Plot
A sour sweet wind blows through Whoville. All of Whoville dreads the smell of the wind as an omen, and the whole village goes into lockdown. The sour sweet wind awakens the gree-grumps from their slumber in the tree stumps around Punkers Pond, and once woken up, the gree-grumps begin yowling, which upsets pond, which disturbed the hakken-kraks that live in the pond, and causes them to rise out of the water and begin yowling, which carries all the way up Mount Crumpett, and to the Grinch, signaling that Grinch Night has come. The Grinch orders his dog, Max, to get the Paraphernalia Wagon, and they begin their journey down to Whoville for Grinch Night and the Grinch Night Ball. The Grinch's progress down the mountain to the town is monitored by Sergeant Samuel McPherson, who updates the Whos on the Grinch's progress.
Euchariah, a young Who with astigmatism, goes out to the "euphemism" and blows away by the strong winds. He is carried up to Mount Crumpett where he runs into runs into the Wuzzy Woozoo, said to be the last in the community, and Max, who he acts friendly towards, before seeing the Grinch who is picking "brickles" out of his fur, the result of a failed attempt to hunt down the Wuzzy Woozoo. After giving Euchariah a brief spook, the Grinch decides the young boy is too small to waste time on and resumes his trek to Whoville.
Euchariah decides that he must stall the Grinch in order to save Whoville. Catching up to the Grinch's wagon and forcing him to stop twice, the irritated Grinch decides to give Euchariah the "spook's tour", and summons Euchariah to the top of the Paraphernalia Wagon where the Grinch opens the hatch at the top. Euchariah is drawn in to a surreal nightmare with spooks and monsters in all directions. Euchariah endures the spooks just long enough for the storm to die down, forcing the Grinch to abandon the trek and return home. His dog Max, visibly depressed and nostalgic throughout the special, refuses to return with the Grinch and follows Euchariah home where he is greeted as a hero; the Grinch laments that he will "miss that Grinch Night Ball" but finds solace in "that wind will be coming back, someday; I'll be coming back, someday!" and then ends this promise with a sinister laugh.
The special was first released on VHS by CBS/Fox Video via their PlayHouse Video banner in 1985. In 1992, it was released again by Random House Home Video on VHS under the title It's Grinch Night. It was also released on VHS by CBS Video through Fox Kids Video in 1996 under the title Grinch Night, along with a sing-along version, which was later re-released on VHS in 2000 by Paramount Home Video and again in 2001 by Universal Studios Home Entertainment. In 2003, the special was re-released once again, this time as a bonus special on the VHS and DVD release of Dr. Seuss on the Loose from Universal, and also under its original title (though the packaging and menu still referred to it as Grinch Night). On October 18, 2011, the special was re-released on DVD, this time through Warner Home Video under Dr. Seuss's Holidays on the Loose!, along with How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat . [5] On October 23, 2018, it was released on Blu-ray by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment as an extra on Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas: The Ultimate Edition, along with The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat . Both extras were remastered in high definition for this release. [6]
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