Thomas' Milkshake Muddle

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“If you shake milk for long enough, it turns to butter!”

― The ice cream factory manager

Thomas' Milkshake Muddle is the fourth (fifth in Australia) episode of the ninth season.

Plot

It's the day of the children's summer party and all the engines want the job to take the children. However, to Thomas' disappointment, Emily is taking the children. Thomas' jobs are to collect milk from the dairy and take it to the ice cream factory and then to collect butter from the other side of Sodor and take it to the bakery. Thomas collects the milk churns and goes slowly and carefully until he reaches a junction where Emily approaches and calls him a "slowcoach." Thomas explains that it's important for him to go slowly, but Emily teases him as he could be taking the children if he wasn't so slow. Angry, Thomas decides to prove Emily wrong and she challenges him to a race to the next signal.

During the race, Thomas speeds up with the churns in his trucks rattling about. His next signal is green, so he gets ahead of Emily and carries on to the ice cream factory, neglecting to slow down. At the ice cream factory, the manager is shocked to see the milk is almost butter due to Thomas' careless speeding. So he orders Thomas to get more milk and go slowly. Thomas hurries back to the dairy, only to find a very angry Fat Controller waiting for him. Time is running out, and unless the bakery has butter, there will be no cakes for the party.

Thomas feels very guilty about the trouble he caused. Once at the ice cream factory, though ordered to take the buttered milk back to the dairy, Thomas has a much better idea. He goes even faster with the churns of buttered milk all the way to the bakery. When Thomas arrives, the baker is confused to see milk churns until Thomas tells him to look inside and to the baker's surprise, the buttered milk is now just butter.

Thomas returns to Tidmouth Sheds where the Fat Controller sees him. Thomas is worried about getting into trouble again, but the Fat Controller is pleased that, thanks to Thomas' idea, he made amends and is sent to the children's summer party as guest of honour.

Characters

Locations

Trivia

A London, Midland, and Scottish Railway poster is seen at Maithwaite.
This episode aired in the US before Molly's Special Special, this means that the audience would not know who Molly is.
Going by production order, this is the fifth episode of the ninth season.

Goofs

In the title, there's an extra s after the apostrophe.
When Thomas first arrives at the ice cream factory, his last truck is missing.
When Thomas left the ice cream factory, his trucks were on the far left track; but when he came back, his trucks were on the middle track.

Merchandise

In Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Norwegian	Thomas får melkeproblemer	Thomas Gets Milk Problems
Japanese	ドタバタミルクシェイク	Slapstick Milkshake
German	Thomas hat eine gute Idee	Thomas Has A Good Idea
Dutch	Thomas Maakt er een Milkshake Van	Thomas Makes a Milkshake
Danish	Masser af mælk	Lots of Milk
Swedish	Thomas är uppe i smöret	Thomas is Up in the Butter
Spanish	Thomas y la Leche Batida / Thomas y la Batidora de Leche	Thomas and the Whipped Milk / Thomas and the Milk Mixer
Hungarian	Thomas kalandja a tejjel	Thomas' Adventures With Milk
Russian	Молочный коктейль Томаса	Milkshake Thomas
Italian	Thomas e il Latte Sbattuto	Thomas and the Shaken Milk
Czech	Tomásova výprava pro mléko	Thomas Sets for Milk
Gaelic	Maistreadh Gun Fhiosta	Milk Churning Festival
Romanian	Thomas Lăptarul	Thomas the Milkman
Polish	Mleczna droga Tomka	Thomas' Milky Way
Slovak	Thomasova výprava pro mlieko	Thomas Sets for Milk
Chinese	托马斯的奶油作战	Thomas' Cream War
Korean	덜걱덜걱 우유통	Rattle Rattle Milk Jug
Thai	มิลค์เชคที่วุ่นวาย	Busy Milkshake
Portuguese	Thomas e o leite batido	Thomas and the Frothed Milk