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Duck, Duck, June is the twenty-second episode of Season 1 of the series Little Einsteins.
However, in production order, it's the eleventh episode of Season 1.
Summary[]
The team is at Lake Huron in Michigan seeing a mother duck, together with her ducklings as they hatch from their eggs. They follow their mother until one hatches late and follows the gang by accident, because he follows June's whistling in which he thinks she is his mother. The gang have to bring Ducky back to his mother before she gets worried.
Information[]
in order to get the baby duckling back to his family, first you have to use a backup booster to fly faster to the forest. Second, you have to jump up and down on these rocks. Third, you have to go on the musical roller coaster and clap to the beat with the rhythm gate. Fourth, you have to go to the top of the musical roller coaster and find the right Great Lake, and last, you have to help baby duckling flap the wings to fly over the fences.
Plot[]
The episode starts with the Little Einsteins at the Great Lakes with June greeting and told that they found mommy ducky with her eight eggs and Leo counts all eight eggs. Soon, the eggs starts the hatch and all baby ducklings, except the third egg, which isn't ready to hatch pops out and Annie uses her camera to take some photos of baby ducklings. Then, mama duck wants all ducklings to follow her into the water and so, all except the third egg duckling enter the water and follow mama duckling into the Great Lake. Soon, the third egg hatch and ducky pops out. Then, Leo told little ducky that the mommy duck call little duck as seven duckling and their mommy swim away from duckling. Then, the all head back to Rocket and little ducky follow the whole team to Rocket. Then, they all blast off back to the Rocket room.
Once, they made it to the Rocket room, they notice that little duckling accidentally follow the whole team to Rocket which flew to the Rocket room because ducky plays follow the leader with June as Leo mentioned while he thinks that it's June's mom. But June is a member of Little Einsteins and ducky belongs to their whole family at the Great Lake. Then, Annie take a look at the photo album from her camera of mama ducky and their ducklings. Then, Leo puts out his baton that they've got a mission about bringing ducky back home to their family at the Great Lake, so they all head back to Rocket, buckle their seatbelts, do the pat sequence, and blast off.
After they blast off, Annie sang follow ducky home with her whole team. June told Rocket to bring Ducky back home extra fast by using Rocket's back up booster. Soon and unfortunately, ducky Thinks that it's a good time to Play Follow-The-Leader And begins to press several buttons which causes Rocket to fly in corkscrew and whole team spinning which made them dizzy as Leo mentioned, so Leo decided to land Rocket at the dark, spooky forest.
Once they landed at the dark, spooky forest, Quincy told that they need to find a way out of the dark, spooky forest. Then, June told the whole team to follow her. Soon, they heard a wolf howling as Quincy mentioned. Then, they made it to the stone forest and June told to follow her by doing follow the leader up down move while moving her arms up and down. Soon, June leap onto a rock and jump off the rock while doing the up, down move two time. Then, the rest of the team follows June by doing the same thing as June does two time. Then, ducky tries to follow the whole team, but the rock is so big, so June and her whole team do follow the leader up down move two time. Soon, ducky made it to the other side of Stone forest and Rocket did the same. Then, they hear a bear growling as Annie and Leo mentioned. Then, they follow June to the river forest.
Then, they made to the river forest and they still hear the bear growling as it getting closer. Then, June got a plan about getting past the stream by patting the beat and June leap onto three rocks and made to the other side and June resume patting as the whole team and ducky leaps three rocks across the river and Rocket leap across the river and soon, they made it across the river and got away from the bear. Soon, ducky found the other way out of the forest and ducky follow the whole team out of the forest and head back to Rocket and blast off.
