A Wide Delivery

**"A Wide Delivery"** is the eleventh episode of the first series of *Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go*.

## Plot

When the trains must deliver in pairs, Thomas is disappointed to be paired with Diesel instead of his BFF Percy.

## Synopsis

Thomas and Percy are chugging down the line playing a fun game of My Eye Spy and giving each other ‘sky-fives’ as best friends do. But as they enter Knapford Station, Thomas and Percy are both shocked and confused to see cottages moving along the rails. They catch up to find Kana and Kenji pulling the cottage together as a team. Carly and Sandy arrive to explain that the cottages are so wide that they built special rigs that span across two tracks to carry them, meaning two engines are needed to pull a cottage as a team. Thomas is very excited, saying he and Percy would make a perfect best friend team for the job. But when Thomas turns around, he finds Percy is no longer next to him. Instead, Percy is talking with Nia, who asks him if he wants to be her pulling partner, which Percy accepts. Thomas is confused and asks who will be his partner if Percy is working with Nia. He soon gets his answer: Diesel.

Thomas suggests that they play a "Switch Partners" game, clearly wanting to work with Percy rather than Diesel. Diesel, with attitude, suggests they play the "Let's Start this Delivery" game instead. Percy and Nia leave the yard and even start to play My Eye Spy. Thomas gasps and rushes away after the two of them, dragging Diesel and the cottage along for the ride. Percy and Nia puff down the line playing their game and soon approach some twisty tracks. Percy is worried, but Nia is calm and comforting, and so the two slowly make it through the tracks with ease. Oppositely, Thomas goes too fast trying to catch up with Percy, and so he and Diesel have a rather rough ride on the bumps and turns. They nearly crash into James' tanker train at the level crossing and have to catch their cottage after it launches into the air. Afterwards, Thomas still wants to catch up to Percy, which Diesel does not really understand. Diesel offers to start their own game of My Eye Spy in the tunnel... which gets rudely interrupted by a stinky skunk. Thomas and Diesel both get a face full of skunk spray, but both have a good laugh at how green they look.

Thomas still wants to catch up with Percy, especially after seeing him and Nia ‘sky-fiving’, but Diesel does not want any more games. With a cheeky grin, Thomas convinces Diesel that they could race Percy and Nia and beat them to the seaside. Diesel instantly agrees and they zoom off down the track. But as they whoosh up the hill, their couplings break and the cottage races down the hill and lands in the mud. Thomas and Diesel try their hardest, but they cannot get it out of the mud. Thomas is upset that he has messed up the delivery *and* lost his best friend, but Diesel explains that games are not exclusive to best friends and can be played with all of his friends. Thomas feels much better and apologizes for not giving Diesel a chance as his partner. Together, the two work together to pull the cottage out of the mud and to the seaside. Thomas and Diesel even manage to give each other a ‘sky-five’, which upsets Percy at first until Thomas reassures the green engine that they are still the best of friends. With the cottages all delivered, Thomas, Diesel, Percy, Nia, Kana, and Kenji all decide to play My Eye Spy on the way back home.

## Cast

* Meesha Contreras as Thomas
* Charlie Zeltzer as Percy
* Talia Evans as Nia
* Shomoy James Mitchell as Diesel
* Kintaro Akiyama as Kenji
* Ava Ro as Kana
* Jenna Warren as Carly
* Glee Dango as Sandy

Gordon and James have no lines in this episode.

