How Applejack Got Her Hat Back

**How Applejack Got Her Hat Back** will be the fifteenth episode of the second season of LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: Living the Pony Life. It is the fifth episode of the Kingdom of Shintaro arc. It will be paired with "The Return of the League of Jays" in the North American airing, but in production order, it was paired with "Two of a Kind".

## Synopsis

**Teletoon**: *Applejack finds herself in the midst of an identity crisis when her signature hat becomes a city-wide fashion craze. Applejack joins the group of alternate ponies in the hopes of finding a new style to replace her old look.*

## Plot

### Part 1

At Sugarcube Café, where everyone is wearing cowboy hats, Applejack is sitting by herself and wearing a black beret. She comments to the viewer that this is "a love story about hats".

The episode then flashes back; with the "hometown cook-offs" segment of the Royal Jelly Juggernaut approaching, Pinkie Pie and her friends work together to make Sugarcube Café spotless for the camera crew. Rarity arrives wearing a cowboy hat just like Applejack's, having gotten inspiration from her for a new look. Almost instantaneously, Rarity starts a new fashion craze, with the rest of her friends (except Pinkie and Cole) also adopting the cowboy hat look, much to Applejack's chagrin.

As the rest of Ponyville gets swept up in this fashion trend, Applejack, having made her signature look with the cowboy hat, starts to feel like she is losing her whole identity, making Princess Twivine Sparkle and the Skull Sorcerer find her with her broken heart, as the Thorntus, Hatsoff was the one who put up the fashion craze. Pinkie Pie, Cole and Megan suggests that Applejack try on some different hats and find a new look for herself, firstly, Cole finds some suitable hats to wear but Applejack declines it. Secondly, Applejack experiments with a flight hat and goggles, a firefighter's helmet, and an astronaut helmet, but none of these looks suit her. She eventually settles on a black beret and leaves, causing her and Cole to be separated from their friendship.

### Part 2

On the streets, Cole was looking at all the people in Ninjago City wearing hats, while remembering how Cole and Applejack became friends at the end. That evening in the park, Applejack sulks and soliloquizes to herself, drawing the attention of a trio of "alternative ponies" named Derek, Matt, and Matt. These hipster-like ponies take pride in going against trends and enjoying what others consider unpopular and uncool, the current thing being a squishy cube-like object. They invite Applejack to join their group, and she accepts.

Back in present day, Cole was searching for Applejack, as he wondered that whether if Applejack got stolen by Hatsoff with her Crystal of Eternity. Feeling distressed, Cole transforms into his Hero form to look for her. Applejack is sitting by herself at Sugarcube Café and holding one of the alternative ponies' squishy cubes, having no idea what it is or what it does. Rarity notices Applejack is not wearing her signature cowboy hat, and Applejack says she has adopted a new look. Sensing that Applejack is upset, Rarity borrows her squishy cube object and leaves. Meanwhile, Applejack, unhappy with the black beret look, goes back to her cowboy hat look, deciding that it does not define who she is.

The next day, Applejack returns to Sugarcube Café and discovers everyone has abandoned the cowboy hat look and the squishy cube is now the newest trend thanks to Rarity's influence. The alternative ponies abandon the squishy cube now that it is part of the mainstream, and they invite Applejack along to find a new unpopular thing. Hatsoff then orders another popular thing, a Crystal of Eternity from Derek. As she got shocked by the torture for Derek, she transforms into her Crystal Guardian form and attacks him using Super Crystal Integrity Punch. Hatsoff decided to let Applejack give up her hat, and he succeeds. However, Sailor Sky and Hero Cole arrived. He then calls Gaia and she made a special signature hat for Applejack, which she granted her bow and an arrow. Applejack then uses the bow with Honesty Shooter Strike and successfully defeat Hatsoff, the Sailor Sky eradicate him using Rainbow Crown Magic, freeing Derek. He asked her whether to join the club to create the trend for teeny tiaras on their flanks. Applejack then declines their invitation, not wanting to chase popular or unpopular trends, and the alternative ponies leave. Cole and Applejack finally made their relationship back together again. As the Ninja, Megan and the Mane Six try to figure out what the squishy cubes are and what they do, Pinkie Pie discovers they are a type of food and decides to incorporate them into her sponge cake recipe, much to Cole's disappointment.

