The Cat in the Hat
Design Time/A Prize Surprise
Season 3 Episode 9 | 23m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
The kids go to Blueprintia where designs become real. / The kids learn about magnets.
Sally is trying to make a vase for her mother but each one she tries falls over. Cat takes the kids to Blueprintia where designs become real. / The kids are creating a game that involves "fishing" for prizes, but they can't "catch" any of the prizes. The Cat takes them to Arcade Island where they discover what will and won't be attracted to a magnet.
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The Cat in the Hat
Design Time/A Prize Surprise
Season 3 Episode 9 | 23m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
Sally is trying to make a vase for her mother but each one she tries falls over. Cat takes the kids to Blueprintia where designs become real. / The kids are creating a game that involves "fishing" for prizes, but they can't "catch" any of the prizes. The Cat takes them to Arcade Island where they discover what will and won't be attracted to a magnet.
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♪ 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) ♪ Okay, let's see how this one works.
Maybe this one will stand up.
Just one way to find out, Fish.
I've gotta test it.
Oh, dear.
(Sighing) All I want to do is make a vase that stands up and looks pretty with a flower in it, so I could give it to my mom.
But it's harder than I thought.
Well, at least we know which ones don't work.
So maybe you'll get it right next time.
You'd better.
You're running out of clay!
That's the good thing about drawings.
Crayons last a long time.
(Sally laughing) Nice robot!
I think I'll give this to my mom.
Don't you just love presents?
(Thudding) Huh?
Where'd that come from?
Who's it for?
Maybe it's for me!
Look, there's a label.
"For Nick and Sally."
Who's it from?
What could it be?
Me, me, me!
(Laughing) It's the Cat in the Hat, in a box!
We thought you were a present.
Aren't presents wonderful?
Like this... fridge-worthy drawing?
Or one of these lovely... uhh... Vases.
Or at least, they're supposed to be vases, if I can ever get one to stand up.
Hmm... Luckily, I know a lot about making things work.
And I know the perfect place to work things out: Blueprintia!
(Gasping) Even my vase?
Without a doubt!
Your mother will not mind at all if you do.
Hey, Mom?
Can I go to Blueprintia with Nick and the Cat in the Hat?
I can't say why, it's a surprise!
MOM: I love surprises!
Sure, honey, have fun!
We can go, we can go!
I know, I know!
To the Thingamajigger!
Buckle up.
(Horn honking) Flick the jigger-mawizzer.
(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 ♪ ♪ Wow!
We've never been to a place like this before.
If you're working things out, then Blueprintia's for you.
It's the best place to try all the things you might do.
Blueprintia is where ideas come to life!
This is the place where you can draw things out before you actually make them.
BOTH: Wow!
Which is great, because most ideas don't work right on the first try.
Oop!
Ohh!
Uh-oh!
This stool's a little tippy.
We can fix that in a jiffy.
Look!
These legs are three stripes long, but this one-- FISH: Is only two stripes long, Cat!
No problem in Blueprintia.
(Laughing) (Humming cheerfully) Ahh... Now that all the legs are the same length, this is much better.
Whoa!
That's so cool!
You fix that stool just by changing the drawing!
I'm going to draw vases and vases and vases, and see which one works best.
May I please have that pencil, Cat?
Of course!
Now, where did it go?
Hey, Sally, look!
Remember my robot drawing?
Now I get to try it out for real!
(Engine sputtering, beeping) Hey!
Ha-ha!
It works!
(Beeping) It's good you added bumpers in that robot.
He seems a little clumsy.
(Laughing) I say a lot clumsy.
(Beeping) Look out!
(Crashing, beeping) NICK: Sorry, Fish, I didn't mean for it to bump things over.
Maybe you should turn that robot off.
(Beeping, engine revving) Hey!
Whoa!
Oh, no!
(Beeping) Uh-oh, my robot's out of control!
SALLY: That robot's bumping everything over!
We have to shut it down.
I can do it if I get close enough, but I need something to hide behind.
Problem is, you need something that's bump-proof.
(Gasping) How about a big, tall tower?
That should work.
Let's put it to the test.
(Gasping) This is a good place.
♪ This is great to hide behind, Sally.
When the robot tries to knock the tower over, I'll turn it off!
Now all we need to do is make sure the robot sees it.
When you need some attention directed at you, who better to call than Thing 1 and Thing 2?
(Whistling) Whoo-hoo!
Ta-da!
Ohh... (Muttering) (Babbling in confusion) Allow me.
(Whistling cheerfully) We need that robot, over there... (Beeping) To notice there's a tower over here that needs to be bumped into.
BOTH: Uh-huh!
(Babbling) (Shouting triumphantly) (Giggling) Hi, Things!
You know what to do!
(Shouting, babbling) (Beeping) Here it comes!
Get ready to jump out and flip that switch!
(Beeping, Things babbling) (Shouting) BOTH: Uh-oh!
