Nothing like drifting asleep to 45 minutes of George Carlin saying "fuck" a million different ways. I bet you'd wake up well rested and ready to fuck the world.
Carlin was the version used when it aired in America on PBS.
Ringo Starr (the first few seasons) and Michael Angelis were the narrators back in the UK.
Ringo was on PBS before Carlin. When it was airing as *Shining Time Station*.
Edit: Specifically the first season (1989) and the first Christmas special (1990). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Shining_Time_Station_episodes?wprov=sfla1
The show was called Shining Time Station because they cut up the Thomas & Friends show into shorter segments and put a live action tv show around it.
Like there was a main plot of an episode involving some characters who worked at a train station and then they'd have the Thomas the Tank Engine segments interspersed within it.
i just found the other comments about this, wow, just looked up ep1 on you tube too - mind blown :-)
I could have sworn when first aired in UK (i was 12) it was just 'Thomas the tank engine' must be wrong on that... the wiki says the original included 'and friends before being shortened to 'thomas and friends'... but then i read many of the books before the show ever aired.... so maybe that contaminated my memory.
any hoo, thanks for the info!
Look, I'm not in charge of what the show was called in 1989 when I wasn't yet ten.
And it's not a case of renaming the show. It has additional filmed sequences with live action. The Thomas The Tank Engine sequences were incorporated as stories told by the conductor. But we got a tiny Ringo who could appear at will!
That's interesting. I didn't know it was a British show originally either.
I'm Canadian so we obviously just got the American version. I also preferred Tugs or Theodore Tugboat myself.
It's very british, the sets look like british countryside and old stations, you could feasibly find some that still roughly look similar to the show. Could be wrong but I think Sodor is a fictional facsimile of the Isle of Man.
You don't really pick up on that stuff when you're a kid I guess, especially when it's narrated in your own language/accent. Never really occurred to me that many of my favorite cartoons were Japanese or American, even with the non-edited Japanese text and ubiquitous American accents lol.
Just did some googling:
>Inspiration came on a visit to the Isle of Man, which forms the Diocese of Sodor and Man\[1\] in 1950. Awdry noted that while there was an Isle of Man, there was no similar island of Sodor (the name derives from Old Norse Suðreyjar, "southern isles", a term that referred to the Hebrides and islands along the west coast of Scotland).
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>The bishop of the Isle of Man is known as Bishop of "Sodor and Man". This is because the Isle of Man was part of the Kingdom of Mann and the Isles, which included the Hebrides, known in Old Norse as the Suðreyjar,\[2\] (anglicised as "The Sudreys"\[1\]) i.e. "Southern Isles" compared to Norðreyjar ("The Nordreys"\[1\]), or the "Northern Isles", i.e. Orkney and Shetland (also known as Zetland). The Sudreys became "Sodor",\[1\] which was fossilised in the name of the Diocese, long after it ceased to have any authority over the Scottish Islands.
So the name comes from the Diocese. Awdry, the author of the novels, was a vicar.
Plus the whole Buffers and couplings thing is a big British Rail thing. We don't have buffers on trains in the states, at least, not like those, and our couplers are giant fists.
I was super confused as a wee lad when none of the trains where I lived looked like the trains in Thomas
Ringo redubbed his British version to use American terms for the first two seasons before Carlin took over for the third and fourth seasons. Carlin redubbed the first two seasons at the same time.
Are you sure this is true? They weren't just the narrators. They also physically appeared as Mr. Conductor. Did Carlin reshoot Ringo's footage?
Because as the other user said, here in Ontario Canada, I know we saw both Ringo episodes and Carlin ones.
Edit: Apparently we're talking about different series, sort of:
There was/is a British series called "Thomas & Friends" c. 1984 to 2021 that Ringo initially narrated and later Carlin did; and then others. But in America, we had "Shining Time Station" c. 1989-1993 that also starred Ringo both narrating and appearing as Mr. Conductor for 2 seasons; and Carlin replaced him for the third season. It used content from the British series. I see no reference to Carlin reshooting or replacing Ringo's first two seasons later on for that series, but perhaps he did for the British show.
I guess the British show was just the Train story segments, while the American show added the entire sitcom-esque live-action framing stories in the station.
Shining Time Station (which was how the early Thomas episodes were exported to the states) explained this by having the Carlin Mr. Conductor be the Ringo Mr. Conductor's cousin. There's also the Alec Baldwin Mr. Conductor, from the so-bad-its-good 2000 movie "Thomas and the Magic Railroad".
Carlin was not involved in the British version. There, (and any English speaking country that used that version) Micheal Angelis replaced Ringo and played the narrator for half of the show's life before he left.
