James Gets Jealous

**James Gets Jealous** is the seventh episode of the first season.

## Plot

James the red engine always thinks that he is the most splendid engine on the Fat Controller's railway. He understands that he cannot always pull coaches, but he can always rely on his controller to complete the tasks assigned to him. However, he likes to screech to a stop at every station he approaches as Thomas and Percy recall the times where his brakes fail, which gets him into multiple accidents. One morning, the Fat Controller asks James to look after Charlie for the day, much to his annoyance. Thomas advises James that Charlie could possibly tell him a joke that would really make him laugh. When James went to Knapford to collect his coaches, Charlie cheerfully chuffed up to give him a nasty surprise. Charlie asks James if he wants to hear one of his jokes, but James denies it and says that he has passengers to take across the island to Vicarstown. So he tells Charlie that he could be his back engine and only tell jokes to the passengers whenever they stop at a station.

At Wellsworth, Charlie goes onto the middle track so he can tell James' passengers some jokes. This started to annoy James, but when they stopped at Maron, Charlie almost had a collision with Henry, who told him that he was on the goods line instead of a line where he was allowed to stop at a station. James was very cross with Charlie, as he blamed him for making himself late. Then Charlie decided to stay behind James' coaches until they arrived at Vicarstown. When they reached the end of the line, Charlie kindly asked James if he could shunt his coaches to the goods yard nearby. Gordon inquires about James' time with Charlie as James recounts how he kept going onto the middle and nearly caused Henry an accident at Maron. As Charlie shunted his coaches away, the stationmaster told James that Oliver had broken down and couldn't take his train to the wharf, and with that, he would find another to take the passengers back to Knapford.

When James arrived at the goods yard, he noticed Oliver and his brake van Toad, who were unable to take their goods train to the wharf. Oliver warns James not to go too fast or else he'll have an accident, but James insists that he goes to the wharf all the time and therefore his journey will be fine. Even Toad had to agree with Oliver. By the time James took Oliver's trucks to the wharf, Charlie had pulled into the goods yard, took Oliver to the Steamworks, and decided to tell him some jokes along the way. As James was making his way to the wharf, Toad was worried about going over a steep hill, but James told him that there were no hills between the wharf and Vicarstown. When they eventually arrived, James was surprised to see Charlie again. Charlie explained that he took a shortcut and asked James if he was running late again. When James told Charlie that another engine had taken his passenger train, he was about to go back to Tidmouth Sheds when he saw Rheneas on a flatbed who had also broken down, and no one could take him to the Steamworks. Mr. Percival, the Thin Controller, arrives and warns James not to go fast because of how heavy Rheneas is, and his weight is keeping him stuck. As a result, Charlie would be his back engine. Charlie was overexcited about being a back engine for the second time, but James angrily yelled at Charlie for giving him a massive boiler ache, didn't want any of his help, and thought that the job was only meant to be for one engine instead of two.

On the way to the Steamworks, Rheneas was worried about how James was rude to Charlie and said that they should have another engine helping them. But James denies it and believes that he's got it all under control. But as they went over Gordon's Hill, the coupling between James' tender and Rheneas' flatbed snapped. Rheneas rolls backwards down the hill and derails in a siding, crashing into a set of buffers, and a telegraph pole falls over behind them. James puffed back to Rheneas, realising his mistake, and went back to the wharf to ask Charlie for help and to apologise. Charlie followed James to where Rheneas had crashed, and they pulled him back on the rails. James and Charlie make up for their quarrel, Charlie helps James over the hill, and they arrive safely at the Steamworks, where Oliver had just been fixed. Rheneas tells Victor everything about his accident and how James and Charlie came to his rescue. As Charlie asks James if he wants to hear one more joke, everyone yells "NO!" back at him. They stayed silent for a moment, looking at themselves, and then they all burst into laughter, especially Charlie.

## Characters

* Thomas
* Henry
* Gordon
* James
* Percy
* Oliver
* Charlie
* Rheneas
* Victor
* Toad
* Sir Topham Hatt
* Mr. Percival
* Edward (*does not speak*)
* Duck (*cameo*)
* Emily (*cameo*)
* Rosie (*cameo*)
* Stanley (*cameo*)
* Sidney (*cameo*)
* Paxton (*cameo*)
* Peter Sam (*cameo*)
* Bertram (*cameo*)
* Luke (*cameo*)
* Caroline (*cameo*)

## Locations

* Elsbridge
* Tidmouth Sheds
* Knapford
* Wellsworth
* Maron
* Vicarstown
	+ Vicarstown Yards
* The Wharf
* Gordon's Hill
* Sodor Steamworks

## Cast

* Bikliqi Studios as Thomas
* Crane Engine Studios as Percy, Toad and a Little Boy
* Electro Gamer as James
* Elliot Killick-Ward as Henry
* Oliver gwr 1995 Thomas the tank engine fan as Oliver and Rheneas
* Ryatron 12 as the Vicarstown Stationmaster
* SteamTeam3211 as Gordon, Sir Topham Hatt and Mr. Percival
* The expert 07 as Charlie
* TheGermanofSodor as Victor
* Yilin Zhou as a Little Girl

## Trivia

* This is the first episode to feature Oliver gwr 1995 Thomas the tank engine fan and The expert 07 in the cast.
* This episode has a few scenes that are based off the following episodes below:
	+ The crash scene with Rheneas's flatbed rolling backwards into the buffers is loosely based off the Season 10 episode, Thomas and Skarloey's Big Day Out. Coincidentally, a picture of Mr. Percival from the aforementioned episode was also used in this episode.
	+ The ending scene with James, Oliver, Rheneas and Victor shouting "NO!" to Charlie before they laugh may have been inspired by the Season 19 episode, Snow Place Like Home.
* This episode also uses these references below:
	+ When Thomas tells James about his brake problems, he mentions the events of the 2015 special, The Adventure Begins, Thomas and the Breakdown Train from Season 1 and The Fastest Red Engine on Sodor from Season 21.
	+ Charlie's first joke about bees going to school is taken from the Season 18 episode, Not so Slow Coaches.
	+ When Toad worries about going up a steep hill, he may be referring to another Season 18 episode, Toad's Adventure, in which James also had a similar incident in this episode as well.
	+ When Charlie tells James that he raced with Thomas and Edward, he was most likely referring to the episodes, Play Time from Season 13 and Charlie and Eddie from Season 14.
* The still shot of Victor used in this episode is actually edited stock footage from the first episode, Thomas' Faithful Friends.

## Watch Episode

James Gets Jealous (Thomas & Friends ERTL Adventures; Season 1; Episode 7)