[bouncy music]
♪ ♪
children:
♪ They're two, they're four ♪
♪ They're six, they're eight ♪
♪ Shunting trucks
and hauling freight ♪
♪ Red and green
and brown 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 ♪
[whistle toots]
[light music]
male narrator:
"Daisy's Perfect Christmas."
[horn honks]
narrator:
Daisy the diesel railcar
doesn't care too much
for winter.
The cold mornings just don't
agree with her at all.
[wheels clanging]
- Oh!
Ohh!
Ohh.
narrator: Daisy would happily
spend the whole of winter
in her shed
if it wasn't for one thing.
- Christmas!
Christmas is just
so splendiferous.
- What she means is that
she loves Christmas.
- I love the whole
deck-the-halls, naughty-or-nice,
not-a-creature-was-stirring,
ho-ho-holiday!
- What she means is--
- We know what she means, Dart.
Everyone loves Christmas.
What's so special about that?
- I love the traditions.
[pounding, hissing]
Do you mind?
- Oh, uh, sorry.
- As I was saying,
the traditions--
doing the same thing every year.
[laughs] The way
they're always meant to be.
- Ohh. [chuckles]
Like what?
- [sighs]
- Like picking up
the children...
wrapped up snug
in their winter clothes--
their faces all aglow--
and taking them
on a special outing...
[whistle blows]
to the Small Railway.
[squeals]
It's so Christmassy and lovely.
- Merry Christmas, everyone!
[all cheering]
- And then I get to take
the carolers around
the Island...
["We Wish You
a Merry Christmas"]
♪ ♪
To sing songs
for those who have to work
over the holiday.
[laughs]
all: ♪ We wish you
a merry Christmas ♪
♪ We wish you
a merry Christmas ♪
♪ We wish you a merry
Christmas ♪
♪ And a happy New Year ♪
♪ Good tidings we bring
to you and your kin ♪
- Wow, that sounds--
- Wonderful.
[stammering]
I mean, it sounds all right.
[chuckles]
- I just wish it would
hurry up and snow.
It doesn't feel like Christmas
without snow.
But still, I just can't wait
to see the Christmas tree
at Vicarstown.
♪ ♪
Oh, no!
They're still putting up
the tree.
They've usually
done that by now.
Oh, the children
will be disappointed.
narrator:
Daisy was very unhappy.
[whistle blows]
She just wanted everything
to be perfect.
♪ ♪
children:
♪ Jingle bells, jingle bells ♪
♪ Jingle all the way ♪
♪ Oh, what fun
it is to swerve ♪
♪ In a well-sprung
diesel sleigh, oh ♪
- Those aren't the proper words.
Why can't you sing
the traditional song?
Ohh.
[laughter]
Rex, where are the presents
for the children?
- We're doing
something different
this year, so--
- But I don't want to
do something different.
I want--oh!
[gasps] Oh, at last.
It's finally snowing.
[children exclaiming]
Mmm.
What is this?
- [laughs]
Pretty good, eh?
Just like the real thing.
- Do you mean to tell me
that this is fake snow?
- Yes! Do you like it?
- No. No, I do not.
[whistle blows]
I like real snow.
all: ♪ On the first day
of Christmas ♪
♪ My true love gave to me ♪
♪ A blue number engine ♪
♪ On the second day
of Christmas ♪
[whistle toots]
- Merry Christmas, Daisy.
- Hey, Thomas.
I hope the station is decorated.
Then it will look
all Christmassy and special.
Like it should.
all: ♪ And a blue
number engine ♪
♪ ♪
- [gasps]
C'est magnifique.
[gasps] Oh!
This isn't how it usually is.
This is not the same at all.
[grumbling]
narrator: Finally, Daisy
collected the carolers
and took them to
the Search and Rescue Center.
Everyone was feeling festive
except for Daisy.
And then there was trouble.
all: ♪ We wish you
a merry Christmas ♪
♪ We wish you
a merry Christmas ♪
♪ We wish you a merry
Christmas ♪
♪ And a happy New Year ♪
[laughter]
- This is all wrong.
Oh?
It's not Harold's job
to put the star on the tree.
- Merry Christmas, everyone!
[cheers and applause]
Ho ho ho!
narrator: Daisy was furious.
That night, Daisy's springs
were wound up very tight.
- Oh, Daisy. How were
your Christmas specials?
- Worst day ever.
- Oh, Daisy.
Where's your Christmas spirit?
You usually love
this time of year.
- Yes! It's not like you
to be a party pooper.
- Or a Daisy Downer.
[laughter]
- Well, it all started
after I left the diesel works.
narrator: Daisy told Ryan,
Judy, and Jerome
all about the tree
at Vicarstown,
the children's sing-along...
[cawing]
The miniature engine
surprise...
The Troublesome Trucks...
[laughter]
And Harold with the star.
[laughter]
- Oh, Daisy. It sounds like
the children had
a wonderful time.
- I know.
But it's usually so special.
I just wanted everything
to be like it always is.
- But--but what about
that moment
with the Troublesome Trucks?
You had to laugh about that.
[laughs]
- Well--
- Maybe it wasn't better
or worse than usual,
just different.
After all,
a few Christmases ago,
we didn't share a shed.
And now we do.
- Oh! And we weren't based
here at Arlesburgh, either.
So do you like having us
around at Christmas?
- Of course I do.
I love being with you.
You're my friends.
- So there you go.
Today wasn't perfect
like it used to be.
It was a new kind of perfect.
- You're right.
You're all right.
Even though it didn't snow,
it was perfect.
- Well, it may not be snow,
but we did put together
a little Christmas present
for you.
♪ ♪
- Oh, thank you.
Christmas is made perfect
with friends like you.
[steam hisses]
[bouncy music]
♪ ♪
[children singing]
[whistle toots]
[whistle blows]
♪ ♪
[whistle toots]
21x05 - Runaway Engine
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British series Based on The Railway Series books that follows the adventures of Thomas, an anthropomorphised blue steam locomotive on the fictional North Western Railway on the Island of Sodor, and several other friends Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy, and Toby.
British series Based on The Railway Series books that follows the adventures of Thomas, an anthropomorphised blue steam locomotive on the fictional North Western Railway on the Island of Sodor, and several other friends Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy, and Toby.