Halloween Is Grinch Night (1977) - full transcript

[instrumental music]

[blows whistle]

[music continues]

[male narrator]

It was a mighty

gorgeous sunset.

It was truly

a beautiful sight.

All the friendly,

small house tops of Whoville

glowing bright

in the changing light.

All the Whos who

lived here in Whoville paused

and smiled

as the sun sank down

and the purple shadow

of Mount Crumpit crept across

the farmlands beyond the town.

It was a mighty peaceful sunset

until old Josiah

happened to sniff.

sniff sniff sniff

And he whispered to his wife..

Mariah, will you also

take a whiff?

And Josiah and Mariah

double-sniffed.

[both sniffing]

[male narrator]

And they said..

[both]

I wonder if..

[male narrator] But they really didn't wonder.

They knew it was terribly true.

They knew that the sour-sweet

wind was coming back

and what the sour-sweet wind

would do.

[wind howling]

Inside, children.

thud thud thud

[instrumental music]

[crying]

thud

click

thud thud thud

[quacking]

[dramatic music]

♪ I suggest we stay

indoors tonight ♪

♪ I suggest we lock

ourselves in tight ♪

♪ Tonight you know

won't go quite right ♪

♪ You can tell

by the smell of the wind ♪

♪ It sounds like

another one's coming ♪

♪ Another Grinch night

might commence ♪

♪ I wouldn't go out

on a night like this ♪

♪ For a dollar

and fifty cents ♪

Always starts when

that sour-sweet wind

begins a-howlin'.

Sour-sweet wind

across the tree stumps

on the wrong side

of Punkers Pond.

Then that wind wakes

up the Gree-Grumps

from their sleep inside

the tree stumps

and all the Gree-Grumps

start a-growlin'.

[growling]

And that growlin'

and that howlin'

runkles and grunkles

up the pond.

♪ And that's why

I'm suggesting ♪

♪ To all you ladies

kids and gents ♪

♪ I wouldn't go out

on a night like this ♪

♪ For two dollars

and fifty cents ♪

[growling]

'Cause when old Punkers Pond

gets runkled, grunkled

by that howlin'

and that growlin'

that always disturbs

the Hakken-Kraks.

And the Hakken-Kraks

start a-yowling.

And the yowling

of the Hakken-Kraks

plus that runklin', grunklin', howlin', growlin'

always irritates The Grinch.

And then that Grinch starts

in a-prowlin'.

[instrumental music]

♪ So I suggest

we stay indoors tonight ♪

♪ Our problems are immense ♪

♪ I wouldn't go out

on Grinch night ♪

♪ For six dollars

and sixty cents ♪♪

Mm. It's a wonderful

night for eyebrows.

Max.

Now where is he?

Max!

[door creaks]

It's a wonderful night

for eyebrows.

It's a wonderful night

for teeth.

It's a wonderful night

for Grinch night.

Their troubles

will now commence.

Oh, I wouldn't stay home

on a night like this

for sixty dollars

and sixty cents.

Max! Max, go bring the

paraphernalia wagon.

[instrumental music]

[rattling]

[male narrator]

While Max was obeying

his master's command

in the cave of

Mount Crumpit's bleak peak

the sweet-sour wind

swazzled over the land.

And in the home of Josiah

and his good wife Mariah

they just stood there

and no one could speak.

Until finally,

Euchariah said..

Grandpa Josiah.

And Grandpa Josiah said..

Yes, Euchariah?

And Euchariah said..

Grandpa, we've stood

and we've stood

and stooding just stooding

'produces no good.'

The least we could do

is find out without doubt

'whether or not

the Grinch iscoming out.'

And so I suggest, we don't

stood here like sticks

call the Grinch Alarm Center.

Dial area code 5-1-9-0-0-6.

[Josiah]

Excellent suggestion,

Euchariah.

Area code 5-1-9-0-0-6.

[dial tone]

Line's busy. Very busy.

Ah, here he is.

[Samuel on phone]

'This is not a recording,

this is me in person.'

'Your Grinch alarm warden,

Sergeant Samuel S. McPhearson.'

'It is my duty to inform you

if conditions improve'

'or if they worsen.'

'I have infiltrated

his territory'

keeping sharp eyes

upon this schnook.

And I'm focusing my focusella

to take still another look.

[Samuel clicks tongue]

'Conditions are worsened.'

[dramatic music]

Hurry up, Max,

I'm raring to go.

[instrumental music]

♪ I'm going to be

the guest of honor ♪

♪ At the exclusive

Grinch night ball ♪

♪ Gonna be the only dancer ♪

♪ In the Whoville town hall ♪

♪ I might enter the ball

quite small ♪

♪ Or I might go in

quite tall ♪

♪ But I assure you

nobody but nobody ♪

♪ Is going to dance

with me at all ♪

♪ When I enter

front and center ♪

♪ At the exclusive

Grinch night ball ♪♪

[thunder rumbling]

[Grinch laughing]

Ready. Giddy-up, Maxie.

[laughing]

[creaking]

Attention, attention, all Whos.

This is Sergeant McPhearson.

And conditions, I'm afraid,

are now worser than worsened.

