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The Best Episodes of The Magic School Bus

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The Best Episodes of The Magic School Bus

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

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  1. Background image for Revving Up
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Revving Up

    S2:E8

    The school district’s Vehicle Maintenance Inspector, Junkett is about to condemn the Magic School Bus!

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  2. Background image for All Dried Up
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - 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.

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  3. Background image for In the Haunted House
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - In the Haunted House

    S1:E8

    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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  4. Background image for Gets Ants in Its Pants
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - 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.

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  5. Background image for Blows Its Top
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - 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!

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  6. Background image for In a Pickle
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - In a Pickle

    S2:E7

    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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  8. Background image for Out of This World
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - 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.

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  9. Background image for Ups and Downs
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - 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.

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    8.3/10(66 votes)

    #9 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
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    8.1/10(60 votes)

    #10 - 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.

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  12. Background image for Flexes Its Muscles
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Flexes Its Muscles

    S2:E2

    Ms. Frizzle takes the class on a field trip to R.U. Humerus's Body Shop. They learn how bones, muscles and joints all work together to help us move.

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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Wet All Over

    S2:E6

    Arnold and Wanda are due to give a report on the town waterworks. But Ms. Frizzle thinks it's field DRIP time! She turns the bus and class into water drops and the kids evaporate, condense, become rain and rush by river into the ocean. After several trips through the water cycle, they're ready to turn back into regular kids. But the magic key that will get them out of the cycle is locked in the school bathroom! Trying to work their watery way into the bathroom, the kids go through the town waterworks and see how water is purified. Can they get to school through bathroom pipes? Or are they stuck in the water cycle forever?

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    8.0/10(60 votes)

    #13 - 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!

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    Director:Unknown
  15. Background image for Spins a Web
    8.0/10(68 votes)

    #14 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
  16. Background image for Gets Planted
    8.0/10(58 votes)

    #15 - 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!

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    Director:Unknown
  17. Background image for Shows and Tells
    7.9/10(61 votes)

    #16 - 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.”

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:John May
  18. Background image for Makes a Rainbow
    7.9/10(69 votes)

    #17 - 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!

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    7.9/10(85 votes)

    #18 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
  20. Background image for Meets Molly Cule
    7.9/10(63 votes)

    #19 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
  21. Background image for Gets a Bright Idea
    7.8/10(61 votes)

    #20 - 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!

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    Director:Unknown
  22. Background image for Rocks and Rolls
    7.8/10(56 votes)

    #21 - 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.

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  23. Background image for Goes on Air
    7.8/10(54 votes)

    #22 - Goes on Air

    S4:E4

    The only contribution the kids in Ms. Frizzle’s class have made to the Walkerville Space Capsule is an empty jar. “It’s not empty,” argues Keesha. “It’s filled with air!” Ralphie thinks that air doesn’t do anything, but when the bus shrinks and gets stuck inside the jar—the class finds that their only hope for escape is... air!

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  24. Background image for Gains Weight
    7.8/10(61 votes)

    #23 - Gains Weight

    S4:E8

    Phoebe is chosen to give a slam-dunk exhibition during the big basketball game. When she finds she can’t jump high enough because gravity is “pulling on” her, Ms. Frizzle takes the class into space and turns the Bus into a planet—with adjustable gravity!

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  25. Background image for In a Beehive
    7.7/10(60 votes)

    #24 - In a Beehive

    S3:E1

    Tim’s beekeeper Grandfather has the sweetest honey in town. Ms. Frizzle turns her class into bees so they can visit a hive and learn how raw honey is processed firsthand.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Doug Booth
  26. Background image for Goes Upstream
    7.7/10(57 votes)

    #25 - Goes Upstream

    S3:E8

    Ralphie wants to serve salmon at the annual school picnic, but he can’t find any at his favorite fishing spot. But when the kids are “Frizzled” inside a salmon-bus they have an uncontrollable urge to head upriver.

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    Director:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"Revving Up" is the best rated episode of "The Magic School Bus". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Brian Meehl, Sean Kelly, George Arthur Bloom, it aired on 10/28/1995. This episode scored 1.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "All Dried Up".