Mindy Melendez

### Age

3 (Earth years) first 7 episodes of Season 14 (Earth years) from episode 8 of Season 1 7 episodes on Season 2
5  (Currently)

### Friends

Jet Propulsion
 Sydney Skelley
 Sean Rafferty
 Mitchell Peterson
 Lillian
 Sunspot
Celery Propulsion
Carrot Propulsion
Face 9000
Dr. Rafferty
Dr. Bergs
Amy Skelley
Mr. Peterson
Cody
Floyd
Ellen Ochoa
Jet 2 (character)
Sydney 2 (character)
Beep
Boop
Uncle Zucchini
Zerk
Moonbeam
Stella Singularity
Great Galacto

### Relatives

Dr. Melendez (mother)
 Unnamed (grandmother)
 Unnamed (grandfather)

### Voiced by

Jaeda Lily Miller

> "Hey, I'm only four. Live and learn."
>
> -Mindy

**Mindy Melendez** is a main character and one of Jet's best friends in *Ready Jet Go!*.

## Personality

Mindy lives across the street and is always coming over to see what the bigger kids are doing. Mindy is 4, so she asks the real questions that 4-year-olds ask about space. The answers to these questions are often what the episodes are about. She's not always in possession of the facts and is still a magical thinker. To her, the phases of the Moon mean that there are “a lot of moons, like the round fat one, and the one shaped like a taco, and the skinny, pointy one."

There is one more neighbor who is in on the secret of the Propulsion family: Mindy Melendez. Mindy is a little girl who is the youngest member of Jet's group. Mindy, being 4, is very curious about the world around her and loves to ask questions. Due to her curiosity, Mindy is the reason for the episode events. She often asks questions that prompt the older children to go into space to find an answer. She also points things out, such as noticing that Jet's house was not on the map in *Satellite Selfie*.

Mindy is a very cheerful and energetic girl. She also likes to be sarcastic, self-centered, and sassy at times to the older children. In *Backyard Moon Base*, she buried the remote control to the Propulsion house on purpose, but she openly says that she can get away with it. "I'm only 4, live and learn." In *Sounds Abound*, she is practicing her flugelhorn outside, which disrupts Sean's experiment. Sean tells her that she is being too loud on her flugelhorn. Then Mindy gets upset because if Sean doesn't complete his experiment, he won't get to go to Astronaut School, and he won't become an astronaut and name a planet after Mindy. In *Satellite Selfie*, Mindy tells one of the kids that they can't come up with good ideas like her because "you're just not [Mindy]". In *How Come the Moon Changes Shape?*, she admits to Sunspot that she likes to mess with the big kids by making them explain certain topics over and over.

> "Hey, Sunspot! I know there's only one moon. I just like making the big kids have to explain it over and over again. (giggles)"
>
> -Mindy, *How Come the Moon Changes Shape?*

Due to being the youngest, she couldn't do as much stuff as Jet, Sean, and Sydney got to do. Her mom did not allow her to go anywhere past Jet's yard, so she had to stay on Earth while Celery took the older kids into space.  However, she does get to go trick-or-treating with everyone else in *Jet's First Halloween*, and she finally turns five in *Mindy Turns Five*, and gets to go to outer space. Mindy may not know as much as the older kids, but she’s
welcomed into the group, treated as an equal, and never talked down to.
Mindy also has a *very* close relationship with Jet’s alien pet, Sunspot, as shown in episodes like *Mindy Pet-Sits*.

## History

Mindy has most likely already known Sean and Sydney before Jet arrived on Earth. She was probably even friends with Sean and Sydney as soon as she could walk and talk. In *Mindy's Moon Bounce House*, she celebrates her birthday, but it is unknown how old she turned. In *So Many Moons*, Mindy said that her parents are going to have a baby soon, but this particular arc was later scrapped. In *The Mindysphere*, she was allowed to venture farther out into the neighborhood.

In *Mindy Turns Five*, she turns five and gets to go to space with the older kids. Mindy's birthday is April 2.

## Appearance

Mindy is a 4 (later 5) year old girl with tan skin and brown eyes. She has brown hair always in pigtails held by two blue hair ties. She always wears a brown crocheted bear hat with two blue buttons. She wears a crocheted orange sweater, folded denim shorts over dark grey leggings, and black flats.

Mindy is almost never seen without a hat on. She even wears a hat when she goes to sleep - specifically, she wears an orange koala nightcap. The first (and only) time we see her without a hat is during the Space Hero song in *Space Camp*.

## Songs

* General
* Season 1
* Season 2
* Space Camp

* Theme Song
* Takeoff!
* The Scientific Method
* Commander Cressida Theme Song (in some episodes)

- How Come the Moon Has Craters?

