02x08 - I Feel the Earth Move / Zerk Visits Earth

[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!

All: whoo-hoo! Whoa!

[All yelling excitedly]

[Bounce house springing]

- Wow, bouncing sure is fun.

- Check out my moonwalk. [Boing]

That's one big bounce for mankind.

- Cool-some moves, sean.

You're just like astronaut neil strongarm.

- Um, it's armstrong.

And I'm just like commander cressida!

Here's my jupiter jump!

[Adventurous music]

♪ Commander cressida ♪

♪ She's the best of the ♪

♪ Galactic astronauts ♪

♪ There's nothing she cannot ♪

- I love it, sydney!

Okay, jet, your turn.

[Boing]

♪ ♪

[Boing]

- Whoa. What was that?

- My backwards, triple-twist bortronian flip!

[Sunspot squeaks]

Whoo-hoo!

[All laughing and cheering]

- Bouncing is fun,

But it's making my legs all wobbly.

- You're right, mindy. I could use a break.

- [Sighs] yep, I'm all flipped out.

You coming, sunspot?

[Boing]

Sunspot never gets tired.

He says he could stay in the bounce house all day.

[Chomps]

[Boing]

[Snoring]

[Rumbling]

Whoa.

What's going on? - I don't know.

But it sounds like a big truck rolling by.

- And I feel a weird rolling motion,

Like when you're on a boat.

Did I mention boats make me queasy?

- But I don't see a truck, and we're not on a boat.

- Well, maybe sunspot's just bouncing really hard?

- [Squeaks happily] - look at him.

The rumbling and shaking must be from something else.

- [Gasps] I've got it!

The hiccupping volcano made it happen!

[Hiccups]

We have one on bortron .

You guys have one here, right?

- We have volcanoes,

But I don't think they hiccup.

- Well, if it wasn't sunspot bouncing

Or the hiccupping volcano,

Then what was it?

- Maybe it was like

Commander cressida comic number --

"The day the earth didn't stand still."

- What was that about, sydney? - An earthquake.

I've never felt one before,

But my mom said they have happened

In boxwood terrace.

- An earth-what? - An earthquake.

It's when the ground moves and everything shakes.

- So that must be what it was. - [Laughing]

Good one, guys.

Everyone knows the ground doesn't move,

Because it's solid rock!

See?

- Are you kids okay?

Did a hiccupping volcano just erupt?

[Hiccups] - we're fine, mr. Propulsion.

I think it was just an earthquake.

- [Gasps] really? They have quakes on earth?

Well, I better go make a quake-earth preparedness kit,

So I'll be prepared.

[Rumbling] - here we go again.

[Boing] - [squeaking]

[Energetic music]

♪ ♪

[All shouting]

[Boing]

♪ ♪

- Sunspot, where you going?

- Oh, he'll be back.

He'll probably just bounce back the other way.

[Rumbling]

Aw, I don't know about this earthquake stuff.

Are you sure it wasn't the hiccupping volcano?

[Hiccups]

- Pretty sure, jet.

- Well, if earthquakes are real,

Then how do they make the ground shake?

- Hmm, I don't know.

That's a really good question.

I bet we could do some investigating and find out.

- Then to the investigation pod!

- You mean the backyard?

- I do.

Okay, let's go investigate.

♪ ♪

[Boing]

[Sunspot cheering]

- Yep, according to my "big book of earth science,"

When we felt the ground moving, it was an earthquake.

- Okay, but I still don't exactly get it.

Look, the earth looks solid. So how can the ground move?

- Good question.

The earth feels like it's solid, but check this out--

The inside of the earth

Is actually not completely solid.

Both: it isn't?

- Sydney's right.

See? The earth's surface,

And the top layer, is called its crust.

And the crust has these big pieces they call plates

- Right, about ten big plates cover the earth's crust.

- You mean like dinner plates?

Oh, I love dinner. - Nope.

They're rock plates. And they're floating

In, like, a sea of hot, squishy rock.

