The Walkerville town hall is debating whether to build a mall where the swamp is now, or to build it somewhere else. With the toss of a coin, the Friz’s class finds themselves defending the swamp and Janet arguing against them. However, they find out that it is home to several organisms, an argument Janet finds little more than a joke, with which the city agrees. That is, until lightning strikes and knocks over a tree, blocking off the swamp and flooding the city. After the crisis is resolved, the city realizes that if it were to build a mall on the swamp, then it would be washed away. When the clock strikes midnight, the class only has one hour left to make a good argument, so they must do so on time before the clock strikes one.
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00:02Seatbelts, everyone!
00:04Please let this be a normal field trip.
00:06With a friend?
00:07No way!
00:08Cruising on the main street.
00:10You're relaxed and feeling good.
00:12Next thing that you know, you're seeing.
00:16Octopus in my neighborhood.
00:18Surfing on the sine wave.
00:20Swinging through the stars.
00:22Take a nap that's your intestine.
00:24Take your second right past Mars.
00:26I'm a magic scuba.
00:28Navigate a nostril.
00:30Climb on the magic scuba.
00:32Spank a plane done to.
00:34On our magic scuba.
00:36Rock the river of lava.
00:38On our magic scuba.
00:40Such a fine thing to do.
00:42So strap your bones right to the sea.
00:45Come on in and don't be shy.
00:47Just to make your day complete.
00:49You might get baked into a pile on the magic scuba.
00:53Step inside, it's a wild ride.
00:56Right on the magic scuba.
01:06What feels like a scuzzy glob of mud?
01:10What smells like a scuzzy glob of mud?
01:15Yuck.
01:16And what looks like a scuzzy glob of mud?
01:19This swamp.
01:21That's what?
01:23Yuck.
01:24Who needs something smelly and useless
01:27when you can have an awesome new mall instead?
01:30Tell me.
01:31Nobody.
01:32Tell me again.
01:34Nobody.
01:35I'm ready.
01:37You convinced me, Carlos.
01:39You're going to win the debate for sure.
01:41Yeah, and you didn't even mention all these pesky mosquitoes.
01:45Or the fact that it's so wet here
01:47where the river flows into the swamp.
01:49Face it.
01:50This swamp is worthless.
01:52Agreed.
01:53Whoever you're debating doesn't stand a chance.
01:56Unless you have to argue the other side
01:59to keep the swamp and put them all somewhere else.
02:02Never happened, DA.
02:04I haven't lost a coin flip yet.
02:06Yoo-hoo!
02:07Class!
02:09You know what I just saw?
02:11An Angeleus Phoenetius.
02:14Huh?
02:15A red-winged blackbird.
02:18Isn't that exciting?
02:19Ah-ha!
02:25Oh, my!
02:27Something wrong, Ms. Frizzle?
02:29On the contrary, Carlos.
02:31Things couldn't be more right.
02:33That's for sure, Ms. Frizzle.
02:35And I've got it all on tape
02:36so Carlos can prove what a useless place this swamp is.
02:41Careful, Tim!
02:42That old tree looks like it could fall down any second.
02:46Let's go.
02:47I don't want to be late for the debate.
02:49Oh, you won't get an argument from me.
02:51Ha-ha!
02:55Coming, bus?
03:03All aboard, class!
03:09The Walkerville Town Council is now in session.
03:13I'm Mr. Popple, your chairman.
03:15Thanks to Ms. Frizzle,
03:17the finals of the great debate
03:19are being held not only to decide the winner,
03:21but to allow the children of Walkerville
03:24a voice in our political system.
03:27The issue to be debated is,
03:30should our new mall be built here,
03:32in the swamp across the river,
03:34or someplace else?
03:36The rules are simple.
03:39One side will argue in favor
03:41of building the mall in the swamp,
03:43and the other side will argue
03:45against building the mall in the swamp.
03:47Where is the other side?
03:50At the conclusion of the debate,
03:52the council will vote yay or nay on the motion.
03:56Shall we begin?
03:57I'm afraid the other side isn't here yet, Mr. Popple.
04:02Oh, yes it is!
04:05Janet!
04:07My cousin never told me she was in the finals!
04:10You're the other side?
04:12The winning side, you mean.
04:14Hi, cuz.
04:19Excuse me, Mr. Popple,
04:21shall I flip a coin?
04:22Flip away, Ms. Frizzle.
04:24Whoever wins the toss argues in favor
04:26of putting them all in the swamp.
04:28Is that understood?
