Scrambled Eggs Super! is a 1953 children's book written and illustrated by American children's author Dr. Seuss . The story is told from the point of view of a boy named Peter T. Hooper, who makes scrambled eggs prepared from eggs belonging to various exotic birds.
99-595: The Grinch is a character created by children's author and cartoonist Dr. Seuss . He is best known as the main character of the 1957 children's book How the Grinch Stole Christmas! He has been portrayed and voiced by many actors, including Boris Karloff , Hans Conried , Bob Holt , Walter Matthau , Anthony Asbury , Jim Carrey , Rik Mayall , Benedict Cumberbatch , Matthew Morrison , David Howard Thornton , and James Austin Johnson . The Grinch
198-512: A Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.) in English literature. At Oxford, he met his future wife Helen Palmer , who encouraged him to give up becoming an English teacher in favor of pursuing drawing as a career. She later recalled that "Ted's notebooks were always filled with these fabulous animals. So I set to work diverting him; here was a man who could draw such pictures; he should be earning a living doing that." Geisel left Oxford without earning
297-503: A Missouri Synod Lutheran and remained in the denomination his entire life. Geisel attended Dartmouth College, graduating in 1925. At Dartmouth, he joined the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and the humor magazine Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern , eventually rising to the rank of editor-in-chief. While at Dartmouth, he was caught drinking gin with nine friends in his room. At the time, the possession and consumption of alcohol
396-581: A Christmas gift exchange and vainly attempts to shave. He is mocked for his efforts by everyone at school except Martha and so conceives an abiding resentment. The TV special The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat lays much of the blame on the absence of the Grinch's mother, who had been a positive, nurturing influence on the Grinch in her lifetime but died some time prior; when the Grinch is finally provoked to grieve at
495-696: A brief hiatus from children's literature to illustrate political cartoons, and he worked in the animation and film department of the United States Army . After the war, Geisel returned to writing children's books, writing acclaimed works such as If I Ran the Zoo (1950), Horton Hears a Who! (1955), The Cat in the Hat (1957), How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957), Green Eggs and Ham (1960), One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish (1960), The Sneetches and Other Stories (1961), The Lorax (1971), The Butter Battle Book (1984), and Oh,
594-508: A cameo in Mad , voiced by Stephen Stanton . The Grinch also appeared as a cameo in Robot Chicken , voiced by the series creator Seth Green . In Universal Pictures and Illumination 's feature film The Grinch directed by Scott Mosier and Yarrow Cheney , he was voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch . In the Grinch's third live-action feature, Dr. Seuss' The Grinch Musical Live! , he
693-541: A coarse, greedy attitude. In 2002, TV Guide ranked The Grinch number 5 on its "50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time" list. He also made a brief appearance on the television in Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York . The Grumple, from The Simpsons , is a green monster who is an obvious parody of the Grinch. In The Fairly OddParents episode, "Merry Wishmas", Timmy Turner, Santa Claus, and
792-453: A common bug spray at the time manufactured by Standard Oil of New Jersey . According to Geisel, the wife of an advertising executive in charge of advertising Flit saw Geisel's cartoon at a hairdresser's and urged her husband to sign him. Geisel's first Flit ad appeared on May 31, 1928, and the campaign continued sporadically until 1941. The campaign's catchphrase "Quick, Henry, the Flit!" became
891-772: A degree and returned to the United States in February 1927, where he immediately began submitting writings and drawings to magazines, book publishers, and advertising agencies. Making use of his time in Europe, he pitched a series of cartoons called Eminent Europeans to Life magazine, but the magazine passed on it. His first nationally published cartoon appeared in the July 16, 1927, issue of The Saturday Evening Post . This single $ 25 sale encouraged Geisel to move from Springfield to New York City. Later that year, Geisel accepted
990-468: A job as writer and illustrator at the humor magazine Judge , and he felt financially stable enough to marry Palmer. His first cartoon for Judge appeared on October 22, 1927, and Geisel and Palmer were married on November 29. Geisel's first work signed "Dr. Seuss" was published in Judge about six months after he started working there. In early 1928, one of Geisel's cartoons for Judge mentioned Flit ,
1089-451: A limited run in 2006. Icelandic actor Stefán Karl Stefánsson portrayed the Grinch in the touring production of the musical from 2008 to 2015. The Grinch is also a minor character in the 2000 musical Seussical , which is based on multiple Seuss works. The Grinch's story was adapted for a 2018 animated film by Illumination Entertainment , starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the title character. On Wednesday, December 9, 2020, NBC aired
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#17327728118741188-583: A number of his motifs are identifiable with structures in his childhood home of Springfield , including examples such as the onion domes of its Main Street and his family's brewery. His endlessly varied but never rectilinear palaces, ramps, platforms, and free-standing stairways are among his most evocative creations. Geisel also drew complex imaginary machines, such as the Audio-Telly-O-Tally-O-Count , from Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book , or