- My Name is Mindy

- What Goes Up

- Dear Little Frozen Pluto

- A Star is Born

- Lone Star!

- A Scientific Town

- Earthday Birthday

- Mindy's Toy-Building Ditty

- The Spirit of Christmas

- There's No Planet Like My Planet (reprise)

- Ice Skating in July

- I'm Finally Five!

- Potatoes On Mars

- Get Growin'

- Potato Changes

- I'm Not Afraid of New Ideas

- Total Eclipse of the Sun

- Everyday is Earth Day

- Super Hyperdrive

- It Takes a Team

- Space Hero

## International Voices

* Brazil: Luisa Palomanes
* Finland: Saara Lehtonen
* French (Space Camp): Corrine Martin
* Hungary: Hermann Lilla
* Latin America: Angie Mallo
* Russia: Vitaliya Kornienko (Виталия Корниенко)
* South Korea: Jang Eun-suk

## Trivia

* Her Halloween costume is Stuffy Bear.
* Mindy was featured in newspapers in *Mindy's Meteorite Stand*.
* Mindy won the Boxwood Terrace Kids' Baking Contest in *Solar System Bake-Off!*.
* Mindy becomes Mitchell's detective partner in *Detective Mindy*, and they became friends
* Mindy has a grandmother, as revealed in *Scientific Sean*.
* She also said that she has a grandfather in *Earthday Birthday*, who is 63 years old.
* The "Mindy Lisa" was featured in the episode *The Mindysphere*, drawn by Sunspot on his digital pad.
* Mindy wears a different bear hat when she goes to sleep in *More Than One Moon*.
* In The Mindysphere, she was given permission to travel farther into the neighborhood.
* In some episodes like *Mindy's Mystery* and *Kid-Kart Derby*, Mitchell is annoyed by Mindy, but in some episodes, he is nice to her like in *Solar System Bake-Off!* and *Detective Mindy*, making them frenemies or having an on-off relationship.
* Mindy was originally not going to be in the show, but the creators developed her in order to appeal to the younger demographic, after testing the initial pilot with children.
* In official descriptions of the show, Mindy is often left out, with a focus on Jet, Sean, and Sydney. This is an example:
	+ *Earth science and astronomy take center stage in this animated series from PBS Kids. Two neighborhood kids -- Sean and Sydney -- befriend the new kid on the block, Jet Propulsion, who just happens to be an alien from planet Bortron 7. Together they explore the solar system and how it affects the planet, while also learning about friendship and teamwork. The series features live-action interstitials with astronomer Dr. Amy Mainzer.*
* Mindy's mother does not allow her to have candy in her room, as mentioned in *Mindy's Mystery*.
* The episodes *Sounds Abound* and *Jet Shrinks the Kids* reveal that Mindy takes flugelhorn lessons.
* Mindy represents the co-dependent stage of emotional development. Mindy is younger than the rest of Team Propulsion, so she relies on them for support. In Season 1, she could not go anywhere without the older kids accompanying her.
* In some of her appearances, such as *Treehouse Observatory*, a variation of My Name is Mindy will play in the background.
* Mindy's use of the flugelhorn is referenced again in *Mindy's Mystery*, *Potatoes on Mars*, and in *Astronaut Ellen Ochoa!*
	+ Amy Mainzer, whose favorite character is Mindy, plays the flugelhorn in the interstitial after *Potatoes on Mars* preceding *Bortron Leprechaun*.

* Mindy's space helmet has bear ears on it.
* Christoph Brown, Etch-A-Sketch master, did an Etch-a-Sketch of the "Mindy Lisa", a parody of the Mona Lisa. It was uploaded on Craig Bartlett's Instagram.
* **Mindy** as a girl's **name** is of English **origin** and is a short form of the Latin for Melinda **meaning** "sweet", which fits Mindy because she is sweet, mostly in early season 1.
* Her name in the Norwegian dub is Mina. The name was chosen due to its similarity to the original English name.
* Mindy is left-handed.

## Gallery

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 **Earthies:Dr. Rafferty • Dr. Bergs • Amy Skelley • Mr. Peterson • Mitchell Peterson • Lillian • Aurora • Houston • Bina Chandra**

**Bortronians**:**Uncle Zucchini** • **Eggplant** • **Zerk** • **Face 9001** • **Moonbeam** • **Stella Singularity** • **Great Galacto**

**Earth Animals & Robots**: Cody • Floyd • Jet 2 (character) • Sydney 2 (character) • Beep • Boop

## References

1. ↑ https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/tv/seattle-native-returns-to-the-small-screen-with-ready-jet-go/