List of Little Einsteins episodes
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This list of Little Einsteins episodes gives the date and plot for each broadcast of the children's television series Little Einsteins during 2005–2009. The series followed on from a direct-to-DVD release, Our Huge Adventure (later re-released as episodes 27 and 28 of Season 1, "A Brand New Outfit" and "The Missing Invitation" respectively), and was followed by a second double-length episode, Rocket's Firebird Rescue in 2007.[1]
Series overview
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
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| First aired | Last aired | Network | |||
| 1 | 29 | 1 | August 23, 2005 | Direct-to-video | |
| 28 | October 9, 2005 | November 20, 2006 | Playhouse Disney | ||
| 2 | 40 | 39 | January 13, 2007 | December 22, 2009 | Playhouse Disney |
| 1 | August 21, 2007 | Direct-to-video | |||
Episodes
Season 1 (2005–06)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Written by | Storyboard by | Original air date | Prod. code [2] |
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| 1 | 1 | "I Love to Conduct"[a] | Eric Weiner | Barrett Benica and Kelly Peterson | October 9, 2005 | 104 |
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The team watches the sunrise and things becoming happy. They see a bald eagle picking up sticks; soon after though, she mistakenly takes Leo's baton, and it is up to the team to retrieve it from the bald eagle. Art featured: The Peaceable Kingdom by Edward Hicks Music featured: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1: Morning Mood by Edvard Grieg | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Ring Around the Planet"[a] | Jeff Borkin | Barrett Benica and Kelly Peterson | October 9, 2005 | 101 |
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June is watching the stars and the planets on her telescope and loves the planet Saturn; she wants to dance with it. Suddenly, Saturn begins to play faster, then one of its rings comes loose, falls off, and lands in her garden, so it is up to the team to bring the ring back to Saturn. Art featured: Tree of Life by Gustav Klimt Music featured: New World Symphony No. 9 by Antonín Dvořák | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Hungarian Hiccups" | Jill Cozza | Barrett Benica and Kelly Peterson | October 10, 2005 | 103 |
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Rocket participates in the Great Sky Race. However, he meets his nemesis, another competitor named Big Jet, and is nervous about racing him, although the team reassures him. To complicate matters, Rocket starts having the hiccups, so it is up to the team to scare them off before the sky race begins. Art featured: Tiger in a Tropical Storm by Henri Rousseau Music featured: Hungarian Dance No. 5 by Johannes Brahms | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Whale Tale" | Douglas Wood | Barrett Benica and Kelly Peterson | October 11, 2005 | 106 |
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The team is on the beach making sand castles while Rocket is playing with his new friend, Little Whale, until Little Whale's mother calls him home, to Rocket's sadness as he begins to miss his friend. The team decides to go to the ocean to find Little Whale so Rocket can be happy again. Art featured: The Shore at Bas-Butin, Honfleur by Georges Seurat Music featured: Horn Concerto No. 2 in E Flat by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "Pirate's Treasure" | Claudia Silver | Barrett Benica and Kelly Peterson | October 12, 2005 | 108 |
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The team is playing pirates in Rocket's hangar when they hear music in what turns out to be a treasure map. However, Big Jet sees the map too, and tries to get to the treasure. Now it will be up to the team to find the treasure before Big Jet does. Art featured: Under the Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai, Tahitian Mountains by Paul Gauguin Music featured: Carmen Suite No. 1 by Georges Bizet | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "The Birthday Balloons" | Jeff Borkin | Barrett Benica and Kelly Peterson | October 13, 2005 | 102 |
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It is Annie's birthday and her friends are setting up things for the party. Her favorite things are balloons, and they give her musical balloons which play a special song. But suddenly, a strong gust of wind blows them all away, so it is up to the team to retrieve Annie's balloons before they reach Antarctica. Art featured: The Merry Jesters by Henri Rousseau Music featured: Eine kleine Nachtmusik by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "The Legend of the Golden Pyramid" | Jeff Borkin | Barrett Benica and Kelly Peterson | October 14, 2005 | 109 |
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The team is in Egypt, reading the hieroglyphics about the story of the Golden Pyramid. It says that inside the pyramid are musical notes which make the hieroglyphic pictures dance and become happy, until a mean King locked the notes behind the gates. Now, it is up to the team to use the golden harp, which opens anything, to open the Golden Pyramid. Art featured: Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics Music featured: Hungarian Dance No. 5 by Johannes Brahms | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | "Dragon Kite" | Jill Cozza | Barrett Benica and Kelly Peterson | October 17, 2005 | 110 |
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June finds a little dragon kite flying toward her and she shows the team a picture of the Dragon Kite Parade in China. However, Little Dragon Kite has a fear of flying high, and the dragon kites on the picture are missing, so it is up the team to find the missing dragon kites and help their friend overcome her fear. Art featured: Works by Chinese painters Zosan, Cai Jia, Zhang Lu, Qiu Ying Music featured: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1: In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | "Go West, Young Train" | Claudia Silver | Barrett Benica and Kelly Peterson | October 21, 2005 | 114 |
