Ready Jet Go!
| Ready Jet Go! | |
|---|---|
| Genre |
Animation Science fiction Educational |
| Created by | Craig Bartlett |
| Directed by |
Craig Bartlett Rusty Tracy Zac Palladino |
| Starring |
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| Composer(s) | Jim Lang |
| Country of origin |
United States Canada |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 25 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Dete Meserve David McFadzean Matt Williams Craig Bartlett Co-Executive Producers: Rusty Tracy |
| Editor(s) | Ann Hoyt Susan Edumunson |
| Production company(s) |
Wind Dancer Films Snee-Oosh, Inc. |
| Distributor | Cake Entertainment |
| Release | |
| Original network | PBS Kids (US) |
| Original release | February 15, 2016 – present |
Ready Jet Go! is a CGI animated television series which premiered in the United States as part of the PBS Kids 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 is aimed at kids ages 3 to 8. On August 17, 2016, PBS Kids announced that Ready Jet Go! has been renewed for a second season, which will premiere in late 2017.
Jet Propulsion and his family are from the fictional planet Bortron 7 which orbits around a Red dwarf called Bortron. They live at Boxwood Terrace in Washington, where they study human customs and Earth environments for a travel guide. Jet has made friends with neighborhood kids, including Sydney, Mindy, and Sean, whose parents work at the nearby Deep Space Array. 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.
At the end of each episode, scientist Amy Mainzer (also called Astronomer Amy) hosts educational interstitial segments: the segments are not included in the export version.
Jet, Sydney, and Sean go to Mars with Jet's parents, who need to file a travel report on it. Meanwhile, Face 9000's brother, Face 9001, pays a visit.
Jet wants to watch Commander Cressida with Sydney, but realizes he also promised to help Sean. He builds a robot version of himself so he can be at two places at once but becomes jealous when his friends begin playing with the robot.
Jet and his friends are playing a solar system game but mess up on which planets go where, so they take a trip to space to find out the order of the planets in the solar system.
Song: Solar System Song
While Jet's parents are away, he and his friends decide to cook the "classic 3-part Bortronian meal" for them, but they have trouble with the cooking. Sean teaches them the Scientific Method so they can get the recipe right.
Song: Scientific Method
Sean explains to the group that Earth is a Goldilocks planet: It's not too hot and not too cold, it's just right. When Celery flies the kids out into space, they observe how other planets don't have the attributes to support life.
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