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Daring Do: The Motion Picture is the fourteenth episode of the alternate seventh season of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic and the one hundred fifty-seventh overall.

After watching the Daring Do movie, Rainbow Dash feels that it wasn’t as good as she thought, so she decides to make her own movie under AK Yearling’s approval.

Production
This is the first Daring Do episode where Daring isn't in her explorer outfit at all, and is in her A.K. Yearling disguise the entire time.

This is also the first episode Mr. Cake appears without Mrs. Cake.

This is also the episode where Snips gets to shine, while Snails got to shine in Buckball Season!

Starlight Glimmer, Scorpan, and the Cutie Mark Crusaders make a BG role in here, and the BG ponies that appear in this episode are Amethyst Star, Berryshine, Caramel, Cherry Fizzy, Goldengrape, Golden Harvest, Lyra Heartstrings, Meadow Song, Minuette, Orange Swirl, Perfect Pace, Royal Pin, Sassaflash, Sea Swirl, Shoeshine, Sprinkle Medley, Sweetie Drops, Twinkleshine, and Sunshower Raindrops.

Summary
Outside the Ponyville Theater, the Mane Six waited in line as they were really excited as they waited in line so they can finally watch the Daring Do movie; Rainbow Dash especially. She explains how excited she is to watch the premiere of Daring Do: And the Sapphire Statue – The Movie for the first time. Each of them explain why they’re so excited to see it. Pinkie Pie explains the joys of what makes a movie different from a book, Rarity of course is excited to see the costumes, Twilight Sparkle wants to know how the story in the movie is different from the book and how it’s the same, Applejack just wants to relax, and Fluttershy claimed to just come along because she was asked to; as for Rainbow Dash, she explains how excited she is to see Daring Do in action live from the big screen, and much to her luck, A.K. Yearling shows up to watch the movie with them, saying she wants an honest opinion about it from the Mane Six themselves, which made Rainbow Dash fangirl.

When the Mane Six and A.K. Yearling head inside the theater to watch the movie, Pinkie of course buys figuratively everything in the snack bar before finally taking a seat next to her friends. Rainbow Dash asks A.K. how making the movie was for her, but she tells her that she wasn’t in the movie, and that she’s too camera shy to act in her movies, so somepony else played as her. Rainbow tells A.K. that nopony could be as good as her, but A.K. tells her that it’s just a movie, and not the real deal. Rainbow then couldn’t make up her mind of asking A.K. the spoilers in the movie, but A.K. tells her that she hasn’t even seen it yet. When A.K. takes her seat somewhere else, Rainbow Dash and Twilight excitedly brag about how awesome the movie is going to be, until Applejack shushes them as the movie is about to start. When the movie starts, Rainbow complains that the movie isn’t starting off in a jungle, but at a museum. Twilight tells her that they might’ve made changes to the movie from the original story, which made Rainbow a little annoyed, but Fluttershy tells her it might be better this way, in which Twilight agrees. As they continued watching the movie, they find out the Ahuizotl used to be a pony, and Daring Do’s partner that she left behind on a temple journey, in which Rainbow begins to complain about it’s canon to the original series, but Twilight tells her how interesting it looks. Dr. Caballeron also makes an appearance in the movie even though he doesn’t appear in the first book, and how his accent sounds different. Twilight hesitantly tells her that it sounds better that way. Rainbow keeps noting to Twilight about how many different changes the movie had from the original book, and Twilight felt hesitant when telling her that it doesn’t sound so bad, but eventually, she gave in, and she joined Rainbow halfway through the movie pointing out all the flaws.

When the movie finally ended, Applejack, Pinkie, Fluttershy, and Rarity all cheered of how good the movie was, and how good the graphics were and how “exquisite” the costumes were. Twilight and Rainbow Dash however felt unsatisfied when the movie ended. Twilight started talking about all the positives about the movie trying to hide her beliefs of the movie being terrible, but Rainbow Dash finally gets her to admit it after she claims how awful the movie was. Rainbow explains how the actors weren’t even trying, and how the entire story was completely different from the book. Twilight felt that she wanted to ask A.K. how she felt about the movie, but Rainbow begs her not to tell her the movie was bad, because she think it would make her feel bad because her “number one fan and her friend” didn’t like her first movie. Ironically for them, A.K. was the first to ask them how they liked the movie. The rest of the Mane Six claim to have liked it, but Twilight and Rainbow didn’t know what to say. They finally tell her that they liked it, hoping that would make her feel good, but it turned out that A.K. didn’t like the movie at all, and thought it was absolutely terrible because it didn’t follow the canon of her stories, and the actors were really bad. Rainbow angrily agreed, telling her that the movie was a completely rip-off of her books. A.K. felt that she wanted to complain to Iron Shoe Studios, but she already gave them the legal rights to make it so she really can’t have a say. Rainbow Dash tells her that they should head over there right away to complain to them, and to remake the movie. Rarity, claiming to know Applewood well tells Rainbow Dash that she can’t just tell them to remake the movie since it’s their movie. Her complaints wouldn’t matter to them. Rainbow Dash wishes to prove her wrong by sending the head of Iron Shoe Studios an angry letter.

