01x08 - Beep Has the Blues/Chore Day

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♪ That's his name ♪

♪ Jet Propulsion ♪

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♪ 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 ♪

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[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 ♪

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all: Ready! Jet! Go!

- [panting]

Come on, you guys, it's almost :.

That's when Beep and I meet to play catch.

[all panting, Sunspot squeals]

- Speaking of Beep, where is she?

She's usually waiting for us here.

- [sniffing]

[chattering]

- Something's wrong, Sunspot?

What is it, boy?

- [chattering]

- Huh.

He said something's wrong with Beep.

- Well, let's go in and see if we can

find out what's wrong then.

- All right, where is Beep?

- [squealing]

- He says, "Follow me."

- Hi, Beep.

Here comes the ball.

- [low whirring]

- Hey, Beep, are you okay?

- She seems kind of sad.

You know, like down.

- Yeah, maybe she's actually run down.

Like low on power or something.

Hmm, there's still plenty of daylight.

Aren't her solar panels working?

They're supposed to capture sunlight for power.

- Beep probably just hasn't heard any good jokes lately.

Here's one.

Hey, Beep, how does the DSA

organize a party on Mars?

They "planet."

[laughing] They "planet."

Get it?

Wow, you really are down.

Okay, Beep, I'm gonna cheer you up somehow.

Watch this!

♪ I've been to the moon ♪

♪ And I've been to Mars ♪

♪ But the rovers there ♪

♪ Well, they hardly compare ♪

♪ To this fabulous solar-paneled robot of ours ♪

♪ Six legs a-wheelin' ♪

♪ Always scene a-stealin' ♪

♪ Beep's a roving superstar ♪

- Whoo-hoo! - Awesome!

- That was great. - Great job.

- Wow, if that didn't do it,

something must really be wrong with her.

Beep, beeboo bop, boo, beep.

Huh, she says we wouldn't understand.

She's just, I guess "sad" is the Earth word.

She's got--what do you call it?

The greens?

- You mean the blues?

- Yeah, that's it.

Beep has the blues.

You Earthies have such great words for things.

- Wow, a robot with the blues.

- So you don't want to play catch, then?

- [beeps sadly]

[melancholy music]

- Why don't you guys go play catch with Sunspot for a while?

I'm gonna follow Beep around and see if I can

figure out what's wrong.

You know, just us girls.

- Great, we all agree.

- [sighs]

Are you thinking of Mars, Beep?

[Beep buzzing, whirring]

[both robots toning]

- Hmm, I wonder what they're saying.

[gasps] Jet will know what they're talking about.

Hey, Jet! Sean!

Shh.

[robots beeping]

- Beep's talking to her twin sister on Mars.

- She has a twin sister?

- Yes, her name is Boop.

- Wow, Boop and Beep, twin sisters.

What are they talking about?

- Um, Boop, you know, Beep's sister,

is feeling sick.

She feels sleepy all the time.

[Boop toning]

She barely has enough power to answer Beep's phone calls.

- Hey, my mom says the scientists

here at the DSA have been talking about

a rover on Mars that has been losing power.

- Must be Boop.

- They think something must be wrong with her solar panels.

- That's terrible.

Without power, the rover can't

communicate with Earth or do anything.

- No wonder Beep's sad.

- Mom says the scientists are working

around the clock to find a solution.

[robots beeping]

- Beep's telling her sister that right now,

but she's worried.

She doesn't know how to help fix her.

Hmm, Boop says she has to sign off to save power.

- Beep, Jet told me what's going on with your sister.

I don't know how, but I promise

somehow we'll get help for Boop.

Come on!

We've gotta save Boop.

- [panting]

But--but Sydney, how can we help Boop?

We're just kids.

[Sunspot squealing]

[sawing and nailing noises]

- Hmm, I agree, Sunspot.

If we have the right tools, maybe we could.

What do you do when the power runs down on something?

- You open it up and replace its battery, but--

- Those are great ideas!

Let's go test your hypotheses.

