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Let's Go Luna! - The Potato King (S1E61)
Andy is in the mood for some local Peruvian food, but all there seems to be are potatoes, which he finds it boring.
| Runtime (min) | 12 |
|---|---|
| Air Date | 2020-02-16 |
| Genres | Animation, Family, Comedy, Kids |
| TV Rating | TV-Y |
Storyline
In this episode of Let's Go Luna!, Andy is craving some authentic Peruvian cuisine but becomes frustrated when he discovers the local menu is largely focused on potatoes. Bored with the limited options, he embarks on a culinary adventure to learn more about the importance of potatoes in Peruvian culture.
With the help of Luna, Leo, and Carmen, Andy uncovers the fascinating variety of potato dishes and their significance to the local people. Through their exploration, Andy learns to appreciate the potato beyond its monotony, discovering flavors and dishes he never knew existed.
What Parents Say
Parents might appreciate how this episode encourages children to explore different cultures through food. Andy's initial boredom transforms into curiosity, promoting open-mindedness and the idea that there is often more than meets the eye. The show highlights the importance of cultural appreciation and understanding, making it a valuable lesson for young viewers.
Furthermore, the episode offers a humorous look at Andy's dilemma, making it relatable for kids who may share similar feelings about certain foods. Parents can engage their children by discussing their own experiences with trying new cuisines and the importance of being adventurous with food.
What Children Can Learn
Kids will learn about the significance of potatoes in Peruvian culture and the various ways they can be prepared. As Andy and his friends explore different dishes, children are exposed to a rich tapestry of culinary practices, encouraging them to appreciate diversity in food. This episode is a fun way to introduce children to the idea of cultural differences.
Moreover, the story promotes problem-solving as Andy navigates his initial dissatisfaction with the menu. By the end of the episode, he learns to embrace the potato's versatility, teaching kids that sometimes, exploring beyond the surface can lead to delightful surprises. This encourages a positive attitude towards trying new things and expanding their palate.
Five Most Asked Questions
Here are some common questions parents might have about this episode of Let's Go Luna! titled 'The Potato King'.
| Question | Answer |
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| What makes potatoes special in Peruvian culture? | In this episode, the characters learn that potatoes are not just a common food but a staple in Peruvian culture. Peru is home to thousands of potato varieties, and the episode highlights their significance in traditional dishes. Andy discovers that each dish tells a story about the local culture, which helps him appreciate the food on a deeper level. |
| How does Andy's perspective on food change throughout the episode? | Initially, Andy finds the menu boring due to the emphasis on potatoes. However, as he explores various potato dishes with his friends, he learns about their different preparations and flavors. This journey shifts his perspective, showing him that there is always more to explore and appreciate in food, encouraging kids to think differently about what they eat. |
| What role do Luna, Leo, and Carmen play in Andy's adventure? | Luna, Leo, and Carmen serve as supportive friends who help Andy navigate his culinary exploration. They encourage him to be open-minded and adventurous in trying the potato dishes. Their enthusiasm and knowledge about local cuisine guide Andy, making the experience more enjoyable and educational, which reinforces the importance of teamwork and friendship. |
