If I Ran the Zoo has been criticized for its use of racial stereotypes and caricatures. The small play area is located inside the area of the park known as Seuss Landing. Seuss's Zoo book is also the main theme for one of the children's play areas at Universal Studios' Islands of Adventure. Theme park attraction If I Ran the Zooĭr. It is simply the name of an otherwise un-characterized imaginary creature, appearing in the sentence 'And then, just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo/And Bring Back an It-Kutch, a Preep, and a Proo,/A Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker too!' If I Ran the Zoo is often credited with the first printed modern English appearance of the word ' nerd', although the word is not used in its modern context. Quilligan (voiced by Jaime Pressly ) and her daughter Jessica Quilligan (voiced by Laura Ortiz )), other Glummoxes (the unnamed animals in pre/post page, including Glummox Mom (voiced by Laraine Newman ) and her daughter Angela (voiced by Colleen O'Shaughnessey )), and Deer Whose-horns-are-connected-from-one-to-the-other appear as residents of The Jungle of Nool.

In the 2008 American computer animated adventure comedy film Horton Hears a Who!, (including Mrs. Such animals include: Obsks, a flock of Wild Bippo-No-Bungus, a Tizzle-Topped Tufted Mazurka, a Big-Bug-Who-Is-Very-Surprising, Chuggs, a Deer with Horns-That-Are-Just-A-Bit-Queer, a New Sort-Of-A-Hen, an Elephant-Cat, and an Iota. Hoober-Bloob shows them a variety of different animals, including ones from If I Ran the Zoo (and On Beyond Zebra!).

In this segment, Hoober-Bloob babies don't have to be human if they don't choose to be, so Mr. Some of the animals featured in If I Ran the Zoo have been featured in a segment of The Hoober-Bloob Highway, a 1975 CBS TV special. He also imagines the praise he receives from others, who are amazed at his 'new Zoo, McGrew Zoo'. The illustrations also grow wilder as McGrew imagines going to increasingly remote and exotic habitats, capturing each fanciful creature, and bringing them all back to a zoo now filled with his new wild animals. Throughout the book he lists these creatures, starting with a lion with ten feet and escalating to more imaginative (and imaginary) creatures, such as the Fizza-ma-Wizza-ma-Dill, 'the world's biggest bird from the island of Gwark, who eats only pine trees, and spits out the bark'. He says that if he ran the zoo, he would set all of the current animals free and find new, more bizarre and exotic ones. When young Gerald McGrew visits the zoo, he discovers that the exotic animals are 'not good enough'. The book is written in anapestic tetrameter, Seuss's usual verse type, and illustrated in Seuss's pen-and-ink style. If I Ran the Zoo is a children's book written by Dr.

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