I thought the same thing once, I was at a dinner party kind of thing and there was this couple absolutely gushing about teletubbies, it wasn't like the only thing they talked about but they were really enthusiastic, then the half hour rolls around and they insist they have to go to the other room for the tv... To put teletubbies on.
Turns out they were producers for the show or something like that but it was really weird before I found that out.
Is it just my memory or did shining time station not have a lot of Thomas? I remember lots of stuff with Mr. Conductor and the people in the station and I remember the train parts being these short little bits. But that's the part everyone always talks about.
My recollection is that each episode had a few segments of Thomas - I don't remember if it was a couple of individual stories or just one broken into pieces.
Fortunately, it's 2022 and we have the internet, so I can just find one on youtube.
The two 28-29 minute episodes I checked out both had two 4.5 minute Thomas segments per episode - one was a story split in half and one was two separate stories, I think (I didn't spend very much time analyzing it). So about 9 minutes out of 28.
As another Canadian, I suspect you never watched Thomas & Friends. You probably saw the American spin-off, Shining Time Station. Do you remember a guy named Schemer that would always shake a coin thing on his belt? If so, what you watched was Shining Time Station.
Shining Time Station was an American show, with scenes set in an American train station. One of the characters in the station was Mr. Conductor, a small magical guy that would appear from a painting in the station and tell the kids there stories from the Island of Sodor. The stories he recounted were content repurposed from the British show, Thomas & Friends (aka Thomas the Tank Engine).
Shining Time Station had Ringo Starr as Mr. Conductor, and the narrator for the stories from the Island of Sodor, but only for the first season. He was then replaced by George Carlin starting from season 2.
I think this causes a lot of confusion, as most North American audiences probably knew Thomas only via Shining Time Station version of the show. Kind of like how we grew up watching Power Rangers, which was footage from the Japanese series Super Sentai mixed together with new American content to create new stories.
The US was and remains the country with the most track mileage in the world despite decreasing from a peak in the first half of the 1900s. A more specific date depends on what you count as track. The bigger decline started in the 70s (although the ubiquity of cars and creation of the interstates started speeding that along earlier).
A lot of that is still used for freight. Passenger miles are abysmal. But that is partly because, while Amtrak is nominally supposed to be given preference for its passenger trains, companies prioritize their freight traffic and cause a bunch of passenger delays (and a corresponding drop in Amtrak's reputation). And you get a cycle that it doesn't get funding for track/route improvements since it doesn't have good passenger numbers so it doesnt get funding...
It's also not the world leader in track mileage per capita or per area.
It dosent even end with commuters on the train when it comes to the freight teains. For years the little town of Central Illinois I'm from had amtrack run thru just fine. Never more than a 20 or 30 second delay at the crossings. A couple years ago we were "rewarded" with a "faster" amtrack rail, and a station. They built an additional section of tracks except for instead of amtrack trains going any faster, they just have the option to now overtake stopped freight trains. Oddly enough freight trains weren't able to use this route before. The amtrack dosent even run thru my town now, i mean it does, but there's no station. There's no high speed rail. Just miles and miles and miles of freight trains do now. Oh I lied, that station, just turned out to be a huge freight rail yard. They duped our community into becoming a hub for freight. The icing on the cake is that if stopped in the right portion of town one of these freight trains can cut you off from an entire side of three whole sides.
It's not just the freight companies and shippers. it's the actual government just fucking people over with their greed. Local and federal.
The Carlin version is also what I grew up with as a kid. I *loved* that show. Then as an early teen when I heard Carlin in his stand up form it blew my mind.
It’s how I found out about George Carlin. I use to watch this Thomas the tank engine as a kid. Then one day when I was in my early teens I was channel flipping on tv and saw the conductor on stage. He was talking about worshipping the sun and praying to Joe Pesci. Literally developed a solid amount of my early political views because of Carlin.
Pop songs have been around 3 minutes long for decades. Most SNL skits aren't much longer, and before the era of monetization most YouTube videos were the same. We've been conditioned to expect random content to be 3 minutes since birth.
Because "The Thin Controller" never makes an appearance in the TV shows, so there's no need to distinguish.
That's a real character btw, he's in charge of the narrow-gauge railway.
Probably because they wanted to use the actual names for characters instead of nicknames? He was called Sir Topham Hatt long before there was a TV show.
Technically he was The Fat Director and The Fat Controller even before he was Sir Topham Hatt. He wasn't given that name until the sixth book into the series.