1287-465: A part of popular culture. It spawned a song and was used as a punch line for comedians such as Fred Allen and Jack Benny . As Geisel gained fame for the Flit campaign, his work was in demand and began to appear regularly in magazines such as Life , Liberty and Vanity Fair . The money Geisel earned from his advertising work and magazine submissions made him wealthier than even his most successful Dartmouth classmates. The increased income allowed
1386-494: A rainy day. There was an inimitable wriggle in your work long before you became a producer of motion pictures and animated cartoons and, as always with the best of humor, behind the fun there has been intelligence, kindness, and a feel for humankind. An Academy Award winner and holder of the Legion of Merit for war film work, you have stood these many years in the academic shadow of your learned friend Dr. Seuss; and because we are sure
1485-483: A sequel, More Boners , published the same year. Encouraged by the books' sales and positive critical reception, Geisel wrote and illustrated an ABC book featuring "very strange animals" that failed to interest publishers. In 1936, Geisel and his wife were returning from an ocean voyage to Europe when the rhythm of the ship's engines inspired the poem that became his first children's book: And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street . Based on Geisel's varied accounts,
1584-630: A sort of "voilà" gesture in which the hand flips outward and the fingers spread slightly backward with the thumb up. This motion is done by Ish in One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish when he creates fish (who perform the gesture with their fins), in the introduction of the various acts of If I Ran the Circus , and in the introduction of the "Little Cats" in The Cat in the Hat Comes Back . He
1683-541: A supporter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal . His early political cartoons show a passionate opposition to fascism, and he urged action against it both before and after the U.S. entered World War II. His cartoons portrayed the fear of communism as overstated, finding greater threats in the House Committee on Unamerican Activities and those who threatened to cut the U.S.'s "life line" to
1782-407: A title slightly altered from the book's , was released in 1944. Both were nominated for an Academy Award for "Short Subject (Cartoon)" . In 1966, Geisel authorized eminent cartoon artist Chuck Jones —his friend and former colleague from the war—to make a cartoon version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The cartoon was narrated by Boris Karloff , who also provided the voice of the Grinch. It
1881-549: A videogame titled "The Grinch: Christmas Adventure" where you play as both the Grinch and his dog Max as they traverse through 18 levels in Whoville to steal Christmas presents from the Whos, including jigsaw puzzles in order to unlock upgrades. In many different movies, specials, and television series, the Grinch has been voiced and played by many different characters throughout many films. In Chuck Jones ' 1966 television special ,
1980-499: Is a source of speculation; the consensus among the Whos is that he was born with a heart that they say was "two sizes too small". Though always hateful, he especially hates the Christmas season , making particular note of how disturbing the various elements of Christmas time are to him, including the earsplitting noises of strangely-designed musical instruments, eating Christmas dinner , and singing Christmas carols . Unable to stand
2079-409: Is depicted as a green, furry, pot-bellied, pear-shaped, snub-nosed humanoid creature with a cat-like face and cynical personality. In full-color adaptations, he is typically colored green . He has spent the past 53 years living in seclusion on a cliff overlooking the town of Whoville . In contrast to the cheerful Whos, the Grinch is misanthropic , ill-natured, and mean-tempered. The reason for this
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#17327728118742178-456: Is in fact, a parody. In the early hours of Christmas Eve 2018, a group of climbers put a giant Santa hat on Antony Gormley 's colossal Angel of the North statue (20 metres; 66' high, wingspan 54 metres; 177') near Gateshead , north England. They had attempted to do this, unsuccessfully, for several Christmases. In the early hours of December 29, the pranksters returned, one of them dressed as
2277-539: Is often broadcast as an annual Christmas television special . Jones directed an adaptation of Horton Hears a Who! in 1970 and produced an adaptation of The Cat in the Hat in 1971. From 1972 to 1983, Geisel wrote six animated specials that were produced by DePatie-Freleng : The Lorax (1972); Dr. Seuss on the Loose (1973); The Hoober-Bloob Highway (1975); Halloween Is Grinch Night (1977); Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You? (1980); and The Grinch Grinches
2376-419: Is often suggested as one of the reasons that Geisel's writing was so well received. Geisel's early artwork often employed the shaded texture of pencil drawings or watercolors , but in his children's books of the postwar period, he generally made use of a starker medium—pen and ink—normally using just black, white, and one or two colors. His later books, such as The Lorax , used more colors. Geisel's style
2475-787: The Private Snafu series of adult army training films. While in the Army, he was awarded the Legion of Merit . Our Job in Japan became the basis for the commercially released film Design for Death (1947), a study of Japanese culture that won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film. Gerald McBoing-Boing (1950) was based on an original story by Seuss and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film . After
