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- “If I bounce along the track
Perhaps that sound will soon come back
The sound that makes me smile and giggle
When I puff on tracks that jiggle!” - ― Thomas
Pop Goes Thomas is the eighth episode of the fourteenth series.
Plot
It is the day of the children's summer picnic in the Whispering Woods and Thomas is given the job of taking the lemonade to the picnic. On the way, Thomas puffs over some bumpy tracks which shakes the bottles of lemonade, making the corks fly into the air. Thomas likes the popping noise, but he cannot see what is making the funny noise. So instead of going straight to the woods, Thomas takes a bumpy track in hoping that he will hear the popping noise again.
Then Thomas sees Mr. Bubbles the clown waiting at a bus stop. Thomas bounces past and one of the popping corks knocks Mr. Bubbles' big red nose off. It rolls down a drain and now Mr. Bubbles will be late for the children's picnic, as he needs to get another one. Next, Thomas puffs down an even bumpier track. The corks come flying out of the bottles once again and land amongst a field of pigs.
Next, Thomas passes the bakery, where the bakers are hit by some corks, making them drop the cakes for the children's picnic. Then, Thomas goes over the bumpiest track on Sodor - the Fenland Track. Soon after, he meets James who is taking the children to the picnic. James does not think the popping noise is very amusing when one hits his shiny paintwork. Thomas then causes even more trouble when his corks hit the signalman at a junction. The signalman is so surprised, he accidentally sends James down the wrong track where he hits the buffers with a jolt.
Eventually, Thomas arrives at the Whispering Woods. The Fat Controller is very cross with him and scolds Thomas for all the confusion and delay he has caused with the popping corks. To add to that, all the lemonade bottles are empty. And then, the last cork flies through the air and knocks the Fat Controller's hat off his head.
Thomas realizes his mistake, so he puffs quickly back to the bakery. The bakers have made more cakes and they are quickly loaded onto Thomas' truck. With the cakes loaded, Thomas puffs back to Knapford to collect more lemonade where Mr. Bubbles is. Thomas apologises to Mr. Bubbles and offers him a lift to the picnic.
When Thomas arrives at the picnic with Mr. Bubbles, the children cheer, clap, and laugh. Mr. Bubbles explains that the children's laughs and cheers are the happiest sounds of all, and Thomas agrees.
Characters
- Thomas
- James
- Sir Topham Hatt
- Mr. Bubbles
- The Two Bakers
- Emily (does not speak)
- Edward (cameo)
- Sodor Brass Band (cameos)
- Sir Topham Hatt's Assistants (cameos)
- The Teacher (cameo)
- The Bird Watcher (cameo)
- The Ginger-haired Boy (cameo)
- The Blond-haired Boy (cameo)
- The Welsh Bird Watcher (cameo)
- The Lady with the Big Hat (cameo)
- The Female Puppet Show Entertainer (cameo)
- Gordon (stock footage cameo)
Locations
- Rail Under Road Bridge and Signal Box
- Whispering Woods
- Knapford
- Farmer Trotter's Pig Farm
- Fenland Fields
- Sodor Bakery
- Kirk Ronan Junction
- Maithwaite (stock footage)
Cast
UK
- Ben Small as Thomas
- Keith Wickham as James, the Fat Controller, Mr. Bubbles, and the two Bakers
- Matt Wilkinson as the Little Boy
US and CAN
- Martin Sherman as Thomas and the Little Boy
- Michael Brandon as Mr. Bubbles
- Kerry Shale as James and Sir Topham Hatt
- Keith Wickham as the two Bakers
Trivia
- Going by production order, this is the ninth episode of the fourteenth series.
- Stock footage from Tickled Pink, Slippy Sodor and A Blooming Mess is used, as is an edited scene from Thomas and the Pigs.
- An instrumental version of Go, Go Thomas is heard throughout the episode.
- This is the final episode written by Mark Robertson.
- This episode's name is similar to the name of an episode from the second series and a cancelled one from Jack and the Sodor Construction Company.
Goofs
- When Thomas turns onto the first bumpy track, the points are set against him.
- After the corks hit the bakers, the narrator says “All the cakes were spoiled”, but the bottom cakes didn’t fall over and thus weren’t spoiled.
- The narrator says that a cork hit James' shiny red paint, but it actually hits his smokebox, which is coloured black.
- When James brakes before hitting the buffers, his leading wheels spark, even though they aren’t fitted with brakes.
- Because of stock footage, Maithwaite is in its brown colour.
- When Thomas puffs up to James, he is on James' left, but when they go under the signal box, Thomas is on James' right.
Merchandise
- Take-n-Play (discontinued)
- Books - POP! Goes Thomas
In Other Languages
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Home Media Releases
UKDVD PacksAUSUS/NOR/SWE/DK/FIN/SVN
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| #01 Thomas' Tall Friend | #08 Pop Goes Thomas | #15 Jumping Jobi Wood! |
| #02 James in the Dark | #09 Victor Says Yes | #16 Thomas and Scruff |
| #03 Pingy Pongy Pick Up | #10 Thomas in Charge | #17 O the Indignity |
| #04 Charlie and Eddie | #11 Being Percy | #18 Jitters and Japes |
| #05 Toby and the Whistling Woods | #12 Merry Winter Wish | #19 Merry Misty Island |
| #06 Henry's Health and Safety | #13 Thomas and the Snowman Party | #20 Henry's Magic Box |
| #07 Diesel's Special Delivery | #14 Thomas' Crazy Day | |