My Little Pony: The Movie

My Little Pony: The Movie
Generation 1 | Season 1 | Movie
My Little Pony 'n Friends
Original Airdate(s)	August 6th 1986
Writer(s)	George Arthur Bloom
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In this big-screen debut of My Little Pony, the Little Ponies must stop the evil witch Hydia and her two incompetent daughters Reeka and Draggle from covering Dream Valley in a purple goo called "the Smooze". The Little Ponies find help from the friendly Grundles and the magic powers of the Flutter Ponies. But will that be enough to save Ponyland?

Voice Actors

• Charlie Adler As Spike and Woodland Creature
• Danny DeVito as Grundle King
• Michael Bell as Grundle
• Madeline Kahn as Draggle
• Cloris Leachman as Hydia
• Rhea Perlman as Reeka
• Tony Randall as The Moochick
• Tammy Amerson as Megan
• Jon Bauman as The Smooze
• Alice Playten as Baby Lickety Split and Bushwoolie #1
• Nancy Cartwright as Gusty and Bushwoolie #4
• Sheryl Bernstein as Buttons, Woodland Creature and Bushwoolie
• Susan Blu as Lofty, Grundle and Bushwoolie
• Cathy Cavadini as North Star
• Peter Cullen as Grundle and Ahgg
• Laura Dean as Sundance and Bushwoolie
• Ellen Gerstell as Magic Star
• Keri Houlihan as Molly
• Kate Leigh as Fizzy and Baby Sundance
• Scott Menville as Danny
• Laurel Page as Sweet Stuff
• Sarah Partidge as Wind Whistler
• Russie Taylor as Morning Glory, Rosedust, Bushwoolie and Skunk
• Jill Wayne as Shady and Baby Lofty
• Frank Welker as Bushwoolie and Grundle

Releases

• Film Reel
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  35mm film reel (donated by TraderTif)

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  200px

• Beta and VHS
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  Beta

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  Original release VHS video cover

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  Alternate Cover

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  Alternate Cover

• DVD
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  Region 2 DVD release cover, drawn in G2 style. Depicted from l-r: Ivy, Sweet Berry and Light Heart (G2 pony)

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  Region 2 DVD release, reverse of cover

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  Region 2 release disc

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  Region 1 DVD release cover, featuring l-r on front cover: Baby Lickety-Split, Shady, and Sundance

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  Region 1 release disc

Synopsis

It opens with the ponies getting ready for the spring festival and playing in the fresh spring air.
Spike and Baby Lickety-Split are practicing Baby Lickety-Splits’ dance routine for a show they're holding later, She’s added a new routine to the dance. Spike warns her not to use it as she’s not the star but when the show starts and Buttons introduces the Baby Pony Dancers. Baby Lickey-split walks on stage, does her unplanned routine and ruins the whole show.
Buttons tells her off for what she’s wearing and that she has spoilt the show. The baby ponies begin to pick on her and call her names as she says sorry before Baby Lickety Split runs off crying.
Spike chases after her asking her to reconsider but Baby Lickety Split packs her bag with everything in her draw but the kitchen sink then removes a feather as it’s too heavy and leaves. Spike insists he goes with her and he leaves a note for the others.

The ponies are being watched by a witch Hydia through her rock pool. She calls her daughters Reeka and Draggle over and tells them she’s unhappy the ponies are having fun and have made everything green and bright. So Hydia plans to make her daughters more evil by getting them to ruin the ponies festival. Reaching Dream castle the two daughter witches go though their dictionary/spell book of words after pulling a random one out of the air and decide to flood the place. They go to a near by stream and waterfall, say their spell and water shoots out from the waterfall. The sea ponies see what was happening and use a shell to make the water bounce off and hit the witches. After they're called cute they decide to go back home having failed.

Baby Lickey-Split makes it to a cliff edge with a waterfall crashing down then tries to fly by jumping off, she ends up falling down the cliff into some water and finds she’s stuck and can't climb back up.

