Funny / How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

• The opening of the film shows Dru and Stu Who with their female friends atop of the mountain attempting to touch the Grinch's front door. When they get spooked by a giant monster puppet roaring at them through the front door, with the camera zooming in on its large tongue. The frightened teen Whos then jump down the steep snowy hills to escape before falling and rolling all the way back down to Whoville covered in snow. As for that monster at the front door, it turned out to be just Max in disguise with the giant monster puppet.
  The Grinch: Well done, Max!
  • Before this happens, Dru and Stu make fun of Juni accusing her of being scared of Grinch. Later (as you can obviously expect) both of them are clearly afraid when they're standing next to door leading to the Grinch's cave, which makes the above mentioned scene even funnier.
• The Grinch hating everyone in Whoville in alphabetical order.
  The Grinch: (looks into phonebook) Aardvarkian Abakaneezer Who, I... HATE YOOOOUUUU!!! (looks into phonebook again) Aaron B. Benson Who, I hate you. (skims through phonebook) Hate, hate, hate... Hate, hate, hate... Double hate... (sees one name in phonebook) LOATHE ENTIRELY.
  • Possibly a bit of Fridge Brilliance for the last name he was hating before being interrupted by the Whobilation preparations. Given that the movie has just finished showing the audience the Grinch's backstory and why he's the miserable, angry goon that he is, and that he was still in the "A" section of the phonebook, he had likely just reached the entry for Mayor Augustus Maywho.
• Crash-testing the Grinch's sled:
  ♫ You know, if you asked the Who's Who of Whoville... ♫
  The Grinch: (gives a thumbs-up to his dog, who then hits the button to start the test launch)
  ♫ They wouldn't deny it~ ♫
  (The Grinch's rocket-sled launches forward, slamming into the wall at the end of the track, and headlong into a sign with Hit Here written on it)
  The Grinch: Ow...(spending several moments staggering away from what's left of his sled) Airbag's a little slow...(Air bags deploy)...but that's what these tests are for! (stumbles away)
• The Grinch debating on whether or not to go to the Whobilation, the entirety of which Jim Carrey improvised.
  The Grinch: The nerve of those Whos. Inviting me down there - on such short notice! Even if I wanted to go, my schedule wouldn't allow it! (opens up schedule book) Four o'clock, wallow in self pity; Four-thirty, stare into the abyss; Five o'clock, solve world hunger, tell no one; Five-thirty, jazzercize; Six-thirty, dinner with me - I can't cancel that again; Seven o'clock, wrestle with my self-loathing... I'm booked. Of course, if I bump the loathing to nine, I could still be done in time to lay in bed, stare at the ceiling and slip slowly into madness. (Beat) But what would I wear?!
  • He ponders if the Whos are trying to pull something.
  The Grinch: What if it's a cruel prank? What if it's cash bar? (suddenly enters Tranquil Fury) How dare they!
  • There's a full scene of him deciding to go to Whobilation:
  Grinch: All right. I'll swing by for a minute, allow them to envy me, grab a handful of popcorn shrimp, and blow out of there. But what if it's a cruel prank? What if it's cash bar? (suddenly enters Tranquil Fury) How dare they! All right, I'll go. But I'll be fashionably late. No. Yes. No. Yes. No! Yes! Definitely not! All right. I've made my decision! I'm going, and that's that. Had my fingers crossed. (falls through the trap door that Max opened) Maybe I should flip a coin!
• Betty Lou Who's trying to get lights for her Christmas display, mostly to outdo Martha May Who's. It culminates in this:
  Betty: [holding a traffic light] Look! I just found the cutest light for the Christmas display! [LOUD CRASH] ...hurry up, we're gonna be late, come on.
• The scene where Cindy and her father talking about the Grinch and doing some Christmas shopping when her brothers and their friends stumble back into Whoville covered in snow from rolling down the mountains and freaking out because of the Grinch's prank on them:
  Stu and Drew Who: Dad! DAAAAADDDD! (stumbling into Whoville covered in snow)
  Lou Who: (worried) What happened to you?!
  Stu and Drew Who: It was THE GRINCH!
  [PEOPLE OF WHOVILLE PANIC, A RECORD SKIPS, CARS CRASH]
  Citizens: GRINCH?!
