The Sad Story Of Henry The Engine (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver) 

Nah, if they had swear words it won't be age restricted

I’ve seen some Thomas parody videos that have f bombs and they got marked made for kids anyway. For example Carson’s Henry and the F***ing Rain.

@@RogueRail goddammit coppa

#COPPASUCKS

Hey Victor! Didn’t expect you to pop up!

Wait, did my summoning spell work? 😮

VICTOR!?

Bro is luckier than anyone

Something tells me that he’s gonna recreate this but with a twist.

They don’t actually say but did they actually get the original models or did they have to make some for the parody because I could totally see John Oliver going the extra step of getting an actual Henry model used in the original show.

​@@HitchcockJohnhe would have braged that they were the originals if they were.

Saw a comment somewhere else that it was indeed an original. A guy sold one, on ebay I think, and said the address was to the Last Week Tonight offices.

Henry actually looks like it might be original - the people and other cars are generic but are similar enough

The people are a bit modernized but otherwise definitely fit the style of the original show. I'm pretty sure that fire engine is new but it definitely looks like it wouldn't be out of place in the series.@@jwace

I always call Precision Scheduled Railroading “Pretty Shitty Railroading”

It's a parody. You can't sue for a parody

@@realsupernova222 While I believe in this case it'd be found as fair use, you absolutely can be sued for parody. You can be sued for anything, doesn't mean the litigant will win, but when it comes to parodies they really can win if you're using copyrighted material to make fun of something else than the copyrighted material. Thomas the Tank Engine, a quaint kids show about trains, is being juxtaposed with very serious adult matters also about trains, while making a bit of fun at the tropes of the show at the same time. Had somebody used Thomas the Tank Engine to just make fart jokes or something similarly banal, with no greater meaning and with no real jokes aimed at the themes and tropes of Thomas, it could have been considered a parody but would have be much more vulnerable to lawsuits on copyright grounds. This is a very general statement, focusing on American copyright law. Other countries have entirely different parody allowances in their copyright laws, the UK for example has an almost anything goes attitude in terms of using copyrighted materials to make new jokes, except for 'hateful' or 'discriminatory' content in parodies.

Spam?

Impressed.

@@williamhumes7332 I like the classic model style of the original Thomas series, but the part of the children's hospital burning down was little too extreme, and the freight cars that Henry was pulling were American rolling stock and not British Railway, like the Troublesome Trucks. Henry may be a big and strong engine, but even he would know that's impossible to pull a goods train THAT long.

@@gradynaylor959or as the thin controller

​​@@gradynaylor959its called a parody for a reason. This was made both as satire and to show what corporate greed would eventualy leads to through a popular media. This was a representation of the american railroading in a nutshell. Atleast try to understand that before nerding out all on everything.

@@rafidhiyaulhaq1107 I understand now. It was just my first time seeing this and knowing about the long train scheme in the US.

I mean they’re both British

How is that a downside to freedom of speech? Cause they have different opinions than you? You just sound like a major hypocrite

@@daltongalloway Perhaps I could have worded that better. In the Dangerous Freedom stance from Thomas Jefferson, no one is going to agree on everything. My stance right now is that how a foreigner views a country they do not reside in is something that is not worth listening to. My opinion on that may change or it may not. I'm willing to see how well this will age. Also, every person will be a hypocrite at some point in their life. That's just being human.

@@lukechristmas3951 no there is a difference between naturally being a hypocrite and purposefully being one. You just don’t think it’s a valuable opinion because it does not agree with your own.

@@daltongalloway If that's what you think, then alright. I'll admit, I'm not someone who watches John Oliver's show and have no current interest to. I'll take this as food for thought.

George is probably the better choice

@@YeomasBros.2008 ………George is dead, and was never the narrator of Thomas the Tank Engine.

@@Mr.E723 yes, George Carlin was the narrator look it up

Same lol

Yeah I think it was made from a Lionel engine

Fr but it would make more sense with Murdoch instead

Or Gordon, or even Hank or Sam.

No. Janes is more appropriate.

And N scale!

@@milkythomas9029 it’s like fantastic Mr fox they make different scales for different shots

It is

Actually, Henry is an engine

@@matteocaiti4878 true fact

Fr trains are the things the engines pull idk what people are thinking

ha

A missed opportunity

I wouldn’t put it past them to commission SudrianAfro for music.

The Late Night Show

Best friend it is in the title

Get out

Why@@milkythomas9029

@@RichmondVirginiaadventures they're 1 last hi stepney

Question mark

Hand grenades

@@stepneybulstrodemusic1761 UH HI HI WOW UH HI I LOVE YOUR MUSIC HI

@@milkythomas9029 haha thank you! I appreciate it

No

Nah

Tbf later seasons made Henry primarily a freight engine