Horrid Lorry


 * “Well, well, well! The Brothers Grim: 'Smashed', 'Broken' and 'Sunk'!”
 * ―Thomas

Horrid Lorry is the second episode of the fifth series. It aired back to back with Cranky Bugs on Storytime with Thomas in the US.

Plot
One morning, Percy is late to collect his train from the docks. Cranky begins to criticize him, while Percy complains there is too much work for the engines. Cranky suggests it would be better if lorries did his work. Percy is shocked by this. Later at the sheds, Percy tells the other engines what Cranky had said. The other engines are dismissive, but Percy worries that lorries might truly come.

Unfortunately, three lorries do indeed arrive and while Cranky is overjoyed, they also turn out to be incredibly rude with one of them calling Percy a steaming lump of scrap iron. Later, when Percy sees Thomas and James, he finds another lorry being rude to them and calls Percy a little green goblin on wheels and saying that he will be scrapped. Thomas and James are both disgusted at the lorry's behaviour, calling him horrid and despicable.

At the quarry, Toby runs across another lorry who tells him that he belongs in a museum and tells him to toodle off. Toby's driver tells him to ignore the lorry and they proceed to the flour mill. But when they arrive at the flour mill, Toby is shocked to find yet another lorry, who tells Toby that they are doing his jobs now. The foreman tells Toby's driver that he is sorry for Toby's replacement but the times were changing. Toby's driver then tells him they will head to the farm, hoping they will still be able to use him.

As Toby trundles towards the farm, he enters a canyon, where he watches the lorry he met at the quarry having trouble navigating on a treacherous road above with his load of rocks. The lorry then falls off a cliff and crashes onto the rocks below, much to his horror.

The smashed lorry is taken to the docks, where Percy begins to laugh at him and calls him a steaming lump of scrap iron like the lorry called him. Butch arrives with the lorry from the flour mill. The tow truck driver explains to Toby's driver that the lorry was overloaded with flour and broke down. James whistles excitedly as he watches men bringing the third lorry in on a barge. The tow truck driver elaborates that the lorry reversed into the sea. Thomas arrives, laughing at the disgraced lorries and calls them The Brothers Grim: "Smashed," "Broken" and "Sunk." The lorries vow to return, but never do. The engines commit themselves to their work to ensure the lorries never return.

Characters

 * Thomas
 * Henry
 * James
 * Percy
 * Toby
 * The Horrid Lorries
 * Cranky
 * Butch  (faceless; does not speak)
 * Edward  (cameo)
 * Gordon  (cameo)
 * Duck  (cameo)
 * Donald  (cameo)
 * Annie and Clarabel  (cameo)
 * Troublesome Trucks  (cameos)
 * Sir Topham Hatt  (cameo)
 * Jem Cole  (cameo)
 * Farmer Trotter  (cameo)
 * The Painter  (cameo)
 * Big Mickey  (faceless; cameo)
 * Scruffey  (deleted scene cameo)

Locations

 * Brendam Docks
 * Norramby Fishing Village
 * The Sodor Inn
 * Anopha Quarry
 * Tidmouth Sheds
 * The Flour Mill
 * The Narrow Gorge
 * Wellsworth Crossing
 * Sodor Museum  (mentioned)

Trivia

 * Mirrored stock footage from the fourth series episode, Thomas and the Special Letter is used.
 * This is the last episode until the ninth series episode, Molly's Special Special, where Sir Topham Hatt appears, but does not have a speaking role.
 * This episode marks the second time a non-human character has suffered a physical injury to their face, the first being in the second series episode, Break Van.
 * This episode marks the first and only appearance of The Horrid Lorries to date, excluding their faceless appearances.
 * After Lorry 2 fell off the cliff, the music is heard in the US and the international versions.
 * A rare picture shows Lorry 3 confronting Thomas and James instead of Lorry 1.
 * In a rare picture of the first scene, S.C. Ruffey's rebuilt model can be seen next to the S.S. Roxstar and Big Mickey.
 * A deleted scene picture shows Lorry 1 after falling into the sea being towed by Butch, rather than being on a barge.
 * Thomas' nickname for the Lorries, "The Brothers Grimm" is a reference to two German scholars best known for publishing many well-known folk and fairy tales.
 * The barrel the foreman stands near is the "Best Quality Diesel Oil" barrel from the fourth series episode, Bowled Out.
 * Butch does not have a face in this episode.
 * S.S. Vienna, Big Mickey and Izzy Gomez from TUGS can be seen at the docks.
 * This was the only episode where Butch is referred to by name until the fifteenth series episode, Stuck on You.
 * A rare picture shows Toby going the other way around the gorge and much closer to Lorry 2 who is about to fall off the gorge.
 * The brick part of the Skarloey Engine Sheds appears at the Flour Mill.
 * The way Alec Baldwin voices the lorries sound very similar to his Gordon voice from the sixth series.
 * The line "times are a-changing" references the Bob Dylan song "The Times They Are a-Changin'".