- Yep, and that hot, squishy rock

Is called magma. - Magma?

I love that word! - Okay, but...

How do rock plates floating on "mag-mah"

Cause earthquakes?

How does it happen?

- We can ask a real expert--my mom.

Come on, to the dsa! Boo-yah!

- Really great research, kids.

About ten big plates do make up the earth's crust.

And under them is magma.

So let me explain earthquakes.

- With tomato soup with crackers floating on top?

- [Laughs] yep. Think of the soup

As the hot magma and the crackers as the plates.

- Ooh, what a cool comparison.

[Mindy's stomach grumbling]

- And a really yummy one.

- Sean, would you mind helping me with my demonstration?

Now, wherever the plate edges touch,

The rocky parts grind together.

And when one plate grinds against another,

It can cause earthquakes-- the rumbling and shaking

You felt earlier. - [Laughing]

- Hmm.

I think I get it now.

So when's the next earthquake gonna happen?

- I don't know, jet.

In fact, no scientist really does.

But we do know where an earthquake

Is likely to occur-- places where the plates

Are grinding together. - Like under boxwood terrace?

- Exactly. - Thanks for all your help, mom.

- And thanks for the soup!

[Slurping]

All: mmm, mmm!

[Western music]

♪ ♪

[Horn honks]

♪ ♪

- So we've got earth crust, rocky plates,

Hot magma, soup, crackers,

Rumbling, and shaking.

Hmm...

- Uh, jet?

What are you doing? - Oh, nothing.

Just trying to see earth's plates moving.

Wait, can we see the plates moving?

[Horn honks, tires screeching]

- Did someone say, "can we see the earth's plates moving?"

Let's see if we can.

Hop in!

- Yes! It's time to get spacey!

Or whatever you earthies say.

- I think I'll pass.

After all that rumbling and shaking today--

[Shouts] - don't worry, sean.

There won't be any earthquakes up there.

- You make a good point, jet, but--

- ♪ Five, four, three, two, one ♪

♪ Doors are shut, engines on ♪

♪ Everybody in their place? ♪

♪ Let's go into outer-- ♪

- Oh, hey, hey, hey, whoa! Wait for me!

[Laughs]

[Groans]

- Dad? Are you coming with us?

- Yes! I want to learn about quake-earths, too.

Eh, and look, I came prepared.

I brought water, a flashlight, a blanket,

And a rodeo. Yee-haw!

- Uh, I think you may mean a "radio"?

- Yes, I have that, too.

A radio-- that's it.

Go, preparedness!

- Well, as I was saying...

♪ Everybody in their place? ♪

♪ Let's go into outer space! ♪

Yee-haw!

[Sean shouting]

[Tires squealing]

[Jet engines whooshing]

Okay, let's take the saucer

Back down a bit for a better view.

Sydney, will you help? - Sure thing, mrs. Propulsion.

[Lever clicks]

[Jet engines revving] - yee-haw!

- Whoo-hoo! - Ha ha!

- Hey, there's boxwood terrace, right below us.

- Cool! What do you see, sean?

- I don't know. It's pretty tiny.

- Anything moving or-- or quaking?

Like the earth's plates?

- No. - Huh.

Let me use my high-powered bortronian binoculars.

That's better.

Hey, there's something moving! - Oh, is it a quake-earth?

- No. It's a mindy!

[Chuckles] she's looking for sunspot.

Huh. Maybe there is no place

We can see earth's plates moving.

- Did someone say they were trying

To see earth's plates moving?

♪ Face , ready to assist you ♪

All: hi, face!

- Yeah. We felt earth move,

So we really wanted to see earth move.

- Hmm. Well, I could show you a place

Where the earth's plates meet and grind together.

- Oh, really?

- Yeah, that would be great. - Let's hit it.

[Together] excelsior!

[Adventurous music]

[Boing]

- [Barking]

[Boing]

♪ ♪

[Jet engines whirring]

[Brakes screeching]

- But that's just

A giant crack in the earth.

