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Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]Riding on the Magic School Bus.

[00:00:11]I don't know about you, Phoebe, but I can't stand vacations. Why not? I mean, how can you not like vacations? Cuz they always end. That's why.

[00:00:21]>> [laughter] [screaming] >> That sounds like Keesha.

[00:00:26]I've been robbed!

[00:00:28]Somebody stole my cucumber!

[00:00:31]Why would anyone steal a cucumber?

[00:00:33]>> Especially my cucumber!

[00:00:35]I loved my cucumber! I grew it from a teeny weeny seed. It was a champion!

[00:00:43]At least whoever took it left you a tasty-looking pickle. I mean, look at my carrot. Not even a starving rabbit would eat it now. And my tomato [music] doesn't even look like a tomato anymore.

[00:00:54]It would've been better off stolen. I don't understand. How could things so good turn so bad over one little vacation? In the famous words of Miss Frizzle, "Time waits for new vegetables." Huh? Let's face it. Our county fair has turned into the city dump.

[00:01:12]Hey, give me five, guys. The kid's back.

[00:01:16]>> Hi, Ralphie.

[00:01:17]Hey, how you doing, Ralphie? Woah, Arnold. I haven't seen anything that gross since my baseball glove got rained on and [music] run over by the garbage truck. In case you forgot, Ralphie, my tomato did win third place. With the way that tomato looks now, my glove could have come in second. Hey, nice pickle, Keesha. Wait a minute. Hold it. Doesn't anybody care that somebody stole my cucumber? Stole it? Who'd ever do such a thing? You like cucumbers, don't you, Ralphie? Like them? I love them.

[00:01:53]Hey, hold it a second. You're not trying to say I stole your cucumber, are you?

[00:02:00]Good morning, class.

[00:02:02]Um, isn't it awfully early to be eating a pickle, Ms. Frizzle?

[00:02:06]>> Oh, it's never too early for a pickle, unless it's a cucumber.

[00:02:12]Speaking of cucumbers, Ms. Frizzle, mine was stolen while we were on vacation. We must have had a thief in here.

[00:02:19]Is this what you're looking for, Keesha?

[00:02:22]This isn't my cucumber, Ms. Frizzle.

[00:02:24]It's a pickle.

[00:02:30]And it's almost ready to eat.

[00:02:32]Woah, there's a ton of pickles in here.

[00:02:35]You caught me, Ralphie.

[00:02:37]Oh, I have a private and powerful passion for pickles.

[00:02:43]Something smells funny here. Your nose knows, Keesha.

[00:02:50]It's the salty brine the pickles have pickled in. I'm talking about my prized cucumber, Ms. Frizzle. And all I know is the door to this classroom was locked during vacation.

[00:03:03]And you had the key.

[00:03:07]Keesha, are you suggesting that that Ms. Frizzle, that our beloved teacher, that she well, she could have done something with my cucumber. Oh, you're right, Keesha.

[00:03:21]I admit it. Ms. Frizzle! I admit that thanks to me, your cucumber is gone, but it isn't missing.

[00:03:30]How can something be gone but not missing? You see, Keesha, this pickle used to be your cucumber.

[00:03:39]Isn't that amazing? Not amazing and not possible. This does not look like my cucumber.

[00:03:46]It doesn't smell like my cucumber.

[00:03:50]And I'm sure it doesn't taste like my cucumber. Stop! You're destroying the evidence. What evidence? This isn't a trial. Maybe it is. My point exactly.

[00:04:02]If Keisha eats this pickle, then Ms. Frizzle can't prove it's Keisha's cucumber.

[00:04:08]Right, Ms. Frizzle? Sounds right to me, Arnold. I hate to do this, Ms. Frizzle, but I have to ask you some tough questions. Oh, how exciting! As I always say, one tough question deserves another.

[00:04:21]>> Wait!

[00:04:22]You don't have to answer anything, Ms. Frizzle.

[00:04:25]>> [music] >> You have the right to remain silent. You even have the right to dismiss this class.

[00:04:30]Why would I want to do that, Arnold?

[00:04:33]I've never been on trial before.

[00:04:36]Let the trial begin.

[00:04:46]Court is now in session. The case of the missing cucumber, Keisha versus Ms. [music] Frizzle.

[00:04:54]The honorable Judge Liz Art presiding.

[00:04:56]Yours truly speaking on behalf of the court. Keisha, do you have an opening statement? I do. I intend to prove that Ms. Frizzle not only took my prize-winning cucumber, but also that she did not turn it into a pickle. Oh, bravo, Keisha. I intend to prove the same thing. It's so nice when everyone's on the same side. Ms. Frizzle!

[00:05:21]Sit down, Arnold. Kids of the jury, this is a pickle.

[00:05:25]This is a cucumber. Not as big as my cucumber, mind you, but still a cucumber.

