DAY 3: ITS GREASEBALL ITS GREASEBALL ITS GREASEBALL THE DIESEL

DAY 3: ITS GREASEBALL ITS GREASEBALL ITS GREASEBALL THE DIESEL

- Favourite Actor?

nigel casey and al knott are PEAK greaseball to me, followed closely michael quinn, jeff shankley and rob torti !!!!

- Favourite Song/Scenes?

oh i have many, rolling stock, pumping iron, taunting rusty, ESPECIALLY terrorizing rusty, it’s ABSOLUTELY PEAK but i already spoke my peace on that, i also ADORE HIS APOLOGY TO DINAH IN THE 2018 BOCHUM UPDATE IS PEAK GB APOLOGY. THE WAY ITS FRAMED AS HIM HAVING TO COME TO DINAH’S LEVEL INSTEAD OF THE OTHER WAY AROUND IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING FAVORITE GB APOLOGY SONG.

- Favourite Costumes?

i’d say that the japan/australia tour had the best gb costume in my eyes, but basically any greaseball costume is like perfect to me. gb’s design peaked on the first go and they stuck with that ever since, even in the revival you can see how despite greaseball looking so different, she still has the yellow and black color scheme and general triangle shaped torso. (also despite me ADORING her prototype wig and frankly preferring it, gb’s current wig still fits her very well !! giving her a mullet was a perfect substitute for the og pompadour/elephant’s trunk)

- Favourite Ships/Friendships?

gb and the gang polycule truther FOR LIFE. also gb’s friendship with cb is always interesting even if it never got explored outside of there’s me and the intro to wide smile.

- Headcanons?

i think that greaseball is actually very smart, especially smart with all of their little cheating schemes. the reason that they can’t spell sorry correctly is because they’ve never once said or spelled it out before in their life ever up until having to apologize to dinah by the end of the show.

- Unpopular Opinion?

idk how unpopular but i HATE HATE HATE greaseball being converted to a steam engine at the end of the show, regardless of the show i hate it. i pretend it just doesn’t exist. like i could rant all i want about that but… i’m a little lazy ya see. either way it’s a stinky plot point that i refuse to acknowledge the existence of.

DAY 9: BELLE THE SLEEPING CAR(S)

- Favourite Actor?

honest i love both of memphis belle’s og actresses !! pp arnold and janet williams adderly were perfect for og belle. as for belle jr, ashlyn weeks and bethany rose-lythgoe are also both perfect for this belle.

- Favourite Song/Scenes?

for memphis belle, i’m ALWAYS a fan of her song, suggestive as it is. i love how belle knows her worth, and holds her head high, knowing that while she has lost her youth and beauty, she’s still the same sleeper as she was before, and her run down state says absolutely nothing about who she is as a person. additionally i love her passing down her knowledge to dinah in girl’s rolling stock, telling her that she can be awesome on her own (even if it is in service of getting greaseball back together with her) also her racing with rusty and defending him during the rap is amazing hello ???? i love belle being one of the few characters with an actual moral compass LMAO

for belle jr, she appears to be similar to belle the BAR car so most of my favorite scenes from her are the same for the bar car, however, i’m such a fan of her leading i am me and her and tassita assuring dinah that she is absolutely NOT at fault for greaseball breaking up with her. i love jr has the same moral compass and the desire to empower her fellow coaches as the original belle, it’s very much in spirit of what memphis would do.

- Favourite Costumes?

both of memphis belle’s costumes are pretty fire to me, but her broadway costume in my eyes is the most realized it has ever been. one of her shoulder boxes falling off, her little hat, her broken wheels, but that’s a tangent for another time.

belle jr has had one costume thus far and i have to say she has the strongest one out of all the coaches. her purpleness is like the best thing that could’ve happened to her, her shoulder pads, and neck pillow and spacey whoville hair is such a vibe ,,,,

- Favourite Ships/Friendships?

i’m very much a fan of both belles being close with the other coaches, and in a sense, being their LIFE coach. them both trying to help the younger coaches to flourish and be happy is so wholesome. i’m also interested in their relationship towards each other even if they never met and don’t even exist in the same show, im a sucker of the idea that memphis belle is belle jr’s mother, or at least a mother figure towards her. her being a parental figure to jr would certainly explain the latter’s inclination to empower her fellow coaches. additionally, memphis belle’s relationship with rusty is cute, it’s like he’s a grandson meeting his old man’s old flame from his youth, i think it’s cute !! if we also operate off the idea that jr is memphis’s daughter or daughter figure, i love the idea of her and rusty having a sibling like relationship, which could extend to slick as well (it completes the triad of rolling stock siblings !!!)

