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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. 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 story, scientist Amy Mainzer (also called Astronomer Amy) hosts educational interstitial segments: the segments are not included in the export version.
Main characters
Jet Propulsion (voiced by Ashleigh Ball) is the title character of the show and is a humanoid alien. He has red hair and can stretch his body, as his parents can. He is excitable, energetic, and extremely goofy. He is tall for his age and 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, such as Mitchell. He possibly likes Sydney, because he danced with her in "How Come the Moon Changes Shape?"
Carrot (voiced by: Kyle Rideout 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.
Celery (voiced by Meg Roe) 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
Face 9000 (voiced by Brian Drummond) is a computer. He is a cyan face with blue facial features projected from a small, round ball. He has a younger brother, Face 9001.
Sydney (voiced by Dalila Bela) is a 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.
Sean (voiced by William Ainscough) 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.
Mindy (voiced by Jaeda Lily Miller) 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. Her last name is Melendez.
Bortronians
Sunspot 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 concertina, 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, 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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Zucchini is Jet's maternal uncle and Celery's brother. He is a garbage collector on Bortron and works for the Galactic Garbage Company.
Moonbeam is the pet of Uncle Zucchini. She looks similar to Sunspot, but Moonbeam is blue and plays electric guitar (left-handed).
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Spinach is Celery's cousin. Celery calls him when the van/flying saucer is not working and she needs advice.
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Zerk is Jet's cousin. He calls Jet to ask when the first Earthie visited Bortron.
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Earthlings
Mitchell Peterson looks similar to Sean except that he wears glasses and 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.
Beep is a robot who lives at the Deep Space Array (DSA). She has a twin sister, Boop, who is a Rover 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."
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 "Project Pluto."
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.
Lillian is a friend of Mindy's. The two girls dig a small "Grand Canyon" in a sandbox while the Propulsions and the other children visit Valles Marineris on Mars.
Voiced by: Amelia Shoichet Stoll
Riley is a kid in Sean, Sydney, and Mindy's school. He brought in his favorite snow globe for show and tell.
Other characters
Man in the Moon is someone who is trying to make friends with Queen Venus and King Mars.
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 / Project 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)
28. What's a Satellite? / Satellite Selfie (December 28, 2016)
29. Space Junk / Scientific Sean (December 29, 2016)
Ratings
The series has gained 22 million viewers, according to PBS, including 7.6 million on broadcast television. The series has also been streamed over 37 million times on the PBS Kids website and app.
Critical reception
Ready Jet Go! has received critical acclaim. Emily Asby of Common Sense Media rated it a 5/5, saying "Thoroughly engaging and packed with educational content, this exceptional series is a fun way for kids to learn about science and astronomy. Jet's excitement for the human experience is matched only by Sean and Sydney's eagerness to learn all about outer space; put the three of them together, and it's a true celebration of the joy of discovery. Whether it's executing a rescue mission for a Mars rover or combining daily chores with experiments in force, Jet and his friends have a lot to teach kids through their own experiences." The show currently has a rating of 7/10 on IMDB, a rating of 4.3/5 on Google Play, and rating of 4.6/5 stars on Amazon.
Games
PBS and Two Moos created four video games based on the show, each named after one of the children:
Sydney's Astro-Tracker
Mindy's Constellation Exploration
Sean's Rescue Quest
Jet's Planet Pinball
Jet's Rocket Ship Creator
Also on iTunes:
Space Explorer released 7 April 2016
Songs
Ready Jet Go! has many songs, some have no lyrics. The bottom ones do not have lyrics.
Ready, Jet, Go! Theme Song
Commander Cressida Theme
How Come The Moon Has Craters?
Night of a Bazillion Stars
The Scientific Method Song
The Solar System Song
Venus! (Earth's Broiling Hot Twin)
Tiny Blue Dot
Intergalactic Travel Writers
The Milky Way
What Goes Up (Must Come Down)
Enceladus vs. Europa
Computers
Let's Fly Our Little Saucer to the Moon
The 3-Part Bortronian Meal
My Name is Mindy
Try Again
Beep's a Rovin' Superstar
Cooking with Jet (no lyrics)
Asteroid Belt (no lyrics)
Building Boogie (no lyrics)
Awards and nominations
The series was awarded a Parents' Choice Silver Honor.
The series was awarded a Common Sense Seal by Common Sense Media.
Discrepancies
In "A Visit from Uncle Zucchini" (15a) and "Mindy's Weather Report" (15b), Sunspot stays on Earth and does not travel into space with Celery and the older children, but the van take-off sequence shows him buckling his seat belt. He is also shown in the saucer as it approaches Saturn in "A Visit from Uncle Zucchini."
In "A Visit from Uncle Zucchini" (15a), in which Zucchini is supposed to be coming to Earth for a vacation, Jet says that it's Zucchini's first visit to the solar system. Yet in "Sunspot and the Great Red Spot" (22a), Zucchini has supposedly been bringing Moonbeam to Jupiter for the annual meeting of the Red Spot Club for many years.
In "Mindy's Weather Report" (15b), the number of dolls sitting in front of Mindy's "television set" as she gives her weather report changes several times. It starts at three, then there are four, then five, and then four again.
In "Jet's First Halloween Part 1" (25a), Carrot had to settle for buying other vegetables because the store was out of pumpkins, but three scenes show standard pumpkin Jack-o-lanterns in front of the Propulsions' house.
Usage with other shows
In "Mindy's Weather Report" (15b), an image for Dinosaur Train, another PBS Kids series, can be seen when Sunspot flips over the channels on Face, and also, a second of the theme song can be heard.
Parodies and spoofs
In the same aforementioned episode, The Real House Pets of Bortron 7, a spoof of The Real Housewives is on the channel Sunspot finds on the TV on Face 9000.
