02x04 - Mindy and Carrot Bake / Commander Cressida Begins

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[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!

[bluesy music]

♪ ♪

- So I'm meeting Mom, Sean, and Sydney downtown

at the Science Fair.

You sure you don't want to come with us, Dad?

- Oh, I'm sure. It's a rainy-ish,

stay-at-home kind of day,

and I think I'll do just that.

Oh, and maybe bake something!

- Ooh, Mr. Carrot, you're staying home?

Maybe we can bake something together!

- Oh, I love that idea!

It could be a surprise for Jet. Uh, don't tell him.

- Um, hello? I'm still here, Dad.

- Oh! [laughing]

Got it. Ah. Shh, shh, shh.

- [giggles] Sunspot, wanna go downtown?

- [squeaking]

[remote beeps]

[alien folk music]

- Hey, Sunspot, I see you're still busy

with your online Bortronian folk dance class.

- Wow, nice going, Sunspot!

- And now I'm going.

Ta-ta!

- So, what should we bake?

- Well, now, let's see.

Uh, rhubarb goulash?

- Ew! How about, instead of the rhubarb,

we can use chocolate, and instead of the goulash,

we can have cake! So, a chocolate cake?

- Ooh, you've convinced me!

A double layer, healthy, sensible cake!

So let's start throwing ingredients together,

and see what happens.

- Or we could use a recipe.

Lucky this recipe is all in pictures,

so it's easy to follow.

First, we have to get the ingredients.

Step number one, three eggs.

[upbeat music]

- Ooh, hello, eggs. Ooh!

Done. Step two.

Butter.

- Step three, sugar.

- Um, that's a picture of snow.

- Snow? No, silly. It's sugar!

No one puts snow in a cake!

- I do all the time!

Plus, it's better for you than Earth sugar.

Uh-huh, definitely a picture of snow.

- It's sugar. - It's snow.

- [giggling]

Well, we can agree on one thing...

We don't agree!

- [laughing] I agree!

Now let's look around to see if we can find some snow.

- Or sugar.

- Huh, let me just--

uh, no, no Earth snow

or Earth sugar.

Not in here. Nope. Nope.

- Hey, I have an idea!

We can just go to the supermarket and buy some.

- Ugh, you mean leave the house?

To go to the market of super groceries?

- It'll just take a second. We'll be right back.

- Uh, yeah, next stop, the market of super!

Uh, wait. And we push this button...

[radio static crackling]

[car beeps]

[wipers swooshing]

[engine turns over]

[car whirring]

- Whee! [giggles]

I think we're going the wrong way on the street, Mr. Carrot.

- Oh, whoopsie! [both laughing]

We'll just turn around, then push this button ahead

straight out of our street!

[electronic beep, Mindy giggles]

- Oh, no! I think we're going to outer space!

- Oh, Mindy, please. We're not going to space.

I'll just slow us down by pushing this...

[electronic beep] Whoa!

[spaceship whirring, brakes screech]

- Wow, cool! We're in space!

Wait, what? We're in space?

How did that happen?

- Well, um, well, let's see.

Aha! I see the problem!

Celery updated the control panel again,

so the button I was looking for

must be in a different place now.

- But the good news is, you know all the other buttons

and levers on this control panel thingy.

Right, Mr. Carrot?

- Uh, y-y-yeah.

[chuckles] Nothing to worry about.

[gulps]

[panel beeps]

[spaceship blasts]

- Um, Earth is that way, Mr. Carrot.

I think we're going in the wrong direction.

Let's find out why.

- Absolutely. First, I'll stop the saucer

so we can take a look at this new panel.

[panel beeps]

[brakes screeching]

- Well, that was easy.

- Actually, it's kind of complicated.

I'm just not that familiar with this new control panel!

But let's give it a try!

I think this button will move us forward.

[panel beeps]

[spaceship whirring] - Nope.

We're going backwards!

- Uhh, right! Okay, I was wrong.

But that red button will stop us!

[panel beeps]

- And stop!

[brakes screeching] - [chuckles]

Ooh, let's try this button!

- Whee!

- Ugh, I bet this orange thingy will help.

[panel beeps]

[spaceship whirring] - Ahhh!

- Okay, okay, let's not push

any more buttons right now.

I am getting dizzy!

- Okay, how about turning this dial?