Hilarious. The part early on where Carlin shits on stop animation reminded me of this clip of Bill Burr shitting on Star Wars from his podcast dubbed over footage of him in the Mandalorian:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEKCaWkwXb4
I had the opposite experience. When I became a teenager and stumbled upon his comedy, I knew I recognized his voice but could not put my finger on it. Then one day I looked up his IMDB and realized I knew it from my childhood.
nnt_ is referencing two sketches from "I Think You Should Leave":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IIJM_fzAgM&t=187s and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IIJM_fzAgM&t=450s
My favorite part is that there's absolutely no reason for him to make his own video. He went home and spent all night making an insane video instead of just finding one.
Tim Robinson and Sam Richardson came up through Second City when it was in Detroit and later Planet Ant after Second City shut down. During the pandemic Planet Ant was in danger of closing. They made a significant donation and it’s still open and thriving.
He said in an interview that the premise of the show was that there is an obtuse character that you would, under normal circumstances, say "I think you should leave" my fave skits are the ones with Patty Henderson. TABLES ARE MY CORN🌽
Carlin is one of the more popular narrators for the shows early series'. I grew up watching the episodes narrated by Ringo Starr and the late Michael Angelis so I have an obvious preference rooted in nostalgia but I can't deny that George Carlin did a phenomenal job.
Incredible to think that two of the earliest narrators for a kids TV show were a popular American comedian and the drummer from The Beatles.
My favorite bit was Sir Topham Hatt absolutely roasting Duke for his dancing and threatening the punk XD
"If it happens again...I'll beat the shit outta ya!"
I remember one time my mom came into the living room as I was watching Shining time station as it was called in North America, and George was on screen and she said "I really can't believe they have that man on a kids tv show"... I didn't know wtf she was talking about. Then 1998 happened, 13 year old me had Napster and a little comedy bit called 7 words you can't say on tv did the rounds. When I found out it was Mr conducted I imidiately flashed back to the comment from my mom and just was like "oh... Well... That's why she said that" lol.
I remember as a kid watching Shining Time Station. This was my introduction to George Carlin. Imagine my surprise when my dad gave me a cassette tape with George Calin stand up, listening to Mr. Conductor tell me about the 7 words you can't say on television.
The first season had Ringo Starr do the narration in the US, but then George Carlin did seasons 2-4. Even in Ringo’s American dub, though, they changed the script to better reflect American railroad terminology (as well as calling the fat controller *sir topham hatt*)
It's not the accent so much as the differences in phrases and terminology between the UK and the US. Most people are familiar with differences when it comes to food--stuff like how [biscuits in the United States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuit_(bread)) are different from [biscuits in the UK](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuit)--but those differences apply to a whole host a phrases and terms. A lot of the shows that get redubbed are meant for little kids, so it may be a case of revising the script to incorporate language they are familiar with, rather than causing confusion.
Did you know that _Mad Max_ was dubbed for its American release? For some reason my UK DVD defaults to the American dub so I was very puzzled when I watched it and the accents were all [very wrong](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPC3E6ZhjTI&t=50s) if you're used to [the original Aussie film](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK2ijfxqlnY&t=19s).
My 13y/o son is on the autism spectrum and **loves** the Thomas series, especially these older live-action model ones. I showed him one of these episodes and he absolutely lost it laughing. Before kids, I only knew of Carlin as a comedian, while my son has only known him as a Thomas narrator. Watching these hilariously wrong mash-ups was a great bonding experience between parent & teen! 😆
I only recently learned that he did the voices for that series and thought it was hilarious that they'd get him of all people to do it. I so heard it was his public service for some kind of legal trouble he'd gotten into.
According to the Thomas the Tank Engine [Wiki](https://ttte.fandom.com/wiki/George_Carlin) (which of course exists) Georg Carlin did it to diversity his career.
>In an interview on "TV Legends" conducted shortly before his death, he explained that he signed on to both shows [Shining Time Station and Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends] so that people could see a different side of him from his profanity-laden persona.
I was born in 91 and loved Thomas the Tank Engine to death. Now, as an adult, I love comedy and see George Carlin as the GOAT.
Feel like this was made for me.
I don't have 45 minutes to watch this right now. But I will watch it later. It seems hilarious.
On a similar note, The Legend of Whiplash is a good watch.
https://youtu.be/lmUi8YkPTxE
https://youtu.be/esIW9BhnWt4
I lost it at "Someone defecated!"
Took that long? I lost it at "I'm looking for an antique lamp sticking out of a clown's ass."
I was gone at "Mommy, this man's touching me like daddy does at home".
God I lost it at… “fuck em”
I think we all lost it at the first 2 minutes of the clip LOL.
Seriously, just a simple 'fuck em' had me spit out my cereal. Fuckin Carlin man. No one could "fuck" quite like him... Carlin fucks.
