Ms Frizzle Magic School Bus Rides Again

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• Anvilicious: "Set, set, fail!" teaches the audience that information technology's really okay to fail, that information technology'south a part of the learning process, and about importantly a office of science. Many people abound up not knowing how to accept failure and accept a crippling fear, then this aesop was very much needed.
• Author'due south Saving Throw: The reboot was heavily criticized for its inexpensive-looking puppet animation. Then came the special, The Frizz Connection, which has much better animation and shading, almost worthy of Disney. It helps that they made Keesha and Tim nighttime again after the whitewashing controversy.
• "Common Knowledge": A lot of people think the instructor played by Kate McKinnon is a redesign of Ms. Frizzle from the original, leading to criticisms about her supposed radical redesign. Information technology'due south actually Ms. Frizzle's sister, Fiona Frizzle. The original Valerie Frizzle appears in the outset episode, though she's as well been slightly redesigned.
• Continuity Lockout: It'southward a Soft Reboot with enough references to the first cartoon that it'd confuse newer viewers.
• Designated Monkey: Arnold seems to have been upgraded from a perpetual complainer to a complete whiny coward (to the point of believing a horror picture monster is real). Heck, he even assigns himself the role of class worrier in the first episode.
• Genius Bonus: Rabbits are used as an example of an invasive species, brought in to take care of overgrowing plants only to become a pest themselves with no natural predators. While it'southward left implied, this is exactly what happened in Australia in the 1950's.
• Idiot Plot: The "Allergies" episode can come up off as this. While this is a bailiwick that the previous series didn't talk nearly (thus justifying why the kids don't know it), Arnold never thought to mention that he had allergies - which was something that (while not a plot point), was function of the plant episode in the previous series. To be off-white, Carlos'due south allergies are very severe, so thinking "he caught a cold" wouldn't be likewise much of a stretch.
  • The Movie'south plot kicks off with Arnold wanting to get to the hot air airship festival and ending upward in a thunderstorm. Keesha hangs a lampshade on how easy information technology would've been to avoid information technology.
• Just Hither for Godzilla: Several fans are watching the show more for Professor Frizzle than her sister, who hasn't exactly moved far from education her one-time class.
• Memetic Troll: "CARLOS!", as usual, due to his never-catastrophe wordplay.
• Nausea Fuel
  • Carlos' allergies effect in huge mucous spots on his sleeves, which then stay in that location for the rest of the episode.
  • In Flavor 2, in that location is an entire episode about poop. Can't get any more than nauseous than that.
• Replacement Scrappy
  • The original Ms. Frizzle beingness replaced by her sister, Fiona Frizzle. Notably, the original Ms. Frizzle now headlines the stop-of-episode lesson segment.
  • Phoebe being written out and replaced with Jyoti. Jyoti is also disliked for her trait of being able to build anything.
• So Okay, Information technology's Average: The general consensus seems to be this. It's not a bad reboot, it does its chore of educating children in a fun manner and brings the science upwardly to date in cool, interesting means, but it's stories aren't terribly heady and information technology'southward animation is downright ugly.
• Tastes Like Diabetes: While not overly cutesy, the show has been criticized for going out of its way to exist inoffensive by never giving the characters any real conflicts with i some other, unlike the original show where they were paired off in rivalries and unafraid to brand lighthearted snarky comments. The criticism is that this is non only makes the kids seem artificial (even kids who like each other have arguments, you know!) simply gives the stories absolutely no drive.
• Tear Jerker: In "In the Zone" when the bus loses its magic and becomes an ordinary schoolhouse omnibus. On superlative of that, Jyoti'south thank you video she shows the class afterwards.
• They Changed Information technology, At present It Sucks!
  • While over 20 years of Fine art Development in the animation manufacture was undoubtedly going to accept an effect on this show no thing what, the detail animation style used was not well received by older fans, who have complained that the heavily streamlined Toon Boom puppet animation is even more express than the already-limited (though still appealing) blitheness of the original show. It doesn't help that the original was animated by Nelvana, the premiere Canadian blitheness studio, while the reboot farms its animation out to 9 Story Media Grouping, a studio notorious for this particular fashion.
  • The fact that the Ms. Frizzle in this show is not the aforementioned Ms. Frizzle from the original (the original Friz is now Professor Frizzle, and the 1 headlining the testify is her sister) had caused quite an upset with the fans. Similarly, Phoebe transferred back to her erstwhile school and was replaced past a new character, Jyoti.
    • The crew clearly knew full well that this would be an issue, and they tackled it in the starting time episode, which is about the frail balance of ecosystems and the dangers of invasive species. Arnold spends the whole affair as 1 of the skeptical old-school fans and ends upward learning virtually how to accommodate to a new "ecosystem." In plow, this has led to a fire of discussions virtually immigration, making it more contentious than it already was.
    • Moving beyond the issues of ecology and immigration, Fiona Felicity Frizzle was quite different from Valerie. Lily Tomlin's Frizzle was upbeat, quirky and witty, but also at-home, mysterious and reassuring when necessary. Kate McKinnon's Frizzle tries very hard to be hip, groovy and 'with the kids', but you can tell that she'due south struggling and doesn't quite take Lily Tomlin's je ne sais quoi. Most significantly, in the first episode Fiona knows that Arnold doesn't like her and, instead of having a lilliputian heart to heart talk with him virtually alter and aligning, she straight up manipulates and guilts him into accepting her. Hither's also where the flat characterization comes into play: children seem all also accepting of this newcomer teacher, whereas they're at the historic period when any such change should be a quite dramatic event that takes getting used to.
  • The redesigns for Keesha and Tim received some backlash for their noticeably lighter skin.
  • Minor case: Dorothy Ann's distinctive pronounciation of research every bit "ruh-SERCH" from the original serial is changed to "REE-search" in this ane, which some fans were bellyaching by.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Practiced Grapheme: Phoebe growing out of her Naïve Newcomer status and joining her friends in mentoring Jyoti would have been awesome.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Some people idea that the evidence would have been improve off using a new set of kids this time instead of the original class.
• WTH, Casting Agency?
  • While Kate McKinnon is no stranger to Large Ham roles (her tenure on Saturday Nighttime Alive is a testament to this, most notable of which is her supervillain-like impression of Hilary Clinton), she isn't the commencement person almost would consider for a potential Ms. Frizzle. Different Lilly Tomlin's whimsical Valerie Frizzle, McKinnon's significantly more than self-enlightened Fiona is considered to be a complete contradiction to Valerie's charm.
  • While Lin-Manuel Miranda'due south rendition of the theme song is considered a huge depict for the show, he'south not exactly known as a "vocaliser" as much as he is a songwriter. As such, he's clearly struggling to hit those loftier notes that Picayune Richard had no trouble with in the original version.

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