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The Cat in the Hat presents three Dr. Seuss stories: "The Sneetches", "The Zax" and "Green Eggs and Ham".
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00:04The cat in the hat, that's me, presents Dr. Seuss on the Loose.
00:13A three-decker consisting of one, the Sneetches, two, the Zacks, three, Green Eggs and Hat.
00:35Oh, at the edge of each ocean, you'll always find beaches, beautiful, glorious, glorious beaches.
00:47And when I meander on peaceful-ish beaches, I frequently find myself thinking of Sneetches.
01:03Sneet, Sneet, did you say Sneetches?
01:07Yes, S-N-W-T-C-H-E-S, Sneetches.
01:11Oh, S-N-W-T-C-H-E-S, Sneetches.
01:16Now, the star-bellied Sneetches had bellies with stars.
01:22But the plain-bellied Sneetches had none upon ours.
01:26No stars on their bellies.
01:28No stars upon ours.
01:30Now, those stars weren't so big.
01:32They were really quite small.
01:34You would think such a thing wouldn't matter at all.
01:36But because they had stars, all the star-bellied Sneetches would brag.
01:41We're the best kind of Sneetch on the beaches.
01:50With their snoots in the air, they would sniff and they'd snort.
01:54They'd have nothing to do with their plain-bellied sort.
01:57Ronald, remember, when you are out walking, you walk past a Sneetch of that type without talking.
02:07Keep your snoot in the air, and remember to snort.
02:11We have no truck whatever with the plain-bellied sort.
02:19When the star-bellied children went out to play ball, could a plain-bellied get in the game?
02:24Not at all.
02:25You only could play if your bellies had stars.
02:28And the plain-bellied children had none upon ours.
02:33Yeah, yeah, your belly's got no star.
02:40Twink, twink, twinkle, twinkle, lovely little star.
02:44Twink, twink, twinkle, twinkle, stupid little star.
02:48If there's one upon your tummy that's just yummy, you're my chummy.
02:52If there isn't, you're a crummy, slummy, gummy, bummy, dummy.
02:56That applies likewise to daddy and your mommy.
02:59Twink, twink, twinkle, twinkle, lovely little star.
03:04Twink, twink, twinkle, twinkle, stupid little star.
03:09When the star-bellied Sneetches had frankfurter roasts, or picnics, or parties, or marshmallow toasts,
03:15they never invited the plain-bellied Sneetches.
03:18They left them out cold in the dark of the beaches.
03:23From the heights of Mooba, Mooba,
03:27To the gullies of Gazoo,
03:30There is nobody else who has won.
03:35We're the favorite few who do.
03:39And so a toast, raise your marshmallow stick.
03:42A toast, raise your good fellow stick.
03:44And toast the glorious gimmicky that makes us what we are.
03:48Sound off and let the welcome ring
03:52In praise of our exclusive fame.
03:56A toast, raise your marshmallow stick.
03:58A toast, raise your good fellow stick.
04:00A toast, dear belly star.
04:09They kept them away, never let them come near.
04:12That's how they treated them year after year.
04:19They got snubbed, they got snooted,
04:22their bottoms got booted,
04:23while the star-bellied Sneetches all taunted and hooted.
04:27They just are not suited.
04:29No stars upon bars.
04:33Then one day, it seems,
04:35while the plain-bellied Sneetches
04:36were moping and doping alone on the beaches,
04:39just sitting there,
04:40wishing their bellies had stars,
04:43a stranger approached
04:44in the strangest of cars.
04:54My friends, I have seen they've been treating you mean.
04:58My name is Sylvester McMonkey McBean.
05:01I know precisely why you're so unhappy,
05:04and that I can fix.
05:05I'm the fix-it-up chappy.
05:32My prices are low, and I work with great speed,
05:35and my work is 100% guaranteed.
05:39By my new patent process of polar potoxys,
05:42of the inner sub-nuclear noose bomb Nogoxys,
05:44you'll get a star like the star-bellied Sneetch
05:47for the mere paltry payment of $3 each.
