- Excuse me, why is it called, “The Cat In The Hat?”
- Um, because it wouldn’t have the same ring to it if it was, “The Cat In The Vest.”
- Very interesting.
- Now let’s begin our story. “The sun did not shine.”
- Excuse me, how come the sun didn’t shine?
- Because it was raining.
- Very, very interesting.
- “It was too wet to play. “So we sat in the house all that cold, cold wet day.”
- Excuse me, what day of the week was it?
- Excuse me. I just figured out your little plan.
- You are asking me questions after every sentence so I’ll be reading you this story for the next two hours
- and you will never go to sleep. You’re pretty smart, Michelle.
- You’re pretty smart, too.
- ♪ Whatever happened to predictability ♪
- Mm…check this out, boys. Daddy’s cookies. Have a little whiff. There you go.
- Times like this, I bet, you wish you guys had teeth, huh?
- Come on, you guys want to swing? Let’s swing.
- – Hey, Jess. – ‘Hi, Danny.’
- Ooh, cookies. I’ll get the milk.
- Hi, my boys. Hi!
- Oh, look at that gingerbread man.
- No, not just gingerbread men. I have a whole gingerbread family.
- Gingerbread Rebecca. Isn’t she a fox? Have mercy.
- Your gingerbread Danny. Notice the resemblance there.
- With the nose and the whole..
- …and, of course, your gingerbread Joey. There you go.
- Why am I bald?
- Sorry, Joey, I, uh.. …used the last bit of frosting on my hair.
- You know, you better get a record deal real soon.
- Well, in the meantime, I may have a job for you.
- I need a song to introduce cartoons on the “Ranger Joe Show.” I need something snappy.
- Would you do it? Would you do it? Would you? Would you?
- Joey…I don’t do snappy.
- You know, you get paid a royalty every time they play your song.
- – Call me Mr. Snappy. – Hm.
- – ‘Hi, girl!’ – Gingerbread cookies.
- (Stephanie) ‘I have big, big news!’
- I have big news, people.
- Michelle, wait, I don’t want you to spoil your dinner, honey.
- Thank you.
- As I was saying, I have big, big news.
- I’m talking large. I’m talking huge.
- I’m talking massively gigundo!
- You’re talking too much. What is it?
- You are looking at the Spelling Bee champion of Mr. Lowry’s fourth grade class.
- (all) Steph, that’s wonderful! Honey, could you get down? You’re getting the seat cushion dirty.
- Wait, there’s more news.
- This Friday I’m in the finals for best speller in the fourth grade.
- That’s terrific, Steph! If you make best in school you could go on to city and then the state
- and then you could become the national champion.
- We could all meet the President.
- Dad, calm down. I’m never gonna beat Davey Chu.
- He’s the smartest kid in school! They call him, “The Human Dictionary.”
- Well, Steph, I don’t want to hear that kind of negative attitude. If you wanna be a winner, you got to think like a winner.
- That’s right.
- [as Popeye] Listen up, human dictionary. Stephanie Tanner’s gonna tear you vowel from vowel
- then eat your consonants for lunch.
- You’re right.
- Davey Chu, prepare to be pulverized!
- P-U-L-V-E-R-I-Z-E-D. Pulverized! Grr!
- Steph, you’re gonna do great.
- Yeah, you’ve been reading since you were four.
- Hey, I’m five. How come I can’t read?
- Well, honey, not everyone starts to read at the same age. I’m sure you’ll read very soon.
- I want to read right now.
- Michelle, where are you going with my paper?
- To the bathroom. That’s where Joey reads.
- Gentlemen, may I present the “Ranger Joe Cartoon” theme song in C major?
- Jesse Katsopolis, composer.
- ♪ Giddyup giddyup ♪ ♪ Giddyup and go ♪
- ♪ Here’s another great cartoon ♪ ♪ From Ranger Joe ♪♪
- What do you think?
- – Totally wrong. – What “totally wrong?”
- What was the guns and the thing and the swinging and all that?
- Jess, it just doesn’t have that childlike quality I’m looking for.
- Childlike? Joseph, kids loved it. Lo-look at these kids. I mean look at their faces, they’re elated!
- Jess, I need something a little more cartooney, something like.. ♪ It’s time for another carto-o-on ♪♪
- I tell you what, I’ll lend you a videotape of my favorite cartoons.
- In not time at all you’ll be a cartoon aficionado.
- Thanks. I’m so excited.
- Hello, my beautiful daughter, Michelle.
- We’re gonna use this super-duper deluxe letter board to help you to learn to read.
- I know how to read, watch.
- “The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play.”
- Actually, sweetheart, what-what you were reading on that page, there..
- …it says, “Copyright 1957.”
