[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 7, 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!

- Whoa, is that food hanging up there?

- Ooh, ah, yes.

Your father and I are both cooking dinner tonight.

My job is stringing the beans.

See?

- Are you sure that's the way Earth people make them?

- Well, naturally, Jet.

Uh, they're string beans, aren't they?

- And my job is throwing a salad together.

Heads up!

Here come the peppers!

- Whoop!

Good throw, Dad.

Looks delicious.

So I'm going out to play with Sean and Sydney now.

- Hey, just a minute, Jet.

We have a job for you too.

- Oh, thanks, but I want to do Earth kid stuff now with my friends.

- Actually, Jet, part of being an Earth kid is doing jobs around the house.

- [laughs] Earth kids do jobs around the house?

Now I've heard everything!

Wait till I tell Sean and Sydney about this.

Come on, Sunspot.

- Uh, Jet, your job?

- Right, I'll do it later, I promise.

- [groans] I guess his first job could be remembering to close the door.

[Sunspot chattering] - Let's see what Sydney's doing.

She's usually up to something fun.

- Hey, Sydney, we were just gonna go exploring for a rare Earth plant called dandelion.

Want to come?

- I'd love to in a little bit.

I just have to do a quick chore first.

- A chore?

Sounds like fun.

Can Sunspot and I play too?

- Fun?

Play?

Do you guys understand what the word "chore" means?

- Uh, no clue, but whatever it is, it sounds way better than a job around the house.

- Actually, they're the same thing, Jet.

- Well, maybe a chore at your house will be more fun than a chore at my house.

- Maybe.

Let's find out.

Follow me.

[sighs] Today, my chore is to take the laundry off the clothesline and fold it.

- Wow, for real?

Your parents actually let you do this any time?

- Yeah, they're fine with it.

- Awesome!

Let's fold.

[Jet humming] How's this?

I made an airplane and Sunspot made a jumbo jet!

- Wow!

Those are great, except the sheets will get all wrinkled.

- [chattering] - I think my parents just want me to fold the sheets into rectangles.

The normal way.

- Well, okay, but I bet we could still have fun with the laundry.

I have an idea.

Be right back.

Perfect.

Just keep holding the sheet out like that.

- Okay, now what?

- Now I'll climb up here.

I call this one Fun With an Egg and Sheet.

Okay, new name.

Fun with Egg and Sheet.

- I'm not sure eggs and clean sheets go together.

- Now, who thinks I can drop this egg without breaking it?

Oops.

Sorry about that, buddy.

You never can tell what's gonna happen with an egg.

- Actually, that's exactly what I thought would happen.

- Fortunately, I always carry a spare.

[egg cracks] And that was my spare egg.

You don't happen to have a spare-spare egg, do you?

Wow, thanks, Sunspot.

As I was saying, watch me drop this egg without breaking it.

Ta-da!

- Wow!

How did you do that?

- Um, I'm not sure.

It's an old Bortron 7 magic trick.

- Greetings, people of Earth.

- You startled me, Face.

Did I just pocket dial you?

- Why, no, Jet, but when I hear eggs and laundry, I think science.

My sensors tell me that you're learning about force.

- We are?

- Yes, have fun.

- Wait, that's it?

No big speech about what we're learning?

- Where did Face go?

- I don't know.

Maybe he's got something else to do.

Look, all the sheets and towels are folded.

- We did it.

That wasn't bad at all.

In fact, it was kind of fun.

- Huh, I guess whether a job feels like work or fun is all in the way you look at it.

- You know something, Jet, you're right.

I'm gonna remember that one.

Hey, Sean.

Want to look for dandelions with us?

- Hey, guys, be with you in a sec.

Just finishing a chore here for my mom.

- Wow, another chore?

I can't believe our luck.

Whoo-hoo!

- What did he just say?

- Jet's just learning about chores.

- Chores are the greatest.

So what do we get to do now?

- I have to water all of my mom's little plants in these pots.

It takes a while.

- Really?

Cool.

I know we can have some fun with this.

- Be my guest.

These sunflowers aren't gonna water themselves.

- Or are they?

Watch this.

Ta-da!

A new way to water the plants.

[electronic trilling] - Hey, that's a much faster way, Jet.

- Hi, everyone, I see you're demonstrating force again.

- Wait, Face, you said before that dropping the egg was about force.

- It is.

