Afterween thoughts: why do so many people like 'Grinch Night'?
No really. Halloween is Grinch Night/Grinch Night is a curious watch but I truly don't find it endearing as either a Halloween special OR as a Dr. Seuss special. The Halloween aspect is so underwhelming. Grinch is nowhere near as scary as he usually is or how he is on Christmas so it just feels like unscary unappealing 70s-trippyness. It's not like Devil and Daniel Mouse which was made for Halloween, is 70s asf, genuinely sinister and is about creepy subject. It feels so toothless and unhalloweeny in a way that other not-Halloween but-spooky enough specials just do much better.
The Seussian in me meanwhile finds it incredibly boring and uninspired. The Paraphenilia wagon sequence is neat because it has so many flashes of illustrations from unadapted Seuss books, but other than that it feels incredibly dull. You can really tell how tired Seuss was with this and with Grinch Grinches the Cat and the Hat. It super doesn't help to have Max leave the Grinch at the end when this is supposed to be a prequel to HtGSC.