03x17 - Mind Changing Fun/Curious Minds
Posted: 09/30/22 18:53
[upbeat music]
♪
- ♪ Hey
- What?
- ♪ Come over here
♪ The Cat in the Hat
is about to appear ♪
♪ He's whizzing over
to whisk you away ♪
♪ On a fabulous journey
today ♪
- He's coming!
- ♪ Now he's arrived
♪ In the Thinga-ma-jigger,
the thing that he drives ♪
♪ He's a cat
and he's oodles of fun ♪
♪ With his hairy helpers,
Thing Two and Thing One ♪
- Whoo-hoo!
♪
- Whoa!
♪
[laughter]
♪
- Whoa!
- Wahoo!
- ♪ It's the Cat in the Hat
♪ All of our adventures
start like that ♪
♪ Wherever you're going,
wherever you're at ♪
♪ The Cat in the Hat
knows a lot about... ♪
- ♪ He knows a lot about,
he knows a lot about ♪
all: ♪ He knows a lot
about that ♪
[laughter]
[bright music]
♪
- Come on, Fish. Time to go
up into the treehouse.
- Wait.
I've been thinking
we need a special
treehouse handshake.
- Special treehouse handshake?
Cool!
- Uh, handshake?
Don't you need hands for that?
I don't know about this.
- [laughs]
We can teach it to anyone
who wants to go up
to the treehouse.
- I want to go up.
What's the handshake?
- I've been practicing
with my mom.
Watch.
Slap hands, slide, and bump.
Slap hands, slide,
and bump.
What do you think?
- Hm.
Let me try.
First one was bump.
Or, wait.
Was it slide?
Slap hands?
I can't do all that.
That's too much to remember.
- Remember?
Should I've remembered
something?
both: Cat.
- Hi, Cat.
Maybe you can.
But I'll never remember the
special treehouse handshake.
- It goes like this.
Slap hands, slide, and bump.
- Uh-huh.
- Slap hands, slide, and bump!
- Uh-huh.
- Like that.
- I got it![laughs]
- Oh, great.
Am I the only one who can't
do the special handshake?
- Over here?
- I'm sure you can learn it.
In fact, I happen to know
where you can learn
the trick to learning
special handshakes.
In Over-in-overton.
- There's a trick?
- There always is, Nick.
- All right!
I'm in.
- Your mother won't mind
at all if you do.
- Mom!
Can I go to Over-in-overton
with Sally
and the Cat in the Hat?
I need to learn the trick
to special handshakes.
- Oh!
If you're going to learn
the trick
to special handshakes,
that deserves a high five.
[chuckles]
Have fun, guys!
- We can go! We can go!
- I know! I know!
To the Thinga-ma-jigger.
Buckle up!
[horn honks]
[playful music]
[whirs, clicks]
Flip the Jigger-ma-whizzer!
[boing]
[exciting music]
♪
Isn't this fun?
both: Whoo-hoo!
- ♪ Here we go, go, go,
go on an adventure ♪
♪ The Thinga-ma-jigger
is up and away ♪
both: ♪ Go, go, go,
go on an adventure ♪
♪ We're flying
with the Cat in the Hat today ♪
- Wow.
I've never seen a place
like this before.
- But I don't get
how this place
is going to help me learn
the special handshake.
- In Over-in-overton
keep your eyes peeled
and the answer you're seeking
will soon be revealed.
- [gasps] Oh.
There's a path.
Should we follow it?
- That's a step
in the right direction.
- All right!
Let's go!
[both laughing]
Whoa.
- The stones on the path
light up when you step on them.
- They do!
- [laughs]
- Wow, yeah!
- Ah! Whoo-hoo!
[laughs]
Ha-ha!
I have to say,
that's a sensational treat!
A path that lights up
right under your feet.
- Let's make a game of it.
- Count me in!
How do you play?
- Let's see.
Oh, I know.
You have to jump.
- Okay.
- How about
two feet
on the red stone
and, um, left foot
on the blue stone.
[grunts]
Then right foot
on the yellow stone.
Try it, Nick.
It's fun!
- Hm. It looks hard.
- [laughing]
- But I'll try.
Red stone,
blue stone,
yellow stone!
Got it!
- [laughs]
- Come on, Fish!
Red stone, blue stone,
yellow stone.
- Okay, but do you have to
[stammers] hop so much?
- I just noticed something,
Sally.
The colors are always
in the same order.
- You're right.
It's always red stone,
blue stone, yellow stone.
- You mean it's a pattern?
- If that's what
you call something
that repeats the same way
over and over,
then yes, I guess
it's a pattern.
