The Magic School Bus - Season 3

The Magic School Bus - Season 3

Season 3

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DatesSep 14, 1996 - Dec 25, 1996
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Episodes

In a Beehive (Honeybees)
Season 3Episode 125 min

In a Beehive (Honeybees)

Tim’s beekeeper Grandfather has the sweetest honey in town. Ms. Frizzle turns her class into bees so they can visit a hive and learn how raw honey is processed firsthand.
Sep 14, 1996
In the Arctic (Heat)
Season 3Episode 225 min

In the Arctic (Heat)

“Where did the hot go?” wonders Arnold when his hot cocoa cools off. So, Ms. Frizzle whisks the class to the Arctic!
Sep 21, 1996
Spins a Web (Spiders)
Season 3Episode 325 min

Spins a Web (Spiders)

Ms. Frizzle transports the class into a 1950s horror movie, where a 50-foot praying mantis is wreaking havoc on the town. Ed Asner stars as the film’s power-mad protagonist, General Araneus.
Sep 28, 1996
Under Construction (Structures)
Season 3Episode 425 min

Under Construction (Structures)

Two inches tall and trapped in a bathroom at Wanda’s house, the kids must use what they’ve learned about structures to escape before Wanda’s mother discovers them.
Oct 5, 1996
Gets a Bright Idea (Light)
Season 3Episode 525 min

Gets a Bright Idea (Light)

The light show at Walkerville’s old theater is illuminating, but Arnold’s bossy cousin Janet claims she could put on a much better show—if there wasn’t a ghost living in the theater!
Oct 12, 1996
Shows & Tells (Archaeology)
Season 3Episode 625 min

Shows & Tells (Archaeology)

Arnold brings in a webbed hoop for the International Show-and-Tell Competition, left behind by his great-aunt, a famous archaeologist, but he has no idea what it is! Can the kids find out what it is before he takes the stage? With Alex Trebek as the “Sportscaster.”
Oct 19, 1996
Makes a Rainbow (Color)
Season 3Episode 725 min

Makes a Rainbow (Color)

The class finds Ms. Frizzle inside her closet—playing a pinball machine she created with light pulses instead of steel balls. With time and the light pulses running out, the kids must discover the secrets of color—before the principal, Mr. Ruhle, discovers them!
Oct 26, 1996
Goes Upstream (Migration)
Season 3Episode 825 min

Goes Upstream (Migration)

Ralphie wants to serve salmon at the annual school picnic, but he can’t find any at his favorite fishing spot. But when the kids are “Frizzled” inside a salmon-bus they have an uncontrollable urge to head upriver.
Nov 2, 1996
Works Out (Circulation System)
Season 3Episode 925 min

Works Out (Circulation System)

Is Mr. Sinew any match for the Friz? At this year’s “Teacher-athlon,” the kids fear Ms. Frizzle doesn’t stand a chance against the muscle-bound gym teacher from another school, so the class travels inside her body for a closer look.
Nov 9, 1996
Gets Planted (Photosynthesis)
Season 3Episode 1025 min

Gets Planted (Photosynthesis)

Phoebe tries to grow a vine for the school play, Jack and the Beanstalk. But her plant is more like a beansprout than a beanstalk! With the opening curtain only moments away, Ms. Frizzle turns Phoebe into a bean plant so she’ll grow into the star of the show!
Nov 16, 1996
In the Rain Forest (Rain Forest Ecology)
Season 3Episode 1125 min

In the Rain Forest (Rain Forest Ecology)

The kids rent a rain forest cocoa tree as an Earth Day present for Ms. Frizzle. But when the harvest arrives, there’s only one shriveled cocoa bean! Ms. Frizzle takes the class to the rain forest to meet the impeccable Inspector 47 who keeps a tidy, mud-free cocoa grove. What has he done to the rain forest’s intricate ecology web?
Nov 23, 1996
Rocks and Rolls (Water Erosion)
Season 3Episode 1225 min

Rocks and Rolls (Water Erosion)

To celebrate the founding of Walkerville, Ms. Frizzle’s class sculpts a stone likeness of its founding father, Captain Walker. As they add the finishing touches, the statue tumbles down the mountain. Ms. Frizzle turns the Bus into a huge boulder and the kids into rocks while bumping down the mountain in a desperate attempt to save the statue.
Nov 30, 1996
Holiday Special (Recycling)
Season 3Episode 1325 min

Holiday Special (Recycling)

Wanda plans to see The Nutcracker ballet, but during a trip to Murph’s recycling plant, the toy soldier she needs to get into the theater accidentally becomes a plastic pellet! Ms. Frizzle activates the Bus’s Un-Recycler, taking the class and Murph on a song-filled field trip, where they learn how everyday items are made from recycled trash.
Dec 25, 1996

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