The Mysterious Mare Do Well

The Mysterious Mare Do Well is the eighth episode of the second season of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic, and the thirty-fourth episode overall.

Summary
The episode begins with Scootaloo heading the Rainbow Dash fan club in the Cutie Mark Crusaders's treehouse. She declares that Rainbow Dash should be declared the most awesome pony in Ponyville. Snails and Snips join in the discussion with their opinion of the best way to describe Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow Dash is then seen flying around and having a "dip in the clouds". Suddenly, she hears a filly shouting for help from a well. Rainbow Dash cuts short her cloud dip and saves the filly from the well, and is met with large amounts of praise from other ponies. She then sees a runaway baby carriage with a baby pony in it, and quickly saves the baby from plunging off a cliff. Again, she receives great amount of praise, and is then seen being photographed by paparazzi. She then gives a speech to the Rainbow Dash fan club in Sugarcube Corner. She brags about her new status as "hero" and the other main 5 are talking about her not being modest at all. Spike is in the corner writing her auto-biography, when Twilight comes to tell Rainbow Dash that an auto biography is written by who it's about. Rainbow proceeds to say that "I don't have time to write when I'm saving lives".

Quotes

 * Rainbow Dash: Never fear, your friendly neighborhood Rainbow Dash is here!


 * Rainbow Dash: Danger's my middle name. Rainbow 'Danger' Dash.


 * Twilight Sparkle: Are you taking notes?
 * Spike: Yup! I've been hoof-picked by Rainbow Dash herself, to write her autobiography!
 * Twilight Sparkle: Umm, autobiographies are supposed to be written by the pony they are about.
 * Rainbow Dash: Maybe for your normal, run-of-the-mill ponies. But I'm far too busy saving lives to stop and write. That's why I hired Spike as my ghost writer.
 * Pinkie Pie: [yelps] Spike's a ghost!


 * Rainbow Dash: Oh, for the love of pete.


 * Rainbow Dash: Where is an out-of-control vehicle when you need one?!


 * Rainbow Dash: How would you describe what I just did? Would you say I was amazing?
 * Amethyst Star: Aren't you milking this a bit?


 * Applejack: I stopped the carriage bus with these babies. Bucky McGillygutty and Kicks McGee.

Gallery

 * The Mysterious Mare Do Well image gallery

Trivia

 * "Mare Do Well" is a play on the term "ne'er do well," a person who is completely lacking in merit.
 * Rainbow Dash's catchphrase, "Your friendly neighborhood Rainbow Dash," is a reference to the original Spiderman cartoon, where it says in the theme song "Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman."
 * The fanfare for the Mare Do Well and the posters depicting her strongly resemble the same from Batman: The Animated Series.
 * The Mysterious Mare Do Well shares the same purple-and-black color scheme and wide-brim hat with a black ribbon as Darkwing Duck. One of the show's lead storyboard artists, Sabrina Alberghetti, had worked on Darkwing Duck comics.
 * This episode is a debut of Merriwether Williams as a MLP:FiM writer.
 * This is the second episode where Pinkie Pie's Pinkie Sense is mentioned.