Sonic Rainboom
Intro
Rainbow: Well this is gonna be interesting…
Veronica: Stop mumbling back there, Rainbow Dash. We're trying to get these clouds down perfectly.
Fluttershy: I had no idea this was possible. How did you get these clouds down to the ground?
Veronica: My crew got together to make some artificial clouds. They look real enough but anyone can walk on these; not just pegasi.
Rainbow: [Steps onto the clouds] Yeah… these feel nothing like real clouds. Kinda surprised Fluttershy thought they were legit.
Fluttershy: Oh… I'm sorry…? [hangs her head in embarrassment]
Veronica: Well how else could we do this? We can't get the entire crew to walk on the clouds for long enough to film the episode. [To herself] Who's idea was it to make an episode in the clouds?
Director: Okay! I have arrived! And I want to make this quick, so I'm not going to stand for any delays!
Rainbow: You say that every week.
Fluttershy: But you weren't here last week, Rainbow.
Rainbow: Oh, that's right... so did he say it last week?
Fluttershy: Yes, he did.
Director: Hey ladies, the longer you spend chatting, the longer this is going to take.
I know it's gross but I'm not sorry
[Rainbow is teaching Fluttershy how to cheer for her.]
Rainbow: So now that you know the elements of a good cheer, let's hear one!
Fluttershy: [Takes a deep breath, about to cheer, but instead of saying 'yay' she lets out a delicate little burp.]
Director: CUT!
[Rainbow bursts out laughing.]
Pierre: Great job Fluttershy, that was disgusting.
Fluttershy: I-it's just nervous gas! I swear! I'm sorry!
Rainbow: Pierre! Please email me that video!
Fluttershy: NO!
Fluttershy Sings the Hits
(Credit to Mlpgirl2002)
Rainbow: So now that you know the elements of a good cheer, let's hear one!
[Fluttershy takes a deep breath.]
Fluttershy: [Singing]
Buddy, you're a boy, make a big noise,
Playing in the street, gonna be a big man someday,
You got mud on your face, you big disgrace,
Kicking your can all over the place-
Director: CUT! Fluttershy, what the heck?!
Fluttershy: I, uh... just wanted to prove that I could sing.
Director: ...and was now really the best time for that?
Fluttershy: Well, maybe not, but I couldn't wait.
The Sky Camera
[Everyone is outside to film Rainbow's stunt in the sky.]
Twilight: So, how's Pierre going to film this? I mean… humans can't fly.
Director: [Sighs] I know that, so instead we got… [in a grumpy voice] Mitch…
Twilight: Mitch?
Director: Mitch Hurricane, the backup head camera-worker. [Points at a navy blue pegasus with a long mint green and white mane tinkering with a camera. His Cutie Mark is a camera with wings.]
Twilight: Oh right, I remember you bringing him up… I didn't realize he was a pony though; he has such an un-Equestrian name.
Director: Who cares about that?! The point is, he gets on my nerves like you wouldn't believe, so that's another reason to get this over with as soon as possible.
Twilight: [Watches Mitch adjusting the camera's straps] Oh, he doesn't seem so bad.
Director: Just you wait…
Take 1
[Rainbow Dash weaves in and out between a row of bushes, flying towards the camera at an impressive speed.]
[Mitch weaves in and out of the two bushes at the end of the row, but he is clearly not focused on what he is doing.]
Rainbow: WHOA! Mitch, move!
[Mitch stops zoning out but is unable to move out of the way in time. Rainbow dives off to the side to avoid crashing into him and the Director facepalms.]
Director: CUT! Mitch, get down here!
[The camerapony flies down and lands in front of the Director.]
Director: What was that? You do know that looking at what you're filming is rule number one when it comes to camerawork?
Pierre: Actually, it's not even rule number one. It isn't a rule because it just goes without saying.
Mitch: [Deadpan] Look, I'm a professional. I know what I'm doing. I'm really good at what I do. See my Cutie Mark? I'm good with cameras. I'm good with flying. Put them together and I'm unstoppable. I'm so good that I zone out on the job. That's just my price to pay for being amazing. Should we try again now?