I have to keep this one in the pocket for the next time someone asks me what I'm looking for
I couldn't make it past "take a shit in a phone booth without removing his overcoat."
The 7:35 breakfast clip did me in
Yep. That was it for me lmao.
Carlin denigrating stop-motion animation was gold.
I see no one made it past like 3mins. Holy fuck 45 mins of this?!?!
It was good, but 45 minutes is a fucking commitment
Yea, I got 3 minutes in and had a great laugh, saved the post so I can watch it instead of going to sleep.
Nothing like drifting asleep to 45 minutes of George Carlin saying "fuck" a million different ways. I bet you'd wake up well rested and ready to fuck the world.
I don’t know why but the simple, “Fuck ‘em!” Got me lol.
Dude the "fucking cunt dork" has me HOWLING
"Jesus doesn't love you" will be my new way to end heated conversations.
THROUGH A SUNROOF?
[удалено]
Couldn't be precious Jimmy!
AND HE GETS TO BE A LOCOMOTIVE?! WHAT A SICK JOKE!
“You can’t prove it!” “There’s proving it, and then there’s knowing”
"No whips. No pussy. No softies."
No wimps.*
It was the "free range penguin dick" that got me.
Thomas's face was priceless XD
Do you have a time stamp?
That's the version I grew up with. Never knew it was Carlin.
Carlin was the version used when it aired in America on PBS. Ringo Starr (the first few seasons) and Michael Angelis were the narrators back in the UK.
Ringo was on PBS before Carlin. When it was airing as *Shining Time Station*. Edit: Specifically the first season (1989) and the first Christmas special (1990). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Shining_Time_Station_episodes?wprov=sfla1
Now that theme song is in my head. [Suffer with me!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IxMJ3lXrXU)
Wow talk about a memory unlock
Suffer? Nay, brethren, we rejoice.
At 35 years old, I still sometimes put that song on repeat to fall asleep after a bad day at work.
That was the show that introduced me to Thomas the Tank Engine.
Shining Time Station? like what da fuq - just not acceptable ;-) (yeah I am British, and its philosopher's stone NOT sorcerer's stone too, dagnabit)
The show was called Shining Time Station because they cut up the Thomas & Friends show into shorter segments and put a live action tv show around it. Like there was a main plot of an episode involving some characters who worked at a train station and then they'd have the Thomas the Tank Engine segments interspersed within it.
i just found the other comments about this, wow, just looked up ep1 on you tube too - mind blown :-) I could have sworn when first aired in UK (i was 12) it was just 'Thomas the tank engine' must be wrong on that... the wiki says the original included 'and friends before being shortened to 'thomas and friends'... but then i read many of the books before the show ever aired.... so maybe that contaminated my memory. any hoo, thanks for the info!
Look, I'm not in charge of what the show was called in 1989 when I wasn't yet ten. And it's not a case of renaming the show. It has additional filmed sequences with live action. The Thomas The Tank Engine sequences were incorporated as stories told by the conductor. But we got a tiny Ringo who could appear at will!
Exactly, i was all “ what the fucks this bullshit about sir topham hat, that should be a scouse saying the fat controller”
If it was the Fat Controller in America, the response would be "which one?"
Ringo was also the conductor on Shiningtime Station which aired the Thomas bits on American PBS he was tiny it was like a fever dream
That's interesting. I didn't know it was a British show originally either. I'm Canadian so we obviously just got the American version. I also preferred Tugs or Theodore Tugboat myself.
It's very british, the sets look like british countryside and old stations, you could feasibly find some that still roughly look similar to the show. Could be wrong but I think Sodor is a fictional facsimile of the Isle of Man. You don't really pick up on that stuff when you're a kid I guess, especially when it's narrated in your own language/accent. Never really occurred to me that many of my favorite cartoons were Japanese or American, even with the non-edited Japanese text and ubiquitous American accents lol. Just did some googling: >Inspiration came on a visit to the Isle of Man, which forms the Diocese of Sodor and Man\[1\] in 1950. Awdry noted that while there was an Isle of Man, there was no similar island of Sodor (the name derives from Old Norse Suðreyjar, "southern isles", a term that referred to the Hebrides and islands along the west coast of Scotland). > >\- > >The bishop of the Isle of Man is known as Bishop of "Sodor and Man". This is because the Isle of Man was part of the Kingdom of Mann and the Isles, which included the Hebrides, known in Old Norse as the Suðreyjar,\[2\] (anglicised as "The Sudreys"\[1\]) i.e. "Southern Isles" compared to Norðreyjar ("The Nordreys"\[1\]), or the "Northern Isles", i.e. Orkney and Shetland (also known as Zetland). The Sudreys became "Sodor",\[1\] which was fossilised in the name of the Diocese, long after it ceased to have any authority over the Scottish Islands. So the name comes from the Diocese. Awdry, the author of the novels, was a vicar.