2574-810: The Dartmouth Outing Club , eating green eggs and ham for breakfast at the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge . On April 4, 2012, the Dartmouth Medical School was renamed the Audrey and Theodor Geisel School of Medicine in honor of their many years of generosity to the College. Dr. Seuss has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at the 6500 block of Hollywood Boulevard . In 2012, a crater on the planet Mercury
2673-677: The Republican Party ), parts of the press (such as the New York Daily News , Chicago Tribune and Washington Times-Herald ), and others for criticism of Roosevelt, criticism of aid to the Soviet Union, investigation of suspected Communists, and other offences that he depicted as leading to disunity and helping the Nazis, intentionally or inadvertently. In 1942, Geisel turned his energies to direct support of
2772-711: The Springfield Museums Quadrangle . In 2008, Dr. Seuss was inducted into the California Hall of Fame . In 2004, U.S. children's librarians established the annual Theodor Seuss Geisel Award to recognize "the most distinguished American book for beginning readers published in English in the United States during the preceding year". It should "demonstrate creativity and imagination to engage children in reading" from pre-kindergarten to second grade . At Dartmouth College , incoming first-year students participate in pre-matriculation trips run by
2871-665: The economic materialism and consumerism of the Christmas season; and Horton Hears a Who! (1954), about anti- isolationism and internationalism . Seuss's work for children has been criticized for unconscious racist themes. Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the organization that owns the rights to the books, films, TV shows, stage productions, exhibitions, digital media, licensed merchandise, and other strategic partnerships, announced on March 2, 2021, that it will stop publishing and licensing six books. The publications include And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (1937), If I Ran
2970-467: The pro-life movement in the United States. Geisel and later his widow Audrey objected to this use; according to her attorney, "She doesn't like people to hijack Dr. Seuss characters or material to front their own points of view." In the 1980s, Geisel threatened to sue an anti-abortion group for using this phrase on their stationery, according to his biographer, causing them to remove it. The attorney says he never discussed abortion with either of them, and
3069-474: The "Mean One", a spoof of the Grinch character. In this adaption, the titled character became a literal monster that will kill anyone who celebrates Christmas, this leads to a adult Cindy (who had met the Mean One a long time ago and witnessed him killing her mother) to try to stop his reign of terror and bringing the holiday spirit back to Newville. In 2023, Outright Games and Casual Brothers Ltd. developed
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3168-462: The "most peculiar machine" of Sylvester McMonkey McBean in The Sneetches . Geisel also liked drawing outlandish arrangements of feathers or fur: for example, the 500th hat of Bartholomew Cubbins , the tail of Gertrude McFuzz , and the pet for girls who like to brush and comb, in One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish . Geisel's illustrations often convey motion vividly. He was fond of
3267-405: The 1972–1974 Watergate scandal , in which U.S. president Richard Nixon resigned, by replacing the name of the main character everywhere that it occurred. "Richard M. Nixon, Will You Please Go Now!" was published in major newspapers through the column of his friend Art Buchwald . The line "a person's a person, no matter how small" from Horton Hears a Who! has been used widely as a slogan by
3366-469: The 2000 film adaptation provides a backstory in his upbringing: abandoned in infancy in Whoville and left in the cold, unnoticed by the revelers at a Christmas party, the Grinch is taken in by two Who women. He proves an unruly schoolboy and is bullied by a schoolmate, Augustus May Who (later Whoville's mayor), but falls for a Who girl named Martha May Whovier. Determined to impress her, he uses various family heirlooms to make an angel Christmas tree-topper for
3465-414: The 2000 live-action film, he is shown to have superhuman strength when he stops an entire sleigh loaded with presents from going over a cliff and lifts it over his head, and he is also described as "[finding] the strength of ten Grinches plus two" during that moment of crisis. In the 2018 film, the Grinch has assistance saving all the Whos' stolen goods. With the character's anti-Christmas spirit followed by
3564-553: The Cat in the Hat (1982). In 1984, he won a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation . His birthday, March 2, has been adopted as the annual date for National Read Across America Day , an initiative focused on reading created by the National Education Association . Geisel was born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts , the son of Henrietta ( née Seuss) and Theodor Robert Geisel. His father managed
3663-501: The Cat in the Hat (1982). Several of the specials won multiple Emmy Awards. A Soviet paint-on-glass-animated short film was made in 1986 called Welcome , an adaptation of Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose . The last adaptation of Geisel's work before he died was The Butter Battle Book , a television special based on the book of the same name, directed by Ralph Bakshi . A television film titled In Search of Dr. Seuss
