Thanks so much for watching! Aside from The Magic School Bus, Bill Nye The Science Guy and Reading Rainbow, what other Edu-tainment programs should I take a look back at in a future video? Let me know! Check out my other videos on Bill Nye The Science Guy and Reading Rainbow, check them out below: Bill Nye The Science Guy Was Scientifically WEIRD: th-cam.com/video/-_DRYn9--Qk/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=JordanFringe The Rise, Fall and (almost) Rise AGAIN of Reading Rainbow: th-cam.com/video/rCfJB5SQ7lk/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=JordanFringe
I like how at the end of the episode you would have a real kid calling in and telling the people at the show that they got some things wrong and they didn’t talk about other things related to the topics that was always fun to see
It was a really smart addition; being clear that the science presented in the episodes was simplified by necessity, and planting the seed that there was much more to be learned. I think a lot of edutainment aimed at kids misses this important element.
Being a sci-fi geek since 6, I was calling BS on the show there, but I still loved it all the same, even as I grumbled to myself “dude’s totally dead though” 😂
Is there enough of an atmosphere to freeze rapidly? I know in plain space even though it's incredibly cold there arnt enough molecules to lose heat to that it would take along time for you to freeze. The low pressure would have his saliva boiling for sure as a positive note
Had an old Magic School Bus point and click game for PC as a little kid where they travel through the solar system. Was absolutely addicted to it and played it for hours on end.
We had that one, Explores the Human Body, and Explores the Ocean. So many hours just spent clicking on things and giggling at the animations, or creating my own game within the game.
I gotta give you the teacher perspective. As an ESL kid these shows/books like the magic school bus helped me so much keep up with the curriculum while being at a disadvantage due to a language barrier. It kept the curiosity alive and made me want to do more research. Fast forward and I’m a 5th grade teacher and I still show these episodes to my students. They’re timeless and have a charm that is unknown to the new generation but still find new things to love about it. This, Brain Pop, and Bill Nye are constant plays in my classroom because I know that me reading off a textbook isn’t enough for some students, but these videos are the visual seeds that foster child curiosity.
I'm glad that you became a teacher yourself and have been able to implement tactics like this that worked for you as a kid. It sounds like you have a passion for teaching and the more folks we get like that, the better the future will be for the new generations.
The Magic School Bus really gave me a passion and drive for science as a kid! And in less than a year, I will be graduating with a Bachelor of Science, majoring in biology and environmental science.
She’s Iris Wildthyme’s cousin, only she isn’t a drunk, her animal companion is a lizard called Liz rather than a sentient toy panda called Panda, and her bus is school bus rather than a double decker 22 to Putney Common.
I got the chance to see all those in elementary, and later on in highschool my physics teacher would play an episode of Mythbusters every other Thursday. What a time.
90s kid here, we got the TV being wheeled in the early 90s to watch this show along with Reading Rainbow and Bill Nye the Science Guy. Legitimately get a little emotional watching this because I absolutely loved the show growing up and those 3 shows in general hold such a special place in my heart. They also are a little sad for me to think about given how much better life was back then so it does hurt a little going back and watching some of these shows thinking of my childhood. All 3 were brilliant shows and I'm glad I grew up when they were huge. Another informative show I watched was Captain Planet, a lot more actiony than the first 3 shows mentioned but there were a lot of life lessons to be learned from it and the opening theme is fucking amazing, still to this day it's one of my favorite cartoon themes ever. I really do love your work, thank you for doing what you do! 🥹
Man, it's amazing how many of these episodes I can remember just from the short clips in the video. "Oh that's the one about light! That's the one about smell! That's the one where they end up in a pickle jar!" 😆
Hell yeah! I've actually been having a nostalgia bomb for those CD-Rom games lately, trying to play them however I can (sadly a difficult process, due to differnces in computer tech). And I sincerely think that video games are the best medium for the Magic School Bus to continue on in, since the games were able to tackle certain science topics far more in-depth than an episode of a tv series and even the books.
I only caught the occasional episode but I can very clearly remember seeing one whilst on holiday where they learnt about colour in a giant pinball machine and one kid had to have a laser shot at him to bounce off his correctly coloured sweater. It was so good I stopped playing Golden Sun for the whole 30 minutes
I legitimately wanted to build that light-based pinball machine as a kid, until I learned about the speed of light. Then I wanted to build a different version that was more like a puzzle where you had to arrange everything beforehand to get the different light beams to the appropriate targets
Ghostwriter, Arthur, and Magic School Bus are probably my PBS top 3 shows. Honorable mention to Wishbone, Barney, and the Carmen San Diego shows. Also shout out to the Smosh Magic School Bus reunion spoof.
Ngl I still go back and watch from time to time just to bask in the pure nostalgia. Will definitely be watching with my kids when they're old enough to get it
I grew up with "The Magic School Bus." I could recount so many plot points from the episodes because my teachers had us watch the same episodes multiple times. I swear, I watched the episode where they turned Phoebe into a plant so many times that I could recite the script back to you.