Later that night at her cloud house, Rainbow Dash immediately starts to write a letter about how she felt about the movie, and tells Tank that she’s going to save A.K. Yearling and her books’ reputation by ordering them to change the movie and to make the fans happy.

The next day came, and Rainbow Dash met up with the rest of her friends at the Castle of Friendship throne room so Rainbow Dash can read her letter out loud to her friends. After some outrages things from Pinkie, Rainbow got started reading the letter from the boss of Iron Shoe Studios. The boss wrote that she’s entitled to her own opinion, but it’s policy to not accept suggestions from fans, and that the movie is not going to be changed. The rest of the Mane Six apologize to Rainbow for not getting what she wanted, but they tell her that the movie wasn’t that bad, but Rainbow reminds them that they haven’t read the book so they wouldn’t understand. Just as Fluttershy says that she wishes that there was way to make another movie, Rainbow Dash hatches an idea in her head, saying that she wants to make a brand new Daring Do movie – one just like the books. All of the Mane Six except for Twilight get excited for Rainbow Dash’s idea; Rarity is excited to be making costumes for the movie, Pinkie Pie and Applejack both really want to make the background sets, and Fluttershy claims that she wants to be the one to control the lights on the set to make sure they shine on the cast and not on her, and Rainbow Dash offers Twilight the director position. Twilight then explains to her how difficult it is to make a movie, but Rainbow tells her that with all her friends, they’ll be able to pull it off. Twilight couldn’t argue with that, but the only thing missing is the rights from A.K. Yearling, which Rainbow Dash claims to have it under control, but Twilight doubts it after the disastrous movie she trusted the movie company to make.

Twilight and Rainbow Dash both meet up with A.K. Yearling at the The Hay Burger. As Twilight starts scoffing her food, A.K. thanks them both for showing up, and wonder what they want to talk about. Rainbow Dash explains that she needs to give the movie business another chance by having she and her friends make a new movie that’s just like the story, much like how she experienced it. A.K. didn’t have a very good feeling about it since the first movie caused her to give up movies all together. While talking with her mouth full, Twilight tries to tell A.K. that her opinion is understandable, but Rainbow Dash tells her that she can’t give up, and that Equestria needs to see the Daring Do film they’ve craved for so long, and asks if she wants to let her fans down. A.K. tells Rainbow Dash that she loves her fans more than anything, and she appreciates all they have done to make her feel loved, which is why she continued working on books of her adventures. After explaining that, A.K. eventually agrees on giving the movie business a second chance, and it makes Rainbow Dash really excited. A little too excited, causing too much attention to herself at the restaurant.

Back at the castle throne room, the Mane Six and A.K. all decide to give out their ideas as Spike types the draft on a type writer. First Applejack tries to give out ideas about apple trees in the jungle, but Rainbow gets concerned to why the rest of the Mane Six are even there, and then Pinkie suggests candy apple trees. Twilight then suggests to start off basic, and suggests that the movie should be exactly like the book with just a few changes. Rainbow Dash then tells her there shouldn’t be any changes. Twilight tells Rainbow that there should be just a little bit of changes to make the movie more interesting for the viewers. A.K. eventually agrees with Twilight, which makes Rainbow very concerned to her decision. A.K. explains that having the movie a little different than the book might not be so bad. Rainbow angrily asks her to make up her mind and reminded her that changes is what made the first movie terrible in the first place, and A.K. tells her that there were too many changes, like it was a completely different story. Rainbow knew she couldn’t argue with Daring Do herself, so she angrily accepted, but only a few tiny changes were allowed. Twilight agreed that the movie should start somewhere other than the jungle, so the viewers would know why she travelled to the jungle in the first place, and A.K. agreed, and explained that she didn’t start in a museum, but a university before she travelled to the jungle. Rainbow Dash felt pretty annoyed of even A.K.’s approval of the changes.