- And knowing the pattern makes
it easier to figure it out.
both: Red stone, blue stone,
and yellow stone.
- [laughs]
- Do it again!
both: Red stone, blue stone,
yellow stone.
Red stone, blue stone,
yellow stone.
Red stone, blue stone--
- And the end of the road.
- Hey! What's that?
[exciting musical flourish]
- [grunting]
It's locked tight!
- Look! There's a button
on the gate.
Do you think that'll open it?
- Hm.
Let's see.
[ding]
[buzz, buzz]
[ding, ding]
[buzz, buzz]
[ding, ding]
[buzz, buzz]
[ding]
- Well, that was a lot
of noise for nothing.
- Maybe not nothing.
Maybe it's telling us
something.
- What could it be?
- Now, that is a good question.
- Hmm.
[gasps] Look!
There's another button.
- There's one here too.
I wonder what'll happen
if we push them.
You'll never know
unless you give them a try.
[buzz]
[ding]
- Hey, they made
the same sounds
as the button on the gate.
- But there were
a bunch of sounds.
Push that button again, Cat,
and we'll listen.
- Buttons will now be pushed.
[ding]
[buzz, buzz]
[ding, ding]
[buzz, buzz]
[ding, ding]
[buzz, buzz]
[ding]
- Okay, maybe we have
to make the same sounds.
- In the same order.
Do you remember it?
- I think so.
It starts with... ding!
[ding]
- Right, then two buzzes.
[buzz, buzz]
- And another ding.
[ding]
Huh.
Nothing happened.
- Hm. I think we have to
do it over and over.
That's the pattern.
- Okay, so it's ding.
[ding]
Buzz. Buzz. Ding.
[buzz, buzz, ding]
- Again! Ding.
[ding]
Buzz. Buzz. Ding.
[buzz, buzz, ding]
- And a third time.
[ding]
[buzz, buzz]
[ding]
[bell and horn fanfare]
- Ya-hoo!
- Whoo-hoo!
[laughing]
- Oh, I knew it!
The trick was to match
the pattern
that the sounds made.
- You two pushed
all the right buttons
in the right order.
- Quick! Before it closes!
[exciting music]
- Awesome.
- Whoo-hoo!
- But we still haven't learned
the trick
to special handshakes.
- This way might
get you closer.
- Look out, Nick!
- Whoa.
- You nearly got hit
by that swingy-thing.
[daunting music]
♪
- You mean swingy-things.
There's three of them.
- How are we supposed
to get through there?
- I'm not going first.
both: Me either.
- Hm.
When the path that's ahead
is too tricky for you
who better to call than
Thing One and Thing Two?
[whistles]
- Whee-hee-hee-hee!
[chattering]
Whee!
Ta-da!
- Hello, Things.
Could you two please
try getting through?
both: Oh.
Uh-huh!
[chattering, laughing]
- Ow!
- You try, Thing One.
- [chattering]
Whoa!
- Uh-oh.
- Yikes!
- Whoa!
[laughter]
- Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
- That's what happens
when you just rush in.
- But now we know
you can't just run through.
- Hm. There must be
a trick to it.
- Like at the gate.
- And with the stones
on the path.
- If we knew when those
swingy-things were coming,
we wouldn't get hit.
- How can we know
when they're coming?
- Hm. What if we try counting
the time between swings?
- A counting game?
How exciting!
- Okay, Nick, as soon
as the first one swings by
let's count.
- Whoa!
both: One, two, three--
- Ah! Whoo-hoo!
both: One, two, three.
- It's the same thing
over and over.
It's always one, two, three
before the next one swings.
- Ha!
Another pattern.
- A pattern again.
Well, what do you know.
And that's gonna help us know
when we can go?
- Yeah, if we always
count to three,
we'll know when those
swingy-things are coming.
- And we can stop
so we don't get hit.
- Okay.
Wait for it.
- Whoa!
all: Go!
One, two, three!
- Whoo-hoo!
all: Go!
One, two, three.
both: Go!
[cheering]
- The patterns you knew
helped us all to get through.
- Way to go, Nick.
- We still haven't found the
trick to special handshakes.
- Hm.
Maybe we have.
Look at the hills
and the trees here.
They're the same over and over.
It's all about patterns.
That's why this place is called
Over-in-overton.
- You're right, Nick.
Everything here is a pattern.
- And so is the special
treehouse handshake.
I think I can learn it now.
- Then we better get
to that treehouse.
- Okay. Show me
the special handshake again.
- Okay.
both: Slap hands,
slide, and bump.
Slap hands, slide, and bump.
- I think I've got it.
It's the same three moves
over and over.
- Right!
You ready to try?
