- "Discover roaring, slithering, and swimming animals!"
- —Professor Frizzle on the back cover
The Magic School Bus: The Busasaurus is an episode compilation about cold-blooded animals. It contains episodes from the first three seasons of the Original Series. In Region 1, it is disc 1 of the Field Trip Fun and Games box set.
In Region 4/Australia, a version titled The Magic School Bus: Dinosaurs and Reptiles was released to VHS in 2000 and to DVD in 2004 by Twentieth Century Studios (formerly Twentieth Century Fox) Home Entertainment. This version predates the Region 1 release and does not include Goes Upstream or Gets Eaten.
Episodes[]
Region 1/"The Busasaurus" (2012)[]
Title Card | Title/Topic/Description | Season | Episode | Production Code | Release Date |
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The Busasaurus Topic: Dinosaurs |
2 (MSB) | 3 (16) | MSB-17 | September 23, 1995 |
The class travels 67 million years back in time to a Cretaceous version of Walkerville. | |||||
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Cold Feet Topic: Warm-/Cold-Blooded |
25 | 12 | MSB-25 | November 25, 1995 |
Liz has gone off to a mysterious place called "Herp Haven." Thinking she's in trouble, the class rushes to Herp Haven, where they turn into reptiles. With Michael York as Herpst. | |||||
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Goes Upstream Topic: Salmon Migration |
34 | 8 | MSB-34 | November 2, 1996 |
Ralphie wants to serve salmon at the school fish-fry, so they fish at the spot that he and his uncle like to fish in. When Ralphie throws his fishing line in the water, all he catches is Ms. Frizzle, who's been testing out a flipper prototype for the students' wetsuits. Ralphie wants to know where the salmon went, so Ms. Frizzle turns the Bus into a salmon (it shrinks as well), and follows the salmon with the help of a MicroBus Windows: Pisces '95 (a parody of Microsoft Windows 95) software disc, which gives it a "brain" like a salmon. | |||||
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Bonus: Gets Eaten Topic: The Food Chain |
4 | 4 | MSB-02 | October 1, 1994 |
From The Magic School Bus: The Food Chain: Arnold and Keesha are in trouble when they forget an assignment to bring in two things that go together. He has a soggy shoe with pond scum he stepped in on his way to school. Keesha has only the tuna fish sandwich she brought for lunch. Ms. Frizzle is delighted at this brilliant combination! A field trip to the ocean becomes a search for the connection between these two unlikely objects. The bus shrinks and travels through the ocean food chain—getting eaten along the way! |
Trivia[]
- The cover art in Region 1 is based on its titular episode, while in Region 4 it is based on Cold Feet.
Other titles[]
Language | Name |
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Spanish (US and Latin America) | El Autobús Mágico: El Autobusaurio |
French (Canada) | Le Bus Magique: Le Buso-saurus |