Ready Jet Go!



Ready Jet Go! is a very odd preschool (but not really) show from the mind of Craig Bartlett, who also brought us Hey Arnold! and Dinosaur Train. It airs on most PBS affiliates in the United States.

It involves a kid named Jet Propulsion and his family, who look like humans are are really aliens, who arrive on Earth to study it and write travel reports. Along the way, Jet befriends three neighborhood kids: Sean Rafferty (a space nerd), Sydney Skelley (a sci-fi fan and Greek mythology buff), and Mindy Melendez (a rather one-note little girl).

Also part of the cul-de-sac are Mitchell Peterson, an amateur detective who is hellbent on exposing Jet's alien identity, and Lillian, an air headed yet sweet girl who is a friend of Mindy.

Since this show airs on PBS, the show aims to teach the youngsters about science, in particular astronomy.

The show premiered on February 15, 2016 and was a huge hit for the public broadcaster. It was renewed for a second season, which premiered on April 2, 2018. Unfortunately, the show got cancelled in October 2019, with the final special airing on June 17, 2019.

This also goes for the four main DSA scientists: blonde (Dr. Bergs), brunette (Mr. Peterson and Dr. Skelley), and redhead (Dr. Rafferty).
 * Abhorrent Admirer: Mindy is this to Mitchell, who she seems to have a crush but he doesn't like her back because she always sneaks up on him. However in later episodes he seems to reciprocate the feeling.
 * Aborted Arc: One potential story arc that got abandoned was a baby sibling arc for Mindy. In "So Many Moons", the root of the episode's conflict is that Mindy is worried about her parents having a new baby, but that plot line unfortunately was forgotten about.
 * Absentee Actor: Not all of the main characters appear in every episode. Jet and Sunspot are the only characters to appear in every episode.
 * Accidental Pervert: In "Satellite Selfie", Sunspot ends up being this because he accidentally took a picture of Mr. Peterson's butt.
 * The Ace:
 * Jet can be considered this. He has many talents, including singing and dancing, and he's the leader of his gang.
 * Sunspot is also good at everything.
 * Ace Pilot: Celery is an amazing saucer pilot. Since saucers are treated like cars, Carrot offhandedly mentions that Celery was voted Best Driver in the Bortron System for three years in a row.
 * Acquired Situational Narcissism: In "Not A Sound", Sean acts rather smug that he knows that there's no sound in space, yet Jet and Sydney don't.
 * Acting for Two: Multiple In-Universe examples:
 * In "Lone Star", Sydney plays a random citizen and Boxwood Territory's science teacher.
 * In "Holidays in Boxwood Terrace", Mindy plays the Head Elf and the Head Scientist in the pageant.
 * In "A Star is Born", Jet plays both hydrogen and helium in the kids' movie about the formation of a star.
 * Action Girl:
 * Commander Cressida is an in-universe comic book character who kicks serious butt.
 * Sydney, who idolizes Commander Cressida, can slip into this territory, especially when she co-pilots the saucer.
 * Action Mom: Celery. Besides being an Ace Pilot, she has super strength as revealed in "A Hammer and a Feather", and is generally the most action-y of the Propulsion family.
 * Acrofatic: Despite Sean's weight, he was able to do a perfect somersault over Jet's aunt, Eggplant in "Back to Bortron 7".
 * Adaptation Distillation: The books based on some of the show's episodes (like "Night of a Bazillion Stars" and "From Pluto With Love") remove some scenes and lines to make them shorter.
 * A Day In The Limelight:
 * "Commander Cressida Begins" mostly revolves around Sydney and Mindy. Jet and Sean do appear, but they have non-speaking cameos.
 * "Fact Or Fiction?" gives Lillian the most focus thus far.
 * Sunspot is the focus of "Sunspot's Sunspot".
 * Ad Break Double Take: A variant occurs in TV broadcasts of the two-parter, "Mindy Turns Five". (PBS doesn't have commercials, so live-action segments with Astronomer Amy Mainzer are used to fill the timeslot on this show) At the end of Part One, Mindy says "This is one small step for Mindy, and one giant leap for Stuffy Bear!" and she steps on the camera. At the beginning of Part Two, Mindy says it again and her stepping on the camera is accompanied with puff effects and the other kids cheering.