- Shake on it.
both: Slap hands, slide,
and bump.
Slap hands, slide, and bump.
- You got it!
You're doing our special
treehouse handshake.
- Way to go, Nick!
- You spotted the pattern
and mastered the trick.
So here's to you, Sally,
and put 'er there, Nick!
both: Slap hands, slide,
and bump!
[all laugh]
- ♪ Doo-doo-doo-doo,
do-da-le-do ♪
♪ Do try this at home
Let's see what Nick and Sally
are doing at home today.
- Okay, who's ready to play
my brand new game,
Pattern-a-rama?
- Pattern-a-rama?
- Yes! You find a pattern
somewhere in this room
and predict what should
come next.
- Predict?
You mean figure out
what should come next
in the pattern?
- Right you are!
- I've got one.
This block tower has a pattern.
There are two blue blocks
then one yellow block
then two blue and one yellow.
- And what do you predict
should come next
in the pattern?
What do you think?
- Two blue blocks, right?
- Right you are!
Now, who can find
the next pattern?
- Got one!
- And I've got one too!
You do yours, Nick,
and then I'll tell you mine.
- Right now it's day time,
so the sun is up.
And that's part of a pattern
because later
it will be night time.
- So what do you predict
will happen at night?
- The sun will set,
and the sky will get dark.
- And I predict you're going to
jump out of your bowl and say,
"Right you are!"
- [laughs]
Right you are!
I guess there are patterns
all around us
if you look for them.
all: So do try this at home!
[laughter]
- On your marks, racers,
get set,
and go!
- C'mon!
- Go! Go faster!
Yeah, whoo!
- Whoo!
- Yes, I won!
- Again?
That's three times in a row.
- Maybe something's wrong
with your van.
- Hm.
The wheels seem to be okay.
- Is it the same size
as my car?
- Well, they look
a little different,
but yeah, they're
about the same size.
So why do I keep losing?
- Losing?
What'd you lose?
Marbles? Coins?
Your voice?
Oh! [laughs]
What am I thinking?
Can't be your voice
or I wouldn't have heard you.
- [laughs] Cat.
No, I'm losing races.
My van keeps losing
to Nick's car.
- Oh, you're racing.
Well, that's handy
because I need two fast movers.
- You do?
For what?
- I have a couple of big things
I need to move
and fast!
Can you help?
Maybe you can and even make
a race out of it.
- A race?
- If it's one
I can actually win,
count me in.
- Me too.
- I should probably stay here.
I'm not much help as a mover
since I need someone
to move me.
[chuckles]
- [laughs] Okay.
I'll go ask.
[bright music]
Mom!
Can Sally and I go help
the Cat in the Hat?
He has to move a couple
of big things and fast.
- Well, if he needs help
and fast,
you'd better get going.
It's so nice of you to help.
- We can go! We can go!
- I know! I know!
To the Thinga-ma-jigger.
Buckle up!
[horn honks]
[playful music]
[whirs, clicks]
Flip the Jigger-ma-whizzer!
[boing]
[exciting music]
♪
Isn't this fun?
both: Whoo-hoo!
- ♪ Here we go, go, go,
go on an adventure ♪
♪ The Thinga-ma-jigger
is up and away ♪
both: ♪ Go, go, go,
go on an adventure ♪
♪ We're flying
with the Cat in the Hat today ♪
- Wow!
Cool!
- This is amazing!
Cat, what is this place?
- It's my studio.
Humble but dear to my heart.
This is where I create
my most artistic art.
- I never knew you were
such a good artist.
- Oh, go on.
But I am rather proud of
my two latest paintings.
both: Whoa!
- Nice!
- I'm entering them in
the Open Air Art Show today,
and I've got to get them
there fast.
Now, it's a bit
of a tricky trip
because we have to go through
Flowering Foghorn Bog.
- That's okay.
It sounds like fun.
- Brilliant!
Then we better get going.
It starts very soon.
- Don't worry, Cat.
My cart will be there
in no time.
- Sure, right after my cart.
- Oh, my!
Sounds like a race.
Ready?
Set.
[air horn blares]
Art cart away!
[both laughing, grunting]
[whimsical music]
[both laughing]
- That a girl, Sally!
Keep it up, Nick!
[both panting]
- Whoa!
[groans]
- Oh, boy.
- Uh-oh, time out.
- Sorry, Cat.
Is it okay?
- Perfect!
Not a thing wrong with it.
- There.
- Ready to roll again?
- Sure!
I've got a race to win.
- Me too.
- [panting]
- Wait, stop.
Sally's all frowny.
What's wrong?
- It's harder to push
all of the sudden.
Maybe I broke a wheel.
- Hm.