The PC games were so awesome. I grew up with the games about going inside the human body, and the one about geology. My parents love to reflect on the time we were at an outdoor desert museum in Arizona (we're from NY for frame of reference). There was a gentleman there asking visitors from a case of small cut gems which one was the most expensive. Not only did I immediately point out the emerald, but I started spouting off facts I learned from the games. He told us that usually people pick the nice bright shiny rock which was really a piece of polished soda bottle, and my parents recall how happy that man was when a small child knew so much. Also shout out to the gem room in NYC's museum of natural history, I loved that place.
it's not being reminded I watched The Magic School Bus makes me feel old, when you reminded me of the TV cart that teachers would bring out for it (or anything else) makes me feel old.
welcome back, Jordan! This show ruled. My favorites were the space one and the one where they go inside Arnold to explore the digestive system. It's still enjoyable, too. It has a timeless charm to it
Magic school bus is my favorite PBS cartoon next to Arthur, it’s not just about educational stuff that made me love this show, it’s the fun factor and wacky style of animation! Also I remember the interstitials with real kids in the classroom, and I do remember some museums and aquariums having MSB themed exhibits because they sponsored the PBS cartoon!
Shout-out to Ms Frizz (as well as Bill Nye) and the hardworking, creative folks at Scholastic and television writers for managing to really bring out the wonder and excitement out of science -- a subject so many kids too often dismiss as tedious. Awesome video!! :)
I grew up with the original Magic School Bus books, and still have them today. When the cartoon came out, our family was living in a small town in Alaska where we didn’t get any TV channels that carried it. So our grandparents in California would tape a bunch of episodes and mail us the videocassettes. I still have those as well. The local library did have the old Magic School Bus computer games, and I spent hours with those. My younger brother has four kids, and I bought them the DVD box set so the tradition can continue. I also definitely had some Ms. Frizzle-like teachers. One in particular actually had crazy red hair, in fact. She was very much about hands-on science learning. We made life-sized anatomy models, built and launched model rockets, made clouds in the classroom, and at one point she even arranged to have a helicopter come land in the playground so we could check it out in person. I really struggled with ADD as a kid, and at this point in time (and especially for a tiny church school in Alaska) it wasn’t very well-understood or taken into account. She worked super hard to keep me engaged and accountable, and mostly succeeded.
Man you guys were lucky. I never got to see this in my school. The only time they'd wheel the TV in is if we were going to be watching Bill Nye or that nature documentary that started with that camera flying through a museum with some drum and flute like music.
I love vibe of educational media from the late 90s and early 00s. Magic school bus, Bill Nye, Eye Witness. *Utopian Scholastic* is also such a comfy aesthetic.
I literally was just thinking about this show today, and then you put out this! The modern age is really missing good edutainment shows like this and Wishbone.
I went to elementary school in the 90s and I LOVED the magic school bus! I had the books, I loved the show, it was one of my favorites as a kid. There were so many great things about this show and I think it's thanks to the books/the show that I have such a huge curiosity about the world to this day. I love learning new things!
I always remember watching The Magic School Bus when I was in elementary school for the most part. One of my earliest memories was it was shown in the library in the first elementary school I went to in kindergarten around near the holiday season of 2009, and that we saw the Holiday Special. There were other shows that I also remembered watching: Wilbur, Peep and the Big Wide World and Liberty's Kids. It was great to be edu-tained with most of those programs to help us with subjects like reading, science and history.
the magic school bus is impo the best edu-tainment show of its time. theres shows that i watched as a kid and look back on fondly, but magic school bus by far has the best memories for me. i think whats special about it is, while watching it you very forget its educational, once they get out on a "field trip" its so entertaining and well done that you kinda forget its trying to make you learn stuff but your brains still taking it in. like i genuinely feel the magic school bus was why i was so into science and learning as a kid, but as i grew up and got forced more and more into that "typical" style of learning where even finding fun educational youtube videos on class topics was seen as bad by teachers i lost that joy.
I LOVE the Magic School Bus! I have many good memories of watching it at my grandparents house when I was younger. This show along with Bill Nye made learning fun! When I was a kid, I wanted to go on Miss Frizzle’s field trips and I still do! This show brings back good memories. :D
I grew up with this show. I remember going to my local library and renting the episodes on DVD. It brings me back so many memories. Thanks for giving me nostalgia.
The original show got you invested into the characters and the story like an normal anime. Growing enough interest to buy the books/merch. The balance of Edu-tainment was perfect on this show. The creativity and the artwork/animation blended really well and not over the top - which the netflix series kinda lacks
I always woke up early just so I could watch a episode whenever it aired on PBS Kids, the opening theme of the original series was always a bop. I also had the PC games with topics such as Animals, the Ocean, and Dinosaurs. I always feel nostalgic whenever I’m thinking about this educational franchise. 🥰
I grew up watching the magic school bus and bill Nye the Science guy and they influenced me a lot growing up. I loved showing my kids the magic school bus! A while back they had both the old and new series on Netflix and the kids and I loved watching them together
this show was a huge part of my childhood since 2011 and has been my longest running special interest since 2014-ish 😭 like i have every line of almost every episode of the 90s series, the reboot, and the four specials memorized 😭
Having grew up with reruns of the show back on Fox Kids, I very much was a big fan of the show: bought the books, owned a few DVDs of the show long after it stopped airing, and had some of the PC games that I recalled playing to death until the discs worn out (RIP). While I did watch Bill Nye as well, MSB was always my childhood jam and got me to develop my interest in science early on. For that, this show is one of the few PBS shows that remains close to my heart to this day. Fun fact also, the entire series was given a full DVD release back in 2014, 20 yrs after it's initial airing, as not every episode was available on a video release prior to it
I hated science class, but I credit Magic School Bus, Bill Nye, and Schoolhouse Rock for being able to teach those concepts that I really didn't care about or understand. Speaking of Schoolhouse Rock... Jordan, I would LOVE it if you covered those Schoolhouse Rock shorts. I know I'm not the only one who got their grade saved from those catchy songs.