## Cast

* Applejack/Crystal Applejack - Ashleigh Ball
* Awakened Warrior - TBA
* Cole/Hero Cole - Kirby Morrow
* Derek - Daniel Doheny
* Fluttershy - Andrea Libman
* Gaia - Diana Kaarina
* Hatsoff - Garry Chalk
* Jay - Michael Adamthwaite
* Kai - Vincent Tong
* Lloyd Garmadon - Sam Vincent
* Megan Williams/Sailor Sky - Kelly Sheridan
* Matt (Male) - Daniel Doheny
* Matt (Female) - Andrea Libman
* Nya - Kelly Metzger
* Pinkie Pie - Andrea Libman
* Rainbow Dash - Ashleigh Ball
* Rarity - Tabitha St. Germain
* Skull Sorcerer - Ervin M Jordan
* Twilight Sparkle - Tara Strong
* Twivine Sparkle - Tara Strong
* Zane - Brent Miller

## Locations Visited

* Equestria
	+ Ponyville
		- Sugarcube Café
		- Ponyville Park
* Ninjago
	+ Ninjago City
	+ Shintaro Mountain
		- Dungeons of Shintaro
			* Skull Keep

## Spells Used

* Super Crystal Integrity Punch - Used by Applejack against Hatsoff.
* Honesty Shooter Strike - Used by Applejack against Hatsoff.
* Rainbow Crown Magic - Used by Sailor Sky to defeat Hatsoff.

## Transcript

* How Applejack Got Her Hat Back (Transcript)

## Trivia

* **Narrator**: Applejack
* The title is a reference to the 1998 film *How Stella Got Her Groove Back*.
* This is the fifth episode of the Kingdom of Shintaro Arc that began in "Uncharted."
* It is revealed in this episode where Applejack's signature hat is an identity of who is she as a country pony. In *LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: Best Gift Ever*, her grandfather said that sometimes the hat chooses the pony when he gave her this.
* This episode tells a detailed explanation about the relationship between Applejack and Cole, as they were close friends to each other.
	+ The way of their separation from their friendship also explains its detail, when Applejack wears the black beret, causing Cole to be depressed with his broken heart.
* Cole's expectation was that Applejack got extracted with the Eternity Crystal. In contrast to reality, it was Derek.
* There were two Matts, alongside Derek, but the gender of the two Matts are different.
* Applejack has receive the new Honesty Bow from Gaia, as an honor from King Vangelis. This is one of the few episodes where he was mentioned.
* The song that plays where Cole was walking through the streets while looking other people wearing their hats, and remembering their relationship with Applejack, was Engine No. 22, sung by The Fold.
* It is inedible to eat a squishy cube, unless if the cubes are made from food, such as jelly cubes. Pinkie Pie should have mistaken squishy cubes with jelly cubes.
* This is the second episode where the expected the target is one of the Mane Six, the first is "Princess Probz," although the former got almost successfully extracted the Eternity Crystal.
* The hats that Cole wore to show Applejack were:
	+ A top hat that he used to while disguise himself as Rocky Dangerbuff in "The Oni and the Dragon."
	+ A guzzler helmet that Cole wore between "Wasted True Potential" and "The Belly of the Beast."
		- The guzzler also make an appearance in the short, "The Science of Soda."
	+ A stick hat that Master Wu usually wore in most episodes, except in Season 8 and majority of Season 9.

## Changes

### Changes from the Pony Life cartoon

* This episode added Princess Twivine and the Skull Sorcerer looking at the depressed Applejack, with the Thorntus summoned to extract her Crystal.
* In Part 2 of the episode, it was added with Cole walking on the streets.
* Derek apologize to Applejack after he got captured by Hatsoff.