"Dunkin' Duncan" is a sixth season episode.
Plot
Rusty, Rheneas and Skarloey go to the slate mines to help Duncan with the trucks. 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 down the hill into the swamp. Duncan is pulled out and the Fat Controller sends him to the mines as a punishment.
Characters featured
Trivia
- The swamp has a sign saying "No Fishing", but it seems highly unlikely any fish would live in the swamp anyway.
Goofs
- At the beginning the narrator says "Rusty, Rheneas and Skarloey chugged cheerfully through the Sodor countryside", but Skarloey looks glum.
- Only four trucks are allowed up the incline, but in "Duncan gets Spooked" loads of seven trucks are allowed up.
- When the narrator says "Duncan hated working at the slate mines", Duncan looks happy.
- In the US Version, as Duncan is pulled up the incline, he shouts "Bouncing Boogeys!", while in the UK, the line is "Bouncing Buffers!". It is more likely that the word "Boogey" would be used in a UK Version of an episode, as it is not commonly used in the US.
- 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.
- A sign that says No Fishing is seen, however is is highly unlikely that anyone would fish in a pool of mud.
- When Alec Baldwin narrates this episode, he gives Duncan a different voice from what he had in the fifth season.