Movies: They're Pretty Good!
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
Prepare to rediscover the whimsy and wit of Whoville as your new favorite trio, myself, Travis Dudding, and the ever-entertaining Boston cousins, Brooke and Erika, peel back the festive wrapping on Ron Howard's "How the Grinch Stole Christmas." We're not just talking about a stroll down memory lane—we're digging into the comedy goldmine that is the Grinch's world, from the over-the-top Who celebrations to the satirical take on holiday commercialism. As we swan dive into the heart of Whoville's microscopic charm, we find ourselves entangled in a web of laughter over the Grinch's mischievous antics and Cindy Lou Who's endearing curiosity.
Hold onto your Santa hats as we dissect the many layers of the Grinch's curmudgeonly antics and the deeper messages hidden beneath his green fur. The hilarity of his daily shenanigans is only matched by the brilliant adult humor tucked into his backstory—remember the key party? And let's not forget to cheer for the stellar performances that bring this holiday tale to life, from Jeffrey Tambor's mayoral mischief to Taylor Momsen's punk rock journey. We're sharing the juiciest tidbits about the making of this modern classic, including Jim Carrey's jaw-dropping transformation and method acting chops that brought the Grinch to such vibrant life.
To top off this holiday feast of an episode, we unwrap the Grinch's master plan to pilfer the Yuletide cheer right out from under the Whos' noses. Ever wondered about the Grinch's explosive exit from Whoville in a tiny Who-car or the resilience of those Whos with their backup Christmas tree? We're serving up a hearty portion of uproarious insights into the Grinch's failed heist and the heartwarming turnaround that even his three-sizes-too-small heart couldn't resist. So, join us for a festive romp through Whoville that's sure to leave your own heart feeling just a bit larger and your holiday spirits soaring higher than Mount Crumpit.
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Hello and welcome to another episode of Movies, colin. They're pretty good. I'm your host, travis Dutting, and today I am joined by my cousins Brooke and Erica Boston. All right, and today we are going to talk about Ron Howard's 2000 film, year 2000. How the Grinch stole Christmas.
Speaker 2:How did he steal it?
Speaker 1:Let's find out. World may never know I have the evidence here, we do know. All right. So yeah, let's get right into it. All right, so we slow zoom in on a snowflake falling through the sky, and wouldn't you guess it? That's where Whoville is.
Speaker 3:Obviously.
Speaker 1:Where else would it be, Yep On a dandelion in a different movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're Fortan.
Speaker 3:Yeah, did you hear who? Yeah, he did. Oh, get it Is there. Who's Just put that together? Wait, is that like a known thing?
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is also Dr Seuss, all right, that's it. So there's, at least there's more than one Whoville, that's Cannon.
Speaker 4:My boss is the editor of the watching this, so we get a nice narration from Anthony Hopkins.
Speaker 1:He's basically just reading the original Dr Seuss book, so that's great and everything. And then we get the first scene is a bunch of who's shopping for Christmas. You find out that they're super like way into Christmas, like so this if there's more than one Whoville, there's the snowflake one and the dandelion one. This is the one that's obsessed with Christmas.
Speaker 3:Yes, that's being on the snowflake, yeah, so oh, doesn't it like say, like for five minutes everything is 99% off.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, that's a great joke right there, oh. I want to go to that sale 99% off and everyone leaves whatever they're doing to go to the the other store.
Speaker 3:Two tickets to Whoville.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So we see Cindy Lou who she's helping her dad do the Christmas shopping. She's carrying like a massive pile of presents and literally like he like takes the center one out and for some reason it makes a perfect window and they all stay together and the dad's like saying like you know, like do we were? Oh, cindy says, do we really need all these presents? He says that's what Christmas is all about. You know, we stan a capitalist king and apparently so eventually he heads over to never mind. I skipped the scene. So we see some teens heading up to the mountain, mount Crumpet, where the Grinch lives, and, like with any haunted house in a movie or you know anything like that, they're teens daring each other to go up there and then, uh, as they do.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:In real life.
Speaker 1:IRL.
Speaker 4:All the scaries.
Speaker 2:The Grinch. He's a scary guy. No one likes him.
Speaker 1:Should be noted. If you don't, if you're not familiar, all the who's in Whoville like Christmas a lot, but the Grinch that lived just north of Whoville did not. That's. That's another one straight from the book you got it's. You later find out that there's Cindy Lou's older brothers that are doing this and they're trying to impress these girls. Do it for me stew, so he does it for her, but pretty much shits his pants when Max comes out, scaring them. And Max is the dog barking into a like absurdly large megaphone.
Speaker 2:Shaved as the Grinch.
Speaker 1:Yes, with a giant like paper mache Grinch head Perfect, yep. But yeah then we get. We see, is this where we see the Grinch the first time?
Speaker 3:Yes, I think so, or did they come down the hill first?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah. So they head down the hill I think it's happening at the same time because Grinch puts on his disguise he's the rabbit from Donnie Darko, apparently and they head down to Whoville and he's just, you know being chaotic and shit, and you know what kind of stuff he'd like he handed a kid a saw. That's right. He said go run with this. Yeah, just stuff like that it's. Eventually he gets over to the mail room and he's like messing up everyone's mail.
Speaker 1:He's just like giving everybody a affection notice, just giving them all junk mail and stuff. So then the kids get down, the teens get down and tell their dad that they saw the Grinch. They yell it out loud. This causes a panic, literal like car crash happens like in the background. And then the mayor overhears this and he's like he's very anti-grinch and we'll get more on that later.
Speaker 3:He's the mean one.
Speaker 1:He's the mean one.
Speaker 2:He's got the weirdest hair.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's just yeah.
Speaker 3:Why does it do that? Nobody knows.
Speaker 2:Very odd.
Speaker 1:So the mayor is played by Jeffrey Tambor from the rest of development and from whatever sexual assault lawsuit that he got tagged with.
Speaker 3:Oh, that thing, yeah, oh god.
Speaker 1:Or maybe he's the one that was just being mean to people. Really rude.
Speaker 3:Well, if the shoe fits.
Speaker 1:I mean.
Speaker 3:He was not very nice Actors.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so we got Me Tooed, mayor of Whoville. You got Cindy Loo's dad played by the robot that's a rectangle from Interstellar the guy that does the voice of that rectangle robot, tars. You got Cindy Loo who played by Taylor Bombson, who is the singer of the Pretty.
Speaker 4:Reckless.
Speaker 1:I think is the name of her band. Oh, it's like a hard rock band. Not fully metal, but yeah, she's like a got, like a goth punk look.
Speaker 4:Little Cindy yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, she's like A little thing I always think about. Like you know, you had like crazy hair day at school.
Speaker 3:The water bottle the water bottle.
Speaker 2:You would put your hair up. Yeah, but I was always hair set so I could never do it.
Speaker 1:You didn't have enough hair going up, yeah.
Speaker 3:I'd have to go with, like the pipe cleaners that, like you know, her other hair style yeah the other half, yeah the other half.
Speaker 4:Or basically Cindy Loo, it's fine.
Speaker 1:It's fine With our powers combined. So after this whole speech that the mayor gives about, like hey, don't cause a panic about this Grinch guy, we don't like him. Then Cindy's asking her dad questions hey, why don't people like the Grinch and like she's full on, like quoting the the who Bible. Adam Like well, because of this, like shouldn't we like him? And he's like well, he's not really who, he's more of a what?
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So he doesn't count.
Speaker 2:Grinch is green yeah.
Speaker 1:And then so he gets called back to the front and Cindy's back there alone in the back room, or does he send her the back room? That's what it is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the dad sends her back there.
Speaker 1:Yes, so Cindy Loo gets sent to the back to help her dad with something and then he says, hey, don't get like stuck in the sorter or anything like that, or watch out for it. She goes back there, the Grinch like tries to hide up in the ceiling and and it works. But then Max sneezes and he says gizuntite. And then she turns around and sees the Grinch and screams, he jumps down, then chaos ensues, she falls into the sorter, you know, as is expected, and the Grinch has a moment of well, what he would consider at the time weakness and decides to save her life. And then she thanks him and is like thank you for saving me. And then he's like no, I have to prove that I'm mean and scare this little girl.
Speaker 2:Wrap her up like a present Yep, you are improperly packaged my dear.
Speaker 3:I want to say I was the Grinch for Halloween, so I'm not like some crazy fan. I just happened to do a lot of research recently.
Speaker 4:Yes.
Speaker 3:I can basically quote him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I have a lot of really good videos from that night. Yeah, do we add some?
