156 - The Magic School Bus
Added 2024-09-18 06:00:06 +0000 UTCThe lads go surfing on a soundwave and swing through the stars as they tag along on the increasingly alarming field trips of Ms. Frizzle in the landmark children’s franchise: The Magic School Bus. Topics include the original books, the extraordinary TV show, and the computer game adaptations that taught a generation about the nightmarish mini-games hiding in their kidneys.
Media Referenced in this Episode:
The Magic School Bus: Inside the Human Body by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen. Scholastic. 1989.
The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen. Scholastic. 1990.
The Magic School Bus TV Show:
#1: “Gets Lost in Space”
#2: “For Lunch”
The Magic School Bus Explores the Human Body (Computer Game) Developed by Music Pen. 1994.
The Magic School Bus Explores the Solar System (Computer Game) Developed by Music Pen. 1994.
“Joanna Cole, Author of ‘The Magic School Bus’ Book Series, Dies at 75” by . The Hollywood Reporter. July 15th, 2020.
“Two Decades of Fun and Learning on the Magic School Bus” by Sally Lodge. Publisher’s Weekly. July 27th, 2006.
Obituary: Joanna Cole by Shannon Maughan. Publisher’s Weekly. July 16th, 2020.
TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com
Commercial: “A Normal Field Trip” // Written by A.J. Ditty // Featuring Josh Boerman as “Arnold”
“Ride On the Magic School Bus” Covers by:
Piano: Guess the Theme Songs
Organ: Jonny Music
Electronic: Stuart Pett
Comments
I just rewatched the first episode of this and I have had the intrusive thought that Janet is Arnold in drag
Morgan Byrd
2025-05-07 04:48:23 +0000 UTCThe doctor who tardis comparison is actually very apt as the original 60s show itself began *as* edutainment
Sam
2025-03-30 16:47:00 +0000 UTChappies birthday, mr. dr. tony esq.
Robert Heilman
2024-10-15 20:39:59 +0000 UTCIt's been mentioned on the show before that the "woooooooah" to evoke thrillingly rapid motion is one of the harder challenges in voice acting and the show's theme song has one of the greatest achievements in this technique
Elah
2024-09-30 00:01:22 +0000 UTCOMG Mrs. Yonkman! My 2nd grade class Ms. Frizzle day was a jungle and she had heaters and humidifiers running in the room 🤣 favorite teacher for a really long time (I didn't even remember that she was strict) Also for the 2nd grade talent show I did my own interpretive dance to the Russian dance from the nutcracker but I borrowed a friend's "ballerina dress" that my mom felt was too skimpy and she was forever embarrassed bc my picture in said outfit ended up on the front brochure for the shool for the next like 10 years 🤣
Rosey Armstrong
2024-09-29 21:52:13 +0000 UTCthat pun at the end of the ad read was absolutely diabolical
Peter Paul Rubens' Muse
2024-09-27 21:43:33 +0000 UTCI prayed about hanging out with the Ninja Turtles.
Josh James
2024-09-23 19:49:30 +0000 UTCWhy does this game music sound like the SNES version of Splatterhouse
Noblesse Oblahaj
2024-09-23 19:33:05 +0000 UTCI Prefer The Canon's of Dort/ I Hate Iowa is a cut that very few other podcasts would dig
James Slegers
2024-09-23 01:55:58 +0000 UTCas someone who, as a child, got the runs from eating an entire kilo of satsumas, i can absolutely see Arnold eating 900 olives
Nemo
2024-09-21 13:48:22 +0000 UTCchocolate barrrr
LucindaCordelia
2024-09-20 20:59:36 +0000 UTCchocolate bar.
Bungerklaus
2024-09-20 10:42:54 +0000 UTCif you played it on the mac, odds are good that it’s on the macintosh garden
The Worst of all Possible Worlds
2024-09-19 23:45:39 +0000 UTCShould've known 🙂 I was Lank. Not my favorite of the high school productions I was in, but it sure had a memorable cast!
Jonathan V. Cann
2024-09-19 23:28:15 +0000 UTCthis episode and the VOD stream was like a rapid series of nostalgia kidney shots. I watched the shows and played the games religiously as a kid. also I hope 'chocolate bar' remains a common drop in episodes going forward
zetsubunn
2024-09-19 17:11:59 +0000 UTCI wouldn't have been able to intentionally recall anything about Jamberry if my life depended on it, but the moment Josh spoke the title, the chorus of the song started playing in my head. I loved the Scholastic book fairs/orders. It's how I got all my Calvin & Hobbes collections.
Korax
2024-09-19 15:20:14 +0000 UTCWait a minute. Ms Frizzle? School? Arnold? What is this... a chocolate barrr?
Dergon
2024-09-19 14:36:51 +0000 UTCThose games by The Learning Company were THE SHIT when I was a kid. I don't know how many hours I burned on the Super Seekers and Super Solvers series games because I had five computers at home. Also: Josh Boerman? More like Josh Blurgman.
Gorbant
2024-09-19 14:16:27 +0000 UTCBrian and Josh are wrong on this one. Arnold getting ice cubed ABSOLUTELY terrified me as a child to the point that I still randomly think of that scene to this day
Gert Lamprecht
2024-09-19 12:29:00 +0000 UTCBobby Child. What he lacked in dance finesse he made up for with a can-do attitude, a VERY broad Hungarian accent, and ecstatic flailing.
