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“All of your engines are excellent engines!”
― Emily

Excellent Emily is the eighth episode of the twelfth series.

Plot

Following a terrible storm, many engines are stuck, except for Emily who is the only one to finish her jobs on time and is thus called "excellent" by the Fat Controller. The Fat Controller tells Emily that she must take Trevor from Farmer McColl's to the airport as some metal tanks are blocking the runway, making Jeremy - who is carrying Dowager Hatt - unable to land. Just as the Fat Controller leaves, Murdoch arrives; he is also going to Farmer McColl's and he advises Emily to take the Wellsworth track due to flooding. But Emily refuses and decides to take the forest track as it is much quicker. Emily goes through a flooded track on the forest track which now made her late, but it does not stop her.

In the forest, Emily meets Thomas, who warns her about a fallen tree on her line and tells her that she must wait for Harvey. But Emily says she does not need Harvey's help, so she finds the tree herself and decides to push it out of the way. However, the tree sticks on her front as Emily pushes it uphill. Once at the summit, the tree rolls out of the way and Emily is now completely covered in leaves but still carries on.

At a junction, Emily meets Duck, who tells her that not only is Trevor waiting for her, but there is danger up ahead; the tracks ahead are very muddy and she must avoid it. But once again, Emily's belief that she is "excellent" causes her to ignore him. Due to this, she carries on regardless which makes Duck worried.

As Emily races through the valleys, she thinks she is nearly at Farmer McColl's. After turning around the final bend, Emily ends up plunging into a damaged muddy flood submerging tracks. She at first seemed to be standing on top of the surface and determines she will easily puff through it, but then, the damaged track collapses from her weight and Emily derails and sinks down deep into the muddy rain water until coming to a stop up to her buffers. Emily is now stuck and does not feel "excellent" anymore, feeling sad for what she did and cries that she will now never get Trevor to the airport. She then sees Murdoch already at Farmer McColl's and realises that she should have listened to him. Whistling to get his attention, Emily apologises to Murdoch, and he pulls her out of the flood and back on track. After collecting Trevor from Farmer McColl's, Emily is about to leave when she remembers to ask Murdoch about which track to take to the airport. Murdoch tells her to take the valley route as Gordon's Hill is still being cleared of fallen trees.

Emily goes along the valley route, but soon sees a telegraph pole blocking her way. Remembering Thomas' advice, Emily waits for Harvey to clear the telegraph pole. Then, at a signalbox, Emily is told by the signalman that the shortcut is muddy; remembering Duck's advice, she takes the longer track. Once at the airport, Trevor clears the runway and Jeremy is able to land at last. The Fat Controller is happy to see his Mother and praises Emily again, but Emily tells him that all of his engines are "excellent engines".

Characters

Locations

Trivia

  • This episode marks the first of a few things for Duck:
  • This episode also marks the first of several things:
    • Dowager Hatt's first appearance in CGI.
    • Murdoch's first speaking role since the seventh series episode, Best Dressed Engine.
    • The first episode to feature Kiyonobu Suzuki in the Japanese voice cast.
    • The first episode where Duck is called as "Ankkanen" in the Finnish dub.
    • The first episode since Emily's New Route, where Emily derails and/or gets into an accident.
    • The first episode where an engine cries since the second series episode, Dirty Work and the first where tears are not seen.
  • This is the second time:
  • This is the only episode to feature Ryoichi Fukuzawa in the Japanese voice cast.
  • This episode marks the last of several things:
  • Like Henry, Emily's second accident in this episode after her first, happened more long ago than usual and occurs with derailing into water.
  • Duck gains a Liverpudlian accent while Murdoch gains a Scottish one in the UK dub.
  • A rare picture shows Harvey with his CGI face, while the episode shows his grinning face that gained teeth from his chuckling face.
  • This episode has similarities to the fifth series episode, Something in the Air and the eighth series episode, Emily's Adventure.
  • The town Emily passes is made up of buildings from Great Waterton.

Goofs

  • Throughout the episode, Emily's driver and fireman are not in CGI.
  • When Murdoch arrives at Brendam Docks, his steam platform is visible.
  • The tracker for Emily's CGI face is visible in the water's reflection in the flooded track she goes through and the muddy flood she sinks in.
  • When Emily plunges into the muddy flood, one of her crew is not seen in her cab; both of her crew are also completely absent when she leaves the farm with Trevor.
  • Emily's driving wheels are not moving when she plunges into the muddy flood and when Murdoch pulls her out of the muddy flood.
  • When Trevor trundles across the runway, his driver is steering him whilst sitting in his coal bunker, which is empty.

Merchandise

In Other Languages

Language Title
Brazilian Portuguese A Excelente Emily
Chinese Mandarin 了不起的艾蜜莉
Croatian Izvrsna Ema
Czech Skvělá Emily
Finnish Loistava Emilia
French Emily est excellente
German Ausgezeichnete Emily
Indonesian Emily yang Hebat
Italian L'eccellente Emily
Japanese エミリーはゆうとうせい
Korean 훌륭한 에밀리 (Kids 1)
척척박사, 에밀리 (EBS)
Latin American Spanish Excelente Emily
Polish Wspaniała Emilka

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