- So how can dropping an egg and moving the watering can both be demonstrating force?

- Whoop, gotta go.

See you later.

- Where'd he go?

- I don't know.

Let's water the plants.

[lively music] ♪ ♪ - Hey, we're done, and that was the most fun way to do a chore, ever.

Thanks, you guys.

- Did you just say chore and fun together?

I have to do a chore and I really don't want to.

- [gasps] Can I help?

Can we help?

This is a triple-lucky day!

- They love chores.

Really love them.

- Okay.

I guess it's an alien thing?

[all laughing] - So, Mindy, what's your chore and when can we do it?

- How's now?

Follow me.

My mom and dad asked me to pick up my toys outside and put them in this basket.

- Terrific.

You're one lucky kid.

- Um, okay.

- Watch, Jet will find a way to have fun even picking up your toys.

- I'll believe it when I see it.

- [whispering] - What are you two up to?

- We're making a seesaw?

- To pick up my toys?

- Yeah, it's fun.

Watch!

- Oh, having fun with force again?

- Sure, Face.

Uh, whatever that is.

Okay, load it up, Sunspot.

Okay, go, Sean.

all: Wow!

- I guess that was too much force?

- Maybe Sunspot should try.

He's the lightest.

- Hmm, not quite what we had in mind.

- Let me try.

I'm bigger than Sunspot, and smaller than Sean.

- Whoo-hoo!

- Awesome!

- Awesome!

- Yeah!

- [excited chattering] - Hey, we're all done.

We cleaned up all the toys.

- This was great!

You made cleaning up my toys as much fun as messing them up.

Thanks, Jet.

both: Yeah, thanks, Jet.

- Sure, no problem.

All your chores were really fun.

[sighs] Except I still have to go home and do my own chore.

And I'm sure it won't be anything like the fun stuff you guys got to do.

- Don't worry, Jet.

You helped us and we'll help you.

- You guys would do that for me?

- Of course!

Here on Earth, that's what friends do.

[Sunspot purring] - Oh, good, Jet, you're back.

Ready for your chore?

- Ugh, I guess.

At least I've got my friends here to help me.

What do I have to do?

- I need help testing out these Ka-Flooples outside here.

I need to see if they ride as well on Earth as they do on Bortron 7.

- Aw, Dad, do we have to?

Worst chore ever.

[sighs] Sorry, guys.

You're probably sick of doing things like that.

[all cheering] - Yeah!

- Awesome!

- So much fun!

- I love this chore!

- Glad you kids are having fun.

- Face, you're back.

- And this time we're gonna "force" you to stay until you explain force.

- Yeah, what is force?

- Force is a push or pull.

Everything in the universe has a push or a pull--a force.

When you drop an egg and it lands on an object, the egg pushes down and the object pushes up.

So if the egg lands on something hard-- - Like Sunspot's head?

[metallic pinging] - "Eggs-actly!"

Then the force of the egg hitting the hard object will cause it to break.

- Oh, so the sheet doesn't push up so hard and the egg doesn't break.

- Right, Sydney, force moves the watering can across the rope when you pull on it.

That's a push or pull force.

- Oh, I get it.

- And force pushes the toy up on one side of the seesaw when you push down on the other side.

The right amount of force got the toys into the basket.

- That was me.

- So we used force all those different ways to do our chores?

- That's right, and you're using it again now.

- You're right, Face.

Watch us "use the force" to make the scooters go.

- I couldn't have said it better myself, Sydney.

Well, I guess my work here is done.

- One last question, Face.

How come you kept popping up today to talk to us about force?

- Okay, I admit it.

I'm avoiding my own chores.

I have to force myself to clean out my computer memory chip.

[groans] - Now that sounds like fun to me.

[electronic beeping, whirring] - [gasps] - Huh, I just realized something.

Everyone else's chores are always more fun than your own.

- Jet, it's like a great man-- okay, a great kid once said to me, "Whether a job is work or fun, it's all in the way you look at it."

- Wow, I love that.

Who said it?

- You did, Jet.

- [chuckles] - Whoo-hoo!

- Awesome!

- Hi, I'm astronomer Amy Mainzer, [together] Ready!

Jet!

Go!

[upbeat music] ♪ ♪ - Jet Propulsion!

- Jet Propulsion!

- Jet Propulsion!

[together] Ready!

Jet!

Go!