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Look Before You Sleep
Season №:	1
Season episode №:	8
Overall episode №:	8
Original airdate:	December 3, 2010
Written by:	Charlotte Fullerton
Storyboard:	Francisco Avalos & Mike West[1]
See also
transcript • gallery • allusions animation errors • statistics • speculation
Episode guide
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Look Before You Sleep is the eighth episode of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic, season one. In this episode, Applejack and Rarity are forced to stay at the library where Twilight resides for the night due to a thunderstorm. Twilight takes this opportunity to drag them into having a slumber party. The title of the episode is a play on the saying look before you leap, meaning acting only after careful planning.

Contents 1 Production 2 Summary 2.1 Opening sequence 2.2 The slumber party 2.3 Ending 3 Quotes 4 Gallery 5 References 6 Comments

ProductionEdit

This episode's slumber party subplot is very similar to the SpongeBob SquarePants episode, Party Pooper Pants, in that both Twilight and SpongeBob try to throw parties "by the book". Twilight's party is more lenient as she only consults the book for fun ideas, whereas SpongeBob uses it to plan out every minute. This episode also has the smallest cast in season one. Four of the show's main characters – Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash and Spike - do not appear, and background ponies appear only in a few of the opening scenes.

SummaryEdit

Opening sequenceEdit

Due to an impending, planned thunderstorm in Ponyville, trees are being pruned to avoid damaging the town. Rarity helps out, but her inclination to clean up and prettify everything she sees annoys Applejack. Rarity voices her disapproval of Applejack "making an absolute mess of the town square". They nearly have a serious argument but wisely decide to go their separate ways. That's when they get caught in the storm.

The slumber partyEdit

"Slumber 101: All you ever wanted know about slumber parties but were afraid to ask."

— Rarity reading Twilight's book

Twilight Sparkle invites them to stay at her place until the storm has passed. She says she is on her own while Spike is back in Canterlot on "royal business". Twilight sees this as an opportunity to set up her first-ever slumber party, using a book about slumber parties she owns as a checklist. Rarity and Applejack, wary about spending the night together, decide to try and get along because they don't want to "ruin" Twilight Sparkle's first slumber party. But their clashing personalities make this no easy task. All throughout the night Rarity and Applejack butt heads, beginning with dissenting views about the makeovers that start the night's activities. During the ghost stories, Rarity and Applejack suggest stories that allude to why they don't like each other. The lights go out and Twilight tells The Legend of The Headless Horse (a play on the character of The Headless Horseman from European folklore and from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow), succeeding in scaring both Rarity and Applejack. They continue to clash when they move on to making s'mores, and when they play truth or dare they use the rules of the game against each other: Applejack daring Rarity to get her mane all wet and ruined, Rarity daring Applejack to dress in a ridiculous gown. Eventually they wind up just yelling at each other. Sensing conflict, Twilight tries to keep things moving to avoid escalation. Unfortunately they move on to a pillow fight, which in no time turns into an all out pillow war between Rarity and Applejack. Twilight, thoroughly bombarded with pillows, suggests that they just go to bed.

Their petty arguing and fighting continues even when the ponies try to go to bed. At this point, Twilight Sparkle interrupts their bickering, upset that her friends are fighting too much to have any fun, thereby ruining her slumber party. Just as Twilight asks if there is "anything else that could possibly go wrong", a nearby tree is hit by lightning and begins to topple towards a neighboring house. Applejack, not heeding a warning from Rarity, lassos the falling tree and instead of stabilizing it, sends it crashing through Twilight's bedroom window. Rarity focuses on cleaning up the mess of books and Applejack tries to push the tree back out of the window while Twilight Sparkle desperately searches through her slumber party book for a section on dealing with fallen trees in the middle of the bedroom.

When Applejack fails to move the tree out on her own, she eventually apologizes to Rarity for criticizing her attention to detail and convinces her to focus on helping with the bigger task instead. She gets Rarity to not worry so much about getting her hooves dirty. Rarity uses her unicorn magic to turn the tree top into tiny bush sculptures, clearing the house at the price of getting dirt all over herself; Applejack then proceeds to gently toss the broken trunk section out of the window and close it.

EndingEdit

With the storm, and their differences, finally settled, Applejack, Rarity and Twilight Sparkle finally have fun. In the end, Twilight officially declares the slumber party a success. In a letter to Princess Celestia, she writes that she has found that it is possible to get along with someone very different from you if you embrace each other's differences. She then attempts to plan another slumber party the following night but gets two pillows thrown in her face. The episode closes as the sky clears up, revealing a bright sunny day.

QuotesEdit

For more quotes, see the episode's transcript.

Rarity: You know, there's messy, and then there's just plain rude.

Applejack: You know, there's fussy, and there's just plain gettin' on my nerves.

Applejack: I'd like to tell ya'll the terrifying tale of the prissy ghost, who drove everypony crazy with her unnecessary neatness! OooooOOwwoOOO! I'm sure ya'll are familiar with that one?

