The Unlucky Tug

Nicholas "Nic" Goodrich, (born: ) better known online as The Unlucky Tug, or simply Tug (formerly known as TheUnluckyTug02), is an American YouTuber, best known for his analytical videos on The Railway Series, Thomas & Friends, Tugs, and more. He is best known for his "More Than a Kids Show" series, where he talks about why so many people love the Thomas & Friends television series, what made specific episodes of the series so great, and that Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! (especially the Thomas & Friends seasons set after the special), seasons 8-16 of Thomas and Friends, and Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go are things that the majority of people in the Thomas fandom dislike.
==History==
===Origins=== 
Nicholas joined the Thomas the Tank Engine fandom in 2006 on TV.com, where he met some of his friends such as Zeo93 and ThomasTankMerch.
Around 2007 and 2008, Nicholas had a YouTube account called UnluckyTug06, After that account, he created another account called TheUnluckyTug1.
In 2010, TheUnluckyTug1 was presumably terminated, and so, he created a new channel called TheUnluckyTug02 on October 19, 2010, which would eventually be changed to simply The Unlucky Tug.
===Termination===
On March 16, 2023, The Unlucky Tug channel was terminated after he was caught sharing an email with other suspended channels and having three or copyright strikes (the latter of which is not true as he confirmed that the channel had zero copyright strikes. The email from the YouTube team also did have a link to a form so that he could appeal his termination, meaning that he could possibly get back to work as he is also barred from accessing, possessing, or making other YouTube account unless his own channel was reinstated and also said that he had already filed an appeal. The situation was met with uproar from the community who expressed their outrage towards YouTube for false termination of the channel, so much so that a human staff at Google looked into the situation and tried to fix the issue. The latest information regarding The Unlucky Tug's status is him thanking the support on his Patreon and that someone on Google was looking into the matter. 
On March 19, 2023, The Unlucky Tug created a new channel and uploading a video the following day entitled "Well this sucks." giving a rundown of the whole situation. He stated that all of his content post-BWBA video would be reuploaded, while some other users such as WTL Network have been kind enough to reupload some of his videos, even pre-2020 videos.
==Content==
===Thoughts On===
A 2016-2017 series, where he gives his thoughts and opinions on a season or movie from Thomas and Friends.
===Unanswerable Thomas Questions===
A 2016 series where Tug and his friend Zeo93 talk about random and unusual things you would not usually think about when you watch the show. Only two episodes of the series were made.
===MTAKS - More Than a Kids Show===
These videos are in-depth analysis' on episodes from the show (mainly from the Classic Series) and explaining what made the original Thomas and Friends show so great and why so many people actually love Thomas the Tank Engine.
===Sodor's Finest ===
Similar to the MTAKS series, but instead he focuses on characters from the Thomas franchise and their histories and character arcs throughout the different eras of the series, mainly The Railway Series books, the Model era and the CGI era.
===Tug's Trains===
These videos showcase his collection of custom model trains that are more realistic takes on Thomas characters. He also explains how he made his models.
===Timelines===
He explains the complete timelines of The Railway Series, the model series, and the CGI series. His belief is that Thomas & Friends has two different timelines as each timeline all tell the same story, but each have their different takes on it and that The Railway Series has its own timeline completely separate from the Thomas & Friends ones.
===Sodor Explained===
Tug explains his take on the map of the Island of Sodor from the live-action model era of Thomas to the CGI animated era of Thomas.
===Ranked===
These videos are where he ranks the episodes, seasons and movies of the original Thomas and Friends show.
=== TUGS US Redub ===
An X-rated gag dub of the cult series Tugs dubbed over by Tug and his friends. These gag dubs contain US terms to keep in line if the real US redub ever came to be, but also contains random voices, memes, profanity and various other kinds of adult jokes. For example, Top Hat gains a Donald Trump accent, while Zorran has a Plankton accent, and so on.
===The Thomas Retrospective===
This is a series of videos were Tug reviews each season of the show; with the Pack spin-off included. He shows what their priorities were that year, interesting production facts, their highs and lows, and the their overall significance.
===Thomas Debunked===
Thomas Debunked is a mini-series of short videos usually uploaded once every 2 or 3 days where he debunks some things in the Thomas franchise, such as the smokebox doors on the engines, how Henry "died" in the tunnel (the latter is actually clickbait and misinformation to fool other people, according to him), and how old Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends are, even after Thomas had came to Sodor to be a station pilot at the time.
=== The Lucky Tug (Second Channel) ===
Tug's second channel is where he posts his Twitter videos and clips from his YouTube videos. These are usually memes and edits of certain episodes from the show.
===Others===
He made several passion projects in 2021 and considered them his absolute favorite videos to make; and they are: Flying Scotsman's USA tour, the TUGS analysis video, and the Incredible Voyage of Eppleton Hall. Each video tells a story that is not fully covered online as there is not much information to be found online and he was driven to find them himself. He has also made a review on the Cars franchise discussing all three of the franchise's movies and his history with the franchise. He plans to do a similar video on the Star Wars franchise in the coming months.
==Quotes==
*"I'm banishing you to the Shadow Realm!"
*"BWUHBA"
*"Sir Topham Hatt sends... THREE OF HIS ENGINES to Misty Island on a goddamn boat. Why? WHY!!?"
*"I am an adult Thomas fan, and I'm proud to be one."
*"Okay, Boomer!"
*"But bruh, I don't even care. They chose now in the twenty-fourth season to make that station from Season 1 canon again? F*ck that! Ugh!"
*"Finn! How the hell did you not notice the GIANT HELICOPTER RIGHT ABOVE YOU, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OPEN SKY?! YOU DOPE!"
*"You are an idiot. How do you still have a job in this industry?"
*"And they show… GLASSES OF BEER! ON A TABLE!"
*"If you animators bother to do 3 seconds of research on Google Earth before building the set, you'd know that!"
*"I'M LEARNING SO MUCH ABOUT THESE DIFFERENT CULTURES!!!"
*"The Arlesdale Railway stories happened before Duke was found in the books and we got those in CGI. OH MY GOD! This can only mean ONE THING! Duke is STILL in the shed! Duke is still BURIED IN THE SHED in the CGI canon! They never found him! The stories haven't happened yet!! HEY YOU TWO, START DIGGING!! THAT POOR GUY IS STILL OUT THERE!!! HE NEEDS RESCUING ASAP!!!! DON'T WORRY DUKE, WE'RE COMING TO FIND YOU AND- oh wait the show ended. Welp. Sorry Duke."
==Trivia==
* His channel is named after the character "Boomer" from TUGS, the sister series of Thomas & Friends.
* His most popular video was called "NEVER NEVER NEVER GIVE UP - The Unlucky Tug's Music Video". However, it was blocked by SME.
** His most popular video that was on his old channel, titled "THE EFFECTS OF BOREDOM", had over 5.4 million views.
** His most popular video on his new channel is ironically, not a Thomas-themed video, but his analysis of the two Incredibles Movies, which as of August 2023, has 557 thousand views.
*He has done numerous livestreams, including one where he did a face reveal.
*In 2018, he uploaded his last video for two years. He would later say that the reason he left YouTube was because of how the Thomas and Friends fandom had become different, especially after the "Big World, Big Adventures" movie and seasons were announced.
*He coined the trend of BWBA being pronounced by its acronym.
*Nic announced that he leaving his Twitter account for inactive due to the negative and drama on them, although he didn't deleted his account that he might be using it for YouTube's official Twitter for like emergency about the taken down or termination, although he was only active in his Patreon and also Instagram.
==References==
 
Category:Commentary YouTubers
Category:Review YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2010
Category:Terminated YouTubers