Magic School Bus Rides Again Wanda

"What kind of storm happens in the rima oris? A tongue twister!"

—Wanda in the CD-ROM, Explores the Human Trunk

Wanda Li (Simp. Chinese: 李万达 Li Wanda) is the a student in the Frizzle class. She was voiced by Lisa Yamanaka in the original series and currently by Lynsey Pham in The Magic School Passenger vehicle Rides Once more.

Contents

• one Biography/Family
• 2 In the books
  • 2.i Appearances
• 3 In the TV Series
  • iii.1 Personality
  • three.ii Appearance
• 4 TV Storyline
  • 4.1 The Magic School Passenger vehicle
  • 4.ii The Magic School Bus Rides Again
• 5 Relatives
• 6 Devices
• 7 Trivia
• 8 References

Biography/Family unit

Wanda has three siblings^[1]. She is the girl of Mr. and Mrs. Li, the younger sister of Henry Li (Ms. Frizzle'due south Adventures: Imperial China), cousin of Li Bo (from Explores Homo Evolution) and the older sis of William Li (from Nether Construction). Her other sibling is unmentioned.

In the books

Appearances

Wanda is an Chinese-American girl with stake skin, black eyes, and curt black pilus. In older books like At the Waterworks, she has worn a pinkish curt-sleeved shirt with magenta overalls (dotted with the rose-shaped "Westward" logo). Since In the Time of the Dinosaurs, she wears a pink shirt, a maroon belong with 2 yellow flowers (representing the "W" in her name), scarlet-rinse black jeans, white socks, and black Mary Jane shoes.

In the Television Series

Personality

Wanda is a Chinese-American tomboy, and the most audacious member in the class. E'er ready to jump into adventure and going where "no kid has gone before," she serves as a foil to Arnold. She wants to solve all problems that face her, even an fauna in demand of rescue.

Appearance

For normal habiliment in the original series, she wears her same outfit as her volume catechism'south attire in In the Time of the Dinosaurs. In Rides Again, it is replaced with a blue button-down jacket, and she rolls upwards her jeans to her ankles. She then replaces her Mary Janes with sockless sneakers.

She has long black hair, which is held by a hairband in Rides Again. In later episodes of the aforementioned series, the lighting makes information technology dark brown.

For winter wearable, she wears a yellow and light-green hat, a green jacket with a pink collar, scarlet-rinse black jeans, and yellow boots.

For swimwear, she wears a maroon and pink two-piece bikini with a yellow flower and a yellow spot on the dorsum on the meridian. The revival replaces it with a white one-piece swimsuit the is dark blue from under the chest and armpits all the manner down.

For rain wearable, she wears a yellowish rain hat, a yellow raincoat, and pink gumboots.

For formal wearable, she wears a white long-sleeved shirt, a pink belong, a pinkish neck piece, blue trousers, and night pink shoes.

For sports vesture, she wears a pinkish basketball shirt, maroon trousers, pinkish socks and pink sneakers.

Wanda, as she appeared in the showtime 2 seasons of The Magic School Bus Rides Again.

Idiot box Storyline

The Magic School Bus

Despite having told her he is not good under pressure, Wanda has Arnold try to suspension a mucilage chewing record for her in "For Lunch". Since she has a new filling, she can't do it herself, simply she wants the prize for breaking the record: two free tickets to Action Mountain. She has a pet bullfrog named Bella that she seems to spoil in "Hops Abode", simply Bella gets loose, and when Wanda finds that she's happy in her natural habitat, she leaves her there. She wins a class rot contest in "Meets the Rot Squad", which her prize was a baby tree. She wants to plant it on an abandoned lot (which she plans to plow into a park called "Wanda World"), but afterwards touring the rotted log, she regrets calling Larry'south Log Away.

Wanda'due south beloved of flying and dream of beingness a airplane pilot is shown in "Taking Flight". Subsequently hearing most a sea monster at the lesser of Walker Lake, she decides she must dive in to notice it ("Ups and Downs"). As it turns out, information technology's a hoax created by local TV reporter, Gerri Poveri, much to her thwarting.

In "In the Chill", she mentions her hatred for the common cold weather. Instead of going on a field trip to a bridge being built, the class ends up shrunk in her house in "Under Structure" when her younger blood brother, William, gets a hold of the Porta-Shrinker. She wishes recycling had never been invented in "Holiday Special" after her favorite toy soldier is accidentally recycled.

