Mixed Bag of Holding: Halloween is Grinch Night

I finally upgraded my membership JUST so I can finally understand the obsession with Halloween is Grinch Night. I was not disappointed. Money well spent.

Grinch on Grinch violence 😢

ROM Space Knight is a really cool little piece of comics history, I have a bunch of the original comics with ROM teaming up with a bunch of avengers and other Marvel characters.

I think Rom Space Knight originates from the same deal Marvel made with Hasbro which created Super Sentai and the Japanese spiderman show with the giant robot

Murph’s feral “it’s NOOOOOOOOT” at 39:30 is gonna be my new vocal stim

I love Murph getting worked up, trying to calm down, and then blowing up in the same breath 🤣

Murph would be really good at following in Euchariah's footsteps and protecting his reverent, pre-electricity pastoral community as the appointed sin-eater on grinch night, that's for sure.

Sorry murph but it was actually very good as a first time watcher of it. Very charming

been having a pretty rough week and rougher day and this episode turned it around and got me laughing 💛

What maniac calls Devil's night "Mischef Night"?

murph not understanding how everyone else had a good time -regardless of the content quality- is always the funniest part

I completely forgot I owned this VHS tape and watched all the time as a kid. And I just slowly remembered this entire special

The wiki for this special states that it won a primetime Emmy for outstanding children’s program. Which makes one wonder…did someone get a first class grinching to make that happen?

and we'll have halloween on grinch night and in the dark we'll wish this never ends

Murphs indignation is something I love

Murph got so upset at this movie that he blew out my speakers for a minute.

Quakers dance, goddammit. In fact from in my childhood it was getting my embarrasing parents to stop dancing that was tricky Wouldn't know if mennonites dance because quakers aren't mennonite

This won a primetime emmy in 1978

VERY IMPORTANT PSA: The Dr Seuss instagram has been posting videos of a Grinch influencer (Grinchfluencer) since Autumn. Definitely check it out!

I almost crashed my car laughing. Another banger of a Mixed Bag.

Confirmed murph listens to Doom

I'm only 23, but I loved playing with my dads old Merlin. Legit it was and is a fun toy, would recommend

I dressed up as the Grinch for my birthday (oct 28) and went to universal studios. Rocked my duck team shirt too. Love you guys

I have a vivid memory from 2nd grade where my teacher played this movie for my class around Halloween. One girls family forbid her from watching it. She had to go out in the hall while we watched it. Her parents were super religious and didn’t want her influenced by this “devil” film. Even in second grade I felt so bad for her.

Rom The Space Knight was a sick comic, even if the toy was lame

Good ep y’all

I think that the grinch is an introvert, he came out when everybody was inside. Then went home when the weather died down and people would most likely come outside.

Fun fact Halloween is Grinch night won an Emmy

Honestly, I was charmed by both the cartoon and the 70's commercials.

ROMhead here with a Spaceknight Fun Fact: one of Rom’s most memorable team-ups was with The Thing in Marvel Two-in-One #99. The Ever-Lovin’ Blue Eyed Thing’s rocky transformation and ROM’s metal cyborg shell made them a fun team, so I propose that Murph’s stony exterior would actually make him a better teammate to ROM than an enemy

I got 12 minutes in thinking this was a surprise round and you all were improvising a review of a Halloween Grinch film before realizing this is actually a real movie.

Murph I understand what you are saying but explicitly in Sleepy Hollow there is a few times where the Headless Horseman doesn’t attack the people right in front of him while they try to buy time. It’s like one of the big questions

i was telling my family about this episode and halfway through my mom interrupts me to reveal that she knows about this halloween special because she rented the vhs from the library for my brother and i all the time and my brother broke out into a song from it but i was too young and have no memory of it. thanks two crew you brought my fam together

At this stage, I'm convinced that Caldwell, Emily and Jake just enjoy the novelty of pictures in motion regardless of writing or acting

I don't know what Murph was upset about. That was an absolute classic. True cinema. They truly don't make them like they used to.

