Thomas the Acrobatic Engine

**Thomas the Acrobatic Engine** is the second episode of the first season.

## Plot

Thomas and Percy are best friends that work on the same branch line, and they each have different jobs. Everyone on Sodor has their own jobs too. One day, Percy was taking some empty trucks to the quarry, but he had to cross a small narrow bridge that goes over the road. But as he tried to cross the bridge, he fell off the tracks and landed straight on the road as if something went wrong with the bridge. So Percy's driver telephoned for help, and Harvey arrived to the rescue. While Percy was at the Steamworks, the other engines had to do all of his jobs as well as their own, which made them very tired, especially when they got home to Tidmouth Sheds later in the evening. But as they fell asleep, they didn't realise that two shed doors had been locked, which meant that two engines couldn't get inside.

Later that night, Thomas was pulling the mail train for Percy while he was away. And when he dropped off the last of the mail to Harold at Dryaw, he puffed home to Tidmouth Sheds. And then Henry had finished pulling the Flying Kipper early and was on his way back to Tidmouth, as well as Thomas. By the time the two engines returned, they were surprised to find themselves locked out. Henry decided that they should go and wake up the Fat Controller, who was still asleep in his mansion building. First, they tried to whistle, and then they tried using their lamps to shine through his bedroom window. Then Thomas had another idea of how they could wake him up.

As they arrive at Brendam Docks, Cranky loaded Thomas onto a flatbed loaded with rails and sleepers, so that way Thomas could see things from a great height. Thomas and Henry returned to Topham Hall with the flatbed of tracks tilting from side to side, looking exactly like a circus act. When they got back, Thomas used his lamp to shine through the bedroom window, waking up the Fat Controller in surprise. As the two engines hurried back to the docks, the Fat Controller got up from his bed and went downstairs, realising no one was there. As he was about to go back to sleep, Thomas and Henry returned. So the Fat Controller drove to the sheds to unlock their doors so they could go back to sleep at last. Henry and Thomas realise that it was a good thing that they were clever engines waking their controller up. The next morning, Percy was repaired and was back at work when he heard Thomas and Henry talking to the other engines about their acrobatic adventure and how they woke the Fat Controller up.

## Characters

* Thomas
* Edward
* Henry
* Gordon
* James
* Percy
* Harvey
* Emily
* Troublesome Trucks
* Bertie
* Cranky
* Sir Topham Hatt
* Victor (*does not speak*)
* Harold (*does not speak*)
* Kevin (*does not speak*)
* Stanley (*cameo*)
* Charlie (*cameo*)
* Diesel (*cameo*)
* Stafford (*cameo*)
* Annie and Clarabel (*cameo*)
* Terence (*cameo*)
* George (*cameo*)
* Lady Hatt (*cameo*)
* Philip (*mentioned*)

## Locations

* Dryaw
* Elsbridge
* Ffarquhar
* Bulgy's Bridge
* Sodor Steamworks
* Tidmouth Sheds
* Topham Hall
* Maron
* Brendam Docks
* Knapford Yards
* Ffarquhar Quarry (*mentioned*)
* Wellsworth (*mentioned*)

## Cast

* Andrew Leago as a Troublesome Truck
* Bikliqi Studios as Thomas
* Crane Engine Studios as Percy
* DockTankDylan as Edward and Harvey
* Dueling Express as a Troublesome Truck
* Electro Gamer as James
* Elliot Killick-Ward as Henry
* Holden Stafford as Cranky
* Numpty Pootis 8012 as Bertie
* SteamTeam3211 as Gordon and Sir Topham Hatt
* Tineke Tilstra as a Troublesome Truck
* Yilin Zhou as Emily

## Trivia

* This is the first episode to feature Andrew Leago, DockTankDylan, Dueling Express, Electro Gamer, Elliot Killick-Ward and Tineke Tilstra in the cast.
* This episode marks the only appearances of Dryaw, Bulgy's Bridge and Topham Hall in the first season.
	+ This is also the only episode in the first season to not feature the steam green screen effect by LulsTV, despite being listed in the end credits.
* This episode is mostly based off the Busy Buses episode, Sammy the Acrobatic Bus.
* A LEGO headlight piece (4070) was used for Henry's lamp during most of the night time scenes while Thomas' talking model was used since it had a light-up lamp while making sounds. This would later carry over to other engine characters who do not have talking models in the Adventures range.

## Watch Episode

Thomas the Acrobatic Engine (Thomas & Friends ERTL Adventures; Season 1; Episode 2)