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* MusicalChores: "Sweep Up the Memories", as the Cat is cleaning up the house and restoring it to pristine condition before Mom enters.
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* OffscreenCrash: During the “Chapka in a Shlyapa,” the Cat goes through a doorway while trying to do ThatRussianSquatDance and the camera stays on the doorway while the screen shakes as the Cat crashes into stuff before hopping back out, disheveled.
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* BookEnds: The first scene of the special is the children sitting and staring boredly out the window as it rains, while their mother leaves. The last scene has the kids sitting by the window again as their mother returns, claiming she saw the Cat with the moss-covered three-handled gradunza, and the children have mystified expressions as they watch the Cat leave.
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* NamedByTheAdaptation: The Fish, unnamed in the book, is named Carlos K. Krinklebein here.

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* NamedByTheAdaptation: The Fish, unnamed in the book, is named Carlos K. Krinklebein Krinklebine here.



* RewatchBonus: After the ending twist, go back and notice how the Cat never actually explains ''what'' his Moss-Covered Three-Handled Family Gredunza" looks like, always cutting the kids off when they ask him questions on what it actually looks like.
* ShoutOut: The "Cat, Hat" number features quotations of Music/TheCancanSong, Schnitzelbank, and Ach du Lieber Augustine.

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* RewatchBonus: After the ending twist, go back and notice how the Cat never actually explains ''what'' his Moss-Covered Three-Handled Family Gredunza" Gradunza" looks like, always cutting the kids off when they ask him questions on what it actually looks like.
* ShoutOut: The "Cat, Hat" number features quotations of Music/TheCancanSong, Schnitzelbank, and Ach "O du Lieber Augustine.lieber Augustin".
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* BilingualRhyme: When the Cat in the Hat is singing his name in different languages, he rhymes "chapeau" with "sombrero".
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* RewatchBonus: After the ending twist, go back and notice how the Cat never actually explains ''what'' his Moss-Covered Three-Handled Family Gredunza" looks like, interrupting the kids' questions as to what it looks like.

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* RewatchBonus: After the ending twist, go back and notice how the Cat never actually explains ''what'' his Moss-Covered Three-Handled Family Gredunza" looks like, interrupting always cutting the kids' kids off when they ask him questions as to on what it actually looks like.

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* TheEndingChangesEverything: After the mom notices how a cat passed by with a "moss-covered, three-handled family gradunza", you realize that The Cat made the entire ploy off the top of his head to give the kids some fun.

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* TheEndingChangesEverything: After the mom notices how a cat passed by with a "moss-covered, three-handled family gradunza", gradunza" (his umbrella), you realize that The Cat made the entire ploy off the top of his head to give the kids some fun.


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* RewatchBonus: After the ending twist, go back and notice how the Cat never actually explains ''what'' his Moss-Covered Three-Handled Family Gredunza" looks like, interrupting the kids' questions as to what it looks like.
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* AdaptationalConsent: In the original, the Things had to be netted in order to return to the box. Here, they do so of their own volition as soon as they hear the kids' mother returning home.

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* AdaptationalConsent: Non-sexual example. In the original, the Things had to be netted in order to return to the box. Here, they do so of their own volition as soon as they hear the kids' mother returning home.
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* AdaptationalConsent: In the original, the Things had to be netted in order to return to the box. Here, they do so of their own volition as soon as they hear the kids' mother returning home.
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-->"Whoever heard of a six-foot cat!?"\\
-- '''Mr. Krinklebine'''

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-->"Whoever ->''"Whoever heard of a six-foot cat!?"\\
-- '''Mr.
cat!?"''
-->--'''Mr.
Krinklebine'''



* FollowTheBouncingBall: Interestingly, ''The Cat in the Hat'' seems to have received the sing-along treatment more times than Dr. Seuss' other cartoons have; in addition to the Dr. Seuss' Sing-Along Classics VHS released in the '90s, the 2012 Deluxe Edition DVD and Blu-ray[[note]]released on the same day that the movie version of ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'' came to DVD and BD[[/note]] include an upgraded sing-along option.

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* FollowTheBouncingBall: Interestingly, ''The Cat in the Hat'' seems to have received the sing-along treatment more times than Dr. Seuss' other cartoons have; in addition to the Dr. Seuss' Sing-Along Classics VHS released in the '90s, the 2012 Deluxe Edition DVD and Blu-ray[[note]]released on the same day that the movie version of ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'' ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lorax|2012}}'' came to DVD and BD[[/note]] include an upgraded sing-along option.
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The back of the DVD cover says that his name is Dick in this special.


'''Conrad:''' Is it bigger than a--\\

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'''Conrad:''' '''Dick:''' Is it bigger than a--\\
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Near the end of "Cat, Hat", the fish finally "gets it", then chips in with his own contribution by saying what the Cat would be called in Russian. The Cat is impressed on both counts.
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