The Magic School Bus

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This page is for quotes from The Magic School Bus children's televison show and related media.

1 Catch-Phrases
2 Ms. Frizzle
3 Arnold
4 Carlos
5 Dorothy Ann
6 Keesha
7 Phoebe
8 Wanda
9 Ralphie
10 Janet
11 Notes
12 External links

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Catch-Phrases

Ms. Frizzle: Take chances, make mistakes, get messy!
Ms. Frizzle: Never say "never."
Ms. Frizzle: Bus, do your stuff!
Ms. Frizzle: To the bus!
Ms. Frizzle: Seatbelts, everyone!
Ms. Frizzle: Look for connections.
Class: Carlos!
Arnold: I knew I should've stayed home today.
Ralphie: Is it just me or...
Tim: We've been Frizzled.
Dorothy Ann: According to my research...
Phoebe: At my old school, we never...
Keesha: Oh bad, oh bad, oh bad bad bad!
Keesha: Let's get the facts.
Wanda: What're we gonna do, what're we gonna do, what're we gonna do?! (Arnold responded to this in The Magic School Bus Revving Up episode with "I wish I knew, I wish I knew.")
Wanda: Come on you weasley wimps!

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Ms. Frizzle

Beam us down, Lizzy! (from The Magic School Bus Out Of This World episode; a play on William Shatner's catch-phrase from Star Trek)
The more mixed up things are, the better the solution.¹ (from The Magic School Bus Gets Ready, Set, Dough episode)
Arnold: I've got a plan!Ms. Frizzle: I knew you would eventually. (from The Magic School Bus In the Arctic)
<Both Arnold and Phoebe are foxes, and Phoebe's pulling him by his tail> Well, Phoebe, it's looks as if you have a tail to tell. (from The Magic School Bus In the City)
<sings> Over the river and through the woods/To Arnold and Phoebe's rescue we go! (from The Busasaurus episode)

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Arnold

Ms. Frizzle: Seatbelts everyone!
Arnold: Please let this be a normal field trip.
Wanda: With the Friz?
Class: No way! (from opening sequence)
Arnold: It's too cold.
Dorothy Ann: I guess there's no heater in a bus-igator because it's a reptile.
Arnold: Then move the bus-igator to where it's warmer.
[Engine won't turn over]
Dorothy Ann: I can't do that either. The bus-igator isn't working.
Arnold: It's probably too cold, that's why. (from The Magic School Bus Gets Cold Feet episode)
Keesha: What does a tuna fish look like?
Arnold: I don't know. I never saw one without mayonnaisse. (from The Magic School Bus Gets Eaten episode)
Phoebe: <covering Arnold's face with flour to hide the fact it has turned orange> There. You don't look nearly so orange now. <giggles>
Arnold: Phoebe! I can't go out there covered in flour! I look like a pumpkin pie! (from The Magic School Bus Goes Cellular episode)
<Arnold and Phoebe are chasing a dinosaur, but they stop>
Phoebe: Are you sure that dinosaur came this way?
Arnold: I'm only sure of one thing, Phoebe: if someone would have told me I'd be chasing a hungry dinosaur, I would've gotten off the bus a few million years sooner. (from The Busasaurus episode)
<Janet's making Arnold carry dust from the Martian surface to the bus> <slightly irritated> On Earth, I had simple little chores. Emptying waste baskets, feeding the fish, clearing the table... (from The Magic School Bus Gets Lost in Space episode)
<Liz is playing with a priceless artifact and Arnold takes it away> That's it, Liz. If I catch you playing with this priceless artifact one more time, there's no chocolate-covered ants for a week! (from The Magic School Shows and Tells episode)
Phoebe: I might have made a mistake about that lizard. And I might have made a mistake about that jackrabbit. And I might have even made a mistake about that tortoise, but there's one thing I know I'm not wrong about.
Arnold: How much you wish you'd stayed home today? (from The Magic School Bus All Dried Up episode)
<Arnold thinks Janet's the one who turned him orange> I'll get Janet for this! (from The Magic School Bus Goes Cellular episode)
<Phoebe doesn't want to get off the bus of fear of Mr. Seedplot seeing them> Maybe you should have stayed home today, Phoebe. (from The Magic School Bus Goes to Seed episode)
Why couldn't Janet shrink instead of me? Life'd be so much easier. (from The Magic School Bus: Butterfly And The Bog Beast)
Mr. Perlstein: Maybe we should have stayed home tonight.
Arnold: Dad, you took the words right out of my mouth! (from The Magic School Bus Going Batty episode)

