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The Cat in the Hat

145 statements
27 feature instances
5 referencing feature instances

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The Cat in the Hat	comment	The Cat in the Hat is a DePatie-Freleng 1971 animated adaptation of the famed Dr. Seuss book of the same name. It was the first Dr. Seuss special not to be directed by Chuck Jones, whose studio shut down during its production (Jones is still credited for storyboarding). It stars Allan Sherman as the titular Cat.The special, written by Seuss himself, expands upon and drastically changes the storyline from a Random Events Plot to the Cat enlisting the help of two children to help him find his missing "Moss-Covered Three-Handled Family Gradunza." As with the book, the children join in the cat's chaos at the behest of their finicky fish here named Carlos K. Krinklebine (voiced by Daws Butler), and the cat cleans up on his way out before their mother comes home to find them out.This version of the Cat appeared in two other Seuss specials, Dr Seuss On the Loose (where he introduced adaptations of The Sneetches, The Zax, and Green Eggs and Ham) and The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat (in which the Cat matches wits with Seuss's second most popular character).
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The Cat in the Hat / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
The Cat in the Hat / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: The kids are only given 1 scene apart from each other, and their personalities are essentially interchangeable.
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The Cat in the Hat / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
The Cat in the Hat / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: The only parts of the original book present in the special are the Cat playing "Up Up Up With A Fish," the characters of Thing 1 and Thing 2 and the Cat cleaning up after himself. The rest is a completely new story about the cat looking for his MacGuffin. Justified, in that the original book didn't really have a plot to begin with.
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The Cat in the Hat / int_2a2d4b3d	type	Bilingual Rhyme
The Cat in the Hat / int_2a2d4b3d	comment	Bilingual Rhyme: When the Cat in the Hat is singing his name in different languages, he rhymes "chapeau" with "sombrero".
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The Cat in the Hat / int_2fcf9bbc	type	Gratuitous Foreign Language
The Cat in the Hat / int_2fcf9bbc	comment	Gratuitous Foreign Language: "Cat, Hat" goes through several of them in rapid succession with his "I Am" Song. The chorus alone goes through Spanish, French, German and Eskimo.
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The Cat in the Hat / int_308a5ff0	type	Strange Minds Think Alike
The Cat in the Hat / int_308a5ff0	comment	Strange Minds Think Alike: The mother knows what a moss-covered, three-handled family gradunza is.
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The Cat in the Hat / int_34a9299c	type	It Was with You All Along
The Cat in the Hat / int_34a9299c	comment	It Was with You All Along: Invoked. The special item the Cat wanted was his umbrella, thus with him always. But the kids didn't know that till the mom told them so.
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The Cat in the Hat / int_43d612b7	type	Disney Acid Sequence
The Cat in the Hat / int_43d612b7	comment	Disney Acid Sequence: "I'm a Punk" and "Cat, Hat" both devolve into this.
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The Cat in the Hat / int_47a0a3b7	type	Adaptational Consent
The Cat in the Hat / int_47a0a3b7	comment	Adaptational Consent: Non-sexual example. In the original, the Things had to be netted in order to return to the box. Here, they do so of their own volition as soon as they hear the kids' mother returning home.
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The Cat in the Hat / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Cat in the Hat / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The first scene of the special is the children sitting and staring boredly out the window as it rains, while their mother leaves. The last scene has the kids sitting by the window again as their mother returns, claiming she saw the Cat with the moss-covered three-handled gradunza, and the children have mystified expressions as they watch the Cat leave.
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The Cat in the Hat / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The Cat in the Hat / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Near the end of "Cat, Hat", the fish finally "gets it", then chips in with his own contribution by saying what the Cat would be called in Russian. The Cat is impressed on both counts.
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The Cat in the Hat / int_71748a39	type	Named by the Adaptation
The Cat in the Hat / int_71748a39	comment	Named by the Adaptation: The Fish, unnamed in the book, is named Carlos K. Krinklebine here.
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The Cat in the Hat / int_78e8eba5	type	"I Am" Song
The Cat in the Hat / int_78e8eba5	comment	"I Am" Song: In which the Cat lists the many ways to say his name in other languages, including with a Schnitzelbank-style ditty for German.
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The Cat in the Hat / int_7d3f1d63	type	The Ending Changes Everything
