Arnold, that's brilliant!
lt is?
Yeah, Ms. Frizzle said to bring in something to help answer the question,
What happens to the food we eat?
Oh, right. What did l bring?
Your own mouth, chewing! lt's the first step in--
in digestion, yeah, yeah, we know,
Dorothy Ann. But my buddy Arnold here's not chewing food,--
he's chewing GUM!
Gum?
Yep, been chewing for two hours and twenty four minutes.
Only six hours and forty-six minutes to go--
before he breaks the school gum-chewing record.
But Wanda, what's chewing GUM got to do with digestion?
Nothing, but the first one to break the gum-chewing record
wins two free tickets to Action Mountain...
the wildest, scariest, best scream-your-lungs-out ride in the world!
The ride of my dreams!
Let's get the facts--ARNOLD wants to go on the fastest,
the scariest, the best scream-your-lungs-out ride in the world?
You feel all right, Arnold?
Actually, my ticket's up for grabs. l'm just helping Wanda out.
l would have done the chewing myself, but l got a new filling. See. Ahhhhhh.
Oh, good morning, class! One digestion system coming up....
Now, that's more like it.
Was that in the lesson plan?
As l always say, no guts no digestion.
Well, as l always say,
no chewing, no free tickets. Come on, Arnold, chew. Chew, Arnold!
Wanda, l think, l uh... uh...swallowed it
Very funny, Arnold. You're kidding, right?
Say ah!
Ahh...
Arnold, how could you?
Wanda, l--
We were going to ride Action Mountain together!
You didn't do it on PURPOSE did you?
NO! lt was an accident, REALLY! l'm sorry, Wanda!
l told you breaking records made me nervous! l told you l've never won anything in my life!
Never say never, Arnold.
l told you, you should have picked someone else!
Oh, hey Arnold, it's okay. l mean, it's only a ride.
And that's the end of that.
Actually, Wanda, it's only the beginning.
Of what?
Our next field trip!
FlELD TRlP!
Field trip!?
Ms. Frizzle, l'd really love to go on a field trip
but...but l've got this weird feeling,
l mean, l already ruined Wanda's day
what if l ruin everybody else's?
Well, Arnold, l do need a volunteer to stay behind.
Stay behind...?
C'mon! Let's go!
Me! Me! Pick me!
Well, thank you, Arnold.
ALL RlGHT! Wait a minute. This is too good to be true. What's the catch?
Meet your substitute teacher.
Liz? Could be worse.
See you very soon, Arnold!
One field trip for them...one bag of CHEEZlE-WEEZlES for me!
Our timing should be just about right.
l don't get it. l thought we were supposed to answer the question
about what happens to the food we eat?
Yeah, where are we going?
Not far, class, not far at all. Here we go!
Where are we?!
Check out the pink pavement!
The walls are DRlPPlNG!
You know what, Ms. Frizzle,
at my old school-- we'd turn back in this kind of weather.
What are those humongo white things?
lf you ask me they're humongo BUS-CRUSHERS!
Actually Ralphie, they're more like humongo FOOD-CRUSHERS.
Wait a minute, if that's FOOD--
We're either on the weirdest cutting board in the world--
Or in somebody's MOUTH!
Bingo! But not just ANYBODY'S mouth.
Look familiar?
ARNOLD?
Boy, it's kind of...empty in here. l wonder where they went?
Well, wherever they are, they don't have me to slow 'em down anymore.
nothing like Cheezie Wheezies with a green olive chaser.
So the FlRST thing that happens to the food when it gets digested...
is the teeth cut and grind it into smaller pieces!
At my old school, we were never allowed to be DlGESTED!
Never say never, Phoebe.
But according to my research, after chewing comes SWALLOWlNG!
l call it Action Arnold!
The wildest, scariest, best scream-your-lungs-out ride in the world!
Class, welcome to the esophagus.
The asparagus?
No, Carlos, the esophagus. lt's where your food goes after you swallow.
Ahhhhh...
Ms. Frizzle, what are you doing?
Time to let Arnold's digestive system do the driving.
Cool! lt's like we're driving through a tunnel but the tunnel's driving us.
Hey, Arnold, how about a push!
l wonder if this is what it feels like to get squeezed out of a tube of toothpaste.
Yeah, but l the get the feeling we're not gonna end up on Arnold's toothbrush.
Right you are, Tim. The esophagus connects the mouth to the..Anyone?
Aw, l don't know how much more of this l can STOMACH!
Excellent, Ralphie.
The STOMACH is the next step in digestion,--and it's a real dooseEEEEEE!!
ln just a few moments we'll be landing in Arnold's stomach.
Thank you for flying Digestion Airways.
