Sean Rafferty

> "Let's be scientific about this."
>
> -Sean

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

## Personality

Sean, the son of a scientist, figures he’s going to grow up to be a great scientist himself and plans to lead the first mission to Mars. But he's afraid of heights, fears cramped spaces, and easily gets space-sick - things he's trying to overcome before he grows up and becomes an actual astronaut.

Sean’s the practical one, always insisting on doing things the old-fashioned way – even though he’s now suddenly hanging out in a very sci-fi reality with Jet! Sean’s a big fan of following the rules of the Scientific Method, which he sings about in his own song.

Sean is initially bad at using his imagination and afraid of going to space, but these lessen over time, such as in "Sean's Year In Space", where Sean pretends to spend a day (he originally intended it as a *year*) in space in the treehouse, and in *Not a Sound*, where he actually suggests going to space to prove that there's no sound there. He sometimes even acknowledges it by calling himself "Mr. Adventure".

At times, Sean can be a bit of a perfectionist. The most defining example would be in *Eye in the Sky*, where he has a chart for every single situation he could possibly end up in.

## Appearance

Sean is a young boy with fair skin and freckles. He has messy light brown hair, which, due to animation errors, can sometimes appear as blonde. Sean's regular outfit is a white shirt with a light green collar and sleeves. He wears blue jeans and brown sneakers. Due to inconsistencies, his eye color is either grey, blue, or green (most commonly blue).

## History

In *Project Pluto*, Dr. Rafferty says that Sean used to carry a little purple hippo everywhere when he was four, much to his embarrassment. In *Solar Power Rover*, Sean claims that he doesn't have an actual pet, but in *The Mindysphere* and *Sean's Neptune Tune*, he says that he has a pet hamster named Pedro. Perhaps that during that timeframe, he actually got a pet.

## Songs Sung

* General
* Season 1
* Season 2
* Space Camp

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

- How Come the Moon Has Craters?

- Night of a Bazillion Stars

- What Goes Up

- So Many Moons

- Intergalactic Travel Writers

- Venus!

- Tiny Blue Dot

- Dear Little Frozen Pluto

- A Star is Born

- Lone Star!

- A Scientific Town

- Neptune Kind of Day

- Earthday Birthday

- The Spirit of Christmas

- Is Your Planet Like My Planet?

- There's No Planet Like My Planet

- That's How We Roll On Bortron 7

- Just Add Water

- Space Racin'

- Ice Skating in July

- 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

* Finland: Katja Sirkiä
* France (Space Camp): Coralie Coscas
* Hungary: István Baráth
* Indonesia: Way Esso
* Norway: Oscar Stålhand Arnø
* Latin America:
	+ Stefani Villarroel (Season 1)
	+ Catherine Reyes (Season 2)
	+ Yojeved Meyer (Space Camp)
* South Korea: Hong Bum-gi
* Russia: Olga Shorokhova
* Brazil: Victor Hugo

## Trivia

* Sometimes, Sean dresses up like Neil Armstrong. One instance of him doing so is for Halloween.
* Sean loves to use the Scientific Method to solve problems. He also tends to sing about it.
* It is unknown where his father is; the only evidence proving he exists is a photograph spotted in *Sean's Year in Space*. He was mentioned by Sean in *Night of a Bazillion Stars,*
* Sean is unathletic, as he was unable to do push-ups in "Sean's Year in Space". However, he did a perfect somersault in *Back to Bortron 7*.
* Although it's said that he gets space-sick easily, he's only been space-sick in a select few episodes; these episodes being *Tour of the Solar System*, *Tiny Blue Dot*, *Jet's First Halloween*, *The Mindysphere*, *Astronaut Ellen Ochoa!*, and *One Small Step*. He was also shown being motion-sick in *Jet's Time Machine*. In *I Feel the Earth Move*, he reveals that he also gets seasick, as boats make him queasy.
* He is claustrophobic and acrophobic.
* Sean loves pot roast. At his house, they often have “pot roast night” for dinner.
* In *Whole Lotta Shakin'*, he says that he eats when he is stressed.
* In *Holidays in Boxwood Terrace*, Sean is revealed to have an excellent singing voice. And he reveals that he likes to sing in the shower. However, later in the special, he gets stage fright when he has to sing on stage.
* As of the second season, Jet loves to call him "Sean-zo".
* He knows how to play the drums as shown in *Potatoes on Mars*.
* In *Magnet, PI*, he is shown to know how to do magic tricks under the name "The Great Seanzo".
* In *Fact or Fiction?*, he says his favorite flavor of ice cream is chocolate.
* He often talks into a tape recorder, calling it "Astronaut's Log". He did this in episodes like *The Mindysphere*.
* Sean represents the group-dependent stage of emotional development. It is shown in multiple episodes that Sean is most successful when he has the other characters helping him, and that he is unsuccessful when he tries to work by himself. This is because teamwork is a huge part of science.
* During the *Takeoff!* sequence, the same audio clip of his screaming is always used, even after William Ainscough was replaced.
* In the Hungarian dub, he is voiced by István Baráth, who also voices Rubble in the Hungarian dub of *PAW Patrol*.
	+ His Finnish voice actress is known for being the voice of Elsa in *Frozen*.
* His hamster, Pedro, is possibly named for Pedro Duque, a Spanish astronaut and aeronautics engineer who serves as Minister of Science of the Government of Spain.
* Sean strongly resembles Jake from Molly of Denali.
* In *Galileo, Galileo!,*he says that his heroes are Galileo Galilei, Neil Armstrong, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, and Patti Smith.
* Sean could have a crush on Jet since they are always close.
* Sean may be Irish, because both "Sean" and "Rafferty" are names of Irish origin. He also shares his name with two famous Irish men, one a poet and one a radio host.
	+ Sean means "God is gracious", which suits Sean because he is polite to others.
	+ Rafferty means "one who will prosper", which suits the Rafferty family as a whole because Sean's mother, Dr. Rafferty, is an accomplished scientist.
* His name in the Norwegian dub is Lars.
* His name in the Finnish dub is Otto.
* In *Mindy's Meteorite Stand*, he tried to hit on an unnamed girl with short blonde hair by saying that he's a science colleague of Mindy's. However, this wasn't shown in any other episode. He has more moments with Jet instead.
* Apart from claustrophobia and acrophobia, Sean is shown as likely having psychological disorders such as anxiety and PTSD. Sean is always nervous, especially when it comes to someone touching his birthday telescope. Also, in *Galileo, Galileo!*, he had a traumatic flashback to the events of *Holidays in Boxwood Terrace*. This makes him one of two characters to have a psychological disorder, the other being Mitchell, who is implied to have Borderline personality disorder.

## References

1. ↑ https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/ready-jet-go-space-camp-the-movie/umc.cmc.2ap26ls31f3qhengoawym3hir

 **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