  The Grinch (in disguise): (annoyed) What do you want?! (realizes in shock) I mean-- (high pitched voice) Grinch? OH NO!! (hides away)
  Mayor Augustus Maywho: Did someone say "Grinch"?!
  Lou Who: ("Oh, Crap!" Smile) Hello, Mayor May Who...
  • After mayor tells the Whos that Grinch isn't threat to them, Grinch shoots a giant spitball from a pop gun, hitting mayor right upside the head much to his confusion. Grinch then leaves giggling evilly.
    • Bonus points for Grinch getting back at his bully from school years.
• Martha's Suspiciously Specific Denial:
  Martha May: Did I have a crush on the Grinch? [chuckles] Well of course not.
  Cindy Lou: Um, I didn't ask you that.
  Martha May [slightly embarrassed]: Oh... right.
• While the Grinch being bullied as a kid isn’t funny at all, this line is sorta.

  Grinch: Stupid present! Stupid tree! I! HATE! CHRISTMAS!

• The Grinch arguing with his own echo:
  The Grinch: I tell you Max, I don't know why I ever leave this place. I've got all the company I need right here. (shouts) Hello?
  Echo: Hello, hello, hello...?
  The Grinch: How are you?
  Echo: How are you... how are you... how are you...?
  The Grinch: I asked you first.
  Echo: I asked you first... first... first...
  The Grinch: Oh right, that's REALLY mature, saying exactly what I say.
  Echo: ...Saying exactly what I say... what I say... what I say...
  The Grinch: I'm an idiot!
  Echo: You're an idiot... an idiot... an idiot...!
  The Grinch: (whispering) Alright, fine! I'm not talking to you anymore! In fact, I'm going to whisper! So that by the time my voice reverberates off the walls, and gets back to me, I won't be able to hear it.
  Beat
  Echo: You're an idiot... an idiot... an idiot!
• During the Whobilation event, Cindy Lou nominates the Grinch, while the Mayor tries to think of an excuse for him not to go.
  Mayor Augustus Maywho: And now the nominations for the whom-among-us who best typifies the qualities of whodom and whomonee ... the Whoville Holiday Cheermeister! Do I hear a nomination?
  Cindy Lou Who: I nominate the Grinch!
  (crowd gasps)
  Mayor Augustus Maywho: My, my. (to Cindy's dad) What an altruistic daughter you have there, Lou.
  Lou: (uncomfortably) Thank you.
  Mayor Augustus Maywho: Cindy, let me quote a verse from The Book of Who. (Whobris, his assistant, hands him the Whoville bible, known as The Book of Who.) Ah, "The term 'Grinchy' shall apply when Christmas spirit is in short supply." Now, does that sound like our Holiday Cheermeister to you?
  Cindy Lou Who: True, Mr. Maywho, but the Book of Who says this too: "No matter how different a Who may appear he will always be welcomed with holiday cheer."
  Mayor Augustus Maywho: Whoa. Yes, well the — the Book also says, the, uh — "The award... cannot go... to the Grinch, because... sometimes things get the lead pipe cinch."
  Cindy Lou Who: You made that up! It doesn't say that!
  Mayor Augustus Maywho: Of course it does!
  Cindy Lou Who: What page?
  Mayor Augustus Maywho: (nervously flipping through the book) Uh... oop! Lost my, uh... my — my place, but it's — It's in here!
  Cindy Lou Who: But the Book does say... "The Cheermeister is the one who deserves a back slap or a toast. And it goes to the soul at Christmas who needs it the most." And I believe that soul is the Grinch. And if you're the Whos I hope you are, you will too.
  Mayor Augustus Maywho: Fine. You people want to waste a perfectly good nomination... why, it's up to you. But I am telling you the Grinch will never come down!
  Whobris: And when he doesn't, the Mayor will wear the crown!
  Mayor Augustus Maywho: Well... more or less.
• The Grinch's answering machine:
  System Message: You have. No. Messages.
  The Grinch: Odd...better check the outgoing...(hits a button)
  Recording: If you utter so much as one syllable, I'LL HUNT YOU DOWN AND GUT YOU LIKE A FISH!! (normal voice) If you'd like to fax me, press the "star" key. (*beep*)
  The Grinch: ... Oh well!
• How about when he gets a wake up call by singing the Whobilation song?
  The Grinch: (sleep singing) Tick tock, tick tock, counting down the Christmas clock. (starts waking up) Old, young, big, small...RRRAAAAGGGGHHHH!!! (sits up in horror before jamming a pillow over his ears) Blast this Christmas music! It's joyful and triumphant!