[00:05:31]>> I OBJECT!

[00:05:35]WHAT NOW, ARNOLD? You know that's a cucumber. Okay, I take it back. Ms. Frizzle is asking us to believe that a pickle and a cucumber are the same thing. Now I ask you, do these look the same to you? I don't think so. Does the defense have anything to say in defense?

[00:05:54]Yes, we do. We will prove that no crime was committed and Ms. Frizzle is innocent of all charges. Right, Ms. Frizzle? As I already said, Arnold, I did take Keesha's cucumber, but I did not change it into a pickle. But, I know who did.

[00:06:12]You do? They were members of a gang. A small-time gang with big ideas. A tiny, troublesome crowd of two-bit [music] thieves known as the Microbe Gang.

[00:06:24]And even though they hang around a lot of different places, they're extremely hard to find. Is that because they're always on the run? No, it's because they're invisible. Invisible? I think the Friz is losing it. Order! Order in the court!

[00:06:41]Objection! Ms. Frizzle is not losing it.

[00:06:44]There's a perfectly logical explanation.

[00:06:47]Tell them, Ms. Frizzle.

[00:06:49]Tell them the gang is invisible because they wear disguises.

[00:06:53]Right?

[00:06:54]Oh, no. They're invisible because they're too small to be seen with the naked eye. Yet, every second of every day, they're busy changing the very world we live in. Ms. Frizzle, you're not making this very easy. I agree. How can Ms. Frizzle expect us to believe that my cucumber was turned into a pickle by a gang of thieves we can't even see? Keesha has a point, Arnold.

[00:07:18]How can you prove that? Oh, Arnold.

[00:07:24]We're taking the court on a field trip.

[00:07:28]A field trip? What am I saying? It's the only way, Arnold. If you say so, Ms. Frizzle.

[00:07:36]Everyone to the bus!

[00:07:42]Kids of the jury, this field trip will prove [music] to you that Ms. Frizzle is telling the truth. It will show you that the members of the Mike Robe Gang really exist. You will see with your own eyes that they have the ability to turn a cucumber into a pickle.

[00:07:59]I object. There shouldn't be any applauding until after we see this invisible gang, if they exist, which I doubt.

[00:08:07]I mean, come on. How can you see something if it's invisible?

[00:08:11]>> As Sherlock Gurkin once said, "Cucumber thieves always return to the scene of the brine."

[00:08:18]>> [laughter] >> Buckle up, everyone.

[00:08:21]Bus, do your stuff.

[00:08:28]>> [music] >> Whee!

[00:08:34]Whee-hee!

[00:08:45]Wow. This is really weird. Nothing like a little shrinking to get you thinking.

[00:08:51]Hey, what's that?

[00:08:52]>> That's my comb, the one I'd lost last week. Yeah, but last week you were bigger than your comb.

[00:08:59]>> [laughter] >> Now your comb's bigger than all of us.

[00:09:02]Excuse me, Ms. Frizzle, but does this really count as a field trip? I mean, we haven't gone anywhere. Technically, we're still in our classroom. Here's the button to my favorite blouse. Oh, I knew I'd find it. That's it. We're inside the lost and found box. Hey, look at this. I never knew Lincoln was inside this building. How you doing, Abe?

[00:09:25]Woah!

[00:09:28]Got it.

[00:09:29]Lift.

[00:09:32]Thanks. Good thing it wasn't a quarter.

[00:09:35]Okay. Okay, so we're really small. What does that prove? It proves that when you're small, you can see things you never saw before. Like this spider mite.

[00:09:45]No way. I saw one of those before we got small. Though I have to admit, it didn't look so big. Yeah? Well, I bet you never saw one of these before.

[00:09:56]Could she, Ms. Frizzle? Oh, not likely, Arnold. It's much too tiny.

[00:10:02]And it's alive!

[00:10:04]It's a kind of yeast called ascomycete.

[00:10:07]Yeast? What's yeast doing here?

[00:10:10]Ascomycete grow nearly everywhere. Cool.

[00:10:13]But I'd rather find one on your seat than my seat.

[00:10:17]>> [laughter] >> Carlos! I don't care whose seat it's on.

[00:10:21]If it's so tiny [music] you can only see it when you're tiny, that makes it an invisible member of microbe's gang, just like Ms. Frizzle said. I rest my case.

[00:10:32]Not so fast, Arnold. Just because there are tiny little creatures here doesn't mean they're everywhere. And it doesn't mean that they turned my cucumber into a pickle. Okay, Keesha. You want more proof? More evidence? Pick a place, any place. I'll show you more invisible creatures. I hope. Fine. Let's go to the vegetable [music] garden.

[00:10:58]>> [screaming] >> HEY, LIZ! WE'RE UP HERE! She can't see us. She could if she knew where to look.

