I don't know about you, Phoeb, but I can't stand vacations.
Why not?. I mean, how can you not like vacations?.
ˇ®Cause they always end, that's why!.
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... Iook 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've 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!"
Let's face it, our county fair has turned into the city dump!
Heyyy, gimme, five, guys! The kid's back.
Hi, Ralphie!
Hey, howˇ®ya doin, Ralphie?.!
Whoaaa, 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 DlD win third place.
With the way that tomato looks now, my glove could've come in second.
Hey... nice pickle, Keesh.
Waitaminute! Holdit! Doesn't anybody care that somebody stole my cucumber?.!
Stole it?. Who'd ever do such a thing?.
You like cucumbers, don't you, Ralphie?.
Like ˇ®em - I love ˇ®em!
Hey... hold it a second! You're not trying to say l stole your cucumber, are you?.
Good morning, class.
Um...isn't it awfully early to be eating a pickle, Ms Frizzle?.
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!
Mmmmmm! Mmmmm... Mmmmmm... Mmmm... Mmmm... 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.
Hmmm... Ummmm.... It's the salty brine the pickles have pickled in.
I'm talking about my PRlZE cucumber, Ms Frizzle.
And all I know is - the door to this classroom was locked during vacation-
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!
You're right, Keesha. I admit it.
MS FRlZZLE!
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.
Ah! How exciting! As I always say, one tough question deserves another.
WAlT! 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!
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 that she did NOT turn it into a pickle!
Ohh! 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, THlS is a pickle.
THlS 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!
Okay, I take it back.
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 DlD 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 gang. A small-time gang with big ideas.
A tiny, troublesome, crowd of two-bit thieves known as...
the Mike ROBE Gang.
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!
INVlSlBLE?????.!
I think the Frizz's losing it.
Order, order in the court!
OBJECTlON! Ms Frizzle is NOT losing it!
There's a perfectly logical explanation.
Tell them, Ms Frizzle.
Tell them the gang 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 gang of thieves we can't even see???.!
Keesha has a point, Arnold. How CAN you prove that?.
Oh, Arnold....
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 Gang really exist.
You will see with your own eyes that
they have the ability to turn a cucumber into a pickle!
YAAAAAAY!!!
I OBJECT!
There shouldn't be any applauding until AFTER we see this lNVlSlBLE gang...
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!
This is really weird!
Nothing like a little shrinking to get you thinking!
Hey, what's that!
Yeah, but last week you were BlGGER than your comb!
Now your comb's bigger than ALL of us!
Um...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'ya doin', Abe?.
Got it!
LlFT!
Phew! Thanks.
Good thing it wasn't a quarter!
Okay, okay, 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 spidermite!
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?.
Oh! Not likely, Arnold. It's much too tiny.
And it's alive!
It's a kind of yeast called an ascomycete.
Yeast???.! What's yeast doing here?.
Ascomycete grow nearly everywhere.
Cool! But I'd rather find one on your seat than my seat!
CAR-LOS!
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 Gang...
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!
Okay, 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!
Hey, Liz...we're up here!
She can't see us!
She could if she knew where to look.
I changed my mind. I want to land on Liz.
I OBJECT! You said you wanted to go to the vegetable garden.
Ah! Not to worry, Arnold. No matter where we go - day or night -
night or day, the Mike Robe Gang will have its say. Liz it is!
I don't see any creepy crawly creatures.
I do!
Ah ha! Another member of the Mike Robe Gang! Right, Ms Frizzle?.
Right on, Arnold!
Oh, no! I think Liz thinks we're one of them!
I really hate it when we land upsidedown!
Where are we now???.!
I hope we're not back in the water cycle!
Hmmmm... Unless I'm mistaken, we're inside...
THE HAMSTER'S WATER BOWL!!!
And Liz STlLL can't find us!
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???.
Ahh! The fat juicy ones are Amoeba -
and the ones that look like hairy hotdogs are Paramecium.
Looks like the Underwater Wrestling Association to me!