Maybe it'll help.

[panel beeps] - Oh-h*-h*, yes!

[funky music plays]

- [grunting] [Mindy giggling]

- This would be the best ride at a carnival,

if we weren't stuck in the middle of space.

- Yeah, good point.

[spaceship whirring]

Whoo! Ooh! Whoo-hoo-hoo!

[whirring, bird chirps, bongo drum flourish]

We need to actually make this saucer fly us home.

Okay, Carrot, focus! Try to think like Celery.

Ah, Celery would ask Face !

Uh, Face, hello?

- Face is on vacation right now.

Sorry.

However, if you need immediate assistance,

please call Mr. Carrot Propulsion.

- Great, I'll call Carrot--

Wait, that's me!

Ugh, okay, well, we'll just have to figure this out.

Let me think even harder!

[straining]

- And I'll think like Jet!

[grunting, gasps]

I'm Jet! Excelsior!

Come on, Sean, let's go to Mars!

Sunspot, make me a san-- [gasps]

That's it! Call Sunspot!

- Ah, good idea!

And I know which one is the call button, I think.

[panel beeps] - Hi, Sunspot!

We're in the saucer in outer space.

And we need help with the new, updated control panel.

- Can you help us understand the buttons

and switches and dials?

- [squeaking and chirping]

[together] Thanks, Sunspot!

- Okay, Sunspot says that Celery put a two-page diagram

in a drawer next to the pilot's seat.

- Diagram? What's a diagram?

- Oh, it's a drawing that shows how something works.

- Oh, so is this it?

- Yeah, that amazing Celery made a diagram!

Ah, this should be easy.

Huh, I feel like I've seen this before somewhere.

Hmm. - Wait, it's the control panel!

See, the buttons on the diagram

look like the buttons on the panel?

- Oh, and look, it says on the bottom here that page two

explains what the shapes are and what they do.

Then we'll know how to fly the saucer!

Uh, huh? Uh, wait.

There's no page two.

Well, not here, or here, or anywhere!

[echoing] Anywhere!

Ugh, we'll figure this out!

Let me think even harder.

[straining]

Think, think!

- [straining]

Wait, I got it!

What if we draw a picture on the diagram

of what each button does?

- Ah, yes! Very smart, Mindy.

Hey, maybe we should check with Sunspot.

[panel beeps]

Sunspot! Sunspot! Sunspot!

[jazz music playing]

♪ ♪

Apparently Sunspot can't hear us.

[panel beeps] - Okay.

we'll figure this out themselves.

- Right! That's the spirit!

- First, we have to find the button on the panel

that's the same color as the picture on the diagram!

- Ah, and the same shape!

Then we'll push that button and know what it does!

We can do a series of trial and error experimentations.

- You mean try different things and see what happens?

- Yes, yes I do. Ready, Mindy! Go!

[panel beeps, spaceship whirring]

[upbeat music]

♪ ♪

[panel beeps, spaceship whirring]

♪ ♪

[panel beeps, spaceship whirring]

♪ ♪

[panel beeps, spaceship whirring]

♪ ♪

- Hmm, so far, so good.

We just need to find the button that moves us forward.

[musical flourish]

[panel beeps, spaceship whirrs]

Yay!

We worked together and solved the problem!

Now we can fly back to Earth.

Wait, we still have to get that snow, remember?

- Ah, right!

- And since we're in outer space,

we should get the very best snow,

and everyone knows the best snow

comes from Saturn's ice moon, Enchiladas.

[panel beeps]

- Um, you mean Enceladus? - Yeah, Enceladus!

- Yeah, yeah, I like the way you think, Mindy!

[together] To Enceladus! Excelsior!

[spaceship whirring]

- Ah, Enceladus, little frozen moon of Saturn!

Yeah, great idea to come here, Mindy!

Hey, 'Celly, good to see you!

It's your old pal, Carrot!

Glad you're still covered with ice and snow!

- Yep, there's plenty of excellent snow here,

Mr. Carrot, just sh**ting out into space!

- All right, let me just, uh, activate

our new Bortronian robotic arm.

Care to help me, Mindy?

[panel beeps]

[arm wobbles]

both: Yes!

[upbeat music]

[spaceship whirring and warbling]

- All right, Mr. Carrot!

[giggles] We have your snow!

