The way he dances for himself without a real audience has always cut deep for me. He’s become something that he believes is monstrous and unacceptable, but he’s still finding the motivation to put himself out there and express himself so confidently, to the point of not even caring if people like it.
We were always meant to like the grinch's confidence and cleverness, to identify and empathize with him. We've been the grinches the whole time, it is up to us how our hearts grow.
In the original animation, the Grinch still utters a lie of mercy to a child and decides to return the Whos' gifts at the climax of the story. He exhibits redeemable qualities. This version embraces his Grinchness fully and that's why the dance is so shocking and cathartic for us to witness.
after viewing it a few times I keep coming to the same conclusion. his flaws like his anger make him choose grinch because he knows he's not good enough to become a saint but even after becoming a monster he still retains his humanity. when he chooses to dance in spite of how other people see him, he's free. That's why it's so profound when it ends with the tale of the christmas cretin. he's only a cretin because of how he refuses to give in to despair. and when other people look at him with disdain, they become grinches themselves. Amazing what someone can do with a 2 minute animation.
Y’all are talking like the Illumination movie was the worst grinch movie, just count your blessings that you didn’t see the snl grinch skit last year 🤮
This is art. The whole video is a unique vibe. When grunch danced to that idm with flute i was like "damn straight. You do your thing. Life is fleeting."
Doesnt even need to be Christmas for me honestly. The music goes hard and the animation os captivating, i found the video on mushrooms originally and it made me geek so hard
@@Snetzelsnetzalsnetzul I don’t think so, he writes as if he really did lose his humanity. “Have I truly become a monster?” Reflects that, I guess, because he’s asking if being a grinch truly means he’s a monster.
Music is probably a big part of it. Or maybe that he's indulging in the social rejection. Those are you two choices, choose wisely. So what's it gonna be, huh, huh?
Eithrr He is trying to see whether he will be accepted for who he is, or he is a monster that ruins christmas by going out and dancing in front of people, weirding them out and gaining the label of cretin. Probably the former, but perceived as the latter
Here’s my pothead analysis: the man is suffering from seasonal depression and then is visited by an angel who will grant 1 of 2 wishes: appeal to yourself (grunch) or appeal to others (sainte)? There's no wrong choice because ultimately the man is choosing how he will be happy. Will he get happiness from himself or from the people around him? The man chose to be a Grinch because he desires happiness from within. And when he becomes a Grinch he unlocks the shackles within him that locked away his true-self. He put those shackles there in the first place because he was convinced he needed to conceal his personality. But after the transformation he can't help but wonder: "have I truly become a monster?". The new perspective granted to him by his wish allowed him to see that he is in fact not the monster he feared he'd become. He is just himself. So then he goes into public and dances his heart out as a grand gesture of confidence and self-love. Side note: Watch this vid at 0.75x speed it actually sounds awesome
I’ve watched this video every year since it released, usually multiple times but I always watch on Christmas. I watched it in Iraq, I watched it in Korea, I watched it in my house and in my room. This video has a special place in my heart
@@chadthundercock4806 current ai technology can only learn from existing artworks. It is incapable of being original. There is no alternate reality where this was created completely by AI, unless it already knew about pilot red sun
@@zombieseatflesh7i mean, thats also how people work. they create based on experience and previous art. the very first rural cavemen paintings were literally just drawings of animals
5 years ago my buddy had all our friends over and he showed us this video, those were some of the best times of my life. I still listen to the ost of this and it’s just as short as those moments seem now, this is the most nostalgic song I’ve ever heard in my life thank you pilot red sun
A man coming to terms with himself. He knows what a good person is supposed to be and he doesn't feel he fits the mold. He sits alone on Christmas with the TV he broke in front of him and considers his options. Should he aspire to be a saint or resign himself to be a grinch? Embracing despair he publicly dances; a cry for help heard by many but answered by none.
@AsukaWorshiper69 I love this interpretation. Like he finally allowed himself some peace. Maybe he is a grinch but so what. It's better than living a lie.
Even though this is a really old video, I’m gonna offer my interpretation too lol. Although the other interpretations in these comments are quite good as well, this is just what I first thought when watching. I think it’s meant to show that there is no such thing as people who are inherently good and inherently evil. Although some people (Santa, in this case) try to portray people’s moral character as a true and rigid dichotomy, the truth is, it’s a lot more of a gray area. People have their highs, people have their lows. People do good, people do evil. People can’t be labeled good and evil because morality doesn’t come from our essence and doesn’t define us, but rather from the individual actions we make. We can see this in our “Grinch” character, who merely has a moment of rage, and wants to choose to be angry for some time, so he becomes a Grinch. However, after he cools off, he reflects “Have I truly become a monster?” because he doesn’t feel angry or evil anymore. In fact, he eventually cheers up enough to go dance and enjoy himself in public. He still appears like the Grinch, however, because people put that label on him when he had only a moment of anger. Even though his feelings and actions changed, the label stuck. But he’s not really a Grinch. That’s what looks so funny to us-a character who’s supposed to be angry all the time is dancing in delight and enjoying himself. It shows that nobody, even the Grinch, is someone who is permanently evil. I can see why the legend of Santa would be fitting to propose that being someone who acts good and bad are mutually exclusive, because he himself separates people on his list between naughty and nice.
@@ictogon this is the first time in forever I've seen a comment like this that promised a specific thing relating to a video,..that ACTUALLY DID WHAT WAS SAID. Nice job btw.
This is one of those videos that you can watch late at night and it feels like you're looking into another dimension. We can catch a fleeting glimpse because the walls are thin when the world sleeps.