Director: [Eye twitches] Sure, why not?
[Mitch flies away. Twilight clicks her tongue.]
Twilight: Okay, I can see why you have a problem with him… he needs to learn to use connectives more often."
Director: Of course you'd focus more on his speech. That's annoying too, but it's his condescending attitude that drives me crazy.
Rainbow: Hypocrite!
Take 2
[Rainbow Dash flies round and round a cloud to make it spin; Mitch flies a little way in front of her the whole time to film her face. However, Mitch flies a little too slowly and ends up dangerously close to Rainbow.]
Rainbow: Mitch, not again!
[Rainbow and Mitch collide and fall through the cloud and down to the ground.]
Director: CUT!
Twilight: [Hurries over to Rainbow and Mitch] What happened?! You almost did it.
Rainbow: [Shaking the dust off her] I know! Mitch, did you zone out again?
Mitch: No. I just wanted to touch your mane. I need to know if it's natural.
[Awkward silence]
Rainbow: You could just ask me…
Mitch: Oh. Well. Is it?
Rainbow: Yes.
Mitch: Oh. Cool.
[More awkward silence]
Rainbow: I'm gonna move away from you now.
On a Scroll
[After Rainbow Dash crashes into Twilight's library, she ends up with five scrolls stuffed into her mouth. She immediately starts choking.]
Director: Cut. Twilight, lose one of the scrolls.
Twilight: [Spits out the scrolls] Gladly. Why are there so many choking hazards around here? Has there been a week of filming where one of us hasn't choked on something?
Director: [Looks at Pierre, raising a brow]
Pierre: [Shrugs]
[Silence]
Director: Shut up, Twilight.
Gotta Pink Fast
Rainbow: Ugh. I wish you guys could come to Cloudsdale to see me compete in the Best Young Flier Competition.
Twilight: What' that?
Pinkie: [Gasps, her eyes shining] It' where all the greatest pegasus fliers get together and show off their different flying styles! Some are fast! [She rears up on her hind legs before galloping through the mess of books on the floor to demonstrate. Predictably she slips on a book and lands on her tummy.]
Director: Cut.
Twilight: [To herself] So hazardous...
Book Assault
Rainbow: I wish you guys could be there. Fluttershy's a great support, but her cheering isn't exactly inspirational.
[Pinkie pops up from underneath a pile of books, sending a few of them flying. One of them hits Rarity in the side of the head and the unicorn yelps in pain.]
Director: Cut!
Pinkie: Oh crud! Rarity, are you hurt? [Grabs Rarity's head and peers at where the book hit it]
Rarity: I'm perfectly fine, Pinkie. Although I'm afraid that could bruise…
Pinkie: [Passes another book to Rarity] Here. If you want, you can throw a book at me. Then we'll be even!
Rarity: ...I'm not going to do that.
Books are the True Danger to Ponykind
Pinkie: [Hops up onto a windowsill.] The Sonic Rainboom is legendary! When a pegasus like Rainbow Dash gets going sooo fast… [she leaps off the windowsill and into a pile of books] BOOM! [The books fly up into the air once again.]
Rarity: [Gets hit in the other side of the head] OWW!
Director: Cut! Again, Pinkie?!
Pinkie: [Ears drooping] I'm sorry! I can't control the trajectory of the books!
How Indecent!
[Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy leave.]
Twilight: Well, guess we better get this cleaned up... again. [looks around at the mess in the library.]
[Silence]
Twilight: … [Clears throat]
[More silence]
Director: Rarity, that's your cue!
Rarity: [Snapping] I know! I'm just building up to it!
Director: It's not hard! All you have to do is jab Twilight in the butt with your… horn…
Rarity: [Stares at him]
Director: Oh… I can see why you might not be too thrilled to be doing that. Just, uh… take your time. Pierre, keep rolling.
Pierre: [Opens mouth]
Director: And don't say anything gross or I'm cutting your salary.
