| "Shady Daze" | |
|---|---|
 Shady Daze in The Cutie Pox | |
| Kind | Earth |
| Sex | Male |
| Other links | |
| More info | |
|---|---|
| Eyes | Moderate azure |
| Mane | ¤ Dark grayish sapphire blue and grayish cobalt blue |
| Coat | Light cornflower bluish gray |
| Voice | Yoshiyuki Shimozuma (Japanese) Emilio Treviño (Latin American Spanish) |
Shady Daze is the placeholder name of an Earth pony colt who first appears in the season two episode The Cutie Pox. He has a light blue coat, two-tone dark blue mane and tail, and blue eyes.
Design and development[]
Shady Daze shares his design with Button Mash, "Caramel Coffee", "Green Daze", and Strike, and depending on the angle, he shares his mane style with Scootaloo and Archer.
Depiction in the series[]
Season two[]
Shady Daze in One Bad Apple.
Shady Daze first appears outside the Ponyville Schoolhouse receiving lessons on loopty-hooping from Apple Bloom in The Cutie Pox. He later appears playing a peasant among other Earth ponies in the pageant in Hearth's Warming Eve. In The Last Roundup, Shady Daze briefly appears between Shoeshine and Lucky Clover at the Dodge Junction train station.
In Ponyville Confidential, Shady Daze makes his first speaking appearance. He operates the printing press for the Foal Free Press, and at the end of the episode, he is promoted to staff photographer.
Season three[]
Shady Daze appears again as a photographer during the Summer Harvest Parade in One Bad Apple.
Season four[]
In Filli Vanilli, Shady Daze attends Zipporwhill's cute-ceañera and watches the Pony Tones perform. In Twilight Time, he becomes a big fan of Twilight Sparkle among other foals. In Twilight Time, he appears as a background character outside the Ponyville Schoolhouse, in the crowd of foals admiring Princess Twilight Sparkle and later the Cutie Mark Crusaders, and attending Twilight Time.
Season five[]
In Slice of Life, Shady Daze appears at Cranky Doodle Donkey and Matilda's wedding. In Crusaders of the Lost Mark, he appears by the Ponyville Schoolhouse during the vote for Student Pony President. In The One Where Pinkie Pie Knows, Shady Daze celebrates his birthday party and receives a cake from Pinkie Pie with five candles on it.
Season six[]
In The Cart Before the Ponies, Shady Daze appears at the Ponyville Schoolhouse during the physics class for the upcoming Applelwood Derby, and later leaves the schoolhouse with Twist.
Season seven[]
In Forever Filly, Shady Daze appears in a photo from "Ponyville Confidential" at the Cutie Mark Crusaders' clubhouse on their wall of helped ponies.
Season nine[]
In The Last Crusade, Shady Daze appears in the Ponyville Schoolhouse as Scootaloo introduces her parents, in the photo on the Cutie Mark Crusaders' wall, and attending Cutie Mark Crusaders Appreciation Day.
Appearances[]
Times are approximate and taken from videos with no prolonged transition for commercial breaks.
| Season two | |
|---|---|
| 1 | None |
| 2 | None |
| 3 | None |
| 4 | None |
| 5 | None |
| 6 | 9:00, 9:04, 9:13 - getting loopty-hooping lessons from Apple Bloom; 10:44 - looking at Diamond Tiara and Cheerilee |
| 7 | None |
| 8 | None |
| 9 | None |
| 10 | None |
| 11 | 5:02 ~ 6:02, 6:57 - acting in the pageant |
| 12 | None |
| 13 | None |
| 14 | 16:04 - at the Dodge Junction train station with Shoeshine and Lucky Clover |
| 15 | None |
| 16 | None |
| 17 | None |
| 18 | None |
| 19 | None |
| 20 | None |
| 21 | None |
| 22 | None |
| 23 | 2:11 ~ 3:35 - in the Ponyville Schoolhouse classroom; 4:54 ~ 5:12, 9:36 ~ 9:57, 12:19, 19:09 ~ 19:27 - working the printing press; 6:23 - getting Snips and Snails' autographs; 20:57, 21:23 - getting promoted to staff photographer |
| 24 | None |
