Ms. Frizzle's kid sister Fiona takes the wheel at Walkerville Elementary, leading the class on wild adventures packed with science-fueled fun.
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00:00You're relaxed and feeling good. Next thing that you know, you're seeing
00:19octopus in the neighborhood. Surfing on a sound wave. Swinging through the stars. Take
00:30the left at your intestine. Take your second right past Mars. I'm the magic school bus.
00:36I'm an educator, pastoral. I'm on the magic school bus. Spank or faint in two. Take that.
00:42I'm the magic school bus. Rocked a river of lava. I'm the magic school bus. Such a fine
00:48thing to do. So strap your bones right to the seat. Come on in and don't be shy. Just to
00:55make your day complete. You might get baked into a pie. I'm the magic school bus. Step
01:02inside. It's a wild ride. Come on. Ride on the magic school bus.
01:12What doctor? What is this vile creature? Why, he's the scourge of nations. The destroyer
01:18of cities. The ruiner of dinner plans. He's the block monster. And he's coming for us
01:25next. For what we've done to this planet.
01:33The block monster.
01:35It was unbelievable. It had like 14 eyeballs and giant nasty tentacles. Aw, sounds like
01:46he was lonely. Probably the last of his kind. No, Wanda, don't feel bad for it. He belches
01:52sulfuric acid and flames shoot from his nose. Guys, if you had something to say about me,
01:58at least say it to my face. We're talking about someone else with toxic belches, Ralphie.
02:03But that's my thing. It's a monster I not saw in a movie. It was more like a documentary.
02:08Sounds cool. What was it?
02:17It only emerges at night. And it loves pollution. Which makes it bigger. Until the skies are
02:23blotted with its blotty blottiness. It's the blot monster. And the only thing that
02:33can stop it is light. Oh, Arnold. That sounds like a fun movie, but I don't think it's real.
02:44Well, from now on, I'm staying inside with the doors locked and the lights on. There
02:49is no way I'll sleep in the dark again, ever. Um, why does everyone have their sleeping
02:54bags? Miss Frizzle! Good morning, campers. Are you ready? Uh, for what? Well, adventure.
03:04Campfires. To sleep all night in the really dark wilderness. Yes! Yeah! Woohoo! Maybe
03:09we'll see a giant dog spider or a humongo snake. Or worse! I can't go, Miss Frizzle.
03:15I don't have my sleeping bag or my fireproof PJs. Oh, you mean these fireproof PJs? Yes.
03:22Your mom dropped these off when she saw that you accidentally left them behind. I must
03:26have forgotten on purpose. It was my subconscious saying, don't go! You're doomed! Doomed to
03:31face the blot monster! The blot monster? Can't wait to hear about that. Okay, class. Let's
03:40de-camp. To camp! Yay! A field trip! I love sleeping outside! Let's go! Field trip! If
03:47I have to sleep outside, then I'm going to take plenty of protection with me.
04:10Thanks, bus!
04:13I'm coming! Just a second!
04:20Okay, class. Are you ready for an enlightening experience? Oh, I'm good.
04:26And down we float like little butterflies to the most perfectly pleasant campground.
04:40Wow! Next to the most perfectly powerful waterfall.
04:57This is amazing!
05:02Hey, what's that sound? That's the waterfall. She's right! There it is! And we're totally
05:08picking up speed! At least now I don't have to worry over a monster getting me.
05:27Whoa! Awesome!
05:39Like my great-aunt Nettle used to say, I love camping! It's intense! She won a pun contest.
05:45Good one!
05:46Woohoo! Yeah! Amazing!
05:51Why did you bring all those lights? Because light is the only known thing that scares
05:56off... the blot monster. Well, I hate to break it to you, but your plan has a problem. We're
06:05in the middle of nowhere. How are we going to plug them in? Oh no! How did I miss that?
06:12There has to be a way to power up these lights. At home, I just plug them in the wall. Exactly.