Ok paused and watched it and I'm back. Not sure what my brain just witnessed.

"The grinches domain expansion" 😂

I love a Murph meltdown. A “Murphdown” if you will.

I do agree with Murph that this "Halloween" "special" sucks, but I also think that Emily and Caldwell have touched on something really interesting with the religious themes they read in the film. It might legitimately be worth exploring religious themes in this piece of media through a lens of critical theory.

As a warhammer 40000 fan, very surprised to hear about the true background of the war between the men of iron and the men of stone.

(ROM SPOILERS) They’re going to be devastated to learn that all the ROM Knights die in the lead up to Secret Wars

For future content, I think it would be fun if you 4 did a college humor-esque video, but as NADDPOD. I know in the past, you’ve commented on how some thought everything about the show was scripted, so making fun of that would be funny. Imagining Jake messing up a line & then Murph going ballistic on him makes me laugh 😂

ROM v MurphBot is what the world needs right now tbh

39:27 is endlessly replayable

This is an absolute classic Murph Yeller™️

ROM men triumph when ROM men do nothing

mixed bags always make me concerned for murph’s blood pressure

This is peak comedy

You guys probably have already seen it but one of my favorite movies growing up was the Clue movie and I recently watched a documentary about the making of it and it just made me love it more. I’m not even mentioning it so you do it as a mixed bag, I just think the movie slaps and you’d enjoy it

This special is so fucking boring oh my gods. The only draw is dog abuse wth

This was one of the most watchable things they've watched. That being said it was still pretty bad but had its moments.

This is an all-timer for sure. Also I watched the special, and it felt like it was rubbing my brain with sandpaper

Brian’s right, this is awful

"It's Grinch Night" won a Primetime Emmy. I think Jake was right, Murph just didn't get it.

Murph shouting out MF DOOM and you know he said it in all caps

I needed a good Murph freak out episode. The grinch is just a bonus….

I’m with Murph. Besides the animation freak out at the end, this special sucks. The only emotion it stirred in me is sadness for an abused dog.

Thank you for this new episode of “Making Murph Upset”. I loved all of it

This might be the most on the rails the crew has ever been. Pretty much every minute of this ep is solely talking about Grinch Night💀💀 good job?

Grinch night is the Great Pumpkin the belief makes it real

I figured out how we can for sure get a grinch campaign. Just keep making Murph watch bad grinch movies/special to a point that we then challenge/razz him to make a better grinch story and run it as a campaign. Boom profit

Love this ep so much omg

Absolutely wild timing on this- I just received an email from a local restaurant called “The White Rabbit Gastropub” that they’re having a “Brunch with The Grinch” on 12/1. NADDpod’s influence on the culture continues to amaze!

This is my favorite mixed bag…the chaos energy is amazing

I had a Merlin toy when I was younger (‘02 baby) and I was obsessed with it for long car rides. I didn’t know how to play the games so I had to learn on the fly lmao

Happy Grinch night everyone!!

So hyped to see someone fall in love with Rom live. Cosmic Marvel characters can be super rich and interesting.

Emily, I grew up relatively close to where you did. We certainly did not have "Mischief Night". That stuff was just lumped into Halloween for us.

Love a Malding Murph.

I notice that noise tends to be a big factor in the Grinch Grinching it up. I think we're just looking at an autistic man with sensory issues and a skin/fur condition.

Now need pic of EmMurph with Murph in “First Class Grinch” shirt and Em in “Worthy of First Class Grinching” shirt. Also good Christmas show apparel for the whole crew! And so glad that we’ve finally found out the truth about Man of Stone Murph-just really explains the depth of affinity for dwarves and additional meaning for The Rock’s appearance in a desert spirit vision. So solid.