Speaker 3:Yeah, we put in the promotion. That's my thumbnail.
Speaker 2:The best part is she made her boyfriend be Cindy Lou who.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Poor.
Speaker 3:Hunter. We looked great.
Speaker 1:So after Cindy Lou gets saved and she's just in the like, all wrapped like a present, and her dad comes back and he's just like all like oh, you're practicing your wrapping, I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 1:And then, but you know he's not listening to her. She's trying to say like no, the Grinch was here. And he's like no, christmas is the only thing that ever matters. And they go home. Her mom, played by Molly Shannon, is putting lights up and she's literally like using every light from the house. She tells Cindy Lou to go get the light bulb from the refrigerator and, like they have like the chandelier up. But then the neighbor Martha V Huvier comes out with her Gatling gun that fires Christmas lights onto the house and, yep, she's like full on bracing for impact.
Speaker 3:Like the squat. Yeah, oh yeah, it's all about the squat.
Speaker 2:It's all in the quads, yep.
Speaker 1:She's got those quads of steel. Christine Bransky, who apparently was made to look more human than who, because the who's all have this like prosthetic nose and they made her like look a little more human. I guess which? Is probably why, like I, had a crush on her when I was in elementary school.
Speaker 2:Oh, my gosh, the Grinch is different, and so is she Wow.
Speaker 1:Thoughts.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, weird and green and she looks human. Yeah Well, wild. I mean, that's possible.
Speaker 1:Yeah, cindy Lou hasn't grown into her nose yet, so she looks more normal too.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:Guys, I really love the details.
Speaker 4:We're making a breakthrough.
Speaker 3:Here. There was a deeper meaning.
Speaker 1:So after this whole one upsmanship that Martha may does we get a scene of the Grinch he's making prank calls. Happens to call the Cindy Lou's dad and everything whatever, like crazy name for for Dreider they have is your something chilebrator. Yeah, better go catch it.
Speaker 3:Oh, bro, can I do a lot? Yeah, I don't know. He just does the same when he always does so like I can't do it. It's embarrassing. I don't know if I could do it?
Speaker 2:I don't know. I don't know, yeah, that was perfect.
Speaker 1:So after this he decides to head back home and his the easy route home is down the garbage shoot. That like somehow like vacuum oh yeah, so it's like vacuum powered I guess and it like sucks him up the mountain. Sounds pretty nice Joining them up. There are multiple bags of hazardous waste that he is just absolutely pumped about and tells Max to grab a bag and they'll come back for the rest. And so after this we get Erica's least favorite song oh, where are you?
Speaker 3:Christmas.
Speaker 2:It's so slow compared to like the rest of the movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because I feel like everything up to that point is so just like go, go, go, and then you have the whole movie yeah.
Speaker 1:But it's like that in a Muppet Christmas Carol too. Like I would always like fall asleep during. Like the, the song between young Ebenezer and his girlfriend.
Speaker 3:I remember when I was little I wouldn't even get past that part because it would just make me go to sleep.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then yeah, like I couldn't even tell you what happened in the scene because even last night I was like on my phone, like yeah, she has like a weird flashlight that she's walking around with and just like pointing at that stuff and looks out the window at the Grinch.
Speaker 3:Well, we figured it out, oh God, well we figured it out because she, the mom, took all the lights out of the house.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so she has a flashlight the dad's carrying around like a whole ass candelabra A haunted mansion style. Yeah, checked out I think you should have had the candle on the plate with the nightcap, but that would have been perfect. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, the cutback to the Grinch's house. He's in his cave, he's launching the hazardous waste, he has this catapult and he's launching it at this like campaign poster for the mayor, you know. So he don't like him much.
Speaker 4:We don't like him.
Speaker 1:They didn't know from me Then, oh yeah, then we just get like this series of like different gags just to see what the Grinch's life is like. He has this like like mini x-ray that he puts over his heart and he's excited that he got down a size and a half, and stuff which you know just plays off of the climax of the movie.
Speaker 3:Well, then he says and this time I'll keep it off.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:He's very relatable, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:So then he jumps into his bed which I'm pretty sure is just all springs and checks his messages. This is the year 2000. He has a landline, so he's checking the answering machine and doesn't have any messages.
Speaker 1:He says like better check the outgoing. And this was always my favorite line as a kid, that like if you utter so much as one syllable I'll hunt you down and gut you like a fish. If you like to fax me, press the star key. I just love that like change and tone at the end, so he takes off his socks, they crawl away, which is like a great, great practical effect.
Speaker 2:Very stinky.
Speaker 4:He's a.
Speaker 1:He gets in an argument with the oh yeah, cuz he talks about how, like, oh, I don't need anybody. Like, I have everything I need here, all the company I need here, and then he like starts to like yeah, and then he has gets the echo hello, how are you, how are you yeah? And then like eventually is like Gets into this argument and he's like I'm gonna like, it's like you're an idiot you're an idiot he's like oh, I'm gonna whisper and oh, yeah, no he tries to trick it he says I'm an idiot, yeah, yeah, you're an idiot, yeah and it says you're an idiot, so that he whispers.
Speaker 1:And then he's like fine, I'm gonna whisper. So it's so quiet that by the time he gets back to me I won't hear it.
Speaker 3:And then another you're an idiot, really cinematic master oh yeah. I think like right before to. He's like munching on glass and he's just like relatable all the time. He's like am I just eating cuz I'm bored? I think I relate like so much to him as an adult.
Speaker 2:Me too, mr Grinch, me too felt that I'm still in my glass eating era.
Speaker 3:So, we used to be. I used to have asthma.
Speaker 1:I still do, according to the VA.
Speaker 3:It was fire pits in Africa, yep man. I'm just gonna go back to the fire pit.
Speaker 1:Middle, middle to upper class people out of their back.
Speaker 3:Well, ours is made out of a old washing machine. We're considered working.
Speaker 2:Working glass.
Speaker 3:Oh god.
Speaker 1:So now Cindy Lou decides that she wants to learn more about the Grinch. So she grabs her dad's tape recorder or whatever weird doctor Seuss name that for it, and she's going to run around to the different towns people to do a series of interviews to like find out more about him. And I think the first stop is the Grinch's adopted lesbian moms. Oh yes, they do not like say what they look like this, they could be sisters. I don't hear like. I didn't hear one way or the other.
Speaker 3:But even like later too. Like they say, like your own kinfolk, like they're trying to avoid something.
Speaker 4:Yeah, like it was 2000, but a little progressive.
Speaker 1:Get on you, ron Howard, I'm not even alive, ew.
Speaker 3:Okay, don't hate me, I'm 22 years old, yeah.
Speaker 4:I'm the whole.
Speaker 3:I'm a whole ass person.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So yeah, we see the. He's like oh, he came, like just the way that all babies come and then it's like a bunch of, not like a stork, but like they're all coming in like little umbrella basket, parasail. Yeah, they're like in a basket and they just so then the Grinch goes 2.7 seconds on a full name food and chew.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And then it has a baby.
Speaker 2:It's while it's Rocky Mountain climbing yeah.
Speaker 1:Mountain Crumpet climbing.
Speaker 3:He meets Martha May and gets to love Deeper.
Speaker 1:But my favorite joke on this scene is that the one baby arrives at a doorstep and the dad answers doors like honey, our baby's here. He looks like your boss. I think it was funny. I love that joke.
Speaker 2:Concerning Yep. That'll start a fight.
Speaker 1:Yep, and then we see a baby Grinch that is just splitting that line between creepy and horrifying and adorable, just right on the line oh yeah, very green, very green. So he ends up at this these two ladies doors and they adopt him and oh yeah. But while he arrives, he gets stuck in a tree and there's a party going on inside their house and literally they're having a key party. So they're whether they're lesbians or sisters, they're definitely swingers.
Speaker 2:I'm going with, not sisters, personally, personally.
Speaker 4:Yep.
Speaker 1:So then we cut a little forward to him in school and he's. We see that Martha May is just like full on, make an eyes at him and like seductively looking her lollipop while looking at him and stuff.
Speaker 3:He skipped the part where he bites Santa's face off. That's our, yeah.
Speaker 4:So, yeah, he bites his face off. He takes the parts.
Speaker 3:And the lesbian moms are feeding him cookies on the Santa play.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3:So they're feeding him cookies, and then he like says his first word as he like takes a bite of the Santa's face and he goes.
Speaker 1:Santa, bye, bye and like that's the whole part. He's full on, skips the cookies and just eats the ceramic plate, lead based paint and all.
