02x12 - Try and Try Again / Racing on Sunshine

[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!

[Electricity crackles]

- So, dr. Skelley--i mean, mom.

We wanted to know where beep is today.

- You mean our mars rover robot?

- Yeah, sunspot and beep have a playdate today.

- She should be in the mars yard.

Let's check on her.

Here we can see beep on earth, back in action.

And on this side, we have her sister boop

Up on mars, exploring.

[Sunspot chirps]

[Beep and boop whir]

- Why is boop moving so slowly on mars?

- Take a look, mindy.

Do you see streets or sidewalks up on mars?

- I guess not.

Since there's no one there to build them.

- So the rover has to roll over the bumpy and rocky dirt.

- Exactly, sydney.

Besides, scientific discovery is about slowing down

And making careful observations.

- Slowing down and making careful observations.

Makes sense, right, jet? Jet?

- Hey, what does this button do?

Does it control boop?

- Not that button!

[Ricochet]

-Ugh!

- Mmm, chocolate.

- Why don't we go to the mars yard outside,

And see how beep is getting around?

[All speaking at once]

- Wow, looks pretty rocky.

Just like mars!

- Oh, so that's why you have to go slow.

I get it!

[Sunspot chirps]

- Your pet certainly is well-trained.

- Thanks, dr. Skelley.

And you have a well-trained robot!

♪ ♪

[Humming]

[Gasps] [all grunt]

I just had a brilliant idea!

What if we put our own rover on mars?

Maybe we can find something amazing on mars!

Like jelly beans!

- No one's ever found jelly beans on mars.

- Yet! - Great idea, jet,

But where can we get a mars rover?

We're just kids!

[Sunspot chirps]

- [Chuckles] no, sunspot. Not you.

I'm thinking of a robot mars rover.

- Hey, jet, you're onto something

We have a robot already!

- We do?

- Yeah, jet ! Remember?

- Oh yeah!

Where did we leave him again?

Ah, there he is. Our new mars rover!

In perfect condition!

[Jet whirs and clanks]

- Wait, where are his wheels?

- Uh...i'm trying to remember.

I think they got used for something.

- Hello. Yes. Play. Wheels?

- Oh yeah, I remember now!

I used jet 's wheels to make squirrel roller skates!

- Jet, squirrels don't roller skate!

- You've obviously never met floyd!

[Engine revs]

[Tires squeal]

[Engine revving]

- Okay, now I've seen everything.

- Or have you?

- So we need to find new wheels for jet .

- Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Whoa! Whoa!

Whoa. Uh, hello there!

Whoa, whoa! [Together] hi, mitchell!

- Aren't you gonna ask me what's new?

- You got a new scooter!

- For your information, I got a new, uh...scooter,

Like you said. - Pretty cool, mitchell.

- Yeah, but I have to go kind of slow

Because of these little wheels.

They're fine on smooth ground, but if I hit a bump, boom!

I'm not a big fan of falling.

I've got to replace these little wheels.

- Hey, if you don't want those wheels,

Can we have them?

- We'll find you something better later.

[Dog barking]

- Go right ahead. It's all yours.

[Wheels squeaking]

- Whoo-hoo! We've got our rover!

- Yeah, mitchell's scooter wheels work great!

Let's take him up to mars.

- Not yet.

We have to make sure it would work on mars.

- Oh, right.

Remember the ground in the mars yard

Was bumpy and rocky?

- Oh, yeah.

- So we have a plan, right?

We'll build a mars yard right here in jet's yard.

[Upbeat instrumental music]

♪ ♪

[Sunspot chirps]

- [Sighs] what a great mars yard.

- Yeah, it really looks a lot like the surface of mars.

It's all bumpy with rocks and dirt.

- Now, let's test our jet mars rover.

- Go, jet ! Explore the mars yard!

- Hello, mars yard fun.

- It's working!

See what happens when we make a plan?

We can't fail!

[Jet crashing]

Okay, we failed.

- Oh no!

Are you okay, jet ?

- Hello. Yes. Play.

[Whirring]

Donuts?

- Huh, his donut oven still works.

- But the wheels didn't.

- We have to try some other way for jet

To go over the bumpy ground.

Everyone go look for more things.

Let's get creative!

I made a table to keep track of which ideas work.

- Yes! Table! Fun!

- First up, beach ball.

♪ ♪

[Ball pops]

♪ ♪

Okay, now springs.

[Crash]

Last but not least, balloons!

[Bird chirping]

[Crashes]

- [Sighs] well, we've tried just about everything.

We haven't found a way to get jet over the mars surface.

- Let's just say we've found a lot of ways

That don't work so far.

- Wait, where's sunspot?

