02x07 - In a Pickle

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I don't know about you, phoebes,

But I can't stand vacations.

Why not? I mean, how can you not like vacations?

Because they always end. That's why.

Ha ha ha!

[Girl screams]

That sounds like keesha.

I've been robbed!

Somebody stole my cucumber!

Why would anyone steal a cucumber?

Especially my cucumber!

I loved my cucumber!

I grew it from a teeny-weeny seed.

It was a champion!

At least whoever took it

Left you a tasty- looking pickle.

I mean, look at my carrot.

Not even a starving rabbit would eat it now.

And my tomato doesn't even look like a tomato anymore.

It would have been better off stolen.

I don't understand.

How could things so good turn so bad

Over one little vacation?

In the famous words of ms. Frizzle,

"Time waits for no vegetable!"

Huh? Huh?

Let's face it.

Our county fair has turned into the city dump.

Hey, give me five, guys. The kid's back.

Hi, ralphie.

Hey, how you doing, ralphie?

Whoa, arnold. I haven't seen anything that gross

Since my baseball glove got rained on

And run over by the garbage truck!

In case you forgot, ralphie,

My tomato did win third place.

With the way that tomato looks now,

My glove could have come in second.

Hey, nice pickle, keesh.

Wait a minute. Hold it.

Doesn't anybody care

That somebody stole my cucumber?

Stole it? Who would ever do such a thing?

You like cucumbers, don't you, ralphie?

Like them?

Huh, I love them!

Hey. Hold it a second.

You're not trying to say

I stole your cucumber, are you?

[Door opens]

Good morning, class!

Isn't it awfully early

To be eating a pickle, ms. Frizzle?

Oh, it's never too early for a pickle,

Unless it's a cucumber.

Speaking of cucumbers, ms. Frizzle,

Mine was stolen while we were on vacation.

We must have had a thief in here.

Is this what you're looking for, keesha?

This isn't my cucumber, ms. Frizzle.

It's a pickle.

[Sniff]

Mmm mmm mmm!

And it's almost ready to eat.

Whoa!

There's a ton of pickles in here!

You caught me, ralphie.

Oh, I have a private and powerful passion

For pickles.

Something smells funny here.

Your nose knows, keesha.

Mmm mmm.

It's the salty brine

The pickles have pickled in.

I'm talking about my prize cucumber, ms. Frizzle.

And all I know is,

The door to this classroom

Was locked during vacation.

[Gasp]

And you had the key!

Keesha! Are you suggesting that--

That ms. Frizzle--

That our beloved teacher--

That she--

Well, she could have done something with my cucumber.

Ah, you're right, keesha.

Ha ha ha! I admit it.

Ms. Frizzle!

I admit that, thanks to me,

Your cucumber is gone, but it isn't missing.

How can something be gone

But not missing?

You see, keesha, this pickle used to be your cucumber.

Isn't that amazing?

Not amazing and not possible!

This does not look like my cucumber!

It doesn't smell like my cucumber.

And I'm sure it doesn't taste like my cucumber.

Stop! You're destroying the evidence!

What evidence? This isn't a trial.

Maybe it is.

My point exactly.

If keesha eats this pickle,

Then ms. Frizzle can't prove it's keesha's cucumber.

Right, ms. Frizzle?

Sounds right to me, arnold.

I hate to do this, ms. Frizzle,

But I have to ask you some tough questions.

Oh, how exciting.

As I always say,

One tough question deserves another.

Wait! You don't have to answer anything, ms. Frizzle!

You have the right to remain silent.

You even have the right to dismiss this class.

Ms. Frizzle: why would I want to do that, arnold?

I've never been on trial before.

Let the trial begin!

Court is now in session.

The case of the missing cucumber--

Keesha vs. Ms. Frizzle.

The honorable judge liz ard presiding,

Yours truly speaking on behalf of the court.

Keesha, do you have an opening statement?

I do.

I intend to prove

That ms. Frizzle not only took

My prize-winning cucumber,

But also she did not turn it into a pickle.

Bravo, keesha.

I intend to prove the same thing.

It's so nice when everyone's on the same side.

Ms. Frizzle!

Sit down, arnold!

Kids of the jury, this is a pickle.

This is a cucumber--

Not as big as my cucumber, mind you,

But still a cucumber.

I object!

What now, arnold? You know that's a cucumber.

