In Disney's 1951 animated film, the Mad Hatter tells the White Rabbit that his watch is "two days slow" and sets about fixing it. First, he dunks it in a pot of tea, then he pours salt into it while trying to get a look at what's wrong with it. He then uses a fork to lever out the cogs, gears, wheels and springs before declaring that it needs some butter. He fills the watch with butter, tea, two teaspoons, and jam (but draws the line at mustard, as that would be silly.) After adding a squeeze of lemon he considers that his work is complete.
In the book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, it is the Hatter's watch which is broken, but he makes no attempt to fix it.
`Two days wrong!' sighed the Hatter. `I told you butter wouldn't suit the works!' he added looking angrily at the March Hare.
`It was the BEST butter,' the March Hare meekly replied.
`Yes, but some crumbs must have got in as well,' the Hatter grumbled: `you shouldn't have put it in with the bread-knife.'
The March Hare took the watch and looked at it gloomily: then he dipped it into his cup of tea, and looked at it again: but he could think of nothing better to say than his first remark, `It was the BEST butter, you know.'
The Mad Hatter is a hatter. He makes and sells hats for a living.
Mad as a Hatter was created in 1992.
No. In the original book, the mad hatter doesn't have a name, he isn't even called 'the Mad Hatter', he is simply called 'the Hatter'.
Only the Mad Hatter is a hatter. The name "The Mad Hatters Tea Party" might suggest that there is more than one hatter there, but if you put the apostrophe in the correct place it becomes "The Mad Hatter's Tea Party", which means, "the tea party belonging to the Mad Hatter".
Some people believe that mercury is the cause of the Hatter's madness.
In the book, the Mad Hatter complains to the March Hare for having put butter in the watch with a bread knife, because some crumbs probably got in as well.From what I can remember, in the Disney adaptation the Mad Hatter refuses to add mustard inside the watch.
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The Mad Hatter is a hatter. He makes and sells hats for a living.
Mad as a Hatter was created in 1992.
The answer to the Mad Hatter's riddle is "a raven."
No. In the original book, the mad hatter doesn't have a name, he isn't even called 'the Mad Hatter', he is simply called 'the Hatter'.
The March Hare is the Mad Hatter's friend.
Only the Mad Hatter is a hatter. The name "The Mad Hatters Tea Party" might suggest that there is more than one hatter there, but if you put the apostrophe in the correct place it becomes "The Mad Hatter's Tea Party", which means, "the tea party belonging to the Mad Hatter".
No, the Mad Hatter is a human being.
The Mad Hatter Mystery was created in 1933.
Mad Hatter - comics - was created in 1948.
Mad Hatter - album - was created in 1992.