20x22 - Three Steam Engines Gruff

[bunniefuu]

[whistle toots]

[bouncy music]

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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 ♪

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[whistle toots]

[instrumental music]

male narrator:

Three steam engines gruff.

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male narrator:

It was Fall on Sodor,

the time of year

when all the trees

begin to lose

their old leaves.

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Thomas was working

on his branch line

with Annie and Clarabel.

[whistle toots]

So were Toby and Henrietta.

[bell dinging]

- Hello, Thomas.

- Hello, Toby.

- Don't the trees look spooky

without any leaves?

- [chuckles] Oh, Toby.

Why do you think

so many things are spooky?

- But they are.

Sometimes they look like big

hands reaching over the tracks

to grab you and pick you up

like a toy train.

- [laughing] You do have

a big imagination, Toby.

They're only trees.

[whistle toots]

- Oh. Hmm.

narrator: A little further

along the line,

Thomas noticed that one

of Farmer McColl's fences

was broken.

- Oh, dear.

- [gasps] Be careful, Thomas.

There could be a runaway animal

on the track.

narrator: Thomas didn't see

any animals on the tracks,

but he did see Trevor,

the traction engine,

working in a field.

[whistle toots]

[whistle toots]

- Hello, Thomas.

- Hello, Trevor.

There's a broken fence

by the track back there.

- Oh, is there?

I'll tell Farmer McColl.

He'll want to get that repaired

before an animal escapes.

[whistle toots]

narrator:

That night in the shed,

Thomas told Percy

about the broken fence.

- Oh, that sounds very spooky.

- [chuckles]

Don't you start.

I've already had Toby talking

to me about the spooky trees.

- But think about it, Thomas.

Who broke that fence?

Or what broke that fence?

It could have been anything.

[both gasping]

- [screams]

- [giggles]

It was probably just an animal.

Go to sleep, Percy.

- I quite agree.

Go to sleep.

- But I can't go to sleep.

It's my job to pull

the mail train.

[whistle toots]

narrator: Poor Percy had

frightened himself,

but the other engines

didn't really think

there was anything

to be frightened of.

[train engine chugging]

[spooky music]

[leaves rustling]

- H--hello?

Is someone there?

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[moaning]

- Ahh!

- [snoring]

- Ahh! Ahh!

- Oh, oh, oh, oh!

- [wailing]

- Huh? Oh, my!

Help! Help!

- What is the matter with you,

Percy?

Racing in and bashing into Henry

in the middle of the night?

- Sorry, b--but I heard

something v--very spooky

out on Thomas' branch line.

- Oh, I've had quite enough

of this spookiness.

Just deliver the mail

and let the rest of us

go back to sleep.

[whistle toots]

[nervous chuckle]

narrator: The next morning

it was bright and sunny.

- And then as I crossed over the

little bridge by the watermill,

I heard

this strange moaning sound.

[imitates moaning]

It was like nothing

I've ever heard before, Thomas.

It was very, very spooky.

- Well, it's day time now

and the sun is shining

and I'm sure whatever it was

will be long gone away.

- I hope so.

I have to go over

that bridge

to take the workers

to the quarry.

- I have to go over

that bridge today too.

- So do I.

We all have to go over

that bridge.

But I'm quite sure

there's nothing to worry about.

[whistle toots]

[chuckles]

[bouncy music]

[whistle toots]

[bell rings]

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narrator:

Thomas wasn't worried at all

as he traveled up the branch

line with Annie and Clarabel.

- [chuckles]

Hello, Thomas.

narrator: But then he came to

the bridge by the watermill.

- What's the matter, Thomas?

- Why are we slowing down?

Is there an animal on the line?

- No, it's just...well,

Percy says

he heard something spooky

last night

as he went over

this bridge.

But I'm sure there's nothing

to--

[moaning]

- Ahh!

- Ahh!

- Ooh!

[bouncy music]

[whistle toots]

- Did you hear it, Thomas?

- Do you mean that terrible

moaning and groaning?

- Under the bridge.

- [gasps]

It must be a troll.

- A troll?

- Trolls live under bridges.

Don't you remember

"The Three Billy Goats Gruff"?

- Percy's right.

It was a mean hungry troll

that lived under the bridge

the three billy goats

were all scared to cross over.

They made the little one

go first,

and he survived by telling the

troll to eat his bigger brother!

[clattering]

[whistle blows]

I'm going first!

[bell ringing]

- Oh, I'm going second.

[whistle toots]

[thunder]

- Calm down, Toby.

What are you racing for?

[spooky music]

[whistle toots]

- Go on, Toby.

[whistle toots]

- We can't wait here forever.

- I don't hear anything now.

- Maybe the troll's

gone away again.

[thunder]

Oh!

- There's probably nothing

to worry about.

I mean, whatever it was

is probably--oh! Oh!

- Don't eat me! Don't eat me!

Don't eat me!

[moaning]

- It's still here.

Don't eat me! Don't eat me!

Don't eat me!

[moaning]

The third one has to be brave,

Thomas.

The third one has to make

the troll go away.

[dramatic musical sting]

[thunder]

- What are you talking about,

Percy?

- In the story,

the third goat is the one

who makes the troll go away.

And you're the third.

- [gasps, gulps]

[moaning]

- Oh, Thomas!

He's very hungry now.

[dramatic music]

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[moaning]

- Hmm.

You know, Clarabel.

That doesn't sound

like a troll to me.

- I do believe you're right,

Annie.

It sounds more like a...

a cow.

- A cow?

both: A cow?

- [mooing]

- [laughing]

[cow mooing]

narrator:

One of Farmer McColl's cows

had broken the fence and

wandered down into the river,

where it got stuck in the mud.

Jem Cole brought Trevor,

the traction engine, to help,

and set up a winch to lift

the stranded cow back up again.

And Thomas carried

the poor frightened animal

back to the farm.

[whistle toots]

[bouncy music]

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[whistle toots]

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That night in the sheds

Thomas, Percy, and Toby

told the other engines

about their big adventure.

- A cow?

[laughter]

You were all frightened

of a cow?

- It's not that funny.

- You can laugh, James,

but Farmer McColl said he was

very glad that we found it.

- Imagine thinking a cow

was a troll.

[laughter]

- It's not funny.

It was really scary.

- Well, it's a little

"a-moo-sing."

[laughter]

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[children singing]

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[children singing]

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