There's something kind of poetic that the anti-materialistic story is being used by what many consider the most materialistic corporation in the world.
Kinda similar to how Illumination’s Lorax movie plastered the Lorax on otherwise environmentally unfriendly things by saying that they were “Lorax approved”.
@@foxtoons1999Yeah. I LOVED the fact that a movie that perverts and dumbs down its book's message into just "Trees= AWESOME! Corporations= PURE EVIL INCARNATE!" had at least a dozen MAJOR corporate tie- ins, including Mazda using it to market a line of SUVs!
For all its faults, this line from the Jim Carrey movie sums up this commercial perfectly: "The avarice never ends! I want golf clubs! I want diamonds! I want a pony so I can ride it twice, get bored, and sell it to make glue!"
@KeeperOfUntoldDreams That was honestly the one part of the live action version that really added to the source material. I think the other backstory wasn't even necessary, just him living in a garbage dump where all the materialism people got bored of ends up is good enough a reason for him to speed things up by taking the gifts straight away.
To quote the nostalgia critic: “If we had a nickel for everything that stated being a corporate sell out was bad was ACTUALLY a corporate sell out we could feed the entire world’s population. TWICE.”
@@crazyfire9470 only slightly; he may said a dollar or said corporate cash in but NC basically said that word for word. I just don’t know which video he said it in so I can’t confirm the exact, hyper-specific wording.
Honestly, in my opinion the only thing they did right with this Walmart ad is the animation it's pretty much a more fluid equivalent of the animation for the original special. But other than that I consider this Walmart ad to be an insult to the original story.
What gets me is not just the message of the commercial, but the fact that they did it while keeping true to Chuck Jones’ animation style which feels like a double whammy
I’m not even shocked Walmart did a move like this, it’s comically at this point of how scummy corporate America is. I’m just surprised how incredibly well presented it all is with the animation and the narrator.
@@Cadence-qt2ux 1. The Grinch was killed by corporate America, not by Illuminati specifically. 2. Enter is informing us of it, kinda hard to inform people of things if you don’t talk about that, plus he’s not forcing others to watch it. 3. Why are you replying to my comment about Enter failings?
If you want to know how scummy Corporate America is, then look no further than how Walmart failed in Germany. IIRC Walmart wouldn't give their workers time off and other benefits that German companies usually have, so it ended up failing.
The "Chuck Jones" Grinch is pretty well-done "Jim Carrey" Grinch is perfectly fine. Not surprised that Walmart misunderstood what makes Grinch who he is. Walmart is just.. awful Edit: Haven't seen the "Benedict Cumberbatch" Grinch yet
Honestly Jim Carrey’s unhinged take on the Grinch is my favorite. Jim Carrey’s Grinch feels like if the original Grinch went insane after being stuck on the mountain for too long. Hell, even Illumination’s Grinch is better than Walmart’s. At least that Grinch was out of character for the sake of jokes and humor.
Honestly, even if they did understand, would they stop? You can't expect a commercial to be anti-commercialism, it somewhat goes against the purpose of a commercial.
@@kyleinthejar6829 This might be my bias talking (because I first knew the grinch by the live action adaptation), but I think 90s grinch is overhated. i like the grinch bombastic unhinged "i hate you all but i kinda relunctantly want to be part of your community even if i don't mind my own loneliness borderline tsundere shrek like vibes" attitude. and the message of the film is more about the whos remembering that christmas isn't all about the gits (giving them ironically the grinch's character arc), while jim carrey's grinch is more about recovering the faith in humanity (or well whomanity) in general
@@ianr.navahuber2195 And as BionicPig said in his video of the Jim Carrey version, in The Grinch's attempt at stealing Christmas, he ended up saving Christmas in the process.
For first few seconds of the commercial I genuinely thought it was the original right until the Walmart advertising popped up, the animation was just that good.
When you feel like you're ready to give up exclusive rights to your creative works, put them under a Creative Commons license. You can permit everyone to use your works, even commercially, while still requiring them to share their results the same way. It stops any company from co-opting your work by making an adaptation that catches on. Even if that happens, others can adapt even _their_ version and they can't stop it without your permission (which they can't get if you're gone). If that's your first time hearing about it, give it a little research time when you can! Very good for creators who believe in more than just pulling in profit!
It’s not uncommon for companies to think that by making their product look like the original product, will make their product capture the original spirit.
I love both The Grinch Stole Christmas and A Charlie Brown Christmas since they both stand against commercialism. Haven't watched the latter, you absolutely should.
It's also pretty funny how Walmart is basically portraying themselves making the Whos working on Christmas. Pretty hilarious self-report of their flagrant mistreatment of their employees.
