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Chuggington
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Chuggington started airing in Great Britain in 2008, and debuted on the Disney Channel in the United States in 2010. It features three young, talking locomotives referred to as "trainees", and several supporting characters in the form of either people who work at the station or other anthropomorphic trains. Most episodes revolve around these three learning a new kind of job, including pulling passenger cars or delivering cargo... also, serving ice cream and learning to be superheroes.Two of the founders of the company that produces this show were previously executives for the company that produces Thomas & Friends. Not that there's any similarity between this show and that one.The main characters are as follows: Wilson, a red locomotive who likes to have fun, often at the expense of listening to important directions. He has also been shown to be impatient and impulsive. Presumably used as a way of demonstrating to kids the benefit of taking your time with important jobs and listening carefully. Brewster, a blue locomotive that is supposed to be the strongest of the three, but also has a tendency to be overly cautious. He's not used to demonstrate subtle moral lessons so much as the two others, but is the butt of their jokes more often. Koko, a green locomotive who is the fastest of the group, and is quite competitive as well. She tends to work faster than the others, then teases them about being slow. This often results in things not going well, or taking longer than normal. The resulting Aesop is similar to what is taught via Wilson. | |
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Playing Sick | |
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Playing Sick: Toot does this in "Toot’s Tall Tale". She fesses up when Morgan tells her she’ll have to stay in the repair shed overnight for a new part. | |
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Chaos Architecture | |
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Chaos Architecture: Mainly between Seasons 3 and 4. Notably the right depot station and restaurant being moved to make space for the Chug Patrol HQ and many human-catering features being removed and replaced with cargo drop-offs. | |
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Diegetic Soundtrack Usage | |
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Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: When Vee sounds an announcement, the three-note tune is the same sound as the "Chuggington" heard in the theme tune. Brewster can be heard briefly humming the theme tune during one of his Badge Quests. | |
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The Voice | |
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The Voice: Vee, the depot announcer and dispatcher. She is only ever "seen" via her omnipresent public address system, which is capable of showing body language (well, as much as a faceless speaker post fastened to the ground can anyway). This coupled with contradictory clues from various episodes make it unclear if she is a human or an intelligent machine like the chuggers. | |
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Just Train Wrong | |
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Just Train Wrong: Wilson has the sound of a turbocharged EMD 645 engine, but his basis, the EMD F-unit, used the earlier (and better-known) EMD 567. | |
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Palette Swap | |
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Palette Swap: Tai and Rosa from Season 6 are this to Calley and Skylar. Several Dunbar and Harrison recolors appear in the backgrounds of Season 1. | |
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Verbal Tic | |
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Verbal Tic: Being a public transit chugger, Emery has a habit of saying certain phrases as transit announcements. | |
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Borrowed Catchphrase | |
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e.g. "Snowplough chugger coming through-oo!" Koko used this catchphrase in one of the Badge Quests. | |
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Single-Power Superheroes | |
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Single Power Superhero: Action Chugger, a train that can fly, and... that's all. | |
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Hold Your Hippogriffs | |
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Hold Your Hippogriffs: "You're pulling my pistons leg, aren't you?" | |
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Mad Libs Catchphrase | |
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"[insert current task here] chugger coming through-oo!" | |
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Three Shorts | |
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Three Shorts: This is how the show was packaged in the US, with two regular episodes, and a Badge Quest short sandwiched between the two to fill time. When the show was released on Hulu, all episodes were separated individually as intended, with the US dubbed Badge Quest uploaded for free on the show's official YouTube channel. | |
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The Kiddie Ride | |
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The Kiddie Ride: A carousel made by Kiddie Rides Australia | |
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Sleep Aesop | |
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Sleep Aesop: In "Wake Up, Wilson", Wilson stays up late playing with Koko and so messes up his job due to sleep deprivation. In the end, he learns the importance of sleep. | |
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Ambiguous Robots | |
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Ambiguous Robots: Vee is either a human who only communicates through the PA system or — in this world of living machines — actually the PA system. | |
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Chromatic Arrangement | |
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Chromatic Arrangement: The main trio: Wilson is red, Koko is green, and Brewster is blue. | |
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AbridgedSeries | |
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Abridged Series: Chuggington: Little Trainees, four-minute re-edited episodes with a narrator a la Thomas, produced following the fifth season completed production. | |
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Jaded Professional | |
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Jaded Professional: Frostini the ice-cream factory owner finds his job boring despite having told Wilson that he found it interesting when he first got it. | |
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Dub-Induced Plot Hole | |
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Dub-Induced Plot Hole: Downplayed. In "Wilson and the Wild Wind", Wilson makes a passing comment about Dunbar having an accent. A joke that doesn't translate as well in the US dub, as in the UK dub, he has an exaggerated Irish accent that's Played for Laughs. The joke still kind of works because he has a thin southern accent in the US dub, but it's not as pronounced. | |
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Crying Wolf | |
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Crying Wolf: Zephie, a small anthropomorphic trolley, is outfitted with a siren to be used in case of emergency in one episode. She almost immediately starts coming up with excuses to use it. | |
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Alternative Foreign Theme Song | |
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Alternative Foreign Theme Song: The Japanese version had an exclusive ending theme that included a dance number, called "Janken Train" (Rock-Paper-Scissors Train). | |
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Leitmotif | |
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Leitmotif: Action Chugger has his own theme. | |
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Accidental Misnaming | |
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Accidental Misnaming: Being old and forgetful, Puffer Pete regularly forgets everyone's names. | |
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Always Late | |
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Always Late: Since Eddie lived far from Chuggington, he was always late in the earlier episodes. This came to a head in "Late Again, Eddie!" where he moves closer to Chuggington and is never late again for the rest of the series. | |
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Lost Voice Plot | |
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Lost Voice Plot: In one Nurse Wilson,Dunbar loses his voice and the Wilson tries to get it back and find out why he lost it. It turns out his mouth needed oiling. | |
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Character Catchphrase | |
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Character Catchphrase: There are several. Like with Thomas & Friends, many of them are railway-themed puns: Wilson: "Let's ride the rails!" "Perfecto!" Koko: "Chugga-chugga choo-choo!" "Traintastic!" "Go Koko! Go Koko!" She also lets out a squeaky "Ooooooh!" when she is excited. Action Chugger: "I'm number one! I'm helpful, I'm strong, I get the job done!" Emery: "This chugger is ready to depart." (See also Verbal Tic below.) Calley: "[insert current task here] chugger coming through-oo!" e.g. "Snowplough chugger coming through-oo!" Koko used this catchphrase in one of the Badge Quests. | |
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Dub Name Change | |
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Dub Name Change: In the Polish dub, Brewster is renamed Bruno. | |
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Steam Never Dies | |
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Steam Never Dies: Steam locomotives will go on and on and on. Forever. Though one character is introduced that runs on vegetable oil, and the characters comment on the eco-friendliness of this. Downplayed, though, in that there are also plenty of modern diesel and electric locomotives, and in fact none of the three main characters are steam-powered. | |
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A Dog Named "Cat" | |
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A Dog Named "Cat": Discussed at the end of an episode, where characters are wondering what to name a frog and one character suggests naming him Dragon, since she and several others mistook him for one earlier. | |
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20 Minutes into the Future | |
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20 Minutes into the Future: While no specific year is given, the retro-futuristic architecture and high-tech machinery suggest this series takes place sometime into the future. | |
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