“YOU CAN BE A SAINT OR YOU CAN BE A GRINCH. THOSE ARE YOUR TWO CHOICES. CHOOSE WISELY. SO WHAT’S IT GONNA BE? HUH? HUH??? A SAINT? ( _sainte_ ) OR A GRINCH? ( _grunch_ )” **Slowly fades away**
This video it's pure nostalgia for me. I trully love it. When TV stops to work because of bad weather, man starts to break it. Santa enters his home and giving him a chose: to be a sainte, or a grunch. Man understand that he isn't saint (because of anger and bad behaviour I think) and choses to be grinch. Claus don't giving presents to him because he's an adult. Santa wants to save him from himself. He has magic powers and can help to understand man who him is at the Xmas eve. He morphs into monster. It is could mean end for him, or for a GRÜNCH. But he hasn't lost his humanity. He grabs stereo and goes to the Park Plaza and starts dancing. He has got rejected by society, but he found real happiness in loneless. He celebrate Christmas alone. The best melancholia, philosophy and nostalgia in two minute animation 10/10. Choose wisely...
This guy didn't "turn" into a Grinch, he already "was" a Grinch, it's just that as soon as Santa put the idea into his head that people like him are like the Grinch, he started to see himself as one.
I love everything about this video, the music, animation, the line deliveries of "sainte" and "grunch", swear to God this channel is perfect in every way.
Its a mix of the song and the odd movements that gives a sense of nostalgia. It reminds us of dreams because dreams are weird and indescribable like the music and the movement
I love the fact that this animation is 7 years old, yet sparks such deep philosophical feelings 6 years, 2 years, and even just 8 months ago. I just come back for the music, personally, and I can’t recall just why I have this music (image?) mixed with SM64
Many people have talked about this the same way I'm going to, but I'm still gonna try and describe it. This video is the closest thing to art that I've seen on the internet. It has a deep meaning to it, it has a great build-up right before the dance, and HOLY SHIT THE EMOTIONS THIS GIVES OFF ARE SO HARD TO DESCRIBE. This whole video makes me feel a mix of depression, hopelessness, and just sad emotions like that. The video is very bleak, though it's practically a work of art due to how well it's portrayed. As I mentioned before too, the build-up between the guy turning into the grinch, and between the dance is amazing. This video is so good, and it does such a good job portraying themes and emotions. It also has a fucking great soundtrack!
It’s not the video that’s been since the dawn of time, it’s the question itself. Are we to hide our true nature to become an angle to satisfy those who see us as monsters, or are we to become comfortable with ourselves, and accept our flaws that others may not see as acceptable. The movement of the man shows his comfort in his dance, how he does not desire to be changed. It’s truly, a tantalizing conundrum.
Alright buddy, you have two options here. You can be a saint, or you can be a grinch. Those are your two choices. Choose wisely. So what's it gonna be, huh, HUH?? A saint (SAINTE) or a grinch (GRUNCH)?
The question is rhetorical, as it’s apparent before Claus even comes down the chimney that the man has always been a Grunch, and only upon hallucinating Santa gave him the choice, realizes his transformation. His attempts to go out and convince the community -who is already numb to his presence - that he isn’t a monster, fall flat, and we’re forced to look into ourselves and see if we’ve already made the choice between grunch and sainte ourselves.
Long dumb analysis ahead, you’ve been warned: The man in the video is a character who has had a life with lots of misfortune, people treating him like an outcast, having seasonal depression and having overall bad luck. His tv breaking shows how he feels like some things in his life are out of his control and he can’t change how people think about him. The tv breaking is the last straw and he decides to give himself an ultimatum, try and fix his life for the hundredth time or submit to the hate that he has gotten in his life and become a horrible person, a grinch. He feels he has no choice and he decides to become the grinch, people hate him more and he has even worst luck and seasonal depression. He feels like he made the right choice at first, he feels like nothing has changed, people still view him with disgust, but then he realizes one thing has changed, his chances of ever proving the world wrong are gone. He is stuck with a life of misery because of his choice, but he eventually decides he doesn’t want that. He goes out and expresses himself even though he is shunned and realizes that even though people see him as a grinch, especially after his full submission into grinchness, as long as he loves himself and tries to show he isn’t bad that he can redeem himself, not just for others but to himself. “That’s the story of the Christmas cretin”, this quote shows he may be viewed as a villain but he knows deep inside he is not. Moral of the story is: no matter how poorly people think of you, and how much they weigh you down you can always enjoy yourself, not to prove others wrong but to prove to yourself that you are right Bonus: If I want to get really deep the remote can symbolize change, like changing the channel, but obviously that doesn’t work because the tv is broken, how he feels how he can’t change
To think that a Hitachi television could push a man this far into darkness of the grunch and then for that same man to rise from the pits of despair and become a sainte on the inside where it matters. Inspirational.
The video shows that there are never genuinely two choices. Like with many times in our own lives, the protagonist is presented a false binary, and the claus, a false prophet, suggests to him that he could only be a sainte, or a grunch. Having the role of the grinch forced upon him he does not accept it as it is and instead pursues his own path, one of dance, of entertainment. He is human, and therefore radically free, capable of making any decision at any time. That is the moral I take from this, and it is one that is truly meaningful to me.
However, he was given the option of choosing between sainte and grunch. If the protagonist’s intentions were truly benevolent, why would he choose grunch over sainte in the first place?
There’s also a theme of self loathing in that he breaks his own tv and questions if being grunch is really that bad. He attempts to prove it wrong with a harmless activity by dancing but he only delves further into his self loathing by continuing to let others decide his worth since the townsfolk judge him harshly when he leaves the house and dances. But he’s also taken a step away from the self loathing by embraceing his true self and dancing anyway.
The choice of being a sainte or a grunch is merely an illusion cast by the fact that people sometimes only see two different sides with no in-between. As if hot and cold exists but warm does not. This is why he asks himself "have I truly become a monster?" when in reality not all of his actions define him as a grunch. The way he thinks and the choices he made make him a mix of both a sainte and a grunch which is unique to him as a result of his actions and experiences. This leaves him in a state of denial, which takes him to the plaza to dance, trying to find where he fits in society. Trying to find others like him that share the same flaws, ideas, or commonalities. Not perfect like a sainte, and not evil like a grunch, he writes his own story through the choices he makes.
