both: ♪ If you're a kid
with powers ♪
♪ Then where's
the place to be? ♪
♪ You belong
at Hero Elementary ♪
♪ If you have super strength ♪
♪ And can lift
a ton or three ♪
♪ You belong
at Hero Elementary ♪
man: ♪ If your power
lets you fly ♪
- ♪ You're like me,
Lucita Sky ♪
woman: ♪ Like to help out
when there's trouble? ♪
- ♪ Oh, you bet,
I'm Benny Bubbles! ♪
man:
♪ Teleport in no time flat? ♪
- ♪ Sara Snap can,
just like that! ♪
woman: ♪ Use super tools
to save the day? ♪
- ♪ Like AJ Gadgets,
I'm on my way! ♪
both:
♪ How do they save the day? ♪
all: ♪ Well,
the scientific fact is ♪
♪ They use
all kinds of powers ♪
♪ They just need
a little more ♪
man: Practice!
both: ♪ If you're a future
hero, come and you will see ♪
♪ You belong
at Hero Elementary ♪
♪ We all belong
at Hero Elementary ♪
[school bell rings]
Sparks: It was a foggy morning
in City Town...
- Oh, come along, Bitsy.
- [squeaks]
- [barks]
- Oh, it's just a chipmunk.
Let it be.
Sparks: When Mr. Quivers' dog
went missing
into the mist.
[dramatic music]
- Bitsy!
Bitsy!
Come back!
Bitsy!
[upbeat music]
- Remember, you're working
on your observation skills.
Can you find Fur Blur?
- Hm, I can't see her anywhere.
- Me neither, and I'm looking
with Zoom-oculars.
- Looking is good, but what are
some other ways to observe?
- Uh, listening.
- [squeaks]
- [gasps]
I think I hear her.
[whooshes]
- [squeaks]
- Found her.
♪ ♪
Aw.
- [squeaks]
- Good job, Sara.
[Sparkinator beeping]
- The Sparkinator.
There must be trouble.
- Bitsy!
Where did you go?
- Oh no, Mr. Quivers
lost his dog, Bitsy.
- [grunts]
It's hard to see, but it looks
like he's near the statue
in front of our school.
- Then come on, let's go help.
- It looks pretty foggy
out there, so be careful.
- Yeah, but fog
is just a cloud
that's down
near the ground, right?
[chuckles]
No big deal.
- Well, you may have to change
how you do things
because of the fog.
- Don't worry, Mr. S.
We got this.
- Okay, then who's the crew
who knows what to do?
[dramatic music]
[together]
Sparks' Crew to the Rescue.
♪ ♪
- [whooshes]
♪ ♪
[whooshes]
♪ ♪
- Ow.
- Ugh.
- Whoa.
- Oh, I've never seen
this much fog before.
- Sparks' Crew,
oh, thank goodness.
Bitsy ran off,
and I can't find her
in all this fog.
- Fear not, Mr. Quivers,
we are here to help.
- Yeah, we'll bring her back
no prob.
- Oh, thank you.
She went that way.
I'll stay here
in case she comes back.
- Good idea.
Come on, team, let's go!
[whooshes]
- Oh, where did you go?
- Bitsy!
Bitsy!
Where are you?
Whoa!
[sighs]
[screams]
Oh.
- [whistles]
Here girl!
Oh, here girl!
Oh--
[thuds]
Ugh.
- Here, Bitsy!
Huh?
[screams]
Whoa!
[whooshes]
- Bitsy, where are you?
Where am I?
[whooshes]
♪ ♪
Huh?
Now where am I?
[whooshes]
♪ ♪
[all scream]
- Our superpowers
don't seem to work very well
in this kind of weather.
- Nope,
there's too many things
we can bump into
hidden in the fog.
- Mr. Sparks was right.
We're going to have
to do things differently
because of the fog.
- Yep, we can't use
our superpowers to get around,
but we do have other powers.
We can use our...
[together]
Superpowers of Science!
♪ ♪
- Let's start by observing.
