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* Pretty much any time Carlos [[note]] or anyone who takes the opportunity. [[/note]] makes an bad pun, followed by everybody else yelling "CARLOS!".

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* Pretty much any time Carlos [[note]] or anyone who takes the opportunity. [[/note]] makes an a bad pun, followed by everybody else yelling "CARLOS!".
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* Pretty much any time Carlos [[note]] or anyone who takes the opportunity. [[/note]] makes an IncrediblyLamePun, followed by everybody else yelling "CARLOS!".

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* Pretty much any time Carlos [[note]] or anyone who takes the opportunity. [[/note]] makes an IncrediblyLamePun, bad pun, followed by everybody else yelling "CARLOS!".
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--->''(thinking)'' That radio spoke to me! How did it know my name? I knew I should have stayed home today.

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--->''(thinking)'' ---->''(thinking)'' That radio spoke to me! How did it know my name? I knew I should have stayed home today.



** The class pays a quick stop to Phoebe's house, where her grandmother s using an electric saw to make a bookcase. Cue comment from Phoebe that at her old school, she never went home in the middle of the day.

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** The class pays a quick stop to Phoebe's house, where her grandmother s is using an electric saw to make a bookcase. Cue comment from Phoebe that at her old school, she never went home in the middle of the day.
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** Keesha gets in on Pheobe's MadLibsCatchphrase by saying that at ''her'' old school, her teacher didn't dress like the Frizz.

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** Keesha gets in on Pheobe's Phoebe's MadLibsCatchphrase by saying that at ''her'' old school, her teacher didn't dress like the Frizz.
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* ''Inside a Hurricane'':
** Keesha gets in on Pheobe's MadLibsCatchphrase by saying that at ''her'' old school, her teacher didn't dress like the Frizz.
** Arnold attempts to get out of the field trip by [[INeedToGoIronMyDog claiming he needs to sharpen his pencil]]. When Ms. Frizzle says they might have "a real adventure", he thinks to himself that in that case, he needs to sharpen ''several'' pencils.
** This book has a RunningGag where Ms. Frizzle's radio talks to Arnold.
*** While the bus-balloon is ascending, the radio asks Arnold if he's afraid of high places. After being astonished that it spoke to him, Arnold wonders how the radio knew his name before thinking "I ''knew'' I should have stayed home today."
*** Shortly later, the radio asks Arnold if he brought his raincoat; Arnold thinks "Tell me this isn't happening..."
*** When the weather forecasters mention there being a hurricane watch in effect, the radio attempts to get Arnold to look at its literal hurricane (wrist)watch. Arnold has decided to pretend he can't hear the radio.
*** The radio encourages Arnold to jump out of the bus-balloon into the hurricane after it springs a leak, all while Arnold is clinging to the ballon's ropes and thinking that he can't look.
*** When the radio says it'll be telling listeners about the whole hurricane, Arnold privately hopes the radio's batteries will run out soon.
*** Most of the class reboards the bus-turned-weatherplane except for Arnold. As the bus flies away, the radio reassures Arnold that although they're experiencing the hurricane close-up, it's sure they'll both be fine. Arnold wonders why everything always happens to him. Back in the bus, Ms. Frizzle says that while Arnold's experiencing the hurricane close-up, she's sure he'll be fine.
*** When the two land in the ocean, the radio tells Arnold that they're seeing stormy seas today. Arnold thinks that this is an {{understatement}}, as he's currently touching, smelling, and tasting said stormy seas.
*** When the class finally arrives at the weather station, the radio addresses a forecaster called Al by name, who then goes through the exact same thought process Arnold did when the radio started talking to him.
--->''(thinking)'' That radio spoke to me! How did it know my name? I knew I should have stayed home today.
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* ''Electric Field Trip'':
** Ms. Frizzle's niece Dottie visits for the day and proves to be [[SharedFamilyQuirks just as enthusiastic about science as her aunt]], causing Arnold to pout that two Frizzles just isn't fair.
** Dottie says she wants to be just like her aunt when she grows up. Arnold thinks to himself that she already is.
** Ms. Frizzle gives the class heatproof suits and dumps them into the power plant's coal intake.
--->'''Ms. Frizzle:''' Class, fuel is anything we burn to make energy.\\
'''Phoebe:''' At my old school, we never got burned up to make energy.
** Upon being told they're going to a lightbulb by Ms. Frizzle, Wanda asks why.
--->'''Carlos:''' Because she doesn't want to go to a ''heavy'' bulb. Get it?
** The lightbulb the class enters is in a library's lamp, where Arnold's mother happens to be checking out books for him. She panics when she hears voices coming from the lamp, only for the librarian to reassure her because it's "just making [[{{Pun}} light]] conversation."
** A man at Jo's Diner is sitting in a booth opposite a dog, which is happily chowing down on some treats.
** The class pays a quick stop to Phoebe's house, where her grandmother s using an electric saw to make a bookcase. Cue comment from Phoebe that at her old school, she never went home in the middle of the day.

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* Some books have a set of notes "for ''serious'' students only" at the end that point out some of the story's more fantastical elements and claim that in addition to helping you tell fact from fiction, they will also tell you when to laugh.



