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2018-11-02

by shaenon on November 2, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Figgs and Phantoms
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  1. Robert Nowall
    November 2, 2018, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    “Too much, Magic Bus!”

    • Guesticus
      November 2, 2018, 10:22 pm | # | Reply

      Was just about to mention that vehicle 😀

  2. Owlmirror
    November 2, 2018, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    Obvious music is obvious:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl9bvuAV-Ao

    I kinda thought the dance itself would cause reintegration, and only bees would remain of the women. And I see that the bus is almost certainly not Nick.

    Sigh.

    • Frank
      November 2, 2018, 7:12 am | # | Reply

      I hadn’t heard that song before. It was weird.

    • junkman209
      November 2, 2018, 10:10 am | # | Reply

      Wow. I haven’t heard that song for ages! Thanks for the memories.

      • Guesticus
        November 2, 2018, 10:23 pm | # | Reply

        Same

    • mickeyjf
      November 2, 2018, 11:25 am | # | Reply

      Not necessarily not Nick.

    • mickeyjf
      November 2, 2018, 11:26 am | # | Reply

      But not exactly the Cat bus from Totoro either

  3. Not Fenimore
    November 2, 2018, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    Seatbelts, everyone!

    • Not Fenimore
      November 2, 2018, 12:22 am | # | Reply

      Awww, it treated my “Ms Frizzle” tags as real html. 🙁

    • Anson
      November 2, 2018, 1:45 am | # | Reply

      Awwww…!

  4. Pygar
    November 2, 2018, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    Prediction: just like the Emerald City, seeing the truth will require removing the glasses…

  5. Tuiteyfruity
    November 2, 2018, 12:59 am | # | Reply

    what if… that’s Nick

    • Gyrre
      November 2, 2018, 2:35 am | # | Reply

      Good question.

      I’d be an interesting twist.

    • K. Iceclaw
      November 2, 2018, 8:57 am | # | Reply

      Then? Then he will snark.

    • Frank
      November 2, 2018, 11:58 am | # | Reply

      What would nick want skeeball tickets for?

      • D. Walker
        November 2, 2018, 12:05 pm | # | Reply

        Maybe his subconscious wants to trade them for prizes to give to Virginia as gifts.

        My question is this: would Bus-Nick have a driver sitting in the driver seat? Perhaps Nick himself, in his old meatbody?

        And before you say, “But Nick doesn’t have a pilot as a helicopter!”… actually he does! His brain is in a tank which is installed in the helicopter. So if the VR bus version of Nick doesn’t have a driver in the form of a person (as an expression of his psyche and self identity), it should at least have his brain in a jar buckled in.

        • BRGR
          November 3, 2018, 9:48 am | # | Reply

          Nick is the helicopter.

          You don’t refer to your brain as the helmsman that drives you, do you?

      • awgiedawgie
        November 2, 2018, 2:23 pm | # | Reply

        I was thinking the same thing. He could get a big fluffy bunny – or a plush brain – to give to Virginia. Skee ball tickets are good for lots of things.

        • Owlmirror
          November 2, 2018, 4:06 pm | # | Reply

          If the prizes were in a vending machine that only accepted skee-ball tickets, that might make sense. But they’re right out there on the shelves on the walls. Virginia just grabbed a bunch of glowsticks; there was no-one demanding recompense for them.

  6. thedoctor55
    November 2, 2018, 1:03 am | # | Reply

    Ms. Friizzle? Wow! What a crossover!

    • Shen Hibiki
      November 2, 2018, 5:17 am | # | Reply

      … nice comment from -another- timelord…! XD

  7. Bruce A Munro
    November 2, 2018, 2:00 am | # | Reply

    That’s one tricked out metaphor.

    • Shadowmehr
      November 2, 2018, 9:28 pm | # | Reply

      Hey, if you have to have a visual metaphor, it might as well be stylin’.

  8. Owlmirror
    November 2, 2018, 6:56 am | # | Reply

    I just remembered that the prediction was that “No bus will come for [Virginia Lee]”. Does that mean that this bus is only for everyone else?

    And are those bee wings behind the fin?

    • Robert Nowall
      November 2, 2018, 9:46 am | # | Reply

      I figure the bus and / or its driver are another part of the divided Gavotte (or whoever it is that’s divided).

      • Shadowmehr
        November 2, 2018, 9:29 pm | # | Reply

        Seconded.

    • Noëlle A.
      November 2, 2018, 10:39 am | # | Reply

      Specifically, it’s “No bus will come for you. Until you heal that which is broken, you are with us forever.”, which implies to me that it’s not that Virginia’s not allowed on the bus, but that the bus won’t just show up without Virginia taking action.

      • Owlmirror
        November 2, 2018, 12:42 pm | # | Reply

        The dark interpretation of that is that all the other women — all of “us” — can leave on the the bus, but Virginia can’t. She won’t be with them forever if they’ve all left . . .

        I don’t know if that’s what’s “really” meant. I just look for possibly faulty assumptions, especially with vaguely-worded prophecies and predictions.

  9. Dr. Steve
    November 2, 2018, 11:16 am | # | Reply

    A simple experiment establishing cause and effect relationship.

  10. Sasha Honeypalm
    November 2, 2018, 12:25 pm | # | Reply

    It looks like the Magic School Bus had a baby with a caterpillar. Or a bee larva, I suppose.

  11. Owlmirror
    November 2, 2018, 12:53 pm | # | Reply

    OK, one more whack notion:

    I look at that bus, and I think, that sure looks whimsical. Or maybe even Whimsycal. Or maybe, to be even more pedantic, Tanchibical (“Whimsy acquired Tanchibi Studios in the ’80s“)

    Could the driver be Aimee, Baron Mistycorn, or duplicate-Nick-who-wandered-away-and-was-never-seen-in-that-storyline-again (Backup!Nick for short)?

    • Owlmirror
      November 2, 2018, 1:07 pm | # | Reply

      NB: Since it occurs to me that not everyone is familiar with Japanese anime — Just as Whimsy is an obvious alt-Disney, so too is Tanchibi an obvious alt-Studio Ghibli, in that Studio Ghibli has made a deal with Disney (not quite the level of “acquisition”), and, as referenced above, the Ghibli-release “My Neighbor Totoro” has a famous and iconic Catbus.

    • Robert Nowall
      November 2, 2018, 2:10 pm | # | Reply

      The bus does seem to have a kindly face.

  12. Daibhid C
    November 2, 2018, 3:25 pm | # | Reply

    This never happened in my old VR!

  13. Moor
    November 2, 2018, 3:32 pm | # | Reply

    … Waiting For Gavotte….

    • Moor
      November 2, 2018, 3:33 pm | # | Reply

      (Which is only fitting, since we began this chapter — as the comments pointed out — learning that Rosenkranz Is Dead…)

  14. Mark Hollomon
    November 2, 2018, 4:43 pm | # | Reply

    Get on the Bus!

  15. Shadowmehr
    November 2, 2018, 9:31 pm | # | Reply

    Is anyone else trying very, very hard to shut off the part of their brain responsible for imagining Mrs. Apis krumping?

    • Guesticus
      November 6, 2018, 1:35 pm | # | Reply

      Now that you mention it… no 😉
      At least she’s not twerking! 😛

      • awgiedawgie
        November 6, 2018, 2:30 pm | # | Reply

        Well, they are talking about dancing, so that rules out twerking right there.

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