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An EdutainmentShow on Creator/PBSKids starring Literature/TheCatInTheHat (voiced by Martin Short), Sally, her new best friend Nick and Fish, plus cameos from Thing One and Thing Two. Each episode is composed of two twelve-minute stories, in which the Cat helps solve the children's problems by whisking them off in his helicopter-esque Thingamajigger to experience a relevant aspect of the natural world. This usually involves meeting and learning from an exotic animal, bird or insect.

-->'''Sally & Nick''': ''(running towards the back door)'' Mom! Can we go to [whacky place name] to meet [exotic creature]?!

-->'''Cat''': Your mother will not mind at all if you do!

''(Mom laughs and gives permission, with a quip that clearly indicates she thinks they're just kidding)''

* CatchPhrase: When suggesting each new adventure, the Cat tells the kids "Your mother will not mind at all if you do..." [[CallBack referencing a similar repeated line from the books]]. Once the journey is underway, Nick can be counted on to exclaim "That's ''so cool!''" at some point.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Thanks to his role as responsible guardian to the kids, the Cat is actually quite a bit saner and more organized here than in the original... but he's still a Dr. Seuss character, prone to all that implies.

* DontTryThisAtHome: Before giving the kids bubble gum to help them stick to rocks like limpets, Cat makes them promise never to try the same thing back home. "Your mother will most ''certainly'' mind if you do!"

* RuleOfThree: In common with most children's edutainment programming.

* BagOfHolding: The Cat's hat, as per the original, turns out to contain ''whatever'' the company might need for that day's adventure. The similarly-stuffed hatch at the back of the Thingamajigger probably qualifies it too, given the Things apparently live there.
* CatchPhrase: When suggesting each new adventure, the Cat tells the kids "Your mother will not mind at ''all '' if you do..." [[CallBack referencing a similar repeated line from the books]]. Once the journey is underway, Nick can be counted on to exclaim "That's ''so cool!''" at some point.

* MediumAwareness: After they get permission from their moms to go on the day's adventure, the kids yell to the Cat "We can go! We can go!" and he ecstatically jumps into the air and bellows back "I know, I know!!". In one episode, they perform this ritual [[ItMakesSenseInContext in a small tent they've just finished putting up]]... leading the Cat to add a ''very'' calm "...and let's never do that in a tent again, OK?"

* MediumAwareness: After they get permission from their moms to go on the day's adventure, the kids yell to the Cat "We can go! We can go!" and he ecstatically jumps into the air and bellows back "I know, I know!!". In one episode, they perform this ritual [[ItMakesSenseInContext in a small tent they've just finished putting up]]... leading the Cat to add a ''very'' calm "Let's never do that in a tent again, OK?"

* MediumAwareness: After they get permission from their moms to go on the day's adventure, the kids yell to the Cat "We can go! We can go!" and he ecstatically jumps into the air and bellows back "I know, I know!!". In one episode, they perform this ritual [[ItMakesSenseInContext in a small tent they've just finished putting up... leading the Cat to add a ''very'' calm "Let's never do that in a tent again, OK?"

An EdutainmentShow on Creator/PBSKids starring Literature/TheCatInTheHat (voiced by Martin Short), Sally, her new best friend Nick and Fish, plus cameos from Thing One and Thing Two. Each episode is composed of two twelve-minute stories, in which the Cat helps solve the children's problems by whisking them off in his helicopter-esque Thingamajigger to experience some aspect of the natural world. This usually involves meeting and learning from an exotic animal, bird or insect.

* CatchPhrase: When suggesting each new adventure, the Cat tells the kids "Your mother will not mind at ''all '' if you do..." [[CallBack referencing a similar repeated line from the books]]. Once the journey is underway, Nick can be counted on to exclaim 'That's ''so cool!'' at some point.