| Are there any lessons about trying new foods in this episode? | Yes, one of the key lessons is about the importance of being adventurous with food. Andy learns that even something as simple as a potato can be transformed into a variety of exciting dishes. The episode encourages kids to step out of their comfort zones and try new foods, fostering an appreciation for different cultures and culinary traditions. |
| How can parents use this episode to teach kids about culture? | Parents can use this episode as a springboard to discuss cultural diversity with their children. By exploring how food varies across cultures, parents can encourage discussions about their own family traditions or foods from different countries. This episode effectively opens the door to conversations about acceptance, appreciation, and the importance of learning about others through their culinary practices. |
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| Season # | Episode # | Episode Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Carmen tries to find a Mariachi band to fill in for the Circo's band when they get the hiccups. |
| 1 | 2 | The trio help Carmen's friend Pico deliver a lost cocoa bean that was accidentally left behind by his mother. |
| 1 | 3 | In Mexico City, Andy learns about murals when trying to find something to paint on. |
| 1 | 4 | Carmen must face her fear of skeletons in order to make it to her Grandmother's Day of the Dead altar. |
| 1 | 5 | Luna shows the kids different ways to stay warm during a Russian winter. |
| 1 | 6 | A delivery mix-up tasks the kids with returning a giant matryoshka doll to the store. |
| 1 | 7 | Leo and Andy watch over a cranky baby bear named Vlad while Luna and Carmen search for a lullaby called "Bayushki Bayu" to help him go to sleep. |
| 1 | 8 | Andy's love for space is fulfilled by a trip to a Russian space museum. |
| 1 | 9 | Leo's plant Bob is all dried out from the hot Egyptian weather and needs water. |
| 1 | 10 | Carmen makes a new friend named Leyla in Cairo while looking for her missing pet Honey. |
| 1 | 11 | In Cairo, the kids become interested in digging for ancient artifacts. |
| 1 | 12 | A riddle in Andy's Amazing Man comic book uses hieroglyphics so he and the Amazing Team seek to find out what they mean. |
| 1 | 13 | The kids plan a special day for Luna, coincidentally on the same day as the traditional Moon Festival in China. |
| 1 | 14 | Honey is feeling bored of her old cage and wants her new one to be a Chinese drum. |
| 1 | 15 | Andy loses his basketball in Beijing, and through playing more sports to retrieve it, he learns that friendship is much more important than winning. |
| 1 | 16 | Leo has a difficult time learning to eat with chopsticks at a Chinese restaurant. |
| 1 | 17 | Andy is confused during a trip to a London supermarket due to the differences between British English and American English. |
| 1 | 18 | Luna helps the kids navigate the London fog to find Big Ben. |
| 1 | 19 | Carmen pretends to be the Queen of Buckingham Palace, but later finds it less fun than she imagined. |
| 1 | 20 | Papa Chockers is too sick to make lunch for Señor Fabuloso's friend so Leo and his friends go out to get some traditional London food for them. |
| 1 | 21 | The strings on Carmen's guitar snap while she is writing a song for her mother's birthday and she needs to buy more from a bazaar. |
| 1 | 22 | Andy wants to photograph the Springtime colors of Delhi but then an overcast weather turns everything gray. |
| 1 | 23 | Luna appears to have gone missing so the Trio, along with Señor Fabuloso, try and find her. |
| 1 | 24 | Andy and Carmen get into a heated argument and stop talking to each other, so Luna and Leo try to use a traditional Kathputli puppet show to help them make up. |
| 1 | 25 | Carmen borrows a didgeridoo from a new friend in Sydney but ends up losing it, so she tries to make a new one. |
| 1 | 26 | A visit to his uncle's cattle station forces Leo to confront his fear of horses. |
| 1 | 27 | Carmen is asked to compete in a boomerang throwing competition but she lacks confidence. |
| 1 | 28 | Andy is excited to hear the band Syd and the Sydneys perform at the Sydney Opera House. |
