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S16: Holiday Unlock: How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

We Hate Movies

WHM Entertainment

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.74.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

“The Grinch has a FUPA!” - Andrew

On this holiday unlock episode from seven Christmases ago, the gang travels to Whoville to chat about the outrageous live-action Dr. Seuss adaptation, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Get in the holiday spirit as you watch the Grinch do all the beloved gags you remember him doing, like shove stuff up his ass, swear in front of children, murder a yodeler, and motorboat a random woman he went to high school with! PLUS: Donald Sutherland starring as the Grinch in the 1970s? Sign us up! 

How the Grinch Stole Christmas stars Jim Carrey, Taylor Momsen, Christine Baranski, Bill Irwin, Molly Shannon, Kelly the Dog, and Clint Howard; directed by Ron Howard.

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Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey y'all, shout out to Sonos for sponsoring this week's episode on how the Grinch stole Christmas.

0:05.8

You know, this holiday season, you're going to want to give that gift of Sono sound, y'all.

0:09.8

And a little later in the program, we're going to tell you exactly how to do it.

0:13.3

Oh, perfect.

0:16.3

What's up, everybody? Happy Christmas week, such as it is.

0:20.6

We are recording this special intro because, you've noticed from the title of the thing you just downloaded, this is an unlocked episode that we did seven Christmases ago on Ron Howard's How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

0:34.8

And yes, it's the 25th anniversary.

0:37.4

I didn't even know that. What a special occasion and seven year anniversary of this episode. This gives you an idea what you've been missing for seven years. There's quality stuff back there behind the curtain, folks. Oh, no, crummy crummy's back there, dude. No. Talking about the most annoying movies ever made. mean we are really talking to i mean this is

0:55.9

jim carrie annoying you to the hill the best of the best well to be fair we did we this is back when we

1:01.2

used to do one more uh we hate movies on that feed now we do we love movies on that feed right so

1:07.2

there's a little bit of both yeah this is the uh anyone watch uh, anyone watch of those Walton Goggins Grinch commercials?

1:12.6

Those are pretty awful. Excuse me? What's that? What's that about now? What? Walton Gagons is the Grinch. I think it's for Walmart. Is this in Japan or something? No, this is here, dude. Really? We have no shame anymore. Oh, okay. Yeah. You know, you used to be, you wanted to make a humiliating commercial for a large chunk of change.

1:30.2

You went overseas for that shit. No, no, no. That's, and I prefer, I prefer that because you know what? They enjoyed themselves or doing those four commercials. They actually seemed like light and they seemed to enjoy themselves because they're like, there's no shame. I don't have to worry about this. I don't have to worry about my image. This is something completely else.

1:46.0

Oh, you go to another country, do some sex tourism, do some bad commercials. You come back a new man or woman. It's fine. Exactly. I do have to say, I don't know if that can. I will watch this and I'll make my judgment. that is not it cannot be as annoying as the uh the benedic cumberbatch doing the reviews um oh that's

2:04.9

oh he reads yeah he reads the reviews in the grinch voice i i cannot not not in the voice it's just

2:11.4

oh i thought it's not the cheapest thing no it's just like hey medic umberbatch come out sit in the

2:16.2

chair in front of this like there's a guy playing a piano that's a Christmas tree, and just read a review, and that's the commercial. A review of the, the Mojure movie that he did? No, no, it's the Amazon, it's like Amazon product. Like, it'll be like a five-star review. Hello there. Got it. I thought you were saying there's a commercial going around of Benedict Cumberbatch reading shit people wrote about his Grinch movie. I forgot he did it too. They're all the Grinch. They've all been the Grinch. I may have played the Grinch. I don't fucking know at this point. Boris Karlov, Jim Carrey, Walton Goggins, and Benedict Cumberbatch. All the Grinch. I'm pretty sure this episode does not have extensive TV commercial talk, so you guys should enjoy it at home. Yeah, yeah. Please do. That's right. Yeah, but that's it. We just want to do this intro. Happy, happy holidays. Merry Christmas. If you celebrate in this week, we just need to give these old vocal cords arrest. So here we go. That's me opening up the vault. Enjoy the episode.

3:20.7

On this month's patron's only exclusive episode well I guess technically speaking

3:26.1

here also the spooktacular

3:27.8

continues yes it does my god

3:30.0

it never ends the horror

3:31.1

this is worse than any horror we watch

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