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The team meets their friend Little Red Train, carrying a bag of party supplies; suddenly, Big Jet steals the bag, and it is up to the team and Little Red Train to retrieve the bag from Big Jet before the party starts. Art featured: Navajo baskets Music featured: L'Arlésienne Suite No. 2 by Georges Bizet | ||||||
| 10 | 10 | "Farmer Annie" | Jill Cozza | Barrett Benica and Kelly Peterson | October 24, 2005 | 116 |
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The team flies to a farm and meets their best friends, the three little pigs, and decides to plant mystery seeds by doing four things: plant, water, give sunshine, and give love on the list to see what grows in those mystery seeds. Works featured: The Olive Trees with Yellow Sky and Sun by Vincent van Gogh Music featured: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 by Johann Sebastian Bach | ||||||
| 11 | 11 | "A Little Einsteins Halloween" | Jeff Borkin | Barrett Benica and Kelly Peterson | October 29, 2005 | 115 |
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The team is filling up their pumpkin with Halloween treats for a costume party when they suddenly hear some strange music and they suddenly see a ghost approaching them. Now, it is up to the team to hurry and gather their treats until their pumpkin gets filled to the top, so they can go to the party while avoiding the ghost and any more of them. Art featured: September: Harvesting Grapes by the Limbourg Brothers Music featured: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1: In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg | ||||||
| 12 | 12 | "Annie's Solo Mission" | Jeff Borkin | Barrett Benica and Kelly Peterson | November 14, 2005 | 118 |
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Leo is teaching his sister Annie how to fly Rocket, and she learns all about Rocket's three different types of moves (the up-down move, the squeeze, and the loop-the-loop maneuver). After teaching her, Quincy and June invite Leo to blow Super Bubbles, so Annie gets her camera and tries to take a picture. After she leaves though, they accidentally get stuck in a giant bubble after blowing together to make it. Now, it will be up to Annie to pilot Rocket solo and save the rest of the team (Leo, Quincy, and June) before the bubble pops. Art featured: Expectation by Gustav Klimt Music featured: L'Arlésienne Suite No. 2 by Georges Bizet | ||||||
| 13 | 13 | "The Mouse and the Moon" | Eric Weiner | Barrett Benica and Kelly Peterson | November 21, 2005 | 119 |
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While camping, the team watches the moon shine in the sky when a little mouse arrives with a present for the moon, only for it to move to Switzerland. Now, it is up to the team to go to Switzerland so that Little Mouse can give his present to the moon before it goes down. Art featured: Ancient Greek and Roman mosaics Music featured: Eine kleine Nachtmusik by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | ||||||
| 14 | 14 | "The Good Knight and the Bad Knight" | Jeff Borkin | Barrett Benica and Kelly Peterson | December 5, 2005 | 120 |
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Leo is telling a story about a good knight and a bad knight. The good knight is a happy and funny knight in the castle, until the bad knight imprisons him in one of the towers and he can not escape. Now, it is up to the team to get the musical key in order to release the good knight before the bad knight strikes. Art featured: Chessboard with Flower Border by Giovanni Battista Sassi and Bayeux Tapestry Music featured: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1: Morning Mood by Edvard Grieg | ||||||
| 15 | 15 | "The Christmas Wish" | Jeff Borkin | Barrett Benica and Kelly Peterson | December 12, 2005 | 113 |
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On Christmas Eve, Leo and the team are reading a story about the boy who uses a wish box to get a turtle. The team receives wish boxes under the tree. Unfortunately, Annie does not have a wish box because it fell off Santa's sleigh during a heavy blizzard. Now, it is up to the team to find Annie's wish box while enduring the cold. Art featured: The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh Music featured: Für Elise by Ludwig van Beethoven | ||||||
| 16 | 16 | "How We Became the Little Einsteins: The True Story" | Eric Weiner | Barrett Benica and Kelly Peterson | January 8, 2006 | 112 |
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The team calls for Rocket, using the musical toy that Leo had when he was a baby, and it works. However, Rocket is too large to live with the gang. The team decides to find a home for Rocket to live in so that Rocket can be together with the gang. Art featured: Watercolor paintings of Venice by John Singer Sargent Music featured: New World Symphony No. 9 by Antonín Dvořák | ||||||
| 17 | 17 | "Jump for Joey" | Jeff Borkin | Barrett Benica and Kelly Peterson | January 26, 2006 | 122 |
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The team is in Australia, training their new friend, Joey, the baby kangaroo, for the Animal Talent Show in Sydney Opera House. His talent is super hopping, which he uses to hop higher and longer. But Joey forgets that the talent show is today, so it is up to the team to let Joey join in the talent show before it starts. Art featured: Australian aboriginal art Music featured: Carmen Suite No. 1 by Georges Bizet | ||||||
| 18 | 18 | "The Northern Night Light" | Jeff Borkin | Barrett Benica and Kelly Peterson | February 20, 2006 | 105 |
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Quincy is singing his silly song to make the gang laugh, including Rocket, and they end up in Lapland. While watching a group of reindeer, they see a baby reindeer chasing a bird until it goes too far and gets lost in the woods. This makes the mission tough because Quincy has a fear of the dark as Lapland gets dark too early. So it is up to the team to take the baby reindeer back to his mother as darkness falls and Quincy is forced to face his fear (with the Northern Lights helping them). Art featured: Road from Saint-Siméon Farm in Winter by Claude Monet Music featured: Flight of the Bumblebee by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | ||||||