Speaker 2:Grinch got issues.
Speaker 1:So, oh yeah, and then he's also interviewing Martha, or Cindy is interviewing Martha May and the mayor as well.
Speaker 4:And then.
Speaker 1:so we're get this part more them to going back and forth. We're getting two sides of the story on this. So, martha, it's clear to us, the viewers, that Martha has a crush on the Grinch. The mayor is telling it like oh no, he like, he was like trying to steal my girl, basically, and who knows if he even had a chance. He was like a little chubby little boy and still had that weird hair. So, yeah, so he's a, he's fresh out of chocolate river and he's doing, he's doing the bullying it's like alright, buddy Relax.
Speaker 2:Calm down, it's dark.
Speaker 1:So, but yeah, the mayor obviously likes her. And then he's like oh, like, like you even think you have a chance with her. Like you're eight years old and you have a beard. So this this haunts the Grinch and he goes home and cuts himself.
Speaker 3:I mean in a way yeah, he does.
Speaker 1:But, not in the dark way that I implied. So he gets this Trigger warning Trigger warning he makes. First he makes this like angel tree topper for Martha May. He uses, like the the like, weird, like steamer basket that you put in a pot, plus a lovely family heirloom that he smashes.
Speaker 3:What a lovely family heirloom.
Speaker 1:And then after this, then he's like replaying in his head like you're eight years old and you have a beard and stuff like that. So he's like, oh, let me just take the scariest razor, that's ever been known to the planet Earth.
Speaker 3:It's like the Edward Scissor's hands. Literally, it's like you can see the blades like going.
Speaker 2:I don't know why, but it always kind of reminds me of like a crown.
Speaker 4:Yeah, like it is.
Speaker 2:It's like round, so like.
Speaker 3:I don't know. Also kind of looks like a rake or like a weird, weird kitchen utensils yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't even know exactly like one of those, like ladles.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the thing it looks like you're going to like mean to be a ladle. It looks like maybe like hey, this is like a maid for as seen on TV thing to like, make your pumpkin carving easier, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:I could see that totally Just why.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, he cuts his face into pieces because this was his last resort, and but he goes to school, he gives Martha the present, but then he has a bag over his head because he's ashamed of like his, like cut up face and everything. And then teachers like, why do you have a bag on your head, get that off. And so then he like puts a book up and then takes the bag off, and then I put the book down. He has a foot up and this is a good series of jokes.
Speaker 1:And then eventually, when he does reveal his face, it's just like you know I'll cut from. He's got the little toilet paper pieces and everything.
Speaker 2:All over his face, yeah, his entire face.
Speaker 1:Which is it's funny? Because when you look at him and they're like your eight year old, eight years old, your eight year olds, eight year old.
Speaker 4:You're a group of eight year olds and you have a beer and he literally just has like big sideburns.
Speaker 1:That's it, yeah.
Speaker 2:It doesn't come down.
Speaker 1:Which the person that tells him that later adopts that same like month job.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:So like their family grows yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so, and then everyone starts laughing at him, including the teacher, everyone but, Martha, like she actually like does, like stay pure Is this, it like empathy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's not like so bad for him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because, yeah, she loves him and or like, at least, has a crush on him. At this point I wouldn't say love when you're eight, but yeah.
Speaker 3:Look at that hack job yeah.
Speaker 1:So then, what? I was going to make a bad joke. I was going to say he reaches it as bad as possible. But this is an whoville, not America Cut.
Speaker 4:We're just getting cancelled.
Speaker 3:Yeah, this whole thing, we haven't got nearly as bad as some of the stuff I've heard on podcasts that are still going through and they make ad revenue. All right, any who Get it?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:So no, he doesn't do that.
Speaker 1:He doesn't take a gun out of his backpack, but he does like dead, lift the Christmas tree and rage out and start breaking shit and then he runs away up the mountain and it's like literally like the saddest scene ever, with like little grinch, just like looking down at whoville and all sad and alone, and he's like whimpering too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's not his fault, he didn't have a dad to show him how to shave, exactly yeah.
Speaker 1:So then he transitions into the other guy and he's like so then he transitions into the like well, the scene yeah.
Speaker 3:You're going to end with that. He transitions to what?
Speaker 1:To older grinch, like we all do.
Speaker 2:It's called life.
Speaker 1:That's a little bit LIVI so he ages into the grinch and then like it's like a cool shot. And then he's like, just like, staring down with hatred at the town of whoville, and then he decides to pull out the phone book and go through every name in the phone book and say who he hates. And then he's just like first he just says like the first couple names and he yells I hate, you, and then I hate you, you, you hate, you, hate, you Loathe, hate, hate, hate, loathe hate, Loathe entire it's my favorite part of the whole movie.
Speaker 3:It's kind of like just like relatable. Like you go through your phone contacts and you're like I haven't spoken to you and hate, hate, haters, loathe hate Loathe entirely.
Speaker 1:And the mayor's name starts with an A, so I'm sure he's the loathe entirely.
Speaker 3:August.
Speaker 4:Is that August May? Who? Yeah, august May who? August Augustus Gloop.
Speaker 2:August. I just made that connection.
Speaker 3:Coincidence.
Speaker 2:I think not Definitely. Yeah, fully a coincidence, nothing related.
Speaker 1:I'm calling Ron Howard.
Speaker 3:Oh, you got his number. Yep, sick sick.
Speaker 2:My best friend.
Speaker 1:And my best friend. So as he's there doing his phone book hate speech, he starts to hear singing down in Whoville and then he's like, oh no, it's their who belation. And then he yells for Max to fetch him his sedatives and heads back into the cave. Then we see Cindy Lou and family down at the town and they're you know, they're heading to the who belation as well. The mom has stolen a traffic light which is pretty sure is a felony.
Speaker 2:Almost positive yes.
Speaker 1:Could be, and you do hear the crash ensuing in the background.
Speaker 4:And then she's like come on, let's go, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 1:And so then they make an announcement Alright, it's time to like figure out who our holiday cheermeister is going to be. And the mayor is, just, like all, arrogant and like, oh like, obviously it's going to be me. And, like you know, and then Cindy Lou pipes up and says I nominate the Grinch.
Speaker 4:And then huge gas Sucks the air right out of.
Speaker 1:and then the mayor obviously a little upset about this, and then they have like a book of who quote off against each other. I feel like there's definitely some like religious allegories in this?
Speaker 4:You think yeah, because it is like missing.
Speaker 1:it's all about like they put this part in there where it's like they're reading from the book of who and like how it could be misinterpreted and stuff like that 100%, and all of the things that they're naming are like rules to follow by, like morals.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like. It's like the who's moral guidebook and they're like the mayor's using it to like as reasoning to hate on this person or type of person. And Cindy Lou is like, no, like, it actually says this and this and this you know so big brain time, yeah, gotta love Cindy Lou.
Speaker 1:Yep, and then so the. But the real clincher for Cindy Lou is that the book of who says that the holiday cheermeisters should go to the who that needs it at Christmas, that needs it most and obviously that's the Grinch, because everyone hates him and he hates everybody, you know so the town gets on on board with it. The mayor still is like no, like the Grinch will never come down, and like then his assistant, played by Ron Howard's brother, clinton Howard, says and if he doesn't, the mayor will wear the crown.
Speaker 3:Really. Yeah, I didn't know that was his brother.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, he's in every Ron Howard movie.
Speaker 4:Oh really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's actually funny, that's so fun. He's like the assistant or something right.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So then we cut back to the Grinch and he's trying to drown out all of the noise of them singing down in Whoville and he's got like multiple like ways that he's doing it. Yeah, he's like. Oh yeah, first he like is asleep because he like tried to knock himself out with drugs, with the sedatives, and then he wakes up singing and realizes that he's doing that. Tick tock, tick, tock, oh no people.
Speaker 2:I like the monkey, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:That's not very yet. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:So, first.
Speaker 1:Cindy Lou climbs the mountain and gets there and as she gets into the Grinch's cave she comes across him with the giant like monkey, with the symbols, like the wind up toy, but it's literally like huge and he's just has his head in the middle of the symbols.
Speaker 3:He's just getting the clap.
Speaker 1:Yeah, literally getting the clap.
Speaker 4:Quite literally, oh God.
Speaker 1:And then Cindy Lou comes up.
Speaker 4:Clap on.
