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Episode | The De-Stress Ball; Mad Props |
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The De-Stress Ball
- [crowd cheering]
- Rarity: Thank you! Merci! ¡Gracias!
- [cheering stops]
- Rainbow Dash: Great dress rehearsal. Tomorrow night will be a piece of cake.
- Rarity: "A piece of cake"? A piece of cake was grammar school. A piece of cake was the last thing I ate, and it was divine. No! This is live theater! Anything is possible.
- Twilight Sparkle: Give us examples.
- Rarity: You could forget your lines. The lights could fall. Worst of all, you could get stage fright. [laughs]
- Rest of Mane Six: [gasp]
- Applejack: O-Out of curiosity, w-what does stage fright feel like?
- Rarity: Your legs shake. Your knees buckle. Your mouth gets dry.
- Applejack: [grunting]
- [splash!]
- Applejack: Well, that plumb explains it. I've got stage fright!
- Rest of Mane Six: [gasp]
- Rarity: I have the most superb solution.
- Pinkie Pie: More cake? I'm pretty hungry.
- Gummy: [chomps]
- Pinkie Pie: [chomps]
- Rest of Mane Six: [laugh]
- Pinkie Pie: [whimpers]
- Rarity: Tonight, I'm throwing a de-stress ball. It's what we actors do the night before an opening night. We chill out, get our zen on, and make all the collywobbles and worries go away.
- Fluttershy: This'll cure your problem for sure, Applejack.
- Applejack: [grunts]
- [doors open]
- Rarity: Prepare to de-stress. Beanbags for your bottom, candles for your comfort, and treats for your tummy.
- Pinkie Pie: [squeals] Is that peppermint popcorn?
- Rarity: Peppermint is a natural calmer.
- Applejack: Yum. But I still got the fright.
- [knock on door]
- Applejack: [whimpers]
- Rarity: I wonder who that could be. [whispers] I know who it is.
- [zip!]
- Rarity: Friends, allow me to introduce... Chamomilia! She will be guiding us in relaxation techniques.
- Chamomilia: [sniffs] Sweet child, I'm glad you called me. There's stage fright in this room.
- [thunder]
- Chamomilia: Let's get down to business. Find your chill zone. Close your eyes.
- Mane Six: [sigh]
- Chamomilia: Take a deep breath in, and hold it.
- Mane Six: [inhale]
- Chamomilia: Hold it... Hold it...
- Mane Six: [grunting]
- Chamomilia: Hold it! What is that? [chomping] Mmmm!
- Mane Six: [grunting]
- Rarity: [strained] We need to breathe, Cammy...!
- Chamomilia: And exhale slowly out.
- Mane Six: [panting]
- Chamomilia: [sighs] Wasn't that relaxing? Now, picture yourself on stage tomorrow night.
- Chamomilia: [narrating] All of your friends and family watching you from their seats. See how proud they are of you.
- Applejack: Hey. I reckon I'm feelin' better.
- Chamomilia: See how disappointed they would be if you forgot your lines.
- Rest of Mane Six and Big McIntosh: [growl]
- Applejack: [whimpers]
- [crowd booing]
- [splat!]
- Applejack: [whimpers] I reckon I spoke too soon.
- Chamomilia: I know you worry about tripping on stage in front of everypony.
- Rainbow Dash: Uh...
- Chamomilia: But that won't happen. Will it?
- Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash: [whimper]
- Chamomilia: And everypony, open your eyes. See? Isn't that better?
- Fluttershy: [whimpers] I think I've got stage fright. And it's all I can think about! It's contagious!
- Pinkie Pie: I think I've got it, too!
- Rainbow Dash: Now I got it!
- Twilight Sparkle: Me, too!
- Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, and Rainbow Dash: [whimper]
- Chamomilia: [chewing] Mmmm.
- [watch beeps]
- Chamomilia: That's my time. Afraid I need to go home, watch my stories, and knit. I knit now.
- [clatter]
- Rarity: [gasps]
- Chamomilia: I'll send you an invoice, Rarity.
- [door closes]
- Rarity: [whimpers, faints]
- Pinkie Pie: [worried noise]
- Twilight Sparkle: [sighs]
- [shatter!]
- Fluttershy: [whimpers]
- Rarity: [wails]
- Applejack: [sighs]
- Rarity: What's gotten into you?
- Applejack: That's just the thing. Nothin's gotten into me. Somethin's left me. I lost my stage fright!
- Rest of Mane Six: [gasp]
- Pinkie Pie: How'd you do that?!
- Rarity: Yes, please tell us! I need this bewitching brain spell gone!
- Rest of Mane Six: Mm-hmm.
- Applejack: It's the funniest doggone thing. Now that everypony's got stage fright, I feel less alone. And that's what bein' in a cast is all about, right?
- Rarity: You speak the truth.
- Applejack: The only way we get over our joint stage fright is to do our show tomorrow. And I'm golly-gee determined to go on stage tomorrow with all of my best friends!
- Fluttershy: Hey, I'm relaxed again.
- Pinkie Pie: Hmmm... I am, too.
- Rainbow Dash: Explains the smell.
- Rarity: You've saved opening night, Applejack!
- Applejack: It was your de-stress ball, Rarity. It worked its magic.