I'm surprised nobody's tried to make a Suess style Halloween show since Grinch night. Imagine all the weird loopy Halloween creatures they could invent
Grinch Night, which was released in 1977. Thurl returned for the songs and Hans Conried (Captain Hook from Peter Pan) replaced Boris Karloff, as he passed away after the Christmas special. There was also a crossover called The Grinch grinches the Cat in the Hat.
I fear this surmises what our popular culture has become, something that looks and sounds like something everyone knows, but has none of the substance that actually made it what it is. Almost like you see a friend or family member that looks, walks and talks like that person you know, but its actually some elaborately constructed puppet, almost like you fed an AI all the Grinch movies and all of the Wal-Mart commercials and this is what it came up with.
It's called the "skin-suit effect", something parading as something you like, but clearly not doing what made you like it. This is normally caused by corpos who buy/use a brand because its popular, but don't understand or care *why* its popular.
You know, speaking of The Grinch being used to promote commercialism, something I have noticed in recent years is how people tend to use a bad choice in tool/weapon for a particular task. We've seen several examples of this on Animated Atrocities. - Screams of Silence, an episode of Family Guy-- which is a show known for using domestic abuse as a running gag-- was used to address why domestic abuse is bad and alerting people of it. - OK-KO, an action show was used to promote gun control. As did Animaniacs using bunnies-- a harmless animal-- as a stand-in for guns. The list of examples just goes on. And I wonder why.
It would be funny if the Grinch just kept the presents and was like "Fuck all of them I'll keep this stuff for me" and didn't had a change of heart at all. That way I would've looked at it more as a funny parody instead of an insult, as in "We know we're missing the point but that's the joke" At least it would've made more sense
I don't mind Walmart, or corporations in general, using nostalgia in advertising, but make it make sense. It makes sense for the cast of Mean Girls to be in a Walmart Black Friday ad. This...doesn't.
hey i was a big viewer of your content almost ten years ago, and now that ive come back to one of your new videos, id like to give a compliment on how your editing/presentation has improved
Definitely giving props to the animators on this one, they did awesome. But this is definitely further evidence of the corporate dystopia the Internet has become. It's sad.
3:41-3:50 Even Cartoon Network made fun of that commercial in a commercial for Billy and Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure: The Movie ("Dracula not heard a' hearin! Dracula heard ya the first time! Makin' Dracula head hurt."). I never knew until I got older that it was referencing something, I used to think it was just being silly and random.
I'm 33 going on 34, and the How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966) is one of my most favorite Christmas Specials of all time since I was baby. Hell, I used to sing "Welcome Christmas" when I was a toddler. Chuck Jones is one of my favorite cartoonists/animators because of this special. That Walmart commercial was just a wet fart.
It got me thinking of what Bandit Heeler once said. "When you put something beautiful out into the world, it's no longer yours." That could be interpreted as either a good thing, or, in Dr. Seuss' case, a bad thing. Case in point, this ad!
At least the live action Grinch had actual commentary on the commercialism of Christmas, something which Dr. Suess hated and became a huge inspiration for the Grinch's character.
I actually got to see this commercial in the movie theatres, before The Boy And The Heron. I was stoned off of my ass at the time, and this commercial on the big screen just amazed me with how well they captured the hand-drawn animation from the original special. Animated entirely using computers, no less! I couldn’t give two shits about what Walmart products they were trying to sell me in that moment. I was in a world of pure bliss…
Thr animation is seamless, it's a shame it's sending the wrong message. I'd still rather watch this than the indie Horror remake (yes! This concept actually exists! What is this world coming to!)
“Outrage marketing” doesn’t always work. Just ask Marvel and Disney or Velma for that matter. I’ll even add the mother of all of this kinda BS, Ghostbusters 2016, didn’t work for that either.
Don’t feel bad, Mr. E.. Lovecraft died a pauper, and not very well known. But his work spurned an entire genre in less than half a century after his death. Your work could see you famous as a creative after you die, just like Lovecraft… Just make sure you’re not famous for the *other* stuff H.P. was famous for.
@@SaiyanGamer95 You say that as if countless youtubers haven't made videos about how bad of a creator Mr Enter is. I'd say even to this day he still carries at least some of that reputation, whether it's justified or not.
The Grinch ad wasn’t always marked as for kids. There was a comment section during the first few days and I myself commented on it before this happened. Walmart themselves even hearted and replied to a few comments. I have a feeling it was automatically done
To quote SIlver-Quill on his Ghostbusters Afterlife video " A minion of Evil goes to Walmart as his first target, theres something very poetic about that."
