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- "Bus a move."
- —Tagline for the season
Season 2 is the second season of The Magic School Bus Rides Again. and the sixth in total. It released in full on April 13, 2018 on Netflix, beginning with “The Land Before Tim” and ending with “Making Magic.” It is the sixth season in the classic era and consists of 13 episodes. In production order, this season and the fifth are one season.
Cast[]
Bold = new voice
Normal = returning
Italic = deepening or aging
| Character | Voice actor |
|---|---|
| Valerie Frizzle
Professor Frizzle |
Lily Tomlin |
| Fiona Frizzle
Ms. Frizzle |
Kate McKinnon |
| Arnold Perlstein | Miles Koseleci-Vieira |
| Dorothy Ann Hudson | Gabby Clarke |
| Carlos Ramón | Leke Maceda-Rustecki |
| Keesha Franklin | Mikaela Blake |
| Ralphie Tennelli | Matthew Mintz |
| Jyoti Kaur | Birva Pandya |
| Tim Wright | Kaden Stephen |
| Wanda Li | Lynsey Pham |
| Liz Ard | |
| The Magic School Bus | |
| Professor Frizzle's Motorbike | |
| Callers |
Guest Stars[]
| Character | Voice | Episode |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Tillage | Jay Baruchel | "Ghost Farm" |
| Tony Tennelli | Martin Short | "Ralphie and the Flying Tennellis" |
Episodes[]
- All episodes of Season 2 initially released on Netflix on April 13, 2018.
| No. | Episode name | Topic | Release Date (Netflix) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Land before Tim | Fossils | April 13, 2018 |
| Netflix: When the class gets an invite to compete on Tim's favorite TV game show, the bus takes them all back in time to bone up on how fossils are formed. | |||
| Scholastic Entertainment: Tim, as the world's biggest fan of Nicki Ray, host of the hit TV game show Puzzlepalooza, couldn't be more thrilled when the class gets invited to be on the show, where he vows to win – and impress Nicki. The theme of this week's contest is "fossils", and Tim must solve a brain-bender of a puzzle: how did matching fossils wind up on opposite sides of the world? Is it possible that it wasn't the fossils that moved – it was the continents themselves? | |||
| 2 | Claw and Order | Birds | April 13, 2018 |
| Netflix: From scratch marks to stolen pepperoni slices, the science classroom's a mess – and all clues seem to point to Wanda's bird friend, Marty the Magpie. | |||
| Scholastic Entertainment: Crisis! A burglar has ransacked the science classroom, and detectives Keesha and Carlos must find out whodunit. Their prime suspect? Wanda's best bird friend, Magpie Marty, who Wanda just knows is innocent. To solve the crime, the kids must investigate clues, especially the beak marks and foot prints the culprit left behind. This critical evidence will either point out the proper perp – or incriminate Marty. | |||
| 3 | Ghost Farm | Farming | April 13, 2018 |
| Netflix: Wanda's been so busy planning this year's Fall Fun Feast that she forgot about the food. Now her only hope is a farm that's supposedly haunted. Gulp! | |||
| Scholastic Entertainment: Wanda proudly hosts this year's school harvest feast, but she was so busy promoting it she forgets to get the food! Ralphie happens to know of a farm that grows the finest produce around, but there's a hitch: he thinks it's haunted! Wanda's desperation means the class visits anyway, and what they find there is beyond spooky: tractors driven by ghosts, plants that climb walls, and so many robots! Could these strange discoveries and the success of the farm be somehow related? | |||
| 4 | Nothin' but Net | Internet | April 13, 2018 |
| Netflix: Ms. Frizzle and the class race across the internet to recover a digitized Arnold before Jyoti's grandmother accidentally deletes him.
Scholastic Entertainment: Jyoti always wants to make her Grandma's birthday special, even if she does live across the ocean. This year, Jyoti planned to email her a 'virtual hug', but Arnold got in the way, digitized himself, and now races across the Internet at nearly the speed of light! Jyoti and the class digitize themselves, too, and the chase is on! As they figure out how to navigate the Internet, they hope to catch poor Arnold and all his packets before he winds up in Grandma's email box – where he could possibly get deleted! | |||
| 5 | I Spy with My Animal Eyes | Sight | April 13, 2018 |
| When Ratney escapes into a waterspout and the Bus shrinks to retrieve her, she is accidentally transformed into an invisible giant. | |||
| 6 | Ready, Set, Fail! | Engineering | April 13, 2018 |
| The kids build and test a space rover to help them navigate an exoplanet and retrieve a gem that holds the answers to anything, so Ralphie can keep his grades up and stay on the baseball team. | |||
| 7 | The Good, the Bad, and the Gnocchi | Simple Machines | April 13, 2018 |
| Carlos, Mikey, and the other students race across the pasta display in Ralphie's family restaurant while shrunken. | |||
| 8 | Send In the Clouds | Clouds | April 13, 2018 |
| Jyoti invents an automated, hands-free umbrella and wants to show it to the public. | |||
| 9 | Ralphie and the Flying Tennellis | Circus Math | April 13, 2018 |
| The kids take a field trip to Budapest, Hungary, to watch Ralphie's trapeze-artist cousins who perform in the circus. | |||
| 10 | Tim and the Talking Trees | Communication | April 13, 2018 |
| The kids visit a forest and are transformed into plants, bugs, and fungi to prove to Tim that "trees talk". | |||
| 11 | Waste Not, Want Not | Nutrients | April 13, 2018 |
| The kids make a special fertilizer made of fæces for Dorothy Ann's flowers. | |||
| 12 | Janet's Mystery Gene | Genetics | April 13, 2018 |
| The kids travel inside Janet's DNA (and accidentally mess with it) to learn about what makes us who we are. | |||
| 13 | Making Magic | Sun | April 13, 2018 |
| In order to charge the Bus's battery, the Friz pilots the students (and Mr. Ruhle) to the surface of the Sun. | |||
Notation[]
- In production order and everywhere else, this season is considered the second half of season 1, or 1B. This grouping is also present on:
- Knowledge Kids
- iTunes
- Google Play
- Microsoft Movies and TV
- PlayStation Video
- 9Story’s region 1 DVDs (Canada)
- In Netflix order/airing order and some streaming platforms that stay faithful to the series' origin, this season is considered the second season. This grouping is present on:
- Netflix
- qubo
- Amazon Prime Video
- Vudu
- NCircle’s region 1 DVDs (United States)
Trivia[]
- This season is the first:
- to have an episode title that mentions a character other than a student, the Bus, or a member of the Frizzle family. The Flying Tennellis and Janet have episodes named for themselves.
- This season is the last:
- to release in the 2010s.
- of the "MSB Productions era" and the Rides Again 2D art style.
- in 2D animation altogether counting the previous five seasons.
- with Matthew Mintz and Miles K-V as Ralphie and Arnold respectively.
- Netflix’s "Season 2" is known in production order and select non-Netflix platforms as "season 1" collectively alongside the previous season. The trilogy’s "Kids in Space" starts production Season 2 with code MSB2_201B.
- In production order, "Ready, Set, Fail!" and "The Good, the Bad, and the Gnocchi" are the only ones switched. "The Good, the Bad, and the Gnocchi" is number MSB_119B, while "Ready, Set, Fail!" is MSB_120B.[1]
References[]
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/show/SCgRoU0i_TeXx-ZaCRRX50MQ?season=1&sbp=CgEx. Can also be seen in other non-NF platforms and Knowledge Kids, the source of the prod. order.