Ready Jet Go!

Ready Jet Go! is a CGI animated television series which premiered in the United States as part of the PBS Kids^[1] block on February 15, 2016. The series is produced by Wind Dancer Films and Snee Oosh, Inc. in cooperation with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory The show which is aimed to boys ages 3 to 7. On August 17, 2016, PBS Kids announced that Ready Jet Go! has been renewed for the second season which will premiere in late 2017.

Plot

Jet Propulsion lives with his family from the fictional planet Bortron 7. They live in Washington State,^[2] where they study human customs and Earth environments for a travel guide. Jet has made friends with neighborhood kids, including Sean, Mindy, and Sydney, whose parents work at the nearby Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The Propulsions' car turns into a flying saucer, which they frequently use to take the older kids into space. Their alien identities are known to Sean, Mindy, and Sydney, but they otherwise make some effort to conceal their origin. As of early June 2016, it's unclear whether anyone else knows who they really are.

Characters

Bortronians

• Jet Propulsion^[3] is the namesake of the show and is a humanoid alien. He has red hair and can stretch his body, like his parents can. He is excitable, energetic, and extremely goofy. He is tall for his age and he might be older than the other kids. He was instantly popular with the other children the moment he arrived on Earth. He sees the mundane world as a vast and exciting place, and even thinks that words are exciting, such as "surprise", claiming it to be a funny Earth word. He is named after the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is shown to be extremely kind, even to people who are mean to him, like Mitchell. He possibly likes Sydney, because he danced with her in "How Come the Moon Changes Shape?"

Voiced by: Ashleigh Ball

• Celery Propulsion^[4] is Jet's mother. Celery is very smart and often takes the kids to space. Her name from her home planet includes the sounds of banging, buzzing and clanging. She normally drives the family vehicle, as Carrot's driving makes her nervous.

Voiced by: Meg Roe

• Carrot Propulsion^[5] is Jet's father. His name from his home planet includes the sound of an elephant trumpeting. He tends to be goofy, like Jet. He often stays home while Celery takes the kids on adventures into outer space, as he doesn't really like going in the flying saucer.

Voiced by: Kyle Rideout

• Sunspot ^[6] is the pet of the Propulsions. He is described as a dog or cat to "Earthies" not in the know. Sunspot has the ears of a rabbit, the body of a kangaroo, and the tail of a raccoon or a fox. He plays accordion, electric guitar, bugle, pan pipes, and drums. Sunspot is very silly and likes to play. His status as a mere "pet" may be somewhat of a put-on: He knows how to read, can talk and sing,^[7] and can follow conversations, but often seems confused about what behaviors are expected from a pet. He often functions as a deus ex machina, figuring out what is going on and what needs to be done and then conveying that information to one or more of the children. Carrot and Jet both realize there's more to Sunspot than the obvious, as evidenced by a conversation in "The Greatest Canyon": Carrot: "You ever get the idea there's something he's not telling us?" Jet: "All the time, Dad. All the time."

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• Face 9000 aka "Face" is a computer. He is a cyan face with blue facial features projected from a small, round ball. He has a brother, Face 9001.

Voiced by: Brian Drummond

• Zucchini is Jet's maternal uncle and Celery's brother.

Voiced by: Ian James Corlett

• Moonbeam is the pet of Uncle Zucchini. She looks like Sunspot, but Moonbeam is blue and plays electric guitar.

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• Spinach is Celery's cousin.^[8]

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• Burt is Jet's cousin.^[9] He calls Jet to ask when the first Earthie visited Bortron.

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Earthlings

• Amy Mainzer (also called Astronomer Amy) is a scientist who hosts educational interstitial segments at the end of each story.
• Sydney^[10] is an African-American girl with black hair and green eyes. She idolizes a character named Commander Cressida, named after the moon of Uranus, who has a dog named Sirius, named after the brighest star in Earth's night sky. Sydney is imaginative and very friendly. She possibly has a crush on Jet as shown in "How Come the Moon Changes Shape?" when she was dancing with him and in "Kid Kart Derby" when she hugged him.

Voiced by: Dalila Bela

• Sean Rafferty^[11] is a boy with light brown hair, gray eyes, and freckles. Sean probably has asthma; he is shown breathing into a brown paper bag in "Jet Cooks Dinner", and he mentions once when the children are in space that sometimes he has trouble breathing. He is very smart and wants to be an astronaut when he grows up, but he has slight claustrophobia. Sean likes to follow the Scientific Method, as shown in many episodes; he even has his own song about it.

Voiced by: William Ainscough

• Mindy Melendez^[12] (full name Mindy Melendez^[13]) is a 4 1/4-year-old girl (she says so in episode "A Visit From Uncle Zucchini/Mindy's Weather Report") with brown eyes, dark brown hair in two ponytails, and a hat that looks like a teddy-bear face. She stays on Earth when the others go into outer space; she is not allowed to go any further than Jet's yard.

