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- "The party was a great success and there was only one thing more popular than the sticky toffee apples. And that was sticky toffee Thomas!"
- ― The narrator
Sticky Toffee Thomas, retitled Sticky Taffy Thomas in North America, is the eighteenth episode of the tenth series.
Plot
In the summertime, a children's costume party is being held and the engines have various jobs to do for it. Percy is collecting cakes and buns, Toby is delivering sticky toffee and Thomas arrives with the tables and chairs. When Thomas sees some children making costumes, he wants to go to the party in costume, too. The Fat Controller instructs Thomas to have a washdown so he would look his best for the train rides he would give at the party later.
When Percy sees Thomas at the washdown, he jokingly suggests that Thomas go covered in bubbles. Thomas takes his joke the wrong way and puffs off, still covered in soap suds. However, they get into his eyes and he cannot see where he is going. He then crashes into Toby and the toffee tanker, breaking Toby's axle. Thomas offers to take the tanker and The Fat Controller agrees to this but tells Thomas not to try to get into costume. Soon Thomas puffs off after being cleaned of the suds but after seeing Jeremy in the air and contemplating going as a plane, his concentration drifts.
Once Thomas catches himself daydreaming, he realises how late he is and races along the line at top speed. Unaware the points have been changed, he crashes into some buffers, opening the toffee tanker and getting drenched in toffee. Having foiled the whole purpose of being washed, which was to give train rides at the party, Thomas is upset and regrets not thinking of what he was doing.
Determined to at least deliver the sticky toffee on time, Thomas decides to use a shortcut - a long since disused line he suddenly spied off to the side. No longer thinking of costumes, Thomas pushes through the overgrowth, despite the sticky toffee causing him to get covered with branches and leaves. When he arrives, Thomas explains how he brought the toffee but cannot give train rides due to being messy. The children declare him to not be messy but rather in costume - the best costume of all.
Characters
- Thomas
- Percy
- Toby
- Sir Topham Hatt
- Jeremy (does not speak)
- Emily (cameo)
- Molly (cameo)
- Annie and Clarabel (cameos)
- Stephen Hatt (cameo)
- Bridget Hatt (cameo)
- Sir Topham Hatt's Assistants (cameos)
Locations
- Sodor Airport
- Maron
- The Timber Mill
- Tidmouth Sheds
- The Washdown
- Crosby Tunnel
- The School Apple Orchard
Trivia
- Going by production order, this is the twelfth episode of the tenth series.
- A rare photo shows a deleted scene of Thomas, still covered with branches and leaves, at the party with Annie and Clarabel implying that he would be giving the children train rides after all.
- A Mouse Trap board game, the first place ribbons from the eighth series episode Spic and Span and a medal from the seventh series episode Three Cheers for Thomas are on the table near the girl making her clown costume.
- Even though the US dub of this episode was never released on home media in North America, it was released on the Brazilian DVD, New Adventures of Thomas along with Which Way Now? and Thomas and the Shooting Star.
Goofs
- In the close up of Thomas when he says "That looks like fun!" a tiny piece of sticky tac can be seen holding his face to his smokebox.
- Some small scale figurines have skinny fleshed-coloured wires for necks.
- When Thomas says "I want to go to the party in fancy dress too!" and when he imagines himself with a big top hat, the tracks behind him lead to the bushes. In the same scene, his wheels are also going slower than he is while he imagines.
- In the close-up of the workmen putting soap suds on Thomas, one of them has some kind of white substance (possibly blu-tak) on his right shoulder.
- When Thomas crashes into Toby, the latter jumps back onto the track but in the close-up of Toby, he is derailed.
- In the Russian dub, after Toby's crash, Thomas is mistaken for Toby.
- Toby's face is loose when Thomas begins pushing the toffee tanker. This was also the case with Thomas when he is at the airport.
- A string can be seen pulling Jeremy across the runway.
- Thomas' siderods change position immediately when he watches Jeremy flying.
- In the shot of Thomas after being splattered with toffee, there is less toffee on him than there was in the previous shot. Likewise, there was a drop of toffee falling from his chin, which reappears on him in the next shot.
- Bushes are stuck up on Thomas' back even though the toffee could not have reached that far.
- When Thomas arrives at the party with the toffee, his steam platform is visible.
- In the final shot, the toffee tanker disappears even though Thomas has not moved from the place he was when he arrived.
Merchandise
- Capsule Plarail - Thomas dressed as a plane, Thomas covered in bubbles and Top Hat Thomas
- Limited Edition Collection
- Books - Sticky Toffee Thomas (Book and DVD) and Thomas and the Sticky Toffee
- Bachmann - Large Scale Toffee Tanker
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References
| #01 Follow that Flour | #11 Fearless Freddie | #21 Emily and the Special Coaches |
| #02 A Smooth Ride | #12 Toby's New Shed | #22 Thomas and the Colours |
| #03 Thomas and the Jet Plane | #13 Big Strong Henry | #23 Thomas and the Birthday Mail |
| #04 Percy and the Funfair | #14 Sticky Toffee Thomas | #24 Duncan's Bluff |
| #05 The Green Controller | #15 Which Way Now? | #25 Missing Trucks |
| #06 Duncan Drops a Clanger | #16 Thomas and the Shooting Star | #26 Thomas and the Treasure |
| #07 Thomas' Tricky Tree | #17 Edward Strikes Out | #27 James the Second Best |
| #08 Toby's Afternoon Off | #18 Topped Off Thomas | #28 Thomas and Skarloey's Big Day Out |
| #09 It's Good to Be Gordon | #19 Wharf and Peace | |
| #10 Seeing the Sights | #20 Thomas' Frosty Friend | |