Now I know why relying on those stories as didactic resources rather than just coping mechanisms while waiting mercifully until finally reaching a sought-out future status as a fresh flower in the garden of life seemed easier said than done.
Ironically the original airing of the 1966 special featured sponsorship ads from the Foundation for Full Service Banks. Yes a bank sponsored a special that states “Christmas doesn’t come from a store”
Before the Grinch was stealing the Who's Christmas stuff. Like their presents and decorations, but now he's committing a federal crime by stealing the Who's packages. Which some of them might not have presents or Christmas stuff in them at all. So the guy who lives on 253 Whovile Lan ain't getting his groceries that are suppose to keep him fed for three weeks. Nearly five hundred dollars worth of food gone because the Grinch chose to be a porch pirate.
I dunno about that last part. I say toy companies should advertise to kids. Cracking down on them was how we lost certain channels and shows as far back as 2008, like "Art Attack," or the kids' channel KTV here in Africa.
Just a quick bit of trivia, some old Grinch cartoons that came out shortly after the Christmas special: Halloween Is Grinch Night The Grinch Grinches The Cat In The Hat
3 things 1. I am a libertarian and one of the areas I have not really dived into is the libertarian argument against copyright and patents essentially. This definitely makes me want to look more into this especially with what you discussed at the end. 2. The for kids distinction is weird in both ways. On one hand if this was advertised on Cartoon Network it would fit in with everything else advertised on there but I don’t remember any discourse on kids advertising in the iPad era. We had the kidspocolypse on YT but that was for creep content and creepers not specifically advertisers. 3. The Walmart delivery girl is giving a bunch of packages to Cindy Lou Who…who is no older than 2… She was a weird amount of autonomy for a 2 year old.
that's actually not a bad idea for a grinch sequel, Whoville becomes so commercialized the Whos eventually forget the Christmas spirit and so the grinch has to formulate a plan to make them remember what the true joys of christmas are, it even has a perfect title: how the grinch saved Christmas.
One of my favorite ironies is how aluminum Christmas trees became so unpopular that people think they were made up for A Charlie Brown Christmas, but you can buy yourself a "Charlie Brown Christmas Tree" that was mass produced....when the tree in the special was meant to symbolize anti-consumerism. Manufactured authenticity at its finest.
Same kind of thing happened to Peanuts and if the author of Calvin and Hobbs passes you’ll probably see everything ignored for his wishes with the characters and brand. Your estate just wants the money.
I've gone back and forth on the prospect of putting all my works in the public domain once I die. As a trans woman who makes art almost exclusively about trans issues, one fear that has popped up regarding that prospect is "what if some terf or transphobic organization makes a version of one of my works that flips the message to make it anti-trans?" Based on what you said here however, "it would probably rest my soul better to give my works to the whole of humanity than being forgotten or [being perverted beyond my original intention via the estate]" I feel a lot more empowered to go with the public domain route.
I wonder if someone will seperate Enter wish about his works from the rest of this video? So that his wish will be recorded on the internet for future generations.
The nicest thing I can say about this ad outside of the animation is that it's nowhere near as annoying as the 'Hashtag, sorry, not sorry' Christmas ad. As far as I'm concerned, no ad is worse than that one.
The "Ilumination" Grinch is OK, I know it was fashionable to hate it, but I don't think it desserves that much hate (Just think of it as an Extremely kid friendly version of the character)
Hey, Mr. Enter. Just commenting on what your work is worth. I own your book in digital form, and I bought it because I'm an avid watcher of your show. Here's a bit of a shock, maybe; I liked it. It didn't come off as the perverse fantasies of a p-bear, or a cynical cash-grab, or whatever other BS is out there. It was, to me, a story from a guy wanting to tell a story. I love your work. I don't always argee with your opinions, but I find them informative, insightful, and well worth hearing. I enjoy what you do, and that has to be worth something. Right?