** The end of the book has a set of notes "for ''serious'' students only" that points out some of the story's more fantastical elements and claims that in addition to helping you tell fact from fiction, it will also tell you when to laugh. Most of them are grounded in reality, but the last note points out that the school bus can't reappear in a parking lot by itself after being left in a cloud. "Obviously, someone has to go back to the cloud and drive it home."

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** The end of From the book has a set of notes "for ''serious'' students only" that points out some of at the story's more fantastical elements and claims that in addition to helping you tell fact from fiction, it will also tell you when to laugh. Most of them are grounded in reality, but the last note points out that the school bus can't reappear in a parking lot by itself after being left in a cloud. "Obviously, someone has to go back to the cloud and drive it home."end:


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*** The last note points out that the school bus can't reappear in a parking lot by itself after being left in a cloud. "Obviously, someone has to go back to the cloud and drive it home."


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* ''Explores the Senses'':
** The class practices a song about the senses for a parent-teacher meaning, but struggles to keep the lyrics straight due to Ms. Frizzle's outfit and "wacky personality".
** Ms. Frizzle forgets that the meeting is actually the day that the book takes place and starts driving home, which results in new assistant principal Mr. Wilde taking the wheel of the school bus to catch up to and tell her. The class panics and follows him onto the bus, as they're concerned about his ability to keep up with what it can do because "he's not Ms. Frizzle".
** Mr. Wilde flips a little green switch on the bus' dashboard in hopes of making it go faster, reasoning that "green means go", despite the class telling him not to. This causes the bus and its occupants to start shrinking (and the bus' destination sign to display "shakey-quaky shrinky dinky itsy bitsy teeny weenie").
--->'''Mr. Wilde:''' All I did was flip one tiny switch!\\
'''Arnold:''' ''(thinking)'' Little is right!
** Mr. Wilde once again ignores the class and pulls a rainbow-colored lever, which causes the bus to phase into the eye of a police officer. His reaction is to comment that he never knew driving a bus could be so much fun.
--->'''Mr. Wilde:''' I'm driving into an eye? I can't believe it, Phoebe!\\
'''Phoebe:''' [[MadLibsCatchphrase At my old school]], [[{{Pun}} pupils never went into a pupil!]]
** Mr. Wilde gets fully engrossed by the bus entering the eye and excitedly decides to go further into it. Arnold wonders what it is about people who drive the bus that makes them so enthusiastic about this kind of thing.
--->'''Sudent:''' I guess Mr. Wilde isn't so quiet after all.\\
'''Other Student:''' Our bus is having a weird effect on him.
** The bus exits the eye and falls into the ear of a little kid.
--->'''Keesha:''' We have to get out of here!\\
'''Amanda Jane:''' We have to get closer to the Friz!\\
'''Carlos:''' We have to get [[TheTriple accident insurance!]]\\
'''Mr. Wilde: LOOK AT ME! NO HANDS!'''
** The toy store's operating hours are listed as playtime, naptime, bathtime, and mealtime.
** A kid says that the ossicles (ear bones) are the smallest bones in the human body. Arnold thinks that right now, the students and Mr. Wilde are [[RussianReversal the smallest human bodies in the bones]].
** Mr. Wilde follows the auditory nerve signals out of the ear, happily exclaiming he gets to drive into the brain twice. A student thinks "Once was not enough?"
** Ms. Frizzle says she's going to "have pizza with M", causing the students to hypothesize what the M stands for. Someone says that it could mean ''anything'', only for somebody else to refute them because "anything" starts with an A.
** The class ends up landing on Ms. Frizzle's slice of pizza and subsequently eaten. The narration notes that [[LiteralMetaphor "(w)e'd been chewed out by teachers before, but this was ridiculous!"]]
** At the parent-teacher conference, Ms. Frizzle's mother pulls out some childhood photos of her daughter. They show that [[EarlyPersonalitySigns by age four, Valerie Frizzle was already interested in science and playing with a miniature drivable school bus.]]
* ''Climate Challenge'':
** The class is trying to paint a mural of the Arctic for a school play, but can't find the white paint. Said jar of paint is tipped over on the floor, which just so happens to not actually be colored in on that page.
** The class is hosting a foreign exchange student from South Korea named Joon. When the class starts sliding on sunbeams, Joon says that in his school there aren't any teachers like Ms. Frizzle; Arnold asks if he can switch to Joon's school.
** The bus crash-lands in a solar-heated swimming pool. Ms. Frizzle asks the children if they've noticed the various solar panel-powered devices around them; Ralphie asks Ms. Frizzle if she's noticed that the bus is currently a giant pool toy.
--->'''Lenny the Lifeguard: HEY!''' No splashing!
** A side note says that the amount of carbon dioxide kept out of the air per year if even one person carpools is equivalent to [[HiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasure "more than three Arnolds"]]. This is accompanied by a picture of three Arnolds in the air, with the rightmost one saying "Why is it always me? [[WhichMe Er... I mean.. us.]]"
** Dorothy Ann says she's conserving paper by writing on both sides of the paper she ''does'' use for homework. Ralphie says he's conserving paper by not doing his homework at all.

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