3762-767: The District of Columbia Circuit did not rule against Smith's request, it "would make President Trump’s opening brief due the day after Christmas. This proposed schedule would require attorneys and support staff to work round-the-clock through the holidays, inevitably disrupting family and travel plans. It is as if the Special Counsel ‘growled, with his Grinch fingers nervously drumming, “I must find some way to keep Christmas from coming. … But how?"'" Dr. Seuss Theodor Seuss Geisel ( / s uː s ˈ ɡ aɪ z əl , z ɔɪ s -/ sooss GHY -zəl, zoyss - ; March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991)
3861-509: The Flit campaign led to more advertising work, including for other Standard Oil products like Essomarine boat fuel and Essolube Motor Oil and for other companies like the Ford Motor Company , NBC Radio Network , and Holly Sugar. His first foray into books, Boners , a collection of children's sayings that he illustrated, was published by Viking Press in 1931. It topped The New York Times non-fiction bestseller list and led to
3960-478: The Geisels to move to better quarters and to socialize in higher social circles. They became friends with the wealthy family of banker Frank A. Vanderlip . They also traveled extensively: by 1936, Geisel and his wife had visited 30 countries together. They did not have children, neither kept regular office hours, and they had ample money. Geisel also felt that traveling helped his creativity. Geisel's success with
4059-469: The Grinch Stole Christmas film, the Grinch's first live-action feature, he was played by Jim Carrey . Despite the film having mixed reviews, Carrey's performance as the Grinch was praised by critics. In The Grinch video game, he was voiced by Josh Gerhardt. Stefán Karl Stefánsson played the character in Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical from 2008 until 2015. The Grinch also appeared as
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4158-638: The Grinch and the others as Santa Claus, and the Grinch "stole" Santa's hat. Multiple politicians in the United Kingdom and United States have been compared to the Grinch, often due to accusations that they will 'steal' Christmas. Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham described President of the United States Joe Biden as "the Grinch Who Stole Christmas" on Fox News in 2021, criticising him for delays in
4257-666: The Grinch was voiced by Boris Karloff before he died three years later in 1969. Hans Conried voiced the character in Halloween Is Grinch Night while Bob Holt voiced the character in The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat , a crossover with one of Dr. Seuss ' characters The Cat in the Hat . In an episode of Tiny Toon Adventures , a parody of the Grinch was voiced by Homer Simpson 's voice actor Dan Castellaneta . Castellaneta would later work on another Dr. Seuss project in 2003's The Cat in
4356-492: The Grinch" would be republished as part of the posthumous anthology Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories in 2014, in which the illustration draws this Grinch far differently. The Grinch, in his best known incarnation, made his book debut in the 1957 story How the Grinch Stole Christmas , written and illustrated by Dr. Seuss, published as both a Random House book and in an issue of Redbook magazine. In 1966,
4455-458: The Grinch, I'm a trade union official and I'm determined to get a deal." In December 2023, lawyers for Donald Trump called Special counsel Jack Smith a Grinch in a court filing in response to Smith's request for an expedited appeal on whether Trump could claim presidential immunity . The filing directly quoted How the Grinch Stole Christmas! , arguing that if the US Court of Appeals for
4554-586: The Grinch, was a major success at the box office. 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 by the release of the Nintendo DS title Dr. Seuss: How the Grinch Stole Christmas! . The Grinch was portrayed on the stage when the story was turned into a 1994 musical by the Children's Theater Company out of Minneapolis . The show made it to Broadway by way of
4653-602: The Hat (1957), How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957), and Green Eggs and Ham (1960). He received numerous awards throughout his career, but he won neither the Caldecott Medal nor the Newbery Medal . Three of his titles from this period were, however, chosen as Caldecott runners-up (now referred to as Caldecott Honor books): McElligot's Pool (1947), Bartholomew and the Oobleck (1949), and If I Ran
4752-562: The Hat as the voice of Thing One and Two. Walter Matthau voiced the character in Random House Home Video . The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss also features the Grinch, where he was played by puppeteer Anthony Asbury . In Family Guy , the Grinch appeared as a cameo, being voiced by Wally Wingert . The Grinch was voiced by Corey Burton in Seuss Landing and Sneech Beach Area . In Ron Howard 's 2000 How
4851-633: The Hat and subsequent books written for young children achieved significant international success and they remain very popular today. For example, in 2009, Green Eggs and Ham sold 540,000 copies, The Cat in the Hat sold 452,000 copies, and One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish (1960) sold 409,000 copies—all outselling the majority of newly published children's books. Geisel went on to write many other children's books, both in his new simplified-vocabulary manner (sold as Beginner Books ) and in his older, more elaborate style. In 1955, Dartmouth awarded Geisel an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters , with