Actually, Ralphie, they're more members of the Mike Robe Gang.
We're under attack!
Gosh, I never knew things like these existed!
But now you do! And not only that, they're everywhere! Case closed!
Well done, Arnold.
OBJECTlON! Our hamster drinks this water, right?.
So how can this invisible gang change my cucumber into a pickle
if our hamster's still a hamster, huh?.! Explain that!!
Well, uh, uh...it seems to me, ummmmm...
Okay, 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...
To my tomato, Ms Frizzle! AND HURRY!
Here we GOOOOO....
WE'RE GONNA CRASH!
Smooth landing, Ms Frizzle.
I'd rather be on Wanda's carrot!
Here 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!
Ummm, maybe... maybe we need to uh, 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 way is to...GET MESSY! Into your anti-fungus suits, everyone!
I knew I should've stayed home today.
WOW! COOL!
Look! More members of the Mike Robe Gang!
They're everywhere!
It looks like they're attacking Arnold's tomato.
We're surrounded!
Ah! Relax, Arnold.
They're funguses - and they're only doing what comes naturally.
You mean, they're SUPPOSED to destroy the tomato?.
Hey, even a fungus has to eat.
WOW! COOL!
Hey! Watch it! Whaaaa... 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?.
Only a very powerful one, Phoebe.
You mean like the mega-magnifyer?.
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 STlLL haven't proven that they turned my cucumber into a pickle!
I... OB---JECT!! 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
QUAAAAAKE!!! HEELLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPPP.!.!!
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!
It sure is crowded in here!
Ugh! The tomato fungus is still among us! They're EVERYWHERE!
Ah! Right you are, Wanda. Everywhere and anywhere.
YYYuck! What's going on here?.!
More destruction! First the funguses ate the tomato -
now they're trying to eat the pickle!
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 PlCKLE.
Whoa! Look at those pickle protectors work!
Wipe out! The funguses are history!
Woooch! Pickle juice!
I HATE pickle juice!
So do the funguses!
Hey, check it out!
Now the pickle bacteria are attacking the cucmber!
What's happening?. I thought the picklers were the good guys.
They are, Keesha. They're not destroying the cucumber -- they're SAVlNG 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's turning the cuke into a pickle!
Ahh! Not a problem, Ralphie - that's preservation!
A pickle lasts a lot longer than a cucmber!
Don't tell me the pickle bacteria are gang 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...YYYYESSS!!!
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 MlKE ROBE GANG! Isn't that right, Ms Frizzle?.
I wouldn't CHANGE a thing, Arnold.
But microbes DO! They make BlG changes - like turning a cucumber into a pickle!
So, kids of the jury, it's very clear that Ms Frizzle DlD NOT, I repeat,
DlD NOT turn Keesha's cucumber into a pickle! And who did?.
THE MlCROBES DlD!!!
So... that pickle is REALLY my cucumber???.!
It is indeed, Keesha.
I rest my case!
Hey, anybody seen the bus?.!
Looks like the bus is in a real pickle!
Members of the jury, have you reached a verdict?.
We the jury, find Ms Frizzle innocent of all charges. YAAAAAAAAAY!
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 into a PRlZE PlCKLE!
Well, as my great Uncle Barnard used to say:.
"Cucumbers come and cucumbers go, but pickles go on forever!"
Case dismissed!!
Is it the magic school bus?.
The magic school bus?.
Is it the magic school bus?.
The magic school bus?.
Take water, for example. Under a microscope,
you can see all sorts of things in water you didn't know were there.
Like what?.
Well, you might see Trachelomonas...Spirogyra...
Fragilaria....Anabaena... or Evensynura!
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?.
Oh, ho ho ho! 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 called 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 yoghurt and sour cream.
And yeasts are microbes that help make breads and pizza dough.
Cool! I love pizza.
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 questions.
Ho ho ho. Hey, Liz! If you ever get that down, I'll take one pizza to go:.
cheese, tomatoes, some paramecium, a handful of lactobactors...
and oh yeah, go easy on the fungus!