Liz Magic School Bus Rides Again

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The Magic School Coach Rides Again is a Sequel Series to the 1990s drawing The Magic School Bus. It is an blithe Edutainment Show that arrogance through Netflix.

Like the original series, information technology follows an eccentric redheaded science teacher who takes her class of viii students on oddball field trips using her shapeshifting bus. The twist? It's not Ms. Frizzle, or at to the lowest degree not the i anybody knows. Ms. Valerie Frizzle — now Professor Frizzle — allowed her sis, Fiona Frizzle, to take charge of the field trips for now.

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This cartoon contains examples of:

• Abandoned Catchphrase: Every character (except for Arnold and D.A.) no longer utilize their catchphrases from the previous series.
• An Aesop: The episode of "Ready, Prepare, Fail" has Ms. Frizzle ready a task for the students to perform and specifically wants them to neglect, so they could learn from their failures and eventually come up up with a pattern that volition piece of work to achieve their desired goal. The moral being that one tin larn a lot from failure and that it is zip to be aback of.
• And Starring: "With Lily Tomlin as Professor Frizzle."
• Adapted Out: Merely Phoebe hasn't returned, equally Arnold states that she moved back to her one-time school.
• Art Evolution: Justified, as standard Boob tube animation has gone through and so many desperate changes in the xx years since the terminal episodes of the original serial aired. In addition to the more streamlined designs and colored optics (instead of Black Bead Optics) on all of the characters, the animation itself managed to featherbed the switch from cels to digitally colored traditional animation entirely and get straight to ToonBoom puppet animation. The series was originally going to be all-CG, but presumably, the bear witness's budget was diddled getting Kate McKinnon and Lin-Manuel Miranda, resulting in the animation existence severely scaled dorsum.
• Artistic License – Beast Intendance: Carlos not only has a rat that is by itself, but the cage is manner too pocket-sized (especially the cycle) for that rat.
• Artistic License – Biological science:
  • In Episode 1, rabbits are depicted with pads on the bottom of their paws.
  • Wild bananas were shown pointing downwards at the end of "Ralphie and the Flying Tennelis", which is jarring since "Hides and Seeks" correctly portrayed them pointing upward.
• Audience Surrogate: Arnold in Episode ane is similar to the fans of the old series trying to adjust to the course now being led past Fiona instead of Valerie, and he as well as the audience learns that the change isn't actually bad at all.
• Bavarian Burn down Drill: The point of the field trip of "Making Magic" is to pull ane off on Mr. Ruhle, to hide the bus'south magical nature.
• But Not Too Black: Both Keesha and Tim have had their skin color noticeably lightened.
• Canon Foreigner: Ms. Fiona Frizzle, the class' new teacher, Phoebe's replacement Jyoti, and the monkey Goldie, are all new to the serial.
• Comic-Book Fourth dimension: No one has aged much in nearly twenty-5 years despite this being a sequel. At most, information technology's been a twelvemonth in between shows as the showtime episode mentions that information technology was "over the summertime".
• Cool Teacher: Fiona and Valerie seem to share this in their genetics, as the new Miss Frizzle is a ball of energy that is very energetic as she is intelligent. She's also very witty and upbeat, making her much like her sister.
• Darker and Edgier: While 'nighttime' is a flake of an exaggeration, the kids practise realize at that place'due south a fleck more than consequences with screwing effectually with magic this time around. As sometimes the Aesop comes with them having to learn that using magic likewise much tin lead to some problems.
• Disney Decease: The autobus suffers this in "In The Zone" when it uses the last of its magic to get back home and is unable to get dorsum in time to update, transforming into an ordinary schoolhouse bus. Luckily Jyoti is able to restore the bus back to normal with the use of geographical time zones.
• Demoted to Extra: Liz gets considerably less to exercise in the new serial. Even in the post-episode segment, she's replaced by Professor Frizzle's new monkey sidekick, Goldie.
• Dork in a Sweater: Arnold traded in his striped polo for a cardigan sweater, accentuating his geekiness.
• Edutainment Show: It nevertheless keeps the original's theme on science, but updates the facts and engineering to be more than upwards-to-appointment.
