The Magic School Bus
Going Batty
TV Flash files “Going Batty” as hour 17 of 52 in the TV Flash guide — The Magic School Bus (1994–1997) on PBS, season 2, episode 4, aired 1995-09-30, 25 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E04: listed hour 17 of 52 in the The Magic School Bus guide, hour 4 of 13 in season 2. It aired 1995-09-30 (25 min). The listed hour before it is “The Busasaurus” (S02E03). Next is “Butterfly and the Bog Beast” (S02E05).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Ralphie is convinced that Ms. Frizzle is a vampire when she takes the class's parents on a field trip to a haunted house. Keesha tells him wrong, but he doesn't listen. Then, they all turn into bats. Will they find out the truth? Is Ms. Frizzle a vampire or is Ralphie wrong?
Viewer FAQ
Where does Going Batty sit in the The Magic School Bus guide?
S02E04 is listed hour 17 of 52 — hour 4 of 13 in season 2, season 2 episode 4.
When did The Magic School Bus S02E04 air?
Going Batty aired 1995-09-30 and is listed at 25 minutes.
Is it actually educational?
PBS gold-standard edutainment: science as adventure, curriculum hiding inside field trips that no waiver would allow.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Seatbelts, everyone: a class that shrinks, dives, and ignores every field-trip waiver ever written. PBS educational animation at gold-standard wattage — Lily Tomlin’s Frizzle, science as adventure, and curiosity treated as a personality. Kids’ TV that made organelles exciting and still the show teachers cite when they want entertainment to do homework without feeling like a worksheet.
The work, first: Ms. Frizzle shrinking, digging, and space-traveling her class through science concepts — seatbelts, everyone, field trips that ignore every waiver ever written. Based on the Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen books, the PBS series (1994–1997) made Lily Tomlin's Frizzle a style icon and curiosity a personality. Daniel DeSanto, Tara Meyer, and Danny Tamberelli among the class voices. Entertaining enough that kids forgot it was curriculum: organelles as adventure, gold-standard wattage educational…
Filed against
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- Daniel DeSanto as Carlos Ramon
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- Tara Meyer as Dorothy Ann
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- Danny Tamberelli as Arnold Perlstein
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