| 19 | 19 | "O Yes, O Yes, It's Springtime!" | Douglas Wood | Barrett Benica and Kelly Peterson | March 20, 2006 | 117 |
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The team has a flower named Baby Tulip, which is about to bloom, but Big Jet arrives with a seasons machine, which changes seasons to prevent Baby Tulip from blooming, so it is up to the team to go back to springtime so that their friend can grow and bloom. It is also up to them to not let Big Jet prevent it from happening. Art featured: Mountains and River on the Kiso Road by Utagawa Hiroshige Music featured: The Four Seasons: Spring by Antonio Vivaldi | ||||||
| 20 | 20 | "A Tall Totem Tale" | Jill Cozza | Barrett Benica and Kelly Peterson | April 17, 2006 | 121 |
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The team is in Alaska in Totem Pole Forest, looking at the tall totem poles. They meet a small totem pole; he has no stories though, so they decide to help the little totem pole grow larger so that he can grow like the rest of the poles. But then, he gets washed out to sea, and it is up to the team to bring him back so he can grow big with the other totems. Art featured: Pacific Northwest totem poles Music featured: Orchestral Suite No. 2 by Johann Sebastian Bach | ||||||
| 21 | 21 | "The Incredible Shrinking Adventure" | Jill Cozza | Barrett Benica and Kelly Peterson | May 6, 2006 | 123 |
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The team discovers a machine which makes things larger when it plays larger and louder notes, and become smaller when it plays smaller and softer notes. However, the machine starts to malfunction until it breaks, causing the Little Einsteins and Rocket to shrink, so it is up to the team to find the lost piece on the playground so that they can return to their original size. Art featured: Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh Music featured: The Four Seasons: Spring by Antonio Vivaldi | ||||||
| 22 | 22 | "Duck, Duck, June" | Jeff Borkin | Barrett Benica and Kelly Peterson | May 14, 2006 | 111 |
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The team sees a mother duck, together with her ducklings as they hatch from their eggs. They follow their mother until one of them hatches late and follows the gang by accident, because he follows June's whistling, thinking that she is his mother. Now, it is up to the team to bring the duck back to his mother before she becomes worried. Art featured: On the River Greta by John Atkinson Grimshaw Music featured: Horn Concerto No. 2 in E Flat by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | ||||||
| 23 | 23 | "Rocket Safari" | Jeff Borkin | Barrett Benica and Kelly Peterson | June 19, 2006 | 107 |
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The team is on a safari, watching the animals in Africa, until they find that the water is overflowing on the wildebeests, so Rocket blocks the waterfall with his body. However, Rocket is stuck, and a little bumblebee joins the team, and it is up to them to find the largest animals in Africa that can help them pull Rocket out of the cold waterfall before he gets a cold. Art featured: Woodcut of a rhinoceros and St. Jerome by the Pollard Willow by Albrecht Dürer Music featured: Flight of the Bumblebee by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | ||||||
| 24 | 24 | "Knock on Wood" | Jeff Borkin | Barrett Benica and Kelly Peterson | July 10, 2006 | 126 |
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The team sees the other animals living and playing with their friends. They find an ivory-billed woodpecker pecking on the wood on the tree. He tries to peck the wood to call another ivory bill woodpecker, though it is far away. Now, it is up to the team to go on top of the mountain so that the ivory-billed woodpecker can peck his beak on the wood to make a loud sound so that his friend can go to him. Art featured: Pool in the Woods by George Inness Music featured: Orchestral Suite No. 2 by Johann Sebastian Bach | ||||||
| 25 | 25 | "A Galactic Goodnight" | Jeff Borkin | Barrett Benica and Kelly Peterson | August 14, 2006 | 124 |
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The team has a sleepover and they show their own methods on how to sleep. However, they hear something and notice that Rocket was unable to sleep. Even their own attempts to make him sleep fail, so the team decides to go to outer space and count the nine planets of the Solar System to make Rocket go to sleep. Works featured: The Scream by Edvard Munch Music featured: Für Elise by Ludwig van Beethoven | ||||||
| 26 | 26 | "The Birthday Machine" | Olexa Hewryk | Barrett Benica and Kelly Peterson | October 20, 2006 | 125 |
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The team finds a paper about a unique birthday machine. With the information on the paper in hand, the team tries to make their birthdays by finding three things used to make the machine to accomplish that. Art featured: The Laurentian Library by Michelangelo Music featured: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 by Johann Sebastian Bach | ||||||
| 27 | 27 | "A Brand New Outfit" | Eric Weiner | Barrett Benica and Bob Cavin III | November 6, 2006 | 127 |
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The team finds a caterpillar singing on a toadstool. Their friend goes to the tree of many colors with the other caterpillars on the truck to get a brand new outfit, until the truck hits a bump which throws Little Caterpillar off the truck. Now, it is up to the team to bring him to the tree of many colors so that he can get a brand new outfit. Art featured: Wheat Field with Cypresses by Vincent van Gogh, Under the Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai Music featured: Ode to Joy by Ludwig van Beethoven | ||||||
| 28 | 28 | "The Missing Invitation" | Eric Weiner | Barrett Benica and Bob Cavin III | November 20, 2006 | 128 |
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The team, with their friend Butterfly, sees that the other butterflies have an invitation to a migration party in Angangueo, Mexico, only to discover that Butterfly does not have his invitation. The mail carrier butterfly says that his invitation is in a mailbox except in the wrong place. Now, it is up to the team to search around the United States to find it. Art featured: Young Woman in the Garden by Claude Monet, the Navajo Woven Art Music featured: Ode to Joy by Ludwig van Beethoven | ||||||