[00:11:12]I changed my mind. I want to land on Liz. I object! You said you wanted to go to the vegetable garden. Oh, not to worry, Arnold. No matter where we go, day or night, night or day, the microbe gang will have its say. Liz it is.

[00:11:34]I don't see any creepy crawly creatures.

[00:11:37]I do.

[00:11:38]Aha! Another member of the microbe gang.

[00:11:41]Right, Ms. Frizzle? Right on, Arnold.

[00:11:44]Oh, no! I think Liz thinks WE'RE ONE OF THEM.

[00:11:48]>> [screaming] >> I REALLY HATE IT WHEN WE LAND upside down.

[00:11:55]Where are we now? I hope we're not back in the water cycle.

[00:12:00]Unless I'm mistaken, we're inside THE HAMSTER'S WATER BOWL.

[00:12:07]And Liz still can't find us.

[00:12:09]>> I object. What now, Arnold? I object to being the smallest defense attorney in history. I object to where we are. Look!

[00:12:19]I think we landed in the middle of a feeding frenzy.

[00:12:23]What are they? Well, the fat, juicy ones are amoeba, and the ones that look like hairy hot dogs are paramecium. Looks like the underwater wrestling association to me. Actually, Ralphie, they are more members of THE MICROBE GANG.

[00:12:39]>> [screaming] >> WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!

[00:12:42]GOSH, I never knew things like these existed.

[00:12:45]>> But now you do. And not only that, they're everywhere. Case closed. Well done, Arnold. Objection.

[00:12:54]Our hamster drinks this water, right?

[00:12:56]So, how can this invisible gang change my cucumber into a pickle if our hamster's still a hamster? Huh? Explain that. Well, uh uh it seems to me, um Okay. You want change? I'll show you change. There! My tomato. Something is definitely going on there. I don't know about you guys, but I hope our hamster isn't >> [screaming] >> My tomato, Ms. Frizzle, and hurry.

[00:13:29]Here we go.

[00:13:40]>> [music] >> We're going to crash.

[00:13:45]Smooth landing, Ms. Frizzle.

[00:13:48]It stinks here. I'd [music] rather be on Wanda's carrot. Hear that, Keesha? I told you something was going on. Sorry, Arnold. Smelly and gushy isn't enough.

[00:14:00]>> [snorts] >> I don't see anything here to change my mind but a rotten tomato. Um maybe maybe we need to shrink some more.

[00:14:10]Can't believe I said that. As my great aunt Chameleon used to say, there's nothing as constant as change.

[00:14:18]No sooner shrunk than sunk.

[00:14:33]Yuck. Hard to believe anything would want to hang out here. Only one way to find out.

[00:14:39]And that is to get messy.

[00:14:44]Into your anti-fungus suits, everyone.

[00:14:47]I knew I should have stayed home today.

[00:14:51]Wow. Cool. Look.

[00:14:54]More members of the micro gang. They're everywhere.

[00:15:00]It looks like they're attacking Arnold's tomato.

[00:15:04]We're surrounded. Oh, relax, Arnold.

[00:15:07]They're funguses, and they are only doing what comes naturally. You mean they're supposed to destroy the tomato?

[00:15:13]Hey, even a fungus has to eat. Wow.

[00:15:17]Cool.

[00:15:17]>> Hey, watch it.

[00:15:19]What if they eat us next? Then Ms. will need a new defense attorney.

[00:15:25]If we were big, couldn't we see this stuff happening through a magnified glass? Only a very powerful one, Phoebe.

[00:15:32]You mean like the mega magnifier?

[00:15:36]>> [music] >> Your point is a juicy one, Ms. Frizzle.

[00:15:54]But even though I've seen that microbes gangsters are everywhere, and that they can make things change, you still haven't proven that they turned my cucumber into a pickle. I object.

[00:16:07]Just in case that calls for another shrink.

[00:16:09]>> That won't be necessary, Arnold.

[00:16:15]Uh-oh.

[00:16:16]Is it just me, or are we having a tomato?

[00:16:21]>> [screaming] [screaming] [music] >> Incredible.

[00:16:39]We're inside Ms. Frizzle's pickle jar.

[00:16:42]This is it, Keesha.

[00:16:45]This is where it all happened. You mean we're actually at the scene of the crime? Follow me.

[00:16:53]I object.

[00:16:55]It's too late to object, ARNOLD. LOOK OUT.

[00:17:03]IT sure is crowded in here.

[00:17:06]The tomato fungus is still among us.

[00:17:08]They're everywhere. All right you are, Wanda. Everywhere and anywhere.

[00:17:18]Yuck. What's going on here? More destruction. First, the funguses ate the tomato. Now, they're trying to eat the pickle.

