03x10 - Clever Levers/Going, Going Gong

[bunniefuu]

[upbeat music]

♪

- ♪ Hey
- 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!
- ♪ 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 ♪

- Whoo-hoo!

♪

- Whoa!

♪

[laughter]

♪

- Whoa!
- Wahoo!

- ♪ 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... ♪

- ♪ He knows a lot about,
he knows a lot about ♪

all: ♪ He knows a lot
about that ♪

[laughter]

[upbeat music]

♪

- Okay, this is
the spot right here.

- What's so special
about this spot?

- Well, if we plant this
apple tree right here,

We can see it from
the upstairs window.

- Cool.

I can't wait till we can
pick apples right here.

- Me too.

[clank]
[grunts] Whoa.

- What is it?
A treasure chest?

- Maybe.
Let's see.

- Hopefully it's full of gold.
- [grunts]

- I wish, Fish.
It's just a rock.

♪

[grunting]

I can't get it out
with my shovel.

- Maybe we can
lift it together.

both: [grunting]

[playful music]

- Too bad we only
have four hands.

- If your four hands
can't lift it,

then how about two more?

If we all work together,
we'll lighten the chore.

- Hi, Cat.
That'll really help.

- I'd help if I could,
but, you know, fins.

all: [grunting]

- It's not moving.

- We need a machine, like
a bulldozer or a crane.

- Excellent idea.

But why use a complex machine

when a simple machine will do.

- A simple machine?
How's that going to help?

- Maybe a trip to
Machine-a-mazoo

will make it a little bit
clearer for you.

- Machine-a-mazoo?
Let's go.

- Your mother won't mind
at all if you do.

[upbeat music]

- Mom, can we go to
Machine-a-mazoo

with the Cat in the Hat?
We need to find

a simple machine
to move a rock.

- A little old rock shouldn't
get in your way.

You better go to
Machine-a-mazoo.

- We can go, we can go.
- I know, I know.

To the Thinga-ma-jigger.

Buckle up.

[horn honks]

[playful music]

[whirs, clicks]

Flip the Jigger-ma-whizzer!

[boing]

[exciting music]

♪

Isn't this fun?

both: Whoo-hoo!

- ♪ 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 ♪

[rousing music]

♪

- We're here at a place
called Machine-a-mazoo,

where the simple machines
make things easy to do.

- [giggling] Yeah.
- [giggles]

- So what's so special about
simple machines anyway?

And how is one of these things
going to help me move my rock?

- What's so special
about simple machine?

Ah, let me tell you.

[upbeat music]

♪ When you're faced with a job
that is bigger than you ♪

♪ Try a simple machine

♪ In Machine-a-mazoo

♪ See, you pull either rope
that goes over a wheel ♪

♪ If you're
lifting straight up ♪

♪ Then a pulley's ideal

- A pulley?
- That's right, a pulley.

♪ It's a simple machine,
yes, a simple machine ♪

♪ Just give one a try

♪ And you'll see what I mean

♪ To move things up higher
can be quite a strain ♪

♪ But try it again
on this nice inclined plane ♪

- It's like a ramp.
- That's another name for it.

♪ A lever's a bar
resting on a support ♪

♪ When it's not being used
at work or a sport ♪

- This is a lever?
- Isn't it clever?

♪ It's a simple machine,
yes, a simple machine ♪

♪ You just gauge them a try
so you know what I mean ♪

♪ Cha-cha-cha

- I don't get it.
Is that thing a lever

or a seesaw?

- It has more than one name,
but the action's the same.

- Lever or seesaw,
we still need to find a machine

that will help move that rock.

- Can you see something
from up top?

[machines whirring, clacking]

- Hmm, nothing this way.

- [grunting]

- Wait, what's that?

- Oh, come on, apple.
[grunts]

- What's what?

- There's a dragon trying
to reach an apple in that tree.

- [grunting]

All right,
that was just a practice.

- You gotta see it, Nick.
Let me down

so you can check it out.

- [grunts]
- Hey, you're right.

- [grunts]

Okay, I've had enough, apple.
I'm serious.

You get down here right now.

- Wow, he really
wants that apple.

- I wish we could help.
- How can we help?

Besides, I thought we were here
to find a machine for you.

- If you could see him, Fish,

you'd know we have
to try to help.

- Hmm, we're using the seesaw
to lift each other up high.

Maybe we could use it to help
the dragon reach that apple.

