1 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [Universal Theme] 2 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [Rain drops falling with musical notes] 3 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The Cat in the Hat presents 4 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Dr. Seuss "The Cat in the Hat" 5 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [Music playing] 6 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Narrator: The sun did not shine, it was too wet to play. 7 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Just sit in the house all that cold, cold, wet day. 8 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Mom: Goodbye kids, I'm leaving now. 9 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Have fun! I'll be back at -uh- 3:30 sharp. 10 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Narrator: Sit by the window, just sit there and stew and wish there were something... 11 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [narrator yawns], something to do. Too gooey and dunky outdoors to play ball. 12 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [inaudible] nothing at all. 13 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Singers: [singing] Fun, fun, how can you have fun? 14 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Just sitting doing nothing when there's nothing to be done. 15 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing absolutely nothing, nothing. 16 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Positively, absolutely, absotively, posolutely, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing to be done. 17 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Narrator: Nothing to do but sit, sit, sit. 18 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Just sit in the the house. Just sit there and grubble, and...all of a sudden... 19 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Something went...BUMP! 20 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Girl: Look! 21 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Boy: A cat! 22 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Girl: In a hat! 23 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Cat: You will note, I am neat, wiped my feet on the mat. 24 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Cat: Why must you- why do you sit there like that? 25 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny 26 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I know it is damp and the sidewalks are runny. 27 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But what I can't see- 28 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Fish: Now you listen here cat- 29 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Cat: -is why you'd sit there like that. 30 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Cat: I know some good games we could play. 31 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Fish: Listen cat- 32 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Cat: I know some great tricks! 33 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Fish: Listen cat in the hat- 34 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Cat: I know that your mother won't mind if I do and I'm simply itching to show them you...and to you. 35 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Fish: Out of this house. I'm warning you. Get- 36 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Cat: Who's that? I believe we haven't yet met. 37 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Fish: The name is Krinklebine. Carlos K. Krinklebine. 38 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Cat: Ooh. 39 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Fish: Now please go away. Tell that top-hatted cat he should not be about. 40 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 He should not be here when your mother is out. 41 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Cat: My dear Mr. Krinklebine, my tricks are quite safe. 42 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I invite you to join in the fun if you wish. A game that I call "Up up up with a fish". 43 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Fish: Put me down. P-P-Put me down you fool cat! 44 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Outrageous. Now let me repeat, and I don't like to shout, but he should not be here when your mother is out! 45 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Cat: It's up to you kids. Whatever you say. If you think me untrustworthy, send me away. 46 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Girl: Well, he is getting the house sort of messy and dirty. 47 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And mother- 48 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Boy: Yeah mother, back home at 3:30. 49 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Cat: Hmm. A vote of no confidence. 50 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I most humbly bow to voice of the majority. 51 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Goodbye now. Off to Siberia. 52 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Ha! 53 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Somebody stole my moss covered three handled family gradunza. 54 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Nobody's gonna leave this room until I find it! 55 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Boy: Pardon me sir, you lost a moss covered what? 56 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Cat: Three handled family gradunza. 57 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Fish: Hmph. 58 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Cat: So, that's your attitude, hey Krinklestein? Did you steal it? 59 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 There's a gradunza snitcher in the house. 60 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Things'll never be the same. [Singing] How dear to my heart was that beautiful gredunza. 61 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 That my old feline father bequeath-ed to me. 62 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 That old family gredunza. The old three handled family gredunza. 63 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The ol' moss covered three handled family gredunzaaaaaaa! 64 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 That hung on the family tree. 65 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I've been burgled, flurtled, by a fish. 66 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Boy: Aww, give it back to him Mr. Krinklebine. 67 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Girl: Come on now, don't be mean. 68 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Fish: But I didn't steal his what-sis. 69 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I'm clean! 70 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Cat: Flurtled a fish. 71 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [Singing] I'll never see my darling 72 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 moss covered 73 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 three handled 74 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 family gredunza 75 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 anymore. 76 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Fish: By the way cat, just what is a family gredunza? 77 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Cat: Oh they come in all styles, from triple-G to minus Ot. 78 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Boy: Is it bigger than a- 79 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Cat: Occasionally, but on most occasions not. 80 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Girl: Is it smaller than a- 81 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Cat: They no longer make that kind. 82 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But one family gredunza is always smaller than another. 83 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [Singing] Should all family gredunzas be forgot and never brought to my- 84 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [talking] -now if I were a fish, where would I hide a moss covered three handled family gredunza? 85 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Boy: Whatever it is, it isn't here. 86 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Girl: And whatever it is it isn't here! 87 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Cat: Wherever it is, it is left in some lurch. 88 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Wherever it is we must speed up the search. 89 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Fish: I'll tell you this, it's not in the Unabridged dictionary. 90 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But let's find this thing and get rid of that cat! 91 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Cat: There are more [clears throat] scientific methods of searching than that. 92 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Fish: And just what kind of science does the cat recommend? 93 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Cat: Why the principle of calculatus eliminatus my friend. 94 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Fish: Calculatus what? 95 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Calculatus...eliminatus. 96 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I went to Cat-tech where I studied the same. 97 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 What other cats you know could make such a claim? 98 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Very well Dr. Calculatus. 99 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Find it and eliminatus yourself! 100 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I shall indeed. 101 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [Singing] When you've mislaid a certain something keep your cool and don't get hot. 102 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Calculatus eliminatus is the best friend that you've got. 103 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Calculatus eliminatus always helps an awful lot. 104 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 A way to find a missing something is to find out where it's not. 105 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It isn't here, I'll mark this 'X'. 106 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It isn't there, I'll mark that 'Y'. 107 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It isn't underneath the apple, mark the apple 'HKI'. 108 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It isn't in this keyhole. 109 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 No? 110 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And it isn't on my knee. 111 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Cat: Hmm. 112 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Mark the keyhole 'K-300', mark the knee '5-7-B'. 113 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We just jot down all the places where it isn't and gee-whiz! 114 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Very shortly we will locate where the missing object is. 115 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It isn't here. 116 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Cat: 8-42-J. 117 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It isn't there. 118 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Cat: F-6-O-7. 119 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You can mark the piano 22000 -decimal point- 11. 120 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It isn't in the icebox. 121 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Cat: That's strange. 122 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's not on this TV. 123 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Cat: Hrmm. 124 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Icebox O-24 and a half. TV 1 million and 3. 125 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 When you've mislaid a certain something keep your cool don't go to pot. 126 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 All: Calculatus eliminatus is the best friend that've got. Calculatus eliminatus always helps an awful lot. 127 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Cat: The way to find a missing a something is to find- 128 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 All: -out- 129 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 -where- 130 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 -it's- 131 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 not.