Magic School Bus Rides Again Who Portrays Mrs. Frizzles Younger Sister

"What kind of storm happens in the oral fissure? A natural language twister!"

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

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 past Lynsey Pham in The Magic School Charabanc Rides Again.

Contents

• 1 Biography/Family
• 2 In the books
  • two.ane Appearances
• iii In the Tv Serial
  • 3.1 Personality
  • three.2 Appearance
• 4 TV Storyline
  • iv.one The Magic School Bus
  • 4.2 The Magic School Motorcoach Rides Again
• 5 Relatives
• six Devices
• 7 Trivia
• 8 References

Biography/Family

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

In the books

Appearances

Wanda is an Chinese-American daughter with pale skin, black eyes, and short black hair. In older books like At the Waterworks, she has worn a pink brusk-sleeved shirt with magenta overalls (dotted with the rose-shaped "Due west" logo). Since In the Time of the Dinosaurs, she wears a pink shirt, a maroon vest with two yellow flowers (representing the "West" in her name), red-rinse black jeans, white socks, and black Mary Jane shoes.

In the Tv Serial

Personality

Wanda is a Chinese-American tomboy, and the most adventurous member in the form. Ever ready to leap into adventure and going where "no kid has gone before," she serves every bit a foil to Arnold. She wants to solve all problems that face her, fifty-fifty an beast in need of rescue.

Appearance

For normal wear in the original series, she wears her same outfit as her book canon's attire in In the Time of the Dinosaurs. In Rides Again, it is replaced with a blue button-down jacket, and she rolls up her jeans to her ankles. She so replaces her Mary Janes with sockless sneakers.

She has long blackness hair, which is held by a hairband in Rides Over again. In later episodes of the aforementioned series, the lighting makes it dark brown.

For winter vesture, she wears a yellow and light-green hat, a green jacket with a pink neckband, red-rinse black jeans, and yellow boots.

For swimwear, she wears a maroon and pink 2-piece bikini with a yellow flower and a yellow spot on the back on the tiptop. The revival replaces it with a white one-piece swimsuit the is nighttime blue from nether the chest and armpits all the manner down.

For pelting clothing, she wears a yellow rain hat, a xanthous raincoat, and pinkish gumboots.

For formal habiliment, she wears a white long-sleeved shirt, a pink vest, a pink neck piece, bluish trousers, and night pink shoes.

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

Wanda, as she appeared in the offset two seasons of The Magic School Motorbus Rides Once again.

TV Storyline

The Magic School Bus

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

Wanda's beloved of flying and dream of existence a airplane pilot is shown in "Taking Flight". Later on hearing about a sea monster at the bottom of Walker Lake, she decides she must dive in to find information technology ("Ups and Downs"). Every bit it turns out, it's a hoax created past local TV reporter, Gerri Poveri, much to her disappointment.

In "In the Arctic", she mentions her hatred for the 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 brother, William, gets a hold of the Porta-Shrinker. She wishes recycling had never been invented in "Holiday Special" later on her favorite toy soldier is accidentally recycled.

When Wanda'southward favorite stone singer, Molly Cule, is in town, she proposes the course gear up up a automobile wash, every bit Molly gets her car cleaned before every show ("Meets Molly Cule"). She's thrilled to detect out Molly and Ms. Frizzle are quondam friends. She wants to help Arnold notice out why he's orange in "Goes Cellular", and in "Takes a Dive", 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 School Passenger vehicle Rides Again

Wanda spent her summertime at the animal rescue and it started to develop her dearest for animals, but like her former classmate, Phoebe (Frizzle of the Future). She befriended a fish whom she calls Becca Bluish (a reference to her onetime pet, Bella) on a field trip to Hawaii (In the Swim). She and Carlos prefer Ratney from the brute shelter (Carlos Gets the Sneezes), only Carlos keeps it after he struggles to convince Mr. Ruhle that she should be 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 plow on her, except for Arnold who was the first to believe Wanda's story when the classroom gets wrecked again, and since Marty was in the Magic Schoolhouse Courthouse when it happens.

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

Relatives

• Her mother makes her first appearance in "Going Batty" simply she doesn't have any lines. She returns in "Ups and Downs", "Under Construction", and "The Magnetic Mambo". She is a science announcer and has a addiction of keeping reptiles in the firm, such as an alligator in the bathtub or a Gila monster in the sandbox. The Lis' male parent is neither seen nor mentioned.
• She has a baby blood brother named William. While he tin can walk and (somewhat) talk, he is besides being potty-trained and uses a infant canteen. He appears in "Ups and Downs", "Under Construction", "Meets Molly Cule" (cameo in a fantasy), "The Magnetic Mambo", and in a cameo during "The Tales Glaciers Tell".
• She also has a pet domestic dog who is a Cocker Spaniel.
• Her old pets were Bella the bullfrog (she jumped out a window) and Ratney the rat (whom she gave to Carlos)
• In the volume, Explores Human Evolution, she has a cousin named Bo.

