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The Magic School Bus

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The Magic School Bus	comment	An animated Edutainment Show which ran on PBS from September 10, 1994 to December 6, 1997, with reruns airing until September 25, 1998. It was adapted from a series of books written by Joanna Cole and illustrated by Bruce Degen, which ran from 1986 to 2010, with a new book about human evolution released in June 2021. The show was a co-production between Nelvana and Scholastic, with South Carolina ETV serving as the show's presenting station. It was later made into a set of computer games, as well. The series follows an eccentric schoolteacher as she takes her elementary school class on very exotic field trips which teach scientific topics. These adventures are made possible by (you guessed it) a magical shapeshifting school bus. (And Viewers Like You, of course.) The show's Wacky Homeroom consisted of: Ms. Valerie Frizzle: Inexplicably Awesome. A Great Gazoo class teacher. Arnold Perlstein: The Butt-Monkey, practices Informed Judaism, occasionally played as The So-Called Coward; his cousin Janet is an Insufferable Genius Drop-In Character who shows up about once a season. Wanda Li: The Genki Girl and the Tsundere. Carlos RamÃ³n: The Plucky Comic Relief and Pungeon Master; also an inventor in earlier episodes. Constant victim of the First-Name Ultimatum ("Carlos...!") and Tough Room. Phoebe Terese: NaÃ¯ve Everygirl and aspiring Friend to All Living Things, (including bugs). Started off in the books as a NaÃ¯ve Newcomer, which is why her catchphrase is "At my old school, we never did things like this." Tim Wright: The Generic Guy and Straight Man. Dorothy Ann ("D.A.") Hudson: The Smart Girl with Girlish Pigtails. Ralphie Tennelli: The Agent Mulder and an early form of Deadpan Snarker. Keesha Franklin: The Agent Scully (though the existence of a magical bus doesn't seem to faze her). Liz Ard: Ms. Frizzle's sentient pet lizard. Liz can't talk, but that doesn't stop her from being able to drive the bus and such (which must be difficult considering that her legs aren't long enough to reach the pedals).It's notably one of the rare PBS shows to be popular enough to go into syndication, and home video releases of the show remain a staple feature of elementary school classrooms to this day, more than 25 years after its premiere.Lent the Fan Nickname "Magic School Bus Cam" to the times when the camera on House goes inside the patient's body. The Fandom has also provided the Trope Namers for One Last Field Trip and Official Couple Ordeal Syndrome.Original production funding was provided by the National Science Foundation and Microsoft Home (credited simply as Microsoft on most episodes of Season 3); additional funding was provided by U.S. Department of Energy and Carnegie Corporation of New York. Additional funding for most episodes of Season 2 (and all of Season 3) was also provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS. Season 4's sponsors were the National Science Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, and PBS. All of this was in addition to generous donations from Viewers Like You.A revival entitled The Magic School Bus Rides Again debuted on Netflix on September 29, 2017. It stars Kate McKinnon as the voice of Ms. Fiona Frizzle, Valerie's younger sister. Lily Tomlin appears as Val, now Professor Frizzle, in the end-of-episode segments.
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The Magic School Bus / int_10d8aa14	comment	Fan Dumb: Many of the callers in the phone segments seem to fall into the "Culture Alien" variant. "Hey, you showed a bus turning into a snail on a show called The Magic School Bus. That can't really happen. Your show sucks!" invoked
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The Magic School Bus / int_10e8d2d4	type	Wrong Parachute Gag
The Magic School Bus / int_10e8d2d4	comment	Wrong Parachute Gag: Happened during the desert episode. Arnold tries to avoid his usual complainer status by being Crazy-Prepared. When the Friz puts the bus-plane into a steep dive when they arrive in the desert, Arnold asks Liz for his parachute.
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The Magic School Bus / int_116a941b	type	Applied Phlebotinum
The Magic School Bus / int_116a941b	comment	There was an episode where they could "see" air. It was some special red-colored air called Extraordin-Air.
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The Magic School Bus / int_11ee737	type	Artistic License â€“ Ornithology
The Magic School Bus / int_11ee737	comment	Artistic License â€“ Ornithology: In "The Magic School Bus Cracks A Yolk", Giblets the chicken flies away from Dorothy Ann. While chickens are capable of flight, this episode portrays Goblets flying over houses for a long period of time much like a songbird. In reality, chickens can only fly a few feet above ground in short bursts.
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The Magic School Bus / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Magic School Bus / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Keesha gets a pretty depressing one in "Gets Ants in its Pants" when she can't find an appropriate ant to star in her movie, despite all her efforts at searching. D.A.'s one, when she loses her book bag (and with it all confidence in her own intelligence and abilities) in "Blows its Top".
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The Magic School Bus / int_1456c9df	type	Foul Medicine
The Magic School Bus / int_1456c9df	comment	Foul Medicine: In "Inside Ralphie", Ralphie's mother gives him some medicine, which causes him to cringe from the taste. To avoid having to take more of it, Ralphie claims he's feeling better already, but she just tells him to go back to bed.
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The Magic School Bus / int_149ff4b0	type	HilarityEnsues
The Magic School Bus / int_149ff4b0	comment	Also in the "Goes On Air" episode, when D.A. offers up her hair bands for the sake of science. Her hair stays in the pigtails, and minor Hilarity Ensues.
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The Magic School Bus / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
The Magic School Bus / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: An Irish television guide once described "In the Haunted House" in the following manner:
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The Magic School Bus / int_150994fe	type	Title Sequence Replacement
The Magic School Bus / int_150994fe	comment	Title Sequence Replacement: Fox Kids shortened the theme song at one point. In a less severe example, Discovery Kids had the full theme song play, then end with a freeze frame of the bus before cutting to commercial. The title card that originally closed the title sequence appeared after the break.
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The Magic School Bus / int_15827a31	type	Morphic Resonance
The Magic School Bus / int_15827a31	comment	Morphic Resonance: The kids, Ms. Frizzle, and the bus will keep their identifying characteristics even when transformed into something else.
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The Magic School Bus / int_17afe894	type	Spectacular Spinning
The Magic School Bus / int_17afe894	comment	Spectacular Spinning: The Bus's regular transformation sequence has spin around a 'la Wonder Woman until it takes the desired form.note Considering the innumerable forms the bus takes over the course of the series, it was probably considered more cost-effective to hide the bus popping into different designs by just making it spin into a blur rather than animate unique sequences for each transformation. There are some variations, such as in "Spins A Web," where it goes through a slow, Wolfman-like transformation into a giant spider.
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The Magic School Bus / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Magic School Bus / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Very first episode, "Lost in Space". Ralphie screams it repeatedly after they lose their map of the solar system and Janet sends Ms. Frizzle rocketing into nowhere.
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The Magic School Bus / int_191babbc	type	Trampled Underfoot
The Magic School Bus / int_191babbc	comment	Trampled Underfoot: Janet does this to a mothball that was to be entered by the class for a smell competition in one episode. She was representing a rival class, so it's unclear if this was an accident on her part or not.
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The Magic School Bus / int_1a3a91dd	type	Say My Name
The Magic School Bus / int_1a3a91dd	comment	Say My Name: "Arnoooooold!" "Wanda!" "Ralphie!" "Junkett!" (collective gasp) Ms. Frizzle! After he tells a bad joke, the kids will commonly yell "Carlos!".
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The Magic School Bus / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
The Magic School Bus / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: Ms. Frizzle's cell phone in "Going Cellular".
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The Magic School Bus / int_1bb67d34	type	Transflormation
The Magic School Bus / int_1bb67d34	comment	Transflormation: Phoebe is turned into a beanstalk in "Gets Planted".
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The Magic School Bus / int_1c2b6ac8	type	Soft Water
The Magic School Bus / int_1c2b6ac8	comment	Soft Water: Played straight, but lampshaded in the book - during a trip to study the weather, Arnold manages to get sucked out of the bus during a hurricane and falls into the ocean several hundred feet below and only gets soaked for his troubles. A sticky note points out that, in reality, this would have gotten him severely hurt.
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The Magic School Bus / int_1d9af117	type	Gender-Equal Ensemble
The Magic School Bus / int_1d9af117	comment	Gender-Equal Ensemble: Eight students; four boys, four girls.
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The Magic School Bus / int_1ea7d12a	type	MST3K Mantra
The Magic School Bus / int_1ea7d12a	comment	MST3K Mantra: Invoked with the producer segments, which serve to address any questions that viewers might ask, fill them in on any important facts that might have been left out of the story and remind them that such things are inevitable because this is still just a 30-minute TV program.
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The Magic School Bus / int_1f14978d	type	Talking Animal
The Magic School Bus / int_1f14978d	comment	Talking Animal: The episode "In The City" where the kids are turned into animals (D.A. and Carlos have Feather Fingers, and The Bus becomes a bear) to learn about animal life in an urban environment. They keep things like their glasses, hair, and faces, but everything else is animal. Taking even further is that, the kids apparently are still speaking English in their animal forms, as they cannot communicate with the regular animals. Liz gains a voice in the computer games to serve as a help file for how to play them.
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The Magic School Bus / int_2256c48a	type	Wraparound Background
The Magic School Bus / int_2256c48a	comment	Wraparound Background: Seen in a number of episodes if you watch out the windows while the bus is driving somewhere. Justified in "Makes a Stink", where the bus is circling Flora Whiff's head.
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The Magic School Bus / int_225d8ff9	type	Ambiguously Human
The Magic School Bus / int_225d8ff9	comment	Ambiguously Human: Ms. Frizzle looks human, but rarely shows needing anything a human does. She doesn't ever seem to need to eat or rest, never gives an explanation as to how she's so good, and generally reacts to the things that go on in the show like they're an everyday occurence for her.
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The Magic School Bus / int_235a2706	type	Baseball Episode
The Magic School Bus / int_235a2706	comment	Baseball Episode: "Plays Ball", in which a baseball game gets turned into a lesson on the importance of friction.
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The Magic School Bus / int_237e1025	type	A Pig Named "Porkchop"
The Magic School Bus / int_237e1025	comment	A Pig Named "Porkchop": Mr. Ruhle's pet chicken Giblets is named after the edible offal of a bird, typically the heart, gizzard (stomach), liver, and other organs.
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The Magic School Bus / int_2469cff4	type	Oblivious Astronomers
The Magic School Bus / int_2469cff4	comment	Oblivious Astronomers: "Out Of This World" manages to fall into this twice. Dorothy Ann discovers an asteroid she believes is about to hit the school, but when she asks NASA, they don't know anything about it. Later, the class manages to deflect the asteroid by inflating the Bus to the size of the moon so its gravity will pull it off course. Needless to say, no astronomer seems to have made note of that eitherâ€” or, for that matter, the other consequences of a moon-sized object suddenly appearing in Earth's orbit.
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The Magic School Bus / int_254fc1c6	type	Animated Actors
The Magic School Bus / int_254fc1c6	comment	Animated Actors: The post-episode Q&A from "All Dried Up" had Phoebe answering the questions, and her responses make it clear they know they're on a show. Although, she's still in character to an extent ("At my old school, kids never answered the phone.") In "Spins a Web", General Araneus appears in the phone scene. He is portrayed as being an actor, but is still himself and, in fact, is still in black and white.
