No More Mr. Nice Engine

"Hiro, you have caused confusion and delay - and terrible trouble to my trousers!"

- Sir Topham Hatt

No More Mr. Nice Engine is a seventeenth season episode.

Plot
One day, Diesel is shunting dairy trucks for Hiro in the yard. To keep them from acting up, he is pushing them as hard as he can, spilling the milk cans. Edward tells Diesel to be gentle, but Diesel retorts that Edward should mind his own buisness. Soon, Hiro arrives and collects his train. Hiro, unlike Diesel, is nice to the trucks as a means of getting them to behave. He delivers his trucks to Knapford station, but when the truck door is opened, the milk cans tip over and spill onto Sir Topham Hatt's trousers.

Hiro goes to the docks to pick up another shipment of milk. Diesel is there too, and still wants to convince him that the only way to make the trucks behave is with brute force. To attempt to prove this, he is coupled to the back of Hiro's train instead of a brake van. Hiro sets off, unaware of Diesel's plan.

As the trucks biff and bash Hiro, he stays as patient as possible. Diesel gives them an extra hard shove to get them to biff Hiro harder; Hiro is still patient, much to Diesel's annoyance. When they reach Gordon's Hill, Diesel applies his brakes to help the trucks hold back. Hiro stays nice, until Diesel helps the trucks push him down the hill. Hiro is beginning to get angry at this point, and the trucks are now out of control.

Characters

 * Thomas
 * Edward
 * Hiro
 * Diesel
 * Troublesome Trucks
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * Rosie (cameo)
 * Connor (cameo)
 * Annie and Clarabel (cameo)
 * Cranky (cameo)

Locations

 * Knapford
 * Brendam
 * Wellsworth
 * Gordon's Hill
 * Shunting Yards
 * The Washdown

Trivia

 * In Japan, this episode is titled "Hiro and the Troublesome Trucks"; In Italy, this episode is called "Troublesome Trucks".
 * The title of this episode is based on the song "No More Mr. Nice Guy" by American rock singer, Alice Cooper.
 * Going by production order, this is the ninth episode of the seventeenth season.

Goofs

 * The way some of the food is transported is unhygienic.
 * The workman should have known better than to couple Diesel to the back of Hiro's train.
 * When Hiro arrives to collect Edward's trucks, they are coupled together, but in the next shot, they are not.
 * Edward's trucks are only a few feet away from Hiro's trucks when he collects them, but when Diesel bumps into them into place, he pushes them several feet ahead and looks as if he should have pushed Hiro forwards, but in the next shot, Hiro is still in the same place as he was when he arrived.

Wooden Railway

 * Hiro's Sticky Spill

Books

 * Spills and Thrills/No More Mr. Nice Engine!