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* TheOtherDarrin: Arnold and Tim were originally voiced by Amos Crawley and Max Beckford, respectively; their voices broke after the first season and they were replaced with Danny Tamberelli and Andre Ottley-Lorant, respectively. (Crawley can still be heard as Arnold in the TitleSequence throughout the show's run.) Oddly, the voice actors for Carlos (Daniel [=DeSanto=]) and Ralphie (Stuart Stone) were ''not'' replaced after their voices broke later on, and neither were Tamberelli or Ottley-Lorant.

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Arnold and Tim were originally voiced by Amos Crawley and Max Beckford, respectively; their voices broke after the first season and they were replaced with Danny Tamberelli and Andre Ottley-Lorant, respectively. (Crawley can still be heard as Arnold in the TitleSequence throughout the show's run.) Oddly, the voice actors for Carlos (Daniel [=DeSanto=]) and Ralphie (Stuart Stone) were ''not'' replaced after their voices broke later on, and neither were Tamberelli or Ottley-Lorant.
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* CrossRegionalVoiceActing: The series uses voice actors from both Canada and America.
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* DirectedByCastMember: The Latin American Spanish dub was directed by Sylvia Garcel, who also starred as Ms. Frizzle.
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*** A slightly better explanation for why they didn't include that in the show was that the ''majority'' of food chains begin with plants... and it's better to introduce children with a solid foundation of patterns before going into depth about all the exceptions.
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* LateExportForYou: The show first aired in Japan in 1999, 5 years after its' North American debut.
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* FakeBrit: Downplayed. British-American Dorothy Ann Rourke is voiced by Canadian Tara Meyer, but her British accent is more subtle than anything.

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* FakeBrit: Downplayed. British-American Dorothy Ann Rourke Hudson is voiced by Canadian Tara Meyer, but her British accent is more subtle than anything.
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** TokenAdult
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* ChannelHop: Thanks to the series' popularity, reruns of the show aired on Creator/FoxKids (as a way for affiliates to fulfill their E/I quotas), [[Creator/DiscoveryFamily Discovery Kids]], and Creator/{{qubo}}, as well as Netflix (which is also the home of the [[WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBusRidesAgain reboot]]).

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* ChannelHop: Thanks to the series' popularity, reruns of the show aired on Creator/FoxKids (as a way for affiliates to fulfill their E/I quotas), quotas after ''The Fox Cubhouse'' ended), [[Creator/DiscoveryFamily Discovery Kids]], and Creator/{{qubo}}, as well as Netflix (which is also the home of the [[WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBusRidesAgain reboot]]).

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* CrossCastRole: William Li is voiced by his sister's voice actress, Lisa Yamanaka.

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* CrossCastRole: CrossDressingVoices: William Li is voiced by his sister's voice actress, Lisa Yamanaka.Yamanaka.
* DuelingDubs: When the series was released on Netflix, the first season was redubbed into Brazilian Portuguese, European Spanish, French, German, Italian, Polish and Japanese.


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** The French dub was also tangled up. Except for Marie-Eugénie Maréchal as Phoebe, all the children had at least two voice actors.

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* ChildrenVoicingChildren: All four of the boys are voiced by real boys, and all of their voices break over the course of the series. Averted with William Li, who is voiced by his sister's voice actress, Lisa Yamanaka.

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* ChildrenVoicingChildren: All four of the boys are voiced by real boys, and all of their voices break over the course of the series. Averted with series.
* CrossCastRole:
William Li, who Li is voiced by his sister's voice actress, Lisa Yamanaka.
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* ChildrenVoicingChildren: All four of the boys are voiced by real boys, and all of their voices break over the course of the series.

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* ChildrenVoicingChildren: All four of the boys are voiced by real boys, and all of their voices break over the course of the series. Averted with William Li, who is voiced by his sister's voice actress, Lisa Yamanaka.
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* FakeBrit: Downplayed. British-American Dorothy Ann Rourke is voiced by Canadian Tara Meyer, but her British accent is more subtle than anything.

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* ActorAllusion: Creator/LilyTomlin gets to show off her talent in the fine art of drag as [[CrossCastRole Ms. Frizzle as Archibald Dauntless]] in the live-action wraparound segments of "A Magic School Bus Halloween".



* CelebrityVoiceActor: Creator/LilyTomlin was the voice of Ms. Frizzle, Malcolm-Jamal Warner voiced "the (male) producer," and the ThemeTune was sung by Little Richard. And then there's all the celebrities who voiced "guest" characters (Carol Channing, Music/DollyParton, [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball Dan Marino]], etc).

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* CelebrityVoiceActor: Creator/LilyTomlin Lily Tomlin was the voice of Ms. Frizzle, Malcolm-Jamal Warner voiced "the (male) producer," and the ThemeTune was sung by Little Richard. And then there's all the celebrities who voiced "guest" characters (Carol Channing, Music/DollyParton, [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball Dan Marino]], etc).
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: In the ''Solar System'' computer game, Arnold's report mentions that Pluto is the only planet in the solar system that has never been visited by a spacecraft from Earth. Setting aside the fact that Pluto is no longer counted as a planet, this ceased to be true when the ''New Horizons'' probe visited Pluto in 2015.
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* ChannelHop: Thanks to the series' popularity, reruns of the show aired on Creator/FoxKids (as a way for affiliates to fulfill their E/I quotas), [[Creator/DiscoveryFamily Discovery Kids]], and Creator/{{qubo}}, as well as Netflix (which is also the home of the upcoming reboot).

