03x12 - Rocks and Rolls

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Good morning,
my fellow walkervilleians.

As I'm sure you all know--
ha ha ha!

I am ashley
walker club dupree,

Great-granddaughter
of our town's fearless founder,

Captain crasnick p. Walker,
esquire.

Welcome to
the 100th anniversary

Of walkerville's
proud existence.

To celebrate
this momentous occasion,

A sculpture of captain walker
is, uh...

On its way.

It was sculpted
by our contest winner,
arnold pearlstein,

And his fellow students
in ms. Frizzle's class.

But this is
no ordinary sculpture.

No, no, no, indeed.

In fact, nothing about
my great-grandfather
was ordinary.

[Clears throat]

In his will,
he left specific instructions

As to the manner in which
this monument must be built.

They read as follows,
and I quote:

"A statue formed
without human hand,

"Shaped and scraped
like our vast changing land,

Bumped and thumped
by wedges and blows..."

Uh!

"The artist will chisel
my face as it flows."

Great. You knocked off
captain walker's ear.

I was trying
to give him a mouth.

Man, this
is hard work!

It sure would be
a lot easier

If we could use
our hands to carve it.

He's going back.

Back...
And he snags it!

A terrific catch,
folks!

Aren't you guys
finished yet?

We're supposed
to be down
at the ceremony now.

Our parents
are all there,

Not to mention
mrs. Walker
club dupree.

Well, I'd like to see
mrs. Walker club dupree
go any faster, arnold.

It's freezing up here!

Give me a break,
guys.

My reputation
as a rock expert
is at stake.

I guaranteed
the committee
we could do it.

But this is
ridiculous, arnold!

Whoever heard
of carving rock without
using your hands?

Don't worry.
You're doing great.

The statue
looks just like
captain walker.

Well, sort of.

No matter.

This statue
will last forever,

A monument
to our hard work
and ingenuity.

Uh!

I don't mean to shatter
your mood, arnold,

But nothing is forever.

Together: ms. Frizzle!

Not even rock.

No way!

I know rock,
and rock
is permanent.

And I know water,
arnold,

And this is ice.

[Giggles]
very ice, indeed!

So a little water
has gotten in the crack
and frozen.

What's the big deal?

Water can't break rock.

Is it just me,
or is the statue moving?

It is, indeed,
ralphie. See?

Yikes! The ice
is splitting the rock!

The statue's breaking away
from the mountain!

Precisely.

Arnold: captain walker!

He's going to get smashed
to smithereens!

Ralphie: looks like
captain walker is going to get
to the ceremony before we do!

Yes, well, while we're
waiting for our...statue,

Let me tell you more
about my great-grandfather.

Ah! Here we go.

Rocks...

My great-grandfather
loved rocks.

He was fascinated
that they came in so many
different shapes and sizes.

Yes. Rocks and poetry
were his passion.

As a matter of fact...

[Yawn]

His first home
was built with fieldstone.

The road to the house
was paved with cobblestone.

The cornerstone
of the fieldstone was limestone.

Oh, no!
Our statue!

Well, I guess we won't
be leaving this place
as we found it.

When captain walker
made a break for it,

He took a whole bunch
of other rocks with him.

Come on! We've got
to save the statue!

Or what's left
of it.

Ms. Frizzle:
my sediments exactly.

To the bus!

Single file, please.

Arnold: I don't know,
ms. Frizzle.

I don't think this bus can
make it down the mountain.

Ms. Frizzle:
you're right, arnold.

Perhaps we ought
to be a little...boulder.

Children together:
what?

Ms. Frizzle: seat belts!

Everyone!

Children: oh, no!

Ms. Frizzle:
wah-ha-ha-ha!

Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
Wah-ha-ha-ha!

Arnold:
there's captain walker.
I see him!

Ralphie: does that mean
we can stop?

Dorothy ann: if we stop,

We'll get
smashed by the rocks
coming down behind us,

Just like
captain walker did!

Ms. Frizzle: oh! A bang-up
observation, dorothy ann.

♪ We'll make changes
in the mountain when we stop ♪

♪ We'll make changes
in the mountain when we stop ♪

Ah, perfect!

A nice little rock pile
in just the right place.

Come on! We've got
to get captain walker!

Tim: at least
he's still got his hat.

Keesha: no wonder!

No wonder what?

Wonder was his horse,
remember?

And now
there's no wonder.