Season 2 (2007–09)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Supervising direction by | Written by | Storyboard by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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| 29 | 1 | "Quincy and the Magic Instruments" | Andy Thom | Jennifer Brooke Hamburg | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | January 13, 2007 | 203 |
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Quincy finds four magic instruments in his room: a magic flute, a magic trumpet, a magic harp, and a little magic triangle. Then, Quincy gets an e-mail message that his friends (Leo, Annie, and June) are in trouble. Rocket's anchor is tangled and stuck on a rock below the Arabian Sea, and the waves are getting higher and larger. Because of this problem, the team cannot blast off, and it is up to Quincy and his magic instruments to rescue the others before they get seasick. Art featured: The Wave by Gustave Courbet Music featured: Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | |||||||
| 30 | 2 | "Brothers and Sisters to the Rescue" | Andy Thom | Jessica Lissy | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | January 13, 2007 | 204 |
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Leo and Annie are reading a story about Hansel and Gretel. The two children are leaving a trail of musical notes to avoid getting lost. They find a gingerbread house and eat all the sweets, but they are unaware that the gingerbread house is owned by the witch and Hansel and Gretel are locked in. Now, it is up to the siblings to open the gingerbread house and rescue Hansel and Gretel before the witch strikes. Art featured: German folk art Music featured: Symphony No. 5 by Ludwig van Beethoven | |||||||
| 31 | 3 | "The Glass Slipper Ball" | Andy Thom | Jeff Borkin | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | January 29, 2007 | 202 |
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June is doing dancing lessons and Rocket is a fan of hers, except that Rocket does not know how to dance yet. The team hears a bell and June looks at her telescope, seeing a glass slipper on the ball which she wants to try on. It is up to the team to go to ball so June can try the glass slipper before the clock strikes twelve and help Rocket learn how to dance along the way. Art featured: Fish by Andy Warhol Music featured: The Blue Danube Waltz by Johann Strauss | |||||||
| 32 | 4 | "Annie's Love Song" | Andy Thom | Alana Burgi Sanko | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | February 14, 2007 | 209 |
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The team is on the beach looking at all the seashells when they see two hermit crabs pinch their claws as a way of saying hello. Annie sees them singing their friendship song, so she sings with them with her microphone. Their song makes the other animals play with their friends, until a big wave washes the red hermit crab off to sea. Now, it is up to the team to help the lonely blue hermit crab rescue his friend before he gets caught in a crab trap. Music featured: Piano Concerto No. 21 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | |||||||
| 33 | 5 | "Melody, the Music Pet" | Andy Thom | Anne Lund | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | February 26, 2007 | 206 |
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The team stands near the pet train when they see a pet with musical notes. Leo calls her Melody because she sings music, and her favorite food is musical notes. The pets are going on the train with their tickets, but Melody cannot go on the train without her ticket. So it is up to the team to go to the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France to get her ticket before the pet train leaves. Art featured: Water Lilies by Claude Monet Music featured: Humoresque No. 7 by Antonín Dvořák | |||||||
| 34 | 6 | "The Puppet Princess" | Andy Thom | Jeff Borkin | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | March 12, 2007 | 205 |
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The team meets three silly puppets while marching, which can be silly and funny. The puppets are planning to go to the puppet theater on their carriage, but it hits a bump which throws the three puppets out of the carriage. Now, it is up to the team to bring the three silly puppets to the theater before it starts. Art featured: Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci Music featured: Funeral March of a Marionette by Charles Francois Gounod | |||||||
| 35 | 7 | "Super Fast!" | Andy Thom | Rodney Stringfellow | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | March 26, 2007 | 207 |
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The team goes to the gas station to fill up Rocket with musical gas, allowing him to go at any speed. Rocket's speed meter has four types of speed, corresponding to four of the common tempo markings: Adagio means slow, Moderato means moderate, Allegro means fast, and Presto means super fast. In the meantime, they see three little piggies flying their planes until their speed meter gets stuck causing them to lose control. The first plane is on Adagio, the second plane is on Moderato, and the third plane is stuck on Allegro. Now, it is up to the team to rescue the three little pigs before their planes go into space. Art featured: Chinese paper art Music featured: William Tell Overture by Gioacchino Rossini | |||||||
| 36 | 8 | "He Speaks Music!" | Andy Thom | Siobhan Vivian | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | April 9, 2007 | 208 |
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The team is in Africa, looking at the animals who have their babies. They find a baby chimpanzee took by a poacher, except he sings sadly because he was born after his parents go somewhere. He speaks music, so Annie translates by singing his song with her microphone so that the team understands what he says. The team decides to go to the Komoe National Park to bring baby chimp to his parents. Art featured: African masks Music featured: The Moldau by Bedrich Smetana | |||||||