- But Jet, Boop is on Mars.

- My parents can zip us up

to Mars in a nanosecond.

Well, maybe not a nanosecond, but pretty fast.

[Sunspot chattering]

- [chuckles] Looks like I'm going to Mars.

[all panting]

- I heard you need a lift to Mars.

Hop in, kids.

Hurry, I'm double-parked.

- [sighs]

I'm actually getting pretty good at this space travel stuff.

It's the lift-off thing that always catches me off guard.

- Five, four, three, two, one!

Doors are shut. Engine's on.

Everybody in their place.

Let's go into outer space!

[Sean yelling]

[Sean groaning]

- Well, here we are.

Mars, the red planet.

So what do you think is wrong

with this Boop rover we're looking for?

- I think her battery must be running down.

Otherwise, why would she be getting weaker?

- Oh, and how can we ever find her here?

- I bet Face can help us.

- Face , ready to assist you.

Hello, Jet, Sean, Sydney.

all: Hi, Face!

- Oh, hello, Celery.

- Can you help us find a Mars rover named Boop?

- Certainly.

Here are all the Earth landers

and rovers on Mars.

all: Whoa!

- That many?

- Yes, and look at all the spacecraft

that are orbiting Mars.

- Oh, my, you Earthies

are pretty busy up here, aren't you?

- Uh-huh. We're trying to learn

as much as we can about Mars,

so we can send astronauts up here some day.

That's why the DSA sent Boop up here.

- Aha!

This little solar-powered rover

must be Boop.

all: Yes, that's her!

- Let's go down and see what's wrong with her.

Hang on!

[Celery laughing]

- Whoa.

[Celery laughs, sighs]

[Sunspot chattering]

- Huh? Oh!

I see tire tracks.

They must be hers.

Thanks, Sunspot.

- Let's follow them.

all: There she is!

- I'll just put her down next to Boop, and we--

- Wait, we can't just land next to her.

- Why not?

- She's got cameras for eyes.

Just like Beep.

And back on Earth at the DSA,

a team of scientists is looking through those cameras.

My mom's there right now.

- And that's a problem?

- Yeah, if my mom sees me on Mars,

I'm gonna have a lot of explaining to do.

- Right.

Jet, we visiting Bortronians

need to follow our prime directive:

Don't freak out the locals.

Keep a low profile.

I'll put the wagon down behind those big boulders,

and then we'll sneak up from behind.

Ooh, they'll never know we're here.

- Great! I love being low profile.

- Okay, everyone ready?

On to the Mars surface.

Sydney, bring your handheld device

that makes faraway things look closer.

- You mean my binoculars?

- Yeah! "Bin-oc-ulars"

Ah, it's just--ooh!

It's a wonderful Earth word, yes.

- [gasps] She's all covered with dust.

Her solar panels are too.

I bet the sun's energy can't get through the dust

to charge her batteries.

- Yeah, that totally makes sense.

- [squealing]

[chattering]

- Right, Sunspot, let's just go over

and wipe the dust off with a cloth.

- No, we can't go over there.

They'd see us.

- [chattering]

- Yes, good thinking.

Mom, what if we just turn the wagon around

and use our thrusters--

- To blast the dust off?

[gasps] What a great idea!

- Okay, but remember everyone,

my mom and the DSA scientists are watching.

- I wonder what exactly they can see.

- Hmm, power's still really low.

- Guys, wouldn't it be funny

if I just danced in front of the camera for a second,

and then ducked before they realized what happened?

- No, Jet, that would not be funny.

- Oh, oh, or maybe if I just slowly rise up from below

and say, "Hello, I am a Martian."

- Jet!

[Jet laughing]

- Here goes!

Ready, everybody?

[Boop whirring excitedly]

[beeping happily]

all: It worked!

[Beep and Boop toning]

- Whoo-hoo! - All right!

- We did it! We did it! - Whoo! Yeah!

[all cheering]

- Jet!

- [blowing]

Wait, what just happened?

What?

The cameras are clear now.

