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Billy's Party is the seventh episode of the third season and overall the forty-eighth episode of Shining Time Station.
Plot
It's Thanksgiving and Billy is very busy. He plans on spending his Thanksgiving with a group that calls themselves The Boomers and the Hobos: railroad workers and nomads who gather for the holiday, and have invited Billy to be their guest of honor.
Despite his efforts to leave for the celebration, Billy finds himself tending to one crisis after another. First, he has to fix an old broken train and get it running for the extra crowds. Then, he has to drive Ginny to a nearby town to help her buy a pre-cooked replacement turkey, as her troublemaking dog has destroyed her original one. Then he has to catch up a train, that took off with Schemer on it, and get him back, so he can get home to his own mother.
All of this causes him to miss the last train out of the station, and it seems like he'll be spending Thanksgiving alone. However, at the last minute, everyone comes back to the station opting to spend Thanksgiving together with him.
Quotes
- Stacy: "Oh, Ginny, please. just try to calm down and tell us what happened."
- Ginny: "Well, you know my dog."
- Stacy: "Yes? the one you renamed Mr. Filthy?"
- Ginny: "Yeah well this time he's really gone and done it. I took the turkey outta the oven. and he's lookin' at it like a pointer. and I thought: that's kinda cute. when all of a sudden, he lunged, attacked, ran out the back door with it and tore it to shreds."
- Stacy (off screen): "Ohhhhhhh!"
- Ginny: "And now, I don't have a turkey."
- Kara: "Mr. Filthy is a bad dog."
- Ginny: "From now on, his new name is Mr. Get Outta There. Oh what am I gonna do? my nephew and his wife are coming for dinner."
- Stacy: "Oh. you know something?"
- Ginny: "What?"
- Stacy: "There's a place in Dillylick that has pre-cooked turkeys. and I'm sure they're open for at least another half an hour."
- Ginny: "Oh. I can't make it to Dillylick."
- Billy: "Well you could if I took you there."
- Ginny: "You'd do that for me?"
- Billy: "Sure."
- Ginny: "Oh come on. let's go. time's a wastin.
- Midge: Hi Ginny.
- Ginny; Hey Midge!
- Midge: Have you been invited to the Wellington Hooventines Thanksgiving Party?
Characters
Main Cast
- George Carlin as Mr. Conductor
- Didi Conn as Stacy Jones
- Tom Jackson as Billy Twofeathers
- Erica Luttrell as Kara Cupper
- Danielle Marcot as Becky
- Ari Magder as Dan Jones
- Brian O'Connor as Horace Schemer
The Flexitoon Puppeteers
- Jonathan Freeman as Tito Swing
- Olga Felgemacher-Marin as DiDi
- Craig Marin as Rex
- Peter Baird as Grace
- Kenny Miele as Grace
- Alan Semok as Tex
- Steven Feldman as The Turkey (uncredited)
Guest Cast
Thomas Story
Jukebox Band Segment Song
- We Gather Together
Cartoons and Songs
Trivia
- This is the only Thanksgiving episode, and oddly it even aired in April instead of November.
- Fittingly, this episode was rebroadcast on Thanksgiving week in 1993
- Becky and Kara reference two other holidays, Christmas and New Year's Eve.
- Old Reliable, The Cloggyville Express, and Old Dependable were mentioned.
- The locomotive Billy drove in this episode later appears in one other episode, Billy's Runaway Train and the special, Queen for a Day.
- For some unknown reason JB King isn't spending Thanksgiving with his brother, sister-in-law, and Buster. It is possible that they live somewhere else and he couldn't travel to where they lived due to his work schedule.
- Although they're never seen it is most likely that the Wellington Hooventines who invited Midge to their thanksgiving party are rich snobby people who think they're better than everyone else.
Goofs
- Thomas and Percy's Mountain Adventure is listed in the credits as a Christmas special via the original UK title.
| #01 Becky Makes a Wish | #10 Schemer Goes Camping | #19 Mysterious Stranger |
| #02 Schemer's Alone | #11 Mr. Conductor's Evil Twin | #20 Dan's Big Race |
| #03 Bully for Mr. Conductor | #12 Bad Luck Day at Shining Time Station | #21 Mr. Conductor Gets Left Out |
| #04 Stacy Cleans Up | #13 Mr. Conductor's Fourth of July | #22 Mr. Conductor's Big Sleepwalk |
| #05 Schemer's Robot | #14 Stacy Forgets Her Name | #23 The Mayor Runs for Re-Election |
| #06 Billy Saves the Day | #15 Schemer's Special Club | #24 Stacy Says No |
| #07 Billy's Party | #16 Mr. Conductor's Movie | #25 How the Station Got Its Name |
| #08 Fortune Teller Schemer | #17 The Joke's on Schemer | |
| #09 Billy's Runaway Train | #18 Dance Crazy | |