04:29I'll call it!
04:31Be my guest!
04:37Heads or tails, Carlos?
04:40Heads.
04:41If you say so.
04:43Tails!
04:44Oh, dear.
04:46That means I have to argue to keep the swamp?
04:50Is that a problem, Carlos?
04:53No, no, I...
04:55I just need a little more time to prepare.
04:58Please?
05:00Both sides report back here at one o'clock sharp,
05:04ready to argue.
05:08How could this happen, Ms. Frizzle?
05:11That was the first coin flip I ever lost.
05:13And I lost it to Janet.
05:15Don't take it so hard, Carlos.
05:18As my great-great-uncle, Lincoln Douglas, once said,
05:21A good debate is like a pancake.
05:24It's got to get cooked on both sides.
05:27What is she talking about?
05:30Well, I'm the one who's cooked.
05:32How can I come up with any good reasons
05:34to keep the swamp and put them all someplace else?
05:37Well, what about these?
05:39At least they're pretty.
05:41Ah, yes.
05:43One of my favorites, the marshmallow plant.
05:46As in, marshmallows?
05:49According to my muskrat's guide to the swamp,
05:53the marshmallow plant only grows in wet places,
05:55and its roots are sometimes used to make a sweet syrup.
05:59And marshmallows.
06:01And what do you get when you cover marshmallows with chocolate?
06:06Mallow blasters! Yum!
06:08That's a good enough reason for me.
06:25Oh, no.
06:26Twelve o'clock.
06:27I've got one hour to come up with a good argument
06:29why the mall shouldn't be built here.
06:31And all I've got is a plant.
06:34What about mallow blasters?
06:36Arnold, Janet is sure to argue
06:38that the world's supply of mallow blasters
06:40does not depend on the smelly swamp.
06:43Wanda's right.
06:44From where I stand,
06:45I can't see one good reason
06:47to put the mall somewhere else.
06:49Well, perhaps if you stood over there,
06:51you might see things from a different point of view.
06:55Over here?
06:56A little more?
06:59That's perfect.
07:00Carlos, a new view of the swamp is coming to you.
07:03Hit it, Liz!
07:10I don't believe it!
07:12I didn't get shrunk!
07:14Where'd they go?
07:17We're down here!
07:20I still don't see any good reason to keep this swamp.
07:24Uh-oh!
07:27Get me out of here!
07:42Two by two, please, class.
07:47Where are you guys going?
07:50Oh, wait!
07:51We're being chased by a...
07:52By a giant muskrat!
07:55No, you're not.
07:56It's over there!
07:58It's not chasing anything!
08:02It's just building itself a new home.
08:05Whoa!
08:08Smotted, Carlos!
08:09I think we've been frizzled.
08:12Oh, no!
08:13Not again!
08:14Is it just me,
08:16or does that bird look hungry?
08:18Hide!
08:19Ah!
08:20Ah!
08:24According to my research,
08:26that was a marsh hawk.
08:28According to my research,
08:29that was a close one.
08:31But we're safe in here.
08:36Whoa!
08:37What a great place to build a nest
08:39and raise your kids.
08:40Out of sight and off the menu.
08:43Let's go before we scare them.
08:46It's amazing!
08:47I never realized so many creatures
08:50lived in this swamp.
08:53Look out!
08:55He's gonna get us!
09:00Whoa!
09:01Did you guys see that?
09:03The frog just zapped the mosquito
09:04right out of the air!
09:06Yeah!
09:07You don't want to be on the wrong end
09:08of the food chain around here.
09:10That's for sure.
09:12Duck!
09:14Why?
09:15Is it that marsh hawk again?
09:17No!
09:18Ducks!
09:19But they don't look like the ducks
09:20we see all the time
09:21at Walkerville Pond.
09:23That's because these are wood ducks.
09:27Was it something we said?
09:29Let's see.
09:31It's just lunchtime.
09:33That's all.
09:33It says in my book
09:34that wood ducks eat mosquito larvae.
09:37Ew!
09:38Wood ducks nest in trees
09:40at the edge of swamps
09:41and use the swamp
09:43to raise their families.
09:44So they need the swamp
09:46to survive, right?
09:47You got it, Carlos!
09:49Got anything else?
09:51Yeah!
09:52We've got frogs and muskrat.
09:53And red-winged blackbirds.
09:55And marshmallow plants.
09:56And good places to hide.
09:59But if swamps weren't here,
10:01the mosquitoes and dragonflies
10:02wouldn't be here either.