4950-568: The Jungle of Nool. Ruth C. Barlow of the Christian Science Monitor called it a "gay extravaganza". It also received positive reviews from Chicago Sunday Tribune and The New York Herald Tribune for Seuss's illustrations of the birds. Phillip Nel, in the book Dr. Seuss: American Icon , wrote that Scrambled Eggs Super! was one of Seuss's less politically oriented books. On March 2, 2021, Dr. Seuss Enterprises,
5049-468: The Places You'll Go! (1990). He published over 60 books during his career, which have spawned numerous adaptations , including eleven television specials, five feature films, a Broadway musical , and four television series. He received two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Children's Special for Halloween Is Grinch Night (1978) and Outstanding Animated Program for The Grinch Grinches
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#17327728118745148-864: The U.S. war effort. First, he worked drawing posters for the Treasury Department and the War Production Board . Then, in 1943, he joined the Army as a captain and was commander of the Animation Department of the First Motion Picture Unit of the United States Army Air Forces , where he wrote films that included Your Job in Germany , a 1945 propaganda film about peace in Europe after World War II; Our Job in Japan and
5247-672: The USSR and Stalin, whom he once depicted as a porter carrying "our war load". Geisel supported the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II in order to prevent possible sabotage. Geisel explained his position: But right now, when the Japs are planting their hatchets in our skulls, it seems like a hell of a time for us to smile and warble: "Brothers!" It is a rather flabby battle cry. If we want to win, we've got to kill Japs, whether it depresses John Haynes Holmes or not. We can get palsy-walsy afterward with those that are left. After
5346-408: The Zoo (1950), McElligot's Pool (1947), On Beyond Zebra! (1955), Scrambled Eggs Super! (1953) and The Cat's Quizzer (1976). According to the organization, the books "portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong" and are no longer being published. Geisel wrote most of his books in anapestic tetrameter , a poetic meter employed by many poets of the English literary canon. This
5445-525: The Zoo (1950). Dr. Seuss also wrote the musical and fantasy film The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. , which was released in 1953. The movie was a critical and financial failure, and Geisel never attempted another feature film. During the 1950s, he also published a number of illustrated short stories, mostly in Redbook magazine. Some of these were later collected (in volumes such as The Sneetches and Other Stories ) or reworked into independent books ( If I Ran
5544-493: The Zoo ). A number have never been reprinted since their original appearances. In May 1954, Life published a report on illiteracy among school children which concluded that children were not learning to read because their books were boring. William Ellsworth Spaulding was the director of the education division at Houghton Mifflin (he later became its chairman), and he compiled a list of 348 words that he felt were important for first-graders to recognize. He asked Geisel to cut
5643-420: The biographer says Geisel never expressed a public opinion on the subject. After Seuss's death, Audrey gave financial support to Planned Parenthood . Geisel made a point of not beginning to write his stories with a moral in mind, stating that "kids can see a moral coming a mile off." He was not against writing about issues, however; he said that "there's an inherent moral in any story", and he remarked that he
5742-523: The book was rejected by between 20 and 43 publishers. According to Geisel, he was walking home to burn the manuscript when a chance encounter with an old Dartmouth classmate led to its publication by Vanguard Press . Geisel wrote four more books before the US entered World War II. This included The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins in 1938, as well as The King's Stilts and The Seven Lady Godivas in 1939, all of which were in prose, atypically for him. This
5841-411: The citation: Creator and fancier of fanciful beasts, your affinity for flying elephants and man-eating mosquitoes makes us rejoice you were not around to be Director of Admissions on Mr. Noah's ark. But our rejoicing in your career is far more positive: as author and artist you singlehandedly have stood as St. George between a generation of exhausted parents and the demon dragon of unexhausted children on
5940-501: The deuce And you shouldn't rejoice If you're calling him Seuss. He pronounces it Soice (or Zoice) Geisel switched to the anglicized pronunciation because it "evoked a figure advantageous for an author of children's books to be associated with— Mother Goose " and because most people used this pronunciation. He added the "Doctor (abbreviated Dr.)" to his pen name because his father had always wanted him to practice medicine. For books that Geisel wrote and others illustrated, he used
6039-424: The eggs home but decides that he still needs more, and he calls on the help of some of his friends from around the world, including a "fellow named Ali". After each bird Peter finds he states the phrase..."Scrambled Eggs Super Dee Dooper Dee Booper Special Deluxe a la Peter T. Hooper". In the 2008 American animated film Horton Hears a Who! , Long-Legger Kwongs and Ruffle-Necked Sala-ma-gooxes appear as residents of
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#17327728118746138-480: The elves watch in the television "How the Grump Stole Wishmas", a parody of the Grinch. In the season 19 Christmas special of American Dad! , Roger turns into a Grinch-esque monster due to observing 1 year straight of celibacy and proceeds to steal the coital paraphernalia at a sex party. During his thieving rampage, a parody of You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch plays acknowledging that this plotline