 * Added Alliterative Appeal: : In "Earth Camping", Carrot and Jet go through their packing list, which consists of pickle juice, a ping pong paddle, and a pocket protector. It turns out, that their "packing list" was the "P" section of the dictionary!
 * Adorably Precocious Child: All the kids count as this, especially Mitchell, who is about Mindy's age and can make an exact copy of Saturn V.
 * Adorkable:
 * The series star, Jet. With his Large Ham tendencies and naivety about "Earthie" culture, it's impossible not to love him.
 * Jet's dad also qualifies. He is a Bumbling Dad, but he is lovable nonetheless, especially since he cooks many odd Bortronian foods throughout the series.
 * Sean. He is an intelligent, cute, yet easily nervous Broken Bird with Youthful Freckles.
 * Even Mitchell can be this when he's not being a Jerkass, especially in the episode "Solar-System Bake Off!", where he acts socially awkward around Jet and his friends when he is trying to gather information about their entry, especially Mindy.
 * Dr. Rafferty can be this as times due to her awkwardness. For example, her "Standing in the Rain" ditty in "My Fair Jet".
 * In a way, Dr. Skelley is this trope due to still being an avid fan of the Commander Cressida franchise.
 * Adult Fear:
 * In "Back to Bortron 7", Eggplant informs Carrot and Celery that once they finish their presentation, they can never go back to Earth. Keep in mind that the Propulsions brought Sean and Sydney to Bortron 7 while their parents were out of town. Imagine your children being stranded on a planet thousands of lightyears away from Earth, taken by a crazy alien family, never to return ever. Luckily, Carrot and Celery's boss allows them to stay on Earth, so they get to return to Earth with their parents none the wiser.
 * In "My Fair Jet", the DSA weather balloon gets away in some nasty weather. Sean tries to grab it, but it ends up carrying it with him. You can tell by the expression on Dr. Rafferty's face that she is traumatized by her son flying away. Even Sydney was distraught. She pretty much begged Jet to forget his "Earthie" training just so he can save Sean.
 * Aerith and Bob: We have Mindy, Sean, Sydney, and then there's Jet. But to be fair, his parents thought Jet was an earth name.
 * Affectionate Gesture to the Head:
 * Dr. Rafferty gives one to Sean in "Face on the Fritz".
 * Dr. Bergs gives one to Mindy in "Solar System Bake Off".
 * Jet gives one to Mindy in "Moon Face".
 * Affectionate Nickname:
 * As of the episode "Constellation Prize", Sean refers to his mother as "Dr. Mom"
 * In season 2, Jet coins an adorable nickname for Sean -- Sean-zo.
 * Agent Mulder:
 * Mindy and Lillian, but especially Mindy. They believe that witches, ghosts, and the like are real as shown in "That's One Gigantic Pumpkin, Jet Propulsion!".
 * Taken Up to Eleven in "Fact Or Fiction?", where they both believe that clouds are made out of cotton candy, until they are proven wrong. Jet is also this.
 * Agent Scully:
 * Mitchell, on the other hand, doubts that Halloween is magical, until he is proven wrong at the end of "That's One Gigantic Pumpkin, Jet Propulsion!".
 * In "Fact Or Fiction?", Sean and Sydney don't believe that clouds are made of cotton candy. Obviously they're right, but Jet, Lillian, and Mindy don't believe them. Luckily, Sean and Sydney are proven right by the DSA scientists.
 * Agony of the Feet: In "Astronaut Ellen Ochoa", Bergs hurts his foot.
 * Alien Among Us: The whole premise of the show is that the Propulsions are aliens from the planet Bortron 7 who are living on Earth to study its customs, but must keep their alien identity a secret.
 * Alien Animals: Sunspot is kind of a mix of a rabbit, kangaroo, and raccoon.
 * Alien Arts Are Appreciated: Carrot grows to love Earthie cooking, even watching an Earthie cooking show in "What's a Satellite?".
 * Alien Lunch: Carrot tends to make many odd Bortronian dishes such as "deep-fried lollipops"
 * All CGI Cartoon: The show is animated in CGI.
 * Alliterative Name: Mindy Melendez and Sydney Skelley.
 * All Animals Are Dogs: Lampshaded within the show. Sunspot sometimes behaves like a dog, and people often confuse him for one.
 * All Deserts Have Cacti: In "Every Day Is Earth Day", Sean points out that deserts have cacti in them.
 * All Love Is Unrequited: Mindy's crush on Mitchell is unrequited. Though this trope is later averted in "Detective Mindy".