Ready to fly back to Earth?

- You betcha! And I may not even need

that amazing control panel diagram.

- Or you may.

I'd keep it handy. Next stop, Earth!

[spaceship whirring]

[upbeat, whimsical music]

Okay, Mr. Carrot, let's bake!

♪ ♪

[both sigh]

[chair whirring]

- [giggling]

What a cool-some science fair!

I got this telescope hat!

How was it for you?

Kind of a do-nothing day here, huh?

- Oh, yes, but we actually did bake something.

- I bet it was nice to just stay here and bake.

[both laughing]

- It sure was nice and relaxing.

[timer buzzes, Jet gasps]

- Mmm, mmm, mmm!

Now, that was a good cake!

And I could definitely taste the Saturn snow.

Mmm!

- [gulps]

- Ah, you're right, Sunspot, it was worth

the unplanned trip to outer space.

- [squeaking] - Right again!

It is time to dance!

[upbeat music]

[both grunting]

♪ ♪

[electronic beep]

- [squeaking]

- And now here's my friend

astronomer Amy Mainzer!

- Thanks, Jet.

One of the first things you might notice

when you look at the night sky

is our one and only moon.

Some of the planets in our solar system

have lots of moons and others have none at all.

I think my favorite moon in our solar system

just might be Jupiter's moon Io.

I've got my handy map of the solar system

that we can use to get there.

First we need to find where we're starting from.

That's planet Earth.

The Sun's in the middle of the map,

and planet Earth is the third planet out.

Jupiter's the fifth planet from the Sun.

We're starting at Earth, which is the third planet.

Mars is four. Jupiter is five.

To get to Jupiter, we need to go from Earth,

past Mars, and through the asteroid belt.

Let's go.

Now we're passing Mars

with its two tiny moons.

But our map says we've got to keep going

past the asteroid belt.

We've made it Jupiter. Look at all these moons!

Jupiter has more than .

Let's zoom in on our map so we can find Io.

It's really close to Jupiter.

Let's go take a look.

Io's covered with volcanoes

and hot, molten rock.

Looking at it reminds me

of one of my favorite foods, pizza!

So the next time you want pizza,

just remember, maps can help you find things

whether it's a good pizza place

or a moon that looks like a pizza.

Mmm.

[upbeat music]

- I win!

Set it up again, Sunspot!

- [squeaking]

[drumroll]

[electronic reveille]

[checkers patting, Mindy giggles]

That's my favorite part of the game!

- Grab your helmet, Mindy!

We're going on another space adventure today!

- [squeaks] - Oh, boy!

Where to this time?

- [chitters]

[squeaks] - Oops!

[chuckles nervously]

- Great catch, Sunspot!

Since you're our newest space traveler,

you get to pick.

Where do you want to go?

- Wow! I get to pick?

This is so exciting!

Hmm, we've already been to the Moon.

That leaves us what exactly?

- [giggles] Lots of places,

right, Sunspot?

- [squeaking]

[projector whirring]

- Oh, right, space is really big!

Mars, Venus, Saturn.

Hmm, I guess a planet.

No, a moon!

No, a planet with a moon?

There are so many places in space, I can't pick!

- It's hard to know where to start.

I used to feel that way too, Mindy.

- You did? What did you do?

- I talked to my mom! [gasps]

And that's what we're gonna do right now!

come on!

- I used to feel that way about space

when I was your age too!

- You did? - Sure.

I bet all space scientists and explorers

have felt that way.

- What did you do when you didn't know

where to look first in space?

- I'll show you!

[exciting music]

This is the first Commander Cressida comic story ever!

♪ ♪

I got it when I was about your age.

- [gasps]

Commander Cressida issue number one?

And you still have it? - Mm-hmm.

I've been saving it to give you at the right time.

- Wow, thanks, Mom!

- What happens in this story?

- This is the story

of Cressida's first space adventure!

- You mean she wasn't always Commander <span> Cressida?

- Nope! At first, she was just a little girl,

who was interested in exploring space!

- Just like me!

- That's the exciting part!

When I read this, I decided

if Cressida could become a space explorer,

I could do it too.

- Oh, yeah! You always say...

[together] If you can see it, you can be it!

[all laughing, Sunspot squeaking]

- Sydney, can we go back to the tree house now

and read Commander Cressida's first adventure?