[thunder rumbling]

♪ How many times

have I said and said ♪

♪ How many times have

I said in my head ♪

♪ What am I doing here? ♪

♪ Why am I the slave of this

grinchy old crock? ♪

♪ And I say how I wish

I could turn back the clock ♪

♪ And have the fine future

I had once before ♪

♪ And again be an innocent

puppy once more ♪

In your puppy house beddy

with sweet

Auntie Woofy Wafoon

feeding you hominy grits

with a big silver spoon?

♪ What am I doing here? ♪

♪ Doesn't matter much how ♪

♪ But my dear old

Auntie Woofy ♪

♪ Wouldn't I fear very much ♪

♪ Care for me now ♪♪

[Grinch retching]

As you can see by the lights

flashing on this index

that's the Zindheimer disaster

and devastation

'rate of spread

calculating index.'

I am recording the intensities

and immensities

of the Grinch's current

antisocial activi-tities.

'And ladies and gentlemen,

let me tell you'

'the Grinch is working up

quite a score.'

'And unless I am misreading'

I think it's going

to soar up even more.

You know something,

Grandpa Josiah?

Do I know what, Eucharaiah?

You know, sir, this looks a lot

better without my glasses.

You put your glasses back on

and face the facts, Euchariah.

♪ As the Grinch creeps

ever closer ♪

♪ To your little

front yard gates ♪

♪ He's engaged

in grinchy practices ♪

♪ That every Who abominates ♪

♪ He defoliates depreciates ♪

♪ Deflating all

the things he hates ♪

♪ And frequently expectorates ♪

♪ Whoa-oh the acts

he activates ♪

♪ He castigates ♪

♪ He blastigates ♪

♪ And while all of Whoville

sits and waits ♪

♪ The fates that

it anticipates ♪

♪ His wagon wheel obliterates

and decimates and flatanates ♪

♪ Ten thousand little flowers ♪♪

Uh, missed one.

[squeals]

[The Grinch]

'Got it!'

[Grinch laughing]

You know something,

Grandpa Josiah?

Shh, shh. Euchariah.

Oh, my gosh!

Look what he's doing now.

[Samuel]

'He's hunting down

the Wuzzy Woozoo.'

'The Woozoo at least

should have immunity.'

'He's the only one left

in our community.'

whip

[instrumental music]

whip

[instrumental music]

[dramatic music]

[screaming]

[yelping]

Gall darn bram bush.

'I got brickles

in the breeches.'

Phew! that was a

mighty tight pinch.

But the Wuzzy Woozoo

has eluded the Grinch.

'He's safe inside

a brickle bush.'

You know something,

Grandpa Josiah?

Do I know what, Euchariah?

- I gotta go to the Euphemism.

- The Euphemism?

No one goes to the Euphemism

on a night like this.

But I gotta.

Euchariah, don't be long.

[thunder rumbles]

♪ I suggest we stay

indoors tonight ♪

♪ Our problems are immense ♪

♪ I wouldn't go out

on a night like this ♪

♪ For sixty-six million

six hundred thousand dollars ♪

♪ And an extra

sixty-six cents ♪♪

[thunder rumbling]

[wind howling]

[dramatic music]

[wind howling]

Euchariah! Euchariah!

Where are you, Euchariah?

♪ He is wandering in the wind ♪

♪ While the Hakken-Kraks

are yowlin' ♪

♪ And the Gree-Grumps

are a-growlin' ♪

♪ He is wandering up

Mount Crumpit ♪

♪ In the sour-sweet

Grinch night wind ♪

Euchariah! Euchariah!

Oh, come home, Euchariah!

♪ No one comes home

through the wind ♪

♪ No one comes home

through the growlin' ♪

♪ He is lost amongst

the yowlin' ♪

♪ Lost forever in the darkness ♪

♪ Of the sour-sweet

Grinch night wind ♪♪

[thunder rumbling]

Darn these brickles, anyway.

I'll be sore for a month.

[thunder rumbling]

[panting]

Where, where is that Euphemism?

Shh, shh, shh.

Huh?

- Oh, a Woozoo.

- Shh! Shh!

Oh, a doggie.

Nice doggie. Poor lost doggie.

I'm gonna take you home

with me.

If I ever find it again.

Shh, shh, shh.

Brickelize me, will they?

I'll brickelize

the entire township.

I.. Who are you?

Euchariah Who, sir.

You're a rather small Who,

aren't ya?

Well, I do the best I can, sir.

Are you really the Grinch?

Am I the Grinch?

Sorry, sir. I have a slight

astigmatism.

An optical condition

in which parallel rays of light

'from an external source

converge or diverge'

unequally in different

meridians.

You know, sir, I like you much

better with my glasses off.

You put your glasses back on

and face the facts.

"Am I the Grinch?" Hah!

I'll show him.

♪ Um kha pah pah

um pam pah pah ♪

♪ Um kha pa dee pah pah ♪

♪ Um kha pa dee um pah ♪

♪ Um ka um ka um ka loonka ♪

♪ Ip zing troika ♪

♪ Pah dee maro um pam tusk ♪♪

[laughing]

"Am I the Grinch?"

