[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]
[rock music]
male narrator:
Mucking about.
♪ ♪
Max the dump truck loves racing
against Thomas the t*nk engine.
- Hey!
- [laughs]
Huh?
narrator: As does his twin,
Monty.
- Oh.
♪ ♪
narrator: Max and Monty
can be mischievous,
but Thomas thinks
they're good fun...
most of the time.
[tires squealing]
- We'll beat you next time!
- Oh, yeah!
- [laughs]
No one beats me!
I'm number one!
[chuckles]
[whistle toots]
♪ ♪
[tires squeal]
[both coughing]
narrator: Max and Monty
were working with Oliver,
Alfie, and Jack
on a digging site
near Thomas' branch line.
It was their job to take
all the earth away to the dump
when they weren't
mucking about.
[crash]
- [laughs]
[laughter]
- Hey!
Steady on.
[laughter]
- All right, all right.
That's enough, you two.
[whistle toots]
- Oh, there goes Thomas again.
[horn honks]
[both laughing]
[horn honks]
- Hey, come back here.
♪ ♪
- Let's have some fun!
- [laughs]
[tires squealing]
both: Whoa!
[laughter]
- Watch out!
[whistle toots]
- Yeah!
- [laughing]
- Whoo-hoo!
- [laughing]
- [yelling]
Yeah!
- That was dangerous!
[chime music]
Max and Monty
can be fun sometimes, Edward,
but crisscrossing the tracks
right in front of me?
That's not safe.
- Hmm.
I find the best way
to get along with Max and Monty
is to ignore them all together.
- Ignore them?
- Yes.
Don't answer back.
Don't try to race them.
Just forget them.
That's the only way
to deal with that sort
of construction vehicle.
- Thanks, Edward!
That's what I'll do.
[instrumental music]
narrator: But it was easier
said than done.
[horns honking]
- Hey, Thomas, race ya.
- Just to the next juncture.
Come on!
[both laugh]
[rock music]
- Silly blue engine!
You're not number one.
We're number one!
♪ ♪
[ducks quacking]
- [gasps]
[whistle toots]
[ducks quacking]
- [yells]
- [quacks loudly]
[both yelling]
[tires squealing]
- [quacking]
- [sighs]
♪ ♪
- [laughs]
Huh?
♪ ♪
- [gasps]
- Whoo-hoo!
Yeah!
[both yelling]
We're number one!
- And there's two of us,
so that makes you number three.
[laughs]
- That was dangerous.
I'm not getting involved
with those two anymore.
[instrumental music]
[whistle toots]
♪ ♪
- Whoa, ho, ho, ho!
Look at me!
Whoo-hoo!
- Yeah!
- Hey!
♪ ♪
[clang]
[crash]
- Oh!
Oh, no.
narrator: Oliver's front loader
was disabled,
and a thrown track meant
he could no longer
be really useful.
- Oops!
Sorry, Oliver.
♪ ♪
narrator: Poor Oliver.
He had to be taken away
for repairs.
- I'll be back soon
and right as rain,
but in the meantime,
please get on with your work.
both: Yes, sir!
♪ ♪
[whistle toots]
♪ ♪
- Hey!
What's the hold up?
- I was just thinking the dump
is a really long way away.
- So we should hurry up.
- Or instead of taking our waste
all the way there...
- We could just dump it over
this wall!
- Exactly!
That will save lots of time.
- And...
both: Be really useful!
[rock music]
♪ ♪
both: Yeah!
♪ ♪
[horn honking]
- Wow.
That was quick.
- Just doing our job
as fast as we can.
- On the double.
[laughs]
- [laughs]
♪ ♪
[both laughing]
[both continue laughing]
- Yeah!
- Whoa!
[both laughing]
narrator: But on the other side
of the wall,
it wasn't a dumping place.
It was a railway line.
[dramatic music]
Oliver had been repaired
and Thomas was bringing him
back to the dig site.
- Max and Monty are good,
hard workers, but just remember,
it's better to let them
compete against each other
than to try and beat them
at their silly games.
- Okay, Oliver.
Thanks for that.
I'll bear it in mind from now--
[yelling]
Oh, no!
Oh, no!
[thud]
[grunts]
♪ ♪
narrator: Max and Monty
had caused an accident.
- [groans]
♪ ♪
[instrumental music]
- Where's Thomas with Oliver?
He was supposed to be back
ages ago.
- We can't do any more
without him.
- Okay, you two, that looks like
your last load for today.
[thunking]
[horns honking]
♪ ♪
narrator: Luckily...
Thomas had his friends
to help him.
- I'll soon have
the line clear, Thomas,
now that my piston
has been repaired.
- Oh, and we'll soon have you
back on track.
Right, Jerome?
- Sure thing, Judy.
- Thanks, everyone.
narrator: It was still
a mystery how all the waste
had ended up on
Thomas' branch line.
- Oh, dear.
Oh, dear.
narrator: Until...
[mechanical whirring]
- Huh?
[mechanical whirring continues]
[rumbling]
[yelling]
[groans]
- Hello, hello, hello.
[both gasp]
Max and Monty, your tipping
of debris has caused confusion
and delay to the building works
and the railways.
- Sorry, Officer.
- You must always dispose
of building waste
safely at the dump!
And that's where I expect you
to take the rest of that rubble
you left on the tracks
before morning.
- Yes, sir.
Sorry, sir.
- And no more mucking about!
♪ ♪
[whistle toots]
♪ ♪
- Sorry, Thomas.
- We didn't mean
to cause an accident.
We were just trying
to get the job done quickly.
- A bit too quickly, Monty.
I won't be racing
with you two again.
[whistle toots]
♪ ♪
- There you are, Max.
[thunking]
Ready to go!
- You too, Monty.
- Great!
Thanks, you guys.
♪ ♪
[chuckles]
- [chuckles]
- Are you thinking
what I'm thinking?
- Last one to the dump
is a stinky dump truck?
[engine revving]
- [yells, coughs]
[engine revving]
- [yells, coughs]
- I'm number one!
- No, I'm number one.
- No, I'm number one.
I come first.
Max and Monty.
No one says Monty and Max.
- Well, you just did,
and I like the sound of it.
Maybe it'll catch on.
- I don't think so.
- I think so.
- I don't think so.
- I'm number one.
- I'm thinking not.
[rock music]
[bouncy music]
♪ ♪
[children singing]
♪ ♪
[whistle trills]
[children singing]
♪ ♪
[whistle toots]
[bouncy music]
♪ ♪
20x14 - Mucking About
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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.