♪ Hey ♪ BOTH: 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!

♪ And now he’s arrived in the Thingamajigger ♪ ♪ The thing that he drives ♪ ♪ He’s a cat and he’s oodles of fun ♪ ♪ With his hairy helpers, Thing 2 and Thing 1 ♪ Yoo-hoo!

♪ Whoa!

Woo-hoo!

♪ Can’t stop 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 ♪ ♪ He knows a lot about that ♪ (Children laughing) ♪ No one can get to my cookies while I’m guarding!

Look out, Sally!

The cookie snatcher is coming!

No one gets past me, Nick!

♪ I can!

Yay!

(Laughing) I’ll show you how to keep the cookie jar safe.

Right!

(Laughing) Cookie snatchers can’t sneak past me.

Oh, yes they can!

Huh?

Easy!

(Both laughing) Did anyone lose a cookie jar?

It’s the Cat!

The Cat in the Hat!

He snuck up on us, too!

Mm, delicious!

You should really take better care of your cookies.

But how do we keep the cookies safe?

You could ask a beetle.

Mm!

A beetle?

Beetles know all about keeping things safe.

But which kind of beetle should we visit?

Let me see... Let’s visit a big one!

Hm, if you want big, it has to be Stan, the giant stag beetle, in the Walla Walloo Wood.

Let’s go and see Stan!

Your mother will not mind at all if you do.

(Laughing) Mom!

Can Nick and I go see Stan, the giant stag beetle and find out how to keep stuff safe?

MOM: Stan the giant stag beetle?

Sure!

Say a giant hello from me.

We will.

Thanks, Mom!

(Both laughing) We can go, we can go!

I know, I know!

To the Thingamajigger!

Buckle up!

(Horn honking) ♪ Flick the jigger-mawizzer!

(Laughing) (Horn honking) (Trumpets sounding) Isn’t this fun?

SALLY AND NICK: Yahoo!

♪ Here we go, go, go, go ♪ ♪ On an adventure ♪ ♪ The Thingamajigger is up and away ♪ ♪ Go, go, go, go ♪ ♪ On an adventure ♪ ♪ We’re flying with the Cat in the Hat today ♪ ♪ We’ll get some tips from stag beetle, Stan ♪ ♪ ’Bout keeping stuff safe the way beetles can ♪ ♪ Here we go, go, go, go ♪ ♪ On an adventure ♪ ♪ Go, go, go, go, go!

♪ ♪ (Horn honking) Welcome to the Wood of Walla Walloo!

Does anyone see Stan?

Are giant stag beetles really big?

Big for beetles.

But smaller than us.

Maybe we should shrink down to beetle size.

Good idea!

Press the shrinkamadoodle.

(Giggling) What sort of things do beetles take care of?

They don’t have cookie jars.

Who’s that on my tree stump?!

CAT IN THE HAT: There’s your answer.

Stan likes to guard the tree stump where he lives.

Get off my tree stump!

Whoa, Stan’s scary!

Super scary!

(Groaning) BOTH: Whoa!

(Stan roaring) Stan, it’s me!

Oh, Cat!

You should have said you were coming.

Whoa!

Uh, can you give me a hand?

No problem!

Ready to roll, team?

One, two, three!

Go!

(All straining) Oh, thank you so much for helping me.

You’re welcome!

I’m Nick, and this is my friend, Sally.

Pleased to meet you both.

See?

Stan isn’t scary at all.

Nah, it’s all just pretend.

I wouldn’t hurt a fly.

Don’t you eat flies?

No, I prefer wood sap!

Oh, and honeydew.

Mm-mm!

But you’ve got those scary horns!

Oh, they’re for scaring away!

(Chuckling) I keep other bugs away from my stump by looking scary.

Oh, I have an idea!

We can look scary to keep sneaky cookie snatchers away from our cookie jar!

Like this-- (Growling) (Growling) Uh, not bad.

Uh...

If you don’t mind me saying, you need to look a little scarier.

Boy, I can fix that!

Ta-da!

NICK: Cool!

(Laughing) What do you think?

Getting there!

Hey, can you make yourselves look bigger?

Like this!

Roar!

(All roaring) How do we look now?

(Roaring) Aah!

Scary monsters!

(Laughing) Stan’s scare-away trick really does work!

STAN: Well, it works for me.

But other beetles have other tricks to stay safe.

Hey, you should meet Cliff, the click beetle!

Does he have a special trick?

