [[The Elvises|three elves]] (who resemble [[Elvis Presley]]) come and make blue suede shoes that people will buy. Business improves, and the Shoemaker soon figures out how to make shoes that are no longer ugly.
   

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The Elves and the Shoemaker (sometimes known as The Shoemaker and the Elves) is an old story by The Brothers Grimm. The story, which was written in 1806, tells the story about a poor shoemaker who has gotten much-needed help from elves.

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