The Cat in the Hat / int_7d3f1d63	comment	The Ending Changes Everything: After the mom notices how a cat passed by with a "moss-covered, three-handled family gradunza" (his umbrella), you realize that The Cat made the entire ploy off the top of his head to give the kids some fun.
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The Cat in the Hat / int_9578bb87	type	Canis Latinicus
The Cat in the Hat / int_9578bb87	comment	Canis Latinicus: "Calculatus Eliminatus."
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The Cat in the Hat / int_96b89043	type	Not So Above It All
The Cat in the Hat / int_96b89043	comment	Not So Above It All: The Fish spends most of the special angrily demanding that the Cat leave, only to happily join in midway through the "Cat, Hat" number.
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The Cat in the Hat / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
The Cat in the Hat / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: After the ending twist, go back and notice how the Cat never actually explains what his Moss-Covered Three-Handled Family Gradunza" looks like, always cutting the kids off when they ask him questions on what it actually looks like.
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The Cat in the Hat / int_9a50173f	type	Follow the Bouncing Ball
The Cat in the Hat / int_9a50173f	comment	Follow the Bouncing Ball: Interestingly, The Cat in the Hat seems to have received the sing-along treatment more times than Dr. Seuss' other cartoons have; in addition to the Dr. Seuss' Sing-Along Classics VHS released in the '90s, the 2012 Deluxe Edition DVD and Blu-raynote released on the same day that the movie version of The Lorax came to DVD and BD include an upgraded sing-along option.
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The Cat in the Hat / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
The Cat in the Hat / int_a6c69bd	comment	When the mother returns, she notes that the Cat in the Hat had said MacGuffin in his hands. It's assumed that the item was actually his moss-green colored umbrella. Which would explain the expression of the kids when they hear it.
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The Cat in the Hat / int_a89b8f21	type	Musical Chores
The Cat in the Hat / int_a89b8f21	comment	Musical Chores: "Sweep Up the Memories", as the Cat is cleaning up the house and restoring it to pristine condition before Mom enters.
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The Cat in the Hat / int_b1961af1	type	Offscreen Crash
The Cat in the Hat / int_b1961af1	comment	Offscreen Crash: During the â€œChapka in a Shlyapa,â€� the Cat goes through a doorway while trying to do That Russian Squat Dance and the camera stays on the doorway while the screen shakes as the Cat crashes into stuff before hopping back out, disheveled.
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The Cat in the Hat / int_bdbfd01c	type	Perfectly Cromulent Word
The Cat in the Hat / int_bdbfd01c	comment	Perfectly Cromulent Word: The lyrics were written by Dr. Seuss, so of course. In a moment of dejection, the Cat sings that he is "a cretunkulous shnunk," and continues:
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The Cat in the Hat / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
The Cat in the Hat / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: The kids are bored, but the first song that's played highlights all of the toys that are littered in the house that they aren't playing with!
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The Cat in the Hat / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Cat in the Hat / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The "Cat, Hat" number features quotations of The Cancan Song, Schnitzelbank, and "O du lieber Augustin".
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The Cat in the Hat / int_ca3a6dbd	type	Informed Ability
The Cat in the Hat / int_ca3a6dbd	comment	Informed Ability: According to the Cat, Thing 2 and Thing 1 can "find anything, anything under the sun." They spend most of their number playing with the fishbowl, and most of the next number acting as backup dancers.
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The Cat in the Hat / int_e3c20140	type	As Long as It Sounds Foreign
The Cat in the Hat / int_e3c20140	comment	As Long as It Sounds Foreign: In "Cat, Hat", the Cat gives accurate translations of his name in French, Spanish, German and Russian. But in the same breath he says that he's "a gwunka in a bunka-kwunk in Eskimo". No Inuit language has words remotely like this; this being 40 years before Google Translate, it seems Dr. Seuss just made up some gibberish to complete the rhyme scheme. Interestingly, you could still make a rhyme out of an accurate translation - in the Yup'ik dialect, for example, you could call him a kuuskaq in a nacarpiaq.
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The Cat in the Hat / int_fa6bfde9	type	Have a Gay Old Time
The Cat in the Hat / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: A lyric in "Calculus Eliminatus" is "don't go to pot," which at the time was simply meant to mean "don't get worked up." The lyric in and of itself sounds a bit funny today, but as it happens a few seconds later one of the kids writes down "42-0" on the fishbowl!
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

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The Cat in the Hat	hasFeature	Feline Fiction / int_27a7a3a0
The Cat in the Hat	hasFeature	"I Am" Song / int_27a7a3a0
The Cat in the Hat	hasFeature	Last-Second Showoff / int_27a7a3a0
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