The BEST episodes directed by Charles E. Bastien
#1 - Holiday Special
The Magic School Bus - Season 3 - Episode 13
It's the last day of school before the winter holidays and Wanda plans to see the Nutcracker ballet. But during a trip to a recycling plant that belongs to Murph (Dolly Parton), the toy soldier she needs to get into the theatre accidentally gets recycled! Devastated, Wanda wishes for a world without recycling. Ms. Frizzle activates the bus's un-recycler, taking the class and Murph on a song-filled field trip. The importance of recycling hits home when the bus's magic unrecycles everything in Walkerville — including the bus itself, as it too was made from recycled objects! Will the kids find a way to reconstruct the bus in time for Wanda to get back to see the Nutcracker? (Dolly Parton sings an original song plus four special carols written by Peter Lurye, composer of the rollicking MAGIC SCHOOL BUS theme song.)
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#2 - In the City
The Magic School Bus - Season 4 - Episode 12
Ms. Frizzle's class is visiting the zoo, which is, according to Tim, the only place in the city where wild animals can survive. To test this idea — ZAP! — Ms. Frizzle turns the class into possums, foxes, and falcons! The Bus, with Liz inside, becomes a bear and wanders off, looking for food. Will the kid-animals be able to find the Bus-bear before the zookeeper finds it? And is Tim right? Can animals (like themselves) survive in the city?
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#3 - Butterfly and the Bog Beast
The Magic School Bus - Season 2 - Episode 5
The class needs a new mascot for its soccer team. Phoebe suggests butterflies, but everyone thinks they’re wimpy—until The Friz flutters in!
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#4 - The Busasaurus
The Magic School Bus - Season 2 - Episode 3
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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#5 - Gets a Bright Idea
The Magic School Bus - Season 3 - Episode 5
After the illuminating light show at Walkerville's old theatre, Arnold's bossy cousin Janet claims she could put on a much better show. Nobody believes her until Janet and Arnold mysteriously disappear. Ms. Frizzle leads her class into the darkened theatre to look for them. To shed some light on the problem, the kids become beams of light. Then, to their great shock, they see Arnold's ghostly image floating high above the empty stage! Is the theatre haunted? Is this just one of Janet's tricks? Or have they all been ""Frizzled""?
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#6 - Wet All Over
The Magic School Bus - Season 2 - Episode 6
The class takes a wild ride with The Friz through the water cycle.
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#7 - Revving Up
The Magic School Bus - Season 2 - Episode 8
The school district’s Vehicle Maintenance Inspector, Junkett is about to condemn the Magic School Bus!
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#8 - In the Rainforest
The Magic School Bus - Season 3 - Episode 11
The kids rent a rain-forest cocoa tree as an Earth Day present for Ms. Frizzle. But when the harvest arrives, there's only one shriveled cocoa bean and a note from Inspector 47 (Matt Frewer) reporting that, for reasons unknown, the tree isn't producing beans! DA and Tim become detectives as Ms. Frizzle takes the class to the rain forest to meet the impeccable inspector, who keeps a tidy, mud-free cocoa grove. What has Inspector 47 done to the rain forest's intricate web of life that is keeping the tree from making pods?
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#9 - Gets Charged
The Magic School Bus - Season 4 - Episode 10
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. While looking for Ms. Frizzle to tell her the doorbell's broken, Wanda overhears her teacher talking on the telephone. ""Ms. Frizzle has a boyfriend,"" says Wanda, ""and he's on his way over to see her! We've got to fix the doorbell or she'll never know he's here!"" But first they have to figure out how the doorbell works...
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#10 - Flexes Its Muscles
The Magic School Bus - Season 2 - Episode 2
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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#11 - Going Batty
The Magic School Bus - Season 2 - Episode 4
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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#12 - Pups Get Stuck
Paw Patrol - Season 3 - Episode 44
Rubble's electromagnet falls into Marshall's fire truck, magnetizing the vehicle and causing problems around the town.
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#13 - Pups and the Mystery of the Driverless Snow Cat
Paw Patrol - Season 5 - Episode 28
Daring Danny's new remote control accidentally takes control of Everest's SnoCat and all the vehicles in Adventure Bay.