- Well, jet, that giant crack

Is a place where two plates meet

And grind together.

It's called a fault.

- No way! I bet this fault moves a lot.

So--so when do we get to see it move?

- Actually, it only moves about an inch or two a year.

[Together] an inch or two a year?

- Mm-hmm. So it's almost impossible to see.

- But that's so slow--

Slower than a snail crawling!

- Well, the plates are moving very slowly

Over a long period of time, so you usually can't see

Or feel it happening, but when they do rub together,

The rock bends until it snaps.

Then, you can feel an earthquake!

- Just like the crackers in the soup my mom showed us.

- Well, that is really cool,

But I think I'm ready to go home now.

- Oh, really? Why's that, jet?

- I want to be on the ground

For the next earthquake, whenever that is.

- Oh, me too! Then I can use my quake-earth preparedness kit.

Yeah, I think I'll put

My favorite earth foods in it, too.

- How about some tomato soup with crackers?

- Mmm, great idea, sean.

Can there be confetti on top?

[Machinery whirrs]

Hmm!

- Oh! Well, we have our soup.

So time to go. You ready, sydney?

- I was born ready!

Both: whoo-hoo!

- [Chuckles] my soup! [Celery laughs]

[Jet engines chugging]

[Whoosh]

- Sunspot, where are you?

[Tires screeching, horn honks]

Hi, guys.

Did you see earth's plates moving?

- No, but we did see a place where two plates meet up.

It's called a fault.

It looked just like a giant crack in the ground.

- Really? - Yep.

And we also saw you!

- [Giggles] I was looking for sunspot,

But I haven't found him yet.

[Rumbling] all: whoa!

- Oh, another quake-earth!

Uh, good thing I'm prepared.

[Grunts, gulps]

- Ha! It's a soup-quake.

[Boing]

[Bouncy music]

[Together] sunspot?

[Boing]

♪ ♪

- Sunspot, where have you been?

[Tropical guitar chord]

- Heh. Guess we'll never know.

[All laughing]

- Come on! - Whoo-hoo-hoo!

[All cheering]

- And now here's my friend, astronomer amy mainzer!

- Thanks, jet.

Looking at the earth always reminds me of cherry pie.

You wouldn't think they have anything in common,

But both the earth and the cherry pie have crusts

That cover a bunch of squishy stuff that's underneath.

The earth's crust is the outside of our planet,

Just like a pie crust is the outside of a pie.

You can eat a pie crust, but you can't eat the earth's crust.

Even though it might seem like the earth

Is one giant piece of solid rock,

That isn't actually the case.

Things aren't as solid as they seem.

Making a cherry pie can help us understand

The parts of the earth.

On the inside, underneath the crust,

Is a layer of rock that's so hot that it's kind of squishy.

We call this the "mantle."

I'm gonna use some of this cherry filling

To represent the mantle.

And at the very center of the earth,

At its core, is rock that's so hot, it's liquid-y,

Just like chocolate sauce.

The earth's crust isn't one big, solid piece of rock.

It's actually made up of multiple pieces,

Just like this pie crust.

We call these pieces "plates."

When the edges of the plates bump into each other,

They can form mountains or cause earthquakes.

So the next time someone tells you

To stop playing with your food,

Just tell them you're exploring the earth's many layers.

Yum.

- I don't see your family saucer yet.

- Me neither. I can't believe

Your cousin zerk is actually visiting us on earth, jet!

- Yep. Should be a hoot.

Wait, is "hoot" a good thing?

[Ding]

Well, I can see mars,

Venus... But no zerk...

[Jet engines whooshing] - jet!

Ah, jet, jet, jet! - Whoa!

- I'm on earth, right here! Hi!

[Together] hi, zerk.

[Chanting in bortronian]

- Ah-- [thud]

So how was the ride here?

- Oh, quick and fun. Your mom's a good driver.

So, sydney, sean-- and you must be mindy.