They ponies learn that Baby Lickety Split is gone and go looking for her to see if she is with the Bushwoolies as she loves them.
Hydia is upset to learn her daughters have done nothing and brings out the Smooze recipe from her cupboard. She then gives them the task to get the ingredients as getting the flume was a hard job. The witches fight over which one of them will be getting the flume ingredient. The witches bring the ingredients back to Hydia and she begins making the Smooze over the volcano, the girls get worried when she reaches the bottom of the bucket and knock the bucket in to the volcano to hide the fact they’ve not collected the flume. The Smooze then comes to life and heads for Dream Castle.
The searching ponies looking for Baby Lickety Split walk right past the cliff that Baby Lickety-Split had jumped off and due to the waterfall don’t notice her and Spike even call out for help.
The ponies find the Bushwoolies and tell them about Baby Lickety split running away. The Smooze then reaches them first, they run and Gusty gets hit by it but blames Shady for being bad luck.
Magic Star and Gusty leave Shady to continue looking for Baby Lickety Split while they go back to warn the others that the Smooze is coming.
Hydia rejoices as every thing seems to be going to plan.

Baby Lickey Split is still stuck and regrets running away now. The Smooze then reaches Spike and Baby Lickety Split who then hide from it behind the waterfall as it starts cover the land. This then traps them in a cave.

The festivities are carrying on when Magic Star orders everyone into Dream Castle.
The ponies decide to get the Rainbow of Light from Megan. While there Megan convinces Wind Whistler and North Star who'd been sent to retrieve it, that she and her brother and sister Molly and Danny, could help so Megan and co joins them on their way back to PonyLand.
They land and release the Rainbow of light, it appears to be winning but then the Smooze eventually eats it and covers Dream Castle.
Hydia tells her daughters off when they blab they’ve not added something, so she threats they'll eat ice cream unless they tell her. Which they hate and they tell her it was the flume. She then flings them back out to go get the flume.

The ponies plan to rebuild Dream Castle which is now totally covered in Smooze and Megan tells them not to give up as there’s always another rainbow. The ponies decide to go see The Moochick.

The witches continue to argue about who'll get the flume; they both co-operate in the end and get it even with the weird plant creature fighting back.
The Moochick is playing checkers with his rabbit when the ponies find him and talk to him about the Smooze. So he starts offering places they can live. The rabbit hands him a drawing of The Paradise Estate and they choose that for their new home. The Moochick tells them the flutter ponies are who they need to stop the Smooze and he gives them a map to Flutter Valley. He then uses his magic to send them and The Paradise Estate back to the other ponies.

Spike and Baby Lickey-Split are tunnelling their way out of the cave and find the Grundles. The Grundles explain to them what the Smooze is by pointing at the stuff as they help them escape out of the cave.
The witches have added the flume to the Smooze while the ponies look around their new home. The Smooze starts heading back towards them so Megan, Molly, Danny, Wind Whistler, Magic star and Fizzy ride off to find Flutter Valley.

Hydia sends the girls to wake up Ahgg, they take him lunch and ask for help with getting the little ponies who have gone on the quest for Flutter Valley.

Shady sits crying because she can’t find Baby Lickey Split then end up running from the Smooze herself and she catches up to Megan and co. The new pony group have to go through over grown Sunflowers using Wind Whistler to guide them till the Smooze attacks. Then they have to run again, Megan gets stuck when a cliff falls apart beneath her feet. She tries to use a Sunflower to cross the gap but misses and falls towards the Smooze, she is saved by Wind Whistler.

The Grundles and Baby Lickety Split have to run from the Smooze too, they end up in the river on a log. Heading for a water fall, they make it to shore landing in a nice flowerily wood with a well. It starts talking back to Baby Lickety Split as she sings into it to reveal it’s a flutter pony who’s gotten stuck down there named Morning Glory. Morning glory agrees to help them with the Smooze and they leave for Flutter Valley. Meanwhile Megan and co find their way to the valley too after being attacked by the trees in Shadow forest.

