Green Eggs and Ham is an American animated television series from Warner Bros. Animation, A Very Good Production, A Stern Talking To, Random House Children's Entertainment and Gulfstream Television and distributed by Warner Bros. Television. It premiered for 13 half-hour episodes on November 8, 2019 on Netflix and was based on the 1960 Dr. Seuss book, Green Eggs and Ham. Jared Stern, Ellen DeGeneres, Jeff Kleeman, Mike Karz, and David Dobkin are the executive producers of the show. The show will feature Sam-I-Am and Guy-Am-I going on a journey to save an endangered animal. As they learn to try new things, they find out what adventure brings.
Season 2 was based on The Butter Battle Book.
Cast[]
Main Cast[]
- Michael Douglas as Guy-Am-I
- Diane Keaton as Michellee
- Adam DeVine as Sam-I-Am
- Ilana Glazer as E.B.
- Keegan-Michael Key as Narrator
Season 1[]
- Eddie Izzard as Snerz
- Dee Bradley Baker as Mr. Jenkins
- John Turturro as Goat
- Jeffrey Wright as McWinkle
- Jillian Bell as Gluntz
- Billy Eichner as Mr. Bigman
- Daveed Diggs as Squeaky
- Tracy Morgan as Michael
- Fred Tatasciore as Yes-Man
Season 2[]
- Patricia Clarkson as Pam-I-Am
- Darren Criss as Looka
- Rita Moreno as The Dookess of Zookia
- Héctor Elizondo as The Dooka of Yookia
- Rob Brydon as Phillip Trousers
- José Andrés as Sylvester
- Gwendoline Christie as Marilyn Blouse
- Kevin Michael Richardson as Gobo, Robababobrian
Promotions[]
A brand-new character balloon featuring Sam and Guy on a one-of-a-kind hammobile debuted in the 2019 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, to help promote the new series.
The show was released the day Playing with Fire started in theaters.
Netflix also announced that there will be a second of the series titled The Second Serving.
The second season was released on April 8, 2022.[1]
Season 2 of the show was released the same day that Sonic the Hedgehog 2 opened in theaters.
References[]
Trivia[]
- Some elements were borrowed from or later incorporated into some of the books as follows:
- Season 1
- If I Ran the Zoo
- Three of the creatures in Snerz's animal collection resembled the unnamed generic creatures from the pre/post page.
- Oh, The Places You'll Go!
- The expository headline in Guy's paper about how he was the only one not chosen to present in Meepville reads "Oh, the places you won't go." And it is also referenced again when Sam accidentally runs onstage at a graduation ceremony.
- One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
- The Fish's children have the same name as the book title.
- There's a Wocket in my Pocket!
- The Wozzit is mentioned when The little boy at the farm sees Sam and Guy sneaking around his house, He tries to show his mother, but she just misses them. She teases her son with “Suuure, and last night, you saw a wozzit in your closet."
- I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
- The snakes in the series resembled Jake the pillow snake.
- Fox in Socks
- Michael the Fox resembles Fox in Socks while the farmer's wife looks like a female Mr. Knox.
- The Cat in the Hat
- A Meepville hat shop's flyer advertises the same type of hat the Cat wears.
- Horton Hears a Who!
- the Needle in a Stack of Needles scene resembles the famous thousand-mile-wide field of clovers from the book.
- The Lorax
- One of the bikers in "Rain" resembled him, while a newsreporter also resembled him as well, and in "Boat", one of the buildings in Meepville in has the name "Once-ler."
- Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
- a Turtle statue resembled him.
- If I Ran the Zoo
- Season 2
- The Butter Battle Book
- The storyline serves at the basis for the second season, but unlike the book, the conflict is resolved.
- The Butter Battle Book
- Season 1
- This is the first original Dr. Seuss series to be streamed on Netflix.
Source[]
First 8 Minutes of Green Eggs and Ham (Sneak Peek!) 🍳 Netflix
Goat Chase 🐐 Green Eggs and Ham - Netflix