Thomas and Emily

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*This article focuses on the relationship between Thomas and Emily.*

Thomas and Emily are close friends. They met for the first time in "Emily's New Coaches".

## Overall

Thomas and Emily are on good terms and get along most of the time. Emily can be bossy to Thomas at times, which upsets him. They have a great relationship with each other. Emily may have a crush on Thomas and sometimes displays that in episodes.

## Episode Hints

### Season 13

* In "Tickled Pink", Emily says Thomas' phrase, "Cinders and Ashes!" to James and is the only other engine who has said his phrase.
* In "Slippy Sodor", Emily was one of the engines who doesn't laugh at Thomas' funny funnel.
* In "Time for a Story", at the beginning, Thomas and Emily are seen shunting trucks together while smiling.
* In "A Blooming Mess", Emily agrees to help Thomas since his firebox is extinguished.
* In "Thomas and the Runaway Kite", Emily offers to help Thomas chase after the kite, but Thomas says that he can do it himself. Later, after everyone agrees to help, Emily says, "Right away!"
* In "Splish Splash, Splosh" Thomas notices that Emily is muddy already and thinks that she'll like his game. Thomas then splashes water onto Emily and her flatbed of flour for Allicia Botti's tea. She is mad and upset. Later, she chews Thomas out saying that his silly game means that they'll be late for the concert. Thomas offers to wait for the cakes and deliver them so that Emily and James can go and get cleaned for the concert. Emily thanks Thomas.
* In "The Biggest Present of All", Thomas meets Emily at Farmer McColl's farm. Thomas explains to her that he is looking for a gift for Hiro's party. Thomas does not tell her about the party at first. Later, Emily explains a gift idea, but Thomas tells her about the party.

### Season 14

* In "Pingy, Pongy, Pick Up", Thomas gives the dirty washing job to Emily, which upsets her because she wanted the most important job. Later on, Emily sees Thomas with the team and follows him to the Town Square. At the end, after Emily does the chant, Thomas smiles at her.
* In "Pop Goes Thomas", Emily is seen sad next to Thomas when Sir Topham Hatt explains that when she arrived to pick up the cakes, they were ruined.

### Season 16

* In "Thomas and the Garbage Train", Emily teases Thomas that he is a stinky engine, which makes Thomas blush with embarrassment.
* In "The Sounds of Sodor", Emily helped Thomas, along with Gordon and Percy.
* In "Emily's Winter Party Special", Emily tells Thomas that she is looking for Sir Topham Hatt's hat and that if she finds it, she will be made the party engine. Thomas agrees that finding Sir Topham Hatt's hat would make her the most helpful. Later, the two friends stop at a crossing and Emily notices the hat on the snowman is Sir Topham Hatt's hat. At the town square, Thomas and Emily chuff in and give Sir Topham Hatt his present, which is his hat.

### Season 17

* In "No snow for Thomas", the plot seems similar to "Thomas, Emily, and the snowplow". Since Thomas hid his snowplow, Sir Topham Hatt sent Emily to clear the tracks on Thomas's branchline. Arriving at Dryaw Station, Sir Topham Hatt allowed her to take Annie and Clarabel. Thomas felt he's missing out the events when he was surprised that Emily took Annie and Clarabel. Thomas decided after to find his snowplow, but he couldn't as he got stuck in a pile of thick snow. Emily found Thomas's snowplow first, and didn't act bossy to Thomas when she found him. Sir Topham Hatt makes Thomas clear the snow for Emily the next day, but Thomas is not disappointed as he had learned his lesson and promises he will always wear his snowplow during the winter. Emily brings him to the slope where the children are playing to enjoy the snow.

### Season 18

* In "Tale of the Brave", both Thomas and Emily teased James after his accident with the Flying Kipper. She also reminded him and Percy, and not James that Gator is leaving.
* In "Emily Saves The World", She asked Thomas if he ever made any exciting deliveries. Thomas responded saying yes, and mentioned the time he delivered a jet engine to Dryaw Airfield. When Emily was to deliver a giant globe, she showed her delivery to Thomas first, but he told her there was nothing on her flatbed. At Brendam Docks, Thomas tried to catch the globe, but he couldn't. Then Emily tried catching it, but it fell straight into the sea. By the end of the day, Thomas pulls up and says that Emily's special must be the most exciting delivery ever, but Emily thinks it may have been a little *too* exciting. The two then share a good laugh as the episode comes to an end.
* In "Flatbeds of Fear", Emily admitted to Thomas that the flatbeds of fear are real. But Thomas told Emily saying she's been right all along that there *was* a sensible explanation. Emily found out the mistake when Thomas said it was just the wind whistling through the pipes, according to Cranky. After that, no-one ever mentions the Flatbeds of Fear again.

### Season 19

* In "The truth about Toby", both Thomas and Emily are seen next to each other at sunset.
* In "Best Engine Ever", Emily sadly pulls into the shunting yard with a train of trucks and Thomas notice the sad expression on her face and ask her what's wrong. Emily tells Thomas that Caitlin is better than her at everything, but Thomas told Emily that he's is sure that's not true. Marion tries to tell Emily that she should be proud to be herself, but Emily replies that she doesn't have a shovel and Caitlin is better at everything and she puffs sadly away.
* In "Snow place like home", Thomas was sent to collect Emily's piston rods. In the end, thy both had a good laugh with Victor and Kevin.
* In "Diesel's ghostly Christmas", Thomas asked Emily if he can help him out taking a freight train for Thomas and Emily was delighted to help. Thomas also had a plan to teach Diesel a lesson to help the other engines when needed, and Emily helped out by hanging herself with chains at the Dieselworks and pretended to be her own ghost, and thought Thomas's plan was great fun.

### Season 20

* In "Pouty James", Both Thomas and Emily are at the docks and they both tease James about his attitude.

### Season 21

* In "Emily in the Middle", Thomas tells Emily about Donald and Douglas' notorious behaviour of arguing with each other while Emily was sent to help the twins, to which she replies that she will be fine with. Later at Vicarstown, Thomas sees Emily at the front, her sides covered in snow, pulling the long steel pipe train. He asks Emily how she handled things with the twins. She answers that it is fine now and that she has learned in the future to never be in the middle of the twins whenever they start an argument.