What in the actual hell was the deal with Shining Time Station? Did the producers know where the bodies were buried in Hollywood, and then try and parlay that knowledge into a weird children's show about talking trains and tiny conductors?
That Ringo Starr and George Carlin ("Get me the two most famous yet disparate scruffy guys with beards you can find!") were the hosts of the show is unfathomably weird, but also, Frenchy from Grease was on the show too. As a kid, you didn't notice any of this until an adult walked in and went "Jesus, that's nuts" and you shrugged as Thomas and his anthropomorphic locomotive friends (also weird: trains with big round human faces) saved the day.