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
Cartoons and Songs
- Let's All Work Together
- Cartoons used in the song:
- Happy Harmonies - To Spring (1936)
- Color Classics:
- Greedy Humpty Dumpty (1936)
- All's Fair at the Fair (1938)
- Ants in the Plants (1940)
- Screen Songs:
- Spring Song (1949)
- Little Brown Jug (1948)
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.
- The original airing from 1989 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.
- Eighteen years after this episode was taped, Pluto would be removed from the list of planets in the solar system, making a total of 8, but if you followed Didi's lead and excluded Earth, you'd still be wrong.
| #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 | |