They then run into Ahgg a giant spider that traps them in a cave Danny gives the spider something to eat and the ponies try to make a run for it but get stuck in Ahgg's web. Molly had heard spiders are ticklish so she begins tickling it when they see it working the rest soon join in which makes the web fall apart. They run again and get away up a cliff. The group find the flutter ponies who then hide from Megan and co. Rosedust the queen flutters over to greet them, Megan and co ask for help but the flutter ponies refuse, Morning glory arrives just in time to help change her mind. The Smooze now surrounds The Paradise Estate. Buttons has ordered everyone onto the roof and gets them to imagine the flutter ponies have arrived and they do.
Hydia is upset to see the flutter ponies winning against the Smooze. They push it back freeing the Rainbow of Light, the rainbow takes care of the witches and finishes off the Smooze putting it back in the volcano. With all the Smooze gone the ponies give Dream Castle to the Grundles who had had their home destroyed long ago by the Smooze, the flutter ponies say their good byes, the rainbow goes back into the heart and Megan gives it to Baby Lickety Split to take care of from now on.

Song Lyrics

Opening Theme

My Little Pony, My Little Pony, All in a twinkling, Spring is here. My Little Pony, My Little Pony, When did all the leaves and grass appear? Where there were snowdrifts, Now there are no drifts, Nor is the sky overcast! My Little Pony, My Little Pony, Winter is over at last! My Little Pony, My Little Pony, Frisking about as spring unfolds. My Little Pony, My Little Pony, Breathing in the scent of marigolds. Greeting the bluebirds, Welcoming new birds, Romping through meadow and wood! My Little Pony, My Little Pony, Winter is over for good!

Evil Witch Like Me

Why can't you be evil like I taught you? Why won't you misbehave the way you should? You never used the guillotine I bought you. You're just not bad enough, for your own good! Why can't you be mean like Aunt Loreeka, She fed her victims 'til they almost burst! Then cooked them with a smidgin of Paprika, She always did her best to do her worst! We're witches, and witches are wicked! How many times have you been told? Your late grandma Alexis crushed a kingdom with her hexes, And that's the proud tradition, I want you to uphooooold! Try to be as evil as your cousins, Lucretia was the cruelest in the crowd; She cooked up evil potions by the dozens, Be just like her and make your mama proud... We're witches, wizards, and warlocks! We're the reason honest people purchase door locks! We've turned princes into frogs, Peasants into pheasants, Soldiers and sailors into swine! We've never been accused of being angels, But as for being devils, we're divine! All our clan was evil and malicious, And that is how I want my girls to be. Work hard at being vicious, And if you're real ambitious, You might wind up an evil witch like me; A terrible, detestable, contemptable, despicable, Evil mean old witch...ha ha ha ha ha!...LIKE ME! *cackling*

I'll Go It Alone

Baby Lickety-split: Why do they always have to tell me I'm wrong? Why must they make me feel I just don't belong? If they don't like the way I sing my own song, I'll go it alone. I'll go it alone! How come the word I hear most often is "no"? The way I'm treated I feel lower than low. It's very clear that I'm not wanted here so I'll go it alone. I'll go it alone! Spike: I know that you're upset, But don't rush off just yet, You can't take the road on singlehanded. What if you should end up lost and stranded? Baby Lickety-split: Better that, than being rep-ri-manded! No matter how I try I can't seem to please. What do they want? Should I go down on my knees? If all they know to do is holler and tease, I'll go it alone! Why must they criticise whatever I do? My days of taking all their insults are through! Goodbye! So long! Ta-ra! Farewell! Toodle-oo! Spike: But, I don't like thinking what may happen to you! If you strike out on your oooown! Baby Lickety-split: Spike! I'll brave the unknoooown! (Spike: But Lickety, you can't!) Baby Lickety-split: And go it alooooooooone! Spike: Don't go it alooooooooone! Baby Lickety-split: I'll go it alooooooooone! (Spike: Don't go it alooooooooone!)

