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Ring Around the Planet is the first premiere episode of Season 1 of the series Little Einsteins.
This episode premiered shortly with "I Love to Conduct", and was the first two episodes of season 1.
Summary[]
On a lovely summer evening, June is in her garden, 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, causing one of the rings to come off and land in June's garden. She and her friends must help Ring get home. Even though they are hit with meteors and space goo, they get Ring home with the power of music and magic!
Information[]
In order to get Ring back home, you are ready to prepare for blast off to Outer Space as you are ready to use Rocket's Backup Booster to break the gravity! First: You must help the team drum the meteors away with Quincy's Timpani! But unfortunately, when the biggest meteor comes, Rocket's drum thumpers are tangled! So June uses her astronaut suit and grabs Ring to do a super spin dance to untangle Rocket's thumpers, and now they can drum the biggest meteor away! Second: When you got stuck in Space Goo, help the Team sing the Meep song to call all alien meeps to pull Rocket out of the goo! And Third: When the team arrive to Saturn, Ring tries to reunite with it, but he's too small! The only way to make him bigger is to sing louder, so you have to help Leo conduct Ring crescendo and diminuendo to fit Saturn.
Plot[]
The premiere episode starts on a lovely evening. June looks through the telescope to see some stars and she does the super spin to the music. She sees some stars and the planet Saturn. She dances to the music to Saturn. Unfortunately, one of the rings starts to come loose as the music plays fast. It flies off and bounces off one of the meteors around Earth's moon. June calls to Saturn's Ring and it lands in her garden. Saturn's Ring feels scared and greets June and soon, June and Saturn's Ring begin to dance. As the rest of the team are doing some random activities, they hear some music and comes to June's house and applied to June and Saturn's Ring and soon, they heard Saturn which is behind the clouds. As the cloud breaks in front of Saturn and June knew that Saturn misses one of the Saturn's Ring. So Leo got out his baton that they've got a first mission about getting Ring home, so they all head to the tree entrance and do the do re mi code to open the tree entrance and head to the Rocket room. They greet Rocket and introduce Rocket with Saturn's Ring and Leo told Rocket that they're going to Outer Space and Rocket feels super excited!! So they all head inside Rocket, buckle their seatbelts as Saturn's Ring wrap around one of June's fingers, do the first pat sequence and blast off.
After they blast off, Rocket puts out his backup booster to break through Earth's gravity and they made it to space. Saturn's Ring unwrap June's finger and float off and the whole team unbuckle their seatbelts and retract their seat and float inside Rocket and Quincy does his flips while the whole team sang Ring is going home. Therefore, Leo look at the rear view window of Rocket and saw Earth from back there. Rocket flew past the moon. Unfortunately, Saturn's Ring saw a small fast meteor which is coming toward them, so Quincy got an idea and Quincy told Rocket that they need gravity by using their seats and Quincy deploys his timpani and Rocket uses his drum thumper to drum the meteor away and Leo and other team drum on their laps and Rocket drums the small fast meteor away and they saw a bigger, slower meteor so they all drum on their lap while Quincy uses his timpani to drum the bigger, slower meteor away. They saw the biggest, slowest meteor and when Quincy tries to drum the biggest, slowest meteor away, They notice that Rocket's drum thumper is all tangled up. So June puts on her astronaut suit with Saturn's Ring tether to the ring and June heads out of Rocket and onto Rocket's drum trumpet to do a super spin to untangled the drum thumper and head back to Rocket and they all drum the biggest slowest meteor away and they all drum all three different sized meteors away.
They heard Saturn as they're getting closer as Annie mentioned and Saturn's Ring misses Saturn more as June knew that they get to Saturn as Leo knew that it's their first mission. So they all head back to their seats and buckle their seatbelts, do the pat sequence again and blast off again.
While they're on their way to Saturn, Rocket flew around Mars the red planet, and fly past Jupiter the largest planet. They arrived at the slippery star filled shortcut and enter the slippery star filled shortcut and fly at hyper speed and once they made it out of the slippery star filled shortcut, they landed on space goo and they got stuck!
They heard and saw a meep as one of the meeps fly toward them as Leo told that it's a meep and Saturn's Ring comes toward them as friends to each other and landed on top of the whole team and Saturn's Ring tethered to the ribbon and head out to be friends to each other and Saturn's Ring called Rocket put out his loop and tied around the loop and one of the meep tried to pull Rocket out of the space goo while whole team pat to the beat, but it didn't work so one meep called to another meep to help pull Rocket out of the space goo and they tried to pulled Rocket out of the space goo, but it didn't work either. So Annie lead to sing the meep song as the other team sang with Annie and all of the meeps came and help Saturn's Ring to pull Rocket out of the space goo. Therefore, they all pat to the beat to help all of the meeps to pull Rocket out of the space goo and soon, Rocket is free from the space goo and Annie said goodbye to the meeps and head back to the space goo.