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The Magic School Bus / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
The Magic School Bus / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: The kids' parents have speaking roles in the episode on bats, and act pretty much like older versions of their children, including using the same catchphrases. For example:
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The Magic School Bus / int_25efd080	type	Artistic License â€“ Marine Biology
The Magic School Bus / int_25efd080	comment	Artistic License â€“ Marine Biology: In "Takes a Dive", half of the students are turned into sharks while the other half are turned into remoras for the last leg of the treasure hunt. While sharks and remoras have a symbiotic relationship in real life, the episode glosses over the fact that remoras can drag sharks down with their weight if too many of them latch onto them, while dolphins are known to keep jumping out of the water to try getting rid of them. As such, none of the shark students feel slowed down when paired with their remora teammates.
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The Magic School Bus / int_25f33d8	type	Sick Episode
The Magic School Bus / int_25f33d8	comment	Sick Episode: "Inside Ralphie", in which Ralphie is home with a sore throat and the rest of the class goes inside his body to witness the battle between the germs and his body's own natural immune system.
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The Magic School Bus / int_2848e7d2	type	Oblivious to Love
The Magic School Bus / int_2848e7d2	comment	Oblivious to Love: In "The Busasaurus", Phoebe develops a crush when she sees Arnold's bravery ("Gee, what a guy!"). At the end of the episode, after he scares off a T. Rex, she runs up to him and says "It's a good thing you didn't stay home today, Arnold!" Despite her body language, he responds with, "Well, uh, I'll sure be glad when this [dinosaur egg] is a rock again. It's a lot safer."
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The Magic School Bus / int_28a7a9cd	type	Sentient Vehicle
The Magic School Bus / int_28a7a9cd	comment	Sentient Vehicle: Zig-zagged with the titular Bus. It's headlight and front bumper are drawn to resemble eyes and a mouth, respectively, though it doesn't speak, only making humorous facial expression in reaction to something. However, while it doesn't seem able to move independently from a driver, it does seem to have a mind of its own, such as when it turns the de-recycling laser onto itself in the holiday special or when it wanders off in bear form in "In The City."
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The Magic School Bus / int_297170d3	type	Halloween Episode
The Magic School Bus / int_297170d3	comment	Halloween Episode: "In the Haunted House," "Going Batty" and "Gets a Bright Idea." The first two were even repackaged as an hour-long Halloween special with live-action bridging segments. Also during the live-action segments, Lily Tomlin portrayed the Friz's alter ego Archibald Dauntless the hobo, Arnold's then-current voice actor Danny Tamberelli portrayed Howard (Howie), Jamaican American performer Kharisma portrayed Katie, and Gabriel Martinez portrayed Richard (Richie). The Halloween special was even released to video by KidVision and later to Australia by Fox as a direct-to-exclusive.
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The Magic School Bus / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
The Magic School Bus / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: The phone segments basically exist to admit and debunk the Hollywood Science used on the show, like "OK, lava should've fried the kids just for getting close, but we kind of had to show it off to properly teach about the earth's crust." The books had something similar, typically people complaining that their bus adventures tended to be of the very mundane "we got lost" variety, and saying that school buses can't turn into fish. It was also done in-episode from time to time. Like when they were inside the filament of a light bulb, traveling along with the electric current: Also in the "Goes On Air" episode, when D.A. offers up her hair bands for the sake of science. Her hair stays in the pigtails, and minor Hilarity Ensues.
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The Magic School Bus / int_2a7e7af1	type	Limited Wardrobe
The Magic School Bus / int_2a7e7af1	comment	Limited Wardrobe: The kids are always seen wearing the same clothes. One notable exception is in "Goes Cellular", where they wear formal attire instead. They also have beach attire in "Goes to Mussel Beach".
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The Magic School Bus / int_2af7961	type	Faster-Than-Light Travel
The Magic School Bus / int_2af7961	comment	Faster-Than-Light Travel: In the episode about the life cycle of stars, "Sees Stars", the star salesman talks about how all stars are too far away for casual travel, and would all take decades to reach even if one traveled at the speed of light. The Bus, of course, can make a round trip within an afternoon.
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The Magic School Bus / int_2c06d796	type	A Lizard Named "Liz"
The Magic School Bus / int_2c06d796	comment	A Lizard Named "Liz": The Trope Namer. The class pet, a Jackson's chameleon, is literally a lizard named Liz.
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The Magic School Bus / int_2d38b139	type	Different in Every Episode
The Magic School Bus / int_2d38b139	comment	Different in Every Episode: Ms. Frizzle changes her dress, earrings, and shoes in every episode to reflect the subject covered. The bus also changes pattern and sometimes shape to reflect the adventure. How The Friz enters in an episode always varies as well (although it's usually followed by the kids shouting "Ms. Frizzle!")
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The Magic School Bus / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
The Magic School Bus / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: The reveal in "Gets Swamped" that Carlos is not only on the school debate team but made it to the finals.
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The Magic School Bus / int_2dd7a113	type	French Jerk
The Magic School Bus / int_2dd7a113	comment	French Jerk: Rainforest Inspector 47 from "In the Rainforest", who constantly ignores the kids' advice on how to deal with a cocoa bean shortage and is forced through the wringer trying more and more harebrained schemes. He gets better, though; by the end of the episode, he even gets promoted to Inspector 22.
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The Magic School Bus / int_2e285a8b	type	Person as Verb
The Magic School Bus / int_2e285a8b	comment	Tim: Any variation of "We've been frizzled." This one is less well-known than the others but is still prevalent.
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The Magic School Bus / int_2eb94abd	type	Deadly Euphemism
The Magic School Bus / int_2eb94abd	comment	Deadly Euphemism: In "All Dried Up", Ralphie was clear in his meaning when, after spotting a vulture, he says, "Is it just me, or does this look like the final field trip?" Additionally, in Inside a Hurricane, John depicts a tree falling on top of a person as one of "three bad things hurricanes do". "Hurt people" is kind of an understatement when a tree that might have been still alive just minutes before is on top of them.
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The Magic School Bus / int_2ef005ab	type	Vocal Evolution
The Magic School Bus / int_2ef005ab	comment	Vocal Evolution: Some of the kid actors' voices broke by the time the show ended. Inverted with Tim - whose voice became higher as the series went on.
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The Magic School Bus / int_2f3b0d6d	type	Big Storm Episode
The Magic School Bus / int_2f3b0d6d	comment	Big Storm Episode: "Kicks Up a Storm" and "Gets Swamped", where the weather and/or rain are integral to the plot and educational lesson.
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The Magic School Bus / int_2f5790f5	type	I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine
The Magic School Bus / int_2f5790f5	comment	I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine: Both Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton previously appeared together in 9 to 5. Dabney Coleman, whom also co-starred with them in 9 to 5, also made a guest appearance, but not with Parton.
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The Magic School Bus / int_2fc1775a	type	Somewhere, a Herpetologist Is Crying
The Magic School Bus / int_2fc1775a	comment	Somewhere, a Herpetologist Is Crying: In "Cold Feet", Liz and the kids wind up in a "reptile spa" where the reptiles are being artificially hibernated in a cold room. Fair enough, except that hibernation is treated as a vacation and a great way for stressed out reptiles to get their nap on — "Hibernation isn't dangerous...it's restful!" In actuality, hibernation in captivity is often induced as a way to increase reptile fertility, and it has the potential to be very dangerous, with about a million things that can go wrong. Add in that the hibernation room was well below freezing and it's a miracle Liz and the kids woke up at all. Also, Liz seems to be a chameleon, a type of lizard that doesn't even hibernate naturally.
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The Magic School Bus / int_3126c34a	type	Insufferable Genius
The Magic School Bus / int_3126c34a	comment	Insufferable Genius: Janet is both a highly intelligent student and an aggravating snot.
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The Magic School Bus / int_3166227d	type	The Drag-Along
The Magic School Bus / int_3166227d	comment	The Drag-Along: Arnold in almost every episode. His catchphrase is "I knew I should have stayed home today!"
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The Magic School Bus / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
The Magic School Bus / int_31a2a33c	comment	The 1812 Overture, also known as the American anthem for Stuff Blowing Up, is used as background music for the volcanic eruption in "Blows its Top".
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The Magic School Bus / int_3203ef8b	type	Time Traveler's Dinosaur
The Magic School Bus / int_3203ef8b	comment	Time Traveler's Dinosaur: The sixth book; The Magic School Bus In the Time of the Dinosaurs, has the bus turn into a Time Machine, the class sees several dinosaurs note Notably a Alamosaurus, Parasaurolophus, Edmontosaurus, Ornithomimus, Triceratops, Troodon and T-Rex. and learn about them and other eras.
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The Magic School Bus / int_32a1f455	type	Alliterative Family
The Magic School Bus / int_32a1f455	comment	Alliterative Family: Wanda and her brother William.
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The Magic School Bus / int_339901cc	type	Light and Mirrors Puzzle
The Magic School Bus / int_339901cc	comment	Light and Mirrors Puzzle: One episode, teaching the spectrum and how color works, revolved around this, a game of 'Light Pinball'. The objective was, using mirrors and prisms, to split a beam of light into the colors of the rainbow and redirect them into like-colored eyes.
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The Magic School Bus / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Magic School Bus / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: The original, more normally-sized homeroom from the books is whittled down to eight, simply because it would have been too many characters to develop.
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The Magic School Bus / int_35543514	type	Just Eat Gilligan
The Magic School Bus / int_35543514	comment	Just Eat Gilligan: In "Revving Up", Mr. Junkett was so sloppy while eating his peanut butter sandwich that he messed up the engine, and by extension, botched his own inspection of the bus. It's entirely his fault that he had to condemn the bus, and it was nearly destroyed.
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The Magic School Bus / int_356b1efb	type	Hammerspace
The Magic School Bus / int_356b1efb	comment	Hammerspace: The amount of things Ms. Frizzle can carry on her person.
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The Magic School Bus / int_35b090a3	type	Shared Family Quirks
The Magic School Bus / int_35b090a3	comment	Shared Family Quirks: Both Carlos and his dad are frequent victims of the First-Name Ultimatum (though it's technically a last name ultimatum in the latter's case — his first name is never mentioned) as a result of constant Incredibly Lame Puns.
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The Magic School Bus / int_37499c8	type	OnceAnEpisode
The Magic School Bus / int_37499c8	comment	Once an Episode: Early in an episode, Arnold will generally say "I think I should have stayed home today..." By ten minutes into the episode at the latest, he will have said "I KNEW I should have stayed home today!"
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The Magic School Bus / int_38387986	type	Funny Photo Phrase
The Magic School Bus / int_38387986	comment	Funny Photo Phrase: At the end of "Goes to Seed", the class all shout "Seeds!" for their cover photo of the Plant It! magazine.
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The Magic School Bus / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Magic School Bus / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Lily Tomlin gets to show off her talent in the fine art of drag as Ms. Frizzle as Archibald Dauntless in the live-action wraparound segments of "A Magic School Bus Halloween".
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The Magic School Bus / int_39fa00e5	type	The Day the Dinosaurs Died
The Magic School Bus / int_39fa00e5	comment	The Day the Dinosaurs Died: In the book The Magic School Bus In the Time of the Dinosaurs, the Magic School Bus travels across the different periods of the dinosaurs, from the Triassic to the Jurassic and finally to the Cretaceous. The very last stop before present day is witnessing the falling meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs. Subverted in "The Busasaurus". The episode does showcase the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs, but only in a Rewind Gag where all the fallen trees rise back up and the meteor goes back into outer space. As the time traveling Magic School Bus finally stops, Ms. Frizzle reveals to the class that they travelled sixty-seven millions years into the past, meaning that the class won't be seeing any meteor action for another million years or so.
