Стенограммы/Родительская карта
Родительская карта

Предыдущая стенограмма
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Лошадиный спектакль |

Эпизод
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Родительская карта |

Следующая стенограмма
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Никакого соперничества |




- [knocking on door]
**Mail Pony**: [sighs]- [knocking on door]
- [pounding on door]
- [door opens]
**Mail Pony**: [clears throat] Morning, Sunburst.**Sunburst**: What? Oh! Hi! [chuckles nervously] You know, no matter how many times I read it,*Houyhnhnm's Guide to Magical Arcana*never gets boring.**Mail Pony**: If you say so. I've got another letter for you. From Sire's Hollow.**Sunburst**: Mm-hmm. Sure thing.- [door closes]
**Mail Pony**: [groans]- [thud]
- [shimmering sounds]
**Sunburst**: What's this? Could I be experiencing the cerebration transmogrification effect described in chapter seventeen—?- [thud]
**Sunburst**: Oh. My cutie mark is glowing. My cutie mark is glowing! I know what this means! Why am I yelling?!

- [theme song]

**Sunburst**: Princess Twilight, what an honor this is! I-I mean, it is, right?*I'm*called for a friendship mission?**Twilight Sparkle**: You sure are. And it must be a special one. Nopony outside of Ponyville has ever been called before.**Spike**: If you need some pointers, let me know. I've been on my fair share of missions.**Twilight Sparkle**: You've been on*one*, Spike.**Spike**: And that's my fair share.- [door opens]
**Sunburst**: Starlight! You mean we've both been called? This is great!**Starlight Glimmer**: [depressed] Yeah... Great...**Sunburst**: Aren't you excited? You and me on a mission together!**Starlight Glimmer**: [groans]**Sunburst**: I'm... sorry. Are you not excited to go on a mission with me?**Starlight Glimmer**: No. Uh, no! I mean, yes. Heh. Totally excited about us going together. Just... not so excited about*where*.**Sunburst**: Sire's Hollow?**Starlight Glimmer**: Yep. Home.**Sunburst**: [deflated] Oh. Great.**Spike**: You know, I can go if you two don't want to. I am kind of an expert.**Twilight Sparkle**,**Starlight Glimmer**, and**Sunburst**: [groans]

- [train chugging]
- [indistinct conversations]
**Starlight Glimmer**: [sighs] It's not that I don't*want*to go home. It's just that whenever I do, my dad treats me like a filly. Like nothing's changed since I was a foal.**Sunburst**: Huh.**Starlight Glimmer**: I know. I'm a horrible daughter.**Sunburst**: N-No, no! My mom actually does kind of the same thing.**Starlight Glimmer**: Really?**Sunburst**: I don't even have to go home. She sends me letters constantly asking about my plans for the future. [imitating Stellar Flare] "You're a grown-up pony, Sunburst! You need a plan!" [sighs] I haven't been home in a while either.**Starlight Glimmer**: Hmph. We'll just have to explain to our parents that we're on an important friendship mission so they can't bother us.**Sunburst**: Do you really think that will work?**Starlight Glimmer**: Nope!- [brakes hissing]
- [train whistle]
- [train chugging]
**Sunburst**: [sniffs, sighs] The great thing about home is it always stays just how you le—- [thud]
**Sunburst**: Augh!**Starlight Glimmer**: Where did*that*come from?- [gate creaking]
**Automated voice**: Welcome to Sire's Hollow!**"Ever Essence"**: Essence?**Sunburst**: Essence of what?**"Ever Essence"**: You tell me.- [spritz]
**Sunburst**: [coughing]**Starlight Glimmer**: What is it?**Sunburst**: Uh... chocolate maybe?**"Ever Essence"**: Not chocolate maybe. Chocolate definitely! And all of the benefits with none of the drawbacks.**Sunburst**: Didn't this used to be a fruit stand?**"Ever Essence"**: I don't know what it*used to be*. The Sire's Hollow Development Committee determined what it*is*.**Sunburst**: The Sire's Hollow Development what? Where do ponies buy fruit?**"Ever Essence"**: You can get a fruit smoothie two doors down.**Sunburst**: All the shops are different. Everything's changed!**Starlight Glimmer**: Not everything.*That's*the same as it ever was.- [door opens]
**"Raspberry Latte"**: Sorry. Our bookstore's been declared a site of historical significance by the Sire's Hollow Preservation Society.**"Minty Mocha"**: You'll have to experience the books from here. That's why windows are see-through.- [door slams]
**Sunburst**: What?!**Starlight Glimmer**: Preservation Society? What is happening around here?**Firelight**: I'll explain it to you, sugarplum! [chuckles] You are just as cutesy-wutesy as ever!**Starlight Glimmer**: [muffled] Dad! [normally] Quit it! What is going on?**Firelight**: Oh, just a father wanting to preserve our town's rich history for his little pumpky-wumpkin! [chuckles]**Starlight Glimmer**: Dad, you promised no "pumpky-wumpkin"'s in public!**Sunburst**: [stifled laughter]**Firelight**: [whispering] Sorry, chipmunk cheeks.- [smack!]
**Starlight Glimmer**: Don't. You're preserving the whole town? That's crazy!**Stellar Flare**: That's exactly what I told him! I said, "Firelight, you're crazy!"**Sunburst**: Mom?**Stellar Flare**: Our village needs the same thing you do, Sunburst – a clear plan for the future.- [snip!]
**Stellar Flare**: That's why I started the Sire's Hollow Development Committee. And I've got plans for this little town. Big plans!**Firelight**: Listen here, Stellar Flare! I'm not gonna let you turn our historical heritage into Las Pegasus!**Stellar Flare**: And*I'm*not gonna let you turn it into a museum!**Firelight**and**Stellar Flare**: [growling]**Starlight Glimmer**: W-Wait. Are you two fighting over this?**Sunburst**: Like having a friendship problem?**Stellar Flare**: Oh, there's no problem.**Firelight**: Because there*is*no friendship!**Sunburst**: Well, the good news is we know why we're here.**Starlight Glimmer**: [huffs]

