Dunkin Duncan

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Dunkin' Duncan is the twenty-fourth episode of the sixth season.

Plot

Rusty, Rheneas, and Skarloey go to the slate mines to help Duncan. Duncan is impatient and behaves rudely towards the others. While the others are taking some trucks back, Duncan pushes the trucks around, and, while shunting some "empties" at the incline, gets his coupling tangled with a truck. The winch hauls the trucks and Duncan up the slope. Duncan's weight is too much for the winch and a coupling breaks, making Duncan run down the hill into the swamp. Duncan is pulled out and the Fat Controller makes him work at the mines as punishment until he learns to be "patient and careful".

Characters

Locations

Skarloey Railway Slate Quarry

Goofs

The narrator says "Rusty, Rheneas and Skarloey chugged cheerfully through the Sodor countryside", but Skarloey looks glum and Rusty is a Diesel.
Only four trucks are allowed up the incline, but in Trucks! five trucks were allowed, in Duncan Gets Spooked and Snow loads of up to seven trucks were allowed.
The narrator says "Duncan hated working at the slate mines" but Duncan looks happy.
In the American narration Duncan shouts "Bouncing bogies!" "Bogies" is a British term.
As Duncan is pulled up the incline the narrator says his driver jumped clear, but a few seconds before his cab was already empty.
When Duncan and the trucks are pulled up the incline they are coupled up, but they fall off the cliff one by one.
When played in slow-motion Duncan's wheel chassis comes loose from the near upper-body work as he falls off the cliff.
When Duncan falls into the swamp one of the trucks splatters mud under his mouth, but seconds afterwards the mud is all over his buffers and mouth. When he is lifted out, the mud is all over his face.
The swamp has a sign saying "No fishing", but it seems highly unlikely any fish would live in the swamp anyway; yet Duncan has what looks like a fish in his funnel.
It is said that Duncan's driver jumped clear; the fireman isn't mentioned.
Duncan's chain can't get tangled as someone would have uncoupled him before the winch pulled the trucks up.
Brakevans should have been added to Rusty, Skarloey, Rheneas, and Duncan's trains.
In the American narration, Alec Baldwin uses his normal voice for Duncan at the end of the episode instead of his scotish Duncan voice.

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