After the draft was done, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and A.K. Yearling started taking auditions for who should portray the characters in the movie; first was Bulk Biceps who started to bounce beets on his biceps, but what he didn’t understand was that the movie wasn’t a talent show. Since Bulk admitted that acting sounded like hard work, A.K. suggested to be part of the stage crew. As more and more ponies come in from Sweetie Drops and Lyra Heartstrings, Meadow Song, Derpy in a cardboard Dr. Caballeron costume, and then the actual Dr. Caballeron came in to audition. Rainbow Dash tells him that she keeps explaining constantly that Dr. Caballeron isn’t in the movie, which caused him to complain. He then gets offered a job as a producer, and he accepts as long as it pays well. Rainbow reminds A.K. that they only need one actor to voice Ahuizotl, but when A.K. reminds her that that there were also Ahuizotl’s cat minions that were also in the story, Rainbow tells her that Fluttershy can get the animals they need. Just then, Snips comes in to audition for Ahuizotl. Rainbow and Pinkie both laughed, even though Pinkie had no idea what they were laughing about. Rainbow doubted Snips’ skills, but Snips wanted to prove them wrong. A.K. accepted to give him a chance, and Rainbow did as well but had doubts. She was, however, shocked when she heard how impressive Snips’ voice was compared to Ahuizotl’s. Snips claims to be a huge Daring Do fan, and has been impersonating the characters while he read the story. Rainbow, A.K., and Pinkie all congratulated Snips as he was accepted to voice Ahuizotl in the film. A.K. was a little confused to how a short pony like Snips was going to be as big compared to Ahuizotl, and Rainbow tells her that they can use digital effects. Pinkie then asks if she can digitally turn into a giant banana fudge pop, which Snips agreed would be cool.

Later when Rainbow Dash meets up with Fluttershy who found a few cats to help in the movie, but Rainbow tells her that they can’t be all cats; just one cat, and the rest a tiger, a jaguar, a lynx, and a cheetah. Fluttershy claims that those kind of animals are usually on the other end of Equestria, and are uncommon where they are. Rainbow orders her to find one anyway because the movie has to be perfect. She then meets up with Applejack, and she sees her making backgrounds in one of the big empty rooms in the castle. Rainbow asks why she’s making backgrounds, and she answers because it’s her job to; but Rainbow tells her that they’re going to be filming in Everfree Forest. Applejack tells her that it’s dangerous, but Rainbow reminds her that they’ve safely went through the forest many times without problems in the past. Applejack does agree with her, but wonders what she should do if she’s not making any backgrounds, and Rainbow says she can just help Rarity out with the costumes, much to AJ’s dismay. Snips then asks Rainbow Dash why he has to wear a gray tight suit, and Rainbow tells him that it’s for motion capture when they digitally add Ahuizotl in his place. Snips then asks Rainbow Dash who’s doing the editing, and wonders if any of them have the experience for it, and Rainbow tells him that they’ll cross that bridge when they get to it. Snips suggests to her that she should plan ahead, but Rainbow tells him that she has everything under control. When Mr. Cake arrives with sweets, Rainbow complains to why he brought them, and he says that Pinkie ordered them for the crew in case they get hungry. Rainbow yells at Pinkie for bringing the sweets in without her permission because she’s the director; even though Pinkie thought directors are only in charge of the movie, not what goes on while not filming, and Rainbow tells her that everything is the movie – that she’s in charge of everything. She also tells Pinkie to make sure Daring Do and Snips don’t go near the sweets because she thinks they don’t need the sugar to fill them up and make them too sick or too lazy to shoot, which causes Snips to get sad.

The crew starts to set up scene at Everfree Forest, and Rainbow continues on ordering everypony to make sure everything has to match perfectly to her vision; even when the crew suggests things to make the shoot better, Rainbow disagrees. Twilight eventually starts to question Rainbow about taking her director role too far, and Rainbow tells her that she just wants the movie to be perfect. When Snips claims to be ready for his close-up, Rainbow asks where Daring is. When Rainbow finds Daring at the snack buffet stuffing her face. When A.K. begs Rainbow not to tell anypony about her eating habit, Rainbow asks why she isn’t dressed up ready to shoot yet, and A.K. reminds her that she’s camera shy, and won’t be able to be Daring Do in the movie. Rainbow starts to freak out, claiming that nopony else is better suited to be Daring Do than her, and that her fans are counting on her. Rarity then tells A.K. to just pretend the cameras aren’t there since she’s not going to be looking at them at all. A.K. still felt pretty nervous, and claims to not be able to do it. Snips starts to tease her about ‘being brave’, and after Rainbow tells him that he isn’t helping, he then suggests that Rainbow should be Daring Do since she looks like her a bit. When Rainbow looks in the mirror to see the resemblance, she eventually agrees. When Rarity excitedly offers to dress Rainbow up as Daring Do, she gets started right away, and once she was done, everypony looked impressed on how she resembled her.

