A Very Glee Christmas though she later becomes a Grinch when the gifts are repossessed. The episode features seven songs, two of which come from the television special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!". The creators of "Glee" received permission from the estate of Dr. Seuss for the use of characters from "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!", but were not allowed to use them in promotional photographs. Most of the songs featured in the episode had been released on "" four weeks prior to airing, including "Baby, It's Cold Outside", which debuted at number fifty-seven on the "Billboard" Hot 100 after the episode aired, despite
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000 film) give him points for what was obviously a supreme effort." Paul Clinton of CNN declared that Carrey "was born to play this role" and noted that "Carrey carries nearly every scene. In fact, if he's not in the scene, there is no scene. Owen Gleiberman of "Entertainment Weekly" began his review of the film analyzing the Grinch's "mischievously divided, now-I'm-calm/ now-I'm-a-raving-sarcastic-PSYCH-o! personality" and summed up Carrey's Grinch as "a slobby, self-loathing elitist ruled by the secret fear that he's always being left out of things." Gleiberman expressed surprise at "how affecting Carrey makes the Grinch's ultimate big-hearted turnaround, as Carrey