[00:17:29]Looks to me like they've got some competition for those little squirty things. The little squirty things are a kind of bacteria, and they are actually protecting the pickle.

[00:17:40]Woah! Look at those pickle protectors work. Wipeout! The funguses are history.

[00:17:50]Pickle juice. I hate pickle juice. So do the funguses.

[00:18:10]CUCUMBER ALERT! LOOK OUT!

[00:18:16]WOAH, CHECK IT OUT! NOW, THE PICKLE BACTERIA ARE ATTACKING THE CUCUMBER.

[00:18:20]What's happening? I thought the picklers were the good guys. They are, Keisha.

[00:18:24]They're not destroying the cucumber.

[00:18:26]They're saving it. So, if it weren't for the pickle bacteria, the same rotten thing that happened to the tomato would happen to this cucumber. Yeah! Total annihilation!

[00:18:40]I get it! The funguses rot things by eating them, and the pickle bacteria stop things from rotting by getting rid of the funguses. Only one problem. The pickle bacteria is turning the cuc into a pickle. Oh, not a problem, Ralphie.

[00:18:55]That's preservation. A pickle lasts a lot longer than a cucumber. Don't tell me the pickle bacteria are gang members, too. That they are, Keisha. They may be small, but they make big changes. And all those tiny living things we've just seen are called microbes. Did you say microbes? As in microscopic?

[00:19:17]So tiny that you need a microscope to see them? So tiny that they're invisible? Just like us.

[00:19:24]Tiny, invisible, microscopic.

[00:19:29]Yes! Kids of the jury, you've seen with your own eyes that all around us is an invisible world of microbes. A world that includes amoebas, parameciums, ascomycetes, funguses, and yes, pickle bacteria!

[00:19:49]And each and every one of these microbes is a member in good standing of THE MICROBE GANG.

[00:19:57]Isn't that right, Ms. Frizzle? I wouldn't change a thing, Arnold. But microbes do. They make big changes, like turning a cucumber into a pickle. So, kids of the jury, it's very clear that Ms. Frizzle did not, I repeat, did not turn Keesha's cucumber into a pickle.

[00:20:15]AND WHO DID? THE MICROBES DID!

[00:20:19]SO, THAT PICKLE is really my cucumber?

[00:20:22]It is, indeed, Keesha.

[00:20:26]I rest my case.

[00:20:31]Hey, anybody seen the bus? Looks like the bus is in a real pickle.

[00:20:41]Members of the jury, have you reached a verdict? We, the jury, find Ms. Frizzle innocent of ALL CHARGES. YAY!

[00:20:49]>> [screaming] >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU. Thank you. And thank you, Ms. [music] Frizzle. If you hadn't put my cucumber into the brine before we left on vacation, it would have rotted just like Arnold's tomato and Wanda's carrot. You're a hero.

[00:21:07]Well, as you saw, Keisha, I did have a little help preserving your cucumber and turning it into a prize pickle.

[00:21:16]Well, as my great uncle Barnard used to say, cucumbers come and cucumbers go, but pickles go on forever.

[00:21:25]>> [laughter] >> Case dismissed.

[00:21:42]Is this the Magic School Bus?

[00:22:07]Magic [music] School Bus, producer speaking. Hi, I just watched your show on microbes. I have a couple of questions. Are they little questions?

[00:22:16]>> [laughter] >> No, but I'll be short.

[00:22:20]Okay, okay, you win. What's your question? First of all, since people can't really shrink, how can anyone [music] get close enough to a microbe to see what it looks like? The only way is through a microscope, which makes things appear hundreds and thousands of times bigger than they really are. Take water, for example. Under a microscope, [music] you can see all sorts of things in water you didn't know were there. Like what?

[00:22:43]Well, you might see Treculamona, Spirogyra, Fragilaria, Anabaena, or even Sonora. So, a microbe is any tiny organism that you need a microscope to see, right?

[00:22:55]>> You got it. Well, how many microbes would you have to pile on top of each other before you could see them with your naked eye.

[00:23:02]Oh, millions. But when they do pile up like that, that's when you see them, like with mildew and mold. And what about germs? Those are microbes that can make you sick, right? That's true, but that doesn't mean all microbes are bad.

[00:23:16]In fact, most are harmless. We just called them crooks in the show to make it a mystery. Some microbes even help us out.

[00:23:23]>> like the ones that saved Keisha's cucumber? Exactly. Now, some microbes even make the holes in Swiss cheese.

[00:23:30]You're kidding. Nope. Others like bacteria change milk into yogurt and sour cream. And yeasts are microbes that help make breads and pizza dough. Cool.

[00:23:40]I love pizza.

[00:23:42]I like pizza, too. But I'm afraid you'll have to call back for your order. We have a small problem. Thanks for your questions.

[00:23:50]Oh, hey Liz. If you ever get [music] that down, I'll take one pizza to go.

