The Cat in the Hat
Little Lemmings/Keep the Beat
Season 2 Episode 9 | 23m 30sVideo has Closed Captions
The kids want to play but it's cold out./The kids shrink down to learn about their hearts.
It's cold outside, but Nick and Sally want to keep playing. Is there a way to stay warm out in the cold? Cat's friend Lars the Lemming will know! / Nick and Sally have been running around the backyard and now their chests are thumpity thumping! The Cat explains that that is their hearts boom boom booming! But why? wonders Sally. A visit to Dr. Giggles will answer that question.
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The Cat in the Hat
Little Lemmings/Keep the Beat
Season 2 Episode 9 | 23m 30sVideo has Closed Captions
It's cold outside, but Nick and Sally want to keep playing. Is there a way to stay warm out in the cold? Cat's friend Lars the Lemming will know! / Nick and Sally have been running around the backyard and now their chests are thumpity thumping! The Cat explains that that is their hearts boom boom booming! But why? wonders Sally. A visit to Dr. Giggles will answer that question.
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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) ♪ (Shivering) You moved, Sally!
Not much!
Ah... ah...
I saw you move, Nick!
Achoo!
Yay!
I win!
I couldn’t help it.
It’s cold out here!
I’m the champion statue.
No, I am.
There’s only one prize-winning statue in this backyard!
It’s the Cat!
The Cat in the Hat!
The Cat on the Hat!
With the freezing knees!
(Shivering) Isn’t it a little cold for a standing still game?
Maybe, but it’s fun!
Watch me win this time!
We need a little heat.
Lucky I brought my hotter-me-upper.
Ready?
Go.
Oh, my!
Maybe the wheel-wuzzer’s broken.
I wish there was some other way to keep warm, so we can stay out when it’s cold.
Then you need to meet Lars the Lemming.
He knows all about how to get through the winter in a chilly place.
What’s a lemming?
Come to the Wondrabundra Tundra and see for yourselves.
Your mother will not mind at all if you do.
(Giggling) Mom!
Can we go to see Lars the Lemming in the Wondrabundra Tundra?
MOM: Lars the Lemming in the Wondrabundra Tundra?
Sure, honey.
I hope you get a warm welcome.
We will!
Thanks, Mom!
BOTH: We can go!
We can go!
I know!
I know!
To the Thingamajigger!
I never get cold when I go outside in the winter.
Why’s that, Fish?
Because I don’t go outside.
I stay in my bowl.
What a shame there isn’t room for all of us in there.
Buckle up!
Flick the Jigger-mawhizzer!
(Horn honking) (Trumpets playing) Isn’t this fun?
ALL: Ya-hoo!
♪ 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 a lemming called Lars ♪ ♪ At keeping warm, he one of the stars ♪ ♪ Here we go, go, go, go ♪ ♪ On an adventure ♪ ♪ Go, go, go, go, go ♪ Welcome to the Wondrabundra Tundra.
Does anyone see Lars?
Well, are lemmings big?
Lemmings big?
No, no, not at all.
Most lemmings I know are really quite small.
Maybe we should shrink down to lemming size.
Great idea!
Press the Shrinkamadoodle!
Oh, Lars?
Hello?
LARS: I’m in the burrow.
Huh?
What’s a burrow?
A burrow is a home in a hole in the ground.
A-ha!
The front door!
Lars!
Meet my friends, Nick and Sally!
Hi!
NICK AND SALLY: Hello!
Make yourselves at home, but it’s going to be a squeeze.
Sorry about this.
We’re doing some home improvements.
Be with you in a minute.
I just need to put more moss in this ceiling.
I’m Liv.
These are our children: Inger, Ingred, Ingville, Eric... Err... Oh!
Neil, Hans, Hedda.
Hi, there!
And who’s this, eating my hat?
Aww... Oh, we haven’t picked names for the babies yet.
Do you all live here?
When it gets cold we do.
This burrow is nice and warm!
Thanks to all the hard work I do, lining it with moss to keep the heat in.
I’d like to stay and talk more, but I have to go out.
You mean, you don’t stay in your burrow all winter?