As a kid obsessed with snakes, lizards, alligators, and, dinosaurs, I adored the show. The show was huge inspiration for me going into the field of wildlife. A few years ago, I even got to live out my dream. I traveled to Australia and tagged along with the Australian Zoo (Yes Steve Irwin’s Zoo) for 10 days to catch saltwater crocodiles. I got to help Robert and Terri Irwin put satellite tracking tags on saltwater crocodiles alongside the University of Queensland. Now, I remove snakes from film sets for a living.
Please do a Cyber Chase episode real soon! It will forever be one of my favorite edu-tainment cartoons! I love Magic School Bus too! I love all the interview segments at the end of each episode, and Carlos and Dorthy Ann are on my OTP list. Great show! Always fun to revisit!
This was my absolute FAVORITE show as a kid. I watched it all the time on VHS as a kid and I still watch a few episodes maybe once or twice a year. Every time I revisit the show, I’m reminded just how well-crafted it is. I love how incredibly creative the staff was! There are still several scientific facts I remember from it (and not from school hahaha 😆)
I can probably point to this show as the main source for my passion of science and tech, it was so good! I'm glad this got picked up and dubbed over to Romania too :)
When I was an ESL teacher in Taiwan, I got my students ADDICTED to this show, even the classes where the students had very limited English. That shows how well the messages were shown. One class in particular would chant “school bus, school bus” not gonna lie, I caved in a few times with that class because I lowkey wanted to watch it too 😅 It was very nostalgic
Wow, core memory unlocked! I use to have that book! I would read it over and over, pretty sure before I could read but I would imagine experiencing everything with the students.😂 Thanks for reminding me my guy. I'm 40 now, getting old sucks 😢
Thanks for covering the only episode I remember, the SPACE EPISODE!!! When the dude took his helmet off that scared me as a kid! But also I wanted to be an Astronaut as a kid and loved Space and the planets!
I love the magic School bus so much as a kid that I introduced my kids to it. And to keep their interest in science shows i looked for more and discovered scishow kids and sid the science kid. My oldest loved it so much she decided to test the experiments on herself after watching the episodes. And now her fifth grade teacher is highly impressed with how good with science she is
My family had four MSB episodes on VHS tapes, all the interactive CD-ROM games for my family's Windows 98 computer, I frequently pulled out the picture books, and later chapter books, from my school's library, and I knew Little Richard's theme song off by heart by the age of eight... yeah, I kind of remember it... LOL. To this day, I attribute SOME of my scientific interest to Ms. Frizzle, mainly my desire to work in the field more than in an office.
The new remake of the show is just as awesome (and updated with modernized technology). As an 8th grade teacher, the content is often skewed a little too young for my class (aimed at elementary schools). But I have two little kids of my own (2 and 5) who LOVE IT. I'm glad I was able to grow up with the Bus, and my girls can too.
The Magic School Bus was influential in my formative years. I dedicated my introduction of my personal statement for a Biology graduate program. Because of Ms. Frizzle and Bill Nye the Science Guy, my love for science flourished. Now I’m a clinical researcher 👩🏻🔬 ❤
Love the magic school bus and Bill Nye growing up through elemantry/middle school, my favorite episodes of the series were, the digestion system, muscles and joints and how volcano's are made. Miss Frizzle the best at what she does 😅
I love this show so much as a kid, I definitely remember the science teacher letting us watch half the episode if we finished our class assignment early. It really played an important role in getting me interested in wildlife (which I had little exposure to since I live in a hypermetropolis), and I would just go to the library and read any book I could find about those animals. When our school decided to be early adopters of computers, we used to play the rainforest point and click episode of MSB, Amazon Trail, and Odell Down Under, so I just loved the idea of going to the tropics and learning more about wildlife and doing conservation. I am happy to report that is my job now as a research biologist and I do get to do these things all the time now! I did watch the new series and the biggest issues I had with it were: 1) the flat animation style they now use and 2) the kids are not very distinct enough from one another. I understand the new style is probably cheaper to produce but the more limited movement they are using really reduces some of the original whimsicality of the Bus and it makes the landscape that the characters occupy feel less complete and real. The voice acting from Kate McKinnon is fine, but I think they needed to get more experienced actors to play the kids because they sound do not emote enough to be unique characters who are impacted specifically by that day's field trip in some way and give them some character development too. It made the kids seem flat as characters and it focuses the series too much then on Ms. Frizzle, and I think that is just working against the purpose of the show in terms of drawing kids in. I get that they casted real kids for this, but they just do not have enough experience to make these characters pop in the same way the old show did so the show fell rather flat to me.
I loved this show so much! In elementary school did anyone else ever have a science teacher who let the class watch this when she didn’t feel like teaching for the day or when you had a substitute?