He was supposed to bring a wheel.

[Zany music]

[Air horn honks]

- He brought a wheel all right.

- Uh-oh. Oh, no.

Hello. Yes. Play.

- I can't look, but I have to.

♪ ♪

- Okay, the bad news is we've failed again.

The good news...

[Munching] more donuts!

Mmm...pink frosted.

- We keep failing. How is that possible?

- Maybe we should go back and ask the mars expert--

I mean my mom again.

So, we were wondering.

Is it possible to work on a problem really hard

And still not be able to solve it?

- Oh... [Laughs]

That happens to us scientists all the time.

- It does? - Of course!

Come on, I'll show you.

Each of these wheels didn't work for a different reason.

- Wow, you tried all those wheels on beep?

And they didn't work?

- Exactly, but we kept trying

To find the best wheels to work on mars,

Until we finally got it right.

We just tried and tried again.

- Hey, I have a song about that.

[Clears throat] sunspot?

♪ If you try and you make a mess ♪

♪ Who cares if it's not a success? ♪

♪ Try again, it's not so hard ♪

♪ And we can get that robot to rove on mars ♪

Yeah. - [Giggles]

- That's a great song for scientific thinking, jet.

'Cause sometimes if you fail to solve one problem,

It shows you a way to fix a different problem.

These wheels didn't work on beep,

But they turned out to be perfect for berg's bicycle.

[Honks horn]

[Engine revving]

[Laughter]

- Hey, I have an idea.

Maybe if we try to help mitchell with his scooter,

We'll get some ideas for our mars wheels.

- Are you sure this will work?

- It worked for the scientists.

- Whoops! Whoa! [Dog barking]

[Crashing]

- Don't worry, mitchell.

We'll keep trying until we succeed.

- Or fail. Hey, that's science!

- Whichever comes first!

- With these four wider wheels,

You can balance over any kind of road.

- Yeah, and I'll even let you wear my lucky helmet.

- Well, here goes rainbows and unicorns.

- Now fly, mitchell! Fly like the wind!

- Wait, now I have to fly?

[Engine revving]

[Cody barking]

We're flying now, cody!

Whoa!

[Playful music]

♪ ♪

[Crashing]

- [Slurps] [cody barking]

Whoa!

Hey, I didn't fall!

Great wheels. Thanks, you guys!

- Hey, I guess we did succeed.

We fixed mitchell's scooter wheels.

- Yep, wider wheels helped him balance over the bumps.

- Do you think the wider wheels would work for jet ?

- Already thinking it, and already doing it!

- Here goes. - Ready for action!

- Hello. Yes. Wheels.

[Jet bouncing]

All: whoo-hoo! Yes!

- Today, our mars yard.

Tomorrow, mars!

[Horn honks]

- Or how about today mars?

[Spaceship whirring]

[Light instrumental music]

♪ ♪

- Mars. Yes.

Donuts?

- Whoo-hoo! Yeah!

- And now here's my friend,

Astronomer amy mainzer! - Thanks, jet.

It's a beautiful, sunny day outside.

But the sun does more than just provide beautiful sunshine.

It's like an enormous engine

That provides power to living things on earth.

And we can use that power to do all kinds of things.

Solar panels like this one take light

And turn it into electricity that we can use.

Here's how it works: light falls on the panel

And the panel turns that light into electricity.

I've got a little water pump here.

Let's put in some water.

Now I'm gonna hook it up to the panel.

If I can turn enough light into electricity,

I can make the pump spray water.

Let's see what happens if I use this nightlight on the panel.

Ah, it's not working.

Let's try this flashlight.

It should be a little brighter.

Nope. Still now working.

I need something brighter.

Okay, I have a feeling that this light is going to work.

Let's give it a try.

Whoa, there goes the fountain.

Now, if I tilt the solar panel a little higher at the light...

Oh, wow, the water's really getting pushed up.

I've generated a lot more power,

And I'm making a really big mess.

I'm glad I kept trying to get this solar powered

Bird bath fountain to work. The birds'll love it.

So the next time you see a solar panel just remember:

It's pretty fun to be plugged into the sun.

- Well, kids, the boxwood terrace kid-kart derby

Is in just three days!

- Yes! - And since you're all kids,

You qualify to race! Any questions?

- Ooh! Ooh! I do!

Wait, what's a kid-kart derby again?

- The derby is a race, propulsion.

And the rules are simple,

The karts are kid-designed, and kid-built.

But this year, all karts must be solar powered,

With panels attached directly on each kart.

- Ah, "solar:" from the sun. Love it!

- And remember, no help from grown-ups!

That's a time-honored tradition here in boxwood terrace!

