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Huxley

Huxley is a mean human being who lives in Grouchland and the main antagonist of The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland. He selfishly takes stuff from others that doesn't belong to him out of greed, even if someone tries to stop him. He is portrayed by Mandy Patinkin who also portrayed Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride.

History[]

When first encountered, Huxley drives an elaborate helicopter and terrorizes the Grouches in Grouchland, randomly stealing items with the use of a vacuum cleaner - when Grizzy refuses to give up her doll, he goes went as far as to physically threaten her with the machine until Elmo shouts at him to stop.

Huxley is shocked and angered that Elmo has the courage to stand up to him, as the Grouches never did, so he emerges from the helicopter and teases Elmo by showing that he has his prized blanket, but he refuses to give it back as he flies away again with it (now calling it his "wooby"), laughing evilly.

Although the Grouches on the whole remained mean-spirited to Elmo, Grizzy, the little girl he rescued is thankful and appreciative enough to help Elmo to find Huxley's hideout - a large castle on top of a mountain, but she refuses to help him further and Elmo has to brave the long journey alone.

From his castle, Huxley observes Elmo with the aid of hidden cameras and a telescope - sending his minions to seal Elmo in a cave, so he couldn't retrieve his blanket.

However, Elmo immediately escapes with the aid of helpful fireflies, much to Huxley's surprise and he continues to watch as Elmo braves the trip towards the castle.

Seeing that Elmo wouldn't go away he decides to release a giant chicken to scare the little monster away, despite Bug begging him not to do it.

The giant chicken proceeds to terrorize Elmo and the woodland animals, trying to eat Elmo until Elmo convinces the somewhat dimwitted bird he wasn't a worm. Unfortunately, the chicken proceeds to toss Elmo a great distance from the castle in the aftermath of the encounter.

Eventually, Elmo makes it to Huxley's castle and tries to get his blanket back. However, Huxley (who was now wearing just his yellow sleeveless shirt) uses his machines against Elmo and cruelly taunts the little monster until the rest of the Sesame Street gang arrived, having followed Elmo to Grouchland.

The Sesame Street gang are soon aided by the Grouches, who Oscar managed to convince to help the group out of a shared dislike of Huxley - who had bullied the Grouches as much as everyone else.

During the chaos, Huxley steals Elmo's blanket again and tries to get away only for his vacuum to suck the blanket up, revealing Bug at the controls - who hands the blanket back to Elmo.

Huxley is shocked that his own henchman had turned against him and tries to convince Bug that he can change and give back what he stole. However, Bug doesn't believe Huxley (who was obviously lying to avoid getting into trouble).

In the end, Huxley is presumably arrested as there was a police officer Grouch in the crowd, though it isn't actually seen as the film focuses more on the cast and Grouches celebrating as they head back home.

Huxley also serves as a valuable and advantageous lesson to Elmo in this film, as Elmo was very possessive and cantankerous of his blanket, to the point of telling Zoe that she was not his friend after she accidentally rips a little it due to Elmo tugging it from her in a jealous tantrum when she tried to hold it.

Once back in Sesame Street, Elmo apologizes to Zoe for hurting her feelings and allows her to hold his blanket, not wanting to be acquisitive, obnoxious, selfish, greedy, and mean like Huxley was.

Trivia[]

  • Despite being a serious adversary, Huxley is shown to be somewhat comical and child-like, making buzzing noises when about to press a button, refusing to share even a simple tissue, saying that his things are "Mine!" like a kid would, and occasionally speaking in a high-pitched voice.
  • He is also illiterate, meaning that he is incapable of reading, so he has Bug do it for him.
    • He is also very similar to Tex Richman from The Muppets.
      • Both are arrogant, selfish, and greedy businessmen who are the main antagonists of theatrically released films with the late Jim Henson's legendary and popular characters as the heroes.
      • Both wanted to take something very meaningful away from the protagonists and keep them from getting it back (Huxley wanted to prevent Elmo from getting his blanket back while Tex Richman wanted to tear the Muppet Studios to drill for oil and prevent the Muppets from stopping him).
      • In the middle of Huxley's "Make It Mine" song, his voice while singing, "You say, you love, your old Atari", sounds very much like the timbre you'd hear in Roy Orbison's voice.
  • Huxley will become TC's enemy in Top Cat and The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland.
  • Huxley makes a guess appearence in The Veggie and Character Gang's Adventures of Toy Story 2 with Al as his new minion wanting him to send the gang to him in the jail in grouchland to make them his so he can get revenge on them for for helping Elmo get his blanket back.
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