History WesternAnimation / JayJayTheJetPlane

* AnAesop: Every episode has one.

The series was originally done with model in 1994 through 1996, but switched to CGI and live action green screen in 1998. It kept going until 2005/2006 when the series suddenly stopped, even though there were plans for a movie. In 2021, a redesigned reboot was announced by Trilogy Animation Group (The same people that animated ''WesternAnimation/TheVeggieTalesShow'') [[https://www.trilogyanimation.com/ ]].

The series was originally done with model in 1994 through 1996, but switched to CGI and live action green screen in 1998. It kept going until 2005/2006 when the series suddenly stopped, even though there were plans for a movie. It remained silent until recently in 2021 when Trilogy Animation Group (The same people that animated ''WesternAnimation/TheVeggieTalesShow'') [[https://www.trilogyanimation.com/ announced that they're working on a new reboot]].

''Jay Jay the Jet Plane'' is an American CGI/live-action children's television series based at the fictional Tarrytown Airport. It has 73 episodes and it is aimed at ages 2-6. It is centered around a fleet of [[CoolPlane talking air vehicles]] that live in the fictional city of Tarrytown. The episodes are commonly distributed in pairs, with one header sequence and one end credits for each pair, and each pair is 25 minutes long. Each episode contains one or more songs; each song tends to occur in one episode. Produced by John Semper, the series is intended to be educational and teach life and sometimes moral lessons to children (and sometimes also to parents).

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The series is the king of this trope. Looks like the head writer was asleep in Physics class.
** An episode had Snuffy going to school. Why?
** Another episode had Revvin' Evan fly away on a hot air balloon. In real life, the balloon wouldn't be able to take off because of Revvin' Evan's weight.
** Another had [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext the characters building a snowman]]. And a couple others had Big Jake digging holes.
** The series really should be called [[JustPlaneWrong Just Plane Wrong: ]] [[RecycledTheSeries The Cartoon]].

** Believe it or not, there were actually 12 episodes of the series released direct-to-video between 1994-1996. Known as the "pilot episodes", these episodes differed greatly in that rather than using CGI, all characters were models a la WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends. There were also no live human characters (they, too, were models), none of the planes had moving faces, and all dialogue and narration was done by a narrator, rather than having a narrator and individual voice actors for each character. Also, in the first four model episodes, Jay Jay was reddish-brown. He was painted blue later due to his rudder being damaged by a hail storm, and they were out of his normal colored paint.

* MidasTouch: Tracy [[ItsAllJustADream has a dream]] where everything she touches turns into candy.

* DoItYourselfThemeTune: While the theme song to the actual series is sung by Parachute Express, the theme song to the miniseries "Jay Jay's Mysteries" is sung by Jay Jay himself.

** Believe it or not, there were actually 12 episodes of the series released direct-to-video between 1994-1996. Known as the "pilot episodes", these episodes differed greatly in that rather than using CGI, all characters were models a la WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends (but were still in the Main/UncannyValley). There were also no live human characters (they, too, were models), none of the planes had moving faces, and all dialogue and narration was done by a narrator, rather than having a narrator and individual voice actors for each character. Also, in the first four model episodes, Jay Jay was reddish-brown. He was painted blue later due to his rudder being damaged by a hail storm, and they were out of his normal colored paint.

* AbsenteeActor: There are a few episodes where the planes are absent:
** Jay Jay: "The Merit Badge"
** Snuffy: "Tuffy's Buried Treasure", "Big Jake's Birthday Surprise", "Catch the Buzz", "Super Sonic Jay Jay", "Hero Herky", "Tracy's Tree", "Evan Gets His Wings", "Switch-Around Day", "Tracy's Treasure Hunt", "Big Jake's Team", "I Love Your Funny Face", "The Great Tarrytown Blackout", "Jay Jay's Dinosaur Hunt", "Dough-Nutty", "Dog Gone Doggy", "Herky's Hat Chase", "I'm Swamped", "Revvin' Evan's Day"
** Tracy: "Herky and the Opposites Game", "Evan Gets His Wings", "Hiccup Havoc", "Snuffy's Favorite Color" (in flashback only), "The Merit Badge", "Revvin' Evan's Day"
** Herky: "Tuffy's Buried Treasure", "Jay Jay and the Stars at Night", "Wing Wigglin'", "Snuffy Sees the Big Picture", "Jay Jay's New Wheels", "Snuffy's Favorite Color" (in flashback only), "Big Jake's Team", "Snuffy's Rainbow", "Jay Jay Meets the Cloud King", "Are We There, Yet?", "Problem in Pangabula", "Snuffy Discovers the Ocean", "I'm Swamped"

* TakeOurWordForIt: Every time an airplane eats something, takes on fuel, is loaded or unpacked or Brenda goes in them or makes a repair, either their back is turned or the camera cuts to someone else or skips to the next scene.

* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader: Jay Jay.
** TheLancer: Snuffy.
** TheSmartGuy: Herky.
** TheBigGuy: Revvin' Evan.
** TheChick: Tracy.

** Basically, the entire show seems to be an aerial counterpart to ''[[WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine Thomas and Friends.]]''; the vehicles have human faces on their front, making them sentient, and they interact with humans. They also get into problems which are solved through learning moral lessons.

** Believe it or not, there were actually 12 episodes of the series released direct-to-video between 1994-1996. Known as the "pilot episodes", these episodes differed greatly in that rather than using CGI, all characters were models a la WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine (but were still in the Main/UncannyValley). There were also no live human characters (they, too, were models), none of the planes had moving faces, and all dialogue and narration was done by a narrator, rather than having a narrator and individual voice actors for each character. Also, in the first four model episodes, Jay Jay was reddish-brown. He was painted blue later due to his rudder being damaged by a hail storm, and they were out of his normal colored paint.

* UncannyValley: The animated characters' faces often come out as this, as per the early days of CGI and the motion capture element. "I Love Your Funny Face" takes this even further.

* PreCap: The PBS Kids broadcasts of each show begin with a brief 30-second trailer of what's going to happen on the show. This then cuts to the theme song.

** "Okefenokee" from "I'm Swamped".