Mavis (episode)

"Fiddlesticks!"

- Mavis

Mavis is the fourteenth episode of the third season. It first aired on Shining Time Station in the episode Do I Hear? in 1991.

Plot
Mavis is a young, inexperienced diesel who insists on pushing her trucks into different places every day, to Toby's fury. Eventually, Toby loses patience and tells Mavis to take her trucks herself, and when Diesel creeps into the quarry he tells her steam engines are second to diesels, which only makes things worse. Mavis soon ignores Toby's advice on the hill outside of Ffarquhar, but when the trucks get revenge for her bumping them, she is stuck on the hill and cannot move. Toby goes to help so as not to incur the wrath of the Fat Controller, and manages to push her back. Mavis, ashamed, quickly shunts her trucks and scurries home.

Characters

 * Toby
 * Diesel
 * Mavis
 * Terence (cameo)
 * Bertie (cameo)
 * Sir Topham Hatt (mentioned)

Trivia

 * Stock footage from Donald's Duck is used.

Goofs

 * Just before Mavis approaches the lane, she is seen going around a bend. Look closely and you can see a steam platform.
 * Mavis' last truck has a crooked face.
 * When Toby complains that he warned Mavis shadows pass over him in a couple of shots.
 * When Toby pushes Mavis out of the lane, the scene has obviously been cut.
 * Bertie is smiling when he is stuck at the crossing.
 * What is Diesel doing on Thomas' branchline, let alone on the North Western Railway?

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