Halloween Is Grinch Night (1977 TV Movie)

Hal Smith: Josiah

Quotes 

• Narrator : It was a glorious sunset, until, Old Josiah happened to sniff, and he whispered to his wife...

  Josiah : Mariah, will you also take a wiff?

  Narrator : And Josiah and Mariah doubled sniffed, and they said...

  Josiah , Mariah : I wonder if...

  Narrator : But they really didn't wonder, they knew it was terribly true, they knew that the sour-sweet wind was coming back, and what the sour-sweet wind would do.

• Josiah : [singing]  I suggest we stay indoors tonight. / I suggest we lock ourselves in tight. / Tonight, you know, won't go quite right. / You can tell by the smell of the wind. / It sounds like another one's coming, / Another Grinch Night might commence. / I wouldn't go out on a night like this / For a dollar and fifty cents.

  [dialogue] 

  Josiah : And that's why I'm suggesting / To all you ladies, kids, and gents. / I wouldn't go out on a night like this / For two dollars and fifty cents.

  [dialogue] 

  Josiah : So I suggest we stay indoors tonight. / Our problems are immense. / I wouldn't go out on Grinch Night / For six dollars and sixty cents!

• Josiah : Ukariah? Ukariah? Where are you, Ukariah?

  Singers : He is wandering in the wind, / While the hakken-kraks are yowling / And the gree-grumps are a-growling. / He is wandering up Mt. Crumpett / In the sour-sweet Grinch Night wind.

  Mariah : Ukariah? Ukariah? Oh, come home, Ukariah!

  Singers : No one comes home from the wind. / No one comes home from the growling. / He is lost amongst the yowling, / Lost forever in the darkness / Of the sour-sweet Grinch Night wind.