[00:23:55]Cheese, tomato, some paramecium, a handful of lactobacters. Oh, and oh, yeah. Go easy on the fungus.

[00:24:17]I told them I'd have an idea for broadcast day.

[00:24:21]So, I'll have an idea for broadcast day.

[00:24:25]Why don't I have an idea for broadcast day?

[00:24:28]RALPHIE!

[00:24:31]GET UP, RALPHIE. You're going to be late for school. Oh, no.

[00:24:37]>> [laughter] >> Ralphie.

[00:24:39]What are you doing?

[00:24:41]Our class is broadcasting 2 hours of live television today, and I said I'd have a show for them to do. And I don't, yet.

[00:24:51]But I will.

[00:24:53]No, you won't. What? It's my opinion as your mother, and as a doctor that you have a fever which means you are sick which means you are going back to bed.

[00:25:03]But but Mom. No buts about it Ralphie.

[00:25:06]I'm sure your class can do broadcast day without you.

[00:25:12]We can't do it without him.

[00:25:15]And we go on in an hour.

[00:25:18]Where is he?

[00:25:24]I'll get it.

[00:25:33]I was wondering where you got to.

[00:25:37]Hello. Yes, Dr. Tenelli. Dr. Tenelli, that's Ralphie's mom. Uh-huh, yes, I see. Uh-huh, uh-huh. Yes, he's sick. Oh, poor Ralphie.

[00:25:52]Why aren't I surprised?

[00:25:54]Of course, he must stay in bed. What? In bed? What about broadcast day? Yes, Dr. Tenelli. [music] Thank you for calling.

[00:26:05]Bye-bye. Is Ralphie staying home from school today, Ms. Frizzle? Yes, I'm afraid so, Arnold. What are we going to do? What are we going to do? What are we going to do? Why, we're taking school to him, of course. To the bus.

[00:26:21]Are we doing broadcast day from Ralphie's room, Ms. [music] Frizzle?

[00:26:25]What better place to take chances, make mistakes.

[00:26:29]>> And it sure is messy. Ms. Frizzle, are you sure this visit isn't a field trip?

[00:26:36]What do you think, Arnold?

[00:26:44]I think Ralphie shouldn't have stayed home today.

[00:26:49]How can anything that smells like grape shoe polish HELP MY BODY GET WELL.

[00:26:54]It will if you take 1 tsp three times a day.

[00:26:58]And don't forget to shake well before using.

[00:27:01]Like this?

[00:27:03]Even your jokes are sick.

[00:27:05]Open.

[00:27:07]No.

[00:27:08]Oh boy, I feel great. Mom, you are a miracle doctor. Can I go to school now?

[00:27:13]Forget it, Ralphie.

[00:27:15]I've got to go see another patient, but Grandpa's downstairs if you need anything. I'll check in later.

[00:27:25]If I get an idea, I'll still have time to phone it in.

[00:27:30]That's it. A phone-in.

[00:27:34]Huh?

[00:27:36]Hi, we're here.

[00:27:39]Hello. [screaming] Ralphie, we're here. I must be hallucinating.

[00:27:46]Maybe I'm sicker than I thought.

[00:27:49]Hi, RALPHIE.

[00:27:52]HOW YOU DOING?

[00:27:54]GEE. YOU look terrible. Don't worry.

[00:27:57]I'll have you camera-ready in no time.

[00:28:02]Is it just me, or is my entire class standing in my room? Aren't you glad to see us?

[00:28:09]We came to do broadcasting.

[00:28:11]Really? What a great idea.

[00:28:14]Now and then I do have them, Ralphie.

[00:28:17]Speaking of great ideas, what's yours, Ralphie? Mine? Oh, you mean for broadcast day?

[00:28:27]Oh, you'd better take it easy, Ralphie.

[00:28:29]Your body is telling you to slow down.

[00:28:33]>> But, Ms. Frizzle, I can't. We have a show to do. What does my body know anyway? Oh, it knows a lot about the detection and rejection, Ralphie.

[00:28:43]Whoa. Inside you this moment, There is action, excitement, adventure. Exactly what we need for our show.

[00:28:53]So, what's your idea, Ralphie? Uh, well, uh >> [cough] >> Oh, what's going on with my body, anyway?

[00:29:03]That's an excellent question, Ralphie.

[00:29:06]Class, everyone back to the bus. Huh?

[00:29:10]But, Ms. Frizzle, we just got here.

[00:29:14]Mhm. Single file, please.

[00:29:16]>> Wait.

[00:29:17]Where are you going?

[00:29:18]You can't go on a field trip now.

[00:29:22]And I can't do Broadcast Day all by myself.

[00:29:26]>> [cough] >> I'm sick.

[00:29:38]Wait a minute.

[00:29:40]What's [music] going on?