06:18At home, a power plant delivers electricity through power lines to our houses, but none
06:22of that is here in the woods, Arnold. But then some people make their own power, like
06:26D.A.'s family. Hmm. Orange clusters. Asclepius tuberosa. Hey, D.A., where does your family
06:32plug in your lights? Um, in the wall? No! I mean, how do you guys get your power? Mostly
06:38solar, but we also have a generator for backup. A waterator? A viscerator!
06:50In a world with no electricity, one machine stands tall. The generator. A spinning rotor,
07:01a coil of wire, and when they work together, ultimate power is theirs. The generator, taking
07:10the spinning of a rotor and making electricity. Now showing on a tent near you. Pretty powerful,
07:18huh? Powerful. A generator! That's what I need! Hmm, let me see, let me see. I might
07:24have a couple of old gas-powered generators from before the bus went solar. Perfect. If
07:29I set this up now, we just might survive the night. Well, let's hope so, Arnold.
07:34Woo-hoo! Fill her up, Liz. We're gonna need a lot of gasoline to run this thing all night.
08:02Whoa! Oh yeah! Let's go! Look at them, having fun, so innocent, so unaware. A perfect snack
08:10for... the Blot Monster! Hey guys, I've got a picnic set up by the waterfall. Yes! I'm
08:18starving. Come on, Arnold! But I have stuff to do. Yeah, and that stuff is having fun.
08:24Fun? But the night is coming and I haven't even tested the lights yet. Oh, Arnold, come
08:29on! Huh? Whoa! Let's check it out. Hey kids, wanna go for a ride? Miss Frizzle? Come on,
08:42close! Yay, a boat ride! Woo-hoo! Hey Arnold, come on! You guys, I don't have time for
08:50this, because the sun's going down, the lights aren't set up, and because Monster... Oh,
08:55Arnold, live a little! The boat keeps going even with the engine off. Hmm, it must be
09:14getting pushed by the flow of water from the waterfall. Talk about powerful. You wanna
09:23see powerful, class? Well, let's feel what we see. Hit it, Linz! Whoa! That is a lot
09:37of water. Whoa! And a lot of power. Those logs are being pushed by the water too, just
09:45like the bus. Yeah, very nice. Can we please get back now, for the sake of humanity? Okay,
09:51Arnold, our work here is done. Okay, Liz, let's power back. Yes! With these on all night,
10:06I'll actually get some sleep, thanks to the official Arnold Pearlstein Monster Scaring
10:10Perimeter. Good news, everybody! I've saved all of our lives from... the Blot Monster!
10:17See? The generator burns gasoline to make, ta-da, this rotor spin through a wire coil
10:22to create, ta-da, electricity, which powers, ta-da, these lights, which will, ta-da, save
10:28our lives! You know, that is pretty awesome, Arnold. Thank you. At least somebody appreciates
10:34all my hard work. Wait, something doesn't smell right. But it all makes total sense.
10:39No, I mean something literally doesn't smell right. This generator stinks. The generator
10:45is spewing exhaust from the gasoline engine. And it's polluting our campground. Yuck, city!
10:50Nobody likes pollution. I wouldn't be so sure. Because there's one thing that actually does
10:57love pollution, the Blot Monster! Come on, Arnold, you're totally stressing over this.
11:09Take a break. I can't. I have to find a new, clean energy source for this, over Monster
11:14Chow. Go fly a kite. Ouch. Harsh. No, I mean let's fly an actual kite. I brought a bunch.
11:21It'll be fun. I have a little bit of a breezy idea. Why fly a kite when you can be one?
11:27What? Whoa! Whoa! Feel that wind holding us up? Who knew it had so much power? How fast
11:38do you think the wind is blowing up here? Because I've got a lot of bragging to do later.
11:43According to my anemometer, the wind is 22 miles per hour. What, you just carry a wind
11:48measuring thing in your pocket at all times? Obviously. What do you carry? Emergency pizza.
