Little Einsteins
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| Little Einsteins | |
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| Genre | Animated series |
| Starring | Jesse Schwartz (Leo), Erica Huang (June), Aiden Pompey (Quincy), Natalia Wojcik (Annie), |
| Country of origin | USA |
| Production | |
| Running time | half-hour |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Disney Channel |
| Original run | October 9, 2005 – Present |
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Little Einsteins is an animated television series on Playhouse Disney created by a team headed by Eric Weiner of Dora the Explorer fame, Emmy Award winning Director Olexa Hewryk, and produced by Curious Pictures, The Baby Einstein Company and Disney Channel. Little Einsteins began as a direct-to-video movie Our Big Huge Adventure, released on August 23, 2005. The TV series began on October 9. On October 5, Little Einsteins was broadcast in Japan on TV Tokyo. In Europe, the second season of the show premiered on Disney Channel, around Christmas time.
Little Einsteins is an educational preschool series which was designed to teach the target demographic 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. The show is also desgined to encourage viewer interaction (such as patting their legs, gesturing, or singing along to help the characters succeed on their "mission").
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[edit] Synopsis
| Common rating | |
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| Canada | C |
| New Zealand | G |
| United States | TV-Y |
[edit] Characters
Little Einsteins features four children — Leo (6 years old, conducts), June (6 years old, dances), Quincy (5 years old, plays musical instruments), and Annie (4 years old, sings) — 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 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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June |
Quincy |
Annie |
[edit] The Complete Episode Guide
[edit] DVD Collections
| Team Up for Adventure | "How We Became The Little Einsteins: The True Story", "I Love To Conduct", "Rocket Safari" | April 25, 2006 |
| Mission Celebration! | "The Birthday Machine", "Go West, Young Train", "The Birthday Balloons" | August 22, 2006 |
| Legend of The Golden Pyramid | "Legend of The Golden Pyramid", "The Dragon Kite", "Annie and the Toy Plane" | February 27, 2007 |
[edit] Books
| Mission: Where's June |
| Mission: Color Discoveries |
| Butterfly Suits |
| Music of the Meadow |
| Galactic Goodnight |
| Australian Adventure |
| Farmer Annie's Garden |
| The Birthday Machine |
[edit] Trivia
- Rocket's engines are not actually rocket engines, but appear to be jet engines. Rocket has a Backup Booster which does appear to be a rocket, but is only used on a small number of missions.
- Rocket's nemesis, Big Jet, which appears four times during the first season of the show, debuted 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.
- 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, Back-up Booster, Drum Thumper, Breeze Blower, Blazer Laser, and Hammer Whammer. Rocket also has various tools used for cleaning. Many of these are too large to fit within the non-passenger area of Rocket, and collectively would be much larger than Rocket himself, thus Rocket stores his tools in what is sometimes called "hammerspace".
- 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, although in season 2 is discovered that Rocket uses "Music Gas".
- In the episode "How We Became The Little Einsteins: The True Story", Rocket was an ornament on a baby mobile that Leo had possessed, which eventually grew up, as did the characters.
- Rocket built his own home.
- Leo's first word was 'Rocket'
- On the Halloween special episode, Quincy is dressed as a bat, Leo as a spider, June as a witch and Annie as a pumpkin.
- Besides dancing, June also is interested in astronomy, and looking at the stars.
- In season 1, Annie wears a blue dress. In season 2, her dress is pink.
[edit] UK version
In the UK, the Little Einsteins are voiced by those actors and actresses: Poppy Friar (June), Pier Stubbs (Leo), Ella McHugh (Annie), and Mitchel Zhangazha (Quincy). In the UK version, "Yeah" has been changed to "Yes".