- Whoo-hoo! Come on, guys!

Let's go build a solar-powered earth kid-kart!

Excelsior!

- I like that attitude, young propulsion.

- Ah! - Mitchell,

You want to come build with us?

We can help each other! - Uh, no.

I've won the last three kid-kart derbys,

So I don't need any help.

Thanks, but no thanks.

- Ok, well, we'll be in my garage making karts

If you change your mind.

- That jet propulsion. [Cody whines]

I agree, cody. He's not just building a kart.

He must be up to something.

- Okay, let's build!

- Wait, first we have to research

All about solar power.

- Booyah, research!

- And I think we should divide into teams.

Two karts means twice the chance to win.

- I love it! Oh, can mindy be on my team?

We've never been on a team before.

It'll be cool-some! Team jet-mindy!

- Or even better, team mindy-jet!

- Well, I don't like that quite as much, but okay!

[Together] team sydney-sean!

- And sunspot can be our pit crew.

So solar powered earth kid-karts.

Easy, right?

- Uh, maybe not that easy.

- Don't you just make a kart, let the sun shine on it,

And then drive it?

- Sounds right, and then have pie?

- Pie, what? No, no pie.

Jet, do you remember solar power?

We used it before. Remember your solar lights?

[Sunspot squeaks]

- And beep the mars rover uses solar power too.

- Oh, of course, of course.

So, uh...what do we do?

- We research solar power! - Great!

Sunspot, research music, please.

[Sunspot chirps]

[Plays accordion] - let's look in my

"Big book of the sun."

Huh. "Need more information."

- Ah. Whoa!

- [Strains] here we go.

"The bigger book of the sun."

[Together] ooh.

- Look, the sun puts out a lot of energy.

You can feel its heat on your skin.

Here on earth, we put solar energy to work.

We use it to power things.

- Yeah, like lights, fans, and even cars!

Oh, and kid-karts!

- But how?

- We use solar panels!

These are solar panels.

They take in the sun's light energy,

And the panels turn it into electricity.

- Which is turned into power!

- Oh, now I remember.

So let's get those solar panels going!

[Sunspot chirping]

Ooh, perfect, sunspot. Hold on a sec.

Hey, sun!

We need your bright, shining energy!

So get ready!

- [Growls] jet propulsion!

He'll use some kind of alien technology

To win the race. Why, cody?

Because he's from another planet!

I think.

Maybe not, but maybe.

I must investigate.

[Beeping] - sean, what's that noise?

And what are you looking at?

- I've got my watch set to a weather tracking thing.

I'm doing a real-time cloud check.

They say it might rain on race day.

- [Chuckles] wow.

Boy are they wrong. It's completely sunny out!

- Yeah, no clouds, sean.

- There's one cloud. You never know.

- One earth cloud is weather?

[Laughing]

Anywho, time to build! Come on!

[Mitchell coughs]

- How's the spying going, mitchell?

- Aah!

- And follow-up question, are you sure

You don't want help with your kart?

- Help? Me? From you?

Remember, I'm a derby winner.

I'll be going now, back to my winning kart.

Good day, sir.

- Okay, we've got everything we need.

[Sunspot squeaks] even solar panels!

Let's build!

[Together] yes!

- Yippee!

[Whirring and clanking]

Wait, one more thing.

Sunspot?

[Sunspot chirps]

Ta-da! Much better.

- [Chuckles] I agree.

Now let's use our solar panels

To catch some sun power and make them go!

- Yeah! - Whoo!

- So I wonder if bigger panels will collect more solar energy.

- Can we squeeze on even more solar panels?

[Sunspot squeaking] cool.

[Clanking]

Okay, maybe too many. [Beeping]

[Together] another cloud?

- Actually, yes. Look! There's two of them now!

- Wait. If the clouds block the sun

During the kid-kart race,

Will our solar panels still work?

- Maybe not, or not as well.

- Oh. That would be bad.

Then we wouldn't have enough power to win!

- But there's a solution! A battery!

- Yes, a battery!

Wait, what's a battery again?

- A battery saves the power from the sun.

- And you can use that power later,

Even if the clouds cover the sun.

- Really? Wow, batteries are awesome.

- I agree.

Okay then, our carts need batteries.

- We probably won't even need to use the batteries,

Since we have the sun.

- My mom always tells me that it's good to plan ahead.

So I think it's good we're putting batteries in our karts.

- Your mom's right. - Nice karts.

So what kind of alien technology is jet using?

[Cody howls]

Aah! May I help you?

- Still spying, mitchell?

- No, I'm out for a walk

In a carefree, not-spying kind of way.

- Oh, sounds nice.

We just installed batteries in our karts.

