Day of the Flutter

thumb|330x330pxEQUESTRIA GIRLS: Day of the Flutter is the thirty-third episode of ZXInsanity's "Equestria Girls Parody Series". It is preceded by "EQUESTRIA GIRLS: Vengeance, Thy Name Is Apples", and is succeeded either by "EQUESTRIA GIRLS 2: Rainbow Rocks" (canon) or "EQUESTRIA GIRLS (TPS): I am Adagio Dazzle" and "Day of the Flutter 2" (direct events)
It was created by MrDeLoop, and uploaded on April 20, 2014.
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==Synopsis==
=== Act 1: Twilight's Mind ===
==== Prologue ====
This is but one of the legends of which the people speak...
Once upon a time, the land of Equestria was ruled by Overlord Faust and Overlord Hasbro, who shared that land equally. They struck a deal, in which Overlord Faust enforced "quality viewing", and Overlord Hasbro sold "bits of shoddy plastic" in return. One day, however, Overlord Faust suddenly left Equestria and focused on making more JonTron episodes.
In her absence, Overlord Hasbro rose to power, destroying community, and producing alicorns and off-color toys. Overlord Hasbro also unleashed his ultimate weapon upon Equestria: the "Equestria Girls".
A man with a poorly-photoshopped face appeared and raised his sword. He was joined by two other legendary warriors, who fought and defeated Overlord Hasbro. They banished Overlord Hasbro and the Equestria Girls, and sealed them into stone statues. The three warriors, now honored as heroes, continued to protect the land for ages to come.
==== The Fluttershy Paradox ====
Rainbow Dash talks with Fluttershy (who she mistakenly calls "Lisa" and "Pikachu") and pretends to jump down from her hot air balloon. She reemerges with a pair of binoculars, stating that she sees the Wonderbolts. Instead, an airplane crashes at the hot air balloon, causing the two girls to fall down to Canterlot High School, where they land on Rarity.
Rainbow Dash tells Fluttershy that they should not fly again for the sake of their skeletal systems. Another Fluttershy walks to them and warns the first Fluttershy that the universe is on the verge of collapsing, and that her voice is not the same as hers. Fluttershy #1 asks Fluttershy #2 (who appears as Pinkie Pie for a short while), and the universe collapses due to the two Fluttershys existing at the same time.
Both Fluttershys appear in a black void, which turns out to be within Twilight Sparkle. Rarity speaks to Twilight, and the latter disappears.
==== Greggs and Sausage Rolls ====
Fluttershy #1 says that there is a Greggs store present around them, as Fluttershy #2 disagrees. A Greggs store then appears out of nowhere, and the two Fluttershys enter and order food. The shopkeeper's head distorts and (after celebrating with a Castle Bingo jungle) changes into Twilight's head.
A third Fluttershy (with a feminine voice) arrives and warns the others that an army of giant sausage rolls with cannons are coming towards them from outside. Fluttershy #2 ends up getting eaten by one of the sausage rolls. When Fluttershy #1 wonders on how they could fly and save Fluttershy #2, Twilight uses her wings to navigate and dodge the storm of lasers and bullets.
Inside the sausage roll, Fluttershy #2 threatens the sausage roll for devouring her, and answers a phone call from Twilight. Twilight responds that she has returned to the physical realm, and as she is still under the control of the Reapers, when the Fluttershys caused a time paradox Twilight had no choice but to drag them into the depths of her mind. She adds that the Reapers control her body, but they do not control her imagination. When Fluttershy #2 asks Twilight to let them out of her mind, Twilight replies that Fluttershy #2 took herself into their situation, who blames Fluttershy #1 (which she tried to warn).
Twilight advises Fluttershy #2 to trust her completely and eat her way out of the sausage roll. Fluttershy #2 objects that she might fall from 1,000 kilometers if she does so, but Twilight tells her to do so. Fluttershy #2 emerges from the falling sausage roll, and gets picked up by the other two Fluttershys on their flying Twilight. Fluttershy #3 warns that they have to leave quickly, before they are being erased from Twilight's collapsing mind. The flying Twilight that the Fluttershys are standing on glitches and vanishes, causing them to fall, but they were rescued by Pinkie Pie in her purple car.
In a void, another Fluttershy with a black hat appears, whispering, "You don't know the answer, Fluttershy."
=== Act 2: Pinkie Pie's Super Quiz ===
==== Let the Games Begin ====
Fluttershy #2 finds herself in a studio and is startled by Pinkie Pie, who asks her whether is she ready for her game show. The three Fluttershys introduce themselves (with Fluttershy #2 wondering how did she end up there), and Pinkie instructs them to press a buzzer on each of their podiums to answer her question.