O.k. I take it back.

Keesha: ms. Frizzle is asking us to believe

That a pickle and a cucumber are the same thing.

Now, I ask you, do these look the same to you?

I don't think so!

Does the defense have anything to say in defense?

Yes, we do!

We will prove that no crime was committed

And ms. Frizzle is innocent of all charges.

Right, ms. Frizzle?

As I already said, arnold,

I did take keesha's cucumber,

But I did not change it into a pickle.

But... I know who did.

You do?

They were members of a g*ng,

A small-time g*ng with big ideas...

A tiny, troublesome crowd

Of two-bit thieves known as...

The microbe g*ng.

And even though they hang around a lot of different places,

They're extremely hard to find.

Is that because they're always on the run?

No. It's because they're invisible.

Invisible?

I think the frizz is losing it.

Order! Order in the court!

Objection!

Ms. Frizzle is not losing it!

There is a perfectly logical explanation.

Tell them, ms. Frizzle.

Tell them the g*ng is invisible

Because they wear disguises, right?

Oh, no. They're invisible because they're too small

To be seen with the naked eye.

Yet, every second of every day,

They're busy changing

The very world we live in!

Ms. Frizzle, you're not making this very easy.

I agree.

How can ms. Frizzle expect us to believe

That my cucumber was turned into a pickle

By a g*ng of thieves we can't even see?

Keesha has a point, arnold. How can you prove that?

Oh, arnold.

[Whispering]

We're taking the court on a field trip!

A field trip?

What am I saying?

It's the only way, arnold.

If you say so, ms. Frizzle.

Everyone to the bus.

Kids of the jury, this field trip will prove to you

That ms. Frizzle is telling the truth.

It will show you that the members

Of the mike robe g*ng really exist.

You will see with your own eyes

That they have the ability

To turn a cucumber into a pickle.

[Cheering]

I object!

There shouldn't be any applauding

Until after we see this invisible g*ng,

If they exist, which I doubt.

I mean, come on.

How can you see something if it's invisible?

As sherlock gherkin once said,

"Cucumber thieves always return

To the scene of the brine."

Buckle up, everyone!

Bus, do your stuff.

Ms. Frizzle: whee! Whee!

[Kids screaming]

[Crash]

Ralphie: wow! This is really weird.

Ms. Frizzle: nothing like a little shrinking

To get you thinking.

Hey, what's that?

That's my comb! The one I lost last week!

Yeah, but last week,

You were bigger than your comb.

Now your comb is bigger than all of us.

Excuse me, ms. Frizzle,

But does this really count as a field trip?

I mean, we haven't gone anywhere.

Technically, we're still in our classroom.

Here's the button to my favorite blouse!

Oh, I knew I'd find it!

That's it! We're inside the lost-and-found box.

Hey! Look at this!

I never knew lincoln was inside this building.

How you doing, abe?

Whoa!

Uh, got it!

Lift!

Thanks.

Good thing it wasn't a quarter.

O.k., O.k., So we're really small.

What does that prove?

It proves that when you're small,

You can see things you never saw before.

Like this spider mite.

No way. I saw one of those before we got small,

Though I have to admit, it didn't look so big.

Yeah? Well, I bet you never saw one of these before.

Could she, ms. Frizzle?

Not likely, arnold. It's much too tiny.

And it's alive!

It's a kind of yeast

Called ascomycete.

Yeast? What's yeast doing here?

Ascomycete grow nearly everywhere.

Cool! But I'd rather find one

On your seat than my seat.

Carlos! Carlos!

I don't care whose seat it's on.

If it's so tiny

You can only see it when you're tiny,

That makes it an invisible member of mike robe's g*ng,

Just like ms. Frizzle said.

I rest my case.

Not so fast, arnold.

Just because there are tiny little creatures here

Doesn't mean they're everywhere,

And it doesn't mean

That they turned my cucumber into a pickle!

O.k., Keesha, you want more proof? More evidence?

Pick a place, any place.

I'll show you

More invisible creatures...i hope.

Fine. Let's go to the vegetable garden.

[Cheering]

Wanda: hey, liz! We're up here!

Carlos: she can't see us.

She could if she knew where to look.

Keesha: I changed my mind. I want to land on liz.

I object! You said you wanted to go to the vegetable garden.

Oh, not to worry, arnold.

