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The Magic School Autobus (shortened to The Jitney or simply Bus) is an eponymous high-tech, sentient, and anthropomorphic school bus with Magicware that The Frizzles' course and Liz apply to go on field trips. It is most ofttimes piloted by the Frizzle sisters or Liz, but occasionally, in the original PBS television receiver serial, one of the kids will have the bike, or it volition take on a shape (such as an beast) that allows it to "bulldoze" itself. Forth with its ability to travel on country, in water, through the air, and even deep infinite, information technology is besides able to modify its size and shape.

Its figurer organization is voiced by Kate McKinnon, the voice of Ms. Frizzle.

Technical Details

Basis

Books past Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen

The Magic School Bus is somewhat based on a 1970s Ward International school motorbus with fender skirts on the rear wheels, and the front windshield being ii different windows. Its overhead sign shows a "message" depending on the language, such as "WAHOO" or "Smash OFF" in English language, very similar to electronic "welcome" signs.

Original series

In this incarnation, the Coach does retain some qualities from the original books, being based on a Ward school bus. Information technology retains everything listed above, however the merely new add-on is a grille spine going down the center of its grille olfactory organ. Instead of showing words, the electronic sign overhead shows a motion-picture show.

Rides Again series

The Bus has been "upgraded" to a modern American school bus. Similar to the original books, the grille spine is lost. Some new changes are i rearview mirror instead of ii mirrors, a radio antenna, and a roof-hatch. Its overhead sign is colored black, and it does not show automated messages or pictures, nor does it read "schoolhouse bus".

Livery

In the original television series and the book serial, the Passenger vehicle was painted fully Walkerville yellow. In The Magic Schoolhouse Passenger vehicle Rides Over again, it is painted in the mutual Due north American School Double-decker yellow with black stripes. In the original Goggle box series and books, information technology sports decals that chronicle to the topic. It doesn't have this set of decorations in Rides Again, reserving the scientific flair for Ms. Frizzle.

MagicWare

It isn't very clear how the Coach works, but there are diverse hints. We can see how fuel gets to the engine in the Tv episode, "Revving Upwards", only in another episode, "Gets Set up, Fix, Dough", it is revealed that its magic comes from various devices, with the most used ones being the Shrinkerscope and the Mesmerglober, and in newer media, the Warp Bulldoze, which controls the Bus' teleportation and warp-speed when traveling through space and then that it doesn't have the students many years to travel from Mercury to Neptune or Pluto.

The Shrinkerscope serves mostly as an internal method of size manipulation from the Bus itself. In the episode "Butterfly and the Bog Beast", it is revealed that in that location is a second size-manipulation device: the Porta-Shrinker^[one], which is a pink ray gun that is mainly used for shrinking someone without shrinking the Bus. When someone attempts to activate the Porta-Shrinker when information technology is damp or wet, a dew-dinger alert sounds.

The Mesmerglober controls the Charabanc' power to shape-shift, changing it into various vehicles or animals at the driver'south will. It is activated by a scarlet or gray lever on the dashboard, and also buttons on the touchscreen. Most of the fourth dimension, when it transforms, the bus stretches and squashes, and then spins around fast. When the bus stops, information technology'south in information technology's new form. In "Flexes its Muscles", information technology is revealed that the Double-decker starts transforming uncontrollably if the Mesmerglober doesn't work. The Mesmerglober and the Shrinkerscope often work together to transform the Motorbus into animals, such as a frog in "Hops Home", a salmon in "Goes Upstream", and an eagle in "I Spy with My Creature Optics".

The source of the Bus'southward magic is different from canon to catechism. In the TV series, the Bus's magic comes from a software chosen MagicWare (In the Zone). If the MagicWare is updating, sometimes the Coach glitches, the kids change into animals and plants, grow up into adults or revert back to an infant, and the Bus goes south. All the devices that run MagicWare, like the Mesmerglober and Shrinkerscope, are powered past a MagBatt (Making Magic, short for magic battery), which runs on energy from the eye of the Lord's day, as well as true courage and perseverance from the Frizz and the kids. When the Bus doesn't update, it freezes and loses its magic, becoming a normal school coach without any anthropomorphism. In the catechism of the books, the Omnibus runs on "Magic Gasoline".

In the holiday special, it is revealed that most of the MagicWare devices are made of plastic.