2:49 if anything that reminds me more of that 1990s christmas short of "the town that santa forgot" where a greedy spoiled kid called jeremy creek decided to make an humongous christmas list of gifts and toys he wants from santa (after his parents put their foot down and said they will not buy him more toys) when santa receives jeremy's list, he thinks the list comes from an impoverished town that coincidentally is called "jeremy creek", a town he also realizes he never went before, therefore never delivered presents to anyone there and chooses to make up for that. and on christmas day, jeremy sees on tv, the news of the town he (accidentally) helped with his selfishness and greed, and is actually humbled down by joy of seeing the kids with their new presents. And when santa comes to apologize to Jeremy for his mistake, and in recognition of Jeremy's new selflessness, Santa offers him the chance to help him deliver toys to all the others every christmas eve. jeremy even gifts some of his own toys. at least until he grows too old too fit in santa's sleigh. It is kinda funny that THAT 90s short gets across the message this commercial wanted to give,: basically saying "buy stuff for OTHERS who might need it more than you"
It’s not new when commercial are using iconic characters and misuses their purposes to advertise the products they sell, and this one is no exception, but wow, the animation in this… It’s outstanding how much it looks like in Chuck Jones style! :O
I _would_ argue the Head-On commercial was a failure, based on the simple fact that at no point does it tell you what it's actually _for._ It tells you how to use it, and that's the end goodnight everybody drive safe Sure, memorizing the product name is an objective of marketing, but it's useless if the consumer doesn't know what it's for.
I really love the cartoon grinch! The animation the character design everything! The grinch 2000 I barley seen it There was a sprite commercial for it but didn’t see it And there was the illumination movie (which is better than this Walmart commercial!)
There's something kind of poetic that the anti-materialistic story is being used by what many consider the most materialistic corporation in the world.
Kinda similar to how Illumination’s Lorax movie plastered the Lorax on otherwise environmentally unfriendly things by saying that they were “Lorax approved”.
Why’d I read that in EmpLemon’s voice?
Amazon's worse, though it is nice that they're lobbying to prevent Disney from extending copyright even longer with their lobbying.
The best way to promote twisted ideas is to twist the ideas of those going against their own.
@@foxtoons1999Yeah.
I LOVED the fact that a movie that perverts and dumbs down its book's message into just "Trees= AWESOME! Corporations= PURE EVIL INCARNATE!" had at least a dozen MAJOR corporate tie- ins, including Mazda using it to market a line of SUVs!
For all its faults, this line from the Jim Carrey movie sums up this commercial perfectly: "The avarice never ends! I want golf clubs! I want diamonds! I want a pony so I can ride it twice, get bored, and sell it to make glue!"
Don't forget the best part, "You know what happens to your gifts? They all come to me, in your garbage. You see what I'm saying? In your _garbage_ !"
@KeeperOfUntoldDreams
That was honestly the one part of the live action version that really added to the source material. I think the other backstory wasn't even necessary, just him living in a garbage dump where all the materialism people got bored of ends up is good enough a reason for him to speed things up by taking the gifts straight away.
@@rainpooper7088 Yeah, I can agree with that.
The irony of the Jim Carrey movie saying that is that it was heavily merchandised too
It´s even more frustrating when you know that Dr Seuss wrote the original Book because he was frustrated about the Commercialization of Christmas
To quote the nostalgia critic: “If we had a nickel for everything that stated being a corporate sell out was bad was ACTUALLY a corporate sell out we could feed the entire world’s population.
TWICE.”
I feel like that quote is wrong
@@crazyfire9470 only slightly; he may said a dollar or said corporate cash in but NC basically said that word for word. I just don’t know which video he said it in so I can’t confirm the exact, hyper-specific wording.
The Grinch is an icon in ruin.
Almost every Christmas Icon is in ruin. 😢
LS mark reference
All our icons are being ruined.
Yeah, it's almost like christmas has become much more commertialised or something.
I mean look at a Christmas Story
Illumination Grinch isn’t even evil he’s just a mood
The Illumination Grinch is so-so in my opinion, but not as good as the first two adaptations in terms of humor and charm.
but even then it's still better than the Walmart commercial, and otherwise okay on its own.
Doesn't that apply for every version of the character?
@@arkmasterable Yeah i guess it doss especially if you don’t care for the holidays minus stealing everyone’s gifts
Gru wannabe
Honestly, in my opinion the only thing they did right with this Walmart ad is the animation it's pretty much a more fluid equivalent of the animation for the original special. But other than that I consider this Walmart ad to be an insult to the original story.
Fr. The animators of that ad deserve all the praise. Especially if they pulled it of with computer animation.
What gets me is not just the message of the commercial, but the fact that they did it while keeping true to Chuck Jones’ animation style which feels like a double whammy
I’m not even shocked Walmart did a move like this, it’s comically at this point of how scummy corporate America is.
I’m just surprised how incredibly well presented it all is with the animation and the narrator.
2 Enter`s Fais in 1 video: 1) Grinch was killed by Ilumination. 2) "Dont watch THAT commercial: forces others to watch it
@@Cadence-qt2ux
1. The Grinch was killed by corporate America, not by Illuminati specifically.
2. Enter is informing us of it, kinda hard to inform people of things if you don’t talk about that, plus he’s not forcing others to watch it.
