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"Come on, Arnold. It'south just a business firm. Yous're non scared of a house, are yous?"

—Ralphie

In the Haunted House is the eighth episode of the first flavour of The Magic School Jitney. It is about sound waves.

This episode serves as part ane of A Magic School Bus Halloween, the first episode of the special season.

Main Episode

In class, the students rehearse for the musical with each different student playing a different instrument. Ralphie is on the xylophone, Phoebe is on the saxophone, Arnold is on the sousaphone, Tim is on the violin, Keesha is on the clarinet, Liz is on the drums, Wanda is on the trombone, and Carlos has a special instrument he invented himself, with Dorothy Ann every bit the music conductor. When Carlos plays his instrument, it elicits dissonance and fails to complement the orchestra. Ms. Frizzle so comes around wearing a costume with diverse of instruments. She takes off the costume and the class tell her about Carlos' instrument, which is devoid of harmony, and the rehearsal at the sound museum is this afternoon.

Ms. Frizzle leads the course to the Bus and the class take a ride. Carlos decides to put a blue top hat on the instrument to make it audio ameliorate, which proves to be futile. When Carlos says that he need more than time, Ms. Frizzle speeds the Bus upward so fast that it breaks down. Ms. Frizzle exits the Bus and takes in temperature earlier she finally concludes that the Bus is overheated, telling the class they will be stuck in the woods for a while, which gives Carlos plenty time to work on the sound of his instrument, only for Dorothy Ann to worry about missing the rehearsal.

When dark falls, the students have to push the bus uphill while Ms. Frizzle hauls information technology. They end when they hear a sound. Carlos had put an umbrella on his instrument to take a thunder audio to it, equally well as a mane to sound similar a panthera leo's roar. Dorothy Ann rebuffs those decisions, telling him that the thunder sounds more like a drizzle and the mane sounds more like a kitten.

Every bit the students continue to push the Coach, they hear another audio. They think that information technology was from Carlos' instrument. Only Carlos denies this, and the educatee view a house. They walk to it and Carlos says that information technology's kind of "eary". When Ms. Frizzle rings the doorbell, which makes a peculiar audio, Arnold, Ralphie, and Tim decide to leave. But Carlos wants to know what made the sound. Then the students reluctantly enter the house and the door makes a loud sound every bit it shuts.

Inside the house, the students search through the house for a phone. When Ralphie discovers that the doors are locked, Ms. Frizzle says "how-do-you-do" in a loud vox. Her echo travels through the hallways and Ms. Frizzle says that it audio friendly enough. Dorothy Ann finds a phone volume and the others hear the phone ringing. Ms. Frizzle picks a volume off the shelf, which blows a foghorn when flipped open up. Carlos so concludes that the books were making the sounds and Ralphie turns to leave, simply to trip over a book. Ms. Frizzle then shows the form a motion picture of Professor Cornelia C. Contralto, eccentric collector of sounds, built-in in the yr 1807 and disappeared in 1892. Information technology is not known how she disappeared. Ms. Frizzle and so tells the students that later on her disappearance (possible passing), the house turned into a sound museum, which is confirmed Dorothy Ann'south prediction that the class missed the rehearsal. Ms. Frizzle likewise explains that Professor Contralto devoted her life towards sound and her whereabouts are obscure. Ralphie surmises that Professor Contralto is a ghost seeking for the perfect sound. Ms. Frizzle also tells the class that they would be spending the nighttime, much to Arnold'due south fright. When Tim steps on a panel, the class comes beyond a rotating wall, which propels them to an adjacent bedroom replete with ample beds.

When the students become to bed, Carlos decides to put a coating over his instrument to make it sound like a ghost. When Dorothy Ann over again rebuffs that tactic, Carlos asks for Professor Contralto'due south help, which elicits a tremendous lightning. Convinced that it'southward the call of Cornelia, Carlos leaves the room to discover the audio and the students reluctantly follow along. The audio gets louder as they get closer to it. They hear a yodeling audio through a door, which Carlos enters, only to find a jungle inside. There is also pictures of the beach and city inside as the class enters and the yodeling continues. The students have a vociferous conversation, eliciting echoes. Just and then, Ms. Frizzle arrives and is revealed to be the ane yodeling. In the mountain paintings, she gives the students a ride upwards the chair lifts and they fall into a room of instruments. Ms. Frizzle elucidates that Professor Contralto congenital every room in the house to evidence different things virtually audio. Dorothy Ann comes across a harp and pulls the string, vibrating it. Carlos then concludes that the vibration of the string is what was making the sound. Tim and Phoebe endeavour out the drum and Wanda tries out the gong, both of which makes the same vibrating audio. Carlos then figures that he needs vibration to make his instrument sound better. The sounds the students make causes the wall to crack open up, revealing a dissimilar room. Carlos notices a pair of goggles on a statue and puts them on, which causes him to see the sounds. The other students put on goggles for themselves every bit well, and Ms. Frizzle informs them that loftier sounds arm-twist vibrations close to another, made by something vibrating chop-chop, and the low sounds elicit vibrations far apart from each other, made past something vibrating much slower. Ralphie compares the movement of the vibrations to ripples in a pond when something is thrown within of it. Carlos so figures that his musical instrument tin vibrate regardless of its advent and runs inside the bedroom to take hold of it, simply to notice that it is now missing.

