WEBVTT 00:03.640 --> 02:30.350 Christmas a lot, but the Grinch in Christmas, the whole Christmas season. 02:30.810 --> 02:34.270 Now please don't ask why no one quite knows the reason. 02:35.050 --> 02:37.830 It could be perhaps that his shoes were too tight. 02:39.130 --> 02:42.210 It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right. 02:42.970 --> 02:51.590 But I think that the most likely reason of all may have been that his heart was two sizes too small. 02:52.990 --> 03:00.090 But whatever the reason his heart or his shoes he stood there on Christmas Eve, hating those. 03:01.890 --> 03:11.310 Staring down from his cave with a sour, gritchy frow at the warm, lighted windows below in their town. 03:11.550 --> 03:18.730 For he knew every who down in Whovillebunny was busy now, hanging a holly holly beef. 03:19.490 --> 03:23.970 And they're hanging their stockings desnild for the sneer. 03:24.610 --> 03:28.550 Tomorrow is Christmas. It's practically here. 03:29.670 --> 03:34.090 Then he growled with his Grinch fingers nervously drumming. 03:35.010 --> 03:39.230 I must find some way to keep Christmas from coming. 03:40.630 --> 03:45.970 For tomorrow I know all those who girls and boys will wake bright and early. 03:46.750 --> 03:50.610 They'll rush for their toys and then all that noise. 03:50.870 --> 03:53.730 Oh the noise, noise, noise, noise. 03:55.010 --> 04:01.070 There's one thing I hate. All that noise, noise, noise, noise. 04:03.870 --> 04:08.390 And their shrieks, squeaks and squeals racing round on their wheels. 04:10.710 --> 04:14.390 They'll dance with gin tinglers tied under their heels. 04:14.390 --> 04:19.230 They'll blow their blue floobas, they'll bang their tartinkas. 04:22.650 --> 04:36.290 They'll blow their hoo hoobas, they'll bang their tartinkas loose lockers. 04:38.230 --> 04:43.150 They'll beat their blunt bloopers, they'll wham their hoo hoobas. 04:43.970 --> 04:51.410 And they'll play noisy games like Zuzeta-Case, a roller skate type of lacrosse. 04:51.590 --> 05:05.020 And they'll make ear-spitting noises to looks on that great big electrode who cardio- 05:15.960 --> 05:19.180 Young and old will sit down to a feast. 05:20.300 --> 05:25.920 And they'll feast, and they'll feast, and they'll feast, feast, feast, feast. 05:26.760 --> 05:37.510 They'll feast on hoo pudding and feast, I can't stand in the least. 06:07.600 --> 06:18.500 The tall and the small will stand close together, will stand hand in hand. 06:18.980 --> 07:09.640 And those hooves will start singing, sing, sing. 07:10.560 --> 07:15.340 And the more the Grinch thought of this, who Christmas sing, the more the Grinch thought, 07:15.340 --> 07:18.560 I must stop this whole thing. 07:19.320 --> 07:27.020 By the 53 years I put up with it now, I must stop Christmas from coming. 07:32.300 --> 07:52.700 Then he got an idea. Grinch got a wonderful, awful idea after his throat. 07:54.060 --> 07:57.600 I'll make a quick santiclaw's hat and a coat. 07:58.480 --> 08:00.620 He chuckled and clucked. 08:00.620 --> 08:03.460 What a great Grinchy trick. 08:04.240 --> 08:08.800 With this coat and this hat, I look just like St. Nick. 08:17.920 --> 09:03.980 Mr. Grinch cuddly as a cactus, you're as charming as an EU, Mr. Grinch. 09:03.980 --> 09:04.540 Who were there? 09:12.080 --> 09:16.680 The Grinch looked around, but since reindeer is scarce, there was not to be found. 09:16.840 --> 09:18.020 Did that stop the Grinch? 09:18.340 --> 09:20.080 The Grinch simply said, 09:20.080 --> 09:24.480 if I can't find a reindeer, I'll make one instead. 