Pierre: [Closes mouth]
Transformation Blunders
Take 1
(Credit to Mlpgirl2002)
[Twilight starts casting the spell on Rarity that will give her wings. However, she does it suspiciously quickly.]
Director: What the…? Really, Twilight?
[Rarity lands back on the ground, looking at her sides to find herself wingless. Confused, she places a hoof against her head. She then realizes what's wrong.]
Rarity: [Sighs] There's a clown wig on my head, isn't there?
Twilight: Hehe. Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Take 2
(Credit to Brandon Vortex and AkaiKamiRyu)
[Twilight begins to cast the spell again, straining as a cocoon of magic coils itself around Rarity. The white unicorn tries to remain calm but it is clear that she is feeling uncertain about having this spell cast on her. Finally, Twilight finishes casting the spell and collapses to the ground, panting and sweating a little.]
Pierre: Oh boy…
Director: Cut! Twilight, I think you made a mistake.
Twilight: [Weakly lifts her head from the ground] I did? [Looks at Rarity] Oh…
Rarity: I'm not sure how I feel about this. [Rarity spreads her new wings, which were meant to look like a butterfly's but instead look like pink dragon wings.] The color is gorgeous but the shape is far too jagged. It just clashes with the rest of me too much, Twilight.
Twilight: [Still out of breath] I'll try again in a little while, but that spell took a lot out of me. Just give me… ten to twenty minutes and I'll do it right, I swear.
Friendship is Magic but it Also Causes Bloopers
[Rainbow and Fluttershy are flying into Cloudsdale. Some pegasi are walking on the clouds, doing their daily business and Derpy flies across the screen.]
Mike: [Off-set] WOOOO! Go Derpy! You're doing amazing!
Derpy: [Waves at Mike] Thank you~!
Director: Mike! We're trying to film a scene here!
Mike: I k-know! That's why I'm cheering!
Director: [Throws a soda can at him] Get outta here!
Rarity the Fledgling
[Rainbow Dash is having a full-blown panic attack.]
Fluttershy: [Distractedly] Rar…
Rainbow: Rare?! The Sonic Rainboom is way more than rare!
Fluttershy: [Points upwards] Rarity…
[Close ups of Rarity's butterfly wings, however before Pierre can fully film them, Rarity starts to wobble in the air.]
Pierre: Whoa! Hey, keep still, will you?
Rarity: [Desperately flapping her wings and trying to stay in place] I'm trying! I've just never flown before and I have no idea how- AAH! [Rarity finally crashes down onto the set, landing on her side.]
Director: Okay, this is a good place to have a break. Hey Dash, do you think you could give Rarity a few pointers?
Rainbow: Sure thing! Rarity, you've got yourself the best flight teacher ever right now!
Rarity: And I undoubtedly need the best teacher. How do pegasi do this? It's so difficult to balance and I'm unsure of what to do with my hooves.
Rainbow: Well us pegasi learn how to fly when we're kids. It's easier to learn when you're little; like how it is with learning a new language.
Rarity: Oh, Rainbow Dash? Have you been multilingual this whole time and never let us know?
Rainbow: Hey, it's just never come up in conversation is all. Now lemme show ya how flying's done!
The Break
[The Director and Pierre are sitting in the break room drinking soda and coffee respectively. Around them, everyone is doing their own thing. Derpy and Mike are laughing over something, Twilight is going over her script with Fluttershy, Tou-Mou is pestering Veronica, etc.]
Director: So, this one scene's actually gonna be filmed in the clouds.]
Pierre: Suits me. I got things to do.
Director: Ugh. Well because we can't be there, do you know who will?!
Pierre: Mitch.
Director: Mitch! And do you know who's going to replace me?
Pierre: Fluttershy?
Director: Nobody- wait. Fluttershy? You think Fluttershy could be a good director?
Pierre: Why not? She has a good attention to detail, and she's the type to give constructive criticism rather than just calling everybody stupid like someone I know.
