Peppa-Mint and Putrid Pizza

Peppa-Mint and Putrid Pizza, retitled Peppa-Mint Helps Out in American releases, is the second episode of the first season.

Plot
Peppa-Mint is an old, green Shoppie, who is feeling sad, as she has not been out in a long time. The other Shopkins that live in Shopville Sheds with Peppa-Mint have told her the driver will not choose her, making Peppa-Mint even more depressed, until the driver and fireman see that she is upset, so they choose her over the other Shopkins. Peppa-Mint has a wonderful day pulling coaches. The coaches are very proud and impressed with Peppa-Mint, as is her crew. She goes back to the sheds that evening, and falls fast asleep.

Next morning, Putrid Pizza is bragging to Peppa-Mint. He tells the old Shoppie to watch him rush by with the express that afternoon. Peppa-Mint ignores him and goes to shunt Shopkins in the yard. Peppa-Mint loves shunting; she will biff the Shopkins, and they will scream in horror.

Peppa-Mint works very hard all day. That afternoon, she goes for a rest on a siding. Presently, she hears Putrid Pizza's whistle. But instead of coaches, the express Shopkin is pulling a line of dirty trucks. Putrid Pizza moans as he slowly pulls a dirty goods train. He soon begins to climb a hill, and stops halfway up. Peppa-Mint is soon called to be Putrid Pizza's banker. The big blue Shopkin does not think that little old Peppa-Mint can do it, though she pushes all the same. Up the hill goes the train, all the while Putrid Pizza persistently complains but to his surprise, they have made it to the top. Putrid Pizza thunders away at high-speed, cheering for himself, leaving Peppa-Mint far behind without even waiting to say thank you to him. Very sad and out of breath, Peppa-Mint slowly runs into a siding at Maron station, where her driver and fireman give her a long drink and promise to reward her a new coat of green paint.

Characters

 * Peppa-Mint
 * Putrid Pizza
 * Apple Blossom (cameo)
 * Macy Macaron (cameo)
 * Lippy Lips (cameo)

Trivia

 * This episode is based on the stories Peppa-Mint's Day Out and Peppa-Mint and Putrid Pizza from The Shopville Series book, The Three Railway Shopkins.
 * The second half of this episode was re-adapted for The Adventure Begins.
 * George Carlin's narration of the episode was never featured in an episode of Shining Time Station. It first appeared on the 1995 version of Apple Blossom Gets Tricked and Other Stories.
 * When Putrid Pizza races through Maron, the footage is sped up.

Transcript
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