## Music

 **‣** ? *[Title card and opening]*

 **‣** ? *[Kenji scares Thomas]*

 **‣** ? *[Nia plays guitar]*

 **‣** ? *[Noise-B-Gone commercial]*

 **‣** Gipsy Speed - Angelo Debarre *[Thomas searching for money]*

 **‣** Nice Night - Marc Durst *[Thomas' earbuds arrive]*

 **‣** ? *[Thomas opens his earbud package]*

 **‣** Jazz Repartee (A) - Michael Smith, Tansy Aked, Steve Richardson *["Noise-B-Gone, you...are...AWESOME!"]*

 **‣** ? *[Sandy tells Thomas not to make her mad]*

 **‣** ? *[Carly comes into Thomas' room]*

 **‣** Bad Guys (a) - Dick De Benedictis *[Sandy's first evil grin]*

 **‣** Dark Mansion - David Farnon *[Carly in bed]*

 **‣** ? *[Carly finds the deflated ball]*

 **‣** ? *[Annie and Clarabel need Thomas]*

 **‣** ? *[Annie and Clarabel sit on Sandy's tiara]*

 **‣** Bad Guys (a) - Dick De Benedictis *[Sandy's second evil grin]*

 **‣** ? *[Annie and Clarabel notice all their stuff went missing]*

 **‣** Belleville Step Sting (a) - John Rowcroft *[Annie and Clarabel embarrassing Thomas in front of girls]*

 **‣** Bad Guys (a) - Dick De Benedictis *[Sandy's third evil grin]*

 **‣** Prove Your Grit - Christopher Lennertz *[Nia looks for her phone]*

 **‣** Expectant Stab - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin *[Nia finds her phone cracked]*

 **‣** ? *[Sandy gets mad]*

 **‣** Bad Guys (a) - Dick De Benedictis *[Sandy's fourth evil grin]*

 **‣** ? *[Kana looses Seymour]*

 **‣** Another Big Surprise - Andrew Pearce *["NOOOOOOOOOO!!!"]*

 **‣** Vibe Link (b) - Richard Myhill *["Everything?"]*

 **‣** Nice Night - Marc Durst *[Thomas thinks of Seymour]*

 **‣** Swing Saint Germain - Marc Durst *[Montage of Thomas doing things he thought Sandy asked him to do]*

 **‣** Abject Terror - Paul Lewis *[Sandy enters Thomas' room in a rage]*

 **‣** Vibe Link (b) - Richard Myhill *[Sandy sees the Noise-B-Gone]*

 **‣** Bad Guys (a) - Dick De Benedictis *[Sandy tricking Thomas into giving her answers to stupid questions]*

 **‣** ? *["I've got a better plan!"]*

 **‣** ? *[Thomas realizing he was pranked]*

 **‣** ? *[Ending]*

## Physical distribution

This episode is available on the "Time For Teamwork!" DVD.

## Trivia

* Kintaro Akiyama joins the voice cast.
* Some of the storyboards for this episode were briefly posted on Mike MacDougall's website in June 2021, prior to the release of the episode.
* In the Latin American Spanish dub, this episode is titled "A Team Delivery".
* This episode was released early on Cartoon Network's Video on Demand services on 13th September 2021.
* Thomas and Diesel trying to get the house out is similar from the original series Learning Segment, Truck Trouble.
* In Hebrew, this episode aired before the original series episode, A New Arrival, so the audience would not know who Kenji is.
* This episode marks:
	+ The first time that Norramby Beach has appeared in the franchise since the original series episode, Thomas and Skarloey's Big Day Out.
	+ The first episode in *All Engines Go* to have an engine cry into tears.
	+ Kenji's only speaking role in the first series, and the only episode where he is voiced by Kintaro Akiyama in the UK dub.

## International edits

* The scenes of Carly attacking Thomas during the kickboxing scene, specifically Carly's dropkick and Thomas' subsequent reaction, Carly repeatedly kicking him, and her second and third hits were cut in UK airings, as younger viewers could imitate these dangerous actions.

## References

* ***A Wide Delivery*** - The title of this episode is likely a reference to the 1964 Simon & Garfunkel song "The Sound of Silence".
* ***Futurama*** - Thomas' line "Take my money!" references the *Futurama* character Philip J. Fry, who uses the famous phrase "Shut up and take my money!", in the episode "Attack of the Killer App" (the phrase also became an internet meme).
* ***Fatal Attraction*** - The flashback of Nia finding her phone in a boiling pot of water is similar to how the Gallaghers found their pet rabbit killed in a boiling pot of water in this 1987 film.
* ***The Godfather*** - The flashback of Carly screaming in terror upon finding her deflated soccer ball that Sandy placed on her bed references the famous decapitated horse head scene from this 1972 film.
	+ Furthermore, Carly's voice actress Jenna Warren appeared in *The Godfather Part III* as a little girl.

## Errors

* When Nia tells Percy to couple up, her bunker is missing.
* James incorrectly has Gordon's whistle.
* When Thomas and Diesel notice the skunk inside the tunnel, Thomas is missing his coal bunker.