Ready Jet Go! facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Ready Jet Go!
Genre	Educational
Created by	Craig Bartlett
Directed by	Craig Bartlett Rusty Tracy Zac Palladino
Starring	Ashleigh Ball Dalila Bela William Ainscough Vienna Leacock Grady Ainscough Jaeda Lily Miller Kyle Rideout Meg Roe Brian Drummond
Theme music composer	Mike Himelstein Jim Lang Vincent Tong
Opening theme	"Ready Jet Go!"
Ending theme	"Ready Jet Go!" (instrumental)
Composer(s)	Jim Lang
Country of origin	United States Canada
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	70 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Craig Bartlett Dete Meserve David McFadzean Matt Williams
Editor(s)	Ann Hoyt Susan Edumunson Tom Sanders
Production company(s)	Wind Dancer Films Snee-Oosh, Inc.
Distributor	Cake Entertainment
Release
Original network	PBS Kids
Original release	Series: February 15, 2016 (2016-02-15) - May 6, 2019 (May 6, 2019) Film: August 14, 2017 (2017-08-14) - June 17, 2019 (2019-06-17)

Ready Jet Go! is an American-Canadian CGI animated television series produced by Wind Dancer Films. The series aired on PBS Kids from February 15, 2016 to May 6, 2019. It was created by animator and Hey Arnold! creator Craig Bartlett, and is produced in cooperation with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The show teaches science and astronomy.

The show is aimed at kids ages 3 to 8. On August 17, 2016, PBS Kids announced the renewal of the series for a second season, which premiered on April 2, 2018.

Plot

Jet Propulsion and his family are from the fictional planet Bortron 7 which orbits around a red dwarf called Bortron. They live at Boxwood Terrace in Washington, where they study human customs and Earth environments for a travel guide. Jet has made friends with neighborhood kids, including Sydney, Mindy, and Sean, whose parents work at the nearby Deep Space Array. The Propulsions' car turns into a flying saucer, which they frequently use to take the older kids into space. Their alien identities are known to Sean, Mindy, and Sydney, but they otherwise make some effort to conceal their origin. As of early June 2016, it's unclear whether anyone else knows who they really are.

At the end of each episode, scientist Amy Mainzer (also called Astronomer Amy) hosts educational interstitial segments: the segments are not included in the export version.

Episodes

List of Ready Jet Go! episodes

Characters

• Jet Propulsion (voiced by Ashleigh Ball) is the title character of the show and is a humanoid alien. He has red hair and can stretch his body, as his parents can. He is excitable, energetic, and goofy. He is tall for his age. Jet is 63 years old in Bortronian years, as revealed in "Earthday Birthday". He was instantly popular with the other children the moment he arrived on Earth. He sees the mundane world as a vast and exciting place, and even thinks that words are exciting, such as "surprise", claiming it to be a funny Earth word. He is named after the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is shown to be extremely kind, even to people who are mean to him, such as Mitchell. He possibly likes Sydney, because he danced with her in "How Come the Moon Changes Shape?", and is shown to possibly like Sean in "Back to Bortron 7".
• Sunspot Propulsion is the Propulsion family pet. He is described as a dog or cat to "Earthies" not in the know. Sunspot has the ears of a rabbit, the body of a kangaroo, and the tail of a raccoon or a fox. He plays concertina, electric guitar, bugle, pan pipes, and drums. Sunspot is silly and likes to play. His status as a mere "pet" may be somewhat of a put-on: He knows how to read, can talk and sing, and can follow conversations, but often seems confused about what behaviors are expected from a pet. He often functions as a deus ex machina, figuring out what is going on and what needs to be done and then conveying that information to one or more of the children. Carrot and Jet both realize there's more to Sunspot than the obvious, as evidenced by a conversation in "The Greatest Canyon": Carrot: "You ever get the idea there's something he's not telling us?" Jet: "All the time, Dad. All the time."
• Carrot Propulsion (voiced by Kyle Rideout) is Jet's father. His name from his home planet includes the sound of an elephant trumpeting and a parrot squawking. He tends to be goofy, like Jet. He often stays home while Celery takes the kids on adventures into outer space, as he doesn't really like going in the flying saucer. Carrot often cooks wacky dishes such as deep-fried lollipops.
• Celery Propulsion (voiced by Meg Roe) is Jet's mother. Celery is smart and often takes the kids to space. Her name from her home planet includes the sounds of banging, buzzing, and clanging. She normally drives the family vehicle, as Carrot's driving makes her nervous. She likes racing against her brother, Zucchini.
• Face 9000 (voiced by Brian Drummond) is a computer. He is a cyan face with blue facial features projected from a small, round ball. He has a younger brother, Face 9001. Face 9000 knows everything about science, and often pops up to answer the kids' science questions. In "Face on the Fritz", he gets an upgrade. He has a tendency to get jealous easily.

