LOS ANGELES -- All aboard the express train to crazy town, where Neil Patrick Harris commemorates Thomas the Tank Engine's 70th anniversary in a Funny or Die video during which he basically just shouts at children.
Harris, whose two kids have watched Thomas and Friends with him in the past, stars as a short-tempered Tankie surrounded by children who are hardcore Tankies, too.
"As it turns out, our kids are fans and I liked [Funny or Die's] idea of being 'Thomas Obsessed'," Harris, 41, told Mashable. "Since I’m morally obligated to not do that in my real life, I thought it’d be potentially cathartic to shout at paid professional child actors instead."They were lovely -- once they stopped crying."
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