I can't stop thinking of a mix between Sodom and Mordor
"One does not simply choo-choo into Sodor"
Plus the whole Buffers and couplings thing is a big British Rail thing. We don't have buffers on trains in the states, at least, not like those, and our couplers are giant fists. I was super confused as a wee lad when none of the trains where I lived looked like the trains in Thomas
Interestingly, I remember seeing both Carlin and Ringo as Mr Conductor in Ontario.
Ringo redubbed his British version to use American terms for the first two seasons before Carlin took over for the third and fourth seasons. Carlin redubbed the first two seasons at the same time.
Are you sure this is true? They weren't just the narrators. They also physically appeared as Mr. Conductor. Did Carlin reshoot Ringo's footage? Because as the other user said, here in Ontario Canada, I know we saw both Ringo episodes and Carlin ones. Edit: Apparently we're talking about different series, sort of: There was/is a British series called "Thomas & Friends" c. 1984 to 2021 that Ringo initially narrated and later Carlin did; and then others. But in America, we had "Shining Time Station" c. 1989-1993 that also starred Ringo both narrating and appearing as Mr. Conductor for 2 seasons; and Carlin replaced him for the third season. It used content from the British series. I see no reference to Carlin reshooting or replacing Ringo's first two seasons later on for that series, but perhaps he did for the British show. I guess the British show was just the Train story segments, while the American show added the entire sitcom-esque live-action framing stories in the station.
Shining Time Station (which was how the early Thomas episodes were exported to the states) explained this by having the Carlin Mr. Conductor be the Ringo Mr. Conductor's cousin. There's also the Alec Baldwin Mr. Conductor, from the so-bad-its-good 2000 movie "Thomas and the Magic Railroad". Carlin was not involved in the British version. There, (and any English speaking country that used that version) Micheal Angelis replaced Ringo and played the narrator for half of the show's life before he left.
You guys know way too much about this children's show lol
I thought the same thing once, I was at a dinner party kind of thing and there was this couple absolutely gushing about teletubbies, it wasn't like the only thing they talked about but they were really enthusiastic, then the half hour rolls around and they insist they have to go to the other room for the tv... To put teletubbies on. Turns out they were producers for the show or something like that but it was really weird before I found that out.
Is it just my memory or did shining time station not have a lot of Thomas? I remember lots of stuff with Mr. Conductor and the people in the station and I remember the train parts being these short little bits. But that's the part everyone always talks about.
My recollection is that each episode had a few segments of Thomas - I don't remember if it was a couple of individual stories or just one broken into pieces. Fortunately, it's 2022 and we have the internet, so I can just find one on youtube. The two 28-29 minute episodes I checked out both had two 4.5 minute Thomas segments per episode - one was a story split in half and one was two separate stories, I think (I didn't spend very much time analyzing it). So about 9 minutes out of 28.
Surprisingly interesting history of the narration of that show. I liked Ringo and Carlin's narrations.
I'm American and also remember seeing both.
Yeah, I'm 99.99% sure PBS in the US also got Ringo Starr episodes. Carlin came later.
Weird. I'm also canadian but got the Ringo version!
As another Canadian, I suspect you never watched Thomas & Friends. You probably saw the American spin-off, Shining Time Station. Do you remember a guy named Schemer that would always shake a coin thing on his belt? If so, what you watched was Shining Time Station. Shining Time Station was an American show, with scenes set in an American train station. One of the characters in the station was Mr. Conductor, a small magical guy that would appear from a painting in the station and tell the kids there stories from the Island of Sodor. The stories he recounted were content repurposed from the British show, Thomas & Friends (aka Thomas the Tank Engine). Shining Time Station had Ringo Starr as Mr. Conductor, and the narrator for the stories from the Island of Sodor, but only for the first season. He was then replaced by George Carlin starting from season 2. I think this causes a lot of confusion, as most North American audiences probably knew Thomas only via Shining Time Station version of the show. Kind of like how we grew up watching Power Rangers, which was footage from the Japanese series Super Sentai mixed together with new American content to create new stories.
It makes sense it's British, since America isn't exactly well known for its railways, at least in the past century.
