Sweatin' to the Goldies

**Sweatin' to the Goldies** is the fourth Pony Life Reimagined short animated by WildBrain.

## Synopsis

*Everyone in Ninjago City is talking about the new movie: 'Clutch Powers: A Musical Life'. Jay, Zane, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy find it weird that Clutch breaks out in song and dance. Not reality - very unpredictable. But maybe that is the only way to defeat a villain that knows your every move.... to do something unpredictable..*

## Plot

Gale Gossip is seen reporting on a musical premiere, called Clutch Powers: A Musical Life. Clutch Powers, holding the Teapot of Tyrahn, then takes the microphone from her and begins to talk about his musical. He wishes that everybody in Ninjago would come to see his movie; a puff of smoke appears and Nadakhan's theme is played for a moment. It then cuts to Zane, Fluttershy, Jay and Pinkie Pie talking about how the musical was horrible and confusing. Jay, Pinkie Pie, Zane and Fluttershy pose for photographs. Fluttershy asks to go back to the monastery, but Pinkie declines, saying that the best part of a movie premiere is the after party. However, they get a call that there was a break-in at the museum. Reflectra is then seen stealing art. Jay, Zane, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie bust in. Jay begs Reflectra to give up because he wants to make it to the after party, worried that it will be full if they delay, and asks Reflectra who she is. She introduces herself and kicks a computer at the two ninja. Zane and Jay attempt to use their elements to defeat her, but she reflects it back at them with diamond-shaped spinjitzu. The Ninja try to beat her with Spinjitzu, but she reflects that away as well. Reflectra remarks that she has studied the ninja's movements. Consequently, Zane, Jay, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie break out into song and dance to defeat her because it's new and unexpected. In the end, the four emerge victorious.

## Cast

* Clutch Powers - Ian James Corlett
* Fluttershy - Andrea Libman
* Gayle Gossip - Kelly Sheridan
* Jay - Michael Adamthwaite
* Pinkie Pie - Andrea Libman
* Reflectra - Erin Mathews
* Zane - Brent Miller/Gabriel Brown (Singing)

## Locations Featured

* Ninjago City
	+ Theater
	+ Ninjago Museum of History

## Trivia

* In 2019, Tommy Andreasen noted the idea of a *Ninjago* musical, stating that it was possible with the new format the show had created from Season 11 of the previous series onward. This idea was realized with this episode.
* This is the only short that does not have footage in the Pony Life Reimagined trailer.
* The name of the title of the short is likely a reference to the film series "Sweatin' to the Oldies".
* The title card uses a television trope in which the name of the episode appears in the sky, then transitions to the ground.
* Powers' line "I work alone" during the musical number style fight with Reflectra is a reference to his oft-repeated motto from The Adventures of Clutch Powers.
	+ Additionally, it was the title of a song used in the opening and closing credits.
* Zane and Jay use their Golden Legacy suits, although Zane has a Legacy or Rainbow Roadtrip hood instead of an FS hood. This is because an FS hood indicates a character is using Forbidden Spinjitzu, and Forbidden Spinjitzu is not involved in this short.
* According to Tommy Andreasen the "part of the idea behind Clutch Powers having self produced, funded, directed and starred in a vanity project was based off a conversation I had with" the artist Joshua Deck.
* Instead of a ninja's usual cry of "Ninjago!" when doing Spinjitzu, Jay and Zane instead yell "Spinjitzu!"
* Although this short was animated by WildBrain, Jay and Zane's Spinjitzu has an all new appearance that doesn't resemble their normal Spinjitzu look in the WildBrain episodes.

## Continuity

* The gag at the beginning where Gayle Gossip keeps moving in front of Clutch was previously used with a news reporter and a young fan of the ninja in "Crystal to Framed - Part I."
* The Teapot of Tyrahn makes an appearance.
	+ Additionally, when Powers mentions that he wishes all of Ninjago could see his movie, some orange smoke pours out and Nadakhan's theme plays briefly. Powers is not seen anywhere else in the short.
* The samurai armor statue in the museum appears to be based on the armor from "A Time of Traitors" and "The Ending of the End: The Fall."
* Jay and Zane's dance twists are similar to the ones in "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back."
* Reflectra uses a similar martial art as Spinjitzu, but in the shape of a diamond.
* Jay is shocked by his own lightning and appears as a skeleton. A similar image was shown over ten years before this short's release, where a ninja was struck by lightning in the *Ninjago Spinners* card, Power Surge.
	+ The "electrified character's skeleton is shown" trope was previously used in "The Last Hope", "Funny Guys," "Green and Gold", "One Small Caring" and "Bubble Trouble."