![]() For decades, Tomlin has battled the expectations placed upon women by the media and public alike, famously making Johnny Carson’s audience uncomfortable by stating that she didn’t want to have children in 1975 - the same year Time magazine tried to bribe her into coming out. ![]() In 2013, her orientation was publicly confirmed when it was announced that at age 73, she would marry her long-time partner, writer Jane Wagner (77 at the time) the same year. Frizzle’s sexual and romantic leanings aren’t revealed in the series, the woman who played her, Lily Tomlin, has left her own orientation no mystery. So, maybe the far-flung connection is there. Witches have long been rumored to be lesbians, and vice versa, (and socialist feminists) at least if Pat Robertson had anything to say about it. Perhaps, even, hallucinations that could transport them to a herpetological island, where they shape-shifted into the native creatures. The herbs used were hallucinogenic, so while the witches of yore galloped - I mean, masturbated with broomsticks - through their homes or the woods, they might have felt the transcendental powers of the drugs in a way that felt similar to flying. An interesting notion to consider, as witches historically rode their broom as a means of absorbing a potent herbal concoction through the mucous membranes of the vagina. Some stray comments and seemingly-satirical articles suggest that the show championed witchcraft, which, in the 1990s, was not the compliment that it is today. Frizzle’s sexuality interesting, and there’s no clear answer. You may be asking yourself what exactly makes Ms. Once you head down that search-engine-wormhole, though, there’s no coming back: I never needed to see the words “The Friz,” “Mary Poppins,” and “porn” in the same sentence, and yet, the internet exists, and thusly so does that fan fic. It’s been a long-disputed among amateur (read: internet) critics (read: the general public) opinion that Ms. She became our favorite teacher, all light-up earrings and wisdom, and much like the actor playing her, she was never short on jokes. ![]() Of all the characters on The Magic School Bus, no one could compare to the charismatic, colorful Valerie Felicity Frizzle, also known as “The Friz,” voiced by the incomparable Lily Tomlin. ![]() Frizzle and her merry band of students as they went on field trips to exotic locales like the Arctic and strange places like Herp Island, where they all turned into reptiles. In 1994 nothing - not even a chilled Capri-Sun - was cooler than The Magic School Bus. The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now. ![]()
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