Speaker 1:Cindy Lou comes up and taps him on the shoulder and he like puts his head up and then the symbols are going and he just holds him until like the monkey like shorts out and like catches on fire pretty much, and then turns around, like what do you want? Like what are you doing here? And then she's like hey, like I, you know you're nominated for to be the holiday cheermeister. Like maybe you should come down to the town and they go back and forth on whether or not he's going to go. He's trying to scare her away and you know it says like a bunch of different things.
Speaker 3:I'm a psycho. Yeah, I'm a psycho. Rips his shirt off.
Speaker 2:Yeah run for your life before I kill a cat. I love his facial expressions.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Absolute favorite.
Speaker 4:When he tried to scare her, when he tried to scare her.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, like I cannot imagine anyone doing as good as Jim Carrey and it had to be Jim Carrey in the year 2000.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:He got like he could still be funny because we saw in the sonic movies that he does still have the ability to be old Jim Carrey. But he did get very serious and this was like in the middle of him, like trying to be serious and everything and then I think, like he didn't have the star power earlier and might have been too, absurd in like his ascentura days.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and like I can see that Is Dumb and Dumber before the Grinch.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, those are 90s, okay, yeah because he was a lot back then.
Speaker 3:Yeah so he's like literally my favorite actor.
Speaker 2:Like it sucks, so bad that he went psycho like he uh yeah, yeah, he got Did he go psycho, or did he just like kind of, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I think he's just I think he plays into like people's perception of him and he kind of puts on this like so people will just leave him alone and he's like he'll call out Hollywood on their bullshit and stuff like that, and then so he's put himself in a good position. I think this is. This is my interpretation of the situation? Yeah, and yeah, I don't think he's crazy.
Speaker 2:I don't. I don't feel like he is either, because there's not. I would love to see like a documentary on Jim. Carrey. Yeah, I feel like that'd be so cool. Yeah just to see what his life was, you know.
Speaker 1:I know there's one, but it's him like preparing for a role and he got like real into this like comedian's head who also everyone thought was crazy Was crazy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I know about that one, and everyone was like I still haven't seen that I need to.
Speaker 3:I want to watch it yeah well, he just like he plays all these roles and like his physical comedy is like so good that it'd be so easy to just like assume like oh yeah, he went nuts. But then, like at the same time when they were doing this, this movie, and like he was getting in costume for like six freaking hours like he literally said that he had to go and like talk to a CIA agent to learn like torture techniques like torture suppression yeah like it was wild.
Speaker 3:So I mean, he might be a little crazy but like he's still literally probably my favorite actor.
Speaker 1:I think he's. I think he's not any crazier than anyone else from Hollywood, because a lot of them are like weirdos. Like he hear like stories about Tom Cruise and this is even like not even counting the Scientology stuff like how he like is just so, so oblivious to real life. That, like he like brought an actual football to a Super Bowl party and stuff like that like like a prop, like Like a prop. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, at least he didn't like dress up in like a full pad and shit.
Speaker 3:It'd be better if he did honestly.
Speaker 1:And like everyone, says that he's like the nicest person that they've ever worked with and he's just a little weird right. Yeah, which you know. Knowing what we know about Scientology makes sense, you know so well, to be honest, there's a lot of people like that like yeah, and the real world, like the weirdest people are the nicest freaking people. Yeah, oh, for sure.
Speaker 3:I'm not saying all actors in Hollywood are nice. I doubt that.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, like usually the ones that are the most normal are the ones that are just total dicks to everybody.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 100%.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but yeah, like he's so perfect for it because he has that physical comedy, he's got the like, the expressions, and we know, like from other movies, that he can do drama and I think that was the key and it didn't like, it wasn't just this like caricature, it was like there was heart to it too so he's got the slapstick and he's got the heart, you know everything, because even in like Liar, liar and stuff like that, like there's still parts in there where like he's just like so serious and you're just like damn, he's a good actor.
Speaker 3:Yeah like yeah yeah, he's great.
Speaker 1:And then so he did. He was already dabbling in serious stuff because the Truman show was before this.
Speaker 3:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 3:I watched it on high school. Miss Bates made me watch it. Yeah, shout out. Miss Bates, I hope you're eating soup in a mug right now. Every day.
Speaker 2:First period.
Speaker 1:So yeah.
Speaker 3:First period Breakfast yeah.
Speaker 1:But yeah, literally so much could have gone wrong, like with this movie, and I think the I think the cat in the hat is proof of that. This is where the generational gap comes in, because I was old enough to just absolutely hate that movie.
Speaker 3:I didn't even get the joke, but when he steps on the hell and he goes dirty, hoe I thought that was the funniest thing ever and then my mom was like Eric, you can't really repeat that and I was like, why not? It's a gardening tool.
Speaker 2:You used to like a request to watch that movie. But I see what you mean. Yeah, it's like it could have gone wrong.
Speaker 1:If I had been younger, if that had come out before the Grinch, I would have loved it, I'm sure.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't think I've watched this in adults, so it's like I really yeah, I'm not like seeking out, like wanting to watch the cat back, just like that whole.
Speaker 3:like they're all like so nostalgic for me, like cat in the hat, the Grinch, what were they like? Shrek and all those like they're all just like so.
Speaker 1:But that's the other thing. It's like we know. We know that Michael Myers can pull off like good performances and be really funny and everything. The difference is that he was contractually obligated to be in this movie. He like something had been canceled or he pulled out of something, so it was basically like the studio fucking him over, like well, now you have to do this, whereas Jim Carrey was very involved in the process of getting the rights from Dr Seuss's widow and everything that.
Speaker 2:Actually, that's really cool, so his heart was in it.
Speaker 1:Michael Myers, or Michael Myers from Halloween.
Speaker 2:He said that the first time too, did.
Speaker 1:I yeah, yeah, mike Myers.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:I mean, technically his name is Michael, but we know him as Mike Myers. No, not Michael Myers from Halloween.
Speaker 3:Gary.
Speaker 1:Mike Myers from Austin Powers.
Speaker 3:Imagine he's just in that movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's in a scary movie. I would rather watch Cat in the Hat with Michael Myers as the Cat in the Hat.
Speaker 3:Plotless when they go into that weird world it's Halloween time, it's.
Speaker 2:Cat in the.
Speaker 1:Hat, it's Halloween and it's Nightmare Before Christmas.
Speaker 3:When I was little I like wanted like that planner that she had. I asked my mom. I was like can you give me one? She was like where? I was like Target? She was like that's not real. That's when my compulsive need to plan things.
Speaker 1:This is what studios want. This is why people are striking, because they want to make movies like that. We need the Doctor Seuss multiverse Perfect.
Speaker 3:That was a long one.
Speaker 1:All right, anyway, so tangent over All right.
Speaker 3:No, that's not.
Speaker 1:Where are we? So we're somewhere.
Speaker 4:Oh, yeah, so.
Speaker 1:He's trying to scare away. And then, basically, what like brings him around is she's like well, like you get an award and he's like award. He's like on the winner that means there's losers and so that he's all about it now, and then he's like, and then she's like.
Speaker 1:Martha may will be there. And then now he's like really on board, but he's got to like still play a cool and everything. So he like basically tricks her into standing over the trapdoor and pulls the rope and she goes down in the town. But she's loving it, she's having a good time, she goes downtown. Yeah, go down, go down.
Speaker 3:But not in that way.
Speaker 2:Weird, just down the trash shoot or whatever it is.
Speaker 1:She goes down the trash shoot. It's basically like a big slide, so real fun and I'm confused, though.
Speaker 3:is that different than the regular trash shoot?
Speaker 1:Well, the garage is haunted.
Speaker 2:Excuse me, mr.
Speaker 3:Crunch. It's Dr Seuss. He's mad, he's like fuck you, travis, free the cat hey.
Speaker 1:Mr Seuss doctor, sorry, I love the book, it's not the movie.
Speaker 3:Oh, my god, oh, I'm really trying to get these pomegranates we made pomegranate, slash, raspberry, moscow mules. Mine's gone.
Speaker 2:Wine, wine.
Speaker 1:So yeah she gets launched out of the shoot and her dad finds her in a snow bank and he says there's no time for making snow angels, we got to go. And they go to the main ceremony where they're going to announce the winner of the tiermeister and of course, the mayor is just making this big asshole show of it, like oh he's not here. He didn't show, I knew it he says it and then like is that Don't go back.
Speaker 1:She didn't show. But then, like the Grinch is back at the yeah, he's back in his cave and he's like still deciding whether he's going to go he says the schedule won't allow it. My schedule wouldn't allow it.
Speaker 2:It's my favorite part.
Speaker 3:Can I do it? How does?
Speaker 2:it go.
Speaker 3:Yeah, four o'clock. What's the first one? I know?