| 1 | 29 | A Sumo wrestler puts on an exhibition match with Luna after Salami Strong gets injured. |
| 1 | 30 | Leo is too afraid to watch a Lizardzilla movie, but becomes less afraid when he sees how the movies are made. |
| 1 | 31 | Andy is asked to make posters for the Circo, which leads to learning about the many uses of washi paper. |
| 1 | 32 | Leo learns how to repair broken pottery after he accidentally breaks his dad's special tea bowl. |
| 1 | 33 | Leo needs to make his best dish for his French cooking class but can't think of the perfect thing to make. |
| 1 | 34 | Mister Hockbar is overworking himself and everyone else at the Circo, so the kids and Luna try to find something in Paris to help him relax. |
| 1 | 35 | Andy is trying to make a perfect painting of his model train, but can't make it look 'alive' enough, so Luna takes him to Musée d'Orsay to show him other ways to paint. |
| 1 | 36 | Honey escapes from her cage again and returns head over heels in love with someone named "Mon Amour". Carmen and her friends are determined to find out who exactly this mysterious stranger is. |
| 1 | 37 | In Juneau, Andy and Luna want to tell their story in a totem pole and write their list with a totem pole artist. |
| 1 | 38 | Andy wants to see the beautiful blue lights of Mendenhall Glacier ice caves, but the trip gets harder than expected. |
| 1 | 39 | Leo worries about all the wild animals living in Juneau until he learns they need their own space with wildlife. |
| 1 | 40 | While waiting for the newest book in her favorite series, Carmen learns the values of spoken stories from older times. |
| 1 | 41 | In Istanbul, Carmen is excited to see the juggling act "The Prickly Brothers" perform, but the two are feuding. |
| 1 | 42 | After a firefighter rescues his pet tortoise from a tree, Leo wants to thank him by making him some Turkish Delight, but his unwillingness to pay attention causes trouble. |
| 1 | 43 | Leo wants to prove to Andy & Carmen that his tortoise Wrinkles has family history in Istanbul's Topkapi Palace. |
| 1 | 44 | In order for Andy to capture the full beauty of the Hagia Sophia in his drawings, he must learn to look at it in different ways. |
| 1 | 45 | Señor Fabuloso has lost his creativity and the kids and Luna travel across Barcelona to see if they can reignite his playful spirit, with the help of Antoni Gaudí's unique architecture. |
| 1 | 46 | It's Saint George's Day in Barcelona and Señor Fabuloso is furious because it reminds him of losing track of his friend, making Carmen feel nervous about giving her newest friend Silvia a gift for the same reason. |
| 1 | 47 | Carmen needs to help her new friend Ramona win the Castell contest in Barcelona, but Carmen's independent nature makes this harder than she thought. |
| 1 | 48 | Leo helps a small bird named Eva get back to her nest. But it's at the very, very, very top of Montserrat. Can he be brave enough to do it? |
| 1 | 49 | Andy's Art Day Extravaganza is put on hold when his father needs him to go into the city to get a nail to fix the steps outside their trailer. |
| 1 | 50 | Carmen accidentally wakes Pablo the Armadillo's Melvinis after he has left on vacation, and she needs to find a way to get them back to sleep again. |
| 1 | 51 | Andy has made giant statues of some of the Circo members and needs to figure out something to do with them. |
| 1 | 52 | It's Carnaval at last and Leo wakes up with his hips shimmying uncontrollably to the Samba music. Can he do anything to cure his Samba-itis? |
| 1 | 53 | After Freida the Barrel-Rider's accordion-player bows out, Carmen is asked to take her place. Unfortunately, Carmen has never played one before. |
| 1 | 54 | Señor Fabuloso is so impressed about a book Andy wrote about his Circo that he asks him to make six copies for his friends and he needs them in just a couple of hours! |
| 1 | 55 | Leo's baby sister Mathilda has broken her glockenspiel and Leo needs to get her a new one before the "terrible thing" she does when she's upset happens. |