No.
Seems all right.
- Maybe that side of the road
is bumpier than mine.
- Bumps could slow her down.
That's totally true.
So why don't you try
a small Switcha-ma-roo?
- Okay. I'll go on the side
you were on, Nick.
♪
[grunts, panting]
No, it's not the road.
When I push forward, it feels
like something's pushing back.
- But there's nothing
in front of it.
Nothing but air.
You know, we don't have
to make this a race.
It doesn't seem fair.
- Oh, no.
I'm not giving up that easily.
- What a champ.
Well, you heard her.
Let's go!
[foghorns blaring]
- Whoa!
- Not to worry, kids.
These are
the famous flowering foghorns
of Flowering Foghorn Bog.
[foghorns blaring]
- [chuckles] Okay.
Your turn, Sally.
- Coming through.
[grunting]
- Look.
Your cart is pushing the fog.
My cart sliced right
through it.
- Really?
That's weird.
- Shall we keep going?
[groans]
Huh?
Oh.
Just a little roadblock.
We can squeeze through here.
- [groans]
Whoops.
Got to turn this
so we can get through.
- Here you go.
- Thanks, Cat.
[foghorn blares]
- Almost there, kids!
Come on!
[foghorn blares]
- Hey, it's easier to push now.
- Huh, weird.
What's different?
- Huh. The only thing
that changed is...
the painting's
not sideways anymore.
I flipped it so it would go
between the rocks.
- But it's still
the same painting.
It didn't get lighter
or anything.
Why should it be easier
to push?
- Huh, what was slowing
me down before?
There was nothing
in front of me.
- Ah-ha!
Right!
As Nick said, nothing but air.
- Air? [gasps]
That's it!
- What's it?
- Watch.
You two run ahead a little way
and then look back.
- Okay.
Okay, Sally.
- I just have to wait
for the next flowering foghorn.
[foghorn blares]
Did the painting push
the air like it did before?
- No, it sliced right through
like mine did.
- Okay, now I'll do
the other way.
[grunts]
[foghorn blares]
[grunts]
[grunts]
- Yes.
That time you pushed
a lot of air.
- And it's harder for me
to push it this way too.
If there's nothing in front
of me but air,
then could it be air
that's slowing me down?
- How can air slow you down?
- When the painting
sits that way
it's a lot wider,
so there's more space
for the air to push on.
But when it sits
the other way it's thin.
- Hm. So there's less space
for the air to push on?
- Right, and it's easier
to push through the air.
That's so cool.
- Ah! How clever you are.
[alarm ringing]
Oh, dear.
Only a few minutes
until it's too late
to enter my paintings
in the art show.
We've got to hurry!
- I better turn this painting.
- Right.
- Thanks.
Race ya!
[upbeat music]
♪
It's the art show.
We made it!
- Well, not quite.
We have to get the carts down
Greasy Grassy Hill first.
It's very slippery.
- And steep.
- How are we going to get
your art down the hill safely?
- Hm.Ha-ha!
If we need steady hands
to hold on to my art,
Thing One and Thing Two
could each ride on a cart.
[whistles]
- Wha-hoo!
- Whoo-hoo!
both: Ho, ho, ho-ho, ho, ho.
Ooh, ah.
[chuckles]
- Oh Things, could you help us
get these paintings
safely down the hill?
- Mm.
[chatters]
- Hold on tight.
It's very slippery.
- Okay.
Let's go slowly.
- Whoa.
You weren't kidding, Cat.
- [grunts]Yeah.
Greasy Grassy Hill
is really slippery.
Whoa!
Whoa-wha!
[all grunting]
Whoa!
- Whee-hee-hee!
- They're going to crash.
- Hit the brakes!
- There are no brakes.
- Things! Turn the paintings
wide side out.
both: Oh.
[grunting]
- Oh, that was brilliant!
You used air to slow
the Things down.
- But we still got here fast
enough to enter the art show.
[both chattering]
- Thanks, Things,
and thank you, kids.
I knew you'd be speedy movers.
- You know what?
I forgot to notice
whose cart got here first.
- That's okay.
We can have a rematch
back home
with our toy cars.
And this time
it'll be a fair race.
- In that case, I'll come back
and check out
the art show later.
This is a race I gotta see.
- What could they be doing?
- Something to make it
a fair race.
- Okay.
We're ready!
- We added a pointy front
to both cars
so they'll both slice
through the air.
- Why, that's ever so clever
and ever so fair.
You just fixed up both cars
so they push the same air.
- Racers, on your marks...
Get set,
go!
- A tie!
Ah! I love a tie!
Do it again!
both: Yeah!
- Whoo!