I can't, no matters what i do, i'll come back to see this. If i would define a perfect video on youtube history, this is THE video on the internet history, i can't escape from this video, but infact this is a new part of me
this shit makes me feel so melancholic like when you falling into a depression nap and when you open your eyes again 6 hours have passed and its too late for dinner now
The whole video idea goes hard for no reason. A grumpy man who has the power to change who he is or unlock the personification of his true self. Instead of hiding in fear and misery, he goes out and shows off his true self, disgusting everyone but finding true happiness.
Being a Grinch might seem like the “bad” one out of the two choices. We mustn’t forget that afterall, the Grinch’s heart grew three sizes after truly accepting himself. To be a saint is to be a perfect yet artificial being, a pure person, however, becoming one is a completely inhuman task, for nobody is perfect. The Grinch is a truly pure person unlike a saint, for The Grinch has had to deal with inner demons, managing to go past his self-loathing ways and accepting others and most importantly, himself, and in the process, became much more than just a “Grinch”.
When the grunch asks "have I truly become a monster?" It would seem at first that he is starting to realize that he is a monster. However, I would venture to say that he is starting to realize that he is *not* a monster. Clause said to "choose wisely" and the wise choice would seem at first to be sainte, but maybe choosing grunch does NOT make you a monster. Perhaps choosing sainte would have freed the man from his demons, but instead he chooses grunch and channels his frustration and passion into writing and dancing. The question "have I truly become a monster?" Lets us into the mind of a proud grunch; a grunch who questions the validity of his "inherit" bad nature; a grunch who dares to challenge the ultamatim given to him by a strange, detatched, unmerciful, being. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Despite the Christmas theme, this video just embodies January for me. There’s something about the hollow melancholy of the music and the melted snow on the ground that reminds me of what comes after. This video is what comes after Christmas: nothing but snow and ice, and a memory of warmth. Pilotredsun is a visionary
For anyone curious, there's a zero width space between the "i" and "n" in "Grinch" in the video's title; try copying the whole title and then pasting it into Notepad or your URL bar and moving over it with the arrow keys
I think that what people are missing here is that this story is about more than choosing the wrong option. I think that Grinch’s immediate transformation and later questioning of his “choice” shows that he never really made a choice at all. He was just an inherently sour person, and society, as represented by Claus, labeled him as such and put the idea in his head that if he’s not an acceptable saint, then he is just a Grinch. A monster. However, Grinch defies this idea soon after the choice is made for him. He asks himself if he is truly a monster, and even goes out and expresses himself in a harmless way in an attempt to show people that while he is no saint, The Grinch is not truly a monster either. The sad part is that despite these efforts to prove his ideas of self-identity, society still labels him as the Christmas Cretin, ending our story on an unfortunate note. Revision: Grinch’s Ultimatum is the prequel to Shrek
i cant explain how this somehow immaculately captures the feeling of christmas. its like... some weird period of the year where both morale (sheer happiness due to the holidays) and the environment (snow/cold) change, making things feel a little ethereal n stuff and this video perfectly captures that ethereal vibe. the song is just such a banger too in some weird way. genuinely one of my favorite videos on the internet
The song is really weird honestly but oddly fitting. It sounds like a song in a late 90s game on a china town level that you always hated but it's a banger
Or you have a shit family full of troubled and sad people who not only will never do anything about their own problems but bring out the worst in you themselves
I’ve watched this video at least once a month for three fucking years why is it so addicting
it's the music
@@enemyofvirtue yah it's strangely nostalgic
the music i promise it's the music i need the music alone from the video
Hey me too
Don’t forget the sainte and grunch
This song actually is a banger
i like how more people have started replying to this because it’s christmas.
when the drums come in it hits
Anyone know if pilotredsun put the full soundtrack up yet
@@TheNPCKiller132 No but there are some reconstructions of it
@@TheNPCKiller132 ruclips.net/video/X6cOVA5_b8I/видео.html
I especially like 0:41
And 1:31
The way he dances for himself without a real audience has always cut deep for me.
He’s become something that he believes is monstrous and unacceptable, but he’s still finding the motivation to put himself out there and express himself so confidently, to the point of not even caring if people like it.
Like... Joker dancing on stairs?
@@ivan55599 exactly
You’re insane
We were always meant to like the grinch's confidence and cleverness, to identify and empathize with him. We've been the grinches the whole time, it is up to us how our hearts grow.
In the original animation, the Grinch still utters a lie of mercy to a child and decides to return the Whos' gifts at the climax of the story. He exhibits redeemable qualities. This version embraces his Grinchness fully and that's why the dance is so shocking and cathartic for us to witness.
after viewing it a few times I keep coming to the same conclusion. his flaws like his anger make him choose grinch because he knows he's not good enough to become a saint but even after becoming a monster he still retains his humanity. when he chooses to dance in spite of how other people see him, he's free. That's why it's so profound when it ends with the tale of the christmas cretin. he's only a cretin because of how he refuses to give in to despair. and when other people look at him with disdain, they become grinches themselves. Amazing what someone can do with a 2 minute animation.
I've always thought that he never actually choose. Just as we rarely get to choose how people would Judge us
or maybe the curtains are just blue
@@danielcarroll6303 are you proud of your feeble minded existence?
Grunch
Genius
There are four good Grinch stories.
1. The Original Book
2. The Original Special
3. Jim Carrey's Movie
4. This
There are one bad Grinch stories.
1. *unfunny minion facebook mom men company* 's Movie
The four horsemen of the apocalypse
I disgusting
Y’all are talking like the Illumination movie was the worst grinch movie, just count your blessings that you didn’t see the snl grinch skit last year 🤮
Halloween is Grinch Night explores a much darker and more sinister Grinch, I think it deserves an honourable mention
i cannot get enough of the line deliveries of "sainte" and "grunch"
Kakeru Satsuki this is pilotredsun's best work
Kakeru Satsuki and that's the tale of the christmas cretin
***** tis the season
it sounds like hank hill's voice to me lol -_- Glad u enjoy it
Oh holy shit, it does sound like Hank Hill! XD Now this video is even better
This is art. The whole video is a unique vibe. When grunch danced to that idm with flute i was like "damn straight. You do your thing. Life is fleeting."