Out of my way, small Who.

'I got bigger things to do

than to waste my time'

'with you on Grinch night!

Achtung!'

Giddy-up, Maxie!

Next stop, Whoville.

[Grinch laughing]

So with the sweet-sour wind

still a-howlin'

now the Grinch was really

prowlin', and Euchariah

watched him go a-clonkerin',

skonkerin', skomkaponkerin'

toward the helpless town below.

And he thought about Josiah,

Mariah, Obediah and Bethiah.

He would have to

save them somehow.

He would have to save the town.

He would simply

somehow have to stop

that Grinch from getting down.

And suddenly Euchariah knew

precisely what he had to do.

Stall for time.

[instrumental music]

[screeching]

And what does the rather small

Who want this time?

W-w-will you please scare me

some more, sir?

[chuckles]

I-I sort of like it.

Look, kid, I gave you

the two dollar treatment.

'You're not worth

a first class grinching.'

'"Am I the Grinch!"'

[laughing]

whip

[laughing]

Euchariah! Euchariah!

Where are you?

[instrumental music]

[screeching]

[screeching]

Okay, you asked for it.

'Quit fumbling

with your glasses.'

Put those glasses on

and get up here.

Y-yes, sir.

[snaps fingers]

[Grinch]

'Come on.'

Come on!

'Closer, Euchariah.'

'That's a nice little Who.'

'Now closer.'

Closer. Closer.

And Euchariah with a courage

he had never known till then

Euchariah Who with a courage beyond the courage of most men

with the sour-sweet wind

a-howlin'

stood before the gruesome Grinch and said..

Do your worst.

Bring on your spooks.

Shoot the webs.

I will not flinch.

Oh?

[dramatic music]

♪ Euchariah Euchariah ♪

♪ This is it hah

this is it hah ♪

♪ Grinch is gonna get ya

Grinch is gonna get ya ♪

♪ Mitchen Bi paha la ♪

♪ Euchariah Euchariah ♪

♪ You shall die-ah

you shall die-ah ♪

♪ Grinch is gonna get ya ♪

Grinch is gonna get ya ♪

♪ Grinch is gonna get ya

Grinch is gonna get ya ♪

♪ Mitchen Bi paha la ♪

♪ Gonna get you ♪

♪ Mitchen Bi paha la ♪

♪ Hah ♪♪

[dramatic music]

[Grinch]

'Enjoying yourself?'

'Take a little walk.'

♪ No I wouldn't step here ♪

♪ And I wouldn't step there ♪

♪ I would only step 'round

with the greatest of care ♪

♪ And it's hopeless to try

to escape through the air ♪

♪ It's high-flyin' spooks

we are every which-where ♪

♪ We look after your back ♪

♪ We look into your face ♪

♪ With a gruesome member

of the unhuman race ♪

♪ We're a grizzly gruzzly

ghastly disgrace ♪

♪ Yes it's quite

like those spooks ♪

♪ We're all over the place ♪♪

[intense music]

[Grinch]

'Enjoying yourself?'

'Take a spooks tour.'

[squawking]

[intense music]

[music continues]

[music continues]

sniff sniff

[air hissing]

Hmm.

You know something, Mr. Grinch?

What?

Well, sir,

as I knew it would, sir

the sour-sweet wind

is dying down.

- No wind ever blows forever.

- So what?

Well, sir, according to all

available statistics

when the sour-sweet wind

stops howlin'

that always stops

the Gree-Grumps growlin'.

[Grinch]

Yeah, I know, I know.

[Euchariah]

And when the Gree-Grumps

stop their growlin'

Punkers pond stops

runklin' runklin'.

And when Punkers pond

stops runklin' runklin'

that always stops the Hakken-Kraks from yowlin'.

[Grinch]

Hmm.

[Euchariah]

And when the Hakken-Kraks

stop yowlin',

you know what that stops.

Mm.

That always stops

the Grinch from prowlin'.

Hmm.

Well, I'll be grinched.

Well, I'llbe grinched.

Come on, Max.

[instrumental music]

Come on, Max,

turn this wagon around!

[blows raspberry]

[barking]

[Samuel on radio]

'Attention, attention,

all Whos.'

This is Sergeant McPhearson

reporting to you

once more in person.

'And I can report

that I've never had thought'

that I'd ever report

a report of this sort.

[mellow music]

I'm sure gonna miss

that Grinch night ball.

But that wind will be coming

back some day.

I'll be coming back some day.

[laughing]

Look, Mariah, there's Euchariah!

What an unusual way to come back

from the Euphemism.

[instrumental music]

♪ The nasty sour-sweet wind

has blown away ♪

♪ All the Gree-Grump

growlin's growled itself away ♪

♪ Gone is the Grinch

up the mountain far away ♪

♪ Hey gone is the Grinch

that Grinch has gone away ♪

♪ Sing halle hallelujah

Grinch has gone away ♪

♪ Sing halle hallelujah

sing tra-la-pullyea ♪

♪ Sing whoozaza pullyea

up the mountain far away ♪

♪ Sing halle hallelujah

Grinch has gone away ♪♪

[dramatic music]

[instrumental music]