- “Bouncing bogies! It's got me!”
- ―Duncan getting pulled up the incline with the empty slate trucks
Dunkin Duncan is the thirty-first episode of the sixth season.
Plot[]
Rusty, Rheneas, and Skarloey are sent to the incline railway to help Duncan with an important job. Rusty hopes that Duncan would stay out of trouble, but Duncan is already impatient and behaves rudely towards the others. Skarloey and Rheneas do not like Duncan telling them what to do.
Duncan wants everyone to work faster, but Rusty and Rheneas tell him that they are proper engines and that they follow the rules. Duncan still tells them to work faster, so he shows the others how fast a useful engine can work by biffing one slate truck after another. Rusty warns Duncan that slate trucks would pay him back for being biffed. The engines see that Duncan will not listen, so they chuff away from the incline with their trucks of slate.
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. Rusty arrives in time to see everything, and Duncan's weight is too much for the winch and a coupling breaks, making Duncan run down the hill into the swamp.
After Duncan is pulled out, Mr. Percival reprimands him for being an irresponsible engine as his impatience has caused confusion and delay and orders him to apologize to the other engines. Duncan does so, but Mr. Percival still punishes him, telling him that once he is repaired, he will work at the incline until he learns to be patient and careful.
Characters[]
- Stepney
- Skarloey
- Rheneas
- Duncan
- Rusty
- Mr. Percival
Locations[]
- Skarloey Bridge
- Rheneas Viaduct
- Skarloey Railway Slate Quarry
Trivia[]
- The title of this episode is possibly a reference to Dunkin Donuts, an American global doughnut company and coffeehouse.
- From this episode onwards, Skarloey is lacking the gold stripe around the top of his funnel and his buffers are black.
- Peter Sam is the only narrow gauge engine who does not appear in this episode.
- Duncan shouting "HELP!" in both dubs the same recording of Diesel's voice used from The World's Strongest Engine.
- This is the first time Sir Topham Hatt says, "confusion and delay," which would become his catchphrase later on.
- This is the only episode where Duncan's annoyed face shows his teeth in some scenes, which resembled a snarling face. But in the remainder of this episode, and other subsequent series in the model era, the said face is just a normal closed mouth.
- This is the first time the Fat Controller says his catchphrase, "confusion and delay." However, there were five previous episodes, the fifth series episodes, Cranky Bugs and Oliver Gets Lost, as well as the sixth series episodes, The World's Strongest Engine and Gordon Takes a Tumble in which either the narrator, or a different character says it.
Quotes[]
- Duncan: I'm a plain-speaking engine, so collect your trucks(US: slate cars), and be quick about it!
- Rheneas: Bossy boots!
- Skarloey: Pushy puffer!
- Rusty: He just wants to get back to the bustle of the junction.
- Duncan: You're supposed to be helping me. But you're as slow as snails.
- Rusty: We're proper engines. We follow the rules.
- Rheneas: We can't send up more than four slate trucks at a time.
- Duncan: Then work faster.
- Duncan: I'll show you how fast a really useful engine can work.
- [he shunts four of his slate trucks to the incline]
- Duncan: Nothing to it!
- Rusty: Those slate trucks will pay you back. Slate trucks don't like to be biffed.
- Duncan: I can handle slate trucks.
- Duncan: I'll show that smelly diesel and those lazy steamers.
- Duncan's driver: Careful. You're asking for trouble.
- [it is revealed that his coupling chain is tangled with the slate truck in front of him. Together, Duncan and his trucks are suddenly pulled up the incline]
- Duncan: Bouncing bogies! It's got me!
- Rusty: I tried to warn him.
- Rusty's driver: He never listens.
- [once at the top, a coupling snaps, causing Duncan and his slate trucks to plummet down the incline]
- Duncan: HEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLPPPP!!! (dives into a very muddy swamp)
- Duncan: [after the derailment] Glub-glub-glub! Bluggle by boiler!
- [later, once rescued]
- The Thin Controller You have not been a responsible engine. Your impatience has caused confusion and delay and you owe these engines an apology.
- Duncan: [to Rusty, Rheneas, and Skarloey] Sorry.
- The Thin Controller: Once you have been repaired, you will work the incline until you learn to be patient and careful.
- Duncan: Yes, sir.
Merchandise[]
- Books - Dunkin' Duncan and Duncan Goes for a Swim (Germany only)
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