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{{quote|''You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch!''
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An animated special based upon [[How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (novel)|the book of the same name]]. It was animated by [[Chuck Jones]], with [[Boris Karloff]] providing the voice of both the eponymous grinch and the narrator. The special follows the plot of the original book closely. It was originally broadcast on CBS in December 18, 1966, and since then has been regarded as one of the classic TV [[Christmas
Followed by ''[[Halloween Is Grinch Night]]''.
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* [[Abnormal Limb Rotation Range]]: The Grinch turns his head around 360 degrees when the Narrator says it "wasn't screwed on just right".
* [[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."
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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]]/[[Informed Trait]]: The narrator's claim that the Grinch was "so smart and so slick, that he thought up a lie and thought it up quick" (implying that he was a [[Consummate Liar]]) rings hollow in the animated special where the Grinch was pretty clearly panicking at his being potentially busted by Cindy-
* [[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.
* [[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 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!''
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: The Grinch, up until the end.
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