https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysaesthesia_aethiopica - The mental illness that made them not want to work.

source: the most controversial Magic School Bus episode.

I’m sure they’ll bring this one back to describe people not wanting to work for $7.25 an hour.

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Econophobia - an autoimmune condition amongst the Poors which makes them allergic to making more than $35k per year or being scheduled for fulltime hours.

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the most controversial Magic School Bus episode

Can you please activate this repressed memory?

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Ms. Frizzle teaches the kids about race science by visiting the 19th century. The bus returns partially empty after half the children are sold into slavery.

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Air Date: 1982

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It was right after desegregation hit the Magic School. They didn’t quite know how to integrate the kids and were trying new things.

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The New York Times blames Carlos for sinking the USS Maine and he is hanged as a spy.

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Not as weird as the episode where Wanda assassinates Chiang Kai-Shek and was a crucial player in the arrest of the Gang of Four

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Wasn’t that the same season when Ralphie hangs Mussolini upside down and takes a selfie with him?

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They learned a lot about pasta that episode.

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