Sweat dripped from the brow of the creative team at Studio B. The culprit seemed rather innocuous: writing an episode of Friendship is Magic, the latest in the My Little Pony line of TV series from Hasbro. On either side of the writers was a ton of fan mail suggesting episode ideas that were deemed plausible, odd, or downright rejected. At first, the mail had been a small and neatly organized pile. As the show began to grow in popularity and size, however, the pile grew more and more with each passing day. Fan mail mixed with hate mail that seemed to just overflow the office, not to mention their e-mail accounts and the various comments left on Lauren Faust’s deviantART page.
Naturally, they were more then a might bit nervous. The show had gone through a spectacular first season, and was smack dab in the middle of a second. It was clear, however, that they were having troubles. One of the animators was in the middle of animating Pinkie Pie for a part in an episode, and was drawing her randomly popping out of yet another random object. She was fully colored soon, and was starting to be animated and shown to the staff, before the animator rose to use the bathroom. When said animator came back…Pinkie was gone!
Said animator dropped her coffee in shock, and recoiled in shock when the prime party pony of Ponyville suddenly appeared beside the desk! Now, normally when one started seeing ponies on beside their desk and not on the page that they were being animated onto, they might’ve been sleep deprived or on some sort of illegal substance. This animator, along with the rest of the staff, clearly weren’t on any substances. “Out of ideas?” Pinkie asked, acting as though this was nothing at all. The animator was too stunned to reply, which prompted Pinkie to blink and grab a pencil.
“Don’t worry guys, I got this all by myself! Ooh, is this all the fan mail?! I always get fan mail, but it’s never been this high!” the pink pony said, bouncing toward the mountain of fan mail with all the peppiness and exuberance of a kid walking into a candy shop. She began reading…and reading…and reading: giggling at some, and blinking in surprise at others. “Hm…well, if this is what the fans want…this is what they’ll get!” Pinkie said, as she picked up her pencil in a hoof…and began writing. She went from writing to animating quick as a flash, stopping only to gulp down a cupcake that seemed to appear out of nowhere.
The creative team looked on in horror as Pinkie’s creations began to come to life on the screens…starting with a peaceful and quiet morning in a certain rainbow-maned Pegasus’ home in the clouds…