🎃 It’s a wonderful night for eyebrows as we pick up James Riley and Ethan “The Hungry Reader” in our paraphernalia wagon as we wheel it back to 1977 for a Grinch Night we’ll never forget. 

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💬 Topics & Tangents: 

The worst, non-candy Halloween treats. 

“Carlton, Your Doorman.” 

Longtime Sesame Street composer Joe Raposo composed this special’s music. 

Hans Conried (The Grinch) was also the titular character in Dr. Seuss’s The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. 

I badly describe the plot of “Midnight Madness.” 

The Hakken-Kraks in “Oh, the Places You’ll Go.” 

The Euphemism, and other words I thought Dr. Seuss made up. 

“Dr. Seuss Goes to War,” and other creators of great works doing terrible things. 

Bogleech’s gallery of the Grinch’s monsters, and our personal favorites. 

The Vug under the Rug, the Jibboo, and the Birthday Bird. 

“Danse macabre.” 

Is this a prequel, and where does “The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat” fit into it? 

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📼 Commercials: 

Franken Berry and Monster Cereals (1986), preserved by Dinosaur Dracula. 

Holly Jolly X’masu. 

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“Halloween is Grinch Night” © 1977 DePatie–Freleng Enterprises. 

Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house.