  • His efforts to drown them out are even more hilarious. "Play, monkey! PLAY!" (repeats this maniacally), followed by him riding a jackhammer while "La-la-la"ing.
    • [LOUD CRASH'']..."OWIE!!!"^note One DVD's subtitle for that part translates it as Howdy?
    • And then when Cindy comes in, she discovers him bending over, allowing the monkey to bang his head with the cymbals again and again.
    • Even funnier, when she finally gets his attention, he stands bolt upright but the monkey is still banging away. He grabs the cymbals when they come together again and the monkey breaks down spectacularly.
• The theatrics that the Grinch resorts to as he's trying to scare Cindy Lou Who out of his cave are hilarious. Also, they don't work.
  • Grinch's first attempt.
  The Grinch: (turns to see Cindy standing right behind him) Hello, little girl. HOW DARE YOU ENTER, THE GRINCH'S LAIR! THE IMPUDENCE! The audacity! The un-miti-gated gall! YOU'VE called for the thunder, now get ready... FOR THE BOOM! Gaze into the face of fear! Booga-booga!
  • Grinch's second attempt.
  The Grinch: You see? Even now, the terror is welling up inside you.
  Cindy Lou: I'm not scared.
  The Grinch: Denial is to be expected in the face of... pure evil. (starts snarling away in front of Cindy Lou)
  Cindy Lou: I don't think so!
  • Grinch's last effort at scaring away Cindy Lou.
  The Grinch: Doubt?! Another unmistakable sign of the heebie-jeebies! Now... you're... doomed!
  The Grinch jumps off-screen, and then back in wearing a white T-shirt, which he begins ripping apart while screaming.
  The Grinch: RUN FOR YOUR LIFE! BEFORE I... KILL AGAIN! (howls) I'm a psycho! (Starts nibbling on his torn shirt and starts dancing around) Danger! Danger! (Grinch lunges at the camera repeatedly until he tires out)
  • And then there's these lines after his theatrics fail:
  Cindy Lou: Um, maybe you need a time out. *cut to the Grinch having a rather priceless look on his face and Cindy giggles, before Grinch turns to the audience*
  The Grinch: Kids today. So desensitized by movies and television. (turns back to Cindy Lou) WHAT DO YOU WANT?!!!
  • And then his finisher to Cindy Lou's proposal that he join the Whobilation:
    Grinch: (while strategically placing her in front of the door) I don't know if it's that adorable twinkle in your eye or that nonconformist streak that reminds me of a younger, less hairy me...But you've convinced me! Who knows? This Whobilation could change my entire outlook on life!
    Cindy Lou: Really?
    Grinch: No. (pulls a rope and she falls through a trap door)
    • After failing though the trap door, Cindy actually enjoys the ride.
• And the bit where he's designing an outfit for the Whobilation; he goes to the kitchen and yanks the tablecloth from underneath a pile of metal junk, leaving the pile in place as he leaves. Then he rushes back in and knocks the pile off anyway.
  • The scene was supposed to have all the items fall off when the tablecloth was pulled but when Jim pulled it clean off, he decided to just knock everything over. It works well in-character - The Grinch would have wanted to make a mess.
• "It's not a dress, it's a kilt! Sicko!"
  • And what's under the kilt when he rips it off? A garter.
  • The television cut has him wear two more outfits - one being his own furnace...
  Grinch: (strained in movement and voice) This doesn't fit like it used to. (opens the door on it, revealing a fire inside, before closing it and carefully walking away)
  • And the other one is a suit made of bees.
  Grinch: (comes sprinting in all covered in bees) This is more of a spring look. (runs off in pain)
• When the Grinch steals a yodeler's lederhosen:
  Grinch: [ransacking his clothes] Stupid! Ugly! Out of date! [emerges from closet] This is ridiculous. If I can't find something nice to wear, I'm not going!
  [hears a yodeler from outside — cuts to the Grinch yanking him offscreen with a Vaudeville Hook, then back to inside the cave with the Grinch wearing his lederhosen]
  Grinch: [strikes a pose] Ooh! [strikes a second pose] Aah! [strikes a third pose while sticking out his butt] Mmmm! That's it, I'm not going.
  • And one has to wonder what happened to said yodeler.