I'll Do The Dirty Work

Draggle: Why sister dear, You're looking rather ill; I fear you're aren't feeling at your best. I hope you haven't come down with a chill, Perhaps you need to take a little rest! Reeka: But what about all the work we have to do? You're not gonna do it all alone are you? Draggle: O Reeka darling, what are sisters for? Not to worry, not to worry... I'll do the dirty work, I'll handle all the dirty work, You go relax in your room. I'll collect the muck and bile, I wouldn't want you to perspire; All you have to do is get the phlume! Reeka: THE PHLUME! Me? Draggle: Why not? I'll be doing everything else...you're not THAT sick! Reeka: You're right...in fact, suddenly, I'm feeling a whole lot better! Draggle dear, I just had a flash; I still you a birthday gift or two! I've suffered from a lack of ready cash, But now I'd like to make it up to you! I'll do the dirty work, I'll take on all the dirty work, Each humdrum job I'll assume! I'll be working overtime, Collecting mould and filth and slime, All you have to do is get the phlume! Draggle: The phlume? Me? Reeka: Happy birthday! Draggle: Reeka dear, you're really much too kind! Let's just divvy up the list. Reeka: O nonsense, I don't mind! ...but if you really want to? Draggle: I insist! Reeka & Draggle: We'll both do the dirty work, We'll both do the dirty work, Reeka: Everyone should do her share! Draggle: It's really only fair! Reeka: I'll collect the greenish mould...yeeuch! Draggle: I'll collect the blackish muck...ahh! Reeka: I'll collect the furry mildew...just my luck, the mildew's stuck! Yuck, yuck! Draggle: I'll go find the yellow funguuuuuuu---- Reeka: I'll go get the silver sliiiiiiiiime!!! Reeka & Draggle: Sharing dirty work among us does the job in half the time! You see it's great when we co-operate! Reeka: I'll do the dirty work! Draggle: I'll gladly do the dirty work! Reeka & Draggle: No need to fret or fight or feud or fume! Draggle: I'll do the dirty work! Reeka: I'll gladly do the dirty work! So long as someone else... Draggle: So long as someone else... Reeka & Draggle: So long as someone else gets the phlume!

Nothing Can Stop The Smooze

Reeka & Draggle: Something bad is coming down; Have you heard the news? Smooze: Listen up! Reeka & Draggle: Duck inside! Better run and hide! Nothing can stop the smooze! Smooze: You can't stop me! Reeka & Draggle: See the way it slithers forth, Spewing gobs of ooze, Smooze: I love ooze! Reeka & Draggle: Here it comes - right now! Nothing can stop the smooze! Smooze: No way! Reeka & Draggle: You can't escape it! You can't escape it! You haven't got a chance! Smooze: Yeah! Reeka: That evil goo is a witch's brew! Draggle: No matter what you do, Reeka & Draggle: It's gonna get to you! Smooze: You! YOU! Reeka & Draggle: Anyone who tries to fight Is guaranteed to lose, Smooze: Guaranteed! Reeka & Draggle: You can't win, Hydia: You ought'a pack it in! Hydia, Reeka & Draggle: Nothing can stop the smooze! Smooze: Don't even try! Reeka & Draggle: Here comes the smooze, cruising along, Singing it's funky, gunky song! Hydia: There ain't no way to stop, Our gooey, gooey slop! Oooh! Hydia, Reeka & Draggle: When it comes to witch's brews, Smooze is what we choose; We won't swap, nothing else can top Our crop of unstoppable Smooze! Smooze: I love to smooze! Hydia, Reeka & Draggle: Smoo-oo--ooze! Nothing can stop the smooze! Smooze: Smooze!