When Wanda'due south favorite stone singer, Molly Cule, is in town, she proposes the class ready upwards a car wash, equally Molly gets her car cleaned before every show ("Meets Molly Cule"). She's thrilled to discover out Molly and Ms. Frizzle are old friends. She wants to aid Arnold find out why he's orange in "Goes Cellular", and in "Takes a Swoop", she refuses to work in partners, wanting to go solo as a pirate during a treasure hunt, much to Dorothy Ann's dismay.

The Magic Schoolhouse Bus Rides Again

Wanda spent her summer at the animal rescue and it started to develop her dear for animals, simply like her former classmate, Phoebe (Frizzle of the Futurity). She befriended a fish whom she calls Becca Blue (a reference to her sometime pet, Bella) on a field trip to Hawaii (In the Swim). She and Carlos adopt Ratney from the animate being shelter (Carlos Gets the Sneezes), just Carlos keeps it after he struggles to convince Mr. Ruhle that she should exist an official class pet due to sneezing and allergies.

In "Hook and Order", she tries to convince everyone that Marty (a magpie she befriended) did not wreck the classroom and works to clear his proper noun only for her classmates to plough on her, except for Arnold who was the outset to believe Wanda'southward story when the classroom gets wrecked again, and since Marty was in the Magic School Courthouse when it happens.

In "Kids in Space", she meets a tardigrade she calls "Pinky". After Ralphie accidentally grows it with the PortaShrinker (and loses the Shrinker), it's up to her and the others to observe the device and shrink Pinky. In "The Frizz Connection", Wanda appeared in Peru with Tim, Jyoti, and Fiona.

Relatives

• Her female parent makes her beginning appearance in "Going Batty" but she doesn't have whatsoever lines. She returns in "Ups and Downs", "Under Structure", and "The Magnetic Mambo". She is a science journalist and has a habit of keeping reptiles in the house, such as an alligator in the bathtub or a Gila monster in the sandbox. The Lis' father is neither seen nor mentioned.
• She has a baby brother named William. While he can walk and (somewhat) talk, he is as well being potty-trained and uses a baby canteen. He appears in "Ups and Downs", "Under Structure", "Meets Molly Cule" (cameo in a fantasy), "The Magnetic Mambo", and in a cameo during "The Tales Glaciers Tell".
• She as well has a pet dog who is a Cocker Spaniel.
• Her former pets were Bella the bullfrog (she jumped out a window) and Ratney the rat (whom she gave to Carlos)
• In the book, Explores Human Evolution, she has a cousin named Bo.

