The BEST episodes written by George Arthur Bloom

#1 - 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?

#2 - Goes to Mussel Beach

The Magic School Bus - Season 4 - Episode 3

The class is enjoying a normal summer day at the beach until Ms. Frizzle discovers a letter from ""Uncle Shelby,"" who wants the class to look after his beachfront property. The kids soon discover that this ""luxurious"" accommodation is only a tiny spot on the shoreline. Why would anyone want to live in a spot where they're battered by waves at high tide and baked by the sun at low tide? To find out, Ms. Frizzle turns the kids into... mussels!?

#3 - Gets Swamped

The Magic School Bus - Season 4 - Episode 5

The debate is intense: Should Walkerville get rid of the swamp by the river and replace it with a fantastic new shopping mall or build the mall somewhere else? Carlos, representing his class, is given the thankless task of persuading the town council to keep the smelly old swamp. If he loses the debate, he'll lose to Arnold's pesky cousin Janet! The kids learn that the swamp is an important habitat and natural water filter, but the council's not convinced until... FLOOD!!

#4 - Rescue at Midnight Castle (1)

My Little Pony 'n Friends - Season 1 - Episode 49

Tirek captures some of the little ponies to use as demons to pull his Chariot of Darkness at midnight. The rest of the ponies panic, fearing that they will be next. Firefly goes off for help and finds Megan, a girl who lives at a stable at the other end of the rainbow. Megan agrees to go to Pony Land with Firefly, but will they be able to rescue the little ponies in time?

#5 - Escape from Catrina (1)

My Little Pony 'n Friends - Season 2 - Episode 14

The Little Ponies prepare for a "Welcome Back" party for their human friend, Megan. Meanwhile, little furballs called Bushwoolies are the slaves of a feline witch named Catrina and are watched over by a shape-shifting lizard named Rep. When the Bushwoolies escape, Catrina abducts Baby Moondancer and the Rainbow of Light to force the ponies to be her new slaves.

#6 - More Than Meets the Eye (2)

The Transformers - Season 1 - Episode 2

After being rescued from a Decepticon attack, Spike and Sparkplug offer their assistance to the Autobots. And the Autobots are going to need it in order to stop the Decepticons from gaining the power to conquer Cybertron.

#7 - Rescue at Midnight Castle (2)

My Little Pony 'n Friends - Season 1 - Episode 50

#8 - Escape from Catrina (2)

My Little Pony 'n Friends - Season 2 - Episode 15

#9 - More Than Meets the Eye (1)

The Transformers - Season 1 - Episode 1

While traveling through space in the Ark, the Autobots are ambushed by their enemies, the Decepticons. The battle moves into the Ark itself, leading to a damaging crash on Earth. After millions of years of dormancy, both sides are suddenly awakened and the battle on Earth is about to begin.

#10 - More Than Meets the Eye (3)

The Transformers - Season 1 - Episode 3

The Autobots do whatever it takes to prevent the Decepticons from using a recently constructed ship to leave Earth and head for Cybertron.

#11 - 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!

#12 - Roll for It

The Transformers - Season 1 - Episode 5

Starscream is now in charge of the Decepticons, but all he does is lead them to defeat in battle against the Autobots. But things are about to get much worse when Megatron returns, setting his sights on a new and powerful anti-matter formula.

#13 - 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!

#14 - Castleblanca

Cyberchase - Season 1 - Episode 2

Hacker kidnaps Dr.Marbles once again to download his brain into his new robot henchman,Gigabyte.

#15 - Clock Like An Egyptian

Cyberchase - Season 1 - Episode 9

The Incriptor Chip has fallen into a pyramid in the desert and Dr. Marbles was getting it, until he was imprisoned. The kids were called upon by Motherboard to go in and get Marbles and the chip. Unfortonatly, they have to get out before the gate of the pyramid has closed, locking them in for eternity. The gate drops down as the water drips from two cylinders. The kids find out there are 15 rings of water left and each ring drops out each minute, meaning they have about 15 minutes to go in and out. Matt's watch is broken and Jackie might sneeze again and lose count of time. However, they find an artifact moving at the same pace as the water cylinder, and then use a bunch of rubies and an even distributor to know how many seconds have passed and a ring and stick to know how many minutes they have left.

#16 - Wet All Over

The Magic School Bus - Season 2 - Episode 6

The class takes a wild ride with The Friz through the water cycle.

#17 - 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!

#18 - Makes a Stink

The Magic School Bus - Season 4 - Episode 9

Flora Whiff (Bebe Neuwirth), the famous expert on smell — whose ""nose knows"" — comes to school to judge the First Annual Smell Search. Ms. Frizzle's class creates a unique smell which is bound to take first prize, but Arnold's cousin, Janet, determined to win by herself, changes their smell to an odour only a skunk could love. The kids discover the secret to what makes things smell... now they have to make sure their creation doesn't make a big stink!

#19 - 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.

#20 - 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.

#21 - 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.

#22 - 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?

#23 - Goes on Air

The Magic School Bus - Season 4 - Episode 4

""We got assigned air, and it's not fair!"" 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!"" ""But air doesn't do anything!"" wails Ralphie. They discover that's not so when the bus shrinks and gets stuck inside the jar — and the class finds that their only hope for escape is... air!

#24 - 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?

#25 - Gains Weight

The Magic School Bus - Season 4 - Episode 8

Guess who's selected to give an exhibition of a slam-dunk during half time of the big basketball game? Phoebe! The problem is Phoebe can't jump high enough. ""If only gravity didn't pull on me!"" she moans. Never one to be tied down, Ms. Frizzle sends the class into space and turns the Bus into a planet — with adjustable gravity! Basketball's a snap with low gravity and a riot with no gravity at all, but when there's way too much gravity, things get really heavy! With Paul Winfield as school principal, Mr. Ruhle.

