Remember Your Mother is the beautiful song and storyboard from the animated television special The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat. The Cat in the Hat, the employees, managers, and customers sing it, and a three-piece band from an unnamed restaurant performs the music. The Cat in the Hat has finally had enough of the Grinch's horrible antics, which ruin his and other people's lives.
After he has finally had an idea of what to do, he takes the people from the restaurant with him so they can put a stop to the Grinch's nasty Grinchy tricks by singing a song to help the Grinch remember his mother, who disapproves of her son (The Grinch) becoming evil and doing bad things to others and the Cat himself leads the song and direct the choir.
Lyrics[]
Chorus:
Huuuuum
Oh soften your heart, remember your mother,
and everyone even a Grinch had a mother
who taught him bout love between one and another.
Oh, remember your mother's warm arms as she held you.
Remember your sweet mother's eyes, she adored you.
Remember how hard mother worked to afford you?
How she patted your cheeks while you sat on her knees?
Oh, remember your wonderful Grinch mother, please?
Chorus:
aaaahhaaa....
Wherever she's now her eyes are still looking
Looking down at you and wondering what's cooking
Deep down in your brain, must you give her more pain?
Please soften your heart make mom happy again.
Bass singer:
Bum...Bum...Bumm.. Waahhh...
Storyboard[]
The Grinch is talking to his reflection, asking how he's doing, but then goes outside to see the choir and the Cat in the Hat all singing. The Cat is furious with the Grinch and wonders how he can make the Grinch stop being evil, eventually finding an idea and rallying everybody in the restaurant to follow him to the Grinch's house. There, he leads everyone in a song to remind the Grinch of the love he received from his mother and implore him to change his ways and be a better person. Before the Grinch can get upstairs to the darkhouse to scramble it, he collapses in tears over the memory of his mother (whose spirit comforts him) and dismantles the darkhouse. The Grinch is so, so, so sad.
The next morning, the Grinch is again happy. When the reflection tries to turn him evil again, Max reveals he left the Vacusound Sweeper intact and scrambles the reflection's words.
Trivia[]
- This reveals that the Grinch remembering his mother is another way to make him reform.