My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale

My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale
Directed by	Brian Chong Ian Fung
Produced by	Tom Hartley Randi Yaffa Walid Omar
Written by	Various
Music by	Benjamin Pinkerton
Release date(s)	April 7, 2022
Running time	~5:00 per short
Studio	Hasbro Studios Lil Critter Workshop
Distributed by	Entertainment One YouTube
See also
credits • transcript • gallery • allusions animation errors • statistics • speculation
Chronology
Previous My Little Pony: A New Generation Next My Little Pony: Make Your Mark (special)

My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale is an animated series of shorts based on My Little Pony: A New Generation. It premiered on YouTube on April 7, 2022. Unlike the film and subsequent specials, it is animated in 2D.

Development and production

Tell Your Tale was announced on the mylittlepony Instagram page on February 17, 2022.

A 30-second clip of the series was shown during Hasbro's Innovation Showcase on March 24, 2022.

The official trailer was uploaded to the My Little Pony Official YouTube channel on March 31, 2022.

Series synopsis

"Living in Maretime Bay, our Pony BESTIES are having a ton of fun together! These 5-minute episodes offer funny, fast paced stories that will have everypony in stitches."

A Home to Share

A Home to Share
Character(s)	Mane 5
Staff	Jessica Silcock and Naomi Smith (writers) Edward Gan (storyboard artist)
Music by	Benjamin Pinkerton Aaron Verdonk and Jesse Colburn (song)
Length	5:18

A Home to Share is the first Tell Your Tale short. It was uploaded to the official My Little Pony YouTube channel on April 7, 2022. The animation focuses primarily on the Mane 5.

Summary

Following the destruction of her lighthouse home in My Little Pony: A New Generation, Sunny Starscout and her friends Hitch Trailblazer, Izzy Moonbow, Pipp Petals, and Zipp Storm are moving into the newly built Crystal Brighthouse together. They decorate the Brighthouse's interior while singing the song Work Work Work. However, Sunny's friends' decorating methods clash with one another, from Izzy's overuse of glitter to Zipp's accidental use of glue instead of paint to Pipp's need to decorate every space with her self-image to Hitch's simple task of assembling a shelf. This causes the Brighthouse to end up a complete mess.

After a one-sided conversation with a picture of her father Argyle Starshine, Sunny rallies her friends to work together to decorate the Brighthouse. At the end of the song's reprise, the five take a group selfie to celebrate the Brighthouse's completion.

Zipp Gets Her Wings

Zipp Gets Her Wings
Character(s)	Zipp Storm
Staff	Tom Gidman (writer) Glen Bosiwang and Nur Dianah D. (storyboard artists)
Music by	Benjamin Pinkerton
Length	5:31

Zipp Gets Her Wings, also titled Zipp's Flight School, is the second Tell Your Tale short. It was uploaded to the official My Little Pony YouTube channel on April 7, 2022. The animation focuses primarily on Zipp Storm.

Summary

Zipp Storm notices some of her fellow Pegasi struggling to fly while she has already become an expert at it. When she suggests that someone should teach them, her friends get the idea of opening a flight school, with Zipp as the reluctant instructor. She gives lessons to a group of Pegasi over the course of a day, but they show little improvement.

When Zipp gives up and flies off, she notices a Pegasus mother supportively teaching her foal to fly, reminding her of when her mother Queen Haven did the same for her when she was little. Zipp gives her students a second chance, and with her friends' assistance, the students finally improve their flying skills. At the end of the day, they "graduate" from Zipp's flight school.

Sisters Take Flight

Sisters Take Flight
Character(s)	Pipp Petals Zipp Storm
Staff	Gretchen Mallorie (writer) Glen Bosiwang and Kamalia M.A. (storyboard artists)
Music by	Benjamin Pinkerton
Length	5:07

Sisters Take Flight is the third Tell Your Tale short. It was uploaded to the official My Little Pony YouTube channel on April 7, 2022. The animation focuses primarily on Pipp Petals and Zipp Storm.

Summary

In Zephyr Heights, Pipp Petals and Zipp Storm are packing their belongings to move into the Crystal Brighthouse in Maretime Bay. Their mother Queen Haven organizes an extravagant parade with giant balloons to see them off as they leave. While Pipp adores all the attention, Zipp is uncomfortable, made worse by Haven's pressure on her to maintain a proper royal appearance.

During the presentation of a large statue in Pipp and Zipp's image, the Pegasi's inexperience with flying causes the festivities to devolve into chaos. Despite this, Pipp, Zipp, and Haven share a laugh over it, and they take a frazzled family selfie before Pipp and Zipp depart for Maretime Bay.

Nightmare Roommate

Nightmare Roommate
Character(s)	Izzy Moonbow
Staff	Alex Collier (writer) Edward Gan (storyboard artist)
Music by	Benjamin Pinkerton
Length	5:09

Nightmare Roommate is the fourth Tell Your Tale short. It was uploaded to the official My Little Pony YouTube channel on April 7, 2022. The animation focuses primarily on Izzy Moonbow.

