My 2 year old son is a Thomas the Tank Engine nut, which is as much a joy as you can possibly imagine, getting to watch episodes of Thomas over and over again until I could perform them flawlessly on streetcorners for the delight of passersby.  Well for Christmas I gave him the DVD of the Thomas feature film, entitled The Great Discovery.  The movie is all well and good, narrated by Pierce Brosnan, which is a nice little change from Alec Baldwin and George Carlin, and apparently Ringo Starr, though I’ve never seen any of the episodes he voiced as yet, but give it time. 

At the end of the movie, the usual theme song plays, which I’ve heard already a million times.  It’s fairly annoying with the choir of British kids singing, but otherwise typical stuff and relatively harmless.  To give yourself some context, you should listen to at least the first line or two of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw522GIskVc.

The real treat, though, is the new version of the theme song, which plays right after the original version on the DVD.  Got that pencil handy?  Good.  You’ll need it to rupture your eardrums in a second, and probably to jam up your nose in an hour or so for the purpose of self-lobotomization when this gets stuck in your head: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETSz0g9KP-Q.

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