05:51A star?
05:53Here?
05:53Yes, my friend, there.
05:55And the first to go through
05:57gets the trip at half-fair.
05:59Thank you, thank you, thank you.
06:21It works!
06:23Yeah!
06:24It works!
06:25It works!
06:29And we over here, we got stars upon ours.
06:33And we over here, we got stars upon ours.
06:36We got them all, so we got them too.
06:39For every little bitty bit, as goody-good as you.
06:42Now we're socially acceptable at Marshmallow Toast.
06:46You'll have to send us invitations to your Frankfurter roast.
06:50Stars, stars, bless our lucky stars.
06:53All the Sneetches on the beaches
06:56Now we've got stars upon thars.
07:04Ladies and gentlemen,
07:06we are faced with the most awkward dilemma.
07:08We're the true star-bellies.
07:09We had them first.
07:11We're still the best Sneetches,
07:12and they're still the worst.
07:15Yeah!
07:16But how are we going to prove it?
07:17Which is which?
07:18I can't tell us apart.
07:20Let me through.
07:22Excuse me.
07:22Step aside, please.
07:25You don't know me, my friends,
07:27but calm down if you can.
07:28I'm here to help the original Starbelly clan.
07:32Those upstarts, it's true,
07:34now have stars just like you.
07:36But follow me, my friends,
07:37and you know what I'll do?
07:39I'll make you again the best Sneetches on the beaches.
07:42And all it will cost you is, uh,
07:45ten dollars each.
07:53Belly stars, my dear friends,
07:55are no longer in style.
07:56And I'll have yours off in a very short while
07:59in my wondrous machine which eradicates stars.
08:02Then you won't look like Sneetches who have them on thars.
08:06Eradicates these?
08:08Eradicates these with the greatest of ease,
08:11provided you pay your ten bucks, if you please.
08:15Here's ten for the boy and ten for me.
09:04How original.
09:06How distinctive.
09:08How exclusive.
09:14Now we know who is who,
09:17and there isn't a doubt.
09:18The best kind of Sneetches
09:20are Sneetches without.
09:21The old-fashioned custom
09:23of walking about
09:24with stars on your belly
09:26is O-U-T-O.
09:28Abdominal stars
09:29we cannot abide.
09:32Abdominal stars
09:33are abominable.
09:36Abdominal,
09:36abominable.
09:38Abdominal stars
09:39are abominable.
09:42O-U-T-O.
09:44O-U-T-O.
09:45That old status symbol
09:47is O-U-T-O.
09:49Then, of course,
09:50those with stars
09:51all got frightfully mad.
09:53To be wearing a star now
09:54was frightfully bad.
09:56Then, of course,
09:57old Sylvester McMonkey
09:58McBean
09:59invited them
10:00into his star-off machine.
10:32Then, of course,
10:33from then on,
10:34as you probably guess,
10:35things really got
10:36into a horrible mess.
10:43All the rest of that day,
10:45on those wild,
10:46screaming beaches,
10:47the fix-it-up chappy
10:48kept fixing up sneetches.
10:50Off again,
10:51on again,
10:51in again,
10:52out again,
10:53through the machines
10:53they raced round
10:54and about again,
10:55changing their stars
10:56every minute or two.
10:57They kept paying money.
10:58They kept running through
11:00until neither the plane
11:01or the star bellies
11:02knew whether this one
11:03was that one
11:03or that one
11:04was this one
11:04or which one
11:05was what one
11:06or what one
11:07was who.
11:09Then,
11:10when every last cent
11:11of their money
11:11was spent,
11:12the fix-it-up chappy
11:13packed up
11:14and he went.
11:33and he laughed
11:34as he drove
11:35his car up the beach.
11:36Ha-ha!
11:38They never will learn.
11:40No,
11:40you can't teach a sneetch.
11:46But McBean
11:47was quite wrong.
11:48I am happy to say
11:49that the sneetches
11:50got really quite smart
11:52on that day.