| 37 | 9 | "Hello, Cello" | Andy Thom | Abby Miller Pecoriello | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | April 23, 2007 | 210 |
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The team is in Cremona, Italy, seeing Mommy Cello with her baby cellos' cases, until one of them gets washed away in the river. When the last baby cello is hatched up, it gets close to Quincy because it thinks he is its mother. It is up to the team to bring Baby Cello back to its mother before she gets worried. Art featured: Langlois Bridge with Woman Washing by Vincent van Gogh Music featured: Symphony No. 8: Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert | |||||||
| 38 | 10 | "Annie and the Little Toy Plane" | Andy Thom | Brian L. Perkins | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | May 4, 2007 | 201 |
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The team is at San Francisco, California and Annie has a small plane and calls her Purple Plane, which flies higher when she sings higher. They start to sing low and every time Annie raises her voice (in a glissando) and her hands, Purple Plane flies higher and higher. In the meantime, they see a green helicopter stuck on top on the tallest redwood tree. It is up to the team and Purple Plane to fly over the highest landmarks and rescue Green Helicopter before he falls down. Art featured: Untitled 1988 by Keith Haring Music featured: Symphony No. 40 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | |||||||
| 39 | 11 | "Carmine's Big Race" | Andy Thom | Brian L. Perkins | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | May 12, 2007 | 211 |
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The team watches the F1 race of the fastest race cars. They see one car which is different, with bass drum wheels, a trumpet engine, and a trombone horn. Quincy calls it Carmine because it is a music car which wants to race. The three mean race cars which are bigger than Carmine tease and discourage him, so that he can lose. Now, it is up to the team to help Carmine beat the other race cars and win the race. Art featured: The Vines by Paul Ranson Music featured: Rondeau by Jean-Joseph Mouret | |||||||
| 40 | 12 | "The Great Sky Race Rematch" | Andy Thom | Brian L. Perkins | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | May 12, 2007 | 215 |
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Last season, Rocket won the race, so he has a rematch against Big Jet. Rocket has four buttons: a submarine, a pogo bouncer, a train, and his flying button. However, Big Jet distracts the team to prevent them from witnessing him breaking the flying button. Now, it is up to the team to help Rocket win the trophy and avoid Big Jet's attempts to slow them down while Quincy repairs the flying button. Art featured: Wild Sea Breaking on the Rocks by Utagawa Hiroshige Music featured: William Tell Overture by Gioacchino Rossini | |||||||
| 41 | 13 | "Sleeping Bassoon" | Andy Thom | Jeff Borkin | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | June 25, 2007 | 212 |
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Quincy is telling a story about a princess bassoon playing a happy song for the other instruments, but an evil grumpy wizard casts a magic spell, which puts Princess Bassoon to sleep. The other instruments cannot wake the princess up, so it is up to the team to wake the princess up from the sleeping spell before all the purple pebbles of the hourglass reach the bottom or the spell will be permanent. Works featured: Variegated Black by Wassily Kandinsky Music featured: Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn | |||||||
| 42 | 14 | "Rocket Soup" | Andy Thom | Abby Miller Pecoriello | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | July 30, 2007 | 213 |
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The team plays in the yard until they hear a stomach grumbling, which is Rocket, who is hungry. So the team decides to make an energy meal for Rocket called Rocket Soup by gathering the three ingredients - cheese from Little Mouse, peas from Good Knight, and musical jumping beans from Joey - so that it could help Rocket bring back his energy. Art featured: Moonrise by Paul Klee Music featured: Humoresque No. 7 by Antonín Dvořák | |||||||
| 43 | 15 | "The Blue-Footed Booby Bird Ballet" | Andy Thom | Jeff Borkin | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | August 20, 2007 | 216 |
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June is doing dance lessons with four Blue Footed Booby Birds and when they performed well, they will earn a sticker. Baby Booby Bird wanted to dance with the big birds, but he is still learning, so June encourages him to do his best. The three ballet moves are arabesque - stretch body, bourrée - on tip toes and port de bras - arms low, then high. They leave on a boat going to Galápagos Islands, though the boat hits a wave, which throws Baby Booby Bird off the boat. Now, it is up to the team to help Baby Booby Bird dance and get to Galapagos Island before the ballet recital starts. Art featured: Ica Stones Music featured: Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | |||||||
| 44 | 16 | "Little Red Rockethood" | Andy Thom | Abby Miller Pecoriello | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | September 14, 2007 | 220 |
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Reminiscent to Little Red Riding Hood, Rocket is playing as Little Red Rockethood. The team makes Rocket Soup for his Grandma Rocket, who feels ill in the hangar. However, Big Jet steals the Rocket Soup, and it is up to the team to retrieve the Rocket Soup from Big Jet before he eats it all up. Art featured: Landscape Near Murnau by Alexej von Jawlensky Music featured: Aida by Giuseppe Verdi | |||||||
| 45 | 17 | "The Puzzle of the Sphinx" | Andy Thom | Brian L. Perkins | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | October 18, 2007 | 218 |
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The team is in Egypt, where they meet their friend, Great Sphinx. He shows them his snowflake puzzle and the team is impressed, until the puzzle pieces bounce away, which makes the Great Sphinx sad, so it is up to the team to find the three puzzle pieces before all the sand of the hourglass goes to the bottom or the puzzle will never be able to do its magic. Art featured: Ancient Egyptian Sculpture Music featured: Aida by Giuseppe Verdi | |||||||
