My Little Pony with Rankin Bass. Merry Christmas! … In June…
Disclaimer: My Little Pony belongs to Hasbro, the Hub and Lauren Faust while the Stingiest Man in Town belongs to Rankin-Bass. I own nothing.
The Stingiest Mare in Town
Prologue: Sunset Shimmer
Holly-ho!
Holly ho-ho-ho!
Holly ho! Tally ho!
Sing a Christmas Carol written long ago.
Pinkie was hanging out in a luxurious apartment when we walked up.
"Written long ago." Pinkie repeated when she noticed us. "The merriest of Merry Christmases to you."
"Who are you?" I asked?
"Who am I?" Pinkie exclaimed. "I'm Pinkie Pie. Welcome to the home of the kindest and most generous mare in Canterlot, Sunset Shimmer." Pinkie continued.
"What?" My friend Rob asked in shock.
"You're surprised I call Sunset kind and generous." Pinkie observed. "Well, you can take my word for it. True, Sunset wasn't always so jolly. There was a time when she was as mean and miserable as the counting house in which she conducted his business. The offices of Sunset and Trixie. Now Trixie was dead to begin with, but old Revan never paid to have Trixie's name crossed out. Hee-hee!" She suddenly giggled. "I'm talking funny today. Anyway, singing time!"
There was a mean and stingy mare
Named Sunset Shimmer.
Her heart was hard and cold
Because she was the devil's gear.
While she set down to count the gold
That her mind could never leave.
Young ponies in the square outside…
"Merry Christmas!" Several children called out, disrupting Sunset's train of thought.
Celebrated Christmas Eve.
"Away!" Sunset shouted, brandishing an umbrella. "Away with you and your 'Merry Christmas'!"
The children scattered upon seeing Sunset.
"Christmas." Sunset scoffed as she sat back down. "Bah humbug. Humbug!"
"That used to be her favorite word." Pinkie explained to us. "My family were housekeepers for Sunset before they moved back to the rock farm, so she had me stay and do my family's old work load. Oh, Sunset was a tight-fisted mare. A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, covetous old sinner. Until that Christmas Eve, not too long ago, when the ghosts came. My new friends, allow me to tell you a Ghost Story for Christmas. The Stingiest Mare in Town."
And you'll hear it too, in a few days, hopefully. So keep an eye out.