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The Best Episodes of The Magic School Bus Season 3

Every episode of The Magic School Bus Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Magic School Bus Season 3!

The Best Episodes of The Magic School Bus Season 3

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 In a Beehive
    7.7/10(59 votes)

    #1 - 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
  2. Background image for In the Arctic
    8.0/10(59 votes)

    #2 - 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
  3. Background image for Spins a Web
    8.0/10(67 votes)

    #3 - 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
  4. Background image for Under Construction
    8.3/10(65 votes)

    #4 - 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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    7.8/10(60 votes)

    #5 - 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
  6. Background image for Shows and Tells
    7.9/10(60 votes)

    #6 - 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
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  8. Background image for Makes a Rainbow
    7.8/10(68 votes)

    #7 - 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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  9. Background image for Goes Upstream
    7.7/10(57 votes)

    #8 - 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
  10. Background image for Works Out
    8.1/10(60 votes)

    #9 - 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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    8.0/10(58 votes)

    #10 - 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
  12. Background image for In the Rainforest
    7.5/10(65 votes)

    #11 - In the Rainforest

    S3:E11

    The kids rent a rainforest cocoa tree as an Earth Day present for Ms. Frizzle. But when the harvest arrives, there’s only one shrivelled cocoa bean! Ms. Frizzle takes the class to the rainforest to meet the impeccable Inspector 47 who keeps a tidy, mud-free cocoa grove. What has he done to the rainforest's intricate ecology web?

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

    #12 - 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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    7.9/10(84 votes)

    #13 - 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

Season 3 Ratings Summary

"In a Beehive" is the best rated episode of "The Magic School Bus" season 3. It scored 7.7/10 based on 59 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Doug Booth, it aired on 9/14/1996. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "In the Arctic".