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- "If you shake milk for long enough, it turns to butter!"
- ― The Sodor Ice Cream Factory manager
Thomas' Milkshake Muddle is the fifth episode of the ninth series.
Plot
It is the day of the children's summer party, and all the engines want the job to take the children. However, to Thomas' disappointment, Emily is taking them. Thomas' jobs are to collect milk from the dairy and take it to the ice cream factory and then to collect butter from the other side of Sodor and take it to the bakery. Thomas collects the milk churns and goes slowly and carefully until he reaches a junction where Emily approaches and calls him a "slowcoach." Thomas explains that it is important for him to go slowly, but Emily does not care and teases him as he could be taking the children if he was not so slow. Thomas is cross and decides to prove Emily wrong, and she challenges him to a race to the next signal, forgetting about the safety of taking his churns properly.
During the race, Thomas speeds up with the churns in his trucks rattling about. His next signal is green, so he passes Emily and carries on to the ice cream factory, neglecting to slow down. At the ice cream factory, the manager is shocked to see the milk is almost butter due to Thomas' careless speeding and he orders Thomas to collect more milk and go slowly this time. Thomas hurries back to the dairy, only to find the Fat Controller waiting for him. Time is running out, and unless the bakery has butter, there will be no cakes for the party, much to Thomas' guilt.
After bringing replacement milk churns to the ice cream factory, though ordered to take the buttered milk back to the dairy, Thomas has a much better idea; he goes even faster with the churns of buttered milk all the way to the bakery. When Thomas arrives, the baker is initially confused to see milk churns, but Thomas tells him to look inside and to the baker's surprise, the buttered milk is now entirely butter - enough to make all of the cakes for the party.
Thomas then returns to Tidmouth Sheds where the Fat Controller sees him, and is worried about getting into trouble again, but the Fat Controller is pleased that, thanks to Thomas' idea, he made amends and is sent to the children's summer party as the guest of honour.
Characters
- Thomas
- Emily
- Sir Topham Hatt
- The Sodor Ice Cream Factory Manager
- The Sodor Dairy Manager
- The Dairy Employees
- The Blue-suited Baker
- Gordon (does not speak)
- James (cameo)
- Percy (cameo)
- Molly (cameo)
- Stephen Hatt (cameo)
- Bridget Hatt (cameo)
Locations
- Tidmouth Sheds
- Sodor Dairy
- Sodor Ice Cream Factory
- Gordon's Hill
- Maithwaite
- Bluff's Cove
- Kirk Ronan Junction
- Kellsthorpe Road
- Peel Godred
Trivia
- Going by production order, this is the fifth episode of the ninth series.
- This episode aired in the US and Canada before Molly's Special Special, this means that the audience would not know who Molly is.
- This episode marks:
- Bluffs Cove's first appearance in the television series.
- The Sodor Ice Cream Factory Manager's last speaking role.
- In the PBS Kids airing of the episode, the baker saying, "I need butter, not milk!" is heard earlier than on DVD.
- A London, Midland, and Scottish Railway poster is seen at Maithwaite.
- Despite Gordon's name being mentioned when the narrator refers to his hill, he does not appear in the fullscreen version as he is seen to be cropped out of the scene where Thomas leaves Tidmouth Sheds to collect the milk churns.
Goofs
- In the close up of Thomas at the Ice Cream Factory, his lamp is slightly tilted downward.
- When Thomas leaves the Ice Cream Factory, his trucks are on the far left track; but when he comes back, his trucks are on the middle track.
- The narrator states that the cows and sheep looked up to see what the noise was, but only the cows are present in the shot.
- One of the pipes on the chimney at Maithwaite is crooked.
Merchandise
- Capsule Plarail
- Plarail - Thomas at the Suspension Bridge
- Books - Thomas' Milkshake Muddle
- Magazine Stories - Milkshake Muddle
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#01 Percy and the Oil Painting | #10 Rheneas and the Dinosaur | #19 Thomas' New Trucks |
#02 Thomas and the Rainbow | #11 Thomas and the New Engine | #20 Duncan and the Old Mine |
#03 Thomas' Milkshake Muddle | #12 Toby Feels Left Out | #21 Bold and Brave |
#04 Mighty Mac | #13 Thomas Tries His Best | #22 Skarloey the Brave |
#05 Molly's Special Special | #14 The Magic Lamp | #23 Saving Edward |
#06 Respect for Gordon | #15 Thomas and the Statue | #24 Thomas and the Golden Eagle |
#07 Thomas and the Birthday Picnic | #16 Henry and the Flagpole | #25 Keeping Up with James |
#08 Tuneful Toots | #17 Emily Knows Best | #26 Flour Power |
#09 Thomas and the Toy Shop | #18 Thomas' Day Off | |