diff --git a/lib/browserDocument.js b/lib/browserDocument.js
index bc0ab74b91f..3b04b460336 100644
--- a/lib/browserDocument.js
+++ b/lib/browserDocument.js
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ function Document (obj, schema, fields, skipId, skipInit) {
   this.$__setSchema(schema);
 
   this.$__ = new InternalCache;
+  this.$__.emitter = new EventEmitter();
   this.isNew = true;
   this.errors = undefined;
 
@@ -101,9 +102,9 @@ function Document (obj, schema, fields, skipId, skipInit) {
 }
 
 /*!
- * Inherit from EventEmitter.
+ * Inherit from the NodeJS document
  */
-Document.prototype = Object.create( NodeJSDocument.prototype );
+Document.prototype = Object.create(NodeJSDocument.prototype);
 Document.prototype.constructor = Document;
 
 
diff --git a/lib/document.js b/lib/document.js
index 8f801520b02..bdbede002c9 100644
--- a/lib/document.js
+++ b/lib/document.js
@@ -77,35 +77,17 @@ function Document (obj, fields, skipId) {
 }
 
 /*!
- * Inherit from EventEmitter.
+ * Document exposes the NodeJS event emitter API, so you can use
+ * `on`, `once`, etc.
  */
-Document.prototype.on = function() {
-  return this.$__.emitter.on.apply(this.$__.emitter, arguments);
-};
-
-Document.prototype.once = function() {
-  return this.$__.emitter.once.apply(this.$__.emitter, arguments);
-};
-
-Document.prototype.emit = function() {
-  return this.$__.emitter.emit.apply(this.$__.emitter, arguments);
-};
-
-Document.prototype.listeners = function() {
-  return this.$__.emitter.listeners.apply(this.$__.emitter, arguments);
-};
-
-Document.prototype.removeListener = function() {
-  return this.$__.emitter.removeListener.apply(this.$__.emitter, arguments);
-};
-
-Document.prototype.setMaxListeners = function() {
-  return this.$__.emitter.setMaxListeners.apply(this.$__.emitter, arguments);
-};
-
-Document.prototype.removeAllListeners = function() {
-  return this.$__.emitter.removeAllListeners.apply(this.$__.emitter, arguments);
-};
+utils.each(
+  ['on', 'once', 'emit', 'listeners', 'removeListener', 'setMaxListeners',
+    'removeAllListeners'],
+  function(emitterFn) {
+    Document.prototype[emitterFn] = function() {
+      return this.$__.emitter[emitterFn].apply(this.$__.emitter, arguments);
+    };
+  });
 
 Document.prototype.constructor = Document;