Speaker 2:all the ones that Pity is that first?
Speaker 3:while the one self pity. No, yes, no, yes. Is that from it too?
Speaker 2:It's literally from the part where he's like yes, from yes.
Speaker 1:Soft world hunger tell no one.
Speaker 3:Why in my mom into China. I'm you know what.
Speaker 2:I mean, I thought my One, one self.
Speaker 4:Yeah, no, no, no no.
Speaker 3:Five thirty. No, no, no, no, five thirty. We're just gonna have to look it up, but I know for a fact Five o'clock is solved world hunger tell no one, oh, solve world hunger. Tell no one. Five thirty Cheddar sauce. Six thirty dinner with me, I can't cancel that again?
Speaker 1:Which was? Which was improvised? Is it really yeah, the A nominal, the. I can't cancel that again.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Seven o'clock. Wrestle with myself, loathing. I'm booked.
Speaker 1:So then, oh yeah, but then he does like talk himself into it. But what would I wear?
Speaker 3:Even does like oh, I'm a little loathing to nine. Oh yeah, he's rearranging Slowly into madness.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then he's like what, what would I wear? And he goes to the tablecloth, he pulls it real hard and everything stays, and you think that that, that that's like how it was supposed to be.
Speaker 2:But because it's the great.
Speaker 1:Something. And it's that Like Adam's family logic of what's good is bad and what's bad is good for him. So, he wants it to mess up, so he goes back and messes everything up. After the he pulls the tablecloth cleanly out, which happened on accident. And it was supposed to be messed up. He somehow pulled it just right. Everything stayed. So he went back and like, messed it up and, of course, like that's hilarious and perfect and genius. It was like the composure that he had, because, like he's probably, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:But like, how, like, even as an actor, and like I just don't, I don't understand how you could pull that out, turn around and be like did you guys see that? Yeah, but he's still like, have the capacity.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, over there and like I'm always amazed, like when things like that work out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, isn't he a method actor though?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, big time.
Speaker 2:So he's already in the Grinch's headspace. Yes, what does that?
Speaker 1:mean it's like where you like basically go over time to like stay in the headspace of the character you're playing.
Speaker 3:So like he goes home and goes to bed at night and he's still the Grinch.
Speaker 1:Maybe Like.
Speaker 3:I don't know if he did it.
Speaker 1:But, that's some. Usually it's just on set, but it just depends like probably once his makeup is done, then I'm the Grinch.
Speaker 3:You know, an excuse to be an asshole to everybody. Sometimes, Because, Daniel.
Speaker 1:Day Lewis is like that and then everyone says that he's just like well, if he's playing a dick, then he's just going to be a dick on set. But then he's just like super nice in real life.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but if you're working with him and he's an asshole on.
Speaker 4:Yeah Movie. It doesn't make it any easier. But I don't know which side is acting Again. Yeah, every thing here.
Speaker 3:We got big brains over here, yeah.
Speaker 1:Now we're definitely the expanded brain meme over there. We're at the space brain.
Speaker 3:now I got to be honest though what he said galaxy brain.
Speaker 1:So yeah, then like so he puts it on like a, a kilt, because he tells Max it's not a dress, it's a kilt, siko rips it off and he's wearing like this, like lace, garter.
Speaker 3:Where'd he get that yeah?
Speaker 1:His shoes definitely primping up for Martha she forgot to. Yeah, and then. So after he gives up on that, look, then he overhears someone yodeling up on the mountain and gets the idea that he's going to kidnap him, take his clothes and basically wear a leaderhosen down at the Whoville.
Speaker 3:If you want a perfect reenactment, the video will play. Now, it's me.
Speaker 4:I do have that video. I also have a video.
Speaker 3:There's like three videos of the same.
Speaker 2:Perfect Travis is like I. Just I didn't want to put anything on.
Speaker 1:I'm just going to edit you saying that out and cut. Or what's funnier though, like you saying that and nothing happens and just go.
Speaker 3:Should I just be sad now? I hope you enjoyed that clip. It's really good and just put it at the end, or yeah, not at all.
Speaker 1:Wow, great clip Anyways. So after he put the, he puts on his leaderhosen, he's modeling it for Max, and then he's still like all wishy washy about whether or not he's going and we're back. Sorry for that break, we had to get more drinks and now we are joined by the Grinch himself. Hello, definitely wearing Erica's clothes. Don't think too much about it, I'm going to last exactly three seconds. So, grinch, what was it like to get tricked by your own doc and to go into the jubilation.
Speaker 3:I think he's the mean one.
Speaker 1:I'm heavily pregnant. Oh thanks for having me. Grinch, oh thanks for having me.
Speaker 3:Oh hey, look who it is. What, oh no, oh no, I have fur in my eye. I cannot breathe, do you?
Speaker 1:need the screen back up so you can get deferred.
Speaker 3:Declod yeah, oh no, oh no. If I play with my eye the rest of the time, it's not my fault.
Speaker 4:Yep.
Speaker 1:So, like I said, the Grinch gets tricked and Max does the trapdoor trick on him. He goes down the chute and launches out of the trash chute right into Martha's cleavage. Motor boat sir. Motor boat sir is like oh Martha.
Speaker 3:And she does like this, she's like whooo.
Speaker 1:Her acting is so over the top, but it's like in a good way though.
Speaker 3:She's basically mowning the whole movie.
Speaker 1:The muscles, talking about him like with the tree.
Speaker 2:Why can't you do that voice better than he either, was Like even when she's like 13, though she goes in green.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah and then like molests his face.
Speaker 1:I love the colors from red and green so he gets pulled out of her cleavage and gets up and he's like I heard, like there's an award and I'm here to accept it, and I also heard there was a check.
Speaker 4:He's like no, there's no check. The child mentioned a check.
Speaker 1:So they're like oh, first off we have a little family reunion and he-.
Speaker 3:The lesbian moms are back.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they bring out his moms and one of my other favorite lines are you two still living, which my dad can do perfectly.
Speaker 4:Oh, I'm sure, and he does it all the time, I'm sure About my Nana sometimes.
Speaker 3:No To her. Oh no, not Danny. Danny, tell her not to watch this. She shouldn't anyway.
Speaker 1:No, he doesn't do it behind her back.
Speaker 3:Well, they call her Vader, to her face too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's your dad's.
Speaker 2:My dad's joke 20 some years ago.
Speaker 1:So then he gets thrown in the chair of cheer and he gets, like you know, kind of like pulled around like on a, like royalty on a litter, and then there's a it's just like this montage of all the different things that the cheer miser has to do Putting contest tonga line fruitcake fudge judge.
Speaker 3:That's honestly like I didn't see it the first. Like 12,000 times I saw this movie, but the last time that I was watching it, or one of the last times I saw that one of the guys was like stuffing fudge in his mouth. Oh yeah, he's like this isn't fudge and he goes in his mouth and he goes what is it?
Speaker 1:Oh no, it's the pudding. This is not pudding, it's the some like Albert Einstein, fucking motherfucker.
Speaker 4:He's like what is it, albert Hustin?
Speaker 3:And then he gets like old man, and then he gets like old man and he's like keep it coming, keep it coming. What is it?
Speaker 1:This is Jimmy Stewart impression.
Speaker 4:Oh, why not?
Speaker 1:And then this all culminates with a sacre set to the music, from a chariot to fire, academy award winning music. Dun dun, dun, dun, dun, yeah, all in slow motion and he wins. I think pretty sure he pushes the kid down at some point. Yeah, almost guaranteed, sounds very grinchy. So then they're like oh, now it's time to give the cheermeister his presents or everyone gets presents.
Speaker 1:But we start with the cheermeister and this is the carry moment, because the mayor just gave him the same razor that he fucked up his face with earlier as a kid. And this sets him off as PTSD kicks in. And then he torches the. Oh wait, no. First he takes the, he's holding it, he's looking at it and he's like you know, it's more than like. And then he starts this whole speech like all you guys care about his presents, gifts, gifts, gifts, gifts. You know we stand a socialist king and we got both ends here. And then he is like just basically calling them on their bullshits, like all you guys care about is consumerism. And I'm pretty sure I'm like looking off to the side, not even at the camera.
Speaker 2:It is real bright. It's why I'm looking over there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sorry, sorry folks at home, this is a podcast.
Speaker 3:Anyways, you're supposed to listen.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's where I don't make money. I don't make money on this either.
Speaker 3:Tell your friends, guys, smash that like button, like and subscribe.
Speaker 1:So anyways we're talking about capitalism.