Summary

Izzy Moonbow's late-night snoring, sleep-talking, and casting magic in her sleep keeps her friends up all night, and while she wakes up the next morning well-rested, the others end up sleep-deprived. The next morning, Izzy uses up Zipp's can of hairspray, gets peanut butter on Pipp's phone while using it to take selfies, and uses Sunny's toothbrush to clean her ears. Sunny, Pipp, and Zipp turn to Hitch for advice on how to deal with their "nightmare roommate".

Hitch tells them to simply be honest with Izzy and give her a thoughtful gift. To that end, Sunny, Pipp, and Zipp present Izzy with her own things so she does not have to keep using theirs. Izzy admits she was just using her friends' things in order to fit in with them. Feeling guilty about not being honest with Izzy, Sunny and the others tell her she does not need to try to fit in; she is already perfect the way she is.

Welcome to Mane Melody

Welcome to Mane Melody
Character(s)	Pipp Petals
Staff	Ryan Denham (writer) Edward Gan (storyboard artist)
Music by	Benjamin Pinkerton John Mavro and Andy Delisi (song)
Length	5:27

Welcome to Mane Melody, also titled simply Mane Melody, is the fifth Tell Your Tale short. It was uploaded to the official My Little Pony YouTube channel on April 14, 2022. The animation focuses primarily on Pipp Petals.

Summary

Pipp Petals has opened a new beauty salon in Maretime Bay called Mane Melody, which attracts a lot of customers and five-star reviews, and she and her coworkers celebrate by singing Let Out Your Light. Her latest customer, however, is Phyllis Cloverleaf, who has a reputation for giving poor reviews to the establishments she visits and causing them to go out of business. Pipp, nervous at the possibility of her salon suffering the same fate, accidentally shaves off a chunk of Phyllis' mane, creating a bald spot. She dashes out of the salon in shame while Sunny Starscout attempts to cover up her mistake.

Zipp Storm follows Pipp and assures her that, regardless of her one mistake, she has brought style and confidence to her many other customers. Reassured of herself, Pipp goes back inside the salon to correct the mistake she made to Phyllis' mane, making it exactly how it looked when she first walked in. Satisfied with Pipp's styling, Phyllis gives Mane Melody a five-star review. Zipp, proud of her sister, allows Pipp to style her mane.

The Unboxing of Izzy

The Unboxing of Izzy
Character(s)	Izzy Moonbow Hitch Trailblazer
Staff	Eric Branscum (writer) Edward Gan (storyboard artist)
Music by	Benjamin Pinkerton
Length	4:56

The Unboxing of Izzy is the sixth Tell Your Tale short. It was uploaded to the official My Little Pony YouTube channel on April 21, 2022. The animation focuses primarily on Izzy Moonbow and Hitch Trailblazer.

Summary

Hitch Trailblazer is in the middle of giving his friends a tour of Maretime Bay when Izzy Moonbow accidentally activates and gets trapped inside one of the old unicorn box traps that were thought to have disabled. When the box's release button does not work, Hitch considers cancelling the tour, but his friends convince him not to when Izzy uses her magic to levitate the box and the others tie it to a rope leash.

Hitch proceeds with the tour, but it hits several snags when Izzy's box crashes into things and she is unable to even see any of the tour stops from inside her prison. After further attempts to liberate Izzy from the box do not work, Hitch feels like he has failed in his task to show his friends what makes Maretime Bay special, but his friends say they enjoyed the tour, including Izzy. When Sunny Starscout makes a "think outside the box" joke, Hitch gets an idea and locates a secondary emergency release button on the box's underside, which finally frees Izzy when pressed.

As Hitch starts his tour again from the beginning, he gets trapped inside another box trap.

Clip Trot

Clip Trot
Character(s)	Pipp Petals
Staff	Alex Collier (writer) Glen Bosiwang and Ayie Din (storyboard artists)
Music by	Benjamin Pinkerton Andrew Martino (song)
Length	4:58

Clip Trot is the seventh Tell Your Tale short. It was uploaded to the official My Little Pony YouTube channel on April 28, 2022. The animation focuses primarily on Pipp Petals. The title and in-short fictional mobile app are a play on TikTok.

Summary

Pipp Petals watches a trending dance video on the social media app ClipTrot depicting bunnies dancing to hip-hop music. Wanting to capitalize on this trend, she rallies her friends to make a similar video. The rest of the Mane 5 dance the way they want to, but Pipp pressures them to mimic the bunnies' dance exactly, causing them to get uncomfortable and make different excuses to leave.

