Whistle While You Work is the eighth episode of Shining Time Station.
Plot
Stacy, Tanya, Matt and Mr. Conductor are cleaning the station. Schemer complains and says he can make the station more popular by advertising. He thinks little jobs are not important. This leads to him saying history is "in the past" and tries to make Shining Time "the future". This causes some problems and he later learns to take more responsibility and to work with others.
Cast and Characters
Main Cast
- Ringo Starr as Mr. Conductor
- Didi Conn as Stacy Jones
- Leonard Jackson as Harry Cupper
- Nicole Leach as Tanya Cupper
- Brian O'Connor as Schemer
- Jason Woliner as Matthew Jones
Flexitoon Puppeteers
- Peter Baird as Grace Bass
- Craig Marin as Rex
- Olga Marin as DiDi
- Alan Semok as Grace Bass
- Vaneese Thomas as Grace Bass
- Wayne White as Tex
Guest Starring
- Clinton Smith as Ed the Stilt Man
Thomas Stories
Jukebox Band Song
- Pop Goes the Weasel
Cartoons and Songs
- Let's All Work Together
- Cartoons used in the song:
- Happy Harmonies - To Spring (1936)
- Fleischer Studios
- Ants in the Plants
- Fleischer Studios - Greedy Humpty Dumpty
- Noveltoons:
- Spring Song (1949)
- Little Brown Jug (1948)
- Fleischer Studios - All's Fair at the Fair
Trivia
- The title is based on a song of the same name from Walt Disney's 1937 film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
- This is the first episode where none of the members of the Jukebox Band sing a song.
- When the episode was uploaded on Johnson and Noddy's YouTube channel on May 15th of 2022, it had additional music cues intact such as the one before Mr. Conductor tells "Tenders and Turntables" as well as a different one at the end.
| #01 A Place Unlike Any Other | #10 Happy Accidents | #19 Things that Go Ga-Hooga in the Night |
| #02 Does it Bite? | #11 Ring in the Old | #20 Is This the End? |
| #03 And The Band Played Off | #12 Impractical Jokes | |
| #04 Pitching In and Helping Out | #13 Finders Keepers | |
| #05 Show and Yell | #14 Just Wild About Harry's Workshop | |
| #06 Faith, Hope and Anxiety | #15 Promises, Promises | |
| #07 Agree to Disagree | #16 Word's Out | |
| #08 Whistle While You Work | #17 Too Many Cooks | |
| #09 Two Old Hands | #18 Mapping It Out | |