G o d so after discussing with my roommates about how the Cat in the Hat is a chaotic neutral trickster god I looked up his actions in The Cat in the Hat Comes Back. I don’t even know what point I was trying to make but its not important.
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, if you don’t know, is where the Cat in the Hat makes a big goddamn mess in their bath tub by eating cake in it, keeps spreading the mess to other items in the house until eventually he summons a smaller cat who lives in his hat (Little Cat A), who summons a smaller cat in his hat (Little Cat B), for a few letters like its a child-friendly version of Rick and Morty’s Mr. Meseeks and its just a trickster Russian nesting doll of cats. And these smaller cats keep making the mess worse and worse until we get to little cat Z, who finally cleans everything up.
But anyway, I found this
(text: After the 2003 film adaption of the original story, it was planned to make a sequel based on The Cat in the Hat Comes Back. However, due to the film’s poor reception, Theodore Geisel's widow, Audrey Geisel, decided to not allow any future live-action adaptions of her husband's works and the plans for the sequel were cancelled.)
We very nearly ended up getting a film with not 2, not 5, but 27 fucking horrifying Mike Myers Cats in the Hats in increasingly small sizes, only saved by Audrey Geisel, Dr. Suess’ wife being pissed at at the Cat in the Hat film.
She’s a real American hero.