[00:29:43]Oh, IT WAS YOUR IDEA, RALPHIE. WE'RE HERE TO GET the inside story. Inside story? Inside what? What about Broadcast Day?

[00:29:55]Think, Ralphie. Where is all the action right now? The action? LIZ, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? HANG ON A SECOND.

[00:30:05]The action is all inside me. What a great idea.

[00:30:10]Broadcast Day could be about what's going on inside me. Excellent, Ralphie.

[00:30:17]Roll tape. This is FNN.

[00:30:21]Good afternoon. I'm Ralphie, and this is the Frizzle News Network. Welcome to our live on-the-scene coverage of a natural disaster of major proportions. My poor sick body.

[00:30:34]Over to you, Keesha. Thanks, Ralphie.

[00:30:37]One disturbing question remains unanswered at this hour. What's making Ralphie sick? The FNN team hopes to find out. And to do that, they will go straight to the trouble zone, my sore throat. Seat belts, everyone. Ralphie, say "Ah."

[00:30:53]Ah.

[00:30:56]>> [screaming] >> Cool. I've never seen that from the outside before.

[00:31:08]The FNN news team is [music] nearing the disaster area.

[00:31:12]In a moment, we will have live footage.

[00:31:15]SEE ANYTHING YET?

[00:31:17]WOW.

[00:31:18]>> [screaming] >> AH, GET A SHOT OF THOSE VOCAL CORDS, CLASS. Look how red and swollen his throat is. No wonder it hurts. The question is, why is it red and swollen?

[00:31:32]AND WHY DOES IT HURT?

[00:31:35]WOW.

[00:31:40]>> [cheering] [cheering] [screaming] >> HEY, WHERE'D THEY GO? Where's the bus?

[00:31:55]Huh?

[00:31:58]>> [music] >> Ralphie, did you have to cough? Sorry.

[00:32:03]>> [laughter] >> I couldn't help it. At this rate, we'll never get the inside story of what's making Ralphie sick. We've got to find another way in. Mhm. It's not as easy for us or germs to get inside the body as you might think. Yeah, skin pretty much covers it. How are you going to get the inside story if you can't get inside?

[00:32:25]Wait a second. I've got it.

[00:32:33]Look at this. Is it Is it me or does this say this way in? It's a shortcut.

[00:32:40]Get it? Shortcut.

[00:32:41]>> Carlos, yuck. Excellent observation, Carlos. SEAT BELTS, EVERYONE.

[00:32:53]WOW.

[00:32:55]YOU SAW IT first on FNN News. Hey, you guys. The whole world wants to know. Now that you found a way in, how are you going to get to my throat? Ralphie's right. We're all the way down at the knee. Hmm, let's see if I can put you in the picture.

[00:33:13]As I always say, for every trip there's a road map. That's Ralphie's bloodstream.

[00:33:20]Could we travel through his bloodstream to get to his throat? Absolutely, Dorothy Ann. We'll take the trans-Ralphie highway system. And here we go.

[00:33:37]>> [music] >> This is Ralphie for FNN News. My entire class has just dived deep into my cut, and it doesn't even hurt.

[00:33:51]What are those? Those are tiny, tiny blood vessels. They're all part of the bloodstream. Eenie, meenie, miny, moe.

[00:34:12]Head north, Ms. Frizzle. Yeehaw!

[00:34:14][screaming] Is that my blood?

[00:34:22]But I thought blood was red. That stuff is clear. That's right, Ralphie. The liquid part of the blood is clear. So, what are those things? Are they what make blood look red?

[00:34:36]Scintillating surmise, Raffi.

[00:34:38]>> According to my research, they're called red blood cells. And the white ones are white blood cells. But, what are those jaggedy things? Those are platelets.

[00:34:50]They help the body heal scrapes and cuts. But, we still don't know what's making me feel sick. And boy, do I feel sick. Raffi, I'm home.

[00:35:02]Who's there?

[00:35:08]Quick, hide, Liz.

[00:35:11]Hello, sweetheart.

[00:35:13]Feeling any better? Yes, fine, great.

[00:35:17]It, um, looks as if you've been busy. Just, uh, game I was playing. So, Mom, I think I'll get some sleep now. Hey, what's that you're watching? What, this?

[00:35:34]It's, um, nothing.

[00:35:37]Just, um, movie. You wouldn't like it.

[00:35:40]Oh, I don't know about that. It's remarkably realistic. Look, red blood cells. And those look exactly like white blood cells.

[00:35:51]Nah, are you kidding? Those are just cheap special effects. Look, you can even see the wires.

[00:35:58]We're here.

[00:36:00]We are? We're in Raffi's throat?

[00:36:02]>> There are a lot more white blood cells here. Where are they going?

[00:36:06]>> Looks like they're after something.