#26 - 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!

#27 - 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.

#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.

#29 - 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."

#30 - The Golden Angel

Starsky & Hutch - Season 4 - Episode 13

The detectives are assigned to protect a wrestler who has received a death threat, with Starsky going into the ring himself to draw out a suspect.

#31 - 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!

#32 - 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.

#33 - Mother's Day

Cyberchase - Season 2 - Episode 6

For Mother's Day the kids must deliver flowers called Madres Bonitas to Dezi, a decimal lover.

#34 - And They Counted Happily Ever After

Cyberchase - Season 1 - Episode 8

Hacker goes to the happily ever after site and steals the town's king in order for a ransom of golden eggs.

#35 - A Day at the Spa

Cyberchase - Season 1 - Episode 11

Hacker finds the Crystal of Calimar in order to be unstoppable. Feeling superior, the evildoer goes to a spa while the kids visit the northern frontier to give the crystal to Motherboard.

#36 - Secrets of Symmetria

Cyberchase - Season 1 - Episode 10

Hacker steals the Symmetrizer to destroy Symmetria and cause havoc on other cybersites. But the kids trick him into thinking he'll find Dr. Marbles there.

#37 - Fortress of Attitude

Cyberchase - Season 1 - Episode 23

The Hacker's creating noise pollution by broadcasting his annoying voice across cyberspace from a statue of himself. The kids must shut it down, and to get past its booby traps, they must measure lengtate the measure

#38 - Raising The Bar

Cyberchase - Season 2 - Episode 10

Hacker poses as a virus exterminator. He fools Ms. Fileshare into entering her lair, the Cybrary, with bogus bar graph comparisons. Hacker releases his bugs, but it's Hacker who pays the price with a bout of amnesia. (He's forced to work for Buzz!) But the bugs are still out in the Cybrary, seizing control of various sections. Ms. Fileshare insists the CyberSquad that, if she is to believe them, they must provide an easy way to compare the number of bugs in each Cybrary section.

#39 - Snow Day to be Exact

Cyberchase - Season 1 - Episode 4

The kids estimate where it is to try to keep the sunisphere of Solaria away from Hacker.

#40 - Of All the Luck

Cyberchase - Season 1 - Episode 12

Convinced his past failures were the result of bad fortune, the Hacker determines to collect the 10 legendary Good Luck Charms of Cyberspace--possession of which, according to the Book of Power, will guarantee him good luck forever. By the time Motherboard learns of his intent, only one Charm remains at large. She sends Digit and the kids after it, but is unable to tell them which of the forest's many bunnies is the lucky one. Using the clues she can give them, they group the bunnies by characteristic, and when Motherboard remembers the exact qualities of the lucky bunny they are able to identify it quickly. Unfortunately, Buzz and Delete grab it and race to the Northern Frontier before the kids can stop them. Meanwhile, the Hacker has decided to replace the bungling robots. His order to ""Henchmen R Us"" for all the henchmen who are ""evil or cheap"" results in the arrival of a hoard of potential employees. After some consideration, he asks all the candidates who are ""evil and cheap

#41 - Eureeka

Cyberchase - Season 1 - Episode 13

The kids use geometry to find Dr. Archimedes [and his house] so he can give Dr. Marbles the Encryptor chip.

#42 - Codename: Icky

Cyberchase - Season 1 - Episode 16

Hacker eavesdrops on the kids so he can find out where the cyberslug from Aquari-Yum is, so he can use it to suck the energy from Motherboard.

#43 - Trading Places

Cyberchase - Season 1 - Episode 20

The kids crash land on a planet where they don't use money - they trade things. Buzz and Delete become smart for once and the Hacker get shrunk by the shrink ray.

#44 - The Wedding Scammer

Cyberchase - Season 2 - Episode 11

It could be the most talked-about wedding in all of Cyberspace: Hacker and the Wicked Witch—claiming to be the long-lost daughter of a powerful king. The real Princess is trapped in a series of mazes.

#45 - Trick or Treat

Cyberchase - Season 2 - Episode 14

Hacker pretends to be good, so he can plant a frog to destroy Motherboard.

#46 - A Time To Cook

Cyberchase - Season 2 - Episode 13

Hacker kidnaps his opposition to a cooking TV Show. Matt and Digit go in his place, while Jackie and Inez find the opposition, the Fearless Chef.

#47 - EcoHaven CSE

Cyberchase - Season 3 - Episode 1

The Gang must find a Metel Eating Monster before Hacker Gets it.

#48 - The Creech Who Would Be Crowned

Cyberchase - Season 3 - Episode 5

The gang must enter a race and stop hacker from winning. When Matt and Jackie make fun of Inez's way of talking, Inez gets mad and joins creech. Hacker treis to cheet to win,and most of the racers get thrown off. Later in the race, Hacker gets Diget, Matt, and Jackie tricked into going to the most dangeroes part of tikyville! Inez and creech go the right way and after warning Matt, Diget and Jackie, Get bumped by Hackers car into Cybor Quicksand 2.0, and are rescued by the others. After finding a Shortcut, the Creech and the others win.

#49 - The Grapes of Plath

Cyberchase - Season 3 - Episode 6

In the underwater Crab Kingdom, Hacker is out to seize the grapes needed for a ceremony in which a prince is to assume command of his domain. The CyberSquad must find the Prince, who doesn't want to take responsibility for Crab Kingdom.

#50 - Be Reasonable

Cyberchase - Season 3 - Episode 8

A chink in the Cybrary traps Ms. Fileshare in one of the three rooms on the twentieth floor. The CyberSquad must gather enough information to rescue Ms. Fileshare from an overflowing fountain.