Fluttershy must overcome her fears to stop a dragon from filling Ponyville with smoke.Fluttershy must overcome her fears to stop a dragon from filling Ponyville with smoke.Fluttershy must overcome her fears to stop a dragon from filling Ponyville with smoke.
- Twilight Sparkle
- (voice)
- Applejack
- (voice)
- …
- Pinkie Pie
- (voice)
- …
- Rarity
- (voice)
- Spike
- (voice)
- Pinkie Pie
- (singing voice)
- Red Dragon
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Directors
- Writers
- Lauren Faust
- Meghan McCarthy
- Bonnie Zacherle(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhenever Fluttershy faints from fear, the sound effect of a goat's bleat can be heard. This is a reference to myotonic goats, also known as fainting goats, whose muscles will freeze when they panic. This reflex causes them to collapse on their side.
- Quotes
Twilight Sparkle: You have a wonderful talent dealing with all kinds of animals.
Fluttershy: Yes. Because they're not dragons...
Rainbow Dash: Oh come on! We've seen you walk up to a horrible manticore like it was nothing.
Fluttershy: Yes. Because he wasn't a dragon...
Pinkie Pie: Spike is a dragon. You're not scared of him.
Fluttershy: Yes. Because he wasn't a huge, gigantic, terrible, enormous, teeth-gnashing, sharp scale-having, horn-wearing, smoke-snoring, could-eat-a-pony-in-one-bite, totally-all-grown-up dragon.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Sugarcube Critic: Dragonshy (2014)
- SoundtracksHop Skip and Jump
Lyrics by Meghan McCarthy
Music by William Anderson, based on Daniel Ingram's demo
Performed by Andrea Libman
I know that sounds extreme but it was sort of the straw that broke the camel's back.
The fact that the mane 6 are sent to deal with the Dragon instead of some specialized task force is the least of the episode's worries. They completely gloss over the conscription by royal decree in an otherwise fairly progressive show build up what is admittedly an agreeable momentum the group try to reach the summit (including the now famous consecutive tic-tac-toe losses on Rarity's part).
I was optimistic about the episode because I liked how Fluttershy represented the less assertive heroin and how you can be passive as well admirable. Seeing her cower before danger was refreshing because until then she sort of felt like a Mary Sue; a bit too perfect, you know?
But then the climax...this started a trend in the Flutter-centric episodes in which the conflict resolved basically just by her acting out of character.
Without ruining it: the resolve to this episode is perhaps the most lazily written, sanctimonious, condescending and just down right smug solutions perhaps any show its type.
Supremely below the show's usual high standard.
- GiraffeDoor
- Aug 26, 2020
Details
- Runtime23 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1080i (HDTV)
- 480i (SDTV)