Songs

Ready Jet Go! has many songs; some have no lyrics. The bottom ones do not have lyrics.

1. Ready Jet Go! Theme Song
2. Commander Cressida Theme
3. How Come The Moon Has Craters?
4. Night of a Bazillion Stars
5. The Scientific Method Song
6. The Solar System Song
7. Venus! (Earth's Broiling Hot Twin)
8. Tiny Blue Dot
9. Intergalactic Travel Writers
10. The Milky Way
11. What Goes Up (Must Come Down)
12. Enceladus vs. Europa
13. Computers
14. Let's Fly Our Little Saucer to the Moon
15. The 3-Part Bortronian Meal
16. My Name is Mindy
17. Try Again
18. Beep's a Rovin' Superstar
19. Cooking with Jet (no lyrics)
20. Asteroid Belt (no lyrics)
21. Building Boogie (no lyrics)
22. Real Bortronian Deal
23. Bortronian Is What I Am!
24. My Name is Jet
25. Lone Star!
26. I'm Not Afraid of Big Ideas
27. A Scientific Town
28. Is Your Planet Like My Planet?
29. Take-off Ditty
30. There's No Planet Like My Planet
31. The Bortron Solar System Song
32. That's How We Roll on Bortron 7
33. Just Add Water
34. It's a Neptune Kind of Day!
35. Earthday Birthday
36. You're Never Too Big for a Lullaby
37. Dear Santa, From Little Billy
38. Mindy's Toy-Building Ditty
39. Solar System Saucer-Sleigh
40. The Spirit of Christmas
41. Dear Little Frozen Pluto
42. A Star is Born!
43. I'm Finally Five!
44. The Outer Planets Song
45. Ice Skating in July
46. Heliocentric Ditty
47. Total Eclipse of the Sun
48. Space Racin'
49. Grow Plant, Grow!
50. Engineering Song
51. Potatoes on Mars Medley
52. Every Day is Earth Day
53. The Super Saucer Song

Awards and nominations

• The series was awarded a Parents' Choice Silver Honor.
  • The series won a Parents' Choice Award again in 2018.
• The series was awarded a Common Sense Seal by Common Sense Media.
• Jaeda Lily Miller was nominated for a Young Artist Award for her performance as Mindy

Games

PBS Kids and Two Moos created ten online games based on the show

1. Sydney's Astro-Tracker
2. Mindy's Constellation Exploration
3. Sean's Rescue Quest
4. Jet's Planet Pinball
5. Jet's Rocket Ship Creator
6. Mission Earth
7. Mindy's Moonball
8. Jet's Bot Builder
9. Rover Maker
10. Cooking School

Also on iTunes:

1. Space Explorer released 7 April 2016

Parodies and spoofs/usage with other shows

Usage with other shows

In "Mindy's Weather Report" (15b), an image for Dinosaur Train, another PBS Kids series and also created by Bartlett, can be seen when Sunspot flips over the channels on Face. A second of the theme song can be heard.