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Tugs E 7 High Tide Recap

On the day of the highest tide Bigg City has seen in years, the Star Fleet and Z-Stacks are competing for a contract delivering steel- and when Zak’s high load damages a railway bridge, Top Hat, towing Lord Stinker (much to his displeasure) is the only one around to do something about it.

Tropes in this episode include:

  • Blatant Lies: Zak claims that there’s nothing wrong with his engine as smoke billows out of it.
  • Dramatic Irony: After Top Hat saves the bridge, the scene cuts to a tired Ten Cents and Sunshine.
    Sunshine: I bet everybody else had a really easy day waiting for the tide to go down.
    Ten Cents: Yeah, I bet Top Hat delivered Lord Stinker, then moored up somewhere more quiet.
  • Game of Chicken: Zebedee and Zak meet Top Hat in a narrow canal, on opposite sides of the railway bridge; Top Hat’s wide load makes it so they can’t pass each other, and they end up powering towards the bridge in the hopes of getting there first. Top Hat ends up losing… because he sees that the Z-Stacks’ high load will hit the bridge, and doesn’t want to be there when it happens.
  • Improvisational Ingenuity: With the railway bridge damaged and a train approaching, Top Hat manages to save the train by pushing the steel rig that damaged the bridge in the first place further under it in order to prop it up. Miraculously, this works. Unfortunately, the rig capsizes immediately afterwards, and the bridge gives out just as a second train approaches.
  • Laser-Guided Karma:
    • After Top Hat makes fun of Big Mac for being dirty (he was working with coal all night), Captain Starr promptly puts Top Hat on… garbage duty.
    • Zebedee and Zak try to deliver their loads before Big Mac and Warrior by taking a shortcut in the hopes of winning the steel contract. This results in Zebedee's steel rig damaging the railway bridge. When word gets out, the Steel Company is not pleased with the damage and ends up giving the contract to the Star Fleet.
  • Track Trouble: The damaged railway bridge gives out just as the goods train approaches, threatening to send the train straight into the water.
  • Trash Landing: Lord Stinker the garbage barge ends up saving the goods train (or at least the engine; some of the cars still go into the water) by having Top Hat push him in front of the broken section of bridge.

 
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As a high-priced railway tug, Top Hat doesn't take well to lesser jobs, especially garbage duty.

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