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George Carlin was the narrator for “Thomas the Tank Engine” from 1991–96. Someone had the good sense to take clips from the series and redub them with his raunchier comedy bits.
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George Carlin was the narrator for “Thomas the Tank Engine” from 1991–96. Someone had the good sense to take clips from the series and redub them with his raunchier comedy bits.
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“Masturbation is not illegal,” said the conductor. “But if it were, people would take the law into their own hands.”
Why is he not called “The Fat Controller” in the American version!
Thomas has never seen such raunchiness before.
That’s the version I grew up with. Never knew it was Carlin.
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.
Have you seen “Bozo dubbed over?” I guess it’s like a viral video where Bozo dubs over.
I lost it at “Someone defecated!”
I liked when he ripped on stop motion while narrating it, ahh the hypocrisy
I’m impressed they dedicated 45 minutes to this bit when 3 would have been fine.
Carlin must be rolling over in his grave laughing. Fucking brilliant. TIL George Carlin was Thomas The Tank Engine, aka my childhood.
The way he said fuck you was better than anyone in the history of humanity.
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.
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.
Woah. So Americans didn’t get the original UK dub?
I’m fucking dying here lol. And I’m only 1.5 min in.
This is what the internet used to be like everywhere. Thank you to whomever made this.
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 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.
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.
This is the best thing Ive seen in a while. So seamless. Bless you James is Here.
overall, they did a fabulous job matching pace, volume, and tone…that can be hard to do when dubbing different sources together.
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
*”Someone defecated!”*
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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
OMG it’s 45mins and beautiful!!!
“Engines don’t fish, fucking cunt dork.”
On a similar note, [Vader Sessions with James Earl Jones](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A0rwG39Jzk)
George would have turned 85 today, were he still with us. I really miss that guy.
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.
Thomas knew 7 languages, unfortunately he was disliked in all of those countries.
This is what I needed today. Thank you
“Holy guacamole my ass is burning!” 😳😅
I really lost it at “get the FUCK out of my life”.