| 25 | None |
| 26 | None |
| Season three | |
|---|---|
| 1 | None |
| 2 | None |
| 3 | None |
| 4 | 17:57 - taking pictures of the Cutie Mark Crusaders |
| 5 | None |
| 6 | None |
| 7 | None |
| 8 | None |
| 9 | None |
| 10 | None |
| 11 | None |
| 12 | None |
| 13 | None |
| Season four | |
|---|---|
| 1 | None |
| 2 | None |
| 3 | None |
| 4 | None |
| 5 | None |
| 6 | None |
| 7 | None |
| 8 | None |
| 9 | None |
| 10 | None |
| 11 | None |
| 12 | None |
| 13 | None |
| 14 | 13:38, 13:51, 13:56 - at Zipporwhill's cute-ceañera |
| 15 | 3:04 - walking up to Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon; 3:23 - listening to Diamond Tiara; 8:19, 12:58 - walking up to the Cutie Mark Crusaders; 8:46 - in the crowd of foals; 11:24, 11:25 - spying on Princess Twilight; 12:03 - running up to Princess Twilight; 12:19, 12:32 - getting Twilight's autograph; 12:56, 13:02, 13:06 - looking at the Crusaders; 14:49, 15:04 - pushing at Diamond Tiara's house gate; 16:34, 18:05, 18:35, 19:16, 19:27 - inside the Golden Oak Library |
| 16 | None |
| 17 | None |
| 18 | None |
| 19 | None |
| 20 | None |
| 21 | None |
| 22 | None |
| 23 | None |
| 24 | None |
| 25 | None |
| 26 | None |
| Season five | |
|---|---|
| 1 | None |
| 2 | None |
| 3 | None |
| 4 | None |
| 5 | None |
| 6 | None |
| 7 | None |
| 8 | None |
| 9 | 19:54 - at Cranky Doodle Donkey and Matilda's wedding |
| 10 | None |
| 11 | None |
| 12 | None |
| 13 | None |
| 14 | None |
| 15 | None |
| 16 | None |
| 17 | None |
| 18 | 1:54 - talking to "Tornado Bolt", 2:05 - watching Pipsqueak make his campaign speech; 6:35 - awaiting the results of the election; 7:07 - watching Diamond Tiara walk into the schoolhouse; 7:10 - awaiting Diamond Tiara's reaction |
| 19 | 9:01 - playing ball in the watering hole with "Aquamarine" and receives a birthday cake on a boat |
| 20 | None |
| 21 | None |
| 22 | None |
| 23 | None |
| 24 | None |
| 25 | None |
| 26 | None |
| Season six | |
|---|---|
| 1 | None |
| 2 | None |
| 3 | None |
| 4 | None |
| 5 | None |
| 6 | None |
| 7 | None |
| 8 | None |
| 9 | None |
| 10 | None |
| 11 | None |
| 12 | None |
| 13 | None |
| 14 | 0:04 ~ 3:08 - sitting in Miss Cheerilee's class; 3:13 - walking home with Twist |
| 15 | None |
| 16 | None |
| 17 | None |
| 18 | None |
| 19 | None |
| 20 | None |
| 21 | None |
| 22 | None |
| 23 | None |
| 24 | None |
| 25 | None |
| 26 | None |
| Season seven | |
|---|---|
| 1 | None |
| 2 | None |
| 3 | None |
| 4 | None |
| 5 | None |
| 6 | 6:43 - on a photo in the Cutie Mark Crusaders' clubhouse |
| 7 | None |
| 8 | None |
| 9 | None |
| 10 | None |
| 11 | None |
| 12 | None |
| 13 | None |
| 14 | None |
| 15 | None |
| 16 | None |
| 17 | None |
| 18 | None |
| 19 | None |
| 20 | None |
| 21 | None |
| 22 | None |
| 23 | None |
| 24 | None |
| 25 | None |
| 26 | None |
| Season nine | |
|---|---|
| 1 | None |
| 2 | None |
| 3 | None |
| 4 | None |
| 5 | None |
| 6 | None |
| 7 | None |
| 8 | None |
| 9 | None |
| 10 | None |
| 11 | None |
| 12 | Yes |
| 13 | None |
| 14 | None |
| 15 | None |
| 16 | None |
| 17 | None |
| 18 | None |
| 19 | None |
| 20 | None |
| 21 | None |
| 22 | Yes |
| 23 | None |
| 24 | None |
| 25 | None |
| 26 | None |
Other depictions[]
Software[]
My Little Pony (mobile game)[]
Shady Schoolpony is a character in Gameloft's mobile game. The game's description of him states, "This colt runs the school paper's new printing press. When there's news, he's the first to know -- no need to guess!"
Quotes[]
- "Yes, ma'am!"
- — Ponyville Confidential
- "Uh... they haven't started yet."
- — Ponyville Confidential
- "Here ya go! I've been promoted to staff photographer!"
- — Ponyville Confidential
Gallery[]