Same here. We lived in Alaska and only got a couple iffy broadcast channels. So our grandparents would record episodes of Magic School Bus, Shining Time Station, etc. and mail us the videotapes as presents.
As a parent and former educator the magic school bus rides again was perfect. It hit every note it needed to there was 0 need for it to not have more episodes. Its just as fun and informative with updated information and technology.
Core memory of my entire 3rd grade class loudly singing along with the theme song every time we watched an episode. Same with Bill Nye the science guy🤍
I remember reading the first book when it came out. I was in 1st or 2nd grade. It was a lot of fun and even though I was a teenager when the show came out, I still loved kids shows and so I watched it. It thought it was a fantastic show, that really got the feeling right. Years later I'd see several episodes of the show Hey Duggee where they'd go into space, follow the water cycle (right down to becoming raindrops) or go inside the cat to find out why she was making that noise (it was a hairball) and my first thought was Magic School Bus. It's the goto though for magic science adventures.
1:30. OMG YES! ME TOO. In the 5th grade I was given a bad mark for "daydreaming" and not paying attention... but my mom quickly pointed out to the teachers... yeah but he also has straight As... so... hahaha Magic School bus is great and how you described it, education with escapism, that's exactly what made me love it.❤
I remember this show, it billnye, and reading rainbow were often played in my classroom at least once a week. always enjoyed them.I also remember the cd-rom games it had and the books too was always happy when they let us watch this series.
Thanks so much for watching! Aside from The Magic School Bus, Bill Nye The Science Guy and Reading Rainbow, what other Edu-tainment programs should I take a look back at in a future video? Let me know! Check out my other videos on Bill Nye The Science Guy and Reading Rainbow, check them out below:
Bill Nye The Science Guy Was Scientifically WEIRD: th-cam.com/video/-_DRYn9--Qk/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=JordanFringe
The Rise, Fall and (almost) Rise AGAIN of Reading Rainbow: th-cam.com/video/rCfJB5SQ7lk/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=JordanFringe
Please do Scary Godmother for Halloween!
How about a look back at the PBS show "ZOOM", it aired in the 90's? and the early 2000's, then also both The electric company series! 😊😊
Dragon Tales
KO can you do Kitty is Not a Cat. Pirate Express. Monster Beach.
Beakman's World definitely needs more love! And Voyage of the Mimi, starring Baby Ben Affleck
- _"Please, let this be a normal fieldtrip."_
- _"With the Frizz? No way!"_
Awwwww
With the Fringe? No way!
Cruisin' on down main street
@@nathangibbons9492you’re relaxed and feeling good
In The Loud House.
This and Cyberchase were absolutely my favorite “edu-tainment” as a kid
Electric company, zoom, in between the lions as well
odd squad is one I remember liking, used math and teamwork to solve issues
@@gluttonye12 oh yeah, I loved Between The Lions 😂
I would watch this, ghost writer and Carmen Sandiego 😂
My 6 year old has LOVED Cyberchase since he was a baby. It has always been his bedtime show!! I love that show too!
I like how at the end of the episode you would have a real kid calling in and telling the people at the show that they got some things wrong and they didn’t talk about other things related to the topics that was always fun to see
The crew was at least, self-aware of time constraints or inaccuracies.
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"You're right, kid! But we can only show so much in half an hour!"
@@wchan39 just imagine what the show could’ve done if it was an hour long
that was specially what made me get interested in science when I was a kid
It was a really smart addition; being clear that the science presented in the episodes was simplified by necessity, and planting the seed that there was much more to be learned. I think a lot of edutainment aimed at kids misses this important element.
RIP Arnold, you went out like a real one on Pluto, then they just pretended like you didn't just straight up freeze to death.
That was one of two genuine horror moments I got from the series.
The other was the “echo ghost” at the end of the soundwave/haunted house episode.
Being a sci-fi geek since 6, I was calling BS on the show there, but I still loved it all the same, even as I grumbled to myself “dude’s totally dead though” 😂
i remember seeing that one in like the second or third grade 14 years ago, WILD to me that that was in episode ONE 😂
Is there enough of an atmosphere to freeze rapidly? I know in plain space even though it's incredibly cold there arnt enough molecules to lose heat to that it would take along time for you to freeze. The low pressure would have his saliva boiling for sure as a positive note
@@jackdelaneyour body will still radiate heat as IR light, and that will cool you off without having to touch other matter
"At my old school, we didn't talk about old books turned tv shows that showed how the tv shows changed overtime and became cult like classics."
Fun fact: Daniel DeSanto (voice of Carlos) played Tucker in Are You Afraid of the Dark and also played the "butter your muffin" kid from Mean Girls.
I did not know that.
You mean Jason
And the guy who did Arnold is the voice of Jimmy in gta 5.
@@charliemartin-k7m I did not know that.
@@teamsteed1 Also, Keesha's VA played Sapphire in Steven Universe
Had an old Magic School Bus point and click game for PC as a little kid where they travel through the solar system. Was absolutely addicted to it and played it for hours on end.
Oh there were so many of those I played.
Inside the Earth,
Bugs, Dinosaurs, Under the Ocean and more
Dude, those were the best! If they remastered those I’d totally get them. I especially loved the geology one (I think?).
@@fuzzyhead878bro I think I played that consistently as a kid. I remember a minigame where you'd "cook" rocks from different materials in an oven.