- All right!
[both laugh]
[upbeat music]
♪
♪
- ♪ Hey
- What?
- ♪ Come over here
♪ The Cat in the Hat
is about to appear ♪
♪ He's whizzing over
to whisk you away ♪
♪ On a fabulous journey
today ♪
- He's coming!
- ♪ Now he's arrived
♪ In the Thinga-ma-jigger,
the thing that he drives ♪
♪ He's a cat
and he's oodles of fun ♪
♪ With his hairy helpers,
Thing Two and Thing One ♪
- Whoo-hoo!
♪
- Whoa!
♪
[laughter]
♪
- Whoa!
- Wahoo!
- ♪ It's the Cat in the Hat
♪ All of our adventures
start like that ♪
♪ Wherever you're going,
wherever you're at ♪
♪ The Cat in the Hat
knows a lot about... ♪
- ♪ He knows a lot about,
he knows a lot about ♪
all: ♪ He knows a lot
about that ♪
[laughter]
[bright music]
♪
- Come on, Fish. Time to go
up into the treehouse.
- Wait.
I've been thinking
we need a special
treehouse handshake.
- Special treehouse handshake?
Cool!
- Uh, handshake?
Don't you need hands for that?
I don't know about this.
- [laughs]
We can teach it to anyone
who wants to go up
to the treehouse.
- I want to go up.
What's the handshake?
- I've been practicing
with my mom.
Watch.
Slap hands, slide, and bump.
Slap hands, slide,
and bump.
What do you think?
- Hm.
Let me try.
First one was bump.
Or, wait.
Was it slide?
Slap hands?
I can't do all that.
That's too much to remember.
- Remember?
Should I've remembered
something?
both: Cat.
- Hi, Cat.
Maybe you can.
But I'll never remember the
special treehouse handshake.
- It goes like this.
Slap hands, slide, and bump.
- Uh-huh.
- Slap hands, slide, and bump!
- Uh-huh.
- Like that.
- I got it![laughs]
- Oh, great.
Am I the only one who can't
do the special handshake?
- Over here?
- I'm sure you can learn it.
In fact, I happen to know
where you can learn
the trick to learning
special handshakes.
In Over-in-overton.
- There's a trick?
- There always is, Nick.
- All right!
I'm in.
- Your mother won't mind
at all if you do.
- Mom!
Can I go to Over-in-overton
with Sally
and the Cat in the Hat?
I need to learn the trick
to special handshakes.
- Oh!
If you're going to learn
the trick
to special handshakes,
that deserves a high five.
[chuckles]
Have fun, guys!
- We can go! We can go!
- I know! I know!
To the Thinga-ma-jigger.
Buckle up!
[horn honks]
[playful music]
[whirs, clicks]
Flip the Jigger-ma-whizzer!
[boing]
[exciting music]
♪
Isn't this fun?
both: Whoo-hoo!
- ♪ Here we go, go, go,
go on an adventure ♪
♪ The Thinga-ma-jigger
is up and away ♪
both: ♪ Go, go, go,
go on an adventure ♪
♪ We're flying
with the Cat in the Hat today ♪
- Wow.
I've never seen a place
like this before.
- But I don't get
how this place
is going to help me learn
the special handshake.
- In Over-in-overton
keep your eyes peeled
and the answer you're seeking
will soon be revealed.
- [gasps] Oh.
There's a path.
Should we follow it?
- That's a step
in the right direction.
- All right!
Let's go!
[both laughing]
Whoa.
- The stones on the path
light up when you step on them.
- They do!
- [laughs]
- Wow, yeah!
- Ah! Whoo-hoo!
[laughs]
Ha-ha!
I have to say,
that's a sensational treat!
A path that lights up
right under your feet.
- Let's make a game of it.
- Count me in!
How do you play?
- Let's see.
Oh, I know.
You have to jump.
- Okay.
- How about
two feet
on the red stone
and, um, left foot
on the blue stone.
[grunts]
Then right foot
on the yellow stone.
Try it, Nick.
It's fun!
- Hm. It looks hard.
- [laughing]
- But I'll try.
Red stone,
blue stone,
yellow stone!
Got it!
- [laughs]
- Come on, Fish!
Red stone, blue stone,
yellow stone.
- Okay, but do you have to
[stammers] hop so much?
- I just noticed something,
Sally.
The colors are always
in the same order.
- You're right.
It's always red stone,
blue stone, yellow stone.
- You mean it's a pattern?
- If that's what
you call something
that repeats the same way
over and over,
then yes, I guess
it's a pattern.
- And knowing the pattern makes
it easier to figure it out.
both: Red stone, blue stone,
and yellow stone.
