01x20 - Date Night/Face on the Fritz

[bunniefuu]

[together] Ready! Jet! Go!

- ♪ Jet Propulsion ♪

♪ That's his name ♪

♪ Jet Propulsion ♪

♪ He'll rocket to fame ♪

♪ When he arrived, he created a buzz ♪

♪ 'Cause there was no house ♪

♪ And then there was, he said ♪

- ♪ People of Earth! You ain't seen nothing yet! ♪

♪ I'm from Bortron , and my name is Jet! ♪

- ♪ Jet Propulsion ♪

♪ That's his name ♪

♪ He looks like us ♪

♪ But he isn't the same ♪

- ♪ I'm a space tripper and a galaxy crosser ♪

♪ My parents brought me here in a flying saucer ♪

- ♪ And just to prove it was a fact ♪

♪ He flew them out to space and back ♪

♪ Jet Propulsion ♪

[spaceship whirring]

- ♪ Jet Propulsion ♪

[together] Ready! Jet! Go!

- ♪ He showed up, and now it's a blast ♪

♪ Looks like the future really got here fast ♪

- ♪ Nice to meet you, human race ♪

♪ Tell me all about the place ♪

- Jet Propulsion!

- Jet Propulsion!

- Jet Propulsion!

all: Ready! Jet! Go!

[laughter]

- Ah, remember when we visited Aldebaran?

- Oh, such a lovely orange star.

- When was this, Mom and Dad?

- That was one of our first dates.

- What's a "date"?

- It's a-- a meeting at a prearranged time

for romantic meal purposes.

Oh! This was our first date, Jet.

As I remember it, I was pretty-hee-hee smooth.

- Oh! As I remember it,

you were a hilarious goofball.

- Well, it was kind of a comedy of errors.

First, the location--

- Carrot took me to one of Bortron 's moons.

We parked in a crater and gazed back at our home planet.

- While we ate Bortronian spaghetti.

- Oh, h*! The gravity on that moon was so low,

the meatballs were floating around the saucer!

- We ended up tossing meatballs into each other's mouth!

- And laughing till our space-suits split!

- [laughs] This is great.

Whoa! Okay!

This is too much. That's enough, Mom and Dad.

- That was the exact moment

that I fell for your mother, Jet.

And got the courage to tell her so.

- Aw. - And the rest,

as the Earthies say, is historical.

- What a date night. I don't think we could top it.

- Yep. It could never be topped.

Except maybe with Parmesan cheese.

[both laugh]

- And wouldn't you know it-- tomorrow is the anniversary

of that first date.

[both sigh]

- Hmm. It couldn't be topped, huh?

- So what's an "anniversary" again?

- You know how you celebrate your birthday every year?

- Uh-huh. - Tomorrow is the anniversary

of my mom and dad's first date,

when they fell in love with each other.

- Wow! - So Sunspot and I have decided

that we want to recreate that first date

for their anniversary tomorrow!

And it's a challenge, because they said

their date was so funny and romantic,

it "couldn't be topped."

- Ooh, and it can be a surprise? How fun!

It's like a secret Commander Cressida mission!

- It'll be easy as cake!

First, we just have to make Bortronian spaghetti,

and anyone can do that!

[Sunspot whistles]

- Okay. What else do we need to do?

- Then we need to fly them to a moon like Bortron 's moon.

I want to get their picture again,

just like this: eating spaghetti

with a big planet filling the sky in the background.

- Okay, but how do we top it?

What can make it even better?

- Well, my parents said

eating spaghetti in low gravity was pretty hilarious,

so let's find a moon with really low gravity

for our date re-creation!

- But there are so many moons in the solar system.

- [beeping] Perhaps I can be of assistance.

all: Hey, Face.

- So trying to find the perfect moon?

There are nearly to choose from!

- But we need to pick a little moon

that's close to a really big planet!

- So how about a moon close to Saturn?

- Or a moon close to Jupiter?

[whirring]

- Both of those planets would be great.

They have lots of moons to choose from!

So we get my mom and dad to take us

on a ride around the solar system

and then surprise them with the picnic!

- But how do we get them to take us? We need an excuse.

- I know! I'll ask if I could go to one of the outer planets

to look for the moon with the best view!

- [laughs] You, Sean,

want to go to the outer planets?

- Well, you know me: Mr. Adventure!

- Ha! Okay. We have a plan.

- Can I help, Jet?