- [gasps] Great idea.
Let's take this to him.

- Helping a dragon
they don't even know.

What a great couple of kids.

- [grunting]

[straining] If only I was
just a little taller.

[thumps]
[yelps]

Who are you and why did you
scare me like that?

- Sorry.
I'm Sally and he's Nick.

We didn't mean to scare you.
[grunts]

- We came to help you
get that apple.

- Really?
Oh, you'd do that for me?

Aw, come here.

all: [giggling]

- Oh, wait, um, hold on.
You're shorter than I am.

How are you gonna help?
- With this.

- A board?
- Wait.

We're missing something.

- Here we are.
♪ La la la, la la la

♪ La la la la la la la

Ta-da!
- Oh, who are you?

- It's the Cat in the Hat.
On a log.

- Right.
Without the log under it,

this isn't a seesaw or a lever.
It's just a board.

- Now it's a seesaw.
- All right, ha-ha!

Now I can reach my--
ah, ah, ah!

Ooh, uh.
[chuckles]

That was fun.
[giggles]

But it didn't help me
get my apple.

- Not yet.
You went too fast.

- You need to wait for us to
hold the other end down.

- Like this.
- Oh.

I--I don't know.

Can you two be here to catch me
i--if I fall again?

- We could, but then
we won't be able

to hold the board down.
- We need something else.

- "Something" or "some things"?

[guffaws]

When you're stuck in a fix and
you don't know what to do,

that's a time when you call
on Thing One and Thing Two.

[whistles]

- Oh, boy.
Things are about to get

much, much sillier.

- Whee-hee-hee-hee!
- Whoo-a-ha!

[playful music]

both: [laughing]

♪

both: [chatter]

- [giggles]
Hi, Things.

Can you please come and hold
this end of the board

so the dragon can reach
that apple?

both: Huh?
[chatter obligingly]

- Okay, we'll be over here
to catch you.

Ready.
- All right.

[laughs nervously]
If you're sure.

[panting]
Whoa.

both: Oh!
[chattering]

♪

[giggle]

Ta-da!

- Wow, that was amazing.
[laughs]

But, um, I still
don't have my apple.

- Well, you're a lot
heavier than the Things.

Maybe if I sit on the end
with them

we can raise you up?
- Want a lift?

- [giggles] Thanks, Cat.

- One Sally,
coming up.

- Um, hi, uh, when does the
seeing and sawing begin?

- Hmm.

Maybe it'll work
if we add my weight too.

- Adding Nick
might do the trick.

Alley-oop.

- Thanks, Cat.
- Whoa--[laughs]

- It's working.
- [grunts] Gotcha.

Whoo-hoo!
[giggles]

- Yay, you got your apple.
Ready to come down now?

- After all this work,
I'm not just gonna pick

one measly apple.
One for you.

- Thank you.
- Apples for everybody.

[grunts] Ah.
And one for you.

[grunts]
One for you.

[grunts]
Two for you guys.

[grunts]
Ah.

And one for you.
- Why, thank you.

- Ah!
Got it.

[apple swishes]

Um, uh, I think I have enough.

[chuckles]

all: [munching]
- Mmm, yum, mm, mm.

How can I ever thank you all
for helping me?

- Sally's the one
you should thank.

We helped you instead of
finding a machine

to move a rock in the backyard.

- Oh, no, I am so sorry.

Uh, what--what could I do
to make it better?

Oh, I could teach you all kinds
of dragon-y stuff,

like--like roaring like this.[roars]

[giggles]
[laughter]

- You already did help me.

Nick, we pushed down
on one end of the seesaw

and lifted a whole dragon up
on the other end, right?

- Right.
[gasps] Oh, right!

- I don't follow.
Cat, do you follow?

- I think we will,
if we follow them home.

- Bye, Dragon.
Thanks for helping.

- Bye.
- Any time.

Uh, wait, what did I do?

Oh, well.
[giggles]

♪

- So will you explain
your idea now?

- Sure.

If the shovel is
like the seesaw,

and the rock is
like the dragon,

and the log is like,
well, the log...

- All we have to do is push
down on this end...

- And we'll lift the rock up.

- There's only one way
to find out.

both: [grunting]

- Yeah.
- Hurray!

all: Yeah!
- Whoo-hoo!

- The shovel and the log are
the simple machine we needed.

- A simple machine
that is known as a lever.

Aren't you two kids
just ever so clever?

[guffaws]

- There.
- It's perfect.