Arnold: we've lost
half the statue!

Who'd have thought
a little frozen water

Could have started
such a rockslide?

Well, as my great
uncle boulderdash
used to say,

"Never take anything
for granite."

Well, we better get
what's left of captain walker
onto the bus

While we can still
tell who he is.

Tim: uh-oh. The water's
washing the dirt out
from under the statue.

I can't believe it!
The water's doing it again!

Liz, do something!
Stop him!

Arnold: oh, no.
There goes his other arm.

Janet: wow! The water
is really strong.

It's knocking the statue
against the other rocks.

Uh!

This way, liz!

I have an idea.

When I say 3, grab it.

1...

2...

3!

Aah!

Whoa!

Thanks, ms. Frizzle.

Just in the nick of time!

Speaking of nicks,
there goes
captain walker.

Bye-bye!

Arnold: captain walker!

What's the water
doing to him now?

Whither it floweth,
he goeth, arnold.

Does that mean
we have to give up
the chase?

It's awfully rough
out there.

Ms. Frizzle: hmm, ahh.
As my third cousin rocky
used to say,

"Yo! When the water
gets rough, the tough
get in the water."

Come on, bus!

Do your stuff!

Arnold:
follow that statue!

Children: oh, no!

Ms. Frizzle: oh, yes!

Mrs. Walker club dupree:
while we await the arrival
of arnold and his class,

Whom I sure will be here
any moment,

Let me tell you
one of captain walker's
favorite "rock-rock jokes."

"Rock-rock.
Who's there?"

"Like a."

"Like a who?"

"Like a rolling stone!"
Ha ha!

[Audience boos]

Like a rolling stone?

Hmm.

Ralphie: I feel like
I'm in a food processor.

Rock processor
is more like it!

Arnold:
anybody see captain walker?

Ralphie: I just keep
seeing my feet.

Ms. Frizzle: tumbling,
bouncing, tossing, and turning.

Oh, don't you
just love it, ralphie?

We're rock
and we're rollin'!

And I'm getting sick!

Janet:
we've stopped!

What a relief!

You call hanging
upside down a relief?

Dorothy ann:
what's happening?

Ralphie: that's better.

Arnold: better?
What's better about it?

We're supposed to be at
the most important ceremony
walkerville has ever had

With a statue we were
supposed to have made,
and where are we?

Stuck at
the bottom of a stream
with no statue,

Getting pushed around
by--by what?

Water! That's what!

Soft, runny water!

Ms. Frizzle: ah,
but what better place

To study
erosion by water?

Ohh...

Water erosion?

According to my research,

Water erosion is
what happens when rocks
get worn away by water.

That's what happened
to captain walker.

He's been eroded.

You got
that right, arn.

What's left
of captain walker
at 12:00!

Dorothy ann: are you sure
that's him?

Carlos: his nose
is almost gone.

You know what they say--
"no nose is good nose!"

Children together:
carlos!

I can't believe that
water could do all that
to solid rock.

Just ask captain walker.

Arnold: if we don't
get him soon, captain walker
will be captain gravel.

Dorothy ann:
and we'll be kid gravel.

Oh! What can we do?
We're stuck!

Nothing a little push
can't fix.

Prepare to disembark!

Ralphie: but, ms. Frizzle,
if we go out there,

We'll be swept away
by the water!

We'll be hammered!
We'll be gouged!

We'll be scratched!

Exactly, ralphie.

I couldn't have said
it better myself.

And going out there
is the only way
to save captain walker!

I'm glad you agree,
arnold.

Cool suits!

Yeah. I always wanted
to be a rock star.

Together: carlos!

Ms. Frizzle, are you sure
this is the only way

To get captain walker?

No, but it's the only way
to take chances,

Make mistakes,
and get eroded!

I think I'm the one that
should have stayed home today.

Here we go!

Whoa!
Whoa!

Ready, liz.

Leave no stone
unturned.

Whoa! It's like
a hailstorm down here.

The current's so strong,
I can feel the gravel
smashing against me.

It's wearing away
my rock suit.

At my old school,
we weren't allowed
to get eroded.

Look, look,
look! There's
captain walker!

Ok. We've got the statue.
We can go to the ceremony now.

Not so fast, arn.
Look out!

After him!

I've been
in some tough
scrapes before,

But this is
ridiculous!

Yeah. We're on
the erode to ruin.

