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3	''The Cat in the Hat'' is a dark ride located in the Seuss Landing area at [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal's Islands of Adventure]].
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5	Unlike most of Universal's attractions, the ride is a straightforward retelling of the [[Literature/TheCatInTheHat book of the same name]]. Guest board couch-shaped vehicles and are taken through the house of the book's protagonists as all the chaos unfolds when the Cat appears and unleashes Thing 1 and Thing 2 on the home. The ride only adds in a few minor extra sequences into the story to help make it more adaptable for the theme park setting.
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7	The attraction was among the park's opening day attractions on May 28, 1999; being one of the most heavily advertised aspects of it at the time.
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9	!!Tropes shown in ''The Cat in the Hat'' ride include:
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11	* AdaptationExpansion: The ride adds on a few scenes not in the book, mostly just expanding on Thing 1 and Thing 2's run through the house, such as a scene inside a closet that has a tornado of clothes.
12	* AffectionateParody: After the piano crash scene, there's a scene of a spinning vortex with the Cat in the middle, a parody of a scene that used to be on the ''Alice in Wonderland'' ride at Disneyland where the Cheshire Cat appears in the middle of a spinning vortex.
13	* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: This ride along with ''Ride/ETAdventure'' are basically Universal's answer to some of Disney's Fantasyland dark rides.
14	* BiggerOnTheInside: The ride overall makes the protagonist's house feel more like a mansion, as even their closet is bigger than some apartments.
15	* CatsHateWater: Averted, as the Cat is shown taking a bath in one scene.
16	* FunWithFlushing: The Fish gets flushed down the toilet in the bathroom scene.
17	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Creator/CoreyBurton voices The Fish using his best Ed Wynn impression.
18	* NoExportForYou: The ride along with the whole Seuss Landing area only exists at the Florida park.
19	* PianoDrop: There's a moment in the ride where the illusion is given of Thing 1 and Thing 2 tipping a piano onto the riders.
20	* SpectacularSpinning: The ride was very known for its rather intense spinning motions; however, due to several guest incidents, the spinning was later drastically toned down.
21	* SpringCoil: One of the Things uses a spring from inside a sofa to jump around.
22	* ToiletPaperPrank: In the bathroom scene, there's Thing 1 and Thing 2-branded toilet paper spread over the walls.
23	* WinkDing: At the end of the ride when the Cat pops out of a window to wink at the riders, a "ding" sound is heard.
24	* WrittenSoundEffect: These appear all throughout the ride, but most particularly in the scene after the piano drops down, the room has the words "CRASH" and "BOOM" written on the walls.

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