Little Einsteins
Little Einsteins teaches art and music appreciation by integrating famous or culturally significant art works (usually, but not always, paintings) and classical music into the scenery, plot, and soundtrack of each episode. Viewers are involved in the action of the show by encouraging them to pat their legs, gesture, or sing along to help the characters succeed on their "mission".
Little Einsteins features four children — Leo, Annie, Quincy and June — along with their intelligent and transformable space/air/water-craft, "Rocket". In each episode they embark on an adventure (or "mission") to solve some problem or help a new friend. These missions take them to far-flung locations including foreign countries and "extreme" environments such as Antarctica, underwater, or outer space. In some episodes, Rocket's nemesis "Big Jet" tries to steal something from them or beat them to a goal. The characters' respective talents (Leo conducts, Annie sings, Quincy plays instruments, June dances) and participation of the audience are required to surmount various obstacles to completing the mission. Each episode concludes with a "curtain call" crediting the team members, ancillary characters, and reviewing the featured art and music selections.
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Trivia
- The children in Little Einsteins were originally named for famous people in their specialties. Leo for (Leonardo da Vinci, Annie for Annie Oakley, Quincy for Quincy Jones the singer and producer, and June for Nam June Paik)[citation needed]
- There are a total of thirteen songs featured in the season one episodes. Each song appears in two episodes.
- Rocket's engines are not actually rocket engines, but appear to be jet engines. Rocket has a Backup Booster which does appear to a rocket, but is only used on a small number of missions.
- In the movie we find out that Quincy is afraid of the dark. This fact is restated in "The Northern Night Light"
- Rocket's nemesis, Big Jet, appears for the first time in the episode "Hungarian Hiccups".
- In the episode "The Birthday Balloons" Annie celebrates her birthday party in Antarctica, after they got all of her balloons back.
- In the episode "Oh Yes, Oh Yes, It's Springtime" we find out that Big Jet is allergic to flowers.
- Rocket has a variety of tools and accessories that aid the team in completing their missions. Some of their names are: Look and Listen Scope, Grab-Nabber, Bigger Digger, Clapper Catcher, Drum Thumper, Breeze Blower, Blazer Laser, and Hammer Whammer. The last two may seem to show a violent side to Rocket, but thus far he has only used them to aid in the construction of the Garage. (the laser was used to cut wood). Rocket also has various tools used for cleaning.
- Many of these are too large to fit within the non-passenger are a of Rocket, and collectively would be much larger than Rocket himself, thus Rocket stores his tools in hammerspace.
- Big Jet appears four times during the first season of the show.
- Rocket is given power through patting. The explanation given (in the Pilot episode) is that patting helps Rocket "feel the rhythm of the beat". No external fuel source is identified, so Rocket could be considered to be a Perpetual Motion Machine.
- In the episode "How We Became The Little Einsteins: The True Story", we know that Rocket was a piece of a baby toy, that Leo had, that eventually grew up, just like the characters.
- On the Hallowe'en special episode, the Little Einsteins team are dressed up with Hallowe'en costumes. Quincy is a bat, Leo is a spider, June is a witch and Annie is a pumpkin.
- Leo and Annie are brother and sister.
- Leo is 6 years old; Annie is 4 years old; Quincy is 5 years old; and June is also 6 years old.
- Leo has some similarities with Otto Osworth from the Time Squad series, and Annie has some similarities with Bubbles from the Powerpuff Girls series.
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