- Yep. - Will you show me everything

All around... [Laughs] now?

- Sure, but it's kind of dark--

- Oh, I know, but-- but it's "earth dark,"

And it's different, and-- and I'm loving the view

Of the stars from here, and--

[Inhales deeply] ah...

Smells like another planet.

- But more "earth-y," right?

- Yeah, that's what I read in your parents' travel reports.

I've read a lot!

I learned all I could about this planet

Before I came here.

- So how long are you staying

Here on earth? A week?

Two weeks? - One day!

I have to get back home

For low-gravity gymnastics camp.

[Shouting]

- [Screams] - but I made a list of things

I want to see on earth and compare to bortron .

So I want to see something called a "hill,"

Also, small things with side-flappers that fly around,

And most of all-- the hardest to find--

Plants that are green!

- Peasy-easy. We can show you

All of that tomorrow.

- Huh, that's terrible!

Oh, wait, wrong word.

I meant, uh, great?

Great!

[Laughs] so, jet, what are those uniquely earth-y

Items you had to show me?

- Ta-da! Earth-y items!

[Flugelhorn blows]

- Wow, mindy. Amazing!

An earth flu-gel-horn!

Ah! Oh-- wow!

I am full of awe.

What drawings!

I mean, commander cressida really is the best

Of the galactic astronauts.

- I think so, too. Glad you like her.

- Ooh, look at that, sean!

Your tiny, miniature paul strongarm!

- Um, it's actually neil armstrong,

Famous astronaut.

- And is that where he sleeps?

- [Yawns] speaking of sleep,

It's almost my bedtime.

- But how can you sleep when the sun is out?

I mean, I really thought your sun

Would be bigger and much brighter.

- Zerk, that's the moon, silly.

- It's nighttime. You'll know when the sun is out.

It's much brighter than the moon.

- You'll see it in the morning.

We'll do the whole list.

It'll be a great tour!

- You know, since I've read so much about earth,

Maybe I should give you a tour of your own planet.

- Eh, you know, zerk, this is a brand-new place for you.

Pretend you're an earthie and you're seeing it

For the first time-- that's what I do.

- Oh, sounds good, sounds good, yeah.

Okay, so, in the morning, I'll see the sun

And maybe some of that color called "green."

[Together] oh, you will.

[All sigh in relief]

♪ ♪

[Rooster crows]

[Whooshing]

- [Stammering excitedly]

Ah! Green!

Wow! There's so much of it!

So many green plants everywhere!

[Mystical music]

- Yep, that's green--

A color we don't see much on bortron .

- Oh, yeah, exactly.

Most of our plants are black and purple.

[Sunspot squeaking] wow!

You were right about your sun.

Ah, it's so bright and--and so close,

And--and the light looks so yellow!

- Your star bortron is redder and not as bright

As ours, right? - Correct!

We don't have nearly this much light back home--

Or so much green.

Now, what are these green, wavy sticks?

- Those aren't sticks. That's grass.

- You know-- [squeaking in bortronian]

That's what we call grass at home.

- Ah, good. So I've seen green plants.

I can check that off my list.

[Tablet beeps]

- Oh, and that's a flower you're looking at.

Smell it. - [Inhales deeply]

- [Squeaking insistently] - oh, yeah. [Grunts]

Okay, sunspot,

If you say so. [Inhales deeply]

Ah, you're right! Now, how do "flow-ers" taste?

[Together] no!

[Bouncy music]

- [Screams] watch out!

There's a hairy ground animal without side-flappers!

[Friends laughing]

- Zerk, that's called a squirrel.

- Oh, yeah. "Squir-rel."

[Laughs] another hilarious earth word.

Now, what's a "he-ill"?

- It's "hill." I'll show you. Come on.

[Serene music]

[Zerk panting] - this is a hill--with a view!

- Wow!

♪ ♪

Look at all we can see! Enormous green plants!

- Remember, zerk, check "hill" off your list.

