# The Grinch on NBC, 11/27/2020
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grinch-on-nbc-11-27-2020/926514
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** tv-shows-scripted
**Created:** [November 26, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grinch-on-nbc-11-27-2020/926514 "2020-11-26T17:20:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grinch-on-nbc-11-27-2020/926514/1 "2020-11-26T17:20:03Z")
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_
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2020, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grinch-on-nbc-11-27-2020/926514/2 "2020-11-26T17:21:15Z")
Slight typo in the thread title – should be 11/27. 🙂
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2020, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grinch-on-nbc-11-27-2020/926514/3 "2020-11-26T17:22:58Z")
You mean you couldn’t use the Force to change it? 🙂
Thank you. I was able to edit it. Let’s not make 2020 last any longer than it has to. 😆
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### Author:  [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2020, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grinch-on-nbc-11-27-2020/926514/4 "2020-11-26T19:08:33Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2020, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grinch-on-nbc-11-27-2020/926514/5 "2020-11-26T19:21:27Z")
> [@cochrane](#):
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> You mean you couldn’t use the Force to change it?
Well, you know…
[ ](https://www.leolamvaed.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/nothowforceworks.jpg)
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### Author:  [@CoconutPete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoconutPete)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2020, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grinch-on-nbc-11-27-2020/926514/6 "2020-11-26T19:24:54Z")
Damn my pole is only 39 and a half feet long.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2020, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grinch-on-nbc-11-27-2020/926514/7 "2020-11-26T19:28:01Z")
> [@cochrane](#):
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> Thank you. I was able to edit it.
You’re a sly one.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2020, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grinch-on-nbc-11-27-2020/926514/8 "2020-11-26T21:42:04Z")
Then the Grinch did the same to the other Whos’ houses
Leaving crumbs much too small for the other Whos’ mouses.
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### Author:  [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2020, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grinch-on-nbc-11-27-2020/926514/9 "2020-11-27T21:53:11Z")
- 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](https://www.pbs.org/about/about-pbs/blogs/news/apple-pbs-team-up-for-broadcasts-of-a-charlie-brown-thanksgiving-a-charlie-brown-christmas/).
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### Author:  [@Tierce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tierce)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2020, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grinch-on-nbc-11-27-2020/926514/10 "2020-11-27T23:18:29Z")
> [@cochrane](#):
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> …featuring Boris Karloff as the narrator…
And let’s not forget the uncredited Thurl Ravenscroft (aka Tony the Tiger) as the vocalist for the main song.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2020, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grinch-on-nbc-11-27-2020/926514/11 "2020-12-16T04:06:28Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2020, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grinch-on-nbc-11-27-2020/926514/12 "2020-12-16T04:19:10Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> Since they have Christmas, doesn’t that imply that there was a fairly-humanoid-but-not-quite-human Who Jesus?
Maybe he was Jesu Lou Who. (I applaud your Whopuns.)
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### Author:  [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2020, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grinch-on-nbc-11-27-2020/926514/13 "2020-12-16T16:02:00Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#):
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> Maybe he was Jesu Lou Who.
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.