Thomas the Unstoppable Tank Engine

**Thomas the Unstoppable Tank Engine** is a sketch from the Cartoon Network series *MAD.* It aired on August 22, 2011. It is a Thomas & Friends parody based on the 2010 film Unstoppable, which is also about a runaway train.

## Plot

Spencer is getting fixed by Sir Topham Hatt. He accidentally slaps him, which causes Spencer to roll forward. Since his brakes haven't been put back in, he can't stop.

From a control room, Frank Barnes orders Harold to shoot at Spencer. Barnes learns from Sir Topham Hatt that Spencer is carrying a nuclear bomb.

Later, Barnes gets on Percy while Harold is shooting at Spencer. Percy latches onto Spencer's freight and applies his brakes, stopping Spencer. However, when it turns out that he almost crashed into the town of Woodland Station, Henry and Spencer to roll again. At the end of the day, nobody regretted any of their choices.

## Characters

* Spencer the Silver Engine
* Train Ride
* Loud Kids Wheels
* Polar Express
* CCLE
* Blue Comet
* 4449
* Big Boy
* Percy the Small Engine
* Harold the Helicopter
* Henry the Green Engine
* Sir Topham Hatt
* The Conductor
* Lightning McQueen
* Mater
* Frank Barnes *(not named)*
* Fergus the Railway Traction Engine
* Arthur the Big Tank Engine
* Jinty the LMS Tank Engine
* Alfred the NWR Engine
* Edward the Blue Engine
* Dennis the Gray Diesel

## Locations

* Sodor
* Woodland Station
* Control Room
* Woodland Station

## Animals

* Canadian Goose
* Elk

## Trivia

* This sketch may be loosely based on *The Runaway,* an actual episode of *Thomas the Tank Engine.*
* The *Thomas the Tank Engine* characters have had slight design changes as to not infringe on copyright. These include...
	+ Thomas and Percy having yellow buffer beams instead of red ones.
	+ Percy having six stripes on him instead of four, along with having blue window frames.
	+ Harold having a green stripe on him instead of a red one.
	+ Thomas' stripes being yellow instead of red.
	+ Thomas having green window frames.
	+ The Rolling stock have side rods.
* In the shot of the Island of Sodor at the beginning, in the background, you can see a blue tank engine, a red tank engine and a black tank engine, however, there are no black tank engines on the NWR, although it could be a visiting engine like either Jinty, Pug, Edward’s Ghost Engine, Cromford or Thirteen, also, the blue tank engine could be either Fergus, Belle, Sir Handel, Millie, Timothy, Wilbert or The Little Blue Tank Engine, and the red tank engine could be Arthur.

## Goofs

* In a close-up of Frank talking with Percy before trying to rescue Thomas, Percy's wheels and siderods appear to be going forwards even though he was going backwards.
* During a close-up of Mater, he is green, but after being hit by Thomas, he turns into his original rusty brown color.
* Percy is coupled up to Thomas when both brake up, but when Thomas squashes the little town of Strawberry Shortcake, Percy isn’t coupled to him.
* Both Thomas and Percy are missing their rear portholes.
* When Frank slaps Thomas, Thomas was passing Frank. But in the next scene, he passes him again.
* By the speed Thomas and the trucks go, they should've derailed in a curve track.
* Throughout this episode, all of the freight cars have siderods.
* When Percy couples up to Thomas, the coupling hooks on both Thomas and Percy are absevid.