Horrid Lorry

"Well, well, well! The Brothers Grim: 'Smashed,' 'Broken' and 'Sunk'!"

- Thomas

Horrid Lorry is the second episode of the fifth series. In the US, it aired with Cranky Bugs in an episode of Storytime with Thomas.

Plot
One morning, Percy is late to collect his train from the docks. Cranky begins to criticize him that the ships cannot be kept waiting and that Percy needs to show some respect for them, while Percy complains there is too much work for the engines. Cranky suggests it would be better if lorries did his work. Percy is shocked by this and later at the sheds, he tells the other engines what Cranky said. James and Henry are dismissive, but Percy worries that lorries might truly come.

Unfortunately, Percy's fear comes true as three lorries do arrive and while Cranky is overjoyed, they also turn out to be incredibly rude and disrespectful; one of them calls Percy a lump of steaming scrap iron, which angers him and puffs away. Later, Percy sees one of the other lorries being rude to Thomas and James. He also calls Percy a little green goblin on wheels and says that he will be scrapped. Thomas and James are both disgusted at the lorry's behaviour, calling him horrid and despicable.

At the quarry, Toby runs across another lorry who tells him that he belongs in a museum and tells him to toodle off, much to Toby’s ire. Toby's driver tells him to ignore the lorry and they go to the flour mill, only to find yet another lorry who tells Toby that they are doing his jobs now. The foreman tells Toby's driver that he is sorry for Toby's replacement but the times are changing. Toby's driver brushes it off and tells the foreman that even though he's old, he is still reliable and tells him they will head to the farm (who they hope will still be able to use him). Toby heads to the farm, while the lorry grins thinking he has won.

As Toby trundles towards the farm, he enters a canyon where he watches the lorry he met at the quarry having trouble navigating on a treacherous road above with his load of rocks. The lorry then falls off a cliff and crashes onto the rocks below, much to his mildly injured driver's annoyance and Toby's horror.

The smashed lorry is taken to the docks, where Percy begins to laugh at him and calls him a lump of steaming scrap iron like the lorry called him. The lorry swears vengeance on Percy, but Percy just laughs and wheeshes steam at him. Butch - the tow truck who is also new to Sodor - arrives with the lorry from the flour mill; Butch's driver explains that the lorry was overloaded with flour and broke down at a crossing in front of Donald. Toby teases the lorries as well claiming they are not so useful now, which makes them growl in rage. James whistles excitedly as he watches men bringing the third lorry in on a barge after he had reversed into the sea at the Fishing Village. Thomas arrives, laughing at the disgraced lorries and calls them The Brothers Grim: "Smashed," "Broken" and "Sunk." The lorries vow to return, but the engines commit themselves to their work to ensure the lorries never do.

Characters

 * Thomas
 * Henry
 * James
 * Percy
 * Toby
 * The Horrid Lorries
 * Cranky
 * Butch
 * Edward
 * Gordon
 * Duck
 * Donald
 * Annie and Clarabel
 * Troublesome Trucks
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * Charlie Sand
 * Sidney Hever
 * Jem Cole
 * Farmer Trotter
 * The Painter
 * Big Mickey
 * S.C. Ruffey

Locations

 * Brendam Docks
 * Sodor Shipping Company
 * Tidmouth Sheds
 * Ffarquhar Quarry
 * The Flour Mill
 * The Narrow Gorge
 * Wellsworth Crossing
 * Norramby Fishing Village
 * The Sodor Inn
 * Sodor Museum