• "I'm speaking in RHYME!!!"
  • He recalls this later.
  The Grinch: Why, for year after year I've put up with it now. I must stop this Christmas from coming... but how? (Realizes what he just did.) I MEAN... in what way?
• The Grinch storms back into his cave, only to find Max dancing happily to Christmas music, with his doghouse all decorated in Christmas lights. This was after Max forced the Grinch to go to the Whobilation when he couldn't make up his mind by sending him down the same trap door the Grinch sent Cindy Lou down earlier. Max was certain when the Grinch came back, he would be full of the Christmas spirit again thanks to the Whobilation, and decided to celebrate. He soon finds that he was way, way off when he sees the seething Grinch having been watching him dance for several seconds before taking notice he had returned and quickly stops.
  Grinch: Are you having a holly, jolly Christmas?
  (Cue the front door of the Grinch's cave flying open)
  Grinch: WRONG-O!!!
  (Max's doghouse, with its Christmas lights unplugged, comes flying out, followed by Max himself. The Grinch then glares over the ledge at where Max and his doghouse landed to see a Max-shaped Impact Silhouette in the snow.)
  Max: (defeated groan)
  • In that same scene, the Grinch mimics Max's dancing in a mocking way.
• "WE'RE GONNA DIE! WE'RE GONNA DIE! I'M GOING TO THROW UP, AND THEN I'M GONNA DIIIIEEEEEYAAAAAHHH! MOMMY! TELL IT TO STOP!"
  • Once the sled becomes stabilized:
  Grinch: (exhaling; calmly) Almost...lost my cool back there.
• The opening scene where he knocks people over with a marble and wreaks havoc on Whoville. He does stuff like go into the post office and switching and throwing letters into peoples' mailboxes, mostly notices for "jury duty" but you can also hear "blackmail", "pinkslip", "chain letter", and "eviction notice".
• The scene when they sled out of control down Mt. Crumpit, fully detailed on the Heartwarming page.
  • Before this, there's scene when they sled towards the Whoville, fully detailed on the Awesome page.
• "It's because I'm green, isn't it?!"
• As the Holiday Cheermeister, the Grinch is being force fed pudding and fudge when:
  Einstein-like character: This is not pudding.
  Grinch: (Spit Take) What is it?!
• After receiving a razor as a Christmas present from the mayor the Grinch goes on a hilarious rampage.
  • The Grinch then gives the Mayor a sweet payback by using the razor on his head!
  Grinch: Uh-oh! Somebody's... FABULOUS~! (forcefully kisses the Mayor's cheek).
• His stealing of Christmas scene is very funny too, like when he saws around a tree then pops up after it falls:
  The Grinch: Clearance sale, everything must go.
  • Then when he makes the mayor kiss Max's rear end.
• Hello, Martha.
• The Grinch's insistence that Cindy Lou mentioned a cheque when he shows up to be named Holiday Cheermeister.
  • Especially funny since the Grinch seems totally comfortable living off garbage in seclusion, so why would he want money?
  • When Cindy Lou says she didn't, you can see her parents reach to stop her.
• When the Grinch moves to sit down on a tiny car, you briefly see a point of view from the unfortunate passengers. Namely the Grinch's bum.
  • When he crashes the car and notices the gas leaking. Despite it being a tiny car and how ridiculous it looks at him running away in slo-mo Demolition Man style, the car bursts into a spectacular fiery explosion, complete with a tiny nuclear mushroom.
• Grinch's response to Cindy asking what Christmas is all about.
  Cindy: Santa, what's Christmas really about?
  Grinch: *Pops his head out of the stolen Christmas tree* VENGEANCE!!
  *Cindy recoils back*
  Grinch: *after realizing what he said* Er, I mean..... presents, I suppose.
  • That's not the only time he dropped the Santa act for a moment:
  Cindy: Santa?
  Grinch: WHAT?!?!
  • After his encounter with Cindy Lou in this scene, he says of her, "Nice kid, baaaaad judge of character."
• The whole scene with Grinch raiding the Lou Who house, from his entrance to the stealing of the tree.
  • Him going through chimney, with a style:
  Narrator: He'd slide down the chimney, a rather tight pinch, But if Santa could do it, then so could the Grinch.
  Grinch: He's planning a double-twisting interrupted forward-flying 2-and-a-half with a combo tuck and pike. High degree of difficulty.
