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My top 10 best and worst episodes of the Hit Era

SodorFan15

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My ranking of the top ten best and worst episodes of the Hit era of Thomas and Friends. I’ve been asked to follow up on my ranking of Nitrogen era episodes, so here you go. I hope you enjoy.

Time Stamps
00:00 Intro
00:46 10 Worst
02:04 10 Best
03:12 9th Worst
04:13 9th Best
05:47 8th Worst
07:38 8th Best
09:01 7th Worst
10:06 7th Best
11:22 6th Worst
12:24 6th Best
13:33 5th Worst
14:26 5th Best
15:54 4th Worst
17:22 4th Best
18:36 3rd Worst
20:16 3rd Best
22:39 2nd Worst
24:33 2nd Best
26:52 Dishonorable Mentions
27:40 1st Worst
29:22 Honorable Mentions
30:11 1st Best
31:42 Final thoughts and credits

Music Used

Barroom Ballet
Nothing Left to Ask For
William Tell Jet Engine (Arranged by Headm...
Two Idiots - The Henry Stickmin Collection
Chimney Bean Bebop
Video
E.G.G.M.A.N. (Instrumental) - Sonic Advent...
Railway Series: Edward the blue engine S1 ...
Jincheng Zhang - Atom Background Instrumen...
Broccoli On My Plate
Out Of Control
Fight to save the Empire (Instrumental)
Something Out of the Ordinary “Trials and ...
Lockdown Chase (Trailer Theme) - The Murde...
Video
Ode To Gordon fixed (S2)
Darkdub
Penguin
Emergency On Level 3
Hector the horrid’s theme (an SE100 original)
Thomas' Theme
Hector The Horrid! Instrumental
Piano Store – Jimmy Fontanez, Media Right ...
Grieg - In the Hall of the Mountain King
Coconut Mall - Mario Kart Wii OST
Stardrive

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20 Comments

@dasvelociraptorenrudel 1 year ago

Gordon, James & Duncan were the best part of this era.

@Archiebugg 1 year ago

3:14 ok that’s really controversial

@MichaelAyomideAllison 1 year ago

I swear, the show starts forgetting about certain characters as the seasons progresses!

@TotalPogoGuy 1 year ago

I think the Season 11 episode, Dream On, deserves a lot of credit for being able to mix up the three strikes formula in different ways.

@Slam_duncan03 2 months ago

19:30 the rest of the engines merely adopted speed, Spencer was born in speed, molded by it…

@josephward1071 1 year ago

Edward is suppose to be king and wise plus when someone new comes to the Island he should smile and greet them with kindness

@MichaelAyomideAllison 1 year ago

I'm surprised how Billy's episode didn't make it!
I mean, who really cares about a disobedient, childish orange saddle locomotive??!!

@chumbucketman010 1 year ago

3:46 The story is not terrible though.

1: It’s not majorly out of character, because it arguing literally *is* their character.

2: They literally made up for their mistakes, by putting aside their differences clearing the rocks.

3: The coach being flipped is barely relevant to the story, that’s the modellers fault, not the writers.

@chumbucketman010 1 year ago

8:14 What’s funny is that that’s literally how the when fandom sees him, as a 100% perfect character with no flaws and can do wrong, which is why most people despise this episode.

“Is pulling the mail train really any different from any other train? Come on.” -Tug.

@highoctanegames 5 months ago

8:53 Love the Bible verse

@RWSfan2026 8 months ago (edited)

6:50 hit era writers choosing main characters for episodes in a nutshell

17:02 Thomas The Tank Engine 3 & James

28:30 🎵driving in my car, right after a beer🎵

@GWR8417 1 year ago

Interesting to see someone other than me thinking that Percy and the Bandstand is a decent Percy episode

@DeCaptainOfFireFish 1 year ago

For god's sake, Rusty stopped because he couldn't see what was going on and Skarlowy told him to. The fact that next to no one can watch this episode properly is enraging.

@BSNblakleysportsnetwork-arok24 1 year ago

19:29 I am speed. -Lightning McQueen

@FriedWafflez8208 1 year ago

27:45 R.I.P. Trampy
Sunk but not forgotten

@toby.fan919 1 year ago (edited)

3:53 I mean, all they made the passengers do was lift the coach back on to the rails, they were the ones that cleared the rocks out of the way. Like what else were they supposed to do.

@vanessasandoval96 1 year ago

Honestly I can’t if Mighty Mac in CGI that they’ll have their argument again like Donald and Douglas and Bill and Ben

@vanessasandoval96 1 year ago

They should another Thomas spinoff about Narrow Gauge engines this time we should do the CGI Skarloey with his Man Voice
Characters: Skarloey Rheneas Sir Handel Peter Sam Rusty Duncan Duke Luke Mighty Mac Freddy Victor

@Zerneygreensaberman0728 7 months ago

Well, to me, I still think the hit era is a decent era since I was born in the dark ages of Thomas, which was the mid 2000s I did have nostalgic memories of every episode mainly because I had no memories of the classic series at least he’s one of my parents gave me some of the classic series for Christmas or my birthdays and I kind of like the classic series were kind of better than the hit era error but overall it’s rather decent

@Percyfan99 8 months ago

27:32 oh my god that episode steady Eddie is actually one of my biggest guilty pleasures

It’s just so bad it’s funny to me

And I also I like to jokingly say this out of character for normal Edward not season 12 Edward

Since I jokingly called them separate characters just because I find it funny

Season 12 Edward’s is also the other reason I consider him a separate character as a joke