10:05Yeah, but that means
10:07the wood ducks and frogs
10:08would go hungry.
10:09For them, you might even say
10:11that living in a swamp
10:12is habit-forming.
10:15That's it, Miss Frizzle!
10:17The swamp is a habitat!
10:18A place where many plants
10:20and animals find food
10:21and shelter to survive.
10:23And some can't live anywhere else.
10:25Well, if you ask me,
10:26it's much too wet.
10:43Look at all this oily stuff
10:45that washed in from the river!
10:46Ugh, what's gonna happen to it now?
10:50Excellent question, Ralphie.
10:51As they say in the swamp,
10:53here's mud in your eye.
10:56Whoa!
10:58Whoa!
11:01Welcome to the SS Mega Magnifier!
11:05All aboard!
11:08Wow!
11:09This is cool!
11:12I never knew the bus could do this!
11:18But, Miss Frizzle,
11:20shouldn't we get back for the debate?
11:21I think I'm ready now.
11:23You are?
11:24I'm not sure about that, Carlos.
11:26You need more facts.
11:28So the swamp's a habitat.
11:30I get the feeling
11:31that's not enough of a reason
11:33to build them all somewhere else.
11:34Keisha's right.
11:36Janet will say that it's still smelly.
11:38Hey, wait!
11:39Look at this!
11:40The swamp is actually cleaning
11:42the dirty water
11:43that flows through it.
11:44Strange but true.
11:46The swamp plants
11:47are straining gunk
11:49out of the water.
11:50The swamp helps clean the water.
11:53Beautiful!
11:54Huh.
11:54I guess there's more
11:55to the swamp
11:56than meets the eye.
11:57Ah, too true, Carlos.
11:59There's always something new
12:01in the goo.
12:07Ah!
12:08The sweet smell
12:10of swamp gas.
12:12Ew!
12:13Put it down, Miss Frizzle!
12:14That's all stinks!
12:15Ew!
12:16Get it away!
12:20Gas is right, Miss Frizzle.
12:22As a matter of fact,
12:23it smells like somebody
12:24just...
12:25Arnold!
12:27Maybe Arnold's right.
12:28Look at all these bubbles.
12:30What's going on down there?
12:31Yeah!
12:32What's making those bubbles?
12:34Time to go to
12:35Mega Mega Magnifier, Liz.
12:44Awesome!
12:45Groosome!
12:46What a gas!
12:47Carlos!
12:51What are those things?
12:53And what are they doing?
12:54They're bacteria
12:55in their own cafeteria,
12:57Dorothy Ann.
12:58And today's specials include
12:59rotting plants,
13:00fertilizer,
13:01and yes,
13:02even blobs of oil.
13:04Mm-mm.
13:05It's the Micro Gang!
13:07The guys we saw
13:08turning my cucumber
13:09into a pickle.
13:10They're too small
13:11to see with the naked eye,
13:13but they make
13:14really big changes.
13:16It looks like
13:17when they finish
13:17eating the oil,
13:18out comes the gas.
13:22So what happens
13:23to the water
13:23once the bacteria
13:24have eaten up
13:25all the yuck?
13:26A hurry, mates!
13:28Waterworks
13:29dead ahead!
13:36Now I see!
13:37Look!
13:38The water goes
13:39through the wetland,
13:40then back
13:40into the river.
13:41And then
13:42into the waterworks.
13:43So wouldn't the waterworks
13:45have to work
13:46a lot harder
13:46to clean the river water
13:48if the swamp
13:48didn't clean it first?
13:50Boingo,
13:51Roi Pien!
13:52Another reason
13:53to keep the swamp!
13:54I'm really ready now,
13:55Ms. Frizzle!
13:56Ooh, that's great,
13:57because it's time
13:58to reinstate
13:59the big debate!
14:08The swamp is much more
14:10than water
14:11and mud
14:11and plants.
14:12It's a wetland,
14:14a natural habitat
14:15filled with lots
14:16and lots of life.
14:17It's a giant market
14:18where birds
14:19and animals
14:20feed themselves.
14:21It's where
14:21they find shelter.
14:23Take away the swamp
14:24to build a mall
14:24and you take away
14:25the habitat.
14:26When winter ends,
14:28the songs of birds
14:29will be missing.
14:30The cheerful
14:31ribbit of a frog
14:32on a warm evening
14:33will be gone.
14:34Sadly,
14:35it will be a silent spring
14:36in Walkerville.
14:38Oh, why, Carlos.
