[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!

[upbeat music] - Beep, boop, beep.

Hello.

Yes.

I am the new Earth-dessert making Jet2-bake-o-master.

Beep, boop, beep.

- Jet, you silly goose.

I know it’s you saying that.

So did you make cake, or donuts?

- Not yet, but I’m just a step away.

- Hi, kids.

Jet, we just got a call with an urgent assignment from our boss on Bortron 7.

- We have to go to the center of Jupiter and write a travel report.

- Wait.

The center of Jupiter?

- Great!

The answer is yes.

We all want to go.

I’ll call Sydney.

- Oh--hold your hippos, Jet.

Our boss calls this a "rush job" so it’ll be a quick trip for us.

- You should stay here with your friends.

I talked to Dr. Rafferty next door.

She’s happy to look in on you while we’re away.

- [sighs] So we can’t go to the center of Jupiter?

[gasps] But maybe we could go to the center of another planet.

[swelling music] Huh, I wonder which one.

- How bout the planet we’re standing on?

- Yeah!

Good idea!

This planet.

- Ooh, what a wonderful challenge.

A chance for you kids to work together.

I hope your luck is good.

- Celery, you removed the words right from my mouth.

Well, time to go.

Bye!

all: Bye!

- All right, then.

Let’s go to the center of the Earth.

- Did someone say, "go to the center of the Earth?"

- Yep, that was me.

- I’ve always wanted to go there.

Just like my comic-book hero, Commander Cressida.

- Wait, isn’t it really hot at the center of the Earth?

- It may be.

But let’s go find out.

Plus, who knows what’s there?

Maybe mountains of gold.

- Ooh, or silver.

- Yeah, that’d be pretty cool.

Okay, explorers, let’s explore!

both: Yes!

- Well, I guess we could try.

- All right.

I have it right here.

We can do just like Commander Cressida in her classic, "The Big Dig to the Center of the Earth."

- Oh.

So Earthies have been to the Earth’s center.

- I’m pretty sure no one has ever dug to the center of the Earth.

- What do you mean, Sean?

Commander Cressida has.

It’s all right here in this comic book.

Hey, we can call her up for advice.

- Uh, Jet, remember, comic books are make-believe.

As much as I love Commander Cressida, I know she’s not real.

- Ah.

Got it.

Comics aren’t real.

Too bad.

- Today’s mission is to dig to the Earth’s center.

Suit up, squad!

- Suiting up.

[dramatic music] ♪ ♪ - Our projected course to the Earth’s center is directly down.

Activate our SuperShovels.

[powering up] ♪ ♪ We’ll dig and dig and dig some more into the Earth till we reach the core.

- Just think, we can be the first kids to go to the center of the Earth.

- You’re right, Mindy.

We will.

- Wait--we’re not Commander Cressida so it’s gonna take us a really long time.

Earth has, like, four big layers that we have to dig through.

- Really?

Four layers?

- Yeah, my mom told me.

The top is the crust.

Then, I think, the mantle.

Then one other before the center.

- Then we better get started.

all: Excelsior!

[spaceship whirring] [upbeat music] - Our boss must know that the gassy surface of Jupiter is cold.

but the deeper you go into the giant planet, the hotter it becomes.

- Right?

But he’s the boss, so if he says, "Go," then we have to go.

[alarm blares] - Bortron boss here as... [static] ...going to center... [static] Jupiter...is that right?

- Uhh, yes.

We are.

But you know that Jupiter is a gas planet and much warmer at the center than on the surface.

- Let me know... report--later, later.

- Not sure he heard us.

Oh, well.

Next stop: Jupiter.

[jet engine revs] - Ready?

Activate SuperShovels!

[all imitate powering up] Here we go, Earth explorers.

To the center of the Earth!

[dramatic music] ♪ ♪ We’re doing great, squad.

Keep digging!

all: Aye, aye, Commander!

- Hi, kids.

Ooh, new project.

- Duck!

