List of Thomas the Tank Engine References in Animated Television

The following is an alphabetical list of Thomas the Tank Engine-related sightings and references in other animated television series.

Aaagh! It's the Mr. Hell Show!
In Episode 10 of the BBC Two sketch comedy series "Prince Not So Charming", a Thomas the Tank Engine parody called "Thomas the Tank" was used but instead of using railway locomotives, army tanks were used instead for Thomas and James (who is camouflage green) and The Fat Controller is called The Fat General. The narrator also gave off a brief joke about Ringo Starr mentioning he was in a band once.

Action League Now!
In the episode "Melty's Girl", when Meltman causes the Action Mobile to drive into a bookshelf and get crushed by a bowling ball, a Thomas pillow can be seen.

The Amazing World of Gumball
In the episode "The Fury", a steam locomotive resembling Thomas can be seen in the audience during the backstory of Nicole and Yuki.

American Dad
In the episode, "Toy Whorey", a red tank engine called "Train" vaguely resembling Thomas is one of the many toys in Steve Smith's toy collection. In the fantasy, he has a blue face but later when Train attacks Stan Smith with fireworks he has seen with a grey face like the actual Thomas.

In the episode "Echoes", The Channel 3 News director calls himself "Rich as Sir Topham Hatt!".

Amphibia
In the episode "Mr. X", a movie poster for a film called Trains with Faces can be seen when Anne and the Plantars are in the cinema (movie theater), setting a callback to the series' status quo.

Big City Greens
In the episode "Photo Op", Tilly hijacks a train resembling Thomas in an unsuccessful attempt to escape from the family portrait studio and hide out in the mall food court. In the episode "Green Christmas", in one of the shop windows is a toy train that resembles Thomas, only painted black with a gold smokebox, red wheels and a cowcatcher.

Big Mouth
In the episode "Steve the Virgin", Coach Steve's sexual fantasy sequence has him imagining himself as Thomas trying to control himself on the rails.

The Brave of Gold Goldran
In the twenty-first episode, the villain is a train mecha called 'Hell Thomas'.

Bob the Builder

 * See: Bob the Builder

The Cleveland Show
In the episode "From Bed to Worse", Rallo wants his mother Donna to read him a Thomas the Tank Engine book. However, due to her not feeling to good, she does not read the book to him.

In the episode "Brown History Month", a cutaway portrays a parody of Thomas known as Uncle Thomas the Tank Engine, which is also a reference to the phrase 'Uncle Tom', a black person subservient to white people derived from the main character in the book Uncle Tom's Cabin. The cutaway has Uncle Thomas (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson) agreeing with Sir Topham Hatt, who calls him "a clean articulate train", only to insult him when he thinks he is not paying attention. When Topham asks him what did he say, Uncle Thomas responds with "Choo Choo!".

Comedy Inc.
In the Australian television series Comedy Inc., Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends was parodied as Ernest the Engine & Others featuring Ernest the Engine Car, Stevie the Steam Train and Gail the Guards Compartment. The Fat Controller was also mentioned in the sketches The Fat Controller and Revolution, but in one sketch he was referred to as The Overweight Controller.

Drawn Together
In the episode "The Lemon-Aids Walk", Thomas is portrayed as a member of the Original Cast of Drawn Together, along with parodies of a monster from Where the Wild Things Are, Stimpy from Ren and Stimpy, Hamburger Helper, a robot from Transformers, and a Political Cartoon pig as they play and win a game of Badminton against the current cast due to Captain Hero being bad at athletics.

Evil Con Carne
In the episode "Ultimate Evil", a train resembling Thomas runs over Hector and General Skarr at the end by Boskov as retribution for mistreating him.

Family Guy
In the episode "The Birthday Bootlegger", Stewie mentions to his stuffed teddy bear, Rupert, that he wants to introduce to him to "Thomas the Shank Engine", a new friend he made in detention.

Hamster and Gretel
In the episode "Math Punch", a train driver highly resembling Mr. Conductor as played by George Carlin appears.

