Heavy Dental

**Heavy Dental** is the first part of the fifteenth episode of the fourth season of *LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: Living the Pony Life*, and the 163rd episode overall. Along with "Nya the Pianist", it aired first in English on April 30, 2021, in the UK, paired with "The Switcheroo Situation" and "Ballet for Perfection".

## Synopsis

*Jay and Kimberly went to the dentist after getting their cavities on their teeth, despite the dental clinic having horror nature.*

**Extended**: *After finding out that Jay and Kimberly have cavities on their teeth after eating too much sugary foods, Zane orders the two to go to the dentist. However, Tako attempted to turn a horrific dental Balaena in exchange for the dentist's Dream Pearl. Jay and Kimberly finally managed to stop the madness and likely the cavities are gone for good.*

**Tiny Pop**: *Aunt Roselle force Jay and Kimberly to go to a dental clinic, where a monster takes over the dentist for the Golden Dream Pearl.*

## Plot

For a whole day, Jay and Kimberly are eating sugary snacks that Aunt Roselle have bought. They snacked some popcorn when watching their favorite show, have cheesecake while Kimberly was doing her homework and finally a surprise ice cream sundae after dinner. Roselle tell the two to brush their teeth before bedtime, unknowingly ignoring her advice when they go to bed.

The next day at Sugarcube Café, Pinkie Pie serves the ninja, the young ninja, the Mane Six, the Williams sisters, Antonia and Stella the cupcake popsicle made from her Cotton Candy Comet crystals that was extracted in "The Crystal Capturing Contraption". When Kimberly gets to take a bite of the cupcake popsicle, she screams in pain. Zane examines inside Kimberly's mouth, which shows that she have cavities in her teeth. He explained to Kimberly that sugary snacks and missed brushing can often lead to toothaches caused by cavities, and the only way is to go to the dentist. However, Kai and Rainbow Dash criticized that the dental clinic is indeed terrifying, as the dentist forcefully pulls the teeth from the patient violently. Jay thinks Cole was very scared of going to the dentist, but he was brave when he was eight. Twilight Sparkle explains to Kimberly that germs in their mouth feeds on sugary leftovers, which often leads to craters in their mouth, with a bad breath. Jay was joking that he didn't managed to go to the dentist, but Zane examines his teeth stated that he also got cavities. He then asked both Jay and Kimberly to go to the dentist or else he will inform his aunt about this.

At Kalmaar's Lair, Uni was brushing her teeth and asked Tako that she should have watch her diet filled with sugary snacks. Kalmaar comes at the two where he founds a target for the Golden Dream Pearl, which is a dentist from the downtown clinic. Tako and Uni criticized Kalmaar that he needs to go to the dentist because he has dirty teeth. Despite not having frequent brushing, Kalmaar orders Tako to go to the downtown dental clinic at the surface.

Jay and Kimberly were caught by Aunt Roselle that they have cavities and never brushed their teeth. So, she bring the two to the downtown dental clinic. While in there, they also saw Tako (in a disguise of Traci Lee), Leroy and few other patients in the downtown clinic. The dentist, named as Felicity, called Traci for a check-up. Before attempting to look at Traci's mouth, she reveals herself as Tako and uses her trident to extract her Dream Pearl, which was not golden. Jay and Kimberly hear the dentist's cry and transform into their Guardian Forms. When Tako finds out about Jay and Kimberly's presence, she summoned the Balaena, Drillster, to confront Jay and Kimberly. He pins them against a wall and tries to drill their teeth using his arms. Unfortunately, Jay and Kimberly used their Lightning Flails against Drillster, electrocuting him, causing the Drillster to disintegrate. Felicity was recovered by Jay and Kimberly, but Tako tells her that she will be back another day.

After such treatment, Jay and Kimberly finally have no cavities on their teeth, and Pinkie Pie made Fiesta Milkshake for the two and the others to drink. However, Kai and Jake also have a toothache, which leads for Twilight and Zane to force them to go to the downtown dental clinic, much to Kai and Jake's horror.

