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Dragon Kite is the eighth episode of Season 1 of the series Little Einsteins.
However, in production order, it's the tenth episode of Season 1.
Summary[]
June finds a little dragon kite flying toward her and she shows the team a picture of the Dragon Kite Parade in The Great Wall of China. However, there is a problem: the little dragon kite is afraid of flying high, and the dragon kites on the picture are missing, because they were kidnapped by bad Chinese Warriors and they locked the kites up in different places: The Forbidden City, Yangtze River and the snowy mountain called Karakoram 2 (K2), by the order of their cruel, Musical Chinese emperor to ban the parade forever! So the team must find the missing dragon kites, help their friend overcome her fear and show the Cruel, musical Chinese Emperor that he was wrong of banning the parade.
Information[]
To save the Great Kite Parade from The Great Wall of China in Huairou, first: You must enter The Forbidden City to climb the stairs that sound like music notes and save the Blue Dragon Kites. Second: You must enter Yangtze River as of one of the Chinese Paintings to find the Yellow Dragon Kites that are stuck. And Third: You must enter the mountain named K2 where the Orange Emperor Kite is stuck! When the Little Red Dragon Kite is here to rescue, help the team count all the way to 18 to rescue the Emperor Kite and save the parade!
Plot[]
The episode starts with June practicing her super ballet leap in her garden from her house. And soon, June hears the Dragon Kite in which scares her and June apologizes to the Little Dragon about startling her and soon, the rest of the team comes over which also startle by a Little Kite. But June introduces her new friend, Little Dragon Kite and she gives June a note of the Kite Parade that happened at the Great Wall of China which is today and so, June tells that there are three blue kites, two yellow kites, and one orange emperor kite. Unfortunately, the dragon kites vanish from the note and reveals that it was missing and Dragon Kite tells June that all of the Dragon Kites are missing, because the Bad Chinese Warriors kidnapped them and locked them up in different places by the order of their cruel, musical Chinese emperor to ban the parade forever! Leo tells everyone that they have to find all of the Dragon Kites and bring them to the Great Wall of China in time for the kite parade and show the Cruel Chinese Emperor that he was wrong of banning the parade before it's too late! Soon, they all run to the tree entrance and head down to the Rocket Room while June is sliding down the slide with Little Dragon Kite. Once in the Rocket Room, June introduces Little Dragon Kites to Rocket, unfortunately, Little Dragon Kite has acrophobia as the whole team tells them. Soon, Little Dragon Kite will try to overcome her acrophobia and fly outside with Rocket by tie with a string around Rocket's antenna. Soon, they all board Rocket, buckle their seatbelts, do the pat sequence, and Blast off.
Meanwhile, June asks Little Dragon Kite about flying outside with Rocket and June tells everyone that Little Dragon Kite is covering her eyes with her tail, and even though she has acrophobia, she still needs to rescue all 6 dragon kites and get them to the Great Wall of China in time for the kite parade before it's too late! First, Annie sings the kite parade song, them the rest of the team sings the kite parade.
Soon, the Little Einsteins and the dragon kite arrive at China and hover at the Great Wall of China and June tells the Little Dragon Kite to uncover her eyes and see the woodwinds getting ready for the kite parade.
Afterwards, June hears the three blue dragon kites and Rocket lands in front of the Forbidden City and the whole team and Little Dragon Kite enter the Forbidden City and Annie listens while Leo told everyone that it came from that building but Quincy tells that Little Dragon Kite still has acrophobia as June conflicts her to stick with her group. and so, Little Dragon Kite follows the whole team all the way to the top of the forbidden city. While the Little Einsteins are on the way to the top of the Forbidden City, they realise that these stairs plays music notes and when the Little Einsteins are going higher, the musical stairs play higher notes. Soon, the Little Einsteins are following the Little Dragon Kite all the way to the top of the Forbidden City. Soon, the whole team peak in the building and head in to reveal the three blue dragon kites and Little Red Dragon Kite greet the three blue dragon kites with a gong crash and bring the three blue dragon kite parade back to Rocket and blast off back to the Great Wall of China.
