Game Knight

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**Game Knight** is the first part of the third episode of the third season of *LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: Living the Pony Life* and the 107th episode overall. Along with "Director Spike's Mockumentary", it was first premiered in the UK on September 10, 2020, and paired up with "Friendship Gems" and "Dol-FIN-ale". However, in most other countries, this episode was paired up with "The Curry Triangle" and "Artistic Manners."

## Synopsis

*Twilight Sparkle makes a new board game for her friends, but they find all of its rules boring.*

**Teletoon**: *Weird weather patterns cause the Ninja, the Mane Six, Megan, Molly and the Upply to stay indoors, and Twilight Sparkle decided to come up with a new board game for them to play. However, her friends are not interested playing this, causing Twilight to get heartbroken.*

## Plot

The Ninja, the Mane Six, Megan, Molly and Kitonaru return to the Golden Oak Library after a day out in sunny weather. As soon as they are indoors, a sudden cold snap hits Ponyville, causing the Ninja, Mane Six, Megan, Molly and Kitonaru to be snowed in. As they wonder how to pass the time until the cold weather breaks, the Upply teleported to the Golden Oak Library, and Cole was glad that they are going to look after them during the weird snowstorm. Molly was running away when she saw a giant spider, but Plundar told her that the giant spider is Adam, and he was always the friendly one. Expecting through their patience during the bad snowstorm, Twilight Sparkle suggests they play a tabletop role-playing game she created called Tails of Canterlot, but her friends are put off by the extensive amount of rules involved in the game.

When the Ninja, the Mane Six, Megan, Molly, Kitonaru and the Upply want to forego most of the rules and play their own way with the game's various playsets and figures, Twilight gets extremely frustrated. It is revealed that the sudden cold weather was caused by Twilight's weather-controlling machine. When her friends refuse to play her game the way she intended, she turns the machine off, urges them to simply go outside, and storms away, Lloyd tried to comfort her because of her meltdown.

A short while later, Twilight overhears her friends still playing with the Tails of Canterlot sets and making up their own imaginary adventures. They explain that the game is still fun when they are not bound to the restrictive rules Twilight made. When Twilight's friends ask her to join their current campaign, Twilight decides not to be such a stickler for rules, and they spend the rest of the day playing.

## Cast

* Applejack - Ashleigh Ball
* Cole - Kirby Morrow
* Fluttershy - Andrea Libman
* Fungus - Ian James Corlett
* Jay - Michael Adamthwaite
* Kai - Vincent Tong
* Kitonaru - Andrea Libman
* Korgran - Paul Dobson
* Lloyd - Sam Vincent
* Megan Williams - Kelly Sheridan
* Molly Williams - Chantal Strand
* Nya - Kelly Metzger
* Pinkie Pie - Andrea Libman
* Plundar - Adam Trask
* Rainbow Dash - Ashleigh Ball
* Rarity - Tabitha St. Germain
* Twilight Sparkle - Tara Strong
* Zane - Brent Miller

## Locations Visited

* Equestria
	+ Ponyville
		- Golden Oak Library

## Trivia

* **Narrator**: Twilight Sparkle
* This episode was first broadcast in the UK on Tiny Pop on September 10, 2020.
	+ This episode is the first one to have aired first in the UK. Beforehand, all of the previous episodes aired early in Canada.
* This episode and "Director Spike's Mockumentary" are paired with "The Curry Triangle" and "Artistic Manners" in broadcast order.
	+ In the UK airing on Tiny Pop, these episodes are paired with "Friendship Gems" and "Dol-FIN-ale" in broadcast order.
* The title is a play on "game night".
* This is the first episode in the third season to feature the Upply.
	+ Also, this is the first episode where Fungus, Plundar, Korgran and Adam appear without Linette, Maylia and Bubbles.
		- It is stated that Linette, Maylia and Bubbles are attending school at the Academy of Spinjitzu after the Second Battle of Shintaro, so that they will be better prepared, according to Fungus.
* Molly's fear of spiders is revealed in this episode, similar to her elder sister, when she got freaked out in "Down the Mountain Hole".
* Perfect *Pitch-tionary* is a reference to/play on *Pictionary*.
* One of the skeleton warrior when Rarity's reading the description of the *Tails of Canterlot*, resembles Skeletor from the 1980 *He-Man* cartoon.
	+ Incidentally, the concept of the Skull Sorcerer was referenced to the main villain in *He-Man*.
* The Golden Oak Library makes its first appearance in this episode since "Twilight's Kingdom - Part 2".
	+ According to Taneka Stotts, the Golden Oak Library was restored between the events of Sugarcube Gamer and The Nature Calls.
* The *Tails of Canterlot* board game that Twilight invented is inspired from the game, Choose the Path, which is the combination of 71717 Journey to the Skull Dungeons, 71719 Zane's Mino Creature, 71721 Skull Sorcerer's Dragon and 71722 Skull Sorcerer's Dungeons, forming a board game.
* Fungus has the ability to use magic to teleport the Upply to the Golden Oak Library. It is unknown how he able to perform it.

## Changes

### Changes from the Pony Life cartoon

* The episode adds the scene where Fungus, Plundar and Korgran teleporting to the Golden Oak Library, and Molly meeting them.
* Lloyd calms down Twilight when she got a meltdown.