The Worst of all Possible Worlds
2024-09-19 03:03:44 +0000 UTCWell I for one was a huge fan of the Hatchet books
Jaiden Elliott
2024-09-19 01:35:18 +0000 UTCAw, north county twinsies! Reminds me of that one QAA show I went to, almost no one even knew where the 78 was, but I ended up gabbing with the guys after and when I said north county instead, travis piped up "oh like me! I'm over in Fallbrook" and I was like "fuck, we're neighbors"
Jay V
2024-09-19 00:29:48 +0000 UTCI'm sorry, I just started the episode and I know this is such a tiny detail that's completely outside the point, but I'm dying to know what part AJ played in Crazy for You
Jonathan V. Cann
2024-09-19 00:07:03 +0000 UTCI love them because for me it’s “Hey! (Ok, you’re right)”
Max
2024-09-18 23:23:53 +0000 UTCI watched SO MUCH of this show as a kid, all on tape. I have like 10 episodes of this show permanently seared into my brain but the one I watched the most was probably the one about sound at the haunted house.
Nero Wyvern
2024-09-18 22:13:33 +0000 UTCI need so badly to find the old time traveling Carmen Sandiego edutainment game I played "on loop". Love the episode, great work as always gentlemen.
Will_Pilgrim
2024-09-18 22:06:46 +0000 UTCQuietly mumbling "chocolate barrr" to myself while muted on a work call
Ms. Charlie
2024-09-18 21:20:38 +0000 UTC"For the love of God, Montessori" I believe.
Clarp Blarpkiss
2024-09-18 19:39:41 +0000 UTCI was a Paulsen head in Middle School. There are so many Hatchet sequels, it took him 5 books to become baby's first Teddy K out in the Canadian wilderness!
Ironiclast
2024-09-18 19:35:25 +0000 UTCI love how no matter how weird with it the show gets, you always try to connect to the central theme of appreciation for creatives and what they provide the world
Adam Ghostly
2024-09-18 19:25:13 +0000 UTCIn the early 00s my mom worked at the SD Natural History Museum and I often tagged along, therefore having unlimited access to the entire vhs series they kept in the classrooms. The CD Roms were my favorite ever. I love a good point n click mini game system 🤭 also ms frizzle was my first crush.
t o r t
2024-09-18 19:05:24 +0000 UTCAs a Brit I missed out on this so the role of “weird vehicular journey into the human body” was performed by the Martin Short movie Innerspace. And for the record, I do think Martin Short’s character should have been prosecuted for manslaughter for digesting that one guy.
Amy Godliman
2024-09-18 19:00:29 +0000 UTCDear Brian, you will be pleased to hear that one of the branches at my library just purchased a new copy of The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales. (This and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs were two of my faves as a kid.)
Dergon
2024-09-18 18:14:35 +0000 UTCArnold freezing himself absolutely WAS traumatizing to child me
Thom Coté
2024-09-18 18:06:34 +0000 UTCOhh as a non American I've never realised the Scholastic in Scholastic Book Fair was a brand and not an adjective.
FunkyWeapon
2024-09-18 18:05:28 +0000 UTCThief Poo is just Thief 4
Eric Wolfsberg
2024-09-18 17:49:49 +0000 UTC90s educational games were not very educational or fun. I usually learned the wrong thing and it was honestly more fun to find glitches and break the game. Playing many JRPGs on the other hand (navigating menus, looking at stats, making the number go up) definitely had an oversized influence on my education and career.
Luckie
2024-09-18 17:18:29 +0000 UTCI love Escondido shout-outs, because then I get to point vaguely eastward and go HAH what a dump, not like My town (redacted for privacy)...
Jay V
2024-09-18 16:54:41 +0000 UTCHappy's Birthday broccoli broccoli broccoli broccoli
Skelecopter
2024-09-18 16:48:14 +0000 UTCchocolate baaarrrrr 😏
Soup Dealer
2024-09-18 16:10:37 +0000 UTCDon't worry lads I hear they're remaking the Plorn Identity Also, happy birthday Mr. AJ (which I assume is your father's name)!!
Jordan Y Clementi
2024-09-18 14:10:55 +0000 UTCSideways stories from wayside school ep WHEN!!!!!
Noah
2024-09-18 13:48:18 +0000 UTCPief: The Fart Project
BarFly
2024-09-18 13:44:36 +0000 UTCFrizz and the Boneman are my favorite morning drivetime duo on KBUS. P.S.: Happys Birthday Tony
BarFly
2024-09-18 13:05:24 +0000 UTCdidnt that show have an on screen suicide on the solar system ep
Lain of the Wired
2024-09-18 12:13:03 +0000 UTCHappy Chocolate Bar Tony
john
2024-09-18 11:02:54 +0000 UTC"pee-ief" made me laugh so hard I spilled a toxic chemical on myself
Kacey Riley
2024-09-18 10:14:42 +0000 UTCHappies birthday, Mr. Ditty! We love your cameos on the show.
MuppetImp
2024-09-18 09:56:00 +0000 UTCHappys Birthday Tonys
CosmicRay
2024-09-18 09:32:02 +0000 UTCHappys birthday Tony
Zipzapzop
2024-09-18 07:29:43 +0000 UTC
