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*Her family (especially her father & grandmother)
*Sports (specifically basketball and soccer)
*Animals (butterflies, desert fauna, spiders, baby animals)
*Rock & Roll Music|dislikes=*Doing things that she never did at her current school during her time at WES
*Losing any sports game
*Ms. Frizzle's Weirdness (at first)
*Being on stage [stage fright]|title=Phoebe Terese|image=<gallery>
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* [[Phoebe's school]] (prior to ''[[The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth|Inside the Earth]]'')
* [[Walkerville Elementary School]] (since ''[[The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth|Inside the Earth]]'')<br>
'''TV series''':
* [[Phoebe's school]] (before 3rd grade and since 5th grade)
* [[Walkerville Elementary School]] (temporarily for 3rd and 4th grade)|quotes="At my old school..."|name=Phoebe Terese|species=Human|occupation=Student|latest_appearance=[[Takes a Dive]]/[[Gets Programmed]] (TV series)<br>[[The Magic School Bus Explores Human Evolution]] (Cole/Degen)}}{{Quote|At my old school, we never got baked, except for that time the air conditioning went.|Phoebe in [[Gets Ready, Set, Dough]]}}

'''Phoebe Terese''' is one of the students in Mr. Seedplot's class at [[Phoebe's school|another school in Walkerville]]. She is voiced by [[Maia Filar]].

In ''The Magic School Bus'', she temporarily transferred to [[Walkerville Elementary School]], where she attended Professor Frizzle's class for the third and fourth grades.

In the main book series, she is a student in Ms. Frizzle's class at Walkerville Elementary School.
==Physical Appearance and Attire==
Phoebe has shoulder-length auburn hair in a ‘60s flip, which she keeps parted behind a yellow hairband and two bangs. She wears a yellow long-sleeved collared blouse, red shortalls, yellow knee-high socks and brown loafers or Mary Janes depending on the series. Her signature colors are red and yellow.

For winter wear, she wears a violet jacket, red shortalls, light yellow mittens, light yellow trousers and red boots.

For beachwear, she wears a 2 piece red and yellow bikini. In [[The Magic School Bus Explores the Ocean]] she wears a 2 piece red and yellow bathing suit with a miniskirt.

For rain wear in “Gets Swamped,” she wears a light red rain hat, a red raincoat, and yellow gumboots. The raincoat features the Magic School Bus logo at the top right.

For her field trip suit in “Revving Up”, she wore a red fireproof suit with dark red boots and gloves.

For formal wear, she wears a gold hairband with gold beads, a red long sleeve shirt with a red ribbon, a green pleated skirt, white stockings and black Mary Janes.

For basketball wear, she wears a red basketball shirt, yellow shorts, yellow socks, and light red converse sneakers.

==Personality==
Phoebe is a transfer student to [[Ms. Frizzle's class|the class]], and because of this, she tends to be more shy than the others. She is also the caring soul of the class. She is very kind-hearted, sweet, caring, shy, patient, humble, optimistic, educated, brainy and encouraging. She has stage fright as seen in the episode "Gets Planted". She also seems to be very close to her father as seen in "Going Batty" when she thinks the Friz turned him into a vampire she says "I love you anyway, daddy. I'll love you forever!" She also seems to be a bit of an animal activist as she genuinely cares about their safety and wants to do what seems right and fair.

==Background==
As a third grader during the 2015-2016 school year<ref>[[The Land before Tim]] takes place during the fifth grade year in 2017</ref>, Phoebe was the new student in [[Ms. Frizzle]]'s class, always comparing to how things were at her school. The caring soul of the class, she also seemed to be a little bit shy, as her biggest fear is stage fright. She's shown to love all animals, including bugs, and she supports recycling, once proposing that they build a recycling center on the empty lot in Wanda's neighborhood, Decay-tur. Despite her love of nature, she doesn't have much of a green thumb, as she can't grow a bean plant, doesn't grow her plant herself for the garden, and thinks there's a rock inside of the flower she grew at her [[Phoebe's School|school]].

==Storyline==
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===Season One===
Phoebe was introduced in "[[Gets Lost in Space]]" but she doesn't mention her old school or make any indication she's new until "[[For Lunch]]." She has and shows her caring side and love for animals in "[[All Dried Up]]" when she creates Students Against Desert Scarcity ("S.A.D.S.") after [[Carlos Ramon|Carlos]] goes on about the ones suffering in the desert. She learns the hard way that they don't need her. The class visits her old school in "[[Goes to Seed]]" to get her flower so their garden isn't incomplete when they're showcased on the cover of ''Plant It!'' magazine, much to her dismay as she doesn't want weird stuff happening at her old school, especially when [[Archibald Seedplot|Mr. Seedplot]] is at the garden which makes her feel embarrassed. In "[[Gets Ants in Its Pants]]" she teams up with [[Keesha Franklin|Keesha]] in making a movie about ants for the science fair. She even makes Keesha realize that there isn't just one star for the movie.

