[Upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- ♪ 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 ♪
Both: 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 ♪
- ta-da!
- Whoo-hoo!
♪ ♪
- Whoa!
- Whoo-hoo!
[All cheering]
- Whoa!
All: ♪ 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 ♪
All: ♪ he knows a lot about ♪
♪ He knows a lot about ♪
♪ He knows a lot about that! ♪
[Laughter]
- No one can get to my cookies
while I'm guarding.
- Look out, sally.
The cookie snatcher's coming.
- No one gets past me, nick.
- I can.
Yay!
- [Laughs]
- I'll show you how to keep
the cookie jar safe.
- Right.
[Laughs]
- Cookie snatchers
can't sneak past me.
- Oh, yes, they can!
- Huh?
- Easy.
- Did anyone lose a cookie jar?
- It's the cat!
- The cat in the hat!
- He snuck up on us too.
- Mmm, delicious.
You should really take
better care of your cookies.
- But how do we keep
the cookies safe?
- You could ask a beetle. Mmm.
- 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.
- Hmm, if you want big
it has to be stan,
The giant stag beetle,
in the wallawalloo wood.
- Let's go and see stan.
- Your mother will not
mind at all if you do.
- Mom, can nick and I go see
stan, the giant stag beetle,
And find out
how to keep stuff safe?
- Stan, the giant stag beetle?
Sure.
Say a giant, "hello," from me.
- We will. Thanks, mom.
Both: we can go!
We can go!
- I know. I know.
To the thinga-ma-jigger!
- Buckle up.
[Horn honks]
Flip the jigger-ma-whizzer.
- [Laughs]
- [Laughs]
[Horn honks]
[Instruments play]
[Pop]
- Isn't this fun?
- Yippee!
- Yahoo!
- ♪ 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 ♪
- ♪ We'll get some tips
from stag beetle, stan ♪
♪ About keeping stuff safe,
the way beetles can ♪
All: ♪ here we go, go, go,
go on an adventure ♪
♪ Go, go, go, go, go ♪
♪ ♪
[Horn honks]
- Welcome to the wood
of wallawalloo.
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.
- Ha ha ha!
- What sort of things
do beetles take care of?
- They don't have cookie jars.
- Who's that on my tree stump?
- 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.
- Rar! Rar!
- Stan, it's me.
- Oh, oh, cat--oh, you
should've said you were coming.
Whoa-ho-ho!
Ugh! Can you give me a hand?
- No problem.
Ready to roll, team?
One, two, three--go!
All: [lifting efforts]
- Ugh, 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.
Mm-hmm. Oh, and honeydew.
Mmm-mmm.
- But you've got
those scary horns.
- Oh, they're for scaring away!
[Laughs]
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--rrgh.
- Growr, rrrgh!
- Oh, not bad.
Um, if you don't mind me saying,
You need to look
a little scarier.
- Well, I can fix that. Ta-da!
- Cool.
- [Laughs]
What do you think?
- Getting there.
Hey, can you
make yourselves look bigger?
Like this--roar!
All: rargh!
- How do we look now?
Both: roar!
- Scary monsters, oh!
- Stan's scare-away trick
really does work.
- 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 thinga-ma-jigger!
- Bye.
- Bye.
- Rargh! Bye-bye.
[Laughs]
- How do we keep
our cookie jar safe?
All: ♪ 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.
- He doesn't look scary
like stan.
- Is he asleep?
- Let's creep up on him
and find out.
- Whoa!
- Whoo.
Both: [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--
[Efforts]
ahh--unfold my wings
And fly away!
- Is that how you
keep stuff safe?
- Oh,
it certainly keeps me safe.
If anyone tries to sneak up
I give them the old click
And flip treatment.
- How do you do it?
- Easy. I bend here and flip!
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 one and thing two.
Both: hello.
- Wahoo.
Whee!
- Uh-oh.
- Yahoo.
All: [laughter]
- Hey, a trampoline--now,
I can flip.
Yay! Boing, boing, whee!
[Laughs]
- But we need to click too.
- Hmm, flick this stick
quick to click, nick.
- Ha ha ha, cool!
- Let's see what you can do.
- Surprise us.
- Look, the things
Are pretending
to be cookie snatchers.
- [Mischievous laugh]
Both: one, two, three--
Both: uh-oh. Bye-bye!
Both: [laughing]
- It worked.
- Wow, 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 bobbi?
- Bobbi, the bombardier beetle--
You have to meet her.
Let's go.
See you later, cliff.
- Bye.
- Bye, now.
- So how do we keep
that cookie jar safe?
All: ♪ 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 ♪
- Bobbi, hello-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?
- Ooh, 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.
[Laughs], way back.
- How about this?
- If somebody nasty comes
near me,
This is what I do.
[All sniffing]
- ew!
- Whoa!
- Stinky, stinky.
- That stinks.
- 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.