Murph got gray hairs from this one 😂

Murph recognizing an actor from MF DOOM tracks, Caldwell dropping a Jujutsu Kaisen reference, and the whole crew getting ROM-pilled. I love this show

Apparently this won an Emmy

Jake being surprised about Dr suess makes sense because no one refers to Grinch by his Government name “Jim Carrey’s Dr. Seuss’s the Grinch”

The edition of Clue that they showed in the commercial is the one that my family had growing up. I knew it was old, but I don't know if I realized it was *that* old

Lmao. Murph screaming 'they don't estABLISH that!!!!" made me snort while teleworking in the library

Apparently working in a comic shop during high school completely skewed my idea of which characters people know because my thoughts during the entire ROM bit was "yeah, ROM the Spaceknight, obviously. Everyone's heard of ROM. Wait, why are they confused? Wait! How old am I!?"

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/QSRgbgdFub Saw this map the other day, feels like Mischief night might only be a New Jersey (and Connecticut I guess) thing

ROM The Space Knight is actually incredibly important to the Marvel universe. Rogue from the X-Men became a good guy because she touched ROM and absorbed his sense of justice

DRAG THEM MURPH 👏👏👏

I understand why Murph is so worked up in this one because I tried to watch the special last night to prepare and I absolutely could not get through it. It's only half an hour with the commercials too. And I watched MULTIPLE episodes of the DKC cartoon from the 90s

They should definitely watch the live action horror movie about the Grinch called The Mean One

poor old ever-suffering Murph

This might be the most I've seen Murph get razzed in a while. Exasperated Murph never fails to be comedy gold.

Murph being so anti-Grinch makes him the most Grinch that has ever Grinched

Love to hear that Murph is a DOOM fan. Makes me believe him more about this cartoon lol

I forgot I’d watched this until they started talking about how absurd it is.

Murph almost having a heart attack is understandable lmao

Murph being annoyed by anything is my favorite thing ever

My ancestors would curse me if I didn't jump in here to complain about the noble Amish people being compared to those weak, sinful Quakers

I fear that I'll never be able to stop thinking about this being the Grinch Dune Messiah

After the intial thoughts... Oh... This is How the Gaslight Stole MurphOween. Lmao, love it!

My Dungeons and Dragons podcast referencing MF DOOM on Grinch Night...my Holy Trinity of Niche Interests has been completed. I am at peace now

On the Rom movie: apparently paramount had been planning a toy cinematic universe around 2018 and that would have included a ROM movie

I desperately need to hear Caldwell describe what the Grinch’s Domain Expansion looks like

I love living vicariously through Murph losing his mind at the gang

Murph being on the verge of bursting a blood vessel the entire time has me rolling

Was not expecting Murph to bring up MF DOOM at all! Now I'm wondering if he likes Czarface

I had this on dvd as a kid and watched it religiously throughout the early 2000’s and this has brought back some serious nostalgia. I know it’s not for everyone but I was suprised Murph hated it as much as he did

ROM is on my wall as a print

Emily: “Let’s all say how we all feel about it first”. Me: running to get popcorn for an inevitable Murph meltdown

Had a Merlin and could play tic tac toe against him

The small child describing in detail what an astigmatism was had me cackling

*love interest spills coffee on Rom* Rom (short circuiting): y-you set my sparks on fire ❤️⚡

"My name is Murph. G.R.I.N.CH., first class."

Other people mentioned it in the comments but Murph dropping MF DOOM lore wipes away every tiny L he stacked this episode. Massive W

i just went to imdb and this movie’s name was changed from “halloween is grinch night” to “it’s grinch night” so i suppose they had to admit it had absolutely 0 halloween vibes 😂

I would like to request that some part of the NaddContent that comes out in December is a Grinch Movie marathon watch-along. (Preferably live streamed 'cause I miss Live Naddpod so much, but I'd take it as just some podcast audio too)

ah so I see we are gaslighting murph again

Do the Star Wars Holiday Special next!

