History WhatAnIdiot / TheMagicSchoolBus

** Arnold pulls one at the same moment. He tells Janet that he and his friends believe that she's been on every planet of the Solar System.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Arnold would tell her that being on Pluto is extremely dangerous and cold and that living on it would not be a great idea. At the very least, he could suggest only take small samples of each planet they have been on.\\

** After this, Janet has suffered a huge wake-up call about how her recklessness and arrogance nearly got Arnold killed. She tells the class that it doesn't matter who believes her about space because going on the trip is enough.\\

'''You'd Expect''': Wanda to get a terrarium for Bella, either for the classroom or for her house. Bella needs food, still water to lay her eggs for when she's ready, and space.\\

'''Instead''': He assumes [[InsaneTrollLogic that if he makes the instrument look better, then it will sound better]]. The instrument ends up sounding worse and worse with each addition, as Dorothy Ann snarks, and Carlos has to get a lesson about how music requires sound vibrations so he can figure out to strip the instrument to the bare minimum.

'''Instead''': D.A. begs Ms. Frizzle to take the class down into the ocean to find her bag because she's nothing without her books. The class ends up having to wrestle a giant squid for the bag and gets trapped into a volcano. It's by either sheer luck or D.A. being CrazyPrepared that the books end up being waterproof and survive, and Carlos finds them while chilling on the raft with Arnold, waiting to name the island.

'''Instead''': He takes it out and holds it in his head. The dinosaurs of the time have no idea what to do with these strange humans. \\
'''The Result''': Arnold and Phoebe spend the entire episode chasing after an Ornithomimus that steals the egg to eat. Then they accidentally awaken a T.rex when trying to rescue the egg, which endangers the class.
** Meanwhile Carlos is worried sick when he hears that Arnold and Phoebe are missing. Having watched his fair share of dinosaur movies, he believes these are monstrous creatures that are looking for an easy human lunch, and is terrified that Arnold and Phoebe were eaten.\\

** It's Parents Night, and the class learns that Ms. Frizzle is taking the parents out on an impromptu field trip. Ralphie, who has been reading a lot of vampire comics, freaks out when Ms. Frizzle appears to them in a cape, speaks in a contralto about being nocturnal. Her field trip ends up taking the parents to a nearby castle filled with bats. Ralphie becomes convinced that Ms. Frizzle has become a vampire and is going to turn their parents.\\

'''The Result''': Liz convinces the kids to follow along on motorcycle and shadow the field trip, to make sure nothing is wrong. Meanwhile, Ralphie has a point that, weirdly, Ms. Frizzle is taking the parents to an abandoned castle. The kids get more crept out the more and more they see Ms. Frizzle escorting their parents around the castle, and start to believe Ralphie, even Keesha. They only realize that Ms. Frizzle is not a vampire when she has the parents take off their fake vampire ears and fangs after she has them hang upside down.

'''The Result''': When a girl named Tiffany catches Arnold in the girls' bathroom, he's distracted enough to forget the key. He also forgets to turn off the water and empty the sink. On top of that, when the kids are turned into water, Ms. Frizzle says she needs the real key because her spare key had dissolved into water.

'''You'd Expect''': Junkett would stay by the bus until the truck comes since they're in the middle of nowhere on dangerous terrain.\\

'''You'd Expect''': Gerry would have put some basic common sense into her hoax. For example, maybe ensure the lake is deep enough that a diver cannot reasonably find anything but fish? Or leave some hints like fake bones or teeth that can't be retrieved for analysis. The Loch Ness monster can't be found, after all, because the Loch is huge and too cloudy.\\

'''The Result''': Wanda points out that Gerry doesn't own the lake, and no signs are forbidding them from swimming or exploring. They thus decide to dive using the bus's powers. The class finds out rather quickly that the monster is a hoax. Even if they hadn't, other trained divers would have realized the scam. Heck, Ms. Frizzle was swimming in the lake and it's hinted she figured out the hoax early on before Gerry gave her warning.

'''You'd Expect''': Gerry would retreat and not reveal she orchestrated the hoax. There is always time for a Plan B.\\

'''Predictably''': Phoebe can only manage to grow a tiny bean-sprout, and Liz accidentally breaks the fragile, last-minute beanstalk she makes from plastic leaves. Ms. Frizzle has to step in to teach the kids about photosynthesis and grow a Phoebe-beanstalk in time for the show.