Magic School Bus also had a promo with McDonald's.
We had that one, Explores the Human Body, and Explores the Ocean. So many hours just spent clicking on things and giggling at the animations, or creating my own game within the game.
I gotta give you the teacher perspective. As an ESL kid these shows/books like the magic school bus helped me so much keep up with the curriculum while being at a disadvantage due to a language barrier. It kept the curiosity alive and made me want to do more research. Fast forward and I’m a 5th grade teacher and I still show these episodes to my students. They’re timeless and have a charm that is unknown to the new generation but still find new things to love about it. This, Brain Pop, and Bill Nye are constant plays in my classroom because I know that me reading off a textbook isn’t enough for some students, but these videos are the visual seeds that foster child curiosity.
Well that good
Yay!
I'm glad that you became a teacher yourself and have been able to implement tactics like this that worked for you as a kid. It sounds like you have a passion for teaching and the more folks we get like that, the better the future will be for the new generations.
The Magic School Bus really gave me a passion and drive for science as a kid! And in less than a year, I will be graduating with a Bachelor of Science, majoring in biology and environmental science.
Miss Frizzle is a Time Lord. The school bus is her TARDIS
This is now canon.
That actually makes too much sense
MIND BLOWN!!!
She’s Iris Wildthyme’s cousin, only she isn’t a drunk, her animal companion is a lizard called Liz rather than a sentient toy panda called Panda, and her bus is school bus rather than a double decker 22 to Putney Common.
Yeah I'm willing to fit this into my world view-
This, Bill Nye, zoobooks, American girl books and the magic treehouse books were literally my entire childhood!
@@lizabee7791 And how
@@lizabee7791 I was thinking he should do a video on Jim Henson’s Animal Jam.
Don’t forget goosebumps and scary stories to tell in the dark! I have a few more but man reading was a blast as a kid!
I got the chance to see all those in elementary, and later on in highschool my physics teacher would play an episode of Mythbusters every other Thursday. What a time.
90s kid here, we got the TV being wheeled in the early 90s to watch this show along with Reading Rainbow and Bill Nye the Science Guy. Legitimately get a little emotional watching this because I absolutely loved the show growing up and those 3 shows in general hold such a special place in my heart. They also are a little sad for me to think about given how much better life was back then so it does hurt a little going back and watching some of these shows thinking of my childhood. All 3 were brilliant shows and I'm glad I grew up when they were huge.
Another informative show I watched was Captain Planet, a lot more actiony than the first 3 shows mentioned but there were a lot of life lessons to be learned from it and the opening theme is fucking amazing, still to this day it's one of my favorite cartoon themes ever.
I really do love your work, thank you for doing what you do! 🥹
Do I ever!! Whenever they showed an episode of this show in one of my Elementary or Middle School classes, I was the happiest kid alive!
IKR?! This show made learning fun! I always wanted to go on Miss Frizzle’s field trips and I still do!
Man, it's amazing how many of these episodes I can remember just from the short clips in the video. "Oh that's the one about light! That's the one about smell! That's the one where they end up in a pickle jar!" 😆
I notice you left out the one where they go to the bottom of a river to get covered in salmon jizz.
@@Shadow_284 🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒
@@Shadow_284 I was thinking he should do a video on Jim Henson’s Animal Jam.
Baked in a cake it's just a blurb but i catch it every time.
@@peacemakerjo6166 Really?
I'm a new teacher. Kids of today still love the Magic School Bus I grew up with and it's awesome!!😄
CRUISIN ON DOWN MAIN STREET.
The best thing to come out of The Magic Schoolbus were those cd-rom games.
It’s geode time!
Hell yeah! I've actually been having a nostalgia bomb for those CD-Rom games lately, trying to play them however I can (sadly a difficult process, due to differnces in computer tech). And I sincerely think that video games are the best medium for the Magic School Bus to continue on in, since the games were able to tackle certain science topics far more in-depth than an episode of a tv series and even the books.
I only caught the occasional episode but I can very clearly remember seeing one whilst on holiday where they learnt about colour in a giant pinball machine and one kid had to have a laser shot at him to bounce off his correctly coloured sweater. It was so good I stopped playing Golden Sun for the whole 30 minutes
I legitimately wanted to build that light-based pinball machine as a kid, until I learned about the speed of light. Then I wanted to build a different version that was more like a puzzle where you had to arrange everything beforehand to get the different light beams to the appropriate targets
Ghostwriter, Arthur, and Magic School Bus are probably my PBS top 3 shows. Honorable mention to Wishbone, Barney, and the Carmen San Diego shows. Also shout out to the Smosh Magic School Bus reunion spoof.
Ah magic school bus. My childhood favorite in school, thanks Jordan!!
Oh, I remember it! I’m training to be a teacher, and I love these types of shows. I definitely want to use them in my classroom (in moderation)
Ngl I still go back and watch from time to time just to bask in the pure nostalgia. Will definitely be watching with my kids when they're old enough to get it
I grew up with "The Magic School Bus." I could recount so many plot points from the episodes because my teachers had us watch the same episodes multiple times. I swear, I watched the episode where they turned Phoebe into a plant so many times that I could recite the script back to you.
I definitely grew up with the Magic School Bus. Our elementary school science teacher used to play it a lot. Elementary was such a blast.