- Oh, sure you can, Mindy.

Let's divide up each kid with a different job.

Mindy, you get my dad to help you

cook the Bortronian spaghetti!

Sydney, you can assemble the picnic items

and stash them in the saucer!

Sean, you and Face pick the perfect space location,

and then I'll--um...

[Sunspot plays romantic accordion music]

Oh! Right!

Provide romantic dinner music

for Mom and Dad's picnic!

[together] Yes! We're in!

[dishes clinking]

- Mr. Carrot, I was just wondering,

do you know how to cook Bortronian spaghetti?

- What a coincidence, Mindy.

We were just talking about Bortronian spaghetti.

- Right. Is a "coincidence" like an "anniversary"?

- I'm not sure. Earth words sure are funny.

Anyway, making Bortronian spaghetti is easy as apples!

I'll show you.

- Here's the Bortronian spaghetti, Sydney.

- Excellent. Now we sneak it into the wagon.

- Oh! Hi, kids! Didn't see you.

[sniffs]

Mmm, smells delicious in here.

Carrot must have gotten a new spaghetti-scented air freshener.

Huh! Okay, well, now where is that wrench?

It just--reach in-- feels like a--huh. Ah!

[both sigh]

- Well, Face,

a moon of one of the big outer planets would be perfect

since they're so huge.

- Absolutely.

There are wonderful moon choices orbiting Jupiter and Saturn.

- Oh, I can't wait for tomorrow!

Mom and Dad will never forget this date.

- Okay, they're coming. Ready?

Pretend to argue.

Jupiter is better! - No. Saturn is!

- Jupiter! - Saturn!

- Whoa, whoa-- what's all the hubbub, kids?

- Oh, hi, Mr. and Mrs. Propulsion.

Sorry to disturb you. We wanted to take a picture

on the moon with the best view in the solar system--

- And we were arguing about which view is better:

from a moon of Jupiter or a moon of Saturn.

- Jupiter, of course. Jupiter's so colorful!

- No! Saturn! It's got those amazing rings!

- Kids, there's no need to argue!

All we have to do is climb in the wagon

and fly out for a quick look!

- Really? You'd fly us out to the gas giants?

- Well, certainly. I--wait a minute.

Sean, you're willing to fly out to Jupiter and Saturn?

- [giggles] Well, you know Sean.

[together] Mr. Adventure.

- [laughs] All right, Mr. Adventure!

Let's go! Come on.

- Oh, wait! Mr. Propulsion?

Would you like to come too?

- Well, you know me: Mr. Not-afraid-to-fly-in-space!

But actually I was thinking of staying home

and trying a new Earth recipe...

- Oh, but it's our anniversary, hon!

We got to stick together today.

- Oh, right. Of course, hon. [grunts]

- [laughs] Well, what do you know.

It's your anniversary?

I forgot!

Spaghetti, check.

Picnic basket, check.

Mom and Dad, check.

Let's go! Excelsior! [giggles]

- Hey. You nervous, Sean? I always get a little ner--

- ♪ Five, four, three, two, one ♪

♪ Doors are shut, engines on ♪

♪ Everybody in their place? ♪

♪ Let's go into outer space! ♪

[together] Ready! Jet! Go!

Whoo-hoo!

[jet whizzing]

[jet engines whooshing]

- Well, here's Jupiter's moon, Io.

Shall we go in for a closer look?

- Look. Io's surface is all erupting volcanoes.

- Not very romantic-- I mean practical to land there.

- Right. We need the moon with the most beautiful view.

- Um, Mrs. Propulsion?

Could we zip out to Saturn and visit Mimas?

It's just a little farther out.

- Wow, Sean. You're willing to go another billion miles

farther from Earth?

- Well, you know me.

[together] Right.

Mr. Adventure!

- [laughs] Mimas, moon of Saturn,

here we come.

[jet engines whirring]

all: Ooh! Mimas!

- Oh, does it remind you of something, hon?

- Yeah, now that you mention it.

But I can't quite put my pinky on it.

- Wow. This is a good match.

Can we put the saucer down on the surface, Mom and Dad?

[jet engines whirring]

[saucer thuds]

both: Ooh. What a view.

[Sunspot plays accordion music]

- Eek! Floating meatballs!

- Man, this gravity's low.

- Yes, very low, floating-meatball low,

since Mimas is so small.

- Sean, help me grab them!

[all straining and grunting]

[both sniffing]

- Wow. What is that delicious smell?