6237-467: The end of that special, he returns to being good. The first use of the word 'Grinch' in a work by Dr. Seuss appears in the 1953 book Scrambled Eggs Super! (one of the books withdrawn from circulation by the Seuss estate in 2021) about Peter T. Hooper, a boy who collects eggs from a number of exotic birds to make scrambled eggs. One of these exotic birds is the "Beagle-Beaked-Bald-Headed Grinch" who shares
6336-460: The family brewery and was later appointed to supervise Springfield's public park system by Mayor John A. Denison after the brewery closed because of Prohibition . Mulberry Street in Springfield, made famous in his first children's book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street , is near his boyhood home on Fairfield Street. The family was of Jewish descent. Geisel was raised as
6435-484: The holiday any longer, he decides to destroy it once and for all. Aided by his pet dog, Max, he meticulously designs a red suit to disguise himself as Santa Claus and breaks into the Whos' homes on Christmas Eve while they sleep to steal everything they own, and dump it off from a nearby mountain. Although he pulls off the theft successfully, on Christmas morning he is shocked to hear the Whos still singing cheerfully, happy simply to have each other. He then realizes that
6534-420: The holiday has a deeper meaning that he never considered. Inspired, he stops the Whos' belongings from falling off the edge of the mountain, and in the process his heart grows "three sizes". He returns all the gifts he stole and gladly takes part in the Whos' Christmas celebration. The Grinch is still portrayed as a bitter and ill-tempered character in artwork and other media. In both the animated TV special and
6633-499: The holiday live production, Dr. Seuss' The Grinch Musical Live! based on the Broadway stage musical. Booboo Stewart plays young Max, Amelia Minto plays Cindy Lou Who , Denis O'Hare plays old Max and Matthew Morrison stars as the Grinch. The musical includes songs from the original musical, such as " You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch ". In 2022, XYZ Films produced a horror film interpretation , starring David Howard Thornton as
6732-403: The holiday, much in the same nature as the earlier character of Ebenezer Scrooge . Over the years, the Grinch has appeared on various forms of memorabilia such as Christmas ornaments , plush dolls, and various clothing items. The grumpy, anti-holiday spirit of the character has led to the everyday term "Grinch" coming to refer to a person opposed to Christmas time celebrations or to someone with
6831-522: The later Grinch's cantankerous attitude. The name later appeared in the May 1955 issue of Redbook in a 32-line poem called, "The Hoobub and the Grinch". This version bears virtually no resemblance to the later character other than name, instead being a fast-talking salesman in the vein of Sylvester McMonkey McBean from The Sneetches and the Once-ler from Seuss's later book The Lorax . "The Hoobub and
6930-436: The list to 250 words and to write a book using only those words. Spaulding challenged Geisel to "bring back a book children can't put down". Nine months later, Geisel completed The Cat in the Hat , using 236 of the words given to him. It retained the drawing style, verse rhythms, and all the imaginative power of Geisel's earlier works but, because of its simplified vocabulary, it could be read by beginning readers. The Cat in
7029-416: The moment when the Grinch conceives his awful plan to ruin Christmas. For most of his career, Geisel was reluctant to have his characters marketed in contexts outside of his own books. However, he did permit the creation of several animated cartoons, an art form in which he had gained experience during World War II, and he gradually relaxed his policy as he aged. The first adaptation of one of Geisel's works
7128-557: The name "Dr. Seuss" as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College and as a graduate student at Lincoln College, Oxford . He left Oxford in 1927 to begin his career as an illustrator and cartoonist for Vanity Fair , Life , and various other publications. He also worked as an illustrator for advertising campaigns , including for FLIT and Standard Oil , and as a political cartoonist for the New York newspaper PM . He published his first children's book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street in 1937. During World War II , he took
7227-442: The original, the two films both received Emmy Awards . Several episodes of the 1996 Nick Jr. Channel television show The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss feature the Grinch as the main antagonist, this time in puppet form. He was performed and voiced by Anthony Asbury from Season 1 (1996) to Season 2 (1998). A 2000 live-action feature musical comedy film based on the story , directed by Ron Howard and starring Jim Carrey as
7326-469: The owner of the rights to Seuss's works, withdrew Scrambled Eggs Super! and five other books because they "portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong". The possible scene perceived as "hurtful" is a two page illustration of five persons in a boat from a fictional location (named "Fa-Zoal") near the North Pole , wearing hooded fur parkas (i.e., the moustached white assistants seen elsewhere in
