"It's a wonderful night for eye brows!"
Love. Love. LOVE this movie. It's definitely one of Dr. Seuss's more obscure movies, and is considered to some to be a prequel to How the Grinch Stole Christmas. (However, I am unsure of where it fits in the timeline because of a fairly large plot point at the end.) This special won a Primetime Emmy in 1978 for Outstanding Animated Program, and once you see it you can see why. The story is so creative, and the animation is fantastic. The sequence in the Grinch's wagon is beautiful and very Seussian (but may be frightening to some younger children.)
So we start in Whoville, a quiet little town where families are outside and life is carrying on as usual. Soon though the weather starts to change, signaling the possible return of the Grinch sending everybody inside for cover. The movie focuses on Euchariah, a brave little Who boy who ducks out during the storm to use the outhouse and gets blown away. He then has to find his way home, and comes across the Grinch. Euchariah knows the best thing he can do now to save the town from the Grinch is to stall for time, so when the Grinch essentially calls him a wimp he dares the Grinch to scare him with his best monsters in the wagon.
To find out what happens, watch the embedded video below! (Which I do not own the rights to, I have simply found this on YouTube.)
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