02x09 - Taking Flight

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[Beep beep]

Seat belts, everyone!

Please let this be a normal field trip.

With the frizz?

All: no way! Oh!

♪ Cruisin' on down main street

♪ You're relaxed and feelin' good ♪

♪ Yeah!

♪ Next thing that you know, you're seein' ♪

Wa-ha-ha-hoo!

♪ An octopus in the neighborhood! ♪

♪ 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

Come on!

♪ 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

[Beep beep]

Wanda: wings are the difference between flying and not.

If you have them, you can. If you don't, you cannot.

With wings, you can soar and glide in the breeze

And dip and turn with incredible ease,

Do loop-de-loops and sh**t through hoops,

Fly upside down and roll around,

And never, ever leave the sky!

Wanda: it's going to crash!

Nose up, tim! Nose up!

Don't let her crash! She's my baby!

Chill out, wanda. I know how to fly this thing.

I designed it, didn't i?

Based on my dream, my idea!

I drew up the plans.

And I helped you build it.

Any questions?

Your baby's fine, wanda. Not even a scratch.

Someday, you'll read about me--

Wildcat wanda,

Ace test pilot, queen of the clouds!

Too bad the frizz wasn't here to see the test flight.

Wahoo!

Ah! Afternoon, class.

All: good afternoon, ms. Frizzle.

I was just checking the wind conditions

For today's model airplane show.

Nothing like a little moving air

To lift the spirits, I always say.

And lift the plane.

We might even win first prize with my new wing design.

Wings are wings. What's the big deal?

Try flying without them, arnold.

No, thanks. I prefer walking.

At least there's something holding me up.

Ground, arnold-- dull, dirty, boring ground!

That's what's holding you up,

But it's also keeping you down.

Imagine being inside this plane,

Streaking through the air at hundreds of miles an hour

With nothing but sky above and cloud below!

Vrrr...

Eeeeh!

Streaking through thin air, you mean.

Come on, arnold. It would be pretty hard to streak through fat air.

All: carlos!

Let's see. Wings and thin air--

Now, there's a combo that just might fly.

Oh, no. You're not thinking about a field trip

In wanda's plane, are you, ms. Frizzle?

Of course not, arnold.

I'm through thinking about it.

Ha ha! It's time to take chances,

Make mistakes, and fly like the wind!

Ah, thank you, liz.

We can't all go, ms. Frizzle.

Somebody has to stay here and operate the remote controls.

Affirmative, tim. That puts you in charge of the ground crew.

I need two volunteers to stay with tim.

I'll stay, ms. Frizzle! I'll stay!

Um, phoebe, why don't you and liz remain here?

I was afraid you'd say that.

Hmm. All set for proper shrinkage.

Hit it, phoebe.

Me?

Well, uh... Here goes.

Say fly!

All: fly!

Wow! Amazing!

Love it!

Too bad every kid can't have a portashrinker.

Going up. Single file, please.

You're the best, ms. Frizzle.

The wild blue yonder is yours, wanda. Go for it!

Yeah! Wahoo!

Hey! Tim did a great job!

Yeah, he did.

This is fantastic! There's even room for my books.

Um, I think tim forgot the parachutes.

No need for parachutes, arnold.

Yah!

Not with wildcat wanda at the controls!

Come on, wanda. They're not real.

They're only paint and wood.

Wood or not, we're going where no kid has gone before.

Can we talk about this?

Of course, arnold,

But right now, it's time to buckle up and fly right!

You ready?

All systems go.

Contact.

Roger.

Prepare for an uplifting experience, class.

And hold on to your hats!

Ha! Don't you ever listen?

Both: whoa!

Happy landing!

We're up!

We're flying!

Wow! Feel that air moving past us!

They don't call it an airplane for nothing, keesha.

Looking good, tim. Can I try it?

Sure, but be careful.

This joystick moves the tail rudder back and forth

And the elevators up and down.

That's what steers the plane wherever you want it to go.

Got it.

Wonder how high it'll go.

All: whoa!

We're slowing down!

Oh, my! What an air-raising development!

The air's not moving as fast as it was before.

According to my research,

When a plane's nose tips up

And slows down like this,

It's called a stall.

Stall? As in stop flying?

Hold it! If we stop flying,

That means we start...

All: falling!

It's stalling, phoeb. Nose down, quick!

Aah!

Great save, phoebe! You did it.

What made it fall like that?

No air moving past the wings.

No moving air, no lift, rock fall.

You pulled it out just in time.

The queen of the clouds is back!

I think I'm going to be sick.

You better bring them down, tim.

It's almost time to leave for the air show.

Will do, phoeb. Let's see.

Where is a good place to land?

Yow!

Huh!

Is it just me, or did tim just smash the remote control?

You mean we're flying without tim?

We weren't doing so great with him.

Do something, wanda! You got us into this!

Help!

What are we going to do, phoeb?

I don't know.

This never happened at my old school!

All: tim, phoebe, do something!

Get us down!

Come on, liz! Choose one!