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The Magic School Bus / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
The Magic School Bus / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: Dorothy Ann is a frequent source of these, partially due to the incredibly obvious "research", such as that squirrels and birds live in trees.
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The Magic School Bus / int_3fff5717	type	Genius Cripple
The Magic School Bus / int_3fff5717	comment	Genius Cripple: Mikey Ramon, Carlos' younger brother who uses a wheelchair and is a mechanical and computer whiz.
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The Magic School Bus / int_411bd9ee	type	Body Wipe
The Magic School Bus / int_411bd9ee	comment	Body Wipe: In the episode "Gets Lost in Space", Arnold does this when he gets fed up with his cousin Janet and marches from the back of the bus to Ms. Frizzle. But did it have to pass through his crotch?
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The Magic School Bus / int_41899e45	type	Monster-Shaped Mountain
The Magic School Bus / int_41899e45	comment	Monster-Shaped Mountain: In an episode about erosion, the class's trip along a mountainside triggered a series of rockfalls and stream-diversions that re-shaped the terrain to resemble a human figure.
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The Magic School Bus / int_41f45fa2	type	Inexplicably Awesome
The Magic School Bus / int_41f45fa2	comment	Inexplicably Awesome: The eccentric Ms. Frizzle's awesome and bizarre powers drive the stories. She can take the class anywhere from the edge of the solar system to someone's digestive tract. The show purposefully never gives an explanation as to how she can do all of this. All that's ever revealed about her and the bus is that her first name is Valerie, and the guy who built the bus doesn't seem particularly magical himself. It's eventually revealed her distant ancestor had a Magic Spanish Galleon, but that just raises further questions. In fact, the original name for Inexplicably Awesome was "The Frizzle".
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The Magic School Bus / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
The Magic School Bus / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Well, in this case, Ralphie's brainless Robot Me is. And it steals his hat.
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The Magic School Bus / int_42cd1d02	type	Fundraiser Carnival
The Magic School Bus / int_42cd1d02	comment	Fundraiser Carnival: In the episode "Getting Energized", Ms. Frizzle's class is assigned to operate the ferris wheel at the school carnival to raise funds for the animal shelter.
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The Magic School Bus / int_437e70f5	type	What a Piece of Junk
The Magic School Bus / int_437e70f5	comment	What a Piece of Junk: The Bus has, on multiple occasions, been described as old and ragged, and has failed to start or broken down multiple times. However, this is the same bus that can reach the edge of our solar system within a span of a few hours.
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The Magic School Bus / int_443f9d8a	type	Ask a Stupid Question...
The Magic School Bus / int_443f9d8a	comment	Ask a Stupid Question...:
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The Magic School Bus / int_44f6517d	type	Beach Episode
The Magic School Bus / int_44f6517d	comment	Beach Episode: "Goes to Mussel Beach", which is about tidal zones. Also "Gets Eaten", which covers the food chain.
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The Magic School Bus / int_45413f59	type	Headbutting Pachy
The Magic School Bus / int_45413f59	comment	Headbutting Pachy: In the book In The Time Of The Dinosaurs of the series it mentions that they, "may have butted heads like rams," which normally wouldn't be a problem since it's stated as a theory instead of fact, then proceeds to illustrate two ramming each other head on in the background.
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The Magic School Bus / int_45c341d	type	Insect Queen
The Magic School Bus / int_45c341d	comment	Insect Queen: In one episode the class gets shrunk down and go into an ant hill so Keesha can make a movie about them. She's fixated on having the queen as her star, seeming to think of queens as we know them, and is disappointed when she turns out to be just a giant ant who lays eggs.
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The Magic School Bus / int_45ce1de7	type	Drive-In Theater
The Magic School Bus / int_45ce1de7	comment	Drive-In Theater: Featured in "Spins a Web", where the class goes to one to watch a 1950s b-movie about a giant mantis. Then Ms. Frizzle drives them into the movie.
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The Magic School Bus / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
The Magic School Bus / int_469e3e2f	comment	In-Universe in "Inside Ralphie," Ralphie's mother, a doctor, watches what she thinks is a movie (really live footage of the bus traveling through his bloodstream) and compliments it for accurately displaying up-close blood as clear rather than red.
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The Magic School Bus / int_485011b	type	MadLibsCatchPhrase
The Magic School Bus / int_485011b	comment	Several examples of Mad Libs Catch Phrase: "Do something (name)! You got us into this!" Usually used in an episode where one kid's suggestion inspires a field trip that leaves the class stranded, stuck, or otherwise in some kind of trouble. Or Phoebe's "At my old school, we never (insert crazy escapade usually not included in any academic curriculum)" Ralphie: "Is it just me, or (is a scientific process going on right in front of me)?" E.g. when the bus in spaceship form is orbiting the moon: "Is it just me, or are we playing 'Ring Around the Moon'?" Or when travelling back in time: "Is it just me, or did somebody hit rewind?" Ms. Frizzle: "As my (unusually-named relative) used to say, (bad pun)!" Tim: Any variation of "We've been frizzled." This one is less well-known than the others but is still prevalent. Dorothy Ann: "According to my research: (insert D.A. pointing out the science behind what phenomenon is taking place)" E.g from "Taking Flight": "According to my research, when a plane's nose tips up and slows down like this, it's called a stall."
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The Magic School Bus / int_48dfb7e4	type	Stock Sound Effects
The Magic School Bus / int_48dfb7e4	comment	Stock Sound Effects: Unusual for a PBS animated series, this show is really heavy with classic Hanna-Barbera and Disney sound effects. (Nelvana did use H-B's sound effects quite a bit during the 80s, but generally avoided them afterwards, at least outside of this series.)
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The Magic School Bus / int_4a0ec526	type	Harmless Freezing
The Magic School Bus / int_4a0ec526	comment	Harmless Freezing: In "Gets Lost in Space", Arnold took off his helmet on Pluto and froze. When they got him back to Earth, he had a cold. The ludicrous nature of this was actually pointed out in the And Knowing Is Half the Battle-type ending that usually gets cut out in syndication. The writers know he should end up with a lot worse than a cold, if not outright dead, but killing off a main character isn't very kid friendly. Or possibly The Friz Did It.
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The Magic School Bus / int_4aa3c552	type	Animorphism
The Magic School Bus / int_4aa3c552	comment	Animorphism: Just about any time a field trip involves animals, the entire class finds themselves transformed into animals to learn about it firsthand. Foxes, birds, fish, bats, etc. Interesting, even in their transformed state, the kids still can't talk to any animals because they never learned animal language.
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The Magic School Bus / int_4b0a723c	type	Think of the Censors!
The Magic School Bus / int_4b0a723c	comment	During the episode about the digestive system, the bus goes through the process much faster than it actually takes. If they had done it realistically, the bus would've been in Arnold's body for about two days, at the least. Plus, they get out by inducing Arnold to burp since going out the other way would be inappropriate for children's TV (if not outright gross).
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The Magic School Bus / int_4b9a8e96	type	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax
The Magic School Bus / int_4b9a8e96	comment	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax: "Ups And Downs" has a talk show reporter creating a fake lake monster to bolster her ratings. The kids manage to discover the truth and expose the hoax. In "Gets A Bright Idea", Janet uses a clever light trick to make it look like Arnold is a ghost. Since this is Janet, she doesn't have a motivation other than being her usual Jerkass self.
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The Magic School Bus / int_4c455537	type	Plot-Driven Breakdown
The Magic School Bus / int_4c455537	comment	Plot-Driven Breakdown: The bus tends to do this, like in "Flexes Its Muscles" and "Haunted House". Of course, it's implied in both that Ms. Frizzle deliberately caused the breakdown to allow the kids to learn on their own.
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The Magic School Bus / int_4ee5989a	type	Bizarre Alien Senses
The Magic School Bus / int_4ee5989a	comment	Bizarre Alien Senses: Non-alien example: When the students are turned into bats, they experience what echolocation is like, perceiving strobe-like flashing views of their surroundings each time they emit a sonar-cry.
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The Magic School Bus / int_4f0ac7b6	type	First-Name Ultimatum
The Magic School Bus / int_4f0ac7b6	comment	First-Name Ultimatum: "CAR-LOS!"
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The Magic School Bus / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The Magic School Bus / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The very first episode, "Gets Lost in Space", has several. By the second episode, "For Lunch", the tone had switched, all of the kids' abilities, personalities, catchphrases, and relationships explored or at least hinted at. Janet is featured as a protagonist, implying that she will be a main character, but she only appears about Once a Season. Carlos doesn't get a First-Name Ultimatum. Arnold and Janet's personalities are shown in full, but while D.A.'s intelligence, Ralphie's Agent Mulder tendencies and Wanda's determination are hinted at, the non-Perlstein kids are basically wallpaper. The relationship dynamics between the kids (beyond the fact that everybody hates Janet) aren't explored and the plot is more episodic than usual. To some extent, you can tell roughly how early an episode is in the series by the kids' reaction to danger. If they're panicking royally, early episode. If they're calmer, later. The animation differs quite a bit between the first and fourth seasons. Beginning with "Blows Its Top", the animation for the bus transforming was generally the same (stretching up-and-down, side-to-side, then spinning), regardless of the situation. In the first season however, it seemed to vary from episode to episode. At first, the original series logo only appeared on the first book, The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks, with the first editions of The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth and The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body featuring the series logo in similar yet clearly different typefaces.
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The Magic School Bus / int_4f773434	type	Wise Beyond Their Years
The Magic School Bus / int_4f773434	comment	Wise Beyond Their Years: All of the kids. Yes, even Carlos. It has to be said that despite their groaner potential, his puns are surprisingly clever given his age.
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The Magic School Bus / int_4fff0dfe	type	Sarcasm-Blind
The Magic School Bus / int_4fff0dfe	comment	Sarcasm-Blind: In "Gets Ants In It's Pants", Ms. Frizzle sprays everyone with ant pheromones so the ants will think they're members of the colony.
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The Magic School Bus / int_5012cb5c	type	Blind People Wear Sunglasses
The Magic School Bus / int_5012cb5c	comment	Blind People Wear Sunglasses: Phoebe's father is blind, and is seen wearing a pair of sunglasses.
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The Magic School Bus / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
The Magic School Bus / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: The kids tend to change into the animal of the day, even if it's for scientific purposes. There was also more than one episode where they physically entered someone's body.
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The Magic School Bus / int_50c3f978	type	Dressed in Layers
The Magic School Bus / int_50c3f978	comment	Dressed in Layers: In "Ups and Downs", Wanda takes off her normal outfit to reveal she is wearing a wetsuit underneath, complete with flippers that she somehow managed to cram into her shoes. Ms. Frizzle in some episodes, if she doesn't begin it in one of her usual themed dresses
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The Magic School Bus / int_53cd8bc4	type	Magical Guardian
The Magic School Bus / int_53cd8bc4	comment	Magical Guardian: Ms. Frizzle is this. In spite of the kids being in genuinely life-threatening danger at several points, Ms. Frizzle and her magic bus prevent anything bad from happening to them. It's just one more way that Ms. Frizzle is Inexplicably Awesome.