- Hon, you didn't get

a new spaghetti-scented air freshener, did you?

- No. I thought you did.

- [laughing] Meatballs! And spaghetti!

This reminds me of our first date!

- Well, it should,

because we're trying to re-create it right now.

[Sunspot whistles]

[both laughing]

- Aw. - You brought us up here

to re-create our first date?

You thought of all this?

- Uh-huh. - Oh, what a wonderful idea.

It's an Earth-- oh, what is that word?

[together] Surprise!

- You are truly the amazing, Jet.

But, sweetie, we don't have to fight this low gravity

for our date!

- Yeah, Celery's right.

I can think of a perfect place to have this meal.

- ♪ Oh, you're way out somewhere in space ♪

♪ And you're on your very first date ♪

♪ The Moon and stars are always out ♪

♪ So who knows if it's early or late? ♪

- ♪ Oh, who cares if the gravity's low ♪

♪ And the meatballs are drifting away? ♪

♪ I could ask no more than to join you for ♪

♪ Bortronian spaghetti any old day ♪

[together] ♪ Oh, a date is a meeting ♪

♪ At a prearranged time ♪

♪ For the purpose of a cozy meal ♪

both: ♪ But every day's a first date with you, dear ♪

♪ You're the real Bortronian deal ♪

♪ The real Bortronian deal ♪

[all cheering] - So good!

- Hey, Carrot. Catch!

[meatball boings]

[gulping]

[overlapping shouts]

[meatballs whizzing]

- I don't know about you,

but I never go anywhere without my backpack.

Hi. I'm astronomer Amy Mainzer.

The Cassini spacecraft took its own backpack

to the Saturn system.

It's called the Huygens probe.

The Cassini spacecraft was launched in October of ,

and it's been orbiting Saturn ever since it got there,

taking all kinds of amazing pictures

of this beautiful ringed planet.

Shortly after Cassini reached the Saturn system,

it essentially dropped its backpack off,

releasing the Huygens probe,

which then landed on the surface of Titan,

a frozen, icy moon

in the outer parts of the solar system.

The probe floated down to the surface of Titan,

and it gathered spectacular data

all the way to the surface.

The probe lasted about minutes,

despite the harsh environment,

which is way, way, way colder

than the coldest place on Earth.

Imagine what it would be like

to live on the inside of your freezer--

cold and dark, all the water frozen into ice.

Well, now imagine a world that's even colder

and almost as dark.

In addition to water,

it's covered with super-cold liquid methane,

which is normally a gas on Earth.

Titan is the only moon that's known to have

a dense atmosphere.

Some scientists believe that there's a possibility

that small, primitive forms of life may exist

on this wonderful moon.

So the next time you put on your backpack,

think about what you'd bring with you

if you were gonna go explore a new world.

[rattling]

[cheering and laughing]

[laughter]

- Nice, Sydney! - You too.

We're all getting really good on these hover scooters.

- [laughing]

[cheerful music]

Is that the ice cream truck?

- Jet, watch out!

[clattering]

[Sunspot grunts]

- [grunting] Oops.

Sorry, Sunspot.

- Whoa. What happened to Sunspot's pet house?

- Let's just say someone got distracted

while parking a hover scooter.

- Jet, right?

[Sunspot barks]

- [laughs] Good guess.

[Sunspot grunts]

- [laughing]

- It's okay, though. We're building a new pet house.

Even better.

So let's see here.

I connect joint A to part B.

- Hmm. - Maybe we should take

a little more time designing the house?

- That's what I suggested.

- I don't know. We're getting close.

- [laughs] - Make that "pretty close."

- I know! Let's ask Face .

He can tell us exactly how to build a pet house.

[Sunspot whistles]

- Good idea, Mindy!

- [beeping] Greetings, friends.

So you want to build a new pet house for Sunspot?

- Yes! Just like the one we had before.

- Or maybe even better.

[Sunspot whistles]

- A simple task.

Here are the supplies you'll need.

Ready? - Ready, Face.

- First, some wood boards.

- Wood boards. Got it.

- A hammer and nails.

- Hammer. Got it.

- Two bananas.

- Uh, excuse me, Mr. Face.

Did you say "two bananas"?

- Repeating. Two bananas.

One ice skate.

- Do you think something's wrong?

- And a tiger. [tiger growls]

[all gasp] - A tiger?

Now I know something's wrong.

