Gordon Takes a Tumble

"No one was hurt, but Gordon felt very...undignified."

- Narrator

Gordon Takes a Tumble is the seventeenth episode of the sixth season.

Plot
Gordon brags to Salty that it isn't "dignified" for express trains to take trucks, but when Gordon is later told to take trucks he swears to do it how an express engine should. The effect is ruined when he rolls down a hill after a points failure and ignoring a "go slow" sign.

Featured characters

 * Thomas
 * Henry
 * Gordon
 * James
 * Percy
 * Salty
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * Annie and Clarabel (does not talk)
 * Butch (cameo)

Locations

 * Tidmouth Sheds
 * Brendam

Trivia

 * Stock footage from The Fogman is used.

Goofs

 * In the first scene Clarabel is facing the wrong way.
 * In the shot of Gordon on the old branch a cable is attached to his coupling.
 * When Gordon derails his trailing wheels are slightly coming off.
 * When Gordon's trucks come off the rails they come off differently in certain shots.
 * As the trucks derail and tumble down the slope the ground bounces up and down.
 * Shouldn't the guard have been seriously hurt by the derailment?
 * On the cover of Percy's Chocolate Crunch and other Thomas Adventures, Gordon is going backwards down the hill.
 * Gordons driver was negligent to slow him down, so The Fat Controller should have blamed his driver and the signalman.
 * No matter how fast Gordon was going when he was on the rails, he cannot possibly go such a long distance after he was derailed. To add to that, Gordon never seems to stop or even slow down after hitting all those things.
 * A wire is visible pulling Gordon at one point when he is derailed.

Episode
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