'''Fortunately''': Mr. Rule is actually amused when the kids are explaining what happened, if firm and BrutallyHonest when telling them that a fertilized egg takes 21 days to hatch so it's not like he's going to have a chick. Giblets also flies back to Mr. Rule just as Miss Frizzle asks the bus to help speed up the process, and he goes for PlausibleDeniability that they made up the story while the class was hatching eggs, with a knowing look. For the class's hard work and education about how fertilization works, however, Miss Frizzle says they can keep the new chick as a second class pet.

** It's Dorothy Ann's birthday, and the kids after school make her a mechanical star that plays music, while she rests at home sick and uses her new telescope. Tim finishes it in time before the class will go visit and surprise her.\\

** Following this, the kids decide to buy a real star from Horace Scope's Star Shopping Network. Since it's an infomercial, Keesha insists they should go and check on the star before buying it because it may be a scam for a faulty product. Ms. Frizzle likes the idea and takes the class on an impromptu field trip. Arnold is hesitating because that means going into space right when Dorothy Ann is expecting them, and he suggests just going to the mall to buy a present.\\

'''The Result''': While Ms. Frizzle can have the bus go faster than light-speed in a matter of minutes, they nearly fly into a ball of gas that threatens to burn them alive. After a FailureMontage of trying to find the right star, it turns out Keesha's initial suspicions about the stars being a scam were right, when the one they buy goes supernova. Ms. Frizzle has to make a new star out of the resulting gas and dust so that Dorothy Ann will have her present. While the kids learn about stars and get a great gift, a trip to the mall would have been ''much'' easier.

'''The Result:''' Arnold's head turns into a block of ice and he goes unconscious. Had it not be for Janet desperately getting him back to Earth, Arnold would have died of frostbite!
** After this, Janet has suffered a huge wake-up call about how her recklessness and arrogance nearly got Arnold killed. She tells the class that it doesn't matter who believes her about space because going on the trip was enough.\\

** It's Parents Night, and the class learns that Ms. Frizzle is taking the parents out on an impromptu field trip. Ralphie, who has been reading a lot of vampire comics, freaks out when Ms. Frizzle appears to them in a cape, speaks in a ContraltoOfDanger about being nocturnal. Her field trip ends up taking the parents to a nearby castle filled with bats. Ralphie becomes convinced that Ms. Frizzle has become a vampire and is going to turn their parents.\\

'''Instead:''' '''[[TooDumbToLive HE REMOVES HIS HELMET ON PLUTO JUST TO PROVE HOW DANGEROUS IT IS TO LIVE ON PLUTO!]]'''\\

'''Instead''': Janet forces Arnold to help her take giant rocks, buckets of Mars dust, and a jar of Jupiter's "red spot" gas for her proof. While doing so she strands the class in an asteroid field by pulling the emergency brake, loses Ms. Frizzle while helping her do repairs on the bus, and ''nearly gets the class killed'' when driving the bus through Jupiter. This causes the class to yell at Janet for her recklessness and Arnold having to watch her so she doesn't pull any more shenanigans, and when she tries to get souvenirs from Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, everyone is quick to stop her before she can even try. By the time they find Ms. Frizzle on Pluto, the bus is overloaded with her space souvenirs and bursts open, stranding all the items on the planet.

[[WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus This show]] might be about science, but clearly, [[WhatAnIdiot some people aren’t using their heads]].

'''Instead''': Janet in future episodes [[TookALevelInJerkass takes a level in jerkass]]. She's not above manipulating her classmates, including Arnold, and engages in petty cruelty.

** The class is putting on an orchestra recital of an "inventive" arrangement of the William Tell overture. Dorothy Ann is conducting, while Carlos is playing an instrument that he made by himself. However, he finds out that the sound is "Ploopy" and doesn't sound musical at all. No one knows what to do since their concert is ''the next day'' at the Sound Museum.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Dorothy Ann realizes that Carlos's instrument just isn't ready, and plan to perform without it. While this is a bit harsh, it's necessary since TheShowMustGoOn and she wants to make their parents proud. If Carlos can fix it in 24 hours, then all the better.\\
'''Instead''': She laments that they'll be a laughingstock at the concert and tells Carlos bluntly that he'll never find his perfect sound after they missed the rehearsal and are spending the night in the Sound Museum.

