Diesel and the Stinky Cheese

**Diesel and the Stinky Cheese** is the ninth episode of the eleventh series.

## Plot

Diesel was shunting at the coaling plant with Thomas, Donald and Douglas who didn’t like working with diesel engines and call them, and Diesel in particular, "stinky". Diesel didn’t like working with steamies and called them the sticky ones. The Fat Controller gave Diesel a job of going to the dairy for a delivery. Despite not knowing what it was, Diesel chugged off happily, simply pleased to be away from the steamies. However, when he arrived, he was disgusted to find that his truck was loaded with stinky cheese. The dairy foreman informed Diesel that he must take it to Brendam Docks before the ship leaves. Diesel reluctantly agreed.

On the way, Diesel saw Thomas at a junction, and got worried he would tell everyone how stinky he was. Not wanting to pass him, he went a different way, despite a signalman's warning. He thought nobody would smell him, until he saw Donald in a siding. Dismayed, Diesel decided to turn left at a junction. In an attempt to avoid Douglas, he turned right at another one. Diesel was dismayed that there were steam engines wherever he went and that he had to go backwards and forwards across the island to avoid them. Eventually, he ended up at the dairy again where he had started.

Then he saw Donald chuffing towards him. Diesel reversed as quickly as he could, not realizing that Douglas was behind him. Diesel and Douglas collided into each other, spilling the stinky cheese all over the three engines. The Scottish twins rushed to the washdown, but Diesel was unable to as his stinky cheese was all over the track. However, the dairy foreman told him that another load of cheese was ready at the dairy.

On the way to the docks, D199 noticed Diesel's smell and expressed his disgust. Diesel was embarrassed, but he knew he had to make the delivery on time. When he finally arrived at Brendam, Thomas, who was being unloaded, fully believed Diesel was the stinkiest diesel engine on Sodor. The Fat Controller and the workmen, however, were proud of Diesel for delivering such stinky cheese. While Donald and Douglas arrived fresh from the washdown, the Fat Controller assigned the three steam engines the task of shunting the cheese while Diesel was sent to the washdown, much to Diesel's delight.

## Characters

* Diesel
* Diesel 199
* Thomas
* Donald and Douglas
* Sir Topham Hatt
* The Dairy Manager
* The Dairy Employees
* Big Mickey (*cameo*)
* Sir Topham Hatt's Assistants (*cameos*)
* Mr. Jolly (*mentioned*)

## Trivia

* This episode has a similarly to the nineteenth episode, Thomas and the Stinky Cheese from the eleventh series of *Thomas & Friends*.
* Diesel, Thomas, Donald and Douglas gain new facial expressions, which only appear in this episode.
* In 2008, the episode was used for a CGI testing by Stardust Pictures as the show was switching over to CGI animation. A few of these re-created clips can also be seen in a 2009 CGI promo featured on certain DVDs.
* This episode marks:
	+ The last time Diesel's original plastic model was being used, when he delivered the second load of stinky cheese.
	+ The last appearance of the Coaling Plant.
	+ Thomas, Donald and Douglas' only appearances in the eleventh series.
	+ Donald and Douglas' last speaking roles in the model series.
* This is the second episode to feature Thomas' unused ill face from the fourth series, the first being the tenth series episode, Daisy and the Special Coaches.