Commander Cressida" Song And Character From The Children's Animated Television Series "Ready Jet Go" (information, video, & Lyrics)

Edited by Azizi Powell

UPDATE: November 8, 2019

This pancocojams post presents information about the song "Commander Cressida" song and the lyrics of that song from the children's animated television series Ready Jet Go.

This post also focuses on the Commander Cressida" character and includes a YouTube video entitled "I Thought Commander Cressida Was Black" and selected comments from that YouTube video's discussion thread which question which race that fictitious character is.

The content of this post is presented for cultural and entertainment purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Craig Bartlett & Jim Lang, the composers of this song and thanks to all those who are associated with the Ready Jet Go television series.

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INFORMATION ABOUT THE "READY JET GO" TELEVISION SERIES
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready_Jet_Go!
"Ready Jet Go! is a preschool CGI animated television series produced by Wind Dancer Films. The series premiered on PBS Kids on February 15, 2016. It was created by animator and Hey Arnold! creator Craig Bartlett,[1] and is produced in cooperation with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The show is aimed at kids ages 3 to 8. On August 17, 2016, PBS Kids announced the renewal of the series for a second season, which premiered on April 2, 2018.[2]

Plot
Jet Propulsion and his family are from the fictional planet Bortron 7 which orbits around a red dwarf called Bortron. They live at Boxwood Terrace in Washington,[3] where they study human customs and Earth environments for a travel guide. Jet has made friends with neighborhood kids, including Sydney, Mindy, and Sean, whose parents work at the nearby Deep Space Array. The Propulsions' car turns into a flying saucer, which they frequently use to take the older kids into space. Their alien identities are known to Sean, Mindy, and Sydney, but they otherwise make some effort to conceal their origin. As of early June 2016, it's unclear whether anyone else knows who they really are.

At the end of each episode, scientist Amy Mainzer (also called Astronomer Amy) hosts educational interstitial segments: the segments are not included in the export version."...

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LYRICS: COMMANDER CRESSIDA
(Craig Bartlett & Jim Lang)

Commander Cressida
She is the best of the
Galactic astronauts
There's nothing she cannot
Commander Cressida
She's on the moons of Mars
Her boots are on the ground
Her head is in the stars!
Fearless and curious
With her space dog Sirius
Always in the chase
They'll surely win the race
'Cause a kid's place, is exploring space!

Commander Cressida Theme Song is a song in Ready Jet Go! (Series). It is the theme song of the show, Commander Cressida.

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Trivia
The characters sing the song in some episodes, such as in “Backyard Moon Base”, “So Many Moons”, and “What's a Satellite”?.

In some episodes, the song plays in the credits, instead of an instrumental of the Ready Jet Go theme song.

Source: https://readyjetgo.fandom.com/wiki/Commander_Cressida_Theme_Song.
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Commander Cressida is drawn as a Black woman.

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SHOWCASE VIDEO:READY JET GO! | Reading Commander Cressida | PBS KIDS



PBS KIDS, Jun 6, 2018

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Sydney and Mindy sing the Commander Cressida theme while running to the treehouse where Sydney reads the first issue of Commander Cressida.

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UPDATE: November 8, 2019

Pancocojams Editor's Note:
I was introduced to the "Commander Cressida" song and character by my 6 year old granddaughter Jaiya. But I haven't found very many references to "Commander Cressida" on that Ready Jet Go cartoon series.

Here's one YouTube video that I found, given with selected comments which I numbered for referencing purposes only.

I thought Commander Cressida was black




Curtis Axel, Sep 12, 2017

Many Moons doll looks white

Show: Ready Jet Go! : So Many Moons/Project Pluto
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Selected comments:
1. MadMatt9007, 2019
"She ain't black?"

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REPLY
2. Curtis Axel, 2019
"see the doll at 0:35 it has a pale head. The girl who owns the doll (Sydney Skelley) is black and had dressed up as her before."

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3. belle mcellis, 2018
"Season 2 episode-1 shows Commander Cressida is a Black woman. It also shows the mom of the black girl, who's Black. And Mindy turns 5 and goes into space. On a girl's outing."
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That video that the commenter describes is the first one that is shown in this pancocojams post.

As of the date of this pancocojams post there are only four comments in this comment thread (which remains open unlike most comment threads for YouTube videos that feature real children under the age of 13 years.) The comment that I didn't include contains gibberish and may have been written to mock the "She ain't black/" question or the questioner.

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