What do we notice
about the fog?
- Hm, it's very thick.
- And it's hard
to see through it.
- Well, you can see a little.
And if you move slowly...
[gasps]
Things start to appear
as you get closer to them!
- Oh, hey, yeah!
- Great, so we can look
for Bitsy safely
if we just take it slow.
- So we can't use
our superpowers
to rush off to the rescue?
- Nope, I guess we just walk.
- Weird.
Okay.
Let's walk off
to the rescue slowly.
[upbeat music]
Bitsy!
- Where are you?
- Bitsy!
- Bitsy!
Huh, which way do we go?
- Maybe we should split up
to cover more ground.
- Good idea.
Let's buddy up.
- AJ and I can search for Bitsy
that way.
- And Lucita and I
will go this way.
- I just hope Bitsy
isn't too far away by now.
- [squeaking]
- [barks]
[dramatic music]
Sparks: So my students
searched high...
- [whistles]
Sparks: And low,
but they didn't have
the foggiest idea where
to find the dog in the fog.
- Here, Bitsy!
- Think we can
speed this up a little?
Bitsy could be anywhere by now.
- But we have to go slowly
because of the fog.
It's so thick,
we can only see things
when we get close to them.
Like that hydrant!
- [gasps]
Ha!
- Or that tree!
- No prob.
[grunts]
- Ooh, or that mailbox.
- Uh--ugh.
Okay,
maybe we should go slower.
- Bitsy!
Where are you?
- [groans]
It's hard to look for Bitsy
when I feel so uncomfortable.
- Oh, what's wrong, AJ?
- I don't like how the fog
makes my clothes feel all damp.
- Yeah, fog is misty and wet.
- I wish there was a way I
could keep this fog off of me.
- [chuckles]
Maybe there is.
Bubble up!
The fog can't touch you now.
- Hey, you're right!
- Come on, bubble buddy.
Let's find Bitsy.
- Uh, which way were we headed?
- Uh, this way.
[upbeat music]
[dramatic music]
- [gasps]
Uh-oh.
Wrong way.
That's the...
[together]
Hill!
[both screaming]
♪ ♪
- Bitsy!
Where are you?
- Huh, have we seen
this hydrant before?
- I don't know.
All hydrants look the same.
- Hm, that tree looks like
the one we passed
right before you crashed
into that mailbox.
- I don't believe this.
- Did you notice something?
- Yeah, we're going in circles.
- Not that, listen.
both: [screaming]
[gasps]
- Uh-oh.
- Benny and AJ!
- That bubble's in trouble!
Back in a snap.
[whooshes]
- No, Sara,
you shouldn't...
teleport in the fog.
♪ ♪
- [whooshes]
AJ, Benny!
Where am I?
Aw, why did I
teleport in the fog?
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
- [barks]
both: [screaming]
- [barks]
- Lucita,
I lost them in the fog.
- Where are you, Sara?
- I think I'm lost too.
- Don't worry.
We'll find each other somehow.
Hm.
If fog is just a cloud
on the ground,
I wonder
if I can fly above it.
Let's see.
[dramatic music]
Ah. Huh.
It's clear up here.
Oh, looks like there's
a little hole in the fog.
[gasps]
I didn't know
I was this high up.
Oh...getting...dizzy.
[screams]
[distant screaming]
- [gasps]
Lucita!
[whooshes]
- Whoa!
- Gotcha.
- [sighs]
Thanks.
How did you know where I was?
- I heard you.
You're not exactly quiet
when you fall.
[Benny and AJ screaming]
♪ ♪
[both screaming]
[gasps]
♪ ♪
[both groaning]
- Are you two okay?
- So dizzy.
- But we're okay.
Uh, any luck finding Bitsy?
- No, but I think
I have a plan.
I noticed that we could hear
you before we could see you.
- So?
- So maybe instead of looking
for Bitsy in the fog,
we should be listening for her.
- Listening is another way
of observing things.
- Right,
let's listen for Bitsy.
- Remember
what she sounds like.
She's got
that really high bark.
