The Diseasel is the twenty- first episode of the second season.
Plot[]
Bill and Ben are tank engine twins that work at the China Clay Workings on Edward's branchline. One day they leave some trucks in a siding and leave for more, but return to find them all gone. Their drivers determine it was a "diseasel" that took them, and when Bill recalls a sign saying "coughs and sneezles spread diseasels", in his words, Ben blames him. Their drivers quieten them and formulate a plan. They find the diseasel on a siding, and manage to confuse him so as to make him giddy, but when Edward comes along he reprimands them and tells them to apologise to the diseasel, who calls himself BoCo. Edward sends them away, and he and BoCo joke about the twins.
Characters[]
Trivia[]
When Bill and Ben puff away from their trucks, 2 hands can be seen at the top of the screen, ready to catch them.
Goofs[]
- In the scene after Bill and Ben leave Brendam, the twins don't disappear. They just stop right at the top of the screen.
- When Bill and Ben puff through Wellsworth a studio beam is visible at the top.
- As Bill and Ben puff into the shed behind BoCo's train, look to the left of the shed. There appears to be a soup can nearby.
- The narrator says Ben (on BoCo's right) went forward, but he goes to the left in the next shot.
- When Ben comes up next to BoCo, BoCo looks to his right, but when Bill comes up Boco doesn't look to his left.
- When Ringo Starr says "Bill took his place" the track where Ben was previously bounced up.
- When Edward arrives his bogie is derailed.
- When the twins apologise to BoCo and Edward disappears, indicating that the footage from where Bill was accusing BoCo of being a bully was used at that point.
- As the camera moves towards BoCo at the end of the episode, part of the studio is reflected in his windows.
- When the twins come back to the china clay trucks they should have been pulling more.