(Screaming) That didn't work.
We'll have to try another idea.
That's what Blueprintia is all about.
Maybe if we made the tower taller, it would be harder to knock over.
Okay, do it.
♪ Time to test your new idea.
(Grunting) (Babbling) Uh-oh!
Well, making it taller sure didn't help.
The Things knocked it right over!
Hmm... maybe a tower's the wrong way to go?
You made that robot a really good bumper, Nick!
Look around.
It's bumped everything over!
Not everything, Cat.
This hat stand isn't nearly as tall as our tower.
Why is it still standing?
Look!
(Gasping) This big plant is still standing too!
And this statue is still standing as well.
Huh... Why are these three still standing, and everything else fell down?
(Gasping) I know!
They're all wider at the bottom!
Hmm... you're right!
Sally, you may have gotten to the bottom of it.
This hat stand is much wider at the bottom than it is at the top.
Maybe... if the tower's wider at the bottom, it might not fall!
Let's try it and see!
♪ BOTH: Ohh!
Well, that looks like quite an improvement.
Things, do your thing!
(Chattering, grunting) Nick, hide!
♪ (Shouting, babbling) (Engine revving, chattering continuing) (Babbling) (Clanging) Now's your chance, Nick!
Flick that switch!
(Beeping, clanging) (Powering down) Way to go, Nick!
It was your great tower design that did it.
What things you can do when you try different ways.
Now perhaps you can try redesigning your vase.
If I want a vase that doesn't fall over, it needs to be wider at the bottom than it is at the top.
Ta-da!
BOTH: Ooh!
Let's try it out!
(Humming cheerfully) That looks beautiful, Cat.
(Humming cheerfully) Ready?
BOTH: Ready!
Oops!
(Rattling) It didn't fall over!
(Sighing in relief) ♪ It works!
I can't wait to get back, and make a vase for real.
Can I take the design with me?
Yes, in a way.
What do you mean, "in a way"?
Well, you may not be able to take the vase in your hands, but you can take the idea in here.
You mean, the idea of drawing my vase first, before I try to make it?
I couldn't have said it better myself!
Hmm, look at that.
Did Nick's robot ever leave a big mess!
Hmm... Ah-ha!
May I borrow the pencil, please?
I know that look!
Nick's got an idea, Cat.
Almost finished.
There!
These picker-uppers should help fix it.
(Engine revving, beeping) ♪ (Giggling) It works, Nick!
Great idea!
Let's go home so you can make a vase that doesn't fall over.
Here's my design.
What do you think?
Whoo-hoo, lookin' good, Sally!
Your mother will love it!
Drawing it first really helped.
♪ (Sniffing, sighing) Ready to see if it works?
You know it will!
Not until we test it.
(Gasping) It's perfect!
(All cheering) Thanks to all that design time.
Nick, I found some great stuff for our fish pond game.
Me too!
Look!
Dad gave me these metal clips, and Mom gave me some old curtain rings.
And I brought some of my bracelets.
Great!
And everything has a hole in the middle for a hook to catch.
Our fish pond is gonna be the best game at the whole block party!
Fish ponds are the best ponds!
Let's try it out.
(Giggling) Step right up and fish for prizes!
Hook a ring, and win a lollipop!
Try that one.
There!
You went right over it.
I'm trying, but I can't get the hook to pick them up.
But if our hook doesn't work, how can anybody win a lollipop?
Win?
A lollipop?
Can I play?
I know a lot about catching things.
(Giggling) Sure, Cat.
Give it a try.
♪ Good luck ♪ ♪ Hmm, it's more tricky than I thought.
Not a single ring got caught!
Nobody's going to want to play our game if they can't catch anything.
Hmm...
I do know a fantastic game where you can catch things.
But here's the hook: there isn't one!
(Laughing) What do you mean?
Ah-ha, you'll have to come to Arcade Island to find out.
Your mother won't mind at all if you do!
Mom?
Can Nick and I fly to Arcade Island with the Cat in the Hat, to find out how to make our game work?
MOM: Sure!
You pop over to Arcade Island, while I finish popping the popcorn for the block party.
We can go, we can go!
I know, I know!
To the Thingamajigger!
Buckle up.
(Horn honking) Flick the jigger-mawizzer.
(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 ♪ ♪ Here we are at a tropical island arcade, where we'll play the best game that has ever been played.
NICK: Whoa!
Look at all the games!
Ahh, but let me show you my favorite one!
The Catch-A-Prize Surprise game!
This is amazing!
So you try to catch things at the bottom, like in our game!
Uhh, how do you play?
Just watch and you'll see with your very own eyes.
You can use this prize-catcher to catch your own prize!
Wow!
You caught a harmonica!
That's so cool!
Surprise!
(Playing jaunty folk rhythm) (Laughing) Isn't it fun?
Your turn, Nick.
♪ Hey, I caught a prize too!
But how?
There's no hook.
Shall we go in for a closer look?