It's like all the dust got blown off.

Bergs, something blew the dust off the rover.

Yes, it must've been a Martian dust devil.

You know, a dust storm.

Wow, what a lucky break.

What?

Is that a footprint?

[kids cheering]

Huh, so weird.

I swear that looked like a footprint

but now it's gone.

Hmm, I guess the dust devil blew that away too.

- [giggles] I guess Beep got over her blues.

- Yep, now she's got the "beeps."

[children laughing]

- What's the longest road trip you've ever been on?

A few days? Maybe even a week?

Hi, I'm astronomer, Amy Mainzer.

Now imagine going on a road trip that lasts

for decades and decades, with no end in sight.

NASA's "Voyager and " spacecraft

are the crown jewels of our fleet.

They've been on a road trip since ,

and they're still going.

The "Voyager" spacecraft were designed to visit

the outer planets in our solar system.

Both spacecraft visited Jupiter and Saturn,

and "Voyager " visited four planets--

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune--

in something we call The Grand Tour.

The "Voyager" spacecraft

are traveling at an incredible speed,

over , miles an hour.

They were able to pick up so much speed

by slingshotting around the giant planet, Jupiter,

essentially stealing a little bit of Jupiter's energy

to get them going faster on the say to Saturn.

In the time that it takes for me to say the word spacecraft,

the Voyager Missions will have traveled about kilometers.

That's about miles.

In the time that it takes for me to finish this sentence,

the "Voyager" spacecraft will have traveled

almost the distance between

Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Even at that incredible speed,

space is so unbelievably huge,

that it'll take tens of thousands of years

just to reach the nearest star.

So the next time you get home from a road trip,

just remember, "Voyager,"

one of the most amazing spacecraft ever built,

is still out there on its road trip to the stars.

- Whoa, is that food hanging up there?

- Ooh, ah, yes.

Your father and I are both cooking dinner tonight.

My job is stringing the beans. See?

- Are you sure that's the way Earth people make them?

- Well, naturally, Jet.

Uh, they're string beans, aren't they?

- And my job is throwing a salad together.

Heads up! Here come the peppers!

- Whoop! Good throw, Dad.

Looks delicious.

So I'm going out to play with Sean and Sydney now.

- Hey, just a minute, Jet.

We have a job for you too.

- Oh, thanks, but I want to do

Earth kid stuff now with my friends.

- Actually, Jet,

part of being an Earth kid

is doing jobs around the house.

- [laughs]

Earth kids do jobs around the house?

Now I've heard everything!

Wait till I tell Sean and Sydney about this.

Come on, Sunspot.

- Uh, Jet, your job?

- Right, I'll do it later, I promise.

- [groans] I guess his first job

could be remembering to close the door.

[Sunspot chattering]

- Let's see what Sydney's doing.

She's usually up to something fun.

- Hey, Sydney, we were just gonna go exploring

for a rare Earth plant called dandelion.

Want to come?

- I'd love to in a little bit.

I just have to do a quick chore first.

- A chore? Sounds like fun.

Can Sunspot and I play too?

- Fun? Play?

Do you guys understand what the word "chore" means?

- Uh, no clue, but whatever it is,

it sounds way better than a job around the house.

- Actually, they're the same thing, Jet.

- Well, maybe a chore at your house will be more fun

than a chore at my house.

- Maybe. Let's find out.

Follow me.

[sighs]

Today, my chore is

to take the laundry off the clothesline and fold it.

- Wow, for real?

Your parents actually let you do this any time?

- Yeah, they're fine with it.

- Awesome! Let's fold.

[Jet humming]

How's this?

I made an airplane

and Sunspot made a jumbo jet!

- Wow!

Those are great,

except the sheets will get all wrinkled.

- [chattering]

- I think my parents just want me

to fold the sheets into rectangles.

The normal way.

- Well, okay, but I bet

we could still have fun with the laundry.

I have an idea.

Be right back.

Perfect.

Just keep holding the sheet out like that.