11:53That day,
11:54they decided
11:54that sneetches
11:55are sneetches
11:56and no kind of sneetch
11:58is the best
11:59on the beaches.
12:00That day,
12:01all the sneetches
12:02forgot about stars
12:04and whether they had one
12:07or not
12:07upon thars.
12:10Sun, toast,
12:11raise your marshmallow stick,
12:13a toast,
12:13raise your good fellow stick,
12:15a toast to the silly
12:16gimmickick
12:16that we have here
12:18and are.
12:19Sound off
12:20and let the welkin ring.
12:22So what
12:23do you star-spangled think?
12:26A toast,
12:28raise your marshmallow stick,
12:29a toast,
12:30raise your good fellow stick,
12:31and poo, poo, poo
12:32to your belly star.
12:43Oh, beyond the last mountain,
12:47the very last mountain,
12:49beyond the last
12:51Zinica,
12:52Zinica tree,
12:53beyond the last
12:55woomph bush,
12:56the very last
12:57woomph bush,
12:59there is a vacuolus
13:01vacant prairie,
13:03the prairie of prax,
13:06and the tale
13:08of the
13:09zacks.
13:15One day,
13:16making tracks
13:17in the prairie
13:18of prax,
13:19came a north-going
13:20zacks,
13:21a north-going
13:22zacks,
13:23and a south-going
13:25zacks,
13:26a north-going
13:28zacks,
13:29and a south-going
13:30zacks,
13:31and it happened
13:33that both of them
13:33came to a place
13:34where they
13:35bumped.
13:37There they stood,
13:38foot to foot,
13:40face to face.
13:43Look here now,
13:45the north-going
13:46zacks said.
13:47Hey, say,
13:48you are blocking
13:49my path,
13:50you are right
13:50in my way.
13:51I'm a north-going
13:53zacks,
13:53and I always go north.
13:55Get out of my way
13:56now,
13:56and let me go forth.
13:57Who's in whose way?
13:59Snapped the
14:00south-going zacks.
14:02I always go south,
14:03making south-going
14:04tracks.
14:05So you're in
14:06my way,
14:06and I ask you
14:08to move,
14:08and let me go south
14:09in my south-going
14:10groove.
14:11Then the north-going
14:12zacks said,
14:13with north-going
14:14pride,
14:15I never have taken
14:16a step to one
14:17side,
14:18and I'll prove
14:19to you that I
14:20won't change my
14:21ways if I have
14:22to keep standing
14:22here 59 days.
14:25And I'll prove
14:26to you,
14:27yelled the
14:27south-going zacks,
14:29that I can stand
14:30here in the prairie
14:31of prax for
14:3259 years.
14:33For I live
14:34by a rule
14:35that I learned
14:36as a boy
14:36back in south-going
14:37school.
14:38Never budge,
14:40that's my rule.
14:41Never budge
14:42in the least,
14:43not an inch
14:44to the west,
14:45not an inch
14:45to the east.
14:46I'll stay here
14:47not budging,
14:48I can and I will
14:50if it makes you
14:51and me
14:51and the whole world
14:52stand still.
14:53the west.
15:06I can and I will
15:23see the east.
15:23Oh, my God.
15:58Well, of course, the world didn't stand still.
16:02The world grew.
16:03In a couple of years, the new highway came through,
16:07and they built it right over those two stubborn Zaks
16:10and left them there, standing unbudged in their tracks.
16:21Oh, I frequently think every now and then
16:24of the glorious fruit of the noble hen,
16:26eggs, eggs, E-double-G-S, eggs.
16:30My knowledge of eggs is tremendously wide.
16:32I've eaten them boiled, I've eaten them fried,
16:35poached and sherd and deviled and scrambled,
16:37hommeled and shmommeled, coddled and frambled.
16:38I've eaten them beaten and swizzled and swizzled,
16:41frizzled, gadizzled, bamboozled and fuzzled.
16:42I know every way that an egg can be guzzled.