 * All of the Other Reindeer: In "Visit to Mom's Office", when Jet is telling Dr. Rafferty, that he is an alien, she says that she felt like an alien when she was a kid, which implies that she was teased as a kid.
 * All Work vs. All Play: Whenever the kids need to solve a problem, Sean wants to use the Scientific Method and work to get the problem solved, while Jet wants to play around and deliberately make mistakes in order to solve the problem.
 * Aliens Speaking English: The Bortronians can speak English perfectly.
 * The Aloner: In "Sean's Year in Space", Sean tries to live in the treehouse for a full year all by himself, but eventually comes down for dinner.
 * Almost Kiss: In the TV movie "Back to Bortron 7", during the Just Add Water number, Jet and Sydney are almost about to either hold hands or kiss, but Celery obscures the shot.
 * Amazingly Embarrassing Parent: In "Project Pluto", Dr. Rafferty unintentionally embarrasses Sean by mentioning that when he was four, he insisted on carrying a purple hippo plush everywhere.
 * Ambiguously Bi: Jet's sexuality has yet to be confirmed, but Jet always shows signs of being attracted to both Sean (a male) and Sydney (a female).
 * Ambiguous Disorder: Again, this is what Dr. Rafferty thinks when Jet reveals that he is an alien from Bortron 7, as "being from another planet/being an alien" is a common metaphorical description of what autism feels like. Sean could possibly have a high anxiety disorder due to being afraid of going to space and paranoid whenever someone touches his birthday telescope.
 * Ambiguous Situation:
 * In "You Can Call Me Albedo", it is unknown why Mitchell made Cody wear the black sweater in the first place.
 * The identity of Mindy's mother. Apparently, her mother as seen in "Jet Can't Sleep" is Dr. Rafferty and Dr. Bergs' boss from "My Fair Jet". However, when Mindy's mother is calling for her offscreen, she is voiced by Meg Roe. The boss was voiced by Ashleigh Ball. It is unknown if they are the same person or the animators got lazy and decided to use an already existing character model for Mindy's mom.
 * In "One Small Step", the kids land their saucer in Little Dipper Lake, where Mitchell is rowing a boat. When the kids are rescued by Mitchell, Jet explains that they built a super saucer and went to the moon. Later, Mitchell is invited to the kids' slumber party, where everyone, including Mitchell, sings about how hard it is to get back to Earth from space. It's really made unclear if Mitchell knows that the Propulsions are aliens or not.
 * American Gothic Couple: In the episode "The Mindysphere", Sunspot shows a picture on his tablet of Carrot and Celery posing as the American Gothic couple, with Carrot holding a rake instead of a pitchfork.
 * Amusing Alien: The Propulsions may as well be the prime example for this trope.
 * An Aesop: The show has Aesops in a few episodes, but they're unique in that they're woven subtly into the narrative of the episode instead of being shoved down your throat. Examples:
 * The moral of "Sounds Abound" is "Performing experiments is better when you're doing them with your friends".
 * An overall theme of the show is "Failure is a stepping stone to success".
 * "Kid-Kart Derby" has two: "Winning isn't everything" is the main one and "Don't cheat" is the minor one.
 * The show had a Be Yourself Aesop in the episode "My Fair Jet" that was surprisingly Played for Drama.
 * "Jet 2" - "It's not good to stay jealous".
 * "Space Junk" - "Knowing there's a problem should make you want to help solve it".
 * "Jet's Time Machine" had a very important one - "You can't change the past, you can only learn from it".
 * "Holidays in Boxwood Terrace" - "You should welcome other people into your friendship group".
 * "Racing on Sunshine" - "Don't be overconfident".
 * "Mindy's Bedtime" has Mindy want to keep the sun from going down so she can play more. Then, she learns about Sydney's pen pal Ahana, who lives in India. When it's day in India, it's night in Boxwood Terrace, and vice versa. When Celery takes the kids to a beach somewhere in the southern hemisphere, Mindy realizes that if she makes the day last a long time, Ahana won't get to wake up, resulting in a very subtle lesson on empathy.
 * "Ain't No Mars Mountain High Enough" has a moral about teamwork.
 * "Astronaut Ellen Ochoa" has the moral that the best solutions can come from the most unlikely places.
 * "Who Messed Up The Treehouse?" - "Problems aren't going away unless you help solve them. We should all take care of the place we live."