Happy Halloween, all!!! 🎃👻

Holy shit! Murph’s absolute OBSESSION with the Flintstones must be because he’s made out of stone

I personally subscribe to the theory that the Grinch has gone through several dogs and whenever one runs away he just gets a new one and names it Max again because he doesn’t care enough to choose a new name

Love this episode of Grinched Bag

murph namedropping the MF DOOM (rip) is just another massive W for naddpod, i find new ways of loving the 3 of you (and that guy who keeps sneaking into 8-Bit Bookclub sometimes? I guess he's cool.) thank you for all the joy you bring <3

Fun fact: The Grinch Night Halloween Special won an Emmy.

The Merlin catching a stray as old and boring was so shocking to me because I got one for Christmas in 2008, and my sister and I loved it so much we would physically fight over it. But also we didn't get internet or phones until 2017 so i guess it's possible we were just dazzled by technology like cavemen seeing fire for the first time, or maybe toys have processed a lot in the past sixteen years alone

Didn’t believe it could be as bad as Murph was saying, but he’s right it actually sucked so bad

For Christmas can we get a review of "Mean One" the grinch horror movie

"Youre not worthy of a first class grinching" is my favorite saying im using all holiday season now

I love that Mischief Night is specifically for New Jersey

Are the Who's Quakers? Best question

Halloween is Murph Night

MF Doom? I knew Murph was cool but I didn't think he was cool like that

I didn’t realize how much I missed Murph getting gaslit for our entertainment

Exactly what I wanted this halloween. Grinch. 😂

Thank you so much for this Halloween blessing

My grinch socks came in the mail today and now this……. The grinch gods are real and their gifts are plentiful

4 mins in and murph is already yelling i am so happy

But seriously, not a Grinch fan. Could live without the G-Man ever coming up again in Naddpod. But as a segue into ROM Space Knight being brought to more attention, it has my thanks.

You absolutely need to read the original ROM: Space Knight. Bill Mantlo at his best. Fantastic writing with some of the best covers of the 80s. I for one am surprised that Caldwell was not familiar with it considering some of his comics knowledge. Firestorm the Nuclear Man is arguably a more niche pull.

So sorry but I am a Halloween is Grinch Night enjoyer

My favorite part about the Grinch is Murph’s tiny L.

Excellent, heading out to walk the corgis and needed a funny walking podcast 🤭 do you think I could convince the corgis to let me put grinch costumes on them?

I really should have dressed up as the grinch this year :(

Damn nice MF Doom pull Murph. Emily is absolutely right; make sure to remind yourself you’re worth a first-class Grinching ❤️

I had a Merlin growing up and the vibes you guys got for how it functions is 100% correct. It’s just playing games on a phone but on the nine buttons

You should check out the grinch grinches the cat in the hat. I watched it with my brother and cousin the day I broke my wrist, and had to ask the next day if it was real because it felt like a Vicodin fever dream

"A ROM-com?" made me choke on my dinner

You guys might as well just do a grinch one shot

31:06 is the moment they finished explaining the plot. That has to be a record, lol

Yes!!!!!!! Happy halloween people of the 2crew!!!!!

Hell Yeah

Pretty clear to me that Murph is the Grinch

The sentence “… while the grinch was beating his dog.” Will live in infamy for the rest of my life

The GCU runs deeper than I ever would have imagined! This feels like when I first learned about the Star Wars Christmas Special. Did I miss The Grinch Does Diwali?

Murph progressively getting more upset at everyone for liking the show or having an opinion other than “bad” has become a cornerstone for mixed bags i fear

Ohhhhh I can’t wait for this one

I’m listening this pregaming for Halloween, perfect timing babies thank u

YES! I absolutely adore this movie

BASED

I am cleaning the house and am so happy to have this to listen to. Good grinch I was bored!

You guys have been on a roll lately

LOL yes

O hell yeah

Thank you naddpod, I'm sick on Halloween and didnt know I needed this

Or hell