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Musical | Motherly Love
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Outstanding Individual Achievement Animated Programming | 1982
Outstanding Animated Program | 1982 | David H.
Hans Conried was going to reprise his role as the Grinch from It's Grinch Night (1977), but died shortly before he was due to record his lines. As a result, Bob Holt was chosen to voice the Grinch.
During the psychoanalysis song, the Cat asks the Grinch if his shoes were too tight, paraphrasing a line from the original book and cartoon, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966). In the same song, the Grinch uses the expression "absotively, posilutely", a line from the narration of The Cat in the Hat (1971) cartoon, but which was not in the book.
This is the last Dr. Seuss ABC television special produced by Marvel Productions & David H. DePatie-Friz Freleng Productions.
This was the only Grinch animated TV special to not take place in or near Whoville.
The Grinch's darkhouse is a reference to the flashdark, antithesis to the flashlight, from Dr. Seuss' trivia book "The Cat's Quizzer".
"The Cat in the Hat: That Grinch. That Grinch! That psychopathic Grinch! [pacing back and forth] The Cat in the Hat: Why is a Grinch? What makes him tick? Why is his Grinch brain sick, sick, sick? Oh boy, if I had a psychiatrist couch, I'd find out what's wrong with that Grinchy grouch. [a thought bubble appears above the Cat. Inside the bubble, the Grinch is seen reclining on a psychiatrist couch] The Grinch: [in bubble] That's a lot of rot. The Cat in the Hat: [talking to Grinch in bubble; singsong voice] Is there something in your family tree that causes Grinch delinquency? The Grinch: Absolutely not. The Cat in the Hat: As a boy, were you never a good Boy Scout? Did you ever eat too much sauerkraut? Did your schoolteacher say that you were a fool? Did you dive in an empty swimming pool? The Grinch: Positively not! The Cat in the Hat: Did you fight a lot with your older sisters? Did you suffer from poison ivy blisters? The shoes that you wore, were they too tight? Were you afraid to go out in the dark at night? Did some big bully steal your kite? Your teeth, was there something wrong with your bite? Or maybe your mother didn't treat you right? The Grinch: Mama? Absotively, posilutely, that's a lot of rot! [He reaches out of the bubble and grabs the Cat's hat. He pulls it down over him, hiding his face and most of his body. The thought bubble disappears] The Cat in the Hat: [muffled] Hmm, one of the most difficult patients I ever had. I'm going to have to make a house call."
"The Cat in the Hat: That Grinch! That Grinch! He's smuggled our light, he's guzzled our sound, he's bamboozled our lives, and a way must be found to cease him from schplotzing his evil around!"
