- Scootaloo: I'm just no good at lyrics. Coming up with words is, like, really hard.
- Sweetie Belle: Oh, they can't be *that* bad...
- [reads what Scootaloo's written]
- Sweetie Belle: "With our cutie marks, we'll rock Equestria. We use our stomachs to... digest-ia"? Um... Well... these are good but... How about after "We fight the fight... There is nothing that we fear/We'll have to figure out what we'll do next/Till our cutie marks are here"?
- Scootaloo: Wow! That's so awesome! Did you just come up with that now?
- Sweetie Belle: Yeah... kind of.
- Scootaloo: Thanks, I'm totally using that.
- Twilight Sparkle: "Ghosts, Goblins, and Ghoulish Figures"? Good heavens, girls, what do you need a book like this for?
- Scootaloo: You'll see, thanks Twilight! We'll give it back as soon as we're done with it.
- [runs out of the library]
- Twilight Sparkle: What do you think they're up to?
- Spike: I have no idea, and I don't know if I should be excited or scared to find out.
- Scootaloo: [singing in the style of an 1980s power rock ballad] Look, here are three little ponies/Ready to sing for this crowd/Listen up, 'cause here's our story/I'm gonna sing it...
- Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle: very loud!
- Scootaloo: [first verse] When you're a younger pony /And your flank is very bare/Feels like the sun will never come/When your cutie mark's not there/So the three of us fight the fight/There is nothing that we fear/We'll have to figure out what we'll do next
- Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle: Till our cutie marks are here!
- Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle: [refrain] We are the Cutie Mark Crusaders/On a quest to find out who we are/And we will never stop the journey/Not until we have our cutie marks!
- Scootaloo: [second verse] They all say that you'll get your mark/When the time is really right/And you know just what you're supposed to do/And your talent comes to light/But it's not as easy as it sounds/And that waiting's hard to do/So we test our talents everywhere...
- Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle: Until our face is blue!
- [refrain twice]
- Twilight Sparkle: [the girls have just discovered that their performance did not earn them their cutie marks] Congratulations, ponies! Job well done.
- Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle: [sadly] Thanks, Twilight.
- Twilight Sparkle: Hey, you don't sound too excited.
- Scootaloo: [sigh] We worked really hard and won a prize but we still don't have our cutie marks.
- Sweetie Belle: Which is the prize we really wanted.
- Twilight Sparkle: Oh, girls...
- Apple Bloom: But we think we know why.
- Sweetie Belle: Yes. We know why.
- Twilight Sparkle: Oh? Tell me. I'd love to make a special report to the Princess.
- Sweetie Belle: Well, maybe we were trying too hard?
- Twilight Sparkle: Yes? And...
- Scootaloo: And instead of forcing ourselves to do something that's not meant for us...
- Twilight Sparkle: [thinking they're going to "get" it] Yes? Yes?
- Apple Bloom: We each should be embracing our true talent!
- Twilight Sparkle: And that is...?
- Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle: Comedy!
- [they had won the talent show's first prize for best comedy act]
- Applejack: Cutie Mark Crusaders, welcome to your new clubhouse.
- [silence]
- Applejack: Well, don't thank me all at once. This was my clubhouse when I was your age. Sure it hasn't been used in a while, but it's empty and on a secluded, private part of the farm. And it's all yours. It just needs a little, uh... TLC.
- Scootaloo: TLC as in Tender Loving Care or Totally Lost Cause?
- Sweetie Belle: Hey Scoot! How's the song going?
- Scootaloo: Pbht!
- [blows a raspberry]
- Sweetie Belle: Pbht? Oh my! Sounds serious.
- Scootaloo: OK, so that's six wooden planks, 4x8 plywood, a box of nails, four cans of paint, and four brushes. Anything else?
- Sweetie Belle: Yeah... Instructions on how to use six wooden planks, 4x8 plywood, a box of nails, four cans of paint, and four brushes.
- Sweetie Belle: [some fabric that Sweetie Belle was using gets loose and rolls down a hill into a pond] Come back! Come back! Uh. Dumb fabric.
- Snips: [performing a magic trick with Snails for the talent show] ... and on the count of three this rabbit will disappear and something tasty will reappear in its place. A one, a two and a three! Hey! Where are they?
- [Snails pops up, eating one of the carrots]
- Snips: Snails, where are the... carrots. SNAILS!
- Cheerilee: Uh, how about a round of applause for the S&S magic act? Now for our next act we have Sunny Days and Peachy Pie reciting their favorite poem... on rollerskates!
- Sweetie Belle: [to Sunny Days and Peachy Pie, going on for their act] Break a leg!
- Apple Bloom: Sweetie Belle! What a thing to say!
- Sweetie Belle: No, no, no. You see, in the theater it's considered bad luck to say "good luck". So you say "break a leg" instead.
- Twilight Sparkle: [comes up to them] My little ponies! How are you doing?
- Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle: Nervous...
- Twilight Sparkle: Don't worry. You're gonna be amazing. Remember, just stick to what you know best. I can't wait to hear you sing, Sweetie Belle.
- Sweetie Belle: Why does everypony always think I'm gonna sing?
- Scootaloo: Actually, Twilight Sparkle, I'm the main singer tonight.
- Twilight Sparkle: Oh?
- Apple Bloom: And I'm the main dancer. Hai-ya!
- [does a kick in the air]
- Twilight Sparkle: [getting worried] Oh?
- Sweetie Belle: And I'm in charge of...
- Twilight Sparkle: [increasingly worried, seeing that the girls are trying the wrong talents] Costumes?
- Sweetie Belle: And sets and props. How'd you know?
- Twilight Sparkle: Really, girls? Are you sure...
- Cheerilee: Cutie Mark Crusaders, you're on next. Break a leg.
- Twilight Sparkle: [the girls run towards the wings of the stage] Break a le...
- Apple Bloom: [trips] Ugh!
- Twilight Sparkle: Uh... good luck!