Stink,
Stank, Stunk.
 (Yes,
I know this cartoon is WAYYYY out of season
but when an idea strikes you gratefully accept
the gift of the comic muses.)
When
you think about it, the Grinch could have come
to a great many other conclusions about the
Who's non-reaction to being deprived of all
their personal whose-its and whats-its just as
he
was about to dump them all
into
the snowy
abyss.
I mean, put yourself in the Grinch's tight
little shoes. You've stolen everything you
can lay your hands on from a town full of
people who obviously place great value on
consumer
goods and
they don't even seem to bat an eye when they
find their houses have been
stripped clean. They instead all
meet in the town square and begin singing
a nonsense song. (They
speak
English,
remember?)
You don't have to be a clinical psychologist
to
suspect
that
they might
all be suffering from some
sort of mass denial borne of the trauma of
the loss of everything they own. (In this
sense the Grinch functions like an F5 tornado,
except he leaves the house intact.) Far from
being suffused wth the spirit of generosity
the Grinch should have
felt only pity
but,
being
remorseless, there's little doubt his original
course of action would be deterred.
Now let's again pause at the moment when the
sled is about to go over the cliff. The Grinch
has all this wonderful stuff (He enjoys a
nice roast beast, too, remember?) and the
townsfolk are making no attempt to retrieve
it. At all. It seems to me the Grinch's obvious
response
would be "Fuck 'em. I'll just keep it all.
Thanks, suckers!"
Then there's the possibility that the Grinch's
heart grew three sizes that day as a result
of a sudden and fatal onset of
cardiomegaly
(enlarged
heart syndrome) and then been dragged, lifeless,
over the cliff.
Finally, there's also the perverse possibility
that the townspeople were out to get the Grinch.
After all, who'd want some green, pantsless
demon traipsing through their kid's bedrooms
night
after night? So they set their trap by filling
their houses with tempting goodies and then
made them easy to burgle.
Once the Grinch had taken the bait the townsfolk
would pretend to ignore him and then drive
home
their contempt by doing the one thing
he despised most. Singing complete gibberish.
Loudly.
Of course, the last thing the Grinch wanted was to be ignored so their seeming
disdain
would
goad
him
into
committing
further
acts
of
atrocity
at
which point
the Whos could hand him over to the authorities
and have him locked away for a long time,
even executed,
without
a
moment
of
guilt.
In other words, don't fuck with the Whos.
=Lefty=
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