02x10 - Earth, Wind, and Flyer/Mini-Golf at the DSA

[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!

[wind blowing harshly]

[saucer whirring]

♪ ♪

- Hi, Sydney. Hey, Sean.

Since I fixed my saucer's carbifonators,

I should be able to fly in a perfectly straight course

right to my backyard.

- Gotcha. I'll time you, Jet.

[frantic music]

- Jet, it's pretty windy today,

so that might be a challenge.

- [laughs] No problem.

I mean, what's a little Earth-wind?

Wait, what is wind again?

- Wind is a weather force that--

- Whoa! Whoa-oh-oh!

Sean and Sydney: Oh, no!

- [shouting]

- [yawns]

- [exhales]

♪ ♪

Upside-down Earth flight!

Yeah!

- Jet, are you all right?

Jet, can you hear me?

- I can hear you!

[laughing] Okay.

And we're back in business.

[both panting]

- Look, there's Mitchell Petersen!

[dog barks]

- Ah! - We cannot let him see

Jet flying in a saucer. - You're right.

Then he'll know he's an alien.

[saucer whirring]

- Jet, Mitchell's up ahead. Try not to let him see you.

[sneaky music]

♪ ♪

[dog barks]

♪ ♪

[dog barking]

[together] Hi, Mitchell

- It's a windy day, huh?

- Yeah, windy.

[dog barks]

[both laugh]

[saucer whirring]

[playful music]

[both sigh]

[saucer whirring]

[Sydney and Sean panting]

- Are you okay, Jet? - Okay?

I'm better than okay! I'm "oh-yeah"!

That was a blast.

- But you went sideways and flipped over.

- I know! I wasn't expecting that,

but something was pushing the saucer

and made it fly all over the place.

- Well, maybe it'll be easier to fly next time,

when it's not so windy.

- That's it, Sean. Next time,

you should pilot the saucer!

Think about it, Sean-zo.

- Uh, probably not. I'm not even a good passenger.

Besides, I think it's a little too windy.

[wind whistling]

- Oh, hey. Did you say something

about wind? Here's a question:

is it the wind that's pushing my saucer

and making it tough to fly?

- Yep. Jet, you remember wind.

You've seen it here on Earth and on other planets.

- Oh, sure I have.

Wait, what does it look like, again?

- Actually... [giggles]

You can't see it. But you can see what it does.

- Oh, so the wind is blowing Sunspot's flag.

[wind whistling]

- Yup, and also your parents' wind chimes.

The wind blows, the chimes chime.

- Oh, I see.

And I hear. [laughs] "Chimes."

[laughing] Another hilarious Earth word.

- [squeaking]

- Whoops. Sunspot, your hat!

Wow, this wind is much stronger than the wind on Bortron .

Can it push us around the neighborhood?

[wind howls] Whoa, whoa!

I really hope I can get back

to trying to fly my saucer again.

- Maybe later, when it's less windy.

- Oh, great. We will conquer the wind!

[Sunspot squeaking]

- I know one thing wind can do:

it can bring me a cool, new Earth hat!

[laughs] Ta-da!

Hup! [laughs] Good day, farewell!

[playful xylophone music]

- Wow, look at Mindy's pinwheels go.

♪ ♪

- Hi, Mom. [all laughing]

Whoo-hoo-hoo! Need any help?

- [clears throat] I don't wanna say

I did a great job raking the leaves,

but look over...

wait, what? No, no, no!

Wind is too windy!

[children laughing]

[jetpack activates]

Sydney and Sean: Go, Mr. Propulsion, go!

- [laughs] Yup, this moving air

can certainly make things difficult.

all: Whoa-oh-oh!

- [squeaking frantically]

- It's really windy, Sunspot. I'd hold onto your hat if--

- [squeaks] - Whoop, there it goes.

Good luck, Sunspot!

You'll get it!

[bird chirping]

- Wow, it must be fun to be a bird in this wind.

[bird chirping]

[children laughing] - Yeah.

- Especially a bird with a hat.

[Sunspot squeaking]

- Using a napkin as a sail.

Wow, Sunspot-- innovative.

[playful music]

♪ ♪

- Oh! New hat.

- Let's get out of the wind-- if we can.

- Whoa! [laughs]

[garage door clanks shut]

- [sighs] Finally, a break from the wind.

- Well, I was thinking: if Sunspot can use a napkin

to steer himself in a straight course in air,

do you guys think it would work for my little saucer?

- Well, Jet, your "little saucer"

is bigger than Sunspot and all those hats,

so you may need more wind. - [gasps]

Sean and Sydney: I have an idea!

Sydney and Sean: Wait, do we have the same idea?

