Oliver Owns Up

"Hello Oliver! Are you being a 'Good-Gracious' engine? Beg pardon, of course, but we really don't like this sort of surprise."

- Duck

Oliver Owns Up is the twenty-second episode of the third season. In the US, it aired on the Shining Time Station episode, "Schemer's Special Club".

Plot
Oliver is still new to Sodor, and when the big engines begin singing his praises he becomes conceited. In the end, a group of disgruntled trucks cut him down to size when they push him into the turntable well.

Characters

 * Thomas
 * Henry
 * Gordon
 * James
 * Percy
 * Duck
 * Donald
 * Oliver
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * Douglas (does not speak)
 * Bill or Ben (cameo)
 * Toad (cameo)
 * Annie and Clarabel (deleted scene cameo)

Locations

 * Tidmouth
 * Tidmouth Sheds
 * Brendam
 * Sodor River Bridge
 * The Coaling Plant
 * Shunting Yards

Trivia

 * This episode is based on the story Resource and Sagacity from The Railway Series book, Oliver the Western Engine.

Goofs

 * When Oliver crosses the bridge it bounces.
 * This episode seems to imply Oliver has never worked with trucks before, but the fact that Oliver escaped with his own brakevan, Toad, makes this seem highly unlikely. The story this is based on doesn't have this plothole however and mentions that Oliver had experience with trucks in general, but not ballast trucks.
 * The truck who says "Or Donald!" has a scratched left eye.
 * The trucks are facing away from Oliver when he takes them away, but when they force him forward they are all facing him.
 * As the narrator says "Oliver heard nothing" look at the tracks; they lead to a dead end.
 * When the trucks start to push Oliver his wheels aren't moving. Then, in the next shot, his wheels are moving backward. Then, in the next shot, his wheels are moving forward. Then, when he approaches the turntable, his wheels are not moving again.
 * As Oliver drops into the turntable, what appears to be a black block can be seen inside his cab. This is probably to help weigh down his cab end so it would drop before his driving wheels reached the well.
 * A few seconds after the truck closest to Oliver hits the tracks a boom can be heard.
 * There are more berths than the usual six in Tidmouth sheds.
 * A brakevan should have been added to Oliver's train.
 * When Oliver passes Duck at the tunnel, Oliver's train has an unneeded brakevan.

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