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Kevin the Steamie

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"Biff, bash, bosh!"
― Kevin

Kevin the Steamie is the sixteenth episode of the fifteenth series.

Plot

The Steamworks is extremely busy, and Victor has to go pick up a new boiler for Spencer, so he leaves Kevin in charge. Thomas and Percy are about to leave after being cleaned when Thomas collides with a flatbed of oil drums. The flatbed rolls along the rails and hits Percy. Together, the friends play one of their favourite games, "Biff, Bash, Bosh," which involves shunting a truck back and forth. Kevin asks if he can play, but when he biffs into the side of the flatbed, he knocks it over, sending the oil drums all over the floor. Kevin is sad that he does not have buffers like a steam engine, but Thomas and Percy offer to return after work so that they can play "Biff, Bash, Bosh" again. Kevin decides that he must practice shunting like a steam engine.

Then Emily arrives wanting her buffers buffed up. Kevin rolls towards Emily, but an oil drum blocks his way. He decides that this is a great opportunity to practice his shunting, so he shunts the oil drum. It rolls along and runs into Emily, badly scratching one of her wheels. Spencer then rolls grandly in; he has come to collect his new boiler. As Kevin races frantically around the Steamworks, he comes across another oil drum. He tries to shunt this one as well, but it ends up getting jammed beneath Spencer's fender. Kevin races to Spencer's aid, but inadvertently bashes into another oil drum. This time, the drum rolls smoothly in a straight line. Kevin is happy as he can now shunt like a steam engine. Then, unbeknownst to Kevin, Victor returns. Kevin shunts another oil drum up a ramp, sending it flying through the air, smashing into the floor, and covering Victor in oil! Kevin has caused a lot of confusion and he feels dreadful.

Just then, Thomas and Percy return. Thomas asks if Kevin is ready to play, but he is not; he has to put everything right first. He delivers a replacement wheel to Emily, removes the jammed oil drum from beneath Spencer, and is about to bring Victor a bucket of bubbles when he stops by Spencer who wants to chuff through. Kevin lowers the bubbles onto the turntable and behind the broken flatbed to allow Spencer to steam through. Afterwards, Kevin cannot find the bucket of bubbles anywhere, but Thomas and Percy see them and tell the puzzled crane that they are on the turntable. Soon Victor is gleaming once more, and he tells Kevin that he can now play with Thomas and Percy. Instead of playing "Biff, Bash, Bosh," they decide to play a game more suited to Kevin: "Hide and Peep." Now Kevin is very proud of being a crane and not a steam engine.

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Trivia

  • There are some differences between the storyboards and the finished episode:
    • When the narrator says "On the Island of Sodor, all the engines like to be busy..." the angle shown in the storyboard is a stock angle from the "Welcome to the Island of Sodor!" intro sequence. The finished episode shows an alternate angle with a different selection of engines.
    • When the narrator says "They huff and puff," the storyboard shows Thomas and Percy pulling trucks in the countryside and moving towards the left of the screen. In the episode, they are puffing to the right at the Fishing Village and are not pulling anything.
    • When the narrator says "heave and haul," the storyboard shows Mavis pulling out from under the hopper with loaded trucks. In the episode, she pulls empty trucks underneath the hopper.
    • The storyboard matches Michael Brandon's delayed timing of "to be really useful", whereas Michael Angelis says "and lift and lower to be really useful" all at once. Additionally, the storyboard shows Kevin lifting the crate and then lowering it, but he lowers it twice in the episode.
    • The storyboard features the narrator's line "One morning, the Steamworks was very busy" across two shots. The first is an establishing shot of the front exterior of the Steamworks using original concept art from a stock angle. The art features Thomas, Percy and James and shows the leftmost tracks outside the Steamworks connecting to the line to the coal hopper instead of ending at buffers. The second shot uses art of the leftmost tracks inside the Steamworks with Victor and a backwards-facing engine (Stanley in the episode) drawn in. In the episode, the line is said entirely during the establishing shot of the Steamworks, which is from the rear-right and shows a multitude of different characters.
    • In the episode, Victor and Stanley are repositioned so that Victor is on the proper track leading to his siding; however, this also results in Stanley being placed on a narrow gauge track.
    • In the episode, "Victor rushed and raced" is said during the shot of Victor and Stanley. The storyboard shows an unused close-up of Victor.
    • In the storyboard, the turntable has two tracks criss-crossing instead of just one as there was in the show at this point. While a second track would not be added during Nitrogen Studios' tenure, it would be added by Arc Productions in the eighteenth series.
    • The storyboard only has a close-up of Thomas sparkling and not Percy, whereas the episode uses one of each. Additionally, Thomas' lamp is on the opposite side in the storyboard.
    • The storyboard features Victor explaining to Kevin that he will be in charge across three shots. In the episode, this is all done in one shot.
    • The storyboard cuts to Kevin when Victor says "Work well! Think hard!" In the episode, Kevin is only cut to where he starts talking.
  • This is the only episode written by Laurie Israel and Rachel Ruderman.

Goofs

  • At the beginning of the episode, Stanley is on narrow gauge tracks, despite being a standard gauge engine.

Merchandise

  • Wooden Railway - Bish Bash Bosh Story Pack (discontinued)
  • Take-n-Play - Victor and Oil Cargo and Kevin's Oil Spill (discontinued)

In Other Languages

Language Title
Brazilian Portuguese Kevin o guindaste
Catalan En Kevin vol ser una màquina de vapor
Chinese Mandarin 小吊车凯文
Czech Parní Kevin
Finnish Jani vauhdissa
French Bim Bam Boum!
German Kevin spielt Dampflok
Hebrew קווין הקטר
Hungarian Kevin, a gőzös
Italian Un Gioco Per Kevin
Japanese ケビンのじまんのフック
Korean 행복한 기중기, 케빈 (dub)
케빈과 증기 기관차 친구들 (subtitles)
Latin American Spanish Kevin, la Locomotora de Vapor
Norwegian Kevin leker damplok
Polish Kamil Parowóz
Romanian Kevin Locomotiva cu Aburi
Russian Непослушный паровоз (Original)
Озорник Кевин (Alternate)
Spanish Vaporcito Kevin
Turkish Buharlı Tren Kevin

Home Media Releases

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Series 15

Series 16>>

#01 Gordon and Ferdinand #08 Up, Up and Away! #15 Big Belle
#02 Toby and Bash #09 Henry's Happy Coal #16 Kevin the Steamie
#03 Emily and Dash #10 Let It Snow #17 Wonky Whistle
#04 Percy's New Friends #11 Surprise, Surprise #18 Percy the Snowman
#05 Edward the Hero #12 Spencer the Grand #19 Tree Trouble
#06 James to the Rescue #13 Stop that Bus! #20 Fiery Flynn
#07 Happy Hiro #14 Stuck on You
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