- Whoa.

Ha.

- Sorry!

Oh, hi, Dr. Rafferty.

Guess what?

We’re digging to the center of the Earth.

- Uh, well, we’re trying to.

I mean, we’re only kids.

- "Only kids?"

Sean, kids are awesome, and especially you kids.

And what a cool, groundbreaking project you’re all doing.

[rimshot] [laughter] - Thanks.

- All right.

That’s enough of a break, squad.

To the center of the Earth!

all: Yeah!

[shovels scraping] - Okay, good luck with the dig.

I’ll check in with you soon.

[metal clanks] - [sighs] We’ve hit rock already.

That’s it, the whole planet is rock from here down.

- This wasn’t in the plan.

- So we come up with a new plan.

It’s not the end of the dig.

Let’s see what Commander Cressida says.

[dramatic whoosh] Digging to the Earth’s center is tough.

And one big reason is rock.

[dog barks] Right, Sirius.

The Earth’s crust is made of thick rock.

- Is that true?

There’s thick rock?

- Yes, the Earth’s crust is made of very thick rock.

20 miles in places.

- Oh, thank you.

Uh, back to your digging.

Commander Cressida really knows her science.

- All right, squad.

A digging update.

After we get through the mantle, we’ll encounter the center of the Earth.

It’s a bit warm there.

In fact, hot.

About 10,000 degrees.

[alarm beeps] - I was right.

Wow, that hot?

I mean, the hottest day during the summer is only around 100 degrees.

Maybe we should stop digging down?

- What?

- No way!

- We’re still digging.

See?

Look at Sunspot.

- You’re the best digging pet ever.

[fanfare] - But why dig?

It’s all just rock.

- Hey, it’s just one rock we hit, not 20 miles of rock.

Let’s dig it up.

[dirt crunching] [all strain] [all sigh] - Whoo-hoo!

Let’s keep digging.

- But Cindy, what happens when we get to the real thick rock?

- Hmm.

Let’s see what Commander Cressida does.

Squad, now that we’ve hit solid rock, we can cut through it in our ultra-heat digger-mobile!

Onward, into the Earth’s core!

[drill whirrs] - Hey, Sunspot, we need one of those ultra-heat digger-mobiles.

Could you run to an Earth store and get one?

Ah, right.

Comics aren’t real.

I just remembered to remember that again.

- [giggles] All right, squad.

Let’s reactivate our shovels and dig to our goal.

- Wait, what’s our goal?

Haven’t we learned that the center of the Earth is really, really hot?

- New goal: we’ll be the kids who dig the farthest into the Earth.

- Okay, I’d like to be in the group that digs down the farthest, but if it starts getting really hot, I’m out.

- Deal.

[wrist phone rings] - How’s your project going, Jet?

- We’re doing our best.

By the way, do we own an ultra-heat digger-mobile?

- No, we do not.

- [sighs] Too bad.

Okay, gotta dig more.

Bye!

- [startles] Hi, boss.

Now, I have bad news.

Since the core of Jupiter is tens of thousands of Earth degrees, as travel writers, we can’t really recommend it as a place to take a vacation.

- Wait, the center of Jupiter?

Why are you there?

I had asked you to go to an Earth shopping mall center and buy a juicer.

A gift for my wife on her birthday.

Juicer, not Jupiter.

[both laugh] - Oh, well, that’s a mix-up.

"Juicer," not Jupiter.

Okay.

We’re on it, boss.

Heh.

[clicks transmitter] What could a juicer be?

I mean--[chuckles] Earthies.

- Oh, I know, it’s such a strange-- "Juicer."

- I was--I was confused.

- What it is, I’ve no idea.

- Look at our hole.

Have any kids or pets ever dug down this far?

- [laughs] Not that I know of.

Wow, you’ve dug so far down.

Let’s see.

[gasps] 3 feet.

That is awesome.

- Whoo-hoo!

[cheers] 3 feet, whoo-hoo!