Only one of the best!

He does!

You have to see it.

To the Thingamajigger!

BOTH: Bye!

(Roaring) Bye-bye!

(Laughing) CAT IN THE HAT: How do we keep our cookie jar safe?

♪ We learned a neat trick ♪ ♪ From a beetle today ♪ ♪ Stan’s way to do it is called "scare away!"

♪ ♪ We learned a neat trick ♪ ♪ From a beetle today ♪ ♪ A trick called "scare away" ♪ There’s Cliff!

SALLY: He doesn’t look scary like Stan.

NICK: Is he asleep?

Let’s creep up on him and find out.

ALL: Whoa!

Whoo!

(Laughing) Gets you every time, Cat.

I jump and you jump with surprise!

Wow!

That’s a great trick!

Oh, it’s not just a trick.

When you jump back, it gives me enough time to-- Aah!

Unfold my wings and fly away!

Is that how you keep stuff safe?

Ooh, it certainly keeps me safe.

If anyone tries to sneak up, I give ’em the old click and flip treatment!

How do you do it?

Easy!

I bend here and... flip!

(Laughing) Whoo, whoo!

Wow!

I wish we could do that!

Right!

If cookie snatchers snuck up on us, we’d surprise them with a flip and click!

Well, to flip like a beetle, that’s easy to do.

Just ask for some help from Thing 1 and Thing 2.

(Whistling) Hello!

Whoa!

(Chittering) (Laughing) Whee!

(Chittering) Uh-oh.

Aah!

(Struggling) (Laughing) Hey, a trampoline!

Now I can flip!

Yay!

Boing, boing!

Whee!

(Laughing) But we need to click, too!

Hm... Flick this stick quick to click, Nick.

(Laughing) (Clicking) Cool!

Let’s see what you can do!

Surprise us.

Look!

The Things are pretending to be cookie snatchers!

(Giggling) BOTH: One, two, three!

(Clicking) Uh-oh!

Bye-bye!

(Laughing) It worked!

Well, you may not look much like beetles, but you sure can click and flip!

Thanks for teaching us a cool trick.

It’s the best!

Well, not quite.

Hey, have you met Bobbie?

(Gasping) Bobbie, the bombardier beetle!

You have to meet her.

Let’s go!

See you later, Cliff!

SALLY AND NICK: Bye!

Bye now!

♪ So, how do we keep that cookie jar safe?

♪ We just learned another ♪ ♪ Neat beetle trick ♪ ♪ Cliff’s way to do it is called "flip and click" ♪ ♪ We just learned another ♪ ♪ Neat beetle trick ♪ ♪ A trick called "flip and click" ♪ Bobbie!

Hallo-ee!

Hello.

You looking for me?

We are!

These are my friends, Nick and Sally.

They want to know how to keep sneaky snatchers away.

Can you show us?

Oh, I can.

But are you sure you want me to?

Yes, please!

We hear you can do a great trick!

Okay, but it can get very messy.

And you need to stand back.

(Chuckling) Way back!

Ah!

How ’bout this?

(Chuckling) If somebody nasty comes near me, this is what I do.

♪ (Sniffing) ALL: Ew, whoa!

Stinky, stinky!

That stinks!

Eww!

P-U!

Sorry.

I did warn you!

How do you do that?

Easy!

I have these two special liquids inside me, and I mix them together.

Just like mixing rotten eggs and fizzy soda.

(Coughing) (Laughing) They mix together inside me, and get hot and stinky.

Then I spray away.

Neat!

But our bodies don’t work that way.

We can never do a stinky spray away trick like that.

No.

But it’s given me a great idea!

Thanks, Bobbie!

BOTH: Goodbye!

♪ We learned three neat tricks from beetles today ♪ THE CAT: ♪ Stan’s keep stuff safe trick is called-- ♪ ♪ Scare away!

♪ THE CAT: ♪ Cliff used surprise as his beetle trick ♪ ♪ A trick called flip and click ♪ THE CAT: ♪ Bombardier Bobbie has her own way ♪ ♪ With a pop and a stink it’s called-- ♪ ♪ Spray away ♪ ♪ ROBOTIC VOICE: I want cookies.

No cookie snatcher gets past us!

We’ll see about that!

We are going to keep you away the beetle way!

BOTH: Scare away!

Oh, my!

Ha ha!

Click and flip!

Oh!

I didn’t see that coming!

(Laughing) No!

You wouldn’t!

No!

