Bad Thing No. 3

* Part 1
* Part 2

**"Bad Thing No. 3 (Parts 1 and 2)"** is the fifth episode in season 1 of *My Little Pony: Pony Life*.

## Synopsis

"Rarity tries to get rid of her bad luck before it can ruin her relationship with a new friend. As Rarity continues to deal with her bad luck, she receives some much-needed advice from an unexpected source: herself."

## Plot

### Part 1

At Sugarcube Corner, Rarity alerts Pinkie Pie to a crisis she has. She explains that while modeling a new headband the day before, she ran into Fancy Pants, who invited her to go on a stroll in the park with him the following evening. While speaking with him, she accidentally spills a potion on her headband; Fancy Pants warns this might be a bad omen and that "bad things happen in threes". As Fancy leaves, Rarity suffers a second bad omen by tripping over the potion bottle.

Rarity worries that the third bad omen will get in the way of her stroll with Fancy Pants and wants to make it happen before then. In addition, the potion she spilled on her headband causes it to reveal terrible truths to whoever wears it, so Pinkie Pie leaves it in the Sugarcube Corner pantry. After failing to trigger an argument between Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle, Rarity decides to resort to deliberate sabotage to make "bad thing number three" happen before her stroll with Fancy Pants, all while slowly losing her sanity.

### Part 2

As Pinkie Pie practices souffles for the next round of the Royal Jelly Juggernaut, an increasingly unhinged Rarity plots to steal Pinkie's souffle recipe in order to make "bad thing number three" happen. This leads to a physical altercation between her and Gummy that ends with her crashing inside the pantry and the magic headband falling on her head.

Inside Rarity's mind, her inner voice tells her that "bad thing number three" has already happened. Because she has focused on the negative instead of living in the present, she is now trapped inside her own mind (literally and figuratively). Rarity's inner voice also says that, while seconds pass inside her mind, entire days pass in the outside world, meaning she has missed her park stroll with Fancy Pants.

When Rarity's friends find her hallucinating in the pantry, they remove the headband and tell her she was only gone for a short time, and Fancy Pants has arrived for their stroll together. When Rarity continues to stress about "bad thing number three", her friends tell her to go with the flow and not worry about something that may or may not happen.

During Rarity and Fancy Pants' stroll through the park, Fancy Pants turns out to be very vain and narcissistic. Rarity realizes that she does not like Fancy Pants and that he was "bad thing number three" all along, and she quickly leaves. Back at Sugarcube Corner, Pinkie Pie says she is proud of Rarity for not letting bad omens control her, and Rarity is glad that her obsession with bad omens did not jeopardize Pinkie's chances in the Royal Jelly Juggernaut.

## Broadcast

*Main article: Episode Guide/International*
* Canada: July 5, 2020 on Treehouse TV
* Australia and New Zealand:
	+ August 15, 2020 on Boomerang
	+ September 23, 2020 on 9Go! (Australia only)
* France: September 5, 2020, 2020 on Gulli
* Poland: September 7, 2020 on MiniMini+
* Finland:
	+ September 25, 2020 on Ruutu (VOD)
	+ October 23, 2020 on Nelonen (TV)
* Russia: October 1, 2020 on Carousel
* United Kingdom: October 7, 2020 on Tiny Pop
* Germany: October 10, 2020 on Disney Channel
* Southeast Asia: October 11, 2020 on Boomerang
* United States: November 21, 2020 on Discovery Family

### Title in other languages

* Finnish: *Kolmas onnettomuus* (The third accident)
* French: *Catastrophe numéro trois* (Disaster number three)
* German: *Aller schlechten Dinge sind drei* (All bad things comes in threes)
* Polish: *Nieszczęścia chodzą trójkami* (Misfortune comes in threes)
* Russian: *Неприятность №3* (Trouble №3)

## Trivia

* This episode is paired with "Pinkie Pie: Hyper-Helper" in broadcast order.
* This episode was skipped in the UK.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://cf-media.press.discovery.com/ugc/highlights/2020/10/18/172933/DFC\_Highlights\_-\_November\_2020\_-\_Final.pdf
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20200628050921/https://www.tvpassport.com/tv-listings/stations/treehouse/163/2020-07-05
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20200812051303/https://www.foxtel.com.au/tv-guide/My-Little-Pony-Pony-Life/114479585
4. ↑ Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `programtv`
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 https://www.fernsehserien.de/my-little-pony-pony-life/episodenguide
6. ↑ https://tvlistings.zap2it.com/overview.html?programSeriesId=SH03525491&tmsId=SH035254910000&from=TVGrid&aid=gapzap
7. ↑ https://www.tvpassport.com/series/my-little-pony-pony-life/419652
8. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200815135123/https://programtv.naziemna.info/program/audycja/Pony+Life