  (Grinch mades his dive high in the air. He twirles about in the air several times before twisting himself into position for the dive down the chimney. He bellows loudly and mades his way down the chimney… only to slide down only halfway.)
  Narrator: He got stuck only once, for a moment or two...
  Grinch: Blasted water weight! Goes right to my hips.
  • After Grinch makes his way through the chimney, we get this:
  Narrator: Then he stuck his head out of the fire place flue.
  Grinch: *shushes the narrator* A little more stealth, please.
  Narrator: *Whispering* Where all the little Who stockings all hung in a row.
  • When the Grinch makes his way to the fridge.
  Narrator: Then he slunk to the ice box.
  Grinch: *Slams himself into the fridge* Slunk? *Opens it and smiles in glee*
  Narrator: He eyed the Whos' feast. He took the Who pudding *Grinch throws out something from the fridge* He took the roast beast.
  Grinch: *Is in football hike position and throws the food* HIKE!!!
  Narrator: *As Grinch is cleaning out their fridge sloppily* He cleaned out their icebox as quick as a flash. Why, that Grinch, he even took their last can of Who-Hash. *Grinch slides over to a cabinet and opens it*
• The Grinch getting attacked by a white cat. Twice.
• The scene where Grinch's heart begins to grow. While the scene is a mix of heartwarming/tearjerking, there's this bit:
  Grinch: *As he is in pain* Max! Help me! I'm....feeling!!!
  • The fact that he's clutching his left arm as though he's having a heart attack.
  • While the Grinch is sobbing, the camera briefly cuts to Max, who appears to be rolling his eyes.
  • What happens after:
  Grinch: *Whips a tear from his eye* And I'm leaking. *Starts crying* Oh, Max. *Max stands up and starts wagging his tail* I love you! *Begins to cry with happiness and opens his arms to hug Max, who runs to him and starts licking him, while Grinch still cries* All right, that's enough. Knock it off. Beat it! *Shoos Max away* Get out of here! One step at a time.
• Detailing the backstory of the Grinch and his Unstoppable Rage as a child...
  The Mayor: The anger!
  Mayor's aide: The fury!
  Martha: The muscles!
• During the Grinch's rampage, he burns the Christmas tree. Cut to Martha Whovier's reaction.
  Martha: (dazed) Oh wow.
• When the Grinch brings back all the stuff he stole and admits he did it, he holds his hands out to Police Chief Whoolihan, expecting to be arrested.
  The Grinch: Aren't you going to cuff me? Put me in a choke hold? Blind me with pepper spray?
  Mayor Augustus Maywho: You heard him, Officer! He admitted it! (Whispers in his ear) I'd go with the pepper spray.
  • Later when Chief Wholihan pardons him, Mayor has his jaw dropped, while Grinch smiles at him smugly.
• At the very end, the Grinch either doesn't know the lyrics to "Welcome Christmas" or decides to Troll the Whos some more.
  Fah who, ray moo, yahoo, yeehaw, welcome Christmas...
  • In the same scene, he definitely doesn't know the lyrics, with this exchange:
  Grinch: Welcome, Christmas, bring your- (quickly turns to Martha who tells him the next lyric) cheer...
• The baby delivery includes a rather funny Parental Bonus moment where a couple receives their baby at their doorstep.
  Father: Honey! Our baby's here! (Takes a closer look at the baby) ...He looks just like your boss.
  • This gets changed in Polish dub, when the father instead says that their baby "looks like his wife's mother".
• The scene where the Baby Grinch takes a bite out of the Santa plate.
  Baby Grinch: Santa. Bye bye.
• After Grinch's heart grows three sizes, he sees the sleigh full of stolen presents about to fall off Mount Crumpit.
  The Grinch: Oh no! The sleigh, the presents! They'll be destroyed! And I care! What... is the deal?!
  • After managing to get to the top of the mountain, Grinch first points his finger at the sleigh, and (overdramatically) screams "NOOOOOOO" while jumping towards the sleigh.
    • Bonus points for the whole scene being in slow motion.
• When Grinch fails to stop his sleigh, he resigns himself to the fate of the sleigh.
  The Grinch: Oh well... It's just toys, right?
  [Cindy-Lou Who emerges from the top of the pile, much to the Grinch's horror]
• What is the Mayor's first attempt at driving the Grinch away during the Whobilation? Siccing the Grinch's moms on him. His reaction, while surprisingly low-key, perfectly encapsulates just how much he is dreading the next few moments of his life.