16:45And thinking of eggs reminds me of Sam,
16:48whose favorite dish is green eggs and ham.
17:00I am Sam.
17:06Sam, I am.
17:07That's Sam, I am.
17:09That's Sam, I am.
17:10I do not like that Sam, I am.
17:13Do you like green eggs and ham?
17:16I do not like them, Sam, I am.
17:18I do not like green eggs and ham.
17:21He does not like them, Sam, I am.
17:24He doesn't like, he doesn't like green eggs and ham.
17:29Would you like them here?
17:32Or there?
17:34I would not like them here.
17:37Or there.
17:39I would not like them anywhere.
17:40I do not like green eggs and ham.
17:42I do not like them, Sam, I am.
17:45He doesn't like green eggs and ham.
17:48He doesn't like them.
17:49Would you like them in a house?
17:51Would you like them with a mouse?
17:54I would not like them in a house.
17:58I would not like them with a mouse.
18:00I would not like them here or there.
18:03I would not like them anywhere.
18:05Green eggs and ham.
18:07He doesn't like green eggs and ham.
18:09He doesn't like them.
18:11He doesn't like green eggs and ham.
18:15Would you eat them in a box?
18:18Would you eat them with a fox?
18:21No, not in a box, not with a fox.
18:34Not in a house, not with a mouse.
18:36I would not eat them here or there.
18:38I would not eat them anywhere.
18:40Yuck.
18:41I would not eat green eggs and ham.
18:43I do not like them, Sam, I am.
18:53Would you, could you, in a car?
18:56Eat them, eat them, here they are.
18:59I would not, could not in a car.
19:13You may like them, you will see.
19:15You may like them in a tree.
19:17I would not, could not in a tree.
19:20Not in a car.
19:21Now let me be.
19:30Not in a box, not with a fox.
19:32Not in a house, not with a mouse.
19:35I would not like them here or there.
19:36I would not like them anywhere.
19:38I do not like green eggs and ham.
19:40I do not like them, Sam, I am.
19:43Sam, oh Sam, oh Sam, I am.
19:46He doesn't want them, doesn't need them,
19:48wouldn't touch them, wouldn't eat them,
19:49wouldn't like them here or there.
19:51Or any, any, any, any, any, any, any, any, any, anywhere.
19:55Anywhere, anywhere.
19:59Could you, would you, on a train?
20:03No, not on a train, not in a tree, not in a car.
20:07Sam, let me be.
20:10Not in a box, not with a fox.
20:20Not with a mouse, not in a house.
20:23Not here or there, not anywhere.
20:33In the dark, here in the dark,
20:36would you, could you, in the dark?
20:39I would not, could not in the dark.
20:52Would you, could you, in the rain?
20:55I would not, could not in the rain.
20:58Not in the dark, not in a train.
21:00Not in a car, not in a tree.
21:02I would not like them, Sam, you see.
21:28Would you, could you, with a goat?
21:31Hmm, I would not, could not with a goat.
21:35I will not eat them here or there.
21:37I would not eat them anywhere.
21:58Would you, could you, on a boat?
22:03I would not, would not on a boat.
22:05I will not, will not with a goat.
22:08Not in the rain, not on a train.
22:36You do not like them, so you say.
22:39Try them, try them, try them, try them, and you may, try them, and you may, I say.
22:46Sam, if you will let me be, I will try them, and you will see.
22:52Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
23:01Woo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo.
23:05I like green eggs and ham.
23:12I do, I like them, Sam I am.
23:15And I would eat them in a boat, and I would eat them with a goat, and I will eat
23:20them in the rain, and in the dark, and on a train, and in a car, and in a tree,
23:24they are so good, so good, you see.
23:26So I will eat them in a box, and I will eat them with a fox.
23:35He will eat them in a box, and he will eat them with a fox.
23:40And he will eat them in a house, and he will eat them with a mouse, and he will eat
23:48them here or there.
23:52Say he will eat them anywhere.
23:58I do so like green eggs and ham.
24:03Thank you, thank you, Sam I am.
24:50You