There's Always Another Rainbow

There's always another rainbow, Search until you find it. Don't look at the cloud, look behind it, There's a rainbow there somewhere. There's always a ray of sunshine, Though it all seems tragic. You may turn around and like magic, There's an answer to your prayer. Now you feel forlorn, But hope can be reborn. Try and lose that frown; Look up, not down. And you'll find another rainbow, I can guarantee it; Even though you think you've reached the rainbow's end! There's always another rainbow, Always another rainbow, Round the bend!

Home

Moochick: Home is where the heart is; It's where you hang your hat. Without a home, you're nowhere, And nowhere is no place to be at! Wind Whistler: Precisely, Mister Moochick! But what do you propose we do about it? Moochick: Why, there's only one thing to do! You have to find a home, You can't live without a home; Why, everybody has to have a home! And I've got one to suit you to a tee - It's this darling little villa in Capri - Lots of closet space and overlooks the sea! Megan: Mister Moochick, it's very sweet of you to offer, but I don't think that's exactly what the little ponies had in mind. Moochick: No? But goodness me, they have to find a home. How about the Hippodrome? It used to be quite popular in Rome. Or why not do what Cleopatra did? And buy a nice Egyptian pyramid? Take a look, I guarantee you'll flip your lid! Fizzy: Wow, that's terrific! Wind Whistler: There's no doubt it's quite wonderful, Mister Moochick, but we couldn't possibly live there! Moochick: My, my, you certainly are picky little ponies! Hm, let me see… How about a tepee? How about an igloo? How about a treehouse made completely from bamboo? I knew a woman once; lived in a shoe! Alright, I know it simply isn't you... You need a place to dwell, the Taj Mahal is swell, Or maybe you'd prefer a swank hotel? Or how about a palace like Versailles? Well I really don't know what I ought to try; You're look for some castle in the sky! Wind Whistler: We truly apologise for being so difficult Mister Moochick, but Dream Castle was rather special. Fizzy: Yeah…it's not so easy to replace; but you can do it, I know you can! Megan: You see, Mister Moochick, to the little ponies, Dream Castle was like...like a little bit of heaven. Moochick: Heaven? Well I'm afraid you little ponies had better come back down to Earth! You have to find a home, how about the Astrodome? Or something futuristic, made of Chrome? I'm sorry, but if you want my advice, You'll simply have to make a sacrifice. I know the home you had was very nice, But what you're looking for...is paradise! Wind Whistler: We'll take it! Moochick: It's Paradise! Fizzy: O, thank you! Moochick, Megan, Wind Whistler & Fizzy: It's Paradise!

Grundle's Good

Grundle King: Don't be frightened! Grundle: What's your hurry? Grundle: Have no fear! Grundle: Not to worry! Grundle King: Sorry to alarm you! Grundles: Grundles won't harm you! Spike: Grundles? How do we know you won't harm us? Baby Lickety-Split: We thought you were some kind of monsters. Grundle King: Grundle's good. Baby Lickety-Split: They still look like monsters to me. Grundle King: Is what everyone thinks. But Grundles not monsters, Grundle's good! Grundles: Grundle's good! Grundle's good! Grundle's good! Grundle: Grundle's small. Grundle: Grundle's nice. Grundle King: Grundle's also quite concise. Grundles: Grundles don't waste words! Grundle King: Wasting words, for the birds. Grundle: People stunned, often scared. Grundles: Meeting Grundles unprepared! Grundle: Grundles are misunderstood. Grundle: Grundle's neat. Grundle: Grundle's gentle. Grundle: Grundle's sweet... Grundle: ...and sentimental. Grundle King: Grundles hug you - never bug you! Grundles: Grundle's good! Grundle's good! Grundle's good! Grundle: Grundles are misunderstood! Grundle: Take a shot! Grundle: Get acquainted! Grundle: Grundle's not... Grundle: ...as we're painted. Grundle King: Grundle's love all! And above all!... Grundles: Grundle's good! Grundle's good! Grundle's good! Grundle's good! Grundle's good! Grundle's good! Grundle King: Grundle's good!