While the Little Einsteins are dropping off the three blue dragon kites, they see that the brass section is now joining the kite parade while June take a note as the picture of the three blue dragon kites are back, but they still have to find the two yellow dragon kites and the orange emperor dragon kite. Rocket uses his look and listen scope to look and listen for the two yellow dragon kites where it is coming from a Chinese painting of the Yangtze River where the two yellow dragon kites come from one of the three gorges and so, Annie tells them to listen for the two yellow dragon kite which is sound the Death of Ase from Peer Gynt Suite Number 1 while June looks at the picture and listen to one of those gorges, with the first gorge sound morning mood part and the second gorge also sound like the part from the morning mood and the third gorge sounds like the Death of Ase where the Yellow Dragon Kite went.
Soon, Little Dragon Kite might have acrophobia of going high, but she's brave of going low and greets the two yellow dragon kite and take them to Rocket and fly back to the Great Wall of China.
As they drop off the two yellow kites, they saw that the string has joined the kite parade and June take a note that they already found the three blue dragon kites, and the two yellow dragon kites, but there only missing the orange dragon kite and Rocket uses his Look and Listen scope again to look for the orange dragon kite which are located on top of the Karakoram 2 (K2) mountain.
Soon, Little Dragon Kite overcomes her acrophobia as they fly to Karakoram 2 (K2) Mountain to save the orange emperor dragon kite.
Afterward, the Little Einsteins listens to the orange dragon kite and see that the orange dragon kite is on top of Karakoram 2 mountain. As they're on their way to the top of Karakoram 2 mountain, the wind pushes Rocket and the little dragon kite down and the Little Dragon Kite unties Rocket's antenna and go in spiral up the mountain to rescue the orange dragon kite while the other team sing her special song eighteen times to reach the orange dragon kite and so, June told that when the little red dragon kite goes around and around and sing her special song, the whole team need to count all the way to eighteen. And soon, they Little Einsteins starting to count as the Little Dragon Kites goes around the lower part of the mountain and goes higher and higher as the whole team counts more and they count all the way to eighteen once the little red kite has reached to the top of Karakoram 2 Mountain and unties the string around the tree and rescue the orange emperor dragon kite and bring back to Rocket and head back to the Great Wall of China.
Once they arrived at the Great Wall of China, June tells Quincy that the orange emperor dragon kite wants the Little Dragon Kite to lead the parade! And soon, the cruel, musical Chinese emperor now becomes impressed to his friend the red dragon kite and he declares that the parade is now allowed forever and whole orchestra has started playing music and the Little Einsteins follows the orchestra in the parade. Mission completion!
Characters[]
Main Characters[]
Minor Characters[]
Art[]
- Detail of Eight Views at the Confluence of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers by Zosan,
- Landscape; Summer by Cai Jia
- Waiting to Cross a River in Autumn by Zhang Lu
- Peach Garden Land of Immortals by Qiu Ying
Music[]
Music Put Together[]
- Peer Gynt Suite Number 1 by Edvard Grieg
Music Breakdown[]
- Peer Gynt Suite Number 1 in E Major "Morning Mood" By Edvard Grieg
- Peer Gynt Suite Number 1 in B Minor "The Death Of Ase" By Edvard Grieg
- Peer Gynt Suite Number 1 in A Minor "Anitra's Dance" By Edvard Grieg
- Peer Gynt Suite Number 1 in B Minor "In The Hall of the Mountain King" by Edvard Grieg
Songs[]
Location[]
- June's House
- Tree Entrance
- Spiral Pole, Slide, Elevator, and Fire Pole
- The Rocket Room
- China
- The Great Wall of China in Huairou
- Forbidden City
- Yangtze River (Chinese Paintings)
- K2 in China and Pakistan
Running Gag[]
- TBA
Post-Curtain Call Sequence[]
- The Dragon Kite riding with her Dragon Kite friends.
Who is in the center of the Episode[]
Quotes[]
- TBA
Notes[]
- TBA
Trivia[]
- This is the second episode to use Grieg's music.
- This is the last episode to feature the Do Re Mi code to open the tree door which leads to the rocket room with the song "We're On Our Way" unless you count that it was last used in Build It, Rocket!.
- This is the first episode to use the shortened version of the Pat and Blast Off Sequence after entering the Rocket Room.
Errors/Goofs/Statics[]
- When Leo's saying they have to find the missing kites, Annie has smiled a little bit.
- When Quincy says "You're a hero!", his eyes are not outlined if you slow it down and his eyebrows are disappearing.
- When Quincy is saying the title card after the intro, he has Annie's dress and shoes, but when she says "And..." after June announces the art, he has his own clothes.