| My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Summertime Shorts | |
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| File:File:Main cast and Sunset Shimmer human silhouettes EG2.png | |
| Directed by | Ishi Rudell Katrina Hadley |
| Produced by | TBA |
| Written by | TBA |
| Music by | Daniel Ingram William Kevin Anderson |
| See also | |
| transcript • gallery • allusions animation errors • statistics | |
The My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Summertime Shorts aired on July 30, 2017 after the Discovery Family network presentation of Garfield. They consist of at least four shorts and a music video.
The first three of the shorts take place during the first movie.
Production and development
The Russian dub of Mad Twience was released online back in March 2017.[1]
Make Up Shake Up and Raise This Roof were first featured as the respective Signature My Little Pony Equestria Girls magazine issues 13 and 14 comics Make-Up Shake Up[2][3] and Raise the Roof.[4][5][6]
According to Katrina Hadley, DHX Media produced the music video while Boulder Media Limited produced the rest of the shorts.[7][8]
Make Up Shake Up
| Make Up Shake Up | |
|---|---|
| Character(s) | Rarity Applejack |
| Music by | William Anderson |
Make Up Shake Up is the first Summertime short. The animation primarily focuses on Rarity and Applejack.
Summary
Shortly before the start of the Fall Formal, Rarity finishes getting dressed and putting on her makeup. She offers to put makeup on Applejack as well, but she declines. After some encouragement from her friends, Applejack hesitantly agrees. When Rarity finishes, Applejack is not too thrilled with the results and asks Rarity to wipe some of the makeup off. In the end, Applejack looks exactly the same as before Rarity started, much to Rarity's chagrin.
A Photo Booth Story
| A Photo Booth Story | |
|---|---|
| Character(s) | Photo Finish |
| Music by | William Anderson |
A Photo Booth Story is the second Summertime short. The animation primarily focuses on Photo Finish.
Summary
At the Fall Formal, Photo Finish is employed as the dance photographer. After taking a picture of the Crusaders, she is unsatisfied with the photo. When the Equestria Girls pose for their photo, Photo Finish suggests adding some style, with assistance from Pixel Pizzaz. The girls take pictures in various costumes and accessories, including Sherlock Holmes-inspired looks for Princess Twilight and Pinkie Pie and queen and butterfly looks for Rarity—all while Rainbow Dash and Applejack play pranks in the background. However, during one of the photos, Rarity's butterfly wings briefly catch fire. When they finish, Photo Finish declares this the pinnacle of her photography career and makes her trademark exit. As the girls laugh, Rarity asks if she can keep the wings.
Raise This Roof
| Raise This Roof | |
|---|---|
| Character(s) | Applejack Rainbow Dash Crusaders |
| Music by | William Anderson |
Raise This Roof is the third Summertime short. The animation primarily focuses on Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and the Crusaders.
Summary
As the Fall Formal continues, a country-western song that Applejack requested earlier starts to play. Applejack invites her little sister Apple Bloom to join in a line dance with her. Seeing their dancing as a competition challenge, Rainbow Dash invites Scootaloo to join her on the dance floor in a hip-hop breakdance. As the dance-off becomes aggressive and Applejack and Rainbow get carried away, Apple Bloom and Scootaloo separate from them. At Apple Bloom's suggestion, she and Scootaloo start their own dance routine, winning the dance-off and receiving a trophy from Pinkie. Applejack and Rainbow look disappointed in the Crusaders at first, but they compliment the two on their dancing, and Rainbow Dash asks for a rematch.
Steps of Pep
| Steps of Pep | |
|---|---|
| Character(s) | Pinkie Pie Fluttershy |
| Music by | William Anderson |
Steps of Pep is the fourth Summertime short. The animation primarily focuses on Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy.
Summary
Fluttershy joins Pinkie Pie's cheering club at Canterlot High School, and together they cheer on the home team during a soccer game between the Wondercolts and Shadowbolts. Unfortunately, while Pinkie is easily able to get the crowd going, Fluttershy can't get her voice above a whisper. After the game, Pinkie teaches Fluttershy how to cheer properly during the Wondertones' practice, and they later cheer for the school chess club, which actually requires them to be quiet.
Mad Twience
- Main article: Mad Twience
Monday Blues
- Main article: Monday Blues
Pet Project
| Pet Project | |
|---|---|
| Character(s) | Sunset Shimmer |
| Music by | William Anderson |
Pet Project is the seventh Summertime short. The animation primarily focuses on Sunset Shimmer and Fluttershy.
Summary
Fluttershy gives her and her friends' pets baths in preparation for a photo shoot as part of a charity calendar to raise money for the animal shelter. Sunset Shimmer wants to contribute, but she doesn't have a pet of her own. Fluttershy asks if she wants one, but Sunset says she doesn't even know what to choose. Later, during the photo shoot in the CHS music room, Sunset becomes envious at how cute her friends' pets are and asks for Fluttershy's help in choosing a pet for herself.