It kind of sounds like--
[distant barking]
Yeah, like that!
I hope we can hear her.
[distant barking]
- That is Bitsy.
- Let's follow the sound
of her barking.
[distant barking]
[upbeat music]
- [whistles]
- Bitsy!
- I don't hear
any more barking.
- Maybe she ran off again.
- Oh, she could be anywhere!
[distant barking]
♪ ♪
- [barks]
- Oh--or right here.
- Bitsy!
[laughs]
There you are!
- Yeah, Bitsy's back!
- What a relief.
- Aw, it's great to see you,
you little cutie-wootie.
- [laughs]
Mr. Quivers will be so happy
when we bring her back.
- Uh, about that.
How do we find our way
back to the school
if we don't even know
where we are?
- Hm.
[water rushing]
I think I do know where we are.
Do you notice that sound?
- Huh?
It sounds like water.
It's coming from over there!
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- It's Founder's Fountain.
- Oh, we know
our way back from here.
- Yep, let's go team.
Just take it nice and slow.
- And promise me we
won't travel in a bubble.
- [chuckles]
You got it, AJ.
[laughter]
- Oh, Bitsy, where did you go?
[distant barking]
♪ ♪
[gasps]
Bitsy!
Oh, my sweet, sweet, Bitsy, oh.
Oh, yes, yes.
[mumbling indistinctly]
Thank you for bringing her
back to me.
Oh, oh, oh, okay.
[chuckles]
- Happy to help, Mr. Quivers.
- Let's go home, girl.
Uh, does anybody know
which way my house is?
It's hard to tell in this fog.
- We'll help you get there,
Mr. Quivers.
We just have to go
nice and slow.
- Oh, thank you so kindly.
Sparks:
And so my hero students
learned that when things
seem foggy,
you may have to make
some changes,
but if you take it slow,
you'll find your way,
eventually.
all: ♪ We all belong
at Hero Elementary ♪
♪ ♪
Sparks: When you're
a hero in training,
you need to work hard,
you need to study,
and, of course, you need--
[school bell rings]
[all gasp]
- Recess!
- Oh, yeah.
- Come on!
This way.
- Here we go.
- Come on,
let's play bubble hoops.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
[laughter]
♪ ♪
- Easy sh*t.
[grunts]
- I got it!
[whooshes]
♪ ♪
[laughs]
[whooshes]
♪ ♪
Yes.
- [gasps]
- Oops, my bad.
[soft dramatic music]
- Ah!
- Ah, it's okay.
It's only a dragonfly.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Oh, dragonflies
are super cool.
Look at its beautiful wings.
- I've seen dragonflies before.
They come to
my mom's garden sometimes.
- Yeah, I've noticed them
at the lake too.
- It's so fast.
- [squeaks]
Lucita: I tried to race
a dragonfly once.
I couldn't keep up.
Sara: And check out
how they fly.
They move up.
They move down.
They zig.
They zag.
- Sí, dragonflies
can fly any way they want
just by moving their wings.
- Really?
I have to see that slowed down.
Thought projecting.
They move up.
They move down.
They zig.
They zag.
Imagine if a gadget
could fly like that.
- Now that would be something.
♪ ♪
- [squeaks]
♪ ♪
- There it goes.
- Oh, bye-bye, dragonfly.
- Well, you still have
a few more minutes of recess.
- Let's get back
to playing bubble hoops.
- Coming, AJ?
- You go ahead.
I've got an idea
for a new gadget.
- Okay.
- Hm, aha.
♪ ♪
[whooshes]
♪ ♪
- [laughs]
- Okay, Sparks' Crew,
time to get back to class.
Uh, where's AJ?
- Right here.
- Whoa.
Sara: What is that?
- Presenting
the Dragonfly Drone.
- Whoa, cool.
- Amazing.
- Wow.
- AJ, fantástico.
- How do you steer it?
- I don't have to.
It can move any way it wants
just like a real dragonfly.
- Uh-oh.
Ah, it's going to crash!