We have to find our plane before something terrible happens!

If ms. Frizzle were here, she'd know how to turn this bus

Into the best search-and-rescue plane ever built!

We have wings. Why aren't we flying?

Because there's no air moving past the wings.

Carlos: hey, I think we just passed my house!

Take a good look, carlos. It may be the last time you see it.

Come on, you weaselly wimps!

Where's your spirit of adventure?

We're on the path to glory!

How can we be on the path to anywhere if you can't steer?

Hmm. Maybe this has something to do with the steering.

Heh. Maybe not.

I hate it when this happens!

Got to take action! Get those wings down!

Push your wing down, carlos!

I'm pushing!

Stand by to lock, ralphie!

Standing by!

Push! Push!

Whoa! Whoa!

Ugh!

Wings locked!

All: hang on!

As my old flight instructor used to say,

"Two wings are better than none."

I wish your old flight instructor were here now.

Wait a second. If the wings are holding up the plane,

What's holding up the wings?

The same thing that's holding up carlos--moving air!

Hey, I'm flying! Whoa!

I can feel the air lifting me up!

Me, too!

[Playing upbeat tune]

Wanda: bubbles at 12 o'clock!

See, arnold? That's why we're staying up.

The bubbles are holding us up?

Not the bubbles. It's the thin air

Moving across the wings that's pushing us up.

Right, ms. Frizzle?

You bet your windbreaker, keesha!

We all need a little lift now and then.

Tim: remember, liz, we need a plane that flies.

We're counting on you, liz.

Tim: all right! You did it...

Sort of.

[Coughing]

What happened? We had 10 wings!

Why didn't we stay in the air?

This heap is too heavy.

Even if it had 100 wings, it wouldn't get enough lift for the air to hold it up.

Now there aren't even any wings!

Anybody know where we are?

We're lost. That's where we are!

Lost and little!

They won't find us even if they find us.

[Sputtering]

Excuse me, but our propeller just stopped turning.

According to my research,

The propeller keeps us moving forward.

Ralphie: let me understand this.

If the propeller isn't working,

We slow down, right?

And if we slow down, there's going to be

Less and less air moving across our wings.

Exactly! And when there's no air moving across our wings, we...

All: huh!

All: fall!

We could walk to where the plane is

Before liz gets us up in the air.

Whoa!

Tim: we're up!

Phoebe: but we aren't getting any higher.

Uh-oh! Doesn't look like this plane

Has enough power to get us over...

Both: city hall!

Top flight, liz!

Ya-hoo!

Carlos: nice going, wanda.

We're doomed!

We'll be little model kids forever!

Instead of being queen of the clouds,

You should be queen of the trees.

Oh, yeah? Well, wildcat wanda never gives up!

Come on, guys! What made us fly before?

Um...air moving across the wings.

Roger!

And moving air causes lift.

Double roger!

Come on, wanda.

The only way this plane's going to move

Is if it falls out of the tree.

Ralphie's right. There's no moving air

If we're not moving.

Ah, the joys of flight.

Look at the power of those wings!

That's it, ms. Frizzle!

We can use that bird to tow us up, up, and away!

Only one problem-- how do we stay up?

Yeah. How does a bird stay up?

It doesn't have a propeller to move it forward.

By flapping its wings?

Exactly. The propeller does for a plane

What flapping wings do for a bird.

But our propeller isn't turning.

Ah! Look what I found.

Wait! I've got it!

All: pedal power!

Once we get up in the air,

We can turn the propeller ourselves!

What a splendid idea!

Phoebe: they could be anywhere, tim.

We'll never find them.

Charles lindbergh flew across the atlantic ocean

In a plane like this all by himself,

And he never gave up.

You're right, tim. We will find them.

I'll drive.

Pedals in place, ms. Frizzle. Ready for takeoff.

Have a seat, arnold.

Prepare for bird-assisted takeoff.

As my grandmother frieda used to say,

A bird on the branch is worth two on the ranch.

Ya-hoo!

We've got moving air and lift.

Pedal, guys! Pedal!

All: we're pedaling!

It's working! Hey, pedal pushers,

You're actually turning the propeller!

We're climbing under our own power!

Untie the rope, arnold!

[Gulp]

All: arnold!

Aah!

Wanda: hang on, arnold!

I'm hanging!

Aah!

Whoa!

Arnold!

Arnold!

Oh! I knew I should have stayed home today.

[Awk]

I don't want to be here any more than you do, ok?

Aah!

Arnold? What's the bird's tail doing?

It's moving back and forth in the wind,

Sort of like he's steering.

Hey, maybe I can steer back to you!

Sounds like the proper course to me.

Excuse me, but I need this more than you do.

Left turn, please!

Bank right, arnold!

More right!

Too much! Bank left!

A little more! Hold it.

Gotcha. Slide down.

Now?

All: now!

[Gulp]

Yay!

Way to go, ace!

Smooth move!

It's been great flying with you!

Thanks for the lift.

I've got that "air moving past our wings" feeling, guys.

Keep pedaling!

