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* {{Redubbing}}: The original voices in the ''Literature/HortonHatchesTheEgg'' segment were removed and replaced with new voices, all performed by Creator/FrankWelker. For some reason he also redubbed a couple characters in ''Literature/TheButterBattleBook'' segment.
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* {{Redubbing}}: The original voices in the ''Literature/HortonHatchesTheEgg'' segment were removed and replaced with new voices, all performed by Creator/FrankWelker. For some reason he He also redubbed a couple characters in ''Literature/TheButterBattleBook'' segment.segment, to talk the viewer through plot points the whole special covered in song instead.
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''In Search of Dr. Seuss'' is a biographical film about Creator/DrSeuss, first aired on Creator/{{TNT}} on November 6, 1994, featuring newly-recorded live action segments and excerpts of previous animated films based on his books. It follows reporter Kathy Lane (Kathy Najimy) who befriends Literature/TheCatInTheHat (Matt Frewer) after she barges into Dr. Seuss' house in an attempt to get a new angle for a story about the author. She then meets several of Dr. Seuss' characters, who involve her in their stories and deliver the biographical information.
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''In Search of Dr. Seuss'' is a biographical film about Creator/DrSeuss, first aired on Creator/{{TNT}} on November 6, 1994, featuring newly-recorded live action segments and excerpts of previous animated films based on his books. It was directed by Vincent Paterson and written by Keith R. Clarke.
It follows reporter Kathy Lane (Kathy Najimy) who befriends Literature/TheCatInTheHat (Matt Frewer) after she barges into Dr. Seuss' house in an attempt to get a new angle for a story about the author. She then meets several of Dr. Seuss' characters, who involve her in their stories and deliver the biographical information.
It follows reporter Kathy Lane (Kathy Najimy) who befriends Literature/TheCatInTheHat (Matt Frewer) after she barges into Dr. Seuss' house in an attempt to get a new angle for a story about the author. She then meets several of Dr. Seuss' characters, who involve her in their stories and deliver the biographical information.
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A biographical film about Creator/DrSeuss, first aired on Creator/{{TNT}} in 1994, featuring newly-recorded live action segments and excerpts of previous animated films based on his books. It follows a reporter (Kathy Najimy) who befriends Literature/TheCatInTheHat after she barges into Dr. Seuss' house in an attempt to get a new angle for a story about the author. She then meets several of Dr. Seuss' characters, who involve her in their stories and deliver the biographical information.
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This is more like the new trope I launched: "Reaching Through The Fourth Wall"
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* PortalBook: The "Open a Book, Open Up Your Imagination" book that allows Kathy to meet the characters aside from the Cat.
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* PortalBook: ReachingThroughTheFourthWall: The "Open a Book, Open Up Your Imagination" book that allows Kathy to meet the characters characters, travel to the locations, and interact with the various objects and items from Dr. Seuss' books, aside from the Cat.
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* GoLookAtTheDistraction: Kathy pulls this on the Cat in order to enter Dr. Seuss' house.
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* AdaptationDistillation: ''Literature/HortonHatchesAnEgg'', ''Literature/TheLorax'' and ''Literature/TheButterBattleBook'' in particular get trimmed pretty heavily to fit into this 90-minute documentary.
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* AdaptationDistillation: ''Literature/HortonHatchesAnEgg'', ''Literature/TheLorax'' ''Literature/HortonHatchesTheEgg'', ''Literature/TheLorax'', and ''Literature/TheButterBattleBook'' in particular get trimmed pretty heavily to fit into this 90-minute documentary.
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* SpinningOutOfHere: Kathy and the Cat return to Dr. Seuss' house by holding hands and quickly spinning in a circle.
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* AdaptationDistillation: ''Literature/TheLorax'' and ''Literature/TheButterBattleBook'' in particular get trimmed pretty heavily to fit into this 90-minute documentary.
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* NiceHat: Dr. Suess' office has several hats from his stories on display. The Cat tries some of them on (including one from ''Film/The5000FingersOfDrT'', which he wears when greeting Kathy) before putting back on his trademark red-and-white striped hat.
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* NiceHat: Dr. Suess' office has several hats from his stories on display. The Cat tries some of them on (including one from ''Film/The5000FingersOfDrT'', which he wears when greeting Kathy) before putting back on his trademark signature red-and-white striped hat.