Speaker 2:Yes, the presents. Oh yeah, so he's calling them on their presents.
Speaker 1:So they're gonna have PTSD. Yeah, he got um. Yeah, he got bothered by the the shaver. He started calling them out on all their stuff, saying like all you guys care about his presents and all this stuff. But there is one thing that I do love about Christmas and that's mistletoe. And he grabs the mistletoe and then he puts it over his butt and it starts wiggling and he's like pucker up and kiss it. Who will?
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh, he's getting the whole part where he gets engaged to the mayor gets engaged to what's her face? Oh yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1:That's what really sets him up.
Speaker 2:That's what makes him mad.
Speaker 1:mad, because he gets the shaver, he has the flashback. Credence Clearwater Revival starts kicking in, because again that nom flashback. Then yeah, then the mayor is like what the fuck just happened. That's what was the fuck full. I'm sorry, it wasn't the ghost of Dr Seuss.
Speaker 2:I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3:Like it was slippery. We all talked though the first one. That was creepy, that was still a ghost, that wasn't you know, okay, my whole house is like so perfectly safe but, there have been like two occurrences in the garage, that being one of them. They're just like what the fuck? Yep.
Speaker 2:Everything is fine, we're good.
Speaker 3:Alright, everybody start praying.
Speaker 4:Oh, oh, oh, oh oh.
Speaker 2:Oh no, can we bring it Christmas?
Speaker 1:Welcome Christmas, jesus Christmas, not this. Guys, the who's are rating war on Christmas.
Speaker 4:Oh no.
Speaker 1:They're the ones that made Starbucks change the cups and got all the moms mad on Facebook.
Speaker 3:Where are the Utah moms at to pick us up?
Speaker 1:Please don't unsubscribe.
Speaker 3:We love you. Oh, sorry, they're taking care of McKinley.
Speaker 4:Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1:Nah, they left during IZMOT shut. No, they left on Midsummer. They came in for Mary Poppins and they were out on episode two.
Speaker 3:Oh God, oh no. Anyways, she gets engaged, yes, maybe.
Speaker 1:The mayor proposes, at least she doesn't accept. Right then and there, because that's when the because, along with the giant diamond ring that's like layered, like a fucking cake.
Speaker 2:It does look like a cake.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I always think about like what if she puts gloves on?
Speaker 1:you know, yeah, so unconsiderate.
Speaker 3:I know.
Speaker 1:Nurses everywhere.
Speaker 3:Yep.
Speaker 1:She never gets that nursing degree.
Speaker 4:Katalysia.
Speaker 3:Does she have?
Speaker 1:a giant ring.
Speaker 3:No, michael.
Speaker 2:Oh God, talking about our friends.
Speaker 4:Put a ring on bitch.
Speaker 3:Can you like a thing she did for the ring on?
Speaker 2:He tried. Uh oh, what about the Grinch though?
Speaker 1:Yeah. So the Grinch is like no, that's enough of this. Because then he also like along with the lifetime of happiness comes a new car. And they've like literally say it in that voice and every day. And then the Grinch like eases the tension with a bite, you know, running his fingernail on the car, paint and everything, and there's the like nails on the chalkboard. My fingernails are hurting now talking about it.
Speaker 2:It makes my teeth hurt.
Speaker 1:I don't know Any who, any who, and I already made that joke earlier I don't know if that made it.
Speaker 3:I don't know either. Listeners, tell us in the comments.
Speaker 1:Made it. Now, guys, this is where the Grinch has a very serious talk with the town of Oval and this is where he tells them that they're all about like consumerism and presents and everything like that. And then he does the mistletoe thing and then he steals an old man's booze moonshine. It's in like the old school, the jug with the three X's on it, like a cartoon Can you say something stupid too, what's? That Mine of iron. What my whistle.
Speaker 3:That's my good stuff.
Speaker 1:Literally has like a fucking hair beard, like it's so good, his hair is like long and it's like pulled across like a beard Like this. That's my good stuff. Yeah, well, literally like that.
Speaker 3:He looks like a founding father, yeah.
Speaker 1:So who Washington Washington booze Boozing in at the jubilation?
Speaker 3:I've burned my mouth. Oh God, been there. Why Don't make me smile, they're there.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, that might be a cut.
Speaker 3:Just say JK, jk. Okay, there are two pieces in there, so Alright, alright.
Speaker 1:What? Look at my notes, guys. Oh, you're embarrassing me.
Speaker 4:Alright.
Speaker 3:Razor Ranch calls out capitalism Mistletoe.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, so he chugs the moonshine, which gives him you know, alcohol breath or whatever, and because it's real strong. So then he gets a lighter and torches the tree with his breath. Pretty cool, and then, yeah, then he steals a car. Oh yeah, no, he tries the hail of cab.
Speaker 4:They drive past him.
Speaker 2:He says this is because it's like green isn't it.
Speaker 3:And.
Speaker 1:Racism. Green lives matter, that's one of his. So then he steals a car, but he doesn't steal a normal size who car. He steals the tiny who's because there's a bunch of like tiny ones that are like this big maybe.
Speaker 2:They're the big ones, like the size of your shoe, yeah, their shoe size?
Speaker 3:How big's your foot their?
Speaker 1:shoe size. They're about a men's size, 12. And Right, so he steals their car and of course it's like you know, got his knees way up and and Then he's driving that he ends up crashing it into a fire hydrant. They make it all like extra dramatic, like it was this, like devastating crash and he's like waking up all disoriented and realizes that the gas is leaking out of this tiny car and he's like it's gonna blow and another slow-mo run away, with the explosion behind them and everything. Overly dramatic, but really funny, absolutely devastating to the shoe hoos though.
Speaker 2:Yes, the shoe hoos are homeless now.
Speaker 1:They got their car stolen. They probably lived in the Christmas tree, probably.
Speaker 2:Hey, I saw, one of them get sucked up into a tuba earlier, so maybe they lived there.
Speaker 4:That's true. That's true 14 years.
Speaker 1:So yeah, crash, explosion, yeah. And then he like Then we see like the who's like trying to, you know, gather their composure and everything. And Then the mayor's like making a speech and you know, as is usual with him, he's a total dick and just blames everything on Cineluu. And Then after that the they're like oh, the music starts back up again. They have a spare Christmas tree and everything. And right before the Grinch is about to like escape back up to his home, he's like, oh, like I got him and everything.
Speaker 1:So he gets sucked up to mountain Yep yep, before he gets sucked up to mountain, before he gets sucked up on the mountain.
Speaker 4:He gets sucked off.
Speaker 1:He gets sucked off on the mountain.
Speaker 3:What no, I said, up or did, I say off, he said off, I said off.
Speaker 1:Apparently, hey scene cuts. We don't know what happens, so but yeah, then he realized that like he didn't get them because they're singing again and everything and they had like a backup, and he's like, ah, whatever, he goes back up defeated, gets back to his lair and Max is in there dancing to Christmas music by himself and Like so. Yeah, perfect, I think Christmas is going to the dogs is the song. I don't know if it was made for the movie, but that's the words that are said.
Speaker 2:Wait, are you joking? I don't think I've ever heard that before.
Speaker 3:I thought you were like making that up or that was like some other weird song in it.
Speaker 1:No, no, that's what it says. Christmas is going to the dogs.
Speaker 3:That's probably the entire song, yeah.
Speaker 1:They only made that 10-second snippet Exactly. To the dogs. So yeah, while he's up there with Max at some point, how does Max get like the beard on him? Is it snow or is it?
Speaker 3:Yeah Well, I think the Grinch gets mad at him for dancing, throws him in the snow.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then he has a beard of snow, and that's where he gets the idea.
Speaker 3:And he conveniently sees. Santa and Whoville at that exact moment.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, so it must have been late, huh it must have been late at night.
Speaker 1:I guess so. This is a relation really just. This is a few hours later, so plenty of time to get sucked off on the mountain.
Speaker 3:Again cut scene one yeah.
Speaker 2:And doesn't he have a brilliant idea then?
Speaker 4:About Yep.
Speaker 1:that's when he has the idea of beard, santa me, santa me, steel, steely, steely. Yeah, puts it all together. I'm going to steal Christmas, I'm going to show them once and for all. And then this is where we get the montage of him making a Santa suit and everything and getting ready for this task, set to the titular song of your mean one, mr Grinch.
Speaker 3:I like that one Yep, not like when Are you Christmas?
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 3:This is a banger.
Speaker 2:My favorite part of that entire thing is when he turns Max into Rudolph. Oh, we're not there yet, oh sorry.
