[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]
[steam hisses]
male narrator: Mike's whistle.
[whistle tooting]
male narrator: Rex and Bert are
two of the very small engines
on the island of Sodor
that work
on the miniature railway
near Arlesburgh.
And then there's Mike,
the red engine.
He can be rather grumpy
at times,
and he doesn't much like
pulling passengers either.
[whistle toots]
- [laughing]
narrator: One morning,
Thomas was laughing
as he arrived
at Arlesburgh West
to collect ballast stone
for his branch line.
- Oh-ho!
- What's so funny?
- Ha, it's Duck!
Have you heard his whistle
this morning?
His driver boiled an egg on it,
and some of the egg got stuck!
But don't laugh.
[whistle burpling]
[muffled giggling]
- Ho!
Oh, is that
really you, Duck?
I never knew you could boil
an egg on a steam whistle.
- Neither did I,
and I don't recommend it.
- All right, all right.
Don't go on about it, Duck.
[whistle blowing]
[whistle burpling]
[Thomas and Rex laughing]
- Duck shouldn't make
such horrible sounds.
It's shocking!
- Ha, I'm going
to whistle like that
to everyone today!
[inhales sharply
and blows raspberries]
[giggles]
- If engines
can't whistle properly,
they shouldn't try.
- Then why do you?
[giggles]
- I was talking about Duck!
Unlike him,
I have an excellent whistle.
[whistle blows]
[laughter]
- If I had a whistle
like yours, Mike...
- Yes?
- I'd lose it!
- What?
- [laughing]
Hoo!
- Whistles
are very important, Rex.
The engines without whistles
aren't proper engines at all.
narrator: Mike's steam pressure
went so high
that his safety valve blew off!
- Oh!
- Oh, dear!
Is Mike overheating again?
narrator: Mr. Fergus Duncan
is known
as the Small Controller
because he's in charge
of the miniature railway,
but he's not actually small.
In fact, he's rather tall.
- I shall have to put you
on lighter duties.
I suggest you take
the passenger train today.
- No, sir.
Uh, please, sir.
I'll be fine.
Heh-heh.
You know I prefer
hauling goods to passengers.
- Sorry, Mike,
but I can't have you
blowing off steam like this.
Bert shall take
the goods train today,
and you shall take passengers,
once your safety valve
is back in order.
- Oh, ooh!
narrator: Mike was still
in a bad mood
as he went to collect
the passengers.
- Oh, isn't he sweet?
- Oh! Oh, it's so lovely!
- What a cute
little steam engine.
- Blah, blah, blah.
"Lovely day.
"What a cute
little steam engine.
Isn't he sweet?"
- Behave yourself, Mike.
[whistle blows]
[steam hissing,
train engine chugging]
[whistle blowing]
- Whoa!
- Ha-ha!
Nothing wrong with my whistle!
[laughs]
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
[train engine chugging]
Silly Rex and Bert,
making fun of my whistle.
They're jealous.
They're jealous!
I'll show 'em.
I'll show 'em!
narrator: There are places
along the line
where boards are put up
to let the engines know
that they have to whistle,
but Mike was blowing
his whistle at everything.
[train engine chugging]
[whistle blowing]
♪ ♪
[whistle blows]
♪ ♪
[whistle blows]
[birds chirping]
♪ ♪
[birds chirping]
When they reached
the end of the line,
Mike's driver checked him over.
- I just can't seem to work out
what's wrong with you today.
- There's nothing
wrong with me!
I'm fine!
Just don't go thinking about
cooking an egg on my whistle!
- Ha-ha-ha!
[laughing] I won't.
narrator: But as they were
traveling back along the line,
Mike's driver
heard a funny noise.
[rattling]
- What's that?
- What's what?
- That funny sound.
- Don't you start.
[rattling continues]
- No. Listen.
Something is rattling
on your boiler.
- Never mind that.
You can tighten up
whatever it is when we get back.
narrator: But then
more was trouble.
[cow moos,
whistle blows]
- Get out of my way!
[whistle blowing]
- Patience, Mike.
The cow will move on
in time.
- Oh!
That cow is always wandering
onto the tracks,
and she only makes me cross.
[whistle blowing]
Shoo, shoo, shoo!
Go on!
[whistle blowing]
Right!
This is the last straw.
Get out of my way,
you silly animal.
[cow mooing,
whistle blowing]
narrator: Mike got so cross
and he whistled so hard
that his whistle cap
blew right off like a rocket.
[cap whistling]
[cow lowing]
[whistling]
[splat]
- Ha-ha!
So that's what was loose.
- Oh. Oh!
Oh!
[suspenseful music]
narrator: Mike's driver
and his guard
searched the field
trying to find the whistle cap,
but there was no sign of it.
The passengers
were getting impatient.
- Hurry up!
- Uh, really, uh...
- Oh, dear,
why have they stopped?
- Could you go faster,
please?
- What are you looking for?
- I'm going to be late
and miss my connection.
What's so important
about a whistle anyway?
- Oh, I have to whistle
at certain places along the line
to let others know I'm coming.
That's orders!
Haven't you found
my whistle yet?
[whimsical music]
- Gah, this won't do at all!
We could be here
until tomorrow morning.
- We'll have to whistle
for you.
[whistles]
- Good idea!
I can whistle.
[whistling]
[passengers whistling,
cow moos]
[whistling continues]
[cheers and applause]
- [blowing]
[cheers and applause continue]
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
narrator: So Mike
continued along the line,
and every time
he came to a place
where he was supposed
to whistle,
his driver and guard
and the passengers
all whistled for him.
[cheers and whistles]
[birds chirping]
[cheers and whistles continue]
They made more noise
than he ever did,
but Mike felt foolish
and improper without a whistle.
♪ ♪
Mike was running rather late
when he got back to Arlesburgh,
and Duck had to wait for him.
- Traffic jam, was it, Mike?
- No.
There was a cow on the line.
[steam hisses]
And a problem
with my whistle.
- Well,
I know what that's like.
[whistle toots]
At least my driver
finally cleaned mine out!
[laughs]
[whistle toots]
[whimsical music]
- What's up with Mike?
- Oh, take no notice
of him, Thomas.
He's an improper engine.
- Improper?
What do you mean?
- He's got no whistle.
[chuckles]
- It's shocking.
We don't approve
of engines without whistles,
do we, Mike?
- Oh!
- Oh.
Did someone
boil an egg on it?
- No.
He got cross with a cow!
[laughs]
- That's right.
And all he had to do
was say "moove."
[laughs]
- [giggles]
Or maybe go...
[blows raspberry]
[laughter]
narrator: Poor Mike wished
he didn't get cross
so easily.
If he hadn't been so hotheaded,
he might never have lost
his whistle in the first place.
[whistle tooting]
- Oh, give it a rest, won't you?
[train engine chugging]
[laughing]
[murmuring indistinctly]
Oh, I don't know.
[laughing] Oh, never.
♪ ♪
[steam hisses]
[gentle woodwind music]
♪ ♪
[children singing]
[whistle blasts]
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
20x19 - Mike's Whistle
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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.