Hey, good one, d.a.

Phew! It's good
to have a rest.

Whew! You said it!

Being eroded takes
a lot out of you.

Ms. Frizzle:
smooth thinking, wanda...

real smooth.

Hey, arn, doesn't
a rolling stone
ever stop?

Ooh!
Ooh!

Anybody see
captain walker?

No, but I do
see that.

Is it just me,
or are we about
to get pulverized?

All: ms. Frizzle!

Oh! Ride 'em, cowboy!

It's an e-rodeo!

Kids: ms. Frizzle!

Help!

Yikes!
Yikes!

Wow! Look what happened
to our rock suits!

All the sand and gravel
rubbed us smooth.

And made our suits
smaller.

All because the water
tumbled us and pushed us
along the bottom of the stream.

And the same thing's
happening to captain walker!

Carlos: soon there won't be
anything left!

We've got to
save him!

Where is he?

Bottoms up!

Dorothy ann: at last!
The water's slowing down.

Ralphie: and we're not
being tossed around anymore.

There aren't as many
big rocks around either.

I'm not surprised.

No self-respecting rock
has a chance once it's
fallen down a mountain,

Plunged over a waterfall,
and been tumbled and pushed
along the bottom of a stream.

Oh, and it's all
because of water.

Who would've
believed it?

Look! All the rocks
that slid down the mountain
have dammed up the stream.

Arnold: and it stopped
captain walker!

Hurry!
There's still a chance!

Carlos: yeah, if we want
to go bowling.

Gee. Feel how smooth
his head is...

At least i think
it's his head.

It's not surprising
since he's been given
the sandpaper treatment.

Make that sand...
water treatment.

Ah, it's what my old
aunt bedrock used to call
the power of water.

Hold on, captain!

[Groans]

[Groans]

We've got you!

What would
aunt bedrock
call this?

A disaster!

Hey! Isn't that
captain walker's horse?

Carlos: looks like
he reached the end
of the line.

Yep. A sad tale,
indeed.
Oh!

What are we going to tell
the people at the ceremony?

I don't know,
but we'd better think
of something fast.

They're
right below us!

Oh, dear.

I'm sure they'll be here
momentarily.

I-i-in the meantime,
here's another rock joke.

What is a boulder's
favorite music?

Rock and roll.

Aha.

Oh! I get it!

rock and roll.

Oh, no. People
are leaving.

Wait for us!
We're coming!

We've got to
get down there.

Yeah. What are we
going to do,

Break open the dam
and let the water wash us
down to the ceremony?

Huh. As if.

Why, keesha, that's
a smashing idea.

It is?

Like icing on a cake.

That's it.

Remember how the ice
made the statue break
away from the mountain

In the first place?

An earth-shattering
recollection, arnold.

Ralphie: so all we
have to do is get water
into a crack in the dam.

Like this crack here.

Ok, ok, but how do we
turn it into ice?

Why, with
the frizzle freeze!

Hit it, liz!

Wanda: the water's freezing!

Tim: and the rock's
starting to split.

Ms. Frizzle:
buckle up, class.

Ms. Frizzle: we're off!

Wa-ha-ha-hoo!

Kids: we're creating
a new stream.

It's a flood!

Everyone, please!

Come back!

I'm sure there's
an explanation.

I know they'll
be here any--

[Gasp]

Ah! Oh, here's ms. Frizzle
and her class now.

Oh! Oh! Oh!

Kids: sorry!

Not to worry.
Not to worry.

I'm just glad you made it.

All we made was a mess!

We brought the whole
mountain down with us!

Never mind that.
Let's get to the ceremony.

Keesha: yeah. What
are we waiting for?

Come on!
Let's go!

Hold it. They're expecting
an incredible sculpture
of captain walker,

But the water has eroded it
all the way to...this!

Oh, I don't think
you'll disappoint
them, arnold.

Come on. Come on up.
Come on up, young man.
Don't be shy.

Well...um, a funny thing
happened on the way
down the mountain.

We see that.

Don't we?

As we all know,
my great-grandfather requested

That his monument be...

Oh, yes.
"Formed without human hand,

Shaped and scraped
like our vast,
changing land."

We tried to do that.
We really did. Honest.

"Bumped and thumped
by wedges and blows,

The artist will chisel
my face as it flows."

It got bumped
and thumped, all right,
but I can explain.

No need.
It's magnificent!