Speaker 3:Sorry, he's jumping the gun. He builds the sleigh right and then he builds the Well he does the suit first, then the sleigh yeah, then he does.
Speaker 1:Decides to make Max a reindeer because he, like, realizes is that when he sees Santa.
Speaker 2:No, no, that was he. Well, because he like builds the sleigh.
Speaker 3:No, because, he had to have seen Santa before, because then he like builds the sleigh and he does test runs and stuff like that, right, but when he turns Max and it's all within the same, anyways, same scene, it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 2:I guess.
Speaker 1:But at some point he's like oh wait, I need reindeer. How's the sleigh going to like go or whatever?
Speaker 2:But then he becomes Rudolph and he's like, oh, I need to build the sleigh yeah.
Speaker 4:I need to build the sleigh and then he puts his head up of his head. Yep.
Speaker 3:But my favorite is when he's like puts the action.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he like pops his nose off and he's like brilliant, Brilliant. You reject your own nose because it represents the glitter of commercialism. And then you have a big. Uss, I forget which one, but that's what Ron Howard, that's how he dresses. Basically, that's how he dresses and he's acting like Ron Howard and everything. He basically just like. He provides this impression of the director and the director is like, yeah, I love it, perfect. So yeah, max is going to be Rudolph. He's got the little fake nose.
Speaker 4:He's got the like a single horn that he like took off of like whatever. A hoose.
Speaker 1:A hoose.
Speaker 3:A hoose Hoose horn, is it Hmm?
Speaker 1:So they finally get in the sleigh. It's literally just pulled by Max. Not really, because it's like jet powered.
Speaker 3:And it's like all the way downhill.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they like spin out and they almost crash. So I'm going to throw up and then I'm going to die.
Speaker 3:We have to do a night of drinking. Yeah, grab something for the July Gonna drop and then I'm going to die.
Speaker 4:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:So yeah then he finally gets it stable and he's like, oh, almost lost my cool there. And then he gets to the first house, tries to go down the chimney. He's like, well, Santa can do it.
Speaker 3:I can do it. This is when he's also relatable.
Speaker 1:Yes, because he gets stuck by his gut.
Speaker 3:And then he goes, flap this water weight, and I was like well, that's what I'm saying for now. Yup.
Speaker 1:Get stuck Still doesn't make it all the way down, but he makes it like most of the way. And then he releases some moths to eat the stockings and then he puts a giant vacuum down the chimney and it sucks up all the presents and decorations and a cat, poor kitty. Then he's even stealing their groceries, even the who roast beast.
Speaker 3:The who hash.
Speaker 1:Yup, Last can of who hash. Then he's at Cindy Lou's house and he's in the middle of stealing the Christmas tree when she comes downstairs and says like Santa. And then so he's like kind of trying to hide behind the tree and not reveal that it's him, but also like talk to her. And but then she says something and says that like oh, when you're delivering presents, don't forget the Grinch. I know he's mean and scary, but I think he's sweet. Is that what it is?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 3:Something along those lines Mean and hairy, mean and scary.
Speaker 1:Something like that. But he's sweet. And then this like melts the Grinch's heart, but not enough, because then he's like nice kid, bad judge of character.
Speaker 3:And then, just continues on with this, his iced. That's all I feel about Brooke. My dating life, nice kid, bad judge of character.
Speaker 1:So then he heads to the mayor's house and he has some like extra tasks for this and the mayor's talking in his sleep and he's like to say like, oh, martha, like such and such, and then the. Grinch is like yes. And then it's like kiss me, Martha. And then he picks up Max and puts Max's butthole basically in front of his face and that gets kissed without.
Speaker 2:Max's consent, mind you, yeah or Max. So Grinch is cancelled, yeah.
Speaker 1:Episode over Then. Oh yeah, so then he's on his way back up and he's like um, but the he's about to leave and the engine dies and out of fuel so. Then now max has to pull. Like what? 20 tons For one dog, much one medium dog.
Speaker 3:Even like is even. Yeah, I guess he'd be medium, huh.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's a medium dog. Yeah, anyways, now that we got max's size out of the way. Yeah, max pulls it up to the top and the gringes up there and he's just like, yes, I did it. Like they're gonna be waking up any minute now and they're gonna start crying and I'm gonna be so happy. We see the A cop get up and realize that all the stuff is gone, and then he panics and gets in the cop car.
Speaker 4:It takes off.
Speaker 1:Then we realize that the there's a rope tied to the cop car that is also tied to the mayor's bed, so he gets yanked out of it through the wall and out into the Open. And then all the hoos are waking up and they're realizing that everything's gone. And Then what happens?
Speaker 4:Oh, yeah, so.
Speaker 1:So after like all that and everyone's out in the town square and everything like what's going on like, and then the mayor's like See, I'm like, see, like this is what happens when you involve the Grinch and and everything this is also where we find out how he gets his.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah cuz.
Speaker 2:Yep with like a chin strap.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's what I mean headgear, you know, yeah.
Speaker 1:So he's like once again, just like blaming everything on Cindy Loo and then the dad finally, like defenders, like you know what. I'm glad he took our presents. Like we've been so like Caught up in this and buying stuff for people that we forgot what Christmas is all about and everything, and that everything's. Then everyone's like yeah like you're right and everything.
Speaker 1:And then Up at the top, the Grinch is waiting for them to start crying and everything. But then he hears them singing again and he's like oh no, like what, what's going on? Why it didn't work. And he's like I tried to stop Christmas from coming, but it came just the same related.
Speaker 1:It's what my bank account trying to do this year and then oh yeah, and then, like his, he starts to like have a stroke, pretty much like is that? That's how he's acting, but it's his, his heart growing three sizes. The best part is like when he gets up and he's trying to walk and his knees are all shaky.
Speaker 2:Wouldn't that be a heart attack?
Speaker 4:No no.
Speaker 1:No that makes too much sense. That's too logical.
Speaker 3:Does he say before or after where he's like maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more?
Speaker 1:and it's like the most like Beautiful Grinch line there ever was yep, yeah, maybe Christmas doesn't come from a store, maybe it's just there, means a little bit more.
Speaker 3:Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so that is. Heart grows three sizes Should get.
Speaker 1:Yeah, pretty dangerous. But so, oh yeah. So then he's like you know what I'm in my save Christmas era now, yeah, I'm gonna fix everything, let's get these presents back down. Meanwhile Sydney Lou, who's been on her way up the mountain, she ends up on top of the pile of presents. I don't know why. You would like Get up to his door, realize he's not there and then be like, oh, let me climb on that giant pile of presents and present sacks and whatever you know what if she was lying and she was trying to get everybody to think Christmas wasn't about presents so that she can have them all?
Speaker 1:new theory so Cindy Lou's the villain. She's in her we finally debunked it.
Speaker 3:Oh.
Speaker 1:So then, like he's, this whole time he's been trying to like, stop the sled from sliding off the cliff, and he's like, oh well, it's just presents, like it's not that bad, and then this is the reveal that's. Cindy Lou's on top and he's like nope, can't have this, like it's not just presents, it's this little girl too. So he full-on like dead, lifts this whole sleigh, like pulls it back up From sliding off and lifts the whole thing.
Speaker 3:Christmas spirit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a really strong shoulder press.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah yeah, oh.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he closed his rings for sure, just in that one, that one thing. Six am Close. So yeah, then it's like all right, let's bring back the presents. They're going down the hill. He's, for some reason, like being pulled in the back, like I mean he's just skin like water skiing, but on snow and then Like, then they get down to the bottom and he says, oh yeah, like Cindy Lou like apologizes for something I forget, but he's like, it's like nah, the Sun is bright, the powders bitchin oh yeah, oh, because she's driving.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yo, that's right because she like, does a tight turn and he flies off and ends up like on the hood of the sleigh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he like lands on his back.
Speaker 1:Yep Mermaid on the front of the ship.
Speaker 4:What's up with this whistle?
Speaker 2:That was intense.
Speaker 1:Erica's in her aben castello era the wheeze left.
Speaker 3:Weezer, yeah, weezer. It's like wheezy from Joy Story.
Speaker 1:Young wheezy. Yeah, it's wheezy.
Speaker 3:Wheezy, All right, wheezy yeah all right, little Wayne. Oh yeah, where are there so many wheezy's in the world?
Speaker 1:Anyways, young moolah, baby. Yeah, so I was bringing back the presents. There's no breaks, because they're just like flying down the hill and Martha May and Cindy's mom Tried a team up to stop it. They basically do like what they do on the aircraft carriers With like Polarope across and that kind of like slows them down. It slows them down a little bit and then in the end it's like they just slow down enough for Lou, who the Cindy's dad, to stop them and get pushed with the tree.