3. Why are you replying to my comment about Enter failings?
If you want to know how scummy Corporate America is, then look no further than how Walmart failed in Germany. IIRC Walmart wouldn't give their workers time off and other benefits that German companies usually have, so it ended up failing.
@@Cadence-qt2uxwas that meant to be a regular comment?
The "Chuck Jones" Grinch is pretty well-done
"Jim Carrey" Grinch is perfectly fine. Not surprised that Walmart misunderstood what makes Grinch who he is. Walmart is just.. awful
Edit: Haven't seen the "Benedict Cumberbatch" Grinch yet
Honestly Jim Carrey’s unhinged take on the Grinch is my favorite. Jim Carrey’s Grinch feels like if the original Grinch went insane after being stuck on the mountain for too long. Hell, even Illumination’s Grinch is better than Walmart’s. At least that Grinch was out of character for the sake of jokes and humor.
Honestly, even if they did understand, would they stop? You can't expect a commercial to be anti-commercialism, it somewhat goes against the purpose of a commercial.
@@kyleinthejar6829 This might be my bias talking (because I first knew the grinch by the live action adaptation), but I think 90s grinch is overhated.
i like the grinch bombastic unhinged "i hate you all but i kinda relunctantly want to be part of your community even if i don't mind my own loneliness borderline tsundere shrek like vibes" attitude.
and the message of the film is more about the whos remembering that christmas isn't all about the gits (giving them ironically the grinch's character arc), while jim carrey's grinch is more about recovering the faith in humanity (or well whomanity) in general
@@ianr.navahuber2195 And as BionicPig said in his video of the Jim Carrey version, in The Grinch's attempt at stealing Christmas, he ended up saving Christmas in the process.
What about “Benedict Cumberbatch” Grinch?
Ah, yes! My favorite Dr Seuss book, "How Walmart killed The Grinch".
For first few seconds of the commercial I genuinely thought it was the original right until the Walmart advertising popped up, the animation was just that good.
Aside from the amazing animation, this commercial is, indeed the true representation of corporate evil.
When you feel like you're ready to give up exclusive rights to your creative works, put them under a Creative Commons license. You can permit everyone to use your works, even commercially, while still requiring them to share their results the same way. It stops any company from co-opting your work by making an adaptation that catches on. Even if that happens, others can adapt even _their_ version and they can't stop it without your permission (which they can't get if you're gone).
If that's your first time hearing about it, give it a little research time when you can! Very good for creators who believe in more than just pulling in profit!
It’s not uncommon for companies to think that by making their product look like the original product, will make their product capture the original spirit.
I love both The Grinch Stole Christmas and A Charlie Brown Christmas since they both stand against commercialism. Haven't watched the latter, you absolutely should.
Couldn't agree more
does it...?
It's also pretty funny how Walmart is basically portraying themselves making the Whos working on Christmas. Pretty hilarious self-report of their flagrant mistreatment of their employees.
I hate soulless materialism and how corporations undermine capitalism and culture…
Grinch got a halloween prequel to the 1960s
I'm surprised nobody's tried to make a Suess style Halloween show since Grinch night. Imagine all the weird loopy Halloween creatures they could invent
Grinch Night, which was released in 1977. Thurl returned for the songs and Hans Conried (Captain Hook from Peter Pan) replaced Boris Karloff, as he passed away after the Christmas special.
There was also a crossover called The Grinch grinches the Cat in the Hat.
2 Enter`s Fais in 1 video: 1) Grinch was killed by Ilumination. 2) "Dont watch THAT commercial: forces others to watch it
The original grinch from 1966 is still my favorite Christmas anything even after all these years.
I fear this surmises what our popular culture has become, something that looks and sounds like something everyone knows, but has none of the substance that actually made it what it is. Almost like you see a friend or family member that looks, walks and talks like that person you know, but its actually some elaborately constructed puppet, almost like you fed an AI all the Grinch movies and all of the Wal-Mart commercials and this is what it came up with.
It's called the "skin-suit effect", something parading as something you like, but clearly not doing what made you like it.
This is normally caused by corpos who buy/use a brand because its popular, but don't understand or care *why* its popular.
@@markguyton2868 I tried to Google search it, and it looks like Google is censoring it and replacing it with skin suits for chroma key.
@@markguyton2868Disney with their damn live action remakes (except Cinderella, that one is good in my eyes).
That is just INCREDIBLE recreation! I’m honestly shocked at how they did it.
I bet Chuck Jones himself would probably be proud of how well the recreated the animation though probably not the reason behind it.