Helluva Boss
In the episode "C.H.E.R.U.B." of the animated web series Helluva Boss, a red tender engine with blue wheels resembling James appears coming out of a tunnel running over and killing a person standing on the tracks.

Connections
 * Jonathan Freeman, Erica Luttrell and Mara Wilson all who starred in Thomas the Tank Engine-related projects in the past did a few voices in this series.

Joshiraku
In the episode "Sleep talking", the gang try to get Marii to fall asleep to experience the fortunate events that seems to happen when she does. One of her dreams features Leo Morimoto as Thomas.

Kaguya-sama: Love is War?
In the episode, "The Student Council Has Not Achieved Nirvana", in a fantasy sequence while arguing over what stage in their relationship Tsubasa and Nagisa have reached, some of the Student Council members briefly appear as locomotives, with Ishigami being Thomas, There is a goof where Ishigami has a different arrangement of wheels despite Thomas having six. Interestingly, this scene is anime-original and is framed within the real world in the original manga chapter this segment of the episode is based on.

King of the Hill
In the episode "Aisle 8A", Bobby is seen taking out a shirt that has a blue steam engine with a face on it, a clear reference to Thomas.

Kiratto Pri-Chan
In Episode 8, Emo mistakes the word “hair scrunchie” for the sound of an engine while wearing an engine resembling Thomas on her head.

Little Einsteins
In the episode "Show and Tell, a toy that bears a strong resemblance to Thomas can be seen.

MAD
In the episode, "Rio-A/Thomas the Unstoppable Tank Engine", there is a Thomas the Tank Engine sketch called "Thomas the Unstoppable Tank Engine" which is not only a parody of Thomas but is also a parody of the 2010 movie Unstoppable which was based on the CSX 8888 incident from 2001. The sketch is about Frank Barnes being tasked with preventing Thomas from crashing into a town while carrying a nuclear bomb. After successfully stopping him with Percy, the town in question is revealed to be the minuscule town of Strawberry Shortcake, to which Barnes pushes Thomas and causes him to run over the town.

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
In the episode, "Goodnight, Moon Girl", TJ has a model of a small red tank engine with a face resembling Thomas Wooden Railway that can be seen for his model city.

Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
According to writer Sam Levine, the episode "Massive Morphy Merge Mechs" was partially inspired by Thomas & Friends (amongst several other shows).

Pickle and Peanut
The episode "Runaway Train" revolves around Peanut and Pickle helping McSweats act like his childhood idol, Li'l Chugger the Face Train, with a motorised train costume. Li'l Chugger himself is depicted as a physical models resembling the ones used throughout the series, complete with alternative faces.

Robot Chicken
In the episode, "Hemlock, Gin and Juice", there is a Thomas the Tank Engine sketch called "Blow Some Steam" (also known as "Thomas the Tank Engine gets hijacked"). In the sketch, a narrator (Seth Green) claims that Thomas the Tank Engine is huffing and puffing. Thomas (voiced by Daniel Radcliffe, who is best known for playing Harry Potter, the protagonist of the famous British literature franchise of the same name) realises that he is not going to the Whistling Woods as he originally thought, but then it is shown that he is being hijacked by a criminal (voiced by Keith David) who demands $100,000,000 from the Mayor of Sodor or else he will drive Thomas and a bundle of dynamite into Knapford Station.

The mayor's assistant (voiced by Matthew Senreich) then informs the Mayor of Sodor about this, and the mayor (voiced by Seth Green) tells him to get him Sir Topham Hatt. The mayor is then shown to have Rosie (voiced by Laura Ortiz) behind his desk, who he tells to come back later. Sir Topham Hatt (voiced by Quinton Flynn) is entrusted with Percy (voiced by Breckin Meyer) and James (voiced by Seth Green) to stop the criminal.