It is?

A work of art
on a grand scale.

Captain walker would be
exceedingly proud.

Well, what
do you know?!

But we didn't
do that.

Exactly. Ahem!

"Bumped and thumped
by wedges and blows,

The artist will chisel
my face as it flows."

That's it.

"As it flows"!

As what flows?

Water!

You mean the poem wasn't
about not using our hands?

No. It was about
erosion by water.

Arnold,
I'm sure everyone
would love to hear

Just how you did it.

But we didn't do it.
Water did.

Water eroded the rocks
and carved the mountain
to look like captain walker...

Not us.

The hair was formed when ice
cracked the rock connecting
the statue to the mountain,

And the statue fell.

The stream
which has carved a path
down the mountain

Is the outline
of the face.

And the nose and eyes
are really rock piles

Which were pushed there
by the water in the stream.

The only thing we did
is the beard.

That happened when
we cracked open the dam,

Causing the flood
which brought us down here.

But still, water
did all the work.

As he looks out at us today,

Captain walker is a symbol

Of the power of water,

Which, I must admit,

Is actually
stronger than rock.

But tomorrow, who knows
which way the captain
will be looking,

For as ms. Frizzle
might say...

[Imitating ms. Frizzle]
erosion is everything
it's cracked up to be.

Is this the magic school bus?

Is this the magic
school bus?

Magic school bus?

Children together:
is this the magic
school bus?

Magic school bus?

Magic school bus?

Magic school bus?
Magic school bus?

Kids' voices overlapping:
the magic school bus?!

I'm sorry, but it
was not in my contact
to be deluged.

I do not do
disaster movies.

I know, I know,
but we had to show

How a flood can
sculpt the landscape.

Well, next time, show it
in someone else's scene.

Would you like
some iced tea?

Ohhh.

[Ring]

Hello. magic school bus.
producer speaking.

Boy: you know, I didn't
believe that part

About the frozen water
expanding so much

It could break something
as hard as a rock apart

Till I tried it myself.

You did?
What did you do?

First my mom and I
found a glass jar
with a screw-on lid,

Then we filled it
completely full of water

And screwed on the lid.

Then we wrapped it
in a heavy plastic bag

And put it in
the freezer overnight.

And what happened?

The next day,
the jar was broken.

The water inside it
expanded as it froze

And broke the jar,

Just like the ice
broke apart the rock.

Well, that's a pretty
sharp experiment.

Thanks for
passing it on.

My pleasure.
Bye.

Liz, you need to
freeze the water.

It won't freeze
in the cupboard.

[Ring]

Boy:
I don't believe that water

Can really push big rocks
and boulders around

The way you showed.

Well, the water just
has to move fast enough

To roll and bounce
the rocks,
not lift them up.

Go find
a fast-moving stream.

You'll be amazed
at how big the rocks are

That the floods
pushed aside.

I'll do that.
Bye.

Liz, it'll take more
than a few pieces of ice

To freeze that water.

[Telephone rings]

Boy: hi. I know
floods and landslides

Happen quickly,

But most erosion
takes a long, long time,
doesn't it?

You're right.
The bigger the erosion,

The longer it takes.

For instance,
it took water

More than
15 million years

To carve out
the grand canyon.

About as long as it's
going to take you
to freeze that water.

Water made
the grand canyon?

You bet.

It made it grand.

Heh heh heh.

[Cracking]

What was that?

Good thing you put it
in the plastic bag.

How'd you do that?

I know, you didn't
break the glass.
Water did.

But how did you
freeze the water so fast?

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♪ Surfin' on a sound wave ♪

♪ Swingin' through the stars ♪

♪ Take a left
at your intestine ♪

♪ Take your second right
past mars ♪

♪ On the magic school bus ♪

♪ Navigate a nostril ♪

♪ Climb on the magic
school bus ♪

♪ Spank a plankton, too ♪

Take that!

♪ On our magic school bus ♪

♪ Raft a river of lava ♪

♪ On the magic school bus ♪

♪ Such a fine thing to do ♪

Whoa!

♪ So strap your bones
right to the seat ♪

♪ Come on in and don't be shy ♪

♪ Just to make your day
complete ♪

♪ You might get baked
into a pie ♪

♪ On the magic school bus ♪

♪ Step inside,
it's a wilder ride! ♪

♪ Come on! Ride on
the magic school bus ♪