No matter where we go, day or night, night or day,

The microbe g*ng will have its say.

Liz it is.

I don't see any creepy crawly creatures.

I do!

Aha! Another member of the mike robe g*ng!

Right, ms. Frizzle?

Right on, arnold.

Phoebe: oh, no! I think liz thinks we're one of them.

[Kids screaming]

Ralphie: I really hate it when we land upside-down.

Wanda: where are we now?

I hope we're not back in the water cycle.

Hmm, unless I'm mistaken,

We're inside...

Together: the hamster's water bowl!

Keesha: and liz still can't find us.

Arnold: I object!

What now, arnold?

I object to being

The smallest defense attorney in history.

I object to where we are! Look!

I think we landed in the middle of a feeding frenzy.

What are they?

The fat, juicy ones are amoebae.

And the ones that look like hairy hot dogs are paramecium.

Ralphie: looks like

The underwater wrestling association to me!

Actually, ralphie, they are more members

Of the microbe g*ng.

[Kids screaming]

We're under attack!

Gosh! I never knew

Things like these existed.

But now you do.

Not only that,

They're everywhere. Case closed.

Well done, arnold.

Objection! Our hamster drinks this water, right?

So, how can this invisible g*ng

Change my cucumber into a pickle

If our hamster is still a hamster?

Huh? Explain that.

Well, uh...

It seems to me, um...

Ok, you want change? I'll show you change.

There! My tomato!

Something is definitely going on there!

I don't know about you guys,

But I hope our hamster isn't thirsty!

Whoa!

To my tomato, ms. Frizzle, and hurry!

Here we go!

Wahoo!

Woo!

Ralphie: we're going to crash!

Smooth landing, ms. Frizzle.

It stinks here.

I'd rather be on wanda's carrot.

Hear that, keesha? I told you something was going on.

Sorry, arnold. Smelly and gushy isn't enough.

I don't see anything here

To change my mind but a rotten tomato.

Um, maybe...

Maybe we need to, uh, shrink some more.

I can't believe I said that.

As my great-aunt chameleon used to say,

"There's nothing as constant as change."

No sooner shrunk than sunk.

Yuck! Hard to believe anything would want to hang out here.

Only one way to find out,

And that is to get messy!

Into your antifungus suits, everyone.

I knew I should have stayed home today.

Wow! Cool!

Look! More members of the mike robe g*ng.

They're everywhere.

Wanda: it looks like they're attacking arnold's tomato!

We're surrounded!

Oh, relax, arnold. They're funguses.

And they are only doing

What comes naturally.

You mean they're supposed to destroy the tomato?

Carlos: hey, even a fungus has to eat.

Wow. Cool.

Hey! Watch it!

What if they eat us next?

Then ms. Frizzle will need a new defense attorney.

If we were big, couldn't we see this stuff happening

Through a magnifying glass?

Ms. Frizzle: only a very powerful one, phoebe.

Tim: you mean, like the megamagnifier?

Keesha: your point is a juicy one, ms. Frizzle.

But even though I've seen

That mike robe's gangsters are everywhere

And that they can make things change,

You still haven't proven

That they turned my cucumber into a pickle.

I object!

Just in case that calls for another shrink.

That won't be necessary, arnold.

Uh-oh.

Is it just me, or are we having a tomato?

Whoa!

Aah!

Ralphie: incredible!

We're inside ms. Frizzle's pickle jar!

This is it, keesha.

This is where it all happened.

You mean we're actually at the scene of the crime?

Follow me!

I object!

It's too late to object, arnold.

Look out!

Ooh! Blebleble!

It sure is crowded in here.

Yuck. The tomato fungus is still among us.

They're everywhere.

Ah, right you are, wanda.

Everywhere and anywhere. Ah ha ha ha!

Yuck! What's going on here?

More destruction.

First, the funguses ate the tomato.

Now they're trying to eat the pickle.

It looks to me like they've got some competition

From those little squirty things.

The little squirty things

Are a kind of bacteria,

And they are actually protecting the pickle.

Carlos: whoa!

Look at those pickle protectors work!

Wipeout!

The funguses are history!

Ugh!

Pickle juice!

I hate pickle juice!

So do the funguses.

Cucumber alert!

Look out!

Ralphie: hey! Check it out!

Now the pickle bacteria are attacking the cucumber.

What's happening?

I thought the picklers were the good guys.