- So, why did we come here, again?

Hey, look! There's a sail

just like Sunspot's.

That gives me an idea!

- Probably the same idea we had. - About putting a sail

on your saucer. - That too.

At first, I had an idea about

an egg-and-orange-juice flavored breakfast doughnut,

but I guess we should come up

with a saucer-sail thingie first.

- Let's try it! The sail, I mean.

But that doughnut does sound yummy.

- I know, right? [laughs]

Okay, but first, the sail! Let's go to the casserole!

I mean... the garage!

- Okay, so we have a model of your saucer.

And now we need to see if any sail

helps it fly straighter.

Let's experiment. Sail number one.

- And now, we add wind.

- Or as I like to call it, "moving air."

[fan whirring]

- Hmm...it's not going anywhere.

I think the sail isn't big enough.

Let's try adding more. Sail number two.

- More sails, meet quickly moving air.

[fan whirring]

Hmm, maybe all those sails make it too heavy?

- Okay, one big sail.

[together] One, two, three, wind!

- Whoo-hoo-hoo! - Look at it go!

- [squeaks]

- All right! Time to make the big sail

for my big saucer.

Excelsior!

- All right, sail's looking good.

- And it looks just like the one we used

on the model, but bigger.

- Great! And...

how about my hair? [flashy music]

There, perfect.

[laughing]

- Remember, Jet: fly straight, no sudden turns,

and you can reach out and control the sail.

- Everything will be fine, or I'll completely fail--

and then try again! [laughs]

Okay. Ready, jet, fly!

[saucer whirring]

[upbeat music]

♪ ♪

Whoo-hoo!

- It's working, Jet. Whoo-hoo!

- Come on, Sean. Hop in.

- Actually, I, uh-- it's pretty--whoa!

Whoa!

- Yeah!

[shouts]

[gadgets whir]

[laughs]

- Phew. But wait-- where's Sean?

- Huh? [shouts]

Oh, no!

[saucer whirring]

[panicked music]

Whoa, I'm flying Jet's saucer...

[gasps]

By myself, alone!

[Sean screaming] - Uh...

it has way too much power now.

I must've set the thrusters for too much force.

He needs to turn 'em down.

- Let's follow him! Come on!

[playful music]

♪ ♪

- [panting] Sean, you've gotta turn down

the force of the thrusters.

With all that extra wind power, you're going way too fast!

- Jet, none of your controls are marked.

- Oh. [laughs] Whoops.

Still haven't marked them.

- Wait, why do you even have that one?

- Sorry. I think it's the big lever

in the middle... - Okay.

- But try all of them. - [grunts]

[grunting] Aw, come on.

[saucer whirring]

[sighs in relief] Cool.

Now I'm being powered just by wind.

- Cool, now the saucer's being powered just by wind.

- Okay, you've got this, Sean.

Or should I say, Saucer Pilot Sean.

- Hey, Saucer Pilot Sean, take her on down

to the cul-de-sac and land in my backyard.

- Roger that. Wow,

I feel just like Neil Armstro--whoa!

[exciting music]

♪ ♪

[saucer whirring]

[shouting]

[Sunspot squeaking]

[heroic trumpeting]

- [squeaking]

[grand music]

♪ ♪

- Yeah! - Whoo-hoo!

[saucer whirring]

[children laughing and cheering]

- Yeah! I'm here. I made it.

Thanks for leading me in, Sunspot.

- [squeals]

- Great job, Sean. Perfect landing.

You piloted the saucer like a pro.

- [laughs] So, Sean-zo,

what did you think about flying this baby?

- I gotta say,

that... was... awesome!

Here's to wind. - And to sails.

We conquered air in motion.

Excelsior!

- [squeaking]

[together] Go, Sunspot, go!

- [laughing] Okay, next project:

my egg-and-orange-juice breakfast doughnut idea.

- [laughs] Now I have two hats.

Good day!

♪ ♪

- And now, here's my friend astronomer Amy Mainzer!

- Thanks, Jet. Have you ever heard the saying

"what goes up must come down"?

So, why doesn't this water balloon

just keep going up when I toss it?

Oh! [laughs]

The balloon landed with a splat

because Earth's gravity brought it right to the ground.

Gravity's a force that pulls one thing

toward another. Things that are big

tend to have more gravity than things that are small.

The Earth is way, way, way bigger

than either me or the water balloon,

so it pulls both of us down pretty strongly.

But not everything in space is as big as the Earth.

The moon is a lot smaller than the Earth,

so it has less gravity than Earth does.

If I were on the moon, I could jump a lot higher.

And I'd come down a lot slower.

