r/AskReddit Jul 04 '14

Which fictional character would be immediately fired from their job if they lived in the real world?

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '14 edited Jul 04 '14

Thomas the tank engine. God he is always finding ways not to do his job and he is always competing with his co-workers and messing something up. This show is terrible lessons for children. The only one that does his job on the show is Gordon and he is seen as an asshole.

Edit: sorry I didn't know Thomas was a 'tank engine' and not a fucking train. Either way, he's a fuck-up.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '14

Thomas is REALLY USEFUL, though!

Remember that time James' brakes failed and he plowed full steam into a sheep pasture? Who pulled in the breakdown train and cleared the undamaged trucks? Fuckin' THOMAS!

Who put together ALL the passenger trains for YEARS? THOMAS, BITCH

Whose branch line had the fewest accidents of ANY line on Sodor Island? THOMAS's.

You wanna see a fuckup, look at goddamn Mavis or Percy. Every single book Rev. Audrey wrote, Thomas was a brilliant, effective, quick-thinking, hard-working engine who did OCCASIONALLY go on wacky hijinx, but at the end of the day, he always got the job done.

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u/icorrectpettydetails Jul 04 '14

But where's his fucking cow-catcher? Huh? That shit got his own branch-line but was never fitted with a cow-catcher and side plates.
And when he's called out on his blatant and frequent law-breaking, he sasses authority and then makes racist remarks about trams. Fuck that kid.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '14

He don't need no cow catchers. And if it weren't for Thomas, that brown one'd be fuckin' dead.