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The Diseasel is the twenty-first episode of the second season. In the US it first aired on the Shining Time Station episode Double Trouble.
Plot
Bill and Ben leave some china clay trucks to collect some more, but return to find them gone. Their crews deduce that the thief is a diesel, and the two go to find the diesel. They soon find him in the yard, and to pay him out confound him into thinking there is one engine capable of teleporting onto different lines, until Edward shows up and explains. The twins apologise to the diesel, who calls himself BoCo, and leave Edward and BoCo to make humour of the situation.
Characters
Trivia
- In the restored version, when Bill and Ben puff away from their trucks, two hands can be seen at the top of the screen, ready to catch them.
Goofs
- One of Bill and Ben's drivers says "We'll take away your names and numbers", but the twins don't have numbers.
- In the scene after Bill and Ben leave Brendam, the twins don't disappear. They just stop right at the top of the screen.
- When Bill and Ben puff through Wellsworth a studio beam is visible at the top.
- As Bill and Ben puff into the shed behind BoCo's train, look to the left of the shed. There appears to be a soup can nearby.
- The narrator says Ben (on BoCo's right) went forward, but he goes to the left in the next shot.
- When Ben comes up next to BoCo, BoCo looks to his right, but when Bill comes up Boco doesn't look to his left.
- In the British narration the narrator says "Bill pretended to be frightened", but in the American narration he says "Bill pretended not to be frightened".
- When Ringo Starr says "Bill took his place" the track where Ben was previously bounced up.
- When Edward arrives his bogie is derailed.
- When the twins apologise to BoCo Edward disappears, indicating that the footage from where Bill was accusing BoCo of being a bully was used at that point.
- As the camera moves towards BoCo at the end of the episode, part of the studio is reflected in his windows.
- When the twins come back to the china clay trucks they should have been pulling more.
- When Bill went forward to BoCo, he was on Ben's side of the tracks. Then, when the twins were teasing BoCo, they were on different tracks.
Gallery
US Title Card
Bill and Ben's nameplate
Bill and BoCo
Ben and BoCo
Edward
Bill and Ben's drivers
Bill and Ben pass through Wellsworth
A tin can on the left
