Horrid Lorry

“Well, well, well! The Brothers Grim: Smashed, Broken, and Sunk!”

― Thomas^[src]

Horrid Lorry is the second episode of the fifth season.

Plot

The engines are puffed out and so three lorries are brought to help out. Unluckily for the engines, the three lorries are incredibly self-centred and rude; but, of course, they get their comeuppance in due course: one falls off a cliff-face, one is overloaded with flour and one reverses into the sea. Thomas is swift to coin the name "the Brothers Grim" for the three.

Characters

Thomas
Henry
James
Percy
Toby
Horrid Lorries
Cranky
Butch (does not speak)
Edward (cameo)
Gordon (cameo)
Duck (cameo)
Donald or Douglas (cameo)
Annie and Clarabel (cameo)
Sir Topham Hatt (cameo)
Jem Cole (cameo)

Locations

Trivia

Mirrored stock footage from Thomas and the Special Letter is used.
When the Lorry's driver says "Rotten roads!", music is heard in the US narration, but not in the UK version.

Goofs

When Lorry 2 is being rude to Toby, his eye mechanism is visible through his window.
Lorry 1 returns covered in algae and seaweed as if he was submerged, but he wasn't; he merely ran into the sea. He later gains some more when Thomas sees him.
When Henry says "We engines run this island!", his tender is uncoupled.
When one of the lorries talks to Toby, the lorry's driver appears to be made of paper.
When the lorry falls off the cliff, the crash sound is a bit delayed.
Lorry 2's driver would have been killed in real life.
When James questions what happened to Lorry 1, Michael Angelis uses his regular voice for the entire line.
Thomas has Edward's whistle sound at the beginning.
James has Duck's whistle sound when the third lorry is brought into the docks on a barge.
A brakevan should have been added to Edward's train.

Quotes

Lorry 1 (referring to Percy): Oh look, a little green goblin on wheels. You'll be scrapped.

Toby: Toodle?!

Lorry 2 (after being practically destroyed): I'll be back, so you can wipe that silly smile off your smokebox!
Percy: Pah!