The animators were great at their job, just ignore Walmart entirely if you're able
The original grinch from 1966 was and always will be the best adaptation of the Grinch
You know, speaking of The Grinch being used to promote commercialism, something I have noticed in recent years is how people tend to use a bad choice in tool/weapon for a particular task. We've seen several examples of this on Animated Atrocities.
- Screams of Silence, an episode of Family Guy-- which is a show known for using domestic abuse as a running gag-- was used to address why domestic abuse is bad and alerting people of it.
- OK-KO, an action show was used to promote gun control. As did Animaniacs using bunnies-- a harmless animal-- as a stand-in for guns.
The list of examples just goes on. And I wonder why.
It would be funny if the Grinch just kept the presents and was like "Fuck all of them I'll keep this stuff for me" and didn't had a change of heart at all.
That way I would've looked at it more as a funny parody instead of an insult, as in "We know we're missing the point but that's the joke"
At least it would've made more sense
“You’re a Mean One” isn’t just a villain song, but also a diss track.
I don't mind Walmart, or corporations in general, using nostalgia in advertising, but make it make sense. It makes sense for the cast of Mean Girls to be in a Walmart Black Friday ad. This...doesn't.
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas is one of my favorite christmas specials
hey i was a big viewer of your content almost ten years ago, and now that ive come back to one of your new videos, id like to give a compliment on how your editing/presentation has improved
thanks!
How did this commercial get the point of the Grinch so right and so wrong at the same time?
2 Enter`s Fais in 1 video: 1) Grinch was killed by Ilumination. 2) "Dont watch THAT commercial: forces others to watch it
You’re a mean one. Mr. Walmart
I'm still surprised they Made a GREAT Dr Suess adaptation show with Green Eggs & Ham on Netflix
And Horton hears a whole.
Definitely giving props to the animators on this one, they did awesome.
But this is definitely further evidence of the corporate dystopia the Internet has become. It's sad.
Huh
3:41-3:50 Even Cartoon Network made fun of that commercial in a commercial for Billy and Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure: The Movie ("Dracula not heard a' hearin! Dracula heard ya the first time! Makin' Dracula head hurt."). I never knew until I got older that it was referencing something, I used to think it was just being silly and random.
I'm 33 going on 34, and the How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966) is one of my most favorite Christmas Specials of all time since I was baby. Hell, I used to sing "Welcome Christmas" when I was a toddler. Chuck Jones is one of my favorite cartoonists/animators because of this special.
That Walmart commercial was just a wet fart.
The ad is likely marked as “for kids” because the grinch is usually marketed as a children’s character
"You're a meme, Mr. Grinch."
The Grinch & Charlie Brown are the 2 Christmas movies I HAVE to watch, every single year. They are my all-time favorite Christmas cartoons.
You know it’s a good day when Mr. Enter posts a video.
Thank you so much for wanting your stuff to be in public domain immediately.
Eh
This so bizarre to say the least. An adaptation that does an amazing job at emulating the original but ruins all sorts of other things Instead.
I remember the Charlie Brown Christmas was all about is commercialism a good thing for Christmas. Commercialism won that war.
Commercialism always wins. Peanuts, Grinch, A Christmas Story, etc all are slowly dying due to it
It got me thinking of what Bandit Heeler once said. "When you put something beautiful out into the world, it's no longer yours."
That could be interpreted as either a good thing, or, in Dr. Seuss' case, a bad thing. Case in point, this ad!
More like Wal-Mart didn't get the point of the grinch
Really sucks that this is the only thing animated like this nowadays
At least the live action Grinch had actual commentary on the commercialism of Christmas, something which Dr. Suess hated and became a huge inspiration for the Grinch's character.
Cartoons and corporations go hand in hand like Honey and Milk
"Land of Milk and Honey."
I actually got to see this commercial in the movie theatres, before The Boy And The Heron.
I was stoned off of my ass at the time, and this commercial on the big screen just amazed me with how well they captured the hand-drawn animation from the original special. Animated entirely using computers, no less!
I couldn’t give two shits about what Walmart products they were trying to sell me in that moment. I was in a world of pure bliss…
4:29 *WAS THAT THE PIZZA TOWER TAUNT SOUND EFFECT?!*
You’re a mean one, Walmart.
Thr animation is seamless, it's a shame it's sending the wrong message. I'd still rather watch this than the indie Horror remake (yes! This concept actually exists! What is this world coming to!)
If only they put this much effort into something that wasn’t pure commercialism…
walmart is always ruining something
Its sad that they did this but damn the animation is great
“Outrage marketing” doesn’t always work. Just ask Marvel and Disney or Velma for that matter.
