The Grinch Every Easter Egg In Jim Carreys Christmas Movie

The Grinch: Every Easter Egg In Jim Carrey’s Christmas Movie

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How the Grinch Stole Christmas is a Christmas classic, but many viewers missed some of the movie’s many Easter eggs and cameos on first viewing

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The Grinch Every Easter Egg In Jim Carreys Christmas Movie

How the Grinch Stole Christmas is a Christmas classic, but many viewers missed some of the movie’s many Easter eggs and cameos on first viewing. Released in 2000, How the Grinch Stole Christmas was a big-budget live-action adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ classic Christmas story of the same name. Starring Jim Carrey in the title role, the movie saw director Ron Howard pull from both the original book and the 1967 adaptation by animation icon Chuck Jones in his retelling of the titular anti-Christmas anti-villain’s change of heart.

The movie was a hit with audiences upon release, raking in $345 million at the box office, although critics didn’t care for the movie’s occasional moments of dark humor (something both Carrey and Howard voiced an annoyance at too). For a while, Hillbilly Elegy director Howard’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas was the second most successful holiday movie of all time, although this record was beaten in 2018 by another animated adaptation of the same story, The Grinch.

Like a lot of Howard’s movies, How the Grinch Stole Christmas is a family movie that has not only withstood the test of time but can also weather repeat viewings. The movie is filled with Easter eggs and clever nods to the original book, the director’s real life, and the rest of Dr. Seuss’ output, many of which will be missed out on by all but the most eagle-eyed of audience members upon first viewing. Fortunately, the holiday season is a perfect excuse to revisit this classic and run down the many Easter eggs, clever in-jokes, and subtle asides dotted throughout its runtime.

Whoville Is A Family Town

The Grinch Every Easter Egg In Jim Carreys Christmas Movie

Although the movie isn’t as filled with cameos as more modern kid’s films, director Ron Howard appears as a Who during one of How the Grinch Stole Christmas’ many crowd scenes. Although he goes uncredited in the small role, he does get a line of dialogue to himself, playing a worried Whoville policeman who yells as the Grinch grabs the Mayor’s shaving razor and begins his anarchic rampage through the town. Meanwhile, the director’s daughter (and future Jurassic World star) Bryce Dallas Howard plays a surprised Who, while his brother Clint (a staple of cult movies) plays Whobris. Howard has appeared in Christmas movies before, although few viewers of How the Grinch Stole Christmas are likely to remember his role in the gory horror Silent Night Deadly Night: Initiation. As well as featuring the director’s family in cameos, How the Grinch Stole Christmas is also dedicated to Howard’s beloved mother who died shortly before it was released and who “loved Christmas the most,” according to the movie’s epitaph.

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The Grinch’s Directing Is A Spoof of Howard’s

The Grinch Every Easter Egg In Jim Carreys Christmas Movie

During filming, skilled impressionist Jim Carrey amused himself one afternoon by snatching Howard’s hat and riffing an improvised impersonation of the famous director. Howard himself was so amused that he threw in a scene of the Grinch directing his bemused dog Max on how to be a reindeer, with Carrey’s mannerisms in the scene based on Howard’s real-life directing style. Interestingly, Tom Hanks is also able to do a pretty solid imitation of the director having worked with him on Cast Away, and both his and Carrey’s versions of Howard share a handful of recognizable traits.

The Tablecloth

The Grinch Every Easter Egg In Jim Carreys Christmas Movie

The scene where Carrey’s titular grump yanks aside a tablecloth, successfully keeps everything on the table in the process, then shoves everything to the ground regardless? It wasn’t actually in the script. Instead, like the iconic ending of Sleepaway Camp was created by accident, this classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas moment was actually unintentional, as the script simply called for Carrey’s character to pull the tablecloth aside and send everything balanced on it flying to the floor. No one—including Carrey himself—expected the actor to pull off the tablecloth yank, resulting in Carrey’s quick-thinking bit of priceless improvising as he swept everything to the floor.

The Whoville Statues

The Grinch Every Easter Egg In Jim Carreys Christmas Movie

There’s a pair of odd, unexplained statues featured in the movie which are both subtle references to other works from Seuss. The clocktower features an inexplicable statue of an elephant, but it’s not just any elephant: Suess fans will recognize him as Horton, the title character of Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who, which later received an animated adaptation in 2008 from the studio behind Ice Age. Meanwhile, the start of the scene featuring the annual Cheer-mister’s nomination sees Howard’s camera linger on a strange statue sitting in the center of Whoville’s town square: An odd animal with its antlers twisted into a circle. This is another one of Dr. Seuss’s creations, although a markedly more obscure one. The statue is one of the titular “Thinks” in the iconic illustrations of Oh, the Thinks You Can Think, one of the many Seuss stories which have not yet received a movie adaptation.

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Green Eggs and Ham

The Grinch Every Easter Egg In Jim Carreys Christmas Movie

For a more overt reference to Dr. Seuss’ famous work, viewers need to look no further than Cindy Lou Who’s dinner plate. In the closing scenes of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, the adorable kid played by future Gossip Girl star Taylor Momsen serves Max her helping of green eggs and ham, a dish which gives one of Dr. Seuss’ most famous works its title. Interestingly, Netflix adapted Green Eggs and Ham (very, very loosely), with the new animated TV series adaptation that debuted a year after Benedict Cumberbatch starred in another cinematic outing from the Grinch.

The Key Party

Around the time of How the Grinch Stole Christmas’ release in 2000, it was becoming an increasingly popular practice for filmmakers to sneak some adult-aimed punchlines in kid’s movies to keep the grown-ups entertained. A style first developed on television by the likes of the recently rebooted Animaniacs, Rugrats, and Tiny Toon Adventures, this process of seeing what adult jokes the creators could sneak by censors was popularized in cinema by both Pixar and Dreamworks.

However, the practice proved contentious for the creators of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, who were warned by the studio to keep their additions of subversive humour to a minimum. Carrey and Howard obliged, self-censoring and cutting any jokes and ad-libs they thought might be risqué… Only to find out later that the studio inserted some raunchy punchlines without their approval. Carrey later admitted that he wished he fought them on this, and it’s moments like the Grinch’s backstory that feature odd, out-of-place grown-up jokes that feel forced into the film. When the Grinch’s parents miss his arrival, it’s not just because they’re hosting a holiday party. Judging by the unexpected closeup shot of keys being thrown in a bowl, they’re hosting a swingers party. It’s a weird touch, and given how often studios soften dark originals scripts, it’s ironic that the producers actually added in exactly the sort of uncomfortable, trying-too-hard edgy joke that Carrey and Howard were warned against adding to How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

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