When it was time to shoot the scene, the entire crew got to their places to get ready to shoot, but when Twilight asks Rainbow what she’s going to do with her director role now that she’s being Daring Do, she states that she can fulfill both roles. Before Twilight was able to question it, she orders everypony to their stations to get ready to film. When Rainbow yells action, the camera starts rolling and Rainbow dressed as Daring Do with a bandaged wing travels through the woods. Rainbow Dash starts narrating to herself as she jumped over rocks and branches trying to get to her objective when suddenly, she was snatched from the bushes. As everypony waited for Rainbow trigger what’s going to happen next, they realize that after waiting a while for Rainbow to do something, they decide to cut, and realize that something happened to Rainbow and that they need to find her.

When Rainbow Dash eventually wakes up in chains, she finds out that she’s been captured by Ahuizotl and are keeping her in a temple. Ahuizotl mistakes Rainbow as Daring Do, and tells her that they are in need of a sacrifice to activate the Elemental Temple, which could be used to control the creatures of the Everfree Forest, and recruit them to take over the world. Rainbow decides to play along and pretend to be Daring Do. As Ahuizotl keeps monologuing his plan, Rainbow plans out her escape, with her athletic Daring Do-like skills, she breaks free and was about to fight Ahuizotl. Ahuizotl summons some of his minions to fight Rainbow Dash, but luckily for her, she was able to fend them off. She then prepares to fight Ahuzotl, but he had a lot of tricks up his sleeve. Ahuizotl tossed objects at Rainbow, and Rainbow misses most of them, but ends up getting hit by one. When Ahuizotl thought he was going to prevail over “Daring Do”, Rainbow punches him in the face, which makes him yell in pain in Snips’ voice and complain that she hit too hard.

A.K. yells “cut” when she tells Rainbow not to smack so hard, and to remember that they’re just acting. Snips takes off his Ahuizotl mask and claims that he’ll be in his trailer. When Rainbow was curious to what has happened, A.K. and Twilight both explain that Rainbow got knocked out as she tripped and fell into gap, so they decided to make the story interesting by adding this bonus scene on Daring Do meeting Ahuizotl for the first time. A.K. claims that what has happened was true, but didn’t bother to add it to the first book because she thought it wasn’t important, since her books started off as explorer journals that she turned into books later on. Rainbow asks why they did this, and Twilight explains to her that she was taking her director role way too far. After Rainbow tells her that she was doing what was best for the fans, Twilight tells her that she was just doing what was best for herself. A.K. agrees to Rainbow that the first movie was too different than her original story, but it doesn’t hurt making changes here and there, and perhaps she should hear a second opinion from her work crew instead of just ordering them around, and her crew, the Mane Six and Bulk all agree, even though Caballeron claims to not care as long as he’s paid. Rainbow suddenly apologizes to her crew and tells them that she should’ve listened to their suggestions, because even though they didn’t match Daring Do’s story, they did sound cool. Rainbow then gives up her director role because she claims it’s too much responsibility and stress, but luckily for her, A.K. decides to take over for her, and tells her that being the director while they were filming her fight with Ahuizotl was fun; even more fun than writing books. She says that she really wants to bring her stories to life in movie form, and will want to keep doing it with her other books on days she’s not going treasure hunting. Rainbow agrees, and really wants to finish the movie, and A.K. orders quiet on the set.

After many months go by, it was time for the first airing of the movie. The Mane Six, and all their friends watch and enjoy the movie. Rainbow, Twilight, and A.K. all agree that so far, the movie looks much better than the first one. Snips gets really excited when his first part comes on, and tells Snails and the other ponies in the audience his part, even though they all shush him, not caring.