♪

- Introducing a Thing...
- [chatters happily]

- Or Two...
- [chatters happily]

- About simple machines.

When Thing One and Thing Two
have a big job to do,

they use simple machines
in Machine-a-mazoo.

Take this simple machine
called an axle and wheel.

If you're moving big loads,
it is simply ideal.

Wait.

Show us how they can go
up a hill, if you please.

- A-ha.

- With a wheel on an axle,
it's simply a breeze.

both: Yay!

- While rolling things up
is so easy to do,

if you let the cart go,
it rolls down the hill too.

To keep it from rolling,
you could use this wedge.

See, it's wide at the top,
and it has a thing edge.

- Hmm.
A-ha.

both: Yay.

- This simple machine helps
in stopping the cart.

But some grown-ups use wedges
to split things apart.

both: Huh?
- Care for a demonstration?

both: [chattering happily]

[playful music]

♪

both: Ooh.
- Uh-oh.

- [yelps]
[chattering worriedly]

- These are simple machines
of Machine-a-mazoo.

But they're also in places
much closer to you.

If you open your eyes
and you look all around,

you might see some here
in this little playground.

- [chatters happily]

- So I hope you now know

from these comical scenes,

a Thing or Two
about simple machines.

[upbeat music]

♪

[melodic clinking]

- Sally, I give up.
What're you doing?

- I just made a song.
But it's missing something.

Listen.

[melodic clinking]

- [gasps]
Ooh, I know what's missing.

A last note.

- I think I know
what it should be.

Listen.
[melodic clinking]

♪ La
- That's the note.

- But I can't find anything
that makes that sound.

- It's gotta be
around here somewhere.

[clinking]

- None of these sound right
for the end of my song.

- Hey, what about that?
[clinks, rings]

- You rang?
[clink]

[laughter]

What can I do to add a note
of joy to your day?

- A note is just what we need,
Cat.

- And not just any note.

It has to be the exact right
note to finish Sally's song.

- Sally's song?
This I have to hear.

- Okay.
Here it goes.

[melodic clinking]

See? I need something
that sounds like...

♪ La

But none of these things
make that note.

- Hmm, that's quite
a cacophonous conundrum.

Luckily, I know where we can
sound out an answer.

Gongolia.

- But how will we know
we found the right sound

if we can't hear the song

unless we take
all of these things?

- All I have to do is push
the musical memory button

in my hat.

[jazz music]
Play it again, Sally.

[melodic clinking]

- ♪ La
- Listen.

[melodic clinking]

- ♪ La

That's my song.

- Then let's go.

- Ring-a-ling-a-loo.
Your mother won't mind at all

if you do.

[upbeat music]

- Mom, can we go to Gongolia
with the Cat in the Hat

to find the missing sound
for my song?

- Gongolia?
It's okay with me, honey.

In fact, it's music to my ears.
[giggles]

- We can go.
We can go.

- I know, I know.
To the Thinga-ma-jigger.

♪

Buckle up.

[horn honks]

[playful music]

[whirs, clicks]

Flip the Jigger-ma-whizzer!

[boing]

[exciting music]

♪

Isn't this fun?

both: Whoo-hoo!

- ♪ 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 ♪

[ominous music]

♪

- When you're searching
for notes way down low

or up high,

Gongolia's got
every note you can try.

- Wow.
- This is amazing.

- With so many musical gongs,

we're sure to find
the missing sound.

- Take a gander at this gong.

You won't find
a musical instrument

gong-bong-ding-dong-ier.

- [snoring]

- That doesn't
sound like a gong.

- [chuckles] What can make
a sound like that?

- Just a Gongolian Gorgon.

- I don't like
the sound of that.

- [snoring]
[gong rings]

- Hey, maybe she knows where
we can find your missing note.

- Actually, it's better to let
sleeping Gorgons lie.

And whatever you do,

don't touch that horn gong
over her head.

That will wake her up for sure.

- Right, let's bong some gongs
farther away

so we don't bother her.

[tense music]

[gong rings]

- I think we're
far enough away.

- We'll bong softly
just in case.

- But what will we
bong the gongs with?

Our hands?

- You could.

But I'd recommend
giving them a whack

with a Thwacker-ma-smacker.

- Whoa.
- Perfect.

- All right.
I'll play the tune again

while you get whack, smack,
whack, cracking.

[melodic clinking]

- ♪ La

[gong rings]

[gong
rings]

That's not it.