After eight hours, Percy catches up with Thomas, which leads to Sir Topham Hatt jumping over into Thomas' cab. Percy derails and explodes due to a penny on the track. In Thomas' cab, the criminal attempts to hit Sir Topham Hatt with his axe, which leads to him hurting Thomas' "internal organs". The criminal hits Sir Topham Hatt, which leads to leads to him accidentally switching a lever on Thomas, which makes him move faster. The criminal eventually brings in Harold the Helicopter (voiced by Seth Green) to help him, who says he is doing so because he is “tired of taking a backseat to a bunch of steam trains”. This leads to Harold chasing Thomas into a tunnel, only for his rotors to hit the side of the tunnel, causing him to crash. Thomas then hits a sign, and he says "What cruel god would give a train a face?" Thomas then jumps over a cliff, and a grips on to a piece of the bent rail from the other side with his mouth. The criminal asks Topham to save him from falling, promising to turn himself in. However, Topham tells him “end of the line” before kicking the criminal to his death.

The mayor then congratulates Sir Topham Hatt and thanks everyone that Knapford Station is safe. The mayor asks Topham how he disposed of the dynamite, and he realises that he forgot to do so. Thomas, James, Annie and Clarabel are subsequently killed in the explosion, with the narrator stating that with no more public transportation, everyone on Sodor bought a Hummer. Rosie then pops out and says "I've got a lot of work to do. Toot toot!".

The original Bachmann models of Thomas, Percy, James, Harold, Annie and Clarabel are used in this sketch along with a TrackMaster Rosie, and two trucks.

In the episode "We Don't See That Much In 1940s America", Thomas is featured in a parody of "The Girl on the Train". In the sketch, a man (voiced by Seth Green) and his girlfriend (voiced by Tara Strong) are up on a balcony, when the man claims something is "creepy". His girlfriend assumes that he is referring to how his neighbour's ex-wife spies on them everyday, which then cuts to showing her spying on them. However, the man tells her that he is referring to "that freakin' thing!", which turns out to be Thomas (voiced by Seth Green) who says "Don't mind me.", and then he messes with his tongue and laughs.

The Thomas model used in this sketch is the original Lionel Trains G-Scale Thomas with repaints of Annie and Clarabel.

The Simpsons
In the episode "Postcards from the Wedge", Bart refers to the abandoned Springfield Subway as being "like a Thomas the Tank Engine we can go inside," with Milhouse adding that it has "no Sir Topham Hatt to tell us what we can and can't do."

In the episode "Hardly Kirk-ing", Milhouse spends the day impersonating his father, Kirk. At one point, a condo salesperson asks him "Just looking for a casual hook-up?", Milhouse responds to her with "Yeah, for my Thomas the Tank Engines."

In the episode, "Bull-E", a tank engine parodying Thomas - complete with an unmoving mouth akin to the first eleven series and a Ringo Starr voice impression - appears in Otto's hallucinations before being run over and lifted into a crusher by a crane resembling Rocky. This engine appears in further episodes as a model train and as a costume at a party alongside Annie and Clarabel lookalikes.

In the episode "Treehouse of Horror XXXI", during the "You Are a Rotten Kid" song in the segment "Toy Gory", one of the toys that Bart destroys is a Thomas-like train set, which he blows up with dynamite. In the episode "Three Dreams Denied", three people dressed up as Thomas, Annie, and Clarabel lookalikes can be seen at one point.

Stepney's whistle can also be heard throughout the show several times.

Connections


 * Ringo Starr, George Carlin and Alec Baldwin all who narrated Thomas in America made guest appearances in various episodes.

Skatoony
In an episode of the UK version, a question about the Fat Controller was once asked by Chudd Chudders.

Connections
 * Rupert Degas voiced Chudd Chudders in the UK version

South Park
In the episode "Sponsored Content", Jimmy uses a ride-on Thomas toy to deliver the Super School News across town and a coach to hold the newspapers.

Stickin' Around
In the episode "We're Doomed!" during a fantasy sequence, Bradley refers to himself as "Sir Bradlam Hatt".

Catherine Disher (who voices Stella Stickler) would later voice Annie in All Engines Go! which was also animated by Nelvana.