History Characters / TheMagicSchoolBus

* CanadaEh: Downplayed. She's got the accent and the stereotypical niceness down pat, and she also translates Fahrenheit to Centigrade at least once, but apart from that, nothing overtly indicates that she came from up north.

* FriendToAllLivingThings: Very much so.

* AdaptationDyeJob: He was blonde in the original books, but a redhead in the series.

* WatchWhereYoureGoing: "In Out of this World", she's in such a rush to class that she has a head-on collision with Ms Frizzle.

%%* Aint Too Proud To Beg: When he and Wanda crash their bikes while delivering honey in the episode "In a Beehive", he begs Ms. Frizzle to take a field trip to his grandfather's farm, to get more honey. %%Is this how the trope is even used?

%%* Aint Too Proud To Beg: When he and Wanda crash their bikes while delivering honey, he begs Ms. Frizzle to take a field trip to his grandfather's farm, to get more honey. %%Is this how the trope is even used?

-->'''Ralphie:''' You mean your house doesn't have a jungle, a city, and ocean, and an alpine wonderland?\\

* {{Determinator}}: He won't give up trying to find his and Wanda's model plane when he breaks the remote and it zooms off.

* FriendlyRivalry: His relationship with Keesha is this. They are polar opposites which causes them to clash in many field trips or classes. But at the end, they are both shown to be very close friends.
** He also has this relationship with Dorothy Ann with him being BrilliantButLazy and her being a buy the book learner. Their tend to constantly disagree on things in certain episodes.

The teacher of the fourth-grade class.

* CatchPhrase

* CatchPhrase: "I think/knew/maybe I should've stayed home today." Arnold says this less often in the later part of season three and season four due to CharacterDevelopment.

* CatchPhrase: "According to my research..."

* CatchPhrase:

* CatchPhrase: "At my old school..."

* CatchPhrase:

* CatchPhrase: "We've been frizzled."

* CatchPhrase:

* CatchPhrase: "Thought you could fool old Ruhle, eh?"

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Safety first!"

* InSeriesNickname: The others sometimes call her "Pheeb" (not "[[Series/{{Friends}} Pheebs]]" except by DA on one occasion). Carlos has also called her "Pheebolino."

** In "Holiday special", it hits itself with the unrecyclign ray and turns into a pile of cans and bottles. Luckily Miss Frizzle, Murph and the class are able to re-recycle them and bring the bus back.

%%* [[OlderThanTheyLook Older Than She Looks]]: Implied to be this.

* [[SassyBlackWoman Sassy Black Girl]]: Not quite ''sassy'', per say, but she is the most skeptical and sarcastic member of the class.

* [[IntellectualAnimal Genius Animal]]: She's better at using the bus's AppliedPhlebotinum than the kids are.

->'''Voiced by:''' Catherine Thompson (video games only), Creator/WhoopiGoldberg (Exolores The Earth game)

* HasTwoMommies: She's portrayed as being the daughter of a lesbian couple in the reboot.

* TomboynessUpgrade: Not that her personality wasn't at all tomboyish in the original series--she, along with her Girly Girl counterpart Keesha, are both closer to the middle of the spectrum than anything--but ''Rides Again'' really cranks up her tomboyish traits, with even many of her outfits getting a tomboyish makeover, while at the same time retaining her established bookish personality.
%%* {{Tsundere}}: Type B towards Carlos (and Ralphie).
* WatchWhereYoureGoing: ''In Out of this World''. she's in such a rush to clas that she has a head on collision with Ms Frizzle.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: In universe example: The kids all complain about him when Carlos suggests calling him in the energy episode, and cheer him when he solves their problem.

* MeaningfulName: The name Jyoti is hindi for Light which is fitting for her interest in technology and bright ideas.

* GrammarNazi: Only once, but when Arnold says they have to get to the other Frizzles quick, she corrects Arnold by saying "Quick''ly''! Adverb"
* InsistentTerminology: Since they're doing their work on a hot air balloon and not at home, it's "balloonwork," not "homework," and Frizzle will let out a stage "ahem" anytime someone refers to it as the latter and not the former.

->''"Seat belts, everyone!"''

--> '''Voiced by''': Creator/LilyTomlin

-->''"Please let this be a ''normal'' field trip!"''

-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/AmosCrawley (1994, 2020), Danny Tamberelli (1995-1997), Miles Koseleci-Vieira (2017-2018, 2020), Roman Lutterotti (2020-present)

-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/DanielDeSanto (1994-1997), Leke Maceda-Rustecki (2017-present)

-->'''Voiced by''': Tara Meyer (1994-1997), Gabby Clarke (2017-present)

--->'''Dorothy Ann''': According to my research, broccoli is a ''very'' healthy vegetable!