- Ah, yeah. Thanking you, mindy.

- Speaking of your list, look there.

You can see the lake. - Oh, wow!

Is "lake" that blue patch area surrounded by more green plants?

- That "blue patch" is water, zerk.

- [Gasps] really?

Oh, let's go see it. Ah, to the water!

Last one there is a rotten bookshelf!

[Mindy, sydney, and sean sigh]

- Ah, that zerk-- always mixes up

"Bookshelf" and "egg." [Sighs]

Okay, to the snowman! I mean lake!

[Humorous trombone note]

[Jaunty music]

♪ ♪

- [Shouts]

Wow, this water sounds splashy, it smells watery--and wet!

Oh, but all water is wet, right, jet?

- Sure is! It's amazing to be on a planet with water everywhere.

It comes out of faucets in houses,

And get this-- it falls from the sky!

- [Imitates bird whistling]

- Wow! Whoa!

Wait. Sunspot, you can communicate

With that techno-aerial earth animal with side-flappers?

[All laughing] - oh, zerk.

- We call them birds.

- Ah, right, oh, flying "birds."

- You can check that off your list.

And remember to check "water" off your list, too.

- [Muttering]

[Tablet beeps] check. Okay.

I can't believe I'm standing at an earth water lake,

With earth birds flying around,

And so many green earth plants everywhere.

Ah, pinch me! - [Squeaking]

- Ow! I didn't mean that literally, sunspot.

- [Squeaks]

- Hey, speaking of green,

Do you want to see the most amazing view of green?

- Are you thinking about the tree house?

- You know I am, sean-zo!

Come on, cuz!

- Whoa! This is the most green ever, anywhere!

How are there so many trees on this planet?

- Well, they get a lot of water.

- Yeah, and sunlight.

- Now, all those trees are alive, and they grow and grow?

[Together] yes.

- [Stammers]

Then you have to watch out!

Those trees are alive,

And much bigger than us.

I mean, have you thought about that?

- [Laughs] zerk, there's nothing to be afraid of.

Trees are living things like we are,

But they don't go anywhere.

- Yeah, they just kind of stay put,

Growing and drinking water. - Wait, do trees have mouths?

- [Giggles] no, silly.

Trees don't have mouths. They, uh...

Sydney? Sean?

A little help here.

- I got this. Let's go down to a tree.

I'll show you.

♪ ♪

You see, green plants eat and drink

By soaking up food and water

Through their roots in the dirt.

The food and water then goes into their stems and leaves.

- And get this-- my mom told me

That plants and trees can also make their own food,

Right from sunlight.

Both: wha--

- Earth plants eat light from the sun?

That wasn't in any of the earth travel brochures I read.

- See, earth plants take in sunlight,

Just like they take in water.

Boy, if I write a travel brochure about earth,

Those are the kind of facts that will be in it.

Boo-yah, brochures!

[Friends clapping]

- [Shouts, gasps] oh, no.

Now tell me what that is! You see it?

A small, round-y, red thing in the tree.

Ooh, be careful.

- That's called an apple.

- Oh! [Laughing]

"Ap-pal"--ah! That's a hilarious earth word.

- Apples are delicious, zerk. You can eat them.

[Thud] - [squeaks]

- What? You eat 'em?

Green earth trees grow red "ap-pals"?

What a planet! Just pinch me--

No, wait. Don't. - Yep, zerk.

Earth is the best planet ever--

The most perfect, spectacular, awesome...

♪ Tiny blue dot ♪

♪ So lonely in the dark ♪

♪ From way out here, you-- ♪ [record scratches]

Hey, where'd everybody go?

- Come on, sean.

I want to show zerk a very full apple tree.

- Wow, so many red spheres on the sun-eating monster tree.

And no mouth-- oh, you were right!

- And you can eat these red spheres

From the sun-eating trees. - Oh, so not like the flowers?