Speaker 3:Yeah, watch it.
Speaker 1:Yep, her dad's doing the Homer disappeared in the bushes. And so, yeah, then the the Grinch apologizes and like the cop comes up and he's like take me away, like to jail, like Choke me. You know, like I did it, I stole the presents and I'm sorry, you know. And he's like what aren't you gonna arrest me, put me in chains, blind me with pepper spray?
Speaker 3:You can choke me out too. Probably I'm not gonna say that we didn't know.
Speaker 1:We didn't know what would happen 20 years later we had no idea. Or every year before that, I'm sure, probably.
Speaker 3:Just 2020, then like yeah, this time Yep.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah. So then at this point Martha May is like oh yeah about that. After like sliding down the sacks of presents with some like orgasmic scream, you're a stressful lie.
Speaker 3:Woo, that's probably got it down.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I just did it, you did I missed it.
Speaker 3:Woo Mm-hmm. Can you like unhear things? There's my TV remote when I need it. Volume up. I'm sorry to our entire family and Heidi, if you're watching this, you're probably dying. You're the only one A laughter.
Speaker 1:Kids these days will never know, before Arapat's pro Noise canceling headphones, it will not Hear that. Hear your parents' door lock. I'm kidding you've had too much alcohol.
Speaker 3:Sometimes you let the cat out, anyways.
Speaker 2:So, martha May.
Speaker 1:Just blasted down that sack of presents.
Speaker 3:That's the only thing, yep, the only sack. We're not talking about what she's blasted down on.
Speaker 1:I'm just kidding. We're not talking about what she's blasted down on after the credits roll. Different sack, the green sack.
Speaker 2:I'm doing the rest of the podcast like this.
Speaker 3:Why? Because kids stop laughing. That's so quirky.
Speaker 1:So after that she breaks off the engagement, she returns the ring, yep. And then In comes the banger, dahoodore.
Speaker 3:Mine. Alright, brooke, take it away. Oh sorry, we'll take it away. Dahoodore, dahoodore, dahoodore, dahoodore, dahoodore, dahoodore, dahoodore, dahoodore, dahoodore, dahoodore, dahoodore, dahoodore, dahoodore, dahoodore, dahoodore.
Speaker 1:So then, yeah, everyone's like Grinch good, mare bad, let's go to Grinch's house to party. Yeah, like immediately has like a bunch of tables there. For some he's been waiting for people to like like him, apparently.
Speaker 2:Apparently For people to show up His voice mail.
Speaker 1:We're all waiting for people to show up, they sleep right, yes, sorry, as an inside joke.
Speaker 3:Again, you have to pay for it.
Speaker 1:Yes, someday the Patreon tier, you get to hear all our drunk stories and stuff like that. We've grown extensive recently.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:As we get older.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, that's the Grinch, the Grinch. So.
Speaker 3:Any final thoughts? Should we be like our moms? Oh, my gosh, yeah, oh gosh, gosh, oh gosh, oh gosh. Oh, that was like our moms, the inner-term moms.
Speaker 2:They're gonna kill us. We love you guys, love you mom.
Speaker 3:Love you mommy. Also did we share that we're your cousins? Yeah, I said in the beginning.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay okay, yeah, anyways, these were my maternal cousins.
Speaker 2:The maternal ones.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:We're blood. Word.
Speaker 1:We're blood.
Speaker 3:Don't do that.
Speaker 1:It's okay, I'm not wearing red.
Speaker 3:I am, that's maroon.
Speaker 2:Five, Number six we're not even on the right movie. No.
Speaker 4:A lot of this is gonna be cut out.
Speaker 2:My final thoughts are that Sometimes I can be a little grinchy and Like this year. No, I was actually less grinchy this year Than I have been in the past. Maybe my heart grew Three sizes. You should get that checked out. Like Jenna said, Yep cardiologists I think that's a little concerning, but I'm not grinchy anymore.
Speaker 1:Here's my ranking of grinch versions. Number one this one we talked about Jim Carrey. Number two the original 60s cartoon. Number three, but I still enjoyed it. It was better than I thought. The 2018 animated one With Benedict Cucumber Snatch no.
Speaker 2:I was about to put the other glove on and go like this Cause it's green Martha's nickname at the so much of this is gonna be cut out and you need to remember which one is. Can't let people see this.
Speaker 3:Why? I think this is what's gonna get us famous.
Speaker 2:Obviously, yeah, this is the. I mean probably not me, cause I feel like I've kind of been.
Speaker 3:Buskip. Anyways, no, that's for my. And that was Universal's.
Speaker 1:How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Ron Howard. Great movie, wonderful movie. But yeah, like honestly, like really good, like it's a Christmas staple In our family. You know, obviously, cause we're doing this as a family.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I watched it three times this year already, fun fact.
Speaker 1:Nice, you had to watch it to get into character.
Speaker 3:Well, no, actually I just watched clips on YouTube and then, but Thanksgiving, yeah, we're those people. Thanksgiving night we ate dinner and we're like, well, it's Christmas now. So we watched the Grinch, and then I fell asleep during it. So then I watched it again, and then last night.
Speaker 2:Not only did she fall asleep, the entire family fell asleep About five minutes into the movie.
Speaker 1:Aren't those like the most satisfying naps though? Like when you wake up and everyone's asleep. You're like yeah.
Speaker 2:Awesome Family time.
Speaker 1:We, we Inceptioned and shared the dream, the Grinch, dream, the Grinch dream.
Speaker 3:The Grinch stole our dreams.
Speaker 1:But yeah Like he returned them.
Speaker 2:He returned them. That's true. Yeah, so yeah.
Speaker 1:Great movie. I obviously saw it Before you guys, cause you were one when it came out and you weren't born yet. Checked out.
Speaker 2:Checked out.
Speaker 1:Wait, I was one. Yeah, it came out in 2000.
Speaker 3:Oh, to be fair, I was almost born.
Speaker 1:That's true. You weren't born January. Yeah, I was like.
Speaker 3:I was a month late to the party. I'm not that young guys.
Speaker 1:You watched it and you got delivered, and immediately they put it on, watched it and wooed yeah.
Speaker 3:Hey Mom, what happened? You probably heard it, I probably did that's probably why I like it so much Truthfully.
Speaker 1:Probably. I think we watched it. I feel like we watched it at the. Oh no, that would have been the following Christmas Cause it was on Blu-ray or. Dvd, whatever Blu-ray.
Speaker 3:Blu-ray In 2000, you mean.
Speaker 2:VHS. It probably was on VHS. We had the VHS version. We did have the VHS and it was a green tape.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the whole tape was green.
Speaker 1:Colored VHS or like the shit, all those orange Nickelodeon tapes. Rugrats, rugrats in Paris.
Speaker 3:And, like the white, we had the Barney Christmas one, and it was white with purple writing on it.
Speaker 2:And I was just like it was so cool, very aesthetically pretty we have my brother's copy of the Blu-ray right here.
Speaker 3:Shout out.
Speaker 1:Tyler, but I do remember watching it Like up in at Lake Arrowhead as a family, when we were all up there, I'm sure. So that probably would have been Christmas 2001 At the Boat House Yep.
Speaker 3:Christmas to the oh, so I would have been there Cool.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 4:You don't remember it, but you were there.
Speaker 1:She may or may not have been asleep.
Speaker 2:Tyler will ask you if you remember it. Oh, I know. I know he always does.
Speaker 1:Do you remember when you were zero?
Speaker 4:My favorite is when like and this movie came out that you went to see, when you were zero.
Speaker 3:He asked me one time if I remember it. Like he, he doesn't forget anything.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:And so he knows my birthday. And he asked me one time If I remembered something from 1998 and I was like no. And he was like what? No, you were there. I was like I was not.
Speaker 2:And he was like right right, I wasn't even there, yeah.
Speaker 1:Tyler gets a little mixed up sometimes but he does like he remembers so much, like well, you guys have heard On the episodes that he's guested, on the random facts that he pulls out, so yeah, yeah, he's got it all, so he has more information than the directors?
Speaker 3:Yeah, he knows all the comments from the audience and stuff like that. Yeah.
Speaker 1:So yeah, that's. That is Dr Seuss's how the Grinch Stole, christmas Stole, oh my god Stole this it's like that One more time, tyler, tyler, one more time.
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Speaker 2:Bye.
