The Cat in the Hat
Changing Perspective
Clip: Season 3 Episode 17 | 3m 22sVideo has Closed Captions
With help from Thing 1 & Thing 2, Sally and Nick discover things aren't what first appear.
When viewed from the side, the farthest door appears to be smaller than the closest door. Because Thing 1 and Thing 2 are the same height, they help demonstrate that the doors are the same height. Then, Nick and Sally observe that when they walk to a different place and view the doors head on, they all appear to be the same size.
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The Cat in the Hat
Changing Perspective
Clip: Season 3 Episode 17 | 3m 22sVideo has Closed Captions
When viewed from the side, the farthest door appears to be smaller than the closest door. Because Thing 1 and Thing 2 are the same height, they help demonstrate that the doors are the same height. Then, Nick and Sally observe that when they walk to a different place and view the doors head on, they all appear to be the same size.
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For this fun fact finding mission, you have to find which door is the tallest and which is the shortest.
The door closest to us looks like the biggest to me.
And the one that's farthest looks like the smallest.
But now we know we can't trust our eyes.
There's only one way to know for sure.
Get evidence by measuring.
All those doors?
You're going to need help.
When all kinds of measuring needs to be done, it's time to rely on Thing 2 and Thing 1.
(Whistling) (Cheering) Hello!
Why, hello, Things.
We need you to measure all these doors and find out which one is the tallest and which is the shortest.
You can use my handy-dandy candy stripe measure.
Ooh!
Ooh!
(Zapping) Hmm, it's not handy or dandy anymore.
We need something else to measure with.
But what?
Thanks to the Things, we don't have the measurer anymore.
(Groaning) But we do have the Things.
Huh?
Huh?
Those Things are the same height.
That's totally true.
So, what can you do?
We can measure the doors using the Things.
Thing 1, go stand in front of the closest door.
(Humming) NICK: Thing 1 is as tall as the first door.
Thing 2, you go stand in front of the last door.
(Humming) He'll be way taller than that door.
Huh?
NICK: He's the same height as the door!
And look.
Thing 2 looks a lot shorter than Thing 1.
Thing 2, did you shrink?
Wha?
Uh-uh!
We better check again and make sure they're the same height.
Come back so we can measure you again.
(Humming) Hmm, they're exactly the same height.
But the door down there is way smaller.
FISH: This doesn't make any sense!
Maybe we have to look at this a different way.
"A different way"?
What's that you say?
Things, can you go back to the doors?
Mm-hmm!
I wonder if the doors would look different if we go over here, in front of the houses.
That's amazing.
What do you see?
Explain it to me.
From here, we can see that all the doors are exactly the same height.
So?
So, I guess the last door just looked smaller because it was farther away.
And what final fun fact did you find?
I think things can look different, depending on where you're standing.
You discovered the secret behind Point O' View.
You must look from all sides before knowing what's true.
So, there are lots of different ways to get evidence.
And you can't really know what's true till you've got it.
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