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* LiveActionAdaptation: Some Dr. Seuss books with no {{Animated Adaptation}}s to reuse clips or StockFootage from became live-action skits instead, as did ''Literature/TheCatInTheHat'' and ''Literature/GreenEggsAndHam''.
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* MesACrowd: Sam-I-Am has an army of look-alikes to help convince Kathy to try some green eggs and ham.
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Must resist making a pun about green ham...
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* WorldOfHam: Almost all of the actors give rather broad performances, to say the least.
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* YearInsideHourOutside: When Kathy returns to Dr. Seuss' house at the end, it doesn't seem like much time in the real world has passed since she entered the book.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Mr. Hunch offers Kathy some Literature/GreenEggsAndHam, she turns them down with, "IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam." Mr. Hunch predicts, "I have a hunch you'll change your mind." Guess what happens when Kathy meets Sam-I-Am.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Aside from the confusion over the "Hitler Lives" segment as detailed below, this film also clearly sidesteps over the cause of the death of Dr. Seuss' first wife, Helen, namely that she committed suicide, mostly due to her husband's affair with Audrey, who would become his second wife. The film also incorrectly states that he fell in love with Audrey after the death of Helen. This was altered, no doubt, due to the age of the target audience.
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A biographical film about Creator/DrSeuss, first aired on TNT Creator/{{TNT}} in 1994, featuring newly-recorded live action segments and excerpts of previous animated films based on his books. It follows a reporter (Kathy Najimy) who befriends Literature/TheCatInTheHat after she barges into Dr. Seuss' house in an attempt to get a new angle for a story about the author. She then meets several of Dr. Seuss' characters, who involve her in their stories and deliver the biographical information.
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* WrongfullyAttributed: Kathy and The Voice of America state that Dr. Seuss wrote and Creator/FrankCapra directed the short documentary ''Hitler Lives''. However, the film was actually written by Saul Elkins and directed by Don Siegel. Seuss and Capra's film was a military training short called ''Your Job in Germany'', which served as the basis for ''Hitler Lives''.
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* WrongfullyAttributed: Kathy and The Voice of America state that Dr. Seuss wrote and Creator/FrankCapra directed the short documentary ''Hitler Lives''. However, the film was actually written by Saul Elkins and directed by Don Siegel. Seuss and Capra's film The reality is somewhat more complicated. "Hitler Lives" was a military re-edited version of a Army training short called ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=821R0lGUL6A Your Job in Germany]]'', which explained to US troops why they couldn't go home immediately and why they couldn't make friends with the ''frauleins''. ''Your Job in Germany'', which served Germany'' was written by Theodore (Dr. Seuss) Giesel, and directed by Frank Capra. The film was given a re-edit and repackage for the home front via Warner Brothers, and it was this film, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEYeJKCFQgA Hitler Lives]]'' that is credited to Saul Ekins as the basis for ''Hitler Lives''.
writer and Gordon Hollingshead as "Supervisor" (Don Siegel apparently directed the new sequences, but was left uncredited). Roughly half the short is still the work of Giesel and Capra, with the first 9 or so minutes having only light edits to Giesel's script to remove military-specific information and directives and one profanity that would have caused the short to be rejected due to the Hayes Code.
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[[caption-width-right:259:"Come along with me, [[TitleThemeTune in search of Dr. Seuss]]!"]]
->''Open a book, open up your imagination.''
-->--A '''Creator/DrSeuss''' quote written on the cover of the PortalBook
->''Open a book, open up your imagination.''
-->--A '''Creator/DrSeuss''' quote written on the cover of the PortalBook
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* CreditsMontage: The opening and end credits both feature clips from the documentary and cartoons.
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* NiceHat: Dr. Suess' office has several hats from his stories on display. The Cat tries some of them on (including one from ''Film/The5000FingersOfDrT'', which he wears when greeting Kathy) before putting back on his trademark red-and-white striped hat.
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* TakeThat: The Cat and Kathy agree about ''Literature/DickAndJane'' books providing a boring means of teaching children how to read.
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* IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam: Literally, as Kathy takes the role of [[Literature/GreenEggsAndHam the book]]'s main character.
