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"Bulgy! But... I thought you'd been turned into a henhouse."
"Pwah! Only for a while. Then I was a mobile vegetable stand, but now I am back in service, hah, hah, hah! And if you don't mind my saying so, we'd all be better off if everyone simply used roads instead of railways."
― Thomas and Bulgy

Unscheduled Stops is the tenth episode of the twenty-first series.

Plot[]

When Bertie breaks down while they are racing, Thomas takes on his passengers. An elderly man says that Bertie always drops him off between stops. Soon, Thomas is getting requests for lots of other unscheduled stops, which makes him run late and upsets his own passengers as well as the Fat Controller, who recruits Bulgy to take them so that Thomas can run on time.

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Cast[]

UK, AUS, NZ and MYS[]

US and CAN[]

  • Joseph May as Thomas
  • Teresa Gallagher as Annie, Clarabel and Albert's Wife
  • Keith Wickham as Bertie, Sir Topham Hatt and Some Passengers
  • Colin McFarlane as Bulgy and Bertie's Driver
  • William Hope as a Passenger
  • Nigel Pilkington as a Passenger

Trivia[]

  • Going by production order, this is the fifteenth episode of the twenty-first series.
  • This episode marks the first of a few things for Bulgy:
  • This episode marks the first of a few other things:
    • The first time Bertie's driver has spoken since the second series episode, Bertie's Chase.
    • The first time Nigel Pilkington is part of the US voice cast.
    • The first episode where Colin McFarlane is part of the show's cast.
  • Thomas' reference to the time when Bulgy was turned into a henhouse references the events of the third series episode, Bulgy, and Bulgy references the time when he was turned into a mobile vegetable stand mentions the events of the seventh series episode, Bulgy Rides Again.
  • This episode was written on June 20th, 2016.
  • On the Nick Jr. US broadcast of this episode, it was paired with Springtime for Diesel.
  • A shortened version of the episode, narrated by Joseph May as Thomas, can be found on the official YouTube channel and formerly on the Nick Jr. US website.
  • An old man passenger's CGI rig would later be modified into a CGI version of Cyril the Fogman.
  • The Fat Controller's spying montage uses several classic cartoon gags.
  • Bertie's dialogue from when he realised that his engine was fuming was reused from Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure.

In Other Languages[]

Language Title
Brazilian Portuguese Paradas Não Planejadas
Chinese Mandarin 随招随停的火车
Indonesian Pemberhentian Tidak Terjadwal
Japanese トーマス、バスになる?
Korean 예정에 없던 정차
Latin American Spanish Paradas no Programadas
Polish Nieplanowane Przystanki
Russian Остановки по требованию
Turkish Planda Olmayan İstasyonlar
Vietnamese Những Trạm Dừng Bất Ngờ

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