All: whoa!

Whoa!

We're out of control!

All: whoa!

If only this wheel worked, I could steer!

Keep pedaling!

Too bad we're not a bird!

Arnold, you're a genius! You can help me steer!

I can?

Just like you steered that bird!

Exactly! Our plane has a tail, too.

I can't go out there. It's too windy!

Not to worry, arnold.

This will keep you warm and cozy,

And this will keep you from falling.

You can do it, arnold!

You've got the experience!

The know-how, the right stuff!

Gee, it's nice to be needed.

Whoa! What was that?

I think we're flying over the model airplane show!

Ms. Frizzle: actually, wanda, I think we are in the show!

We're losing altitude, arnold.

Elevators up!

No problem!

All: arnold!

Arnold: sorry!

Wanda: whatever you do, don't stop pedaling!

Look at that, john!

I've never seen a maneuver like it.

Amazing!

Phoebe: look at all those planes up ahead.

Great! It's the model airplane show.

Tim, look! It's them! They're in the show!

They're also in trouble.

How can you tell?

Because nobody's ever done a triple immelmann

With a double outside loop!

We've got to save them!

Do something, liz!

Yikes!

I hope they see us!

See us? This plane is so big, it could be a planet.

It's liz! She wants us to land!

Take us down, wildcat.

Roger, ms. Frizzle. Pedal!

I'm getting too pooped to pedal!

Me, too. Next time, I want to be the pilot!

We're dropping too fast! Bank left, arnold!

Left!

Arnold: banking left!

Nose up, arnold! Nose up!

Nose up!

Too high, arnold! We're going to stall!

Bring down the elevators!

Elevators down! Yes!

Level out, arnold! Pedal harder, guys!

We need to keep our air speed up

And the air moving over our wings!

All: we're pedaling!

We're pedaling!

Ms. Frizzle: you're doing it, wildcat!

You are flying!

We're coming in, liz.

Ease off the elevators, arnold.

Easing off!

Hold your speed, tim. They're coming down!

Speed steady.

What an inventive performance.

Way to go, wanda!

All right, wildcat!

Hey, where's liz?

Way to go, liz!

[Kids cheering]

Wanda: to both birds and planes,

Wings are a gift.

Air rushing across them gives them a lift.

But even with wings, you need power for speed,

While a propeller must pull for the flight to succeed.

And I must say that steering, I almost forgot,

Is what makes you go where you want to...or not.

Thank you.

And thank you, wanda!

It gives me great pleasure

To present the grand prize

For model airplane excellence

To you and tim,

Not only for constructing a plane

With superior design and exceptional maneuverability,

But for incredible aerobatic ingenuity!

What a show!

Thank you, but this trophy belongs to everyone in our class.

We couldn't have won it without them. Right, ms. Frizzle?

Well, as I always say,

Sometimes you have to do the wrong stuff

To find out what the right stuff really is!

[Beep beep]

[Beep beep]

Is this "the magic school bus"?

Is this "the magic school bus"?

"Magic school bus"?

"Magic school bus"?

"Magic school bus"?

"Magic school bus"?

"Magic school bus"? "Magic school bus"?

I want "the magic school bus"!

I want "the magic school bus"!

[Telephone rings]

[Ring]

"Magic school bus." The producer speaking.

Hi. I just watched your show on flight, and it really blew me away,

But I do have a few questions.

Roger.

My name isn't roger.

I'm not saying it is.

"Roger" is just another way of saying "right" or "ok"

In pilot lingo.

Gotcha. Now, about those planes the bus turned into.

They were ridiculous.

Nobody could have ever flown them.

Believe it or not, those were real planes.

Sure, the first two didn't get off the ground,

But the wright flyer was the first airplane

To actually fly.

Ok. I mean, roger.

Here's something for you-- steering a bird or a plane

Is a lot more complicated than you showed.

You got that right.

Take airplanes, for openers.

They have movable flaps on the wings,

As well as on the tail.

Raise one flap up and the other one down,

And the wing rises for a banking turn to the right.

Reverse the flaps, and the plane will bank to the left.

Oh, I get it.

But here's something I don't get.

How does a bird fly?

Good question.

[Camera clicking]

The movement of a bird's wing is so complicated,

It took stop-motion photography to figure it out.

Birds use their wings

Both for lift and for push forwards.

Roger, but you didn't say anything

About the hardest part of flying--landing.

Well, we showed it, but we didn't talk about it.

To land, you have to slow down

And fly close to the ground.

Reduce your lift so you slowly sink

Until your wheels touch the ground.

Then cut the power and apply the brakes.

But landing isn't always easy.

Even birds mess up once in a while.

Ha ha! Lizards, too.

Ha ha ha!

Hey, thanks for calling "the magic school bus."

Keep watching, and keep 'em flying.

[Banging]

[Beep beep]

♪ 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...

♪ Raft a river of lava

♪ On the magic school bus...

♪ 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... ♪

♪ It's a wilder ride

♪ Come on

♪ Ride on the magic school bus

[Beep beep]