- How come we never read that part?
- Michelle, I think it’s wonderful that you wanna learn to read books.
- But you can’t just memorize what I read to you every night.
- Why not?
- Because it will start to catch up with you around college.
- Let’s start off, sweetheart, by learning the sound of each letter, okay?
- – Like A is for– – Apple.
- That’s right.
- But I have a system that is going to make learning to read even more fun.
- Okay, this is daddy’s special system.
- A is for Ajax.
- B.. …is for Brillo.
- C.. …Clorox.
- It’s gone! Gone, gone, gone!
- – What’s “gone?” – My brain!
- The Spelling Bee’s tomorrow and I can’t remember how to spell success!
- How many Cs and how many Ss! And where the heck do they go!
- Steph, get a grip. You’re a winner, remember?
- All you need is a mnemonic device.
- What the heck is that?
- It must be for cleaning.
- No, a mnemonic device is a little trick I have to help you remember.
- Like take the word, success.
- What you do is, double the C double the S and you will always have success.
- Got it?
- Double the C, double the S. S-U-C-C-E-S-S.
- – Success! – That’s right.
- And if you’re having any trouble with words.. …a mnemonic device will help you.
- Davey Chu’s going to wish he never learned the alphabet.
- I can spell alphabet.
- ♪ Now I know my ABC ♪
- ♪ Next time won’t you sing with me ♪♪
- Well, the word, alphabet, is in there someplace.
- Okay, sweetheart, ready? D is for Drano.
- Come Stephanie. Doesn’t she look smart?
- Of course, she does, intelligence runs in our family.
- It must have skipped a generation. You left the lens cap on.
- Boy, that trophy’s gonna look nice in my bedroom.
- Only if I let you borrow it.
- You’re going down, Chu.
- And it’s all thanks to two little words mnemonic device.
- [smirks] Dream on, Tanner. They don’t call me “the human dictionary” ‘cause I’m good at kickball.
- Good afternoon, parents, students, and friends.
- Welcome to the fourth grade spelling championship.
- Now, I’d like to introduce the top spellers in the fourth grade!
- Frannie Weisberg!
- ‘Randy Gaines!’
- ‘Davey Chu!’
- ‘And our first speller, Stephanie Tanner.’
- Stephanie.. …your first word is, “mnemonic.”
- Mnemonic.
- Would you repeat the word, please?
- The word is, “mnemonic.”
- And a very fine word it is.
- Uh, mnemonic.
- A device or trick to help you remember things, mnemonic.
- Stephanie, this is not a definition bee. I need the spelling.
- Spelling? Oh, I’ll give you spelling.
- Rhododendron. R-H-O-D-O-D-E-N-D-R-O-N. Rhododendron.
- You have ten seconds to spell mnemonic.
- Mnemonic.
- N-E-M-O-N-I-C. Mnemonic.
- Uh, I’m afraid that’s incorrect, Stephanie.
- ‘The next speller is Davey Chu.’
- Mnemonic.
- M-N-E-M-O-N-I-C.
- – Mnemonic. – Correct.
- Now, that eliminates Stephanie Tanner. Thank you, Stephanie.
- What? That’s it? I did all that studying for one lousy word?
- Come on, have a heart!
- – Give me a do-over. – ‘Do-over.’
- Please, can I have another chance? Any other word. Any other word!
- I’m sorry, Stephanie. You can take your seat with the class, sweetheart.
- Alright.
- Okay, our next speller is Randy Gaines.
- Randy..
- …your first word is, “incandescent.”
- Incandescent. I-N-C-A-N-D-E-S-C–
- Stephanie, sweetheart, you’ve already been eliminated.
- Eliminated. E-L-I-M-I-N-A-T-E-D. Eliminated.
- DJ, DJ, come here!
- Michelle, what is it?
- Look, I could read your name. DJ.
- Michelle, that’s very good. Do you want to try something a little harder?
- Sure.
- I heard this was good.
- Let’s hold off on “The Hobbit.”
- Have a seat.
- Let’s start with this word, right here. Now, do you know what this says?
- That’s my name, “Michelle!”
- Ah, but do you know why it says, “Michelle?”
- I have no idea.
- Well, let’s start with the M. Do you know what sound does that makes?
- Mm…like, “Mop & Glow.”
- I see you’ve been studying with dad.
- Now for the I. Do you know what sound does that makes?
- Piece of cake. I, like eye.
- Well, not exactly. That eye starts with an E. It sounds like an I, but it isn’t.
- But that I in your name, doesn’t sound like the I that starts with the E.
- It sounds like I as in, it.
- If you say so.
- You see, Michelle, vowels have long sounds and short sounds.
- And if the vowel is long, it says its own name.
