Air date: February 25, 2016
How We Found Your Sun
Jet explains how his family found Earth via the Sun, a star in the Milky Way galaxy. Celery takes the children out into space to show them how the sun can appear big or small, like other stars, depending on how you look at it.- Aliens Steal Cable: This episode reveals that the Propulsions discovered Earth by picking up a primitive radio signal playing a 1950s rock and roll song called "Jet Propulsion," which they found catchy. This is also how our young hero Jet Propulsion got his "Earth" name.
- Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?:Jet: Mom, are you thinking what I'm thinking?Celery: I'm thinking we take a closer look at the sun.
- Art Shift: The Propulsions' backstory is shown in a comic-book style.
- Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: It is revealed that the Propulsions found Earth by picking up a radio signal that was playing a 1950s rock 'n' roll song called "Jet Propulsion." It sounds just like the show's theme song, and is the protagonist's namesake. However, it has different lyrics. Here are some lines from the song that can be heard during Jet's narration:Jet Propulsion, that's what I've got. Jet Propulsion, man I'm hot. I'm on fire, baby give me some room. You've brought love to light up the room. E=Mc2, baby you could take me there. With Jet Propulsion!
- Idiosyncratic Wipes: This episode appears to have the first instance of spinning Sunspot silhouettes used as scene transitions.
- Idiot Ball: Downplayed. In the previous episode, Face 9000 tells Jet that the earth's sun is called Ignatz 118 on Bortron 7. but in this episode, Jet doesn't know what it's called and Face has to explain it again.
- Inherently Funny Words: Jet finds the word 'falafel' to be absolutely hilarious.
- Kissing the Ground: This episode has the first instance of Sean kissing the ground after a space trip
- Malaproper: Mindy mishears "perspective" as "respective."
- Never Say "Die": Sydney tells the story of Icarus to Sean, but instead of saying that he died, she just says he "fell to Earth."
- Origins Episode: The beginning of the episode reveals how the Propulsion family found Earth.Jet: Well, my mom and dad are, um, how would you say— they write true stories about traveling and exploring around the galaxy. And we were flying across this part of the galaxy, looking for nice, life-friendly planets to visit and write more stories about. And way out in the middle of nowhere, we picked up this primitive radio signal from Earth that had been traveling across space, so we figured you'd still be here. It was a song... and a catchy one! We knew that whoever was out there at the other end of the signal would be life-friendly and have a good sense of rhythm. So we followed the radio signal. That's how we found your star, the Sun!
- Shout-Out: Sydney tells the story of Icarus, a boy who flew too close to the sun.
Treehouse Observatory
Sydney, Jet, Sunspot and Sean fix up an old treehouse and make it their own clubhouse and observatory.- Ahem: Sean clears his throat before singing the Scientific Method song.
- Art Shift: The treehouse-building montage is shown in a comic-book art style.
- Big Eater: Jet lampshades this by listing eating as one of his favorite things.
- Determinator: Jet doesn't want to give up, even after failing at making a telescope. And then he sings about it.
- Hard-Work Montage: There's a comic-style montage of the kids building the treehouse.
- Inherently Funny Words: Jet considers 'telescope' to be a funny Earth word.
- Ladies and Germs: "Ladies, gentlemen, and Bortronian pets...."
- Leitmotif: When Mindy first appears in the episode, we hear her leitmotif for the first time: a little composition of 'My Name is Mindy.'
- Mistakes Are Not the End of the World: Jet demonstrates this mentality by singing the 'Try Again' song.Jet: If you try and you make a mess / Who cares if it's not a success?
- The Pollyanna: The Bortronians' perpetually cheerful nature is discussed when Jet claims that there are no words for "can't," "I'm not sure," or "what happens if?" on Bortron 7.
- Record Needle Scratch: One can be heard when Jet notices the old treehouse.
- Smart People Know Latin: Jet mentions that his Character Catchphrase, 'excelsior,' means 'onward and upward' in Latin.
- Treehouse of Fun: The kids build their own treehouse which serves as a hangout for the group and an observatory.
- The World Is Just Awesome: Jet marvels at all the nature (and green) that Earth has, since Bortron 7 doesn't have much of that.
