When? What Channel? Have I missed it already?
It is too clear, and so it is hard to see.
All the Whos down in Who-ville liked Christmas a lot…
It’s run on TNT twice already, most recently on Sunday afternoon. It’s also available on both VHS and DVD, so you really don’t need to miss it at all.
“It’s my considered opinion you’re all a bunch of sissies!”–Paul’s Grandfather
Sunday afternoon? Don’t they show it in the evening any more? I’ve got shopping to do!
It is too clear, and so it is hard to see.
Ahhh, The Grinch. Chuck Jones’ second greatest work of art!
Elmer J. Fudd,
Millionaire.
I own a mansion and a yacht.
Oh great. Now this is going to be running through my head all day. Well I can’t let y’all off the hook that easily:
*You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch.
You really are a heel.
You’re as cuddly as a cactus; you’re as charming as an eel, Mr. Grinch.
You’re a bad banana with a… greasy black peel.
You’re a monster, Mr. Grinch.
Your heart’s an empty hole.
Your brain is full of spiders,
you’ve got garlic in your soul Mr. Grinch.
I wouldn’t touch you with a 39½-foot pole.
You’re a foul one, Mr. Grinch,
You have termites in your smile.
You have all the tender sweetness of a seasick crocodile, Mr. Grinch.
Given the choice between the two of you, I’d take the- um, seasick crocodile.
You’re a rotten- Mr. Grinch.
You’re the king of simple sots.
Your heart’s a dead tomato splotched with moldy purple spots, Mr. Grinch.
You’re a three-decker sauerkraut & toadstool sandwich, with arsenic sauce.
You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch.
With a nauseous super nous
You’re a crooked dirty jockey & you drive a crooked hoss, Mr. Grinch.
Your soul is an appalling dump heap, overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of rubbish imaginable, mangled up in tangled-up knots.
You’re a foul one, Mr. Grinch.
You’re a nasty-wasty skunk.
Your heart is full of unwashed socks; your soul is full of gunk, Mr. Grinch.
The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote:* Stink, Stank, Stunk!
Oh, and that should be How The Grinch Stole Christmas. “The Grinch Who Stole…” would be correct if you’re trying to differentiate between the Grinch who stole Thanksgiving & the Grinch who stole Groundhog Day.
“How The Grinch Stole Christmas” is perhaps my favorite animated Christmas story. The scene where he whistles for Max, who joyfully leaps into the sleigh raring to go, is priceless.
We used to have a miniature dachshund who behaved identically. She loved to ride in the car and would quiver with anticipation if she thought we were going somewhere and it looked like she might go, too. She would leap into the car, resting her paws on the dash and wagging her whole body with anticipation whenever she was allowed to go.
–Baloo
It’s more important to understand than it is to agree.
http://members.tripod.com/~Bob_Baloo/index.htm
Hmm, the net was curiously unhelpful on this topic. The only showing I could find is this Sunday, 12/19, at 3 p.m. on TNT. It should be on Cartoon Network in the near future, but perhaps they are waiting until closer to Xmas.
TRIVIA NOTE: The man who sang the Grinch song is Thurl Ravenscroft, who is better known as the voice of Tony the Tiger.
If Chuck Jones directed a better cartoon, I haven’t seen it.
>< DARWIN >
__L___L
Awww…Throw me a bone, will ya?
Elmer J. Fudd,
Millionaire.
I own a mansion and a yacht.
I’ve never seen it. It’s never ever played in New Zealand. I know it’s Dr Seuss, and I know Ron Howard is directing Jim Carrey in the live action version. But that’s all I know.
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And narrated by Boris Karloff!
“The universe doesn’t give first warnings or second chances”
A quick search at http://www.tvguide.com reports “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” will air on Christmas Eve at 8:05 on TBS.
Merry Christmas!
If you want a cover of the Grinch song the Whirling Dervishes did one a while back.
Except when it isn’t. As I mentioned in a thread a few months back, for some onknown reason a videotape version of HTGSC was released with Karloff’s narration edited out and a Walter Matthau narration replacing it. Don’t get me wrong, I like Matthau, but as far as I’m concerned Karloff nailed this one so there was no reason to replace his work.
HTGSC has already been on Cartoon Network at least once, but I know it’s going to be on again, I just can’t remember when. I personally like the TNT version of HTGSC, with the extra half-hour special on the making of HTGSC, hosted by Phil Hartman. Watching that version is where I found out, after a gozillion viewings of HTGSC, that Thurl Ravenscroft sang “You’re a Foul One, Mr. Grinch,” but he is listed nowhere in the credits.
Oh yeah–I haven’t seen anything better by Chuck Jones, either. And if you’re a Chuck Jones fan, turn on the Cartoon Network right now. They’re having a millennium special, called “Mil-Looney-Um.” Every Looney Toons cartoon, ever. It’s great. 
Did I ever tell you how much my SO Ed is scared of the Grinch? Naah, that would be mean.
Of course, the Oompa-Loompas freak me out to this day.
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt. That’s my name too.
Wait, no it isn’t.
Guess what I bought on Friday?
A CD with the entire program of HTGSC.
It’s got the whole narration of the show, plus versions of each song.
Dah-who-dores
Fah-who-fores
Welcome Christmas, come this way.
Dah-who-dores
Fah-who-fores
Welcome Christmas, Christmas Day.
Christmas lies within our grasp,
So long as we have hands to clasp.
Welcome Christmas, while we stand
Heart to heart and hand in hand.
Damn, that’s it. Changing my sig again.
“You know, you’ve got the
brain of a 4-year-old, and I
bet he was glad to get rid of it.”
Just wanted to debut it here.
“And he, he himself, the Grinch,
carved the roast beast.”