Now that's what l call a BELLY FLOP!
Olive eating, now THAT'S a school record l could go for.
Thanks!
Wanda would be so impressed.
Oh, Arnold!!!!
Hey, ... why not!?
''The All School Record Book... Olive eating: 978.''
Okay, it doesn't have to be olives.
Ohhhh... there have to be other records waiting to be broken!
Check out the pink cliffs of Arnold!
Ralphie, that's his stomach wall.
Rock, dead ahead!
l bet this is what the pilgrims felt like before they CRASHED into Plymouth Rock!!??
Forget the Pilgrims.
The walls are MOVlNG! Hard a port, class!
l know Arnold likes rocks, but do you really think he'd swallow one.
That's no rock, that's Arnold's GUM!
Phew! That was close! ls it just me, or do you get the feeling
there's more out there than just food and water.
Whatever it is, it's EATlNG the bus!
Nothing to worry about, just a little stomach acid.
STOMACH AClD!!?
Here at United Digestion we believe in breaking things down!
We start with the raw material of food! Put it in the Mouth...
and use the finest teeth in the world to tear, grind,
and crush it into pieces small enough to swallow!
Then the food gets pushed down the Esophagus Line into Stomach Central.
Where we add acids and other chemicals to break the food down
and dissolve it into a liquid.
And that's only HALF of what we do here at United Digestion!
Man, when it comes to digestion
Arnold doesn't mess around!
You haven't seen anything yet.
You mean there's more?
All right, ARNOLD!
lf this doesn't impress her, nothing will.
How many more to go, Liz?
One more and l break the school record for pens stuffed in a pocket protector!
What's THAT?
Poor Arnold! Looks like he's got a HOLE in his stomach.
Not a hole, Keesha, a valve.
The doorway to his small intestine.
Yeah, well it just swallowed the GUM!
Hey, why hasn't the gum been digested?
A few things are too tough to be broken up and dissolved.
Like school buses, right?
There's only one way to find out. Here we go!!
Where are we?
lt looks like Scuba World.
Welcome to the small intestine, the next step in digestion!
l don't get it. The food's been dissolved, digested, whatever. What else is left to do?
As l always say, Ralphie,-- digested is not DELlVERED.
Anyone for a dip?
Go swimming in Arnold's digestive juice???!!! NOT ME-NO WAY!
How was l supposed to know she'd have digestive juice scuba gear?
lsn't this the coolest?! There's the gum! l'll be right back.
Hey, look at this! The dissolved food
is disappearing into these rubber cactus-type things!
They're called villi.
Cool! They're soaking up the food like a sponge.
But where did it go?
Here at United Digestion, what we digest, we deliver!
As the villi in the Small lntestine soak up the nutrients in the food
the nutrients are transferred into the bloodstream..
and the bloodstream delivers the nutrients to all parts of the body.
Because here at United Digestion we believe in turning FOOD lNTO FUEL!
l get it. The bloodstream is like a pizza
delivery service only it delivers ENERG Y!
Speaking of energy, where's Wanda?
WANDA!!
Did l do it?
Two minutes, and four seconds!
How can l break the school napping record if my stomach keeps waking me up?
Where could she be?
l don't see her anywhere.
Wanda! Where are you! Wanda?
We've been through the entire small intestine and no sign of her.
There she is!
She went into the large intestine.
The large intestine? You mean there's MORE? What's that!?
Just Arnold's leftovers.
Watch out!
Boy, what a ride!
Talk about action.
Ewww!! Aw...
what's that!
Man, if the small intestine was Scuba World,
the large intestine is SMELL WORLD!!
At least it's a lot drier in here.
Yeah, but where's Wanda? Wait a minute.
This should work.
Wanda, if you can hear this, give a shout!
Let's go!!!
Alright!
The further we go the drier it gets.
lt looks like the walls are sucking up all the water.
That's the large intestine for you. lt removes the water from the leftovers.
So we have to find Wanda before she gets dried into a raisin.
A raisin, cool!!
Ralphie!!!
Um. Not cool at all...terrible actually. Heh, heh...
WANDA DON'T!
Gotcha!
All right, Carlos! You saved her!
Saved me? l was having a BLAST!
Arnold's digestive system is
the wildest, scariest, scream-your-lungs-out ride in the world!
And it's not over yet.
We've done the mouth. We've done the esophagus.
The stomach. The small intestine. The large intestine.
What could be next? The EXTRA LARGE intestine?
No, we just have to join the rest of the waste products and finish the trip.
WHAT!
Wait a minute! According to my research, the waste products go...
Nuh-uh.
No way!
At my old school, we were never allowed to end up in the toilet.
Anyone have a better idea?
We could go back to the mouth and ride it again.
