| Sleepless in Ponyville | |
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| Season №: | 3 |
| Season episode №: | 6 |
| Overall episode №: | 58 |
| Original airdate: | December 8, 2012 |
| Written by: | Corey Powell |
| Storyboard: | Corey Toomey and Justin Nichols[1] |
| Featured characters: | Scootaloo Princess Luna |
| See also | |
| credits • transcript • gallery • allusions animation errors • statistics • speculation | |
| Episode guide | |
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Sleepless in Ponyville is the sixth episode of the third season of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic and the fifty-eighth episode overall. In this episode, Scootaloo tries to appear tough in front of Rainbow Dash during a camping trip but struggles to hide her fear when Rainbow starts telling campfire stories. The title is a reference to the film Sleepless in Seattle.
Production and development[]
In the week before the episode's scheduled premiere, show head writer Meghan McCarthy wrote on Twitter that the premise for the episode had been submitted on July 29, 2011.[2][3]
This episode was nominated for a Leo Award for "Best Overall Sound in an Animation Program or Series" for Marcel Duperreault, Todd Araki, Jason Frederickson, and Adam McGhie.[4]
Summary[]
The camping trip[]
Scootaloo has improved since The Show Stoppers.
While Scootaloo rides her scooter through Ponyville one day, Rainbow Dash passes by and compliments her riding ability. Excited by the praise from her role model, Scootaloo relates the incident to Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle in the Cutie Mark Crusaders clubhouse sometime later and remarks how she wants Rainbow to see more of her "awesomeness". Apple Bloom mentions that Rainbow will be joining her and Applejack on an upcoming camping trip to Winsome Falls and suggests that Scootaloo join, as well as Sweetie Belle and Rarity.
On the day of the camping trip, Scootaloo joins Apple Bloom, Applejack, Sweetie Belle, and Rarity as they hike to their first campsite. The group arrive to find Rainbow Dash performing deft aerial maneuvers to build the fire pit, and as the sister pairs begin to set up camp, Rainbow and Scootaloo agree to use the same tent.
Scary stories[]
Crusaders afraid of the Olden Pony.
When night falls, the ponies gather around the campfire as Rainbow tells a scary story about the Olden Pony, which ends up frightening the fillies. Scootaloo manages to convince Rainbow that she wasn't scared by the story, but when everyone retires to bed, she has a nightmare about the Olden Pony chasing her around the forest. The dream wakes Scootaloo in the middle of the night and, too afraid to fall back asleep, she remains awake until morning.
The ponies break camp and resume hiking toward Winsome Falls. Scootaloo tries to hide her sleepiness but ends up running her scooter into a bush and, in an effort to appear casual, pulling the cart carrying Sweetie Belle and Rarity's belongings. The group arrive at a cave at sundown and build a fire nearby, but when asked to gather firewood, Scootaloo struggles to overcome her fear of the dark woods and manages to collect only a few twigs.
Everypony has fears, Scootaloo.
The campfire is lit, and after an unsuccessful attempt by Scootaloo to instead tell a happy story, Rainbow Dash relates the tale of the Headless Horse. Scootaloo gets scared by the story and convinces Sweetie Belle to sing in order to delay going to bed, though the group eventually retire to the cave to sleep. In a dream, Scootaloo gets chased through the forest by the Headless Horse before Princess Luna intervenes, dispelling the danger and exhorting Scootaloo to face her real fear—that Rainbow finds out she gets scared by the campfire stories.
Facing her fear[]
Waking from her dream in the middle of the night, Scootaloo mistakes Rainbow's snoring for the sound of the Headless Horse and rides her scooter out of the cave in panic. She drives over a rock that sends her careening into a ravine, though just as the river pulls her down a waterfall, Rainbow flies in and lifts her back to the river bank, where she demands to know what was going on. Reminded of Princess Luna's exhortation, Scootaloo confesses her desire to impress Rainbow but that the scary stories made her afraid to the point of taking flight. After admitting that she, too, was scared by the stories when she first heard them, Rainbow agrees to take Scootaloo under her wing, and the two hug.
A happy ending.
The ponies reach Winsome Falls the following day, and Rainbow helps Scootaloo fly around the scenic landscape. Later, Scootaloo once more dreams about being chased by the Olden Pony but eventually decides to confront her, whereupon Rainbow appears and dismisses the foe.
Quotes[]
- For more quotes, see the episode's transcript.
- Rainbow Dash: Nice moves, kid.
- Scootaloo: Rainbow Dash said I had nice moves!
- Rarity: I despise camping! All of that... urrgh... nature.
- Rainbow Dash: Okay, everybody get comfortable, 'cause I'm about to tell you the best story you've ever heard.
- Scootaloo: Is it about the time when Rarity had wings, and then they got ruined, and then you saved her from plummeting to her doom?
- Rainbow Dash: Okay, maybe it's the second best story you've ever heard.
- Applejack: If it doesn't have a head, then how in tarnation does this pony know where it's goin'?
- Rainbow Dash: It's headless, not brainless. [spookily] ...looking for little lost ponies—
- Applejack: So where's its brain?
- Rainbow Dash: Ugh.
- Princess Luna: Everypony has fears, Scootaloo. Everypony must face them in their own way. But they must be faced, or the nightmares will continue.
- Scootaloo: So it's a horse without a head... which means it doesn't have a mouth... and if it doesn't have a mouth, then... it's not a horse-eat-pony kind of horse... but still... it's a horse without a head!
- Sweetie Belle: I call sister teams! Last pair to make it to the falls is a moldy carrot!
- Rarity: Ugh, if you insist. [giggles] It is so on!
- The Olden Pony: Who's got my rusty horseshoe?
- Rainbow Dash: Here it is, for pony's sake. Now take it and stop all your moaning.
- The Olden Pony: Thank you, and have a nice day.
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ 'Big' Jim Miller (2012-12-08). Tweet. Retrieved on 2012 December 8.
- ↑ Meghan McCarthy on Twitter (2012-12-05). Retrieved on 2012 December 5.
- ↑ Meghan McCarthy on Twitter (2012-12-05). Retrieved on 2012 December 6.
- ↑ "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" (2010) Awards. IMDb. Retrieved on 2013 September 22.
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