Ep 5. Poppin' Pancakes/Night Light
- February 2, 2006
Yik Yak has arrived to share a treat from his home planet with the Moonaluna gang - Poppin' Pancakes. These special pancakes start as a small ball of dough, then pop and expand to 100 times its size. But before anyone can chow down, Jim has to go to on a mission. The "plug" on a Heat Crater has popped off, and he has to replace it before the surface temperature on Moonaluna gets too warm. He's successful, and his reward is one of Yik Yak's pancakes - which is the consistency of hardened cement and completely inedible.Skye is preparing a class assignment on night and day. When Ripple announces a distant solar panel is malfunctioning, Jim, Ted and Skye go out to fix it. When Skye leaves Ripple's new oil injector inside the panels, Ted climbs in to retrieve it - just as the sun is going down. The panels close like the petals on a flower, imprisoning Ted. It looks like he'll be trapped until first light the next day - until Skye remembers her lesson about night and day. If it's night in one place on Moonaluna, it's day in another. It's only late afternoon at the base. They fly back with the solar panel, and the "petals" open in the sunlight there, freeing Ted.