Grunch
@@Chezbungus yes
Grunch
Grunch
glad to see im not the only one who watches this every christmas.
Lol ofc not, by now I'm sure it's tradition to a good number of ppl :)
Strange tradition tf
@@fruitsn4ck that makes me very happy!!!!
I watch it like 100 times every day
Doesnt even need to be Christmas for me honestly. The music goes hard and the animation os captivating, i found the video on mushrooms originally and it made me geek so hard
My favorite part is how he IMMEDIATELY Grinches out. Dude gives it no thought.
Hey I noticed that you also watch Brian F
Wanna touch tips?
@@sirchris6047 💀
Yea and then he immediately regrets it and starts writing if he has lost his hummanity, its so fucking funny
@@Snetzelsnetzalsnetzul I don’t think so, he writes as if he really did lose his humanity. “Have I truly become a monster?” Reflects that, I guess, because he’s asking if being a grinch truly means he’s a monster.
He knows he will never be a sainte. Become grunch.
the emotions i felt when the grinch started dancing are indescribable
I can't describe it either. It's something about the animation
lust?
TheProjectMJ same
TheProjectMJ same dude
It took me months to find this comment again. Thank you for this masterpiece.
I like how he stays true to his dancing when everyone is staring he doesn’t care he has transcended the need for approval
The dance evoked a myriad of indescribable emotions, I truly felt that.
I will never be able to figure out why I get so melancholic whenever the grinch starts dancing
Music is probably a big part of it. Or maybe that he's indulging in the social rejection.
Those are you two choices, choose wisely. So what's it gonna be, huh, huh?
@@SoulSukkur moosik?
Or sosheeal redjeksion?
Eithrr He is trying to see whether he will be accepted for who he is, or he is a monster that ruins christmas by going out and dancing in front of people, weirding them out and gaining the label of cretin. Probably the former, but perceived as the latter
Something about the synths kicking in really jostles something loose in the soul
It's because he's Toby McGuire's Spider Man.
I bet the guy who makes these looks like the most normal guy ever
I checked his Tumblr. You’re right
nope.
Probably a greasey basement dweller or a neckbeard.
@@matguimond92 rent free
@@goonspoons7870 only bums squat.
@@matguimond92 take a chill pill you punkass and get off youtube if this is what you waste your time with
Here’s my pothead analysis: the man is suffering from seasonal depression and then is visited by an angel who will grant 1 of 2 wishes: appeal to yourself (grunch) or appeal to others (sainte)? There's no wrong choice because ultimately the man is choosing how he will be happy. Will he get happiness from himself or from the people around him? The man chose to be a Grinch because he desires happiness from within. And when he becomes a Grinch he unlocks the shackles within him that locked away his true-self. He put those shackles there in the first place because he was convinced he needed to conceal his personality. But after the transformation he can't help but wonder: "have I truly become a monster?". The new perspective granted to him by his wish allowed him to see that he is in fact not the monster he feared he'd become. He is just himself. So then he goes into public and dances his heart out as a grand gesture of confidence and self-love.
Side note: Watch this vid at 0.75x speed it actually sounds awesome
You. You get it.
Lol it sounds like it might've been the original play speed
This is the most advanced piece of philosophy in the existence of the human race
My analysis: *grumnch*
duuuuude
I’ve watched this video every year since it released, usually multiple times but I always watch on Christmas. I watched it in Iraq, I watched it in Korea, I watched it in my house and in my room. This video has a special place in my heart
A friend just sent it to me for Christmas and I love it
US service member, I presume?
People keep saying that watching this is a yearly tradition for them, man I barely go a whole week without rewatching this banger
The music do be pretty bangin tho
drugs are grest
You are The Christmas Cretin after all.
I cant go a day without it
It's literally one of the most important works of art in my life.
That and New Normal by Jack Stauber
the only bad part of this video is that i can never see it for the first time again and hit that indescribable feeling when he starts dancing
Exactly 😔
Damn I just went through this and now the feeling is fleeting and I don't want to let go but I know I have to :(
@@toolittletoolate Vinny's Ultimatum did it for me as well
Greasy
Go through it frame by frame (< and > on the keyboard) and you'll get it back
This is real art. AI could never create this.
This exactly, this is why people who aren't "artists" should just make whatever they want and can, because you get genuine art like this
Yeah it could. Why do people have meltdowns over ai all the time
@@chadthundercock4806 current ai technology can only learn from existing artworks. It is incapable of being original. There is no alternate reality where this was created completely by AI, unless it already knew about pilot red sun
@@zombieseatflesh7 It combines unoriginal inputs into a new original output
@@zombieseatflesh7i mean, thats also how people work. they create based on experience and previous art. the very first rural cavemen paintings were literally just drawings of animals
5 years ago my buddy had all our friends over and he showed us this video, those were some of the best times of my life. I still listen to the ost of this and it’s just as short as those moments seem now, this is the most nostalgic song I’ve ever heard in my life thank you pilot red sun
“Have I truly become a monster”
That hit hard bro
Sometimes I feel like I'm just slowly drifting myself to my own shitty demise. But maybe I deserve it anyway, idk
@@stickafingerinit4381 What's the opposite of that?
@@stickafingerinit4381 but even the Grinch was able to find something: Dancing
You just haven't found your thing yet. It takes time, don't give up.
@@poisenbery that's true
A man coming to terms with himself. He knows what a good person is supposed to be and he doesn't feel he fits the mold. He sits alone on Christmas with the TV he broke in front of him and considers his options. Should he aspire to be a saint or resign himself to be a grinch? Embracing despair he publicly dances; a cry for help heard by many but answered by none.
Thoroughly enjoyable
Relatable
It do sometimes be like that
Fuck yes
@AsukaWorshiper69 I love this interpretation. Like he finally allowed himself some peace. Maybe he is a grinch but so what. It's better than living a lie.
