A Surprise for Percy

"Percy, Percy, green and small, He's no use to us at all. Around the yard he'll puff and blow, but on the hills he's oh so slow!"

- The trucks

"A Surprise for Percy", retitled "A Big Surprise For Percy" in American releases, is a fifth season episode.

Plot
Percy has been working at the coal mines for several weeks and is fed up with the work. Toby and Bertie try to cheer him up, to no avail. Then, one day, Percy is pulling some trucks up to the yard when they break away. Percy and Bertie chase after it. The workmen manage to put chocks under the trucks wheels after they slow down going up a hill, and Percy decides that you should never let yourself be taken by surprise.

Featured characters

 * Percy
 * Toby
 * Bertie
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * Henrietta (does not speak)

Trivia

 * Stock footage from "Put Upon Percy" is used.

Goofs

 * The picture above shows that the truck's buffer has snapped.
 * The backdrop is visible during a close-up of Percy struggling up the hill.
 * Just before the truck's coupling breaks, Percy's piston appears to be broken.
 * In the bird's-eye shot of the trucks, a wire can be seen pulling the trucks forward.
 * When Percy pulls the trucks up the hill, in some shots his first red stripe is out of place.
 * In one scene Sir Topham Hatt and Bertie park at the end of the stone wall, but in the next scene they are nowhere to be seen.
 * Much of the footage is sped up.
 * The trucks should have derailed at bends due to their speed.
 * There was a brakevan coupled to the runaway cars. So why didn't the conductor use the handbrake?