The Magic School Bus

- Season 3

(1996)

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.

"Where did the hot go?" wonders Arnold when his hot cocoa cools off. So, Ms. Frizzle whisks the class to the Arctic.

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.

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.

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.

It's the International Show-and-Tell Competition and Arnold and D. A. are representing Ms. Frizzle's class. Arnold brings in a webbed hoop, 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 Arnold and D. A. take the stage? With Alex Trebek as the "Sportscaster."

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 (Paul Winfield), discovers them!

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.

Is Mr. Sinew (Dan Marino) any match for the Friz? At this year's "Teacher-athalon," 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.

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!

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! Ms. Frizzle takes the class to the rain forest to meet the impeccable Inspector 47, Matt Frewer, who keeps a tidy, mud-free cocoa grove. What has Inspector 47 done to the rain forest's intricate ecology web?

Ms. Frizzle's class sculpts a stone likeness of its founding father. As they add the finishing touches, the statue tumbles down the mountain.

Ms. Frizzle's class takes a field trip to a recycling plant, where they learn how everyday items are made from recycled trash.