4. In the first episode, "Gets Lost in Space," who does Arnold bring to class as a guest?
From Quiz The Magic School Bus
Answer:
Janet
Janet is Arnold's cousin, who always brags about how great she is. Her bragging is so annoying, even the skeleton in the classroom covers its ears (so apparently the bus isn't the only thing that's magic in Mrs. Frizzle's classroom)!
Arnold brought her to class one day because she asked him to prove his claim this Mrs. Frizzle has the best field trips. At first, Mrs. Frizzle surprisingly takes the class on a normal field trip to the planetarium. When the planetarium is closed, Mrs. Frizzle decides to return to class, but then Janet starts bragging again. She goes too far and says "My teacher is better than your teacher." Surprisingly, Arnold, who normally complains most about the field trips, angrily says "There is no better teacher than Mrs. Frizzle!" and he then asks her to take a field trip to outer space. She then agrees, and the class goes on a field trip to outer space, to all the planets.
Janet wants to brag to her class about having been to all the planets, but then Dorothy Ann reminds her that they'll tell her the same thing she told Arnold. "Prove it!" So she gets proof from every planet, such as part of Jupiter's red spot. At the end of the field trip, the stuff that she collected from all the planets weighs so much, the bus can't move. Janet decides to stay on Pluto forever, because she doesn't want to go home if she can't prove to all her friends and family that she visited all the planets. Arnold then takes off his helmet to show her what will happen if she stays on Pluto. Arnold's head turns to ice, but he somehow survives with merely a cold. Janet then decides that she is going to brag about that field trip anyway, not caring if anyone believe her. She thanks Arnold for proving how good Mrs. Frizzle's field trips are, and she gives him a tissue to help with the cold she accidentally gave him.
This episode doesn't make sense as the first episode, because in this episode, Arnold tells Janet about some of the past field trips, such as a field trip inside a rotten log and a field trip to the bottom of the ocean, but those field trips happened in future episodes. However, for whatever reason, this is the first episode that aired on TV.