14:40That was beautiful.
14:41Point of order,
14:42Mr. Popple!
14:43I'm afraid
14:44Janet's correct,
14:45Ms. Frizzle.
14:46You are out of order.
14:47Please,
14:48try to keep
14:48your remarks
14:49to yourself.
14:50Go on, Carlos.
14:52Um, well,
14:54there's one other
14:55thing you should know.
14:56All the different plants
14:57help to filter out stuff
14:58like oil and gunk
15:00and teeny tiny
15:01swamp bacteria
15:02help clean up the water
15:04before it gets
15:04to the waterworks.
15:06If it weren't
15:07for the swamp,
15:07the water would
15:08look like this
15:09instead of like this.
15:11So when making
15:12your decision,
15:13remember,
15:14the Walkerville
15:15wetland
15:16is the best land,
15:17not for the mall,
15:18but for the animals
15:19and plants
15:20which live there
15:20and for all of us
15:22who drink water
15:23from the waterworks.
15:24Way to kill it!
15:25Oh, yeah!
15:28Oh, yeah!
15:47movie theaters
15:47and ice skating rink
15:49and amusement park
15:50and every kind of restaurant
15:52a person could want!
15:53Why would you vote
15:54against that?
15:55Why?
15:56Because our swamp
15:57is a habitat?
15:59Come on!
16:00Move the critters
16:00someplace else!
16:02Besides,
16:03it stinks!
16:03I knew she'd say that!
16:06Keep the swamp
16:07because it filters
16:07out oil and gunk?
16:09Give me a break!
16:10So does the waterworks!
16:12You said so yourself!
16:13I say,
16:14up with them all
16:15and down with the swamp!
16:17End of debate!
16:22But the Wood Dog
16:23can't live anyplace
16:24but the swamp!
16:26You're out of order,
16:27young lady!
16:27The marshmallow plant
16:28can't live anywhere
16:29but the wetland either!
16:31You're out of order, too!
16:32Sit down!
16:33And the smell
16:34is from all the bacteria
16:35which are cleaning the water!
16:37You're all out of order!
16:38Sit down!
16:40Sorry, class,
16:42but we do have to obey
16:43the rules of the debate.
16:45Your smelly swamp
16:46is history!
16:47It's time now
16:48to consider all the arguments.
16:50We'll be back
16:51in five minutes
16:52with our decisions.
16:54Why do I have the feeling
16:56I should have stayed home today?
16:58Same reason
16:58I have the feeling
16:59we've lost
17:00and not just the debate.
17:02either
17:03either.
17:12I don't know.
17:51This is about more than just a debate, Ms. Frizzle.
17:54Janet's wrong. This isn't just a smelly old swamp.
17:57It's a wetland, and it's important.
18:00I didn't think so at first, but I do now.
18:02We can't let them put the mall there.
18:05What's the matter, Carlos? Afraid you're going to lose?
18:08By putting the mall where the wetland is, Walkerville will be the loser.
18:13Oh, yeah? Prove it.
18:16Yes, Liz? What is it? What are you trying to say?
18:23Water? What about water?
18:25It's raining. You're thirsty.
18:27You're drowning.
18:29Okay, what you're trying to tell us sounds like...
18:36Dirt sounds like dirt.
18:38Dirty.
18:39Uh, messy.
18:40Yucky.
18:44Mud sounds like mud.
18:57It's a flood!
18:57Flood!
19:04It's a flood!
19:05What are we going to do? What are we going to do?
19:07What are we going to do?
19:09Bunny, I was just wondering the same thing.
19:11Maybe there's too much water for the river to hold, and that's why it's overflowing.
19:16But it's rained hard before, and nothing's happened.
19:19In fact, today, extra water coming from the river ran right into the wetland and took me with it.
19:25Remember?
19:27So what's stopping that from happening now?
19:30What indeed?
19:31To the bus!
19:32Janet, where are you going?
19:34No way you're going to find out something important without me!
19:41Look! That big old tree fell down!
19:44It's stopping the flood water from draining into the swamp!
19:47We've got to get that tree out of there quick, before the whole town gets washed away!
19:52Hang on to your socks, class!
19:54We're going down!
19:58Yay!
20:01Oh, God!
20:03Oh!
20:08It won't budge!
20:09This tree's too heavy for us to move!
20:12At my old school, we used a bulldozer to move heavy things!
20:17That's great, Phoebe!
20:19And where are we supposed to get a bulldozer?
20:21No problem, Janet!