- Oh, no, it won't.
[all sigh]
- I added a little part
so the drone
can tell when it gets
too close to something.
[drone beeps]
Then it changes direction.
- [chuckles]
Great idea.
- Seems like you thought
of everything.
- I sure did.
- So, uh, how do you
bring it down?
- Uh--uh-oh.
[soft dramatic music]
- It's kind of
getting far away.
- Oh, I'm sure
it will change directions
and come back anytime now.
♪ ♪
Uh.
♪ ♪
- It's gone.
My Dragonfly Drone, it's gone.
Uh, oh no, this isn't good.
[Sparkinator beeping]
- Wait, I hear it coming.
[beeping continues]
[dramatic music]
Oh, it's just
the Sparkinator.
The Sparkinator!
- There must be trouble.
- Ah, shoo!
- Oh no.
Help!
Help me!
- Well, the good news
is we know your drone
is at the park.
- The bad news--it's kind of
freaking people out.
- Oh, no.
- We have to go get
that Dragonfly Drone.
- Well, who's the crew
who knows what to do?
♪ ♪
[together]
Sparks' Crew to the Rescue.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
Sparks: Finding AJ's Dragonfly
Drone was the easy part.
Catching it, well, that was
going to be a little harder.
- Get away.
Shoo.
Whoa.
- [barks]
- Whoa!
Whoa.
Whoa!
- I've got this.
- Whoa!
Oh!
Whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa!
- Sorry, Mr. Quivers.
- Come on, team,
let's catch that drone.
♪ ♪
- Here you go.
[whooshes]
- [grunting]
[drone beeping]
♪ ♪
I have it.
I have it.
I have it.
Ah.
I don't have it.
♪ ♪
- [whooshes]
♪ ♪
[drone beeps]
♪ ♪
[beep, engine whooshes]
- [groans]
Whoa!
♪ ♪
- Bubble up!
♪ ♪
[drone beeping]
♪ ♪
- It's heading toward the lake.
Let's go!
♪ ♪
[drone beeps]
- How are we
gonna catch that thing?
♪ ♪
- Our superpowers
aren't enough.
- We need our other powers.
Our...
[together]
Superpowers of Science
- Let's start with the problem.
We can't catch
the Dragonfly Drone
because it turns away
whenever it gets too close
to something,
and it's super fast.
[drone beeps]
- [sighs]
Why did I have to make it
so much like a real dragonfly?
- Flying insects
are really hard to catch.
[fly buzzes]
[playful music]
- [croaks]
- [laughs]
Unless you're a frog!
- Did you see how fast
its tongue caught that fly?
- Hm.
[gasps]
Maybe we need
something like that
to catch the Dragonfly Drone.
- Yes, something long
and as fast as a frog's tongue.
Hmm.
[gasps]
I know what we can use.
My rope launcher.
It can go really fast,
and it's got a long rope.
- Perfect.
Come on, AJ.
[upbeat music]
Ready--now!
♪ ♪
[drone beeps]
- Oh.
- Ah!
- Ah!
both: Whoa!
[dramatic music]
- Whoa!
- Ah!
- Bubble up!
♪ ♪
Phew.
- [sighs]
- Come on.
♪ ♪
- [sighs]
Too bad my rope launcher
didn't work as well
as a frog's tongue.
- It was a good idea, AJ,
but maybe there's
something else in nature
that can give us another idea.
♪ ♪
- Ugh!
[laughs]
Whoa.
[laughs]
Oh, silly, sticky spiderweb.
[laughter]
- Spiderwebs aren't made
to catch you, Benny,
but it did catch that fly.
I guess the fly
flew right into it.
Spiderwebs are hard to see.
- Hm, you just gave me an idea.
Thought projecting!
If spiders make webs
to catch small insects,
what if we designed
a bigger web
to catch my Dragonfly Drone?
- It would have to be
a lot stronger
than that spiderweb.
- And hard to see.
- And sticky too.
- Hm, oh, oh,
I know what we can use.
Clear tape.