- [laughs]
- Do it again!
both: Red stone, blue stone,
yellow stone.
Red stone, blue stone,
yellow stone.
Red stone, blue stone--
- And the end of the road.
- Hey! What's that?
[exciting musical flourish]
- [grunting]
It's locked tight!
- Look! There's a button
on the gate.
Do you think that'll open it?
- Hm.
Let's see.
[ding]
[buzz, buzz]
[ding, ding]
[buzz, buzz]
[ding, ding]
[buzz, buzz]
[ding]
- Well, that was a lot
of noise for nothing.
- Maybe not nothing.
Maybe it's telling us
something.
- What could it be?
- Now, that is a good question.
- Hmm.
[gasps] Look!
There's another button.
- There's one here too.
I wonder what'll happen
if we push them.
You'll never know
unless you give them a try.
[buzz]
[ding]
- Hey, they made
the same sounds
as the button on the gate.
- But there were
a bunch of sounds.
Push that button again, Cat,
and we'll listen.
- Buttons will now be pushed.
[ding]
[buzz, buzz]
[ding, ding]
[buzz, buzz]
[ding, ding]
[buzz, buzz]
[ding]
- Okay, maybe we have
to make the same sounds.
- In the same order.
Do you remember it?
- I think so.
It starts with... ding!
[ding]
- Right, then two buzzes.
[buzz, buzz]
- And another ding.
[ding]
Huh.
Nothing happened.
- Hm. I think we have to
do it over and over.
That's the pattern.
- Okay, so it's ding.
[ding]
Buzz. Buzz. Ding.
[buzz, buzz, ding]
- Again! Ding.
[ding]
Buzz. Buzz. Ding.
[buzz, buzz, ding]
- And a third time.
[ding]
[buzz, buzz]
[ding]
[bell and horn fanfare]
- Ya-hoo!
- Whoo-hoo!
[laughing]
- Oh, I knew it!
The trick was to match
the pattern
that the sounds made.
- You two pushed
all the right buttons
in the right order.
- Quick! Before it closes!
[exciting music]
- Awesome.
- Whoo-hoo!
- But we still haven't learned
the trick
to special handshakes.
- This way might
get you closer.
- Look out, Nick!
- Whoa.
- You nearly got hit
by that swingy-thing.
[daunting music]
♪
- You mean swingy-things.
There's three of them.
- How are we supposed
to get through there?
- I'm not going first.
both: Me either.
- Hm.
When the path that's ahead
is too tricky for you
who better to call than
Thing One and Thing Two?
[whistles]
- Whee-hee-hee-hee!
[chattering]
Whee!
Ta-da!
- Hello, Things.
Could you two please
try getting through?
both: Oh.
Uh-huh!
[chattering, laughing]
- Ow!
- You try, Thing One.
- [chattering]
Whoa!
- Uh-oh.
- Yikes!
- Whoa!
[laughter]
- Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
- That's what happens
when you just rush in.
- But now we know
you can't just run through.
- Hm. There must be
a trick to it.
- Like at the gate.
- And with the stones
on the path.
- If we knew when those
swingy-things were coming,
we wouldn't get hit.
- How can we know
when they're coming?
- Hm. What if we try counting
the time between swings?
- A counting game?
How exciting!
- Okay, Nick, as soon
as the first one swings by
let's count.
- Whoa!
both: One, two, three--
- Ah! Whoo-hoo!
both: One, two, three.
- It's the same thing
over and over.
It's always one, two, three
before the next one swings.
- Ha!
Another pattern.
- A pattern again.
Well, what do you know.
And that's gonna help us know
when we can go?
- Yeah, if we always
count to three,
we'll know when those
swingy-things are coming.
- And we can stop
so we don't get hit.
- Okay.
Wait for it.
- Whoa!
all: Go!
One, two, three!
- Whoo-hoo!
all: Go!
One, two, three.
both: Go!
[cheering]
- The patterns you knew
helped us all to get through.
- Way to go, Nick.
- We still haven't found the
trick to special handshakes.
- Hm.
Maybe we have.
Look at the hills
and the trees here.
They're the same over and over.
It's all about patterns.
That's why this place is called
Over-in-overton.
- You're right, Nick.
Everything here is a pattern.
- And so is the special
treehouse handshake.
I think I can learn it now.
- Then we better get
to that treehouse.
- Okay. Show me
the special handshake again.
- Okay.
both: Slap hands,
slide, and bump.
Slap hands, slide, and bump.
- I think I've got it.
It's the same three moves
over and over.
- Right!
You ready to try?
- Shake on it.
both: Slap hands, slide,
and bump.
Slap hands, slide, and bump.