===Season Two===
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Phoebe helps Arnold chase down a dinosaur that stole his borrowed fossilized egg in "[[The Busasaurus]]." It's implied in this episode that she has developed a crush on him. In "[[Butterfly and the Bog Beast]]," the class is trying to come up with a new mascot for the school's soccer team, and everyone (especially Ralphie) dismisses her idea: The Butterflies. All but Arnold turn on her when [[Janet]] points out that the rival team, the Bulldogs, is Phoebe's old school's team, which hurts her feelings. She chides her friends for turning on her and dismissing her idea. She even chides Ralphie for being selfish. Eventually, they all compromise and name the team the Bog Beast Butterflies. In "[[Cold Feet]]," it's her turn to take [[Liz]] home for the weekend, but Liz is gone. When they track her down to a place called Herp Haven, Phoebe is sent to infiltrate the place with [[Valerie (alter-ego)|Valerie]], her "pet alligator" (which is really an alter-ego of the Bus)

===Season Three===
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Phoebe is against taking honey from bees in "[[In a Beehive]]," and she's stuck on an ice flow with Liz, [[Ralphie Tennelli|Ralphie]], and the bus in "[[In the Arctic]]." She feels bad for a giant praying mantis in a 1950s sci-fi movie in "[[Spins a Web]]," wishing the military in the film would trap it instead. Ms. Frizzle takes the class into the film where Phoebe tries to make this happen. Her fear of being on stage is revealed in "[[Gets Planted]]," but despite it, she's turned into a bean plant to play the beanstalk in the class play, ''Jack and the Beanstalk''.

===Season Four===
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When Arnold's skin is orange in "[[Goes Cellular]]," she wants to know the difference between his skin and Phoebe's. She's picked to represent the school in a Slam Dunk-a-Thon in "[[Gains Weight]]," despite the fact she can't do a slam dunk. She's a fox along with Arnold and [[Tim]] in "[[In the City]]," and she's partners with Arnold in "[[Takes a Dive]]."

==Relatives==
*[[Mr. Terese|Her father]] makes an appearance in "[[Going Batty]]." He's blind and, like her, mentions how things were at her old school, implying it runs in the family. Her mother has never been shown or mentioned. Mr. Terese has expressed to Ms. Frizzle that he's glad that they transferred Phoebe to [[Walkerville Elementary School|Walkerville Elementary]].
*In the original books, she lives with her [[Phoebe's grandmother|grandparents]]. Her parents are not mentioned.
*In ''[[Penguin Puzzle]],'' one of the books in the Magic School Bus Science Chapter Book series, her uncle is named Cecil Byrd, an Australian ornithologist.

==[[Producer Says]] segments==

=== As the producer===
*[[All Dried Up/Producer Says]]

==Name in other languages==
{{Special Characters|Greek}}
{| class="article-table"
|+
!Localization
!Phoebe's name
!Latinization
!Origin
|-
|Spanish (Latino) 
| colspan="2" |Andrea (original series)
Phoebe (Mentioned in [[Frizzle of the Future]])
|Phoebe Yeh, editor of the book series (in Rides Again)
|-
|Castilian Spanish
| colspan="2" |Phoebe
|Phoebe Yeh, editor of the book series
|-
|European French 
| colspan="2" |Ophélie (in original series and mentioned in [[Frizzle of the Future]])
|Ophelia
|-
|German
| colspan="2" |Paulina 
|The name Paulina
|}