 * "Fact Or Fiction?" - "If something is too good to be true, it probably is. Do your own research to find out if something is true or not".
 * "Sean Has A Cold" teaches us that you can have a good time, even when things don't go your way.
 * Anachronism Stew: Lampshaded during the planetarium show, which includes Pluto as a planet, after it had been demoted, something Sydney points out.
 * And Knowing Is Half the Battle: Sometimes, the Amy Mainzer segments reiterate what was taught in the episode.
 * Animal Motif: Mindy seems to have a bear motif going on. She wears a bear hat, and she wears a different bear hat when she goes to sleep. She has a teddy bear named Stuffy Bear, who she dresses up as for Halloween. And her space helmet has bear ears on it.
 * Animation Bump: The animation in more recent episodes of the show is much better compared to older ones. The animation is much more high quality and puts detail into the character models.
 * Animesque: The characters' huge, shiny eyes and spiky hair on some of them could bring anime to mind. Also, the comic-book style transitions and montages resemble anime just a little bit.
 * Anti-Hero: Mitchell appears to be heading in this direction. Mitchell can be sarcastic, condescending, and harsh towards the group, but he has a few Pet the Dog moments that show that he can be nice. The Christmas Episode pretty much reveals that he's a lonely kid who just wants to have friends.
 * Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?: Happens in a few episodes between Jet and one other person.
 * Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking:
 * In "Earth Camping", Mr. Peterson, Jet, Mitchell, and Carrot get lost in the middle of the woods on their camping trip. Carrot reveals that he has been marking their trail with Mitchell's jellybeans, but then a nearby squirrel comes and eats up the jellybeans that Carrot had laid.
 * Mitchell: Hey, that squirrel took all my jellybeans!
 * Jet: This is bad. He's eating our trail markers back to camp!
 * Carrot: Plus, his teeth are gonna be just awful if he doesn't brush.
 * In "Eye in the Sky", after it is discovered that it will indeed rain on the night of the Space Scouts' sleepout.
 * Mitchell: Bad news for Sean's sleepout, but good news for plants and flowers, and umbrella salespeople!
 * Art Shift:
 * In several parts of "Diggin' Earth", Sydney imagines Commander Cressida and her crew digging to the center of the Earth, in a 2D style.
 * Several times in the show, transitions and montages are drawn in a comic book art style, such as in "Sean Has a Cold".
 * Art Style Dissonance: The show has a somewhat simplistic but stylized art-style that appeals to young children, but the show itself is full of radar-dodging antics and quite a bit of Nightmare Fuel. Some mature themes are also implied such as PTSD, anxiety, racism, addiction, toxic parent-child relationships, and possibly more. Then again, Tropes Are Tools.
 * Ascended Extra:
 * Dr. Skelley, Sydney's mom. She was only ever mentioned by Sydney during some episodes of season 1, and appears in the very last episode of said season, but season 2 gives her a lot more screentime and focus.
 * Lillian only appeared in one episode of season 1, and another two as cameos. Season 2 bumps her from minor character status to recurring character status (most likely in part due to her being a popular character. Her appearances even rival those of Mitchell and Dr. Rafferty in terms of recurring characters.
 * Asian Airhead: It seems the writers are attempting to make Lillian this, but it's downplayed for the most part. In "The Grandest Canyon" she doesn't know what "perspective" means, and in "Mindy Turns Five", she outright tells Mindy what she got her for her birthday instead of keeping it a surprise like she said she would.
 * Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever:
 * In "The Plant From Bortron 7", Jet's Bortronian plant becomes enormous after it grows under the light of the Sun. It also becomes a monstrous Godzilla-like creature.
 * At the end of "Jet Shrinks the Kids", Mindy uses the shrink ray in reverse to become a giant, and startles Mitchell in the process.
 * Author Avatar: Jet is one to the series creator Craig Bartlett:
 * Craig Bartlett: “Arnold was how I felt being a kid and Buddy the T-Rex is really optimistic and doesn’t see how anything can’t work out and a friend to all. And Jet is even more so because Jet won’t shut up, you can’t get him down, he is always optimistic and he’s like the music man always bursting into song. When I was a kid, I thought wouldn’t it be fun if everything was a musical and people were always bursting into song. So I feel like he is the best iteration of my kind of personality that we’ve come up with yet.”
 * Awesome McCoolname: The Propulsions obviously have these names.
