The Magic School Bus Ride Again Dorothy

"According to my research, 'metamorphic' means 'alter'."

—In The Battle for Rock Mountain

Dorothy Ann "D.A." Hudson is a student in Ms. Frizzle'due south class.

1 In the books
- 1.1 Appearance (At the Waterworks–Within a Hurricane)
- one.2 Appearance (Inside a Beehive–nowadays)
- 1.3 Storyline (book series)
  - ane.3.1 Within the Earth
  - i.3.two And the Climate Challenge
2 In the TV prove/spider web series
- 2.1 Appearance (The Magic School Coach)
- 2.ii Appearance (Rides Again)
- 2.3 Other outfits
- ii.four Animated catechism
  - 2.4.one The Magic School Charabanc
    - 2.4.one.1 Season 1 (The Magic School Bus)
    - 2.four.1.2 Season 2 (The Magic School Jitney)
    - 2.4.1.3 Season three (The Magic School Bus)
    - two.4.1.4 Season 4
  - two.4.2 The Magic Schoolhouse Bus Rides Over again
    - two.4.2.one Flavor 1 (The Magic School Omnibus Rides Again)
    - two.four.2.2 Season Two (Rides Again)
iii Relatives
4 Name in other languages
v Devices
6 Trivia
7 References

In the books

Appearance (At the Waterworks–Inside a Hurricane)

Dorothy Ann has gold blonde hair worn in two long bun pigtails held with pink-red rubberbands. She wears a yellow sweater with a pink plaid skirt. She wears white leggings and saddle shoes.

Appearance (Within a Beehive–present)

Dorothy Ann now wears a pink short-sleeved t-shirt, but she wears the same legwear.

Storyline (book series)

Dorothy Ann has always been the class bookworm, reading books and defining large words for the kids on different field trips. She is usually did not do "reports", equally her piece of work is usually word definitions. She is 1 educatee of the main form who appears in the 2 Tv set shows, like Arnold.

Inside the Earth

The class has been given an consignment to notice a rock and bring it to class the next day. Dorothy Ann found a rock, merely her dog ate it, Arnold found a Styrofoam "rock", and Alex brought a chipped seven-Upward bottle. But Phil found a real one.

And the Climate Claiming

After getting back from the field trip through the ozone layer, Dorothy Ann tells the class how to recycle things.

In the TV show/web serial

Dorothy Ann is the form bookworm, always looking for a fact in one of her many books. She loves astronomy, and she has a telescope on the balustrade exterior of her bedroom. She gets a new, high-powered one in "Sees Stars". She also has an interest in physics. She tends to have an argumentative personality and has clashed with the others from fourth dimension to fourth dimension, nigh notably Wanda.

Appearance (The Magic Schoolhouse Double-decker)

Dorothy Ann has blonde hair, blue optics, and fair skin. She wears a violet turtleneck sweater, a turquoise pleated skirt, purple ankle-length socks (white tights in some books), and maroon and white sneakers (saddle shoes in some books). Her signature colors are violet, blue, and white.

Appearance (Rides Again)

Dorothy Ann now wears her hair in a tomboyish ponytail. She wears a violet blazer that replaces her sweater. Nether information technology is a calorie-free purple shirt, blue jeans, and orangish ballet flats replace her sneakers.

Other outfits

For sleepwear, in "Out of This World", she wore aqua pajamas with violet slippers. Just in "Sees Stars", her elevation pajamas take majestic fringes and a pinkish and violet shooting star, and she as well wore pinkish slippers.

For winter wear, she wears a green hat, her violet turtleneck, her turquoise skirt, a pink jacket, rose trousers, and violet boots.

For embankment wear, she wears a one-piece violet swimsuit with a blue lining and a violet pleated skirt.

For rain wear, she wears a turquoise rain chapeau, a violet raincoat, and turquoise gumboots.

For formal wearable, she wears a pinkish long-sleeved blouse, a blue sleeveless vest, a blue articulatio genus length pleated brim, white tights, and blue shoes.

For sports wear, she wears a violet basketball bailiwick of jersey, turquoise and pink shorts, regal socks, and dark scarlet sneakers.

For infinite clothing on the International Space Station, she wears a thin jumpsuit in her signature colors.

Blithe catechism

The Magic School Bus

Flavor ane (The Magic School Bus)

Dorothy Ann shows her baseball book report in *Plays Ball.*

Dorothy Ann is introduced with the rest of the form in "Gets Lost In Space", but her researching habits are never shown until "For Lunch". Her first focused episode is "In the Haunted Business firm" in which she's conducting the class equally they perform her "Concerto for Invented Instrument". She'due south seen doing a chemical science experiment while the class bakes Ms. Frizzle a altogether cake in "Gets Set up, Set, Dough". Her last focused episode of the season is "Plays Brawl". Excited to prove off her new physics volume, she'south disappointed when the class simply cares about the baseball game they were playing. She is fifty-fifty more disappointed when Ralphie leaves her book on the field, but they end up within it, playing a friction-less baseball game.

