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5	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The Dungeon of all the non piano playing musicians Terwilliker has captured and looked up. As he put it: Scratchy violins, Screechy piccolos, nauseating trumphets etc etc.
6	* CultClassic: Despite at the time, being as hated as the 2003 ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'' adaptation (if not more so), there are people today who think highly of this movie and regard it as a Seuss classic.
7	* HilariousInHindsight:
8	** A boy named Bart, with an enemy named Terwilliker? [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Just change the "K" to a "G"]].
9	** A couple decades later, Hans Conried (Dr. Terwilliker) would voice [[WesternAnimation/HalloweenIsGrinchNight a far better known Seuss character]].
10	* NarmCharm: The actors take it so darn ''seriously''.
11	* NightmareFuel:
12	** The [[ScaryBlackMan elevator operator]], and those eyes! It doesn't help that the elevator itself is swinging like a flag in the wind.
13	** An antropomorphic bust of Terwilliker's head gives Bart this advice: ''Bartholomew Collins, the years you spend with Dr. Terwilliker will be the happiest years of your life! But if you get homesick, don't try to escape. The barbed wire around the Terwilliker institute, is'' '''''ELECTRIFIED! ELECTRIFIED! ELECTRIFIED'''''. Bart's expression was pretty scared.
14	* SecondVerseCurse: The third stanza of the "Dungeon song" was cut out due to increasingly [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids horrific]] lyrics. (The casual reference to "gas chambers" less than 10 years after UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust did not help.)
15	-->THIRD FLOOR DUNGEON! Household appliances.\
16	Spike beds, electric chairs, gas chambers, roasting pots, and scalping devices.
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18	* [[SpiritualSuccessor Spiritual Predecessor]]: ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'', Creator/TimBurton movies, DerangedAnimation...
19	* VindicatedByHistory: Though only to a modest cult status degree.
20	* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: One of the few genuinely praiseworthy aspects of the film is the set design, which is incredibly impressive for its time and perfectly captures Dr. Seuss's distinctive, bizarre and whimsical art style in a live-action film setting. Of course, it helps that Seuss himself is involved in the film.
21	* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Fun for the family, unless you're the sort of person who has nightmares about nuclear weapons or imprisonment at a summer camp or hearing a kid practice piano scales over and over and over and over...

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