The Magic School Bus Rides Again Wanda Li

"What kind of storm happens in the mouth? A natural language 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 course. She was voiced by Lisa Yamanaka in the original series and currently by Lynsey Pham in The Magic Schoolhouse Double-decker Rides Once more.

Contents

• 1 Biography/Family unit
• two In the books
  • 2.1 Appearances
• three In the TV Series
  • three.1 Personality
  • 3.ii Appearance
• iv Television Storyline
  • four.i The Magic Schoolhouse Bus
  • 4.2 The Magic School Omnibus Rides Again
• v Relatives
• 6 Devices
• 7 Trivia
• 8 References

Biography/Family

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

In the books

Appearances

Wanda is an Chinese-American girl with pale pare, blackness eyes, and short blackness pilus. In older books like At the Waterworks, she has worn a pink short-sleeved shirt with magenta overalls (dotted with the rose-shaped "W" logo). Since In the Time of the Dinosaurs, she wears a pink shirt, a maroon vest with 2 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 well-nigh adventurous member in the class. E'er set 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 creature in demand of rescue.

Advent

For normal clothing in the original series, she wears her same outfit as her book canon's attire in In the Fourth dimension of the Dinosaurs. In Rides Again, it is replaced with a bluish button-down jacket, and she rolls upward 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 serial, the lighting makes it dark brown.

For wintertime wear, she wears a yellow and dark-green hat, a green jacket with a pinkish collar, ruby-rinse black jeans, and yellowish boots.

For swimwear, she wears a maroon and pink 2-slice bikini with a yellow flower and a yellow spot on the back on the height. The revival replaces it with a white one-piece swimsuit the is dark blueish from nether the chest and armpits all the way downwardly.

For rain wear, she wears a xanthous pelting hat, a yellowish raincoat, and pinkish gumboots.

For formal wear, she wears a white long-sleeved shirt, a pink vest, a pinkish neck piece, blue trousers, and dark pink shoes.

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

Wanda, equally she appeared in the first two seasons of The Magic School Jitney Rides 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 tape for her in "For Dejeuner". Since she has a new filling, she can't do it herself, but she wants the prize for breaking the record: two gratuitous tickets to Action Mountain. She has a pet bullfrog named Bella that she seems to spoil in "Hops Home", just Bella gets loose, and when Wanda finds that she'south happy in her natural habitat, she leaves her there. She wins a course rot contest in "Meets the Rot Team", which her prize was a infant tree. She wants to constitute it on an abandoned lot (which she plans to turn into a park called "Wanda World"), only after touring the rotted log, she regrets calling Larry's Log Abroad.

Wanda'southward love of flying and dream of being a pilot is shown in "Taking Flight". After hearing almost a bounding main monster at the bottom of Walker Lake, she decides she must dive in to find it ("Ups and Downs"). As it turns out, it'south a hoax created past local Tv reporter, Gerri Poveri, much to her disappointment.

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

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

The Magic School Bus Rides Again

Wanda spent her summer at the animal rescue and information technology started to develop her love for animals, just like her quondam classmate, Phoebe (Frizzle of the Future). She befriended a fish whom she calls Becca Blue (a reference to her former pet, Bella) on a field trip to Hawaii (In the Swim). She and Carlos adopt Ratney from the beast shelter (Carlos Gets the Sneezes), but Carlos keeps information technology after he struggles to convince Mr. Ruhle that she should be an official form 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 beginning to believe Wanda'due south story when the classroom gets wrecked again, and since Marty was in the Magic School Courthouse when it happens.

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

Relatives

• Her female parent makes her first appearance in "Going Batty" but she doesn't take any lines. She returns in "Ups and Downs", "Under Structure", and "The Magnetic Mambo". She is a scientific discipline announcer and has a habit of keeping reptiles in the house, such every bit an alligator in the bathtub or a Gila monster in the sandbox. The Lis' father is neither seen nor mentioned.
• She has a babe brother named William. While he tin walk and (somewhat) talk, he is also being potty-trained and uses a baby 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 likewise 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 volume, Explores Human Development, she has a cousin named Bo.