'''Instead''': He applies the InsaneTrollLogic that if he makes the instrument look better, then it will sound better. The instrument ends up sounding worse and worse with each addition, as Dorothy Ann snarks, and Carlos has to get a lesson about how music requires sound vibrations so he can figure out to strip the instrument to the bare minimum.

'''Instead''': She drags them out, and she has more than usual. Carlos accidentally causes a small wave to splash over them, and they sink.

'''You'd Expect''': D.A. to listen to Arnold since, unless her books are either in a watertight bag or waterproof, they're as good as gone.\\

'''Instead:''' '''HE REMOVES HIS HELMET ON PLUTO JUST TO PROVE HOW DANGEROUS IT IS TO LIVE ON PLUTO!'''\\

'''Instead''': Janet in future episodes TookALevelInJerkass. She's not above manipulating her classmates, including Arnold, and engages in petty cruelty.

This show might be about science, but clearly, some people aren’t using their heads.

** Janet, Arnold's cousin, is visiting his class and has been established as an InsufferableGenius. Arnold can shut her up by convincing Ms. Frizzle to take the class to space. Once the shock wears off and the wonder sets in, Janet wants to prove that they've visited all the planets so she can show them to her class.\\

This show might be about science, but clearly some people aren’t using their heads.

** Janet, Arnold's cousin, is visiting his class and has been established as an InsufferableGenius. Arnold is able to shut her up by convincing Ms. Frizzle to take the class to space. Once the shock wears off and the wonder sets in, Janet wants to prove that they've visited all the planets so she can show them to her class.\\

** Arnold pulls one at the exact same moment. He tells Janet that he and his friends believe that she's been on every planet of the Solar System.\\

'''You'd Expect''': Janet would be nicer to the class, especially since they had to tolerate her shenanigans and Arnold had to risk his life in order to bring her back to her senses.\\

** The class is putting on an orchestra recital of an "inventive" arrangement of the William Tell overture. Dorothy Ann is conducting, while Carlos is playing an instrument that he made by himself. However, he finds out that the sound is "ploopy" and doesn't sound musical at all. No one knows what to do since their concert is ''the next day'' at the Sound Museum.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Dorothy Ann realize that Carlos's instrument just isn't ready, and plan to perform without it. While this is a bit harsh, it's necessary since TheShowMustGoOn and she wants to make their parents proud. If Carlos can fix it in 24 hours, then all the better.\\
'''Instead''': She laments that they'll be a laughingstock at the concert and tells Carlos bluntly that he'll never find his perfect sound after they missed the dress rehearsal and are spending the night in the Sound Museum.

'''You'd Expect''': Someone to point out to Ralphie that Ms. Frizzle is a BunnyEarsLawyer and CloudCuckooLander; she's probably giving them an extra lesson and is deliberately spooking Ralphie so as to teach him and the class about bats. Also, you'd expect someone to mention that if he's going by vampire lore, Ms. Frizzle is very diurnal, loves chocolate cake, and was ''in class earlier that day''.\\

'''Instead''': Keesha dismissively goes for ArbitrarySkepticism by saying there are no vampires, despite the fact that they visited an actual haunted house in the previous season and the bus by itself defies logical technology. \\
'''The Result''': Liz convinces the kids to follow along on motorcycle and shadow the field trip, to make sure nothing is wrong. Meanwhile, Ralphie has a point that it's weird that Ms. Frizzle is taking the parents to an abandoned castle. The kids get more crept out the more and more they see Ms. Frizzle escorting their parents around the castle, and start to believe Ralphie, even Keesha. They only realize that Ms. Frizzle is not a vampire when she has the parents take off their fake vampire ears and fangs after she has them hang upside down.

'''You'd Expect''': The other kids would realize that this is Janet, AlphaBitch and ManipulativeBitch extraordinaire, and ignore her in favor of having a decently sensible discussion with Phoebe where she's allowed to share her reasoning before they reject or accept her suggestion. Also, you would expect someone to point out that the mascot choice won't determine the performance of the soccer team.\\

'''The Result''': When a girl named Tiffany catches Arnold in the girls' bathroom, he's distracted enough to forget the key. He also forgets to turn off the water and empty the sink. On top of that, when the kids are turned into water, Ms. Frizzle says she needs the real key because her spare key dissolved into water.