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#14 - In a Beehive
The Magic School Bus - Season 3 - Episode 1
When Tim delivers the last of the season's honey to his grandfather's customers, the jars get broken. Tim's solution is simple: get more honey from some bees. But Ms. Frizzle sweetens the idea by turning her class into bees and showing them a beehive up close and personal. When a bear steals the bees' hard-earned supply of honey, the bee-kids discover one last field of nectar-filled flowers. How will the bee-kids communicate this information to the bees in time for them to harvest enough honey before the flowers are killed by the impending frost? Season Three premiere episode!
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#15 - Spins a Web
The Magic School Bus - Season 3 - Episode 3
What do you do when a 50-foot praying mantis menaces your town? Run like the wind... unless you're in Ms. Frizzle's class and she's taken you on a field trip inside a 1950s sci-fi film. The movie's main character, the power-mad General Araneus (Ed Asner) is determined to destroy the mantis, but Phoebe wants to trap it and save it! Shrinking to the size of real spiders, the kids discover how spiders construct a variety of silky snares, making them world-champion trappers. Can the kids save the mantis — and stop Araneus before it's too late?
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#16 - Works Out
The Magic School Bus - Season 3 - Episode 9
At this year's Teacherathalon, Ms. Frizzle squares off with Mr. Sinew (Dan Marino), a muscle-bound gym teacher. Sinew easily wins the first of the three events. Thinking there's a problem, the kids go inside Ms. Frizzle to check her out. The bus takes them through her lungs to the bloodstream, where they get pumped through her heart to her calf muscle. But when Frizzle's leg muscle collapses from the strain of winning the second event, the kids discover that her red blood cells can't get oxygen to her muscles fast enough! Can the kids help Frizzle recover in time to win the final race?
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#17 - Getting Energized
The Magic School Bus - Season 2 - Episode 10
The class is ready to plug in their “Double-Trouble Wheel of Wonder” at the town carnival, when they discover all the electrical outlets are taken.
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#18 - Gets Planted
The Magic School Bus - Season 3 - Episode 10
When Phoebe tries to grow a big vine for her school's production of Jack and the Beanstalk, all she ends up with is a stunted little sprout. To help out, Ms. Frizzle turns her into a real vine. But to grow tall, Phoebe needs to figure out how plants eat - fast! To unearth the amazing ways plants make their own food, the Friz and the kids shrink down and dig deep in a quest to root out the facts!
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#19 - In a Pickle
The Magic School Bus - Season 2 - Episode 7
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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#20 - Blows Its Top
The Magic School Bus - Season 2 - Episode 1
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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#21 - Pups Save the Cat Show
Paw Patrol - Season 4 - Episode 4
Katie's kittens are all covered in mud and running amuck! If they're not rounded up, the Cat Show will be ruined.
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#22 - Pups Save a Teeny Penguin
Paw Patrol - Season 4 - Episode 3
Everest and Jake try to rescue a little penguin and end up floating out to sea.
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#23 - Taking Flight
The Magic School Bus - Season 2 - Episode 9
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 - Pups Save a Blimp
Paw Patrol - Season 4 - Episode 1
Capn' Turbot's weather blimp is taken by Mayor Humdinger, who plans to use it to change the weather in Foggy Bottom.
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#25 - Rocks and Rolls
The Magic School Bus - Season 3 - Episode 12
To celebrate the founding of Walkerville, Ms. Frizzle's class sculpts a stone likeness of its founding father, Captain Walker. But as they add the finishing touches, the statue tumbles down the mountain. Ms. Frizzle turns the bus into a giant boulder and the kids into rock kids. They bump down the mountain in a desperate attempt to save the statue. By the time they reach the celebration at the base of the mountain, they've been pushed, tossed, sanded, polished, and eroded by water, as has the statue now the size of a soccer ball. The kids are sure they've let everyone down until they look back at the mountain for the surprise of their lives! With Jessica Walter as "Ashley Walker-Club-Dupree."
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#26 - In the Arctic
The Magic School Bus - Season 3 - Episode 2
""Where did the hot go?"" wonders Arnold when he finds that his hot cocoa has cooled. In response, Ms. Frizzle whisks the class to the Arctic! What's the freezing Arctic got to do with heat? While the kids try to find out, the bus's engine freezes and the bus floats away on an ice floe with Ralphie and Phoebe inside! As the bus moves away, so does the heat from everyone's body. How can Ms. Frizzle's kids insulate their body to keep the heat in? Can they rescue Ralphie and Phoebe before they all become the Ice Cube Kids?
