After Mrs. Kwan falls asleep, Sally and Conrad meet The Cat in the Hat, an anthropomorphic tall talking cat with a red-and-white striped top hat and a large red bow tie who persuades them to learn about having fun. In the process, the Cat leaves a trail of destruction throughout the house (such as jumping on the couch, baking gross cupcakes that explode, and even ruining Joan's dress by using it to clean the wall). He also releases two troublemaking creatures, named Thing 1 and Thing 2, from a crate which he locks and forbids Conrad to tamper with, explaining that it is a portal to his world. Despite the Cat's warning, Conrad picks the lock on the crate, which grabs on to the collar of the family dog Nevins, who runs off. The trio then search for Nevins to which they find themselves at a party for Sally's former friend Denise in which the Cat pretends to be a piñata and ends up whacked between the legs (which causes him to daydream that he is a woman in his happy place).