## Cast

* Antonia - Bryanna Drummond
* Applejack - Ashleigh Ball
* Caralisa - Tabitha St. Germain
* Cole - Kirby Morrow
* Damien - Andrew Francis
* Drillster - Sam Vincent
* Felicity - Rebecca Husain
* Fluttershy - Andrea Libman
* Germ #1 - Sabrina Pitre
* Germ #2 - Tabitha St. Germain
* Germ #3 - Sam Vincent
* Gleam - Marÿke Hendrikse
* Jake - Nicholas Holmes
* Jay - Michael Adamthwaite
* Kai - Vincent Tong
* Kalmaar - Giles Panton
* Kimberly - Shannon Chan-Kent
* Kitonaru - Andrea Libman
* Leroy - Kelly Metzger
* Lloyd - Sam Vincent
* Megan Williams - Kelly Sheridan
* Molly Williams - Chantal Strand
* Nelson - David Reynolds
* Nya - Kelly Metzger
* Pinkie Pie - Andrea Libman
* Rainbow Dash - Ashleigh Ball
* Rarity - Tabitha St. Germain
* Roselle - Sarah Edmoudson
* Stella - Casey Morrow
* Tako - Marÿke Hendrikse
* Twilight Sparkle - Tara Strong
* Uni - Shannon Chan-Kent
* Zachary - Gavin Langelo
* Zane - Brent Miller

## Locations Featured

* Sixty Realms
	+ Endless Sea
		- Merlopia
			* Kalmaar's Lair
		- Ninjago
			* Ninjago City
				+ Roselle's Apartment
				+ Downtown Dental Clinic
	+ Equestria
		- Ponyville
			* Sugarcube Café

## Spells Used

* Double Superior Thunder - Used by Jay and Kimberly against the Drillster.

## Trivia

* **Narrator**: Jay
* This episode was first broadcast in the UK on April 30, 2021.
* A sneak peek of the episode featuring Jay and Kimberly facing against the Drillster was shown on Tiny Pop YouTube channel on April 29, 2021.
* The episode title is a pun on "heavy metal" with the word "dental" replacing it.
* The plot of the episode is parody of 1996 horror thriller film *The Dentist*.
* It is revealed that Kai, Jake, Jay and Kimberly have a fear of dentists which is dentophobia.
	+ However, Cole overcomes the fear of dentists when he was eight.
	+ At the end of the episode, Jay and Kimberly overcome their fear.
* Kai and Rainbow Dash think that dentists are very scary, as it pulls out teeth violently. However, Dr. Felicity, a named dentist, was very kind and generous.
* The germs that Twilight reminisce how the teeth got cavities resembles the devils, mostly because it invaded the teeth too often.
* Because of how scared young children are at meeting the dentist at first, this and its sister episode are removed from POP Player until the same airing date on Tiny Pop Broadcast. However, when this episode air on Tiny Pop, scenes including the Drillster attempting to drill Jay and Kimberly's teeth and the opinion of how dentists are very scary are removed.
	+ However, the CITV airings remained the scenes intact.
* It is revealed by Tako and Uni that Kalmaar never brushes his teeth, resulting him to have dirty teeth.

## Continuity

* This is the only episode where a Balaena was not destroyed by Ultra Sailor Sky with her Love Power Rod. Instead, it was Jay and Kimberly with their Lightning Flails.
* Nya tells Caralisa not to overindulge on sweets, in order to prevent cavities. This is similar to "Pinkie and the Candy Beans" where Lloyd tells the ninja and the ponies that eating too much sugary snacks can cause health problems such as diabetes and obesity.
* Aunt Roselle makes another physical appearance since "Aunt Roselle Makes a Visit".

## Changes

### Changes from the Pony Life cartoon

* The background of the Sugarcube Café at the end of "How Applejack Got Her Hat Back" is reused when Kimberly screams in pain.

## Errors

* When Aunt Roselle told Jay and Kimberly to brush their teeth before bedtime, the lightning symbol was miscolored.
* When Kimberly attempt to take a bite of the cupcake popsicle, her eyebrows are missing.
* When Twilight discussed her friends about how germs invade a person's mouth, there are 24 teeth inside of its mouth. In real life, most adults have 32 adult teeth in total, so it is an animation mishap.
* The dental clinic is misspelled as "Ninjago Downtown Dental Cilnic" in Ninjargon.