They made it to Saturn as they heard Saturn and June said that she'll look through her telescope every night. So Saturn's Ring head out and tried to fit around Saturn, But Saturn's Ring is too small to fit around Saturn. Soon, they heard Saturn's Ring music plays louder as Saturn's Ring grew bigger and Quincy knew that Saturn's Ring needs to get a lot bigger to fit around Saturn. So Leo has an idea on getting Saturn's Ring bigger as he puts out his baton and presses the button to raise the platform with a music stand to the top of Rocket. Soon, Leo sang Symphony Number 9 in E Minor from the New World to help Saturn's Ring grew bigger and Leo sang loudly, crescendo, to grew Saturn's Ring and once Saturn's Ring grew big enough, Saturn's Ring is too big to fit, so Leo has to sing softer, diminuendo, to help Saturn's Ring to shrink to just the right size, and thus, Saturn's Ring fits just the right size and Rocket retracts his platform and the other team thanking Leo for helping Saturn's Ring by fitting to just the right size and they sang Ring is home. Mission Completion!
Characters[]
Main Characters[]
- Little Einsteins (Debut, First Appearance of the TV Series)
- Saturn (First Appearance)
- Saturn's Ring (First Appearance)
Minor Characters[]
- Meeps (Only Appearance)
Art[]
- Tree of Life by Gustav Klimt
Music[]
Music Put Together[]
- Symphony Number 9 in E Minor Opus. 95 B. 178 From The New World by Antonín Dvořák
Music Breakdown[]
- Symphony Number 9 in E Minor Opus. 95 B. 178 From The New World, First Movement Adagio Allegro Molto by Antonín Dvořák
- Symphony Number 9 in E Minor Opus. 95 B. 178 From The New World, Second Movement Largo by Antonín Dvořák
- Symphony Number 9 in E Minor Opus. 95 B. 178 From The New World, Third Movement Scherzo Molto Vivace by Antonín Dvořák
- Symphony Number 9 in E Minor Opus. 95 B. 178 From The New World, Fourth Movement Allegro Con Fuoco by Antonín Dvořák
Songs[]
Locations[]
- June's House
- Saturn
- Leo and Annie's House
- Tree Entrance
- Spiral Pole, Slide, Elevator, and Fire Pole
- The Rocket Room
- Outer Space
- Meteor Field
- Mars
- Jupiter
- The Slippery Star Filled Shortcut
- Space Goo (Tree of Life)
Running Gag[]
- Ring bouncing on June, Leo, Annie and Quincy heads.
- Ring tickles June.
Rocket's Tools[]
Objects Used[]
Outfit Used[]
Post-Curtain Call Sequence[]
- The Meeps from the episode come from the left of the curtains and sing their song.
Rocket's Tools[]
Who is in the center of the episode[]
Quotes[]
- June: The song's playing fast. Really fast.
- June: I think the ring might be scared. Hello, little ring. I'm June and this is my friend. Say hello, ring.
- Leo: Hey Quincy, check this out. Look how small Earth looks from up here.
- June: Hey, that tickles!
Notes[]
- TBA
Trivia[]
- This is the first episode to feature the Do Re Mi code to open the Tree Entrance which leads to the rocket room with the song "We're On Our Way".
- This episode's title is a parody to the title of the child song "Ring Around the Rosie".
- This is one of the three season 1 episodes on iTunes to have the team use their US voices rather than their UK voices (along with "Pirate's Treasure" and "The Mouse and the Moon"). When it was first imported to iTunes, originally it uses the UK version for unknown reasons. Some years later, they changed it to the USA version.
- This is the first episode to use Klimt's art, and Dvořák's Music.
- In real time, the route to Saturn in this episode could last approximately three years and two months.
- The Slippery Star Filled Shortcut may be a reference to science's fiction concept of hyper jumping.
- Saturn may be visible in the night sky on some occasions, but of course, not as easy as shown in the show.
- In the show, Saturn's Ring was about as tall as June (about a meter, or 3 feet and 3 inches). But in reality, the rings are about 282,000 kilometers (175,227 miles) across and meter thick in other world, the ring are much bigger than the Earth itself.
- This is the first time that Rocket uses his backup booster in order to break the gravity.
- When Leo's clothes on the color orange were darker and his red hair had 11 spikes in Our HUGE Adventure, the staff dimmed him as his hair now has 6 spikes.
Errors/Goofs/Statics[]
- When the team are entering the Tree Entrance while singing "We're on our way!", Saturn's Ring doesn't appear while the team are running to the Rocket Room until the next scene, he was there when they run into the tree entrance.
- When the team are floating in outer space, Leo's pockets are missing.
- When June walks to the garden to find ring, the screen is stretched a bit, but in the next shot it's back to normal 4:3.
- When Annie and Leo run while finding the music, Leo is in his our huge adventure look for a split second.
- When June says "Ring, where are you going?", they don't have seatbelts, only Annie is seen with a seatbelt.