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* ChannelHop: Thanks to the series' popularity, reruns of the show aired on Creator/FoxKids (as a way for affiliates to fulfill their E/I quotas), [[Creator/DiscoveryFamily Discovery Kids]], and Creator/{{qubo}}, as well as Netflix (which is also the home of the upcoming reboot).[[WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBusRidesAgain reboot]]).
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*** The phone segment at the end of the episode acknowledges that they took some liberties with this because, at the time, no one knew what Pluto really looked like.

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* DevelopmentHell: The AllCGICartoon Creator/{{Netflix}} reboot was announced around 2013-ish and is finally set to air on September 29, 2017.


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* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: The AllCGICartoon Creator/{{Netflix}} reboot was announced around 2013-ish and was finally released on September 29, 2017.
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** RewindGag
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* ActorAllusion: Creator/DomDeLuise's character in "Gets Ready, Set, Dough!" is a baker, a reference to his second career as a gourmet cook.

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* ActorAllusion: ActorSharedBackground: Creator/DomDeLuise's character in "Gets Ready, Set, Dough!" is a baker, a reference to his second career as a gourmet cook.
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* TheWikiRule: [[http://magicschoolbus.wikia.com/wiki/The_Magic_School_Bus_Wiki The Magic School Bus Wiki]].
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* MissingEpisode: Good luck finding the [[http://lostmediawiki.com/The_Magic_School_Bus:_In_the_Haunted_House_(lost_unedited_version;_1994) original cut of ...In The Haunted House]]. [[http://lostmediawiki.com/The_Magic_School_Bus:_Halloween_Special_(found_live-action/animated_special_of_TV_series;_1995) A Magic School Bus Halloween]] and the [[http://lostmediawiki.com/The_Magic_School_Bus:_Family_Holiday_Special_(found_2nd_half_of_animated_special;_1996) 60 minute version of Holiday Special]] also seemed rare for several years. A Magic School Bus Halloween ''did'' get a home video release however. Albeit a limited, VHS only one.
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** {{Lampshaded}} in the ''Dinosaurs'' computer game. Keesha's report "Dinosaur Myths" discuses discredited theories about dinosaurs, and even mentions that then-current theories about dinosaurs may be disproved in the future.

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** {{Lampshaded}} in the ''Dinosaurs'' computer game. Keesha's report "Dinosaur Myths" discuses discusses discredited theories about dinosaurs, and even mentions that then-current theories about dinosaurs may be disproved in the future.
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** {{Lampshaded}} in the ''Dinosaurs'' computer game. Keesha's report "Dinosaurs Myths" discuses discredited theories about dinosaurs, and even mentions that then-current theories about dinosaurs may be disproved in the future.

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** {{Lampshaded}} in the ''Dinosaurs'' computer game. Keesha's report "Dinosaurs "Dinosaur Myths" discuses discredited theories about dinosaurs, and even mentions that then-current theories about dinosaurs may be disproved in the future.
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** {{Lampshaded}} in the ''Dinosaurs'' computer game. Keesha's report "Dinosaurs Myths" discuses discredited theories about dinosaurs, and even mentions that then-current theories about dinosaurs may be disproved in the future.

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* RecursiveAdaptation: There were books based on the book-based TV series.


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* RecursiveAdaptation: There were books based on the book-based TV series.
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* OvertookTheManga:
** Some of the episodes are adaptations of specific ''Magic School Bus'' books, but there are obviously quite a lot more TV episodes than books.
** The first five computer games were adaptations of specific books. Technically, there were still unadapted books left after that, but none that would've particularly lent themselves to a computer game. From ''Explores the Rainforest'' onwards, the games have original storylines.
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* CrossDressingVoices: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]; all four of the boys are voiced by real boys, and all of their voices break over the course of the series.

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* CrossDressingVoices: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]; all ChildrenVoicingChildren: All four of the boys are voiced by real boys, and all of their voices break over the course of the series.
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* OutOfOrder: Season 1 Episode 1, ''Gets Lost In Space'', has Arnold remark that the class had already been inside a rotten log and to the bottom of the ocean. Those field trips aren't actually shown until Episodes 04 and 06, respectively.

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* OutOfOrder: Season 1 Episode 1, ''Gets Lost In Space'', has Arnold remark that the class had already been inside a rotten log and to the bottom of the ocean. Those field trips aren't actually shown until Episodes 04 06 and 06, 04, respectively.


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* MissingEpisode: Good luck looking for the [[http://lostmediawiki.com/The_Magic_School_Bus:_In_the_Haunted_House_(lost_unedited_version;_1994) original cut of ...In The Haunted House]]. [[http://lostmediawiki.com/The_Magic_School_Bus:_Halloween_Special_(found_live-action/animated_special_of_TV_series;_1995) A Magic School Bus Halloween]] and the [[http://lostmediawiki.com/The_Magic_School_Bus:_Family_Holiday_Special_(found_2nd_half_of_animated_special;_1996) 60 minute version of Holiday Special]] also seemed rare for several years. A Magic School Bus Halloween ''did'' get a home video release however. Albeit a limited, VHS only one.

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* MissingEpisode: Good luck looking for finding the [[http://lostmediawiki.com/The_Magic_School_Bus:_In_the_Haunted_House_(lost_unedited_version;_1994) original cut of ...In The Haunted House]]. [[http://lostmediawiki.com/The_Magic_School_Bus:_Halloween_Special_(found_live-action/animated_special_of_TV_series;_1995) A Magic School Bus Halloween]] and the [[http://lostmediawiki.com/The_Magic_School_Bus:_Family_Holiday_Special_(found_2nd_half_of_animated_special;_1996) 60 minute version of Holiday Special]] also seemed rare for several years. A Magic School Bus Halloween ''did'' get a home video release however. Albeit a limited, VHS only one.

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