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Carlos

The class is going to go inside Ralphie through a cut on his knee
Carlos: It's a short cut! Get it? "Short cut?" (from The Magic School Bus Inside Ralphie episode)
Desperate to get the kids out of the egg, Liz cracks it on her forehead.
Carlos: Hey, Liz, you've got egg on your face!Class: And us! (from The Magic School Bus Cracks A Yolk episode)
Scarcity's the name of the game, Pheebs. Scare-see-tee. (from The Magic School Bus All Dried Up episode)
The class is going to an undiscovered island and Carlos is propsing they name it "Carlos Island"
Dorothy Ann: Forget it! That's a pretty silly name for an island.
Carlos: What would you call it? "According to My Research Island?" <laughing>
Dorothy Ann: That's too clunky. Wait a minute...I've got a book of names in here.
Carlos: You can't even think of a name without looking in a book. (from The Magic School Bus Blows It's Top episode)
<The class runs to a heat source in the Arctic> Peew! As Ralphie would say, <imitates Ralphie> 'Is it just me or does this heat source smell like a dead fish?'. (from The Magic School Bus In the Arctic episode)
Ralphie: It's simple. All we have to do is build a robot that looks like me.
Carlos: <holds a hubcap up to his face> Like this? (from The Magic School Bus Flexes Its Muscles episode)

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Dorothy Ann

Wanda: What'll happen if the sound of Carlos's instrument stays...
[Instrument sound]
Wanda: ...just like that?
Dorothy Ann: Oh, our concerto will be ruined. All the other schools will laugh at us, and it'll be the end of the world as we know it. Other than that? Nothing. (from The Magic School In The Haunted House episode)
According to my research, diamonds are a girl's best friend, but I don't know--my best friend is my book bag. (from The Magic School Bus Explores Inside the Earth software game)
Tim: Patience, Wanda, fishing is an art.
Dorothy Ann: So is tightrope walking, but we don't have time to learn it. (from The Magic School Bus Shows and Tells episode)

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Keesha

Wanda: He doesn't move or bend.
Phoebe: He doesn't do anything.
Keesha: <laughing> Just like Ralphie! (from The Magic School Bus Flexes Its Muscles episode)
They're not drinking blood. It's tomato juice! Like Ms. Frizzle served at the class picnic! (from The Magic School Bus Going Batty episode)
Arnold: Since we can't eat our report, do you want some organic potato chips?
Keesha: <unenthusiastically> No thanks, I had some phytoplankton earlier. (from The Magic School Bus Gets Eaten episode)
Yeah, as if. (from The Magic School Bus Rocks and Rolls episode)
Ralphie: <to the Ralphiebot> Bow to your ruler and master: Ralphie the Magnificent!
Arnold: It's not bowing.
Keesha: Would you blame it? I wouldn't either. (from The Magic School Bus Flexes Its Muscles episode)
<The class watches a herd of dinosaurs as they look for Arnold and Phoebe>
Carlos: I bet they're ordering an Arnold burger!
Keesha: With Phoebe fries to go! (from The Magic School Bus Busasaurus episode)

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Phoebe

Phoebe: C'mon, Arnold, let him go. It's just an egg.
Arnold: But it's Dr. Skeledon's egg. And it's up to me to get it back to her!
Phoebe: Gee, what a guy! (from The Busasaurus episode)
<on doing a slam dunk> If only I could just do it once, just to see what it feels like. (from The Magic School Bus Gains Weight episode)
<after Arnold saves the class from a Tyrannosaurus Rex> It's a good thing you didn't stay home today, Arnold!² (from The Busasaurus episode)
<on trapping a fifty foot praying mantis> Anyone have a fifty foot plastic cup? (from The Magic School Bus Spins a Web episode)
Phoebe: But, Wanda, think of all the good things recycling does.
Wanda: Okay, Phoebe, name three.
Phoebe: Well, um...I just know there's lots! (from The Magic School Bus Holiday Special episode)
Carlos: But the bat news is we're still bats!
Phoebe: Fangs for reminding us, Carlos.
Class: Phoebe! (from The Magic School Bus Going Batty episode)
Phoebe: At my old school, we never rode on bees.
Keesha: Um, Phoebe, we are at your old school.
Phoebe: Oh...right. (from The Magic School Bus Goes to Seed episode)
<after Ralphie turns the class into bats> Yep, Ralphie, you sure know how to wing it. (from The Magic School Bus Going Batty episode)
Arnold: <cutting Phoebe out of a web she made herself> Don't feel bad, Phoebe. Only a giant spider could trap that general.
Phoebe: <face lights up> Yes! Arnold, you're a genius! (from The Magic School Bus Spins A Web episode)
<The class just finds out where the large intestine leads to> At my old school, we never ended up in the toilet. (from The Magic School Bus For Lunch episode)
I know Arnold likes rocks, but do you really think he'd swallow one? (from The Magic School Bus For Lunch episode)
Wanda: What're we gonna do? What're we gonna do? What're we gonna do? .
Phoebe: Wanda? What're we gonna do? (from The Magic School Bus For Lunch episode)
Keesha: We need a mascot that's different.Carlos: It's got to be so exciting the other team won't know what hit them!
Phoebe: I got it! I got it!
Class: What?
Phoebe: The Walker Elementary School BUTTERFLIES! (from The Magic School Bus Butterfly and Bog Beast episode)
<The class is in the small intestine> Go swimming in Arnold's digestive juice? Not me, no way! <Later> How was I supposed to know she had digestive juice scuba gear? (from The Magic School Bus For Lunch episode)
At my old school, we never got baked. (from The Magic School Bus Gets Ready, Set, Dough episode)
Phoebe: Something tells me we shouldn't be here.
Arnold: Like what?
<They wake up a Tyrannosaurus Rex>Phoebe: Like that! (from The Busasaurus episode)

