Halloween Is Grinch Night: Difference between revisions

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The story takes place in and around Whoville, a town that The Grinch periodically terrorizes on a night known as "Grinch Night," which commences when a "Sour-Sweet Wind" blows and sets off a variety of animal calls that annoys the Grinch into terrorizing the Whos. As the story opens, the Sour-Sweet Wind is just beginning to blow when Ukariah, a young bespectacled Who (a resident of Whoville) with astigmatism, goes outdoors to use the outhouse (referred to as "the euphemism" in the story), and is swept away by the wind.

* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Ukariah. He can define the term of an astigmatism, and somehow stand up to the Grinch and survive all of the horrors in the paraphernalia wagon.

* [[Big Friendly Dog]]: Max fits this role in the end; on his hind legs he's as tall as Ukariah, and after being freed by the Grinch he runs down the hill after Ukariah and the next shot we see is him happily slurping Ukariah's face.

* [[Disney Acid Sequence]]: Everything that happens after the Grinch opens his trap-door... well... to say none of it makes sense is an understatement.

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: The Grinch is annoyed at the various animal caterwauls -- something the Whos have ''zero'' control over -- so he takes it upon himself to go terrorize them for it. Talk about petty...

* [[The Musical]]: The special has no fewer than seven vocal tunes, some with several measures, and ''very'' few instances of repeating. Impressive, given its half-hour running time.

* [[Negative Continuity]]: If this is a sequel to the Christmas one, then the Grinch [[Face Heel Turn|went back to being evil]]. If it's a prequel, then Max went back to serving the Grinch.

** It also shows that that Grinch is a member of an entire species, most of whom are profoundly unpleasant people. So they could be different Grinches, each called "the" Grinch because there are no other Grinches in the area.

* [[No One Gets Left Behind]]: Animals all shack up in safety when the Sour-Sweet Wind starts blowing. A female Who even goes back for her son's doll.

** Which is why re-releases have sometimes renamed it "It's Grinch Night"

* [[Number of the Beast]]: "I wouldn’t go out on a night like this...for sixty-six million six hundred thousand dollars and an extra sixty-six cents!"

* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: The Wuzzy Woozoo, whom the Grinch torments along the trip down his mountain.

* [[Rule of Three]]: It took Ukariah three attempts to stall the Grinch before he's able to go into the Paraphernalia Wagon.

* [[Shout-Out]]: At one point in the infamous [[Mind Rape]] sequence, Ukariah meets the Jibboo from the Dr. Seuss book "Oh, the Things You Can Think".

* [[Slasher Smile]]: The Grinch makes one during the title sequence.

* [[We Will Meet Again]]: "That wind will be coming back someday. ''I'll'' be coming back someday."

* [[You Shall Not Pass]]: Ukariah's delaying of the Wagon. And as Ukariah states:

 

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