Stinky socks!

Go, Sally!

Spray away!

(Laughing) Oh, I’m so glad I’m wearing my waterproof hat!

(All laughing) Isn’t this fun?

♪ (Slurping) Mm!

Blueberry juice popsicles!

My favorite!

Mm... (Laughing) Hey Nick, your tongue is blue!

Hey!

(Laughing) Cool!

So is yours, Sally!

It is?

Aah... (Laughing) I wish we could have another one.

Do you think your mom would let us?

I don’t think so.

(Sighing) Too bad.

THE CAT: Don’t feel blue, Nick!

A-ha!

(Laughing) It’s the Cat!

The Cat in the Hat!

Why don’t you just use your tongues to get another delicious blue popsicle?

And maybe one for me too!

Cat, we can’t use our tongues to get food.

Just to taste it.

Really?

Well, you should meet some of my friends with terrific tricky tongues.

They use them to find, pick and catch all kinds of things to eat!

Cool!

I wish we could do that with our tongues.

Hm!

Maybe my friends can teach you.

Want to go visit them?

(Both gasping) Can we?

Sure!

Your mother will not mind at all if you do!

(Laughing) Mom!

Is it okay if we go to meet some of Cat’s friends with terrific tricky tongues?

MOM: Terrific tricky tongues?

Sure!

That is a real tongue-twister to say.

(Giggling) It is!

Thanks, Mom.

BOTH: We can go, we can go!

I know, I know!

To the Thingamajigger!

Buckle up!

(Horn honking) ♪ Flick the jigger-mawizzer!

(Laughing) (Horn honking) (Trumpets sounding) Isn’t this fun?

SALLY AND NICK: Yahoo!

♪ Here we go, go, go, go ♪ ♪ On an adventure ♪ ♪ The Thingamajigger is up and away ♪ ♪ Go, go, go, go ♪ ♪ On an adventure ♪ ♪ We’re flying with the Cat in the Hat today ♪ ♪ We’re off to meet creatures with tongues that are neat ♪ ♪ They use them to find, pick and catch what they eat ♪ ♪ Here we go, go, go, go ♪ ♪ On an adventure ♪ ♪ Go, go, go, go, go!

♪ ♪ (Horn honking) THE CAT: First stop, the So Sunny Savannah!

Home to Treetop Tom, the giraffe!

SALLY AND NICK: Woo-hoo!

Treetop Tom!

I’ve brought my friends to show them your marvelous tongue!

BOTH: Hi, Treetop Tom!

Hi!

Hi!

You know, my tongue might be hard to see from down there.

Oh, you’re so right!

Pull the stiltamadoodle, Sally!

(Laughing) NICK: Oops!

Can we go a little higher?

Aah!

Great idea!

(Honking) Cool!

I’ve never seen beans growing on a tree before.

Ow!

Oh, are you okay?

NICK: The tree’s covered in sharp thorns.

No problem!

I can get you a seed pod, Nick.

NICK: Be careful, Tom!

BOTH: Oh!

That’s what I call a real tongue twister!

Amazing!

But why don’t you get hurt by the thorns?

Well, would you like to feel my tongue?

Sure!

Yes!

You bet!

Wow!

It feels so tough!

That must be why the thorns don’t hurt you.

My, you’re clever!

Ooh, yummy leaves to eat!

Mm!

(Slurping) Wow!

Your tongue’s twisty enough to pull leaves right off the tree!

(Both babbling) I don’t think we can learn to pick food with our tongues like Tom.

We’ll find something you can do.

Let’s visit my friend Snifty in Forest Ferazzi.

Stiltamadoodle, down!

See ya, Tom!

Bye, Tom!

Thanks for visiting!

(Chuckling) ♪ I know a song about a tongue ♪ ♪ A song that needs to be sung ♪ ♪ A giraffe’s blue tongue is long, twisty and tough ♪ ♪ It doesn’t mind thorns ♪ ♪ But loves green leaves and stuff ♪ (Laughing) Here we are!

The Forest Ferazzi!

What does your friend look like?

Snifty’s about this wide and "thisss" long.

Hmm... Ah!

Found her!

Well, if it isn’t the Cat in the Hat!

(Laughing) Sally, Nick, meet my very close friend Snifty the Snake.

Charmed, I’m sure.

Snifty just loves having visitors.

(Laughing) I sure do!

Welcome, Nick and Sally.

You smell funny.

Almost like... giraffe!

Smell?