| 46 | 18 | "The Wild Goose Chase" | Andy Thom | Jeff Borkin | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | October 29, 2007 | 219 |
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The team watches the migration of the red-feathered geese going to a place south for the winter where is warm, until they reach a cloudy place where the baby goose follows Rocket because he gets confused in the clouds. Now, it is up to the team to help Baby Goose go to his family and help him grow red feathers so that he can be part of the family. Art featured: Circles in a Circle by Wassily Kandinsky Music featured: Symphony No. 40 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | |||||||
| 47 | 19 | "Annie and the Beanstalk" | Andy Thom | Abby Miller Pecoriello | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | November 10, 2007 | 224 |
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The team tells a story of a golden goose who sings notes which makes them happy. Then, a Forte giant comes down the beanstalk and traps the golden goose in the cage, and he takes home into the castle. The golden goose sings sadly, as so do the other geese. Now, it is up to the team to free the golden goose before the Forte giant strikes. Art featured: Paintings by Vincent van Gogh Music featured: Symphony No. 5 by Ludwig van Beethoven | |||||||
| 48 | 20 | "The Wind-Up Toy Prince" | Andy Thom | Jeff Borkin | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | December 7, 2007 | 227 |
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In Iceland, the team tells a story about a toy prince who helps others in trouble and he can do a funny dance. Then, the mouse king takes the key from the toy prince which causes him to freeze, locking him in the mouse king's castle. The team manage to find the key hidden under the snow, so it is up to them to bring the key back to the prince and wind him back up before the evil mouse strikes. Art featured: Little Dancer of Fourteen Years by Edgar Degas Music featured: The Nutcracker Suite by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | |||||||
| 49 | 21 | "Mr. Penguin's Ice Cream Adventure" | Andy Thom | Brian L. Perkins | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | February 28, 2008 | 221 |
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The team sees a train full of ice cream, which is driven by Mr. Penguin. He wants to deliver all the ice cream to his best friend's birthday party; however, his train breaks down. Now, it is up to Rocket and the team to help Mr. Penguin deliver all the ice cream cars before the ice cream melts in the sun. Art featured: VAROOM! by Roy Lichtenstein Music featured: Symphony No. 8: Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert | |||||||
| 50 | 22 | "Annie, Get Your Microphone" | Andy Thom | Brian L. Perkins | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | February 22, 2008 | 229 |
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The team is in an opera house, where Annie is participating in a singing contest, in which the winner will receive a microphone as the grand prize. Their nemesis Big Jet is there and he wants to win that microphone, so he rips Annie's song into three pieces, and then throws them far away. Now, it is up to the team to retrieve the three pieces of Annie's song before it is her turn. Art featured: Arboreum by Flashbulb and Report from Rockport by Stuart Davis Music featured: Water Music Suite No. 1 by George Frideric Handel | |||||||
| 51 | 23 | "The Treasure Behind the Little Red Door" | Andy Thom | Jessica Lissy | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | March 10, 2008 | 217 |
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The team finds a treasure map and learn that treasure is behind a little red door located in Hawaii. Then, Big Jet steals the map and it is up to the team to get to the little red door to find the treasure before Big Jet does. Art featured: Hawaiian Tiki Statues Music featured: Funeral March of a Marionette by Charles Francois Gounod | |||||||
| 52 | 24 | "The Secret Mystery Prize" | Andy Thom | Jeff Borkin | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | April 18, 2008 | 222 |
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The team is in Japan, wanting to see what the secret mystery prize is there in Mt. Fuji. They know that they need the musical key to open it, though the key breaks into four pieces. Big Jet hears them and goes to find the four pieces of the key to open the prize. Now, it is up to the team to get the four pieces of the key to become one so that they can unlock the secret mystery prize before Big Jet can. Art featured: Shower Below the Summit by Katsushika Hokusai Music featured: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg | |||||||
| 53 | 25 | "Animal Snack Time" | Andy Thom | Jeff Borkin | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | May 2, 2008 | 235 |
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The team is in Africa, where Rocket is playing with the baby animals. Rocket has three buttons which allows him to transform into three animals: a giraffe, a monkey, and an elephant. When Rocket gives the hungry animals a basket full of animal food, Big Jet steals the basket so that he can eat all of them and it is up to the team to retrieve the three treats from Big Jet before he devours them. Art featured: African Pottery Music featured: The Nutcracker Suite by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | |||||||
| 54 | 26 | "The Great Schubert's Guessing Game" | Andy Thom | Jeff Borkin | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | June 21, 2008 | 230 |
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In a carnival, Annie sees a game called the great Schubert's guessing game. The game quizzes Annie on which of the four rides in the carnival (bumper cars, merry go round, slide and roller coaster) is Schubert's favorite, and the prize is a stuffed horse which is her favorite animal. Schubert gives Annie three musical clues to know which is the right one, though a gust of wind blows them around the carnival, and it is up to the team to find all three before the game runs out of time. Art featured: Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium by Frank Lloyd Wright Music featured: Trout Quintet by Franz Schubert | |||||||