What Good Will Wishing Do?

Baby Lickety-Split: No-one's in a fix like I am. ???: I am! BLS: No-one has the luck I do. ???: I do! BLS: No-one had the setbacks I have. ???: I have! BLS: Look where life has led me to! ???: Me too! BLS: Nothing I can see can help me. ???: Help me! BLS: And with all that we've come through; ???: Come through! BLS: I wish this was a dream so I could wake up. ???: Wake up! BLS: But what good will wishing do? Spike: Aw, c'mon Lickety-Split, make a real wish! Feeling sorry for yourself isn't going to improve the situation. BLS: I can't help it - everything looks so hopeless! BLS: Nothing I can see can help me. ???: Help me! Spike: Somebody will save you. BLS: Who? ???: You! BLS: I wish there was some cozy little inn near. ???: In here! BLS: But what good will wishing do? ???: It might make your dreams come true!

Closing Theme
My Little Pony, My Little Pony, Now comes the time to say goodbye. My Little Pony, My Little Pony, Could that be a teardrop in your eye? No need for sorrow, Think of tomorrow, We'll be together again! My Little Pony, My Little Pony, Hope you keep smiling 'til then! I hope you keep smiling 'til then!

Errors

• While Baby Lickety-Split is talking to Spike about her routine her cutie mark isn’t present where when she was getting up it was.
• After Hydia pushes the girls outside at the start, when Draggle is standing up her leg disappears for a split second.
• In the dance performance, the baby pony dancers make their way out onto the stage. Both Baby Gusty and Baby Ribbon have their horns. The camera then pans to the left where Baby Lickety-Split is. In the next shot that shows Baby Lickety-Split dancing in front of the other baby ponies; Baby Gusty and Baby Ribbon are missing their horns. When Baby Lickety-Split messes up, Baby Gusty and Baby Ribbon's horns are back.
• While they put poor Baby Lickety-Split down the yellow baby pony Lofty first has no wings over the top of the dance skirt you can just see the tip maybe, then she does next scene.
• Shadys Cutie mark is missing as we see them walk past the cliff Baby Lickety Split jumped off for the first time.
• When the Smooze is attacking Dream Castle there is a shot from the inside of the castle of the Smooze coming over the wall. Shady is seen running away. But at that moment in time she should be out in Dream Valley with the purple Bushwoolie.
• Shady’s head is at the far left of the screen when we cut to them on the hill after the Smooze has covered Dream castle, While Wind Whistler and North Star are landing the pony in the bottom right is Gingerbread who wasn’t there before and then while Magic Star is talking there’s a plain purple and white one where SweetStuff should be. In all the shots here different ponies pop in and out even though there was only five originally to start with.
• After the Smooze has buried Dream Castle and the Ponies are on a hill Wind Whistler and North Star fly in with Megan. As they fly towards the group North Star is given Magic Star's colouring. Just before Wind Whistler and North Star land, Paradise is drawn without her wings and the Bushwoolie near her hoof is far too small.
• Shady Joins them again for a cheer when the rainbow is attacking the Smooze and when it loses standing next to Paradise.
• The group being chased by Ahgg the giant spider after tickling him and escaping. As they run towards a nearby cliff, Gingerbread, North Star and Baby Lickety Split have somehow joined the group when Baby Lickety Split should be with the Grundles and Spike, and Gingerbread and North Star should be back at Paradise Estate. Then as they climb up the cliff to get away, you see Sweet Stuff and Gingerbread, with them. Then it cuts to a shot looking down on them climbing, and Gingerbread and Sweet Stuff have gone.
• After they evade Ahgg the giant spider, while they stand on a cliff looking out over Flutter Valley. Fizzy's tail disappears and the lock of hair that falls behind her ear has also not been drawn in, leaving a deformed looking head.
• When the Smooze surrounds Paradise estate Magic Star who is off with Megan and the rest at Flutter Valley can be seen running for cover with Buttons to the roof.

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