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Andrew N. Wong<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Mental_Floss<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>present 13 Spirited Facts About How the Grinch Stole Christmas<\/a><\/b>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Here are three of my favorites<\/span>…<\/p>\n \n Coming in at over $300,000, or $2.2 million in today\u2019s dollars, the special\u2019s budget was unheard of at the time for a 26-minute cartoon adaptation. For comparison\u2019s sake, A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em>\u2019s budget was reported as $96,000, or roughly $722,000 today (and this was after production had gone $20,000 over the original budget).<\/p>\n Because reading the book out loud only takes about 12 minutes, Jones was faced with the challenge of extending the story. For this, he turned to Max the dog. \u201cThat whole center section where Max is tied up to the sleigh, and goes down through the mountainside, and has all those problems getting down there, was good comic business as it turns out,\u201d Jones explained in TNT\u2019s How the Grinch Stole Christmas<\/em> special, which is a special feature on the movie\u2019s DVD. \u201cBut it was all added; it was not part of the book.\u201d Jones would go on to name Max as his favorite character from the special, as he felt that he directly represented the audience.<\/p>\n The famous voice actor and singer, best known for providing the voice of Kellogg\u2019s Tony the Tiger, wasn\u2019t recognized for his work in How the Grinch Stole Christmas<\/em>. Because of this, most viewers wrongly assumed that the narrator of the special, Boris Karloff, also sang the piece in question. Upset by this oversight, Geisel personally apologized to Ravenscroft and vowed to make amends. Geisel went on to pen a letter, urging all the major columnists that he knew to help him rectify the mistake by issuing a notice of correction in their publications.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Andrew N. Wong\u00a0and\u00a0Mental_Floss\u00a0present 13 Spirited Facts About How the Grinch Stole Christmas.\u00a0\u00a0Here are three of my favorites… 4. ITS BUDGET<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,17,65,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-trivia","category-tv","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14094,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14092\/revisions\/14094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
4. ITS BUDGET WAS MASSIVE.<\/span><\/h4>\n
8. CHUCK JONES HAD TO FIND WAYS TO FILL OUT THE 26-MINUTE TIME SLOT.<\/span><\/h4>\n
7. THURL RAVENSCROFT DIDN\u2019T RECEIVE CREDIT FOR HIS SINGING OF\u00a0 \u201cYOU\u2019RE A MEAN ONE, MR. GRINCH.\u201d<\/span><\/h4>\n