- If the vowel is short it has a different sound.
- Huh?
- Right! Just like, huh.
- However, a short vowel can be changed into a long vowel if the word has a silent E
- like the word “date.”
- If you take off that E, the word becomes “dat.”
- But that’s a really bad example because dat is not a real word.
- I’m never going to learn how to read.
- I guess I didn’t help much, did I?
- Duh!
- Mnemonic has a silent M? Whoever heard of a silent M? Silent Cake, yeah. Maybe.
- Steph, hold it, right there, We’ve to talk about this.
- Is Stephanie home? She forgot her ribbon.
- Steph, would you look at that? Davey brought you your ribbon.
- Hot dog.
- Mind if I put this trophy down? It’s really heavy.
- That trophy would be mine if they didn’t give me the one word I didn’t know.
- Uh, Davey, what Steph means to say is, congratulations.
- What I mean is, I can outspell him anytime.
- Come on, Chu. Right here, right now.
- If you beat me again I’ll carry your lunch tray for a week.
- – Books too? – Books too.
- – And buy me ice cream? – Don’t push it.
- Okay, you’re on.
- Steph, are you sure you wanna do this? This is the guy who knew how to spell ecclesiastical.
- Ecclesiastical. E-C-C-L-E-S-I-A-S-T-I-C-A-L. Ecclesiastical.
- Alright. Let the games begin. I’ll get the dictionary.
- – Hey, Jess. – Hey.
- How’s my theme song coming? Uh, did you come up with anything like.. ♪ It’s time for another cartoon ♪♪
- You know, Joseph, I’ve, uh, spent a couple of hours watching some of your favorite cartoons
- and I came with a very important conclusion.
- You’re a sick man.
- But I did come up with the perfect song. I’ve programmed some-some sound effects in this whole thing and I think you’re going to love it.
- – Listen, it goes like this. – Great. Okay.
- ♪ Oh look out ♪
- ♪ Duck ♪
- ♪ Crash and kaboom ♪
- ♪ Here comes another Ranger Joe Cartoon ♪♪
- Now-now-now, Jess, I want to say this nicely.
- I hate it.
- Hate? What, ha-hate is such a strong word. What do you-what do you want, Something stupid like, uh, uh..
- ♪ Here comes another cartoon ♪♪
- – That’s it. – What’s it?
- That note, that-that boing whatever you hit, that’s perfect. Jess, you are a musical genius. – That’s my theme song. – What are you talking about?
- [stammering] That’s the stupid song you’ve been singing for days.
- I didn’t write that song. You wrote that song. Are you gonna pay me for that?
- You’re right.
- I did write that. Hey, thanks for trying.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa! Wait! What about my..
- You owe me, Gladstone.
- Without my boing you got nothing!
- B-E-N-I-G-N. Benign.
- That’s correct.
- Okay, Steph, it’s your word.
- “Trigonometry.”
- Trigonometry. T-R-I-G-O-N-O-M-E-T-R-Y.
- – Trigonometry. – Yes! That’s my girl.
- I mean, correct.
- Okay, Davey, spell..
- …”Photosynthesis.”
- Hey, Michelle, how’s your reading coming along?
- I quit. I’m too dumb to read.
- Hey, now, that kind of talk stops right here, young lady.
- Come here, I want to talk to you.
- Now…if anyone knows about being dumb it’s your Uncle Jesse.
- There, le-let me go back and rephrase that.
- Now see, when I was in first grade uh, there-there were two kinda reading groups. There were the bluebirds and the robins.
- And I was a robin and everyone knew the robins were kinda slow readers. So I thought that meant that I was dumb.
- So instead of, uh, spending my time trying to learn to read I-I spent all my time beating up the bluebirds.
- So you’re dumb like me?
- I wasn’t dumb, that’s the point I’m trying to make. I thought I was dumb, so I gave up trying.
- I mean, I got bad grades for a long time and then I realized that I’m a smart guy.
- And I’m not gonna let the same thing happen to you because you’re a smart girl, young lady.
- Oh, puh-lease!
- Oh, puh-lease, yourself.
- Now, to start reading all you have to learn is one really cool word, okay? And I’m gonna teach it to you right now.
- You’re ready?
- Here is the word…Okay?
- Now, in this word, the A sounds like aah.
- Here we go again.
- You just stick with your Uncle J, okay?
- The A sounds like aah and the T sound’s like.. What-what sound does the T make?
- Tuh.
- That’s right. Tuh. Okay, now, put them together and what do you get?
- “Atuh. Atuh.
- Atuh. At!”
- That’s it! At, you just read, at.
- I did?
- Yeah, you did. That’s great.
- Now, now, what sound does the letter C make?
- Kuh, like Clorox.