- Hurray!

- [chuckles] Did you notice what digging down let you see?

Here are a couple of layers of the Earth’s crust.

- What?

The Earth has layers?

- Jet, remember I told you earlier-- Earth’s four different layers.

- Right.

Layers.

Uh, what are layers again?

- Take a look.

The Earth has layers just like this dirt here.

The Earth’s layers are the crust, a hard top, the softer, crunchier mantle, the liquidy outer core, and the very hot inner core.

- Huh, all this talk about layers is making me hungry.

[fanfare] Ta-da!

An Earth layer cake.

Thanks for your help, Dr. Rafferty.

- Of course.

I’m very impressed that you built your own robot oven.

- [laughs] Cake, eat, good.

[horn honks] - Oh, did we smell a freshly-baked Earth-shaped cake?

- You sure did.

Wait.

First, we have to see the layers.

Just like the Earth’s.

[playful music] Crust.

- Next, the mantle.

- Then, the outer core.

- And last, the inner core.

That’s the center of the Earth.

Careful, it’s hot and gooey, like the real center of the Earth.

- Now comes an important experiment.

The scientific name is "eating the cake!"

[cheers] - Whoo-hoo, yeah!

all: Mmm, mmm... - Ooh, it is gooey at the center.

I like it.

- Me too.

- So how was the center of Jupiter?

- Eh, we never went.

Mix-up with our boss.

Instead, we went to an Earthie shopping mall to buy a--a "juicer."

- Oh, yes.

We learned that Earthies like to smush Earth fruit into Earth juice.

[both laugh] - That’s so weird.

- Totally crazy thing.

- [laughs] I’m proud of you kids.

You did a great job today.

You set a goal and went for it.

My advice: keep going.

Like my favorite comic book hero, Commander Cressida, always says... - Don’t let anything stand in the way of your goals.

Greetings from the center of the Earth!

[mellow music] - Oh.

Uh, Mindy.

- [yawns] - Why are you opening your mouth over and over like Sunspot does when he’s tired?

[both yawn] - It’s called "yawning," Jet.

I’m tired.

I could hardly sleep last night.

A really strong, sweet smell kept me up all night.

- I never heard of a night smell keeping anyone awake.

- Me neither.

But it did.

And I need sleep for my flugelhorn recital tomorrow.

I can’t flugel without sleep.

[yawns] [fanfare] - [laughs] Flugelhorn.

What a great Earth word.

So what exactly is flugeling?

- [yawns] [fanfare] - Oh.

- Mindy, maybe the smell last night was from flowers in your room?

- Or candy?

- I don’t have flowers in my room or candy.

My mom won’t let me.

- Well, it looks like we have a detective case to solve.

Mindy has to get her sleep so she can play tomorrow.

And we can help her by finding out what the sweet smell is.

I’m ready to investigate.

- Thanks, Sydney.

I want to help.

- Me too.

I love a good mystery.

- Same here.

[fanfare] - Excellent.

Here’s my plan.

First, we go outside of Mindy’s room to check if anything smells sweet.

Next, we ask the neighbors if they smelled anything sweet last night.

Then, well, that’s all I have so far.

- Yes, a plan!

Or, most of one.

[bombastic music] - [moans] - Afternoon.

Mindy Melendez told us about the mystery smell.

Beginning investigation.

Sweet smell, we will find you.

- Uh, you try smelling in there yet?

- [squeals] - Uh, he says it smells disgusting in that can, not sweet at all.

- Hmm, there must be a more scientific way to figure this out.

- But maybe this way, Mindy will smell what she smelled last night.

- Not yet.

- Hey, check out these flowers.

They’re not opened up.

[all sniff] - But they kind of smell sweet up close.

[sniffing] These aren’t like last night’s.

That smell was much stronger.

It took over my whole room.

- [sniffing] [snorts] [chuckles] Okay, let’s see.

We smelled all around this yard.

