YMMV / The Railway Series B16 "Branch Line Engines"

• Accidental Aesop: "Thomas Comes to Breakfast" has some of these, besides the intended "Don't take superficial compliments too seriously and become conceited":
  1. "Don't ever do things without an adult's help, even if they encouraged you to do it, because you'll cause destruction and/or possibly death."
  2. "Never build a house at the end of a train track."
• Broken Aesop: "Thomas Comes to Breakfast" is going for a cautionary tale about pride, but the careless cleaner obliviously changing Thomas' controls means that his humiliating experience with the stationmaster's house would have happened anyway.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Thomas. While he should have realised that his driver was joking about him [Thomas] not needing him anymore, his humiliating experience with the stationmaster's house would not have happened had the careless cleaner not changed his controls, and he gets blamed for the accident while the cleaner receives no punishment.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: The stationmaster and his wife. Tying into the anonymous idiot who chose the end of a train track of all places to build their house, they could have avoided their situation if they had foreseen the obvious danger of tracks heading directly towards their house with no buffers for protection and alerted railway workers, which they somehow failed to do. Unlike the barber from "A Close Shave", neither the stationmaster or his wife get a Jerkass Realization to mitigate things.

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