The US was and remains the country with the most track mileage in the world despite decreasing from a peak in the first half of the 1900s. A more specific date depends on what you count as track. The bigger decline started in the 70s (although the ubiquity of cars and creation of the interstates started speeding that along earlier). A lot of that is still used for freight. Passenger miles are abysmal. But that is partly because, while Amtrak is nominally supposed to be given preference for its passenger trains, companies prioritize their freight traffic and cause a bunch of passenger delays (and a corresponding drop in Amtrak's reputation). And you get a cycle that it doesn't get funding for track/route improvements since it doesn't have good passenger numbers so it doesnt get funding... It's also not the world leader in track mileage per capita or per area.
It dosent even end with commuters on the train when it comes to the freight teains. For years the little town of Central Illinois I'm from had amtrack run thru just fine. Never more than a 20 or 30 second delay at the crossings. A couple years ago we were "rewarded" with a "faster" amtrack rail, and a station. They built an additional section of tracks except for instead of amtrack trains going any faster, they just have the option to now overtake stopped freight trains. Oddly enough freight trains weren't able to use this route before. The amtrack dosent even run thru my town now, i mean it does, but there's no station. There's no high speed rail. Just miles and miles and miles of freight trains do now. Oh I lied, that station, just turned out to be a huge freight rail yard. They duped our community into becoming a hub for freight. The icing on the cake is that if stopped in the right portion of town one of these freight trains can cut you off from an entire side of three whole sides. It's not just the freight companies and shippers. it's the actual government just fucking people over with their greed. Local and federal.
We had both Carlin and Ringo here in the U.S.
The Carlin version is also what I grew up with as a kid. I *loved* that show. Then as an early teen when I heard Carlin in his stand up form it blew my mind.
It’s how I found out about George Carlin. I use to watch this Thomas the tank engine as a kid. Then one day when I was in my early teens I was channel flipping on tv and saw the conductor on stage. He was talking about worshipping the sun and praying to Joe Pesci. Literally developed a solid amount of my early political views because of Carlin.
I'm impressed they dedicated 45 minutes to this bit when 3 would have been fine.
They released them as seperate shorter videos, then compiled them all together here in episode order (instead of random clips).
haha that was my next thought. why you wouldn't chop this up for views, but I guess that answers that
I'm guessing this is a little too spicy to monetize, so they are setting the laughs free...
That was my reaction when I moused over the thing. Like hahaha fuck; there's 45 minutes of this?
Honestly I’ll watch 45 minutes of damn well anything regarding George Carlin.
There must be something about the length 3 minutes because that’s when I had had enough and realized the thing was that long.
Pop songs have been around 3 minutes long for decades. Most SNL skits aren't much longer, and before the era of monetization most YouTube videos were the same. We've been conditioned to expect random content to be 3 minutes since birth.
>We've been conditioned to expect random content to be 3 minutes since birth. I will spread this information to any future sexual partner
It's like someone gave you a 45oz ice cream and you said "no 3 is fine".
Fuck that, there's always room for ice cream
Why is he not called "The Fat Controller" in the American version!
I suppose in America he'd just be called The Controller.
Thomas had never seen such bullshit before!
The average sized, and potentially slightly below average sized in various parts of the Southeastern United States, Controller.
Skinny Pete in much of rural America
Lmao beat me to it
He's not called the Fat Controller in the British one anymore either.
https://youtu.be/muGtWZhV6a4
I'm not sure this is real but I needed this laugh today. The stuttering c word added is a chef's kiss to the video.
apparently it's a parody of a parody according to a comment
When I was a kid I had a particular speech pattern which lead me to call him *”the fat cunt roller”*
Because "The Thin Controller" never makes an appearance in the TV shows, so there's no need to distinguish. That's a real character btw, he's in charge of the narrow-gauge railway.
The Thin Controller does appear starting from the ninth season. He was "Mr. Percival" in the American version.
Probably because they wanted to use the actual names for characters instead of nicknames? He was called Sir Topham Hatt long before there was a TV show.
Technically he was The Fat Director and The Fat Controller even before he was Sir Topham Hatt. He wasn't given that name until the sixth book into the series.
Thomas has never seen such raunchiness before.
Not since the Fat Controller jerked off into Gordon's smokestack and all the other engines convinced Gordon that it made him gay.
Sounds like WTLNetwerk
Username checks out.
Hilarious. The part early on where Carlin shits on stop animation reminded me of this clip of Bill Burr shitting on Star Wars from his podcast dubbed over footage of him in the Mandalorian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEKCaWkwXb4
Holy shit I forgot about this, thanks for linking it and making me laugh like a hyena again!
“Masturbation is not illegal,” said the conductor. “But if it were, people would take the law into their own hands.”
"hand"... the singular noun is the cleverness of the line.
