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The Small Intestine is the fourth location in Explores the Human Body.
Bus activities[]
Front of the Bus[]
- The bus enters the small intestine and shrinks down, submerging itself into the acids and landing near the villi. The bits of food from the stomach are still floating around, but disappear into nutrients when clicked on.
- In the mini-game, the player can adjust the length of the small intestine and see how it effects the nutrient intake for the liver.
Back of the Bus[]
- The player can read various reports by other students, and also play on Tim's SPLAT! Backpack.
- In Ralphie's handheld game, a mini-game called Tunnel Vision Small can be played, where the player must connect a series of tubes on a grid to push a ball through the small intestine.
- Wanda, Keesha, and Dorothy Ann can leave the bus and explore the small intestine. They are in scuba suits and jump up and down the villi. Keesha tells them to be careful in the rough seas when clicked. Dorothy Ann points out how the villi works. Wanda notes that the villi looks like mountains from her perspective.
Clickable characters[]
- Professor Frizzle:
- Says a person with the initials D.A. can tell the class about the small intestine.
- Asks an open question about why food needs to be digested.
- Says "Wahoo!" and raises her arms.
- Phoebe:
- Gives a report on the villi.
- Says that she learned in her old school that the villi catches food particles.
- Notes that Arnold weighs 85 pounds.
- Carlos:
- Exclaims that they've shrunken even smaller to fit in the small intestine.
- Makes a joke about what a surgeon says after operating on a small intestine.
- Notes that walls of the small intestine look crumpled up.
- Wanda:
- Gives a report about the length of the small intestine.
- Makes a joke about the small intestine's favorite magazine being Reader's Digestion.
- Asks if she's seen this villi somewhere before.
- Dorothy Ann:
- Notes that the villi absorb nutrients from food, according to her research.
- Exclaims that she's glad the bus shrunk and turned into a sub. Tim mistakes this for a sub sandwich.
- Jokes about there being a test on the small in-test-ine. Tim warns her to not give Ms. Frizzle ideas.
- Keesha:
- Makes a joke about where the small intestine lies. Ms. Frizzle says it always tells the truth.
- Notes that the small intestine is a large tube that connects the stomach and large intestine.
- Says she wants to retire to a villi after she becomes rich and famous.
- Tim:
- Presents a drawing of a small intestine driving a car.
- Presents a drawing of a small intestine being drawn out of a pot like a snake.
- Presents a drawing of a man with a big small intestine as tall as a giraffe.
- Presents a drawing of a small intestine as a girl with a bowtie.
- Notes that the villi absorbs nutrients from the stomach.
- Ralphie:
- Asks if Arnold's small intestine is giving them the "evil eye."
- Says there's 20 feet of small intestine in the body.
- Wonders if Arnold likes vegetables.