| The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000 | |
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| Season №: | 2 |
| Season episode №: | 15 |
| Overall episode №: | 41 |
| Original airdate: | January 28, 2012 |
| Written by: | M. A. Larson |
| Storyboard: | Kenny Park and Marshall Elliott[1][2] |
| Featured characters: | Flim and Flam |
| Song: | The Flim Flam Brothers |
| See also | |
| credits • transcript • gallery • allusions animation errors • statistics • speculation | |
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The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000 is the fifteenth episode of the second season of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic and the forty-first episode overall. In this episode, when Ponyville's high demand for apple cider exceeds the Apple family's capacity to produce it, a new competitor arrives in town to take their business.
Production, development, and merchandise[]
According to Steffan Andrews, who orchestrated The Flim Flam Brothers,[3] "Cider Horse Rules" was a working title for this episode.[4] This episode did not originally have a friendship report, and M.A. Larson was surprised that the "lesson" he wrote was approved.[5]
Hasbro produced a toy of the Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000 machine, which includes a figure of Flim.
In the UK, Ireland and Italy, this episode was banned from airing on television, because cider is an alcoholic drink in most countries other than the US and Canada, where alcoholic cider is known as "hard cider" instead. Despite this, it was still released uncensored - and dubbed into Italian - on DVD and streaming services. Likewise, most dubs of the series translate "cider" to "apple juice" instead for the same reason.
Summary[]
Cider season[]
Pinkie gets a prime spot in front of the cider stand.
While Fluttershy sleeps in her bedroom early one morning, Rainbow Dash crashes through the window and carries her outside toward Sweet Apple Acres. Rainbow explains that she wants to be ahead of Pinkie Pie for the opening day of cider season so it doesn't run out before she gets to buy some, though upon arrival, the pair find a massive queue of ponies camping in front of the cider stand. Pinkie exits a tent at the front of the queue and tells Fluttershy and a dismayed Rainbow Dash how she spread the idea of camping out in line the night before, resulting in a "big old cider party".
A short time later, Applejack declares cider season open as Apple Bloom, Granny Smith, and Big McIntosh begin serving the line of ponies. The cider supply quickly dwindles, however, and when Rainbow's turn finally arrives, the serving pump comes up dry. Distraught, Rainbow Dash joins the other ponies still in line as they complain that there's never enough cider for everyone. Applejack assures the crowd that there will be more cider the next day, and that while they try to improve production every year, the family recipe involves a level of care that can't be rushed.
The Flim Flam brothers[]
Flim and Flam singing.
As the disappointed townsfolk begin to disperse, their attention gets drawn to a large locomotive contraption that drives up to the cider stand. Two unicorn brothers named Flim and Flam alight and perform a musical number with the crowd wherein they use their "Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000" machine to produce fast, quality cider. Though the brothers' charismatic performance and promise of plentiful cider gain the favor of the townsfolk, the Apple family refuse to let them source apples from Sweet Apple Acres since the proposed profit share would put them out of business.
Flim and Flam return the next day and attempt to serve cider just as the stand at Sweet Apple Acres runs out, though Applejack accuses them of using Apple family apples and intercepts their operation. When the brothers promise the townsfolk that they will satiate their demand with cider sourced elsewhere, Apple Bloom claims that the family can outpace their machine, leading the brothers to challenge them to a cider-making competition. Though initially conciliatory, Granny Smith becomes incensed when Flim calls her a chicken and agrees to compete, granting them access to part of their orchard for the purpose.
Racing the Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000[]
The cider-making competition.
The next day, a crowd gathers at Sweet Apple Acres as the two sides prepare to compete. Mayor Mare announces that whoever makes the most cider in an hour gains the exclusive right to provide cider for the town. The competition begins, though it quickly becomes apparent that the Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000 is vastly outpacing the Apple family. Seeing her friend's predicament, Twilight Sparkle asks Mayor Mare if the rest of the Mane Six can assist the Apple family as "honorary" members, to which both Applejack and the Flim Flam bothers agree.
- "I think I'd love to have the rest of my family helpin' out."
- — Applejack
Everypony getting ready to help the Apple family.
Twilight, Fluttershy, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie begin helping the Apple family to gather and process apples into cider, increasing their production to five barrels for every three from the brothers. Alarmed, Flim and Flam magically overcharge their machine, causing its apple suction hose to start pulling in entire apple trees. The added detritus keeps setting off the machine's quality control, leading the brothers to override it.
The hour elapses, and after counting the barrels, Mayor Mare declares Flim and Flam the contest winners. As the Apple family head off to pack their belongings, the brothers begin selling their low-quality cider to the gathered townsfolk only to find them disgusted by the taste and unwilling to pay for it. With no demand for their product, Flim and Flam return to their locomotive and drive off, allowing the Apples to keep their farm and business.
As the townsfolk get their fill from the quality cider produced during the competition, Applejack narrates a letter to Princess Celestia about how your work speaks for itself if you take the time to do it the right way.
Quotes[]
- For more quotes, see the episode's transcript.
- Fluttershy: What's the rush?
- Rainbow Dash: 'The rush'? Don't you remember what happened last year? Or the year before that? Or pretty much any cider season ever?
- Fluttershy: Um, well, uh—
- Rainbow Dash: Pinkie Pie.
- Twilight Sparkle: Isn't this exciting, Spike? Opening day of cider season!
- Spike: Yeah! That means it's only thirty more days 'til sapphire season!
- Pinkie Pie: She's right, y'know! You can't rush perfection! And this year's batch was perfection!
- Fluttershy: Uh, Pinkie Pie—
- Pinkie Pie: I'll never forget the cider I just drank! It was a moment in time that will never exist again...
- Rainbow Dash: [growls]
- Applejack: Cider sales keep our business afloat through the winter. We'd lose Sweet Apple Acres if we agreed to this.
- Flim and Flam: So? What'll it be?
- Big McIntosh: No deal.
- Flim: Hmph. Very well. If you refuse our generous offer to be partners, then we'll just have to be competitors.
- Flim: What's the matter, Granny Smith? Chicken?
- Granny Smith: What did you call me, sonny?
- Granny Smith: Good 'un, bad 'un, bad 'un, good 'un...
- Rarity: Lovely, horrid, horrid, lovely...
- Flam: Drink up, Ponyville! Down the hatch!
- Ponies: [spitting] [grunting]
- Cherry Berry: I can't get the taste off my tongue!
- Sweetie Drops: Mine's got rocks in it.
- Comet Tail: I wouldn't pay one cent for this dreck!
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ Storyboard artists Raven M. Molisee and Tom Sales about the episode's storyboarders (2012-02-05). Retrieved on 2012 February 7.
- ↑ Raven Molisee's DeviantArt journal (2012-02-23). Retrieved on 2012 February 23.
- ↑ Daniel Ingram giving a shout-out to Steffan Andrews on Twitter (2012-02-28). Retrieved on 2012 February 12.
- ↑ Equestria Daily post mentioning the disclosure by Andrews (2012-02-12). Retrieved on 2012 February 12.
- ↑ Unicon 2013 Panel: The Writer's Room. Equestria Daily (2013-02-22). Retrieved on 2013 February 23.
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