  The Grinch: Are you two still living?
• Martha May shrieking with excitement when The Grinch wins the sack race before quickly composing herself.
• When the Grinch gets caught inside the mailing sorting room by Cindy, resulting in a Reactive Continuous Scream between the two:
  The Grinch: (Max sneezes) Gesundheit. Oh....
  Cindy Lou Who: (turns around, see The Grinch on the wall, screams)
  The Grinch: (screams)
  Cindy Lou Who: (screams)
  The Grinch: (screams)
  The Grinch: (jumps down from the walls, lands on both feet, deadpan evil smile, Beat)
  Cindy Lou Who: You're the—the—the—-!
  The Grinch: ...the—the—the— (switched from mocking tone to a growling deep voice) —THE GRINCH!
  Cindy Lou Who: (screams, stumbles back and falls into the mail shaft) Help!
  The Grinch: (stunned, completely deadpan) Well...That worked out nicely.
• The outtakes which can be found in the DVD release has a few of these:
  • The first of these is of an attempt at the moment where the Grinch wraps up Cindy Lou, but as he finishes his line and tugs the wrapping paper... it tears, leaving two pieces of it in Grinch's hands, he responds by doing a little cheer and tossing the pieces at Cindy like confetti.
  • Then there's one take on when Grinch pretends to be Santa to fool Cindy Lou with the "There's a light on this tree that won't light on one side!" with Grinch flicking said light with a finger to smash it... only the light doesn't shatter. Carrey quickly notices this and even tries to bite it.
  • The take on the scene of Mayor Maywho proposing to Martha:
  Mayor Maywho: Please become "Mrs. Augustus Maywho."
  Martha: (Beat) I hate you.
  Mayor Maywho: Cut!
  • Carrey exclaiming "My ass!" after falling over in one of the outtakes.
  • The last outtake has to be the highlight with Grinch pulling Maywho close to him, both hands on his cheeks like he's about to kiss him only to bite into his latex Who nose, tear it off and spit it out before walking off-screen silently with a very in-character scowl on his face. None of the cast could hold in their laughter at that moment.
• Before Grinch goes to pranking spree in Whoville, we get this gem:
  The Grinch: So, they want to get to know me, do they? They want to spend a little ‘quality time’ with the Grinch. (he then turns towards Max, in a way that makes it look like he's looking at the viewer) I guess I could use a little… social interaction (pulls off his classic evil grin).
  • Jim Carrey, during an interview, reveals that the CGI used for that grin was for minimal touch ups by pulling it off mid-interview. His face can just contort like that.
  • After that, we first see him in Whoville tiptoe walking while giggling evilly.
  • The Who mask he wears throughout that scene. It's so goofy looking.
  • After Whos on a bike wish him "Merry Christmas" he responds to them in a deadpan tone, before the bike somehow falls to pieces and the Whos fall to ground. He then tells Max that someone vandalized their bike and the city is a dangerous place, before he turns his back to the camera revealing buzzsaw in his hands, showing that he sawed their bike.
  • Zoot Suit Who stops Grinch, and tells him that he needs to buy a chapeau. Grinch's response? Releasing a huge, nasty belch so vile a ‘literal’ cloud of a greenish stench emerges, that knocks the poor Who completely unconscious. And even better, he later gets ran over by a bicycle!
• Before Betty and Martha try to catch the Grinch's sled with their Christmas lights, Grinch screams this gem:
  Grinch: Out of the way! I have no insurance!
• How does Max convince Grinch to save Cindy from the sorting machine? By biting him in the butt.
  • Before rescuing Cindy he says this:
  Grinch: Bleeding hearts of the world, unite!
  • After rescuing Cindy, she tells Grinch that he saved her. Grinch just stops walking towards the exit, with the sound effect making it look like he just had a heart attack. He then tells her, he didn't wanted to rescue her, but he wanted to package her - namely wrap her in gift wrapping paper like a Christmas present.
• Grinch prank calling Lou:
  Lou: Hello?
  Grinch: Is my sub-zero chillibrator running?
  Lou: I suppose.
  Grinch: You better go catch it! (slams the phone back onto the receiver so hard, it actually mades Lou reel back a slight. Grinch laughes at his supposedly ‘brilliant’ prank call) That's a good one! That is rich.