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The Magic School Bus / int_53e1f74c	type	Asteroid Thicket
The Magic School Bus / int_53e1f74c	comment	Asteroid Thicket: Played straight in "Lost in Space", as well as the original picture book which that episode was adapted from. Oddly, the computer game version of the storyline, which didn't include this part, pointed out the unreality of this trope in one of its interactive school reports. Played straight in the video game adaptation for the Sega Genesis.
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The Magic School Bus / int_54bb502b	type	Nobody Poops
The Magic School Bus / int_54bb502b	comment	Nobody Poops: Even when the subject is digestion. The producer, though, provides good reason:
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The Magic School Bus / int_551c5085	type	It's a Wonderful Plot
The Magic School Bus / int_551c5085	comment	It's a Wonderful Plot: In "Holiday Special", Wanda wishes recycling didn't exist. The Friz shows her what Walkerville would be like without it.
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The Magic School Bus / int_5586a766	type	Luminescent Blush
The Magic School Bus / int_5586a766	comment	Arnold/D.A. shippers will really enjoy that moment when D.A. kisses Arnold and gives him a Luminescent Blush.
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The Magic School Bus / int_56b53152	type	Green Aesop
The Magic School Bus / int_56b53152	comment	While the show didn't have an overarching plotline, any episode that featured nature contained a Green Aesop, implicitly or explicitly. There were also episodes on recycling and conservation that dealt with this as a very direct theme.
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The Magic School Bus / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
The Magic School Bus / int_5707e92c	comment	The episode "In The City" where the kids are turned into animals (D.A. and Carlos have Feather Fingers, and The Bus becomes a bear) to learn about animal life in an urban environment. They keep things like their glasses, hair, and faces, but everything else is animal. Taking even further is that, the kids apparently are still speaking English in their animal forms, as they cannot communicate with the regular animals.
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The Magic School Bus / int_58b42f3d	type	Trickster Mentor
The Magic School Bus / int_58b42f3d	comment	Trickster Mentor: Very rarely, if ever, does Miss Frizzle give the kids a straight answer to their question or problem, instead preferring to take them on field trips where they can find the answers out for themselves.
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The Magic School Bus / int_5a1819b7	type	Panty Shot
The Magic School Bus / int_5a1819b7	comment	D.A. wears one too, although she does get a couple of quick panty shots in the series.
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The Magic School Bus / int_5e7eb915	type	Clarke's Third Law
The Magic School Bus / int_5e7eb915	comment	Clarke's Third Law: It's unclear whether the bus's powers are actually magic, or some sort of futuristic technology.
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The Magic School Bus / int_5eecd64c	type	Oh, No... Not Again!
The Magic School Bus / int_5eecd64c	comment	Oh, No... Not Again!: Arnold says this word-for-word in "Hops Home" when Wanda dives into the beaver pond after Bella. He says exactly the same thing in "Going Cellular" when Pheobe points out to him that he ate the bus and their class.
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The Magic School Bus / int_5f207a1a	type	Courtroom Episode
The Magic School Bus / int_5f207a1a	comment	Courtroom Episode: "Gets Swamped", though it's a debate instead of a court case. Carlos, as the representative of the pro-swamp side, must stand in defense of a swamp that keeps the town from flooding, with Janet as the anti-swamp side that wants to build a shopping mall in its place. The conflict of the episode comes from Carlos not just trying to win the debate, but the fact that he starts the episode on the anti-swamp side.
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The Magic School Bus / int_5f9fbd83	type	Not Allowed to Grow Up
The Magic School Bus / int_5f9fbd83	comment	Not Allowed to Grow Up: Naturally, though peculiarly, one episode ends with a completely random, older student pointing out and explaining the thermo-mechanics of Arnold's Thermos (the subject of that episode), and when asked, "How did you know that?" replied, "I was in Ms. Frizzle's class last year." There are only fifty-two episodes — they could easily all take place within one school year. Granted, they would be going on about twenty times more field trips than any real class. Over the course of the "year", all four of the boys' voices break, leading to the hilarious line by post-pubescent-sounding Arnold about being able to stand "four feet tall again".
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The Magic School Bus / int_60c3de58	type	Rapid-Fire Nail Biting
The Magic School Bus / int_60c3de58	comment	Rapid-Fire Nail Biting: Used in one episode when Arnold, as per usual, gets nervous about the Wacky Field Trip of the Week. Ms. Frizzle snarks:
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The Magic School Bus / int_612b0606	type	Scary Shadow Fakeout
The Magic School Bus / int_612b0606	comment	Scary Shadow Fakeout: In "Gets Lost In Space", Ralphie, Dorothy Ann, Keesha, and Carlos see the shadow of an alien advancing through a cloud of dust towards them. It turns out to be Arnold, in a spacesuit, carrying a load of stuff for Janet.
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The Magic School Bus / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
The Magic School Bus / int_627264e0	comment	This is Ms. Frizzle's default reaction to Carlos's puns, except in "Makes a Stink", where she gives him a Death Glare instead.
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The Magic School Bus / int_633e176e	type	Lurid Tales of Doom
The Magic School Bus / int_633e176e	comment	Lurid Tales of Doom: The monster of Walker Lake, invented by reporter Gerri Poveri in the episode "Ups and Downs" as a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax. She calls it "creative journalism". (Gerri Poveri, by the way, is Shirley Feeney and looks oddly like an adult version of Janet.)
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The Magic School Bus / int_6379edc1	type	Valentine's Day Episode
The Magic School Bus / int_6379edc1	comment	Valentine's Day Episode: Possibly the least romantic Valentine's episode ever, with the focus being on electrical wiring, and Ms. Frizzle's "beau" turning out to be just her electrician.
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The Magic School Bus / int_65cd483d	type	Friend to Bugs
The Magic School Bus / int_65cd483d	comment	Friend to Bugs: Again, Phoebe. Of course, that's to be expected being that this is a science-themed show aimed at children...
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The Magic School Bus / int_663f35c0	type	Only One Name
The Magic School Bus / int_663f35c0	comment	Only One Name: Tim and Dorothy Ann were never given last names in canon.
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The Magic School Bus / int_67f3ff98	type	Brake Angrily
The Magic School Bus / int_67f3ff98	comment	Brake Angrily: In "Lost in Space", when Arnold gets sick of Janet insulting Ms. Frizzle to his face, culminating in an aborted trip to the planetarium. Arnold calls for a bus stopdown, and asks to go someplace else. The next thing you know, the school bus is launched into space.
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The Magic School Bus / int_687c8839	type	Mean Character, Nice Actor
The Magic School Bus / int_687c8839	comment	Mean Character, Nice Actor: In-Universe. General Araneus isn't really a General Ripper. He just plays one in Stand by Your Mantis. And he just so happens to be a fan of this series (specifically mentioning "Inside Ralphie" just before he leaves the Producer's office), and is just as concerned about scientific facts as other viewers are.
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The Magic School Bus / int_6a643799	type	Expressive Mask
The Magic School Bus / int_6a643799	comment	Expressive Mask: In the start of "Going Batty", the vampire-obsessed Ralphie spooks Arnold wearing a rubber Dracula Halloween mask that matches perfectly with his facial movements and expressions.
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The Magic School Bus / int_6ba2b94f	type	Trapped in TV Land
The Magic School Bus / int_6ba2b94f	comment	Trapped in TV Land: The class enters a '50s Sci-Fi movie in "Spins A Web". They enter a series of computer simulations in "Shows and Tells".
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The Magic School Bus / int_6bf81a2e	type	Useless Superpowers
The Magic School Bus / int_6bf81a2e	comment	Useless Superpowers: The bus' "magic" always fails whenever it could easily resolve the plot... or, in the TV series, scares the kids during the commercial break.
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The Magic School Bus / int_6c0cefcd	type	Pepper Sneeze
The Magic School Bus / int_6c0cefcd	comment	Pepper Sneeze: Used to get the bus out of Ralphie's nose.
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The Magic School Bus / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
The Magic School Bus / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Mr. Ruhle, the school principal. Also Mr. McClean, the school janitor, and any other single episode character. Molly Cule, Radius Ulna Humerus, Carmina Skeledon, Harry Arm, Cornelia C. Contralto, Mr. Junkett... you see where this is going. Liz, the class's pet lizard.
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The Magic School Bus / int_6d740dff	type	Enforced Trope
The Magic School Bus / int_6d740dff	comment	It should be noted that the original book series featured a lot more kids than the ones who made it to the TV show, fitting in line with what most people expect of a real classroom's size. However, too many characters would have bogged down the kids' show, so they cut it down to eight.
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The Magic School Bus / int_6e5af224	type	Earth Day Episode
The Magic School Bus / int_6e5af224	comment	Earth Day Episode: The kids learn about the importance of the ecosystem during a trip to the rainforest to gather information for an Earth Day project.
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The Magic School Bus / int_6eb04f1	type	"Everybody Laughs" Ending
The Magic School Bus / int_6eb04f1	comment	"Everybody Laughs" Ending: Normally played straight. Lampshaded in "Gone Batty," where Ms. Frizzle and Ralphie enjoy a hearty laugh over his closing joke while Ralphie's mother gives them both a puzzled look.
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The Magic School Bus / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
The Magic School Bus / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: "Holiday Special" features not just Christmas but also Hanukkah and Kwanzaa themes and is a musical episode. The show's theme of recycling is taught through several doctored Christmas tunes (and one doctored Hanukkah tune).
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The Magic School Bus / int_70d8269d	type	Excuse Plot
The Magic School Bus / int_70d8269d	comment	Excuse Plot: Averted for the most part. The science lesson almost always tied in to some kind of conflict the characters were having (i.e., Ralphie wants a robot to do his chores = lesson on how body movement and structure; Carlos wants his invented instrument to sound better = lesson on how sound works). This was, however, much more common in many of the tie-in computer games, where some form of simple event would be used to motivate the class into going on their field trip and giving the player a bit more of a sense of purpose. In this case it was probably for the better, since the one game that didn't do it (Magic School Bus Explores The Human Body) can get pretty confusing. But in reality the purpose of the games was to explore different locations and learn about whatever the game in question was about- the "plot" was just there to give the player more to do than just "stand around in an area and click on stuff".
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The Magic School Bus / int_735dd172	type	Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl
The Magic School Bus / int_735dd172	comment	Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Arnold and Phoebe in "Goes Cellular". Arnold was understandably moody and angsty, as he was orange on the night he was accepting a big geology award. Phoebe, on the other hand, stayed optimistic and even tried to help mask his orange skin...with flour.
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The Magic School Bus / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
The Magic School Bus / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: In "Holiday Special", the un-recycling ray is red and the re-recycling ray is blue. Sound is also color coded red and blue based on how fast the vibrations. Positive and negative charges, too. It happens a lot.
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The Magic School Bus / int_7451e686	type	It Came from the Fridge
The Magic School Bus / int_7451e686	comment	It Came from the Fridge: One episode has a competition about the most spoiled food. Wanda brings some green bubbling mass that stood in the fridge for years. Nobody even remembers what it is. She won.
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The Magic School Bus / int_745bb9ab	type	Green Around the Gills
The Magic School Bus / int_745bb9ab	comment	Green Around the Gills: This occurs with Ralphie in "The Magic School Bus For Lunch", a shade of green appears on each of his cheeks, as he can't "stomach" being inside Arnold's digestive system.
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The Magic School Bus / int_77b009ea	type	Phrase Catcher
The Magic School Bus / int_77b009ea	comment	Phrase Catcher: "CARLOS!" Used against Carlos whenever he says a bad pun.