When the students search around the room, wind blows out the candles, dimming the bedchamber, and Carlos hears the sound again. He searches through a closet and falls into a surreptitious dungeon-like room. The students follow forth and use their goggles to follow the mysterious sound. They soon learn that information technology's the sound waves that elicits echoes and find that the audio waves are coming from a mysterious door they come across. Carlos opens the door and finds a woman playing sounds with her organ. The adult female introduces herself to the students as Professor Cornelia C. Contralto II, and that she is the bully granddaughter of Contralto I herself. She tells Carlos that she is helping him brand his instrument sound better for the concert tomorrow. Carlos so learns that his musical instrument had too much stuff on it, which prevent whatever form of vibration, and that is what made information technology sound bad. So he eliminates any unwanted materials out of his musical instrument.

The adjacent solar day, the class performs at the audio museum and when information technology comes Carlos' plough, his instrument elicits a unique, harmonic sound and ends with a thunder sound (which involves a shoe boot a trash can lid). The audience applaud at the performance and Dorothy Ann tells Carlos that information technology was the perfect sound, and hugged him. Professor Contralto Two as well asks him if she could add this sound to her bully grandmother's drove, which Carlos agrees since the professor helped him. Cornelia and Ms. Frizzle, the latter in her instrument costume, then make a functioning of their own of the Pitch Song as the students watch in amusement.

Is This the Magic School Bus?

During a stormy night inside the office, the phone is answered by the ghost of Contralto, in which a girl over the phone asks about the house and how sound tin can be seen since it goes to fast. The ghost responds that was what the magic goggles the course in the episode were using for. When asked by the girl what exactly is doing the vibrations of the sound, the ghost answers that thin air being pushed dorsum and forth is the cause of the vibration, which travels through the air to the ears as a soundwave. The loud sound is the large vibration, while the soft sound is a tiny vibration. The daughter too asks about the ears since they were hardly mentioned in the episode, and the ghost replies that the human ears turn sound into something the brain can handle, which is how a human is able to hear. The girl too replies that everyone's ears piece of work differently, using her grandmother wearing a hearing help as an example. The ghost then replies that even without a hearing aid, a person would use his/her brain with other senses in order to supercede hearing. The daughter then adds her disappointment of the episode not adding whatever other differences of sounds besides loudness and pitch, using the disparities of the sounds of a violin and saxophone as an example. The ghost them replies that although there are all dissimilar kinds of sounds effectually the world, the time limit of the episode is what kept the exploration of those different sounds from beingness presented, too equally leaving room for hilarious jokes. Before she hangs up, the girl and then adds that the part with the ghost can't be truthful since no one believes in ghosts. The ghost and then agrees, right before the chair turns effectually to reveal no visible person sitting in it, frightening Liz (who was earlier trying to get a good hard await at the person backside the chair) as the ghost hangs up the telephone and starts laughing maniacally.

Trivia

Cornelia C. Contralto Ii was voiced by Broadway actress and vocalizer Carol Channing.
Each of the students' parts in the concert were:
- Dorothy Ann - Conductor
- Ralphie - Xylophone
- Arnold - Tuba
- Phoebe - Alto Saxophone
- Wanda - Trombone
- Liz - Drums
- Tim - Violin
- Keesha - Clarinet
- Carlos - His invented musical instrument
The Telly tie-in book is called "In the Haunted Museum."
In the producer segment, an invisible ghost speaks to the caller instead of one of the producers. It is possible, though unconfirmed, that the ghost was of Cornelia C. Contralto I.
Some other Boob tube show that aired during the same fourth dimension as this episode on PBS, was the premiere of "AAAAH!!...Real Monsters!!" on Nickelodeon, besides as the other air dates of the Magic School Bus of Seasons 2, 3, and 4.
Dorothy Ann's voice extra at the fourth dimension, Tara Meyer, calls the ghost in the producer segment.
The episode's original teleplay had ii scenes for which dialogue was recorded merely never blithe. 1 featured Ralphie comparing the motility of sound waves to ripples moving in water in a "report" segment preceded by Ms. Frizzle remarking "An observation of a demonstration", in the other scene Keesha gave an extended explanation of how an echo is made. The unused dialogue was included on an audio cassette adaption of the episode titled Fun With Audio.
The musical piece the class was performing is "William Tell Overture - Finale".
Clips from this episode are used for the grand finale of the clip-show, Kids for Grapheme.
- Some clips from this episode were also used in the We Are Family children'southward music video in 2005.
This is the kickoff time the Double-decker breaks down; the second time is in "Revving Up". Only the motorcoach intentionally overheated itself in this episode in order to give Carlos more than time and prompt the field trip, whereas in "Revving Upwards", it actually did break down.
This is the first episode in which the class believes at that place's a ghost nearly, the 2nd being "Gets A Bright Idea", and the third existence Ghost Farm.

Goofs

When Ralphie says "Ploopy?" (the kickoff "Ploopy!" gag), his legs are missing.
Warner Media refers to this episode every bit "Within the Haunted House", equally seen on both VHS covers, the tape itself, and the 2002 VHS and Region 1 DVD releases of "Creepy Crawly Fun" (nevertheless the Region 1 Cinedigm release of Creepy Awesome Fun, and the PAL version, refers to information technology as its name in the title card, "In the Haunted Firm")
When Arnold says "Delight, let this be a normal field trip." during the theme song, his voice cuts off for a split second. This is audible only on this DVD.