Director: [Missing the insult] Hmm… hey Fluttershy, can we talk for a moment?
Fluttershy Takes the Wheel
[On a cloud, the scene where the hot air balloon rises up into Cloudsdale is being filmed.]
Fluttershy: Wow, okay, so I'm in charge now, so… just do as I say, please?
Mitch: Sure. I'm ready. Just tell me what to do. I can do anything. With cameras, that is.
Fluttershy: Alright! [Looks around] He could have at least given me a megaphone; I'm not sure the others will be able to hear me from where they are.
Pinkie: [From beneath the clouds, where she, Twilight and Applejack are waiting in the hot air balloon] Hey Fluttershy, we're ready!
Fluttershy: Okay! [Takes a deep breath] Action!
[Nothing happens]
Fluttershy: Action!
[Still nothing]
Fluttershy: Action! Action Action!
Rainbow: [Facehoofs] Fluttershy, you've gotta be louder!
Fluttershy: [Takes a very long breath] Action!
Rainbow: We're gonna be here for so long…
Mitch: Do you want me to yell. I can yell pretty loud. I mean not really, but I'm better than you at least.
Rainbow: [Sighs deeply, grimacing]
Slightly Better
[Back in the studio, regular filming has resumed. All of the Mane Six are now able to walk in Cloudsdale.]
Rainbow: Hey, we've got some time before the competition. Why don't Fluttershy and I show you around Cloudsdale?
[All the ponies agree and Rainbow Dash begins to lead them away, but Rarity starts to lose her balance in the air again.]
Rarity: Oh dear! Oh! I'm starting to lose control again, Rainbow Dash! [She falls down to the ground, but this time she manages to land on her hooves.]
Director: Cut! Rarity, did Dash teach you nothing during the break?
Rarity: [Scoffs] Give her some credit, sir. She taught me how to hover in place.
Rainbow: Yeah, she's got that down pat. It's moving that she's having trouble with now, and it's not really something you can learn in a day-
Director: What's that? We should have another break so Dash can teach Rarity some more? That sounds delightful! Everybody, let's go.
Rainbow: Wow, and you call me lazy.
Too Ambitious
Take 1
[Rarity starts to fly in a loop-the-loop, showing off and loving her new wings. However, as she flies downwards, she crashes straight into Twilight.]
Rarity: Oh! I'm sorry!
Twilight: [Grumbles]
Take 2
[Rarity tries the loop again but spins out and crashes off-set.]
Take 3
[She tries again but flies too far up, loses her balance, and plummets back down to land on top of Applejack.]
Take 4
[At the end of the loop-the-loop, Rarity flies upside down and zooms downwards, falling off-set again and crashing into a random crew member.]
Twilight: UGH! You just had to make her fly! Nopony can learn to fly in a day! It goes against nature, just like that spell! Good grief, I was trying so hard not to let this bother me!
Director: Twilight, cool your jets! I'm sure she'll get it right next time.
Rarity: [Weakly] I'm in so much pain.
Slipbow
[The scene opens on a room full of rainbow waterfalls pouring down from floating platforms.]
Rainbow: [Leading her friends into the room] ...and this is where they make the rainb-
[Just then, one of the worker ponies slips and falls off one of the floating platforms. She flaps her wings to stay airborne and waves at the camera, yelling an apology.]
Director: Ugh! Cut! We went so long without a mistake there!
Pierre: Not really, sir.
Director: It felt like it! That's a good sign, though, so I'll take it!
This Looks Familiar
(Credit to AkaiKamiRyu)
[Pinkie dips a hoof into a vat of rainbow juice(?) and licks some of it. Instead of freaking out at how spicy it is, Pinkie instead barfs up a rainbow onto the ground. Everyone swiftly jumps away from her.]
Director: CUT! What the heck?! Rainbows don't do that!
Pinkie: [Wipes her mouth and giggles] I know! But I can!
[Everyone is silent and stares at her. Pierre turns off the camera.]