• End-of-Series Awareness: Although most likely not wanting to call their shots in case they don't get renewed, the 2nd season finale ending has a viewer asking when they're going to run into Ms. Frizzle once again, and she dodges the question instead of giving a straight answer. Notably the series would continue in the grade of various specials none of which accept any appearances from Ms. Frizzle.
• Five-Token Band: Arnold (Jew), Dorothy Ann (white), Carlos (Hispanic), Jyoti (Indian), Tim and Keesha (black), Wanda (Asian) and Ralphie (Italian).
• Flashback with the Other Darrin: In an example involving blitheness styles, the closing credits of the 2020-2021 specials show stills from original series episodes redrawn in the new style.
• The Generic Guy: Every kid in this reboot is similar having eight Tims. Unlike the other series where each child had distinct personalities and unlike ways of learning, every kid in this serial is like a flat Blank Slate.
• Hard Truth Aesop: "Ready, Set, Fail" depicts the students existence given a task that they cannot accomplish on the first try, and are intentionally supposed to fail and learn from information technology. A very good Aesop, but considering how nearly people interpret failure, it's very much a hard truth.
• Has Two Mommies: Keesha, as seen in "Pigs In The Wind."
• Identical Twin ID Tag: They don't seem to exist twins, merely they look similar nevertheless. Valerie and Fiona wear different apparel, Fiona wears her pilus downwardly, and their hair color is slightly different.
• Involuntary Shapeshifter:
  • Janet suffers from this in "Janet's Mystery Factor" when the course accidentally messes with her Dna.
  • The whole group goes through this during "In The Zone" equally ane of the glitches of the Motorbus'south Magicware glitching upward while reinstalling.
• Musical Episode: The premise of "Waste matter Not, Want Not" involves the grade making a musical production, which means a lot of songs.
  • The premise of "In The Zone" involves the class attending Ms Frizzle's cousin Maven's concerts all across the world in different time zones and contains songs about them throughout the trip.
• Never Say "Die": Averted in Professor Frizzle's segment in episode 2, where tree deaths are brought upward as a variable in how trees concur up against potent winds.
• Passing the Torch: Professor Frizzle hands over the keys to the omnibus to her sister.
• Put on a Bus: Ironic, considering the prove. Phoebe returns to her old school and is replaced by a new student named Jyoti.
• Race Against the Clock: "In the Zone" has the motorcoach suffer a malfunction that could leave the kids stuck in a random transformation when the bus reboots at midnight, literally racing against the fourth dimension zones to give them more than time earlier midnight.
• Rank Upwards: The former Ms. Frizzle is now Professor Frizzle.
• Sequel Hook: Much similar Joanna Cole'south original books, each episode ends with Professor Frizzle clarifying a few things about the episode'south lessons, while giving a tease for the next ane.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Ms. Frizzle'south younger sister looks exactly like her except for having slightly darker hair and wearing her hair down.
• Sudden Eye Color: From the Black Bead Eyes of the original books and cartoons to everyone having eye colours like what is more common in gimmicky cartoons.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute:
  • Ms. Frizzle has retired from beingness a bus driver and has been succeeded by her younger sister, Fiona.
  • Phoebe is the just child who doesn't return, on business relationship of having transferred dorsum to her old school. She is replaced with new lookalike student Jyoti.
• Stealth Pun: The field trip in "The Good, the Bad, and the Gnocchi" is on a ranch made entirely out of pasta and is western themed. Information technology is pretty much a Spaghetti Western.
• Threatening Shark: A black-tipped shark threatens the gang in episode 3. Actually lampshaded at the end when Ms. Frizzle clarifies that the reputation sharks have as villains is unfair, since they're just predators and rarely actually attack people.
• Tomboyish Ponytail: Professor Frizzle, Dorothy Ann and Fiona have them.
• Town Girls:
  • Wanda and Dorothy Ann are the Butch, Keesha and Ms Frizzle are the femme and Jyoti is the neither.
  • This can as well apply to the Frizzle Fragments. Fiona is the butch, The Friz is the femme and Frizzle is the neither.
• Transformation Trinket: The class gets to use special devices to become animals, plants and whatnot alongside the bus's magic. Transformation itself gets a bit more utilise in lessons this time around.
• Vocal Evolution: Professor Frizzle'due south voice has clearly anile after twenty years.

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