A Day in the Life of Tayo

"***This is the Test Driving Center. Only the cars that passed the test will be allowed to drive in the streets.***"

- Narrator at the beginning of the episode

"***You almost hurt yourself, Tayo. I told you not to get distracted!***"

- Cito once he caught up with Tayo at the turnpike Speedy crashed in.

A Day in the Life of Tayo

* English
* Korean

Broadcast Information

Airdate
 August 23, 2010 April 27, 2012 (YouTube)

Written by
Choi Jong-il

Directed by
Kim Min-sung

*Episode Guide*

**A Day in the Life of Tayo** is the 1st episode in Season 1 of Tayo the Little Bus.

Plot Summary
Tayo is nervous as he takes his city bus test exam, he talks to Nuri the taxi to help him overcome his fear. Tayo follows Cito home, on the way home, Tayo gets distracted by Speedy the red car who challenges him to a race on a dare. Speedy drives so fast he ends up crashing and is wrecked and gets towed away.

Characters* Tayo (debut)
* Rogi (debut)
* Lani (debut)
* Gani (cameo)
* Citu (debut)
* Big (brief appearance)
* Unnamed Female Taxi (debut)
* Vroomy (debut)
* Nuri (debut)
* The Announcer (debut)
* Toto (debut)
* Rookie (debut)
* Pat (debut)
* Speedy (debut)
* Billy (cameo)
* Shine (cameo)
* Toni (cameo)
* Frank (cameo)
* Alice (cameo)

Synopsis
The episode begins at the Test Driving Exam, where Tayo, a young male blue bus, and Nuri, a young female taxi, are waiting for their turns to take pass their exams in order to be able to go on the streets. Vroomy, a blue mini truck, was called in to take his test. He was successful at listening to the traffic light, but was overwhelmed with the traffic in front of him, as he attempted to switch to another lane, but almost ran into Big, a large container truck, telling him that it is not safe to cut in. Vroomy decided to switch back to the lane he was on, but only to almost run into another taxi. This caused Vroomy to flunk his driving exam, thus making himself, Tayo, and Nuri upset.
Nuri is called in next as Tayo wishes her good luck and is determined to do good, despite her nervous disposition. Nuri was more careful than Vroomy was and was successful at her driving test. Tayo was then called in next, and, despite how nervous she was like Nuri on her exam, she also succeeded on her exam too! And she became an official city bus. Just then, Citu, a large double-decker bus, arrives to take Tayo to the bus garage. On their way to the bus garage, suddenly, Speed, a red sports car, stops next to Tayo, and asks her if she wants to race. Tayo denies, but accepts when Speed said to Tayo that she can go after a quick race. This made Citu worried and tells her that it's not safe, but Tayo does not listen to him and decides to race with Speed anyway.
At the highway, Speed and Tayo are racing against each other, cutting in front of other vehicles, but just about when the two approach a curve, Tayo tells him that it is dangerous, but Speed does not listen to her and ends up getting into an accident. Just then, Rookie, a police officer, and Pat, a police car, along with Toto, a tow truck, arrive at the bridge, where Tayo and Speed are at. Pat told Speed that he was going too fast, whom is then towed away by Toto to the repair shop. Next, Citu appears and catches up to Tayo, telling him/her not to get distracted, and tells Rookie that he/she made a mistake, whom then tells Tayo to be more careful while driving. With that out of the way, Tayo continues to follow Citu across the bridge, the city where the sun is setting, and finally, at the bus garage where it is night time. When the two arrived at the bus garage, Citu introduces all of the other buses, including Lani, a female yellow bus, and Rogi, a male green bus, to Tayo, who has became a new member. Together, the three little buses go to sleep in their garages, with Tayo sleeping between Rogi and Lani, who tells Tayo that they will show him/her all around the garage tomorrow morning, Rogi is on the left and Lani is on the right.

Trivia* This is first appearance of Tayo, Rogi, Lani, Cito, Vroomy, Nuri, Toto, Rookie, Pat and Speedy.
* This is first location appearance of the old Bus Garage, red highway bridge and riverside highway.
* This is very first episode of the series.
* The announcer which announces the names of the vehicles, it's likely to be based on Vee, an character from **Chuggington**.
* This is first episode where a character is trying to changed lanes, the second being My Job's the Hardest and third being Carry Knows Everything.
* The Arabic version of this episode is called **Ikhtibar Al-Qiyadah** (إختبار القيادة) which translates to **"Driving Test"**.
* Some of characters represents as cameo and brief appearance which introduced in later episodes:
	+ Big makes brief appearance in this episode where seen about to crash into Vroomy, Big was later introduced in Afraid of the Dark.
	+ Billy, Gani, Max, Toni, Frank, Alice and Shine had makes cameo appearance in this episode where seen driving in various locations, they had appeared in later episodes:
		- Billy and Max was later introduced in Good Friends.
		- Toni had brief appearance in Tayo Gets Lost and later introduced in I Want New Tires.
		- Gani was later introduced in Our New Friend, Gani.
		- Shine was later introduced in Let's Be Friends.
		- Frank was later introduced in **I Want New Tires** and Alice was later introduced in Frank and Alice Are Awesome!.
* This is first location appearance of Test Driving Center, the second being Nice To Meet You, Peanut.

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