Season 2 (The Magic School Coach)

The season opens with a Dorothy Ann-focused episode, "Blows Its Acme". She and Carlos debate over discovering a new isle until she loses her books to the body of water. Feeling lost and empty without them, she begs Ms. Frizzle to assistance her get them dorsum, "Please, Ms. Frizzle! I'chiliad zero without my books! Me, books...books, me!" In "Butterfly and the Bog Beast", her mascot suggestion is a broccoli, and despite her choice of mascot, she sides with the others confronting Phoebe'southward butterfly idea. She speaks on "behalf of the court" during Ms. Frizzle'due south trial in "In a Pickle," and she's embarrassed by Carlos' piddling brother, Mikey, when he brings up a heat rash she in one case got in "Getting Energized". In "Out of This Globe", she discovers an asteroid spring for Earth, more specifically, Walkerville Unproblematic and she gets the class to assistance her destroy it.

Flavour 3 (The Magic School Bus)

In "Show and Tells," Dorothy Ann and Arnold are representing Walkerville in the 10th Almanac International Bear witness & Tell Competition, and after researching Arnold's rare pumice collection, she's upset that he opted to bring an artifact she knows nothing about. She fights with Carlos once again in "Makes a Rainbow" over her volume, (he explains it's purple while she says it's violet), and which is bad enough for Wanda to comment, "This could get ugly." She'south fabricated a rainforest investigator with Tim equally her assistant in "In the Rainforest" when they try to find out why Ms. Frizzle's cocoa tree didn't yield a good harvest.

Season Four

Mr. Ruhle puts Dorothy Ann in accuse of taking care of his pet Rhode Isle Ruddy rooster, Giblets, in "Cracks a Yolk," simply she loses him in one case his master is gone. She celebrates her birthday in "Sees Stars," in which the class goes on a field trip before getting together for her minor party to observe her a star as a gift. Equally she was sick, she stayed habitation, simply Liz is with her, eating cake and looking in her new telescope. She and Wanda butt heads in "Takes a Dive" when she wants to work as partners, but Wanda wants to get solo.

The Magic School Double-decker Rides Over again

Flavor 1 (The Magic School Bus Rides Over again)

In "Hides and Seeks", Dorothy Ann and the other kids participate in a game of Extreme Hide and Seek. But this reminds her of the previous fourth dimension they played—when she lost to an unnamed girl, the unbeatable seeker. She's dorsum for this round, and now she and a few students go to the rainforest and study cover-up while Ralphie and some others challenge the seeker using the skills they've learned from her. she is selected to tell an earth-shattering story in the Climate Challenge tie-in, The Tales Glaciers Tell, just all she'south got is cipher. The class travels to the Arctic, and and then dorsum in time through the history of climate change as Dorothy Ann gathers a bunch of information. Subsequently the trip, when they reach the mod-day, her FrizPad breaks, causing her to panic. So the class grabs an ice core from a glacier so she can tell her story. In The Battle for Rock Mountain, she and Wanda both play the roles of the Tectonic Duo.

Season Two (Rides Once again)

Her major focus episode in this flavour is Waste product Not, Want Not, in which the kids go to her scientist uncle's lab's greenhouse to plant orchids for the school musical. Just i thing the orchids need is fertilizer - fabricated from carrion. Actually, the Friz takes the kids to the sewers to get some, and then scoops it back to the lab. In The Frizz Connexion, she, Liz, and Arnold are stranded in one-third of the Charabanc when it gets divide into 3 - with a rather condom-conscious version of Ms. Frizzle. They learn about the Coriolis effect through the utilise of holographic books.

Relatives

Dorothy Ann's parents both appear in "Going Batty" and "Rocks and Rolls", and her female parent appears again in "Out of This World". She has a younger sister named Evan, who is blonde similar her and their female parent. Her parents also announced in a flashback in "The Tales Glaciers Tell", where they are revealed to exist wonderful story tellers, and they appear in present at the presentation at the end.