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* {{Redubbing}}: The original voices in the ''Horton Hatches the Egg'' segment were removed and replaced with new voices, all performed by Creator/FrankWelker.
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* LifeImitatesArt: The Cat derides the idea of a Dr. Seuss theme park: "Today, the media snooping around. Tomorrow... Seuss World. Ride Horton the Elephant! Eat a Grinch burger! Uh-uh, oh, no, ma'am." In reality, Seuss Landing opened at [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal's Islands of Adventure]] in 1999, and though it does not include a Horton ride, it does have a Cat in the Hat ride.
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A biographical film about Creator/DrSeuss, first aired on TNT in 1994, featuring newly-recorded live action segments and excerpts of previous animated films based on his books. It follows a reporter (Kathy Najimy) who befriends Literature/TheCatInTheHat after she barges into Dr. Seuss' house in an attempt to get a new angle for a story about the author. She then meets several of Dr. Seuss' characters, who involve her in their stories and deliver the biographical information.
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!! In Search of Dr. Seuss contains examples of:
* AllStarCast
* AlternateAesopInterpretation: Kathy seems to ignore the GreenAesop of Literature/TheLorax, instead summarizing its message as "Take time. Get involved. Everybody makes a difference."
* BreakingTheFourthWall: The Cat in the photo of Dr. Seuss winks at the audience after Kathy leaves.
* TheDanza: Kathy Najimy as Kathy Lane.
* IntrepidReporter: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when the Cat describes Kathy's conning her way into the house as "Shameful, but exactly what I would've expected of a journalist."
* LittleBitBeastly: The Cat looks perfectly human, aside from the cat prints he leaves behind on the Sneetches' beach.
* MediumBlending: Kathy never seems to notice that Horton and the Sneetches are animated, whereas the Cat, Mr. Hunch, and the Who-Villian are live.
* NoNameGiven: The Cat in the Hat, Mr. Hunch, Ad Man and Ad Woman, Father and Daughters, and the Who-Villian.
* PortalBook: The "Open a Book, Open Up Your Imagination" book that allows Kathy to meet the characters aside from the Cat.
* {{Redubbing}}: The original voices in the ''Horton Hatches the Egg'' segment were removed and replaced with new voices, all performed by Creator/FrankWelker.
* WrongfullyAttributed: Kathy and The Voice of America state that Dr. Seuss wrote and Creator/FrankCapra directed the short documentary ''Hitler Lives.'' However, the film was actually written by Saul Elkins and directed by Don Siegel. Seuss and Capra's film was a military training short called ''Your Job in Germany'', which served as the basis for ''Hitler Lives''.
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!! In Search of Dr. Seuss contains examples of:
* AllStarCast
* AlternateAesopInterpretation: Kathy seems to ignore the GreenAesop of Literature/TheLorax, instead summarizing its message as "Take time. Get involved. Everybody makes a difference."
* BreakingTheFourthWall: The Cat in the photo of Dr. Seuss winks at the audience after Kathy leaves.
* TheDanza: Kathy Najimy as Kathy Lane.
* IntrepidReporter: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when the Cat describes Kathy's conning her way into the house as "Shameful, but exactly what I would've expected of a journalist."
* LittleBitBeastly: The Cat looks perfectly human, aside from the cat prints he leaves behind on the Sneetches' beach.
* MediumBlending: Kathy never seems to notice that Horton and the Sneetches are animated, whereas the Cat, Mr. Hunch, and the Who-Villian are live.
* NoNameGiven: The Cat in the Hat, Mr. Hunch, Ad Man and Ad Woman, Father and Daughters, and the Who-Villian.
* PortalBook: The "Open a Book, Open Up Your Imagination" book that allows Kathy to meet the characters aside from the Cat.
* {{Redubbing}}: The original voices in the ''Horton Hatches the Egg'' segment were removed and replaced with new voices, all performed by Creator/FrankWelker.
* WrongfullyAttributed: Kathy and The Voice of America state that Dr. Seuss wrote and Creator/FrankCapra directed the short documentary ''Hitler Lives.'' However, the film was actually written by Saul Elkins and directed by Don Siegel. Seuss and Capra's film was a military training short called ''Your Job in Germany'', which served as the basis for ''Hitler Lives''.
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