[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:
Pouty James.
[whistle toots]
[brakes screech]
- Ta-da!
Here's James!
I'm ready for my coaches!
- Hello, James.
narrator:
James is always showing off.
He likes to be
the center of attention.
- [sighs]
What does an engine have to do
to get some coaches around here?
[whistle toots]
- Here you go, James.
Fresh from the wash-down.
[whistle toots]
- Oh, yes.
Very shiny.
Just the way I like them.
[whistle toots]
[upbeat music]
♪♪
I am just the brightest engine
on Sodor.
♪ ♪
[indistinct voice on intercom]
[whistle toots]
[steam hissing]
- Uh-oh.
[whistle blows]
You overshot
the platform, James!
- I know.
Sometimes I'm just too fast
for my own good.
[laughs]
- [clears throat]
- Oh.
- [groans]
- Oh.
narrator: James is
a mixed traffic engine.
This means that
he is equally good
at pulling coaches
and pulling goods trains.
Some engines
enjoy pulling goods trains,
but not James!
[whistle toots]
He only likes
pulling coaches
and wishes that was the kind of
work he did all the time.
- Ta-da!
[all exclaiming, grunting]
- I say!
- How was that for a stop?
- Oh, not very good.
- What?
I didn't overshoot
the platform this time.
- No, James,
you've undershot it.
Look where you've pulled up!
- Oh.
- How are we supposed
to get out?
- Honestly.
- This is a terrible railway.
- Would you stop showing off
and pull forward please James?
narrator: But James
was in too much of a good mood
to let one stationmaster
bother him
and he continued showing off
for the rest of the day.
- Here's James!
Ta-da!
[whistle toots]
Here's--
- James!
I have had nothing
but complaints about you
all day and the passengers
have all been saying
what a bad railway this is!
- Hm. The passengers
are just being silly, sir.
- Ugh, honestly, James.
We are supposed to look after
our passengers.
I think it's high time
you changed your attitude!
And until you do...
I'm taking your coaches away.
- [gasps]
[whistle blows]
- What's the matter with you,
James?
- Nothing.
[sighs] Sir Topham Hatt
says I need
to change my attitude.
- I think he's right, James.
- No, he's not!
What's wrong
with my attitude?
- Look at that pouty face.
- No engine is better
at making a pouty face
than James.
[laughs]
- [laughs]
How about this face?
[gibberish]
- Oh! How about me?
[groaning]
[laughter]
- Never mind, James.
Whatever is bothering you
will probably seem better
in the morning.
narrator:
But the next morning
not much had changed.
- James?
- [grumpily] What?
[grunts]
Sir?
- [groans]
Don't you remember
what I said about
changing you attitude?
Oh, you don't expect me
to let you pull passengers
with a face like that do you?
- Hm.
- Don't you want
a job today, James?
- What does it matter
what I want?
- Ha!
Very well.
You can stay here then.
In the shed.
- [gasps]
- I don't know, engines today.
- [groans]
- Why don't you just
say you're sorry
and stop being grumpy?
It's no fun sitting
in the shed all day.
- Ohh.
- [groans]
[laughter]
- [groans]
[laughter]
narrator: It wasn't much fun
sitting in the shed
doing nothing.
- Oh that silly Sir Topham Hatt!
What's wrong with my attitude?
I was only trying to do my best
and be really useful!
narrator: But later
that morning Sir Topham Hatt
came back again
and James tried
to put things right.
- I'm sorry I was
so grumpy earlier, sir.
I really would like a job today.
- [grunts]
- I want to be useful.
- Very well, James,
but But I expect you
to be on your best behavior
and no more sulking!
- Yes, sir!
Of course not, sir!
I'll be on my best behavior.
Waste cars?!
Smelly waste cars?!
But--but why can't I take
those lovely
clean coaches again?
- Edward has taken
those coaches today.
Sir Topham Hatt's orders.
- Ohh!
narrator: Unfortunately, James
was in too much of a bad mood
to work quickly
and it took him ages
to get to the waste dump
with his cars.
And even longer to get back
to the shunting yard.
- Oh, my attitude.
[muttering]
narrator: And he still
didn't get any coaches to pull.
- [gasps] Hi, James!
- Yay! Hi, James!
Wha--
both: Ohh.
[whistle toots]
- James! I have had almost
as many complaints
about you today
as I had yesterday!
Going around in a sulk,
being rude to other engines
and taking far too long
to get your cars from A to B!
You need to change
your attitude,
young steam engine!
Oh, dear, oh, dear.
[car starts, drives off]
- Change my attitude?
How am I supposed
to change my attitude?
- What a face, James.
[laughs]
You look even crankier than me!
- No engine
is better at making
a pouty face than James is!
- Stop teasing.
- [groans]
- [laughs]
[groans]
- [chuckles]
- [groans]
- [chuckles harder]
- [groans]
- [laughs]
[laughter]
- That's it, James.
That's much better.
- What do you mean?
- He means
you're changing your attitude.
- Come on, James!
[whistle toots]
Put a smile on that face!
We've got work to do!
- Last one back
to the shunting yard
is a broken brake van!
[whistle toots]
- [laughs]
[upbeat music]
narrator: So James
tried to change his attitude
and work more quickly.
♪♪
He still had to pull cars
and do the jobs
he didn't like doing...
But whenever he started
to look sulky again,
his friends
helped to remind him!
- [groans]
[both laugh]
narrator:
And before long, James found
he was even enjoying himself.
♪♪
[whistle toots]
- Did somebody order some milk?
[laughs]
[laughter]
- [chuckles]
- Moo!
[laughter]
- Oh, dear.
narrator: He didn't even mind
that he wasn't
pulling coaches...
♪♪
And so that was how James
learned to change his attitude.
[whistle toots]
- See you later,
lazy boiler!
narrator: But not for long.
[both laughing]
[whistle toots]
[bouncy music]
♪ ♪
[children singing]
♪♪
[whistle toots]
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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.