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* [[YouTube Poop]]: A "random mode" version of the special was one of the earliest videos of this type.
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* [[Actor Allusion]]: It won't be the first (or the last) time that [[Mike Myers]]'s characters [[Shrek|was hit in the groin by someone]].
* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: Well, there's a dog, Mom's boss demanding that her house be spotlessly clean for a party that night, an evil neighbor (Alec Baldwin) trying to woo Mom and get the boy shipped off to miliary school, the Cat's universe intruding on this one, etc.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: "Thing 2 will also accept 'Thing A', 'Super Thing', 'Thing King', 'Chocolate Thun-da', or 'Ben'.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Mrs. Kwan, the hopelessly narcoleptic babysitter is constantly abused by the Cat, the children and Thing One and Thing Two to levels that are just plain psychopathic. [[Unfortunate Implications|It doesn't help that she's the only non-white member of the cast.]]
* [[Disowned Adaptation]]: The Geisel estate really wishes that people would forget about this film, as shown by the upcoming [[Animated Adaptation]].
* [[Double Entendre]]: The live-action adaptation was ''packed'' with them. One of the most prominent being The Cat saying "Dirty ho!" as he throws away a garden ho.
** And then there was the photo of Mom that somehow turned into a centerfold...
* [[Everybody Owns a Ford]]: A Ford Focus hatchback in Egg Yolk Yellow or a decidedly non-stock lime green, with equally non-stock wheel spats that spoil the car's lines.
* [[Five-Man Band]]
***[[The Leader]] Conrad
***[[The Lancer]] Cat
***[[The Smart Guy]] Fish
***[[The Big Guy]] Thing 1 and Thing 2
***[[The Chick]] Sally
* [[Franchise Killer]]: It did well at the box office, but good luck finding someone who likes it. It was bad enough that Dr. Seuss's estate no longer authorizes live-action film adaptations of his books.
* [[Groin Attack]]: The Cat disguises himself as a pinata at a birthday party, kids hit him with plastic bats, and then a bigger kid with a big wooden bat orders them to move out of his way.
** Conrad predicts that it can't end well and Cat frantically raises a white flag but the boy stands behind him and slams the bat directly into Cat's right groin. The Cat screams for 10 seconds, then he goes into a mental state imagining himself as a woman swinging on a swing while wearing a milk maid outfit. It cuts back to him screaming with his eyes widened and he howls and whoops.
** Also, the titular Cat is [[Austin Powers]]. That probably explains most of his behavior in the movie.
* [[Logo Joke]]: The [[Universal]], [[DreamWorks]] and Imagine logos are animated in Seussian form.
* [[Playing with Syringes]]: Conversed. One of the suggested treatments for Conrad being a "rule-breaker" and Sally being a "control freak" on the Cat's Phunometer is "a series of painful injections all over your body."
* [[Retro Universe]]
* [[Something Else Also Rises]]: Happens with the Cat's hat when the picture of [[Squick|Conrad and Sally's mom]] falls open, [[Incredibly Lame Pun|revealing]] that she has something of a... dirty past.
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: This was co-produced by Universal and Imagine Entertainment, which had mounted the live-action version of ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (film)|How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]''. Comedy star Mike Myers being cast as the Cat is a clear analogue to [[Jim Carrey]] as the Grinch.
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