[Gasps]
[coughing]
All: [laughter]
- 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, bobbi.
- Bye.
- Buh-bye!
All: ♪ we learned three neat
tricks from beetles today ♪
- ♪ Stan's keep stuff safe trick
is called ♪
Both: ♪ scare away ♪
- ♪ Cliff used surprise as
his beetle trick ♪
Both: ♪ a trick called
flip and click ♪
- ♪ Bombardier bobbi has
her own way ♪
♪ With a pop and stink
it's called ♪
All: ♪ spray away ♪
- 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.
Ah ha!
Both: click and flip!
- Oh, I didn't see that coming.
- Ha ha ha.
- No, you wouldn't.
No!
- Stinky socks--go, sally.
- Spray-away!
- Ah ha ha!
Oh, I'm so glad I'm wearing
my waterproof hat.
[Laughter]
Ha ha ha ha! Isn't this fun?
- Today, I have a very tricky
question for you.
There are many different kinds
of beans.
Which of these beans
can move around on its own?
Is it a cocoa bean,
or is it a green bean,
Or is it a jumping bean?
Did you say that it's
the jumping bean?
That's right.
The bean moves around
because there's a baby moth
Moving around inside.
Did you get it this time?
Well, next time,
I'll stump you for sure.
Both : time to take a picture
with our snapperama cameras!
- I'll take the picture.
- And I'll guess what it is.
It looks like polka dots
or freckles.
- Ha ha ha.
- Oh, it's a fruit--
A strawberry.
- You're right.
- How come it has so many
of those little, yellow things?
- They're seeds.
A strawberry has its seeds
on the outside.
- Next time,
I get to take the picture.
Both: [laughing]
- Mmm,
blueberry juice popsicles--
- My favorite.
- Ha ha ha, hey,
nick, your tongue is blue.
- Hey. Cool.
So is yours, sally.
- It is? Ehh--
- Ha ha ha ha, I
wish we could have another one.
Do you think your mom
would let us?
- I don't think so.
- Too bad.
- Don't feel blue, nick.
Ah ha ha ha!
- Ha ha ha ha.
- 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.
- Ha ha ha, 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.
- Hmm, maybe my friends
can teach you.
Want to go visit them?
Both: [gasps] can we?
- Sure, your mother
will not mind at all if you do.
- Hee hee hee.
Mom, is it okay if we go to meet
some of cat's friends
With terrific, tricky tongues?
- Ah ha, terrific,
tricky tongues?
Sure, that is a real tongue
twister to say.
- Ha ha ha, it is.
Thanks, mom.
Both: we can go!
We can go!
- I know. I know.
To the thinga-ma-jigger.
- Buckle up.
[Horn honks]
Flip the jigger-ma-whizzer.
- [Laughs]
- [Laughs]
[Horn honks]
[Instruments play]
[Pop]
- Isn't this fun?
- Yippee!
- Yahoo!
- ♪ 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 ♪
- ♪ We're off to meet creatures
with tongues that are neat ♪
♪ They use them to find, pick
and catch what they eat ♪
All: ♪ here we go, go, go,
go on an adventure ♪
♪ Go, go, go, go, go ♪
♪ ♪
[Horn honks]
- First stop,
the so sunny savanna.
Home to treetop tom,
the giraffe.
Both: woohoo!
- Treetop tom,
I 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 stilta-ma-doodle,
sally.
- Ha ha ha.
Oops. Can we go a little higher?
- Ah! Great idea.
- Cool.
I've never seen beans
growing on a tree before. Ow!
- Oh, are you okay?
- The tree's covered
in sharp thorns.
- No problem.
I can get you a seed pod, nick.
- Be careful, tom.
- 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.
- Blah.
- Wow, it feels so tough.
- That must be why the thorns
don't hurt you.
- My, you're clever.
- Ooh, yummy leaves to eat.
Mmm, mmm.
- Wow, your tongue's twisty
Enough to pull leaves
right off the tree.
Both:
[funny sounds with tongues]
- 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 forrazi.
Stilta-ma-doodle, down.
- See you, tom.
- Bye, tom.
- Thanks for visiting.
- ♪ 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 ♪
[Laughs]
Here we are, the forest forrazi!
- What does your friend
look like?
- Snifty's about this wide
and this long.
Hmm, ah! Found her.
- Well, if it isn't the cat
in the hat.
- Ha ha ha ha.
- Sally, nick, meet my very
close friend, snifty the snake.
- Charmed, I'm sure.
- Snifty just loves having
visitors.
- 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.
- 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.
Mmm, delicious mice--
- 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 one
And thing two.
[Whistles]
Both: hello.
- Woohoo.
- Whee!
- Oh!
- Hoo hoo hoo.
- Aah.
I don't think I smell anything.
- Me either.
Both: ta-da!
- Ew.
- Mmm.
- And go! See if you can find
the food, nick and sally.