Listing of features

Mesmerglober - allows the Bus to transform
Shrinkerscope - shrinks the Bus
Plangdabber
Dinplonker
Blagblatter
Cadybager
Iotoscope
Enormomometer/Bigifier - returns the Jitney to normal size
Dew-Dinger - if the Motorbus Remote is wet and one tries to use it, an warning sound is heard.
Three-Phase Hydrolated Displacement Pumpulator
MagBatt - battery that controls the MagicWare functions
Warp Drive - allows the Autobus to teleport between locations or travel instantly through space
Bingbongifier - powered by vibrations like sound, this tin reboot the Coach in the consequence of a software crash
Nocanseealyzer - makes an object invisible
Un-Mothilizer - in "In the Zone", the students, as moths, became human once again with this
Disco Ball - the beginning part of the Bus to exist installed; this acts as a normal disco ball would and removes the seats on the Double-decker to make room for a dance floor. It is controlled by the Bus Remote.
Pause button - stops the flow of time of an object or living thing.
Shriekamaker - plays an earsplitting noise through the Bus Remote loud enough to make a person scream in fear
Arnold'due south size controls - made Arnold large enough to square off with a Tyrannosaurus rex in "The Busasaurus"
Regular Cellinator - makes the Bus incognito to a person's antibodies past transforming into i of his/her red blood cells

Trivia

In official Scholastic media, the Bus'south common name is capitalized (e.g., "Where will the Bus take yous?")

The motorbus was able to float around in lava. This may pb to the fact that the motorbus may be physically indestructible.
The Autobus cares securely about its passengers, such as in "Gets Ants in Its Pants" when it was concerned about Keesha when she gave upwardly being the director of the pismire movie and ran outside the anthill in the rain.
The Jitney is sometimes referred to every bit its current transformation. This mostly happened in the Joanna Cole books and the Scientific discipline Chapter Books. However, it has happened in the tv set serial. In "Cold Feet", the Omnibus was referred to as "The Busigator".
The Magic School Bus appears to exist sentient, mainly due to having a face up (headlight eyes, grille nose, bumper mouth, rearview mirror ears). This is further shown in Taking Flight when it gets angry at Liz for constantly making information technology crash when Tim and Phoebe were trying to save the rest of the form, in the opening when information technology looked a bit scared upon seeing an octopus, and in Gets Lost in Space when it felt wearied upon Janet overloading information technology with "proof" she went to all the planets of the Solar Arrangement. Information technology is shown The Magic Schoolhouse Jitney is incapable of talking, only information technology is capable of panting and coughing. It does communicate by honking its horn, its "language".
While the Jitney has no gender, some of its transformations include a female person eagle (in I Spy with My Animal Optics) hen (in Cracks a Yolk) and a female salmon (in Goes Upstream). This may imply that the Bus is female person. This would also be in line with English language vehicular parlance, in which vehicles are oftentimes referred to by female pronouns.
The Magic School Motorcoach has few modifications throughout the series, which include:
- [[1]] (Original books, Microsoft video games, 1994 TV series,)
  - It had fender skirts covering its rear wheels.
  - It is based on a 1970s Ward International school bus.
- 2017-present (Rides Once more Television series, Rides Once more books)
  - Its fender skirts are removed from the rear wheels, thus revealing its rear wheels.
  - An antenna and a roof hatch are added.
  - On the back, it has two doors instead of one.
  - Its lesser lip is a darker shade of silvery than its height lip.
  - Its headlight eyes turn light aqua.
  - Information technology now has one extra window on its sides.
  - It is based on modern American school buses.
- The Bus's original 1986 blueprint returns in the 2021 original-serial book "Explores Human Evolution".
- The Bus has many similarities to anthropomorphic vehicles beyond fiction.
- Information technology is revealed in "Three in 1" that the Frizzles congenital the Jitney during a Gizmos that Go contest almost magic.
- Information technology'southward revealed in "In The Zone" that information technology reverts dorsum to being a normal bus when it loses its magic.
- The Magic Motorcycle shares many similarities with the Omnibus.
- Starting with the Season ii episode, Kids in Infinite, and the residual of late Season two, the Bus is blithe in CGI, nonetheless it sometimes it animated in 2nd whenever a graphic symbol directly interacts with it (e.g. opening its hood)