Forbidden game grumps
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In Grinch Night, he's a particularly dirty, bitter old bogeyman, complete with magical powers that feel straight out of some archaic fairy folklore. As much as I love almost every minute of the original Grinch special, he was really nothing but a particularly dirty, bitter old man in that one. That is honestly already one of the coolest things I think I've ever seen, and his little song is pretty hard to get out of your head. If you're a Grinch, apparently, this forbidden incantation will cause your actual eyebrows to fly off of your face and flap around a while like a giant, hairy bat.
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"Oo-ka pa-pa, oom-pa pa-pa, oonka poddy papa, oonka poddy oom-pa, oon-ka oon-ka oo-nka loon-ka, eebzy droika, all-de-maldo oom, pom, TOSK!" He later makes good on this claim when Euchariah questions whether he's really even the Grinch at all, and the Grinch's response is to sing a bizarre little song in some arcane tongue: That isn't even the strangest statement in the whle cartoon, but it's pretty hard to forget. The very first words spoken by the Grinch in this entire special are " It's a wonderful night for eyebrows." Yeah, really. I don't know how much I'll be able to say about some of the things we're about to see, but a detailed-as-possible review of the Grinch's "spook's tour" was kind of an inevitability for this website. No real lessons or moral messages are communicated here it's just a simple spooky little tale with a classic sort of ghost story feel and some very cool imagery, which is what we're really here to discuss. There isn't a whole lot more to Grinch Night as a story, really it follows a single Who child, Euchariah, who ventures out alone on Grinch Night, runs into the Grinch, and displays such flippant disrespect that the hairy green man wastes his entire night and all of his "paraphernalia" on this one little boy, effectively sparing the rest of the town. This is an alternate continuity entirely and it's a cartoon anyway, the option I personally prefer to roll with. This is a sequel story, and the Grinch was basically only friendly for that one Christmas dinner. This is a prequel story, and Max at some point went back to live with the Grinch again. This leads many to interpret Grinch Night as a "prequel" story, except that this one also ends with the Grinch's dog, Max, fleeing from his abusive master to live with a kinder who family, leaving basically three possibilities: We previously saw him have a complete change of heart, but in Grinch Night, he's portrayed as a merciless villain again. Whoville doesn't really have a Halloween-like celebration, but a single night of boarding up their homes and hiding in fear until the Grinch has gotten his kicks and gone home already.Įxactly how this all fits in with the events of the Grinch's more famous Yuletide Heist isn't quite clear. More on that later, but basically, Halloween is only ever mentioned by the special's title. Grinch Night begins with a semi-musical explanation of the closest thing Whoville observes to Halloween, a night when a mysterious "sour-sweet wind starts a'howlin'," which wakes the "gree grumps" from the hollow trees they sleep in, and their irritated growling riles up the "hackencracks" from their lake, and the whole ruckus gets The Grinch in the mood to terrorize the countryside with his Paraphernalia Wagon. There was, however, a Grinch cartoon for another holiday entirely, and while the animation isn't as big-budget and its musical numbers never reach the kind of unforgettable jam that is You're a Mean One, the concept and imagery that comes with Halloween is Grinch Night is rather predictably my favorite Seuss-related anything, and it's been my Spouse's go-to Halloween special since childhood, before I ever even heard of it myself, so today's review is pretty special for both of us. I won't lie I would definitely call the original Grinch cartoon, about that other holiday, a masterpiece of animation and music at least for every moment that the Grinch is actually on-screen.