Merry Christmas PRS, thanks for being a sainte
ya forgotti to pinnit
Even though this is a really old video, I’m gonna offer my interpretation too lol. Although the other interpretations in these comments are quite good as well, this is just what I first thought when watching. I think it’s meant to show that there is no such thing as people who are inherently good and inherently evil. Although some people (Santa, in this case) try to portray people’s moral character as a true and rigid dichotomy, the truth is, it’s a lot more of a gray area. People have their highs, people have their lows. People do good, people do evil. People can’t be labeled good and evil because morality doesn’t come from our essence and doesn’t define us, but rather from the individual actions we make. We can see this in our “Grinch” character, who merely has a moment of rage, and wants to choose to be angry for some time, so he becomes a Grinch. However, after he cools off, he reflects “Have I truly become a monster?” because he doesn’t feel angry or evil anymore. In fact, he eventually cheers up enough to go dance and enjoy himself in public. He still appears like the Grinch, however, because people put that label on him when he had only a moment of anger. Even though his feelings and actions changed, the label stuck. But he’s not really a Grinch. That’s what looks so funny to us-a character who’s supposed to be angry all the time is dancing in delight and enjoying himself. It shows that nobody, even the Grinch, is someone who is permanently evil. I can see why the legend of Santa would be fitting to propose that being someone who acts good and bad are mutually exclusive, because he himself separates people on his list between naughty and nice.
Every year. It is tradition.
Damn right.
tis the reasons for the season
*SAINTE OR A GRUNCH?*
Yes, it is
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something about the music seems to elevate it beyond the level of a shitpost and into surrealist art instead
Trust me you'll realize this is much more than a shitpost once you watch it 50 more times
@@diffsnicker6570 Straight facts.
@@diffsnicker6570 I am reanimating it right now and I definitely have watched it more than 50 times
@@ictogon this is the first time in forever I've seen a comment like this that promised a specific thing relating to a video,..that ACTUALLY DID WHAT WAS SAID. Nice job btw.
@@carelesscamel What about the rush e guy
It's a tradition to watch this every christmas
This is one of those videos that you can watch late at night and it feels like you're looking into another dimension. We can catch a fleeting glimpse because the walls are thin when the world sleeps.
Man: hits tv
Man:becomes grinch
Grinch: hits the Quan
Grinch: becomes legend
_And that's the tale of the Christmas Cretin_
God: creates dinosaurs
God: destroys dinosaurs
God: creates Man
Man: destroys God
Man: creates dinosaurs
Dinosaurs: eat Man
Woman: inherits the earth
He was just trying to mine his TV
Dumb grass should've used an iron pickaxe
@@xrippedgirljeansx9262 Hold on to your butts.
@@xrippedgirljeansx9262 oooh boy
That little whistle that starts playing at 1:31 is the cherry on top
EPH it really ties the room together
Recorder
Sounds more like a phone dial sound to me
Neat tech, isnt it?
Ethan Ansell this scene is too action packed to notice it, he deserves some slack
i love these type of videos. it's so far out of left field but you can tell that it's the result of the creator's genuine, unfiltered ideas.
I come back to this every now and then, whether it be Christmas or searching for some absurd inspiration. You, sir, have made a timeless piece.
I love the look of challenge on Santa's face right before he launches into the iconic, "ALRIGHT, BUDDY, YOU GOT TWO OPTIONS HERE."
“YOU CAN BE A SAINT OR YOU CAN BE A GRINCH.
THOSE ARE YOUR TWO CHOICES.
CHOOSE WISELY.
SO WHAT’S IT GONNA BE?
HUH? HUH???
A SAINT? ( _sainte_ )
OR A GRINCH? ( _grunch_ )”
**Slowly fades away**
"look of challenge" is a good way to put it. The determination.
a look of smug wisdom, knowing exactly what the man will inevitably find himself choosing
the way his eyes and lips pulsate just oozes confidence
GIGACHAD 🎅
I watch this video every christmas as a tradition, and trust me, it has really changed me as a person.
Same tbh
Same
*as a grunch
Has it changed you in a good way, or a bad way?
hehehe yup ok as a G R U N C H way
This video it's pure nostalgia for me. I trully love it.
When TV stops to work because of bad weather, man starts to break it. Santa enters his home and giving him a chose: to be a sainte, or a grunch.
Man understand that he isn't saint (because of anger and bad behaviour I think) and choses to be grinch.
Claus don't giving presents to him because he's an adult. Santa wants to save him from himself. He has magic powers and can help to understand man who him is at the Xmas eve.
He morphs into monster. It is could mean end for him, or for a GRÜNCH. But he hasn't lost his humanity. He grabs stereo and goes to the Park Plaza and starts dancing.
He has got rejected by society, but he found real happiness in loneless. He celebrate Christmas alone.
The best melancholia, philosophy and nostalgia in two minute animation 10/10.
Choose wisely...
This has to be the best music video on RUclips.
2000% agreed
Christmas wouldn't feel right if it wasn't for pilot red sun
sachumo agreed
sachumo Ayy look who I found
Oh boy its yoy
Where is this year's...
MutantMeerkat in our hearts
I wish I danced as good as the grunch
Gavin McLaurin #PopplioPosse don't we all?
this chrismas i wanted to be a grunch, all i have become was a christmas cretin
Gavin McLaurin #PopplioPosse same
don't be a sainte, only grunch possess the moves
Gavin McLaurin #PopplioPosse holy shit, are we just gonna ignore how Santa came out of that lit fireplace, the guy really is Satan
"Have I truly become a monster?"
If you count those monstrous moves then he'd definitely become a monster
this video actually kind of makes me feel better
This guy didn't "turn" into a Grinch, he already "was" a Grinch, it's just that as soon as Santa put the idea into his head that people like him are like the Grinch, he started to see himself as one.
