| “ | I knew I should've stayed home today.... | „ |
| ~ Arnold's catchphrase. |
| “ | Please let this be a normal field trip... | „ |
| ~ Arnold in every intro |
Arnold Perlstein is one of the ten students of Ms. Frizzle's class in The Magic School Bus series. He does not like Ms. Frizzle's field trips because he wants to have a regular field trip instead of the magical ones that she takes him and his classmates on. Regardless, he hesitantly participates in these field trips despite his fearful nature. Arnold has shown bravery when he's needed to, however, and he's very loyal when it comes to his teacher and his classmates. He also has various love interests in the show such as Wanda and Phoebe.
He is voiced by Amos Crawley in the first season, and by Danny Tamberelli for the remainder of the series, who is best known for the role of Jimmy De Santa of Grand Theft Auto V. In the reboot, he is voiced by Miles Koseleci-Vieira. In the Japanese dub from the series, he is voiced by Satomi Kōrogi, And in the UK dub he is voiced by Aaron Barashi who also voices Thomas the Tank Engine (All Engines Go).
History[]
Arnold introduces his cousin, Janet, to his class in "Gets Lost In Space," and he tries to keep the peace when Janet's arrogance sours the rest of the class. It's when Janet talks down on Ms. Frizzle that he shows his loyalty to his teacher and suggests a field trip to the "bigger" planetarium, showing Janet that "nobody is better than Ms. Frizzle."
In "For Lunch," Arnold volunteers to stay behind for a field trip upon Ms. Frizzle's request. Unbeknownst to him, the bus shrinks down and flies into Arnold's hand with some Cheezy Weezies he's about to eat. Arnold throws the Cheezy Weezies into his mouth and the bus goes inside with them, landing safely on Arnold's tongue. The class is shocked to find out that they're inside Arnold's mouth as his giant teeth chew up the Cheezy Weezies around them. Soon after, Arnold unwittingly swallows the bus with his food. The class is pushed down Arnold's esophagus and eventually finds itself inside his stomach. Meanwhile, Arnold is happy to have stayed behind, blissfully unaware of the field trip happening inside his body. Ms. Frizzle proceeds to take the class on an educational tour of the rest of Arnold's digestive system. At the end of their journey, Wanda poses as Arnold's "conscious" from within his stomach and convinces him to drink a seltzer to burp them out of his body. Afterwards, Arnold finds out that the class went inside of him after Wanda gives him the award for being the best field trip ever. He swears never to miss a field trip, but backpedals upon seeing a T-Rex on Ms. Frizzle's dress.
He and Keesha find themselves in a difficult situation when they forget their partner report in "Gets Eaten." He loses Wanda's bullfrog, Bella, in "Hops Home" and tries to keep her out of harm when they look for Bella, as Wanda's too distracted to realize she's about to walk off of a tree or get swept down a river. In "Meets the Rot Squad," he tries to convince everyone to leave the rotted-out log on the abandoned lot the way it is. Everyone is shocked when he suggests a field trip to the desert in "All Dried Up" after Phoebe declares they need to help the animals there. He feels confident about the trip, thanks to his Field Trip Survival Guide.
While on a field trip to a dinosaur dig in "The Busasaurus," Dr. Carmina Skeledon lets Arnold see the fossilized egg Ms. Frizzle found. He still has it when they go back in time, and when he lets Phoebe look at it, she loses it to an Ornithomimus. He ends up squaring off with a Tyrannosaurus Rex after Ms. Frizzle makes him giant-sized, saving the class. In "Butterfly and the Bog Beast," he's the only one not to side with Janet against Phoebe when the former suggests "Bog Beast" for the school mascot. His main reason is because he doesn't know what a bog beast is. He's caught by his crush, Tiffany, when he and Wanda get water from the girls' bathroom in "Wet All Over." Despite the embarrassment, it's implied at the end that Tiffany likes him, too. He serves as Ms. Frizzle's defense attorney in "In a Pickle." While in the bus' gas tank, Arnold says that he hates the smell of gasoline and was out on the engine telling the class what was going on while they were in the cylinder in "Revving Up".