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#27 - Rocky Saves Himself
Paw Patrol - Season 5 - Episode 27
Rocky must rescue himself when he gets stranded on an island full of trash.
#28 - Cold Feet
The Magic School Bus - Season 2 - Episode 12
Liz has gone off to a mysterious place called “Herp Haven.” Thinking she’s in trouble, the class rushes to Herp Haven, where they turn into reptiles. With Michael York as Herpst.
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#31 - Pups Save the Chili Cook-Off
Paw Patrol - Season 4 - Episode 2
Mr. Porter's stove explodes right before the chili cook-off!
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#32 - The Pups' Winter Wonder Show
Paw Patrol - Season 3 - Episode 40
The Snow-Show's in jeopardy when the penguins are kidnapped by Mayor Humdinger, so the pups and Tracker mount a rescue mission.
#33 - Pups Party with Bats
Paw Patrol - Season 4 - Episode 21
While Rubble is getting ready to DJ the Adventure Bay dance party, Spy Chase and Rocky work with Ryder to rescue three bats who have strayed into Katie's Pet Parlor. After Skye flies them back to their cave, DJ Rubble's music draws the entire flock of bats to town! Rubble gets past his fear of bats and takes the party on the road to guide them safely home.
#34 - Pups Chill Out
Paw Patrol - Season 4 - Episode 26
Roger's frozen food delivery truck gets stuck in a ditch.
#35 - Pups Save Sensei Yumi
Paw Patrol - Season 4 - Episode 22
When Marshall tests for his green belt out in the woods, he and Sensei Yumi are accidentally cut off from communication. The PAW Patrol must warn them about an incoming windstorm and then get them safely down off a cliff ledge. During the rescue, Marshall demonstrates both bravery and mastery of physical skills, which prove that he has what it takes to earn his belt!
#36 - Pups Save a Sleepwalking Bear
Paw Patrol - Season 4 - Episode 16
When an ice sculpture turns out to be a hibernating bear, the pups must get it safely home before it wakes up.
#38 - Makes a Rainbow
The Magic School Bus - Season 3 - Episode 7
There's something dazzling in Ms. Frizzle's closet: a magical, light-powered pinball machine! To win at this game, the kids have to light up all six colours of the rainbow. Now the race is on, as the class shrinks down and zooms into the pinball machine. Catch an eye-full of fun as they try to crack the secret code of what makes colour so....colourful!
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#39 - Pups Save Dude Ranch Danny
Paw Patrol - Season 4 - Episode 17
The pups must rescue Daring Danny X when the pony he's riding takes off.
#40 - Pups Save Their Floating Friends
Paw Patrol - Season 3 - Episode 47
A "floating ray" from outer space causes the people of Adventure Bay to float in mid-air.
#41 - Pups Save Tiny Marshall
Paw Patrol - Season 4 - Episode 25
Marshall dreams that a shrink ray miniaturizes himself and his fire engine, and the teeny-tiny pup goes on a big adventure in his own backyard. Ryder and the pups have to be very careful to rescue little Marshall without stepping on him.
#42 - Sea Patrol: Pups Save a Baby Octopus
Paw Patrol - Season 4 - Episode 23
The Sea Patrol must save the day when a baby octopus gets separated from its mother and sinks the Flounder.
#45 - Out of This World
The Magic School Bus - Season 2 - Episode 11
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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#46 - Pups Save Farmer Alex
Paw Patrol - Season 4 - Episode 27
Farmer Yumi's animals stampede toward town.
#47 - Pups Save the Runaway Kitties
Paw Patrol - Season 4 - Episode 24
Rubble and the PAW Patrol have to round up Mayor Humdinger's kitties, which he left to be kitty-sat at Katie's, before they get blown away.
#48 - Pups Save a Satellite
Paw Patrol - Season 3 - Episode 48
The PAW Patrol must stop an out-of-orbit satellite from crashing in time to catch Rubble's favorite TV show.
#49 - Pups Save a Giant Plant
Paw Patrol - Season 3 - Episode 43
Tracker's new Venus flytrap grows at an unexpected rate after being planted in an unsuitable area.
#50 - And Justice for All
Gargoyles - Season 3 - Episode 7
The gargoyles try to stop a jewel store burglary, but the gargoyles end up the main suspects when the thieves escape. When the police capture Goliath, he asks the others not to break him out, confident that the justice system will find him innocent.
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