Okay Seriously These Guys Are Dumb But I Want Dumb-Bell to Get Some Pretty Wings
[Dumb-Bell, Hoops, and Score are following Rarity as she flutters through the air.]
Dumb-Bell: Oh, where'd you get those amazing wings? I want a pair!
Rarity: Hmm… yeah, I guess I could see that.
[Score then trips over nothing, bumping into Hoops and knocking him over, which causes Hoops to fall forward on top of Dumb-Bell.]
Director: CUT!
Rainbow: Pfft. Dummies.
Dumb-Bell: I heard that, Rainbow Crash!
Into the Arena
[The Best Young Flier competition is about to begin. Rainbow Dash looks out at the audience and sees Applejack, Pinkie, Fluttershy, and Twilight sitting on a cloud. Pinkie is waving a foam hand in the air. Twilight looks agitated.]
Director: Uh… cut. Twilight, what's-
Twilight: [Yelling] Why does Pinkie have a foam hand?! Ponies in this universe shouldn't know what hands are!
Director: Um… usually, I'd tell you to shut up, but you have a good point. How can we explain this, Pierre?
Pierre: Er… I'm sure no one will notice.
Director: You think so?
Pierre: Maybe… maybe the Sonic Rainboom will overshadow it?
Director: I frigging hope so.
What Do You Know? Another One of These Bloopers. Twilight's Right, Y'all
[Rainbow has noticed that she's the second pony up to perform.]
Lucy Packard: Okay, number two, let's go! Come on, come on, we ain't got all day.
[Rainbow swaps one of the other contestant's numbered stickers with hers.]
Rainbow: [To the contestant] She's talking to you.
[The stallion, who is munching on some hay, tries to say his line but ends up choking on his mouthful.]
Director: Cut!
Twilight: [From off-set] Did someone choke?! I heard someone choke!
Director: Everything is fine, Twilight. Stop being so paranoid!
Twilight: Someone's going to die one day because of these choking hazards, and when it happens you'll be sorry!
An Appropriate Reaction
[Rainbow Dash is cowering on the floor, shaking. Lucy Packard comes over and jabs her with a hoof.]
Lucy Packard: Number fifteen, let's go!
[The door to Rarity's dressing room opens and the unicorn steps out.]
Rarity: Rarity… is ready!
[The camera zooms out to reveal Rarity in her outfit for the show. It's so gaudy and ridiculous that I honestly have no idea how to frig to describe it. It looks like Rarity skinned a few teletubbies to make it.]
Pierre: Hrrk! [Pierre dives away and makes a break for the bathroom, his face turning extremely green.]
Rarity: ...how rude.
Rainbow Dash: Can you blame him?
Rarity: Excuse me, Rainbow Dash?
Rainbow Dash: Nothing!
Mitch Goes Mobile
[Rainbow Dash begins her routine, flying in and out between pillars made of clouds. Mitch follows behind her with his camera, but ends up zoning out and slamming right through one of the pillars.]
Director: Cut! Mitch, you're gonna get fired if this keeps up!
Mitch: Sorry. Flying like this is just so relaxing. It's not my fault that I'm drifting off. Rainbow Dash isn't even flying at full speed.
Rainbow: Yeah, if I did that, you wouldn't be able to keep up, and then how would the viewers see my awesome routine?
Director: [Sighs] Let's just move on.
Princess Gets Pwned
[During phase two of her routine, Rainbow flies around some clouds to make them spin. Whilst spinning around the third cloud, a piece of it comes loose and hits the pegasus in the face. The recoil makes the rest of the cloud spin down in the direction of Princess Celestia and her guards. They gasp and duck down in order to avoid getting hit by it, but it ends up hitting them anyway.]
Everybody: [Cringes]
Director: [Sigh] Cut!
Celestia: [Spits some cloud out of her mouth.]
Veronica's Epic Plan
[The Director, Twilight, Rarity, and Veronica are all cramped into Twilight's balloon, which is hovering about thirty feet off the ground outside the studio and tied around a tree. Rainbow Dash and Mitch are flying beside it.]