Pinkie asks several bizarre questions to the three Fluttershys, and win a vacuum cleaner, Phil Mitchel (using the Wheel of Brad), and $999,999,999,999,999,999 as their prizes.
But before Fluttershy #1 can answer the last question, the studio cracks, triggering alarms. Fluttershy #1 suggested that she and the others should leave, but a voice tells them not to leave, as they have the building surrounded.
=== Act 3: Solar Empire Headquarters ===
==== Equestria Calls For Aid ====
On a television screen, Principal Celestia requests for the three Fluttershys' aid. They board a helicopter piloted by Rainbow Dash to Celestia's headquarters. As they were escorted to Celestia's office hall, they argue and quarrel.
"Celestia" approaches them, and sends Rainbow Dash off using another Celestia with a seagull's head. Fluttershy #3 exposes "Celestia" as an imposter, and she is revealed to be Queen Chrysalis.
==== Exposition and Explanation ====
Queen Chrysalis agrees to explain to them under one condition: to fully commit to her cause, which the three Fluttershys agree.
Her story began during the War of the Gods, when she, the Two Princesses, King Sombra, and Discord fought Overlord Hasbro's plan to turn the Equestrians into "brain-dead monkeys that would be left to walk through the desolate landscape of high school". In spite of their alliance's efforts, their troops had been defeated until only five of them (including Chrysalis herself) remained. They prayed to Overlord Faust, but their prayers have been unanswered, and Celestia was killed.
A dazzling white light swept throughout the land, turning every remaining Equestrian into a humanoid who does not remember anything before and through his or her transformation. Only a few do remember what happened on that fateful day, such as Queen Chrysalis. In her quest for revenge, she assumed Celestia's identity, built the Solar Empire, and built Vice Principal Luna as an augmented cyborg who killed her decoy. By being a tyrannical leader, she was able to retrieve Overlord Hasbro's plans and marketing strategies. She then tried to search for Overlord Faust, finding her location and sharing her plans (such as Zecora producing an energy source for them in the form of the Triforce) to her. Before she can finish her final preparations to destroy Overlord Hasbro, she suspected that someone was watching her, so she feigned her death and hid in her headquarters.
She then asked them whether do they know about the legend, in which the Gods sealed Overlord Hasbro into stone, and split the universe into three as they protected it. Without the Gods, the universes will collide, and Overlord Hasbro will be released to begin his tyrannical reign once again – and now the Gods have just disappeared. But by now, only Fluttershy #2 was still awake while her counterparts fell asleep, and so Fluttershy #2 tries to wake them up.
When Fluttershy #2 asks on why does Chrysalis need them for her goals, Chrysalis responded that the three had managed to escape the laws of time and space, as they were not instantly destroyed by the paradox caused by their meeting as the universes collided. Furthermore, each of the Fluttershys has energy as strong as that of a supernova's, and that their ability to manipulate reality might have been bestowed upon them by the Gods, giving her campaign a great advantage in defeating Overlord Hasbro. The three Fluttershys then ask Chrysalis about their next objective.
=== Act 4: Everfree Forest ===
==== Zecora's Rap Battle ====
The three Fluttershys visit Zecora in the Everfree Forest, and then they quarrel over nonsensical matters (such as their clothes making them cold, Rarity throwing chairs at Fluttershy for dating with Brad, Fluttershy #2's masculine voice inherited from her father causing Brad to reject her, and Fluttershy #1's masculine voice caused by her super-glue-ing Poison Joke on her hair (which turns out to be a hairclip)).
The door to Zecora's house opens, and they were greeted by Eminem. Fluttershy #2 asks whether is Zecora at her home, but Eminem keeps quoting lyrics from his songs. After some more quotes, and at Fluttershy #2's request, Eminem escorts them into Zecora's house, and is then buried in spaghetti. Vinyl Scratch asks them to get on the stage for her show. Fluttershy #1 and Fluttershy #3 cheer on, as the confused Fluttershy #2 (as "Flutter Funk Slam") goes on a rap battle against Zecora (referred in her stage name, "Jammy Z").
During the rap battle, Fluttershy #2 requests for Zecora's help in seeking an artifact, and Zecora suggests that it is the Triforce that they are seeking after, and that it is now shattered and broken somewhere within the Everfree Forest. When Fluttershy #2 requested for the Triforce's location, Zecora stopped the rap battle, and warns that an unknown force guards the Triforce. It scorched her hand when she tried to pick it up, as only the worthy can acquire it. Fluttershy #2 asks her again, and Zecora replies that she had left it somewhere in the Forest.
