Memorable quotes for
"The Magic School Bus" (1994) More at IMDbPro »

Arnold: I *knew* I should've stayed home today!
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Phoebe Terese: I might have made a mistake about that lizard. And I might have made a mistake about that jackrabbit. And I might have even made a mistake about that tortoise, but there's one thing I know I'm not wrong about.
Arnold: How much you wish you'd stayed home today?
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Phoebe Terese: I know Arnold likes rocks, but do you really think he'd swallow one?
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Miss Frizzle: Seatbelts, everyone!
Arnold: Please let this be a normal field trip.
All: With the Frizz? No way!
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Miss Frizzle: Take chances, make mistakes, get messy.
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Arnold: Carlos!
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Miss Frizzle: Bus, do your stuff!
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Dorothy Ann: According to my research...
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Miss Frizzle: To the bus!
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Arnold: It's too cold.
Dorothy Ann: I guess there's no heater in a bus-igator because it's a reptile.
Arnold: Then move the bus-igator to where it's warmer.
Dorothy Ann: [Engine won't turn over] I can't do that either. The bus-igator isn't working.
Arnold: It's probably too cold, that's why.
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Wanda Li: What'll happen if the sound of Carlos's instrument stays...
[instrument sounds of rattles, grimnds, and groans]
Wanda Li: ...just like that?
Dorothy Ann: Oh, our concerto will be ruined. All the other schools will laugh at us, and it'll be the end of the world as we know it. Other than that? Nothing.
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Phoebe Terese: C'mon, Arnold, let him go. It's just an egg.
Arnold: But it's Dr. Skeledon's egg. And it's up to me to get it back to her!
Phoebe Terese: Gee, what a guy!
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Arnold: Ms. Frizzle could be on Saturn, couldn't she?
Wanda Li: Okay, Arnold, but it's YOUR job to keep your crazy cousin under control!
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Wanda Li: Cheer up, Arnold. A famous poet once said, "All the world's a field trip, and all the kids in our class are merely guinea pigs"... or did Ms. Frizzle say that?
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Wanda Li: [of the robot] He doesn't move or bend!
Phoebe Terese: He doesn't do anything!
Keesha Franklin: Haha! Just like Ralphie!
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Keesha Franklin: They're not drinking blood. It's tomato juice! Like Ms. Frizzle served at the class picnic!
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Ralphie Tennelli: [about an asteroid] Look! A flying potato!
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Wanda Li: What are we gonna do? What are we gonna do? What are we gonna do?
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Phoebe Terese: [reading the feeding chart at a reptile health spa] Feed the lizards only once a week? And the alligators only once a month! How inhumane!
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Janet: Arnold told me all about your field trips, Dorothy Ann.
Dorothy Ann: [alarmed] What did he say!
Janet: That they were, and I quote, "highly unusual".
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Tim: Anybody have a good plan B?
Wanda Li: There aren't any good plan B's, Tim! If they were good, they'd be plan A's!
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Phoebe Terese: There, you don't look nearly so orange now.
[giggles]
Arnold: [looks at reflection] Phoebe! I can't go out there covered in flour! I look like a pumpkin pie!
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Phoebe Terese: [after Arnold has just saved the class from a T-Rex] It's a good thing you didn't stay home today, Arnold!
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Keesha Franklin: It must be cold down there because Saturn's pretty far away from the sun.
Tim: But Ms. Frizzle said "cold and dark".
Janet: It could be very, very dark on Saturn!
Carlos Ramon: Oh, no you don't! You just want to grab more stuff!
Janet: Hey, I'm just trying to help! If you want to play "Let's Find Ms. Frizzle Without A Map" for the rest of your life, that's *fine* with me!
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Phoebe Terese: [on doing a slam dunk] If only I could just do it once, just to see what it feels like!
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Tim: Patience, Wanda, fishing is an art.
Dorothy Ann: So is tightrope walking, but we don't have time to learn it.
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Wanda Li: What're we gonna do? What're we gonna do? What're we gonna do?
Phoebe Terese: Wanda? What're we gonna do?
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Phoebe Terese: At my old school, we never rode on bees.
Keesha Franklin: Um, Phoebe, we are at your old school.
Phoebe Terese: Oh... right.
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Phoebe Terese: At my old school...
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Phoebe Terese: At my old school, we'd use a bulldozer to move heavy things.
Janet: That's *great*, Phoebe. And where're we supposed to get a bulldozer?
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Radius Ulna Humerus: [to Ms. Frizzle] Well, no one's more important than you, my little togglebolt.
Wanda Li: My little togglebolt?
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Phoebe Terese: Something tells me we shouldn't be here.
Arnold: Like what?
[they wake up a Tyrannosaurus Rex]
Phoebe Terese: Like that!
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Janet: We know the real reason why you make a complete wimp like a butterfly as a mascot.
Phoebe Terese: You do?
Ralphie Tennelli: We do?
Janet: Isn't today's soccer game against... your old school?
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Mr. Ramon - Carlos' Dad: Well, you know what they say - bat breath is better than no breath at all!
[laughs]
All: Mr. Ramon!
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Mr. Terese: At Phoebe's old school, we never took field trips.
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[Ms. Frizzle is taking the parents through a bat filled castle]
Mr. Perlstein - Arnold's Dad: What *is* that smell?
Mr. Ramon - Carlos' Dad: That's bat poop, Mr. Perlstein. Better get used to it!
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Mr. Perlstein - Arnold's Dad: Maybe we should have stayed home tonight.
Arnold: [overhearing further donw the cave] Dad! You took the words right out of my mouth!
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Ralphie Tennelli: Is it just me or...
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Wanda Li: Come on, you weasley wimps!
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Keesha Franklin: Let's get the facts...
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Arnold: I knew I should've ...
Ralphie Tennelli: Don't say it, Arnold!
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Arnold: Don't feel bad, Phoebe. Only a giant spider could trap that general.
Phoebe Terese: Yes! Arnold, you're a genius!
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Arnold: [Phoebe doesn't want Mr. Seedplot to find them] Maybe *you* should have stayed home today, Phoebe.
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Ralphie Tennelli: It's simple. All we have to do is build a robot that looks like me.
Carlos Ramon: [holds a hubcap up to his face] Like this?
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Ralphie Tennelli: [to the Ralphiebot] Bow to your ruler and master: Ralphie the Magnificent!
Arnold: It's not bowing.
Keesha Franklin: Would you blame it? I wouldn't either.
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[the class is stuck in the water cycle, and they end up in the girls' bathroom through the plumbing]
Ralphie Tennelli: Hey, your bathroom is way nicer than ours!
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