Devices

• Baby Blue MSB telephone
• Baby Blue MSB tablet
• Baby Blue MSB laptop

Trivia

Any mentionings of various episodes

• Wanda is the just student in the TV series class with black hair. However, information technology is often lightened to brown. In the book series, she, Molly, and Michael have this hair color.
• Wanda is the just student whose father was never mentioned.
• She is officially the happiest in the class. For case, in Wet All Over, she is overjoyed that she'll stay in the h2o bike forever. In "In the Swim", she is excited to read about various endangered species that need saving.
• Wanda can jump the highest in the class. ^[two]
• Her almost 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 practise? What are we going to do?" when she doesn't know what to do, and "Come on, you weaselly wimps!" when she'due south showing her aggressive side. She is the only student to share a catchphrase with Valerie Frizzle and Fiona Frizzle (that being "Wahoo!")
• Wanda enjoys flying with her jetpack. ^[three]
• Wanda's favorite rock star is Molly Cule. ^[4]
• Wanda has many pets at home.
• Wanda prefers hot atmospheric condition over cold weather ^[5]
  • Arnold prefers the cold.
• Wanda's favorite season is Summertime. ^[6]
• Due to beingness the strongest member of the class, Wanda tin can pull handles off of very large doors, such as in the bat castle. ^[seven]
• Wanda shares some physical characteristics with Jyoti, equally they both have aggressive sides and are very strong, she too shares some of Phoebe's views on animal welfare.
• Wanda has aspirations of becoming a airplane pilot and an actress. ^[8]
• Wanda'due south favorite colour is red.^{[9] [ten]}
• Wanda'south favorite sport is basketball. ^[11]
• Wanda's favorite foods are bananas ^[12] and tomatoes. ^[13]
• Wanda is the first primary grapheme to cry. ^[14]
• Wanda does not like working with partners. ^[15]
• Although Wanda and her family are Chinese-American, her original voice actress, Lisa Yamanaka, is Japanese-Canadian, while her Rides Over again voice actress, Lynsey Pham, is Vietnamese-Canadian.
  • Lisa Yamanaka even admits to existence zilch like her. ^[16]
• Wanda'southward voice extra, Lisa Yamanaka (now Lisa Jai), prior to the evidence had voice Isabelle from Babar, and would later on vocalism Yoko in another Nelvana/PBS series, Timothy Goes to Schoolhouse. She would also vocalism Sherry Birkin in the video game Resident Evil 2.
• In the German dub, Wanda name is Connie. In French, she is known as Veronique.
• It is very heavily implied that Wanda has a crush on Arnold. In "For Lunch" (Arnold was the all-time field trip she's e'er been on), "Meets the Rot Squad" (She fantasized herself sitting under a tree with Arnold), "Vacation Special" (She was Arnold's cloak-and-dagger Santa), "Hops Dwelling house", and "Gets Charged" (At the end of the Producer Says segment, Arnold and Wanda are both dressed as Cupid/Eros and attempt to shoot love spells at each other).
• In Carlos Gets the Sneezes, it is implied that Wanda has a crush on Carlos.
• Wanda is a center child of 3 siblings. ^[17]
• Wanda has quoted Mahatma Gandhi. ^[18]
• Wanda is the third student in the form whose siblings were revealed. ^[19] The first and second were Carlos and Dorothy Ann in Getting Energized and its successor, Out of This World.
• Wanda never gives upward, on her teacher and her classmates.
• Wanda plays the trombone. ^[xx]
• Out of all of the females in the Tv class, Wanda is the tallest female educatee ^[21].
• Forth with Keesha, Wanda is one of the only students in the class to have whatsoever experience with ballet. ^[22]
• Wanda is ane of few students to never exist subjected to the "Carlos!" gag despite making at to the lowest degree ane pun in the form of the serial. ^[23]
  • Wanda'due south sole pun has a universally positive reaction.
  • Wanda does cease up on the receiving end one time, but for an inappropriate remark. ^[24]
• Equally of 2022 and onwards, Wanda is now the tallest kid in the class, after Carlos.
• Wanda is the first Asian American student to enroll in the class. She is from China. The second is a new student Jyoti, who is from somewhere effectually India.
• Wanda'due south most ofttimes shown to be the shortest in the course in the books and 1994 TV series. In the Rides Over again series, she is now just as alpine if not taller than Carlos.
• Wanda has a true cat that has parasites. ^[25]
• She, Ralphie, Carlos and Phoebe are the but students who accept pets.
• Wanda has 2 brothers, William from the TV series (younger) and Henry from Ms. Frizzle'due south Adventures (older).
• Wanda'due south field trip suits are babe blue and green in Rides Once again.
• Her known love interests are Carlos and Arnold.
• Wanda is most likely a vegetarian. Considering she has shown her honey for vegetables. ^[26]

References

1. ↑ Mentioned in TMSB: See the Class, on the second page of Wanda'due south bio
2. ↑ Gains Weight
3. ↑ Goes to Mussel Beach)
4. ↑ Meets Molly Cule
5. ↑ In the Arctic
6. ↑ In the Chill
7. ↑ Going Batty
8. ↑ Taking Flight
9. ↑ Makes a Rainbow]
10. ↑ Ghost Subcontract
11. ↑ Gains Weight
12. ↑ Makes a Stink
13. ↑ Ghost Farm
14. ↑ Vacation Special
15. ↑ Takes a Dive
16. ↑ Holiday Special
17. ↑ Encounter the Class
18. ↑ Run into the Course
19. ↑ Ups and Downs
20. ↑ In the Haunted House
21. ↑ [Equally of Rides Again, Wanda is the tallest female student, the second beingness Keesha]
22. ↑ Holiday Special
23. ↑ Out of This World
24. ↑ For Tiffin
25. ↑ Janet'due south Mystery Gene
26. ↑ Ghost Farm

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

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