Yabba, Yabba, Yabba is the twelfth episode of the second season and overall the thirty-third episode of Shining Time Station.
Plot
The episode opens with Mr. Conductor sitting on the information booth, making an entry in his diary while Stacy is on the phone with her sister, Tracy, talking about Tracy's new boyfriend. He saw three cows grazing in a farm's field on his way back from Doodle Haven, and asks why the cows' milk is white and not green like the grass they eat. Mr. Conductor also asks if fish sleep as he writes the question into his diary. He ends the entry by writing that these are private questions meant only for the diary, and then vanishes. Just as Stacy finishes her conversation, Schemee suddenly appears asking her what she and her sister were talking about. Stacy doesn't reveal the conversation saying it's not nice to listen to everyone's private conversation as he might hear things he might not like.
After Kara, Dan and Becky hear a story from Mr. Conductor about Duck's interaction with Diesel, the mail comes into the station, one of them is a letter from Becky's penpal, Maria, which Schemee desperately wants to read. Schemer then arrives and breaks up the fight and confronts Schemee's curiosity with private conversations. He mentions to his nephew that the station is haunted by ghosts (in actuality it's Mr. Conductor and his magic) which Schemee takes with a grain of salt and if they encounter something they should always be truthful to each other. After hearing the song 'Old Dan Tucker' by the Jukebox Gang, Schemee suddenly puts walkie talkies all around the station in order to hear everyone's private conversation and lies to Schemer that they're for catching ghosts.
Kara, Dan and Becky quickly discover the operation, though there's nothing much they can do to stop it, especially when Schemee taunts them for being tattletales. They soon spot Mr. Conductor and alert him of the walkie talkie nearby him which he covers with a blanket. After telling him about Schemee and listening to another story between Duck and Diesel at the harbor, Mr. Conductor tells the kids the only way to stop Schemee is to turn his curiosity against him.
The three concoct a plan and then talk loudly about some toys Stacy hid somewhere in the station which riles Schemee up and turns the station upside down. When he's not looking, Mr. Conductor uses his magic to clean up the station which shocks Schemee. Believing the station to be really haunted, he pounds on a signal drum Billy Twofeathers showed the kids earlier alerting Schemer to his presence. Once they get into the topic of the walkie talkies, Schemee unintentionally reveals his true motive of the devices before realizing he's been caught. Appalled at being lied to, Schemer punishes his nephew by using a comb to put his curl down. When Stacy and the kids arrive, Schemer mentions the walkie talkies but doesn't reveal Schemee's true motives. Stacy jokes that the station is haunted whenever Schemer is around which Schemer isn't around, only to get scared by Mr. Conductor who spooks him from behind.
Cast and Characters
Main Cast
- George Carlin as Mr. Conductor
- Didi Conn as Stacy Jones
- Tom Jackson as Billy Twofeathers
- Erica Luttrell as Kara Cupper
- Ari Magder as Dan Jones
- Danielle Marcot as Becky
- Brian O'Connor as Schemer
Flexitoon Performers
- Jonathan Freeman as Tito Swing
- Olga Felgemacher-Marin as DiDi
- Craig Marin as Tex
- Peter Baird as Grace
- Kenny Miele as Grace
- Alan Semok as Rex
Guest Starring
Mentioned Characters
- Tracy (mentioned)
Thomas Stories
Jukebox Band Segment Song
- Old Dan Tucker
Trivia
- This episode appears to have been taped alongside the final scene of The Magic is Believing as all the cast members are wearing the same clothes.
- The scene of Schemee turning the station upside-down looking for toys is sped up.
- Schemer's hypocrisy is illustrated explicitly in this episode when he punishes Schemee for lying to him, in spite of the fact it is something that Schemer himself does to others quite a lot during this series. It could be due to his idea of his family members being honest to each other.
- Train footage from Going Home & B&O Birthday Party is used.
Goofs
- When Mr. Conductor magically shuts the doors to the filing cabinet in Billy's workshop, wires can be seen on their handles.
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| #01 Scare Dares | #10 Washout | #19 Jingle, Jingle, Jingle |
| #02 Oh, What a Tangled Web | #11 Crackpot | #20 All's Fair |
| #03 The Magic is Believing | #12 Yabba, Yabba, Yabba | |
| #04 Win, Lose or Draw | #13 Nickel in a Pickle | |
| #05 Sweet and Sour | #14 Stop the Press | |
| #06 Achoo | #15 He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not | |
| #07 A Dog's Life | #16 Double Trouble | |
| #08 Field Day | #17 Is Anybody There? | |
| #09 Wrong Track | #18 Do I Hear | |