09:27.020 --> 09:30.520 So he took his dog Max, and he took some black thread, 09:30.960 --> 09:33.940 and he tied a big horn on the top of his head. 09:55.570 --> 09:59.230 He sent some old empty sacks on a ramshackle sleigh, 10:00.050 --> 10:37.550 and he whistled for Max to lay a snooze in that cow. 12:10.880 --> 12:12.520 He dreams without care. 12:18.300 --> 12:26.650 Shot of the squaggy claws hissed as he climbed to the roof. 12:26.650 --> 12:37.510 Empty bags in his fist slid down the chimney, a rather tight pinch, 12:37.650 --> 12:40.070 but if Santa could do it there, so could the Grinch. 12:40.890 --> 12:43.490 He got stuck only once for a minute or two. 12:44.550 --> 12:48.670 Then he stuck his head out of the fireplace, flew with a little, 12:49.030 --> 12:52.050 whose stockings hung all in a row. 12:52.770 --> 12:56.490 These stockings he grinched are the first things to go. 13:00.270 --> 13:04.130 Then he slithered and slunk with a smile, 13:04.650 --> 13:07.430 most unpleasant around the whole room, 13:07.550 --> 13:09.810 and he took every present. 13:10.390 --> 13:13.350 Pop guns, pampongas, pantookas and drums, 13:13.750 --> 13:16.530 checkerboards, bissel binks, popcorn and plums, 13:16.710 --> 13:19.730 and he stuffed them in bags then the Grinch, very nimbly, 13:20.090 --> 13:23.630 stuffed all the bags one by one up the chimney. 13:32.660 --> 13:38.300 Mr. Grinch, you have termites in your smile. 13:39.400 --> 13:43.460 You have all the tender sweetness of a seasick crocodile. 13:48.540 --> 13:54.480 Just between the two of you, I'd take the seasick crocodile 13:54.480 --> 14:31.550 stool sandwich with our sir... 15:06.330 --> 15:07.970 He slugged to the icebox. 15:08.390 --> 15:09.810 He took the hoos' feast. 15:10.590 --> 15:11.910 He took the hoopudding. 15:12.210 --> 15:14.050 He took the roast-beast. 15:14.050 --> 15:17.030 He cleaned out the iceboxes, cook as a flash. 15:17.550 --> 15:21.370 Why, that Grinch even took the last can of hoo-hash. 15:22.050 --> 15:25.050 Then he stuffed all the food up the chimney with glee. 15:25.450 --> 15:27.150 Now, grinned the Grinch. 15:39.570 --> 15:42.550 As the Grinch took the tree, as he started to shove, 15:42.830 --> 15:46.570 he heard a small sound like the coo of a dove. 15:46.870 --> 15:50.210 He turned around fast, and he saw a small hoo. 15:50.790 --> 15:54.470 Little Cindy Lou, who was no more than two. 15:54.470 --> 15:57.470 She stared at the Grinch and said, 15:58.030 --> 16:00.210 Sandy Claus, why? 16:01.030 --> 16:03.430 Why are you taking her a Christmas tree? 16:04.410 --> 16:04.870 Why? 16:05.810 --> 16:11.670 But you know, that old Grinch was so smart and so slick. 16:12.310 --> 16:14.770 He thought up a lie, and he thought he was fake. 16:16.230 --> 16:21.050 My sweet little tot, the fake Sandy Claus lied. 16:21.670 --> 16:26.450 There's a light on this tree that won't light on one side. 16:26.890 --> 16:30.090 So I'm taking it home to my workshop, my dear. 16:30.890 --> 16:34.690 I'll fix it up there, then I'll bring it back here. 16:36.090 --> 16:38.310 And his fib fooled the child. 16:38.890 --> 16:41.670 Then he patted her head, and he got her a drink, 16:41.830 --> 16:43.310 and he sent her to bed. 16:44.390 --> 16:48.250 And when Cindy Lou, who was in bed with her cup, 16:48.250 --> 16:52.350 he cropped to the chimney and stuffed the tree up. 16:52.870 --> 16:56.290 Then he went up the chimney himself, the old liar, 16:56.530 --> 17:01.050 and the last thing he took was the log for their fire. 17:01.850 --> 17:06.130 On their walls he left nothing but hooks and some wire. 17:07.470 --> 17:12.570 And the one speck of food that he left in the house was a crumb. 17:12.570 --> 17:15.550 There was even too small for a mouse. 17:18.370 --> 17:21.990 Then he did the same thing to the other hooves' houses, 17:22.170 --> 17:25.670 leaving crums much too small for the other hooves' mouses. 17:29.150 --> 17:33.090 You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch, 17:34.270 --> 17:37.970 with a nauseous soup, a gnawse. 