History VideoGame / TheMagicSchoolBus

* AnachronismStew:

* AllDesertsHaveCacti: Averted in ''Inside the Earth'', where the canyon is in a desert and has no cacti, and ''Explores the Age of Dinosaurs'', where Cretaceous Mongolia is set in a desert and before cacti evolved. Justified in ''Animals'' due to the Sonoran Desert being used for the desert biome.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: "Solar System" is the only game with no "Driver's License". And it has no real minigames - aside from the platforming game. Janet also is not present.

* AllDesertsHaveCacti: Averted in ''Inside the Earth'', where the canyon is in a desert and has no cacti. Justified in ''Animals'' due to the Sonoran Desert being used for the desert biome.

* PiranhaProblem: Discussed and subverted in ''Explores the Rainforest''. In the river of the Costa Rican rainforest, Ralphie worries that the water might be infested with piranhas, but Carlos reminds him that piranhas only live in the Amazon. A piranha does appear in ''Explores the World of Animals'' (as the rainforest biome is set the Amazon this time), where it's inevitably mentioned that a hungry shoal can eat a whole capybara in minutes.

* PiranhaProblem: Discussed and subverted in ''Explores the Rainforest''. In the river of the Costa Rican rainforest, Ralphie worries that the water might be infested with piranhas, but Carlos reminds him that piranhas only live in the Amazon. A piranha does appear in ''Explores the World of Animals'' (as the rainforest biome is based on the Amazon), where it's inevitably mentioned that a hungry shoal can eat a whole capybara in minutes.

* PiranhaProblem: Discussed and subverted in ''Explores the Rainforest''. In the river of the Costa Rican rainforest, Ralphie worries that the water might be infested with piranhas, but Carlos reminds him that piranhas only live in the Amazon. A piranha does appear in ''Explores the World of Animals'', where it's inevitably mentioned that a hungry shoal can eat a whole capybara in minutes.

** ''Explores the World of Animals'' also states jaguars do not roar, when they do in real life (and are shown doing so both in this game and previously in ''Explores the Rainforest''). It also states jaguars are preyed on by anacondas, but good evidence for this has never been presented and jaguars known to prey on smaller anacondas in real life. Finally, Ralph states that jaguars only eat young crocodilians when attacks on adults are well-documented. And finally, the jaguar seen in the game is [[AnimalsNotToScale awfully small, about the size of a house cat]], but it could be assumed that it's not fully-grown yet (though one may wonder why a jaguar cub is on its own).

** ''Explores the World of Animals'' also states jaguars do not roar, when they do in real life (and are shown doing so both in this game and previously in ''Explores the Rainforest''). It also states jaguars are preyed on by anacondas, but good evidence for this has never been presented and jaguars known to prey on smaller anacondas in real life. Finally, Ralph states that jaguars only eat young crocodilians when attacks on adults are well-documented. And finally, the jaguar seen in the game is [[AnimalsNotToScale awfully small, about the size of a house cat]], though one could assume it's not fully-grown yet (though one may wonder why a jaguar cub is on its own).

** ''Explores the World of Animals'' also states jaguars do not roar, when they do in real life (and are shown doing so both in this game and previously in ''Explores the Rainforest''). It also states jaguars are preyed on by anacondas, but good evidence for this has never been presented and jaguars known to prey on smaller anacondas in real life. Finally, Ralph states that jaguars only eat young crocodilians when attacks on adults are well-documented.

* PiranhaProblem: Discussed and subverted in ''Explores the Rainforest''. In the river of the Costa Rican rainforest, Ralphie worries that the water might be infested with piranhas, but Carlos reminds him that piranhas only live in the Amazon.

* PteroSoarer: The pterosaurs in ''Explores the Age of Dinosaurs'' are FairForItsDay. Jurassic Tanzania (based on the Tendaguru Formation) has a bipedal ''Pterodactylus'' that gets mistaken for a dinosaur by Wanda, only for Ms. Frizzle to explain to her that it's a pterosaur.

* RaptorAttack: ''Explores the Age of Dinosaurs"' has dromaeosaurs and troodonts that are featherless, due to the information at the time. On the other hand, ''Archaeopteryx'' is correctly identified as a dinosaur.

** ''Explores the World of Animals'' also states jaguars do not roar, when they do in real life (and are shown doing so both in this game and previously in ''Explores the Rainforest''). It also states jaguars are preyed on by anacondas, which is somewhat correct, but jaguars are just as likely to prey on anacondas in real life.

* AnachronismStew: ''Explores the Age of Dinosaurs'' has a snake in Jurassic Colorado. Snakes evolved in the Cretaceous. Although more likely it could be a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caecilian caecilian]].

** The hunting minigame in ''Explores Bugs'' implied that ladybugs are herbivores, although they’re correctly identified as carnivores elsewhere in the game.

** ''Explores the World of Animals'' shows a toucan eat an avocado (which is lethally toxic to birds).

** In ''Explores the World of Animals'', DA states alligators are larger than crocodiles. It's actually the other way around.

* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baird's_tapir Baird's tapir]] in ''Explores the Rainforest'' is oddly dark blue.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: "Solar System" is the only game that has no "Back of the bus" to explore in. It's also the only game with no "Driver's License". And it has no real minigames - aside from the platforming game. Janet also is not present.

* {{Jerkass}}: Janet. While she isn't obsessive and hotheaded like in the show, she's still as arrogant and insufferable as ever.

* AcceptableBreaksFromReality: ''Solar System'' and ''Human Body'' had short segments with the producer informing the player about what was fudged to make the story work, found by clicking on the classroom's TV. Much of it was lifted directly from the original books' closing pages, which served the same purpose.

** ''Explores the World of Animals'' also states jaguars do not roar, when they do in real life (and are shown doing so both in this game and previously in ''Explores the Rainforest''). It also states jaguars are preyed on by anacondas, but jaguars will prey on anacondas in real life.