7425-421: The pen name "Theo LeSieg", starting with I Wish That I Had Duck Feet published in 1965. "LeSieg" is "Geisel" spelled backward. Geisel also published one book under the name Rosetta Stone, 1975's Because a Little Bug Went Ka-Choo!! , a collaboration with Michael K. Frith . Frith and Geisel chose the name in honor of Geisel's second wife Audrey, whose maiden name was Stone. Geisel was a liberal Democrat and
7524-448: The story was adapted into an animated television featurette of the same name , which was directed by Chuck Jones and included the song " You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch ". Boris Karloff serves as both the story's narrator and the voice of the Grinch, but the song was sung by Thurl Ravenscroft , as Karloff could not sing. The Grinch's green color debuted in the television special as a consensus choice among Jones and Seuss, who agreed green
7623-464: The story, Peter T. Hooper brags to his sister, Liz, in his mother's kitchen about what a good cook he is. He tells the story of how, when he tired of the taste of regular scrambled eggs using hen's eggs, he decided to scramble eggs from other birds. He tells of how he travelled great distances and discovered a variety of exotic birds and their eggs. He explains his criteria for choosing some eggs, because of their sweetness, and avoiding others. He takes
7722-468: The supply chain for US imports. Mick Lynch , head of the UK's National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers , was compared to the Grinch from November to December 2022 in media coverage of the ongoing railway strikes by the union. Tabloid newspaper Metro as well as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak likened him to the Grinch and accused him of wanting to "steal Christmas". Lynch retorted that "I'm not
7821-800: The time has come when the good doctor would want you to walk by his side as a full equal and because your College delights to acknowledge the distinction of a loyal son, Dartmouth confers on you her Doctorate of Humane Letters. Geisel joked that he would now have to sign "Dr. Dr. Seuss". His wife was ill at the time, so he delayed accepting it until June 1956. Geisel's wife Helen had a long struggle with illnesses. On October 23, 1967, Helen died by suicide. On August 5, 1968, Geisel married Audrey Dimond with whom he had reportedly been having an affair. Although he devoted most of his life to writing children's books, Geisel had no children of his own, saying of children: "You have 'em; I'll entertain 'em." Audrey added that Geisel "lived his whole life without children and he
7920-616: The time, it was awarded every five years. He won a special Pulitzer Prize in 1984 citing his "contribution over nearly half a century to the education and enjoyment of America's children and their parents". Geisel died of cancer on September 24, 1991, at his home in the La Jolla community of San Diego at the age of 87. His ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean. On December 1, 1995, four years after his death, University of California, San Diego 's University Library Building
8019-413: The transformation on Christmas morning, scholars have noted similarity to Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens 's 1843 novella A Christmas Carol . Cardiologist David Kass suggested that the rapid growth of the Grinch's heart at the end of the story indicates that the Grinch has the physiology of a Burmese python . In Seuss's book, "no one quite knows the reason" for the Grinch's grudge. In contrast,
8118-544: The war, Geisel and his wife moved to the La Jolla community of San Diego , California, where he returned to writing children's books. He published most of his books through Random House in North America and William Collins, Sons (later HarperCollins ) internationally. He wrote many, including such favorites as If I Ran the Zoo (1950), Horton Hears a Who! (1955), If I Ran the Circus (1956), The Cat in
8217-455: The war, Geisel overcame his feelings of animosity and re-examined his view, using his book Horton Hears a Who! (1954) as an allegory for the American post-war occupation of Japan , as well as dedicating the book to a Japanese friend. Geisel converted a copy of one of his famous children's books, Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! , into a polemic shortly before the end of
8316-424: The war. One cartoon depicted Japanese Americans being handed TNT in anticipation of a "signal from home", while other cartoons deplored the racism at home against Jews and blacks that harmed the war effort. His cartoons were strongly supportive of President Roosevelt 's handling of the war, combining the usual exhortations to ration and contribute to the war effort with frequent attacks on Congress (especially
8415-478: Was "subversive as hell." Geisel's books express his views on a wide variety of social and political issues: The Lorax (1971), about environmentalism and anti-consumerism ; The Sneetches (1961), about racial equality ; The Butter Battle Book (1984), about the arms race ; Yertle the Turtle (1958), about Adolf Hitler and anti-authoritarianism ; How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957), criticizing
8514-555: Was also fond of drawing hands with interlocked fingers, making it look as though his characters were twiddling their thumbs. Geisel also follows the cartoon tradition of showing motion with lines , like in the sweeping lines that accompany Sneelock's final dive in If I Ran the Circus . Cartoon lines are also used to illustrate the action of the senses—sight, smell, and hearing—in The Big Brag, and lines even illustrate "thought", as in
8613-499: Was an animated short film based on Horton Hatches the Egg , animated at Leon Schlesinger Productions in 1942 and directed by Bob Clampett . As part of George Pal 's Puppetoons theatrical cartoon series for Paramount Pictures , two of Geisel's works were adapted into stop-motion films by George Pal. The first, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins , was released in 1943. The second, And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street , with