WANDA!!!
She's right, we could go back the way we came.
l've been keeping track and the digestive system is just one long tube divided into parts.
We started off in the mouth... got squeezed down the esophagus...
then in the stomach... got pushed into the small intestine,
and wound up here in the large intestine...
And since we don't wanna go out here, all we have to do is go backwards.
We could go back up the large intestine, back through the small intestine, into the stomach,
back up the esophagus, and burst triumphantly out the mouth.
lt won't be easy.
You're right, Tim. Digestion pushes everything down.
We'll have to fight our way back. We might never make it.
Never say never, Ms. Frizzle.
How can l break the record for eating lunch, if l can't FlND my lunch??!!
l wonder if there's any rules about it having to be MY lunch.
A chocolate Mallow Blaster!
FULL SPEED AHEAD!
This is lNSANE!
Consider the alternative.
You know, biking is my favourite sport!
NOW!
So much for the easy part.
The easy part?
Yeah remember all the muscle power that pushed us down the esophagus.
And it's almost noon. lf Arnold eats lunch
there's gonna be tons of food raining down on us.
lf l eat Ralphie's lunch and break the lunch eating record real fast--
Wanda will think l'm the best thing since Velcro shoe fasteners.
But then Ralphie will be steamed at me for eternity.
What are we gonna do? What are we gonna do?
Wanda, what are we gonna do?
l've got it!
But if l don't eat SOMETHlNG l'll wither away to nothing!
l know! l could eat Ralphie's lunch --
and think up a good excuse on a full stomach!
Arnold...
What??...l've heard my stomach growl before...but TALK??
Arnold... Are you about to eat Ralphie's Mallow-Blaster?
Ah, no...l mean yes Hey, wait a second! Who lS this?
This is your conscience, Arnold. You know you shouldn't eat Ralphie's Mallow Blaster.
Besides, you're not even hungry.
Not hungry! l could eat a--
You just THlNK you're hungry. What you really are-- is thirsty.
l am?
Trust me, you are.
Now, there's a nice bottle of seltzer in Wanda's lunch bag.
That's what you really want.
Okay, l guess... Hey, how come it's okay to drink Wanda's seltzer,--
but it's not okay to eat Ralphie's Mallo-Blaster?
Because Wanda's a far kinder
and more generous human being than Ralphie when it comes to sharing.
Then how come when she has a Malloblaster she hogs it all to herself??
Look, l'm your conscience, all right.
Just do what l say and drink the seltzer! Now!
Time me!
WAY TO GO, ARNOLD!!!
Now let's rock the bus to create a big gas bubble!
lT'S WORKlNG! lT'S WORKlNG!
Now what...?
Did l break the seltzer-chugging record? l'll never break a record.
l'll never win anything. l'll never even get to EAT LUNCH.
Did someone say, ''LUNCH?''
Congratulations, Arnold.
You just broke the record for being the best field trip EVER!
Wh-What?
And giving me the ride of my dreams!
You mean...l was the field trip?
Yup!
But ... where exactly did you go?
you went...inside....
Ms. Frizzle, no matter what l'll NEVER miss another field trip!
Never ever ever ever!!!
Wonderful! Arnold.
starting right after the next one.
ls it the magic school bus?
stay tune with us and be a smart kid
''Magic School Bus'' Just a minute please. ... Hold on....
Be right with you.
Magic School Bus...
Boy, for a show on science there sure were a bus load of mistakes.
You think so?
l mean, they just ZlPPED through the digestive system.
Nobody's food goes through them that fast.
You're right, it takes more than ten hours to digest,
but when we pitched ''Digestion: The Mini-Series'' ...
well... the network didn't bite.
And where did all the light come from. Except for in the mouth,
digestion takes place in complete darkness.
Believe me,
it would have been A LOT cheaper to do the ''Magic School Bus'' RADlO SHOW!
And another thing. You only showed the small intestine absorbing stuff.
Um... So we left out something...
Something important.
The stomach doesn't break down everything. The small intestine breaks things down too.
And all that stuff about the system not working in reverse...
sometimes it does, like when you throw up.
Right again, ...but normally it doesn't work that way.
And talking about normal, you didn't complete the ride.
Waste products that accumulate in the large intestine...
l know, l know. They are eliminated out through the anus,
the end of the digestive system. lt's natural, it's normal,
but did you really expect us to show that on daytime TV?
Well...maybe not. And another thing.
Wanda using gum to go bungi jumping in the large intestine. l mean, come on....
Cute, huh?
You could never use gum for bungi jumping, not in a million years.
l wish you guys would stick to the facts.
What was that?
Um, that? Oh, that was just the sound of Liz stretching the truth.
THE END