Voiced by: Jaeda Lily Miller

• Mitchell Peterson looks similar to Sean except that he wears glasses and wears a hat. Along with Mindy, he is younger than Jet, Sean, and Sydney. For his age, he appears to be smarter than Mindy, even knowing about and building an exact replica of the Saturn V rocket. Mitchell is rude, mean, sneaky, and condescending, especially to Jet, and he is out to expose Jet's alien identity to the public. He resorted to cheating at a race in "Kid Kart Derby" and tried to get information about Mindy's recipe in "Solar System Bake Off." Nonetheless, Jet is nice to him.

Voiced by: Spencer Drever

• Beep^[14][15] is a robot who lives at the Deep Space Array (DSA). She has a twin sister, Boop, who is on Mars.
• Dr. Rafferty is Sean's scientist mother. She and her co-worker appear in "Visit to Mom's Office." She helps Mindy identify a meteorite in "Mindy's Meteorite Stand."

Voiced by: Keegan Connor Tracy

• Mrs. Melendez is Mindy's mother who is heard calling to her in "More Than One Moon." The children call her Dr. Melendez when they stop by her house on Halloween, in "Jet's First Halloween Part 2."

Voiced by: Meg Roe

• Berg is a man who works with Dr. Rafferty. They later recur as judges for the baking competition. He is called Dr. Berg in one of the episodes.

Voiced by: Brian Drummond

• Mitchell's dad is called Mr. Peterson and addresses other males by their last names, calling Mitchell "Peterson" and using "Propulsion" to refer to Jet and Carrot. In the episode "Mindy's Weather Report" he calls himself the self-appointed safety officer for the neighborhood.^[13]

Voiced by: Ian James Corlett

Others

• Man in the Moon is someone who is trying to make friends with Queen Venus and King Mars.

Voiced by: Ashleigh Ball

Series overview

Episodes

Season 1 (2016-17)

4. Round and Round / The Plant From Bortron 7 (February 22, 2016) 5. Mission to the Moon / Mindy's Moon Bounce House (February 23, 2016) 6. Beep Has the Blues / "Chore Bore" (alt "Chore Day" in guides) (February 24, 2016) 7. How We Found Your Sun / Treehouse Observatory (February 25, 2016) 8. More Than One Moon / Visit to Mom's Office (February 29, 2016) 9. Mission to Mars / Sound Around (March 1, 2016) 10. What's Up With Saturn's Rings? / Sunspot's Night Out (March 2, 2016) 11. The Grandest Canyon / A Visit to the Planetarium (March 3, 2016) 12. How Come the Moon Has Craters? / Backyard Moon Base (March 7, 2016) 13. How Come the Moon Changes Shape? / Night of a Bazillion Stars (March 8, 2016) 14. Ice Moon Enceladus / What Goes Up... (March 21, 2016) 15. A Visit From Uncle Zucchini / Mindy's Weather Report (April 11, 2016) 16. Solar System Bake-off! / Kid-Kart Derby (April 12, 2016) 17. Asteroids, Meteors, and Meteorites / Mindy's Meteorite Stand (April 13, 2016) 18. "Mindy Pet-sits" per card (alt "Mindy Pet-sits Sunspot" in guides) / "Treehouse Space Station" per card (alt "Treehouse ISS" in guides) (April 14, 2016) 19. Comet Fever / Asteroid Patrol (May 2, 2016) 20. Date Night / Face on the Fritz (August 15, 2016) 21. So Many Moons / Projects Pluto (August 16, 2016) 22. Sunspot and the Great Red Spot / Uncle Zucchini Babysits (August 17, 2016) 23. Which Moon is Best / Detective Mindy (August 18, 2016) 24. Tiny Blue Dot / Earth Camping (August 19, 2016) 25. Jet's First Halloween (October 24, 2016) 26. Sunday Drive (December 26, 2016) 27. Diggin' Earth / Mindy's Mystery (December 27, 2016) 28. What's A Satellite / Satellite Selfie (December 28, 2016) 29. Space Junk / Scientific Sean (December 29, 2016)

Games

PBS created four video games based on the show, each named after one of the children:

1. Sydney's Astro-Tracker^[16]
2. Mindy's Constellation Exploraiton^[17]
3. Sean's Rescue Quest^[18]
4. Jet's Planet Pinball

Also on iTunes:

1. Space Explorer^[19] released 7 April 2016

Songs

Ready Jet Go! has many songs, some have no lyrics. The bottom ones do not have lyrics.

1. Commander Cressida Theme^[20]
2. How Come The Moon Has Craters?^[21]
3. Night of a Bazillion Stars^[22]
4. Ready, Jet, Go! Song^[23]
5. The Scientific Method Song^[24]
6. The Solar System Song^[25]
7. Venus! (Earth's Broiling Hot Twin)^[26]
8. Tiny Blue Dot^[26]
9. Intergalactic Travel Writers
10. The Milky Way
11. What Goes Up (Must Come Down)
12. Enceladus vs. Europa
13. Computers^[27]
14. Let's Fly Our Little Saucer to the Moon
15. The 3-Part Bortronian Meal
16. My Name is Mindy
17. Try Again
18. Beep's a Rovin' Superstar
19. Cooking with Jet (no lyrics)
20. Asteroid Belt (no lyrics)
21. Building Boogie (no lyrics)

References

External links

• Ready Jet Go! at the Internet Movie Database