![]() ![]() It's a bizarre little story with little to tie it to the Halloween holiday, but also a curious case when it comes to the canon of The Grinch and Max. (It's disconcerting to see the familiar snow-covered landscape all barren and lifeless.) However, he's prevented in doing so by a brave young Who named Euchariah, who's forced to face the Grinch's trippy terrors and stand his ground. ![]() Crumpit and Whoville into a ruckus, which causes the Grinch to bring his home-cooked horrors into town. A sour-sweet wind sends the creatures around Mt. ![]() Seuss, it lacks the focus and cohesive storytelling of the original Christmas special. Did the Grinch relapse and go back to terrorizing Whos after his Christmastime turnaround? Or did he relish the haunted holiday as the one time a year when he could go about his Grinchy business unchecked? Hard to say, but the fact that it won an Emmy for Outstanding Children's Programming in 1978 suggests that it's worth a watch either way. And while it's hard to place the timing of this special in the seasonal sense, it's also unclear whether this is a prequel or a sequel to the Christmas special. If you didn't catch this special on or around the actual holiday, or you only caught it as It's Grinch Night (as it was packaged in later VHS releases in the early 1990s), you'd be forgiven for not knowing it was a Halloween special at all. ![]()
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