The Magic School Bus
Cold Feet
TV Flash files “Cold Feet” as hour 25 of 52 in the TV Flash guide — The Magic School Bus (1994–1997) on PBS, season 2, episode 12, aired 1995-11-25, 25 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E12: listed hour 25 of 52 in the The Magic School Bus guide, hour 12 of 13 in season 2. It aired 1995-11-25 (25 min). The listed hour before it is “Out of This World” (S02E11). Next is “Ups and Downs” (S02E13).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Liz has gone off to a mysterious place called "Herp Haven." Thinking she's in trouble, the class rushes to Herp Haven, where they turn into reptiles.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Cold Feet sit in the The Magic School Bus guide?
S02E12 is listed hour 25 of 52 — hour 12 of 13 in season 2, season 2 episode 12.
When did The Magic School Bus S02E12 air?
Cold Feet aired 1995-11-25 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
Daniel DeSanto’s Carlos Ramon rode The Magic School Bus through every field-trip waiver — PBS educational animation, Lily Tomlin’s Frizzle, a class that shrinks and dives while curiosity stays a personality. Seatbelts, everyone. TV Flash…
- Tara Meyer as Dorothy Ann
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- Danny Tamberelli as Arnold Perlstein
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