Soon, they all sang bringing ducky home to his family, and soon, they made it to the musical roller coaster and Rocket follow the musical track of the musical roller coaster and soon, they saw a sign that said Ritardando which means the music goes slower and slower and Rocket goes slower and slower and soon, they saw the accelerando sign which means the music goes faster and faster and Rocket flew faster and faster and soon, they made it to the rhythm gate which is block, then, Quincy told that he can clap the rhythm with ducky. Soon, Quincy clap the same way that the rhythm gate tap the rhythm, and ducky clap the same way as the rhythm gate does. Then, Quincy clap the rhythm gate beat with ducky and they continue to clap the rhythm with the rhythm gate and soon, the rhythm gate is open. Then, they made to the accelerando sign and soon, they made it to the top of the musical roller coaster and saw the Great Lakes from the top of the musical roller coaster. But there are five Great Lakes and they don't know which lake is baby duckies live with their family so Rocket put out his overhead look and listen scope to find mommy ducky's nest. Then, Rocket put out his display screen to look and listen for mama duck. First, Rocket zoom in on the map at Lake Superior, but mama duck isn't at lake superior. Then, Rocket zoom in on the map at Lake Michigan, but mama duck isn't at Lake Michigan either. So Rocket zoom in on the map at Lake Huron and mama duck is at Lake Huron. So Rocket retracts his display screen they all head down to Lake Huron.
Soon, they made it to Lake Huron where mama duck lived and they all head out of Rocket one last time. Unfortunately, there's a big fence in front of Lake Huron. Then, June got a plan about flying ducky over the fence by moving her arms up and down to the beat of the music and soon, ducky flew over the fence and soon, ducky made it back to their family. Then, Annie knew that she had eight eggs and she counts eight duckling. Soon, ducky wave to the Little Einsteins and the whole team wave back to ducky as he swims back to their family. Mission completion!
Characters[]
Main Characters[]
Minor Characters[]
- Baby Duckling (Only Appearance)
- Butterfly (Second Appearance as cameo after the curtain opens)
- Wolf (Only Appearance/Villain)
- Bear (Only Appearance/Villain)
Art[]
- On The River Gretta, Lake District, England by John Atkinson Grimshaw
Music[]
Music Put Together[]
- Horn Concerto In E Flat Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Music Breakdown[]
- Horn Concerto No. 2 in E flat Major, K 417, 1st Movement: Allegro Maestoso by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Horn Concerto No. 2 in E flat Major, K 417, 3rd Movement: Rondo Allegro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Horn Concerto No. 3 in E flat Major, K, 447, 2nd Movement: Romance, Larghetto by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Horn Concerto No. 4 in E flat Major, K 495, 3rd Movement: Rondo, Allegro Vivace by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Songs[]
Locations[]
- Mama Duck's Nest
- Mackinac Bridge
- The Rocket Room
- Dark and Spooky Forest
- Rock Forest
- River Forest (On the River Greta)
- The Musical Roller Coaster
- Rhythm Gate
- Lake Superior
- Lake Michigan
- Chicago
- Lake Huron
- Fence near Lake Huron
Running Gag[]
- TBA
Rocket's Tool[]
Object Used[]
Post-Curtain Call Sequence[]
- Little Ducky appears from the left curtain and sings.
Who is in the center of this episode[]
Quotes[]
- Ducky: (Pushes Random Buttons)
- June: Uh oh! Ducky's pushing buttons just like me.
- TBA
Notes[]
- TBA
Trivia[]
- The title is a parody of the title of the game "Duck, Duck, Goose".
- This is the fourth episode to use Mozart music. However, in production order, this is the third episode to do so.
- This is the first time June does a facepalm.
- After the curtain opens a butterfly flies across the screen then June came.
- This is the only episode of the series to have June's name in the title.
Errors/Goofs/Statics[]
- After Rocket de-activates his backup booster after finding a spot to land, the compartment is still opened.
- In the US version when June sings "We're taking a trip to bring Ducky home", she used Annie's dialogue. The UK version leaves this out.
- When the team cheers “Yay!” while arriving in Lake Huron to bring ducky home, Annie and Quincy have switched their seats.
- 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, just like before.