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The male producer and Liz are moving a fake tree into the office when the phone rings. The former answers the questions about the episode while the latter sets up her own cardboard projection system.
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* BorrowedCatchphrase: Janet steals Wanda's phrase and proves too lazy to attribute it to her.
-->'''Janet''': As someone we all know says, this is a "yawn burger with a side of snores"!\\
'''Wanda''': It is ''not'', Janet!
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->'''Focus Student(s):''' Keesha, Janet

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->'''Focus Student(s):''' Keesha, Janet
Janet, Arnold
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!!The Magic School Bus Get a Bright Idea

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!!The Magic School Bus Get Gets a Bright Idea
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->Original airdate: October 12, 1996
->Subject: Light
->Focus Student(s): Keesha, Janet

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->Original airdate: ->'''Original airdate:''' October 12, 1996
->Subject: ->'''Subject:''' Light
->Focus Student(s): ->'''Focus Student(s):''' Keesha, Janet
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!!The Magic School Bus Get a Bright Idea
->Original airdate: October 12, 1996
->Subject: Light
->Focus Student(s): Keesha, Janet
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* WhamShot:
** Keesha catching Janet standing behind a mirror while Arnold dances.
** Also, Keesha in a hood appearing to Janet and Arnold as Janet leads him out of the theater.
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* TranquilFury: Keesha when she figures out Janet's trick, and plans to counterattack.

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* TranquilFury: Keesha when she figures out Janet's trick, and plans to counterattack.counterattack.
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After the class sees a light show with Janet, she claims that the auditorium is haunted. Arnold then vanishes when the class leaves the theater, as does Janet. They go back in with Ms. Frizzle to find Arnold, and learn about how lights and reflections work.



* HoistByHerOwnPetard: Janet gets scared by the same trick she had been playing on the whole class.

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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: The class laughs at Janet's HoistByHerOwnPetard moment before going home.
* AesopAmnesia: Janet forgot what happened the last time she was a {{Jerkass}} to someone in Ms. Frizzle's class.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: "There's no such thing as ghosts," which even Janet repeats at one point.
* ChekhovsLecture: Keesha uses all she's learned about light to deduce how Janet has been using mirrors to make it seem that Arnold is a ghost.
* DoingInTheWizard: Keesha after turning herself into light manages to catch Janet in the act of deceiving the class, using lights and mirrors to project Arnold's reflection.
* EasilyForgiven: Janet, again, for being a {{Jerkass}} towards a class member, this time her own cousin.
* HoistByHerOwnPetard: Janet gets scared by the same trick she had been playing on the whole class.class.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Janet saying "You tricked me!" to Keesha after the latter's ghost trick, which Arnold lampshades.
* ItAmusedMe: Why Janet pulls the trick at the theater.
* MassOhCrap: The class when they realize Arnold is missing.
* OhCrap: Janet when she and Arnold encounter a "ghost," and Arnold disappears.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Keesha "persuades" Ms. Frizzle to do this with a wink, so that the class can stage a trick on Janet.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Janet, for using Arnold as an UnwittingPawn to trick the class.
* TranquilFury: Keesha when she figures out Janet's trick, and plans to counterattack.
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* HoistByHerOwnPetard: Janet gets scared by the same trick she had been playing on the whole class.
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