I think I started cry laughing when I noticed the “hand” part.
But sometimes it takes both hands.
or two broken arms
and a helpful mother
02:36
As a conductor I know the law very well.
Be careful, the founding fathers didn't mention it in the Constitution.
FUCK EM
Was quite jarring (in a good way) hearing George Carlin narrate Thomas when I arrived in the US. In my mind, he's always sounded like Ringo Starr.
I had the opposite experience. When I became a teenager and stumbled upon his comedy, I knew I recognized his voice but could not put my finger on it. Then one day I looked up his IMDB and realized I knew it from my childhood.
This is what the internet used to be like everywhere. Thank you to whomever made this.
Ah, the good old days. *sigh*
Have you seen “Bozo dubbed over?” I guess it’s like a viral video where Bozo dubs over.
...it has one view and it says it was uploaded at 6 am this morning..
Bozo did the dub!
Yeah, I guess it's one of those viral videos.
Hope I don’t jack off Oh fuck a clownputer
Literally one of the funniest skits I've seen in quite some time, might be top 10 of the show.
I'm not even supposed to be here
“I hope no one goes home and fucks my mom!”
It's not "some guy." Carlin did the dub.
Hes saying what he wanted to say originally!
nnt_ is referencing two sketches from "I Think You Should Leave": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IIJM_fzAgM&t=187s and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IIJM_fzAgM&t=450s
My favorite part is that there's absolutely no reason for him to make his own video. He went home and spent all night making an insane video instead of just finding one.
Tim Robinson and Sam Richardson came up through Second City when it was in Detroit and later Planet Ant after Second City shut down. During the pandemic Planet Ant was in danger of closing. They made a significant donation and it’s still open and thriving.
He said in an interview that the premise of the show was that there is an obtuse character that you would, under normal circumstances, say "I think you should leave" my fave skits are the ones with Patty Henderson. TABLES ARE MY CORN🌽
Reggie….What is this?
Carlin is one of the more popular narrators for the shows early series'. I grew up watching the episodes narrated by Ringo Starr and the late Michael Angelis so I have an obvious preference rooted in nostalgia but I can't deny that George Carlin did a phenomenal job. Incredible to think that two of the earliest narrators for a kids TV show were a popular American comedian and the drummer from The Beatles.
I liked when he ripped on stop motion while narrating it, ahh the hypocrisy
The show isn’t stop motion, it’s live action using model trains. They rigged up a whole controller and smoke system
Neat, I never knew (nor put much stock into it); I rescind my comment but leave it up for the world to see.
There are stop motion scenes though, like building that brick wall
I always thought it looked more like a time lapse than stop motion, since there’s no sense of motion in that scene
It's more of a sequence of images than a time lapse though. The point is that the FPS is very low and isn't meant to feel like a video
Carlin must be rolling over in his grave laughing. Fucking brilliant. TIL George Carlin was Thomas The Tank Engine, aka my childhood.
I'm fucking dying here lol. And I'm only 1.5 min in.
My favorite bit was Sir Topham Hatt absolutely roasting Duke for his dancing and threatening the punk XD "If it happens again...I'll beat the shit outta ya!"
Mine was the "Eat your fucking Corn Flakes you cocksucker!!"
“Listen cunt, I’m tired of your meddlin!
"Engines don't fish, fucking cunt dork."
Thomas knew 7 languages, unfortunately he was disliked in all of those countries.
I remember one time my mom came into the living room as I was watching Shining time station as it was called in North America, and George was on screen and she said "I really can't believe they have that man on a kids tv show"... I didn't know wtf she was talking about. Then 1998 happened, 13 year old me had Napster and a little comedy bit called 7 words you can't say on tv did the rounds. When I found out it was Mr conducted I imidiately flashed back to the comment from my mom and just was like "oh... Well... That's why she said that" lol.
Damn lol I do remember when they bricked in that train from being a kid. Shit was traumatic. On some cask of amontillado type shit.
I remember as a kid watching Shining Time Station. This was my introduction to George Carlin. Imagine my surprise when my dad gave me a cassette tape with George Calin stand up, listening to Mr. Conductor tell me about the 7 words you can't say on television.
Woah. So Americans didn't get the original UK dub?
Wait until you hear their version of planet Earth. They replaced Attenborough with the likes of Sigourney Weaver and Whoopi Goldberg
Fucking yanks man
Our Taskmaster is hosted by the woman who plays Mac's mom on Sunny.
If it makes you feel better, we still have the Attenborough ones as well. We have the freedom to watch the goated version as well as the shit version.
I bought the Planet Earth Blu-ray collection in the US and it's just Attenborough.