* DeadpanSnarker: Usually where Carlos is concerned since he is imaginative and willing to experiment, while she is, as he put it, [[{{Pun}} "by the book".]]

* FullNameBasis: Always "Dorothy Ann" (or "DA"); never just "Dorothy."

-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/EricaLuttrell (1994-1997), Mikaela Blake (2017-present)

-->'''Keesha''': [[AndImTheQueenOfSheba Tim, if Ralphie's Weatherman, then I'm the Queen of England.]]

-->'''[[LeeroyJenkins Keesha]]''': DON'T YOU DARE BITE MY GRANDMOTHER!

* TenderTomboyishnessFoulFemininity: With DA, being of the more fashionable sort. She also attends an afterschool ballet class, and [[DeadpanSnarker she's got quite the sarcastic streak]].

-->'''Voiced by''': Maia Filar

-->'''Phoebe''': ''[genuinely horrified]'' At my old school, we were ''never'' allowed to end up in the toilet!

-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/StuartStone (1994-1997), Matthew Mintz (2017-2018), Matthew Mucci (2020-present)

-->'''Voiced by''': Max Beckford (1994), Andre Ottley Lorant (1995-1997), Kaden Stephen (2017-2020), Jonathan C. Sturgess (2020-present)

* AintTooProudToBeg: When he and Wanda crash their bikes while delivering honey, he begs Ms. Frizzle to take a field trip to his grandfather's farm, to get more honey.

* DeadpanSnarker: Has a moment of this when he comments "This is one weird house" in the Haunted House episode.
--> '''Ralphie''': You mean your house doesn't have a jungle, a city, and ocean, and an alpine wonderland?
--> '''Tim''' (''cheerily''): Nah. The landlord wouldn't go for it.

-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/LisaYamanaka (1994-1997), Lynsey Pham (2017-present)

--->'''Lisa Yamanaka''': Comparing myself to my character, Wanda, in the show, I'll have to say that... really, I don't think I'm anything like her.

-->'''Voiced by''': Catherine Thompson (video games only), Creator/WhoopiGoldberg (Exolores The Earth game)

-> '''Basis''': 1960s-1970s International Harvester Loadstar School Bus with Superior Coach body, added rear fender skirts and chrome grille/hood spine.

-->'''Voiced by:''' Renessa Blitz (1994-1997), Annalise Forbes (2017-present)

-->'''Voiced by:''' Kevin Zegers (1995-1997), unknown (2018-present)

-->'''Mikey''': ¡Hola, Frizzlers!

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/PaulWinfield (1996-1997), Martin Roach (2017-present)

-->'''Voiced by:''' Amos Crawley

* IronicName: His arms aren't ''hairy'' despite [[PunnyName his name.]]

-->'''Voiced by:''' Ruby Smith-Merovitz

--> '''Voiced by''': Malcolm-Jamal Warner (male), Creator/SusanBlu (female)

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KateMcKinnon

* GamerGirl: Implied to be this in "Nothin' But Net".

-->'''Voiced by:''' Birva Pandya

* BerserkButton: ''[[NobodyTouchesTheHair Leave her hair alone.]]'' A magical ever-growing plant learned that the hard way in the very first episode of ''Rides Again''.

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KateMcKinnon

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KateMcKinnon

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KateMcKinnon

* SmartPeopleSpeakTheQueensEnglish: Downplayed. She may be British-American, but her accent sounds rather soft, if nothing else (the most blatant being her pronunciation of "research" with emphasis on the second syllable, as it's done in the UK), and she appears to have lost the accent completely by the time of ''Rides Again''.

* ThrowTheDogABone: Arnold is always trying to avoid going on zany field trips. He gets to skip the trips in "For Lunch" and "Makes a Rainbow", although the latter episode has a case of BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor when the class goes on a FantasticVoyagePlot ''inside'' Arnold.

* VocalEvolution: His voice deepens by the third season. The reason for this was because Daniel De Santo, who voiced him in the original series, was going through maturity and puberty at the time.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Usually, when she brings up what they did or didn't do at her old school, she's a little nervous but nevertheless cooperates in the spirit of learning about science. However, even she doesn't hide her disgust when Ms. Frizzle suggests being shat out of Arnold in "For Lunch".

* VocalEvolution: Like Carlos, his voice deepens by the third season of the series. This was because Stuart Stone, who voiced him in the original series, was going through puberty at the time.