==== Enter Overlord Hasbro ====
Fluttershy #2 runs out of Zecora's house to search for the Triforce within the Everfree Forest, in spite of the other Fluttershys' warnings. She instead stumbles upon a set of golden Toblerone candies, which is instead a trap: Overlord Hasbro himself has appeared behind her.
Fluttershy #2 asks Overlord Hasbro on how did he know its location, and the blue Overlord replies that he was following her and the other Fluttershys, and they caught his attention while they were discussing about their plans to stop him. In spite of Fluttershy #2's warnings to not mess with the paradox, Overlord Hasbro responds that in spite of her and her counterparts' powers, they were not able to stop him from having the Triforce. When Fluttershy #2 tries to grab the Triforce, Overlord Hasbro adds that it has become useless, as he is already possessing its powers.
Fluttershy #2 asks Overlord Hasbro on his goals for them, and that he should have killed them now. Overlord Hasbro responds that he does not want to kill her, but to give her a stern warning: to go home and not interfere with his plans to end the world. He disappears and distorts Equestria, causing Fluttershy #2 to end up watching her friends, and almost everyone that she has known, lying dead around her.
=== Act 5: Confrontation and Recollection ===
==== The Last Equestrian ====
As the only survivor of Overlord Hasbro's catastrophic powers, Fluttershy #2 spends a year and a half wandering throughout the emptied Equestria on her horse, and has grown a beard. She also suggests that the Gods also turned the Equestria Girls into stone with Hasbro to prepare them to fight him. Also, as her only method of time travel has been destroyed, she seeks to find Overlord Hasbro before she would decay and die of age.
Fluttershy #2 faces Overlord Hasbro, who gloats from his killing of her friends. She suggests that Overlord Hasbro might be scared of her, as the energy of the Triforce kept her alive. Overlord Hasbro boasts of a list of villains that he created and taunts her
Fluttershy #2 tells Overlord Hasbro to just kill her already, but Overlord Hasbro refuses, stating that he does not want her character dead, but the freedom-loving personality that the Gods have given to her to be erased: by destroying her mind, she will become nothing but a statue, and Overlord Hasbro will continue his plans with his Equestria Girls series to earn more money from the sales. Fluttershy sadly accepts her fate as she turns to stone.
==== Is This The End? ====
Fluttershy #2 finds herself in another realm, and wonders whether is she dead or not. After hearing Space Jam echoing somewhere and asking some more, she hears a more feminine voice telling her that there is no Greggs: she encounters herself as a pony. The human and pony Fluttershys have a talk with each other. Pony Fluttershy notices and asks about Fluttershy #2's hairclip, which Fluttershy #2 thought that she always had it with her. Pony Fluttershy leaves to write her fanfiction about turkeys that turn into books ("turk-box").
Fluttershy #2 asks the hairclip on its origins, and it presents to her a flashback of her memories. She focuses her thoughts, bringing her back to a moment where the three warriors (as square icons) gathered around three butterfly-shaped hairclips somewhere in a forest. While thinking, she sees the Fluttershy wearing a black hat whispering, "This is the answer", and revealing that the hairclips are the Triforce, to her disbelief.
Fluttershy #2 continues concentrating on her memories. Jake (the icon with Derpy Hooves) asks whether was the plan the right thing to do, and ZX (the icon with Fluttershy wearing a hat) confirms, as Overlord Hasbro expects a direct attack, and they must disguise themselves. Blarghalt (the icon with a pirate's skull) asks whether will they be changed by using the Triforce, and ZX agrees, but insists that he will keep his voice. ZX departs and uses one of the Triforce's parts. He becomes into Fluttershy #2, and falls from the sky into an ocean, but walks up to land.
=== Act 6: Fluttershy #2's Powers ===
==== Story Ends, Stalemate Begins ====
Now that Fluttershy #2 has remembered who she actually is, the hairclip on her head shines and releases its powers. Her body is released from stone, and she revives everyone in Equestria, including the other two Fluttershys. The three Fluttershys receive colorful swords, and together with the revived Equestrians, confront the astonished Overlord Hasbro. Fluttershy #1 warns Overlord Hasbro not to mess with the paradox.