| 55 | 27 | "Quincy and the Instrument Dinosaurs" | Andy Thom | Brian L. Perkins | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | July 19, 2008 | 226 |
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The team sees dinosaurs which look like instruments. They see a mother piccolodactyl together with her baby piccolodactyl, but they hear a very forte sound, which it is from a bassasaurus rex (or B-Rex for short) and the sound is so loud and scary, the baby piccolodactyl flies far away and hid in a log. However, the piccolodactyl is unaware that he is hiding in a log near a volcano, so it is up to the team to bring the baby piccolodactyl back to his mother before the volcano erupts. Art featured: Vesuvius by Andy Warhol Music featured: The Moldau by Bedrich Smetana | |||||||
| 56 | 28 | "Build It, Rocket!" | Andy Thom | Jeff Borkin | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | August 2, 2008 | 228 |
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The team watches the three little piggies building their own houses. The first one builds a house full of straws, the second one full of sticks, and the third one is building a brick house. Then, a big bad wolf comes in and blows the first two houses down easily. Now, it is up to the team to find bricks, a roof and a door for the piggies to build a brick house before the wolf blows it down. Along the way, they must also not let the Big Bad Wolf make their mission harder. Art featured: Haystacks at the End of Summer, Morning Effect by Claude Monet Music featured: Wedding Day at Troldhaugen by Edvard Grieg | |||||||
| 57 | 29 | "Melody and Me" | Andy Thom | Story by : Arthur Metcalf Written by : Jessica Lissy | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | September 13, 2008 | 223 |
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Leo is showing his surprise ride to his friend Melody: a hot air balloon ride, and Leo is also singing his song to shows that he and Melody will be together forever. Melody is happy to ride in a balloon, though a large gust of wind blows the balloon high in the air, which frightens her. Now, it is up to the team to help Melody so that she can escape before the balloon crashes into Cataract Canyon. Art featured: Native American Petroglyphs Music featured: Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn | |||||||
| 58 | 30 | "Music Monsters" | Andy Thom | Jeff Borkin | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | October 11, 2008 | 240 |
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The team reads a story about some music monsters who became sad when they bumped to each other. Annie's favorite music monster is the little red one, because he sings his Smile song to make her and people smile and feel better until the Loch Ness Monster locks them up in a cage. Now, it is up to the team and the little red music monster to go to the lake to release them from the Loch Ness Monster's cage and make them (and the Loch Ness Monster) happy. Art featured: Glance of a Landscape by Paul Klee Music featured: Piano Concerto No. 21 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | |||||||
| 59 | 31 | "The Song of the Unicorn" | Andy Thom | Jeff Borkin | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | November 1, 2008 | 225 |
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The team is at a museum, where they tell a story about a unicorn who is a great conductor. The animals initially do not know how to sing together, until the unicorn waves its baton to help them. Then, a mean queen who is envious of the unicorn puts a spell on him, turning him into a stone statue. The only way to break the spell is to make all the animals sing together, so it is up to the team to save the unicorn before all the leaves from the tree fall or the spell will become permanent. Art featured: The Lady With the Unicorn and other Medieval Tapestries Music featured: 1812 Overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | |||||||
| 60 | 32 | "Flight of the Instrument Fairies" | Andy Thom | Jeff Borkin | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | December 13, 2008 | 233 |
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Quincy is telling a story about the instrument fairies, which have their own color magic and creates beautiful colors and make the Aurora Borealis (the trumpet fairy makes blue magic, the oboe fairy makes red magic, the flute fairy makes purple magic, the tuba fairy makes green magic, and the violin fairy makes yellow magic). A big snow storm blows the instruments into a bear's cave. However, the violin fairy (the smallest) manages to escape the bear cave through the key hole, and it is up to the team and the violin fairy to head to Lapland and rescue the other instruments before the polar bear arrives. Art featured: Ancient Roman Mosaics Music featured: Violin Concerto in E minor by Felix Mendelssohn | |||||||
| 61 | 33 | "Silly Sock Saves the Circus" | Andy Thom | Brian L. Perkins | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | January 17, 2009 | 231 |
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Leo has a silly sock with silly pictures: pizza, bananas, and a little fish. The sock also sings a silly song which makes his friends laugh. There was going to be a silly sock circus and the other clothes were to participate in. Silly Sock wanted to join in the circus, but they know that it will start today, so it is up to the team to let Silly Sock join in the circus before it starts. Art featured: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci Music featured: Trout Quintet by Franz Schubert | |||||||
| 62 | 34 | "Go Team!" | Andy Thom | Brian L. Perkins | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | March 21, 2009 | 232 |
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The team is in the king's castle showing their special skills, which impresses the king. The king shows them his treasure, though a dragon steals his treasure chest and it is up to the team to work together to retrieve the king's treasure chest from the dragon. Art featured: Architecture and Sculpture by Antoni Gaudi Music featured: The Blue Danube Waltz by Johann Strauss | |||||||