- [squeaks] - Yes! Excelsior!

[adventurous music]

- ♪ Commander Cressida ♪

♪ She is the best of the galactic astronauts ♪

♪ There's nothing she cannot ♪

both: ♪ Commander Cressida ♪

♪ She's on the moons of Mars ♪

♪ Her boots are on the ground ♪

♪ Her head is in the stars ♪

♪ Fearless and curious ♪

♪ With her space-dog Sirius ♪

♪ Always in the chase ♪

♪ They'll surely win the race ♪

♪ 'Cause a kid's place ♪

♪ Is exploring space! ♪

- Yeah! Whoo-hoo! - Whee!

[giggles]

Let's read it together!

- "A long time ago, somewhere in the state of Indiana,

a girl named Cressida lived on a farm in a small town."

- Indiana, so that's where it all started!

- "Every night before bed, she would look up at the sky

and imagine traveling to space."

- Just like me!

- "Cressida wanted to learn more about the solar system,

"but exploring space just seemed like a dream.

Then, one day, Cressida had an idea."

- She's going to build her own spaceship, isn't she?

- Let's see what Cressida did!

"Cressida thought and planned, and one day,

after lots of work, she built her own spaceship!"

[dramatic music]

"Cressida was ready to explore space and become"...

- Commander Cressida!

- [squeaking]

- Don't worry, Sunspot.

Sydney's going to keep reading.

- "Astrid, the little girl who lived next door,

wanted to come along."

- Astrid needs a space name

and a space explorer uniform!

- "So her next-door neighbor Astrid

became Space Cadet Astrid!"

- Yay!

both: ♪ Five, four, three, two, one ♪

♪ Doors are shut, engines on ♪

♪ Everybody in their place ♪

♪ Let's go into outer space! ♪

[whooshing]

- Wait a minute, that's just like our countdown!

- [giggles] "The spaceship

"was about to take off, when they heard

a sound from outside!"

[dog barks]

"Commander Cressida and Space Cadet Astrid

"stopped their countdown.

'Wait, stop the countdown!' said Commander Cressida."

[dog panting, barks]

- Look at that cute lost dog!

He wants to go with them! [dog barks]

- "'Aww, what's your name, doggy?'"

[dog barks, slurps]

- What happened next?

- "Commander Cressida started to take off

in her spaceship, headed for"...

- Where? Where are they headed for?

[drumroll]

- I--I don't know!

Some pages must have fallen out!

We're missing the whole end of the story!

- [squeals dramatically]

- [gasps] Oh, no!

We'll never know what happens to Commander Cressida!

- We can't give up! - But what can we do?

- Hmm, we don't have the pages,

but we do have pencils and paper

and our own imaginations!

- You mean we're gonna draw and make up our own story?

- [squealing] - Why not?

Look, Sunspot's drawing superfast!

[crayons scratching, whooshing]

- [giggles]

Let's do it!

Excelsior!

[Sunspot grunts, paper rustling]

- So let's see.

Where is Commander Cressida going?

- I don't know.

I guess Cressida and I have the same problem!

Space is so big, and there are so many places to go!

- [chirps]

- Hmm.

Maybe there's some place you can see from Earth

with your own two eyes.

- That would be great!

But where? - [squeaks]

- Oh, thanks, Sunspot.

What about Jupiter?

- Whoa!

You can see planet Jupiter from Earth

without a telescope?

- Sure can. - Where is it?

- It's easy to see after the Sun goes down.

After the Moon and Venus,

it's the next brightest thing in the night sky!

- Ooh, I wish it were nighttime right now!

- Well, I know one way we could see Jupiter right now.

What if we go up to space and look at Jupiter up close?

- Yeah, and then come back to the tree house

and see it again tonight?

[engine revving, horn honks]

[both gasping]

- Did somebody say go up to space

and see Jupiter up close?

[girls giggling]

- Wow! Bortronian parents have amazing hearing.

- Hmm, all parents do, kiddo.

Okay, let's go!

Girls' trip!

- [squeals] - Girls and Sunspot trip!

- [chirps]

[electronic beeping, Sunspot squealing]

all: ♪ Five, four, three, two, one!