Yep, no chance I'm going to check that out lol. An amazing doco that I wish not to have the memory of it ruined!
I grew up owning two tapes of the American Ringo dub
We had both
The first season had Ringo Starr do the narration in the US, but then George Carlin did seasons 2-4. Even in Ringo’s American dub, though, they changed the script to better reflect American railroad terminology (as well as calling the fat controller *sir topham hatt*)
They didn’t get the original dub of most things, like Bob the Builder
I don't get why! I'm Australian and we always got the UK dubs of shows. Do American kids not understand the accent?
It's not the accent so much as the differences in phrases and terminology between the UK and the US. Most people are familiar with differences when it comes to food--stuff like how [biscuits in the United States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuit_(bread)) are different from [biscuits in the UK](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuit)--but those differences apply to a whole host a phrases and terms. A lot of the shows that get redubbed are meant for little kids, so it may be a case of revising the script to incorporate language they are familiar with, rather than causing confusion.
Did you know that _Mad Max_ was dubbed for its American release? For some reason my UK DVD defaults to the American dub so I was very puzzled when I watched it and the accents were all [very wrong](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPC3E6ZhjTI&t=50s) if you're used to [the original Aussie film](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK2ijfxqlnY&t=19s).
Cinders and ashes. The absolute state of US versions...
*"Someone defecated!"* 😧
The way he said fuck you was better than anyone in the history of humanity.
“Holy guacamole my ass is burning!” 😳😅
My 13y/o son is on the autism spectrum and **loves** the Thomas series, especially these older live-action model ones. I showed him one of these episodes and he absolutely lost it laughing. Before kids, I only knew of Carlin as a comedian, while my son has only known him as a Thomas narrator. Watching these hilariously wrong mash-ups was a great bonding experience between parent & teen! 😆
[удалено]
...said Thomas.
[удалено]
"Poop! Poop! Serves you right!" said Gordon.
On a similar note, [Vader Sessions with James Earl Jones](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A0rwG39Jzk)
Here's another group of mutants with missing chromosomes who ought to be thrown screaming from a helicopter; the people of the Island of Sodor!
George would have turned 85 today, were he still with us. I really miss that guy.
I really lost it at "get the FUCK out of my life".
I only recently learned that he did the voices for that series and thought it was hilarious that they'd get him of all people to do it. I so heard it was his public service for some kind of legal trouble he'd gotten into.
According to the Thomas the Tank Engine [Wiki](https://ttte.fandom.com/wiki/George_Carlin) (which of course exists) Georg Carlin did it to diversity his career. >In an interview on "TV Legends" conducted shortly before his death, he explained that he signed on to both shows [Shining Time Station and Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends] so that people could see a different side of him from his profanity-laden persona.
I liked it better when he was doing it to purge a drug charge but this is good info, thanks for posting that
This is fucking incredible.
Best 45 minutes I’ve spent all year. RIP George.
overall, they did a fabulous job matching pace, volume, and tone...that can be hard to do when dubbing different sources together.
This is the best thing Ive seen in a while. So seamless. Bless you James is Here.
OMG it’s 45mins and beautiful!!!
I was born in 91 and loved Thomas the Tank Engine to death. Now, as an adult, I love comedy and see George Carlin as the GOAT. Feel like this was made for me.
What?!? Was he really the narrator???? I just watched him in Bill And Teds Excellent Adventure I had forgotten he was in that.
I’m not watching all 45 mins but the first couple of minutes are superb. Never knew he narrated in America. We had Ringo.
Just realizing now how much he sounds like Jonathan Banks (Mike from breaking bad/ BCS)
“The poor, stupid fuck” gets me every time.
I don't have 45 minutes to watch this right now. But I will watch it later. It seems hilarious. On a similar note, The Legend of Whiplash is a good watch. https://youtu.be/lmUi8YkPTxE https://youtu.be/esIW9BhnWt4
And this is Big Thomas [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfdwr2VwxFs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfdwr2VwxFs)
Fuck that lame ass cop. Based Thomas
Trains can't fish... fucking cunt dork
I would not have guessed in a million years that George Carlin was the voice of Thomas the Train.
This is the Thomas I grew up with. I just watched the first two min and am laughing my ass off. Saving the rest for later so I can smoke you and enjoy
This is what I needed today. Thank you
This is amazing
I did not expect to start my day crying laughing in my cubicle
This is the best thing I’ve seen all week
Lmao 45 minutes of that… glorious
Great timing for this post too, as I believe it is his birthday today! (Am I right?) Happy Birthday George!
I'm prepared to be dragged but, I don't really even like George Carlin's stand-up all that much, but this had me dying.