21x02 - A Most Singular Engine

[bunniefuu]

[bouncy music]

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children:

♪ They're two, they're four ♪

♪ They're six, they're eight ♪

♪ Shunting trucks

and hauling freight ♪

♪ Red and green

and blown and blue ♪

♪ They're the Really

Useful Crew ♪

♪ All with different

roles to play ♪

♪ Round Tidmouth Sheds

or far away ♪

♪ Down the hills

and round the bends ♪

♪ Thomas and his friends ♪

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[whistle toots]

[steam hisses]

[smooth music]

male narrator:

"A Most Singular Engine."

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narrator: One day,

Diesel was sent to Arlesburgh.

to pull cars on the line

where Ryan and Daisy were.

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[whistle blares]

- Hello, Daisy the diesel.

- Diesel railcar,

thank you very much.

- Well, as I'm shunting cars

between Harwick and Knapford,

the line will be much improved

with we two diesels

working here.

- I'm not just any diesel.

I'm unique,

a most singular engine,

and certainly not the same

kind of diesel as you are.

[whistle blares]

- Hold on.

narrator: Daisy really is

one of a kind.

Uniquely useful.

[whistle blows]

And she never tires

of reminding

the other engines

about this.

- Railcars carry

passengers, you know, Skiff?

And I'm the only one

on the Island of Sodor.

[upbeat music]

I don't pull

dusty old cars.

They would be bad

for my swerves.

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There's no other engine

like me.

[caws]

Oooh.

So rude.

[whistle blows]

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narrator: Diesel was cross

with Daisy,

the diesel railcar.

He thought she was

very full of herself,

and he was fed up

with her boasting.

- You know, a real

one-of-a-kind engine.

Uniquely useful.

The only one

on the North Western Railway.

- Oh, I'm sick

of hearing about Daisy,

the diesel railcar.

- Who's talking about Daisy?

- I was talking about Harvey.

[whistle toots]

narrator:

Harvey is a t*nk engine

with a crane mounted

on top of his boiler.

A unique engine,

one of a kind.

Then Diesel saw a way

to show Daisy

that she wasn't the most

singular engine on Sodor.

- Hello, Harvey.

- Oh, hello, Diesel.

- Did you know

that Daisy has been saying

she is the most uniquely useful

engine on Sodor?

- Well, we're all useful

in our own way.

- Yes, yes, Harvey.

But do you think she's more

useful than you,

with your crane?

Because that's what

she's been saying.

- Oh, really?

- More or less.

- Well, that's not

a very nice thing to say.

I can be useful, too.

- That's not what Daisy thinks.

Narrator: So Diesel started

spreading rumors

and causing problems

between Harvey and Daisy.

- Hey, Ryan.

You'd better look out

for your friend, Daisy.

Harvey's been saying he's

much more useful than she is.

- Oh.

- The engine with a crane.

You must know him.

There's no other engine

like him on the whole of Sodor.

- No, Diesel,

I don't think I do know him,

but he should certainly know

there's no engine like me.

- [laughs]

Well, she says she can carry

passengers without a coach.

That's much more useful

than having a crane

and silly wooden buffers.

- What's going on

with you and Harvey?

He's been saying he's more

useful than you.

- [sighs]

- If I were Harvey,

I'd give that Daisy

a piece of my mind.

[whistle blows]

Anyway, Thomas, must dash.

Nasty shunt and all that.

- Hello, Harvey.

What's going on

between you and Daisy?

- I don't know.

Everyone keeps asking me

about that.

She sounds like a rude

and unpleasant engine.

Eh, I hope I don't

run into her.

- [chuckles maniacally]

narrator: Daisy was on

her way to Harwick

when there was trouble.

[horn honks]

- Ohh!

[bell dinging]

[gasps]

Harvey.

- Uh, Daisy?

[dramatic rock music]

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[cheerful music]

Uh, is there a problem?

- These crates on the line.

- Oh.

- I guess I'm going

to be delayed now.

That's not very useful,

is it?

- Well, I could move

the crates with my crane,

but then I would be

running late, too.

Eh, I have to go and pick

a replacement passenger coach

for one that Diesel

derailed this morning.

- [gasps]

No need for that.

I can pick up

the extra passengers

without a coach.

- Oh, how useful is that?

- Very useful,

but right now

not as useful

as having that,

your swingy thingy.

- Oh, you mean my crane.

Oh, right.

[laughs]

So I will move these crates.

- And I'll pick up

the extra passengers.

[smooth music]

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[laughing]

And you'll never guess what.

They did the puppet show

right there.

[both laugh]

- Oh, that sounds

so funny.

- It was magnifique.

- [chuckles]

"Magnifique."

- You're not supposed

to be friends.

[both chuckle]

- Why would you ever think

we wouldn't get along, Diesel?

- But you're both

so different!

A diesel railcar

and a steamie with a crane?

Ooh.

[both laugh]

- What's the matter

with him?

- No, those silly engines,

acting like

they're so special.

narrator: Diesel was in

such a grumpy mood

that he didn't notice

that the points were set

towards the ramp that

led down towards the sea.

- Ahhh!

Noo!

[shouting indistinctly]

[splash]

[sputtering]

My bottom's wet!

- Oh, don't worry, Diesel.

I'm here.

- Harvey?

Why are you helping me?

I wasn't very nice to you.

- Ha, I know, Diesel,

but I'm always willing to help.

- Do you know

what I think, Harvey?

- What's that, Daisy?

- Maybe what makes

an engine really special

is not how they look

but what they do.

Like you, Harvey.

Helping Diesel after he's

been causing all that trouble.

- But Diesel can be uniquely

useful, too, Daisy,

when he's pulling cars

and helping on the railway.

- [whimpers]

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narrator: Daisy,

the diesel railcar,

likes that her new friend

Harvey is so different.

- And with that crane,

you're not just

a bulk standard engine.

Se fantastique.

[chuckles]

narrator:

And Harvey admires Daisy...

- Ha, oh, Daisy,

you do make me chuckle

with your funny words.

narrator:

...just for being Daisy.

[whistle blares]

- Come on, you two.

Some of us are trying

to be useful here.

[whistle toots]

- See you later, Harvey.

Au revoir.

[whistle toots]

- Bye, Daisy.

[chuckles]

- What a pair

of most singular engines.

[laughter]

- On its way.

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[steam hisses]

[gentle woodwind music]

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children singing:

[whistle blows]

[whistle blasts]

[upbeat music]

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