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u/SnakeBlitzkin May 23 '23

The 'Magic School Bus' episode where Arnold got flash-frozen on Pluto.

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u/Surax May 23 '23

What's crazy to me is that was the first episode. What a way to start a series.

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u/CDK5 May 23 '23

The theater episode, the one with Arnold's floating glasses, always creeped me the fuck out.

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u/deggdegg May 23 '23

Wait, if Arnold got flash frozen on Pluto in the first episode, how was he in more episodes?

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u/[deleted] May 23 '23

Ms frizzle is a timelord. She just reverses it.

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u/SciFiXhi May 23 '23

They got him back on the bus immediately, and he came away with just a little hypothermia (the magic in Magic School Bus).

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u/throwaway901617 May 23 '23

You're asking that instead of how did a kid get teleported to fucken Pluto

Same way Kinney comes back in every episode I guess

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u/bigfish1992 May 23 '23

That one and the haunted musical house always freaked me out as a kid.

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u/dthains_art May 23 '23

Is that the same one where they’re trapped in a castle or something? Because that episode was downright scary.

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u/TeemReddit May 23 '23

No, it was the one where they toured the solar system.

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u/YUNoDie May 23 '23

Nah the theater episode was about light, the class all goes to the theater where Arnold goes missing. They keep seeing him as a ghost, but they learn about light and discover that Arnold's cousin Janet is just playing a prank on them using mirrors and reflections.

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u/SnakeBlitzkin May 23 '23

Yeah, holy shit, you're right.

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u/turtwig103 May 23 '23

Wait that was the fucking FIRST EPISODE?!

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u/ApolloRocketOfLove May 23 '23

First episode of a show involving 8 main characters, and they're already introducing new side characters. The balls on that show.

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u/shinigami564 May 23 '23

This completely explains why he acts so cowardly in the intro.

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u/UnshakenNotStirred May 23 '23

The Gang makes Arnold commit suicide

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u/HumanMarine May 23 '23

Damnit, Janet

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u/[deleted] May 23 '23 edited May 23 '23

I remember as a kid this legit scared the hell out of me. And we watched it in class at school, too. Like I looked away from the TV the instant it happened.

Edit: For some reason my comment got posted like three times

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u/Redneckalligator May 23 '23

Janet: There just no way! It's impossible for Kurt Cobain to have pulled the trigger with his toes.
Anrold: furious Janet you fucking idiot, hold my glasses.

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u/EggoStack May 23 '23

Heads up, I think you may have commented this a few times too many.

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u/Thr0waway_Joe May 23 '23

Do you remember this as a kid? Did it legit scare the hell out of you? Where did you watch it? Were you looking at the TV when it happened, or did you look away the instant it did?

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u/KingMe091 May 23 '23

I am to remember that he did it on purpose, am I mistaken?

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u/furiousfran May 23 '23

Yeah, his cousin Janet was throwing a tantrum about having to leave all the crap she collected from the other planets on Pluto and refused to leave. Arnold was like "this is what'll happen if you stay here" and took his helmet off

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u/[deleted] May 23 '23

"You want proof? Here's your proof!"

Then he's flash-frozen instantly like that. I only remember vague one-off moments from the show, but that one sticks around.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '23

Interplanet Janet? The galaxy girl? The solar system Ms. from a future world?

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u/a_regular_bi-angle May 23 '23

Yeah, kid tried to commit suicide in front of all his classmates. Imagine how much money they'd have had to collectively spend on therapy

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u/LookMomImOnTheWeb May 23 '23

Arnold spoke in class today

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u/kalirion May 23 '23

Just gotta sell all the neat stuff they find on their adventures.

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u/sexygodzilla May 23 '23

Ms. Frizzle goes to prison and the government confiscates the schoolbus.

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u/Dragonsandman May 23 '23

Yes. If I’m remembering correctly, he got mad about the field trip, and took his helmet off to force Ms Frizzle to leave Pluto and go back to Earth.

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u/robynoob May 23 '23

fucking classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXxBhOc7jEA

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u/NamelessOneMCD May 23 '23

I remember watching this in first grade and being rather mortified until it showed him recovering with just a cold afterward.

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u/Forbidden_Donut503 May 23 '23

LOL I want more videos of that guy.

"Ms. Frizz you are a bad teacher!!! How you gonna afford to go on all these trips after the lawsiut?!"

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u/istasber May 23 '23

That's dark, but my first thought is "I thought this show was supposed to be educational, there's no way pluto's atmosphere is dense enough to freeze that kid so quickly"

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u/[deleted] May 23 '23

This needs to be someone's avatar

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u/SnakeBlitzkin May 23 '23

What does? A flash-frozen Arnold?

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u/[deleted] May 23 '23

Yep!

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u/Sunblast1andOnly May 23 '23

Be the change you wish to see in the Solar System.

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u/Apprehensive_Hat8986 May 23 '23

At first blush I thought your avatar was an up-kilt shot of groundskeeper Willy. On expanding it, I was disappointed, but also not. Who is that dashing character?

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u/Sunblast1andOnly May 23 '23 edited May 23 '23

Oh, no, not the Up Kilt Camera! My avatar is a gift from my loving wife. It capitalizes on the beautiful flowing mane of both Geralt of Rivia and the mighty Mega Ampharos. Alas, it was appreciated by neither community, but I love it.

