My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Season 4

Episode 8: Sea Ponies

(It opens at the library as everyone is there with Spike belching out a letter.)

Twilight: It's from Princess Celestia. "My dear friends, my regal mother, Queen Amalthea, has informed me that Sea Ponies arrived in Equestria with her when she brought the Ponies Asteroth was experimenting with here, and myself and Princess Luna would like you to try and find them. Sincerely yours, Princess Celestia."
Doug: Well that's easy. We just gotta get to the sea.
Twilight: Cool.

(They head off.)

Doug: Down to the sea we go,
Down to a world below-
Rob: Stop! Stop it! You're not doing a song while I'm here.
Doug: But you sang last week.
Rob: That was a moment of weakness. It won't happen again.
Chris: Oh, come on! We could do a sing-around!
John: Yes, that would speed things along quite nicely.
Applebloom: Ooh, ooh, I got one! Doug sang it to our class yesterday.
It's a difficult responsibility...
When you accept an appointment from his majesty...
Sweetie Belle: You must strive for just the perfect quality...
Scootaloo: When you're the first toy maker to the king.
Rarity: Oh, that's lovely.
Applebloom: All the soldiers must stand erect.
Or the king, they don't protect.
Scootaloo: The balls must bounce much higher,
If they're to please his royal sire.
Sweetie Belle: The ballerinas must pirouette
Upon their musical toes.
Doug: And the clowns must make a king forget all of his kingly whoas.
Applejack: It's a difficult responsibility...
Pinkie: When you accept an appointment from his majesty...
Rarity: You must strive for just the perfect quality...
Rainbow Dash: When you're the first toymaker to the King.
Fluttershy: All the sail boats must never sink.
And the dollies always blink.
Twilight: The teddy bears be furry,
If they're to gain his royal curry.
Pinkie: The Jackie Boxes must always pop
At every regal command.
Rarity: And the kangaroos must learn to hop
Into the prince's hand.
Chris: It's a difficult responsibility...
Doug: When you accept an appointment from his majesty...
John: You must strive for just the perfect quality...
Rob: When you're the first... Toy... Makers to the king...!

(They all laugh and continue on. Cut to night as they're halfway to the sea and set up camp. Chris and Pinkie are playing tic-tac-toe.)

Chris: XXX! I win!
Pinkie: Ooh, you're good.
Doug: Hey, how about a ghost story?
Scootaloo: The Headless Horse?
Doug: Not completely. The Headless Horseman!
Pinkie: What's that?
Doug: Back home there was a soldier who lost his head in a war at New York.
Now gather 'round, and I'll elucidate
Of what goes on outside when it gets late.
Along about midnight the ghosts and banshees
Get together for their nightly jamborees.
There's things with horns and saucer eyes!
Some with fangs about this size.
Sweetie Belle: Some are fat.
Applebloom: And some are thin.
Rob: And some don't even wear their skin.
Oh, I'm telling you buddy; it's a frightful sight,
To see what goes on the dead of night.

(A wind blows as Scootaloo jumps onto Rainbow Dash's back as she comforts him.)

John: When spooks have a midnight jamboree...
They break it up with fiendish glee...
Doug: Ghosts are bad, but the one that's cursed
Is the Headless Horseman. He's the worst.
Sweetie Belle: That's right,
He's the fright.
In the Dead of Night.
Doug: For when he goes a jogging 'cross the land...
Carrying his noggin in his hand...
Demons take one look and groan
And hit the road for parts unknown.
Applebloom: Beware,
Take care.
He rides alone.
Doug: There's no spook like a spook who's spurned.
They don't like him, and he's really burned.
He swears to the longest day he's dead...
He'll show them that he can get a head.

(Rob decides to join in.)

Rob: They say he's tired of his flaming top.
He's got a yearn to make a swap.
So he rides one night each year,
To find a head in a hallow there!
Pinkie: He likes 'em little.
He likes 'em big.
Chris: Parted in the middle
Or a wig.
Rob: Black or white or even red,
Doug: The Headless Horseman needs a head!
Everyone: With a hip-hip and a clippity clop,
He's out looking for a top to chop!
So don't try to figure out a plan!
You can't reason with a Headless Man!
Doug: Now if you doubt this tale is so,
One met that spook many years ago.
Now he didn't stop for a second look,
But made for a bridge as fast as he could.
For once you cross a bridge my friend,
The ghost is through his power ends!
Rob: So when we're riding tomorrow night,
Make for the bridge with all our might.
He'll be down in a hallow there.
He needs a head!
Look out! Beware!
Everyone: With a hip-hip and a clippity clop,
He's out looking for a top to chop!
So don't try to figure out a plan!
You can't reason with a Headless Man!
Scootaloo: Awesome! Is he really real?
Doug: Nah. It was just a hoax, but still kinda cool.
Scootaloo: Definitely. Ooh... What if the Headless Horseman rides the Headless Horse!
Fluttershy: ... Oh my, then no wonder they're so lost if they're here when they're supposed to be in Doug's home.

(Everyone has a laugh and goes to sleep. Cut to later as they walk to the sea where the Sea Ponies are supposed to be.)

Twilight: Um... Hi Sea Ponies. I'm Princess Twilight Sparkle, and I was wondering if you'd like to talk about being friends with Equestria.

(There's no sign of life in the sea.)

Rob (mentally): Please no one suggest singing again. Please no one suggest singing again.
Pinkie: Ooh! Ooh! Maybe they respond to singing!
Rob: D'oh!
Pinkie: Hey there Sea Ponies!
We wanna be your friends!
'Cause when your friends with us,
The party never ends!
So what do you say?
Wanna come up to say "Hi"?!
If not we'll be real sad,
To have to say "Good-bye".

(A pink Sea Pony comes up, looking like a giant sea horse.)

Sea Pony: Hi.
Pinkie: Hi. Wanna be friends with us?
Sea Pony: Ooh yeah!
Twilight: Our main leaders can be here pretty soon to talk to yours.
Sea Pony: Yay!

(The gang smiles and heads off as Amalthea, Celestia, and Luna arrive.)

Celestia: Well done My Little Ponies.
Rob: Eh-hem.
Luna: And... Whatever Rob is. I don't even know.

(Rob sighs, and they head off.)

Sweetie Belle: Oh, that was so great!
We did it...! We did it...!
We made friends with the Sea Ponies!
Rob: Stop it! Stop it! There's been enough singing today!
Fluttershy: Oh, and I had an idea with a song, though I guess you wouldn't like it.
Rob: ... What was it?

(Fluttershy does a little song as they head home.)

The End.