11:55Let's do this! Whoa! You okay? Just the bike chain. It happens all the time. Why am I
12:03up here? I'm running out of time. I still have to figure out how to spin that rotor.
12:07Arnold, just gotta go with it, bud, okay? Something's gonna turn up.
12:11Wait, is that Keisha's bike? Miss Brizzle, I need to get down. I have an idea to save us all.
12:21You heard the man. He's got an idea. Reel him in.
12:24That should do it. Good luck. Okay, Liz, instead of gasoline, now I can spin the rotor with
12:39non-polluting kid energy. Yes, we did it! Take that, blot monster! Thanks, Liz. This
12:56machine may not need fuel, but I do. I hope this is enough to keep me going, because I'm
13:03biking for humanity. Great game. That was a lot of fun. Wow, look at the lights. Arnold
13:15did it. Yeah, but look at Arnold. Look at him go. He must really believe in this. Yeah,
13:23but come on, you guys. A monster? Actually, I've seen a lot of monster movies, and you
13:28know who always gets eaten first? The ones who say there's no monster. Whoa, is that
13:36what the thing looks like? It's so, so cool. Wait, he has tentacles and he's land-based?
13:44It does look scary. Maybe we should help Arnold, just in case. Yeah, even if there's no monster,
13:51what's the worst that could happen? We help him make electricity with zero pollution?
13:55That's a powerful point, D.A. And we don't get eaten. It's a win-win.
14:15Take a break, Arn. I've got it from here.
14:26Good going, Ralphie. Oh, yeah.
14:35Another few minutes and I'll be ready to go again. We can't keep this up all night. We'll
14:43be totally exhausted. It's not all about us getting tired, either. Look at the bike. It's
14:49making really funny noises. We have no choice. Must keep pedaling. All I'm saying is, what
14:56if the bike suddenly... does that? My bike! Somebody grab the wheel!
15:10Oh, no. Our power source is gone, and it's almost night, and we have no lights. We're doomed!
15:17We have to get my wheel!
15:30Wanda, quick, grab the... I was going to say wheel.
15:36Where is it? Where'd it go? There it is! Whoa, look at it go! Cool! The power of the waterfall
15:41is really making that wheel spin. Yeah, but it's not doing us any good in there. Somebody
15:46hang on to my feet. Got it! Come on, we have to get back to camp. It's getting darker.
15:56Whoa!
15:59We have to get back to camp. It's getting darker.
16:04Whoa! He's hauling! Yeah, who knew Arnie had skills?
16:12Wind super strong!
16:16No!
16:22Hang on to that thing! The wind is crazy strong! Go, go, go, go! Life's a rat stink!
16:39Hey, Liz, looks like they're on a roll. Arnold just might save us from that blot monster yet.
16:46I've got this part.
16:52Okay, it's still worse. Tim, hop on and start pedaling. You've got the graveyard shift.
16:57Please don't say graveyard. Can't. Sorry. Too tired.
17:03Someone has to get back on the bike. Any volunteers?
17:06Sorry, DA. We've been playing and pedaling all day. We're all beat.
17:10But we have to do something, otherwise we're going to get visited by the blot...
17:14We get it, Arnold. Hang in there, class. You're going to figure it out. Use your brain power.
17:20Power. That's it. What's it?
17:22We have another way to make the wheel spin. In fact, we have two ways. Water power and wind power.
17:29That's right. When the wheel was in the waterfall, the force of the water pushed and made the wheel turn on its own.
17:36And when the wind caught the wheel, it spun up into the air, too.
17:40So to turn the rotor, we don't need to create pollution or pedal all night.
17:44That's it. Yeah. Yeah. You might need another one of these.
17:48Thank you. Let's do this.
17:54Okay, we need something to catch the wind and make the wheel turn.
17:58Oh, I have my cards. This will work.
18:02I hate that we're using all your cards, Keisha. No biggie. They're doubles.
