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Liz is Ms. Frizzle's pet lizard. There is no known lizard like her in the real world, as Liz can do advanced tasks such as driving the magic bus. In original books she didn't appear to be much more than an ordinary lizard, but the cartoon series changed that. In Microsoft's Magic School Bus software, she speaks and serves as a help button.
"Take chances, make mistakes, get messy!" is Ms. Frizzle's favourite saying. She encourages her kids to learn and love science. She has succeeded with all of them except for Arnold.
Ms. Frizzle lives in Walkerville in a house which has many Jetson-like inventions and runs on batteries. She is often unmindful to the point of absurdity. For example, when she and her class were about to eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex, the Friz said it would be an excellant opportunity to study the dinosaur's digestive system.
Ms. Frizzle seems to have a never-ending supply of distant relatives who used to say something unusual--for example, "As my Aunt Minerva used to say, 'there's nothing more marvelous than mud.'"
Ms. Frizzle's first name was first mentioned in The Magic School Bus in the Age of Dinosaurs, when she met an old high school friend. Her middle name is mentioned only in the CD-ROM game The Magic School Bus Explores the Rainforest.
Ms. Frizzle is voicedA voice actor (or voice artist is a person who provides voices for computer and video games, puppet shows, amusement rides, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, stop motion, and animation works (including cartoons, animated feature films, animated by Lily TomlinLily Tomlin (born Mary Jean Tomlin on September 1, 1939 in Detroit, Michigan), is an American actress and comedian. She first became well-known for her character skits on television's Laugh-In in which she created several indelible characters that have st in the television series and in the computer software and by Judy Graubart for the books-on-tape.
Ms. Frizzle's mother appears in The Magic School Bus Explores the Senses. She has pink hair and a pet catFor alternative meanings see cat (disambiguation). The cat (also called domestic cat or house cat is a small feline carnivorous mammal. Its scientific name is Felis silvestris catus or Felis silvestris domesticus but the species is sometimes referred to a named Fred.
Dottie Frizzle is Ms. Frizzle's niece. She appears in The Magic School Bus and the Electric Field Trip. She has red hair and is about the same age as the students in Ms. Frizzle's class. Dottie wants to grow up to be just like her aunt, but Arnold thinks she already is.