| 1 | 56 | Carmen wants to become a knight after learning that all the famous ones were male and Honey, deciding to be her "Hamster in Distress," hides inside Neuschwanstein Castle so Carmen can rescue her. |
| 1 | 57 | When visiting an elephant sanctuary in Nairobi, a surly elephant calf named Maktao immediately bonds with Leo, who is asked to take care of him. |
| 1 | 58 | Luna invites the three to come with her to help her friend Mukandi with her farm, where they learn both of unique methods of farming as well as Luna's unique methods of harvesting. |
| 1 | 59 | Everyone in the Circo is having a miserable day, so the kids and Luna seek out a Benga band to cheer everyone up. |
| 1 | 60 | Andy wants to have a photograph of a rhinoceros for his scrapbook, so Luna takes him on a photo safari at Nairobi National Park. |
| 1 | 61 | Andy is in the mood for some local Peruvian food, but all there seems to be are potatoes, which he finds it boring. |
| 1 | 62 | Carmen is going to play a duet with her friend Sisa at a local music festival, but accidentally forgets her guitar back at the Circo. |
| 1 | 63 | Carmen accidentally ruins the pollera dress of Luna's friend Gabriella just before she's about to take part in a parade. |
| 1 | 64 | Senor Fabuloso hasn't sold a single ticket for the Circo, so when he hears about a hidden city called Machu Picchu, he decides to find it and try selling tickets there. |
| 1 | 65 | Mister Hockbar has gone missing and a stranger wearing a khon mask may be the culprit! Can the kids and Luna as "The Figurin' Stuff Out Crew" solve the mystery? |
| 1 | 66 | After the power goes out on Movie Monday, Luna takes Andy, Carmen and Leo to see a Nang talung show. |
| 1 | 67 | Wolfgang brings Leo a durian to taste, but it smells so terrible he can't bring himself to try. |
| 1 | 68 | After the kids are invited to play a game of sepak takraw, Andy learns that he's not quite the sports expert he believes. |
| 1 | 69 | Luna is feeling down after the death of Bessie, one of her oldest friends, so the kids try to cheer her up by having her attend Bessie's jazz funeral. |
| 1 | 70 | Señor Fabuloso argues with Bonjour and Au Revoir about whether New Orleans takes more influence from Spain or France. |
| 1 | 71 | Carmen puts together a jazz band with Leo and Andy to take the place of the Circo's band, but they aren't very good until they're taught about jazz improvisation. |
| 1 | 72 | Leo is nervous to meet his pen pal Remy in the Louisiana bayou because of how amazing he made it sound in his letters. |
| 1 | 73 | Carmen forgets Honey's birthday, and wants to make the finest pasta in Rome, but when she finds out that it comes to pasta, something simpler sounds better. |
| 1 | 74 | After the Circo mysteriously runs out of water in Rome, Andy vows to build an aqueduct to bring water back just like the ancient Romans. |
| 1 | 75 | When Wrinkles the tortoise gets lost outside Rome in spooky Monster Park, Leo must face his fears to find him! |
| 1 | 76 | Leo thinks that having a baby sister is a pain, but after going to Salami Strong's house in Rome for a special family meal, he comes to see his role of a big brother a little differently. |
| Season # | Episode # | Episode Name |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | Leo wants to live the life of a viking. |
| 2 | 2 | An acrobat refuses to perform for Circo Fabuloso because he believes the tent is infested with Huldufólk. |
| 2 | 3 | Leo gets frustrated when everyone ignores his plan to spend time at the hot springs to go look at volcanoes and geysers. |
| 2 | 4 | Andy worries about sea monster attacks after visiting a museum in Reykjavík. |
| 2 | 5 | Señor Fabuloso is scared of taking the kids to their friend Gaja's birthday party. |
| 2 | 6 | Andy learns about the sport kabaddi, but he's not as good at it as he thinks. |
| 2 | 7 | Andy is asked to make a sign for a barber shop owner, but when he hurts his hand he convinces the owner's son to bring out his artistic self. |