18:11Now we attach this to the generator.
18:13And boom. The rotor spins through the wire coil, and next thing you know, all that wheel turning becomes electricity.
18:20Cool. Perfect. I'm going to plug this in.
18:29Okay. Now to get the water to push these cups and move the wheel.
18:33Okay, generator. Let's get electric.
18:41It's working. Nice.
18:49Um, I just want to say that what we all did together today, as a team, I found personally mean.
18:55Dude, it's dark. Flip the switch.
18:57Oh, yeah.
19:11Hmm.
19:16Yes, we did it, you guys.
19:18Arnold, you did it.
19:20We all did it. Bright lights, clean power, and no dramatic music sting.
19:26Well, there's one thing we forgot.
19:28Light pollution.
19:30I'm kidding. Don't worry, Arnold. Light pollution does not attract monsters.
19:34But ecosystems are full of them.
19:36Don't worry, Arnold. Light pollution does not attract monsters.
19:39But ecosystems aren't crazy about it. Especially living things that need the dark to survive.
19:44Oh, don't worry, Wanda. As far as the forest is concerned, our light is out of sight.
19:58Yes. Cool.
20:00Way to go, Ms. Frizzle.
20:06Ms. Frizzle, you want to join us? We're roasting marshmallows.
20:09Marshmallows? What are those?
20:12I'm kidding. I love marshmallows.
20:14Since you all did the legwork for the electricity, I thought I'd use my clean energy powered magical mallow toaster.
20:27Uh-oh. What's that?
20:31Oh, no. The monster. It came anyway. Everybody hide.
20:34But there's no pollution.
20:37Actually, it's our very own Liz Monster.
20:43See, Arnold? Everything's fine.
20:45Energy conscious, eco-friendly, and refreshingly monster free.
21:01Hi. I'm looking for the magic school bus.
21:03Is this the magic school bus?
21:05Magic school bus?
21:06Is this the magic school bus?
21:08Hi. I'm looking for the magic school bus.
21:11Magic school bus?
21:12Magic school bus?
21:14Magic school bus?
21:17Bonjour. Je cherche l'autobus magique.
21:19I'd like to speak to the magic school bus, please.
21:33Blotty, baby, work with me. What's the trouble, honey?
21:36It's all this pollution, Professor Frizzle. Makes me sneeze.
21:41But Blotty, you're a monster. You love this stuff. Says so right here on page eight.
21:46Let's try once more with feeling.
21:50I better get this. Might be my agent.
21:53Yeah. I'll be in my trailer.
21:56That's close.
21:57Professor Frizzle, PhD.
21:59Professor Frizzle, can I ask some questions regarding the clean energy episode?
22:03Sure. Take five, people. I need to recharge.
22:11Well, how exactly does power get to my house?
22:17It starts out in a power plant, a giant-sized version of the generator Arnold made from the kit in the bus.
22:22Then the electricity generated there is carried along power lines to your house.
22:27The episode showed us wind and water power. But isn't the sun a clean energy source, too?
22:32You bet. In fact, solar panels can convert energy directly into electrical current.
22:38You don't even need a generator.
22:40Are there other ways to make clean electricity?
22:42Yes, Aruni. Engineers are studying ways to harness power from the tides in the ocean and even from heat inside the Earth.
22:49What happens when we use up all the energy in the world?
22:52Well, we can't. Scientists say energy can neither be created nor destroyed.
22:58Instead, it changes form into things like heat, light, and sometimes pollution.
23:06But even if it doesn't pollute, making electricity still costs money and resources, and we should always save as much as we can.
23:15Cool. Thanks, Professor Frizzle.
23:17No problem. I like your energy.
23:21Places, people! Where's my monster?
23:26Bloody, where are you?
23:29The depths.
23:30The depths of what?
23:32Ooh, the deepest, darkest ocean. Sounds intriguing. I just might join you.
23:37That's a wrap, everyone!
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