[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: Tit for tat.
male narrator: There are
three very small engines
that work on the miniature
railway,
and their names are Rex,
Mike, and Bert.
[whistles toot]
Rex, Mike,
and Bert are so small
that when standing,
their drivers are taller
than their cabs.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
One day, two visitors came
to the island of Sodor.
They traveled about
in a little car
taking pictures
of interesting engines.
[camera shutters clicking]
[camera shutters clicking]
- Cheese!
narrator: The visitors spent
the whole day
on Thomas's branch line.
♪ ♪
- Oh, ha-ha!
[bell dinging]
Huh?
narrator:
Thomas was rather surprised
that they kept taking pictures
of Toby instead of him.
- Hey! What about me?
- We already have lots
of pictures of t*nk engines.
- But we haven't seen
this many tram engines.
They're more unusual.
- What does that make me, then?
Am I a usual engine?
- Well, I suppose you are,
Thomas. Ha-ha!
- Yes.
You're usually very silly!
[both laughing]
narrator: Thomas spotted
the visitors again
at Ffarquhar Station.
[whistle toots]
And at last they took
his picture.
- Ooh!
[laughs]
Where are you going next?
- To visit
the miniature engines.
- But we might have to wait
until tomorrow.
I don't think we'll get
any more nice pictures today.
[rain pattering]
[whistle blows]
[whistle toots]
narrator:
It rained all afternoon
and all night.
But the next morning,
it was sunny again,
and perfect weather
for taking pictures.
- We've got visitors today.
- Oh, we have them every day.
- But these are special.
One takes moving pictures,
and the other writes books.
[chuckles]
Maybe you'll be in one of them.
- I don't want to be
in a moving picture and a book.
I want to stay as I am.
[laughter]
What? What's so funny?
[laughter continues]
What?
narrator:
Bert was just getting ready
to start his jobs for the day
when the visitors arrived.
- Hello, there.
- Aren't you a very smart
and shiny engine?
- Oh, my name's Bert.
You can ride with my driver
and my tender if you like.
- Thank you, Bert.
I'm sure we'd like
to do that later.
- You see, just now,
the sun is shining so nicely,
we'd like to take some pictures.
[whistle toots]
See you later!
- Hoo!
At least those visitors know
how to speak to engines nicely.
narrator: There were still lots
of puddles after the rain,
but wherever the line came
near the road,
Bert found the two men there
looking into their cameras.
[whistle toots]
- Hello! Hello!
Oh, you'd think they might wave
at an engine.
- They can't wave
and get good pictures.
- Hmm.
♪ ♪
[horn beeps]
They didn't say hello to me
when I whistled,
so I'm not going to say hello
to them anymore.
[camera shutter clicks]
Oh!
Ha!
[laughs]
They can't get enough of me.
[laughs]
Here they come again.
Aah!
[coughing and sputtering]
What was that for?
They splashed me.
They splashed me!
I have mud on my face.
And they even took a picture!
[mud squelching]
Ugh. Pictures, indeed.
I'm a nice picture
all covered in mud.
- Oh, no harm done, Bert.
There you are.
Clean face again.
Go on. Give us a smile.
- what about the rest of me?
I'm still muddy
on the rest of me.
I should pay them back.
They splashed me,
so I shall splash them.
Tit for tat.
- Don't be silly.
Forgive and forget, Bert.
It was an accident.
- Can I take you up
on that offer
of a ride in your tender now,
Bert?
- Uh, well,
I'm not sure about that.
Not after what you--
- Of course you can!
narrator: Bert was still
brooding to himself
as they travelled
along the line.
- Such a wet day.
- [laughs]
You can say that again.
[both laugh]
- Ooh.
[water drips]
[water dripping]
Hmm.
Ooh, I know how to pay him back.
[laughs]
It's a lovely plan.
I only wish the tall one was
here too.
narrator: Bert hurried along
until they reached the woods,
where the line begins to climb
steeply up the hill.
And then he slowed down.
- Come on, Bert.
What's the hold-up?
- Tit for tat.
Tit for tat.
It's payback time.
[laughs]
[steam hisses]
- Ah!
- Oh! I'm soaked!
I'm soaked!
- Bert! Bert!
What are you doing?
- Tit for tat.
Tit for tat.
[laughing]
narrator:
Back at Arlesburgh Junction...
[man clears throat]
narrator: The small controller
soon found out
what had happened.
- Bert, you're
a very naughty engine.
I won't have rudeness
to visitors.
- But they splashed me first,
sir.
I was only paying--
- No excuses, thank you, Bert.
I'm ashamed of you.
Go to your shed.
[whistle toots]
- Oh, gosh.
- Um, oh, poor Bert.
Oh, dear.
narrator: Bert was sitting
sadly in his shed
when he saw the two visitors
coming over to see him again.
- What do they want now?
- Hello, Bert.
- We wanted to say
how very sorry we were
for splashing you earlier
with our car.
- I'm afraid I really wasn't
looking out for the puddles.
- Nor was I.
I was too excited
about getting pictures of you.
- Oh? Well, uh, I suppose,
well, I mean, I am very sorry
for splashing you, too.
- We wondered if perhaps
there was some way
we could make it up to you,
Bert.
- Perhaps we can clean you up
and make you look smart again
like you did in the morning.
- Hmm.
[chuckles]
[upbeat music]
narrator: By the time Rex
and Mike came back,
Bert was looking
as shiny and clean
as he had been in the morning.
- Oh, we heard
you had a little argument
with some very rude visitors,
Bert.
- We heard you were covered
in mud.
- I was,
but they cleaned me up again.
They're actually very nice.
They're even gonna write
about me in a book
and show me off
in moving pictures
on the television, too.
- Ha! Don't be silly.
That's never gonna happen.
- He must be having you on.
[laughs]
narrator: But it did happen,
didn't it?
♪ ♪
[steam hisses]
[gentle woodwind music]
♪ ♪
[children singing]
[whistle blasts]
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
20x18 - Tit for Tat
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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.