- You got it!
You're doing our special
treehouse handshake.
- Way to go, Nick!
- You spotted the pattern
and mastered the trick.
So here's to you, Sally,
and put 'er there, Nick!
both: Slap hands, slide,
and bump!
[all laugh]
- ♪ Doo-doo-doo-doo,
do-da-le-do ♪
♪ Do try this at home
Let's see what Nick and Sally
are doing at home today.
- Okay, who's ready to play
my brand new game,
Pattern-a-rama?
- Pattern-a-rama?
- Yes! You find a pattern
somewhere in this room
and predict what should
come next.
- Predict?
You mean figure out
what should come next
in the pattern?
- Right you are!
- I've got one.
This block tower has a pattern.
There are two blue blocks
then one yellow block
then two blue and one yellow.
- And what do you predict
should come next
in the pattern?
What do you think?
- Two blue blocks, right?
- Right you are!
Now, who can find
the next pattern?
- Got one!
- And I've got one too!
You do yours, Nick,
and then I'll tell you mine.
- Right now it's day time,
so the sun is up.
And that's part of a pattern
because later
it will be night time.
- So what do you predict
will happen at night?
- The sun will set,
and the sky will get dark.
- And I predict you're going to
jump out of your bowl and say,
"Right you are!"
- [laughs]
Right you are!
I guess there are patterns
all around us
if you look for them.
all: So do try this at home!
[laughter]
- On your marks, racers,
get set,
and go!
- C'mon!
- Go! Go faster!
Yeah, whoo!
- Whoo!
- Yes, I won!
- Again?
That's three times in a row.
- Maybe something's wrong
with your van.
- Hm.
The wheels seem to be okay.
- Is it the same size
as my car?
- Well, they look
a little different,
but yeah, they're
about the same size.
So why do I keep losing?
- Losing?
What'd you lose?
Marbles? Coins?
Your voice?
Oh! [laughs]
What am I thinking?
Can't be your voice
or I wouldn't have heard you.
- [laughs] Cat.
No, I'm losing races.
My van keeps losing
to Nick's car.
- Oh, you're racing.
Well, that's handy
because I need two fast movers.
- You do?
For what?
- I have a couple of big things
I need to move
and fast!
Can you help?
Maybe you can and even make
a race out of it.
- A race?
- If it's one
I can actually win,
count me in.
- Me too.
- I should probably stay here.
I'm not much help as a mover
since I need someone
to move me.
[chuckles]
- [laughs] Okay.
I'll go ask.
[bright music]
Mom!
Can Sally and I go help
the Cat in the Hat?
He has to move a couple
of big things and fast.
- Well, if he needs help
and fast,
you'd better get going.
It's so nice of you to help.
- We can go! We can go!
- I know! I know!
To the Thinga-ma-jigger.
Buckle up!
[horn honks]
[playful music]
[whirs, clicks]
Flip the Jigger-ma-whizzer!
[boing]
[exciting music]
♪
Isn't this fun?
both: Whoo-hoo!
- ♪ Here we go, go, go,
go on an adventure ♪
♪ The Thinga-ma-jigger
is up and away ♪
both: ♪ Go, go, go,
go on an adventure ♪
♪ We're flying
with the Cat in the Hat today ♪
- Wow!
Cool!
- This is amazing!
Cat, what is this place?
- It's my studio.
Humble but dear to my heart.
This is where I create
my most artistic art.
- I never knew you were
such a good artist.
- Oh, go on.
But I am rather proud of
my two latest paintings.
both: Whoa!
- Nice!
- I'm entering them in
the Open Air Art Show today,
and I've got to get them
there fast.
Now, it's a bit
of a tricky trip
because we have to go through
Flowering Foghorn Bog.
- That's okay.
It sounds like fun.
- Brilliant!
Then we better get going.
It starts very soon.
- Don't worry, Cat.
My cart will be there
in no time.
- Sure, right after my cart.
- Oh, my!
Sounds like a race.
Ready?
Set.
[air horn blares]
Art cart away!
[both laughing, grunting]
[whimsical music]
[both laughing]
- That a girl, Sally!
Keep it up, Nick!
[both panting]
- Whoa!
[groans]
- Oh, boy.
- Uh-oh, time out.
- Sorry, Cat.
Is it okay?
- Perfect!
Not a thing wrong with it.
- There.
- Ready to roll again?
- Sure!
I've got a race to win.
- Me too.
- [panting]
- Wait, stop.
Sally's all frowny.
What's wrong?
- It's harder to push
all of the sudden.
Maybe I broke a wheel.
- Hm.
No.
Seems all right.
