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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. 9.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - 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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  2. 9.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - 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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  3. 9.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. 9.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Gets Charged

    S4:E10

    It’s Valentine’s Day and the class is selling lightbulbs. When they stop at Ms. Frizzle’s house to sell her one, they find that her battery-operated doorbell doesn’t work.

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  5. 8.3/10(97 votes)

    #5 - 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.

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  6. 8.1/10(140 votes)

    #6 - 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.

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  8. 8.1/10(115 votes)

    #7 - 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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  9. 8.1/10(73 votes)

    #8 - 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!

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  10. 8.0/10(137 votes)

    #9 - 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!

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  11. 8.0/10(96 votes)

    #10 - Gets Eaten

    S1:E4

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

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  12. 8.0/10(85 votes)

    #11 - Plays Ball

    S1:E10

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

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  13. 8.0/10(75 votes)

    #12 - 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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  14. 8.0/10(68 votes)

    #13 - 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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  15. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Goes Cellular

    S4:E6

    It’s the night of the rock lovers’ annual Granite Awards, and Arnold is about to become the first kid to win the Rocky Award. He’s so excited, all he’s been able to eat for weeks are “Seaweedies.” When he arrives for the big event, he’s totally nervous and totally... orange!

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  16. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - Sees Stars

    S4:E7

    When the kids see Horace Scope (Dabney Coleman) on the Star Shopping Network, they decide to buy Dorothy Ann a real twinkling star for her birthday.

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  17. 7.9/10(159 votes)

    #16 - 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!

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  18. 7.9/10(87 votes)

    #17 - 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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  19. 7.9/10(84 votes)

    #18 - 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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  20. 7.9/10(77 votes)

    #19 - 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.

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  21. 7.8/10(78 votes)

    #20 - Going Batty

    S2:E4

    When Ms. Frizzle invites the class’ parents in to see that their kids are learning about bats, Ralphie and the gang are convinced The Friz is a vampire! With Tyne Daly as Ralphie’s mom; Eartha Kitt as Keesha’s grandmother; Elliot Gould as Arnold’s dad; Dana Elcar as Phoebe’s dad; and Edward James Olmos as Carlos’s dad.

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  22. 7.8/10(67 votes)

    #21 - 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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  23. 7.8/10(63 votes)

    #22 - 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.

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  24. 7.7/10(89 votes)

    #23 - Hops Home

    S1:E5

    When Wanda's pet frog, Bella, jumps out an open window, Ms. Frizzle shrinks the bus into a mechanical frog and takes her now tiny class on a hop-along adventure.

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  25. 7.7/10(80 votes)

    #24 - Goes to Seed

    S1:E11

    The class' garden is going to be featured on the cover of PLANT IT! magazine. But Phoebe's garden plot is glaringly empty. With Robby Benson as Mr. Seedplot.

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  26. 7.7/10(61 votes)

    #25 - 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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Best Episodes Summary

"Goes Upstream" is the best rated episode of "The Magic School Bus". It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Ronnie Krauss, it aired on 11/2/1996. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Meets Molly Cule".