Is Magic School Bus Season 2 on Netflix?

Last Friday, Netflix Family revealed the trailer for The Magic School Bus Season 2, which is now streaming on Netflix! Watch the official trailer right here:

The Magic School Bus: Rides Again is a brand new update to the beloved animated show featuring our favorite class of adventurers. Old favorites like Arnold and Ralphie join new students like Jyoti, a tech-savvy wiz-kid. Starring Kate McKinnon as Ms. Fiona Frizzle, Ms. Valerie Frizzle’s kid sister!

With the help of her upgraded Magic School Bus, Ms. Frizzle takes her class on wild field trips exploring a wide variety of science topics including, invasive species, weather hazards, schools of fish, the rock cycle, magnets, allergies, camouflage, states of matter, satellites, glaciers, brain and nervous system, and deep sea exploration!

Who cares if summer vacation is just around the corner? Netflix has renewed The Magic School Bus Rides Again TV show for a second season. Season two of the animated children’s TV series premieres on Netflix, Friday, April 13, 2018.

Based on the book series by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen, The Magic School Bus Rides Again is a sequel to the 1990s PBS Kids TV show, The Magic School Bus, featuring Lily Tomlin as Valerie Felicity Frizzle. The Magic School Bus Rides again stars Kate McKinnon as her sister, Miss Fiona Felicity Frizzle, who takes her class on science adventures. The Netflix voice cast also includes Tomlin, Mikaela Blake, Gabby Clarke, Matthew Mintz, Lynsey Pham, and Franciska Friede. Guest stars include Will Arnett and Sandra Oh.

What do you think? Does your family watch The Magic School Bus Rides Again TV series? Do you plan to check out season two when it drops to Netflix?

Season 2 is the second season of The Magic School Bus Rides Again, and the sixth in total. The first 13 episodes released on Netflix on April 13, 2018, followed by a hiatus from this date until 2020, when "Kids in Space" aired on August 7, followed by October 20th's "The Frizz Connection". After "In the Zone" on December 26, the show went on its second break until November 9, 2021, when 9 Story released the 2020 episodes, plus a brand new one, "Goldstealer", onto a DVD in Canada.[1]

In the United States, the first 13 episodes of this season were released to DVD on January 11, 2022.[2]

Contents

  • 1 Cast
    • 1.1 Guest Stars
  • 2 Episodes
  • 3 Trivia
  • 4 References

Cast

Bold = new voice

Normal = returning

Italic = deepening or aging

CharacterVoice actorValerie Frizzle

Professor Frizzle

Lily TomlinFiona Frizzle

Ms. Frizzle

Kate McKinnonArnold PerlsteinMiles Koseleci-Vieira (prior to Kids in Space)
Roman Lutterotti (since Kids in Space)Dorothy Ann HudsonGabby ClarkeCarlos RamónLeke Maceda-RusteckiKeesha FranklinMikaela BlakeRalphie TennelliMatthew Mintz (prior to Kids in Space)
Matthew Mucci (since Kids in Space)Jyoti KaurBirva PandyaTim WrightKaden StephenWanda LiLynsey PhamLizThe Magic School BusProfessor Frizzle's MotorbikeCallers

Guest Stars

CharacterVoiceEpisodeDr. TillageJay Baruchel"Ghost Farm"Tony TennelliMartin Short"Ralphie and the Flying Tennellis"Commander HadfieldChris Hadfield (himself)"Kids in Space"The Frizzle FragmentsKate McKinnon"The Frizz Connection"MavenLights"In the Zone"

Episodes

  • The first 13 episodes of the season all released on Netflix on April 13, 2018.
No.Episode nameTopicRelease Date (Netflix)1The Land before TimFossilsApril 13, 2018Netflix: When the class gets an invite to compete on Tim's favorite TV game show, the bus takes them all back in time to bone up on how fossils are formed.Scholastic Entertainment: Tim, as the world's biggest fan of Nicki Ray, host of the hit TV game show Puzzlepalooza, couldn't be more thrilled when the class gets invited to be on the show, where he vows to win – and impress Nicki. The theme of this week's contest is "fossils", and Tim must solve a brain-bender of a puzzle: how did matching fossils wind up on opposite sides of the world? Is it possible that it wasn't the fossils that moved – it was the continents themselves?2Claw and OrderBirdsApril 13, 2018Netflix: From scratch marks to stolen pepperoni slices, the science classroom's a mess – and all clues seem to point to Wanda's bird friend, Marty the Magpie.Scholastic Entertainment: Crisis! A burglar has ransacked the science classroom, and detectives Keesha and Carlos must find out whodunit. Their prime suspect? Wanda's best bird friend, Magpie Marty, who Wanda just knows is innocent. To solve the crime, the kids must investigate clues, especially the beak marks and foot prints the culprit left behind. This critical evidence will either point out the proper perp – or incriminate Marty.3Ghost FarmFarmingApril 13, 2018Netflix: Wanda's been so busy planning this year's Fall Fun Feast that she forgot about the food. Now her only hope is a farm that's supposedly haunted. Gulp!Scholastic Entertainment: Wanda proudly hosts this year's school harvest feast, but she was so busy promoting it she forgets to get the food! Ralphie happens to know of a farm that grows the finest produce around, but there's a hitch: he thinks it's haunted! Wanda's desperation means the class visits anyway, and what they find there is beyond spooky: tractors driven by ghosts, plants that climb walls, and so many robots! Could these strange discoveries and the success of the farm be somehow related?4Nothin' but NetInternetApril 13, 2018Netflix: Ms. Frizzle and the class race across the internet to recover a digitized Arnold before Jyoti's grandmother accidentally deletes him.

