The Lorax (film)/Awesome

• The "How Bad Can I Be?" song sequence. For those who condemn this film as a betrayal of the book's theme needs to see this, which is an infectiously tuneful skewering of the modern economy with its corporate excesses and the self-deluded rationalizations of the 1% as the Once-ler completely buries his conscience and wrecks the land with his greed, even co-opting the Lorax for his own ends when he tries to stop the rampage.
• This troper loved when O'Hare's goon turns on him, straps a rocket to his head, and launches him out of Thneedville.
• Any time that Ted is on his scooter, it will eventually end up being awesome. Especially when he starts using the wacky "Dr. Seuss-style" buildings and their unusual structures to his advantage.
• "My name is Ted Wiggins, and I speak for the trees!"
• The Lorax's epic arrival.
  • Then it becomes a Funny Moment due to him just popping out of the tree stump and landing head first into the ground.
• In the climax of the movie, O'Hare has turned the entire town against Ted, Audrey, and Grammy Norma, attempting to stop them from planting the last seed. So, in order to get the townspeople on his side, Ted, a twelve-year old boy, jumps into an earthmover and smashes down the wall surrounding Thneedville, exposing the wasteland outside of town and revealing Thneedville as the Crap Saccharine World it really is.

Audrey: Ted, you're gonna hit the wall!
Ted: Yeah. I know.

• Everything Grammy Norma does. Nudging Ted into seeing the Once-ler, snowboarding, grabbing the seed during the chase scene, and giving O'Hare a whack on the head during the final musical number!
• The "Let it Grow" number.
• Ted's mother chewing out O'Hare, and later distracting one of O'Hare's goons during the chase scene.

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