@@Movienerd092 I was thinking he should do a video on Jim Henson’s Animal Jam.
This was at the RARE intersection between great tv show and a show parents wanted their kids to watch. Best tv cart days ever.
The PC games were so awesome. I grew up with the games about going inside the human body, and the one about geology. My parents love to reflect on the time we were at an outdoor desert museum in Arizona (we're from NY for frame of reference). There was a gentleman there asking visitors from a case of small cut gems which one was the most expensive. Not only did I immediately point out the emerald, but I started spouting off facts I learned from the games. He told us that usually people pick the nice bright shiny rock which was really a piece of polished soda bottle, and my parents recall how happy that man was when a small child knew so much.
Also shout out to the gem room in NYC's museum of natural history, I loved that place.
I still remember both the magic school bus animated series and the picture books. It was part of my childhood.
it's not being reminded I watched The Magic School Bus makes me feel old, when you reminded me of the TV cart that teachers would bring out for it (or anything else) makes me feel old.
Thanks for the shout out!
Thanks for making a great video!
One of my favorites growing up!
Along with those Paz segments and Peep and the Big Wide World, I’d watch Magic School Bus before heading to school. Good memories.
This show is a classic
welcome back, Jordan! This show ruled. My favorites were the space one and the one where they go inside Arnold to explore the digestive system. It's still enjoyable, too. It has a timeless charm to it
I'm old enough to remember when the Magic School Bus was only a book series lol
me too I loved them as a kid would always get them or be watching the show when it was made. ah, good times.
Mr bones was a classic
I also first heard of Magic School Bus as a book. Then I came across the PC games and finally, the TV show.
I still have my well-worn copies of the original books.
This show was always a staple of my childhood science classes. This and Bill Nye.
Magic school bus is my favorite PBS cartoon next to Arthur, it’s not just about educational stuff that made me love this show, it’s the fun factor and wacky style of animation! Also I remember the interstitials with real kids in the classroom, and I do remember some museums and aquariums having MSB themed exhibits because they sponsored the PBS cartoon!
Shout-out to Ms Frizz (as well as Bill Nye) and the hardworking, creative folks at Scholastic and television writers for managing to really bring out the wonder and excitement out of science -- a subject so many kids too often dismiss as tedious. Awesome video!! :)
Barney, Magic School Bus, and VeggieTales are my big three growing up!! Honorable mention to Jay Jay The Jet Plane, That’s So Raven, and Cyberchase
Oh yeah I remember this show, good memories. Plus Arnold is voiced by the same guy who did Jimmy from GTA 5.
I miss that show. Fun times as a kid.
I definitely remember this show, due to elementary school!
I grew up with the original Magic School Bus books, and still have them today. When the cartoon came out, our family was living in a small town in Alaska where we didn’t get any TV channels that carried it. So our grandparents in California would tape a bunch of episodes and mail us the videocassettes. I still have those as well. The local library did have the old Magic School Bus computer games, and I spent hours with those. My younger brother has four kids, and I bought them the DVD box set so the tradition can continue.
I also definitely had some Ms. Frizzle-like teachers. One in particular actually had crazy red hair, in fact. She was very much about hands-on science learning. We made life-sized anatomy models, built and launched model rockets, made clouds in the classroom, and at one point she even arranged to have a helicopter come land in the playground so we could check it out in person. I really struggled with ADD as a kid, and at this point in time (and especially for a tiny church school in Alaska) it wasn’t very well-understood or taken into account. She worked super hard to keep me engaged and accountable, and mostly succeeded.
Man you guys were lucky. I never got to see this in my school. The only time they'd wheel the TV in is if we were going to be watching Bill Nye or that nature documentary that started with that camera flying through a museum with some drum and flute like music.
You mean Eyewitness? I`d take that over this and Bill Nye any day! :)
I love vibe of educational media from the late 90s and early 00s. Magic school bus, Bill Nye, Eye Witness. *Utopian Scholastic* is also such a comfy aesthetic.
I remember watching this series in my youth and reading the books. Good times.
I literally was just thinking about this show today, and then you put out this! The modern age is really missing good edutainment shows like this and Wishbone.
The great grandma gave me a few of the books, and they hold a special place in my heart!
I went to elementary school in the 90s and I LOVED the magic school bus! I had the books, I loved the show, it was one of my favorites as a kid. There were so many great things about this show and I think it's thanks to the books/the show that I have such a huge curiosity about the world to this day. I love learning new things!
We all wanted Ms Frizzle as a teacher growing up, I always kept hoping I’d get her!
My favorite show as a kid. Now I’m a 34yr old Combat vet with ptsd so I highly appreciate this vid
Fun Fact: The actor of Arnold is the same person who plays as Jimmy De Santa from GTA 5.
You mean danny tamberelli
I always remember watching The Magic School Bus when I was in elementary school for the most part. One of my earliest memories was it was shown in the library in the first elementary school I went to in kindergarten around near the holiday season of 2009, and that we saw the Holiday Special.
There were other shows that I also remembered watching: Wilbur, Peep and the Big Wide World and Liberty's Kids. It was great to be edu-tained with most of those programs to help us with subjects like reading, science and history.
