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Harvey himself is a giant rabbit who is also a Pooka and who is [[Invisible to Normals]]. (To those who can see him, he is white.) He is quite friendly. He may or may not have several [[Stock Super Powers]]...
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His best friend is Elwood P. Dowd, who is the local useless eccentric who is living off his inheritance. He spends his days in bars, drinking and introducing people to Harvey. He wants everyone to meet Harvey, including the local socialites whom his sister wants to impress so her daughter can get married. His attempts to get everyone to meet Harvey tend to disturb the socialites, though.
After one garden party too many is wrecked this way, his sister calls an insane asylum so that she can cure Elwood of seeing and recognizing Harvey. This is made difficult because Elwood is a nice man who charms most of the hospital staff and who doesn't understand that there might be a problem. It also doesn't help that she herself also isn't quite sure whether Harvey is real or
The questions: Does Harvey exist? Can Elwood be cured of believing in him? And is it worth it?
While the 1950 version is the most popular, over five other film versions have been made and a sixth was abandoned in 2009/2010.
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* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Myrtle Mae becomes romantically attached to Wilson, a rather [[Jerkass]] caretaker at the asylum, who uses
* [[Ask a Stupid Question]]
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'''Elwood''': "Well, Harvey's his name." }}
* [[Basement Dweller]]: Subverted. Early on, Myrtle Mae complains that Elwood is this, as he lives with his sister and won't move out or get a job. Veta at once reminds her that, since Elwood got the entire family fortune, ''they're'' the ones living with ''him.''
* [[Bow Ties Are Cool]]: Harvey seems to think so, if the portrait is to be believed.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Elwood is always introducing himself:
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** He's also delighted to meet new people, even if they aren't as nice as he is (or even nice to him).
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Elwood, much to Veta and Myrtle Mae's dismay.
* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: Elwood does this several times throughout the story. Most notably:
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* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: "...And Uncle Elwood is my Uncle."
* [[Drink Order]]: "Two martinis!"
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* [[For Happiness]]: Elwood makes friends with everyone he can, and believes in being pleasant to all; he wins over a lot of people by being sweet to them, most everyone by the end of the movie is happier.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]:
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'''Elwood P. Dowd:''' What did you have in mind? }}
* [[Hair-Raising Hare]]: Harvey, to Dr. Chumley.
* [[Humans Are
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* [[The Messiah]]: Dowd.
* [[My Card]]: Anyone, ''anyone'', Elwood meets, he gives them his card, telling them which number to call him at.
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** In fact, his sister and niece can be seen as this as well.
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Veta progressively becomes more unbalanced as the story progressive, as if she's losing contact with reality and cannot make up her mind if Harvey is real or not. {{spoiler|She gets better at the end, in that she can accept Harvey so long as Elwood stays as nice as he always is.}}
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'''Veta''': "Yes, they discuss all things together."
'''Dr. Chumley''': "What?"
'''Veta''': (''without changing her expression or tone from her last line'') "I said yes, he does talk to it." }}
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* [[A Simple Plan]]: Early on it's established Elwood sees a
** The rabbit's only 6' in the play, in the movie it was changed to 7' because Jimmy Stewart was too tall to look up to a 6' bunny the way he needed to.
** Six feet three and a half inches, now let's stick to the facts.
* [[Spooky Painting]]: [[Played for Laughs]] in this case. Somehow, the painter who did Elwood's portrait also saw Harvey and included him in the picture, too. It's used as a joke when Veta gives Dr. Chumley a lecture about paintings showing the reality of life, her being unaware Harvey's painting is standing where her mother's painting was.
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'''Dr. Chumley''': "Yes, well, I'm very glad to hear that." }}
* [[The "Unicorn In The Garden" Rule]]: Elwood's world is the same as ours except for the invisible presence of Harvey the Pooka—and every fantastic element of the show results from that.
* [[Took a Level In Kindness]]: Spelled out in the scene between Elwood and Dr. Chumley. The page quote sums it up nicely.
** Also Veta throughout the play, as she learns to stop fussing about her social status and being "respectable" and try to make people happy.
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* [[White Bunny]]: Harvey. If you can see him, that is.
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"[[Comically Missing the Point|Well why not? Harvey was here.]]" }}
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