[gong rings]

- That's not it either.
Or that.

- There are lots
of gongs to bong.

- Fish is right.
How will we ever

find the right one?

- When you're looking
for sounds,

be they gongs, chimes,
or dings,

you can get some sound help
from a couple of things.

[whistles]

[playful music]

both: [chattering happily]

Hello.
- Hi, Things.

We're looking for the right
sound to finish my song.

[melodic clinking]

♪ La

- So you hear the problem?

Care to take a whack at it?

both: [chatter happily]

♪

[gong rings]
- Mm?

- Nope. It's higher
than the note I need.

[gong rings]

- [sighs]
It's too high too.

- Huh?
Aw.

- Wait a second.

Do you mind bonging
the gongs again?

And Sally, you listen hard,
okay?

[gongs ring]

Both gongs are too high,
right, Sally?

- Yes, but they're different.

Thing One's gong
sounds really high.

And Thing Two's gong
sounds even higher.

- Right, so what makes them
different from each other?

- Hmm, huh.

- They're the exact same shape.

- But they aren't
the same size.

The higher sounding gong
is smaller.

Look.

- That's about the size of it.

- So maybe size
makes the difference.

We better try bigger gongs.

both: [chattering happily]

- Well, these are
all bigger gongs.

- All right, Things,
do your thing.

[gong rings]

- Hmm, too low.

[gong rings]

- [giggles]
That one's really too low.

- And look, the really
lower sounding gong

is bigger than the
higher sounding gong.

- Hmm, well, what do you know?
It is bigger.

We seem to have a pattern here?
Big gongs.

[gong rings]

Low sounds.
Little gongs.

[gong rings]

High sounds.

- So the bigger the gong,
the lower the sound it makes.

- And the smaller the gong,

the higher the sound it makes.

- So if the small gongs
are too high,

and the big gongs are too low,
well,

now I have no idea
what to do next.

- I think it might mean
that a medium-sized gong

will make a sound somewhere
in the middle.

- And that's the note
we're looking for.

- Let's go bong some
middle-sized gongs.

[chimes ring]

[gongs ring]

- No.

Uh-uh.

- Mm-hmm.

- I think we've bonged
all the middle-sized gongs.

Cat, can you play
the song again, please?

[melodic clinking]

- ♪ La

- Too low, which means too big.

[gong rings]

- [sighs]
We've bonged all the gongs.

- Except for that one.
- Which one, Fish?

- The Gorgon's horn gong.

- [snoring]

both: [chattering excitedly]

- No, stop, don't wake the...

[gong rings]
- Huh?

- Gorgon.

- [gasps]
The Gorgon's horn gong

is the same as the last note
of my song.

- [groans]
Hey.

Who bonged my horn gong?

both: Uh, not me.

- They did it for me.

They were looking for the
right size gong to end my song.

- Your song?
What song?

- Cat.

[melodic clinking]

♪ La
- Oh, nice song.

I see what you mean
by the last note.

And you think I have the right
gong to end your song?

- I think so.
Maybe I try.

- Of course.

[melodic clinking]

[gong rings melodiously]

It is.
- My song's complete.

- We're sorry we woke you up by
bonging your horn gong, Gorgon.

- Sorry? Are you kidding?

That's my favorite sound
in all of Gongolia.

[gong rings]

- I guess that means we can't
take the Gorgon home

to finish your song.

- That's okay.
Now that we know

how to find the note
we're looking for,

I'm sure we can find it
at home.

Thanks, Gorgon.
- [giggles] Any time.

- Bye, see ya.
- Take care.

- Happy gonging.
[gong rings]

- So if bigger things
make lower sounds,

and smaller things
make higher sounds,

the missing note
should go right...

- There!

- That's definitely where
the missing note should go.

All we have to do is
find something that fits.

- It's gotta be
smaller than this,

and bigger than these.

- Where could we find
something like that?

- Hmm.
[gasps]

I know. It's been in front
of us this whole time.

Fish.
- Mm, what did I do?

- Your bowl.
It's about the same size

as the Gorgon's horn gong.

- Is it okay if I bong
your bowl for my song, Fish?

- You mean, I get to be
the grand finale?

I'd be thrilled to the gills.

[drum roll]

[melodic clinking]

[cheers and applause]

[laughs]

- That was amazing, Sally.

- And she couldn't have
done it without me.

[laughter]

[upbeat music]

♪