'''The Result''': Wanda points out that Gerry doesn't own the lake, and there are no signs forbidding them from swimming or exploring. They thus decide to dive using the bus's powers. The class finds out rather quickly that the monster is a hoax. Even if they hadn't, other trained divers would have realized the scam. Heck, Ms. Frizzle was swimming in the lake and it's hinted she figured out the hoax early on before Gerry gave her warning.

'''Instead''': Wanda impulsively puts on her scuba gear and jumps out of the submarine-bus.\\

'''You'd Expect''': Them to not expect Phoebe to make the beanstalk alone, let alone grow a ''real'' one. A bean plant is too fragile to hold a person, even if said person is an eight-year-old.\\

'''Instead''': Janet forces Arnold to help her take giant rocks, buckets of Mars dust, and a jar of Jupiter's "red spot" gas for her proof. While doing so she strands the class in an asteroid field by pulling the emergency brake, loses Ms. Frizzle while helping her do repairs on the bus, and ''nearly gets the class killed'' when driving the bus through Jupiter. This causes the class to yell at Janet for her recklessness and Arnold having to watch her so she doesn't pull any more shenanigans, and when she tries to get souvenirs from Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, everyone is quick to stops her before she can even try. By the time they find Ms. Frizzle on Pluto, the bus is overloaded with her space souvenirs and bursts open, stranding all the items on the planet.

'''Instead''': Janet forces Arnold to help her take giant rocks, buckets of Mars dust, and a jar of Jupiter's "red spot" gas for her proof. While doing so she strands the class in an asteroid field by pulling the emergency brake, loses Ms. Frizzle while helping her do repairs on the bus, and ''nearly gets the class killed'' when driving the bus through Jupiter. This causes the class to yell at Janet for her recklessness and Arnold having to watch her so she doesn't pull any more shenanigans. By the time they find Ms. Frizzle on Pluto, the bus is overloaded with her space souvenirs and bursts open, stranding all the items on the planet.

** Janet, Arnold's cousin, is visiting his class and has been established as an InsufferableGenius. Arnold is able to shut her up by convincing Ms. Frizzle to take the class to space. Once the shock wears off and the wonder sets in, Janet wants to prove that they've visited all the planets so she can show to her class.\\
'''You'd Expect''': She would take small samples from each planet (like a handful of Mars dust) and try not to endanger everyone. The bus can hold maybe twenty students, but it's also trying to navigate the students through ''outer space'', which has no oxygen and a vast size.\\
'''Instead''': Janet forces Arnold to help her take giant rocks, buckets of Mars dust, and a jar of Jupiter's "red spot" gas for her proof. While doing so she strands the class in an asteroid field by pulling the emergency brake, loses Ms. Frizzle while helping her do repairs on the bus, and ''nearly gets the class killed'' when driving the bus through Jupiter. This causes the class to yell at Janet for her recklessness and Arnold having to watch her to make sure she doesn't pull any more shenanigans. By the time they find Ms. Frizzle on Pluto, the bus is overloaded with her space souvenirs and bursts open, stranding all the items on the planet.

'''Instead''': Janet refuses to budge from where her pile of stuff has landed on Pluto. Arnold, in an attempt to make her realize just how serious the situation is, takes off his helmet. ''On Pluto''. His head turns into a block of ice and he falls unconscious. Janet immediately gets on the bus to return to Earth save him because she doesn't want him to die of frostbite.
** Arnold pulls one off at the exact same moment. He tells Janet that he and his friends believe that she's been on every planet of the Solar System.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Arnold would tell her that being on Pluto is extremely dangerous and cold and that living on it would not be a great idea. At the very least, he could suggest to only take small samples of each planet they have been on.\\

** After this, Janet has suffered a huge wake-up call about how her recklessness and arrogance nearly got Arnold killed. She tells the class that it doesn't matter who believes her about space, because going on the trip was enough.\\

'''Instead''': He opens the window for her, expecting she needs fresh air. Bella hops out the window and escapes to a nearby pond, which causes Wanda to be worried sick about her. The class spends the whole episode looking for Bella,and learning about habitats.

'''You'd Expect''': Dorothy Ann to realize that Carlos's instrument just isn't ready, and plan to perform without it. While this is a bit harsh, it's necessary since TheShowMustGoOn and she wants to make their parents proud. If Carlos can fix it in 24 hours, then all the better.\\
'''Instead''': She laments that they'll be a laughingstock at the concert and tells Carlos bluntly that he'll never find his perfect sound, after they missed the dress rehearsal and are spending the night in the Sound Museum.
** Carlos also has this while trying to fix his instrument. It's loaded with a lot of bells and whistles, that he hopes makes it look cool.\\

'''Instead''': He has the bus turn into a submarine and hide in the cake batter. The baker sees the batter and thinks ''he'' simply forgot about it and puts it in the oven to bake. Soon the class starts to overheat and can't break out of the cake.