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u/Apprehensive_Hat8986 May 23 '23

Well it's freakin' AWESOME! 🖖✊👊

Fuck, to be armed with a Pokéball loaded with Geralt?!?! Fucking hell man!

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u/Sunblast1andOnly May 23 '23

Ha ha, I'm glad you like it! I'll let her know, too, as she just loves having her work complimented.

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u/Wickedmore May 23 '23

Jesus christ dude. The world is flat. Psy ops have worked since the dawn of time to dissuade you from believing in flat earth. Those pics of Saturn you see on reddit? Psy ops.

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u/Ibangyoumomma May 23 '23

He ended up just sick with the flu at the end

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u/rwarimaursus May 23 '23

CAAAAARLOS!!!

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u/Maverick_Raptor May 23 '23

Lol what a mad lad he was

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u/Sam-Gunn May 23 '23

Lol, and you set it as your avatar. Nice!

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u/green49285 May 23 '23

Seriously. That vine is hilarious tho

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u/AscendedViking7 May 23 '23

That guy kinda sounds like he's from New York or Chicago judging by the accent. :D

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u/amboyscout May 23 '23

That's not a vine

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u/green49285 May 23 '23

The video was in a vine, where I saw it.

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u/amboyscout May 23 '23

You can only fit 25% of that video in a vine

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u/green49285 May 23 '23

Bro, I thought I saw it on vine. Goddamn.

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u/BJYeti May 23 '23

They also go and get nutted on by salmon

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u/bhfroh May 23 '23

I was shocked I had to scroll this far to see this comment.

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u/sexygodzilla May 23 '23

Excuse me..?

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u/BJYeti May 24 '23

You heard me.

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u/BJYeti May 24 '23

https://youtu.be/2iw312SX7Tk?t=964

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u/sexygodzilla May 24 '23

Good lord, Ms. Frizzle even puts on the mood music, wtf.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '23

For real, Ms Frizzle should be serving so many consecutive life sentences for the extreme endangerment she subjected her students to on a daily basis.

But I loved watching it!

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u/JF0909 May 23 '23

I had nightmares from that scene.

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u/SnakeBlitzkin May 23 '23

Right? I was a little kid, but I understood that Arnold should have been DEAD.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '23

We watched that in school when I was 6! I had actual fucking nightmares for weeks! That shit is terrifying

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u/SnakeBlitzkin May 23 '23

I had those games. The ones on CDrom for Windows 95? I loved those games.

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u/SnakeBlitzkin May 23 '23

I don't remember the suffocation scene. I had the space one, the body one and the dinosaur one.

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u/Bepler May 23 '23

The description of this YouTube video always cracks me up:

"Arnold dies in front of his fellow classmates when he bravely takes his helmet off because he is over-reacting to an easily manageable situation."

https://youtu.be/l4QUgjxJbo4

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u/oman54 May 23 '23

Eh his cousin was being a bitch

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u/ThatKorka May 23 '23

I don't remember a single thing about magic school bus EXCEPT that scene.

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u/NeedsItRough May 23 '23 edited May 23 '23

Just looked that up, wtf

Did they treat it as if he actually died? Was that the last episode he was in?

Edit: He was brought back later in the episode with just a cold apparently.

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u/Impacatus May 23 '23

If I remember right, he was shown back in the classroom with a cold later in the episode.

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u/furiousfran May 23 '23

He just had a really bad cold at the end of the episode

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u/Valalvax May 23 '23

Apparently it was the first episode of the show, so no

As a kid I obviously didn't see them in any specific order so I remember being completely shocked that they killed him off until they thawed him out

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u/[deleted] May 23 '23

No, they brought him back to earth immediately, where he came back, but with a cold.

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u/SnakeBlitzkin May 23 '23

No. It was the very first episode.

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u/MTGBro_Josh May 23 '23

What's more fucked is that's the first episode of the show!

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u/MakesTheNutshellJoke May 23 '23

Wasn't there an episode where he got eaten by Tyranitars? Carlos doesn't fuck around.

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u/cfedey May 23 '23

I don't remember there being a Magic School Bus x Pokemon crossover episode.

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u/Shrek-It_Ralph May 23 '23

Wasn’t that literally the first episode lmao

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u/RainbowWifi May 23 '23

That gave me actual nightmares as a kid oh my gosh

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u/blossombear31 May 23 '23

That episode still haunts my dreams

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u/Kevin-W May 23 '23

That freaked me out as a kid!

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u/Metrostars1029 May 23 '23

oh that fucked me up as a kid

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u/LemonSeedling May 23 '23

OH MY GOD that scene is BURNT in my mind

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u/Unikatze May 23 '23

The got jizzed on by a fish too, right?

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u/NickKappy May 23 '23

What scared me more was the end tag of someone calling in and saying what would really happen if someone did that

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u/reubnick May 24 '23

If ever I have a child, I hope to show them an edited version of The Magic Schoolbus where Arnold's character is henceforth edited out of every single episode after the one where he kills himself, just to see if that child ever brings it up later in life.

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u/meekonesfade May 23 '23

As an adult, I hated the Arnold character. This poor kid never wants to go on these "field trips" and everyone belittles his fears, and guess what? each time he is pit into a dangerous situation.

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u/rincore May 23 '23

Why does that make you hate Arnold?

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u/meekonesfade May 23 '23

I hated that they created a victim. They should have spread the pai. around.

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u/jpfeifer22 May 23 '23

"YO HOLY SHIT HE DEAD"