- Rarity: It really did. Now, actors, picture it. The theater gets dark. The curtain goes up. A spotlight shines on... us!
- [crowd cheers]
- Applejack: Showtime!
Mad Props
- [Rarity]
- [operatically] Me, me, me, all about me!
- Ugh! Darling, you're pitchy! [to reflection] You're pitchy!
- Applejack: Let me know when you're done. This high-falutin' updo won't stay up. My character can't have a down-do.
- Pinkie Pie: Twilight, your prop list spreadsheet is flawless! It's every single item used in the show organized perfectly!
- Twilight Sparkle: Thanks, Pinkie. I really wanted to make sure I got it right so the play can go off without a hitch. I included everything!
- Pinkie Pie: Almost everything. Technically, this tablet is a prop.
- Twilight Sparkle: Well, scroll down to the very bottom.
- Pinkie Pie: [gasps] There it is!
- Twilight Sparkle: Everything goes into the spreadsheet, along with apples, a frying pan, a mirror, an old bucket, this calculator, some pizza, a wheelbarrow, an iced tea pitcher, a dozen squishy cube things...
- Pinkie Pie: Places! Thank you! Places!
- Twilight Sparkle: Oops. Time to go.
- [zip!]
- Rainbow Dash: You ponies are the greatest to ever grace the stage, and I know about greatness. Pre-show ritual on three! One! Two! Three!
- Mane Six: [???] theater!
- Rarity: ...theater!
- Pinkie Pie: It's showtime!
- [door opens]
- Rarity: [sighs] It is cold out there. Dang near freezing.
- Fluttershy: [stilted] It is cold in here, too. It has been cold in here for years.
- [crack!]
- Rarity: You want heat? You want heat?! What do we look like – billionaires?!
- [flames roaring]
- Fluttershy: Ooh!
- [hiss]
- Fluttershy: Awww.
- [crowd laughing]
- Rainbow Dash: Yes!
- Twilight Sparkle: Yes!
- [ominous music]
- [electrical sounds]
- [ka-chunk!]
- [crowd murmuring]
- Rainbow Dash: Uh, did we hook up the stage lights wrong?
- Twilight Sparkle: Should I go try to fix it?
- [electrical sounds]
- [ka-chunk!]
- Rarity: You say you want heat? We can't even keep the lights on around here!
- Rarity and Fluttershy: [nervous laugh]
- [crowd cheers]
- Pinkie Pie: What a pro.
- Applejack: Sometimes, I feel like I want to gallop far, far away from all of this. You know, just gettin' out of this here town and havin' a history hoedown.
- [crowd laughing]
- [poof!]
- Applejack: Uhhh... there's... nothin' here for me, anymore.
- [poof!]
- Applejack: Huh?
- Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash: Huh?
- Applejack: It's like outgrowin' an old coat.
- [poof!]
- [crowd laughing]
- Applejack: You want to put it on again...
- [poof!]
- Applejack: ...but it just doesn't...
- [poof!]
- Applejack: ...fit the same way anymore. So...
- [poofing]
- Applejack: ...you have to keep changin' your clothes! Always movin' forward!
- [poof!]
- [crowd laughing]
- Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash: [nervous laugh]
- Twilight Sparkle: Oh, I'd give all the stars in the solar system – the planets, too – to stay here. But we've got two days to leave.
- [crowd gasps]
- Audience Pony: [crying]
- Fluttershy: [stilted] But... But this is our home. What will become of us?
- [poof!]
- [crowd laughing]
- Fluttershy: [whimpers]
- Twilight Sparkle: I didn't do that. Two days, huh?
- [poofing]
- Twilight Sparkle: [gasps]
- Twilight Sparkle and Fluttershy: [gasping]
- [crowd laughing]
- [ding!]
- Fluttershy: [whispers] Pssst. Follow my lead. [stilted] What will become of us? Nowhere to live. Nothing to hold onto.
- [poof!]
- Twilight Sparkle: It's like... It's like all the things we hold dear in this world are just going away.
- [crowd awww's]
- [Rarity]
- [operatically] Whaaaaat a glorious niiiiight
- [poof!]
- [thud]
- [crowd laughing]
- [poof!]
- [French music]
- [clink]
- Applejack and Rarity: [slurp]
- Pinkie Pie: I declare that this orange juice is the best in all the land! Nom-nom-nom. Gulp, gulp.
- [crowd murmuring]
- Rainbow Dash: [chomps]
- [poof!]
- Rainbow Dash: Huh?
- Rest of Mane Six: [gasp]
- Rainbow Dash: Ooh. Huh?
- Mane Six: [gasp]
- [prop monster roars]
- Rainbow Dash: Uh...
- [prop monster roars]
- Rarity: Don't you see? Our possessions are keeping us down. We need to fight materialism! Hah!
- Mane Six: [grunting]
- [poof!]
- Rarity: Huh?
- [thud]
- Mane Six: [panting]
- [crowd cheers]
- Twilight Sparkle: What in Celestia's green Equestria just happened?!
- Pinkie Pie: I know, right? I didn't have "big magical monster thingy" on my prop list, but there it was. In the play.
- [crowd cheering]
- [ominous music]
- [credits]