Netflix Is Bringing Back The Magic School Bus, With Miss Frizzle Being Replaced By Her Younger Sister
Lets fucking roll baby!!! I know I have griped a lot lately about Hollywood being full of unoriginal bullshit and rebooting or remaking any hit from the past in order to cash in on that nostalgia factor. But I’m all for recycling ideas when it comes to children’s shows. Because as a dad, I am sick of some of the bullshit that is out there. Too much of the stuff is too crazy or a bunch of lame, lying bullshit like Peppa Pig. Us 90s kids grew up in the Golden Age of Cartoons. The Flintstones and the Jetsons were still around as the golden oldies. But shows like DuckTales, Animaniacs, Rugrats, Tiny Toons and countless others were all COOKING back then. Even the educational shit was on point. I didn’t watch Arthur because I wasn’t a nerd and I graduated from PBS once I was through doing my bid on Sesame Street and being neighbors with Mr. Rogers. But Arthur was obviously big enough to inspire a billion memes on Twitter. And of course we had the Magic School Bus with Miss Frizzle tricking kids into learning while getting caught up in all types of hijinks that definitely would have gotten her fired or arrested if she pulled that shit in 2017.
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Now I know some of the people will get upset that Miss Frizzle is being replaced with her younger, hotter sister. But I’m all for it. You gotta let people like Miss Frizzle go with the wind. You can’t tie crazy weirdos like that down forever, even though the thought of Ms. Frizzle having all that time on her hands during retirement is scary. She’ll be dipping into more LSD and getting into freaky deeky shit with her pet monkey and iguana than you or I could ever imagine. Hell, they should do a mature Netflix cartoon on what Ms. Frizzle does after retirement.
Anyway, as someone that loved everything about Rod Belding coming in as the younger, sexier, more fun sibling in Saved By The Bell, I’m all in on young smoke Frizzle educating the minds of my kid and millions of other kids. Sure Rod fucked up massively all in the name of a pretty young stewardess named Inga that definitely rocked his entire universe. But there is a twinkle in the younger Frizzle’s eye that I haven’t seen since Jessica Rabbit and Lola Bunny were in my animated Top 5 list.
I will admit that this could be my Ginger Fever talking, but I don’t think it is. I look forward to many awkward viewings of The Magic School Bus in the near future
And I can’t forget to mention that Lin-Manuel Miranda went all Diddy on us and remixed the classic Magic School Bus anthem. Again, I may not love when people change the things I grew up loving. But the man responsible for the music in Hamilton (and MUCH more importantly Moana) can remix the Star Spangled Banner and it would be fine with me. Now enjoy your reward of reading this entire blog with some of the best music from Moana.
And the song I mentioned on today’s Podfathers for being the inspiration for countless dance parties at the Casa de Clem.
“Wait Clem, you mentioned this song on today’s Podfathers? I haven’t heard it yet. Mind if I get a link to it?”
Sure thing!