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The Magic School Bus / int_78cdd5f6	type	"Fantastic Voyage" Plot
The Magic School Bus / int_78cdd5f6	comment	"Fantastic Voyage" Plot: Several episodes involve going inside a person or animal's body to learn about anatomy. This includes three in a row, involving Arnold (digestive system), Ralphie (cardiovascular/immune system), and a tuna fish (food chains).
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The Magic School Bus / int_793a0b9c	type	Wacky Homeroom
The Magic School Bus / int_793a0b9c	comment	Wacky Homeroom: Ms. Frizzle is decidedly crazy and her class, while not as quirky as some other examples, are unique in their own ways.
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The Magic School Bus / int_7980707f	type	Rainbow Lite
The Magic School Bus / int_7980707f	comment	Rainbow Lite: In the episode about rainbows, indigo is dropped as usual, leaving six colors.
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The Magic School Bus / int_7a59ded6	type	Divided for Adaptation
The Magic School Bus / int_7a59ded6	comment	Divided for Adaptation: The book The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body is divided into two Season 1 episodes, "For Lunch" and "Inside Ralphie." In the book, the bus is unwittingly swallowed by Arnold (as in "For Lunch") and the class explores his digestive system, his bloodstream/immune system, and his lungs, brain, heart, and muscles, before finally heading to his nose and being sneezed out. In the TV series, "For Lunch" only covers the digestive system, and the class exits Arnold's body by making him burp the bus out of his stomach, while "Inside Ralphie" covers the immune system and has the "bus is sneezed out of the nose" ending. Meanwhile, the class enters Ms. Frizzle's body in "Works Out" to learn about the circulatory and respiratory systems.
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The Magic School Bus / int_7b20b8d2	type	Alternative Foreign Theme Song
The Magic School Bus / int_7b20b8d2	comment	Alternative Foreign Theme Song: The Japanese version has two ending themes. One of the ending themes is called "Dream On" by Junko Iwao. The other is called "Gohan ni Shiyou" by Dreaming.
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The Magic School Bus / int_7ccd3698	type	Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever
The Magic School Bus / int_7ccd3698	comment	Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: In "Spins a Web", the class gets sucked into a 1950s B-movie about a giant mantis.
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The Magic School Bus / int_7d152a2d	type	Agent Mulder
The Magic School Bus / int_7d152a2d	comment	Arnold and Janet's personalities are shown in full, but while D.A.'s intelligence, Ralphie's Agent Mulder tendencies and Wanda's determination are hinted at, the non-Perlstein kids are basically wallpaper.
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The Magic School Bus / int_7ef728b1	type	Tsundere
The Magic School Bus / int_7ef728b1	comment	Tsundere: Wanda. She considers showing emotion and being cute to being a "weasely wimp," and tries to avoid it whenever possible. In episodes where she's the focus, it's usually with An Aesop that showing emotion is acceptable.
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The Magic School Bus / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Magic School Bus / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: In the intro, as the class is "rafting the river of lava", the volcano inside is about to erupt. The kids are terrified. Ms. Frizzle's smile doesn't budge.
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The Magic School Bus / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
The Magic School Bus / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: In "Hops Home", Ralphie is shown laughing at Carlos's "hoppy" pun. This is Ms. Frizzle's default reaction to Carlos's puns, except in "Makes a Stink", where she gives him a Death Glare instead.
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The Magic School Bus / int_81ae45f2	type	Fantasy Helmet Enforcement
The Magic School Bus / int_81ae45f2	comment	Fantasy Helmet Enforcement: One of Ms. Frizzle's catchphrases is "Seat belts, Everyone!" and the kids will often buckle up without prompting...on a flying school bus that can transform into anything at any time.
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The Magic School Bus / int_82d2715f	type	Magitek
The Magic School Bus / int_82d2715f	comment	Magitek: The bus is revealed to have several exotic components under the hood, with such names as "mesmerglobber", the "shrinkerscope", and the "dew-dinger".
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The Magic School Bus / int_82ff8b68	type	Artistic License â€“ Animal Care
The Magic School Bus / int_82ff8b68	comment	Artistic License â€“ Animal Care: "Hops Home" sees Wanda releasing her pet frog, Bella, into the wild after concluding she's better off there. Releasing a pet into the wild is an extremely bad idea; even if a heron doesn't get Bella, parasites and disease very well might. Bella's lucky to have survived long enough to have kids with Herman in the Producer Segment.
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The Magic School Bus / int_83445b04	type	Pun
The Magic School Bus / int_83445b04	comment	Carlos is always quick with a bad pun or two in any episode he's in. It gets to the point where he's a Phrase Catcher with his name: "Carlos!"
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The Magic School Bus / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
The Magic School Bus / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: We actually get to see Phoebe's old school in one episode. Judging from the sign out front, the building is actually called Phoebe's Old School◊.
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The Magic School Bus / int_84764598	type	Dramatic Thunder
The Magic School Bus / int_84764598	comment	Dramatic Thunder: Played straight in "In the Haunted House" and "Going Batty", mostly using the Disney/Hanna-Barbera "Castle Thunder" Stock Sound Effects.
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The Magic School Bus / int_8504b817	type	Where the Hell Is Springfield?
The Magic School Bus / int_8504b817	comment	Where the Hell Is Springfield?: Walkerville appears to be everywhere in the United States from Illinois to Florida to Rhode Island.
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The Magic School Bus / int_860ca0d9	type	Losing Horns
The Magic School Bus / int_860ca0d9	comment	Losing Horns: Very often the fourth wall's Lame Pun Reaction, particularly when Carlos makes the pun. It consists of two notes, the second one lower, played on a trombone with a mute effect.
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The Magic School Bus / int_8658cd14	type	Agent Scully
The Magic School Bus / int_8658cd14	comment	Keesha: "Oh, bad. Oh, bad. Oh bad, bad, bad." Being the Agent Scully, she'll also use "Let's get the facts..."
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The Magic School Bus / int_86a00a8e	type	If My Calculations Are Correct
The Magic School Bus / int_86a00a8e	comment	If My Calculations Are Correct: "According to my research..."
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The Magic School Bus / int_86daf505	type	Parental Bonus
The Magic School Bus / int_86daf505	comment	Parental Bonus: Many of the show's numerous Shout Outs do this; for example, at one point the bus turns into the Enterprise. Not to mention the Friz herself. As many a disgruntled cosplayer has noted, Ms. Frizzle is stacked. In "Goes Upstream", Ralphie points out the salmon are changing before their eyes, and Ms. Frizzle says he will go through the same phase as a teenager. Later on, you see the male salmon ejaculating on the eggs (which is a bit disturbing considering that said eggs have the kids in them).
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The Magic School Bus / int_87d8ecf5	type	Literal Cliffhanger
The Magic School Bus / int_87d8ecf5	comment	Literal Cliffhanger: In "Revving Up", as Junkett chases the class as they tow away the bus, he trips and falls down a cliff, but hangs on to a branch before the commercial break.
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The Magic School Bus / int_89f623b4	type	Green Gators
The Magic School Bus / int_89f623b4	comment	Green Gators: In "Cold Feet", the Bus's alligator form is bright green compared to the realistically gray gators in Herp Haven.
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The Magic School Bus / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
The Magic School Bus / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: That bus is almost as adaptable as a certain cartoon cat's bag. It also has a face, for no apparent reason.
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The Magic School Bus / int_8a8b2a87	type	And Knowing Is Half the Battle
The Magic School Bus / int_8a8b2a87	comment	And Knowing Is Half the Battle: The phone segment at the end of each episode where one of the show's producers explains to a child over the phone how the events in the episode couldn't happen in real life, along with summarizing the educational content of the episode. These scenes were adapted from a similar section in the original books that discussed the same thing. When the show aired in syndication on cable TV, these segments were sometimes cut. And on some occasions, someone whom the class had visited would be the one getting the calls instead.
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The Magic School Bus / int_8b221a63	type	Reed Richards Is Useless
The Magic School Bus / int_8b221a63	comment	Reed Richards Is Useless: Ms. Frizzle's bus can go to the edge of the Local Group and back inside of a school day, and she uses it to take kids on field trips for Pete's sake! Lampshaded by the general in "Spins a Web" after he discovers the bus's transforming abilities:
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The Magic School Bus / int_8ca20b69	type	Out-of-Character Moment
The Magic School Bus / int_8ca20b69	comment	Out-of-Character Moment: In a book about deserts, Carlos, of all people, is the only member of the class to have heard of the "rain shadow effect", which is cited as one primary cause of the classical desert (basically, differences in pressure mean mountains get a lot of rain which then fails to go on to the area which is now desert due to lack of rain). Even the book hangs a lampshade on how unlikely it is that Carlos is the one in the know. (And you'd think out of all the class... It'd be Dorothy Ann.) This happens again in "Blows Its Top", when he starts reading D.A.'s books, prompting Arnold to actually see him as her.
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The Magic School Bus / int_8f10ec79	type	Weather-Control Machine
The Magic School Bus / int_8f10ec79	comment	Weather-Control Machine: The bus had its own, as seen in "Kicks Up a Storm".
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The Magic School Bus / int_91ba56d2	type	Friendly Scheming
The Magic School Bus / int_91ba56d2	comment	Friendly Scheming: Some of the stories have Ms. Frizzle play jokes on kids and deliberately mislead them, so that they would learn some new things on their own. In Going Batty, it is strongly implied that she intentionally played up the "vampire" image (took the children's parents to a castle, gave them tomato juice that looks very much like blood and made it appear as if they had turned into bats) to lure the kids on another trip and make them learn more about bats. In Cold Feet, this was partly unintentional: she wanted to tell the class what really happened to Liz, but seeing their reactions, she decided it would be better if she played along and let them learn on their own.
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The Magic School Bus / int_94ae369f	type	Calling Your Nausea
The Magic School Bus / int_94ae369f	comment	Calling Your Nausea: One of Ralphie's catchphrases is "I think I'm gonna be sick!"
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The Magic School Bus / int_97919578	type	Class Trip
The Magic School Bus / int_97919578	comment	Class Trip: The whole premise of the series, with every single episode revolving around the class going on one. The catch is that they go places no ordinary class ever could go, thanks to Ms. Frizzle and her Magic Bus.
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The Magic School Bus / int_9858c391	type	Chick Magnet
The Magic School Bus / int_9858c391	comment	Chick Magnet: While any crushes in the series are only hinted at, Arnold seems to get Ship Teased with other female characters the most.
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The Magic School Bus / int_98d866ab	type	Ageless Birthday Episode
The Magic School Bus / int_98d866ab	comment	Ageless Birthday Episode: Lampshaded in one episode. It's Ms. Frizzle's birthday and the class goes to a bakery. During the And Knowing Is Half the Battle segment at the end, a kid goes there and tells the baker shown in the episode that one critical piece of information was missing from the show: They never said how old Ms. Frizzle is.
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The Magic School Bus / int_9a7d4472	type	Stock Ness Monster
The Magic School Bus / int_9a7d4472	comment	"Ups And Downs" has a talk show reporter creating a fake lake monster to bolster her ratings. The kids manage to discover the truth and expose the hoax.
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The Magic School Bus / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
The Magic School Bus / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Janet to Arnold. Heck the show usually plays the "Dun Dun Dunnnn" music when she appears.