At the animal shelter, Fluttershy shows Sunset an assortment of pets to choose from, but none of them really capture her attention. Just then, she sees and becomes enamored with a small yellow-scaled lizard, calling it "a ray of sunshine". Some time later, the pet photo shoot continues, with Sunset Shimmer's newly adopted pet Ray being included.
Subs Rock
| Subs Rock | |
|---|---|
| Character(s) | Principal Celestia |
| Music by | William Anderson |
Subs Rock is the eighth Summertime short. The animation primarily focuses on Principal Celestia.
Summary
Principal Celestia fills in as a substitute teacher, much to Twilight's excitement. Before she can begin her geology lesson, however, Vice Principal Luna calls her to the library. When she returns to the classroom, she tries to continue the lesson only for Granny Smith to appear and ask for help in the cafeteria. Upon returning a third time, Celestia is interrupted again by Rainbow kicking a soccer ball against the outside of the classroom wall. The fourth time, the classroom telephone rings, and Celestia is called away to address an unspecified situation. Celestia returns once more, confident that was the final interruption, but the school bell rings and class ends, much to her disappointment.
Shake Things Up!
Main article: Shake Things Up!
The Art of Friendship
| The Art of Friendship | |
|---|---|
| Character(s) | Pinkie Pie |
| Music by | William Anderson |
The Art of Friendship is the tenth Summertime short. The animation primarily focuses on Pinkie Pie and Sunset Shimmer.
Summary
In art class at Canterlot High School, Pinkie Pie can't think of anything to paint. Sunset Shimmer tells her to find some inspiration and get her "creative juices flowing". Taking her advice literally, Pinkie gets a juice drink from Granny Smith in the cafeteria, but she still doesn't have any ideas. Next, she tries to find inspiration in nature by interacting with birds in the trees, but still nothing. Lastly, she tries finding inspiration by playing her drums. As she really gets into her drum solo, she taps her drumsticks on everything from the music room back to the art room, but still no inspiration strikes her.
Sunset tells Pinkie that, when all else fails, she should just paint a subject that she thinks is awesome and makes her happy. Feeling inspired by Sunset's painting of bright sunflowers, Pinkie Pie grabs some brushes and paint cans and paints wildly on her canvas, causing paint to splatter all over the art room. When she finishes, she reveals that she painted a portrait of Sunset Shimmer herself. Sunset decides to "paint" Pinkie as well, and she hugs her, causing the paint on Sunset to smear on Pinkie.
Epic Fails
| Epic Fails | |
|---|---|
| Character(s) | The Equestria Girls |
| Music by | William Anderson |
Epic Fails is an upcoming Summertime short. The animation focuses on all of the Equestria Girls as a whole.
Summary
During lunch in the CHS cafeteria, Rarity sees a picture in a magazine of Countess Coloratura falling over in yoga class and embarrassing herself. Sunset Shimmer muses about the thought of having one's most embarrassing moments broadcast to the world, and this gets the rest of their friends thinking about such "epic fails" they've had in the past:
- Twilight Sparkle causing a chemical explosion in the science lab and spilling compounds all over herself and Spike
- Applejack and Pinkie Pie burning some pies in the oven at Applejack's house and setting off the smoke alarms and sprinklers
- Rainbow Dash kicking a soccer ball and knocking over a soccer ball display during her job at a sporting outlet
- Fluttershy getting an embarrassing hair-styling from her animal friends in the park and distracting several passersby
- Rarity getting a piece of lettuce stuck in her teeth while in the library, and Sunset Shimmer embarrassing herself while trying to tell her about it from a separate table
Back in present day, the girls claim to one another that they never suffer such embarrassing moments. However, on their way out of the cafeteria, they slip on the wet floor and fall over each other.
Gallery
- Main category: Equestria Girls: Summertime Shorts images
Make Up Shake Up
A Photo Booth Story
Raise This Roof
Steps of Pep
Mad Twience
Monday Blues
Pet Project
Subs Rock
The Art of Friendship
Miscellaneous
References
- ↑ Sethisto (2017-03-29). Two New Equestria Girls Songs Appear on Youtube, In Russian. Equestria Daily. Blogger. Retrieved on 2017 July 30.
- ↑ New My Little Pony Equestria Girls Magazine review. YouTube (2017-03-10). Retrieved on 2017 July 31.
- ↑ 2eac5d_bd0c27424c21417292cb77f28159eec8~mv2_d_4961_3508_s_4_2. Wix (2017-03-24). Retrieved on 2017 July 31.
- ↑ Mlp_Melody_MusicTM (@mlp_melody_musictm) • Instagram photos and videos. Instagram. Retrieved on 2017 July 30.
- ↑ Equestria Girl magazine review. YouTube (2017-05-17). Retrieved on 2017 July 30.
- ↑ My little pony equestra girls magazine look though. YouTube (2017-05-21). Retrieved on 2017 July 30.
- ↑ Katrina Hadley (2017-07-30). Also let the Boulder Studio know you liked their work! DHX was only involved in the music video.. Twitter. Retrieved on 2017 July 31.
- ↑ Katrina Hadley (2017-07-30). Nothing! We made the music video and Hasbro had Boulder Studio make some shorts too!. Twitter. Retrieved on 2017 July 31.