 * Badass Adorable: The kids, while definitely adorable, can be this occasionally. Especially in the one-hour special "Back to Bortron 7".
 * Badass Crew: Jet, Sean, Sydney, Mindy, Sunspot, and Face 9000 (with some assistance from Zerk and Jet 2) all prove to be this in "Back to Bortron 7", where they combine their efforts to save Carrot and Celery's presentation. Highlights include Zerk chauffeuring them to the headquarters in record time, Jet, Sean, and Sydney doing acrobatic stunts to get past Eggplant, Sunspot and Face 9000 saving the PowerCube, and Mindy and Jet 2 unintentionally causing an eclipse which distracts the townspeople from noticing that the Propulsion house is gone.
 * Bad Bad Acting: During the rehearsal of the pageant in "Holidays in Boxwood Terrace", Mindy performs her lines extremely woodenly.
 * Bait and Switch:
 * The episode "Mindy in Space" is about the kids pretending to take Mindy to space, complete with Mindy singing the take-off song.
 * In "Treasure Map", when Mitchell encounters the treasure chest, he is confused by its contents...and then declares that he loves it and does a dorky Happy Dance.
 * In "Astronaut Ellen Ochoa", the scientists hear footsteps approaching the door, and think it's Ellen. It turns out to just be the kids.
 * In "Mars Rock for Mom", when Sean shows his mom the rock he found, Dr. Rafferty comments that she knows where it came from. At first, Sean is worried that she knows that it came from Mars, but Dr. Rafferty says that she knows that it came from Sean.
 * Balloonacy: In "Every Day Is Earth Day", Sunspot is able to puff up like a balloon, and Jet flies away while holding on to him.
 * Banana Peel: Sunspot slips on a banana peel in "Mars Rock For Mom".
 * Batman Can Breathe in Space: Sean, Sydney, and Mindy can breathe in space, even without spacesuits with oxygen tanks.
 * Beach Bury: A photo on Sunspot's tablet from "Endless Summer" shows Jet being buried in the sand, and in the comic-book montage in "The Tide is High", Mindy is shown with a sand mermaid tail.
 * Beach Episode: "The Tide is High", where the kids try to figure out why the ocean looks different from when they last went there. Thankfully, there is no fanservice involved.
 * Bearer of Bad News:
 * In "Mindy's Meteorite Stand", Dr. Rafferty breaks the unfortunate news to Mindy that that her rock isn't really a meteorite, since it has quartz in it.
 * In "Project Pluto", Jet loses to Sean and Sydney in a game of "not it" and has to tell Mindy that Pluto is no longer a planet. However, he gets off easy because when he tries to tell her, she tells Jet that she already knew.
 * In "Back to Bortron 7", Eggplant tells Carrot and Celery that after they do their presentation, they're done with Earth. They respond appropriately.
 * Becoming the Mask: Implied. As shown in "Holidays in Boxwood Terrace", Mitchell fakes his jerk attitude to hide his loneliness and social insecurity. Even after he befriends the other kids in this episode, he still acts like a jerkass in some episodes of season 2, although he's mellowed out a lot more. Since he is shown acting rude towards the other kids in many episodes of season 1, it is implied that he's been hiding behind his jerk mask for so long, that it's become a part of his personality, and its something that he can't shake off, at least for the time being.
 * Benevolent Boss: As revealed in "Back to Bortron 7", Carrot and Celery's boss is one of the nicest aliens in the Bortron system. Also, Dr. Rafferty's boss in "My Fair Jet".
 * Berserk Button:
 * Sydney will get pissed if you make her miss one episode of Commander Cressida.
 * Sean will murder you if you get a fingerprint on his birthday telescope.
 * Mitchell hates it when people sneak up on him.
 * Be Yourself: Played for Drama in the episode "My Fair Jet". Jet wants to go to the DSA Open House with Sean and Sydney, but Sean and Sydney will only let him go if he behaves like a regular Earth kid. He can't say he's from Bortron 7, he can't use his "tool-armed backpack thingy" (which doubles as a jetpack), and he can't sing. However, at the Open House, the DSA weather balloon flies away in some bad weather, carrying Sean along with it. So, Sydney convinces Jet to be himself, so he can save Sean. He ends up rescuing Sean with his jetpack, and sings a song about how he is Bortronian. Pretty much, if Jet wasn't himself, Sean probably would've been killed.