Proper noun in other languages


Localization	Dorothy Ann's name	Origin	Notes
Spanish (both serial)	Dorothy Ann	The names Dorothy and Ann/e	Same as original name
French (both series)	Anne-Sophie	The names Ann/due east and Sophie/Sofia/Sophia	Like to High german, her outset name is Ann. This time it is spelled with an Eastward at the cease.
German	Ann-Kathrin	The names Ann/e and Catherine/Katherine/Katrin/Kathrin	Similar to French, her offset name is Ann. It is now spelled as in English and Castilian.
Arabic	TMSB: Dalia (داليا) RA: Dorothy Ann	Dalia probably was chosen because of it starting with a D (or in the instance of the Standard arabic alphabet, the letter د)	Her English language name is used in Rides Again.

Devices

Purple MSB telephone
Purple MSB laptop

Trivia

Her pigtails stay up without rubberbands. ^[1]
An extract from this folio is used every bit Dorothy Ann's biography on Qubo's Rides Again webpage.
She knows enough about music to know how to keep fourth dimension as a conductor.
On the cover of the 2004 release of the Bugs, Bugs, Bugs! DVD and in the Rides Over again series, she has blue optics.
She is very reliant on her books, thus referring to her as the class bookworm. In the new series, she became reliant on a Friz tablet.
In "Meets the Rot Squad" she wanted to build an amusement park on the abased lot on Decatur.
She is the only ane in the original serial not to tell a joke.
Dorothy Ann has a purple tablet (as of Rides Again).
She is highly knowledgeable in astronomy, enough to accurately rail an asteroid. ^[2]
She explains her book is "violet" as opposed to "purple". This is due to the fact that cerise and blueish make purple and that regal is really violet streaked with scarlet reverse to popular belief. ^[3]
- It's was implied that violet is D.A.'south favorite colour.
Despite seemingly antisocial baseball, she is later revealed skilled plenty to hitting a home run that causes the ball to rip open up.
She celebrated her birthday in "Sees Stars", and is the first student to do and then, followed by Arnold's birthday episode.
In the German dub, her name is Ann-Kathrin. This is like to her French proper noun.
She is the but master kid to take kissed someone on-screen. She kissed Arnold in "Cracks a Yolk".
Throughout the books and telly serial, she is frequently referred to past her initials (D.A.).
Dorothy Ann is the second major graphic symbol who is shown to have a sibling, the first being Carlos, and the third being Wanda.
- She and Wanda are the but female major characters that have siblings (Evan and William).
Dorothy Ann is ane of two major graphic symbol with seven letters in the name, the other being Ralphie.
- Thought, Tim's full proper name, Timothy, is counted.
It's been ironically known for quite sometimes over the years that fans believe that Dorothy bears a strong resemblance to Linka on the 1990s cartoon Helm Planet and the Planeteers, thus, a theory began to happen that Dorothy might have grew upwards to exist her.
Dorothy Ann is right handed. ^[4]
Dorothy Ann'due south favorite subject is math. ^[5]
She is i of few students to not exist subjected to the "Carlos!" gag despite making at least ane pun in the course of the original series, which happened in Rocks and Rolls.
- Her sole pun resulted in a high five from Carlos.
Dorothy Ann dislikes tiresome Wi-Fi. ^[half-dozen]
Dorothy Ann is the merely educatee to take a sister rather than a blood brother. ^[7]
Dorothy Ann's signature colour for her field trip suits is violet.
Fans transport her with Carlos, Arnold and Tim.
Dorothy Ann owns a violet-colored FrizTab® computer. In Season three of Rides Again, it was replaced past the FrizPad.
She's 1 out of the "1994-2017 eight" students that has made a pun, other than Tim, Arnold, Carlos, Ralphie, Keesha, Wanda and Phoebe. ^[8]
She is the only educatee in the Tv class to have blonde hair.
- In the books, Amanda Jane, Gregory, and Arnold have blond(e) hair.
Dorothy Ann is the just educatee in the original series did not to have an instrument. ^[nine]
Just like Keesha, she seems to like taking selfies as she does so in Pigs in the Wind with Ms. Frizzle'due south brick contraption.
Dorothy Ann is the merely female student not to weep in a episode
In the original series, she had a mild British accent, which is most noticeable in the way she pronounced "re-SEARCH" in the original series.
Her skin tone in the original series is similar to Ralphie's, implying fractional Mediterranean descent.
Dorothy Ann's favorite flowers are Vanda orchids. ^[10]

References

↑ Goes on Air
↑ Out of This Earth
↑ Makes a Rainbow
↑ Blows Its Summit, Sees Stars
↑ Ralphie and the Flying Tennellis
↑ Meet the Class
↑ Out of This World
↑ Rocks and Rolls
↑ In the Haunted Business firm
↑ Waste Not, Want Not


Hudson Family
Dorothy Ann Hudson • Mr. Hudson • Mrs. Hudson • Evan Hudson

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