Mr. Potato Head Gets Spooked

Top Hat Gets Spooked is the twenty-fourth episode of the fifth season of Spike the Dragon and Friends, and the one hundred and twenty-eighth episode overall. It is a parody of the Thomas and Friends episode, Duncan Gets Spooked.

Cast

 * OJ (from TUGS) as Rusty
 * Top Hat (from TUGS) as Duncan
 * The Shrimpers (from TUGS) as The Troublesome Trucks
 * Hoity Toity as Sir Topham Hatt
 * Hercules (from TUGS) Skarloey (does not speak)
 * Sunshine (from TUGS) as Peter Sam (does not speak)
 * Everyone else as Themselves

Transcript
Narrator: "The tugs were busy clearing their rivers of leaves and broken branches.

Sunshine and OJ often worked together. One day, OJ helped Sunshine to a refueling station.

Sunshine felt much better after his long drink, but the shrimpers were bored.

Shrimpers: "Let's break away!"

Narrator: "Their loads were heavy, and the chains old. One snapped!"

Shrimpers: "Faster! Faster!"

Narrator: "Shouted the shrimpers. A sign read 'Slow steep bends and waterfall ahead', but the silly shrimpers never saw it.

Then, it was too late.

Sunshine arrived at the scene of the disaster. His driver sighed."

Sunshine's Driver: "This was our fault; we didn't secure them properly. We'll have to get help to get them up.

Hoity Toity will be very annoyed."

Narrator: "And he was."

Hoity Toity: "You will work in the harbors until I can trust you again."

Narrator: "Top Hat was delighted with Sunshine's dilemma."

Top Hat: "Fancy not securing your shrimpers on a hill. They'll come back to spook you and your special stack. Whoo!"

OJ: "And who's to say you're not afraid of ghosts?"

Narrator: "Snapped OJ."

Top Hat: "Ghosts? Things that go bump in the night? Rubbish."

OJ: "Well, I'll tell you a story that will make your stack quiver!"

Narrator: "OJ Said."

OJ: "A long time ago, a little tug was returning home. It was a misty moonlit night. Suddenly, the tug lost control and fell down the waterfall.

He was never found again, but many a workmen will tell you that when the moon is full, they have seen the little tug trying to get home, but he never reaches the other side.

So what do you think of that, Top Hat?"

Top Hat: "Rubbish!"

Narrator: "Replied Top Hat."

OJ: "Never mind him, Sunshine. He'd be frightened if he really saw a ghost."

Narrator: "This gave Sunshine's driver an idea."

Sunshine's Driver: "Let's play a trick on Top Hat!

Narrator: "The next day, he spoke to Top Hat's driver and fireman, who agreed.

Top Hat's Crew: "We'll do it tonight!"

Narrator: "Top Hat had to bring shrimpers to the slate mines, and then bring shrimpers back.

Top Hat's driver decided, as part of the plan, to pass the old waterfall."

Top Hat: "Haunted waterfall, rubbish"!

Narrator: "Snorted Top Hat."

Top Hat: "It's as tame as a pet rabbit!"

Narrator: "But all the same, he kept thinking about OJ's story.

When dusk fell, he was keen to leave."

Top Hat: "If we don't go now, Hercules will take my favorite place at the dock."

Top Hat's Driver: "We have to collect our shrimpers first."

Narrator: "His driver replied.

He could see his plan was working, because Top Hat was nervous.

When night fell, they set off.

The mists were rising around the old waterfall.

Top Hat hooted, and the sound echoed everywhere.

Then, ahead, he saw flickering lights. His driver knew they were only insects that shine brightly at night, but to Top Hat, they looked like a tug!

Next, his driver secretly threw a rock down the waterfall."

Top Hat: "It's the ghost! Take me back! Take me back, please!"

Narrator: "When Top Hat reached the safety of his dock, he closed his eyes tightly."

Top Hat's Driver: "Spooked, are you, Top Hat?"

Narrator: "Laughed his driver."

Top Hat: "No, I'm asleep!"

Narrator: "And Top Hat refused to open his eyes.

He did though, when he thought his driver wasn't looking, just to make sure that he was still there."