- Look, Face is going all squiggly.

- [babbling]

Hello. What just happened?

- You were talking kind of funny.

Are you okay, Face?

- Hmm. Hm, hm, hm, hm.

I'm perfectly fine.

Let's build a pet house.

First, get two pieces of wood.

[quirky music]

- Ta-da!

- Huh.

[Sunspot whistles]

I don't know what went wrong, Face.

I followed your directions exactly.

- Hmm. Something did not compute.

Let's try again.

First, take a hammer.

♪ ♪

- Ta-da!

[triumphant fanfare]

[crashing]

[Sunspot whistling]

- Ah. Let's try one more time.

♪ ♪

- Ta-da!

- Umm, problem.

- Ooh. Oh, dear. This was not the design.

- Hmm. [humming] - I'm sure we followed

your directions, Face.

- Maybe Face is sick?

- That's it. Sick.

Maybe Face has a computer virus.

- What should we do?

- My mom usually starts with chicken soup.

But liquids and computers might not be so good together.

- [humming] Simple task.

- Let's do what we always do when someone's sick.

Bring him to Mom.

[Sunspot barking]

[Face shudders]

- Hey, Mom? - Oh, thank goodness

you kids are here.

I couldn't remember how your father makes

those terrific peanut butter sandwiches of his.

Do I start with the peanuts or the butter?

- Mrs. Propulsion, we think Face might be having a problem.

- Really? What's wrong?

- Well, he keeps giving us strange directions

and wrong information.

- [babbling]

The peanut butter sandwich is made of bread and peanut butter.

- Oh, thanks, Face.

He seems fine to me.

- No, wait.

The peanut butter sandwich

is made of gorilla hair and ping-pong paddles.

- Ah. I see what you mean.

- It looks like it's time for Face to get

some program upgrades.

- Program upgrades? What does that mean?

- Oh, Face is a computer, and once in a while he needs

to update his programming so he can work better.

- Oh. I guess I didn't think of Face as a computer.

- Well, he is, even if he's a talking computer.

- So how do we fix him?

- I'll call the support line and schedule an update.

In a day or so, he'll be as good as new.

- But Face was in the middle of helping us

build a new pet house for Sunspot.

- Oh. You want a computer to use

while Face is upgrading?

Follow me.

- Hm. Let's see.

Under--hmm, it's here somewhere.

Ah!

Here you go. Enjoy.

- Uh, what is that, Mrs. Jet's Mom?

- It's an old Earth computer that I got at a garage sale.

For some reason, they refused to sell me the garage.

But anyway, here you go!

[Sunspot barks]

- Uh, hello, Face whatever-your-number-is.

Nice to meet you.

Hello?

- It's not doing anything.

- I don't think it even knows how to talk.

How are we supposed to tell it what we want it to do?

- Does anyone speak computer language?

- [speaking slowly] Hello, computer!

We need you to tell us how to build a pet house.

- Maybe my mom knows how to talk to it.

She works with computers.

- It's worth a try.

Woof.

What is in this thing? Bricks?

[keyboard keys clacking]

- Wow. This is practically antique.

It's like the ones they had when I was in college.

- Wow. I can't believe they had computers back then.

- [laughs] Yes. They had them earlier than that.

Did you know we used computers even bigger than this

to guide the first astronauts to the moon in ?

- How big were the old computers?

- I'll show you.

If you look through this window here,

you'll see a very old computer.

- Whoa!

Is that a computer? It's huge.

- So it must have been very powerful.

- Well, you'd be surprised.

Everything that old computer does

could be done by a smartphone today.

[camera shutter clicks] - What? Really?

- How do you talk to the old computer?

We couldn't get ours to listen to us.

- Well, talking to a computer is called programming.

I'll show you how to do it.

[beeping melody]

♪ Computers are tools that do useful things ♪

♪ We use them every day ♪

♪ From driving our car to making us toast ♪

♪ They help us in many ways ♪

♪ But computers only do these wonderful things ♪

♪ If we teach them what to do ♪

♪ We come up with big ideas ♪

♪ But they need a lesson from me and you ♪

♪ Machine language, that's how they talk ♪

♪ The words are zeros and ones ♪

♪ We talk to computers in zeros and ones ♪

♪ That's how programming is done ♪

[together] ♪ We talk to computers ♪

♪ In zeros and ones ♪

♪ That's how programming is done ♪

- [laughs] Yeah!