- Headcanons?

i think that belle jr was rather shy and reserved when she was younger, especially when she was brought in to replace memphis in the passenger train, og belle was EXTREMELY high class prior to retirement, so she left very big shoes to fill. however, much like poppa/momma with rusty, belle senior taught jr all that she knew about providing the best service to whatever passengers she would carry.

- Unpopular Opinion?

i don’t really have any !! i think that both belles are pretty awesome !!!

i literally have no words, so i shall not speak

DAY 5: ELECTRA THE ELECTRIC ENGINE

- Favourite Actor?

JEFFREY DANIEL AND DAVID MICHAEL JOHNSON AND TOM PIGRAM AND ZAINE GRIFF ARE PEAK ELECTRA AND I DONT THINK WE HAVENT REACHED THAT PEAK SINCE

- Favourite Song/Scenes?

AD/DC is stex’s showstopper for a REASON, ESPECIALLY WHEN ITS SCARY AND MYSTERIOUS AND ROBOTIC I JUST LOVE AC/DC. ADDITIONALLY I LOVE ELECTRA BEEFING WITH GB IN CODA, AND INSULTING RUSTY AND POPPA IN LAUGHING STOCK. and in the rap when electra continually refuses to race with rusty, before reluctantly agreeing to is pretty fun, AND ELECTRAS PARTS IN CB IS PERFECT. and no comeback, NO COMEBACK IS PEAK ELECTRA SONG. IT CONVEYS SO MUCH EMOTION, anger, embarrassment, sadness, PURE FURY AND MALICE, ALL PERFECT FOR THE AMOUNT OF DISGRACE ELECTRA IS IN. also them bargaining with slick/brake van with money to help them win is perfect especially when they are played as more desperate. it would be remiss to not mention electra spontaneously kissing gb during ORARTM, and them literally exploding after being so furious at seeing rusty winning the race.

- Favourite Costumes?

1987 japan australian tour was the BEST electra costume and i will not take criticism, also 2018 monochrome electra is pretty cool too, especially that glow in the dark hair ,,,,, i love watching it sway about whenever electra moves around.

- Favourite Ships/Friendships?

electra and the components polycule FOR LIFE !!!!! i’ve seen some people headcanon that dinah actually really gets to know electra and becomes good friends with them and i think that’s super cute so now i’m adopting that for myself !!! and as always, i think the idea of electra trying to be friends with pearl and rusty without doing anything to earn their forgiveness or friendship is super funny, especially if they don’t acknowledge that rusty and pearl DONT like them at all LMAO. also i do think that electra and the some of the components (basically everyone besides purse) have more of a proper friendship rather than a master/servant or boss/employee relationship. while yes, the components DO work under them, and electra is the one giving them money for their work, it’s much more similar to greaseball’s friends and how they back him up. as for purse, i think that his relationship with electra is similar to kermit and miss piggy’s from the abc muppet sitcom, and mettaton and burgerpants from undertale.

- Headcanons?

- i think that electra tried making a mobile phone line, the “ephone infinity deluxe 2.0: the phone of the future” which was literally just an iphone with a phone case that looks like electra, and siri was replaced with a electra’s voice ai, and that it was hastily coded in, making the phone unusable. when purse told electra to make an apology for scamming their fans, electra decided that the best course of action was to film a whole edm music video on public television called “MEA CULPA” (emphasis on ME)

- i think electra did try to leave after the embarrassment after losing the race and after a day of not having their components tending to their every need, in addition to no one giving any positive attention, electra returned to the yard but the components since moved on to other things and different people, and much like greaseball, because of their bad decisions, electra was made to do the boring shitty jobs rusty used to do, until he came back from his world tour

- i think much like mettaton, they have a cd album they play for purse which is full of songs about how bad he is at is job whenever they think he’s doing poorly.

- my electra is a streamlined, modern passenger train, rather than an sncf 40100

- Unpopular Opinion?

say for slick, electra is the least out all the stex villains. electra’s biggest crime is being fr*nch but aside from that, they’re just kind of a dick, play unfairly and conspire with cb.

DAY 4: DINAH THE DINING CAR

- Favourite Actor?

