The BEST episodes written by John May
#1 - Kicks up a Storm
The Magic School Bus - Season 1 - Episode 13
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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#2 - 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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#3 - 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!?
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Flash Forward - Season 1 - Episode 7
Tucker can't believe it when his dad surprises him with a pair of tickets to a concert that's been sold out for weeks. But before he has a chance to invite Becca, Tucker finds out that Kerry, the girl he has a crush on, would love to go. He invites Kerry instead, figuring that Becca will be none the wiser, until his father mentions the concert to her. Suddenly, Tucker has to find a way to get another ticket and it looks like his only option may be to pay a lot of money to a mysterious scalper. Without asking he borrows the money from Miles. But when Miles and Becca discover what Tucker's been up to, they're both furious and Tucker realizes that no concert is worth losing his two best friends.
#5 - For Lunch
The Magic School Bus - Season 1 - Episode 2
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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#6 - Gets Ready, Set, Dough
The Magic School Bus - Season 1 - Episode 9
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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Flash Forward - Season 1 - Episode 6
Having won the speech contest for the past two years, Becca is determined to hold on to her title this year. After carefully choosing rock climbing as her topic, she throws herself into her research only to find that her academic rival may Vega may also have the same idea. Forced to go to the extreme-and terrifying-measure of actually learning how to rock climb to get first-hand experience, Becca soon discovers that overcoming her fears is just as sweet as the thrill of victory. Meanwhile, Tucker sees and opportunity to take over the school DJ position now held by his arch enemy Jack and drafts a proposal for Mr. Petrowsky. But when Tucker loses his proposal he realizes Jack has claimed it as his own. Tucker calls on Becca to help him catch Jack redhanded and replace his as the new school DJ.
#8 - In the Haunted House
The Magic School Bus - Season 1 - Episode 8
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 - Babe Raider
Life With Derek - Season 1 - Episode 11
Casey notices Derek, Edwin, and Sam playing a sexist video game (Babe Raider) and immediately launches a campaign against the sexist attitudes in the house.
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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 - Gets Eaten
The Magic School Bus - Season 1 - Episode 4
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 - Meets the Rot Squad
The Magic School Bus - Season 1 - Episode 6
It's "Accidental Science Project" day and the class has brought in marvelously rotten entries from the back of their refrigerators. With Ed Begley, Jr. as Larry Log-Away.
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#13 - Plays Ball
The Magic School Bus - Season 1 - Episode 10
Ms. Frizzle combines Dorothy Ann's physics and Ralphie's baseball into a "Frictionless Baseball Game."
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#14 - 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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#15 - Inside Ralphie
The Magic School Bus - Season 1 - Episode 3
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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#16 - Gets Programmed
The Magic School Bus - Season 4 - Episode 11
Ms. Frizzle's class arrives early to open the school for Mr. Ruhle (Paul Winfield). But there's so much to do! ""There must be a way to do all of these chores without actually doing them,"" says Carlos. The school handyman, Mr. McClean (Malcolm McDowell) is in total agreement. Enter Mr. Ruhle's new computer and Mikey, Carlos' whiz kid brother, who programs it to do all the chores! But when Ms. Frizzle shrinks Mikey and the class and sends them inside the computer for a guided tour, everything goes haywire. The only person who can fix the problem is Mikey - and he's just landed somewhere between the CPU and the hard drive!
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#17 - The Wedding
Life With Derek - Season 1 - Episode 6
Casey and Derek volunteer to organize Casey's aunt's wedding reception, but Casey's cousin, Vicki, is threatening to blow the entire thing apart because her mom didn't even ask her how she felt about the marriage.
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#18 - Who?
Strange Days at Blake Holsey High - Season 1 - Episode 10
Josie convinces Corrine to make plans to accompany her to the movies. But privileges may be taken by Durst, who decides instead to give them a warning, which saves Corrine from her parents' reprimands. Meanwhile, Professor Z has an unsettling experience in his office: while waiting to be evaluated, after collecting fallen papers from the floor, he suddenly finds his head caught inside the wormhole, which makes him lose his memory. But that's not all that happens: while the group tries to find a solution, they realise that Professor Z can play the guitar, does not like science, and is afraid of clowns! When and how will he become himself again?
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#19 - Robot
Strange Days at Blake Holsey High - Season 1 - Episode 12
Josie just can't seem to become organised enough to finish her robot building project, which annoys Corrine since they are partners. However, Josie astonishes everyone when she actually creates a robot that will clean. When it goes too far, Josie tries to turn it off which sends the robot's programing to a default program that not even Josie would want to be...
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#20 - Shows & Tells
The Magic School Bus - Season 3 - Episode 6
It's the International Show-and-Tell Competition and Arnold and DA are representing Ms. Frizzle's class. Arnold brings a webbed hoop, left behind by his great-aunt Arizona Joan, the famous archaeologist, but he has no idea what it is! Using clues from the hoop and Joan's journal, the kids make educated guesses about its uses. To test their hypotheses, Ms. Frizzle turns the bus into a "Supposatron," a magical device designed to evaluate guesses. Can the kids solve the puzzle before Arnold and DA take the stage? With Alex Trebek as the "Sportscaster."
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Flash Forward - Season 1 - Episode 23
Every year the eighth graders outsmart Vice Principal Petrowsky and sabotage the float for the Parade of all District Schools and this year Tucker and Christine join in. When Becca wins the Petrowsky's trust by volunteering to be Float Cop, the girls come up with a plan to sabotage the float. At this point, the guys realize it's too late to beat the girls, so instead they join them. They all sneak into the storage room and gather all the toys that the vice principal has ever confiscated from the students and they stuff the float full of them. During the pep rally, the saboteurs shoot them out of the float and into the waiting audience.
#22 - Hawk
The Famous Jett Jackson - Season 2 - Episode 7
Jett worries that Silverstone's obnoxious new partner will take over his show and his life.
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