Overlord Hasbro warns the Fluttershys that he can turn the Equestrians to fight against them, and Fluttershy #2 replies that he cannot do so while they are present. Overlord Hasbro warns that the Equestrians will cease to exist if he is destroyed, but Fluttershy #2 answers back that she and the other Fluttershys cannot be destroyed. When Overlord Hasbro threatens to attack them, Fluttershy #2 brandishes her sword, and challenges him: "Bring it."
== Features ==
=== Characters ===
* Overlord Faust
* Overlord Hasbro
* The Gods
* Rainbow Dash
* Fluttershy
* Rarity
* Twilight Sparkle
* Reapers (mentioned)
* Bread Loaf
* Pinkie Pie
* Gummy
* Brad
* Phil Mitchell
* Mr. Barkles
* Principal Celestia
* Angel Bunny
* Queen Chrysalis
* Vice Principal Luna
* King Sombra
* Discord
* Zecora
* Eminem
* Vinyl Scratch
* Spike
* Derpy Hooves
=== Locations ===
* Equestria
* Mountain range near Ponyville
* Canterlot High School
* Twilight's Mind
** Gregg's Bakery
* Pinkie Pie's Super Quiz
* Solar Empire Headquarters
* Everfree Forest
** Zecora's Home
*** Rap Battle Stage
* Land of the Overlords
** Field of Confrontation
** The Afterlife
=== Items ===
* Automobiles
* Wheel of Brad
* Triforce
=== Music ===
* The Legend Of Zelda: Wind Waker Intro
* Equestria Girls (California Girls Parody)
* Mumbo's Mountain (Banjo-Kazooie, Grant Kirkhope)
* Desperate Strike (Half-Minute Hero)
* Time (Inception, Hans Zimmer)
* Pokemon Center (Pokemon Black/White)
* Hanging On The Tablaphone (Murray Gold, Doctor Who Series 4 OST)
* Gangsters Paradise (Coolio)
* Vivaldi's Four Seasons - Spring (Part 1) (Antonio Vivaldi)
* Sky Deck 2 (Sonic Adventures)
* Smack My Bitch Up (The Prodigy)
* Bangarang (Skrillex)
* Latin Pt. 2 (Jingles, royalty-free)
* Grunty's Furnace Fun (Banjo-Kazooie)
* Morning Train (Instrumental)
* Hello! Ma Baby (Frog, originally composed by Joseph E. Howard and Ida Emerson)
* The Majestic Tale (Murray Gold, Doctor Who Series 6 OST, The Day Of The Doctor Opening)
* Davros (Murray Gold, Doctor Who Series 4 OST)
* Hotline To Destiny (Phoenix Wright: Justice For All OST)
* Pursuit ~ Keep Pressing On (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies)
* Pursuit ~ Cornered (Ace Attorney, Orchestra Chronology)
* How It Was Done (Sherlock Series 3 OST)
* The Darkness That Lurks (Silent Hill 2 OST)
* System Of A Down (Chop Suey)
* A Turbulent Flight (Murray Gold, Doctor Who Series 7 OST)
* My Name Is (Eminem)
* The Real Slim Shady (Eminem)
* One Shot (Eminem)
* Role Model (Eminem)
* Rap God (Eminem)
* Without Me (Eminem)
* Main Menu (Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed)
* http://youtu.be/4InqZVJoJD8
* Crawl Space (Breaking Bad OST)
* The Ecstasy Of Gold (Ennico Morricone)
* Doomsday (Murray Gold, Doctor Who Series 2 OST)
* Quad City (Space Jam theme song)
* The Wedding Of River Song (Murray Gold, Doctor Who Series 6 OST)
* Perceive ~ Surging Eyes (Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney)
* Mood Matrix ~ Commence The Psychological Analysis! (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies)
* The Majestic Tale (Of A Madman In A Box) (Murray Gold, Doctor Who Series 6 OST)
* The Ballad Of The Goddess (The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword)
* Touch Fluffy Tail (Ken Ashcorp)
== Credits ==
WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY - MRDELOOP
INSPIRED BY - ZXINSANITY, JAKEWHYMAN, AND BLARGHALT
WITH ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE FROM - XMARYMEDLEYX, DELICIOUSLEMONSAUCE, AND A DUCK
PLEASE DON'T SEND A CEASE & DESIST, HASBRO
Escaped to Mexico - Alan Smithee
Fluttershy - Morgan Freeman
Fluttershy - Benedict Cumberbatch
Fluttershy - [muffled rapping in distance]
What You Just Watched - I DON;'JKNOWSK
The One Who Knocks - Postman Pat
Potato Peeler - DXIndustriesInc
Employee of the Month - Lauren Faust
Music - Stole It
STOP CRASHING - Sony Vegas
Missing In Action - Phil Doyle
Grilled BBQ Rancher Burger Meal - Only 405 Calories
Product Placement - KFC
Most Vectors Used - RobynneDraws
An Actual Credit - I feel unpure
Fluttershy's Fanfiction -
1DEH SANIC ND TAILS WER
GONNE FROZEN TURK IN SHOP
i R B HUNGEE sed tals soo dey wen
n stor n den tals see a row of turk
"O ME GAWD SANIC" I WANTTURK"
TALS RUN TO TURK. TALS GRAB TURK.
