User blog comment:Drakan95/Steve Jobs vs Seto Kaiba. Epic Rap Battles: Cartoons vs History. Season 2/@comment-6533831-20151128172842/@comment-5482968-20151128230029

The Grinch Christmas Special is far more in the minds of people than the book. That's easily determinable. Just ask how many people know the Grinch's color. They'll say green, like he was in the cartoon. But, in the original book, he was white with pink eyes, which a lot of people wouldn't know.

The reason some may say the book is more notable is because they know Grinch is a book. Which is true, a lot of people realize that it's a book first, because they're aware of who Seuss was. However, that's not the same as which is the more iconic version of the character. The animated Christmas Special is the best-known format of the Grinch, as most people know it from there.

This sounds weird, but I think makes sense if you get it.