This was a series I shared with my daughter when she was younger. We loved watching "bus."
the magic school bus is impo the best edu-tainment show of its time. theres shows that i watched as a kid and look back on fondly, but magic school bus by far has the best memories for me. i think whats special about it is, while watching it you very forget its educational, once they get out on a "field trip" its so entertaining and well done that you kinda forget its trying to make you learn stuff but your brains still taking it in. like i genuinely feel the magic school bus was why i was so into science and learning as a kid, but as i grew up and got forced more and more into that "typical" style of learning where even finding fun educational youtube videos on class topics was seen as bad by teachers i lost that joy.
I LOVE the Magic School Bus! I have many good memories of watching it at my grandparents house when I was younger. This show along with Bill Nye made learning fun! When I was a kid, I wanted to go on Miss Frizzle’s field trips and I still do! This show brings back good memories. :D
I grew up with this show. I remember going to my local library and renting the episodes on DVD. It brings me back so many memories. Thanks for giving me nostalgia.
I use to go to the library as a kid to rent the vhs with 5 episode's. Definitely rented it for the haunted mansion episode that taught sound 😍
This was part of my childhood. Nostalgia :)
The original show got you invested into the characters and the story like an normal anime. Growing enough interest to buy the books/merch. The balance of Edu-tainment was perfect on this show. The creativity and the artwork/animation blended really well and not over the top - which the netflix series kinda lacks
Even as a kid, I always thought that Wanda, Arnold, and Phoebe had a love triangle going on...
I always woke up early just so I could watch a episode whenever it aired on PBS Kids, the opening theme of the original series was always a bop.
I also had the PC games with topics such as Animals, the Ocean, and Dinosaurs.
I always feel nostalgic whenever I’m thinking about this educational franchise. 🥰
“Take chances, make mistakes and get messy.” Was my senior quote lmao
I grew up watching the magic school bus and bill Nye the Science guy and they influenced me a lot growing up.
I loved showing my kids the magic school bus! A while back they had both the old and new series on Netflix and the kids and I loved watching them together
Watching the Magic School Bus was one of my absolute favorites as a 90's kid. Love seeing you cover it!
this show was a huge part of my childhood since 2011 and has been my longest running special interest since 2014-ish 😭 like i have every line of almost every episode of the 90s series, the reboot, and the four specials memorized 😭
Having grew up with reruns of the show back on Fox Kids, I very much was a big fan of the show: bought the books, owned a few DVDs of the show long after it stopped airing, and had some of the PC games that I recalled playing to death until the discs worn out (RIP). While I did watch Bill Nye as well, MSB was always my childhood jam and got me to develop my interest in science early on. For that, this show is one of the few PBS shows that remains close to my heart to this day.
Fun fact also, the entire series was given a full DVD release back in 2014, 20 yrs after it's initial airing, as not every episode was available on a video release prior to it
I hated science class, but I credit Magic School Bus, Bill Nye, and Schoolhouse Rock for being able to teach those concepts that I really didn't care about or understand. Speaking of Schoolhouse Rock... Jordan, I would LOVE it if you covered those Schoolhouse Rock shorts. I know I'm not the only one who got their grade saved from those catchy songs.
As a kid obsessed with snakes, lizards, alligators, and, dinosaurs, I adored the show. The show was huge inspiration for me going into the field of wildlife. A few years ago, I even got to live out my dream. I traveled to Australia and tagged along with the Australian Zoo (Yes Steve Irwin’s Zoo) for 10 days to catch saltwater crocodiles. I got to help Robert and Terri Irwin put satellite tracking tags on saltwater crocodiles alongside the University of Queensland. Now, I remove snakes from film sets for a living.
Please do a Cyber Chase episode real soon! It will forever be one of my favorite edu-tainment cartoons! I love Magic School Bus too! I love all the interview segments at the end of each episode, and Carlos and Dorthy Ann are on my OTP list. Great show! Always fun to revisit!
This was my absolute FAVORITE show as a kid. I watched it all the time on VHS as a kid and I still watch a few episodes maybe once or twice a year. Every time I revisit the show, I’m reminded just how well-crafted it is. I love how incredibly creative the staff was! There are still several scientific facts I remember from it (and not from school hahaha 😆)
I can probably point to this show as the main source for my passion of science and tech, it was so good! I'm glad this got picked up and dubbed over to Romania too :)
Used to watch this every morning before School in the early 2000s. Good times
We miss you Joanna Cole 😞🌹you're a great author thank you for everything🚌
When I was an ESL teacher in Taiwan, I got my students ADDICTED to this show, even the classes where the students had very limited English. That shows how well the messages were shown. One class in particular would chant “school bus, school bus” not gonna lie, I caved in a few times with that class because I lowkey wanted to watch it too 😅 It was very nostalgic
As a homeschooled kid, I read and watched all the time! It helped me learn alot easier with things like pollination and precipitation ect.
Wow, core memory unlocked! I use to have that book! I would read it over and over, pretty sure before I could read but I would imagine experiencing everything with the students.😂 Thanks for reminding me my guy. I'm 40 now, getting old sucks 😢
Thanks for covering the only episode I remember, the SPACE EPISODE!!! When the dude took his helmet off that scared me as a kid! But also I wanted to be an Astronaut as a kid and loved Space and the planets!
Magic School Bus was my favorite tv series back in the day. I still refer to episodes to remember science concepts as and adult today.