'''Instead''': He takes it out and holds it in his head. The dinosaurs of the time have no idea what to do with these strange humans, .\\

'''The Result''': Liz convinces the kids to follow along on motorcycle and shadow the field trip, to make sure nothing is wrong. Meanwhile, Ralphie has a point that it's weird that Ms. Frizzle is taking the parents to an abandoned castle. The kids get more creeped out the more and more they see Ms. Frizzle escorting their parents around the castle, and start to believe Ralphie, even Keesha. They only realize that Ms. Frizzle is not a vampire when she has the parents take off their fake vampire ears and fangs, after she has them hang upside down.

'''You'd Expect''': The other kids would realize that this is Janet, AlphaBitch and ManipulativeBitch extraordinaire and ignore her in favor of having a decently sensible discussion with Phoebe where she's allowed to share her reasoning before they reject or accept her suggestion. Also, you would expect someone to point out that the mascot choice won't determine the performance of the soccer team.\\

'''You'd Expect''': They'd remember that Janet is nearby and going trigger-happy with her net, and she doesn't know that the class has shrunk. Janet on their last adventure nearly got the class killed in space due to her obsessions. Also you'd expect they would lay low until the bus controls are dry.\\

'''The Result''': Janet ends up chasing the class in the bus, and they can't outfly her because the bus doesn't have typical butterfly experience. When Phoebe tries to camouflage the bus, Arnold accidentally alerts Janet to their presence by activating the do-dinger. If not for Phoebe remembering that butterflies can also scare enemies, and Janet losing her glasses, they would have been caught and possibly eaten by Liz, depending.

'''You'd Expect''': He would ask for the key to the boys' bathroom closest to the class door, or just use that ahead of time.\\

** Repairman Junkett wants to send the bus to the junkyard, because in his mind it's old and won't drive well. The class tries to convince him otherwise by taking him on a scenic drive through the mountains. The bus then clonks out, and Junkett decides to call a tow truck to take it for scrap metal.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Junkett would stay by the bus until the truck comes, since they're in the middle of nowhere on dangerous terrain.\\

** While the class has shrunken to test out Wanda and Tim's toy plane before an air show, Tim accidentally breaks the remote control due to tripping on a screwdriver. He, Phoebe and Liz have been left behind to man the controls, and the plane soars into the sky without any means of steering. Tim, Phoebe and Liz have to figure out how to change the bus into a search plane.\\

'''You'd Expect''': The kids to realize that Ms. Frizzle was the only adult who could have taken Liz to the place, asked her about it, and realized that Liz wasn't in any danger. "Haven" is not a bad word. Then the Haven director could have reassured them, as he does at the end of the episode, that they were just giving Liz some pampering that was scheduled ahead of time, ArtisticLicense aside that you shouldn't put a reptile in a super cold environment.\\

** Gerry Poveri reports that there is a monster in Walker Lake. The class find out later that it's a hoax Gerry Poveri is perpetuating for higher ratings. Wanda's mother is skeptical since Gerry has a reputation of doing anything for a story.\\

'''Instead''': She only thinks to warn people away from swimming in the water from the safety of her helicopter, and then prowls the lake in a submarine to . When the class gets into the water, her genius idea is to first obstruct them from exploring and then let them sink, potentially drowning or suffocating them when their submarine runs out of air.\\

'''You'd Expect''': Wanda to wait until Ms. Frizzle gives them directions on how to explore and pair up the class. That's standard diving safety.\\

'''Instead''': The entire class expects Phoebe to grow a real beanstalk that Wanda can climb. No one offers to help her\\

'''You'd Expect''': The kids to realize that Arnold has a point. They have to be at Dorothy Ann's house soon and while the mall may be last-minute and crowded, it won't be in ''space''.\\
'''Instead''': The kids pile in for a field trip, and Ms. Frizzle has the bus pick up a reluctant Arnold and put him in a space suit. Then they go MassOhCrap on hearing that it will take eighty years to reach the first star on sale.\\