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Uncategorized Monday, March 5th 2012 at 11:53 am

Headcanon: The Magic School Bus Kids Become Captain Planet Planeteers

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Contributing to the Grand Unified Field Theory of ’90s Era Cartoons (GUFT9EC) is a comparison image found on Jamie Steinheimer’s Facebook page. It posits that not only did The Magic Schoolbus and Captain Planet take place in the same universe, but that the schoolkids from Magic Schoolbus eventually became the Planeteers. The similarity is certainly there, but it really just creates more questions than it answers.

For instance: what happened to the other kids on The Magic Schoolbus? And what about the obvious incongruities of the character’s backgrounds — namely that all the Magic Schoolbus kids were ostensibly American schoolchildren and the Planeteers were all from different countries.

Here’s my attempt to reconcile the differences:

Gaia pulled a Jacob (see: LOST), kidnapping a bunch of children and relocating them to an island where she brainwashed them into thinking they were in “school” and she was their teacher, Miss Frizzle. In reality this was an indoctrination camp where she created the perfect pollution fighters by instilling a love of science and ecology into them at a young age.

Not all the kids made the cut. Phoebe resisted the brainwashing, unable to forget her previous life and constantly making references to her “old school.” It was a pathetic cry for help, and an attempt to hold onto her lest shred of sanity. Ralphie fell under Janet’s spell and the two escaped the island, only to be driven mad by their memories. Eventually, they turned to a life of crime becoming Hoggish Greedly and Dr. Blight respectively. The mysterious time-dialating effects of Gaia’s island accounts for their discrepancies in age. Keesha’s current whereabouts are unknown.

When her “class” had matured sufficiently, Frizzle/Gaia wiped their memories and sent them out as an eco-friendly sleeper cell until she had need of them. Years later, she gave them the power rings, and sent them off on an ecologically toyetic series of adventures.

A new addition to your own personal headcanon, or a pleasant coincidence from a suspiciously ethnically diverse cast: You decide. Tune in next week when I’ll use Transformers and Wall-E to explain the Cars universe.

(Jamie Steinheimer via io9)

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  • http://twitter.com/rayban5016 Ray O.

    Both shows where commie propaganda anyway. The only science being taught was political science.  

  • TJ

    Make sense but freaking twisted how you come up with the story. How about it’s from the same writer and he is too lazy to change and create different characters. All he has to do is just derive them into different ones. -_-

  • Homeboy305

    I so enjoyed reading this like what TJ said wow just lazy but funny I didn’t notice till now Ha.

  • Max Eddy

    Are the shows actually from the same writer?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NYIHG62BI5FPCBYOHQXU5OVOY4 Sarah

    Who cares. It was fun.

  • Mollyrayy

    arnold got hot!!

  • Uncle Sam

    Stop spreading your lies Soviet Socialist. Trying to convince the American people that the Magic School Bus episodes about biology are communist ploys so the they stop seeing doctors and fall ill to curable diseases! The old reverse propaganda ploy! But I’m on to you! And I will uncover your plot to destroy America!

  • http://www.smallfish-bigpond.com/ Kerensky97

    Probably has alot to do with the fact that if you have to choose an ethnically diverse cast of 5 you’ll always end up same 5 ethnic backgrounds.

    Although the gender and hair color similarities are beyond coincidence…

  • http://www.facebook.com/summerjams Jim Storrie

    Not bad. But can you demonstrate the genealogy of shared continuity linking Die Hard to UPN’s The Hughleys? Here’s a hint: you’ve gotta go through Clueless.

  • Madragon8

    Hmm you would think so considering we know everyone looks up the facts beforing posting…. *sarcasm*

  • Latinstud406

    its spelled were *

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Alex-Palacio/1656399004 Alex Palacio

    I always saw Blight as Mrs Frizzle Gone Evil. That would make sense since Blight is like way more older than the planeteers, and she has all this technology.  And also the Geocruiser is the magic school bus that became magicless after Frizzle took away a magical transformer core from the bus in order to revive her dead husband Mr Blight, who became MAL. So in captain planet, it is revealed that the magic school bus’s original form was a highly advanced solar powered air craft .  Frizzle probably hated the magic school bus because it lead to the death of her husband, and by that time the magic school bus was failing. So Frizzle became insane, and wanted to take chances, make mistakes, and get the earth messed up.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/VQIIOWGABY4EXVJEB65JA72FTA Alexandria Jones

    i HATE you

  • Hahahano

    How the crap does some ignorant dumbface read this hilarious insight to beloved childrens’ cartoons and come up with: Whatever they’re commies! You sound like you’re brainwashed. This show taught me that plants need sunlight and carbon dioxide to live, and that Pluto was really cold. Clearly communist plot lines.

  • Hahahano

    How the crap does some ignorant dumbface read this hilarious insight to beloved childrens’ cartoons and come up with: Whatever they’re commies! You sound like you’re brainwashed. This show taught me that plants need sunlight and carbon dioxide to live, and that Pluto was really cold. Clearly communist plot lines.

  • Moonkat65

    Actually “Captain Planet and the Planeteers” came out first in 1990, “The Magic School Bus”  came out in 1994…. if anything Gaia wiped there memories and sent the Planeteers and Blain back in time hoping to instill a love of the planet in them and change the future….and that’s how they ended up together :p

  • James

    An interesting theory, but quite incorrect.
    As Superman himself might tell you, when fighting supervillains, one must maintain a secret identity in order to protect friends and family. As The Planeteers obviously do not do this, a new strategy was needed.
    The children of The Magic schoolbus are the younger siblings of the Planeteers, put into a witness protection-like program by Gaia, under the guardianship of the techno sorceress Miss Frizzle.

  • Dannielrp

     *It’s

  • kylie

    i think he was making a joke about it

  • blurg

    Nope, there’s no way the ginger one became that hot or Carlos becoming that ugly 

  • Dave D.

    Ray O. I gotta ask you your reasons for such a statement.
    I’ve seen multiple episodes of magic school bus, and not a single one came of as political in anyway.

  • *edit Dave D.

     *off as political

  • T-jo

    Thats what i thought! I thought that Captain Planet came out fist….

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000889965626 Ashley Spenelli

    Exactly what I’m thinking.