Green Eggs and Ham is one of my all-time favorite Dr. Seuss books. In fact, I have the physical copy of the book at my house. When this show was announced in 2018, it was met with a lot of criticism. People were like "How can you make a 50-word book into a show?". But I never doubted this show for a second.
Luckily, when the show premiered in 2019, they were proven wrong. The show does manage to make a book with only 50 words in it into a complex, serialized cartoon. I must applaud the crew behind the show for achieving such a task. The solution to the problem is simple - only bring up the green eggs and ham part once an episode and make the rest of the show about Sam I Am and Guy Am I rescuing the Chickeraffe.
The green eggs and ham are still an important element of the show, since it symbolizes Sam and Guy's friendship. When their friendship is at their lowest point, Guy finally tries green eggs and ham and loves it, restoring their friendship in the process. Also, it's a major part of Sam's backstory. His mom made him green eggs and ham for breakfast, and then she abandoned him. The green eggs and ham are the only piece of her that he has left, and he constantly eats it in hopes in finding some that match the way her's tasted.
Not only is Sam's backstory tragic, Sam's entire character and fall from grace is tragic. Underneath his upbeat and happy-go-lucky facade is a ruthless, cunning con-man. However, he bamboozled his boss, Snerz, so that he doesn't get the Chickeraffe, proving that Sam always had good intentions for the creature. Also, Sam has a bunch of aliases because no one ever sticks around for him, not even his own mom.
If you told the cartoon community that you could take a book for toddlers and transform it into something beautifully complex, they would've doubted you. But here we are in the future, where everything is possible, even making a delicate, intricate story out of a plot as simple as trying to get a random dude to eat green eggs and ham.
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