Trivia

 * According to the film slates:
 * All the scenes at Brendam Docks were filmed between 16 and 18 September 1997.
 * The close-up shots of Butch's driver and Toby's driver at Brendam Docks were filmed on 8 October 1997.
 * The scene of Toby and Lorry 2 at Ffarquhar Quarry was filmed on 5 January 1998.
 * The close-up shots of Toby's driver at Ffarquhar Quarry were filmed on 15 January 1998.
 * The shot of Lorry 1 reversing to the sea at the Fishing Village was filmed on 21 January 1998.
 * The scene of Toby and Lorry 3 at the Flour Mill was filmed on 12 February 1998.
 * The close-up shots of Toby's driver and the foreman at the Flour Mill were filmed on 17 February 1998.
 * The shot of Donald and Lorry 3 overloaded with flour at the level crossing was filmed on 18 February 1998.
 * The scene of Lorry 2's crash at the narrow gorge was filmed on 30 April 1998.
 * Lorry 2's crash scene was the last known scene filmed for the fifth series.
 * Mirrored stock footage from Thomas and the Special Letter is used.
 * This is the last episode until the ninth series episode, Molly's Special Special, where the Fat Controller appears, but does not have a speaking role.
 * This episode marks the third time a non-human character has suffered a physical injury to their face, the first being in the second series episode, Break Van and the second being in the third series episode, Buzz, Buzz. With this in mind, James is the only character to speak in all those episodes, with him being the main character in the latter episode.
 * This episode marks the only time with a few things:
 * The only appearances of the Horrid Lorries, excluding their faceless appearances or being cut in Jack and the Sodor Construction Company.
 * The only episode where Butch is referred to by name until the fifteenth series episode, Stuck on You.
 * After Lorry 2 fell off the cliff, music is heard in the US and international dubs but not in the UK dub.
 * There is some indication that a few of the lorries' roles were switched for unknown reasons:
 * A rare picture shows Lorry 3 confronting Thomas and James instead of Lorry 1.
 * In the flashback of Lorry 3 broken down at the crossing, he has a black eye much like the face worn by a "smashed" Lorry 2 (who was also wearing Lorry 3's face).
 * Another rare picture shows Lorry 1 on Butch's flatbed instead of Lorry 3. Behind the Scenes footage reveals Lorry 1 was lowered onto Butch's flatbed after being lifted off the barge.
 * In a rare picture of the first scene, S.C. Ruffey's rebuilt model can be seen next to the S.S. Roxstar, not too far from Big Mickey's location.
 * Thomas' nickname for the Lorries, "The Brothers Grimm" is a reference to two German scholars best known for publishing many well-known folk and fairy tales.
 * The barrel the foreman stands near is the Best Quality Diesel Oil barrel from the fourth series episode, Bowled Out.
 * This episode features the first appearance of Butch, who does not have a face. He would have one in all future appearances.
 * S.S. Vienna, Big Mickey and Izzy Gomez from TUGS can be seen at the docks.
 * A rare picture shows Toby going the other way around the gorge and much closer to Lorry 2 who is about to fall off of it.
 * The brick part of the Skarloey Engine Sheds appears at the Flour Mill.
 * This is the first episode to have human injuries in an accident. The next is in the next episode, A Better View for Gordon.
 * The way Alec Baldwin voices the lorries sounds very similar as how he would portray Gordon in the sixth series.
 * The line "times are a-changing" references the Bob Dylan song The Times They Are a-Changin'.
 * Although this episode is called Horrid Lorry in the US, the term lorry is a British term. The word truck is a term often used to describe such vehicles.
 * James has his fourth series whistle sound when he excitedly sees the third lorry arriving on a barge.
 * The Horrid Lorries are the third, fourth and fifth characters who talk about scrapping steam engines and insult the railways, the first being Bulgy and the second being Class 40.
 * The scene where Toby is talking with Lorry 2 at the quarry was inspired by a piece of artwork that was in a book called The Wisbech & Upwell Tramway.
 * Thomas mentions the episode title when he says, "What a horrid lorry!"