Devices

• Baby Bluish MSB telephone
• Baby Blue MSB tablet
• Infant Blue MSB laptop

Trivia

Whatever mentionings of various episodes

• Wanda is the only educatee in the Television receiver series grade with black hair. However, information technology is oftentimes lightened to brown. In the book series, she, Molly, and Michael take this hair colour.
• Wanda is the only student whose begetter was never mentioned.
• She is officially the happiest in the form. For example, in Wet All Over, she is charmed that she'll stay in the water bike forever. In "In the Swim", she is excited to read about various endangered species that demand saving.
• Wanda can jump the highest in the class. ^[2]
• Her nigh well-known catchphrases are "Wahoo!", like the Frizzle sisters, when she's feeling extremely happy (as heard in "Wet All Over"), "What are we going to do? What are nosotros going to do? What are we going to practice?" when she doesn't know what to do, and "Come on, you weaselly wimps!" when she's showing her aggressive side. She is the just student to share a catchphrase with Valerie Frizzle and Fiona Frizzle (that existence "Wahoo!")
• Wanda enjoys flying with her jetpack. ^[3]
• Wanda's favorite rock star is Molly Cule. ^[4]
• Wanda has many pets at home.
• Wanda prefers hot conditions over cold weather ^[five]
  • Arnold prefers the cold.
• Wanda's favorite season is Summer. ^[6]
• Due to beingness the strongest member of the form, Wanda can pull handles off of very large doors, such every bit in the bat castle. ^[7]
• Wanda shares some concrete characteristics with Jyoti, as they both take ambitious sides and are very potent, she also shares some of Phoebe's views on brute welfare.
• Wanda has aspirations of becoming a pilot and an extra. ^[eight]
• Wanda'south favorite colour is red.^{[9] [10]}
• Wanda's favorite sport is basketball. ^[xi]
• Wanda's favorite foods are bananas ^[12] and tomatoes. ^[13]
• Wanda is the commencement main graphic symbol to cry. ^[xiv]
• Wanda does not like working with partners. ^[15]
• Although Wanda and her family are Chinese-American, her original vox extra, Lisa Yamanaka, is Japanese-Canadian, while her Rides Again voice actress, Lynsey Pham, is Vietnamese-Canadian.
  • Lisa Yamanaka even admits to beingness zero like her. ^[16]
• Wanda'due south voice actress, Lisa Yamanaka (now Lisa Jai), prior to the bear witness had voice Isabelle from Babar, and would subsequently voice Yoko in some other Nelvana/PBS series, Timothy Goes to School. She would also vocalization Sherry Birkin in the video game Resident Evil two.
• In the German dub, Wanda name is Connie. In French, she is known equally Veronique.
• Information technology is very heavily implied that Wanda has a vanquish on Arnold. In "For Lunch" (Arnold was the best field trip she's ever been on), "Meets the Rot Team" (She fantasized herself sitting under a tree with Arnold), "Holiday Special" (She was Arnold's hole-and-corner Santa), "Hops Domicile", and "Gets Charged" (At the end of the Producer Says segment, Arnold and Wanda are both dressed equally Cupid/Eros and attempt to shoot beloved spells at each other).
• In Carlos Gets the Sneezes, it is implied that Wanda has a vanquish on Carlos.
• Wanda is a centre kid of three siblings. ^[17]
• Wanda has quoted Mahatma Gandhi. ^[18]
• Wanda is the third student in the class whose siblings were revealed. ^[19] The first and 2nd were Carlos and Dorothy Ann in Getting Energized and its successor, Out of This Globe.
• Wanda never gives up, on her teacher and her classmates.
• Wanda plays the trombone. ^[20]
• Out of all of the females in the Tv set class, Wanda is the tallest female educatee ^[21].
• Along with Keesha, Wanda is one of the only students in the class to take any experience with ballet. ^[22]
• Wanda is one of few students to never be subjected to the "Carlos!" gag despite making at least ane pun in the form of the series. ^[23]
  • Wanda'due south sole pun has a universally positive reaction.
  • Wanda does end up on the receiving end once, merely for an inappropriate remark. ^[24]
• As of 2017 and onwards, Wanda is at present the tallest kid in the class, afterward Carlos.
• Wanda is the first Asian American pupil to enroll in the grade. She is from China. The second is a new student Jyoti, who is from somewhere effectually Republic of india.
• Wanda'southward most often shown to be the shortest in the class in the books and 1994 Boob tube series. In the Rides Once again series, she is at present just every bit tall if not taller than Carlos.
• Wanda has a cat that has parasites. ^[25]
• She, Ralphie, Carlos and Phoebe are the only students who take pets.
• Wanda has two brothers, William from the Boob tube serial (younger) and Henry from Ms. Frizzle's Adventures (older).
• Wanda'south field trip suits are baby blue and greenish in Rides Again.
• Her known love interests are Carlos and Arnold.
• Wanda is most probable a vegetarian. Because she has shown her love for vegetables. ^[26]

References

1. ↑ Mentioned in TMSB: Run across the Class, on the 2d folio of Wanda'due south bio
2. ↑ Gains Weight
3. ↑ Goes to Mussel Embankment)
4. ↑ Meets Molly Cule
5. ↑ In the Arctic
6. ↑ In the Arctic
7. ↑ Going Batty
8. ↑ Taking Flight
9. ↑ Makes a Rainbow]
10. ↑ Ghost Farm
11. ↑ Gains Weight
12. ↑ Makes a Stink
13. ↑ Ghost Subcontract
14. ↑ Vacation Special
15. ↑ Takes a Dive
16. ↑ Holiday Special
17. ↑ Meet the Class
18. ↑ Meet the Class
19. ↑ Ups and Downs
20. ↑ In the Haunted Business firm
21. ↑ [As of Rides Again, Wanda is the tallest female pupil, the second existence Keesha]
22. ↑ Holiday Special
23. ↑ Out of This World
24. ↑ For Lunch
25. ↑ Janet's Mystery Gene
26. ↑ Ghost Farm

Li Family
Wanda • Mrs. Li • Henry • William • Bo

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