The Grinch on NBC, 11/27/2020

Just a heads up.

Chuck Jones’ animated holiday classic, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, featuring Boris Karloff as the narrator, airs on NBC, tomorrow, Nov. 27, 2020 at 8:00 PM EST and 7:00 CST. That’s one that Apple didn’t steal.

You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch

Slight typo in the thread title – should be 11/27. :slight_smile:

You mean you couldn’t use the Force to change it? :slight_smile:

Thank you. I was able to edit it. Let’s not make 2020 last any longer than it has to. :laughing:

I got to experience a first grader reading the book to her class on Monday. I added the song when she requested it. I had our copy handy in case she tripped over words, but it didn’t happen. She even added clever asides, which she learned to do from the school librarian.

Well, you know…

Damn my pole is only 39 and a half feet long.

You’re a sly one.

Then the Grinch did the same to the other Whos’ houses
Leaving crumbs much too small for the other Whos’ mouses.

  • I think in recent years NBC has aired How the Grinch Stole Christmas twice; once in a half-hour slot in which it is edited down for additional commercial time compared to airings of yesteryear, and then a second time unedited as the lead in to the live action movie version. No promises that will happen this year, but an FYI.

  • Apple TV+ got a fair amount of blowback for taking It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown from broadcast TV and responded by striking a deal with PBS to also air the traditional Peanuts specials they grabbed up. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving aired on my PBS station earlier this month and A Charlie Brown Christmas is scheduled to air on December 13.

And let’s not forget the uncredited Thurl Ravenscroft (aka Tony the Tiger) as the vocalist for the main song.

I’ve been wondering about Who theology. Since they have Christmas, doesn’t that imply that there was a fairly-humanoid-but-not-quite-human Who Jesus? Lived in Whorusalem and was whocified? Do Who who do not accept him into their properly-sized hearts go to Who Hell where they are roasted like beasts?

Maybe he was Jesu Lou Who. (I applaud your Whopuns.)

He turned water into Whoberry wine, he fed the Who-masses with who-who fluff, he drove The Who-buck changers out of The Who temple in a kerflufinger.