Big Macintosh Takes a Tumble

**Big Macintosh Takes a Tumble** is the seventeenth episode of the sixth season of Spike the Dragon and Friends, and the one hundred and forty-seventh episode overall. It is a parody of the Thomas and Friends episode, Gordon Takes A Tumble.

## Cast

* Spike as Thomas
* Filthy Rich as Henry
* Big Macintosh as Gordon
* Cranky Doodle Donkey as James
* Pipsqueak as Percy
* Cheese Sandwich as Salty
* Hoity Toity as Sir Topham Hatt
* Apple Bloom as Annie (cameo)
* Sweetie Belle as Clarabel (cameo)
* Mudbriar as Butch (cameo)
* Everyone else as Themselves

## Transcript

Narrator: "Hoity Toity's animals are proud of how useful they are. It makes them feel important. But none of them feels more important than Big Macintosh."

Big Macintosh: "Watch out!"

Narrator: "Big Mac wheeshed."

Big Macintosh: "You'll get my fur all sooty!"

Cheese Sandwich: "Working with changelings is a sooty job."

Narrator: "Teased Cheese Sandwich."

Cheese Sandwich: "But then, you wouldn't know."

Big Macintosh: "Of course not!"

Narrator: "Big Macintosh huffed importantly."

Big Macintosh: "Express horses don't take changelings, it wouldn't be dignified!"

Pipsqueak: "Dingy-fried?"

Narrator: "Puzzled Pipsqueak."

Pipsqueak: "What's that?"

Big Macintosh: "Dignified."

Narrator: "Big Mac Corrected."

Big Macintosh: "It means..."

Cheese Sandwich: "It means that someone's too big for his hooves!"

Narrator: "Teased Cheese Sandwich."

Big Macintosh: "Pah!"

Narrator: "Said Big Mac, and he puffed away.

That evening, fog covered Ponyville. Everything slowed down and soon the docks was packed with waiting cargo. This caused confusion and delay.

Hoity Toity came to see the animals. He was in a great hurry."

Hoity Toity: "Filthy Rich, Spike and Pipsqueak,"

Narrator: "He said."

Hoity Toity: "You must go to the docks immediately."

Spike, Filthy Rich and Pipsqueak: "Yes, sir."

Narrator: "They whistled.

Then Hoity Toity turned his attention to the big red horse."

Hoity Toity: "You too, Big Macintosh."

Narrator: "He said."

Hoity Toity: "I need a big horse to take the changelings where they won't be in the way."

Big Macintosh: "Changelings?"

Narrator: "Huffed Big Mac. He could not believe what he had heard!

Big Mac wasn't happy to be taking changelings. He waited impatiently for them."

Big Macintosh: "Hurry up! Hurry up!"

Narrator: "Chuffed Big Macintosh crossly."

Spike: "Why the rush, Big Mac?"

Narrator: "Asked Spike."

Big Macintosh: "If I must take changelings, then I'll show Cheese Sandwich just how an express horse takes changelings!"

Cheese Sandwich: "Careful, Captain."

Narrator: "Cheese Sandwich said."

Cheese Sandwich: "You don't want to get too big for your hooves."

Narrator: "But Big Mac ignored Cheese Sandwich.

The next morning, Big Mac raced along with his heavy load."

Big Macintosh: "Now this is how you take changelings!"

Narrator: "He puffed.

But the signalman had accidentally left the points switch to the lost forest. Big Mac rattled through the junction."

Big Macintosh: "That's strange, I'm on the lost forest!"

Signalman: "Oh, no!"

Narrator: "The signalman cried."

Signalman: "Express horses aren't supposed to go that way!"

Narrator: "But it was too late. Big Mac had already raced into the distance.

The old forest was weak and brittle. There were signs warning all the animals to Go Slow, but Big Mac ignored the signs."

Big Macintosh: "I'm an express horse! I don't 'Go Slow'!"

Narrator: "He said, and he went even faster.

The forest couldn't take his weight, and the ground bundled."

Big Macintosh: "Oh, help!"

Narrator: "Big Mac cried as he slid off the hill and into a field."

(Multiple crashes)

Narrator: "No one was hurt, but poor Big Mac felt very... undignified."

Big Macintosh: "What will Hoity Toity say?"

Narrator: "He sproaned.

He found out soon enough."

Hoity Toity: "Well, Big Mac,"

Narrator: "Said Hoity Toity."

Hoity Toity: "You wanted to show Cheese Sandwich one or two things, and you've certainly done that. You've shown him how abashing it really is to ignore "Go Slow" signs!"

Big Macintosh: "Sorry, Sir."

Narrator: "Said Big Mac, and let out a sad sigh.

Big Mac was healed and back at the docks, ready for work, but he was very unhappy with himself."

Spike: "Everyone makes mistakes."

Narrator: "Said Spike."

Spike: "Even you."

Cranky Doodle Donkey: "Cheese Sandwich's sorry he teased you."

Narrator: "Puffed Cranky."

Big Macintosh: "And I'm sorry I was 'too big for my hooves'!"

Narrator: "And all the animals gave a jolly cheer, even Big Mac!"