- Maybe that side of the road
is bumpier than mine.
- Bumps could slow her down.
That's totally true.
So why don't you try
a small Switcha-ma-roo?
- Okay. I'll go on the side
you were on, Nick.
♪
[grunts, panting]
No, it's not the road.
When I push forward, it feels
like something's pushing back.
- But there's nothing
in front of it.
Nothing but air.
You know, we don't have
to make this a race.
It doesn't seem fair.
- Oh, no.
I'm not giving up that easily.
- What a champ.
Well, you heard her.
Let's go!
[foghorns blaring]
- Whoa!
- Not to worry, kids.
These are
the famous flowering foghorns
of Flowering Foghorn Bog.
[foghorns blaring]
- [chuckles] Okay.
Your turn, Sally.
- Coming through.
[grunting]
- Look.
Your cart is pushing the fog.
My cart sliced right
through it.
- Really?
That's weird.
- Shall we keep going?
[groans]
Huh?
Oh.
Just a little roadblock.
We can squeeze through here.
- [groans]
Whoops.
Got to turn this
so we can get through.
- Here you go.
- Thanks, Cat.
[foghorn blares]
- Almost there, kids!
Come on!
[foghorn blares]
- Hey, it's easier to push now.
- Huh, weird.
What's different?
- Huh. The only thing
that changed is...
the painting's
not sideways anymore.
I flipped it so it would go
between the rocks.
- But it's still
the same painting.
It didn't get lighter
or anything.
Why should it be easier
to push?
- Huh, what was slowing
me down before?
There was nothing
in front of me.
- Ah-ha!
Right!
As Nick said, nothing but air.
- Air? [gasps]
That's it!
- What's it?
- Watch.
You two run ahead a little way
and then look back.
- Okay.
Okay, Sally.
- I just have to wait
for the next flowering foghorn.
[foghorn blares]
Did the painting push
the air like it did before?
- No, it sliced right through
like mine did.
- Okay, now I'll do
the other way.
[grunts]
[foghorn blares]
[grunts]
[grunts]
- Yes.
That time you pushed
a lot of air.
- And it's harder for me
to push it this way too.
If there's nothing in front
of me but air,
then could it be air
that's slowing me down?
- How can air slow you down?
- When the painting
sits that way
it's a lot wider,
so there's more space
for the air to push on.
But when it sits
the other way it's thin.
- Hm. So there's less space
for the air to push on?
- Right, and it's easier
to push through the air.
That's so cool.
- Ah! How clever you are.
[alarm ringing]
Oh, dear.
Only a few minutes
until it's too late
to enter my paintings
in the art show.
We've got to hurry!
- I better turn this painting.
- Right.
- Thanks.
Race ya!
[upbeat music]
♪
It's the art show.
We made it!
- Well, not quite.
We have to get the carts down
Greasy Grassy Hill first.
It's very slippery.
- And steep.
- How are we going to get
your art down the hill safely?
- Hm.Ha-ha!
If we need steady hands
to hold on to my art,
Thing One and Thing Two
could each ride on a cart.
[whistles]
- Wha-hoo!
- Whoo-hoo!
both: Ho, ho, ho-ho, ho, ho.
Ooh, ah.
[chuckles]
- Oh Things, could you help us
get these paintings
safely down the hill?
- Mm.
[chatters]
- Hold on tight.
It's very slippery.
- Okay.
Let's go slowly.
- Whoa.
You weren't kidding, Cat.
- [grunts]Yeah.
Greasy Grassy Hill
is really slippery.
Whoa!
Whoa-wha!
[all grunting]
Whoa!
- Whee-hee-hee!
- They're going to crash.
- Hit the brakes!
- There are no brakes.
- Things! Turn the paintings
wide side out.
both: Oh.
[grunting]
- Oh, that was brilliant!
You used air to slow
the Things down.
- But we still got here fast
enough to enter the art show.
[both chattering]
- Thanks, Things,
and thank you, kids.
I knew you'd be speedy movers.
- You know what?
I forgot to notice
whose cart got here first.
- That's okay.
We can have a rematch
back home
with our toy cars.
And this time
it'll be a fair race.
- In that case, I'll come back
and check out
the art show later.
This is a race I gotta see.
- What could they be doing?
- Something to make it
a fair race.
- Okay.
We're ready!
- We added a pointy front
to both cars
so they'll both slice
through the air.
- Why, that's ever so clever
and ever so fair.
You just fixed up both cars
so they push the same air.
- Racers, on your marks...
Get set,
go!
- A tie!
Ah! I love a tie!
Do it again!
both: Yeah!
- Whoo!
- All right!
[both laugh]
[upbeat music]
♪