History WesternAnimation / HalloweenIsGrinchNight

* AnAesop: There are things in this world that are going to frighten you, and if you want to do the right thing, you have to confront them instead of taking off your glasses and denying them.

* MindRape: The Grinch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeFaBvL72a8 does this]] to Euchariah using the Paraphernalia Wagon during the movie's climax. The [[WebVideo/NostalgiaCritic Nostalgia Critic]] even placed this scene on his Top 11 Mind F*** list.

* DerangedAnimation: The entire [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeFaBvL72a8 Paraphernalia Wagon sequence]]. It is filled with [[EldritchAbomination utterly bizarre entities]] and [[MindScrew almost completely incomprehensible imagery]] thrown at every other second. It gets more and more [[SurrealHorror surreally intense]] as it climaxes. It's on the [[WebVideo/NostalgiaCritic Nostalgia Critic]]'s Top 11 Mind F*** List for very justified reasons.

''Halloween Is Grinch Night'' is an animated television HalloweenSpecial and a followup to ''WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas''. (It isn't clear whether it's meant to be a prequel or sequel, although it presumably takes place prior to the Grinch's HeelFaceTurn in ''Christmas''.) A co-production of [[Creator/DePatieFrelengEnterprises DePatie-Freleng Enterprises]] and Creator/DrSeuss, it first aired on Creator/AmericanBroadcastingCompany ABC]] on October 29, 1977 and won the MediaNotes/EmmyAward for Outstanding Children's Program the following year. Hans Conried serves as both the story's {{Narrator}} and the voice of TheGrinch, in a manner similar to Creator/BorisKarloff in the earlier special. Unlike ''How the Grinch Stole Christmas!'', it is an original work and not based on a book.

''Halloween Is Grinch Night'' is an animated television HalloweenSpecial and a followup to ''WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas''. (It isn't clear whether it's meant to be a prequel or sequel, although it presumably takes place prior to the Grinch's HeelFaceTurn in ''Christmas''.) A co-production of [[Creator/DePatieFrelengEnterprises DePatie-Freleng Enterprises]] and Creator/DrSeuss, it first aired on Creator/{{ABC}} on October 29, 1977 and won the MediaNotes/EmmyAward for Outstanding Children's Program the following year. Hans Conried serves as both the story's {{Narrator}} and the voice of TheGrinch, in a manner similar to Creator/BorisKarloff in the earlier special. Unlike ''How the Grinch Stole Christmas!'', it is an original work and not based on a book.

''Halloween Is Grinch Night'' is an animated television HalloweenSpecial and a followup to ''WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas''. (It isn't clear whether it's meant to be a prequel or sequel, although it presumably takes place prior to the Grinch's HeelFaceTurn in ''Christmas''.) A co-production of [[Creator/DePatieFrelengEnterprises DePatie-Freleng Enterprises]] and Creator/DrSeuss, it first aired on Creator/{{ABC}} on October 29, 1977 and won the UsefulNotes/EmmyAward for Outstanding Children's Program the following year. Hans Conried serves as both the story's {{Narrator}} and the voice of TheGrinch, in a manner similar to Creator/BorisKarloff in the earlier special. Unlike ''How the Grinch Stole Christmas!'', it is an original work and not based on a book.

* DerangedAnimation: The entire [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeFaBvL72a8 Paraphernalia Wagon sequence]]. It is filled with [[EldritchAbomination utterly bizarre entities]] and [[MindScrew almost completely incomprehensible imagery]] thrown at every other second. It gets more and more [[SurrealHorror surreally intense]] as it climaxes. Its [[WebVideo/NostalgiaCritic Nostalgia Critic]]'s Top 11 Mind F*** List for very justified reasons.

* AHeroToHisHometown: Euchariah becomes this after keeping the Grinch from getting to Whoville. A scene toward the end shows him and Max getting their picture taken outside the town hall while all the Whos in town look on admiringly.

* GriefSong: Max's sorrowful ballad about how he regrets his life with the Grinch and longs to go back to his innocent puppyhood days, when his future was bright.

