Hearth's Warming Eve

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[train whistle]

Twilight Sparkle: We're getting closer!

Rainbow Dash: I can hardly wait!

Fluttershy: I'm so excited, I— I feel like shouting! [softly] Woo-hoo!

Applejack: Hooo-wee! Canterlot, here we come!

Rarity: Oh, I do hope I look festive enough!

Pinkie Pie: There it is! Canterlot!

Main cast: Oooh...

Twilight Sparkle: Oh, isn't Canterlot wonderful this time of year?

Rainbow Dash: Yeah, I wish it was Hearth's Warming Eve every day.

Applejack: There's so much to look at! I feel like my durned eyes are gonna pop right out of my head!

Twilight Sparkle: I have an idea, let's play 'I spy with my little eye' as we walk! I'll go first. I spy... an eight-foot candy cane.

Rainbow Dash: I spy a snowpony!

Pinkie Pie: I spy somepony eating a gingerbread house...

[cash register ringing]

Pinkie Pie: [munching] ...and it's me!

Main cast: [laughs]

[ponies chattering]

[orchestra warming up]

Twilight Sparkle: I can't believe that Princess Celestia chose us to put on the most important play of the season! Do you guys know what an honor this is? For all of us?

Fluttershy: Oh, I wish she hadn't honored me quite so much... I can't go onstage! I don't want everypony looking at me!

Rose Light: Fluttershy, darling, there's nothing to feel nervous about.

Fluttershy: No?

Rarity: Of course not. All across Equestria, ponies are preparing their own pageants for Hearth's Warming Eve in their own towns. It's tradition.

Fluttershy: So you're saying they'll be too busy to come to our play?

Rose Light: Well, no. We're in the Canterlot pageant, the biggest, most important production in all of Equestria. A lot of ponies will come to watch us.

Fluttershy: A lot?

Rarity: Hundreds.

Fluttershy: Hundreds?

Rose Light: [gasps] Maybe even thousands!

Fluttershy: [yelps]

[wind rushing]

Rarity: Oh, my hair! Applejack? Be a dear and shut those windows, will you?

Rainbow Dash: Aaah! Rain-bow-Dash! Rain-bow-Dash! Aaaah! Thank you, thank you!

Applejack: It's a reenactment of the founding of Equestria. It's not the 'Rainbow Dash Show'.

Rainbow Dash: Well it should be the 'Rainbow Dash Show'! I'm the star!

Twilight Sparkle: Fluttershy, you've got to come out of there!

Spike: Curtain in two minutes!

Pinkie Pie: Twilight, let me handle this.

Rose Light: My hair!

Twilight Sparkle: PINKIE!

Pinkie Pie: [teeth chattering]

Rainbow Dash: [growls]

Applejack: The Hearth's Warming Eve pageant is about harmony and friendship.

Other main cast: Shut the window!

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