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Bouncing Ideas/Leaning Tower, No Pizza
Lucita Sky, AJ Gadgets, Sara Snap, and Benny Bubbles, led by their quirky and enthusiastic teacher, Mr. Sparks, work together to help people, solve problems, and try to make the world a better place. When their imperfect powers aren’t up to the task, they look to their other powers – the superpowers of science – to help them investigate, observe, make predictions, and figure out a solution.
Bouncing Ideas/Leaning Tower, No Pizza
Season 1 Episode 22 | 24m 55s | CC
Hero Elementary student, Rubberband Robbie, is super stretchy. But, when he coils up into a ball and bounces all over the school, Sparks’ Crew has to find a way to stop him, and to keep him from bouncing out of control again. / When Lucita flies to pick up pizza, she accidentally causes a communication tower to fall over, knocking out all phone service.
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