Director: So… you think this is worth it?
Veronica: Absolutely.
Rarity: Can someone kindly explain what it is we're doing up here?
Rainbow: What's with the big green pillow? [She points down to the ground, where a humongous light green pillow is pinned down below the balloon.]
Veronica: I'll tell you. This is my plan to make this episode the most daring thing we've done yet! For one shot, we're going to show Rarity plummeting down through the air. Actually filming her falling will make it look all the more terrifying to the audience.]
Rarity: Um… that's because it is terrifying. You didn't think to ask if I was okay with this before flying me all the way up here?
Director: Well, we thought you'd say no.
Rarity: You are scum!
Rainbow: But what's with the green pillow?!
Veronica: We're going to green screen Cloudsdale onto it. Now Twilight, do the thing!
Twilight: I'm so, so sorry, Rarity.
Rarity: Wha-?
Director: Mitch, ready the camera!
Mitch: Got it.
Rarity: Hold on-
[Twilight then zaps Rarity with a spell and she disappears in a flash of light, She reappears not a second later outside the balloon's basket and starts falling down towards the big pillow, screaming in horror the whole way down.]
Director: And… [Rarity hits the pillow] clear! That was great!
Veronica: [Smugly smiles] I know.
Rainbow: Hey, Rarity's getting up… she seems pretty mad.
Rarity: [From down below] You mongrels! When you get down here I'm going to stab you repeatedly with my horn!
Director: Aye… maybe we should have gotten a stunt double.
Veronica: And miss out on filming Rarity's genuine screams of fear?!
Mitch: I don't want to be impaled. I'm staying up here. [Lands in the balloon.]
Rainbow: Yeah… me too. Rarity sounds pretty serious. [Gets in after Mitch.]
[The balloon is now very cramped. Rainbow has to dangle her front hooves out of it, The Director takes up a lot of room in the middle, shoving Mitch uncomfortably into the side of the basket. Twilight and Veronica are forced into a corner, smooshed a little closer together than either of them are comfortable with.]
Twilight: How long do you think she's gonna wait.
Rarity: I can wait here all night if necessary.
Twilight: Oh… well then…
[Everyone is silent for a few long minutes.]
Director: We're gonna starve up here.
The Producer's Wrath
[Everyone is preparing to film the Sonic Rainboom scene. The Director is on his phone.]
Director: Oh boy… [Starts texting]
Pinkie: Hi there, sir! Who're you talking to?
Director: Oh hey Pinkie, I'm being bugged by the Producer. She's being very uncharacteristically… emotional about this episode.
Pinkie: You mean like she's really happy with it?
Director: No as in she thinks that this episode is insulting to the military and it's bothered her so much she's gone drinking.
Pinkie: Well… this scene does require three whole Wonderbolts to get knocked out in mid-air. It makes them seem a little useless, right?
Director: That's because Dash has to be the hero… [he pauses, thinking] by making the military useless. Okay, I kinda get why the Producer's mad. I just hope she doesn't take it out on us. She's in a bad mood as it is.
Pinkie: Are we ever gonna meet her? I wanna see the person in charge!
Director: Maybe someday. She comes and goes as she pleases, like a cat or something. Somehow she manages to do her job pretty well, though.
Pinkie: Hmm… I came over here to tell you something.
Director: [Looking at his phone again.]
Pinkie: Oh yeah! Rarity's sorry for stabbing you in the butt with her horn.
Director: [Shedding a tear] It really hurt! Sitting down hurts, Pinkie! And I spend most of my life in this chair!
Rarity: [From a different room] I'm not sorry!
A Little Too Enthusiastic
[Rainbow Dash performs the Sonic Rainboom and the camera cuts to Applejack, Pinkie, Fluttershy, and Twilight sitting on their cloud. Fluttershy begins jumping up and down, cheering with glee.]
Fluttershy: The Sonic Rainboom! She did it! She- WHOA!
[Fluttershy accidentally jumps right off the cloud and starts falling downwards.]
