

After a test run, the Grinch discovers that Fred has a wife and child. The Grinch soon decides that he'll steal Christmas from Whoville to assuage his distress and acquires a fat reindeer whom he calls Fred to help him pull a sleigh that he stole from his neighbor, Mr. With Christmas approaching, all the Whoville festivities give the Grinch a flashback, recalling his disjointing childhood spent mostly alone and unwanted in an orphanage. Meanwhile, a 6-year-old girl name Cindy Lou Who notices that her mother Donna Lou Who is overworked trying to take care of herself and her baby twin brothers, Buster and Bean.Īt first, she decides to send a letter to Santa Claus to help her mother, but after encountering the Grinch who sarcastically says that she'll have to talk to Santa face-to-face about it, she decides to go to the North Pole to talk to Santa, but when Donna tells her that it would take a month to get there and back home, her final decision is to try and trap Santa with the help of her friends. The Grinch has a pet dog named Max and they both only visit Whoville when the Grinch needs to buy food and do bad things.

The only one who isn't amused is a cantankerous, green furred creature called The Grinch who has a heart "two sizes too small" and lives as a hermit in a cave on the top of Mount Crumpit just north of Whoville. In the town of Whoville, the humanoids called Whos are filled with excitement about celebrating Christmas. Crumpit, questioning the meaning of Christmas for 53 years later. So, like in the book and his live action counterpart, he lived at Mt. It was making him so sad and decided to leave since it was so much pain for him. When he was a kid, The Grinch spent most of his childhood life in a Whoville orphanage with no one to celebrate Christmas with while the Whoville are celebrating Christmas without him and he wasn't adopted either. However, deep down, he has a soft spot as he shows to his dog Max and a select few individuals that manage to appeal to it under his rough exterior.Īfter learning the true meaning of Christmas, he redeemed himself and realize that he wasn't alone anymore, because of Cindy Lou's kindness. He takes some sadistic pride in his work, sees an artistry and style to being generally mean and nasty. Like his previous versions, The Grinch started out as a grumpy, solitary, and selfish creature who likes to bully and antagonize the citizens of Whoville whenever he can.
