Ok so, Thomas is once again being a little prick, and complaining about being a slave to the bigger engines.
And he's like, "What the fuck has my life come to? All I wanna do is travel and use up all my flyer miles, but I'm stuck in this hell hole!"
And everyone else is just like, "Will you just shut the hell up already?! We're tryin' ta fuckin' sleep here!"
But then, Edward's all, "Hey, dude, I got a proposition for you. Since you're like a little brother to me, I'll let you take my freight train tomorrow, and I'll take your place in the yard."
"Really? That'd be awesome!"
"Good. Now, can you knock that shit off? Everyone's right, you're being annoying."
The next morning, Thomas goes to collect the freight train…which is comprised of sentient trucks and carts. Now, we all still can't seem to wrap our heads around why engines would be given a face along with human cognitive thought and speech, but the fact that the trucks are alive as well is just fucking cruel.
Sure, if an engine gets into a crash, it's normally the first thing to get fucked up since it's going into the wreck head-on. But the only thing that gets more fucked up than the engine is its train, and that doesn't help if it's alive. I mean, just think about all the shit they go through! They get banged up, yanked, tossed about, turned over, pulled apart and even crushed, and that's only half of their suffering!
It's no fucking wonder the trucks in this show are bigger assholes than everyone else! Their lives are treated like nothing but a joke, and their only coping mechanism is making everyone else's lives slightly shittier than theirs with what little time they have on this Earth.
It's just…fucking horrible. I don't even care about the trucks that much, but their abuse is just somehow a little…relatable.
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Sorry, I forgot what I was talking about.
Anyway, since Thomas never dealt with trucks before, he has no idea what he's in for and is literally about to take it up the ass. He starts going faster and tells the trucks to speed up, which is just foreshadowing how this episode is gonna end.
When they get to the huge hill that Gordon couldn't get over, now known as "Gordon's Bitchass Hill," the trucks get their revenge and fuck Thomas up, both literally and metaphorically. The force is so strong that it pushes him through the station, and he crashes into some buffers.
And for some reason, The Fat Fuck is waiting there for him and he's like, "Well, if it ain't my favorite little fuck up. How did your retardedness get in the way of doing your job this time, Thomas?"
And Thomas is like, "Dude, I swear I didn't mean for this to happen! Edward offered to let me take his train, but they dicked me over."
"Yeah, and you forgot to Google the trucks' soul purpose before you did. Trucks. Are. Dickheads. If you'd just stopped bitching about following your dreams and did your homework, this wouldn't have happened. Now, get your ass back to the yard. You're grounded."