Tim and the Talking Trees

Tim and the Talking Trees
Series	Rides Again
Season	2
Episode	10
Producer Says Host	Ms. Valerie Frizzle
Activity Guide	None, as the official Activity Guides only apply to the original series and Season 1 of RA
Topic	Communication
Airdate	April 13th, 2018 (initial, Netflix) November 22, 2020 (Qubo)
Writer(s)	Nathalie Younglai
Director	Richard Weston
Previous	Ralphie and the Flying Tennellis
Next	Waste Not, Want Not

"Tim and the Talking Trees" is the tenth episode of the second season of The Magic School Bus Rides Again.

Plot

Tim shows a book about a mother tree talking her children, when Ralphie interrupts him by saying "Fake alert!". He didn't believe that trees can talk. Carlos and Keesha say that if they want to win the Walkerville Science Fair Crazy But True trophy like every year, they need to come up with some crazy BUT true. Tim says that everything in the forest communicates, and Wanda agrees with. But some of the kids disagree, forming a big argument. Ms. Frizzle comes into the room (who probably eavesdropped on them) and told everyone what happened. Dorothy Ann says that they go back to her idea: how low temperature superconductivity can be explored via condensation of Cooper pairs in a bosom-like state. Not understanding what she just said, the class decides to go with Tim's talking trees idea, which leads to, much to Arnold's dismay, a field trip. As the bus starts to do its stuff, the seatbelts turn into vines. The inside of the Bus covers up with tree bark and mushrooms start to grow out of the seats. After the Bus finally transforms into a tree, they arrive in a forest. The kids step out of the Magic School Tree as Ralphie says, "HELLO! ANYONE HERE?", trying to prove to Tim that trees can't communicate in words.

Trivia

• We see what the Bus is like when it is transforming from the inside.
• Dorothy Ann's nerdiness from Shows and Tells is shown in this episode.
• As of this episode, Keesha is the only character who has never transformed into a tree in Ride's Again.

Watch Episode

• All About Earth (2021 DVD Release)

Extras

• Tim and the Talking Trees/Gallery
• Tim and the Talking Trees/Transcript

Watch Clips

The Magic School Bus Rides Again - Wanda, Keesha and Everyone transforms into Wasps and Trees

Wanda and Keesha as wasps

The Magic School Bus Rides Again - Fiona Frizzle transforms into Tree