Busy Going Backwards (Spike and Friends episode)

Busy Going Backwards is the twenty-third episode of the fifth season of Spike the Dragon and Friends, and the one hundred and twenty-seventh episode overall. It is a parody of the Thomas and Friends episode of the same name.

Cast

 * Chief Thunderhooves as Gordon
 * Crank Doodle Donkey as James
 * Dr. Whooves as Oliver
 * Tank as Toad
 * Changelings as The Troublesome Trucks
 * Big Macintosh as Henry (does not speak)
 * Spike as Thomas (cameo)
 * Shining Armor as Edward (cameo)
 * Pipsqueak as Percy (cameo)
 * Apple Bloom as Annie (cameo)
 * Sweetie Belle as Clarabel (cameo)
 * Angel as Bertie (cameo)
 * Everyone else as Themselves

Transcript
Narrator: "Tank the Tortoise was feeling sad. Everywhere he looked, he could see animals moving steadily forwards. They all looked confident and cheerful.

One day, he decided to talk to Dr. Whooves the Earth Pony."

Tank: "I'm always going backwards, Mr. Whooves. I have forward thinking views. I could be a leader, if you know what I mean."

Chief Thunderhooves: "You can't be a leader without a line to follow you. You don't have a line."

Narrator: "Chief Thunderhooves said. Tank felt sadder still. Dr. Whooves wanted to help."

Dr. Whooves: "You're a very useful tortoise, Tank. You help me stop, and you keep my changelings in order when we go down hills."

Tank: "I know, Mr. Whooves. But it would be so excited to go forwards for a change instead of always seeing things sliding away from me."

Narrator: "The changelings were cross with Tank."

Changelings: "Who's he to start complaining? He's lucky to be able to look after us. Let's teach him a lesson!"

Narrator: "The changelings decided to carry out their plain when they reached Chief Thunderhooves' hill.

When they were nearly at the top, they played their tricks."

Changelings: "Ready, set, go!"

Narrator: "And they jerked at a rope, which broke."

(Rope breaks)

Changelings: "We're making your wish come true, Tank!

Follow the leader!"

Narrator: "Yelled the changelings. Tank was still in a state of shock, so he didn't know what to think. And he couldn't ask the conductor, he had jumped clear."

Changelings: "Faster, faster! As fast as you want!"

Narrator: "Screamed the changelings.

Suddenly, Tank found it fun. But the fun was soon over. A crossing lay ahead, and the gates were closed. Tank couldn't stop."

(Tank crashes through the gates)

"Worst still, Tank now realized he was on the wrong path. There ahead was Chief Thunderhooves. The signalman changed the path just in time."

Changelings: "On, on! Faster!"

Narrator: "Cried the changelings.

Suddenly, he saw Cranky pulling a long slow load."

Cranky Doodle Donkey: "Oh my goodness!"

Tank: "Help! Saved me!"

Narrator: "A quick thinking shunter did, just in time."

Cranky Doodle Donkey: "What was that?!"

Narrator: "Exclaimed Cranky.

The signalman warned the stationmaster at the next station."

Signalman: "There's a runaway coming!"

Stationmaster: "We'll send him into the sidings."

Tank: "Help, help!"

Narrator: "Called Tank again.

Tank saw some buffers."

Tank: "Those'll stop me."

Narrator: "But the path to the buffers wasn't set."

Tank: "Oh, no! I'm back on the main road."

Narrator: "Meanwhile, Dr. Whooves was racing to the rescue."

Dr. Whooves: "I must catch Tank, I must."

Narrator: "Tank sped past Big Macintosh.

More danger lay ahead. Men working on a bridge, but they had been warned about the runaway Tank and his changelings.

They diverted him onto an old path straight into a muddy pool."

(Tank falls into the muddy pool)

Tank: "Stopped at last!"

Narrator: "Dr. Whooves arrived, and when he saw Tank, he could only smile."

Dr. Whooves: "A pond is the only place for a tortoise, I suppose."

Narrator: "That night, Tank spoke to Dr. Whooves."

Tank: "I'm sorry, Mr. Whooves if I caused you any embarrassment."

Dr. Whooves: "That's alright, Tank. So what'd you think of going forwards?"

Tank: "It was fun."

Narrator: "Decided Tank."

Tank: "But from now on I'll be happy to look forward to the future. Busy going backwards, so to speak."