20:23You ought to know by now that when push comes to shove,
20:26we've got it covered, right, Liz Frizzle?
20:29We do indeed, Arnold, we do indeed.
20:32Wahoo!
20:37Hit it, Liz.
20:44Arnold!
20:45Hi!
20:53It's like a giant sponge!
20:58As my third cousin, Al G, always says,
21:02nothing like a swamp to slow the flow of H2O.
21:08Tell me this isn't happening! Tell me!
21:11It isn't happening!
21:14It isn't?
21:15Nope. The water level's dropping!
21:19The town is saved!
21:28All clear, Mr. Popple! The flood's a dud!
21:31And you can thank the Waterville Wetland for stopping it!
21:35But how?
21:37Because the wetland is a natural flood control.
21:40It's a place for extra water from the river to go and spread out.
21:44I hate to admit it, but he's right.
21:47Mr. Popple, if a shopping mall had stood where the swamp is now,
21:51our great little town would have been wiped out.
21:54I, uh, I see that now.
21:56Not only does the wetland control floods,
21:59it provides a habitat for living things that can't live anyplace else.
22:03And it helps to clean up our water supply.
22:05I say build them all!
22:09What?!
22:09Just build it someplace other than the wetland.
22:12Isn't she out of order?
22:14She is!
22:15But, she's right!
22:17All in favor of keeping the wetland where it is,
22:20and building the mall someplace else,
22:23signify by saying,
22:24Yay!
22:26Yay!
22:26Yay!
22:27Yay!
22:29As I always say,
22:30The wetland is the best land.
22:42Is this the Magic School Bus?
22:43Is this the Magic School Bus?
22:45Magic School Bus?
22:45Magic School Bus?
22:47Magic School Bus?
22:47What do you mean? Magic School Bus?
22:48Magic School Bus?
22:50Magic School Bus?
22:51Magic School Bus?
22:52Magic School Bus?
22:52I want the Magic School Bus!
22:54I want the Magic School Bus!
23:07Magic School Bus, producer here.
23:09Kid here. I've got a flood of questions.
23:12Okay, swamp me.
23:14Is that place called a swamp or a wetland?
23:18In the show, you called it both.
23:20Actually, it is both.
23:21A swamp, a marsh, a bog, any low-lying place that is wet at least part of the year is
23:26called a wetland.
23:27And what about all that yuck floating around?
23:33Surely it's not okay to deliberately dump oily water and gunk in a wetland because the wetland helps to get
23:39rid of it.
23:44Good point. It's never okay to pollute.
23:47And don't call me Shirley.
23:49You already used that line in your spider show.
23:53Now about the floods.
23:54Floods don't usually happen as quickly as you showed.
23:57Water takes time to build up.
23:59Are you trying to kid us or something?
24:00Look, if there's one thing I've learned, you can't kid a kid.
24:04Since we only had 30 minutes, we sped the whole thing up.
24:06And does the wetland really help clean the water supply?
24:09See for yourself.
24:11Just take a glass of water, add some dirt, and stir it around with a spoon.
24:17The stirring motion is like the current stirring up the mud in the river.
24:21Then pour the muddy water into a glass baking dish.
24:25And that's your wetland.
24:27A dish of muddy water.
24:29Almost. Let it sit for about an hour.
24:36And you'll see how all the heavy mud has settled to the bottom.
24:39And the water on top is a lot cleaner.
24:42And that's one way a wetland works to clean things up.
24:45But even though it's cleaner, you shouldn't drink the water.
24:48It hasn't gone through the waterworks, so it isn't safe for human or lizard consumption.
24:55Thanks for calling.
24:56And remember...
24:58I know.
25:00The wetland is the best land.
25:10Surfing on a sine wave, swinging through the stars.
25:14Take a left at your intestine.
25:16Take your second right past Mars.
25:18I'm a magic school bus.
25:20Navigate a nostril.
25:22I'm a magic school bus.
25:24Make a plane turn to.
25:26I'm a magic school bus.
25:28Rock the river of lava.
25:30I'm a magic school bus.
25:32Such a fine thing to do.
25:34So strap your bones right to the sea.
25:37Come on in and don't be shy.
25:39Just to make your day complete.
25:41You might get baked into a pie.
25:43I'm a magic school bus.
25:45Step inside.
25:46It's a wild ride.
25:48Come on.
25:49Right on the magic school bus.
25:51Come on.
25:51I'll be half位.
25:51You might not be...
25:51You might just be...
25:52I might just be a danger...
25:53You might...
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