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| + | {{Quote|Hello Gordon! You look as if you've had a mud bath. Be a sensible engine, have a shower instead!|[[Thomas]]|center}} |
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| − | "A Better View For Gordon" is a [[Season 5|fifth season]] episode. |
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| + | |image=[[File:TheTroublewithMud13.PNG|250px]] |
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| + | |episode name="The Trouble with Mud" |
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| + | |director=[[David Mitton]] |
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| + | |producer=[[Britt Allcroft]]<br/>[[David Mitton]] |
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| + | |writer=The [[Reverend W. Awdry|Reverend W.<br/>Awdry]] (original)<br/>[[Britt Allcroft]] and [[David Mitton|David<br/>Mitton]] (adpated) |
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| + | |narrator=[[Michael Angelis]] (UK)<br/>[[George Carlin]] (US) |
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| + | |air date=October 20th 1991 |
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| + | |previous episode="[[Henry's Forest]]" |
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| + | |next episode="[[No Joke for James]]" |
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| + | }} |
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| + | '''"The Trouble with Mud"''' is the tenth episode of the [[third season]]. It first aired on the [[Shining Time Station]] episode [[Shining Time Station episode list|A Dog's Life]] in 1991. |
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==Plot== |
==Plot== |
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| + | Gordon is muddy, but refuses to be cleaned and sprays James with mud after his washdown. As punishment, he is forbidden to pull the Express. James does the job for him, but when Gordon warns him about the slippery rails on [[Gordon's Hill|his hill]] the red engine refuses to listen, and pays the price when he slips down the hill. Gordon luckily comes to push James up again, and as a reward is given Thomas and Gordon his job back. |
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| − | [[Gordon]] is asked to pull an empty express train to [[Kirk Ronan]] to test the new building. [[Gordon]] is bored by the blank plaster wall in front of his buffers, but has other things to think about when he becomes ill. [[Gordon]] is repaired in time for the opening, but when he approaches [[Kirk Ronan]] [[Gordon]] loses control and crashes through the wall. Upon his return from the Works, [[Gordon]] is delighted to discover the broken wall has been turned into a panoramic window. |
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| + | * [[Thomas]] |
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| + | * [[Henry]] (''does not speak'') |
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* [[Gordon]] |
* [[Gordon]] |
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* [[James]] |
* [[James]] |
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+ | * [[Sir Topham Hatt]] |
| + | * [[Percy]] (''cameo'') |
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==Goofs== |
==Goofs== |
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| + | * The workman washing Thomas' lamp has a skinny flesh-coloured wire as a neck. |
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| − | * When Gordon is pulling away to go to [[Kirk Ronan]], the [[Fat Controller]] and [[Gordon]]'s crew are still standing on the platform. |
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| + | * As Gordon says "Mind my eyes!" his right eye is wonky. |
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| − | * When [[Gordon]] approaches [[Kirk Ronan]] he lets off steam. In the next shot, it has disappeared and he lets off more steam. |
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| + | * When Gordon bumps the trucks, he bumps them together but in the next shot they are moving one by one. |
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| − | * When the narrator says, "Neither the driver nor fireman could apply [[Gordon]]'s brakes," he says driver, but they show the fireman trying to apply the brakes and when the narrator says fireman, they show the driver. |
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| + | * When James is sliding back down Gordon's Hill, look closely beyond the back of his train and you can see a clear wire pulling him back. |
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| − | * When [[Gordon]] crashes through the wall, there is a brief flash of light over his face. |
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| + | * When Gordon puffs alongside James, a stick is in James' funnel. |
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| + | ==Gallery== |
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| + | <center> <gallery> |
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| + | Image:TheTroublewithMud1.jpg |
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| + | File:TheTroublewithMud2.jpg |
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| + | File:TheTroublewithMud3.jpg|Henry |
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| + | File:TheTroublewithMud4.jpg |
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| + | File:TheTroublewithMud5.jpg|James and Gordon |
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| + | File:TheTroublewithMud7.jpg |
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| + | File:TheTroublewithMud8.jpg |
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| + | File:TheTroublewithMud9.jpg|Thomas |
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| + | File:TheTroublewithMud10.jpg |
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| + | File:TheTroublewithMud11.jpg|James |
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| + | File:TheTroublewithMud26.jpg |
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| + | </gallery> </center> |
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| + | ==Episode== |
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| + | [[Video:The Trouble with Mud - British narration|450px|left]] |
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Revision as of 05:54, 3 December 2009
- “Hello Gordon! You look as if you've had a mud bath. Be a sensible engine, have a shower instead!”
- ― Thomas
"The Trouble with Mud" is the tenth episode of the third season. It first aired on the Shining Time Station episode A Dog's Life in 1991.
Plot
Gordon is muddy, but refuses to be cleaned and sprays James with mud after his washdown. As punishment, he is forbidden to pull the Express. James does the job for him, but when Gordon warns him about the slippery rails on his hill the red engine refuses to listen, and pays the price when he slips down the hill. Gordon luckily comes to push James up again, and as a reward is given Thomas and Gordon his job back.
Featured characters
Goofs
- The workman washing Thomas' lamp has a skinny flesh-coloured wire as a neck.
- As Gordon says "Mind my eyes!" his right eye is wonky.
- When Gordon bumps the trucks, he bumps them together but in the next shot they are moving one by one.
- When James is sliding back down Gordon's Hill, look closely beyond the back of his train and you can see a clear wire pulling him back.
- When Gordon puffs alongside James, a stick is in James' funnel.
Gallery
Episode
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