But we can't.
We're too big!
We'll fit if we use the shrinkamaboodle first.
But I haven't played yet!
And I think I'd be really good at this.
Then play away, Fish.
We'll cheer you on from the inside.
Hop in, kids!
Hit the shrinkamaboodle!
Uhh, where's the button?
Oh, sorry.
I guess it's under my magneto-shopping list holder.
Ready to shrink, Sally?
Yeah!
♪ (Cheering) SALLY: It looks huge!
But I still don't see how it pulls up the prizes.
Well, it is quite a puzzle, that's certainly true.
What could pull things together?
Is it some kind of glue?
Hmm... (Gasping) Wait!
I know something that pulls things together.
It's holding up your shopping list.
CAT: Hmm... You mean a magnet?
Yeah.
We have some at home on the fridge.
I bet that's what the prize-catcher is, a big magnet!
Of course!
Let's see it catch a prize, like... (Gasping) That blue dog!
It's so cute!
Challenge accepted, Sally!
(Whirring) NICK: Good aim, Fish!
Aww... Why didn't the magnet pull it up?
Yeah, it landed right on it.
SALLY: Maybe the dog's caught on something?
The poor pooch!
Let's help him out.
Going down!
Let's pull the other prizes away, to make sure the dog isn't stuck.
(Straining, rattling) (Straining, clanging) (Grunting in exertion) There!
Now it's not stuff.
Try again, Fish!
Why won't it catch the dog?
It pulls everything else up.
Dogs, they can be so stubborn!
Fish!
Look at all the prizes the magnet did pick up.
Do you see anything different about the dog?
Well, it can't be color.
The dog is blue, just like the car.
SALLY: Right.
And the magnet lifted that.
Hmm... could the dog be too heavy?
Maybe, but how do we know for sure?
Hey!
It took all three of us to move that train engine, and I lifted the dog all by myself.
That's right!
Uhh, I'm sorry, what's your point, Sally?
Well, the train is heavier than the dog, so if the magnet can pick up the train... We'll know the dog isn't too heavy!
(Laughing) Are you two ever clever!
All right, I'll see how well this magnet picks up that train.
(Whirring, clanging) Ah, no!
Not the Thingamajigger!
That was so not what I meant to do.
Without the Thingamajigger, how are we gonna get out of here?
(Chuckling) When you want to escape from a room with a view, then the pilots to call are Thing 1 and Thing 2!
(Whistling) (Cheering) BOTH: Ta-da!
Could you two please fly the little Thingamajigger back to here and rescue us?
BOTH: Uh-huh!
Thanks ever so much.
(Imitating triumphant fanfare) (Record needle scratching) BOTH: Ohh... (Doors closing, car horn honking) (Things imitating car engine) Hey, stop that.
You need to fly in there and rescue our friends.
(Imitating horn honking, shouting) Ahh!
Now look what you've done!
(Chattering questioningly) BOTH: Oopsie!
(Gasping) I hope it still works.
(Whirring) Oh, great!
Now the game's running all by itself!
(Shouting) I can't stop it!
(Shouting in panic) BOTH: Uh-oh!
(Whirring, clinking) (Grunting, shouting) The Things can't fly in with all the prizes piling up.
Maybe there's another way.
If we can figure out what the magnet will pull up, we can grab on and be lifted out.
Now that's what I call a great plan.
(Whirring) NICK: Okay, so far, all the things the magnet has pulled up are shiny.
And they all go clink.
(Whirring, rattling) (Whirring, rattling) (Gasping) Did you see that?
It didn't stick to the wooden part, it pulled over to the metal part.
Nick, all the prizes had metal parts!
The train, the coin bank...
So maybe magnets only stick to some kinds of metal.
Oh, you're so clever!
(Laughing) And just in the nick-- and Sally-- of time.
We're almost out of prizes!
(Gasping) The plane!
Oh, no!
(Whirring, clinking) (Grunting) (Gasping) All that's left is the dog, and there's nothing metal on him!
But maybe there used to be.
Look!
SALLY: Oh, yeah, his collar slipped off, and it has a metal dog tag on it!
That's why the magnet didn't pull him up.
♪ Don't worry, I've got this!
(Grunting) There.
It worked!
Grab on, kids.
We're going up!
Yahoo!
(Cheering, laughing) Yeah!
(All cheering, laughing) NICK: These fridge magnets are perfect!
They should work just like the one on Arcade Island.
And now that we know magnets stick to some metals, we'll only use metal rings in our game.
Time to go prize-fishing.
Wait!
I want a front-row seat!
(Laughing) Nick, Sally, are you ready?
Why don't you try it first, Cat?
Me?
(Laughing) Well, I thought you'd never ask.
We have a winner!
(Laughing) Oh, the game works, it's delightful!
I knew you'd come through.
And the best prize of all is to play it with you.
But I still get a lollipop, right?
(Laughing) Of course, Cat.
♪
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