Like a bear or a squirrel?
(Laughing) I’d love to sleep all winter long like those animals, but we’ve got to find food to eat.
We’d like some tips about how to stay warm in a cold place like this.
Follow me!
Watch and learn!
Aren’t they adorable?
(Sniffing) Brr!
It’s cold now that we’re not in the burrow anymore.
This isn’t cold!
It is for us.
My hands are freezing.
My footsies too!
If we were more lemming shape, maybe we’d be warmer.
Even better: grow thick fur like me.
Leave it to me.
Feeling ice cold from your head to your shoe?
Then you need some help from Thing 1 and Thing 2!
(Whistling) (Gibberish) Ta-da!
For the furriest of fur, you need the Fur-O-Matic!
Ta-da!
(Giggling) Can we try?
Why, of course!
I feel warmer already!
Wow!
We’ve got fur just like Lars!
What about you, Cat?
No, no, not for me.
I’m very attached to my own fur.
(Sniffing) Hey, Lars, wait for us!
Could be some food under here.
What sort of food?
Something tasty!
Moss... seeds... leaves!
Let’s take a look!
I bet that’s really cold, even with lemming fur.
There’s only one way to find out.
Did you find anything?
No.
It’s hard for us to stay under the snow for as long as you.
I could spend all winter there.
It kind of felt warm under the snow.
You’re right.
When it gets really cold, the warmest place to be is under the snow.
I always thought it would be colder under the snow.
It’s not.
That’s an old lemming trick to get through winter.
Like having a blanket, made of snow!
(Cat humming) Huh?
Cat!
CAT: Ouch!
Moss!
I found moss!
Hey!
That’s not very neighborly!
Let’s look over here.
I see some leaves.
I see a lot of lemmings.
Hey!
We saw it first!
Over here!
Hey, not fair!
Did you find something to eat?
No, it’s all gone.
There are so many other lemmings looking for food around here.
Lemmings.
Lemmings everywhere and not a bite to eat.
Hmm... you’re right!
I am?!
You know what this means?
It’s moving day!
LEMMINGS: Moving day!
Heh, heh, heh!
Let’s go!
But where-- where are you all going to?
You’ll find out when we get there!
Look!
All the lemmings are leaving!
SALLY: They’re all going in different directions.
What’s happening, Cat?
Let’s follow Lars and find out!
To the Thingamajigger!
Let’s go!
Ya-hoo!
♪ It’s moving day for the lemmings ♪ ♪ When all lemmings get up and go ♪ ♪ On a rollercoaster journey ♪ ♪ Across hills and fields of snow ♪ ♪ What makes lemmings go go go?
♪ ♪ I don’t know!
♪ ♪ What makes lemmings go go go?
♪ ♪ Lemmings don’t move one-by-one ♪ ♪ All of them move on just one day ♪ ♪ When lemmings go, they don’t go slow ♪ ♪ Nothing can get in their way ♪ ♪ What makes lemmings go, go, go?
♪ ♪ I don’t know ♪ ♪ What makes lemmings go, go, go?
♪ (Giggling) That was a great ride!
Lemmings don’t let anything get in their way.
Are you going to stay here, Lars?
It looks like you’ve got plenty to eat here.
Want to know the number one rule for getting through a long, cold winter?
Yeah!
Tell us.
Go where the food is!
You can’t last long without it.
Lars, honey, we’ve got more babies.
(Squeaking) (Laughing) Aww... Lemmings need more to eat, because there’s always more lemmings.
Thanks for telling us how to keep warm through the winter, Lars.
You’re welcome.
Goodbye!
Bye!
Bye.
Bye-bye, now.
You want to stay warm?
Take some lemming advice.
A fur coat keeps them cozy in frost and in ice.
His moss lined burrow stays snug in the snow and when he runs out of food, watch him-- ALL: Go, go and go!
We turned the treehouse into our lemming burrow.
What do you think, Cat?
It’s the first one I’ve ever seen in a tree and it’s toasty warm.
Mmm... We don’t have our lemming fur anymore, but we are wearing two coats each.
Isn’t that grand?
