Hello Internet! Welcome to Film Theory, where it's time for a pop quiz. Do you recognize this voice?

It's me, head editor, Dan, hi, hello.

Matt lost his voice at VidCon, so you got me.

Now, it probably wouldn't come as any surprise to you that I liked me some science class in grade school.

Why else would I edit for these channels?

Fun fact, in the third grade, I was so into science that they let me go to challenge, which is where we just basically made slime for an hour.

Now if only I had the foresight to make a YouTube channel, imagine the amount of money I could have made.

But anyway, you knew a day in science class was going to be extra special when the teacher wheeled in that ginormous CRT TV and popped in a VHS tape packed with some classic good old edutainment.

Yes, thank you. I'm totally aware that I just aged myself by mentioning VHS.

I'm an internet boomer and I'm dealing with it.

But something nerds of the 90s, aughts, and 20 teens can all agree on, though?

The magic school bus was frickin'n' awesome. Miss Fzzle was the embodiment of the perfect teacher, engaging her class with legitimately interesting topics and taking our students on wacky field trips to give some real hands-on learning.

Whether it was traveling through time to visit the age of the dinosaurs, or that one time when they traveled inside one of the students Arnold to study the human body or when the whole class got turned into bees

oh the bees yeah okay sometimes those trips were a bit um how do I put this uh mildly

dangerous and life-threatening but also theorizable oh definitely but Matt insisted that

he wasn't going to ruin his own childhood.

That lasted a whole day before he came in and said, quote,

Okay, fine, let's just ruin everything.

So we dusted off our VCR's, kicked back on the couch,

then Creative Director Lee pointed out that we can't watch the VCR on the modern TV,

so we just streamed it.

And from the first episode of the magic school bus gets lost in space, our theorist sensibilities

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