Spot on
*grunch
And he embraced it in the end, with the people noticing him for being unabashadly himself
You are right as hell pal
i think this is actually the correct interpretation
I still get fired up when grinch starts dancing in his leather jacket
*christmas cretin
Grinch knows how to boogie
*drifter OOOOOOOHed to that*
What have we done in the past million years to be blessed with this beautiful animation
I love everything about this video, the music, animation, the line deliveries of "sainte" and "grunch", swear to God this channel is perfect in every way.
Dickhead Danny I love the music on this too, it fits the video really good, it gives it quite a surreal feeling
yeah this video is awesome
600th like!
“Alright buddy here are your choices” I live idk why
The idea of being presented with a choice and choosing the "wrong" option is an incredibly powerful message.
Have I truly become a monster?
i think its better to think of it as it being neither a good or bad choice
I mean, what responsibilities does being a Saint bring? Is it like chosing between being a Jedi or a Sith?
Ive thought a lot about this video and im still wondering why he chose to be a grinch, even though he tries to redeem himself later
@@janevane420k he sought inner enlightenment but ended up regretting it
A friend showed this to me yesterday and to call it life-changing would be a criminal understatement
A grunchful tradition, merry Christmas to all of you!
Merry Grinchmas.
:)
So what's it gonna be
_H U H_
_H U H_
ᵃ ˢʰⁱᵗ ⁱⁿ ᵐʸ ᶜᵃᵗˢ ˡⁱᵗᵗᵉʳᵇᵒˣ ʷʰᵉⁿ ⁱ ʷᵃˢ ˢᵉᵛᵉⁿ
hеlр мом iм sсаrеd
Grunch
A Saint? (sainte)
Or a grinch? (grunch)
**claus fades away**
@@camryn156 *NoOoOooo!! AAAAA*
i am literally begging you to release the full track
I KEEP COMING BACK I CAN'T HELP IT AAAAA
WHERE IS PILOTREDSUN EP2
love this song too
I just listen to a loop of the voices and sfx poorly edited out and it works.
@@whambamduel now you don't have to guys ruclips.net/video/z01VlftkqY8/видео.html
@@john1644 thank you so much
This has the same energy as those crass 3D Movie Maker animations you made when you were 7
I love it
This video lives in my head rent free. There's no other video i feel such a strong urge to come back to every now and then.
Same
when the grinch started dancing, I felt like i was watching something I've never seen but at the same time something I've watched for an eternity
This right here
When the despised character ascends to his truly potential and people start seeing value in him. lol
seriously, without exaggeration, same. i wonder why that is
Its a mix of the song and the odd movements that gives a sense of nostalgia. It reminds us of dreams because dreams are weird and indescribable like the music and the movement
I think this might be up there as one of PilotRedSun’s best videos. Definitely Top Three. In my opinion, it might even be his magnum opus.
Honestly it's just *slightly* under Bolus for me. Just barely
Easy #1
Undoubtably his masterpiece, honestly cannot find anything I dont like about it
For me this is just barely beaten by Casino Night. That video just has such a surreal magic that nothing else he’s made can match.
Garfielf is better
I love the fact that this animation is 7 years old, yet sparks such deep philosophical feelings 6 years, 2 years, and even just 8 months ago. I just come back for the music, personally, and I can’t recall just why I have this music (image?) mixed with SM64
I'm kind of enchanted by this video. It speaks to me, somewhere deep in my mind that I try not to acknowledge.
this is genuinely one of my favorite videos, it's fun seeing how many people come to comment every December
It’s strangely nostalgic everytime I play it
"you either die a sainte, or live long enough to become the grunch" is my senior quote
Many people have talked about this the same way I'm going to, but I'm still gonna try and describe it. This video is the closest thing to art that I've seen on the internet. It has a deep meaning to it, it has a great build-up right before the dance, and HOLY SHIT THE EMOTIONS THIS GIVES OFF ARE SO HARD TO DESCRIBE. This whole video makes me feel a mix of depression, hopelessness, and just sad emotions like that. The video is very bleak, though it's practically a work of art due to how well it's portrayed. As I mentioned before too, the build-up between the guy turning into the grinch, and between the dance is amazing. This video is so good, and it does such a good job portraying themes and emotions. It also has a fucking great soundtrack!
this piece of art is so advanced that now people can only understand a fraction of whole
IT'S THAT DAY ONCE AGAIN, EVERYONE.
THE BEST WAY TO CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS!
Wait are you Elu Undertale?
seeing that greninja on christmas got me feelin emotional
This has the most likes of most comments in new because he's verified
Why did you send me here
Thank you Elu Tran, Very Cool!
This video came out 10 months ago but it feels like it's been around since the dawn of time.
ReckyDaGuy what is de song name my bruda
ReckyDaGuy wha whaTttttttt
your comment's has been around since the dawn of time
It’s not the video that’s been since the dawn of time, it’s the question itself. Are we to hide our true nature to become an angle to satisfy those who see us as monsters, or are we to become comfortable with ourselves, and accept our flaws that others may not see as acceptable. The movement of the man shows his comfort in his dance, how he does not desire to be changed. It’s truly, a tantalizing conundrum.
i kinda get it now, it took me a few years but i finally GET what he's going through man
I have to revisit this every now and then to make sure it wasn’t a horrible nightmare I had.
*dream
A year later and the massive reverb when he says *W H A T* still gets me every time.
*W h a t*
*w h a t*
Fun fact this is actually the video Joker was based off of
What
It’s Claus!
What
It's Claus!
It's Claus!
* Keep pushin’, pal. See where it gets you.
This has essentially become a tradition for me and my little brother to watch around Christmas time.
The music in this is kind of amazing
yea i need an extended version
Its what Michael McDonald should do
i think it's on his soundcloud
@@themetalmario77 I didn't even know he HAD a SoundCloud. If I could I'd hug you rn
@@themetalmario77 I haven't found it on there
EDIT:I hunted it down soundcloud.com/melvinthemenace-high_noon/pilotredsun-grinchs-ultimatum
Alright buddy, you have two options here. You can be a saint, or you can be a grinch. Those are your two choices. Choose wisely. So what's it gonna be, huh, HUH?? A saint (SAINTE) or a grinch (GRUNCH)?
