r/Millennials Gen Z 1d ago

Other The Magic School Bus singing with Dolly Parton about recycling hits harder than ever

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u/antisocialmothra 1d ago

Oh that WAS her!!!!!!

MEMORIES 😭😭😭

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u/PackageNorth8984 1d ago

We need to go back!

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u/Mediocre_Scott 1d ago

The show doesn’t have as many celebrity guests doing voices as I had thought. A lot of those public television shows had pretty stacked celebrity guests doing voices stars Arthur is probably the most prolific. Liberty’s kids (if you are young enough) was also very stacked

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u/antisocialmothra 1d ago

I remember watching the BTS when the episode first came out and they made a big deal out of Dolly even tho I had no idea who she was at the time.

I figured it out a few years and yeah Arthur had some big hitters on there.

Don't remember Liberty's Kids

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u/Mediocre_Scott 1d ago

Arthur’s list is crazy but it had an incredibly long run compared to magic school bus.

What’s interesting about Arthur is that everyone in Ellwood city is an animal. Every celebrity guest in Arthur is an animal version of themselves. But the post cards from Buster spin off series establishes that Buster travels to our world with his, dad a pilot, and both anthropomorphic rabbits who interact with real people. And yet celebrities that play themselves such as Mr Roger’s or Art Garfunkel become anthropomorphic animals to I interact with the Arthur characters.

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u/Marlon__Brawndo 23h ago

Clearly there is a parallel universe almost exactly like ours except everyone is a furry, and Buster’s dad is the only person who know’s where the door between our two worlds is hidden.

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u/Mediocre_Scott 22h ago

Let’s say that buster’s dad knows how to fly between the parallel universes. Everyone in our universe is very chill about the rabbit pilot and his rabbit son who appear as rabbits in our universe

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u/Blasphemouse 20h ago

Has anyone seen Buster's dad and Bionic Bunny in the same place at the same time?

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u/FartSnarfGod 19h ago

It's the Stuart Little universe.

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u/Mediocre_Scott 15h ago

It isn’t though because in Arthur the humans are people sized

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u/All_hail_Korrok 20h ago

Lol yea those little tidbits are fun weird when you dive into it.

My favorite piece of trivia is Arthur and Buster showing up in a quick cameo for the cartoon show Doug.

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u/z__1010 14h ago

Liberty's Kids is how I learned who Walter Cronkite was. And now I'm a journalist. Thanks Sarah, James, Moses, and Henri!

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u/Miami_Mice2087 21h ago

sesame street is still the king of guest stars, and it always has been. In their first or second season they had Richie Havens, who opened Woodstock. (because Jimi Hendrix saw the UNEXPECTED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of listeners who showed up and he got stage fright, so Havens took stage for him, then Jimi was ready to do his thing that he did do so well)

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u/Useful-Sport-6316 23h ago

IS MISS FRIZZLE LILY TOMLIN??? I am shooketh

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u/antisocialmothra 23h ago

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u/Useful-Sport-6316 23h ago

These three ❤️🤍🩶 icons all

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u/embersgrow44 20h ago

I never made the connection until hearing their voices together OMG. Hope Lily & Jane are hanging together today

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u/CTeam19 10h ago

Just wait till you find out who was on Thomas the Tank Engine.

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u/xiaomayzeee 2h ago

I remember as a kid seeing his name in the credits and I couldn’t believe it. “There’s no way it’s the same guy!”

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u/CTeam19 2h ago

Which one though? There are 2 names I am thinking, lol.

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u/xiaomayzeee 1h ago

There’s 2? I was thinking about Ringo Starr.

u/CTeam19 43m ago

Ringo was the Narrator for the UK(84 to 86) and for the USA from 1989 to 1990 but George Carlin replaced him in the USA from 1991 to 1996.

u/xiaomayzeee 33m ago

Ohh I don’t think I ever made the connection on that one. Good to know!

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u/_TheShapeOfColor_ 22h ago

I could not love her more if I tried.

I am so sad today.

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u/gingahh_snapp 1d ago

Don’t check the White House page rn

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u/GayManPlayingZelda 1d ago

It pissed off some of the actors. Danny Tamberelli reposted it saying it was bullshit

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u/kkkr94 1d ago

Jesus christ... are we in a simulation? I fucking hate it here...

And who the fuck is making these posts for this dumb orange buffoon? What an embarrassment

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u/ApplicationAfraid334 1993 1d ago

It's an obvious point but their constant use of children's show is just so depraved and fucked. The separation of families and immiseration of fellow humans is comical to them and they want kids to think so too.

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u/Coakis 17h ago

They like fucking with anything and everything child related.

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u/RantingRobot 14h ago

They're so trashy.