Now we can play statues as long as we like.
Hmm... Up.
MOM: Sally, Nick, I made hot chocolate with marshmallows.
(Gasping) Come and get it.
BOTH: Yay!
You moved!
Remember what Lars said, the most important lemming rule for living in a cold place-- Go to where the food is.
Hot chocolate-- And marshmallows.
Yeah!
(Giggling) I’m always near where the food is.
(Laughing) (Slurping) Mmm... ♪ (Panting and laughing) Can’t catch me, Sally.
Can too, Nick.
(Both laughing) (Laughing continues) Huh?
Tag, you’re it!
It?
BOTH: Huh?
Ha!
If anyone’s it, it’s me!
It’s the Cat!
The Cat in the Hat.
(Laughing) You run and I’ll try to catch you.
Okay, but I need a rest first.
Me too.
We ran so fast my chest is thumping.
Let’s see.
(Heart beating) Hmm... That thumpity thump is your heart boom, boom, booming.
Why’s it booming so fast?
I don’t know, but I do know someone who does.
(Gasping) Dr. Giggle.
My very own doctor.
He knows all about our insides.
Let’s go visit him.
Your mother will not mind at all if you do.
(Laughing) Mom, can we go with The Cat in the Hat to find out about boom-boomy hearts?
MOM: Find out about boom-boomy hearts?
(Chuckling) Well, I would go in a heartbeat.
Okay, honey.
Thanks, Mom!
BOTH: We can go!
We can go!
I know!
I know!
To the Thingamajigger!
Buckle up!
(Horn honking) Flick the Jigger-mawhizzer!
(Laughing) (Horn honking) (Trumpets playing) Isn’t this fun?!
ALL: Ya-hoo!
♪ 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!
♪ To see Dr. Giggles, we’ll be there real soon ♪ ♪ To learn why our hearts boom, boomy, boom, boom ♪ ♪ Here we go, go, go, go on an adventure ♪ ♪ Go, go, go, go, go!
♪ ♪ (Horn honking) Welcome to Dr. Giggle’s house.
I hope the Doctor’s in.
(Laughing) Huh?
Sure sounds like it.
(Laughing) Meet Dr. Giggles.
(Laughing) BOTH: Hello.
Hello.
(Laughing) Ah, the old tickle test.
What’s the test for?
Fun.
(Laughing) (Laughing) What can I do for you?
We have a question about our bodies.
Why do our hearts boom-boom, when we run fast?
To get to the heart of this matter, you’ll have to listen closely to your hearts!
(All laughing) Listening to your heart through a tube, let’s you hear better.
I prefer to use this.
It’s called a stethoscope.
(Heart beating) (Laughing) (Heart beating) Wow, this stereoscope makes your heart sound loud and clear.
Don’t you love that lub-dubby sound?
Oh, I do!
I do!
It’s the sound of a healthy heart pumping.
Our hearts are pumps?
The pumpiest pumpers that ever pumped.
Why not go see for yourself?
You mean go inside someone’s body?
Not someone.
Something.
When you want to explore inside bodies like you, whistle real loud for Thing 1 and Thing 2.
(Whistling) BOTH: Hello!
Why wants to volunteer?
Oooh, me!
Me!
Me!
Me!
Me!
Me!
Lub-dub, lub-dub, two hearts will not do, we have to choose one and that means you!
Yay!
Aww... Oh, never mind.
You can help Thing 2 get ready.
Yay!
Let’s go, go, go to the Thingamajigger!
I can’t believe we’re going inside Thing 2’s body!
(Chuckling) We’ll need to shrink real small.
Press the super duper Shrinkamadoodle.
(Giggling) (Laughing) And we’ll need the Subberyblubber on this incredible journey, Nick.
(Laughing) (Bell ringing) Now you’re ready to go inside Thing 2.
Pull the Wizzermafizzer.
Cool!
(Chime sounding) NICK: Whoa!
BOTH: Wow!
FISH: We’re inside Thing 2!
SALLY: In some kind of tube!
Our bodies are full of tubes big and small.
Where does this one go?
We’re about to find out!
ALL: Wee!