SAINTE OR GRUNCH I CANT BELIEVE YOU ACTUALLY DID THIS😂😂😂😂
SAINTE OR GRUNCH probably sainte
SAINTE
The question is rhetorical, as it’s apparent before Claus even comes down the chimney that the man has always been a Grunch, and only upon hallucinating Santa gave him the choice, realizes his transformation. His attempts to go out and convince the community -who is already numb to his presence - that he isn’t a monster, fall flat, and we’re forced to look into ourselves and see if we’ve already made the choice between grunch and sainte ourselves.
SAINTE OR GRUNCH why do I continue to watch this
This is the most surreal experience I've ever had with a song, I can't even explain what the hell I'm feeling
Long dumb analysis ahead, you’ve been warned:
The man in the video is a character who has had a life with lots of misfortune, people treating him like an outcast, having seasonal depression and having overall bad luck. His tv breaking shows how he feels like some things in his life are out of his control and he can’t change how people think about him. The tv breaking is the last straw and he decides to give himself an ultimatum, try and fix his life for the hundredth time or submit to the hate that he has gotten in his life and become a horrible person, a grinch. He feels he has no choice and he decides to become the grinch, people hate him more and he has even worst luck and seasonal depression. He feels like he made the right choice at first, he feels like nothing has changed, people still view him with disgust, but then he realizes one thing has changed, his chances of ever proving the world wrong are gone. He is stuck with a life of misery because of his choice, but he eventually decides he doesn’t want that. He goes out and expresses himself even though he is shunned and realizes that even though people see him as a grinch, especially after his full submission into grinchness, as long as he loves himself and tries to show he isn’t bad that he can redeem himself, not just for others but to himself. “That’s the story of the Christmas cretin”, this quote shows he may be viewed as a villain but he knows deep inside he is not.
Moral of the story is: no matter how poorly people think of you, and how much they weigh you down you can always enjoy yourself, not to prove others wrong but to prove to yourself that you are right
Bonus: If I want to get really deep the remote can symbolize change, like changing the channel, but obviously that doesn’t work because the tv is broken, how he feels how he can’t change
thanks for the comment, I am dumb and never understand the moral of stories, now I finally understood that one
(this is a serious comment btw)
@@Vetoilesno problem man! :) glad someone gets to enjoy it
Is he a grunch or sainte, on the outside he looks like a grunch but by dancing for the amusement of others is a sainte on the inside.
"Have I truly become a monster?"
He was always a grunch but wanted to repent for his cretin ways.
To think that a Hitachi television could push a man this far into darkness of the grunch and then for that same man to rise from the pits of despair and become a sainte on the inside where it matters. Inspirational.
Haigaz Tataryan I think that dancing was the grunch's way of saying "I'm sorry."
The video shows that there are never genuinely two choices. Like with many times in our own lives, the protagonist is presented a false binary, and the claus, a false prophet, suggests to him that he could only be a sainte, or a grunch. Having the role of the grinch forced upon him he does not accept it as it is and instead pursues his own path, one of dance, of entertainment. He is human, and therefore radically free, capable of making any decision at any time. That is the moral I take from this, and it is one that is truly meaningful to me.
John Fuklaw Jesus that's deep aye
However, he was given the option of choosing between sainte and grunch. If the protagonist’s intentions were truly benevolent, why would he choose grunch over sainte in the first place?
There’s also a theme of self loathing in that he breaks his own tv and questions if being grunch is really that bad. He attempts to prove it wrong with a harmless activity by dancing but he only delves further into his self loathing by continuing to let others decide his worth since the townsfolk judge him harshly when he leaves the house and dances. But he’s also taken a step away from the self loathing by embraceing his true self and dancing anyway.
The choice of being a sainte or a grunch is merely an illusion cast by the fact that people sometimes only see two different sides with no in-between. As if hot and cold exists but warm does not. This is why he asks himself "have I truly become a monster?" when in reality not all of his actions define him as a grunch. The way he thinks and the choices he made make him a mix of both a sainte and a grunch which is unique to him as a result of his actions and experiences. This leaves him in a state of denial, which takes him to the plaza to dance, trying to find where he fits in society. Trying to find others like him that share the same flaws, ideas, or commonalities. Not perfect like a sainte, and not evil like a grunch, he writes his own story through the choices he makes.
ryan u there
视频开头主角爆锤电视，说明他是个暴躁的人，圣诞老人进入屋子，让他在成为圣人，和成为怪人中做出他的选择，主角选择成为怪人，化作怪人的摸样在笔记本上写到“我真的成为怪人了吗？”，其中的含义是“我的人格之中已经不存在圣人的一面了吗？”，主角成为了心中所想的自己，背离了他人想要的自己，从主角的性格不难发现，他选择成为怪人，其中的概念变相当于是成为反面，他写下的这句话，是发问，自己已经不可能成为正面了吗。背离了他人想要的自己，是意味着自己不再能成为一个好人吗？尽管主角心中仍有此疑问，但主角之后不断的舞蹈，加之旁人的冷眼默然，终是表达了主角在其他人的反对中毅然拥抱了自我。作曲很好听，内容也有深意，非常厉害
满昏！
That was facts though
Kino. Genuinely beautiful comment
true af
I can't, no matters what i do, i'll come back to see this. If i would define a perfect video on youtube history, this is THE video on the internet history, i can't escape from this video, but infact this is a new part of me
There's definitely no other video that brings the same feeling that I get out of this one
LITERALLY
WITEWALLY
this shit makes me feel so melancholic like when you falling into a depression nap and when you open your eyes again 6 hours have passed and its too late for dinner now
Way too descriptive
I've been doing this alot these past few months, just get sad and tired.
Jesus this is too accurate
"Have I truly become a monster?"