8712-406: Was an American children's author and cartoonist . He is known for his work writing and illustrating more than 60 books under the pen name Dr. Seuss ( / s uː s , z uː s / sooss, zooss ). His work includes many of the most popular children's books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages by the time of his death. Geisel adopted
8811-470: Was eventually released on March 14, 2008, to positive reviews. A second CGI-animated feature film adaptation of The Lorax was released by Universal on March 2, 2012 (on what would have been Seuss's 108th birthday). The third adaptation of Seuss's story, the CGI-animated feature film, The Grinch , was released by Universal on November 9, 2018. Scrambled Eggs Super! At the beginning of
8910-520: Was followed by Horton Hatches the Egg in 1940, in which Geisel returned to the use of verse. As World War II began, Geisel turned to political cartoons, drawing over 400 in two years as editorial cartoonist for the left-leaning New York City daily newspaper, PM . Geisel's political cartoons, later published in Dr. Seuss Goes to War , denounced Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini and were highly critical of non-interventionists ("isolationists"), such as Charles Lindbergh , who opposed US entry into
9009-667: Was illegal under Prohibition laws, which remained in place between 1920 and 1933. As a result of this infraction, Dean Craven Laycock insisted that Geisel resign from all extracurricular activities, including the Jack-O-Lantern . To continue working on the magazine without the administration's knowledge, Geisel began signing his work with the pen name "Seuss". He was encouraged in his writing by professor of rhetoric W. Benfield Pressey, whom he described as his "big inspiration for writing" at Dartmouth. Upon graduating from Dartmouth, he entered Lincoln College, Oxford, intending to earn
9108-517: Was named after Geisel. Geisel's most famous pen name is regularly pronounced / s uː s / , an anglicized pronunciation of his German name (the standard German pronunciation is German pronunciation: [ˈzɔʏ̯s] ). He himself noted that it rhymed with "voice" (his own pronunciation being / s ɔɪ s / ). Alexander Laing, one of his collaborators on the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern , wrote of it: You're wrong as
9207-514: Was played by Matthew Morrison . In the horror movie parody of the Grinch, The Mean One , the Grinch was played by David Howard Thornton . In some Capital One commercials, the Grinch was voiced by David Kaye , In some of the Walmart commercials, the Grinch was voiced by Darin De Paul . The Grinch has become an anti-icon of Christmas and the winter holidays, as a symbol of those who despise
9306-515: Was released in 1994, which adapted many of Seuss's stories. After Geisel died of cancer at the age of 87 in 1991, his widow Audrey Geisel took charge of licensing matters until her death in 2018. Since then, licensing is controlled by the nonprofit Dr. Seuss Enterprises. Audrey approved a live-action feature-film version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas starring Jim Carrey , as well as a Seuss-themed Broadway musical called Seussical , and both premiered in 2000. In 2003, another live-action film
9405-406: Was released, this time an adaptation of The Cat in the Hat that featured Mike Myers as the title character. Audrey Geisel spoke critically of the film, especially the casting of Myers as the Cat in the Hat, and stated that she would not allow any further live-action adaptations of Geisel's books. However, a first animated CGI feature film adaptation of Horton Hears a Who! was approved, and
9504-554: Was renamed Geisel Library in honor of Geisel and Audrey for the generous contributions that they made to the library and their devotion to improving literacy. In 2002, the Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden opened in Springfield, Massachusetts , featuring sculptures of Geisel and of many of his characters. In 2017, the Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum opened next to the Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden in
9603-471: Was the only choice that made sense. In 1977, Seuss responded to the fan request for more Grinch tales by writing Halloween Is Grinch Night . The Grinch is voiced by Hans Conried . This was followed in 1982, when Marvel green-lit The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat , a TV film co-starring the Cat in the Hat . The Grinch is voiced by Bob Holt . The special was produced by Dr. Seuss (though under his real name, Ted Geisel). Although not as successful as
9702-453: Was unique—his figures are often "rounded" and somewhat droopy. This is true, for instance, of the faces of the Grinch and the Cat in the Hat . Almost all his buildings and machinery were devoid of straight lines when they were drawn, even when he was representing real objects. For example, If I Ran the Circus shows a droopy hoisting crane and a droopy steam calliope . Geisel evidently enjoyed drawing architecturally elaborate objects, and
9801-495: Was very happy without children." Audrey oversaw Geisel's estate until her death on December 19, 2018, at the age of 97. Geisel was awarded an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters (L.H.D.) from Whittier College in 1980. He also received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal from the professional children's librarians in 1980, recognizing his "substantial and lasting contributions to children's literature". At
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