Memorable quotes for
"Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends" (1984)

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Thomas: Do you smell a smell?
Annie: I can't smell a smell.

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Gordon: [James is about to go on the turn table] Take care. You might stick too.
James: No fear, I'm not as fat as you.

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Thomas: Well bust my buffers!

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Terrance: I'm Terrance, I'm plowing.
Thomas: I'm Thomas, I'm pulling a train. What ugly wheels you've got.
Terrance: There's not ugly. They're caterpillars. I can go anywhere. I don't need rails.
Thomas: I don't want to go anywhere. I like my rails, thank you.

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Sir Topham Hatt: Stephney, it appears saving you from scrap has become a habit. Please stop it.

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Gordon: Disgraceful!
James: Disgusting!
Henry: Despicable!

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[Duck and Percy have left Thomas at the smelters and are idling at the station before going to watch the fireworks]
Duck: It was wrong of Thomas to tease you, Percy.
Percy: It's okay. He was only playing. I hope he hurries up. I wouldn't want him to be late for the fireworks.
[Thomas, after having been spooked rockets by the two engines and out of sight]
Thomas: He's after meeeeee!
Duck: [to Percy] I don't think he'll be late.

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[Thomas careens down the track with a jet engine propelling him from behind. Up ahead at the crossing gates waits Bertie]
Bertie: Want a race Thomas?
[Thomas, in a flash, speeds by]
Bertie: Never mind.

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Sir Handel: [Gordon talked Sir Handel into pretending he is sick, causing Peter Sam to have an accident] I'm sorry about your accident. I always stand well back. Cars don't like me.
Peter Sam: Why didn't you warn me?
Sir Handel: I didn't think.
Sir Topham Hatt: You never do. You can start thinking now while you're doing Peter Sam's work as well as your own. That'll teach you to pretend you're ill!
US Narrator: Sir Handel did start thinking... about Gordon.

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Sir Topham Hatt: No passengers means no polish.
Duncan: [to himself] No polish means no passengers!

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Donald: It's tae leave ye behind, I'd be wanting!
Break Van: You can't; I'm essential!
Donald: Och aye! You're nothing but a screechin' and a noise when all said and done! Spite Dougie, would ye? Take that!
[Bumps Van]
Break Van: Oh - oh, oh!
Narrator: The van behaved better after that!

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Diesel: Your Worthy Top...
Duck: Sir Topham Hatt to you!
Diesel: Your worthy Sir Topham Hatt thinks I need to learn. He is mistaken. We diesels don't need to learn; we know everything. We come to a yard and improve it. We are revolutionary.
Duck: Oh? If you're revo-thing-amie, perhaps you would collect my cars while I collect Gordon's coaches.

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Duck: [Diesel shunts the wrong cars for Duck] Thank you for arranging these, Diesel. I must go now.
Diesel: Don't you want this lot?
Duck: No thank you.
Diesel: [Gulps] And I've taken all this trouble. Why didn't you tell me?
Duck: You never asked me. Besides, you were having such fun being rev- whatever it was you said. Goodbye!
[Leaves]
Diesel: Ruugh! Gruugh! Ruugh!

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Troublesome Trucks: [to "Pop Goes the Weasel"] Cars waiting in the yard / Tacking them with ease-el / "Show the world what I can do" / Gaily boasts the diesel / In and out he shrieks about / Like a big black weasel / When he pulls the wrong cars out / Pop goes the diesel!

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Donald: It's tae leave ye behind, I'd be wanting! You're nothing but a screechin' and a noise when all said and done. Spite Dougie would ye? Take that! SPITEFUL BRAKE VAN: Oh - oh, oh! DONALD: There's more coming, should ye misbehave!
Break Van: You can't; I'm essential!
Donald: Och aye! You're nothing but a screechin' and a noise when all said and done! Spite Dougie, would ye? Take that!
[Bumps Van]
Break Van: Oh - oh, oh!
Narrator: The van behaved better after that!

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James: Anyone would think that Donald had had his accident on purpose!
Douglas: I heard tell about an engine and some tar wagons.
James: Shut up! It's not funny!
Douglas: Well, Well, Well! Surely, it wasnae you, James? Ye didnae say!

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Troublesome Trucks: [Chasing Duck down Gordon's hill] Chase 'im! Bump 'im! Throw 'im off the rails!

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Troublesome Trucks: Oliver's no use at all / And thinks he's very clever / And Says that he can manage us / That's the best joke ever / When he orders us about / With the greatest folly / We just push him down the well / Pop goes old Ollie!

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Gordon, James, and Henry: [Gordon, James, and Henry are blocking the entrance to the shed] Get out!
Duck: Stop fooling! I'm tired.
Gordon, James, and Henry: So are we. We're tired of you. We like Diesel. We don't like you. You tell tales about us to the trucks.
Duck: I don't!
Gordon, James, and Henry: You do!
Duck: I don't!
Gordon, James, and Henry: You do!

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Duncan: Haunted bridge? Rubbish! It's as tame as a pet rabbit.

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Gordon: Duck called me a galloping sausage!
James: Rusty red scrap iron!
Henry: I'm old square-wheels!
Sir Topham Hatt: Well, Duck?
Duck: I only wish, sir, that I'd thought of those names myself. If the dome fits...
Gordon, James, and Henry: [Sir Topham Hatt coughs] He made cars laugh at us!
Narrator: Sir Topham Hatt recovered - he'd been trying not to laugh himself.

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Cricket Team: [after losing the ball in one of Stepney's Trucks] Our one and only ball!

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Henry: [the other Engines hear all about Oliver's Tale of escaping scrap] Amazing!
James: Oliver has resource.
Gordon: And sagacity.
Percy: What does that mean?
Thomas: I think it's about being clever and wise.
Gordon: He is an example to us all!

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[Bulgy the double decker bus is Wedged underneath the bridge Duck has to cross]
Bulgy: Stop, it might fall on me!
Duck: That would serve you right for telling lies.

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