The devious, anti-holiday spirit of the character has led to the name "Grinch" becoming a term used to describe a person opposed to Christmas time celebrations or to someone with a coarse, greedy attitude.
The Grinch has since become an icon of the winter holidays, despite the character's hatred of the season, and has appeared on various forms of memorabilia such as Christmas ornaments, plush dolls, Halloween costumes, and various clothing items.
The Grinch appears to possess a number of superhuman powers. He is able to lift an entire sleigh loaded with Whoville's entire supply of presents himself, with the strength "of ten Grinches, plus two." Though the book and TV special simply explain this as the Grinch influenced merely by Christmas spirit and his enlarged heart, the film alludes to the notion that the Grinch was already incredibly strong. The Grinch character is played by Jim Carrey in the popular movie produced in 2000. The Grinch is accompanied by his companion, a dog named Max, who is forced to dress up like a reindeer and pull a sleigh across Whoville.
In 1977, Seuss responded to the fan request for more Grinch tales by writing Halloween Is Grinch Night, a Halloween special that aired on ABC. This was followed in 1982, when Marvel green-lit The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat, which was also produced by Dr. Seuss (though under his real name, Ted Geisel). Although not as successful as the original, the two spin-offs both received Emmy Awards. Several episodes of the 1996 Nick Jr. television show The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss featured the Grinch, this time in puppet form, a rare screen appearance for the character without being animated or illustrated.
A 2000 live-action feature film based on the story, directed by Ron Howard and starring Jim Carrey in the title role, was a major financial success, though it received many mixed reviews and holds a 53% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.. A video game based on the film, simply entitled The Grinch was released on several consoles and PC in the same year. It was followed in 2007 with the release of a Nintendo DS version that went under the full title of the movie.
The Grinch was portrayed on the stage when the story was turned into a musical by the Children's Theater Company out of Minneapolis. The show made it to Broadway by way of a limited run in 2006, with Patrick Page playing the Grinch.
In mediums of television and cinema, the Grinch has been played or voiced by five actors: Boris Karloff in the original 1966 short, Hans Conried in Halloween is Grinch Night, Bob Holt in The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat, Anthony Asbury in The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, and Jim Carrey in the 2000 film adaptation (in 2009, Carrey would play another famous character with ill regard towards Christmas - Ebenezer Scrooge in Disney's CGI-animated A Christmas Carol, as well as another famous Dr. Seuss character, Horton the Elephant, in the film version of Horton Hears a Who.)
The Grinch appears in the Psych episode "The Polarizing Express." During Shawn Spencer's first dream sequence, the Grinch can be briefly glimpsed outside the office window, stealing presents from passers-by.
The Grinch also appears in Glee in the episode "A Very Glee Christmas". The Grinch was played by Sue Sylvester, who seeks revenge on Will Schuester, who stole all of her secret "Santa scam" present. Sue then dresses herself like the Grinch and dresses one of her students, Becky Johnson, as a reindeer. She enters the choir room and destroys the glee club Christmas tree and all the music sheets. After trashing the choir room, she encounters Britanny, who believes that she is Santa Claus. Sue explains that one of the light on the tree is broken and she needs to take the tree back to the North Pole to be repaired.
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