♪ Doors are shut, engines on ♪

♪ Everybody in their place ♪

♪ Let's go into outer space! ♪

[spaceship whirring]

[dramatic music]

[Frisbee and spaceship whirring]

[boink]

- Huh?

- To Jupiter and its moons!

[together] Excelsior!

[spaceship whirring]

- Wow! So that's Jupiter.

It's so much bigger than Earth!

- It is! And see those moons?

We have one moon, but Jupiter has--

- So many!

I can't even count all of them!

[spaceship whirring]

Are we landing soon?

- Well, Jupiter is a planet made out of gases,

so we can't land on it.

- Sure is a pretty color, though.

Look! It has a red spot on it!

Is that a freckle?

- Actually, that spot is a giant storm

that's even bigger than the whole Earth!

- Really? I need a picture.

[shutter snaps] - [squeaks]

- What's that next to Jupiter?

- Oh, that's Io,

one of Jupiter's largest moons.

- Why does it kind of look like a cheese pizza?

- Two words: Volcanoes and lava.

- There are volcanoes on Io?

Maybe that's an adventure for Commander Cressida to explore.

- Perfect! Commander Cressida visits Io,

the pizza moon of Jupiter!

- Yay! We have an ending!

- Celery, can we hurry back home and get our pencils

to finish the story?

- Heading for home. Hold on, girls!

And Sunspot!

- [squeaks and chirps]

[spaceship whirring]

♪ ♪

[spaceship whirring]

- See how I colored Jupiter's moon Io?

Just like the way we saw it in space.

- That's so great, Mindy!

Shall we finish telling the Commander Cressida story?

- Yes, please! - [squeaks]

- "Commander Cressida, Space Cadet Astrid,

and their dog flew up to Jupiter's moon Io."

- Tell about the volcanoes!

- "Cressida and Astrid thought they looked just like

a cheese pizza bubbling!"

- Whoa, those volcanoes are hot enough to cook a pizza!

Yum!

- "So then they decided to have a pizza party on Io.

- [giggling]

- "And that's how they became Commander Cressida,

Space Cadet Astrid, and Sirius"--

- Who's Sirius?

- Sirius is the name of a bright star

that's also called the Dog Star!

- Oh, that's perfect!

Great story, Sydney!

- Hey, kids.

I thought all that reading might be making you hungry,

so I brought you a snack.

- Yum! Pizza!

It looks just like Jupiter's moon Io.

- Well, I guess we're having Jupiter's moon as a snack.

- Wow! I can see Jupiter with my own eyes!

- And check this out!

With these, you can see four of its biggest moons!

- [gasps]

There's Io, the pizza moon!

It has the volcanoes

that make it look like a bubbly cheese pizza.

- Wow! You've learned so much

from making up your own Commander Cressida story.

- And from now on, when we play Commander Cressida,

you can be Space Cadet Astrid.

- I'm ready for our next adventure, Commander Cressida!

[dramatic music]

- ♪ Commander Cressida ♪

♪ She is the best of the galactic astronauts ♪

♪ There's nothing she cannot ♪

♪ Commander Cressida ♪

♪ She's on the moons of Mars ♪

♪ Her boots are on the ground ♪

♪ Her head is in the stars ♪

♪ Fearless and curious ♪

♪ With her space dog, Sirius ♪

♪ Always in the chase ♪

♪ They'll surely win the race ♪

♪ 'Cause a kid's place ♪

♪ Is exploring space! ♪

[laughter]

- [squeaks] - [gasps]

Aww!

♪ ♪

[spaceship whooshing]

- 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 "Endeavour"!

[rocket blasting]

"Endeavour" is 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

that's trying to lift--

- million pounds? - Yeah.

- Wow, that's a lot of force. - And a lot of what

you're lifting is fuel. - How much fuel

do the space shuttle engines use?

- Those three engines on the shuttle

will drain an average-sized 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 a 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.

- ♪ Commander Cressida ♪

♪ She is the best of the galactic astronauts ♪

♪ There's nothing she cannot ♪

♪ Commander Cressida ♪

♪ She's on the moons of Mars ♪

♪ Her boots are on the ground ♪

♪ Her head is in the stars ♪

♪ Fearless and curious ♪

♪ With her space dog, Sirius ♪

♪ Always in the chase ♪

♪ They'll surely win the race ♪

♪ 'Cause a kid's place ♪

♪ Is exploring space! ♪