Applejack: [Calls over the side of the cloud] Fluttershy, you can fly!
Director: Cut!
Wonderdrop
[After pulling off the Sonic Rainboom, Rainbow Dash zooms down towards the ground, eyes watering as a beautiful rainbow trail flies out behind her. Just in time, Rainbow swoops down and grabs Rarity, catching the three Wonderbolts on her back-]
Rainbow: Oh no!
[Soarin' drops off her back and lands on the ground below her. Rainbow zooms away, yelling an apology over her shoulder.]
Director: Ugh. Cut!
Another One of These!
[Celestia and her guards land in front of the group of friends.]
Twilight: Princess!
[The friends bow down to her.]
Celestia: Hello, Twi- HRRK! [Celestia's throat suddenly tightens.]
Director: Cut! Celestia, are you alright?!
[Celestia gags and pants until finally she coughs up a lump of cloud that had gotten stuck in her throat from when Rainbow kicked that cloud at her.]
Twilight: Oh for the love of- UGH! Another choking hazard?!
Celestia: [Coughs up some more cloud] I've been choking up bits of cloud for the past two hours. When will it stop?!
Fluttershy: Try drinking some water. It helps.
Twilight: [Getting in Celestia's face.] For now! For now, it will help! What happens when Rainbow kicks a rock down your throat instead?
Rainbow: I… highly doubt that'll happen.
Twilight: That's what they all say! And then it does happen!
Pierre: Twilight, what happened to you that made you this bonkers? [Turns off camera, sighing.]
Endnote: And that's the end of this chapter. The next episode is Stare Master, so if you have any ideas for bloopers you know the drill by now- send me them through a review or a PM.
So, this episode… is where the "yay" meme came from. So there's that. Okay look, I used to really love this episode for the same reasons as most people, but these days I'm just kinda "meh" on it. I'll start with talking about what I did like about it though, and that's the glimpse we got into Rainbow Dash's past. We learn that she dropped out of school, was bullied and that she carries some underlying anxiety about it to this day. This episode got me to believe that Dash had a superiority-inferiority complex, which is where you boast about yourself incessantly to hide the fact that you're deeply insecure about yourself. That used to be my favorite thing about Rainbow Dash's character, but unfortunately, it isn't really explored after this. Of course, the show is now eight seasons long and Dash has become a Wonderbolt, which is great and all, but I remember really wanting to see a plotline where we see why she dropped out of school and how that affected her and how her life wasn't going in the direction she dreamed it would. As I've gotten older, I just think kids need to see more plotlines where characters like Rainbow Dash aren't able to achieve their dreams and so they set new goals and find happiness and worth in other ways that are more accessible. But no, kids! If you really, really, really want something then you can absolutely get it as long as you're awesome!
The other stuff I didn't like basically boils down to Rarity being a little out-of-character, the bully characters being lame, and Twilight conveniently finding the cloud-walking spell after giving Rarity wings just so Rarity would be the only one in the spotlight. But hey, the Sonic Rainboom itself was awesome at least
I didn't much develop the storyverse this time around, as I worry that you guys might be getting a little sick of it (I don't know though. Maybe I'm just lazy?), but I did throw in Derpy and Mike's new friendship to show that that's still a thing. But hey, there's Mitch! Remember Mitch, that throwaway name I came up with at the start of Winter Wrap-up, well he's a character now! And also, because I don't know how I could explain it in the story, the reason he's a pony with a human name is that he was adopted by a married human/pony couple. Hey, it's a universe made up of toons and humans- if Roger Rabbit can have interspecies relationships in it, why can't I?!
As a final note, I was going to publish a little intermission chapter because this one was taking so long but decided against it as it would disrupt the flow. Instead, I'm going to include that chapter at the end of The Best Night Ever when I get to it. I feel like it would be better placed there, because the Intermission, believe it or not, is important to the story. Yeah, My Little Bloopers has a story, it's just… taking a while to get there.
Happy Holidays, everyone!