Journey to the Center of the 'cord

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**Journey to the Center of the 'cord** is the second part of the eighth episode of the fourth and final season of *LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: Living the Pony Life*, and the 156th episode overall. Along with "Magic is Ahoof", it aired first in English on April 26, 2021, in the UK, paired with "A Healthier Change" and "Overhydrated".

## Synopsis

*After finding out that Discord has stolen their cosmic wishes, the Ninja and the ponies decide to get inside his head.*

**Extended**: *In Discord's dimension, the Ninja, the Young Ninja, the Mane Six, the Williams sisters, the Overlord and Black Nova reprimand Discord that he relinquish their comet wishes, but teleports the team to their own dimension. To see what have caused this, the ninja and the Mane Six went inside Discord's brain, and realized that he have millions of cosmic wishes! As they tried to intervene with Discord with such evidence, Tako had discovered the dream-sucking parasites, the Remcobrai.*

**Tiny Pop**: *The ninja and the ponies went to Discord's brain to prove such evidence, while Kalmaar approves Tako when discovering Remcobrai, a dream-sucking parasite.*

## Plot

The Ninja, the Young Ninja, the Mane Six, the Williams sisters, the Overlord and Black Nova travel to Discord's realm and demand that he relinquish their comet wishes, but he refuses and quickly teleports them back to Sugarcube Café. In order to figure out Discord's intentions with their wishes, Fluttershy suggests the ninja and the ponies shrink themselves down to small size and go inside his mind, and Zane tells the Young Ninja, the Williams sisters, the Overlord and Black Nova that Discord's brain is very dangerous, as it can cause headaches. Back in Discord's realm, the Ninja and the Mane Six shrink down using a magical shrink potion that Joyce shrunk them earlier and enter Discord's mind via his ears while he is distracted getting the morning newspaper.

Inside Discord's mind, the ninja and the ponies find themselves in his memories - represented as a gigantic hedge maze guarded by a giant, three-headed, talking Angel. After getting past the three-headed bunny, they search Discord's labyrinth of memories. Jay and Cole went to the temporal lobe to see if there are cosmic wishes, while Kai and Nya went to his lobe filled with genes. Much to their shock, they realized that Wojira created Discord. Lloyd asked them that a large library of memories is near to the genes lobe. They enter a large library, where they discover Discord used the team's comet wishes for himself.

The ninja and the Mane Six exit Discord's mind and angrily confront him over stealing their wishes, though he expresses little remorse for having done so. He only offers another tray of sandwiches and thanks them for cleaning out the gunk in his ears. As with the Ninja and the Mane Six are deeply getting angry, Discord breaks the fourth wall and says, "Aren't I a stinker?"

In Merlopia, Tako discovered the Remcobrai, the dream-sucking parasites, and Glutinous finds out that this can actually collect Discord's chaos magic. Kalmaar has waited for long to have dream and chaos magic.

### Friendship 101

**Zane**: Hello friends. In today's episode, we enter Discord's brain to find out whether he has cosmic wishes for himself.

**Lloyd**: But, as long as we know, the brain is an important organ in our body. The brain helps us think, dream and control our body.

**Cole**: As brain is a vital organ, we need to take care of it.

**Jay**: Try eating foods that were good for your brain. Omega-3 acids can help building cell membranes throughout the body and the brain. Salmon and other types of fish, avocado and olive oil are example of those. Not only it sure benefits your brain, it reduces the risk of heart disease.

**Nya**: It is also important to get some sleep, as it clear abnormal proteins in your brain and consolidates memories, which boosts your overall memory and brain health.

**Kai**: And lastly, try to be physically and mentally active. Exercising can result of increased blood flow to your brain. It also tends to counter some of the natural reduction in brain connections that occur during aging, in effect reversing some of the problems. Your brain is similar to a muscle — you need to use it or you lose it.

**Lloyd**: Play a jigsaw puzzle or a rubik cube to get your brain pump up, if your tend to get bored. And most importantly, stay away from using smartphone, as it cause addiction.