If I were on something even smaller than the moon--

like, say, a space rock called an "asteroid"--

I might even be able to jump so high

I could launch myself right into space.

But back here on Earth,

gravity keeps me firmly on the ground.

But wouldn't it be great if I could just have

some Bortronian technology that would turn it off?

- Wow, our very own mini-golf putting green.

- So, you try to knock the ball into the hole,

but you have to use this weird broken stick?

- Right, you "putt" the ball with it,

but not too hard, or it'll go right past the hole.

- [shouting dizzily]

[ball pinging]

- Okay, that was too hard.

You need to hit it much, much softer.

- Hey, is this that "golf" game I've heard about?

- Yup, they've just finished building a mini-golf course

at the DSA, and this weekend

is the first-ever mini-golf tournament.

- They're gonna divide us into teams:

grown-ups versus kids. - But first,

we have to teach Jet the rules of golf.

- [laughing]

- Yay! Sounds like fun.

I wanna learn too.

- Sure, Mindy. - Well,

so far it's kind of confusing.

So, I wanna put the ball in the hole,

and get the highest score to win?

- Nope, you want the lowest score.

- What?

- As in, the least number of times

you hit the ball to get it in the hole.

- [laughs] Oh, Earthie games.

Okay, let me try whacking that golf ball again.

[drum roll]

Ah--five!

- It's "fore."

- Three, two, one! [grunts]

[Sunspot bleats]

- Okay, but you have to learn to hit it

the right amount, Jet. We only have so many golf ba*ls.

- Jet just needs to learn how much force to use

when he hits the ball. - Ah, force!

Of course. I love force.

Wait, what is force again?

- Hmm, let's see.

Force is a push... - [laughs]

- Or pull. We find it everywhere--

on Earth and in space.

- Uh-huh. - You know,

like the force it takes to blast a rocket ship

off the surface of the Earth?

- Uh-huh... - Or the force made by a meteor

smacking back down into the Earth's atmosphere.

[crash]

- [squeaks positively]

- But what's that have to do with golf?

- [squeaking] - Look.

If I push the ball with a little, tiny

amount of force, it moves a little bit.

- And if I push it with more force,

it moves farther.

♪ ♪

- See? - Oh!

- And to make it more challenging,

sometimes you have to make the ball bounce around

the mini-golf course.

- See? It's all about force.

That's what makes it fun. - Well,

let's learn this nutty game.

All for one, and one for all!

[together] Excelsior!

Uh, so, where is this new mini-golf course?

[gasping]

Wow!

[grand music]

It's fantastic!

Let's mini-golf! [laughs]

- Jet, wait. - Wait for what?

- Look. It's the grown-ups team.

They're already practicing.

There's my mom. - And my mom.

And Bergs. - And Mr. Petersen.

Let's watch them play first. - Yeah.

Good idea. Let's see what we're up against.

- Ah! Let's get much closer!

- [whispering] No, I mean watch them

from where they can't see us.

- You know, like detectives...

or spies.

[sneaky music]

[adults laughing] - Thank you, thank you.

- Another hole in one. - I had no idea

that you were this good at mini-golf.

- It's all physics, Rafferty.

Just applying the right amount of force.

♪ ♪

Ah, now, this one's more of a challenge, Skelley.

You have to use the right amount of force to--

- To jump over the trough. But not too much,

or the ball goes over the wall.

[victorious trumpeting]

- Not bad.

Not bad at all. Now,

I want you all to practice this course as much as you can

before the tournament this weekend.

Look, we can win this, people.

We're all scientists. It's simple physics.

- Boy, Mr. Petersen is working them pretty hard.

- Isn't mini-golf supposed to be goofy fun?

- Isn't pretty much everything supposed to be goofy fun?

- I certainly think so.

[both laugh] Yeah.

- I bet we can win this, no problem.

- [squeaking]

- Hah! What a great idea, Sunspot.

Let's go back home and make our own

"mini-er" mini-golf course.

That way, we can practice day and night

till the tournament Saturday.

Come on, everybody! - Shh!

[Bergs slurping]

- Wow! Looks almost as good

as the real thing.

- I think it looks even cooler,

'cause we made it ourselves.

- Let's practice the course and use some force.

[upbeat music]

♪ ♪

- [squeaks]

♪ ♪

- Okay, it says here that a force always has

both a magnitude and a direction--

how hard you push something and which way you push it.

- So, which is most important? - They both are.

It's not just how hard you push or pull something,

but also which direction you push or pull it.

- Right. See, the direction you hit it

matters when you want the golf ball

to land in the hole.

- Got it.

- [squeaks anxiously]

[drum roll]

[victorious trumpeting]

[all cheering]

- Okay! I think I've got

this force thing figured out.

