These kids will never be more salmon than they are right now. “Eat and grow! Eat and grow!” chants Tim. And then they get really into their role of eating as much as possible and getting bigger. Eyes slightly bulbous, blood vessels pulsing. So now here we are, the kid-eggs have been fertilized and they’re hatching into realistic salmon hatchlings. I noticed this time that the fertilizing salmon makes a little fart noise. The shot where the salmon fertilizes the eggs is immortalized in untold numbers of clickbait articles and videos, describing it as "childhood-ruining" or "completely messed up." I wouldn't have guessed that people were so disturbed by the mating habits of salmon, but there you have it.Ĭonor: For some reason the fertilization has no place in my memory. In addition to the child-fish hybrids, I know that episode is famous for another moment that occurs shortly before that. Marisa: You would think that, after having her as their teacher for this long, the students would get suspicious when Miss Frizzle gives them flippers and says they might come in handy later. I think this moment, with the four kids riding on top of salmon, is where we start to enter a world where children could conceivably morph into salmon. Ralphie shouts "Let's corral that bus!" He gets a lot of the good lines this episode. So they start riding real salmon around like steeds. Ralphie instantly wants back because he's very concerned about this fish fry. Frizzle sends four of the students out of the bus to scuba-dive. There's a moment I want to highlight here. I too am a big fan of the sense computers, and I like the metaphor for how a salmon finds its way upriver: a computer "scent" monitor showing a puzzle that's slowly filling in with pieces of a freshwater stream. The children were quite surprised to see Miss Frizzle appear considering they were already on her school bus (in boat form.) It leads me to assume that they must have commandeered the bus.Īfter the bus becomes a salmon, the eye, nose, and mouth computers onboard remind me of the frog and deer heads that you can put your own human head inside at Powder Valley Conservation Nature Center, in order to see the world through their eyes.Ĭonor: Glad we worked in at least one niche St. Frizzle-yet the students are surprised to find her here once he hauls her aboard! Is this just how things work around here, unsupervised children launching a 50-foot fishing vessel?įor some reason this sticks out to me more than fish transformation or leaps in time in the salmon life cycle. Then Ralphie hooks something humongous, and the audience knows it has to be Ms. Now, one thing that jumps out right away is that we begin with the kids unsupervised aboard a sizable fishing boat, and they're complaining they haven't hooked a single salmon all day for their class fish fry. Information is so potent when you're a kid.Ĭonor: Your ability to make sense of this strange reality we're entering is exactly why you're here. And I think it's a good metaphor for how learning any new fact can rewrite a child's whole understanding of themselves and reality.
The idea of going to school each day not knowing what you might be metamorphosed into is awesome. Marisa: Can't wait! The image of those child-fish hybrids is burned into my mind. Here to my right is someone who finds this all extremely normal and is not perturbed in any way-it's my sister Marisa! Any thoughts as we begin this journey, facing the prospect of watching our fellow passengers turn into salmon? I'm peering out the window as bright colors and historical events stream past in bewildering variety, a creeping sense of terror rising in my stomach. |1 .Conor : So, here we are, travelling back to 1996 in a school bus that is both magic and scientific. |a Magic school bus (Television program) |0 |a 1 volume : |b color illustrations |c 21 cm. |a Scholastic's the Magic school bus goes upstream Krulik and illustrated by Nancy Stevenson.
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based on The magic school bus books written by Joanna Cole and illustrated by Bruce Degen TV tie-in adaptation by Nancy E.
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|a The magic school bus goes upstream : |b a book about salmon migration / |c based on the animated TV series produced by Scholastic Productions, Inc.
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