TALS WUZ GON4A ET TURK BAT DEN
SED "TALSTALSTAAALS NEEEEEEU DEh
TARK HUZ MAN EEE CALLSURES N IZ BAD"
seriously there's 6 chapters
Easter Bunny - Guilty
A Good Baby Name - Almighty Lucifer
A Better One - Satanic Duddums
The Best Of All - Brad
Time Wasted - Six Months
Sleep - Yes Please
== Trivia ==
(See also: Day of the Flutter Explained.)
=== Video ===
* The episode's name, "Day of the Flutter", is possibly a parody of that of the Doctor Who episode, "Day of the Doctor".
* Using his secondary channel, MysteryLoop, MrDeLoop created a two hour-long commentary video to explain the contents of this episode: "Day of the Flutter Explained".
* This episode has an IMDB entry.
* thumb|137x137pxthumb|136x136pxZXInsanity and JakeWhyman created trailers for this episode, here and here.
** JakeWhyman's trailer's usage of Arcade Fire's song "My Body is a Cage" describes ZXInsanity's character's situation within Fluttershy #2. It does not have anything to do with that Nicolas Cage, nonetheless.
* xMaryMedleyx and DeliciousLemonSauce provided voices for some characters in this episode.
* This episode has a parody influenced by it, created by DXIndustriesInc, known as "EQUESTRIA GIRLS: Day of the Butter".
** Another parody that was produced a little later was "Day of the Flutter 2". It was not the actual episode, but a short joke video that celebrates the actual ZXInsanity's birthday.
* The ending of "I am Adagio Dazzle" takes place directly after the events of this episode, in which Overlord Hasbro's attempt to defeat the Mane Six using Adagio Dazzle has been thwarted by the Gods.
* As "The Great Appul War (PART 1)" was released before "Day of the Flutter" (April 1, compared to DOTF's April 20), MrDeLoop added a reference to its maker, DXIndustriesInc, at the credits:
** "Potato Peeler - DXIndustriesInc"
=== In-universe ===
* Inside Greggs, Fluttershy #1 ordered forty bacon baguettes, fifty-three corn-creamed pastries, twenty-nine sausage rolls, forty hot-dogs, and others for breakfast.
* There were 75 sausage rolls that were attacking the three Fluttershys within Twilight's mind.
* At 13:23 to 13:41, a "commercial break" (in the style of those used by the Hub) is used, though it is very heavily-edited.
* Fluttershy #2 spent 564 days to search for Overlord Hasbro.
* At 28:19, Hasbro mentions a list of antagonists that he created: the Reapers, the Moon, Discord's release, Sunset Shimmer, the Zone of Eternal Horror, the Appuls, the Rainbow Rocks, the Nightmare Loaf, and the Voice of Elysium.
** The "Voice of Elysium" was initially planned to be added as another antagonist for another episode, but was deleted because the Voice would had broken the stalemate between the Gods and Overlotd Hasbro, which the maker preferred to leave unresolved.
* As Fluttershy ends up being one of two beings in the Afterlife (or voidscape), it may be that Hasbro had utterly destroyed the other inhabitants of her world, perhaps except for her five friends whom he sought to revive as his puppets.
* Fluttershy #2 tells Pony Fluttershy that she ended up in the Afterlife by tumbling down the stairs.
* According to Pony Fluttershy, there is a petting zoo, a KFC restaurant, and a bouncy castle in the Afterlife, but they are yet to be seen.
* Pony Fluttershy's fanfic can be read in proper English:
** "One day, Sonic and Tails were going [to find] frozen turkey in a shop. "I am hungry," said Tails, [and] so they went in[to] the store. And then, Tails saw a row [filled] with turkeys. "Oh, my God, Sonic, I want [the] turkeys!" Tails ran towards the turkeys and grabbed some of them. Tails was about to eat the turkeys[' meat] when Sonic said, "Tails, Tails, Taaails, noooo. The turkeys have many calluses, and they are bad to eat."
== Timeline navigation ==
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