[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]
male narrator:
The way she does it.
♪ ♪
One bright morning,
Sir Topham Hatt
came to see Daisy
with a very important message.
- Now, then, Daisy.
I want you at your very best
because tomorrow
you're going to be carrying
some very special passengers.
- Ooh, how thrilling!
Who are they?
- A group of entertainers!
I want you to collect
them from Knapford
and bring them up to Harwick and
wait while they put on a show.
- Entertainers!
[horn honks]
Oh, thank you, sir.
♪ ♪
narrator:
Daisy was very excited.
She couldn't wait
to tell the other engines
all about her special job.
- Hello, Thomas.
Guess what I'm going
to be doing tomorrow.
- Sitting in your shed?
- No.
- Working at the Waste Dump?
Taking monkeys
to the Animal Park?
Ooh, I know!
Going to Misty Island?
- No!
I am picking up a group
of entertainers and taking them
to Harwick to put on a show.
- Ooh!
both: Oh.
- A very special show.
Everyone will love it.
They've requested that I convey
them to their destination
as only I,
being a highly sprung railcar,
can give them the smooth,
bump-free ride they require.
- Well,
that does sound exciting.
But I've got some important jobs
to do myself, you know.
Like--
[horn honks]
Oh.
♪ ♪
- So rude!
♪ ♪
[whistle toots]
- Hello there, Ryan!
Guess what I'm going
to be doing tomorrow.
- Ooh.
Now, let me think.
- I'm taking some
travelling players to Harwick
to put on a special show.
- Oh!
- And they insisted
they be taken by diesel railcar
as dirty old steamies
are no good
for their delicate
sensibilities.
They're true performers,
you see.
- Okay, Daisy.
[whistle toots]
Well, good luck with that!
My passengers don't seem to mind
being pulled by a steamie!
[laughs]
[sheep bleats]
- Listen, Duck.
Harwick, on my branch line,
is going upmarket.
Tomorrow I'm collecting
a troupe of travelling players--
- Right.
- Who are arriving to stage
a son et lumière,
as they call it du continent,
as a special treat
for all the tourists.
[laughs]
[horn honks]
- Very good, Daisy.
Yes.
♪ ♪
That engine.
I have no idea
what she was talking about.
Me neither.
- So it seems only right
that the only railcar
in the whole of Sodor should be
given this very special job,
if I do say so moi même.
Don't you think?
- [moos]
- What's the hold up?
[horn honks]
- [chuckles]
♪ ♪
- [moos]
♪ ♪
narrator: That night,
Daisy was so excited
about her special job,
she could hardly sleep.
- Oh, so many dancers.
Oh!
Acrobats too!
Marvelous!
Incroyable!
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
narrator: The following
morning, Daisy was tired,
but still very excited!
♪ ♪
[horn honks]
- Here comes Daisy!
narrator: And she remembered
Sir Topham Hatt's instruction
that she should be at her best.
- Come on, boy!
[dog barks]
- [gasps]
A dog?
I don't want muddy footprints
on my upholstery.
[horn honks]
Please and thank you.
- Oh, no.
- Aww.
[dog whines]
♪ ♪
narrator:
And at the next station,
the passengers were eating
ice cream.
♪ ♪
So Daisy didn't stop there
either.
- Oh, no way!
I don't want ice cream
on my seats!
both: Ooh.
narrator: And at Bluff's Cove,
the passengers had just come
from the beach.
- And I don't want sand
in my seats.
No, sir.
- Aww.
- [sighs]
narrator: Spick and span
and without a grain of sand
in her seats,
or a sticky handprint
on any of her fine windows,
Daisy waited
at Knapford Station
for her special passengers.
- Oh, how undignified.
I could never pull
an old parcel van like that.
narrator: And that's when
Daisy's special passengers
arrived.
- Excuse me.
Would you mind moving on please?
I'm waiting for some
very important passengers:
a troupe of entertainers!
- But we're entertainers.
♪ ♪
- You?
You're the entertainers?
- We certainly are.
[chuckles]
- [laughs]
- [sighs]
I was expecting something
a little more--
[crash]
[exclaims]
No!
Impossible!
I can't pull that old thing!
I am supposed to be
at my best!
It could be bad for my swerves.
narrator: And then there
was trouble.
- Hey!
Stop!
- Hey!
Come back here!
[grunting]
narrator: But Stafford knew
his battery wouldn't make it
to Harwick, so the parcel van
was left behind.
Daisy was a bit disappointed
that her special passengers
weren't as special
as she thought they'd be.
♪ ♪
[all groan]
- Missed us again.
- Why didn't she stop?
- Not again!
narrator: But when Daisy
arrived at Harwick,
it was her special passengers
who were disappointed.
- Where are the children?
- What's the point
of a children's show
with no children to see it?
- It's a children's show?
- And where's the rest
of our luggage?
- It's a good thing I kept
the puppets close at hand.
- It's a puppet show!?
- Yes, but how are we supposed
to do a puppet show
without our puppet stand?
- Oh, dear.
Oh, dear.
This isn't
what I imagined at all!
narrator: And that was
the problem!
Daisy had let her imagination
get the better of her.
She'd boasted to everyone
about the special show,
and never thought it might be
a puppet show for children.
[horn honking]
♪ ♪
- Ah!
Oh!
Daisy!
I am very cross with you!
Ow!
I had to lay on a special bus
service after you refused
to stop for the children.
Ooh.
But at least they're here now.
Oh, let's get this show started.
- Oh, I'm sorry, sir,
but I didn't bring the van
with the puppet stand either.
- Huh?
Well, then I--I--
oh, I don't know what
we're going to do now.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
- I've let everyone down.
narrator: Daisy realized that
the children were going to be
very disappointed
if she didn't do something.
- Well, speaking as
a well-sprung diesel railcar,
I may have an idea.
[laughs]
♪ ♪
- Excuse me, Judy.
Would you mind
holding these sausages for me?
- Oh, no!
I couldn't possibly do that.
Sausages are bad for my swerves.
- [laughs]
- Oh, dear, Judy,
you do sound highly sprung!
- Yes, I am thoroughly modern
and bang up to date
and I'm not holding
any dirty old sausages!
[laughter]
- Hold the sausages!
- We don't need
dirty old sausages,
silly stages,
or children in the audience!
All we need is moi même!
- That's the way to do it!
[laughter]
[bouncy music]
♪ ♪
[children singing]
♪ ♪
[whistle trills]
[children singing]
♪ ♪
[whistle toots]
[bouncy music]
♪ ♪
20x13 - The Railcar & the Coaches
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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.