These, I can eat? - [Squeaking insistently]

- Ah, ah, oh, all right. [Muttering excitedly]

[Chomping]

- Pretty tasty, huh?

- [Muttering with mouth full]

- Apples are so good.

- [Squeaking, munching]

- Sunspot sure likes 'em. - [Squeaks happily]

- And get this, zerk-- apples can be cooked

Into other different things.

- What? No, really? Such as?

- We have apple cake... - Applesauce...

- Apple pancakes... - And the most amazing--

My favorite-- apple pie!

- Cake, sauce, pancakes, pie?

Who thinks of these earth words? [Slurping]

Oh! [Muttering happily]

So good. What a day on earth.

The green, the sunlight!

Plants and trees that eat and drink sun, air, and water!

[Sighs excitedly] - yep, zerk.

Earth is the best planet ever, the most perfect--

- And I love pie!

[Zerk munching]

- Mmm! Apple pie is awesome.

It's spectacular. It's perfect!

Earthies, jet, don't tell anyone else

About this pie with apple.

It's a one-of-a-kind idea. Promise me.

[Friends laughing]

[Together] we promise.

- Okay, let's get you back to bortron , zerk.

♪ ♪

- Aw, jet--aw, just-- thank you,

For being a very cool cousin.

And to the greatest earthies ever...

Thanks for showing me so much about your planet.

I saw everything on my list and more.

- There's actually way more on earth to see.

Earth is one cool-some planet. Boo-yah!

- Wow. Boo-yah, green! Boo-yah, earth!

Boo-yah, apples! [Laughs]

- And here's some apples

To remember your earthie visit, cuz.

- [Gasps] all right! Thanking you.

[Sunspot chomps]

- [Laughs]

- [Swallows]

[Squeaks]

- Bye, earthies! I'll come back and visit again soon.

[Tires squealing]

[Together] bye, zerk.

[Jet engines whirring]

[Whoosh]

[All sigh in relief]

[All laughing]

- When I was a little kid,

I used to lay on my back on the floor

And pretend that I could walk on the ceiling.

Did you ever used to do that? - I did.

I pretended like I was floating around in space.

- Hi, I'm astronomer amy mainzer,

And I'm here with joy dunn.

Joy's a senior manufacturing engineer at spacex.

So, joy, why can't we walk on the ceiling?

- Because of this thing called gravity.

- What is gravity exactly, anyway?

- Gravity is a force of nature

That helps keep us planted on the ground.

- But I can't see it, and... [Sniffs]

I can't smell it. - But you can feel it.

- Oh, okay, so I can feel the pull of gravity.

I guess, even if I don't realize it,

Gravity's keeping us both on the ground, isn't it?

- It is. - And the more stuff you have,

The more gravity you have, right?

- Exactly. - Oh, okay.

- So, you know, if I toss this apple,

Why doesn't it just fly off into space?

- Because the apple has a lot less gravity than the earth.

The earth has a lot of stuff,

So it's pulling the apple down to earth.

- The earth is way bigger than this apple

And, I guess, even a lot bigger

Than this spacecraft over here. - It is.

- If I throw that into space, too,

I guess it's gonna fall down, just like the apple, right?

- Exactly. Even though the spacecraft

Is a lot bigger than the apple,

It's still gonna fall back to earth,

Because the earth has more stuff than the spacecraft.

- We have gravity, right? - We do.

- But not as much as the earth, huh?

- Right, not as much as the earth

And not as much as the sun.

So that's why the earth

Is actually orbiting around the sun.

- So maybe it's a good thing we have all this wonderful gravity

Keeping everything attached to the ground.

- That is true. Gravity's our friend.

- So the next time you're looking up

At the ceiling and you wonder why

You can't walk on it, just remember,

It's a good thing that gravity

Is keeping us grounded.

- ♪ Jet propulsion ♪

[Together] ready! Jet! Go!

[Upbeat music]

♪ ♪

- Jet propulsion! - Jet propulsion!

- Jet propulsion!

[Together] ready! Jet! Go!