Goofs

 * When James says "Stuff and nonsense" and Henry says "We engines run this island," Henry's tender is uncoupled.
 * When one of the lorries talks to Toby, the lorry's driver moves when the lorry's eyes moves, meaning the driver is on the eye mechanism.
 * James appears in one location when he points out Lorry 1, then appears in a completely different location after the shot of the lorry on the barge. He also has his fourth series whistle sound when he excitedly sees the third lorry arriving on a barge.
 * When Percy arrives at Tidmouth Sheds, Henry's eyes are wonky and Thomas is missing his lamp.
 * In a rare picture, a wire is seen under Butch's cab.
 * When Toby rolls alongside Percy, Duck can be seen in the background pulling a train, but in the next shot, there are trucks on that same line and Duck and his train are gone.
 * In the first two close-ups of Cranky, his nameboards are in centre of his cranehouse roof.
 * When Lorry 2 is at the docks after his accident, his eye mechanism is no longer holding the eyes in properly.
 * Throughout the episode all three lorries' mistakenly switch faces.
 * When Lorry 2 meets Percy, he has Lorry 3's smirking face.
 * When Toby arrives at the flour mill, Lorry 3 has Lorry 1's smirking face.
 * When Lorry 2 is taken to the docks he once again has Lorry 3's smirking face.
 * When Lorry 3 is brought in by Butch, he has Lorry 1's shocked face.
 * When Lorry 1 is brought in on a barge he has Lorry 2's sad face.
 * When Lorry 3 is dubbed "broken" he has Lorry 1's sad face.
 * The Portuguese title refers to the lorries as "new friend" but the lorries were rude to the engines and thus were not friends to any of them.
 * In the last scene, Clarabel is in front of Annie.

Quotes
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 * Lorry 2: (referring to Percy): What's that steaming lump of scrap iron doing here? Be off with you!
 * Percy: Scrap iron?! Steaming scrap iron?! PAH!
 * Lorry 1 (referring to Percy): Oh look, its a little green goblin on wheels. You'll be scrapped. Just you wait and see.
 * Thomas: Well, bust my boiler! What a horrid lorry!
 * James: Despicable!
 * Lorry 2: Well well well. No wonder this railway's in a mess, you belong in a museum, not working in a quarry.
 * Toby: I might look old, but I'm very useful.
 * Lorry 2: Useful?! Pah! Just you toodle off!
 * Toby: Toodle?!
 * Percy: (after seeing the wrecked lorry) What's this lump of steaming scrap iron?
 * Lorry 2 (after being practically destroyed): I'll be back, so you can wipe that silly smile off your smokebox!
 * Percy: Pah!
 * Toby's driver (after seeing a lorry being pulled by Butch): What happened?
 * The tow truck man: He was overloaded with flour and he broke down.
 * Toby: (teasing the lorries) Not very useful now are you?
 * Lorries 2 and 3: Grrrrr!
 * James: They're bringing in the third lorry on a barge! What happened to that one?
 * The tow truck man: Stupid lorry was reversing and fell straight into the sea.
 * Thomas: (looks at the damaged lorries) Well, well, well! The Brothers Grimm: Smashed, Broken and Sunk!

Merchandise
ERTL

UK

 * Spooks and Surprises
 * The Complete Series 5

DVD Boxsets

 * Classic Collection

US

 * Races, Rescues and Runaways and Other Thomas Adventures
 * Thomas & Friends Classic Volume 5

DVD Boxsets

 * Totally Thomas Volume 2
 * Sodor Friends Holiday Collection
 * On Site with Thomas and Other Adventures/Races, Rescues and Runaways and Other Thomas Adventures Double Feature
 * 3 DVD Lunchbox Set

AUS

 * Happy Ever After (VHS)
 * The Complete Series 5

DVD Boxsets

 * Complete Series 1-10
 * Classic Collection
 * Series Five and Series Six Double Pack

NZ

 * Happy Ever After  (VHS)

PHL

 * A Better View for Gordon (DVD)

NOR

 * Songs and Tales (Norwegian VHS/DVD)

MYS

 * Lady Hatt's Birthday Party and Other Thomas Adventures
 * Thomas and the Special Letter and Other Adventures

JPN

 * New Thomas the Tank Engine 2 Vol.1
 * The Complete Works of Thomas the Tank Engine 2 Vol.2
 * Crash and Smash! Look Out!

SWE

 * The Engine and the Gremlins

GER

 * Show What You Can!

DVD Boxsets

 * Thomas and His Friends Box Set 2

DK

 * Thomas and the Ghosts and Other Stories

ITA

 * Time for James

GR

 * Adventures at the Railway Station

DVD Boxsets

 * 3 DVD Boxset 2

THA

 * Thomas and Friends - Volume 16 (Thai DVD)

HK

 * Thomas and Friends Volume 11
 * Thomas and Friends Volume 1  (DVD)

TWN

 * Thomas and Friends Volume 13 (Taiwanese DVD)