I’ll even add the mother of all of this kinda BS, Ghostbusters 2016, didn’t work for that either.
The title of this video should’ve been called, “How the Walmart Company Killed the Grinch” because it has a better ring to it, just saying.
Don’t feel bad, Mr. E.. Lovecraft died a pauper, and not very well known. But his work spurned an entire genre in less than half a century after his death.
Your work could see you famous as a creative after you die, just like Lovecraft… Just make sure you’re not famous for the *other* stuff H.P. was famous for.
Well, there isn't' a lot else he's famous for other than his work.
2 Enter`s Fais in 1 video: 1) Grinch was killed by Ilumination. 2) "Dont watch THAT commercial: forces others to watch it
@@SaiyanGamer95 You say that as if countless youtubers haven't made videos about how bad of a creator Mr Enter is. I'd say even to this day he still carries at least some of that reputation, whether it's justified or not.
@@TheMistermastermario What are you talking about? I wasn't talking about Mr. Enter. I was talking about Lovecraft.
@@SaiyanGamer95 They're talking about the racism.
I thought that Illumination did that.
The Grinch ad wasn’t always marked as for kids. There was a comment section during the first few days and I myself commented on it before this happened. Walmart themselves even hearted and replied to a few comments. I have a feeling it was automatically done
To quote SIlver-Quill on his Ghostbusters Afterlife video
" A minion of Evil goes to Walmart as his first target, theres something very poetic about that."
How Walmart ruined the Grinch.
Poor Dr. Seuss must be spinning in his grave!
Now I know why relying on those stories as didactic resources rather than just coping mechanisms while waiting mercifully until finally reaching a sought-out future status as a fresh flower in the garden of life seemed easier said than done.
The best animation I've seen with the Grinch character is the "The Grinch's Ultimatum" by PilotRedSun
the animation is so damn good. imagine if it was used for an actual grinch remake
This is that Lorax Mazda commercial all over again. Lesson learned, Dr. Suess and advertising obviously don't mix together.
Hopefully when Dr Seuss’s works go into public domain
The grinch will never die, the walmart ad will fall into obsurity in less then a month
Ironically the original airing of the 1966 special featured sponsorship ads from the Foundation for Full Service Banks. Yes a bank sponsored a special that states “Christmas doesn’t come from a store”
Before the Grinch was stealing the Who's Christmas stuff. Like their presents and decorations, but now he's committing a federal crime by stealing the Who's packages. Which some of them might not have presents or Christmas stuff in them at all. So the guy who lives on 253 Whovile Lan ain't getting his groceries that are suppose to keep him fed for three weeks. Nearly five hundred dollars worth of food gone because the Grinch chose to be a porch pirate.
So technically it still fits in a roundabout way.
I dunno about that last part. I say toy companies should advertise to kids. Cracking down on them was how we lost certain channels and shows as far back as 2008, like "Art Attack," or the kids' channel KTV here in Africa.
Just a quick bit of trivia, some old Grinch cartoons that came out shortly after the Christmas special:
Halloween Is Grinch Night
The Grinch Grinches The Cat In The Hat
3 things
1. I am a libertarian and one of the areas I have not really dived into is the libertarian argument against copyright and patents essentially. This definitely makes me want to look more into this especially with what you discussed at the end.
2. The for kids distinction is weird in both ways. On one hand if this was advertised on Cartoon Network it would fit in with everything else advertised on there but I don’t remember any discourse on kids advertising in the iPad era. We had the kidspocolypse on YT but that was for creep content and creepers not specifically advertisers.
3. The Walmart delivery girl is giving a bunch of packages to Cindy Lou Who…who is no older than 2… She was a weird amount of autonomy for a 2 year old.
Walmart's pure evil, what did we expect?
that's actually not a bad idea for a grinch sequel, Whoville becomes so commercialized the Whos eventually forget the Christmas spirit and so the grinch has to formulate a plan to make them remember what the true joys of christmas are, it even has a perfect title: how the grinch saved Christmas.
And I thought illumination’s version was worse…
Have you seen Schaffrillas’ review?
2 Enter`s Fais in 1 video: 1) Grinch was killed by Ilumination. 2) "Dont watch THAT commercial: forces others to watch it
One of my favorite ironies is how aluminum Christmas trees became so unpopular that people think they were made up for A Charlie Brown Christmas, but you can buy yourself a "Charlie Brown Christmas Tree" that was mass produced....when the tree in the special was meant to symbolize anti-consumerism. Manufactured authenticity at its finest.
Interesting, I didn’t know “outrage marketing” was even a thing. Or, at least I didn’t know it had a name.