I thought you were going to lick us!

With your flicky tongue!

What my tongue’s really good at is smelling.

Flicking my tongue brings all the smells around me into my head.

Oh!

Like sniffing with our noses brings all the smells into our heads!

(Sniffing) You got it!

My tongue pops out-- picks up some smells.

My tongue pops in-- then I can smell those smells.

Is that how you find your food?

That’s right!

I keep flicking until I smell something good to eat.

Mm, delicious!

Mice!

BOTH: Ew!

I wish we could find food with our tongues.

Then let’s try!

We’ll make it a game.

And when there’s playing to do, I always call for Thing 1 and Thing 2.

(Whistling) Hello!

Whee!

(Chittering, laughing) I don’t think I smell anything!

Me either.

(Chittering) BOTH: Ta-da!

(Sniffing) Ew!

(Groaning) Mm!

(Laughing) THE CAT: And go!

See if you can find the food, Nick and Sally.

Go, Nick and Sally!

Use those tongues.

BOTH: (Babbling) I don’t think this works.

You can’t smell anything?

Nothing!

But I sure can with my nose.

(Sniffing) Mm!

Corn on the cob!

(Sniffing) Euch!

And stinky cheese!

Nice work, Things.

Bye!

Bye-bye!

I don’t think our tongues can learn to smell.

Not even mice!

But I sure can!

Mm, lunch!

See you!

Bye, thanks!

See ya!

See ya, Snifty!

Hm.

Well, I’ve got one more friend who lives nearby.

Colin, who uses his tongue to catch what he eats.

Maybe he can teach you.

Cool!

Let’s go!

♪ I know a song about a tongue ♪ ♪ A song that needs to be sung ♪ ♪ A snake has a tongue that flicks in and out ♪ ♪ So it can smell when there’s some food about ♪ Cat, are you sure your friend’s nearby?

(Gasping) Hey, who did that?

Colin!

Come out, come out, wherever you are!

(Gasping) (Laughing) Nick and Sally, meet Colin Chameleon, the fastest tongue in the West.

Not to mention one of the longest.

And the best at hat stealing.

SALLY AND NICK: Hi!

Fastest tongue in the West, you say?

We’ll see about that, partner!

(Giggling) Ooh, I love a Wild West showdown!

Let’s all play.

Ready, set?

Snap!

(All babbling) And again!

Snap!

(All babbling) Um, did we win?

Win?

Ha, of course not!

You weren’t even close!

See?

I told you he was the best.

All I could see was a blur.

That blur was my tongue!

It’s so fast you can’t even see it.

I know what we need!

Some Not-So-Fast Glasses.

They make quick things appear just as slow as molasses.

(Laughing) Okay, Colin, show us your stuff!

NICK: Your tongue’s not just fast-- SALLY: It’s longer than your whole body!

(Gulping) Oh, it’s gotta be to catch delicious bugs by surprise.

I wish we had tongues that could help us catch a meal.

As long as that meal wasn’t bugs.

(All laughing) To the Thingamajigger!

Bye, Colin!

See ya, partner!

See you later!

(Cat laughing) THE CAT: Wasn’t that fun?

♪ I know a song about a tongue ♪ ♪ A song that needs to be sung ♪ ♪ A chameleon’s tongue is so long and so fast ♪ ♪ Catching his lunch is always such a blast ♪ ♪ Whether they’re fast, tough ♪ ♪ Or smelly or long ♪ ♪ When an animal’s feeding, a tongue ♪ (Laughing) ♪ Can’t go wrong ♪ (All laughing) It’s too bad that we didn’t learn any tricks that would help our tongues get food.

Not so fast, Nick!

I’ve got the perfect idea for how we can use our tongues to get food!

(Whispering) Of course!

What?

Tell me!

Oh come on, tell me!

(Whispering) Aren’t you clever!

(All laughing) Mom, we’re back!

And we’re hungry!

Can we have something to eat?

BOTH: Please?

MOM: Sure!

BOTH: Yes!

Our tongues are pretty amazing, too!

Because they help us talk!

Yeah!

And that’s my favorite way to get food.

Here’s a tray of tasty treats for two terrific tricky tongues!

(Chuckling) BOTH: Mm-mm!

Thank you!

Psst, hey, kids!

Want to find out more fun stuff about animals, plants and, well, fish?

Go to pbskids.org for fun games, fascinating facts and fin-tastic activities!

Ha, ha, ha!

♪