- Okay, now what?

- Now I'll climb up here.

I call this one Fun With an Egg and Sheet.

Okay, new name. Fun with Egg and Sheet.

- I'm not sure eggs and clean sheets go together.

- Now, who thinks I can drop this egg without breaking it?

Oops. Sorry about that, buddy.

You never can tell what's gonna happen with an egg.

- Actually, that's exactly

what I thought would happen.

- Fortunately, I always carry a spare.

[egg cracks] And that was my spare egg.

You don't happen to have a spare-spare egg, do you?

Wow, thanks, Sunspot.

As I was saying, watch me drop this egg

without breaking it.

Ta-da!

- Wow!

How did you do that?

- Um, I'm not sure.

It's an old Bortron magic trick.

- Greetings, people of Earth.

- You startled me, Face.

Did I just pocket dial you?

- Why, no, Jet, but when I hear

eggs and laundry, I think science.

My sensors tell me that you're learning about force.

- We are?

- Yes, have fun.

- Wait, that's it?

No big speech about what we're learning?

- Where did Face go? - I don't know.

Maybe he's got something else to do.

Look, all the sheets and towels are folded.

- We did it.

That wasn't bad at all.

In fact, it was kind of fun.

- Huh, I guess whether a job

feels like work or fun

is all in the way you look at it.

- You know something, Jet, you're right.

I'm gonna remember that one.

Hey, Sean.

Want to look for dandelions with us?

- Hey, guys, be with you in a sec.

Just finishing a chore here for my mom.

- Wow, another chore?

I can't believe our luck. Whoo-hoo!

- What did he just say?

- Jet's just learning about chores.

- Chores are the greatest.

So what do we get to do now?

- I have to water all of my mom's little plants

in these pots.

It takes a while.

- Really? Cool.

I know we can have some fun with this.

- Be my guest.

These sunflowers aren't gonna water themselves.

- Or are they?

Watch this.

Ta-da!

A new way to water the plants.

[electronic trilling]

- Hey, that's a much faster way, Jet.

- Hi, everyone, I see you're demonstrating force again.

- Wait, Face, you said before

that dropping the egg was about force.

- It is.

- So how can dropping an egg

and moving the watering can

both be demonstrating force?

- Whoop, gotta go.

See you later.

- Where'd he go?

- I don't know.

Let's water the plants.

[lively music]

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- Hey, we're done, and that was the most

fun way to do a chore, ever.

Thanks, you guys.

- Did you just say chore and fun together?

I have to do a chore

and I really don't want to.

- [gasps] Can I help? Can we help?

This is a triple-lucky day!

- They love chores.

Really love them.

- Okay. I guess it's an alien thing?

[all laughing]

- So, Mindy, what's your chore

and when can we do it?

- How's now? Follow me.

My mom and dad asked me to pick up my toys outside

and put them in this basket.

- Terrific.

You're one lucky kid.

- Um, okay.

- Watch, Jet will find a way to have fun

even picking up your toys.

- I'll believe it when I see it.

- [whispering]

- What are you two up to?

- We're making a seesaw?

- To pick up my toys?

- Yeah, it's fun. Watch!

- Oh, having fun with force again?

- Sure, Face.

Uh, whatever that is.

Okay, load it up, Sunspot.

Okay, go, Sean.

all: Wow!

- I guess that was too much force?

- Maybe Sunspot should try.

He's the lightest.

- Hmm, not quite what we had in mind.

- Let me try.

I'm bigger than Sunspot, and smaller than Sean.

- Whoo-hoo! - Awesome!

- Awesome! - Yeah!

- [excited chattering]

- Hey, we're all done.

We cleaned up all the toys.

- This was great!

You made cleaning up my toys

as much fun as messing them up.

Thanks, Jet.

both: Yeah, thanks, Jet.

- Sure, no problem.

All your chores were really fun.

[sighs]

Except I still have to go home

and do my own chore.

And I'm sure it won't be anything like

the fun stuff you guys got to do.

