Show review - The Cat in the Hat knows a lot about that

How is this not the most disturbing show on television?  "Your mother will not mind at all if you do..." is the shows motto, and it only gets creepier from there. 

Meet the two kids Nick and Sally.  Forced into friendship by their alcoholic mothers who can't be bothered to actually parent their children, these two are constantly being invited by a stranger in a top hat to visit his "friends".  At some point the show thankfully slips into metaphor so we don't have to see graphically all that really happens. They are invited into his "Thingamajig" and told to press his "jiggamawizzer".  Threatened to have two  hairy creatures named "Thing" force them into compliance, they proceed to do whatever the cat wants. 

Next meet the Cat. Voiced by Martin Short, the show's theme song sums him up.  Obviously, the whole premise of the show as described above, is frightening enough.  As if to accentuate this, there are actually parts in the theme where children, so on edge by his intermittent appearances, scream "What?!" and "He's coming!" as if shoving each other in attempts to get away from him. 

All in all, though the plots can be a big cumbersome and the acting at times is sub par (apart from Short's masterful performance as the deranged cat), for PBS' first foray into the childhood horror genre, I've been thus far impressed.