An EdutainmentShow on Creator/PBSKids starring Literature/TheCatInTheHat (voiced by Martin Short), Sally, her new best friend Nick and Fish, plus cameos from Thing One and Thing Two. Each episode is composed of two twelve-minute stories in which the Cat helps solve the children's problems by whisking them off in his helicopter-esque Thingamajigger to experience some aspect of the natural world, usually involving an exotic animal, bird or insect.

* CatchPhrase: When suggesting each new adventure, the Cat tells the kids "Your mother will not mind at ''all '' if you do..." [[CallBack referencing a similar repeated line from the books. Once the journey is underway, Nick can be counted on to exclaim 'That's ''so cool!'' at some point.

An EdutainmentShow on Creator/PBSKids starring Literature/TheCatInTheHat (voiced by Martin Short), Sally, Nick, and Fish and featuring Thing One and Thing Two. The series is based loosely on a franchise of books called ''The Cat in the Hat's Learning Library'', which was later retitled to match the name of this television series.

* FantasyHelmetEnforcement: Part of the ritual preflight checklist before each adventure, as they settle into the Thingamajigger: "Buckle up! Flick the jiggamawhizzer!"

* AreWeThereYet: In "Itty Bitty Water," the Cat repeatedly moans this after the group has traveled across a long desert to reach a stream. Fortunately, the answer is yes.
* BagOfHolding: The Cat's hat, as per the original, turns out to contain ''whatever'' the company might need for that day's adventure. The similarly-stuffed hatch at the back of the Thingamajigger (where the Things live) probably qualifies it too.

* BagOfHolding: The Cat's hat, as per the original, turns out to contain ''whatever'' the company might need for that day's adventure. The similarly-stuffed hatch at the back of the Thingamajigger (where the Things live) probably qualifies too.

* BagOfHolding: The Cat's hat, as per the original, turns out to contain ''whatever'' the company might need for that day's adventure. The hatch at the back of the Thingamajigger probably qualifies too, given that the Things apparently live there.

* AreWeThereYet: In "Itty Bitty Water," the Cat moans this after the group has traveled across a long desert to reach a stream. Fortunately, the answer is yes.

* TheCastShowoff: Martin Short gets ample chance to show off his genuinely impressive singing voice, to the point where you start wondering if that's how they got him to sign up for the role.

* AreWeThereYet: In "Itty Bitty Water," the Cat moans this after the group has traveled across a long desert to reach a stream. Fortunately, the answer is yes. They've reached the stream.

* ComeOutComeOutWhereverYouAre: Barry the barracuda sings a rap song that includes this as part of its lyrics while he's hunting for his prey.
* DisembodiedEyebrows: Fish
* EdutainmentShow: Unlike a lot of the more recent offerings, Aesops or pro-social values aren't the primary goal. Instead, the show has some very interesting things to teach about science and nature, and particularly various types of animals. Even PeripheryDemographic watchers may learn something they didn't know before, such as the properties of the blue-footed booby's feet, or the various ways in which a wolf can find their pack.

* MobileFishbowl: Fish -- in this series apparently the Cat's companion rather than the children's pet -- travels with the group in a fish bowl that sits in a special cradle on the back of the Thingamajigger.

* RaceLift: In the books, the male child character was white, but he has been changed to black for the TV series. Additionally, the new books being released under the banner of ''The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That'' depict him as black.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Many episodes of the show are focused on animals and it sometimes covers some more unusual ones including the duck-billed platypus, booby birds, water striders, and, of course, the ever-rare hatted-cat.

* YouDidntAsk: In the Christmas special, this Ralph the reindeer's explanation when Sally and Nick ask why he didn't tell them that he's one of Santa's reindeer.

** This also counts as WhatTheHellDad. However, see also the show's Wild Mass Guessing entry for a different take on this particular bit of apparent shenanigans.

* Accidental Innuendo: In the episode "Top of the Sky/Jiggle Bones", while trying to determine what body part a long, straight bone belongs to, the Cat tells the children "The arm isn't the only part of the body that's long and straight!"