**Sunburst**: [sighs] Maybe we should've sent Spike after all.**Starlight Glimmer**: [sighs]- [magic sounds]
**Starlight Glimmer**: Sunburst and I were called here to do a job, and it looks like you two are it.**Stellar Flare**: You mean*your*success depends on*us*?**Sunburst**: Uh...**Firelight**: And you have to hang out with us the whole time you're here?!**Starlight Glimmer**: Um...**Stellar Flare**: Well, I'll hear what you have to say. But every plan I've made for this town is perfectly reasonable.**Firelight**: Good luck convincing me my preservation efforts don't make sense.**Starlight Glimmer**and**Sunburst**: [sighs]

- [gate creaking]
**Automated voice**: Welcome to Sire's Hollow!

**Starlight Glimmer**: So we can't hold the books?**"Raspberry Latte"**: [laughing] No!**Sunburst**: Can*you*hold the books?**"Minty Mocha"**: No.**Starlight Glimmer**: So nopony can*read*the books?**Firelight**: [chuckles] Isn't she adorable? [chuckles]

- [gate clanking]
**Automated voice**: Welcome to Sire's Hollow!

**"Ever Essence"**: You can call them... mm... "smells". But I call them essence!- [spritz]
**Sunburst**: [coughing]**Starlight Glimmer**: [sniffs] Fruity.**Sunburst**: Too bad there's nowhere to get*actual*fruit.**Stellar Flare**: In the future, all ponies will drink their fruit!**Starlight Glimmer**and**Sunburst**: [slurping]**Starlight Glimmer**: [coughing]

- [thud]
**"Cracked Wheat"**: One hundred percent ancient pony grains! Just like the town founders ate! Hope you like crust!- [crunch, thud]

- [gate creaking]
**Automated voice**: Welcome to Sire's Hollow!- [gate creaking]
**Automated voice**: Welcome to Sire's Hollow!- [gate creaking]
**Automated voice**: Welcome to Sire's Hollow!- [gate creaking]
**Automated voice**: Welcome to Sire's Hollow!- [gate creaking]
**Automated voice**: Welcome to Sire's—!**Stellar Flare**: Okay, it's annoying. I get it.

**Firelight**: Maybe my preservation efforts were a little over the top.- [crash!]
**"Cracked Wheat"**: [groans] Oh, no.**Stellar Flare**: And I might have been trying to turn the town into a shopping mall.**Firelight**: Well, whatever direction the town takes from now on, how about we work together on it?**Stellar Flare**: Deal! Sunburst, you should move closer to Ponyville. After this success, I'm sure the Princess of Friendship will want to send you on more missions.- [smack!]
**Sunburst**: That's not really how it works. Oh, look at the time! We should get going now that we solved the friendship problem, right, Starlight?**Starlight Glimmer**: Yeah... The thing is, I don't think we did solve it. When we solve a friendship problem, our cutie marks are supposed to glow.**Firelight**: Aw, don't be disappointed, puddin'. Your papa will work this out for ya.**Starlight Glimmer**: Heh. My papa wasn't called by the map in Twilight's castle.*I*was.**Stellar Flare**: How are you gonna explain this to the princess? What's your plan if she fires you from friendship quests?**Sunburst**: Mom! She doesn't—! It-It's not—!**Stellar Flare**: Use your words, Sunburst.**Sunburst**: [angry groan]**Starlight Glimmer**: I guess you two weren't the problem we were sent to solve after all.**Stellar Flare**: So now you don't even know why you're here? Ah! We have to figure this out before we run out of time!**Sunburst**: [sighs] Mom, there isn't a time limit.**Firelight**: So you're here for an extra long visit? [laughs] You can stay in your old room, punkie wunk! It's just like you left it!- [guitar riff]
**Starlight Glimmer**: [whispering] We need to find this friendship problem now!**Firelight**: Now, I know you have your little job to do, but Stellar and I know the town a lot better than you two.**Stellar Flare**: That's right! Neither of you have been home in ages. You're gonna need our help to succeed!**Starlight Glimmer**: I guess that makes sense...**Firelight**and**Stellar Flare**: [chuckling]**Stellar Flare**: I already have some ideas!**Firelight**: Me, too!**Sunburst**: I think I liked it better when they were fighting.

