Sunday, 9 December 2018

MSB S6E03: Ghost Farm

I'm going on a scary, yet bizarre field trip to a farm. A farm that is filled with ghosts. Growing all kinds of crops. Blog, do your stuff!

68. Ghost Farm.
Topic: Produce.
Written by: Mike McPhaden.
Guest star: Jay Baruchel as Doctor Tillage.
Released: 13 April 2018.

Wanda has been so busy planning this year's Fall Fun Feast that she forgot about the food. Now her only hope is a farm that's supposedly haunted. Gulp!


Here comes a scary silhouette of a monster! A monster carrot!

It's only Wanda, and she's handing out pamphlets for a Fall Fun Feast!

Liz looks cute driving this little car.

It's funny that Wanda would just swipe this tomato off Ralphie.

" Then come on, Class! To the..."
"Um, I'd like to step in here with a few small concerns."
"Bus!"
It's funny that no one listens to Arnold. 

They can ask this gas station owner for directions. Thanks, Mr. Grizzled.

But this might be a ghost farm, as there's a scary cucumber.

Bus has a flat tyre.

"I knew I should've stayed home today."
For once, Arnold might be correct about this.


There's a tractor, with no one driving him!

Wanda and Ralphie are trapped!

But here's the way that farms grow their produce. Tomatoes, then carrots, then cucumbers, then broccoli, and carrots, and tomatoes again.

Here's a carnivorous robot! Cutting strawberries.

And a drone carrying the class!

And a massive greenhouse full of cabbages and lettuce and other green food.

And the tractors are carrying water tanks to water their crops.

"According to my reesearch, this farm is weird. With a capital Waaaaaaah?!!."
Farms can be weird, Dorothy Ann. 



The class have landed in the dirt the crops are growing in.

"According to my reesearch, we've seen half the farm, but still no Ralphie and Wanda.
They'll find them. 


It's a monster, about to get the class, but the class shrunk even smaller!

Wanda shouldn't have touched that tomato.

 They're in a tensiometer, which measures the amount of water to see how much the soil needs.

Why Wanda shouldn't have touched that tomato! Drone attack!

It's the monster ghost!

Come on! Ride on The Magic Dandelion Bus!

It's just Doctor Tillage, and he's holding up carrots.

They were intending on repainting the cucumber sign on the road.

And this is just the no till planter, planting holes and seeds.

They can make their own farm at Walker Elementary.

Come on! Ride on The Magic Greenhouse Bus!

The feast is finally on!

This is one scary feast. Only Liz delivering veggies to the feast goers.

Here's the foreshadowing to the next episode. Valerie, Goldie, and the Magic Scooter Bike are surfing!


Who would've thought Ralphie's grandparents would own a farm? And it does seem spooky, but that's to do with the technology that's evolved since the original Magic School Bus show ended.

Those drones surrounding Wanda and Ralphie might remind some of Star Wars.

I'm guessing the caller at the end of the episode was Stuart Stone. I'm making a guess because the voice sounds exactly like the voice Ralphie had in some parts of Season 2, and throughout Seasons 3 and 4.

The way Doctor Tillage's silhouette might remind some of Edward Scissorhands. 

The way Liz was driving the little pumpkin car, I am guessing it's a nod to Lowly from Richard Scarry's Busytown series, who drives an apple vehicle. Speaking of which, the 90s TV series of that franchise did star Tara Meyer, Dorothy Ann's original voice actress.

Keesha referencing "The Great Pepperoni Shortage of 2015" shows that this series takes place in the present.

Well, this was a spooky, yet interesting way to learn about how farmers grow their crops, and what kinds of produce they grow, plus it wouldn't look out of place as a Thanksgiving episode. Possible references galore, and I feel this was a good time for Arnold to have stayed home. Well, still an interesting episode this.

My rating: 9/10.

Season 6 scorecard:
1. The Land Before Tim: 9.5/10.
2. Claw and Order: 8.5/10.
3. Ghost Farm: 9/10.

Season 6 so far: 9/10.

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