• How Grinch travels back to his home? Via trash tubes!
  Grinch: There's got to be a better way!
  • The dialogue after they land in the junkyard:
  Grinch: A car would have paid for itself by now! (tube begans to rumble) Goody. Another load coming down. (four red bags fly out of the tube, which one of them landing in the Grinch's arms and close to his face. While at first excited, Grinch cringes) What's that stench? It's fantastic! (looks at the bag with the label reading "Hazardous Waste") Max! Grab a bag. (he himself grabs one bag, and starts to walk away from junkyard) We'll come back for the rest. Of course, when I say "we, " I mean "you." It's amazing what these Whos just throw away. Oh, well. One man's toxic sludge is another man's potpourri.
  Max: (Barks)
  Grinch: I don't know. It's some kind of soap.
  • When Grinch returns home, what's the first thing he does? Catapult one of the bags right into a poster depicting the Mayor!
  Grinch: Sweet!
• How Grinch prepares Max to his role as a reindeer, entirely improvised by Jim Carrey:
  Grinch: (puts a movie director hat on his head) All right. You're a reindeer. Here's your motivation. You're Rudolph, a freak with a red nose, nobody likes you. Then one day, Santa picks you and you save Christmas. (Max just looks at him) No, forget that part. We'll improvise. Just keep it kind of loosey-goosey. You hate Christmas! You're gonna steal it! Saving Christmas was a lousy ending. Way too commercial. (yells through megaphone) Action! (Max merely pushes the false nose off his snout with his paw) Brilliant! You reject your own nose because it represents the glitter of commercialism! Why didn't I think of that? Cut, print, check the gate. Moving on.
• Grinch checking the size of his heart:
  Grinch: Yes! Down a size and a half! (looking at the camera) And this time, I'll keep it off.
• After Grinch makes Mayor kiss Max's rear, he pulls out a hook and rope, attaching it to the Mayor's bed. Next morning, a Whoville police officer - angered that he had been robbed - jumps into his police cruiser, unaware of the winch attached to the bumper. Meanwhile, inside the home of Mayor May-Who, the Mayor himself has just woken up, when suddenly his bed gets pulled out with great force right through the wall of his home. May-Who is beyond shocked, scared even, as his bed gets pulled behind the police car through the streets of Whoville as many onlookers stare after them. Finally, the police car pulls into the town square before coming to a stop and May-Who gets whipped in his bed to a stop. Next, Mayor looks around in shock, as a whole bunch of Who’s gather in the center staring at him, in his bed, right in the middle of the town. When the officer exits his vehicle, he's completely shocked, seeing who he took for a ride around town.
• The script and the novelization feature a running gag of Rose Who-Biddy often mistaking the Grinch for a Whoticus Finch.
• The fifth draft of the script has an alternate ending where the Grinch and Martha discuss the former's dislike for Easter:
  Martha: Grinchy darling, I have a fabric that matches the fungus on your cave walls exactly!
  Grinch: What's that now?
  Martha: Well, we‘re going to have to redecorate if we're doing all that entertaining. You know starting tomorrow, we’ve got to get ready for Easter.
  Grinch: Easter?! I hate Easter! Everyone’s got to have a bonnet, we're all just big babies in our bonnets, going on a treasure hunt. For what, a stupid egg? I might crawl through the bushes for a bucket of wings, but an egg? No thank you. And what bunny’s laying eggs? I had a bunny once, all he did was eat and go to the bathroom, eat and go to the bathroom, and when I tried to pet him, he bit me. Twelve rabies shots in the gut. Happy Easter! And another thing...
  • The alternate ending rant in the novelization is also funny.
  Grinch: EASTER???? I DESPISE EASTER! I mean, Christmas is one thing, but Easter is the worst!!! Children all hopped up on mass quantities of chocolate. Women wearing bonnets... And those confounded bunnies! I had a bunny once. All he did was eat and poop and chew electrical wires. And when I tried to pet him, he bit me! Twelve rabies shots in the gut... put that in your frilly bonnet! And then there's the egg painting... 'Look, Daddy... I put sparkles on this one. It's for you.' 'Thank you, my dear. That's the most beautiful sparkling DEAD CHICKEN EMBRYO I've ever seen!' NO! Easter is unacceptable! It's preposterous! It's rhinosterous! It's double-gabble-dardosterous...

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