| 63 | 35 | "The Music Robot from Outer Space" | Andy Thom | Brian L. Perkins | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | May 2, 2009 | 234 |
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June is looking at Music Robot in space and a planet robot in her telescope. A meteor shower is headed straight to his home, so he manages to sweep all the rocks, but one of them hits Music Robot in the stomach, which causes his three flying batteries to fly out of his stomach. Now, it is up to the team to find Music Robot's three batteries so that he can fly back to his home, Planet Robot. Art featured: Train by Andy Warhol Music featured: Rondeau by Jean-Joseph Mouret | |||||||
| 64 | 36 | "Show and Tell" | Andy Thom | Brian L. Perkins | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | September 22, 2009 | 239 |
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The team is going to school, bringing their favorite things for show and tell: Leo has his baton, Annie has her microphone, Quincy has his instruments, and June has her ballet slippers. However, Big Jet steals all their favorite things, and it is up to the team to retrieve them from Big Jet before school starts. Works featured: Mayan architecture Music featured: Carmen Suite No. 1 by Georges Bizet | |||||||
| 65 | 37 | "Fire Truck Rocket" | Andy Thom | Jeff Borkin | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | November 23, 2009 | 238 |
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The team plays fire fighters and Rocket becomes a fire truck. He has three rescue buttons: a ladder, a spreader, and a hose. They notice a big smoke far away which it is from an erupting volcano in Indonesia. Rocket uses his musical siren to warn all the animals to move clear out of the volcano, but a proboscis monkey gets his tail stuck between two tree branches and is trapped near the volcano. Thus, it will be up to the team to save the proboscis monkey from the volcano before a volcanic eruption occurs. Note: This was the first show/episode to air on Disney Junior. Art featured: Javanese Shadow Puppets Music featured: 1812 Overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | |||||||
| 66 | 38 | "Rocket the Bug" | Andy Thom | Brian L. Perkins | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | November 23, 2009 | 237 |
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Rocket is playing with baby bugs and has bug powers: spider, grub worm, and a lightning bug. A rain cloud is coming and Rocket is giving them a house to stay dry, but the big bad wolf has a cold and accidentally sneezes the house away. Now, it is up to the team to get the house back before the rain cloud reaches the bugs in New Zealand. Art featured: Māori Sculpture Music featured: Water Music Suite No. 1 by George Frideric Handel | |||||||
| 67 | 39 | "Little Elephant's Big Parade" | Andy Thom | Jeff Borkin | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | December 22, 2009 | 236 |
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The team is in India, where Leo wins an egg. Inside the egg is a little elephant and there will be an elephant big parade. However, Little Elephant is too small to enter, because she must be at least ten feet tall to enter the parade. For her to grow taller, the team tries to feed Little Elephant three magic peanuts, though they start magically bouncing away, and it is up to the team to find the three peanuts that are needed to feed Little Elephant before the parade starts. Art featured: Mehndi Designs Music featured: Wedding Day at Troldhaugen by Edvard Grieg | |||||||
Direct-to-video films
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Storyboard by | Original air date | Prod. code [2] |
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| 1 | 1 | "Our Huge Adventure" | Olexa Hewryk (creative) | Eric Weiner | Barrett Benica and Bob Cavin III | August 23, 2005 | 100 |
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The team finds a caterpillar singing on a toadstool. Their friend goes to the musical tree of many colors with the other caterpillars on the truck to get a brand new outfit, until the truck hits a bump which throws Little Caterpillar off the truck. Now, it is up to the team to bring him to the tree of many colors so that he can get a brand new outfit. Later, the team and their friend Butterfly see that the other butterflies have an invitation to a migration party in Angangueo, Mexico only to discover Butterfly does not have his invitation. The mail carrier butterfly says that his invitation is in a mailbox except in the wrong place. Now, it is up to the team to search around the United States to find it. Art featured: A Wheat Field with Cypresses by Vincent van Gogh, Under the Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai, Young Woman in the Garden by Claude Monet, Navajo Woven Art Music featured: Ode to Joy by Ludwig van Beethoven | |||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Rocket's Firebird Rescue" | Andy Thom (supervising) | Jeff Borkin | Barrett Benica, Kelly Peterson and Geoffrey Johnson | August 21, 2007 | 214 |
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The team is reading a story about a Firebird who makes Russia's music happier. However, Firebird gets trapped in a cage by Katschai, causing the happy music in Russia to get quieter. Now, it is up to the team to use their music powers to rescue the Firebird before Katschai strikes. Art featured: Improvisation by Wassily Kandinsky, Matryoshka Nesting Dolls, Fabergé Egg by Peter Carl Fabergé Music featured: Firebird Suite by Igor Stravinsky | |||||||
Notes
References
- ^ Little Einsteins: Rocket's Firebird Rescue
- ^ a b "Public Catalog". United States Copyright Office. Retrieved November 13, 2019.
- ^ "Sunday Listings". TV Guide. October 9, 2005. p. 104.
7:30 - Little Einsteins - One of Saturn's rings has fallen to Earth.
- ^ Baisley, Sarah (October 7, 2005). "Little Einsteins Play Primetime Premiere Oct. 9". Animation World Network. Retrieved May 24, 2022.
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