- [chalk tapping]
**Firelight**: Okay! Now that I've explained how Sire's Hollow was founded, we can start to explore all the possible friendship problems that might have developed over time.**Starlight Glimmer**: [inhales] I appreciate the history lesson, Dad, but I need to find the problem now. In the present.**Firelight**: Aw, now, hon-bun. How are you gonna do that without all the backstory, huh? Oh! Of course I know how hard it is for you to sit still and focus, soooo... would it help you pay attention to hold on to your bwankie?**Starlight Glimmer**: [growling]

**Stellar Flare**: Now, you've had a little setback. But don't worry. I know exactly what you need to do.**Sunburst**: Make a plan?**Stellar Flare**: Already got one! Step one – interview the suspects. Step two – use your talents to solve the issue. Step three – get the Princess of Friendship to send you on more missions!**Sunburst**: Mom! It does not work like that!**Stellar Flare**: Uh-huh.- [beat]
**Stellar Flare**: [clears throat]**"Ever Essence"**: [poorly acted] Oh! Thank goodness you are here! These two ponies refuse to use my essences.**"Raspberry Latte"**: Maybe because we don't like to cover our natural scent!**Stellar Flare**: [clears throat irritably]**"Ever Essence"**: Ugh.**"Raspberry Latte"**: Ugh.**"Minty Mocha"**: [sighs] [poorly acted] And she refuses to buy our books.**"Ever Essence"**,**"Raspberry Latte"**, and**"Minty Mocha"**: [poorly acted] Surely this is a friendship problem.**Sunburst**: Ugh! It needs to be a*real*friendship problem! You can't just make one up! [angry groan]**Stellar Flare**: This is what happens when we don't rehearse! Ugh!

**Firelight**: Starlight? Sweetie? I found a really old town bylaw that nopony agrees on. Apparently, we're not supposed to prance or canter after dinnertime. Could that be the problem? Silly-filly?**Starlight Glimmer**: Whew! What are*you*doing?**Sunburst**: [sighs] Hiding from my mother. She started making up friendship problems for me to solve.**Starlight Glimmer**: [scoffs] My dad won't even let me talk to anypony in case they're "strangers". I'm a grown mare!**Sunburst**: [sighs] We're never going to find the friendship problem with them around, let alone solve it.**"Cracked Wheat"**: Maybe you two should start looking for it on your own? [crunching]

- [lamp clicks]
**Starlight Glimmer**: [whispering] Okay! So we wanted to talk to all of you, you know, in private.**Sunburst**: [whispering] Just to see if there were issues any of you had with your friends.**"Ever Essence"**: [whispering] Got it. Just one question. Why are we whispering?**"Cracked Wheat"**: They're avoiding their parents.**"Ever Essence"**,**"Raspberry Latte"**, and**"Minty Mocha"**: Ohhhh... [various agreement]**Sunburst**: No. Not avoiding. Just... taking a break.**Starlight Glimmer**: Yeah. We needed to focus. B-But we're definitely not avoiding them.**"Raspberry Latte"**: So you're whispering with all of us in the darkest corner of the shop where nopony can possibly see because you're*not*avoiding them?**Starlight Glimmer**: Mm-hmm.**Sunburst**: Uh, but they definitely can't hear us in here, right?**"Cracked Wheat"**: No way! This is the antiquities section. Nopony ever comes back here.**Firelight**: There you are! But what are you doing in here? [gasps] Is the friendship problem in my favorite section of the bookstore?**Starlight Glimmer**and**Sunburst**: [groans]