They are, keesha. They're not destroying the cucumber.

They're saving it.

So, if it weren't for the pickle bacteria,

The same rotten thing

That happened to the tomato

Would happen to this cucumber.

Yeah! Total annihilation.

I get it!

The funguses rot things by eating them,

And the pickle bacteria stop things from rotting

By getting rid of the funguses.

Only one problem-- the pickle bacteria

Is turning the cuke into a pickle!

Oh, not a problem, ralphie. That's preservation.

A pickle lasts a lot longer

Than a cucumber.

Don't tell me the pickle bacteria are g*ng members, too.

That they are, keesha.

They may be small,

But they make big changes.

And all those tiny living things

We've just seen are called microbes.

Did you say "microbes"?

As in microscopic--

So tiny that you need a microscope to see them?

So tiny that they're invisible?

Just like us.

Tiny, invisible, microscopic--

Yes!

Kids of the jury, you've seen with your own eyes

That all around us is an invisible world of microbes--

A world that includes amoebas,

Parameciums,

Ascomycetes,

Funguses,

And yes,

Pickle bacteria!

And each and every one of these microbes

Is a member in good standing of the microbe g*ng!

Isn't that right, ms. Frizzle?

I wouldn't change a thing, arnold.

But microbes do. They make big changes,

Like turning a cucumber into a pickle!

So, kids of the jury, it's very clear

That ms. Frizzle did not--

I repeat, did not turn keesha's cucumber

Into a pickle.

And who did?

The microbes did!

So that pickle is really my cucumber?

It is indeed, keesha.

I rest my case.

Hey, anybody seen the bus?

It looks like the bus

Is in a real pickle.

[Kids laughing]

Members of the jury, have your reached your verdict?

Together: we, the jury,

Find ms. Frizzle innocent of all charges.

Yay! Yay! Yay!

Thank you! Thank you!

Thank you!

And thank you, ms. Frizzle.

If you hadn't put my cucumber

Into the brine before we left on vacation,

It would have rotted

Just like arnold's tomato and wanda's carrot.

You're a hero!

Well, as you saw, keesha,

I did have a little help

Preserving your cucumber...

And turning it into a prize pickle!

Well, as my great-uncle barnard used to say,

"Cucumbers come, and cucumbers go,

But pickles go on forever."

[Kids laugh]

Case dismissed!

Ha ha ha!

Is this the magic school bus?

Is this the magic school bus?

Is this the magic school bus?

Is this the magic school bus?

Magic school bus?

Magic school bus?

I want the magic school bus!

[Telephone rings]

Magic school bus. The producer speaking.

Girl: hi. I just watched your show on microbes.

I have a couple of questions.

Are they little questions? Ha ha!

Ha. No. But I'll be short.

Ha ha. Ok, ok. You win. What's your question?

First of all, since people can't really shrink,

How can anyone get close enough to a microbe to see what it looks like?

The only way is through a microscope,

Which makes things appear hundreds and thousands of times

Bigger than they really are.

Take water for example.

Under a microscope, you can see all sorts of things water

You didn't know were there.

Like what?

Well, you might see trachelomonas,

Spirogyra, fragilaria, anabaena,

Or even sinorma.

So a microbe is any tiny organism that you need a microscope to see, right?

You got it.

Well, how many microbes

Would you have to pile on top of each other

Before you could see them with your naked eye?

Ha ha! Oh, millions.

But when they do pile up like that,

That's when you see them,

Like with mildew and mold.

And what about germs?

Those are microbes that can make you sick, right?

That's true, but that doesn't mean all microbes are bad.

In fact, most are harmless.

We just call them crooks in the show to make it a mystery.

Some microbes even help us out.

You mean like the ones that saved keesha's cucumber?

Exactly. Now, some microbes even make the holes in swiss cheese.

You're kidding?

Nope. Others, like bacteria,

Change milk into yogurt and sour cream.

And yeast are microbes that help make breads

And pizza dough.

Cool. I love pizza.

Ha ha! I like pizza, too,

But I'm afraid you'll have to call back for your order.

We have a small problem.

Thanks for your question.

Ha ha. Hey, liz?

If you ever get that down,

I'll take 1 pizza to go, cheese, tomato,

Some paramecium, a handful of lactobactos,

Oh, and, oh, yeah, go easy on the fungus.

Ha ha!

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