I don't know why but that line goes so hard for no reason
The whole video idea goes hard for no reason. A grumpy man who has the power to change who he is or unlock the personification of his true self. Instead of hiding in fear and misery, he goes out and shows off his true self, disgusting everyone but finding true happiness.
@@Losing-it.broski it’s just a video
@@Kingmakerrr1337 leave me alone
@@Kingmakerrr1337 Lalalalalalalla i dont care.
@@Losing-it. I'm coming to get you
It's a yearly tradition.
Watching this, thus completing another year. Every Christmas since I first saw it during Christmas. What a wild year it's been.
You're a sainte
Being a Grinch might seem like the “bad” one out of the two choices. We mustn’t forget that afterall, the Grinch’s heart grew three sizes after truly accepting himself. To be a saint is to be a perfect yet artificial being, a pure person, however, becoming one is a completely inhuman task, for nobody is perfect. The Grinch is a truly pure person unlike a saint, for The Grinch has had to deal with inner demons, managing to go past his self-loathing ways and accepting others and most importantly, himself, and in the process, became much more than just a “Grinch”.
*Grunch
What is better: To be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?
-Paarthurnax
inspired my ass so hard you have no idea thank you
When the grunch asks "have I truly become a monster?" It would seem at first that he is starting to realize that he is a monster. However, I would venture to say that he is starting to realize that he is *not* a monster. Clause said to "choose wisely" and the wise choice would seem at first to be sainte, but maybe choosing grunch does NOT make you a monster. Perhaps choosing sainte would have freed the man from his demons, but instead he chooses grunch and channels his frustration and passion into writing and dancing. The question "have I truly become a monster?" Lets us into the mind of a proud grunch; a grunch who questions the validity of his "inherit" bad nature; a grunch who dares to challenge the ultamatim given to him by a strange, detatched, unmerciful, being. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
This is a joke video but I get it you are 14 and very deep for your age
this video has an addictive nature, i have been watching is atleast once a month for the past 2 years and it has in no way gotten stale or boring
Im watching this every day for 2 months
@@stahinjakrackovic2087 jesus
@@cheekybananaboy3361 now its every other day
@@stahinjakrackovic2087 Don't let the flame die out
@@cosmiceclipse3142 thaks for reminding me on this masterpiece
You recognize the bodies in the water
just visiting this video for my yearly christmas pilgrimage
Not gonna lie, those moves were fire
Despite the Christmas theme, this video just embodies January for me. There’s something about the hollow melancholy of the music and the melted snow on the ground that reminds me of what comes after. This video is what comes after Christmas: nothing but snow and ice, and a memory of warmth. Pilotredsun is a visionary
Bro how high were you when you wrote this?
Where I live, January is when the snows starts.
@@Kingmakerrr1337 basic mfs when someone tries to analyze a weird youtube video:
Beautifully said
@@sussy6905 I stand by my question
I don't stop of seeing this video, the music and the rythim of the animation it's so adictive
You can either be a saint and try to appease everyone, or you can be a grinch and be yourself, ignoring what others around you may think.
have i truly become a monster?
By watching this video?
Maybe...
grose zero
I am the beast i worship?
Imagine Santa arriving in your house and all you do is look at him angrily and say “what?”
I find this moment pretty funny
The best way to start December is to revisit the best Christmas-themed video on the internet
For anyone curious, there's a zero width space between the "i" and "n" in "Grinch" in the video's title; try copying the whole title and then pasting it into Notepad or your URL bar and moving over it with the arrow keys
This is PilotRedSun's magnum opus. There's something special here that he managed to capture with this video that he hasn't been able to replicate.
its the music totally!
I think that what people are missing here is that this story is about more than choosing the wrong option. I think that Grinch’s immediate transformation and later questioning of his “choice” shows that he never really made a choice at all. He was just an inherently sour person, and society, as represented by Claus, labeled him as such and put the idea in his head that if he’s not an acceptable saint, then he is just a Grinch. A monster.
However, Grinch defies this idea soon after the choice is made for him. He asks himself if he is truly a monster, and even goes out and expresses himself in a harmless way in an attempt to show people that while he is no saint, The Grinch is not truly a monster either.
The sad part is that despite these efforts to prove his ideas of self-identity, society still labels him as the Christmas Cretin, ending our story on an unfortunate note.
Revision: Grinch’s Ultimatum is the prequel to Shrek
Yo Socrates it’s a Pilotredsun animation
@@aguythatexists8318 LOL
thank you for your analysis
This is absolutely so lgbt
@@hahaweedlol4933 Heeyyyy thhatss prreetty gaay
This is a bit much to take in
your mind must be as supple as a healthy anus
another Christmas, another couple rewatches of this classic
year 7 of watching this every christmas and crying.
i cant explain how this somehow immaculately captures the feeling of christmas. its like... some weird period of the year where both morale (sheer happiness due to the holidays) and the environment (snow/cold) change, making things feel a little ethereal n stuff and this video perfectly captures that ethereal vibe. the song is just such a banger too in some weird way. genuinely one of my favorite videos on the internet
The song is really weird honestly but oddly fitting. It sounds like a song in a late 90s game on a china town level that you always hated but it's a banger
@@whatevernamegoeshere3644 I swear I've heard the root of this song somewhere before in a game
Or you have a shit family full of troubled and sad people who not only will never do anything about their own problems but bring out the worst in you themselves
@@stopthrm I feel like this sounds similar to one of the songs in an earlier pokemon game
@@FederalBureauofInteIIigence that's originally what I thought. Something from gen 1 or gen 2...
0:33 there is just something so mesmerizing about the "It's Claus!!!" bit
Especially for people who have played Mother 3
@@UoirLocer Now that you say it, I got some giygas vibes from it.
Its gotta be the way the music kicks in harder as well. This is awesome.
Where’s Hobbes at
RUclips search "HWD 05 Graphics Cut", youd like that aesthetic then
I keep coming back to this video several times a year, actually one of my favourite videos on the platform.
you know it's a good style when your computer starts glitching out and you think it's jut a part of the video