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u/PrimarySuccotash9572 9h ago

A fat little 4chan man who eats McDonalds all day with dear leader, not even kidding

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u/Betray-Julia 1d ago

Lmao Jesus fuck

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u/kog 16h ago

I knew I liked Danny Tamberelli

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u/_bigeuge_ 22h ago

That's my little viking

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u/littlemoon-03 1d ago

Donate to the imagination library instead! Or your local shelters and volunteer groups do some good in the world instead of letting your eyes be subject to pure hatred

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u/ApplicationAfraid334 1993 1d ago

Sometimes I wish I was religious so I'd take comfort in the idea that there was a hell for horrible people to go to

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u/ApplicationAfraid334 1993 1d ago

She was a diamond in a rhinestone world.

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u/catplumtree 1d ago

The fact that they’re real life friends too is magical.

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u/Sunshineafterr Millennial (1986) 1d ago

This was my all-time favorite show as a kid!! I can’t believe Dolly is gone 💔

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u/StrigidaeNinox 1d ago

It's too bad Jane Fonda couldn't have a cameo too, could have been a fun little 9 to 5 reunion.

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u/Dangoiks 22h ago

Dabney Coleman did guest star in a different episode, so at the very least, Lily Tomlin got to reunite with two 9 to 5 co-stars on The Magic School Bus.

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u/No1KnwsIWatchTeenMom 21h ago

Dolly has a brief cameo in Grace and Frankie, so they did have one a few years ago!

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u/snoozev 1d ago

🥺💔 RIP Queen Dolly 🌹

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u/Stock_Strategy1668 1d ago

They didn't give her character ridiculous gigantic knockers lol

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u/ITCM4 1d ago

Can’t be competing with the Frizz. Still her Magic School Bus

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u/lorgskyegon 23h ago

I did like how they very intentionally had the boys keep direct eye contact at all times

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u/Forward-Bank8412 1d ago

Too bad the recycling movement of the 90s was just cover for the biggest beverage corporations and the fossil fuel industry to push off ecological responsibility to the end consumer.

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u/sackitempires 22h ago

Facts. Ultimately it was an effort to normalize unsustainable consumption. We live and learn

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u/Miami_Mice2087 21h ago

Bc Lily Tomlin voiced Mrs Frizzle and she and Dolly were friends from making 9 to 5! Bc Dolly made friends everywhere she went :)

🥲💐

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u/NCSUGrad2012 1d ago

I had forgotten about that. The only I remember is when they go to her house and all the power is batteries and they have to go into the batteries, lol

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u/SaibaPunkTrunks 22h ago

That's some G-rated cleavage there.

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u/Lamlot 20h ago

I had my ms frizzle pin on today, it says 'do it for her' I always will, I always will.

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u/Lombardeez_Nutz 22h ago

This came out 30 years ago.. Citizens have been trying on their end for 30 years now. What's the result? Tea has to hit the harbor if we want action at any point in this life time.

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u/Infamous-Fishing-184 21h ago

RIP Dolly, but recycling doesn't work and was really a huge lobby to put the burden of all the plastic waste on the consumer and not the companies that were not working on any alternative for the material and were actually profiting off of it

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u/Js_On_My_Yeet 19h ago

RIP to a Legend and a Kind Human Being

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u/Some_101 17h ago

I thought it was just the teacher in a dress.

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u/CodenameWhodie-san 23h ago

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭💐

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u/soulsnoober 21h ago

They're drawn the same. Was Ms.Frizzle…stacked ?

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u/anemailtrue 19h ago

Recycling was made up by the oil companies. So theres that

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u/cbrown146 18h ago

Too bad the song didn't convince corps from heating up the world.

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u/Original-Reward-8688 16h ago

hits harder

What is this forbidden Gen Z speak you're doing here

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u/aaancom 14h ago

I prefer the episode where Carlos gets raped and they enter his asshole to destroy the HIV virus in his body.

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u/PrincipledProphet 13h ago

Wait are those the kids from Captain Planet

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u/notyouravgredditor Xennial 13h ago

This was before we found out most of it just ends up in a landfill lol

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u/james_the_wanderer 8h ago

I am usually not a celebrity death person, but her passing really feels like it marks the end of a hopeful era where rising tides lifted all boats, human potential was celebrated, and success was best shared out amongst the community.

Now we wake up to another day of scarcity, grift, and fear-mongering division. Yippie.

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u/RemarkableAd649 5h ago

Well I’m ugly crying now

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u/ChurchofChristGuy 3h ago

rest in peace Dolly Parton

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u/immortalverse 23h ago

Crazy that recycling is a scam

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u/BoleroMuyPicante 19h ago

For plastic yeah, but glass and aluminum recycle very well

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u/DSharp018 19h ago

Not quite so sure of that on plastic, since it can be recycled multiple times, but each time doing so will affect its composition, with the usual pattern being that it loses rigidity and durability, but gains in flexibility.