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The Magic School Bus / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
The Magic School Bus / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: Different episodes feature different kids/pairs of kids as the main protagonists. Examples:
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The Magic School Bus / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Magic School Bus / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Originally, each book ended with Ms. Frizzle setting up classroom decorations and donning an outfit relating to the subject of the next book. Series Fauxnales ended with Ms. Frizzle wearing a dress covered in question marks. Also, even though it was in the "pilot", Arnold talks about places the class already went: Inside a Rotten Log or to the bottom of the ocean. 2 episodes that would show up later in "Rot Squad" and "Blows Its Top".
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The Magic School Bus / int_9d1a935f	type	Brought to You by the Letter "S"
The Magic School Bus / int_9d1a935f	comment	Brought to You by the Letter "S": Ralphie has a giant red 'R' on his t-shirt, and Janet has a smaller blue 'J' on hers.
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The Magic School Bus / int_9d6427ec	type	Time Travel
The Magic School Bus / int_9d6427ec	comment	Time Travel: "The Busasaurus", which takes us back to the time of the dinosaurs, as the title suggests.
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The Magic School Bus / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
The Magic School Bus / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: In the last season, the kids would often reference a field trip that took place in an early episode so as to build the current lesson on top of something they'd already learned.
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The Magic School Bus / int_9e08b900	type	Most Definitely Not a Villain
The Magic School Bus / int_9e08b900	comment	Most Definitely Not a Villain: In "Cold Feet", the rest of the class sends Wanda to try to get into Herp Haven:
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The Magic School Bus / int_9e86e227	type	The End... Or Is It?
The Magic School Bus / int_9e86e227	comment	The End... Or Is It?: At the end of "Spins a Web" the movie-within-a-show Stand By Your Mantis ends with a message saying "The End...Or Is It?" implying that the movie has a Sequel Hook.
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The Magic School Bus / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
The Magic School Bus / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: Many of the bus's transformations are accompanied by a musical sting. The theme song can usually be heard in bits and pieces throughout an episode.
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The Magic School Bus / int_9f970427	type	Secret-Keeper
The Magic School Bus / int_9f970427	comment	Secret Keepers: The fact that the bus is magical is guarded.
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The Magic School Bus / int_a186b0a6	type	Journey to the Sky
The Magic School Bus / int_a186b0a6	comment	Journey to the Sky: In both the books and the TV animated show, Mr. Fizzle and her students perform a travel to the skies on several occasions to study a particular topic, like when Ralphie wants to show Keesha that he can control the weather while roleplaying as the Weather Man. The episode "Goes On Air" is notable in that they don't do this for leisure or an educational goal, but to solve a more serious problem.
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The Magic School Bus / int_a2e4af42	type	Time for Plan B
The Magic School Bus / int_a2e4af42	comment	Time for Plan B: Played straight a few times.
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The Magic School Bus / int_a3f1531b	type	Standard Snippet
The Magic School Bus / int_a3f1531b	comment	Standard Snippet: The 1812 Overture, also known as the American anthem for Stuff Blowing Up, is used as background music for the volcanic eruption in "Blows its Top". In "In the Haunted House" the class is playing the William Tell Overture.
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The Magic School Bus / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Magic School Bus / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: At the climax of original series book Inside a Hurricane, the class successfully rescues Arnold (after he got separated from everyone else as they explored the eponymous hurricane), only for the bus to suddenly get swept up by a tornado produced by the hurricane. On the very next page, the bus and its passengers land unharmed at a gas station and the tornado and hurricane itself seem to have abruptly vanished into thin air as the Friz and the class calmly tidy up the bus.
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The Magic School Bus / int_a4ca50be	type	Collective Groan
The Magic School Bus / int_a4ca50be	comment	Collective Groan: "CARLOS!", in response to one of his usual bad jokes. Subverted in "Getting Energized", where the class is genuinely angry that Carlos neglected his assigned task of securing power for the Ferris wheel. They still say "Carlos!" but they're clearly angry instead of annoyed.
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The Magic School Bus / int_a4ffefce	type	Dream Intro
The Magic School Bus / int_a4ffefce	comment	Dream Intro: Episode "Out Of This World" begins with Dorothy Ann having a nightmare about an asteroid crashing into Walkerville Elementary School and destroying it. She's awakened by the sound of her alarm clock.
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The Magic School Bus / int_a536f3a3	type	Gender-Blender Name
The Magic School Bus / int_a536f3a3	comment	Gender-Blender Name: Phoebe's father is named Judy.
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The Magic School Bus / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
The Magic School Bus / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Most of the kids, who, except for Arnold and Phoebe, were basically a mass of nameless Mr. Exposition characters in the original books. The original book series continued after the show began, and characters from the show were gradually added. The original kids all had names (as seen on the reports), but only Arnold, Wanda, Tim, Dorothy Ann, Ralph(ie), and Phoebe (who was introduced in the second book) made it into the show. It should be noted that the original book series featured a lot more kids than the ones who made it to the TV show, fitting in line with what most people expect of a real classroom's size. However, too many characters would have bogged down the kids' show, so they cut it down to eight.
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The Magic School Bus / int_a9667a3b	type	Hero Insurance
The Magic School Bus / int_a9667a3b	comment	Also, while under attack by a Tyrannosaurus Rex, she bothers to check if her insurance covers dinosaur damage. Way to go, Hero Insurance.
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The Magic School Bus / int_ab2e5fde	type	Fun with Flushing
The Magic School Bus / int_ab2e5fde	comment	Fun with Flushing: Happens twice in two episodes, one where they go through the water cycle and travels through drain pipes to reach the girls bathroom where the water overflows, and in another episode, they cross over an open toilet bowl in order to escape from the bathroom window.
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The Magic School Bus / int_abcb9af1	type	Eaten Alive
The Magic School Bus / int_abcb9af1	comment	Eaten Alive: Often, if titles like "Gets Eaten" are any indication.
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The Magic School Bus / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
The Magic School Bus / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Usually "The Magic School Bus (does something)".
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The Magic School Bus / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Magic School Bus / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Carlos is always quick with a bad pun or two in any episode he's in. It gets to the point where he's a Phrase Catcher with his name: "Carlos!" Ralphie, when he takes time off from being the Agent Mulder and/or panicking. Take this exchange from "Gets Ants in its Pants": D.A., particularly towards Carlos. Like this exchange from "In the Haunted House", when Carlos is working on his instrument in the broken-down bus while the rest of the class have got out to push it: At least 50% of Keesha's dialogue is sarcasm or snark.
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The Magic School Bus / int_ae50d11c	type	Shrink Ray
The Magic School Bus / int_ae50d11c	comment	Shrink Ray: One of the bus' many features. There is also a portable version called, appropriately enough, the "Porta-Shrinker".
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The Magic School Bus / int_ae592123	type	Editorial Synaesthesia
The Magic School Bus / int_ae592123	comment	Editorial Synaesthesia: In one episode they had goggles that let the kids see sound with "The Producer" later explaining that seeing sound is impossible and was just done for the episode. There was an episode where they could "see" air. It was some special red-colored air called Extraordin-Air.
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The Magic School Bus / int_af7d483f	type	Dreaming of Things to Come
The Magic School Bus / int_af7d483f	comment	Dreaming of Things to Come: At the beginning of "Out of this World", D.A. (who, it transpires, is quite understandably worried by her discovery of an asteroid headed towards Earth) has a dream where she is piloting a spacecraft to try and stop the asteroid, and fails when she discovers Ms. Frizzle is unable to help her. Sure enough, the episode's climax sees Carlos and Ms. Frizzle trapped on the asteroid after a failed attempt to divert its course. D.A. has to take command of the bus and work out a way of both stopping the asteroid and saving her teacher and classmate.
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The Magic School Bus / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
The Magic School Bus / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: Carlos may seem to exist solely to spontaneously generate hurricanes of puns and engage in Snark-To-Snark-Combat with Dorothy Ann. When the going gets tough, however, he shows that he's Plucky Comic Relief with the emphasis on plucky. Take "Out of this World". Carlos spends the first half of the episode disparaging D.A.'s belief that an asteroid is on a collision course with Earth. Once she's been proved right, however, he decides to leave the bus/spaceship in a two-man short-range craft and try to stop the asteroid alone. He fails, paving the way for D.A.'s Moment of Awesome.
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The Magic School Bus / int_b2cb7993	type	Brains and Brawn
The Magic School Bus / int_b2cb7993	comment	Brains and Brawn: Carlos and D.A. in the episode about volcanoes. Ms. Frizzle later invokes this with the two of them in the episode about light and rainbows. Not to mention Dorothy Ann and Ralphie in "Plays Ball" and Dorothy Ann and Wanda in "Takes a Dive".
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The Magic School Bus / int_b426973b	type	The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body
The Magic School Bus / int_b426973b	comment	The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: Downplayed: after shapeshifting into any animal, the kids will find whatever their current form eats appetizing and in "In the City", both Arnold and Carlos temporarily have their good sense temporarily overridden by hunger, going after worms and a night hawk respectively and the bus begins acting exactly like a bear.
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The Magic School Bus / int_b4a6fef1	type	Tough Room
The Magic School Bus / int_b4a6fef1	comment	Tough Room: "CARLOS!" Not just the class. In "Getting Energized", Carlos has to keep an increasingly unruly crowd entertained. Among other things, he performs his impression of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Nobody likes it.
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The Magic School Bus / int_b6c2e6ad	type	Villain Episode
The Magic School Bus / int_b6c2e6ad	comment	Villain Episode: Janet's Once a Season appearances tend to be this, particularly "Gets Lost In Space" and "Butterfly and the Bog Beast" (the latter especially considering she successfully turned most of the class on Phoebe).
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The Magic School Bus / int_b6e1d40b	type	Acceptable Breaks from Reality
The Magic School Bus / int_b6e1d40b	comment	Acceptable Breaks from Reality: Discussed. Every episode ended with a Breaking the Fourth Wall segment where children called in to the show to ask about details the show got "wrong". The Producer(s) would explain that those details were deliberately glossed-over, altered, or outright ignored in order to tell the story, educate kids, and be entertaining within the half-hour time constraint of the episode. During the episode about the digestive system, the bus goes through the process much faster than it actually takes. If they had done it realistically, the bus would've been in Arnold's body for about two days, at the least. Plus, they get out by inducing Arnold to burp since going out the other way would be inappropriate for children's TV (if not outright gross). The Producer admits the kids would have been grown up by the time they traveled through the solar system to Pluto if the bus was as fast as a normal rocket ship, but that doesn't make for a good story. He also acknowledges that they took some liberties with the planet's appearance because, when the episode was aired, no one knew what the planet's surface really looked like. An episode where the kids go inside a computer had the Producer point out that the electrical currents a computer uses would be instantaneous if it was a real computer. He admitted that the electricity was "slowed way down so the kids could follow it". The episode on molecules repeats that molecules are "the very last bit"; as in, they're the smallest form of matter. A kid calls in to say that atoms are even smaller than that, to which the Producer says that it was simply not what they were focusing on.
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The Magic School Bus / int_b72ae7	type	Omnidisciplinary Scientist
The Magic School Bus / int_b72ae7	comment	Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Ms. Frizzle is an elementary school teacher version of this.
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The Magic School Bus / int_b7c312ff	type	Cacophony Cover-Up
The Magic School Bus / int_b7c312ff	comment	Cacophony Cover Up: When Arnold tries to hide the sounds of Ms. Frizzle's pinball machine from Mr. Rhule, he does so by stiffly swaying from foot to foot while shouting "Ding! Ding ding ding! Ding ding!"
