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"Netflix keeps upping its coolness game, and its latest nonchalant move is this: Bring back Ms. Frizzle? Sure, we can bring back Ms. Frizzle. We can do anything. That&amp;#x27;s right&amp;amp;#8212;the streaming service will air 26 episodes of a new Magic School Bus series produced by Scholastic Media. They&amp;#x27;re set to be released in 2016. I&amp;#x27;ll pause here so anyone with little kids can rejoice over getting to share this with them. Between this and Reading Rainbow&amp;#x27;s sudden Kickstarter comeback, I&amp;#x27;ve had the glory days of educational programming&amp;amp;#8212;a.k.a. the late &amp;#x27;80s and &amp;#x27;90s&amp;amp;#8212;on the brain these days. It&amp;#x27;s a damn shame that the kids of today are tinkering with their parents&amp;#x27; Candy Crush app when they could be watching these excellent shows&amp;amp;#8212;so how &amp;#x27;bout some more reboots, TV gods? Wishbone Then: It was our favorite after-school interpretation of literary classics&amp;amp;#8212;starring the cutest, spryest Jack Russell ever. Now: I&amp;#x27;m envisioning something following the Girl Meets World playbook. Joe and Sam are married, and their kid&amp;#x27;s best friend is a book-minded rescue pup. David, who was always kind of a third wheel, lives across the street with his family. Sam does not wear plain colored baseball caps anymore, because that was weird. Ghostwriter Then: Street-smart kids from Fort Greene, Brooklyn, solve mysteries with the help of a spirit who sometimes inhabited their age-old Apple computer and always pushed them on their context-clues skills. Now: Are you kidding? With all the technology that&amp;#x27;s hit since 1995, the possibilities are endless. This is teachable-moment Gossip Girl. It sells itself. Arthur Then: Arthur was about an eight-year-old aardvark and his sweet family, who taught us to accept others&amp;#x27; differences and believe in ourselves. Now: Don&amp;#x27;t change a thing. This one affected my brothers and me so deeply, I still sometimes look at someone thinking they look like someone else&amp;amp;#8212;and then realize I&amp;#x27;m thinking of an Arthur character. It&amp;#x27;s plenty powerful as is. Square One Then: OK, this is a deep cut, but does anyone else remember the math-themed sketch show on PBS? Yes, math-themed sketch show. The thinking man&amp;#x27;s All That. Now: I say they keep the sketch format but really blow out Mathnet, the detective-mystery segment of the show I totally lived for. One mystery was solved over the course of five Monday-to-Friday episodes, so I would lose it if I missed a day of clues. May I suggest casting Art and Angie from Orphan Black as the cops? Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Then: I don&amp;#x27;t have to tell you, because get a couple drinks in any of us and someone&amp;#x27;s bound to bring up how great it was. Vic the Slick, in jaaaaail. Now: The toughest part would be casting a new Chief&amp;amp;#8212;RIP to the great Lynne Thigpen. Other than that, I&amp;#x27;d love to see a pre-bonus-round round worked in where kids get to track Carmen via GPS. Mostly because it&amp;#x27;ll help them mentally prepare to run all over the giant map. As a child, could you imagine a more stressful situation? I think not."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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