Whee... Wow!
Cool!
Ooh!
SALLY: What’s this red stuff we’re floating in?
Beautiful blood!
BOTH: Blood?
Sure.
Blood’s very important inside your body.
And if you cut your finger, a little can come outside your body too!
BOTH: Hi, Dr. Giggles.
I’m watching you on my scanamajammer.
You’re this dot right here.
(Chuckling) (Heart beating) That lub-dubby sound’s getting louder and louder!
This blood must be whooshing closer to Thing 2’s heart!
The most exciting part of our ride!
Here we go, into the heart!
Hold on tight!
ALL: Yahoo!
Wee!
(All laughing) NICK: Flying through a heart is awesome!
(Laughing) You’re leaving the heart now, but your ride is not done!
(Laughing) (All cheering) (Bubbling) SALLY: Where are we now?
And what’s that whooshy noise?
Sounds like someone breathing.
It is!
You are near Thing 2’s lungs, which can fill up with air like two big balloons!
Look!
The blood’s changing color!
Hoo-hoo!
When it goes past your lungs, red blood fills up with air for your body to use from tip to toe!
So, every part of you gets a breath of fresh air.
(All cheering) BOTH: Wahoo!
SALLY: Hey, we’re back in the heart again.
One side of your heart pumps blood to your lungs and the other side pumps it all around your... body!
(All cheering) SALLY: That was amazing.
Can we go again?
Again?
(Laughing) You can’t help it.
Your heart never stops pumping blood around your body.
It goes round every minute.
Hold on to your hat!
(All cheering) Hey, that flappy flap made a "lub" sound when it opened.
(All cheering) And a "dub" sound when it closed!
Hoo-hoo!
Those flaps are like doors that open and close to keep blood moving forward, not backward.
(All cheering) So the "lub-dub" sound our hearts make-- BOTH: Is flappy flaps opening and closing.
Here we go!
(All cheering) ♪ Lub-dub, Lub-dub ♪ ♪ That flappy flap sound ♪ ♪ It’s made by your heart when it pumps blood around ♪ We know our hearts make a sound, but what makes it go faster sometimes?
(Laughing) Time to get Thing 2 moving!
(Chattering) Oh... (Chattering) (Chattering) Wee!
The faster Thing 2 goes, the faster we go!
And the faster his heart makes that "lub-dubby" sound.
The faster you go, the more air-filled red blood you need to keep going!
BOTH: Which is why our hearts boom, boom, boom, when we run fast.
Yahoo!
♪ Lub-dub, lub-dub ♪ ♪ That flappy flap sound ♪ ♪ It’s made by your heart when it pumps blood around ♪ Maybe it’s time for Thing 2 to slow down?
That might be difficult.
♪ Do-do-do-do ♪ (Panting) ♪ Do-do-do-do ♪ ALL: Whoa!
(All yelling) How are we going to get Thing 2 to quit?
So his heart can slow down.
My mom reads me a bedtime story to help me slow down.
Why, that’s a great idea.
(Chattering) (Chattering) (Chattering) (Chattering) (Chattering) (Chattering) (Yawning) (Chattering) (Snoring) (Snoring) That slowed things down nicely.
Your heart beats much slower when you’re sleeping.
Time to get out of Thing 2.
Pull the Wizzermafizzer.
Press the Bigamaboodle.
(Laughing) (Horn honking) (Both laughing) That was awesome!
BOTH: Bye-bye!
Thanks, Dr. Giggles.
Come back anytime.
Goodbye.
See ya.
Bye-bye now.
♪ Lub-dub, Lub-dub ♪ ♪ That flappy flap sound ♪ ♪ It’s made by your heart when it pumps blood around ♪ ♪ The faster you move ♪ ♪ The faster it goes ♪ ♪ Pumping red blood from your head to your toes ♪ (Both laughing) (Panting) (Laughing) Time out.
(Heart beating) My heart’s booming.
You mean, "lub-dubbing."
(Rumbling) But what’s that sound?
My rumbley tumbley.
Isn’t it fantastic?
Our bodies make so many great noises.
(Rumbling) (All laughing) 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!
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