**Firelight**: ...And then, I thought the best way to look for a friendship problem in the present...**Starlight Glimmer**: Dad!**Firelight**: ...was to look back in our town history even farther!**Starlight Glimmer**: [angry groan]**Stellar Flare**: Sunburst! Oh, finally! Now, I know you don't want me to make*up*a problem, but what if I start one?**Sunburst**: That's not how this—!**Stellar Flare**: I mean, nopony ever became a success by following*all*the rules, right?**Sunburst**: [nickers angrily]**Stellar Flare**: [to Firelight] How are things on your end?**Firelight**: Couldn't be better! New leads and such!**Starlight Glimmer**: Guys...?**Stellar Flare**: We really are providing excellent assistance, aren't we?**Sunburst**: Guys!**Firelight**: I dare say our children should be grateful for our help.**Starlight Glimmer**:*Guys!***Starlight Glimmer**and**Sunburst**:*We don't want your help!*

**Stellar Flare**: I'm sorry. You don't want our help?**Firelight**: [chuckles] That's... That's ridiculous! What reason could you possibly have for that?**Starlight Glimmer**: Because you're driving us crazy!**Stellar Flare**: Oh, really? And just how am I driving you crazy?**Sunburst**: By always coming up with plans! I don't need a plan! I mean, maybe I do, but it'll be mine, not yours!**Stellar Flare**: [choking up] Well... I'm sorry for trying to help! [crying]**Starlight Glimmer**: And*you're*not any better! I'm not a filly! I'm a grown pony with a job to do, and I'll do it on my own!**Firelight**: Well. I'll let you get to it then.**Starlight Glimmer**: Great. Now we have to smooth things over with our parents on top of finding and solving a friendship problem.**Sunburst**: It's almost like our relationship with our parents*is*the friendship problem.**Starlight Glimmer**: You don't think that's it, do you?**"Cracked Wheat"**: [clears throat] That's what all of us think.**Starlight Glimmer**: [groans, collapses] Why couldn't we have been sent to stop a war or something?!

**Starlight Glimmer**: Dad?**Firelight**: Hello,*Ms.*Glimmer. How is your friendship problem search going? I only ask as an interested observer, since I know you are an adult who's capable of doing things without help from anypony else. [whimpers]**Starlight Glimmer**: Actually... I think Sunburst and I figured out what it is.**Firelight**: So Stellar and I weren't really helpful after all.**Starlight Glimmer**: Well, we haven't actually solved it. And I don't think we can. Not without you.

**Stellar Flare**: [sniffs]- [spritz]
**Stellar Flare**: [coughing] Pungent. Ugh. [to Sunburst] Oh. Did you come by to be driven crazy by more of your mother's plans?**Sunburst**: No, I came to apologize.**Stellar Flare**: Well, it's going to take more than an apology to make up for telling me you don't want my help finding your friendship problem.**Sunburst**: Oh, I'm not sorry for that. Starlight and I already figured out what the problem is.**Stellar Flare**: This is a terrible apology.**Sunburst**: Well, if you come with me and help fix it, I'll give you a better one.

**Starlight Glimmer**: Usually, Twilight or one of our other friends gets called to a place with a friendship problem to fix.**Sunburst**: But Starlight and I realized we came here to fix a friendship problem we already had.**Starlight Glimmer**: I'm sorry I've been avoiding coming home, Dad. But you can't keep treating me like a foal.**Firelight**: I'm sorry, sugarbun. [sighs] I just know how hard things were for you when you left home. I guess I wanted you to feel safe, like... when you were young.**Starlight Glimmer**: Dad, I know I've made some mistakes, and I'll probably make a bunch more. But I learn from them. I think that's what growing up is.**Sunburst**: I'm sorry I never told you how much your plans bothered me, and I know you just want me to succeed. But I need to do that on my own.**Stellar Flare**: I remember how lost you were when you flunked out of magic school. I thought as long as you had a plan, you'd never feel that way again.**Sunburst**: You don't have to worry, Mom. I need to find my own way. And I definitely don't feel lost anymore.- [shimmering sounds]
**"Cracked Wheat"**: [crying] That's so beautiful!

**Stellar Flare**: The glowing cutie mark is such a symbol of accomplishment. I don't suppose there's a way for you to get it to glow all the time.**Sunburst**: [chuckles] Pretty sure it doesn't work that way.**Starlight Glimmer**: Not unless we solved a friendship problem every few seconds, and I kinda hope this one will be it for a while.**Firelight**: You know, it seems to me your map is saying we're not just your parents. Heh. We're your friends, too.**Starlight Glimmer**: I guess so.**Firelight**: So if I promise to treat you less like a little filly and more like a friend, will you visit more?**Starlight Glimmer**: Absolutely. Mmm.**Sunburst**: And if you start to drive me crazy again, I'll tell you instead of never coming home.**Stellar Flare**: That's lovely of you to say, dear. But you know, I can always visit you.**Firelight**: Stellar, you're a genius! [laughs] How do you feel about a road trip?**Stellar Flare**: I might have a few plans for that.**Starlight Glimmer**and**Sunburst**: [chuckling nervously]- [train chugging]

- [credits]