[00:36:08]Follow the white blood cells. Sorry, Raffi, what did you say?

[00:36:12]Me? Did I say something?

[00:36:15]Look, that truck thing is following the white blood cells through the blood vessel wall to the place where the infection is. Yes, they're getting the inside story.

[00:36:32]>> Ah, now that we're inside Ralphie's throat tissue, time for some on the spot reporting. Up close and personal.

[00:36:40]Keesha, Carlos, camera one.

[00:36:43]The trick here is not to make eye contact.

[00:36:48]Phoebe and uh Arnold, you take camera two.

[00:36:52]>> I'm the one who should have stayed home today. Way to go, guys. Take chances.

[00:36:57]Get messy. Get out there. Get the story.

[00:37:01]Just don't mention my name, okay?

[00:37:04]>> Ralphie, are you talking to yourself? N- Not exactly, Mom. And now, over to Keesha and Carlos, live from the throat.

[00:37:13]Ralphie, that little girl looks just like your friend Wanda. Who? Her? No, no, no.

[00:37:19]Wanda's much uh shorter. Carlos here.

[00:37:23]We're out here in the throat tissue trying to find out what's going on. And Hey!

[00:37:28]What's that?

[00:37:31]LOOK AT THAT, FOLKS.

[00:37:33]WOAH.

[00:37:36]HAVE WE GOT US SOME ACTION HERE. THOSE YELLOW-GREEN BALLS ARE destroying that wall.

[00:37:42]What are those green things?

[00:37:43]>> Those are bacterial cells. They're actually not unlike the bacteria that are making you sick. That's bacteria, and it's making me sick?

[00:37:52]This just in, folks. That's bacteria, and it's making Ralphie sick.

[00:37:57]And according to my research, bacteria are germs.

[00:38:02]Once inside our bodies, they can make us sick. Ralphie has a bacterial infection.

[00:38:08]This is it.

[00:38:09]The inside story. Bacteria invade throat. Is it just me, or did they say Ralphie? No, no. It says here this show's about a guy named Alfie. Ixnay on my amnay. The bacteria from Ralphie's throat infection ARE EVERYWHERE AND THEY'RE DESTROYING HIS throat cells.

[00:38:29]Look. Look.

[00:38:30]Here comes a white BLOOD CELL.

[00:38:33]WOAH.

[00:38:33]WOW.

[00:38:35]It's throwing stuff at the bacteria.

[00:38:42]That That was incredible. That white blood cell just ate those bacteria.

[00:38:49]That huge battle is going on inside me?

[00:38:53]I mean inside Alfie.

[00:38:57]This battle is raging. Who's going to win?

[00:39:00]No wonder I'm sick.

[00:39:02]>> Arnold here, on location with the infection. I'm going to try to get an exclusive interview with these two bacteria.

[00:39:12]I mean four bacteria.

[00:39:14]I mean eight bacteria. Hey guys, they're multiplying. Help.

[00:39:19]>> [screaming] >> Bad news, guys. The bacteria from the infection are multiplying faster than the white blood cells can gobble them up.

[00:39:29]We're losing.

[00:39:30]LET'S GET OUT OF HOW COULD MY BODY LOSE? RALPHIE, are you all right? I don't think you should be watching this. No. I mean >> [laughter] >> Please don't turn it off, Mom. I want to see how it ends. I'll tape it for us downstairs.

[00:39:54]But you don't understand.

[00:39:56]What I understand is that your body needs to save its strength so it can use its energy to battle those bacteria.

[00:40:02]You have to rest, sweetheart. It's not just me, Ralphie. Any good doctor knows the best cure is complete rest.

[00:40:14]Over to me, Dorthy Ann. Right now the white blood cells are losing.

[00:40:19]Certainly looks that way, Dorothy-Ann.

[00:40:22]They need help. They need backup support.

[00:40:26]Ralphie, did you hear me?

[00:40:28]Where's our backup support?

[00:40:31]B- backup support? Where do I get that? Not to worry, Ralphie. It's already on its way. Choose the medicine.

[00:40:40]Is that the medicine Mom gave me earlier? It sure is, Ralphie. Look what it's doing.

[00:40:51]It's destroying more bacteria. The medicine is giving the white blood cells [music] another chance.

[00:40:56]And they're throwing out even more of those stick things.

[00:41:00]Oh, those stick things are antibodies.

[00:41:03]The white blood cells use them to mark the bacteria.

[00:41:09]I hope this doesn't mean what I think it means. Oh, no.

[00:41:15]Ralphie's antibodies have marked the bus as bacteria.

[00:41:19]>> But we're not bacteria. We're Ralphie's friends. But his white blood cells are doing such a good job, they now recognize us as enemies, too. Enemies?

[00:41:30]But we know what white blood cells do to enemies. That's right, Arnold. They'll try to destroy us. Destroy us? Ah, the wonder of the human body. Ralphie, do something!