==Trivia==
*Her first appearance was in the 1987 book ''[[The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth]]'' where she is "the new kid." 
**Despite being the newest student at Walkerville in the books, her classmates Carlos and Keesha were introduced in the later book ''[[The Magic School Bus In the Time of the Dinosaurs|The Magic School Bus in the Time of the Dinosaurs]]'' that was published in 1994, though it was in production at the same time as the TV series that was a novelty at the time.
*Being on stage in front of people is her biggest fear. ("Gets Planted")
*Jyoti does her reports in the remakes of the Young Scientist Club science kits.
*In the early-readers, she is called [[Phoebe Cox]] <ref>[[The Magic School Bus Takes a Moonwalk|Takes a Moonwalk]]</ref>.
*She weighs 65 pounds. <ref>[[Gains Weight]]</ref>
*Her eyes are hazel in "Goes Cellular" but they are green on the cover of the 2002 issue of the home-video compilation, ''[[The Magic School Bus: Creepy, Crawly Fun!|Creepy, Crawly Fun!]].''
*Phoebe knows the metric system. <ref>[[Kicks Up a Storm]]</ref>
*She is the most caring especially, when it comes to animal welfare. That trait was passed on to fifth-grade Wanda.
*Phoebe plays the saxophone. <ref>[[In the Haunted House]]</ref>
*Phoebe is left-handed. <ref>[[Gets Ants in Its Pants]]</ref>
*Her school is actually called "Phoebe's Old School." ("Goes to Seed"). Its mascot is a bulldog.
*She answers the phone in [[Producer (Malcolm-Jamal Warner)|All Dried Up's Producer Says segment]], making her the first Frizzle student at the time to answer a Producer call. The other students who have been featured in segments (as callers) were Arnold <ref>[[Makes a Stink]]</ref>, <ref>[[Frizzle of the Future]]</ref> and Jyoti <ref>[[Making Magic]]</ref>.
*She is the only student in her class to have on short-legged attire and overalls as casual attire – these are shortalls. This is actually a variant of her regular book outfit, and made its debut in ''[[The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor]]''.
*Phoebe's scuba suit while going on aquatic field trips has always been depicted yellow with red accents up until the original TV series' finale where her scuba suit's colors were swapped.
*Phoebe's surname, Terese (which is an Anglicized spelling of Thérèse) reveals she is of either French or Québécois origin. Mr. Ruhle pronounces her surname as in French. Further hints are dropped in her general politeness and her translation of imperial measurements to metric in a couple of Season 1 episodes that she's more likely Québécois.
*Her name is derived from Phoebe (Φοίβη, romanized Phoébē) the Greek Titaness of the Earth's Moon, and also a moon of Saturn.
* In "[[Going Batty]]," she is very close to her father as she remarks: "I'll love you anyway, daddy! I'll love you, forever!"
*In the Scholastic Reader book "The Magic School Bus Gets Recycled", it is revealed that Phoebe has been given a necklace from [[Phoebe's grandmother|her grandmother]], showing that Phoebe is close to her grandmother in the canon of the Scholastic Reader series as well as the classic series.
* Phoebe's voice actress, Maia Filar, also played Carol in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deceived ''Deceived''], Tasha in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goosebumps_(TV_series) ''Goosebumps''], Melissa in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are_You_Afraid_of_the_Dark%3F ''Are You Afraid of the Dark?''], and Abbie in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Forward ''Flash Forward''], the first Disney Channel original series.
*Phoebe turned into a fox in "[[In the City]]." It is coincidental that Maia Filar's brother, Gil (he has been a caller in a Producer Says segment) would later go on to play the character Fox (who happens to be a fox) in another [[Nelvana]] series, ''Franklin''.
* She is the only original kid not to appear in the sequel series. She returned to her old school and was replaced by [[Jyoti Kaur|Jyoti]] and she is only mentioned by Arnold. <ref>[[Frizzle of the Future]]</ref>
*In the episode "[[The Busasaurus]]," it's implied that Phoebe has a crush on [[Arnold Perlstein|Arnold]].
* Phoebe is one of the students that made a pun, other than [[Tim]], [[Ralphie Tennelli|Ralphie]], [[Carlos]] and [[Arnold Perlstein|Arnold]] and is one of only two female students who has made a pun, the other being [[Keesha Franklin|Keesha]].
*She is the only female student who has never cross-dressed as another gender for school plays.
*Phoebe takes karate lessons after school. <ref>[[The Magic School Bus and the Electric Field Trip]]</ref> 
*Her favorite music genre is rock and roll. <ref>[[The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth]]</ref> <ref>[[Explores the Human Body]]</ref>
*Phoebe is one of 3 females to fall subject to the [["Carlos!" gag]]. The others being [[Keesha Franklin|Keesha]] and [[Professor Valerie Frizzle, PhD|Ms Frizzle]]. <ref>[[Going Batty]]</ref>
**She is the first female to fall subject to the "Carlos" gag.
*Phoebe has still yet to meet [[Jyoti Kaur|Jyoti]] (if she ever appears in Rides Again in some form).
* Phoebe is one of few characters to have her grandparents revealed. They made an appearance in The Electric Field Trip. The others are [[Arnold]], [[Ralphie]], [[Tim]], [[Keesha]], Jyoti and Carlos.
*Phoebe's favorite color is yellow. <ref>[[Makes a Rainbow]]</ref>
*She is the third character to cry. <ref>[[Gets Charged]]</ref>
*She is likely named after Phoebe Yeh, editor of the book series. <ref>[[The Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane]]</ref> 
*Phoebe could possibly be the first female student in Miss Frizzle to have her body explored if her forehead in [[Goes Cellular]] counts, as well as her plant body in [[Gets Planted]].
**However, if not, her successor [[Jyoti Kaur|Jyoti]] will be the first.
*She is one of only three major characters to have worn a tutu, along with [[Professor Frizzle]] and [[Goldie]]. In each case, it was in the context of a circus act. <ref>[[The Magic School Bus Explores the Senses]]</ref>
*Lima beans are her favorite food to taste <ref>[[The Magic School Bus Comes to Its Senses]]</ref>
*It is unsure whether she or Jyoti will be cast in the upcoming Universal [[The Magic School Bus film]] and new [[Untitled The Magic School Bus TV series|Scholastic T.V. Series.]]

==References ==
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{{Walkerville Elementary}}

{{Terese Family}}

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