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The Magic School Bus Season 2 Episode 2

Flexes Its Muscles

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AIRED: 9/18/95

Ms Frizzle takes the bus (and class) to R.U. Humerus' extraordinary Body Shop for repairs -- but Ralphie seizes the opportunity to build a robot to do his chores. The class joins in and they discover how bones, joints and muscles work together to help us move. But they do the job a little too well, and the Ralphiebot starts to take over. Can Ralphie stop the robot before it's too late?moreless

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The class explores body mechanics.

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By TV_Cardcaptors, Sep 17, 2006

A very exciting and funny episode! Here, Ralphie imagines how his life would be like if his "robot" would do chores for him. So, Ms Frizzle takes the bus and her class to R.U. Humerus' extraordinary Body Shop for repairs. Surprisingly, Ralphie seizes the opportunity to build a robot to do his chores. The class joins in and they discover how bones, joints and muscles work together to help us move. But they do the job a little too well, and the Ralphiebot starts to take over. So the robot goes berserk and causes havoc on the shop and Ralphie stopes it by loosing off it's bolts and other mechanics off and the robot goes byebye. Now with that, the shop is saved. Overall, I rate this episode a 90%!moreless
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"Or 'Are You Humorous', as in really funny?"

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By greenhera, Sep 26, 2005

I absolutely love this episode. This was actually one of the funnier episodes. It starts with the class playing volleyball, all except Ralphie, who's cleaning the bus. Ralphie wishes he could build a robot to do his class chores, and Keesha makes a bet with him that he can't.

This episode is full of burns (as Kelso on "That 70's Show" would say), which is always fun. Ralphie says all they have to do is build a robot that looks like him, and Carlos hold a hub cap up to his face and says, "Like this?". When the first Ralphie-bot doesn't move, the girls say "He doesn't move or bend! He doesn't do anything!", Keesha laughs and says, "Haha, just like Ralphie!" Ralphie tells one of the Ralphie-bots to bow to "his ruler and master, Ralphie the Magnificent!". It doesn't, and Arnold says "It's not bowing." and Keesha says, "Would you blame it? I wouldn't either."

In the end, when they get a working Ralphie-bot, it terrorizes the class when it tries to clean the bus. Keesha says the bet's off, and they stop the Ralphie-bot.

A very good episode, indeed.moreless
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Malcolm-Jamal Warner	The Producer
Lily Tomlin	Ms. Valerie Frizzle
Danny Tamberelli	Arnold Perlstein
Daniel DeSanto	Carlos Ramon
Maia Filar	Phoebe
Stuart Stone	Ralphael Tennelli

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Tony Randall

Radius Ulna Humerus

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- R U Humerus answers the phone at the end of the episode.
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- Ralphie shoots left in hockey.
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QUOTES (5)
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- Ralphie: No movement, no nothing.
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- Pheobe: At my old school, we weren't allowed to make a robot that could move.
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- Arnold: I knew I should've--
  Ralphie: DON'T say it, Arnold!
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- RU Humerus: (to Ms. Frizzle) No one's more important than you, my little togglebolt.
  Wanda: "My little togglebolt"?
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- (on the Ralphie-Bot)
  Wanda: He doesn't move or bend!
  Phoebe: He doesn't do anything!
  Keesha: Haha, just like Ralphie!
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- It is revealed that Ms. Frizzle's first name is Valerie.
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- In seasons 2, 3 and 4, the voices of some of the students actually change. Tim's voice is probably the most noticeable. In season 1, Tim had an African like accent because he sounds like an adult, but in season 2, his voice changes and he doesn't have that accent because he sounds like a kid. Ralphie's voice has changed, too. Carlos' voice kind of changed, too. This was perhaps due to the fact because the voice actors for Ralphie, Carlos, and Tim were probably replaced with different voice actors. Or probably they were the same voice actors, but probably they used different voices for the characters, like the voice actor for Tim probably wanted to talk in a different way.
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