- Go, nick and sally.
Use those tongues.
- Heh?
- Eh?
- Heh.
- Eh. I don't think this works.
- You can't smell anything?
- Nothing--
But I sure can with my nose.
Mmm, corn on the cob.
- Ugh, and stinky cheese.
- Uh-huh.
- Mm-hmm.
- Nice work, things.
- Bye.
- Bye-bye.
- I don't think our tongues
can learn to smell.
- Not even mice.
- But I sure can.
Mmm, lunch--see you.
- Bye, thanks.
- See you.
- See you, snifty.
Hmm, 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?
- Hey, who did that?
- Colin, come out.
Come out, wherever you are.
- Ha ha ha ha!
- 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.
- Hi.
- Hi. Fastest tongue
in the west, you say?
We'll see about that, partner.
- Ha ha ha ha.
- Oh,
I love a wild west showdown.
Let's all play. Ready?
Set? Snap!
Both: [funny tongue sounds]
- And again, snap!
- Eh!
- Um, did we win?
- Win?
Heh, 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.
- Ha ha ha.
- Okay, colin,
show us your stuff.
- Your tongue's not just fast.
It's longer
than your whole body.
- Oh, it's got to 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: [laughter]
- To the thinga-ma-jigger!
- Bye, colin.
- See you, partner.
- See you later.
- Ah ha ha ha, 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 ♪
♪ Can't go wrong ♪
Ah ha ha ha ha!
- Ha ha ha ha ha.
- Ha ha ha ha.
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 could use our tongues
To get food.
Psst.
- Of course!
- What? Tell me.
Ah, come on. Tell me.
- Psst.
- Aren't you clever?
Ah ha ha ha ha ha.
- Ha ha ha.
- Mom, we're back,
and we're hungry.
- Can we have something to eat?
Both: please?
- 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.
- Mmm.
Both: thank you.
- Welcome to hat chat.
- Today, we're going
to interview a rock crab.
Why are you called a rock crab,
anyway?
Is it because you eat rocks?
- I'm called a rock crab because
I look a bit like these rocks.
We like to blend in with
the rocks and sand to keep safe.
But I do eat things
like plants, worms, shrimp--
Things
I can find on the beach here.
- Hmm, I don't see any teeth.
How do you chew your food?
- Well, for starters,
I use my claws
To crunch up my food.
Then, I have things
in my stomach
That are sort of like teeth
To finish breaking the food
into small bits.
- Teeth--
- in your stomach?
- Well, they're quite different
than your teeth,
But they do the same job.
- That's so cool!
- If you'll excuse me now,
I really must find more food.
- And that was our interview
with a rock crab.
- ♪ Lie on your belly when you
look through the grass ♪
♪ But don't forget to take
a magnifying glass ♪
♪ Hey, there's a spider,
he's an eight-legged friend ♪
♪ And he's spinning a web,
it's like a sticky, silk bed ♪
♪ It catches insects, look,
he's crawling this way ♪
♪ He'll build a new web
each and every day ♪
♪ See what you can find when
you're searching outside ♪
♪ It's a world to explore
in the backyard ♪
♪ Crickets can jump almost
three feet in the air ♪
♪ When they rub their two wings
you hear them chirp everywhere ♪
♪ What's that cocoon stuck to
that leaf nearby? ♪
♪ It's a caterpillar that's
turned into a butterfly ♪
♪ The creature's are neat,
they might be under your feet ♪
♪ There's an adventure in store
in the backyard ♪
♪ See what you can find when
you're searching outside ♪
♪ It's a world to explore
in the backyard ♪
The cat in the hat
has a wonderful notion.
Join me in exploring deep,
down in the ocean.
There are creatures that swim
and creatures that crawl,
And some kinds of creatures
that don't move at all.
Their fins and their tails
help move fish around.
They slip through the water,
not making a sound.
A squid squirts up water
to help it swim well.
The scallop can move
by flapping its shell.
Crab uses its legs to walk
in the sand down on the sea bed
Or up on the land.
A sea star
slowly inches its way.
Just moving a little
can take the whole day.
Jellyfish drift so they can go
with the tide--
Not swimming so much
as just hitching a ride.
I'm glad you decided
to dive here with me
And swim with the creatures
that live in the sea.
- Today, I have a very hard
question for you.
Which of these three animals
have four noses?
Is it a porcupine,
or is it an owl,
Or is it a slug?
Did you say that the slug
has four noses?
That's right. Their noses
are called tentacles,
And slugs use them
to smell and see.
Did you get it this time?
Well, next time,
I'll stump you for sure.
02x05 - Meet the Beetles/Tongue Tied
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Animated series follows the magical adventures of 6-year-olds Nick and Sally, who travel the world with the Cat in the Hat as their guide.
Animated series follows the magical adventures of 6-year-olds Nick and Sally, who travel the world with the Cat in the Hat as their guide.