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* [[Scenery Gorn]]: The Vicarstown Dieselworks, which is filthy, grimy and full of broken machinery, including a broken crane. {{spoiler|And then it catches fire.}}
* [[Serious Business]]: Pretty much every race Thomas gets in. Similarly, the railway itself is a [[Serious Business]] since pretty much everything on Sodor is somehow affected by the railway. Especially in later seasons.
* [[Seasonal Rot]]: The general consensus is that this first occurred after Season 7 when Britt Alcroft and many other original crew members departed from the series and Hit Entertainment took over.
** While Season 8 is regarded as when the series began to lose steam, though it has been [[Vindicated
** Seasons 9-12 are a low point for the series. The storylines got dumbed down to appeal to a very young audience and became increasingly repetitive and formulaic, such as by having the three strikes formula, where a character makes a mistake three times before realizing their error and setting things right, the narrator started always explaining actions as if the audience couldn't figure it out on their own, the characters getting flanderized a ton, one-off characters started being introduced for the sake of merchandising, and worst of all, it became clear that HiT Entertainment saw the series as nothing more than a marketing machine, and it effectively became a 30-minute toy commercial.
** Seasons 13-16 are the lowest point of the series and worsened the problems of Seasons 9-12. The writing got much worse and extremely poor ("His firebox was on fire" is a prime example), the three strikes formula got way overused, there were multiple continuity errors and much more.
** It wasn't until Season 17 when the series finally returned to its former glory thanks to Andrew Brenner taking over as head writer, who knew how the series worked.
** Sadly, this didn't last as the series went downhill again with the "Big World! Big Adventures!" rebrand from Seasons 22-24.
* [[Shallow Parody]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20210301214204/https://myspace.com/ Thomas The Chav Engine]{{Dead link}}
** Ernest the Engine Cart from Australian series Comedy Inc..
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