Would you like one? We have extra.

- I'd bet you'd like me to say yes.

Well, I will not.

I don't need a battery, or your help. Good day.

- Okay, and a good day to you, sir.

See you at the big kid-kart derby race thingy, mitchell!

Good day, sir!

[Karts whirring]

- Man, kid-kart derby day. Finally.

[Whispering together]

- Yes, the three-time kid-kart champion has arrived.

I was ready to retire, but cody really begged me

To race one more time.

So here I am.

This race is dedicated to cody.

[Cody whines]

- Looks like we got perfect sunny weather

For this solar-powered race today.

Racers, ready?

[Together] on your marks, get set...

[Sunspot squeaks]

- Ready, jet, go!

[Engines revving]

[Upbeat music]

[Karts whirring]

[Tires screeching] - [giggles]

[Sunspot squeaking] - isn't this fun?

- [Strains]

- Up the hill we go!

♪ ♪

[Tires screeching]

- Pit stop! Switch racers!

[Tires squealing]

[Tires screeching]

- Hey, where's the sun?

Whoa, clouds!

- Well, would you look at that? Clouds!

Who could've thought they could appear?

- [Chuckles] you were right, sean.

Not much solar energy now.

It's okay, though. We can coast downhill

Without using power.

[Gasps] - uh-oh!

- Come on, kart! Keep going, come on!

[All grunting]

- The finish line! It's so close!

- Yeah! Whoo-hoo!

- Hey, you guys! Use the battery, remember?

- Oh, yeah. Thanks, best teammate ever.

- Of course. Switching to battery power!

[Tires squealing]

♪ ♪

- What? What? Ugh, jet propulsion!

What alien technology are you using to get ahead?

- [Laughs] no, no!

It's earth technology.

Some crazy thing called a battery!

- Didn't you bring a battery, mitchell?

- No! [Grunting]

- Whoo! Yeah! - Whee!

- Whoo-hoo! - Sydney! Sydney! Sydney!

- Yes! [All cheering]

- Look at 'em go! - First place!

[Tires screeching]

- Yay!

- Uh, jet? Wrong way!

[Tires screeching] - whoa.

Let's see if these wings work.

[Exciting music]

[Laughs] they do! Whoo-hoo!

- Second place!

[Applause]

- [Laughs]

- The winners are sidney skelley

And sean rafferty!

Second place goes to mindy melendez

And jet propulsion.

[Sunspot chirps]

And just squeaking across the finish line in third,

Is mitchell peterson! Excellent effort, son!

- Thanks. I would've won,

But the sun went behind the clouds.

That's when team propulsion tricked me

By using some alien technology.

- Huh? They used a battery.

That's earth technology. [Laughs]

Now enough talk about the propulsions

Using alien technology.

They're a perfectly normal neighborhood family.

- Or are we? - What? What?

[Laughter]

[Sunspot chirping]

- [Groans] "perfectly normal family"?

[Cheers and applause]

- Do you remember the first time you ever saw a rainbow?

Hi, I'm astronomer amy mainzer.

I was about three years old when I first saw a rainbow.

And I remember just being stunned

By a beautiful arch of colors going across the sky.

With this glass prism, I can split white light from the sun

Into a rainbow of different colors.

But even all of these amazing colors that you see here

Are just a tiny fraction of all the different kinds of light

That are in the universe.

It's just that our eyes can't see most of it.

Essentially, there's light beyond the rainbow.

You've already had tons of experience

With light that you can't see, even if you don't know it.

For example, if you've ever gotten a sunburn,

Well, that's caused by ultraviolet light.

Ultraviolet is light that's bluer than the blue light

You see coming out of the prism here.

Or if you've ever broken a bone and had to have x-rays taken,

X-rays are even bluer than ultraviolet.

On the other side of the spectrum,

There's light that's redder than red.

We call it infrared light.

If you've used a tv remote control,

Well that tv remote is using infrared light

To talk to the television.

If you keep going, there's even light

That's redder than infrared.

We call it microwaves.

This is the kind of light your microwave oven

Uses to cook food.

If we get all the way out beyond microwaves,

We get to the reddest light of all, radio waves.

Cell phones use radio waves to communicate.

So the next time you're eating some rainbow sherbet,

A personal favorite of mine, just remember

There's a lot more light out there

Beyond the rainbow, than what your eyes can see.

- ♪ Jet propulsion ♪

All: ♪ ready! Jet! Go! ♪

[Adventurous music]

♪ ♪

- ♪ Jet propulsion ♪ - ♪ jet propulsion ♪

- ♪ Jet propulsion! ♪ All: ♪ ready! Jet! Go! ♪