onlyforaminute said:

I mean is that his name or his species? He's not a Who, as in Cindy Lou. That danged family owns the whole town? What's his origin story?

All I know is he's a mean one.

Mr. Grinch isn't a mean one.

Cindy Lou Who changed him.

[Edited 12/21/21 15:34pm]

I wouldn't touch him with a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole!

He was raised by the Whos (two sisters) after having been abandoned as an infant. But I don't think he was a Who or even Who-adjacent.

In school, he was bullied, and got in trouble a lot. He was grumpy because many other Whos alienated him from Christmas events, so he grew weary and quarrelsome about the holiday. While trying to impress a girl named Martha (from school) that he liked, he also suffered humiliation when cooking a meal then botching the carving of the roast beast. More grudgework.

And in another show, he was shown to have been a good soul whose mother was doting and kind. She died earlier in his life. So he was trying to handle grief which greatly lent to his ill-tempered demeanor. Once healed from that with the love of the Whos, he became a nicer being.

I don't know if the other abandoned him so young, and he never knew her, or she died and left him alone and angry (the latter being a possible alternate timeline).

I also got to believe that his small heart was a metaphor for lacking emotional and spiritual growth, due to grief or other trauma (like the death of a parent, and constant humiliation and bullying). So when his great grew, he just matured and let down his walls. I don't think this is that big of a secret.

As far as his "race" or kind, I think it's the same as trying to figure out the Whos, or whatever. Also, makes you wonder since Horton heard a Who through a small fuzzy flower, and a whole village lived in there. So - does the Grinch live in that smaller universe as well?

We need possible titles.

1. Who am I?

2. Who I am

3. I'm green but not mean

4. I was only borrowing it

Any more?

onlyforaminute said:

I mean is that his name or his species? He's not a Who, as in Cindy Lou. That danged family owns the whole town? What's his origin story?

Why Dr. Seuss created the Grinch?

It was Seuss!" said Geisel in a 1957 interview with Redbook.

"Something had gone wrong with Christmas, I realized, or more likely with me.

So I wrote the story about my sour friend, the Grinch, to see if I could rediscover something about Christmas that obviously I'd lost."

It was from eating Green Eggs & Ham...

purplethunder3121 said:

I always thought he was an old Who...bitter and angry like so many older people get...

RichardS said:

Sam, I Am..

He is the love child of Harvey Korman and Marta

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The Grinch is human nature.

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onlyforaminute said:

His species....Suess never specified I believe. That's what made it fun..just like Bart and Mage's 'hair' or why Stewie has a football head... there is just no reason or rhyme lol.

paisleypark4 said:

His species....Suess never specified I believe. That's what made it fun..just like Bart and Mage's 'hair' or why Stewie has a football head... there is just no reason or rhyme lol.

There's a cut away of him jumping on the bed. He jumps too high, hits his head on the ceiling and comes back down with the football head.

It doesn't make sense in the canon of Family Guy, because we've seen Stewie's birth and he comes out with it like that.

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