YMMV / Thomas And Friends S 2 E 14 A Close Shave

• Accidental Aesop: "Never set up shop at the end of a train track."
• Funny Moments: The barber is more angry at Duck for frightening his customers than for wrecking the entire building, and decides to lather him with shaving cream all over his face.
  • Extended in the novel version. After Duck collides into the barber shop, a customer is slightly startled and turns to see the wreckage, only for the barber to turn him back around and continue his work until Duck interrupts. Not to mention the most tranquil reaction from a victim to a train crash ever known:
    Barber: It's only an engine...
  • There's a deleted scene showing the inside of the barbershop, with the barber and his customers watching right as Duck is about to hit the building. Ordinarily, this would be Nightmare Fuel...except the barber is apparenty so startled that he puts shaving cream on his customer's head instead of his face (hence why it's there in the episode).
• Heartwarming Moments: The last scene where all of the engines, especially Gordon, James and Henry, gave Duck a warm welcome back from the works.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In one scene, the brake van to Edward's train gains a face of a troublesome truck, and then loses it in the next. Two episodes later, we're introduced to the Spiteful Brake Van.
• Moment of Awesome: Duck saving an entire train of passengers from runaway trucks. The dialogue afterwards says it all; "I didn't know you were being a brave engine." "That's alright, sir, I didn't know that either."
  • There's also the chase scene of the runaway troublesome trucks and Duck in the middle of the episode.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: The barber. While not as bad as the family in "Thomas Comes to Breakfast" four episodes later because of his Jerkass Realization near the end, it's still rather difficult to sympathize with his plight when he made the Lethally Stupid/Too Dumb to Live decision to establish his business at the end of a train track without any buffers. Audience Reactions tend to be less "Aw, poor man, his shop is wrecked" and more "How did he not see that coming?"

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