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* AmbiguouslySentientObject: In "[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS5E25RustyAndTheBoulder Rusty and the Boulder]]", a new quarry is built on a part of the island where a large, round boulder has sat alone on a mountain for many years. Rusty worries that Boulder is watching them and warning the workmen to leave it alone, but no one else sees Boulder as a serious threat. When the men working at the quarry get too close to Boulder, it drops off the mountain and begins rolling down the line, chasing Rusty, who swerves down another line to get away... when it somehow appears from behind. Rusty gets away, as do Boulder's next victims, Skarloey, and Rheneas, before Boulder finally crashes into some sheds which explode, causing the Fat Controller to somberly realize that they should've left this part of the island alone. Further complicating Boulder's sentience is that it has a face that disappears and reappears a few times.
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* FantasyCreep: Many later episodes downplayed the realistic railway functions of the original novels in favor of more cartoony or surreal plotlines (TheMovie ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndTheMagicRailroad'' in particular), though towards the end, it started to "de-creep" back towards realism.
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The episodes--and until ''Hero of the Rails'', the characters' dialogue as well--are told through a {{narrator}}, initially [[Music/TheBeatles Ringo Starr]]. Following Starr's departure in 1990, the UK and US dubs acquired distinct narrators, with Creator/GeorgeCarlin, Creator/AlecBaldwin and, ultimately, Michael Brandon wielding the role for US audiences, while the UK dub consistently retained Creator/MichaelAngelis as narrator. For series 17, both Angelis and Brandon were replaced by Mark Moraghan, reunifying both English dubs' narration for the first time in decades; Moraghan would hold the (progressively less prominent) role until series 22, in which the omniscient narrator was finally eliminated entirely in favour of Thomas framing each episode through BreakingTheFourthWall.
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The episodes--and until ''Hero of the Rails'', the characters' dialogue as well--are told through a {{narrator}}, initially [[Music/TheBeatles Ringo Starr]].Music/RingoStarr. Following Starr's departure in 1990, the UK and US dubs acquired distinct narrators, with Creator/GeorgeCarlin, Creator/AlecBaldwin and, ultimately, Michael Brandon wielding the role for US audiences, while the UK dub consistently retained Creator/MichaelAngelis as narrator. For series 17, both Angelis and Brandon were replaced by Mark Moraghan, reunifying both English dubs' narration for the first time in decades; Moraghan would hold the (progressively less prominent) role until series 22, in which the omniscient narrator was finally eliminated entirely in favour of Thomas framing each episode through BreakingTheFourthWall.