Scholastic Entertainment: Jyoti always wants to make her Grandma's birthday special, even if she does live across the ocean. This year, Jyoti planned to email her a 'virtual hug', but Arnold got in the way, digitized himself, and now races across the Internet at nearly the speed of light! Jyoti and the class digitize themselves, too, and the chase is on! As they figure out how to navigate the Internet, they hope to catch poor Arnold and all his packets before he winds up in Grandma's email box – where he could possibly get deleted!

5I Spy with My Animal EyesSightApril 13, 2018When Ratney escapes into a waterspout and the Bus shrinks to retrieve her, she is accidentally transformed into an invisible giant.6Ready, Set, Fail!EngineeringApril 13, 2018The kids build and test a space rover to help them navigate an exoplanet and retrieve a gem that holds the answers to anything, so Ralphie can keep his grades up and stay on the baseball team.7The Good, the Bad, and the GnocchiSimple MachinesApril 13, 2018Carlos, Mikey, and the other students race across the pasta display in Ralphie's family restaurant while shrunken.8Send In the CloudsCloudsApril 13, 2018Jyoti invents an automated, hands-free umbrella and wants to show it to the public.9Ralphie and the Flying TennellisCircus MathApril 13, 2018The kids take a field trip to Budapest, Hungary, to watch Ralphie's trapeze-artist cousins who perform in the circus.10Tim and the Talking TreesCommunicationApril 13, 2018The kids visit a forest and are transformed into plants, bugs, and fungi to prove to Tim that "trees talk".11Waste Not, Want NotNutrientsApril 13, 2018The kids make a special fertilizer made of fæces for Dorothy Ann's flowers.12Janet's Mystery GeneGeneticsApril 13, 2018The kids travel inside Janet's DNA (and accidentally mess with it) to learn about what makes us who we are.13Making MagicSunApril 13, 2018In order to charge the Bus's battery, the Friz pilots the students (and Mr. Ruhle) to the surface of the Sun.14Kids in SpaceInternational Space Station/AstronautsAugust 7, 2020Ralphie accidentally enlarges a tardigrade using the Porta-Shrinker on the International Space Station.15The Frizz ConnectionAir CurrentsOctober 20, 2020Arnold's birthday field trip to the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta becomes a quest to reunite Ms. Frizzle after she is split into three parts.16In the ZoneTime ZonesDecember 26, 2020The Bus needs a software update to run correctly, so it malfunctions during a New Year's Eve world tour with Ms. Frizzle's pop-star cousin.17Goldstealer???November 9, 2021 (CAN)
TBA (US/INTL)???


Trivia

  • If one counts the Joanna Cole specials, this is the longest running season in The Magic School Bus history.
  • This season is the first:
    • to span more than a year; it ran for 2 years (three if 2019 is counted).
    • with a hiatus.
    • in CGI, starting with "Kids in Space."
    • to have more than 13 episodes; in this case, it has 17.
    • in which all of its episodes have not been released worldwide.
    • in which one of its episodes did not release on Netflix before DVD and other platforms.
    • to have an episode title that mentions a character other than a student, the Bus, or a member of the Frizzle family. The Flying Tennellis and Janet have episodes named for themselves.
  • This season is the last:
    • to release in the 2010s.
    • in 2D animation.
    • with Matthew Mintz as Ralphie and Miles K.-V. as Arnold.
  • The first 13 episodes of the season are known in production order and select non-Netflix platforms as "season 1" alongside the previous 13 episodes. "Kids in Space" starts Season 2 as production code 201.
  • In production order, "Ready, Set, Fail!" and "The Good, the Bad, and the Gnocchi" are the only ones switched. "The Good, the Bad, and the Gnocchi" is number 119, while "Ready, Set, Fail!" is 120.[3]

References

  1. https://9story.com/season-2-of-the-magic-school-bus-rides-again-now-on-dvd-in-canada/
  2. https://www.amazon.com/Magic-School-Bus-Rides-Again/dp/B09KDYPTLH/ref=asc_df_B09KDYPTLH/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=564757612703&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=18279114208539540031&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9008537&hvtargid=pla-1499525895996&psc=1
  3. https://www.youtube.com/show/SCgRoU0i_TeXx-ZaCRRX50MQ?season=1&sbp=CgEx. Can also be seen in other non-NF platforms and Knowledge Kids, the source of the prod. order.

    Where can I watch Magic School Bus Season 2?

    Currently you are able to watch "The Magic School Bus - Season 2" streaming on Hoopla or buy it as download on Apple iTunes, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, Vudu.

    Was Ms. Frizzle LGBT?

    Frizzle; and because Kate McKinnon, who voices Fiona Frizzle, is also out in the public sphere as lesbian. There is no indication in the Magic School Bus, however, that Ms. Frizzle or Fiona Frizzle are part of the LGBTQ+ community. Ms.

    Is Netflix getting rid of Magic School Bus?

    The original Magic School Bus series which aired in the 1990s is set to depart from Netflix in all regions on May 19th, 2021. Originally airing on PBS Kids in 1994 before concluding in 1997, the animated series is based on the book series from Joanna Cole and Bruce Degan.

    Where can I watch all seasons of Magic School Bus?

    The Magic School Bus, an animated series starring Lily Tomlin, Danny Tamberelli, and Daniel DeSanto is available to stream now. Watch it on Prime Video on your Roku device.