- Don't worry, Jet.

You helped us and we'll help you.

- You guys would do that for me?

- Of course!

Here on Earth, that's what friends do.

[Sunspot purring]

- Oh, good, Jet, you're back.

Ready for your chore?

- Ugh, I guess.

At least I've got my friends here to help me.

What do I have to do?

- I need help testing out

these Ka-Flooples outside here.

I need to see if they ride as well on Earth

as they do on Bortron .

- Aw, Dad, do we have to?

Worst chore ever.

[sighs]

Sorry, guys.

You're probably sick of doing things like that.

[all cheering]

- Yeah! - Awesome!

- So much fun!

- I love this chore!

- Glad you kids are having fun.

- Face, you're back.

- And this time we're gonna "force" you

to stay until you explain force.

- Yeah, what is force?

- Force is a push or pull.

Everything in the universe has a push or a pull--a force.

When you drop an egg and it lands on an object,

the egg pushes down and the object pushes up.

So if the egg lands on something hard--

- Like Sunspot's head?

[metallic pinging]

- "Eggs-actly!"

Then the force of the egg hitting the hard object

will cause it to break.

- Oh, so the sheet

doesn't push up so hard

and the egg doesn't break.

- Right, Sydney, force moves

the watering can across the rope

when you pull on it.

That's a push or pull force.

- Oh, I get it.

- And force pushes the toy up

on one side of the seesaw

when you push down on the other side.

The right amount of force got the toys into the basket.

- That was me.

- So we used force

all those different ways to do our chores?

- That's right, and you're using it again now.

- You're right, Face.

Watch us "use the force"

to make the scooters go.

- I couldn't have said it better myself, Sydney.

Well, I guess my work here is done.

- One last question, Face.

How come you kept popping up today

to talk to us about force?

- Okay, I admit it.

I'm avoiding my own chores.

I have to force myself

to clean out my computer memory chip.

[groans]

- Now that sounds like fun to me.

[electronic beeping, whirring]

- [gasps]

- Huh, I just realized something.

Everyone else's chores

are always more fun than your own.

- Jet, it's like a great man--

okay, a great kid once said to me,

"Whether a job is work or fun,

it's all in the way you look at it."

- Wow, I love that.

Who said it?

- You did, Jet.

- [chuckles]

- Whoo-hoo! - Awesome!

- Hi, I'm astronomer Amy Mainzer,

and this is Dr. Ken Phillips,

the Curator of Aerospace Science

at the California Science Center,

and this,

this is "Endeavor."

"Endeavor's" one of five space shuttles

that were used for almost years

to take astronauts into space.

But how does a thing weighing , pounds

get off the ground?

- That's a big problem.

It takes a lot of energy

and a lot of force, it's called thrust.

About million pounds of force

it's trying to lift--

- million pounds? Wow, that's a lot of force.

- Yeah, and a lot of what you're lifting is steel.

- How much fuel did the space shuttle engines use?

- Those three engines on the shuttle

will drain an average-size swimming pool

like at your house, in about seconds.

- How many astronauts could go up on a space shuttle?

- Usually, they had crews of about seven.

Most of the shuttle is designed for payload.

That's stuff you want to take up.

- How long does it take

to get the space shuttle into orbit?

- From the time the shuttle launches,

and leaves the ground,

/ minutes later, it's in orbit.

- So it sounds like the space shuttle

is kind of like an airplane that goes into space.

Except it takes off like a rocket.

- That's right.

- And it lands like an airplane.

- It comes back like a glider.

Which means it's an airplane that has no engines.

- Wow.

- Because once all of the fuel is used

through those main engines, they throw the fuel tank away.

- So you're just gliding back to Earth?

- You glide back and you have one chance

to make an appropriate landing.

- So the next time you see a big airplane,

just remember its engines are nowhere near

as powerful as the space shuttle's.

- ♪ Jet Propulsion ♪

[together] Ready! Jet! Go!

[upbeat music]

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- Jet Propulsion! - Jet Propulsion!

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