Ah memories. My science teacher in elementary always played an episode of the magic school bus
I love the magic School bus so much as a kid that I introduced my kids to it. And to keep their interest in science shows i looked for more and discovered scishow kids and sid the science kid. My oldest loved it so much she decided to test the experiments on herself after watching the episodes. And now her fifth grade teacher is highly impressed with how good with science she is
Yes . Loved it. Watched it when I was home from school ,sick. I'm 41 now
My family had four MSB episodes on VHS tapes, all the interactive CD-ROM games for my family's Windows 98 computer, I frequently pulled out the picture books, and later chapter books, from my school's library, and I knew Little Richard's theme song off by heart by the age of eight... yeah, I kind of remember it... LOL. To this day, I attribute SOME of my scientific interest to Ms. Frizzle, mainly my desire to work in the field more than in an office.
The new remake of the show is just as awesome (and updated with modernized technology). As an 8th grade teacher, the content is often skewed a little too young for my class (aimed at elementary schools). But I have two little kids of my own (2 and 5) who LOVE IT.
I'm glad I was able to grow up with the Bus, and my girls can too.
I love this show! I hope all the kids of today find the new one just as awesome as the old one I grew up with.
I remember watching "The Magic School Bus." I had the PC games, and the books. :)
That was my favorite show and still is to this day at 35 , i may be an adult but I'll always watch the cartoons that i grew up with 😁
The magic school bus explores the solar system was such a fun game to play
The Magic School Bus was influential in my formative years. I dedicated my introduction of my personal statement for a Biology graduate program. Because of Ms. Frizzle and Bill Nye the Science Guy, my love for science flourished. Now I’m a clinical researcher 👩🏻🔬 ❤
Love the magic school bus and Bill Nye growing up through elemantry/middle school, my favorite episodes of the series were, the digestion system, muscles and joints and how volcano's are made. Miss Frizzle the best at what she does 😅
I love this show so much as a kid, I definitely remember the science teacher letting us watch half the episode if we finished our class assignment early. It really played an important role in getting me interested in wildlife (which I had little exposure to since I live in a hypermetropolis), and I would just go to the library and read any book I could find about those animals. When our school decided to be early adopters of computers, we used to play the rainforest point and click episode of MSB, Amazon Trail, and Odell Down Under, so I just loved the idea of going to the tropics and learning more about wildlife and doing conservation. I am happy to report that is my job now as a research biologist and I do get to do these things all the time now!
I did watch the new series and the biggest issues I had with it were: 1) the flat animation style they now use and 2) the kids are not very distinct enough from one another. I understand the new style is probably cheaper to produce but the more limited movement they are using really reduces some of the original whimsicality of the Bus and it makes the landscape that the characters occupy feel less complete and real. The voice acting from Kate McKinnon is fine, but I think they needed to get more experienced actors to play the kids because they sound do not emote enough to be unique characters who are impacted specifically by that day's field trip in some way and give them some character development too. It made the kids seem flat as characters and it focuses the series too much then on Ms. Frizzle, and I think that is just working against the purpose of the show in terms of drawing kids in. I get that they casted real kids for this, but they just do not have enough experience to make these characters pop in the same way the old show did so the show fell rather flat to me.
I loved Magic School Bus as a kid. It's crazy it's now 30 yrs old.
I remember my elementary school use to show this in the auditorium near the end of the school year
I loved this show so much! In elementary school did anyone else ever have a science teacher who let the class watch this when she didn’t feel like teaching for the day or when you had a substitute?
I watched Bill Nye in school. The Magic School Bus was for weekday afternoons and Saturday mornings
Same here. We lived in Alaska and only got a couple iffy broadcast channels. So our grandparents would record episodes of Magic School Bus, Shining Time Station, etc. and mail us the videotapes as presents.
As a parent and former educator the magic school bus rides again was perfect. It hit every note it needed to there was 0 need for it to not have more episodes. Its just as fun and informative with updated information and technology.
One of my favourite shows as a kid!
Core memory of my entire 3rd grade class loudly singing along with the theme song every time we watched an episode. Same with Bill Nye the science guy🤍
I remember reading the first book when it came out. I was in 1st or 2nd grade. It was a lot of fun and even though I was a teenager when the show came out, I still loved kids shows and so I watched it. It thought it was a fantastic show, that really got the feeling right. Years later I'd see several episodes of the show Hey Duggee where they'd go into space, follow the water cycle (right down to becoming raindrops) or go inside the cat to find out why she was making that noise (it was a hairball) and my first thought was Magic School Bus. It's the goto though for magic science adventures.
1:30. OMG YES! ME TOO.
In the 5th grade I was given a bad mark for "daydreaming" and not paying attention... but my mom quickly pointed out to the teachers... yeah but he also has straight As... so...
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Magic School bus is great and how you described it, education with escapism, that's exactly what made me love it.❤
The episode that stood out to me for most of my life was their exploration into sounds.
Only because of how they animated the sound waves.
I remember this show, it billnye, and reading rainbow were often played in my classroom at least once a week. always enjoyed them.I also remember the cd-rom games it had and the books too was always happy when they let us watch this series.
Same here. For me, they’d play Magic School Bus, Bill Nye, Grossology or Kenny the Shark.