THESE ARE SOLEY MY OPINIONS AND ARE NOT INFLUENCED FROM THE THOMAS & FRIENDS FANDOM
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
Written by
John Loy
Directed by
Campbell Bryer
Produced by
Suzie Gallo
Air Date
27/11/22 - CAN
27/02/23 - USA
19/05/23 - UK
28/02/23 - AUS
Plot
When Cranky gets overwhelmed on a busy and blustery day at Brendam Docks, he accidentally gets Riff and Jiff's names confused, sending them on opposite deliveries.
Riff and Jiff have to be the dumbest engines I've seen from this show. Surely they would know that chickens go to the farm and the tyres go to the recycling plant as well as the beach balls and light bulb. Yes I get it it was made for conflict but this way of doing that by Cranky mixing up their names is just making the characters look so dumb. You can still have Cranky mixing up their names due to how busy he was but still have Riff and Jiff going to their original places while questioning Cranky's mistake while they don't want to ask him because they saw him as a big crane and that he was busy it would give the moral that it's OK to tell someone bigger that they'd made a mistake. That could've been better outcome because it shows more to the twins than them being dumb engines, they can be nervous, worried or sensitive to other's feelings.
But no they're just dumb one note characters. This was another terrible episode and that Skiff gag is not funny!
Series Rating:
Fast Friends - 1/10
Percy Disappear - 5/10
Ashima's Amazing Arrival - 3/10
Tri-and-a-Half-a-Lon - 3/10
Carly's Magnificant Magnet - 5/10
New Mail Engine In Town - 4/10
Hot Air Percy - 2/10
Carly's Screechy Squeak - 1/10
Shake, Rattle & Bruno - 8/10
Blackout - 2/10
Brand New Track - 5/10
Stink Monster - 3/10
Christmas Mountain - 7/10
Whiteout! - 4/10
Good as New - 4/10
More Than a Pretty Engine - 9/10
Snowplough Struttin' - 4/10
Thomas In Charge - 3/10
Kana Recharges - 3/10
The Big Skunk Funk - 3/10
Off The Rails - 1/10
Diesel's Dilemma - 5/10
Bring It On Beresford - 2/10
What's in a Name? - 1/10
Overall Rating (So far):
90/240