Huh, I guess the smell isn’t from a plant or tree.

’Cause no Earth plants make a smell at night, right?

They all just close up.

- I never thought about that.

I’m usually sleeping at night.

- Okay, detectives, let’s go talk to someone who’s up at night and may have smelled something.

Come on, Mindy, we need your nose.

- [boops] - [giggles] [seedy music] - Now, Mr.

Carrot Propulsion, if that is your real name, did you smell anything sweet last night?

- Me?

Smell anything?

Sweet?

Hmm.

Oh, I absolutely did.

You see, I’m just now inventing a sweet sauce.

It’s still in its experimental stage.

- A-ha.

So what did this sauce smell like?

- Wanna smell?

It’s peppermint, orange, and garlic.

The perfect sauce for cereal.

- [sniffs] Ew.

- Or a meat product.

- So what do you think?

- Mm, needs more garlic.

Maybe licorice?

- This sauce is a way different kind of sweet smell than last night.

- Are you sure?

- Oh, I’m sure.

I’m sure-sure.

- Hm, if you drop a dime on any new sweet smell, give me a ring.

- Will do.

Oh!

I just remembered.

I forget an ingredient for the sauce.

[explosion] Huh--yeah--heh-heh.

Eh, still experimenting.

- We’ll be in touch, Mr.

Carrot.

Don’t leave town.

- [yawns] I didn’t sleep at all last night.

You’re wondering why, Cody?

’Cause a very bright light was shining right in my eyes.

- [yawns] - Good point, Cody.

I will investigate every neighborhood light source.

Ready?

[all sniffing] - Mindy, if the wind blew this laundry smell through your window and filled up your room, then that’s what you smelled.

- [sniffs] [giggles] Sorry, it’s not last night’s smell.

- You sure?

- Oh, I’m sure.

I’m sure-sure.

- We sniffed in all of our yards, flowers, garbage cans, asked Mindy a million questions, talked to Carrot, Jet, Sydney.

- [sniffs] Foot cream!

- [squeaks] - Mr. Sunspot Propulsion... - If that is your real name.

- Tell us about this foot cream.

- [squeaking] - Hm, he says he did use foot cream last night.

- [squeaking] - You can smell it if you’d like, but it’s stinky.

- [squeaks] [all sniff] - Hm.

[all groan] - Sunspot says he put the stinky cream on his feet last night.

And he walked the neighborhood.

- I know what I smelled, and that wasn’t what I smelled.

- You sure?

- Oh, I’m sure.

I’m sure-sure.

- Sunspot, you’re cleared, for now.

We’ll be in touch.

Don’t leave town.

- [squeaks] [fanfare] - Sometimes, detectives have to go back to where the case started and look at everything again.

[sniffs] You have to use your eyes, ears, and nose.

- Cody, sometimes detectives have to go back to where the case started.

What is that sweet smell?

- [sniffing] - [squeaks] [both sniffing] - What’s going on here?

- We’re playing detectives.

- Wait, wait.

I’m a detective, remember?

I’m in the middle of a serious case.

And I can’t have you in my way while you all play detective.

- [clears throat] We’re not "playing" detective.

We are detectives.

- We’re investigating what gave off a really sweet smell.

- That kept me up all last night.

And I need sleep so I’m rested for my flugelhorn recital.

- I’m sorry.

I have my own-- [yawns] important investigation to do.

- Cool.

What’s your investigation?

- [snorts] Everyone knows a real detective never tells what his case is.

Good day to you, sir.

- [whines] - Sorry, Cody.

- Hmm.

I wonder why Mitchell was yawning too.

- Maybe the smell kept him awake.

Maybe he’s investigating what we are.

- "Playing detective," ha!

We’ll show Mitchell when we solve the case.

Right now, we have to sneak back into his yard to check out that new smell.

It could be the one.

- Sneak in so Mitchell can’t see us?

How?

Oh, wait.

I know how!

- [groans] [fanfare] - Step right up.