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Wanda

Cheer up, Arnold. A famous poet once said, "All the world's a field trip, and all the kids in our class are merely guinea pigs"...or did Ms. Frizzle say that? (from The Magic School Bus Butterfly and Bog Beast episode)
Wanda: But this is dishonest!
Gerri Poveri: Oh, no, no, I prefer to think it as..."creative journalism." (from the Ups And Downs episode)
Tim: Anyone have a good plan B?
Wanda: There aren't any good plan B's, Tim! If they were good, they'd be plan A! (from The Magic School Bus Out of This World episode)
Arnold: Janet's right, Ms. Frizzle could be on Saturn, couldn't she?
Wanda: Okay, Arnold, but it's your job to keep your crazy cousin under control! (from the Magic School Bus Gets Lost In Space episode)
She said, "I would love it if you would come over and ring my bell!"! (from the Magic School Bus Gets Charged episode)
Yawn burger with a side of snores! (from The Magic School Bus Out of The World and Wet All Over episodes)
RU Humerus: <to Ms. Frizzle> Well, no one's more important than you, my little togglebolt.Wanda: "My little togglebolt"? (from The Magic School Bus Flexes Its Muscles episode)
Janet: As someone we all know says, this is a yawn burger with a side of snores!Wanda: It is not, Janet! (from The Magic School Bus Gets A Bright Idea episode)

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Ralphie

Phoebe: It's only a centepede
Ralphie: "Only a centepede"? That's like saying "Oh, it's only Godzilla"! (from The Magic School Bus Spins a Web episode)
<The class is biking the bus back through Arnold's digestive system>
Ralphie: This is insane!
Wanda: Consider the alternative.
Ralphie: <considers it> You know, biking is my favorite sport. (from The Magic School Bus For Lunch episode)
Phoebe: Janet, not only are we lost in space...
Ralphie: We're lost in space without a teacher! (from The Magic School Bus Gets Lost In Space episode)
We should try my mother's calzones instead of a banana. They go down like rocks. (from The Magic School Bus Ups and Downs episode)
Arnold: I knew I should've--
Ralphie: Don't say it, Arnold! (from The Magic School Bus Flexes Its Muscles episode)
<The class, in part of the water cylce, come out of the plumbing in the girls' bathroom> Hey, your bathroom is way nicer than ours! (from The Magic School Bus Wet All Over episode)

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Janet

How on Earth--I mean, how am I going to prove I was on Mercury? (from The Magic School Bus Gets Lost in Space episode)
Phoebe: At my old school, we'd use a bulldozer to move heavy things.
Janet: That's great, Phoebe. And where're we supposed to get a bulldozer? (from The Magic School Bus Gets Swamped episode)
Janet: It must cold down there because Saturn's pretty far away from the sun.
Tim: But Ms. Frizzle said "cold and dark".
Janet: It could be very, very dark on Saturn!
Carlos: Oh, no you don't! You just want to grab more stuff!
Janet: Hey, I'm just trying to help! If you want to play "Let's Find Ms. Frizzle Without A Map" for the rest of your life, that's FINE with me! <walks off in a huff>
(from The Magic School Bus Gets Lost In Space episode)
Janet: We know the real reason why you make a complete wimp like a butterfly as a mascot.
Phoebe: You do?
Ralphie: We do?
Janet: Isn't today's soccer game against...your old school?
(from The Magic School Bus Butterfly and Bog Beast episode)

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Notes

This is a pun. The first meaning indicates that the more mixed up a solution is, the better it will be. The second meaning indicates that the worse a situation is, the more ingenious the solution to the problem must be. Both meanings were relevant in the episode.
This is almost ironic in a way because had Arnold stayed home that day, Dr. Skeledon would not have given him the fossilized egg, he would not have shown it to Phoebe, Phoebe would not have lost it to an Ornithomimus, Arnold and Phoebe would have not woken up a Tyrannosaurus Rex when they were looking for the lost egg, and the class would not have been attacked by the T-Rex.

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