Devices

• Baby Blue MSB phone
• Baby Blue MSB tablet
• Baby Blue MSB laptop

Trivia

Any mentionings of various episodes

• Wanda is the only student in the Idiot box serial class with blackness hair. However, it is often lightened to brown. In the volume series, she, Molly, and Michael have this hair color.
• Wanda is the only student whose father was never mentioned.
• She is officially the happiest in the class. For example, in Wet All Over, she is overjoyed that she'll stay in the water bike forever. In "In the Swim", she is excited to read nigh various endangered species that need saving.
• Wanda can jump the highest in the form. ^[2]
• Her nigh well-known catchphrases are "Wahoo!", like the Frizzle sisters, when she'southward feeling extremely happy (as heard in "Wet All Over"), "What are nosotros going to do? What are we going to do? What are we going to exercise?" when she doesn't know what to do, and "Come on, you lot weaselly wimps!" when she's showing her aggressive side. She is the just educatee to share a catchphrase with Valerie Frizzle and Fiona Frizzle (that being "Wahoo!")
• Wanda enjoys flying with her jetpack. ^[iii]
• Wanda's favorite rock star is Molly Cule. ^[4]
• Wanda has many pets at dwelling house.
• Wanda prefers hot weather over cold conditions ^[5]
  • Arnold prefers the cold.
• Wanda's favorite season is Summer. ^[vi]
• Due to being the strongest fellow member of the class, Wanda tin pull handles off of very large doors, such every bit in the bat castle. ^[seven]
• Wanda shares some physical characteristics with Jyoti, as they both accept aggressive sides and are very strong, she also shares some of Phoebe's views on creature welfare.
• Wanda has aspirations of becoming a pilot and an actress. ^[8]
• Wanda's favorite color is ruby.^{[nine] [10]}
• Wanda's favorite sport is basketball. ^[11]
• Wanda'southward favorite foods are bananas ^[12] and tomatoes. ^[13]
• Wanda is the first main 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 Once more voice actress, Lynsey Pham, is Vietnamese-Canadian.
  • Lisa Yamanaka even admits to existence nothing similar her. ^[sixteen]
• Wanda'south voice extra, Lisa Yamanaka (now Lisa Jai), prior to the bear witness had vox Isabelle from Babar, and would later voice Yoko in another Nelvana/PBS series, Timothy Goes to Schoolhouse. She would besides voice 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 unsaid that Wanda has a crush on Arnold. In "For Tiffin" (Arnold was the best field trip she's ever been on), "Meets the Rot Squad" (She fantasized herself sitting nether a tree with Arnold), "Holiday Special" (She was Arnold'south secret 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 beloved spells at each other).
• In Carlos Gets the Sneezes, it is implied that Wanda has a shell on Carlos.
• Wanda is a middle child of 3 siblings. ^[17]
• Wanda has quoted Mahatma Gandhi. ^[18]
• Wanda is the third pupil in the class whose siblings were revealed. ^[19] The get-go and second were Carlos and Dorothy Ann in Getting Energized and its successor, Out of This Earth.
• Wanda never gives up, on her teacher and her classmates.
• Wanda plays the trombone. ^[20]
• Out of all of the females in the Television receiver class, Wanda is the tallest female educatee ^[21].
• Forth with Keesha, Wanda is ane of the only students in the class to have any experience with ballet. ^[22]
• Wanda is one of few students to never be subjected to the "Carlos!" gag despite making at least 1 pun in the course of the series. ^[23]
  • Wanda'due south sole pun has a universally positive reaction.
  • Wanda does end up on the receiving end once, simply for an inappropriate remark. ^[24]
• As of 2017 and onwards, Wanda is now the tallest kid in the class, afterwards Carlos.
• Wanda is the first Asian American educatee to enroll in the class. She is from Cathay. The second is a new student Jyoti, who is from somewhere around India.
• Wanda's almost frequently shown to be the shortest in the grade in the books and 1994 Television set series. In the Rides Over again series, she is now simply every bit alpine if not taller than Carlos.
• Wanda has a cat that has parasites. ^[25]
• She, Ralphie, Carlos and Phoebe are the only students who have pets.
• Wanda has ii brothers, William from the TV series (younger) and Henry from Ms. Frizzle'southward Adventures (older).
• Wanda's field trip suits are baby blue and greenish in Rides Again.
• Her known honey interests are Carlos and Arnold.
• Wanda is most probable a vegetarian. Because she has shown her dearest for vegetables. ^[26]

References

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

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

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