Season 1 (1994)
| # | Title | Topic | Written by | Guest star | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | "Gets Lost in Space" | The Solar System | Brian Meehl, Jocelyn Stevenson | N/A | September 10, 1994 |
| Arnold's cousin and the class' visitor Janet, is coming on the field trip this time. They are going to the planetarium to see a show about the solar system, but it was closed. So, at Arnold's suggestion, Mrs. Frizzle takes the class into space. They explore Mercury, Venus, then Mars, while Janet collects proof of their voyage. In the asteroid belt, while Janet is trying to collect an asteroid as further proof, they lose Mrs. Frizzle and find themselves lost in space. | |||||
| 02 | "For Lunch" | Digestion | Ellen Schecter, Brian Meehl, John May, Jocelyn Stevenson | N/A | September 17, 1994 |
| Arnold really wants to break a school record, and to his surprise, finally gets his wish by staying at school with Liz while Ms. Frizzle takes the class on another weird field trip. What he doesn't realize is that he is the field trip. | |||||
| 03 | "Inside Ralphie" | Infection/Immune System | John May, Jocelyn Stevenson | Tyne Daly | September 24, 1994 |
| It's broadcast day and the class needs Ralphie. The trouble is that he's sick, and his mother (Tyne Daly), a doctor, won't let him go to school. When Ms. Frizzle says that there is an amazing battle going on inside him, the class decides broadcast day should be about whatever is making Ralphie sick. After shrinking to find out what's going on inside Ralphie, the white blood cells sees the bus as a threat and attempt to devour it. | |||||
| 04 | "Gets Eaten" | Food chains | Jocelyn Stevenson, John May | N/A | October 1, 1994 |
| Arnold and Keesha were supposed to do a "Two-Beach-Things-That-Go-Together-Report," but they both completely forgot about it. Keesha only brings a tuna fish sandwich, and all Arnold brings is "scum" he got on his shoe when he stepped in a puddle. The two don't have anything in common...or do they? | |||||
| 05 | "Hops Home" | Habitats | Jocelyn Stevenson | Frank Welker | October 8, 1994 |
| Members of the class are bringing animals to school and Wanda has brought her frog named Bella (Frank Welker). But, thanks to Arnold, Bella escapes. Wanda is now bent on getting her frog back. Ms. Frizzle takes the class to several different places, until they find a perfect frog habitat. In this episode, the bus transforms into a frog with green spots on it, as the tires become the frog's legs. | |||||
| 06 | "Meets the Rot Squad" | Decomposition | John May, Jocelyn Stevenson | Ed Begley, Jr. | October 15, 1994 |
| The class learns about what makes things rot by getting small enough to examine a rotting log up close when Wanda attempts to have the log removed to plant a new tree in its place. Also, Arnold wanted everyone to be part of the "Leave-The-Log-As-It-Is" club. | |||||
| 07 | "All Dried Up" | Deserts/Adaptation | Brian Meehl, Jocelyn Stevenson | N/A | October 22, 1994 |
| Phoebe is worried about all the poor animals living in the desert. How will they ever survive? She decides to go to the desert in order to do something about it, and for once Arnold isn't complaining (due to his Field Trip Survival Guide). | |||||
| 08 | "In the Haunted House" | Sound | John May, Kristin Laskas Martin, Jocelyn Stevenson | Carol Channing | October 29, 1994 |
| Carlos is inventing a new instrument for the class concert at the "Sound Museum", but it sounds awful. When the bus breaks down, they miss the rehearsal, giving Carlos more time to perfect his instrument. But to do so, the class must learn how sound is made in the middle of the night in the spooky old "sound museum". | |||||
| 09 | "Gets Ready, Set, Dough" | Basic chemistry | Brian Meehl, John May, Jocelyn Stevenson | Dom DeLuise | November 5, 1994 |
| It's Ms. Frizzle's birthday and the class wants to throw a surprise party for her, but they don't have a cake. The bus is acting up on their field trip to the bakery, and it shrinks. How will the kids make Ms. Frizzle a cake when they're around a millimeter tall? | |||||
| 10 | "Plays Ball" | Friction | John May, Brian Meehl, Jocelyn Stevenson | N/A | November 12, 1994 |
| Dorothy Ann has brought a book about physics, but everyone else thinks it's boring. Ralphie borrows it from her to use it as a replacement for home plate. D.A. doesn't learn of this until they set off on a field trip. Ms. Frizzle decides to back up and get the book, but the bus shrinks and lands on page 97 which has a "frictionless" baseball field. The class soon learns that friction is needed for the simplest actions, from playing baseball to walking. However, when they are about to leave, the wind blows the book shut, trapping the kids and Ms. Frizzle in the book. | |||||
| 11 | "Goes to Seed" | Seeds | Ronnie Krauss, Brian Meehl, Jocelyn Stevenson | Robby Benson | November 19, 1994 |
| The class is planting a garden, but Phoebe's plant is at her old school. The students decide to go there, but Phoebe is worried about Ms. Frizzle embarrassing her and her former teacher named Mr. Seedplot (Robby Benson) | |||||
| 12 | "Gets Ants in its Pants" | Ants | Jocelyn Stevenson, Kristin Laskas Martin, Brian Meehl | N/A | November 26, 1994 |
| The class is going to make a movie about ants and Keesha is the director. She finds an ant to be the star, but the ant runs away to an ant hill with hundreds of other ants, leaving Keesha increasingily frustrated at her inability to find an ant to serve as the focus of the movie. | |||||
| 13 | "Kicks Up a Storm" | Weather | John May, Brian Meehl, Jocelyn Stevenson | N/A | December 3, 1994 |
| Ralphie thinks he's WeatherMan, but Keesha is trying to convince everyone he's not. He decides to prove his worth by leading the class on a field trip to make a thunderstorm. Unfortunately, once he has made a storm, he finds that he can't stop it. Keesha later calls him WeatherMan, which brightens him up a little. They all return back to school, and Keesha thinks she's WeatherWoman, but Ralphie told her that she can't, because the job was bigger than them. |
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