[computer beeps]

- Programming is a set of instructions

that tells the computer what to do.

And every job has to be broken down into parts.

Pretend that you want the computer

to walk across the room and back.

How would you tell it to do that?

- Uh, I'd say, "Walk across the room and back,

please."

- [laughs] That's very polite.

But what does that mean to the computer?

- You know.

Walk here, turn around, and come back.

- Good. You're really asking it to do two things:

go forward and turn.

But instead of words, computers use a program.

- Ohh. I get it.

We have to tell it how many steps to take

and when to turn.

- Exactly. Let's try to do that.

Sean, you step out of the room,

and we'll see if you can follow Sydney's "programming."

- Okay.

[door shuts]

- Now what do I do? - First, you measure

how many steps it takes to the wall,

and then Jet will put down blue blocks for "step forward"

and yellow blocks for "turn."

- Five steps to the wall, then two to turn,

and four to come back.

- Five blue blocks,

then two yellows,

then four blue to come back.

- Now, Sean, look at the blocks and follow the commands.

Blue means walk and yellow means turn.

- Hmm. Blue, blue, blue, blue, blue,

yellow, yellow,

blue, blue, blue, blue.

[together] Perfect!

- So if we can figure out

how to tell this computer what to do...

- We can find a way to build a pet house?

- That's right.

We can do it together.

You tell me what you want it to do,

and I'll put the program in.

- Neat! Thanks, Mom. - Sure thing.

- We want it to look just like this.

[Sunspot yips] - Whoa.

That's gonna take a lot of commands.

[Sunspot whimpers]

- Four more nails in this side, Sean.

- Got it.

[hammering]

- Wow!

You built a great pet house.

- [laughs] Aww.

I'm glad you're happy, buddy.

- [giggles]

- Hey, kids. Guess what.

Somebody here is all upgraded.

Show them, Face.

[beeping]

- Whoa, Face. You look great.

- Bubble gum. Car seat. P-petunias.

- Uh-oh. - Umm...

- Oh--ah--

Ha-ha! I was joking. Computer humor.

[all laugh] - Good one, Face.

[giggling and water splashing]

- Stop splashing me, Sunspot! [laughing]

- Uh, hey,

where did Mindy and Sunspot go?

[splashing] - We're over here!

- Huh?

Oh, h*! Don't tell me--

- Yep. Sunspot added an indoor swimming pool.

- [sighs] This can't be happening.

How could your pet build a swimming pool?

- I don't know,

but I'm going in! [quacking]

- [laughs] After me!

- Me too! Hey! Wait up!

[splashing]

[screaming and laughter]

- Don't splash me.

- Yeah! - So awesome, Sunspot!

- So cool! - Great job, guys!

- Wow! - Whoo-ooh-ooh!

- One, zero. Zero, one. One, one, one.

- Oh, one, zero, one, one.

- One, one, one. Zero.

So what was that all about?

Hi. I'm astronomer Amy Mainzer,

and I'm here with Kim Swennen.

Kim's a software engineer at Google.

We're in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's

high-performance computing facility.

Computers use ones and zeros to talk, don't they?

- That's actually a computer's language. It's called binary.

- Do we actually have to talk to the computer in binary?

- No. That would be really hard.

- That's good. I'm glad. - So the nice thing is,

we have programs that can translate for us.

So you write code in English,

and it gets translated into zeros and ones

for a computer to understand.

- Ones and zeros--that kind of sounds like on and off.

- It's actually the exact same thing.

Programming is just a series of instructions, right?

So let's make up some instructions

using zeros and ones,

and we'll put a program together.

Off will be zero,

and one is on.

If I do off, on-- so zero, one,

that means turn to your right.

- Okay. Zero, one. Turn to the right.

- Like that. - Okay.

- Okay? And then if I do off, on, off, on,

like that, that means turn to your left.

- Turn to the left. - Perfect.

- All right. Let's try it. - All right.

So let's put a program together.

So...

[upbeat music]

♪ ♪

Perfect.

♪ ♪

- Oh, hey. Hey, it worked. - There you go.

- That's actually a computer program.

- So the next time you say hello to somebody,

just think about how many zeros and ones it takes

for your computer to do that too.

- ♪ Jet Propulsion ♪

[together] Ready! Jet! Go!

[upbeat music]

♪ ♪

- Jet Propulsion! - Jet Propulsion!

- Jet Propulsion!

[together] Ready! Jet! Go!