**Zane**: Brain health is our number one priority. You will have to take care of it.

**Kai**: Well then, hope to see you soon.

## Cast

* Applejack - Ashleigh Ball
* Caralisa - Tabitha St. Germain
* Cole - Kirby Morrow
* Damien - Andrew Francis
* Discord - Peter New
* Fluttershy - Andrea Libman
* Gleam - Marÿke Hendrikse
* Glutinous - Sam Vincent
* Hotate - Ana Sani
* Jake - Nicholas Holmes
* Jay - Michael Adamthwaite
* Kai - Vincent Tong
* Kalmaar - Giles Panton
* Kimberly - Shannon Chan-Kent
* Kitonaru - Andrea Libman
* Lloyd - Sam Vincent
* Male Reuse Pony - Kyle Rideout
* Megan Williams - Kelly Sheridan
* Molly Williams - Chantal Strand
* Nelson - David Reynolds
* Nya - Kelly Metzger
* Pinkie Pie - Andrea Libman
* Princess Black Nova - Lisa Ann Beley
* Rainbow Dash - Ashleigh Ball
* Rarity - Tabitha St. Germain
* Tako - Marÿke Hendrikse
* The Overlord - Scott McNeil
* Three Headed Bunny - Ana Sani
* Twilight Sparkle - Tara Strong
* Zachary - Gavin Langelo
* Zane - Brent Miller

## Locations Featured

* Sixty Realms
	+ Chaosville
		- Discord's house
	+ Equestria
		- Ponyville
			* Sugarcube Café
	+ Endless Sea
		- Merlopia
			* Kalmaar's Lair
* Discord's Brain
	+ Temporal Lobe
	+ Cellular Lobes
	+ Library of Memories

## Transcript

* Journey to the Center of the 'cord (Transcript)

## Trivia

* **Narrator**: Fluttershy
* This episode was first broadcast in the UK on April 26, 2021.
* A sneak peek of the episode the ponies and the ninja at the Library of Memories is shown on Tiny Pop YouTube channel on April 25, 2021.
* The episode title is a play on the 1864 Jules Verne novel *Journey to the Center of the Earth,* and the 2008 film of the same name.
* The password that entered Discord's mind is "flutt3rshy".
* Kai and Nya know inside one of Discord's genes, stated that Wojira is Discord's mother.
* According to Zane, the reason why the Young Ninja, the Williams sisters, the Overlord and Black Nova are unable to enter Discord's mind is because overloading the brain can cause headaches.
* Discord's final line "Aren't I a stinker?" is a reference to how Bugs Bunny would sometimes close out classic *Looney Tunes* cartoons with the line "Ain't I a stinker?"
* The Remcobrai was discovered by Tako in this episode.
* Lloyd reads Discord's mind manuals are similar to those books that Sadness reads in the 2015 Disney/Pixar film *Inside Out*.

### Friendship 101

* **Hosts**: The Ninja
* This episode explains why brain health is important.
* The clips used in this segment are this episode, "Nervestruck", "Back to the Present", "Sick Day", "Don't Look a GIF Horse in the Mouth", "Superb Six", "Into the Deep Caverns" and "One Small Thing".
	+ This segment also contain spoilers for the next episode.
	+ This is the second time the segment uses the episode as a spoiler. The first is "Molly Makes a Visit".
* **Moral**: Brain health is our number one priority. You will have to take care of it.

## Continuity

* This is second episode where ninja and the ponies travel inside someone's brain, in that case, Discord. The first is "Don't Look a GIF Horse in the Mouth", when Applejack went to Pinkie Pie's brain.
	+ The next episode, "Nervestruck", also shows the ninja and the ponies traveled inside the brain, but the latter consist of Nya.
* This is the first episode since "Back to the Present" where they traveled to another realm.
* When Jay and Cole went to the temporal lobe of Discord's brain, some memories including Discord impersonating as Grogar from "The Ending of the End: The Fall" and Discord pleads to join the Mane Six and the Ninja to Hope Hollow in "Road Tripping" are shown.
* The ninja and the ponies interrogate Discord for stealing the cosmic wishes is barely similar to "The Mysterious Island", when they also interrogated the Mechanic for the cause of Pinkie Pie's disappearance and refuses to give answers.
* The shrinking potion that Joyce bought from the magic balloons in "Close Encounters of the Balloon Kind" are used to shrink and enter Discord's mind.
* The maze inside Discord's brain is similar to how the ninja and the ponies went in "The Labyrinth of the Red Dragon".

## Changes

### Changes from the Pony Life cartoon

* The ninja enter Discord's brain, along with the Mane Six.
* Jay and Cole went to the temporal lobe, with clips re-enacted in Pony Life versions.
* Kai and Nya found out that Wojira is Discord's mother is added.

## Errors

* When Lloyd reads the mind manuals, he was seen wearing the Digi robe, instead of the Armor robe.
* When the ninja and the ponies interrogate Discord, Cole's eyebrows are changed to Jay's.
* After they landed in Discord's brain, Jay and Nya are seen wearing Island Ninja Robes, instead of their normal Armor robes.