It's strong
and hard to see,
so my Dragonfly Drone
won't turn away
when it gets close.
- And it's sticky,
so the drone
might get stuck in it
like a fly in a spiderweb.
- Yeah, we could design
a solution to this problem.
That's a great
Superpower of Science.
- Let's do this!
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
[whooshes]
♪ ♪
[whooshes]
♪ ♪
- [laughs]
Using the tape
was a great idea.
- Not bad
for first time web builders.
- Let's test it out.
[grunts]
[dramatic music]
- Huh, if our web
can't catch a stick,
how will it ever catch
AJ's Dragonfly Drone?
- Hm, we just need to make
a few changes to our design.
What if we add some more tape
to make these gaps smaller?
- Let's try it.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
Ta-da.
♪ ♪
- It looks
just like a spiderweb!
Nice job!
That should work.
- Now we just have to wait
for the Dragonfly Drone
to fly into it.
[dramatic music]
- Well, uh,
that could take days.
- Days?
But I have to be home
by dinnertime.
- Wait a minute, we know
the drone changes direction
when it gets close to things,
so maybe that can help us
guide it
right into our sticky web.
[upbeat music]
Dragonfly!
♪ ♪
Dragonfly.
[drone beeps]
Oh.
♪ ♪
- Whoa.
Boo.
[laughs]
Boo again.
[laughs]
♪ ♪
- I got you now.
[drone beeps]
♪ ♪
- [whooshes]
Stop, dragonfly!
[whooshes]
[drone beeps]
♪ ♪
- Yeah!
- Whoo-hoo!
- Ah, sweet!
- Yes!
Our tape web worked great.
- [grunting]
♪ ♪
And with a few changes,
I think I can make
my Dragonfly Drone
work better too.
- Now there's just one problem
left to solve.
How do I get
this sticky tape off me?
[giggles]
Whoa.
Whoa, it's sticky.
[laughter]
- Benny.
Sparks: So my naturally
heroic students
used ideas from nature
to catch
an unnatural dragonfly.
What could be more natural
than that?
all: ♪ We all belong
at Hero Elementary ♪
man: Time to learn
how to hero!
[upbeat music]
Hey, you.
Yes, that means you!
Let's go hero,
using your Superpowers
of Science!
♪ ♪
Today's super power is...
the power to observe.
woman: ♪ Your power to observe
can help you save the day ♪
♪ And heroes can observe
the world in different ways ♪
♪ Just use your senses
to find things out ♪
[cat meows]
♪ 'Cause finding out is what
it's all about ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ What do you see? ♪
♪ What do you hear? ♪
♪ How does it feel? ♪
♪ What do you taste
and smell? ♪
♪ You're make-makin'
an observation ♪
♪ You're
make-makin' an observation ♪
♪ What do you see?
Observation ♪
♪ What do you hear?
Observation ♪
♪ How does it feel?
Observation ♪
♪ What do you
taste and smell? ♪
♪ You're make-makin'
an observation ♪
♪ Finding out is what
it's all about ♪
♪ Observation ♪
♪ Make an observation ♪
♪ Have a celebration ♪
♪ You made
a new observation ♪
♪ What do you see?
Observation ♪
♪ What do you hear?
Observation ♪
♪ How does it feel?
Observation ♪
♪ What do you taste
and smell? ♪
♪ You're make-makin'
an observation ♪
♪ You're
make-makin' an observation ♪
♪ What do you see?
Observation ♪
♪ What do you hear?
Observation ♪
♪ How does it feel?
Observation ♪
♪ What do you
taste and smell? ♪
♪ Go on and make
an observation ♪
♪ Finding out is
what it's all about ♪
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
04x04 - A Dog in the Fog/Bye, Bye Dragonfly
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Lucita Sky, AJ Gadgets, Sara Snap and Benny Bubbles work with their teacher, Mr. Sparks, to help people and solve problems.
Lucita Sky, AJ Gadgets, Sara Snap and Benny Bubbles work with their teacher, Mr. Sparks, to help people and solve problems.