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The Magic School Bus / int_b7e74b77	type	Five-Token Band
The Magic School Bus / int_b7e74b77	comment	Five-Token Band: When the class size was trimmed down from the books, it seems like they picked the eight kids who would give the class the most ethnic diversity. Keesha and Tim are black, Carlos is Hispanic, Wanda is Chinese, and even within the white kids, Arnold is Jewish, Phoebe is Quebecois, Ralphie is Italian, and Dorothy Ann is implied to be of mixed Anglo-Mediterranean extraction.
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The Magic School Bus / int_b80ade56	type	Name One
The Magic School Bus / int_b80ade56	comment	Name One: Again, "Holiday Special". After Arnold recycles Wanda's toy soldier by accident, Wanda becomes bitter toward the recycling process and fails to see its benefits. When Phoebe points out there's a lot of good that comes from recycling, Wanda challenges her to name three, which she can't, but she "just knows there's lots." The class soon learns that recycling saves natural resources, results in less trash, and minimizes spacial demand for landfills.
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The Magic School Bus / int_b8429842	type	Plot-Sensitive Button
The Magic School Bus / int_b8429842	comment	Plot-Sensitive Button: Pulling the big red lever in the center of the dashboard apparently causes the bus to turn into whatever the plot requires. The button next to the steering wheel, too.
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The Magic School Bus / int_b869b5b1	type	Color Motif
The Magic School Bus / int_b869b5b1	comment	Color Motif: Each character has a general color they can easily be associated with. Wanda with red, Arnold with yellow, Ralphie with green, Tim with blue, D.A with purple (although she insists it's violet).
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The Magic School Bus / int_b8c092dc	type	The Twelve Spoofs of Christmas
The Magic School Bus / int_b8c092dc	comment	The Twelve Spoofs of Christmas: In "Holiday Special" the kids sing a version of the song with each day's gift replaced with a number of items being taken to the recycling center.
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The Magic School Bus / int_b8dbbc07	type	Ink-Suit Actor
The Magic School Bus / int_b8dbbc07	comment	Ink-Suit Actor: The original PBS run featured a tag scene toward the end with a character known as the Producer who fields a question or two. Said producer is clearly modeled after voice actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner. "Shows and Tells" had the kids on a show-and-tell themed game show where the host resembles Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek (who voiced him that episode). Then of course Lily Tomlin looks somewhat like the Friz.
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The Magic School Bus / int_b9c673a6	type	Market-Based Title
The Magic School Bus / int_b9c673a6	comment	Market-Based Title: The early books were published as The Magic Bus in Britain because Britain doesn't have American-style school buses and Viewers Are Morons.
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The Magic School Bus / int_ba3b41d6	type	Ironic Echo Cut
The Magic School Bus / int_ba3b41d6	comment	Ironic Echo Cut: "I'm sure your class can do broadcast day without you." (cut to classroom) "We can't do it without him!"
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The Magic School Bus / int_bab7fceb	type	Incredible Shrinking Man
The Magic School Bus / int_bab7fceb	comment	Incredible Shrinking Man: Things grow and shrink on a regular basis, and the school bus is usually attacked when shrunken down to size. One episode even has the kids learn about molecules and how they work by shrinking down to molecular size.
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The Magic School Bus / int_bbd8d3f4	type	Adventurer Archaeologist
The Magic School Bus / int_bbd8d3f4	comment	Adventurer Archaeologist: "Shows and Tells", the archeology episode, plays with this trope. Arnold's archaeologist aunt, Arizona Joan, is portrayed wearing an Adventurer Outfit and so forth, but nevertheless seems to have acted like a real archaeologist. Well, except for the part where she left some artifacts to rot in an attic trunk. Even Indiana Jones knows that It Belongs in a Museum. In the phone segment, the producer discusses the fact that while archaeologists travel to exciting places, they also have to do a lot of meticulous work when they get there.
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The Magic School Bus / int_be314fdb	type	Pinball Zone
The Magic School Bus / int_be314fdb	comment	Pinball Zone: They spend an episode inside a pinball machine, learning about light, lasers, and reflection. Ironically, it's actually a bit possible to make a pinball machine like that; just not exactly like what you see in the snow. (You have to use a laser)
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The Magic School Bus / int_bedd799b	type	Blunt "Yes"
The Magic School Bus / int_bedd799b	comment	Blunt "Yes": In 'Under Construction":
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The Magic School Bus / int_c0303542	type	Covering for the Noise
The Magic School Bus / int_c0303542	comment	Covering for the Noise: In "Cold Feet", the class go undercover to a reptile sanctuary, with the Bus posing as an alligator and Phoebe pretending to be its owner. While Phoebe talks to Harry Herp, the man running the place, Arnold (who is in the bus) speaks out. Harry wonders who just spoke, to which Phoebe covers by saying "I said I hope she's not too fat."
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The Magic School Bus / int_c1b2c63f	type	Dull Surprise
The Magic School Bus / int_c1b2c63f	comment	Dull Surprise: Happens a few times early in the series - then again, these are played by kids.
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The Magic School Bus / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
The Magic School Bus / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: The kids. They have their tiffs (there'd be no stories if there weren't) and are often paired off by rivalries, but otherwise have nothing but respect for one another, never go out of their way to hurt each other and always apologize for any trouble they cause.
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The Magic School Bus / int_c3191ad7	type	Smooch of Victory
The Magic School Bus / int_c3191ad7	comment	Smooch of Victory: Dorothy Ann kisses Arnold in "Cracks a Yolk" as a thanks for helping the rooster chick hatch (and saving her from getting in trouble with Mr. Rhule, the principal).
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The Magic School Bus / int_c322a093	type	A Bloody Mess
The Magic School Bus / int_c322a093	comment	A Bloody Mess: One episode had Ms. Frizzle, in a vampire phase, present the kids' parents with glasses of "blood". Keesha pointed out that it was obviously really tomato juice, but no one listened to her.
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The Magic School Bus / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
The Magic School Bus / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Ms. Frizzle uses a bus powered by magic to teach kids about science!
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The Magic School Bus / int_c3736a4e	type	Feigning Healthiness
The Magic School Bus / int_c3736a4e	comment	Feigning Healthiness: In "Inside Ralphie", Ralphie has a cold. Once he's had bitter medicine, he tells Dr. Tenelli that he's already feeling better and that he can go back to school. Dr. Tenelli is not fooled and just tucks him back into bed.
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The Magic School Bus / int_c5fe6c81	type	Strong Family Resemblance
The Magic School Bus / int_c5fe6c81	comment	Strong Family Resemblance: Janet, Mikey, the kids' parents, etc.
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The Magic School Bus / int_c691d3f4	type	Offscreen Teleportation
The Magic School Bus / int_c691d3f4	comment	Offscreen Teleportation: Just how did the Frizz get into the cake batter?
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The Magic School Bus / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Magic School Bus / int_c75df49a	comment	Out of this World is basically one long Shout-Out to Star Trek, complete with Liz as Spock. Also from the same episode, Carlos mentions that D.A. was supposed to be Pluto in the class' live Solar System diorama, before adding a barking sound afterwards.
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The Magic School Bus / int_c8d4373b	type	Mistakes Are Not the End of the World
The Magic School Bus / int_c8d4373b	comment	Mistakes Are Not the End of the World: Ms. Frizzle frequently invites people to "take chances, make mistakes, and get messy".
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The Magic School Bus / int_c949edd4	type	Magic Pants
The Magic School Bus / int_c949edd4	comment	Magic Pants: Any time the characters are transformed into animals, when they regain human form they're wearing the same clothes they were wearing when transformed in the first place.
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The Magic School Bus / int_c953b76d	type	It's Like I Always Say
The Magic School Bus / int_c953b76d	comment	It's Like I Always Say: One of Ms. Frizzle's catchphrases.
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The Magic School Bus / int_c960dde7	type	Melodrama
The Magic School Bus / int_c960dde7	comment	Melodrama: In the episode on electricity and electrical systems, the students mistakenly believe that the person coming to Ms. Frizzle's house is a potential love interest. If they can't fix the power to her house, the supposed paramour will leave, and "Ms. Frizzle's happiness will be ruined... forever!"
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The Magic School Bus / int_c978ad0b	type	Magic Skirt
The Magic School Bus / int_c978ad0b	comment	Magic Skirt: In "The Magic School Bus Kicks Up A Storm", when Ms. Frizzle and her class are descending from the sky as part of the rain cycle, her skirt gets in a draft, which causes the pleats to become wavy, but her rear is away from the direction of the viewers. D.A. wears one too, although she does get a couple of quick panty shots in the series.
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The Magic School Bus / int_ca720408	type	They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich
The Magic School Bus / int_ca720408	comment	They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich: Keesha never did eat that tuna sandwich from "Gets Eaten"...
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The Magic School Bus / int_ca81eae7	type	Hollywood Darkness
The Magic School Bus / int_ca81eae7	comment	Hollywood Darkness: Boy, do people's insides have good lighting (as do the insides of a lot of other things- such as bus engines, computers and even cakes)! Also lampshaded in one of the closing "producer" segments.
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The Magic School Bus / int_cb0743c0	type	Lame Pun Reaction
The Magic School Bus / int_cb0743c0	comment	Lame Pun Reaction: Constantly, as a result of Carlos.
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The Magic School Bus / int_cf231d54	type	Cool Teacher
The Magic School Bus / int_cf231d54	comment	Cool Teacher: The Friz, of course. Even in spite of being Inexplicably Awesome, she's also genuinely helpful kind, energetic, upbeat, and happy-go-lucky. The third-grade class she teaches all like her.
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The Magic School Bus / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
The Magic School Bus / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: In "Shows and Tells", which focuses on archaeology, Arnold runs out of prep time and is forced to take the stage for show-and-tell while the rest of the class is still puzzling out the purpose of the mysterious hoop he brought. After a bit of stalling for time by talking about several theories from earlier in the episode, Liz tosses an arrow with a matching design through the hoop, letting Arnold make the connection that gets him to the artifact's purpose on his own.
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The Magic School Bus / int_d16786a8	type	Anchovies Are Abhorrent
The Magic School Bus / int_d16786a8	comment	Anchovies Are Abhorrent: Ralphie mentions that his dad will order anchovies on a pizza if he doesn't want Ralphie to eat it. Also, in the book The Magic School Bus Explores the Senses, the bus containing the students ends up shrunken down and eaten on Ms. Frizzle's pizza. When the class goes to the taste area of her brain, they're disgusted by the taste of anchovies and run away.
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The Magic School Bus / int_d21a93f4	type	Hand Gagging
The Magic School Bus / int_d21a93f4	comment	Hand Gagging: Non-maliciously done by Carlos to Arnold during Keisha's turning the tables over Janet in "Gets a Bright Idea" (as they needed to quietly get him out of the room).
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The Magic School Bus / int_d249fb0f	type	Hair Color Dissonance
The Magic School Bus / int_d249fb0f	comment	Hair Color Dissonance: The color Arnold's hair is drawn makes it hard to tell whether he's supposed to be a blond or a redhead. Can also be said for Phoebe, who looks either brunette or redheaded.