17:38.970 --> 17:44.810 You're a crooked jerky jockey, and you drive a crooked hop, Mr. Grinch. 17:47.130 --> 17:50.830 Your soul is an appalling dump heap, 17:51.450 --> 17:56.350 overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of rubbish imaginable, 17:57.090 --> 18:26.400 mangled up in tangled up knots, Mr. Grinch. 18:27.880 --> 18:32.520 The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote, 18:33.220 --> 18:36.080 stink, stank, stunk. 18:44.080 --> 18:50.100 It was a quarter of dawn, all the hooves still a bed, all the hooves still a snooze. 18:50.440 --> 18:55.740 When he packed up his sled, packed it up with their presents, their ribbons, their wrappings, 18:56.620 --> 19:00.260 their snoof and their fuzzles, their tringlers and trappings. 19:25.030 --> 20:03.580 Inside of Mount Crumble, Christmas is coming, they're just waking up, 20:03.660 --> 20:05.520 I know just what they'll do. 20:05.920 --> 20:10.180 Their mouths will hang open a minute or two, then the hooves down in a hoove 20:10.180 --> 20:12.900 will all cry boo-hoo. 20:14.080 --> 20:18.320 That's a noise, Grinch, that I simply must hear. 20:19.240 --> 20:23.280 He paused, and the Grinch put a hand to his ear, 20:24.140 --> 20:27.740 and he did hear a sound rising over the snow. 20:28.600 --> 20:34.280 It started in lobe, then it started to grow. 21:19.020 --> 21:20.880 This sound wasn't sad. 21:22.200 --> 21:22.320 What? 21:24.080 --> 21:26.280 This sound sounded glad. 21:28.040 --> 21:34.600 Every hoove down in Hooveville, the tall and the small, was singing. 21:35.480 --> 21:41.140 Without any presents at all, he hadn't stopped Christmas from coming. 21:42.140 --> 21:49.640 It came, somehow or other, it came just the same, 21:50.420 --> 21:55.580 and the Grinch, with his Grinch feet ice-cold in the snow, 21:56.160 --> 21:58.980 stood puzzling and puzzling. 21:59.500 --> 22:00.820 How could it be so? 22:00.820 --> 22:02.820 It came without ribbons. 22:04.880 --> 22:06.640 It came without tags. 22:09.120 --> 22:12.540 It came without packages, boxes or bags. 22:14.200 --> 22:18.860 He puzzled and puzzled till his puzzler was sore. 22:19.560 --> 22:22.180 Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. 22:23.060 --> 22:27.660 Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. 22:28.500 --> 22:33.700 Maybe Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more. 23:24.700 --> 23:29.600 That the Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day. 23:34.220 --> 23:36.700 The true meaning of Christmas came through, 23:37.180 --> 23:41.280 and the Grinch found the strength of ten Grinches, plus two. 23:43.340 --> 23:46.700 And now that his heart didn't feel quite so tight, 23:47.340 --> 23:50.240 he whizzed with his low through the bright morning light, 23:50.240 --> 23:53.660 with a smile in his soul, in his scented mount trumpet, 23:54.000 --> 23:56.980 cheerily blowing who-who on his trumpet. 23:58.940 --> 24:02.340 He rolled into Whoville, he brought back their toys, 24:02.660 --> 24:05.700 he brought back their floof to the Who girls and boys, 24:06.480 --> 24:09.780 he brought back their snow for their tringlers and fuzzles, 24:10.200 --> 24:13.860 brought back their pantookas, their dafflers and wasles. 24:14.380 --> 24:17.820 He brought everything back, all the food for the feast, 24:18.570 --> 24:25.460 and he, he himself, the Grinch, carved the roast beast. 24:28.560 --> 24:31.240 Welcome Christmas, bring your cheer, 24:31.820 --> 24:34.360 cheer to all who's far and near. 24:34.880 --> 24:38.840 Christmas Day is in our grasp, so long as we have hands to cross. 24:39.700 --> 24:45.200 Christmas Day will always be just as long as we have we. 24:45.200 --> 24:51.420 Welcome Christmas while we stand, heart to heart and hand in hand.