What's your favorite fiver troupe?

[Nate the Great]

Har har har. What a stupid plot!

[PointyHairedJedi]

GAK, I'd have to say. More fivers should have NINJA! in them too, I think.

[Nate the Great]

One of these days I'm going to have to use Oobleck instead of Gak as the dying word.

[mudshark]

Bartholomew, is that you?

[Nate the Great]

No, but I hear a Who!

Kudos (and some granola bars while you're at it ) for the reference catch.

Actually, I'm particularly fond of the more obscure Seuss books.

[mudshark]

Obscure?

[Zeke]

It's not obscure to a Seuss fan, but it would be to most people. Only a few of Seuss's books have reached the level of pop-culture icon (The Cat in the Hat, The Grinch, Green Eggs and Ham, maybe the Lorax). The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins is a lot less likely to be on the radar.

Personally, I think of oobleck as the science-for-kids goop first. I'd forgotten its Seussian source.

[Nate the Great]

The 500 Hats is a classic. One of my favorites is the very first Seuss kid's book, And to Think That I Saw it On Mulberry Street.

[mudshark]

Originally Posted by Zeke

It's not obscure to a Seuss fan, but it would be to most people. Only a few of Seuss's books have reached the level of pop-culture icon (The Cat in the Hat, The Grinch, Green Eggs and Ham, maybe the Lorax). The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins is a lot less likely to be on the radar.

Pop-culture radar, hmmm. Don't think that had been invented yet.

In the days before the Chuck Jones Grinch was on TV every year (from Mulberry Street [1937] to Fox in Socks [1965], say) they were all just Dr. Seuss books. More people would have been able to recite from Green Eggs and Ham, most likely, but not by any sort of staggering margin. Bartholomew and the Oobleck would have been just one of the books, not particularly more obscure than any of the others.

[Sa'ar Chasm]

The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins is a lot less likely to be on the radar.

I brought The 500 Hats home from the school library in Grade 2, and Mum went nuts. She'd remembered it from when she was a schoolgirl, way back when.

[mudshark]

Originally Posted by Zeke

Personally, I think of oobleck as the science-for-kids goop first. I'd forgotten its Seussian source.

Ohwait,...

...this?

Edit:

Nothing whatsoever to do with Oobleck, but here's another clip from the same guys, I think. (Sa'ar should like this.)

[Nate the Great]

Is Bartholemew the only Seuss main character (other than The Cat, of course), to get more than one book? I'm not counting the minor Seuss creatures, just the main (roughly) humanoid characters.

Ah, the old cornstarch routine. Liquid if moved softly, stiff if moved quickly.

Is it just me, or do my threads tend to mutate at a faster rate than the average ones?

Oh, and how did everyone like the live-action Seuss remakes? They can't hold a candle to the original cartoons, of course, but as plots that stand on their own.