After the movie, they all leave the movie claiming how awesome the movie was when suddenly, A.K. meets up with the head of Iron Shoe Studios, telling her that they want to film the sequel movie – Daring Do and the Griffon’s Goblet, and requests her permission for his studio to film it. A.K. does agree, but under a couple of conditions: she directs the movie, and Rainbow Dash plays as her. Rainbow excitedly agrees, as long as Snips gets to be Ahuizotl again, which causes him to blush in embarrassment.

Credits

 * Ashleigh Ball as Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Secretary
 * Chiara Zanni as Daring Do/A.K. Yearling
 * Tara Strong as Twilight Sparkle
 * Andrea Libman as Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Daring Do actor
 * Tabitha St. Germain as Rarity, Muffins
 * Lee Tockar as Snips, Studio boss
 * Brian Drummond as Ahuizotl, Mr. Cake, Dr. Caballeron actor
 * Michael Dobson as Dr. Caballeron, Bulk Biceps, Ahuizotl actor

Quotes

 * Pinkie Pie: Yeah! It’s just like a book, but it’s like the book is being read to you by several different pony actors, and they reenact it all; and it’s not a play either! It’s all caught on camera!
 * Applejack: Um, yeah, we know what a movie is, Pinkie Pie.
 * Pinkie Pie: I know! I was just reminding myself so I don’t forget! (squees)


 * A.K. Yearling: I really want an honest opinion from the Elements of Harmony themselves, and especially from my number one fan.
 * Rainbow Dash: (squees and faints)
 * A.K. Yearling: Um, is she okay?
 * Pinkie Pie: Of course! Rainbow Dash always likes to sleep in the middle of the dirty ground randomly!


 * Applejack: Shhh! The movie is startin’ you two!
 * Rainbow Dash: Yeah, Twilight! Shhh!


 * Twilight Sparkle: Well... that movie wasn’t… so bad. I mean, it did have some interesting parts, and I did giggle once.
 * Rainbow Dash: Really? I’m glad you liked it, because I thought the movie was terrible!
 * Twilight Sparkle: It was. It was awful.


 * Fluttershy: I do wish there was some other way to make the new movie you really wanted to see.
 * Rainbow Dash: Maybe there is! Fluttershy, you’re a genius!
 * Fluttershy: I am? I just said a wish, it wasn’t really an idea.


 * Applejack: Well, it wouldn’t hurt to have some apple trees in the jungle. No jungle is complete without apple trees!
 * Rainbow Dash: Umm, yeah, why are the rest of our friends here for the draft again?
 * Pinkie Pie: Oooo, how about candy apple trees? They’re like regular apple trees, but sweeter and more delicious!


 * Bulk Biceps: Okay so, I call this one, buff beats!


 * Derpy: (evil chuckles) I am Dr. Caballeron! Give me el dinero!


 * Rainbow Dash: Ugh! For the last time! Dr. Caballeron isn’t even in this movie! He didn’t show up in the story till Book Two!
 * Dr. Caballeron: What, am I not good enough for you movie types? They turn me down on the first movie saying my accent wasn’t good enough, and now I can’t even be in this one?
 * Pinkie Pie: Well I do admit your accent doesn’t quite match Caballeron’s completely. He sounds more... attractive than that.
 * Dr. Caballeron: Hey! I too am attractive, and rich!


 * Pinkie Pie: Ooo! Can I digitally turn into a giant banana fudge pop?
 * Snips: Mmm, that sounds really cool! I’m game!


 * Applejack: Uh, but won’t filming in Everfree Forest be dangerous?
 * Rainbow Dash: Applejack, we’ve been in Everfree Forest many times already, and we’ve handled every monster that got thrown at us. I don’t think Everfree is that dangerous anymore since the first time we went in it.


 * Snips: I really think you should plan ahead on these things. I mean what if we’re cutting the release date too close and you still don’t have an editor?
 * Rainbow Dash: Relax, Snips! I’ll take care of everything! I’m the director after all! Just go over there and, I dunno, look pretty.
 * Snips: Well, heh, I do have my way with my attractive looks!
 * Applejack: Ugh!


 * Rainbow Dash: Daring! Where is Daring Do? (gasps as she sees A.K. stuffing her face at the buffet) What are you dong?
 * A.K. Yearling: Nothing! Nothing, I’m just… uhm… checking to make sure the food isn’t poisoned. (nervous chuckle) Please don’t tell anypony about this. If the paparazzi find out-
 * Rainbow Dash: Relax, no word will get out, but why are you still in your A.K. disguise? We’re ready to shoot!


 * Snips: That’s my part! That’s my part! Any of you hear that voice? That’s me!
 * Audience ponies: Shhh!