How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and word is always the same, yet, so rich are the variations he plays on his themes, always fresh and amusing." "Kirkus Reviews" wrote, "Youngsters will be in transports over the goofy gaiety of Dr. Seuss's first book about a villain." The reviewer called the Grinch "easily the best Christmas-cad since Scrooge." Ellen Lewis Buell, in her review in "The New York Times", praised the book's handling of its moral, as well as its illustrations and verse. She wrote, "Even if you prefer Dr. Seuss in a purely antic mood, you must admit that if there's a moral to be
How the Ghosts Stole Christmas Melissa Runstrom, in a review of the sixth season, described "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas" as "hokey" and "over-the-top." She identified it as the weakest episode of the sixth season. How the Ghosts Stole Christmas "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas" is the sixth episode of the sixth season of the science fiction television series "The X-Files". It premiered on the Fox network on December 13, 1998. It was written and directed by series creator Chris Carter, and featured guest appearances by Edward Asner and Lily Tomlin. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. "How the