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The Best Episodes of The Magic School Bus

Every episode of The Magic School Bus ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Magic School Bus!

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An eccentric schoolteacher takes her class on wondrous educational field trips with the help of a magical school bus.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    The Magic School Bus Season 1 Episode 9 - Gets Ready, Set, Dough
    8.3/10(110 votes)

    #1 - Gets Ready, Set, Dough

    S1:E9

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Jocelyn Stevenson, Brian Meehl, John May

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  2. The Magic School Bus Season 3 Episode 4 - Under Construction
    8.3/10(75 votes)

    #2 - Under Construction

    S3:E4

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Libby Hinson

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  3. The Magic School Bus Season 3 Episode 9 - Works Out
    8.2/10(65 votes)

    #3 - Works Out

    S3:E9

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Jocelyn Stevenson, Robert Schechter, George Arthur Bloom

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  4. The Magic School Bus Season 1 Episode 3 - Inside Ralphie
    8.1/10(156 votes)

    #4 - Inside Ralphie

    S1:E3

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Jocelyn Stevenson, John May

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  5. The Magic School Bus Season 2 Episode 11 - Out of This World
    8.1/10(77 votes)

    #5 - Out of This World

    S2:E11

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:George Arthur Bloom, Libby Hinson

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  6. The Magic School Bus Season 3 Episode 2 - In the Arctic
    8.1/10(68 votes)

    #6 - In the Arctic

    S3:E2

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Brian Meehl

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  7. The Magic School Bus Season 3 Episode 3 - Spins a Web
    8.1/10(77 votes)

    #7 - Spins a Web

    S3:E3

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Robert Schechter

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  8. The Magic School Bus Season 3 Episode 10 - Gets Planted
    8.1/10(65 votes)

    #8 - Gets Planted

    S3:E10

    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!

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ronnie Krauss

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  9. The Magic School Bus Season 4 Episode 1 - Meets Molly Cule
    8.1/10(70 votes)

    #9 - Meets Molly Cule

    S4:E1

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ronnie Krauss

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  10. The Magic School Bus Season 1 Episode 2 - For Lunch
    8.0/10(156 votes)

    #10 - For Lunch

    S1:E2

    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!

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Jocelyn Stevenson, Ellen Schecter, Brian Meehl, John May

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  11. The Magic School Bus Season 1 Episode 4 - Gets Eaten
    8.0/10(107 votes)

    #11 - Gets Eaten

    S1:E4

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Jocelyn Stevenson, John May

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  12. The Magic School Bus Season 1 Episode 10 - Plays Ball
    8.0/10(97 votes)

    #12 - Plays Ball

    S1:E10

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Jocelyn Stevenson, Brian Meehl, John May

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  13. The Magic School Bus Season 1 Episode 13 - Kicks Up a Storm
    8.0/10(92 votes)

    #13 - Kicks Up a Storm

    S1:E13

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Jocelyn Stevenson, Brian Meehl, John May

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  14. The Magic School Bus Season 2 Episode 1 - Blows Its Top
    8.0/10(85 votes)

    #14 - Blows Its Top

    S2:E1

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Jocelyn Stevenson, Sean Kelly, George Arthur Bloom

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  15. The Magic School Bus Season 2 Episode 3 - The Busasaurus
    8.0/10(83 votes)

    #15 - The Busasaurus

    S2:E3

    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!

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Brian Meehl, Ronnie Krauss, George Arthur Bloom

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  16. The Magic School Bus Season 3 Episode 5 - Gets a Bright Idea
    8.0/10(69 votes)

    #16 - Gets a Bright Idea

    S3:E5

    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!

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ronnie Krauss

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  17. The Magic School Bus Season 3 Episode 6 - Shows and Tells
    8.0/10(68 votes)

    #17 - Shows and Tells

    S3:E6

    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.”

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:John May

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  18. The Magic School Bus Season 3 Episode 7 - Makes a Rainbow
    8.0/10(76 votes)

    #18 - Makes a Rainbow

    S3:E7

    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!

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Jocelyn Stevenson, George Arthur Bloom

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  19. The Magic School Bus Season 3 Episode 13 - Holiday Special
    8.0/10(91 votes)

    #19 - Holiday Special

    S3:E13

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Brian Meehl, John May

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  20. The Magic School Bus Season 1 Episode 1 - Gets Lost in Space
    7.9/10(182 votes)

    #20 - Gets Lost in Space

    S1:E1

    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!

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Jocelyn Stevenson, Brian Meehl

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  21. The Magic School Bus Season 1 Episode 7 - All Dried Up
    7.9/10(100 votes)

    #21 - All Dried Up

    S1:E7

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Jocelyn Stevenson, Brian Meehl

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  22. The Magic School Bus Season 1 Episode 12 - Gets Ants in Its Pants
    7.9/10(97 votes)

    #22 - Gets Ants in Its Pants

    S1:E12

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Jocelyn Stevenson, Brian Meehl, Kristin Laskas Martin

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  23. The Magic School Bus Season 2 Episode 9 - Taking Flight
    7.9/10(72 votes)

    #23 - Taking Flight

    S2:E9

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:George Arthur Bloom, Kermit Frazier

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  24. The Magic School Bus Season 2 Episode 13 - Ups and Downs
    7.9/10(70 votes)

    #24 - Ups and Downs

    S2:E13

    There’s a monster in Walkerville Lake! Wanda competes with Gerri Poveri, a TV reporter whose ratings are sinking, to be the first one underwater.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Brian Meehl, George Arthur Bloom

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  25. The Magic School Bus Season 3 Episode 12 - Rocks and Rolls
    7.9/10(61 votes)

    #25 - Rocks and Rolls

    S3:E12

    To celebrate the founding of Walkerville, Ms. Frizzle’s class sculpts a stone likeness of its founding father, Captain Walker. As they add the finishing touches, the statue tumbles down the mountain. Ms. Frizzle turns the Bus into a huge boulder and the kids into rocks while bumping down the mountain in a desperate attempt to save the statue.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Jocelyn Stevenson, Robert Schechter, George Arthur Bloom

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Best Episodes Summary

"Gets Ready, Set, Dough" is the best rated episode of "The Magic School Bus". It scored 8.3/10 based on 110 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Jocelyn Stevenson, Brian Meehl, John May, it aired on 11/5/1994. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Under Construction".