FRANCES RUFFELE, JANE KRAKOWSKI, DEBBIE WAKE AND EVE HUMPHREY ARE THE QUINTESSENTIAL DINAHS IN MY HEART

- Favourite Song/Scenes?

any dinah centric song is perfect to me, there’s me (including “that was unfair”) is very cool since it gives dinah a lot of depth, showing that while she is extremely attached to greaseball, she is very much not afraid to call him out when he’s doing bad things, also a huge fan of the variant, that’s me which is a fun way of looking into why dinah chooses to stay with greaseball despite her saying that he has left her before. i just really love any version where dinah stands up to greaseball, be it when they are being coach-ist in 2018 bochum and wembley, or when she tells greaseball to let rusty race him in “hey you, yes you” and continues to speak even after being told to shut it. also as always UNCOUPLED is dinah’s like, magnum opus, it’s SUCH a good song, it’s SUCH a good insight into dinah’s psyche, and such a good progression of emotions, to controlled sadness growing into BIG sadness, to anger to sadness once again (also i think it’s funny how eve humphrey perfectly hams up dinah’s sadness by having her BAWLING, HYSTERICALLY.) also both versions of dinah’s disco are wonderful, i love seeing dinah take her life into her own hands and decide what is gonna happen to her, same applies to girl’s rolling stock as well, i just LOVE seeing her gain more confidence and independence, it’s so sweet.

- Favourite Costumes?

like rusty and greaseball, dinah’s costume was already pretty, but the japan/australia tour dinah costume is PEAK dinah costume imo (and by extension any dinah costume between 1986 and 1990)

- Favourite Ships/Friendships?

i have been infected with kitchen repair syndrome, yes it is chronic, yes it has become terminal, no i am not upset (thank you @tabooi for enlightening me with dinahwrench thoughts forever). as for platonic relationships, HUGE fan of her and cb being friends, i like thinking about her friendship with pearl pre and post-show, i LOVE her being besties with all the coaches, especially buffy since she’s also the only food-coach, and i think rusty is an interesting friendship i haven’t seen much of, with them being able to understand how greaseball and pearl have upset them (though i might not be looking hard enough LOL)

- Headcanons?

for my dinah (when she is an actual coach), when she was first dispatched into work, she was enthralled with the hairstyles of the waitresses that worked inside her, so she had two large lamps fitted to the side of her head to mimic the shape of the waitresses’ hair, and even better, the sign above her head very much resembled their waiting tiaras as well. additionally, when she was first opened, dinah’s restaurant was originally called “someone’s in the kitchen with dinah,” but dinah soon had it changed to “dinah’s diner” since she believed it rolled off the tongue much better than the former.

- Unpopular Opinion?

i don’t see dinah with a straight southern accent, i see her as having more of a southern belle accent, she seems more like a southern belle to me

DAY 4: BELLE THE BAR CAR AND CARRIE THE LUGGAGE VAN

- Favourite Actor?

honestly i don’t keep up with bochum enough to properly gauge how much i like which actors play them so i kinda just like any actor who is portraying them right now !!

- Favourite Song/Scenes?

i guess i am me is pretty cool, sigh if only belle and carrie weren’t introduced like once and never did anything of note after that point.

- Favourite Costumes?

since their costumes barely changed, i’ll talk about what i like about them now !! i love how many aspects of ashley were incorporated into belle’s design, i love her little cocktail hat, it’s very cute.

as for carrie i like how different she looks from the other coaches, i think that’s a cute nod to her not actually being a real coach (even though that’s like 99% not what was intended)

- Favourite Ships/Friendships?

they are EACH OTHERS EVERYTHING. not in a romantic way (they’re just seeing other people)

- Headcanons?

belle

carrie originated from the uk !! prior to being transferred to the us, she made friends with a little orange cat in a waistcoat and a pocket watch. it wasn’t even a pet/owner relationship either, this was straight up just a fun friendship between coworkers. additionally, she felt shame knowing she couldn’t carry passengers like the other coaches, and considered being rebuilt so she could be a mix of both !!! however she grew to like being a luggage van, she thought it made her very unique from the other coaches, and is very proud to be one !!!

- Unpopular Opinion?

carrie is kinda forgettable, though that is absolutely not her fault because she unfortunately made the mistake of being a female character written by bigoted old white men in the alw musical starlight express.

this would only be an unpopular opinion in a dream i had about belle: she’s my problematic fave <33