Does the fact that he was “The” Grinch mean there was only one of him? Is Grinch a title or a species?
Did he have a name?
I always figured was a solo mythical beast, like a Yeti or Sasquatch.
Maybe more like Cyclops, Kraken, Medusa, Minotaur, etc. I may not know my mythology enough, but I didn’t think they normally had families, like one might think a dragon, or griffin, or unicorn had.
Maybe that’s why he hated Christmas, and enslaved animals.
He was the last of his kind. The ‘roast beast’ was actually roast Grinch.
Fricken Whos.
I think the live-action movie had him as a mutated Who. In the Seuss original (and the Chuck Jones animated version) there was no origin given. He just was.
If he’s singular, where did he come from? Is he like a mule? a cross of a … I dunno, a Kermit and a Boris Karloff?
Well, Karloff did supply the narration in the Chuck Jones animated version.
I was thinking more like Yoda and Bea Arthur.
That was the joke.
He’s a Seussian Grinch (Greenfurrius curmudgeonis), a Platonic ideal that springs full-blown into the world out of the psyche of the Creator (rumored to be a whitehaired, whitebearded man with a beak of a nose and hornrimmed glasses).
That’s a stag reel I truly don’t need to see…
You know, the REAL question on Seussian taxonomy is this:
Are the Grinchite Whos the same species as the Hortonite Whos? And if they’re not, then why do they have the same name?
THERE is your seminal Seussian question of the century, folks! Is the entire universe of Whoville and the Grinchian Mountains contained in the single dandelion puff that Horton plucks from the plant? Or are the Hortonite Whos an ancient offshoot of the Grinchian Whos, as the Romulans are of the Vulcans, only shrunken in stature?
And just where do the Sneeches (Starbelly or Plain) come into all of this?
Mmmmm. Manly you are, yet receptive to probing. My Chosen One have I found!
My personal theory is that the Grinch is simply an emaciated Belle in her old age.
It makes it so much more poignant when she carves the Roast Beast.
I always thought it was just he and he alone.
Due to “You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch…” I assumed it was his surname.
So what’s his first name? And what is his species?
Wow. Talk about having a rough menopause…
The?
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The Lorax was also rather singular.