![]() Fluttershy explains to the rest of the Mane Six that Rainbow needs to let it all out in order to accept Tank's hibernation. When Fluttershy bluntly points out that Rainbow is going to spend her winter without a pet, Rainbow finally cracks and breaks down in tears. Her friends arrive to console her, but their words do nothing to cheer her up. Despite Rainbow's best efforts, winter has arrived, and Tank is closer to hibernating than before.īack at her cloudominium, Rainbow sulks in bed as Tank grows even sleepier. When the snowball collides, the entire town becomes covered in snow. While the Pegasi struggle to bring the factory under control, a giant snowball-with Rainbow and Tank inside-hurls toward Ponyville, and Twilight tells the ponies nearby to run for cover. The entire lab soon overloads with power, causing chaotic weather over Cloudsdale and drawing attention from the rest of the Mane Six in Ponyville. Rainbow tries to stop him, but she ends up causing even more damage as stuff breaks or gets knocked over. She ties Tank's leash to a snowflake-inspecting magnifying glass on a nearby desk and looks for a way to shut the lab down, eventually finding a giant water storage container used for creating the clouds and snow.Īs Rainbow drains the water from the container, Tank-in his state of heavy drowsiness-accidentally knocks into things around the lab. Posing as a factory employee and keeping Tank on a leash, Rainbow sneaks into the laboratory where the clouds and snow are manufactured. Rainbow decides that the best solution is to stop winter at its source, and she sneaks into the Cloudsdale weather factory. Unfortunately, her efforts are made futile as the Pegasi bring in more clouds from Cloudsdale. As she sings the song I'll Fly, she also stops a flock of ducks from flying south for the winter, disrupts the other Pegasi from making snow, puts fallen leaves back on the trees, and tries to keep the weather warm for Tank. In an attempt to keep winter from coming, Rainbow Dash tries to keep the sky clear of snow clouds. Reasoning that Tank is only hibernating because of winter, she decides to stop winter from coming. As her friends take notice of Tank's behavior, the increasingly stubborn Rainbow begins to lash out at them in anger, and she storms off.Īt Rainbow's cloudominium, Tank gets even sleepier, and Rainbow tries to think of another way to keep him awake. Rainbow dismisses Spike's opinion as well and takes Tank out to the cloud fields, hoping that hard work will keep him awake. Despite Fluttershy's expertise on the subject and insistence, Rainbow Dash doesn't accept that tortoises hibernate and leaves to get a second opinion.Īt the Castle of Friendship, Rainbow gets a second opinion from Spike, who insists that tortoises and dragons aren't in the same animal family. After examining him, Fluttershy says he's perfectly healthy and that he's only getting ready to hibernate for the winter. Rainbow takes Tank to Fluttershy's cottage for a checkup. Twilight Sparkle doesn't notice anything out of the ordinary about Tank, but his constant yawning makes Rainbow Dash nervous. As ponies shake leaves from the trees with the Running of the Leaves, Rainbow Dash is excited about her first winter with Tank. The scene when the Mane Six try to cheer Rainbow Dash up reappears in Deep Tissue Memories.Ĭloudsdale settles in the sky over Ponyville, signalling the beginning of the winter season. Īshleigh Ball was nominated for a 2016 Leo Award for Best Performance in an Animation Program or Series for this episode. Īccording to Larson, the concept of lightning kept in glass jars was originally written for the season one episode Sonic Rainboom but was cut for time. Larson later specified it to be Twilight's "winter is coming" line. Larson tweeted "There's something in tomorrow's ep that I told Hasbro I'd take full responsibility for. On March 3–5, 2015, an unofficial My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic season 5 episode listing on IMDb titling the fifth episode as "Seal Deal" was discredited by Jim Miller. Fluffy Clouds and the Cloudsdale winter lab were previewed in different ones of the animation images shown at Ponycon NYC on February 16, 2015. ![]()
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