Goofs

 * In the opening shot, Thomas is incorrectly portrayed with Edward's whistle in a higher pitch.
 * When James says "Stuff and nonsense" and Henry says "We engines run this island," Henry's tender is uncoupled and both of their brake pipes are crooked.
 * When one of the lorries talks to Toby, the lorry's driver moves when the lorry's eyes moves, meaning the driver is on the eye mechanism.
 * The line to the farm was mistakenly referred to as the whole railway.
 * James appears in one location when he points out Lorry 1, then appears in a completely different location after the shot of the lorry on the barge.
 * When Percy arrives at Tidmouth Sheds, Henry's eyes are wonky and Thomas is missing his lamp.
 * In a rare picture, a wire is seen under Butch's cab.
 * When Toby rolls alongside Percy, Duck can be seen in the background pulling a train, but in the next shot, there are trucks on that same line, and Duck and his train are gone.
 * In the first two close-ups of Cranky, his nameboards are in the centre of his cranehouse roof.
 * When Lorry 2 is at the docks after his accident, his eye mechanism is no longer holding the eyes in properly.
 * Throughout the episode all three lorries' mistakenly switch faces:
 * When Lorry 2 meets Percy, he has Lorry 3's smirking face.
 * When Toby arrives at the flour mill, Lorry 3 has Lorry 1's smirking face.
 * When Lorry 2 is taken to the docks, he once again has Lorry 3's smirking face.
 * When Lorry 3 is brought in by Butch, he has Lorry 1's shocked face.
 * When Lorry 1 is brought in on a barge, he has Lorry 2's sad face.
 * When Lorry 3 is dubbed "Broken," he has Lorry 1's sad face.
 * In the last scene, Clarabel is in front of Annie.
 * In the US dub, the line "PAH!" is said by Lorry 2 instead of Percy.
 * Percy, and all three lorries eyes are wonky throughout the episode.
 * In the first close ups of Cranky his face is slightly crooked.
 * At the end of the episode, Percy's brake van has a crooked roof.

Quotes

 * Lorry 2: (referring to Percy) What's that steaming lump of scrap iron doing here? Be off with you!
 * Percy: Scrap iron?! Steaming scrap iron?! PAH!


 * Lorry 1: (referring to Percy) Oh look, its a little green goblin on wheels. You'll be scrapped. Just you wait and see.
 * Thomas: Well, bust my boiler! What a horrid lorry!
 * James: Despicable!


 * Lorry 2: Well well well. No wonder this railway's in a mess, you belong in a museum, not working in a quarry.
 * Toby: I might look old, but I'm very useful.
 * Lorry 2: Useful?! Pah! Just you toodle off!
 * Toby: Toodle?!

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 * Percy: (after seeing the wrecked lorry) What's this lump of steaming scrap iron?
 * Lorry 2: (after being practically destroyed): I'll be back, so you can wipe that silly smile off your smokebox!
 * Percy: Pah!


 * Toby's driver: (after seeing a lorry being pulled by Butch): What happened?
 * Butch's driver: He was overloaded with flour and he broke down.
 * Toby: (teasing the lorries) Not very useful now are you?
 * Lorries 2 and 3: Grrrrr!


 * James: They're bringing in the third lorry on a barge! What happened to that one?
 * Butch's driver: Stupid lorry was reversing and fell straight into the sea.


 * Thomas: (looks at the damaged lorries) Well, well, well! The Brothers Grimm! Smashed, Broken and Sunk!

Merchandise
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 * Spooks and Surprises
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 * Classic Collection

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 * Races, Rescues and Runaways and Other Thomas Adventures
 * Thomas & Friends Classic Volume 5

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 * Races, Rescues and Runaways and Other Thomas Adventures

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 * Totally Thomas Volume 2
 * Sodor Friends Holiday Collection
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 * 3 DVD Lunchbox Set

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 * Happy Ever After
 * The Complete Series 5

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 * Complete Series 1-10
 * Classic Collection
 * Series Five and Series Six Double Pack

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 * Happy Ever After

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 * Cranky Bugs

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 * Lady Hatt's Birthday Party and Other Thomas Adventures
 * Thomas and the Special Letter and Other Adventures

PHL

 * A Better View for Gordon

NOR

 * Songs and Tales

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 * New Thomas the Tank Engine 2 Vol.1
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 * Crash and Smash! Look Out!

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 * The Stories that Gives Enlightenment

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 * Thomas and His Friends Vol. 9
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 * Thomas and the Ghosts and Other Stories

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 * A Storm for James

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