Have you seen those videos where someone complains about something "going woke"? That's outrage marketing.
Still not as poor at understanding the point like the illumination lorax. Probably more blatant at misunderstanding the point though.
"Nice of Walmart to provide these Walmart beverages in return for us saying Walmart so many times"
NBC syndicated this a few weeks ago, I loved it even though it was edited for television runtime
Same kind of thing happened to Peanuts and if the author of Calvin and Hobbs passes you’ll probably see everything ignored for his wishes with the characters and brand.
Your estate just wants the money.
I still remember when you put the Grinch song in the transitions between the entries in your Top Ten Worst Patrick's a P$@%k episodes! 😆😅
everythign walmart touches to crap apparently
I've gone back and forth on the prospect of putting all my works in the public domain once I die. As a trans woman who makes art almost exclusively about trans issues, one fear that has popped up regarding that prospect is "what if some terf or transphobic organization makes a version of one of my works that flips the message to make it anti-trans?" Based on what you said here however, "it would probably rest my soul better to give my works to the whole of humanity than being forgotten or [being perverted beyond my original intention via the estate]" I feel a lot more empowered to go with the public domain route.
I wonder if someone will seperate Enter wish about his works from the rest of this video?
So that his wish will be recorded on the internet for future generations.
The nicest thing I can say about this ad outside of the animation is that it's nowhere near as annoying as the 'Hashtag, sorry, not sorry' Christmas ad. As far as I'm concerned, no ad is worse than that one.
Illumination Grinch isn't perfect, but imo it's not a bad take on the property. I really enjoyed it, but it's not for everyone
I work at Walmart in the Garden/Christmas department. I couldn't agree more
The cat in the hat is getting a animated movie
The "Ilumination" Grinch is OK, I know it was fashionable to hate it, but I don't think it desserves that much hate (Just think of it as an Extremely kid friendly version of the character)
Hey, Mr. Enter. Just commenting on what your work is worth. I own your book in digital form, and I bought it because I'm an avid watcher of your show. Here's a bit of a shock, maybe; I liked it. It didn't come off as the perverse fantasies of a p-bear, or a cynical cash-grab, or whatever other BS is out there. It was, to me, a story from a guy wanting to tell a story. I love your work. I don't always argee with your opinions, but I find them informative, insightful, and well worth hearing. I enjoy what you do, and that has to be worth something. Right?
2:49 if anything that reminds me more of that 1990s christmas short of "the town that santa forgot" where a greedy spoiled kid called jeremy creek decided to make an humongous christmas list of gifts and toys he wants from santa (after his parents put their foot down and said they will not buy him more toys)
when santa receives jeremy's list, he thinks the list comes from an impoverished town that coincidentally is called "jeremy creek", a town he also realizes he never went before, therefore never delivered presents to anyone there and chooses to make up for that.
and on christmas day, jeremy sees on tv, the news of the town he (accidentally) helped with his selfishness and greed, and is actually humbled down by joy of seeing the kids with their new presents.
And when santa comes to apologize to Jeremy for his mistake, and in recognition of Jeremy's new selflessness, Santa offers him the chance to help him deliver toys to all the others every christmas eve. jeremy even gifts some of his own toys. at least until he grows too old too fit in santa's sleigh.
It is kinda funny that THAT 90s short gets across the message this commercial wanted to give,: basically saying "buy stuff for OTHERS who might need it more than you"
“That Walmart! That Psychopathic Walmart!” - The Cat In The Hat After He Saw This Commercial.
i have a soft spot for jim carrey grinch, but chuck jones still made a masterpiece
I can only imagine the prospect of using the Grinch to advertise job postings for an Amazon Warehouse.
It’s not new when commercial are using iconic characters and misuses their purposes to advertise the products they sell, and this one is no exception, but wow, the animation in this… It’s outstanding how much it looks like in Chuck Jones style! :O
I _would_ argue the Head-On commercial was a failure, based on the simple fact that at no point does it tell you what it's actually _for._ It tells you how to use it, and that's the end goodnight everybody drive safe
Sure, memorizing the product name is an objective of marketing, but it's useless if the consumer doesn't know what it's for.
There was some legal reason i don't remember for why the head-on commercial was like that.
You forgot to mention that Karloff also voiced The Grinch
I really love the cartoon grinch!
The animation the character design everything!
The grinch 2000 I barley seen it
There was a sprite commercial for it but didn’t see it
And there was the illumination movie (which is better than this Walmart commercial!)
The Chuck Jones Grinch is my favorite holiday special. The Illumination one isn’t bad, just ok. The Jim Carrey one sucks eggs