Cute-pocalypse Meow

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**Cute-pocolypse Meow** is the thirteenth episode of the second season of LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: Living the Pony Life. In Canada, it was paired with "Shutter Bugged", but in most countries and in production order, it was paired with "The Return of the League of Jays".

## Synopsis

**Teletoon**: *As Pinkie Pie practices for the Royal Jelly Juggernaut, Fluttershy makes an adorable new friend with a dark sense of humor. Fluttershy has to muster all of her cuteness to protect her friends from Bubbles' dark side.*

**Cartoon Network Asia**: *Fluttershy encounters a new online stranger which bestows his friendship upon her, until she and her friends found the dark side of humor.*

## Plot

### Part 1

At Sugarcube Café, Pinkie Pie and her friends get themselves psyched up for the next round of the Royal Jelly Juggernaut, but Fluttershy's attempts at making an excited face come off as cute and non-threatening, despite her insistence that she has a "dark side". While observing ponies, the Ninja and Megan playing in the park, Fluttershy meets and befriends a cat named Bubbles Cherub McSquee who shares her unique sense of humor. Later, while communicating with Bubbles via tablet, the rest of the Mane Six, the Ninja, Megan and P.I.X.A.L. read his messages; they see Bubbles' remarks as meanspirited, but Fluttershy thinks they are hilarious.

Some time later, Fluttershy and Bubbles meet up with Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Kai and Cole to work out at the gym. Bubbles makes overly sarcastic and insensitive remarks the entire time and even plays some physical pranks. He does the same when he and Fluttershy meet up with Twilight Sparkle, Spike, Lloyd and Akita at the bookstore. When Fluttershy's friends call Bubbles out on his behavior, he counters by making adorable faces and showering Fluttershy with friendship gifts, causing her to excuse and forgive his rudeness.

### Part 2

Back at Sugarcube Café, Pinkie Pie practices making savory desserts instead of sweet desserts for the next round of the Royal Jelly Juggernaut. Jay explains some savoury desserts like smoked salmon tarts is an example. When she has trouble pulling off such recipes, she loses confidence in herself. Bubbles makes the comment that all reality television is trash, and it breaks Pinkie's spirit completely.
Jay also gets upset because of her friend being shattered.

At one moment, Nya went on a spa with Rarity, Megan and P.I.X.A.L., but Bubbles commented them on their ugly looks, causing Rarity to cry and Nya and P.I.X.A.L. demands the withdrawal from entering. Megan also felt ashamed of being ugly, so she decided to bring Zane to see what happens. When Fluttershy calls Bubbles out on this and his usual tactic of being cute and giving her presents does not work, he leaves in a huff and takes his presents to Fluttershy back. Realizing that Bubbles has been rude to her friends since meeting them, Fluttershy decides to confront him.

When Fluttershy confronts Bubbles outside another bakery in Ponyville, Bubbles has already moved on from his friendship with her and made another friend named Buttershy. Sailor Sky and Hero Zane showed up, and Fluttershy calls Bubbles out on his true nature of being mean and turns her back on him for good. Bubbles tries once again to soothe Fluttershy's anger by being cute, but Fluttershy counters with her own cuteness. Sailor Sky uses her special technique to reform themselves, by using the Rainbow of Light with the spell, *Rainbow Harmony Reforming Activation*. After beating Bubbles at his own game and reforming himself, Fluttershy apologizes to her friends for abandoning them in favor of someone as mean as Bubbles.

The next day, Pinkie Pie has successfully made a savory dessert recipe for the Royal Jelly Juggernaut – soup-and-salad cupcakes with a balsamic glaze frosting – but she has some sweet desserts set aside for her friends. Applejack comments that the sweets are "sweet as Fluttershy", but Fluttershy reminds her that she has a dark side.

## Cast

* Akita - Tabitha St. Germain
* Applejack - Ashleigh Ball
* Bookstore Pony - Andrew McNee
* Bubbles - Andrew McNee
* Buttershy - Andrea Libman
* Cole - Kirby Morrow
* Fluttershy - Andrea Libman
* Jay - Michael Adamthwaite
* Kai - Vincent Tong
* Lloyd Garmadon - Sam Vincent
* Megan Williams/Sailor Sky - Kelly Sheridan
* Nya - Kelly Metzger
* Pinkie Pie - Andrea Libman
* P.I.X.A.L. - Jennifer Hayward
* Rainbow Dash - Ashleigh Ball
* Rarity - Tabitha St. Germain
* Spike - Tabitha St. Germain
* Twilight Sparkle - Tara Strong
* Zane/Hero Zane - Brent Miller

## Locations Visited

* Equestria
	+ Ponyville
		- Sugarcube Café
		- Ponyville Park
		- Gym
		- Bookstore
		- Ponyville Spa

## Trivia

* **Narrator**: Fluttershy
* The title is a reference to the 1979 film *Apocalypse Now*.
	+ An Equestria Girls Rainbow Rocks animated short, "Hamstocalypse Now," is also a reference to the above-mentioned film. Both have Fluttershy have the main focus.
* This episode, along with "Uncharted", "Two of a Kind" and "Bad Thing No. 3", is skipped on Tiny Pop broadcast in the UK, due to darker scenes. However, they were not skipped on CITV and Cartoon Network UK airings.
* Zane transforming into Chibi Zane and scared Bubbles is reminiscent to *SpongeBob SquarePants* episode "Not Normal", where Squidward in his "normal" form snaps SpongeBob out of his normal state.

## Continuity

* A healing spell, *Rainbow Harmony Reforming Activation*, is introduced in this episode.
* This is the first episode where Zane was unhooded while in his Hero form, throughout the whole episode.
* A chibi version of Zane in featured in this episode.
* When Zane compares Buttershy as his cloned brother, he was referring to Cloning Zane from the previous series.
* When Rarity yells about being ugly from Bubbles, she does have similarities in "A Dog and a Pony Show", with someone calling her ugly or "mule", and cries with black tears.
* This is the third time in the series where Fluttershy grows into a giant, the first two were "The Gelatinous Protocol" and "The Best of the Worst".
* Bubbles shouting for help to Buttershy while asking him to make her laugh is reused as a flashback in "How the Upply Were Formed".
* This is the first episode where Zane cloaks himself in a hologram since "The Explorer's Club".

## Changes

### Changes from the Pony Life cartoon

* The scene adds Rarity, Nya, P.I.X.A.L. and Megan at the Ponyville Spa, where Bubbles remarked them how ugly they were. The original Pony Life cartoon episode doesn't have the spa scene.
* Bubbles cannot take Zane's cuteness in his chibi form. In the actual Pony Life cartoon, he cannot take Fluttershy's cuteness.

## Errors

* At the very beginning of the second part, Fluttershy doesn't have wings.
* When Bubbles says "I'm outie!" and leaves, neither Rainbow Dash nor Twilight have wings.
* When Zane was explaining about Bubbles being mean online, Lloyd doesn’t have eyebrows.
* At various points during Fluttershy and Bubbles' cuteness competition, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash sometimes appear without wings.
* During the Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan's group laugh before the episode ends, Twilight doesn't have wings.
* At the end of the episode, Zane was still in his Hero armor in one frame.