[00:41:48]Ralphie, you've got to help us!

[00:41:54]>> [screaming] >> Help us!

[00:42:09]Oh, don't worry, class. In order to destroy us, Ralphie's white blood cells will have to catch us first.

[00:42:27]>> [music] >> But we've got to get out of Ralphie's throat. Good thinking, Keesha. When the plot is tight, hang a right.

[00:42:52]Broadcasting the story. Where is everybody? Ms. Frizzle here with an update on the Ralphie story. To escape the white blood cells, we left Ralphie's throat and are now heading up his nasopharyngeal passages. The what?

[00:43:07]According to my research, that his nose? We're up Ralphie's nose?

[00:43:16]>> [screaming] >> That's inside of my nose?

[00:43:20]Weird.

[00:43:24]Bless you.

[00:43:26]Of course, there's no telling how long we'll have to stay here or how long we can stay here.

[00:43:32]Liz, I'm trying to think here.

[00:43:35]I get it. I've got to sneeze them out.

[00:43:38]But I don't feel like sneezing.

[00:43:51]Second floor, boy socks.

[00:43:54]Going up.

[00:43:58]Right. Way to go, Ralphie. Yeah.

[00:44:02]This is Keesha still reporting to you live for FNN. We are now [music] back in Ralphie's room.

[00:44:11]So, Ralphie, what do you have to say about today's amazing adventure? Well, I'm sorry that my body made such a mess of it.

[00:44:19]>> Wait a minute. Do you really think your body's been working against you? Sure, and against you, too.

[00:44:25]You almost didn't get in. Remember? Only because your body's built to keep out things like a bunch of germs or a bus full of kids. And my throat is so sore I can barely talk. Only because your body is sending extra blood there to help fight the infection. Okay, but what about when you almost got gobbled up by my white blood cells? Only cuz your body thought we were bacteria. Your body was only trying to protect you. I guess you're right. My body was just trying to get rid of germs, like you.

[00:45:01]COME ALONG, CLASS. GOOD old body.

[00:45:06]So, that's the inside story, isn't it, Ms. Frizzle?

[00:45:11]That's the inside story, Ralphie. Pretty amazing, don't you think?

[00:45:16]Well, we may have won the battle, class, but he's still fighting the war.

[00:45:24]Hey guys, how's this for a concept?

[00:45:26]Inside Ralphie, the series. Week one, he gets a charley horse. Week two, tennis elbow. Week three, the final episode, athlete's foot.

[00:45:45]Is this the Magic School Bus?

[00:45:47]>> Is this the Magic School Bus? Magic School Bus. Magic School Bus. Magic School Bus. Over to me, Magic School Bus. Magic School Bus. Magic School Bus.

[00:45:54]Magic Magic School Bus. I want the Magic School Bus.

[00:45:57]I want THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS.

[00:46:04]>> SORRY LIZ, BUT I CAN'T hear a thing.

[00:46:08]Liz, your heart sounds like a telephone.

[00:46:15]>> [laughter] >> Hello. Hello, is this the Magic School Bus? Yes, and you're talking to the producer. Can I help you?

[00:46:22]Yeah, what were those kids doing visiting Ralphie when he is so sick and tired? Oh, well don't worry, he wasn't infectious. But, thanks for calling.

[00:46:29]Bye.

[00:46:35]Hello Magic School Bus. You know, Ralphie shouldn't go around picking scabs. If the Magic School Bus got in, so could germs.

[00:46:43]>> A good point. Bandages, like skin, are there to keep germs out of your body.

[00:46:48]Bacteria aren't the only things that can make you sick.

[00:46:51]There are viruses, parasites, fungi, and Right, and some sickness isn't caused by infection, but by the body's own systems not working right. Thanks for calling.

[00:47:00]Bye.

[00:47:07]Hello Magic School Bus.

[00:47:09]Well, I think that somebody should say that medicine can be dangerous, and kids should never take medicines without an adult in charge. You just did. Thank you.

[00:47:19]Um, did Ralphie ever get better? He sure did. His body did a great job of getting rid of all those germs, and he got just as healthy as he was before. And they should also say that your body is always trying to be healthy. You're absolutely right, and there's a lot you can do to help it out. I know.

[00:47:37]Like eating properly, getting enough sleep, and exercising. Getting all your shots is another way to keep healthy.

[00:47:43]Shots help your body be prepared for some of the really tough germs.

[00:47:48]I don't like getting shots. They sometimes hurt. Me, neither. But, I also don't like getting sick, and I'd rather get a shot now than get sick later. Me, too, I guess. Hey, does Ms. Frizzle ever get sick?

[00:48:00]>> No way. She takes good care of herself, gets all of her shots, and she's magic.