 * Big Ball of Violence: In "Uncle Zucchini Babysits", Jet, Sean, Sydney, Mindy, Uncle Zucchini, and Moonbeam form one of these while trying to grab Sunspot so they can give him a bath.
 * Big Beautiful Woman: Eggplant, Jet's aunt.
 * Big Brother Bully: More like Little Brother Bully. In "A Kid's Guide to Mars", Face's younger brother, Face 9001, is mean to him, argues with him, and always try to show off, to the point of the original Face calling "MOOOOMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!" at least two times.
 * Big Damn Heroes:
 * In "Back to Bortron 7", just as Celery and Carrot are about to fail their presentation, Jet, Sydney, Zerk, Sean, and Sunspot save the day by putting on a musical number about how Earth is full of water, which convinces Carrot and Celery's boss to let them stay on Earth for another season. Actually, Zerk didn't even perform in the musical number, but that didn't stop him from bragging about how it was supposedly his idea.
 * In "One Small Step", Sydney and Jet 2 get their moment when they fix the super saucer together, allowing the gang to head back home. Mitchell also gets his moment when he saves the kids from drowning in the lake.
 * Big Eater:
 * Jet is this. It seems that every few episodes, he develops a new food interest, whether it be pie or sushi. He even listed eating as one of his favorite things in "Treehouse Observatory". Despite this, he is still very skinny.
 * Sean is this to a smaller extent. In "Sean's Year in Space", he tries to stay in the treehouse for a year but comes down when he smells pot roast. Also, it is revealed in "Whole Lotta Shakin'" that he stress-eats, and in "Project Pluto", he said that the Propulsions usually have snacks when the kids go to ask Carrot a question about Pluto, which earned him a funny look from Sydney.
 * Sunspot can also be this too. Sunspot eats all of Sean's peanut butter sandwiches in one episode, and scarfed down an entire pizza pie in another. He even ate an entire sub sandwich in "Mindy in Space".
 * The Big Guy: Jet is the tallest of all the children.
 * Big No: Zerk screams "NOOOOOOOOO!" at the end of "Whole Lotta Shakin'" after Jet throws his smartwatch away, which means Zerk can no longer bother Jet.
 * The Big Race:
 * In "Kid-Kart Derby", Jet races against Mitchell in the annual Boxwood Terrace Kids' Soapbox Derby.
 * The sequel episode "Racing on Sunshine" is essentially the same plot, but Sydney, Sean, and Mindy are involved, and in this episode, the kids have to design solar-powered karts.
 * The episode "Space Race" has Celery racing against her brother Zucchini.
 * The sequel episode "Asteroid Belt Space Race" has Celery and the kids racing against both Zucchini and Eggplant & Zerk.
 * Big Yes: In "Potatoes on Mars", when Jet suggests that they go to Mars, Sydney and Mindy shout "YES!"
 * Binocular Shot: This happens a lot, usually when Mitchell is spying on the gang.
 * Black Bead Eyes: Sunspot and Moonbeam both have these eyes.
 * Black Best Friend: Sydney.
 * Blah Blah Blah: In "Pet Sounds", Sydney says that all Cody hears is "Blah blah blah, food, blah blah blah."
 * Bland-Name Product: Jet mentions wanting to play Bortropoly when they get home in one episode.
 * Blonde, Brunette, Redhead:
 * Sean (Whose hair can sometimes appear blonde), Sydney, and Jet.
 * Bowdlerization: In "Just the Right Distance From the Sun", Sydney tells the story of Icarus to Sean, but mostly leaves out the part about his death.
 * Book Ends: The season 1 premiere, "Tour of the Solar System", starts off in Jet's backyard. The season 1 finale, "Commander Mom", ends in Jet's backyard.
 * Brain Freeze: Sunspot gets one in the beginning of "Mindy's Ice Rink".
 * Brainy Brunette:
 * Sean and his mom are both know a lot about science, and they both have brown hair. Although Dr. Rafferty's hair is a bit reddish.
 * Mitchell counts too.
 * And Mr. Peterson, who also happens to be a DSA scientist.
 * Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Happens in "Commander Cressida Begins".
 * Mindy: I guess, a planet. No, a moon. No, a planet with a moon?
 * Breaking the Fourth Wall:
 * In "Mindy's Weather Report", Mindy is watching TV and comes across a channel which is showing Dinosaur Train, one of Craig Bartlett's shows.