Let's win us some Earthie mini-golf tournament!

[together] Excelsior!

- Good morning. Our kid team is myself,

Sydney, Jet, and Mindy.

- And I'll be getting some help from Sunspot.

- Uh-huh...very good.

And you already know my colleagues,

Doctors Rafferty, Skelley, and Bergs.

Let the first annual DSA mini-golf tournament begin!

[all cheering]

- [sighs] Not too much force,

and yet, not too little force, either.

[upbeat music]

♪ ♪

[laughing] Yes! A one-in-hole!

[together] Hole-in one.

[all cheering]

♪ ♪

- Yes!

- [wails]

- Huh, looks like you want the ball to hit

right in the middle to bounce it over there.

- Mm-hmm. I agree, Rafferty.

May the best use of force win.

- [grunts]

Aw.

- Booyah, science!

- Hey, that's my line.

- So, do you think I should play it safe

and put around the ramp,

or just go for it with lots of force?

- [squeaks]

- I agree, Sunspot.

Excelsior!

[together] Yeah!

Jet, Sydney, and Sean: Mindy, Mindy!

♪ ♪

[all cheering] Skelley, Skelley, Skelley!

♪ ♪

- Oh, boy.

These kids really know their physics.

- [squeaks]

[squeaking]

[squeaking excitedly]

[both cheering]

- Well, that's all nine holes.

And the kids' score is one less than the grown-ups'.

- [laughs] Yeah!

- Hey, now, don't start celebrating

just yet, Propulsion.

We aren't finished.

There's one more hole-- hole ten, the rocket ship!

[drum roll and fanfare]

children: [gasp] A tenth hole?

[tense music]

- Wow, look. If you go in the left hole,

it comes out way over here.

- And if you go in the right hole,

it falls into a water hazard.

- But if you get the middle hole,

it takes the ball into a pipe

and drops it right into the cup!

Instant hole-in-one.

- All right. We are now tied, once again.

Only myself and Melendez here are left to putt.

[clears throat]

[tense music]

Oh, yes.

[laughing] Yes!

♪ ♪

What?

- Good shot, Mr. Petersen,

but I think you need to work on your aim.

- [spluttering frantically]

- Wow. It's all on you now, Mindy.

- Don't worry. Whatever happens,

it's all just goofy fun, right?

- Right. - [squeaks]

[squeaking] - Really, Sunspot?

You'd help me with the shot?

He's gonna help me putt this one!

- Uh, wait a sec. Is using a pet to putt

against the tournament rules? - Well, I don't see anything

about that in this tiny rulebook,

Bergs, but... [chuckles]

I think we have nothing to worry about.

- I don't know. He keeps taking my watch.

- [squeaks] - All right, Sunspot.

Let's do this. Remember, it's all about force.

♪ ♪

[all gasp]

[teeth chattering]

- [squeaks] children: We did it!

children: Yay, Mindy! Yay, Sunspot!

- Wow, kids. That was some

amazing sportsmanship. - And teamwork.

- And an excellent understanding of the use of force.

- And that Sunspot is...

quite a pet. Wait, what?

Where's my watch?

- [squeaks]

[all laughing]

- When I was a little kid, I had a red wagon

just like this one. But if I want it to go anywhere,

I've got to apply force. What is force?

It's how hard it is to get something to move.

Hi, I'm astronomer Amy Mainzer,

and I'm here with Captain Perez

from the Los Angeles County Fire Department.

We're here at their training facility today,

and we're gonna demonstrate force.

Captain Perez, how do we get the water

out of this fire truck? - Well, actually, at home,

if you had it at the kitchen sink

or your bathroom sink and you turn it on...

- Uh-huh. - It's the same thing

with a fire engine. - But I bet

it's a lot more force coming out of that truck, right?

- A lot more force. - Do you think we could

try an experiment? - Sure.

- I wonder if we could get the fire hose

to move a wagon. - I think we can do that.

- So, the force of the water

is gonna push in one direction...

- And the wagon's gonna go the other direction.

- Okay, well, let's try it out.

Let's see if we can move this wagon

using the force from the water. - We can do it.

♪ ♪

- [laughing] It worked, all right.

So, do you think I can apply enough force

to move this fire engine? - Nope.

- [groans] Well, it was worth a try.

So, the next time you're in your wagon,

just remember: if you have the right amount

of force, you could move just about anything.

- ♪ Jet Propulsion ♪

[together] ♪ Ready! Jet! Go! ♪

♪ ♪

- Jet Propulsion!

- Jet Propulsion!

- Jet Propulsion!

all: Ready! Jet! Go!