| 2 | 8 | Carmen thinks she knows everything about Kumasi, but her beliefs are challenged when a hiplife rapper asks for her help on a song. |
| 2 | 9 | Leo discovers how to make buildings out of mud after accidentally ruining the circus tent. |
| 2 | 10 | Andy mistakenly destroys Señor Fabuloso's suit so he tries to make a new one out of Kente cloth. |
| 2 | 11 | With the help of the American tradition of quilting, Andy figures out a way to keep his worn-out childhood blanket. |
| 2 | 12 | To inspire the others in fixing the disconcerted circus, Carmen sings a sea shanty she wrote. |
| 2 | 13 | Leo wants to go to school in Massachusetts. |
| 2 | 14 | Andy must save the Fourth of July fireworks when Señor Fabuloso says there won't be any. |
| 2 | 15 | Andy helps a lost beetle find its owner in the huge city of Tokyo, Japan. |
| 2 | 16 | Andy heads into the hi-tech city of Tokyo in hopes of obtaining super-robot powers. |
| 2 | 17 | Leo fills in for a Tango dancer's partner but has no clue what he's doing; Luna must give him dance lessons without getting the Crazy Legs. |
| 2 | 18 | Carmen worries so much about a mix-up in her uncle's Circo act that she doesn't have time to rest. |
| 2 | 19 | Andy finds a Giganotosaurus fossil tooth in Argentina, but he's hesitant to donate it to a museum. |
| 2 | 20 | Carmen wants to live like a gaucho, but does she have what it takes? |
| 2 | 21 | In Tahiti, Andy goes looking for a legendary, reclusive Tahitian juggler to perform at the Circo. |
| 2 | 22 | In Rotorua, Leo leads a haka to welcome a Māori chief to the Circo. |
| 2 | 23 | Leo can't figure out how to crack open his first coconut. |
| 2 | 24 | A dance called the Maulu'ulu helps Carmen and Honey learn to appreciate everyday life. |
| 2 | 25 | Andy doesn't want anyone to smash up the piñata he made. |
| 2 | 26 | Carmen must attend a Baile Folklorico dance lesson before she can go to a concert from her favorite band. |
| 2 | 27 | Carmen hears the haunting sound of bagpipes coming from Edinburgh Castle and goes to find out who's playing them. |
| 2 | 28 | Wolfgang wants to perform his terrible dad jokes at Edinburgh's Fringe Festival, and Leo tries to stop him to keep his dad from being embarrassed. |
| 2 | 29 | Andy becomes obsessed with everything Scottish after learning about his Scottish heritage. |
| 2 | 30 | Leo sets out to prove that the Loch Ness Monster is real. |
| 2 | 31 | Andy believes the longer the dragon, the better the luck when it comes to the Chinese dragon dance. |
| 2 | 32 | Leo inspires Wrinkles with the story of Bixi. |
| 2 | 33 | Leo discovers that he yodels in his sleep, so Señor Fabuloso asks him to call a group of performing goats to the Circo. |
| 2 | 34 | Andy convinces an old St. Bernard named Barry to come out of retirement and help Señor Fabuloso when he gets trapped in an avalanche. |
| 2 | 35 | Carmen breaks her favourite clock. |
| 2 | 36 | Leo learns about Swiss cheese. |
| 2 | 37 | Andy learns about movie magic in Paris. |
| 2 | 38 | Carmen chases a hot air balloon. |
| 2 | 39 | Andy thinks his Dad is a caveman in Dubrovnik, Croatia. |
| 2 | 40 | Carmen cheers up her grandpa. |
| 2 | 41 | In Dubrovnik, Croatia, Leo, the kids, and Luna use a Tesla coil to power Fabuloso's broken reading-light hat! |
| 2 | 42 | Andy accidentally joins a dance troupe. |
| 2 | 43 | Carmen solves a mystery in London. |
| 2 | 44 | Andy finds buried history under the city of London. |
| 2 | 45 | Leo listens to a ghost story in Kingston, Jamaica. |
| 2 | 46 | Senor Fabuloso tries to take a break. |
| 2 | 47 | Leo competes in a pushcart race in Port Royal, Jamaica. |
| 2 | 48 | Andy plays pirate for a day. |
| 2 | 49 | Andy becomes Prince of the Beatniks in San Francisco. |
| 2 | 50 | The gang rides a cable car. |
| 2 | 51 | Leo experience an earthquake in San Francisco. |
| 2 | 52 | Carmen searches for love and harmony. |
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