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* [[Actor Allusion]]: Boris Karloff voices [[Frankenstein|a green monster]].
* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: The special follows the book quite closely, but because it's a cartoon, a lot of cartoonish antics are thrown in that weren't present in the original book, such as the wacky sled ride down the mountain that has definite shades of a "coyote Acme invention" gone wrong, as well as the scene where the Grinch "gains the strength of ten Grinches plus two."
* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: The protagonist had white fur in the original story's illustrations; it was changed to the more-familiar green in this cartoon.
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Max.
* [[Aside Glance]]: Due to [[Chuck Jones]] being the director, Mr. Grinch does this several times. Though it could also be explained away by saying the Grinch is a tad insane.
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* [[The Grinch]]: Guess who.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: The Grinch has a you-really-are-a-heel-face turn at the end.
* [[Informed Ability
* [[Matryoshka Object]]: One waiter serves another waiter, and so on, until Cindy Lou Who gets a strawberry.
* [[Narrator]]: [[Boris Karloff]], of course.
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* [[Saving Christmas]]: Inverted; in fact, the inversion of this trope is essentially the whole premise of the story. However, it's then played straight when the Grinch ends up Saving Christmas at the end.
* [[Shrunken Organ]]: The Grinch's heart.
* [[The Strength of Ten Men]]: At the climax of the story:
{{quote|"And then, the [[True Meaning of Christmas]] shone through,
and [[Crowning Moment of Awesome| the Grinch found himself with the strength of ''ten'' Grinches -- plus two!]]" }}
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: The Villain song "You're A Mean One, Mr Grinch" is the epitome of this trope, especially with the line "Your soul is an appalling dump heap, overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable rubbish imaginable all mangled up in tangled-up knots".
* [[Up to Eleven]]: Inverted in the beginning as the Grinch's heart is two sizes smaller than what a normal one should be. Played straight By the end, as it's not only grown to a normal size, but ''one size farther!''
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