After losing the heat from his hot cocoa, Ms. Frizzle takes the class to the Arctic ("In the Arctic"). When Ralphie, Phoebe, Liz, and the bus get stranded on an ice flow, Arnold makes it his responsibility to save them while also trying to keep everyone else warm. He and Dorothy Ann compete in the 10th Annual International Show & Tell Competition in "Shows and Tells," but instead of bringing a rare collection of rocks, he brings some artifacts he found in his attic that belonged to his great-aunt, the famous archeologist Arizona Joan (a parody of the film character Indiana Jones). In "Rocks and Rolls," he fears that the statue he was supposed to carve (not by hand) is ruined, but instead, the rock slide the class caused on the side of a mountain carves a monument of the town founder. For the class' last day before winter break in "Holiday Special," Arnold made the suggestion they collect recycled goods to take to the recycling center. He accidentally puts Wanda's beloved toy soldier in the pile, causing her to blame his "crummy idea" and wish that recycling had never been invented.
Ralphie teases Arnold in "Meets Molly Cule" after the famous rock star, Molly Cule, calls him "Sugar.", this caused Arnold to blush. However, this is what helps him figure out that her hood ornament was made of sugar. In "Cracks a Yolk," Arnold helps hatch the chick the class planned to replace Mr. Ruhle's lost rooster, Giblets, prompting Dorothy Ann to kiss him. When Giblets returns, Mr. Rhule gives the chick to Dorothy Ann and Arnold, the latter suggesting they name it "Arnold, Jr." In "Goes Cellular," he's completely orange on the night he's to receive GRANITE's Rocky Award. The class shrinks down and compares the cells of his skin to Phoebe's. Afterwards, they travel inside of his body once again and learn a snack named Sea Wheedies made him turn orange. He's happy when Ms. Frizzle's electrician wants to buy all the light bulbs the class was trying to sell for Valentine's Day ("Gets Charged"). He becomes a fox along with Phoebe and Tim in "In the City," and he's partners with Phoebe in "Takes a Dive". When he gets too excited he says “I could be……. THE CROCODILE!! JAZZ HANDS!"
Arnold also appears in the Magic School Bus educational PC games as a member of Ms. Frizzle's class. In these games, Arnold's timidity and clumsiness is highlighted, and he frequently finds himself in humorously perilous or embarrassing situations. Most prominently, Arnold becomes the host of the 1994 game Explores the Human Body after the bus goes on a secret field trip inside of him.
Profile[]
- Nickname:Arn
- Fave Food: Hot Dogs (🌭)
- Fave Things: Rocks, and my favorite rock is Igneous.
- Fave Color:Orange (🧡).... except when it's on my skin.
- Fave Animal: No one
- Fave Number:5
- "Fave Superhero':Captain Rock Man!
- Favorite Subject:Social Studies.
Voiced By[]
- Amos Crawley(Season 1)
- Danny Tamberelli(Seasons 2-4)
- Miles Koseleci-Viera(Seasons 5-6)
- Roman Lutterotti(Season 7-present)
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Trivia[]
- He is one of the few students to appear in all the book series.
- He is Jewish, most likely German Jewish.
- Arnold's birthday is October 20, 1984
- Arnold's star sign is Libra.
- He is similar to the titular character Arthur Read.
- He is an only child.
- He has cousin named Janet.
- He is left-handed.
- He, Carlos, Wanda, and Phoebe are the only left-handed students.
- He loves rock operas, revealed in Waste not Want Not.
- Arnold is allergic to Pollen and Pepper.
- He is known as Captain Rock Man in Tim's comics.
- Arnold's body is the most explored in the series, with the bus going inside him five times.
- Like Janet, he wears glasses.
- Like Carlos, he is in a love magnet(Phoebe, Dorothy Ann and Wanda).
- He and Janet's grandparents appears on the Gene Machine in Janet's Mystery Gene.
- He despises the smell of gasoline.("Reving Up")
- He plays the Tuba.("In the Haunted House")
- Arnold loves hot air balloons because they go up and down.
- Arnold's personality is very similar to Joe Kido from Digimon Adventure.
- The scene where he took his helmet off became a popular internet meme, with some claiming that theoretically he would’ve died.
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