* RealityWarper: The Grinch has some magic power as he was able to shrink and enlarge himself in his VillainSong.

** Euchariah, while on Mount Crumpet, is wondering aloud, "Where ''is'' that euphemism?"

''Halloween Is Grinch Night'' is an animated television HalloweenSpecial and a followup to ''WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas''. (It isn't clear whether it's meant to be a prequel or sequel, although it presumably takes place prior to the Grinch's HeelFaceTurn in ''Christmas''.) A co-production of [[Creator/DePatieFrelengEnterprises DePatie-Freleng Enterprises]] and Creator/DrSeuss, it first aired on Creator/{{ABC}} on October 29, 1977 and won the UsefulNotes/EmmyAward for Outstanding Children's Program the following year. Hans Conried serves as both the story's {{Narrator}} and the voice of TheGrinch, in a manner similar to Creator/BorisKarloff in the earlier special. Unlike ''How the Grinch Stole Christmas'', it is an original work and not based on a book.

* {{Filler}}: The dialogue between the Whos is always prefaced by the narrator saying "And [x] said:", trying to fill out the time before the big climax.

* FailedASpotCheck: Euchariah, on first seeing Max, thinks he's a stray, not noticing Max is hitched to the Grinch's Paraphernalia Wagon.

* ParentalAbandonment: Euchariah lives with his Grandpa Josiah and Grandma Mariah (and two younger Whos that may or may not be his siblings). His parents are never mentioned and are nowhere to be seen.

* LastOfHisKind: The Wuzzy Woozoo the Grinch chases is apparently the only one left in Whoville: "The Woozoo should at least have immunity! He's the only one left in our community!"

* MondegreenGag: "Grinch is gonna get ya, yes indeedy fa la la, ya!" The sing-along version of the special actually transcribes the "yes indeedy" part as the complete gibberish "[[EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped nitzen diff a la]]". In the subtitler's defense, these ''are'' Dr. Seuss lyrics we're dealing with here. This is noticeably averted [[https://youtu.be/MIYKNJxxapU?t=17m33s in the German dub]], which has simply "blitzi blie fa ha la".

* NeverMyFault: The Grinch gets brickles stuck in him and says the Whos "brickle-ized" him. Not only were the Whos not outdoors when he crashed and got thrown into the brickle bush (because ''he'' had frightened them indoors), but also he might not have crashed if he hadn't been trying to hunt down the Wuzzy Woozoo.

-->'''The Grinch:''' Brickle-ize me, will they? [[DisproportionateRetribution I'll brickle-ize the entire township!]]

* MasterOfIllusion: The Grinch's Paraphernalia Wagon seems to be hypnotizing Euchariah [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou and the audience]] into ''thinking'' he's in a surreal hellish landscape. This possibility is supported by the fact that at the very end of the sequence, he's seen standing on top of the wagon again.

* NonIndicativeName: Halloween is never even brought up, nor does any character allude to it outside the title, which is why re-releases have sometimes renamed it "[It's] Grinch Night" and the German dub is titled "An Halloween kommt der Grinch" when it was released in West Germany.

* PainToTheAss: While chasing the Wuzzy Woozoo, the Grinch ends up crashing into a brickle bush and gets a bunch of brickles in his britches.

* BadassBookworm: Euchariah. 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.

''[He backs up the wagon, crushing the flower.]''\\

* MindRape: The Grinch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeFaBvL72a8 does this]] to Euchariah using his Paraphernalia wagon during the movie's climax. The [[WebVideo/NostalgiaCritic Nostalgia Critic]] even placed this scene on his Top 11 Mind F*** list.

* BigOlEyebrows: The Grinch's lift clear off his face and fly around like giant bats. He's rather proud of them.

* ParentalAbandonment: Euchariah lives with his grandparents (and two younger Whos that may or may not be his siblings). His parents are never mentioned and are nowhere to be seen.

* WindsOfChange: All the Whos down in Whoville noticed a change in the wind when the sweet and sour wind begins to blow. The wind makes the local animals go crazy and started angering the Grinch. Thus starting off Grinch Night.