In town, Pipp convinces Jazz, her coworker at the Mane Melody beauty parlor, to help her record a dance video. Unfortunately, the bunny hip-hop video trend has quickly fallen out of style, and ponies are waiting for "the next big thing". This gives Pipp the idea of making a pony version of the bunny hip-hop, using the footage she recorded of her friends dancing how they wanted. Her video quickly attracts a lot of views and upvotes from ponies around Equestria.

When the Mane 5 see a trio of foals trying to imitate their dance moves, Pipp encourages them to be themselves and dance however they please.

Foal Me Once

Foal Me Once
Character(s)	Hitch Trailblazer
Staff	Celina Frenn (writer) Glen Bosiwang and Kamalia M.A. (storyboard artists)
Music by	Benjamin Pinkerton
Length	5:15

Foal Me Once is the eighth Tell Your Tale short. It was uploaded to the official My Little Pony YouTube channel on May 5, 2022. The animation focuses primarily on Hitch Trailblazer. The title is a play on the expression "fool me once".

Summary

While carrying out his duties as sheriff of Maretime Bay, Hitch Trailblazer is persistently approached and interrupted by his many critter friends that want to hang out with him. Hitch discovers that numerous items have gone missing around town, including museum paintings, Sunny Starscout's fruit and roller skates, and a sunglasses seller's sunglasses. Zipp Storm suggests that Hitch hire a new deputy (following Sprout being relieved of his duties after My Little Pony: A New Generation) to reduce his workload, but Hitch is confident he can solve the mystery by himself. During his investigation, Hitch notices that someone has been secretly providing him with fruit smoothies for refreshment.

The next day, Hitch wakes up to find all of the stolen items stashed in his closet. Believing himself to be the thief, he locks himself up in jail. When Zipp looks over the results of Hitch's investigation, she realizes all of the stolen items are Hitch's favorite things and believes someone is setting him up. Hitch finally determines that his critter friends were the thieves, having collected his favorite things out of their love for him. Though Hitch is flattered, he reprimands them for stealing, orders them to return all the items they stole, apologizes for ignoring them, and lines them up for mug shots.

It's T.U.E.S. Day

It's T.U.E.S. Day
Character(s)	Izzy Moonbow
Staff	Ryan Denham (writer) Glen Bosiwang and Kamalia M.A. (storyboard artists)
Music by	Benjamin Pinkerton
Length	5:10

It's T.U.E.S. Day is the ninth Tell Your Tale short. It was uploaded to the official My Little Pony YouTube channel on May 12, 2022. The animation focuses primarily on Izzy Moonbow.

Summary

Izzy Moonbow is excited to celebrate The Unicorn Expression of Sparkle Day, or "T.U.E.S. Day", with her friends, but they are more preoccupied with her usual morning routines to pay much attention. Without her friends to celebrate with, Izzy builds an inanimate friend out of various items and names it "Señor Butterscotch". Izzy takes Señor Butterscotch around Maretime Bay with her, doing several activities and drawing the confused stares or irritation of everyone they pass.

When Izzy stops by Sunny Starscout's smoothie stand, Sunny realizes what day it is and its significance to unicorn culture. She rallies the rest of her friends together to throw a T.U.E.S. Day party for Izzy at the Crystal Brighthouse. They apologize for ignoring her, explaining that they are still learning about each other's cultures, and Izzy is overjoyed to celebrate T.U.E.S. Day with her best friends.

Sunny-Day Dinners

Sunny-Day Dinners
Character(s)	Sunny Starscout
Staff	Gretchen Mallorie (writer) Edward Gan (storyboard artist)
Music by	Benjamin Pinkerton
Length	4:59

Sunny-Day Dinners is the tenth Tell Your Tale short. It was uploaded to the official My Little Pony YouTube channel on May 19, 2022. The animation focuses primarily on Sunny Starscout.

Summary

Sunny Starscout makes an elaborate breakfast for her and her friends to share one morning, but her friends are too busy with their jobs or other things to stay. Feeling like she and her friends are starting to drift apart, Sunny organizes a group hike to Prancing Point and lets her friends know about it via text. Unfortunately, only Izzy Moonbow shows up to go on the hike and only due to sheer coincidence of being in the area. Therefore, only Sunny and Izzy go hiking, but they quickly get lost in a dark and scary forest due to a faulty road sign.

Meanwhile, Hitch Trailblazer, Zipp Storm, and Pipp Petals remember the hike Sunny invited them on and go to the Crystal Brighthouse. When they find Sunny and Izzy gone and notice it starting to get late in the day, they head out to look for them. The two groups eventually run into each other in the forest and have a starlit campfire dinner at Prancing Point. Sunny tells her friends that this quality time together is what she wanted from the beginning, and the Mane 5 decide to make "Sunny-day dinner" a regular occurrence.

Gallery

My Little Pony- Tell Your Tale - NEW SERIES - Trailer

See also

• My Little Pony: A New Generation
• My Little Pony: Make Your Mark (special)
• My Little Pony: Make Your Mark (series)

References

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