 * There's an extremely meta line in "Mindy and Carrot Bake": When Mindy and Carrot are stuck in space, they try to call Face 9000 for help, but they find out he's on vacation, which explains his overall absence from the show as of late season 1 and early season 2.
 * In "Mini-Golf at the DSA", Sean breaks the fourth wall when he says "Hey, that's my line!" in response to Mr. Peterson using his catchphrase.
 * In "Every Day Is Earth Day", after it is mentioned that Earth is the only planet with life, Jet looks at the audience and says "That we know of!" and then winks, since he's an alien from another planet.
 * Breather Episode: In some episodes, the show will take a break from teaching science to provide entertainment and character development in it's episodes: "My Fair Jet", "Jet's First Halloween", "Date Night", "Jet's Time Machine", "Mindy in Space", and "Holidays in Boxwood Terrace" all qualify for this trope, all of them having little to no actual curriculum (even though "Jet's Time Machine" provided an important Aesop and "Jet's First Halloween" tried to teach viewers about harvest moons).
 * Brick Joke:
 * In "What's Up With Saturn's Rings?", Mindy and Sunspot wish that Saturn's rings were made out of cookies. In "Solar System Bake Off!", the kids bake a Saturn cake for the titular bake-off. They make the rings out of cookies.
 * Mindy: I always wanted Saturn's rings to be made out of cookies!
 * In "Holidays in Boxwood Terrace", Mr. Peterson is annoyed at a random kid pitching him a pageant idea involving a surfing Santa Claus. In "Endless Summer", the kids go to Australia (during the Christmas season) and get to see a real surfing Santa.
 * Brief Accent Imitation:
 * In "Castaway Carrot", while Carrot is stranded on the moon, he decides to go in his "talk-with-an-accent" crater, and briefly talks with a British accent.
 * Carrot: 'Ello, guv'nor. Fancy a spot of tea or bangers and mash?
 * Carrot: 'Ello, guv'nor. Fancy a spot of tea or bangers and mash?
 * Broken Aesop: In "Solar System Bake Off", the kids aren't allowed to ask for help from grown-ups. Technically, they did ask for help by asking Jet's mom to drive them to Saturn to find out if it's cold outside, hot inside or the other way around.
 * Broken Bird: If you think about it, Sean really has it rough. Sean’s got a Disappeared Dad and a mother who’s almost always working. He’s also a huge perfectionist. He always needs everything to be the way he wants it to, and he gets very upset when he doesn’t get his way. He idolizes Neil Armstrong heavily, to the point of obsession, and wishes to be like him, but he can’t. Sean also fears cramped spaces, heights, and easily gets space-sick (and sick in general), which are things that are preventing him from becoming an astronaut. Despite wanting to be an astronaut, he heavily fears space, and is constantly forced by his friends to go. They never allow him to stay on Earth. He’s also somewhat of a Butt-Monkey within the group, and no one listens to him when he suggest using the Scientific Method to solve problems. He hides all of this pain with a Cheerful Child exterior. It makes you want to jump into the TV and give him a hug.
 * Broken Record: When Sean, out of nowhere, says "Help, help, help, help, help!" in "Sean's Robotic Arm".
 * Buffy-Speak:
 * The Propulsions talk like this sometimes, such as calling the humans "Earthies".
 * In "My Fair Jet", Sydney refers to Jet's robotic arm backpack as a "tool-armed backpack thingy".
 * Bumbling Dad: Carrot is this due to be very silly and often clueless compared to his wife. However, he provides helpful information to the kids and is a great baker.
 * The Bus Came Back:
 * In "Mindy Turns Five", Lillian finally comes back after disappearing for a while. She even had the same voice actor that she had in "The Grandest Canyon"!.
 * Sydney 2 and Dr. Rafferty's boss both reappear in "Astronaut Ellen Ochoa".
 * Butt Monkey: Due to this being a show for young children, this is very mild, but Sean seems to be this. He can't seem to ever catch a break. He's often the Only Sane Man in the group, always trying to think logically and use the Scientific Method, and yet no one listens to him. He's also absolutely terrified of going into space, but everyone always forces him to go against his will.
 * By the Lights of Their Eyes:
 * Briefly in "Jet Can't Sleep". There was a brief black out, and only the Propulsions' eyes were visible.
 * This also happens in "Astronaut Ellen Ochoa".