Dunkin Duncan

"I'll show that smelly diesel and those lazy steamers!"

- Duncan

Dunkin Duncan is the twenty-fourth episode of the sixth season.

Plot
Rusty, Rheneas, and Skarloey are sent to the incline railway to help Duncan with an important job. Rusty hopes that Duncan would stay out of trouble, but Duncan is impatient and behaves rudely towards the others. Skarloey and Rheneas don't like Duncan telling them what to do.

Duncan wants everyone to work faster, but Rusty and Rheneas tell him that they're proper engines and that they follow the rules. Duncan still tells them to work faster, so he shows the others how fast a useful engine can work by biffing one slate truck after another. Rusty warns Duncan that slate trucks would pay him back for being biffed. The engines see that Duncan will not listen, so they chuff away from the incline with their trucks of slate. Duncan pushes the trucks around and, while shunting some empties at the incline, gets his coupling tangled with a truck. The winch hauls the trucks and Duncan up the slope.

Rusty arrives in time to see everything, and Duncan's weight is too much for the winch and a coupling breaks, making Duncan run down the hill into the swamp. Duncan is pulled out and The Fat Controller scolds him for not being a responsible engine, and that his impatience has caused confusion and delay. Duncan apologizes to the engines and The Fat Controller makes him work at the mines as punishment until he learns to be "patient and careful".

Characters

 * Skarloey
 * Rheneas
 * Rusty
 * Duncan
 * Sir Topham Hatt

Locations

 * Skarloey Railway Slate Quarry
 * The Skarloey Railway Viaduct

Trivia

 * In Norway, this episode is named "Duncan Looks Silly". In Japan, this episode is called "Duncan's Mud".
 * The line "Duncan plummeted down the incline" is omitted in the UK narration.
 * CGI smoke is used after Duncan falls into the swamp.
 * From this episode onwards, Skarloey is lacking the gold stripe around the top of his funnel.

Goofs

 * Rheneas has Peter Sam's whistle sound.
 * The narrator says "Rusty, Rheneas and Skarloey chugged cheerfully through the Sodor countryside", but Rheneas and Skarloey look glum and Rusty is a Diesel.
 * Only four trucks are allowed up the incline. But in Trucks!, five trucks were allowed. In Duncan Gets Spooked and Snow, loads of up to seven trucks were allowed.
 * In the American narration, Duncan shouts "Bouncing bogies!" "Bogies" was a British term.
 * As Duncan was pulled up the incline, the narrator says his driver jumped clear, however, his cab was already empty.
 * Nothing is said about Duncan's fireman after the crash.
 * When Duncan and the trucks are pulled up the incline, they are coupled up, but they fall off the cliff one by one.
 * When played in slow-motion, Duncan's wheel chassis comes loose from the near upper-body work as he falls off the cliff.
 * When Duncan falls into the swamp, one of the trucks splatters mud under his mouth. But seconds afterwards, the mud was all over his buffers and mouth. When he was lifted out, the mud was all over his face.
 * When Duncan reaches the top of the incline, his coupling is no longer twisted.
 * The swamp has a sign saying "No fishing", but it seems highly unlikely any fish would live in the swamp anyway; yet Duncan has what looks like a fish in his funnel.
 * Duncan's chain couldn't get tangled as someone would've uncoupled him before the winch pulled the trucks up.
 * Duncan ignores Rusty's advice in this episode. But in Rock 'n' Roll, he learned that doing so was a mistake.
 * Brakevans should've been added to Rusty, Skarloey, Rheneas, and Duncan's trains.
 * Alec Baldwin doesn't give Duncan a Scottish accent.