See the skills of the super amazing Sunspot.

- This is super amazing.

How could a normal pet do that?

Oh, wait, this is distracting me from my case.

- Heh, that’s exactly why Sunspot is juggling and hooping: to distract you from your case.

- [whistles] - [barks] - What?

[sighs] - [chuckling] - The distract-Mitchell plan is working.

You can go investigate in his yard.

[seedy music] - [sniffing] It does smell the closest to last night’s smell.

But what is it?

[can rattles] - [gasps] - [yawns] - [sniffs] I know that smell.

It’s aftershave stuff.

But stinkier than my dad’s.

- Heh, Earth-dad perfume.

[laughs] What a planet.

- Listen, you guys, I have real detective work to do.

And no time for your pretend smell case.

[yawns] - [yawns] Mitchell, are you yawning because the smell kept you up too?

- What?

No.

My case is different, completely.

And I’m about to solve it.

If you would all, please, exit my yard.

- [sighs] - Well, we checked everywhere.

I guess the mystery smell will just be a mystery.

I could play the flugelhorn as an always sleepy person.

Let me try.

[plays flugelhorn] ♪ ♪ - Oh, ooh, uh.

Yeah.

I love it.

It swings, baby.

Ha--listen to the notes she’s not playing.

- See, I need my sleep.

- We’re not giving up, Mindy.

The case is still open.

- Thanks, you guys.

I guess I’ll try to sleep.

[yawns] Wow, that moon is so bright.

- Do you smell a really strong smell?

Wait, Mindy, did you just say "the Moon?"

- I smell it.

I smell the smell!

- It was the Moon.

- Wait, I’m confused.

The Moon smells?

- No, silly, follow me.

- A break in the mystery smell case?

- They’re opening.

all: Wow.

- Smell ’em.

That is the smell.

- Amazing.

A flower that opens at night and gives off a sweet smell.

- I think it was the Moon that kept me up all last night.

But how can I prove it?

Wait, I know.

- Is he gonna lie in his bed and see if the moonlight hits his eyes?

- [panting] I laid in my bed, and the moonlight hit my eyes.

- Just like I said.

Hey, I’m a pretty good detective.

- So it was the Moon that kept me up.

Case closed.

Now, that’s how a real detective works.

- Um, we also have a case closed.

Our detective work worked.

- [sighs] The solar system is so wonderful.

The Moon has its own light... - That makes flowers bloom.

- Wait, wait, it’s not moonlight.

It’s sunlight reflected off the moon.

And it says here that the flowers open when a little night moth brings them pollen, a kind of dust that plants need.

Wow, the Moon and moths are the answer to both mysteries.

Good work, all you detectives.

- Yeah, you did solve your case.

But I’m afraid that the moonlight will still shine in my eyes and keep me awake.

If only... - [squeaks] - Um, thanks.

Sunspot, are you really a pet at all?

- [squeaking] - Now, I love the sweet moonflower smell, but I hope I can sleep tonight.

- You have to try, Mindy.

Tomorrow’s your big recital.

So smell mystery turned into a moon and moth mystery.

That’s detective work: one mystery leads to another.

And the thing you’re looking for ends up being a whole new thing.

But in the end, Mindy got her shut-eye so she could play the flugelhorn.

And it... [flugelhorn wails] ...really paid off.

- The two biggest things in the sky ar - ♪ Commander Cressida ♪ ♪ She is the best of the ♪ ♪ Galactic astronauts ♪ ♪ There’s nothing she cannot ♪ ♪ Commander Cressida ♪ ♪ She’s on the moons of Mars ♪ ♪ Her boots are the ground ♪ ♪ Her head is in the stars!

♪ - ♪ Fearless and curious ♪ ♪ With her space-dog Sirius ♪ ♪ Always in the chase ♪ ♪ They’ll surely win the race ♪ ♪ ’Cause a kid’s place ♪ ♪ Is exploring space!

♪