(cheerful music)
(upbeat music)
- [Narrator] It was
a special holiday
on the island of Sodor.
Bertie the bus was working
harder than ever before.
All the engines were busy too.
(cheerful music)
Duck was waiting for
his next journey.
Near him stood a red bus
but he didn't look
friendly like Bertie.
The bus growled as he gazed
at the happy passengers.
Stupid nonsense, he grumbled,
I wouldn't have brought
them if I'd known.
I'd have had a
breakdown or something.
I'm glad you
didn't, smiled Duck,
You'd have spoiled their fun.
(groans) Enjoyment is
all you engines live for.
One day railways
will be ripped up!
Duck felt shocked
at such an idea.
We have a friend called
Bertie and he's a bus
but he likes the railway.
Sometimes he teases us about it
but he'd never want
to see it ripped up.
Heh, growled the
bus, I know Bertie.
He's too small in
size to be of any use.
Duck took no notice.
(whistle blowing)
That bus is silly, he
thought as he steamed away.
At the junction, Duck
told Oliver all about him.
I call him Bulgy,
chuckled Oliver
and then he puffed happily away.
(cheerful music)
But that afternoon when
the two engines met again,
Oliver was no longer laughing.
Bulgy's friend
has come, he said,
he's rude too, he's taking
Bulgy's passengers home
and leaving Bulgy
free to steal ours.
But he can't, objected Duck.
Bulgy says he can get them
to the big station before us!
Rubbish, replied Duck,
it's much farther by road.
Yeah, continued Oliver, but
Bulgy says he knows a shortcut.
That evening, the
engines were preparing
for the homeward rush.
Where are the passengers,
they wondered.
Look, shrilled
Oliver, look at Bulgy!
He's a mean scarlet deceiver.
Bulgy was wearing a large
sign saying Railway Bus.
Yeah, boo snubs, he
jeered as he roared away.
Come on, puffed
Duck to his coaches,
let's see what he's up to.
(upbeat music)
Duck wanted to get back at Bulgy
but he wasn't sure how.
Then in the distance, Duck
saw a man waving a red flag.
That meant danger.
The line here
crosses a narrow road
and there was Bulgy, wedged
firmly under the bridge.
So this was his
shortcut, chuckled Duck.
He tricked us, shouted
Bulgy's passengers.
He said he was a railway
bus but he wouldn't
accept our return tickets.
He wanted us to think
railways are no good!
Ducks crew examined the bridge.
It's risky but we must
help the passengers.
Passengers are
urgent, agreed Duck.
Duck slowly and carefully
set off across the bridge.
Bulgy wailed as he
felt the bridge quiver.
Whoa!
Ohh!
Stop, he shouted,
it might fall on me!
That would serve you right
for telling lies, said Duck.
But the bridge didn't collapse.
(train whistle)
Duck made good time
and all the passengers
caught their trains.
The bridge is now mended,
but not unfortunately
Bulgy and his ways.
He never learned sense.
He's a hen house now.
And his lies can do no harm.
The hens never listen
to them anyway.
(upbeat music)
03x23 - Bulgy
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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.