The Best Episodes of The Magic School Bus

It's Ms. Frizzle's birthday, and a field trip to the bakery seems perfect -- until the bus's shrinker-scope goes on the fritz and the class gets baked in a cake! With Dom DeLuise as the Baker.

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Writer: Brian Meehl, Jocelyn Stevenson, John May

Two inches tall and trapped in a bathroom at Wanda’s house, the kids must use what they’ve learned about structures to escape before Wanda’s mother discovers them.

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Writer: Libby Hinson

Ralphie is crushed when a fever keeps him home from school the day he's scheduled to host a FNN (Frizzle News Network) television broadcast on health. With Tyne Daly as Ralphie’s mom.

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Writer: Jocelyn Stevenson, John May

Arnold's so excited he doesn't have to go on a field trip! But when he accidentally swallows his miniaturised class, he becomes the field trip!

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Writer: Brian Meehl, Jocelyn Stevenson, Ellen Schecter, John May

To help them understand how the Earth makes islands, Ms. Frizzle presents the kids with an island that hasn’t been discovered yet!

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Writer: Jocelyn Stevenson, Sean Kelly, George Arthur Bloom

Ms. Frizzle takes the class on a dinosaur dig, courtesy of her old school chum, paleontologist Dr. Carmina Skeledon, and travels 67 million years back in time!

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Writer: Brian Meehl, Ronnie Krauss, George Arthur Bloom

Is Mr. Sinew any match for the Friz? At this year’s “Teacher-athlon,” the kids fear Ms. Frizzle doesn’t stand a chance against the muscle-bound gym teacher from another school, so the class travels inside her body for a closer look.

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Writer: Jocelyn Stevenson, George Arthur Bloom, Robert Schechter

Arnold's know-it-all cousin Janet drives the kids crazy when she joins Ms. Frizzle's class on a field trip and gets them lost in outer space!

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Writer: Brian Meehl, Jocelyn Stevenson

Arnold and Keesha are in trouble when they forget to bring in their assignment on "two things that go together."

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Writer: Jocelyn Stevenson, John May

Ms. Frizzle combines Dorothy Ann's physics and Ralphie's baseball into a "Frictionless Baseball Game."

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Writer: Brian Meehl, Jocelyn Stevenson, John May

“Where did the hot go?” wonders Arnold when his hot cocoa cools off. So, Ms. Frizzle whisks the class to the Arctic!

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Writer: Brian Meehl

Phoebe tries to grow a vine for the school play, Jack and the Beanstalk. But her plant is more like a beansprout than a beanstalk! With the opening curtain only moments away, Ms. Frizzle turns Phoebe into a bean plant so she’ll grow into the star of the show!

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Writer: Ronnie Krauss

Wanda plans to see The Nutcracker ballet, but during a trip to Murph’s recycling plant, the toy soldier she needs to get into the theater accidentally becomes a plastic pellet! Ms. Frizzle activates the Bus’s Un-Recycler, taking the class and Murph on a song-filled field trip, where they learn how everyday items are made from recycled trash.

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Writer: Brian Meehl, John May

Always the caring soul, Phoebe goes on a crusade to save the animals and plants of the desert -- and discovers how well they take care of themselves.

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Writer: Brian Meehl, Jocelyn Stevenson

The Magic School Bus goes into show business when Keesha directs a movie about social animals for the school science fair.

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Writer: Brian Meehl, Jocelyn Stevenson, Kristin Laskas Martin

The Friz transforms the bus into a Weathermobile and -- in a wild ride through the skies -- Ralphie becomes the meteorological superhero of his dreams.

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Writer: Brian Meehl, Jocelyn Stevenson, John May

When Dorothy Ann warns the kids there’s an asteroid headed straight for their school, Ms. Frizzle arranges a field trip into space.

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Writer: George Arthur Bloom, Libby Hinson

Ms. Frizzle transports the class into a 1950s horror movie, where a 50-foot praying mantis is wreaking havoc on the town. Ed Asner stars as the film’s power-mad protagonist, General Araneus.

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Writer: Robert Schechter

Arnold brings in a webbed hoop for the International Show-and-Tell Competition, left behind by his great-aunt, a famous archaeologist, but he has no idea what it is! Can the kids find out what it is before he takes the stage? With Alex Trebek as the “Sportscaster.”

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Writer: John May

When Wanda’s favorite singer, Molly Cule comes to town and she chooses Ms. Frizzle’s class to wash her famous car, the kids discover how to clean the car down to the very last bit.

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Writer: Ronnie Krauss

The class is thrilled about its upcoming concert at the Sound Museum -- until they discover the spooky mansion is more of a thrill than they bargained for. With Carol Channing as Cornelia C. Contralto.

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Writer: Jocelyn Stevenson, John May, Kristin Laskas Martin

Keesha and the class return from vacation to find her prize cucumber has turned into a pickle! Could the Mike Robe gang be to blame?

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Writer: Brian Meehl, Jocelyn Stevenson, George Arthur Bloom

Shrunk inside Tim’s model airplane, the class goes on a high-flying field trip to find out how things fly.

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Writer: George Arthur Bloom, Kermit Frazier

The light show at Walkerville’s old theater is illuminating, but Arnold’s bossy cousin Janet claims she could put on a much better show—if there wasn’t a ghost living in the theater!

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Writer: Ronnie Krauss

The class finds Ms. Frizzle inside her closet—playing a pinball machine she created with light pulses instead of steel balls. With time and the light pulses running out, the kids must discover the secrets of color—before the principal, Mr. Ruhle, discovers them!

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Writer: Jocelyn Stevenson, George Arthur Bloom