- I see your dad’s been teaching you.
- Alright. Kuh. Now, here we go.
- Kuh and at, put them together.
- – What do get? – “Kuh-at.”
- Faster.
- “Kuh-at.”
- “Cat!” I read cat.
- She just read another word, ladies and gentlemen! This chick is on fire.
- Reading high fives. Can you dig it?
- I knew that you could. Alright.
- Let’s try another one.
- The ever popular H. Okay? Now what does that say?
- “Huh-at. Hat!”
- Alright!
- I did it again. I’m unbelievable!
- I’m so proud of you. That’s terrific!
- Now, I’ll tell you something. We’ll just read a little each day and before you know it you’re gonna be reading a book. I promise.
- Which book?
- Well, hey-hey, this is the perfect one.
- Now watch. Now, when I point to a word, you say it, okay?
- – “The..” – “Cat.”
- – “In the..” – “Hat.”
- Right on, sister.
- E-P-I-P-H-A-N-Y. Epiphany.
- That’s correct.
- Stephanie, I’m sorry, I got to go home for dinner.
- Hey, if you quit, you forfeit, Chumeister.
- Dad, next word, please.
- This is gonna be the last word, alright?
- “Sarsaparilla.”
- Sarsaparilla. S-A-S-P-A-R-I-L-L-A. Sarsaparilla.
- I’m sorry, Steph.
- Why?
- Because it’s sarsaparilla.
- S-A-R-S-A-P-A-R-I-L-L-A.
- Sarsaparilla.
- Man, that’s right. You are the human dictionary, aren’t you?
- Now there’s a silent R? I hate this language.
- Steph..
- I got to go home for dinner.
- Well, Mr. Tanner, I must say, it’s been quite a delectation.
- Yeah. It certainly has.
- Delectation. Better not be a put-down.
- Steph? I’m really disappointed in you.
- I know. You said I was a winner. But let’s face it. I’m a loser.
- I’m not disappointed in you because you lost. I’m disappointed because of the way you lost.
- Honey, you were a sore loser.
- That’s because I hate losing.
- Nobody likes to lose.
- But everybody loses sometimes.
- You did your best, you tried your hardest and Davey beat you fair and square.
- Why didn’t you congratulate him?
- ‘Cause I was mad.
- Were you mad at him for winning or were you mad at yourself for losing?
- Do I have to answer that?
- Yeah.
- I guess I was mad at myself.
- I just wanted to be the best.
- You are.
- You’re the best speller in your class. You might even be the best speller in this house.
- – Dad? – Okay.
- You are the best speller in this house.
- Sweetheart, you have to be proud of your accomplishments.
- But no matter how good you are at something
- there’ll always maybe a Davey Chu out there who might be just a little bit better then you are.
- It’s just as important to be a good loser as it is to be a good winner, honey
- You’re right. I’m sorry, dad.
- I can’t wait till I lose again so I can show you how good I am at it.
- Now you’re talking like a winner. Come here.
- 指さした所を読めよ “ザ” “キャット”
- “イン ザ” “ハット”
- やったな お嬢ちゃん
- ＥＰＩＰＨＡＮＹ “公現祭(エピフャニー)”
- 正解だ
- 夕食だから帰らなきゃ
- やめたら負けよ チュー博士
- 次の言葉は？
- これで最後にしよう
- “薬用サルサ根(サースパリラ)”
- ＳＡＳＰＡＲＩＬＬＡ サスパリラ
- 残念だ
- 何が？
- サースパリラだよ
- ＳＡＲＳＡＰＡＲＩＬＬＡ
- サースパリラ
- そのとおり 本当に歩く辞書だ
- また発音しないＲ？ 言葉なんか嫌い
- ステフ
- 僕は帰ります
- タナーさん 至福のひと時でした
- ああ そうだね
- “至福”だって？ 批判はよそう
- ステフ お前には がっがりしたよ
- そうよね 勝てると思ったのに負けた
- 負けたことじゃない 負け方に失望した
- あの態度は何だ
- 負けるの嫌いなの
- 誰でもそうさ
- でも負ける時もある
- 彼は正々堂々と 勝負に勝った
- なぜ祝福しない
- 怒ってたから
- 彼に？ 負けた自分に？
- 言わせるの？
- ああ
- 自分に怒ったの
- １番がよかった
- １番だよ
- クラスで１番だ この家でも１番かも
- パパ
- 間違いなく１番だ
- お前の実力は本物だ
- でも どんなに得意でも―
- 彼のように上をいく人が 必ずいるものだよ
- 潔く負けるのも 勝つことぐらい大事だ
- そうだね ごめんなさい
- 次はいい負けっぷりを 見せるわ
- そうこなくちゃ おいで
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