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The Magic School Bus / int_d308cbb0	type	Character Catchphrase
The Magic School Bus / int_d308cbb0	comment	Character Catchphrase: More than you can count. Pretty much every single main character on this entire show has at least one. The Friz has many: Arnold: "I KNEW I should've stayed home today!" D.A.: "According to my research..." Carlos: "(Bad joke). Get it?" "CARLOS!!!" Which is subverted in the rainforest episode. Can of cocoa beans shows up containing a single bean. An enraged Carlos goes, "We've bean had!" Everyone else is too irate at the company to react. Keesha: "Oh, bad. Oh, bad. Oh bad, bad, bad." Being the Agent Scully, she'll also use "Let's get the facts..." Wanda: "What are we gonna do, what are we gonna do, what are we gonna dooooo?!" Also, "Come on, you bunch of weasely wimps!" Janet: "Prove it!" Several examples of Mad Libs Catch Phrase: "Do something (name)! You got us into this!" Usually used in an episode where one kid's suggestion inspires a field trip that leaves the class stranded, stuck, or otherwise in some kind of trouble. Or Phoebe's "At my old school, we never (insert crazy escapade usually not included in any academic curriculum)" Ralphie: "Is it just me, or (is a scientific process going on right in front of me)?" E.g. when the bus in spaceship form is orbiting the moon: "Is it just me, or are we playing 'Ring Around the Moon'?" Or when travelling back in time: "Is it just me, or did somebody hit rewind?" Ms. Frizzle: "As my (unusually-named relative) used to say, (bad pun)!" Tim: Any variation of "We've been frizzled." This one is less well-known than the others but is still prevalent. Dorothy Ann: "According to my research: (insert D.A. pointing out the science behind what phenomenon is taking place)" E.g from "Taking Flight": "According to my research, when a plane's nose tips up and slows down like this, it's called a stall."
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The Magic School Bus / int_d3e9483a	comment	Non-Fatal Explosions: A grand total of three. The class is blown out of an erupting volcano in "Blows Its Top", gets caught in a gasoline explosion inside the bus's engine cylinder in "Revving Up", and the most extreme example is being close to a supernova in "Sees Stars". In the former two, they are not harmed by the explosion at all, and in the final one, the worst is that they get knocked back.
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The Magic School Bus / int_d40a8a0f	comment	Suddenly Voiced: Although Liz never did speak in the TV show, she did gain a voice on the CD-ROM for helpful hints.
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The Magic School Bus / int_d50a5478	comment	Unlimited Wardrobe: Ms. Frizzle's clothes, shoes, and earrings, which change each episode and feature vaguely psychedelic patterns themed to the subject of the field trip.
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The Magic School Bus / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: Dorothy Ann would like to let you know that her book isn't purple, it's violet.
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The Magic School Bus / int_e58e0124	comment	PokÃ©mon Speak: "Bella.", by Bella the frog in "Hops Home". Before Pokemon, to boot! Then they run into another frog whose dialogue consists entirely of "Herman."
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The Magic School Bus / int_e62dfb96	comment	No Endor Holocaust: In Out Of This World, the class realizes that an asteroid is about to hit their school, and decide to deflect it. They do this by causing the bus to grow to the size of the moon, so its gravity will pull the asteroid off-course. Now think for a moment about what the effects of an object the size of the moon appearing suddenly in Earth's orbit would be. . .
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The Magic School Bus / int_e6558beb	comment	Artistic License â€“ Space: Many are lampshaded, but a prominent example is in "Sees Stars". It wouldn't be a good idea to hang around a supermassive star when it goes supernova. For more reasons than one...
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The Magic School Bus / int_ea6fdefb	comment	Casual Danger Dialog: Occasionally, Ms. Frizzle. Also, while under attack by a Tyrannosaurus Rex, she bothers to check if her insurance covers dinosaur damage. Way to go, Hero Insurance. Honestly, the class is screaming, while they are in something like "Informed Danger" because that bus is well more than capable of stopping everything from a T-Rex attack to a volcano to BENDING THE RULES OF SPACE AND TIME. (Well, they take enough damage to that bus.)
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The Magic School Bus / int_eb28ab57	comment	Bound and Gagged: Played for laughs in one episode where the kids are inside a black-and-white horror film. Phoebe tries to use a spiderweb to catch a military general who's commandeered their school bus, but he leans back in his chair and bumps into her, causing her to wrap herself in the web instead. When everyone gets out of the bus, Phoebe has to hop after them.
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The Magic School Bus / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	In "Gets A Bright Idea", Janet uses a clever light trick to make it look like Arnold is a ghost. Since this is Janet, she doesn't have a motivation other than being her usual Jerkass self.
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The Magic School Bus / int_eb8f21d9	comment	Dub Pronunciation Change: The Romanian dub has Wanda's name pronounced as "Vanda".
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The Magic School Bus / int_ec212e4d	comment	Ensemble Cast: The show really has no one single protagonist, giving the students a mostly equal role in any given episode, with individuals occasionally taking turns in the spotlight.
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The Magic School Bus / int_ec3aadd6	comment	Seeker White Blood Cells: "Inside Ralphie" features them when the rest of the class shrinks down to find out what's making Ralphie get sick. They encounter white blood cells, which identify the bus as a pathogen and start a chase scene. The white blood cells are shown "sniffing" for pathogens, even though they don't have noses. White blood cells don't actually move like they do in this episode; they mainly just float along and consume any pathogens they come across.
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The Magic School Bus / int_ed2bbf8a	comment	You Are in Command Now: D.A. has to take charge of the bus to rescue Carlos and Ms. Frizzle from the surface of an asteroid and prevent said asteroid from hitting the Earth. Needless to say, she succeeds.
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The Magic School Bus / int_edce12ef	comment	Two-Teacher School: Ms. Frizzle, Mr. Ruhle (the school principal), Mr. Sinew (the gym teacher), and another teacher, "Mrs. Rivers", was mentioned in "Goes on Air".
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The Magic School Bus / int_ee77d3e2	comment	Dead Pet Sketch: In "Cracks A Yolk", the kids have to get a replacement chicken fast after he escapes the coop, before Mr. Ruhle could notice. Since they found it hard to get a replacement wholesale, they settle on hatching an egg with the Bus's assistance, which transforms into a hen with an advanced heater to speed up the hatching. Giblets then returns to Mr. Ruhle just after D.A. and Arnold present the chick to him, but they're allowed to keep it.
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The Magic School Bus / int_f165cf2c	comment	Last-Second Word Swap: In "Holiday Special". Miss Frizzle's cousin Murph runs a recycling center. She's already shown great sensitivity to the word "junk" on multiple occasions, and is advancing on Carlos as he says:
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The Magic School Bus / int_f217cdab	comment	Great Big Book of Everything: Dorothy Ann's ever-present "research".
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The Magic School Bus / int_f288cf3	comment	Innocent Innuendo: In "Gets Charged", Wanda overhears Ms. Frizzle talking on the phone to whom she assumes is her Valentine and excitedly tells the other kids, "She said, 'I'd just love for you to come over and ring my bell!'" She's talking to an electrician about fixing her front doorbell.
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The Magic School Bus / int_f33e5ff	comment	I Don't Think That's Such a Good Idea: Arnold, practically all the time.
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The Magic School Bus / int_f46fb603	comment	Pungeon Master: Carlos's shtick is making puns. Same goes for Mr. Ramon, his father.
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The Magic School Bus / int_f717d46e	comment	Stock Foreign Name: Carlos. Keesha is a uniquely spelled variant. Averted with Wanda, her brother William, Tim, and Carlos' brother Mikey.
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The Magic School Bus / int_f9375414	comment	Face Palm: Arnold's inevitable reaction to the news that they're going on a field trip. Pretty much everyone about Once an Episode whenever Carlos tells one of his jokes.
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The Magic School Bus / int_f9c3ecc6	comment	Series Fauxnales ended with Ms. Frizzle wearing a dress covered in question marks.
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The Magic School Bus / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: Tons of examples. In "Ups and Downs", Keesha talks about turning their "floaters into sinkers". In "Revving Up", as the class floats around in the bus' carburetor, Wanda says "Now I know what a tossed salad feels like!"
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The Magic School Bus / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: When the kids are falling in "Getting Energized", Mikey falls wheels - first. However, if that was drawn realistically, the wheelchair could have crushed him.
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The Magic School Bus / int_fcd9b657	comment	Gallows Humor: During one episode, it is suggested by one of the hysterical students that Wanda might have been eaten by a sea monster; Phoebe reacts with disappointment, citing that she wanted to feed the monster, immediately followed by the usual "Car-los!" reaction.
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The Magic School Bus / int_fdaf37f0	comment	Captain's Log: In the "Out Of This World" (Episode 24), the bus turns into a starship. Cue the homage:
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The Magic School Bus / int_ff9e9dde	comment	Once a Season: Arnold's Alpha Bitch cousin, Janet, shows up to make life worse for Ms. Frizzle's class once per season.
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The Magic School Bus / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: While the show openly admits to taking Acceptable Breaks from Reality to make the stories entertaining (it's called The Magic School Bus, after all), the writers clearly did their homework for all of the given subjects. The end credits of each episode proudly display the numerous scientists consulted to ensure all of the scientific facts were up-to-date and accurate. The "producer" segments fill the viewers in on any otherwise important facts that the show proper couldn't work into its story. In-Universe in "Inside Ralphie," Ralphie's mother, a doctor, watches what she thinks is a movie (really live footage of the bus traveling through his bloodstream) and compliments it for accurately displaying up-close blood as clear rather than red.
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The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Food Slap / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Fourth-Wall Mail Slot / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Fun T-Shirt / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Funny Photo Phrase / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Funny Terrain Cross Section / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Girliness Upgrade / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Go-to-Sleep Ending / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Gravity Screw / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Great Big Book of Everything / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Great Gazoo / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Green Gators / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Hair Color Dissonance / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Harmless Freezing / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Have a Gay Old Time / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Headbutting Pachy / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Hollywood Darkness / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Hurl It into the Sun / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	I Always Wanted to Say That / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	I Know Karate / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	I Want My Mommy! / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Iconic Item / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Inevitable Waterfall / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Inexplicably Awesome / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Is It Always Like This? / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	It Tastes Like Feet / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Journey to the Sky / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Kids' Meal Toy / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Kissing the Ground / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Mad Libs Catchphrase / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Magic Bus / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Mass Transformation / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	NaÃ¯ve Everygirl / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Never Bareheaded / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	New Transfer Student / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Nobody Poops / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Not Using the "Z" Word / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Oblivious Astronomers / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Our Time Travel Is Different / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Person as Verb / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	PokÃ©mon Speak / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Precision Crash / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Product Delivery Ordeal / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Production Foreshadowing / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Quirky Curls / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Rainbow Lite / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Real Trailer, Fake Movie / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Reed Richards Is Useless / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Rewind Gag / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	School Stories / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Sequel Series / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Setting Update / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Shrink Ray / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Sickly Neurotic Geek / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Signs of Disrepair / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Slaying Mantis / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Soft Water / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Somewhere, a Mammalogist Is Crying / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Space Is Cold / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Sub Story / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Swallowed Whole / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Symbolically Broken Object / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Taught by Television / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	The All-American Boy / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	The Day the Dinosaurs Died / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	The End... Or Is It? / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	The Generic Guy / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	The Tape Knew You Would Say That / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Time Travel Tales / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Time Traveler's Dinosaur / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Trans Audience Interpretation / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Trapped in TV Land / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Vehicle Title / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Walk This Way / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	We Don't Need Roads / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	What a Piece of Junk / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	hasFeature	Where No Parody Has Gone Before / int_27d467a3
The Magic School Bus	seeAlso	The Magic School Bus

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