Rarity: Never heard of it. But I have a much better one... It's the horrifying story of the messy inconsiderate ghost, who irritated everypony within a hundred miles! OoooooOOOwwwwOOOoo...

Applejack: That's not a real story. You made it up!

Rarity: It is a ghost story. They're all made up...

Rarity: You could at least say "excuse me".

Applejack: Oh, I was about to! But you interrupted me! ...Pardon.

Twilight Sparkle: Now the next item of fun we have to do is... "truth or dare"...

Rarity: I dare Applejack to do something carefully and neatly for a change.

Applejack: Oh yeah? Well, I dare Rarity to lighten up, and stop obssessin' over every... last... little... detail... For a change.

Rarity: I think the truth of the matter is that somepony could stand to pay a little more attention to detail.

Applejack: And I think the truth is somepony outta quit with her fussin', so the rest of us can get things done!

Applejack: I dare you to step outside and let your precious tidy mane get ruined again!

Twilight Sparkle: You have to. It's the rule...

Applejack: Hah!

Rarity: Fine!

Rarity: OK. I dare Applejack to play "dress-up" in a frou-frou, glittery, lacey outfit!

Applejack: (with big dress) Happy?

Rarity: Very...

Rarity: (after getting hit in the face with a pillow) IT! IS! ON!

Applejack: Yeah, that's not gonna happen. Geronimo!

Rarity: You did that on purpose.

Applejack: Um, yeah.

Rarity: Get up so I can fix it again.

Applejack: Can't hear ya, I'm asleep. [fake snore]

Applejack: I... ain't... budgin'!

Applejack: And that, my friends, is called "gettin' 'er done"...

Twilight Sparkle: Oh, pretty! Where did these come from? They're not in the book either.

Applejack: Is it... a six-legged pony with a purple polka-dotted mane and shootin' stars comin' out of his eyes?

Rarity: Who flies through the air all over the world to hide magic, sparkly eggs?

Twilight Sparkle: That's it!

Applejack and Rarity: It is?

Twilight Sparkle: No.

GalleryEdit

Look Before You Sleep image gallery

ReferencesEdit

1. ↑ Raven Molisee's deviantART journal (2012-02-23). Retrieved on 2012 February 23.

v • e My Little Pony Friendship is Magic — episodes

Season one
Episode 1 Friendship is Magic, part 1	Episode 2 Friendship is Magic, part 2	Episode 3 The Ticket Master	Episode 4 Applebuck Season
Episode 5 Griffon the Brush Off	Episode 6 Boast Busters	Episode 7 Dragonshy	Episode 8 Look Before You Sleep
Episode 9 Bridle Gossip	Episode 10 Swarm of the Century	Episode 11 Winter Wrap Up	Episode 12 Call of the Cutie
Episode 13 Fall Weather Friends	Episode 14 Suited For Success	Episode 15 Feeling Pinkie Keen	Episode 16 Sonic Rainboom
Episode 17 Stare Master	Episode 18 The Show Stoppers	Episode 19 A Dog and Pony Show	Episode 20 Green Isn't Your Color
Episode 21 Over a Barrel	Episode 22 A Bird in the Hoof	Episode 23 The Cutie Mark Chronicles	Episode 24 Owl's Well That Ends Well
	Episode 25 Party of One	Episode 26 The Best Night Ever

Season two
Episode 1 The Return of Harmony Part 1	Episode 2 The Return of Harmony Part 2	Episode 3 Lesson Zero	Episode 4 Luna Eclipsed
Episode 5 Sisterhooves Social	Episode 6 The Cutie Pox	Episode 7 May the Best Pet Win!	Episode 8 The Mysterious Mare Do Well
Episode 9 Sweet and Elite	Episode 10 Secret of My Excess	Episode 11 Hearth's Warming Eve	Episode 12 Family Appreciation Day
Episode 13 Baby Cakes	Episode 14 The Last Roundup	Episode 15 The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000	Episode 16 Read It and Weep
Episode 17 Hearts and Hooves Day	Episode 18 A Friend in Deed	Episode 19 Putting Your Hoof Down	Episode 20 It's About Time
Episode 21 Dragon Quest	Episode 22 Hurricane Fluttershy	Episode 23 Ponyville Confidential	Episode 24 MMMystery on the Friendship Express
	Episode 25 A Canterlot Wedding - Part 1	Episode 26 A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2

Season three
Episode 1 The Crystal Empire - Part 1	Episode 2 The Crystal Empire - Part 2	Episode 3 Too Many Pinkie Pies	Episode 4 One Bad Apple
Episode 5 Magic Duel	Episode 6 Sleepless in Ponyville	Episode 7 Wonderbolts Academy	Episode 8 Apple Family Reunion
Episode 9 Spike at Your Service	Episode 10 Keep Calm and Flutter On	Episode 11 Just for Sidekicks	Episode 12 Games Ponies Play
Episode 13 Magical Mystery Cure