The Show Stoppers

In brief, the Show Stoppers is a slice-of-life story featuring the Cutie Mark Crusaders: Apple Bloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle. The show opens w/ Applejack gifting the CMCs with a club house located in a secluded corner of Sweet Apple Acres. After some irony building and foreshadowing, the CMCs embark on many and varied activities, from the ordinary to the absurd, in an attempt to earn their cutie marks. This continues until the school teacher, Cheerilee, informs the CMCs of the upcoming school talent show. The remainder of the episode is preparation for the talent show, the talent show itself and the aftermath.

Dear Princess Celestia, today I learned that the Cutie Mark Crusaders are insane…

Jobs

It is, however, the segment wherein the CMCs scamper around Ponyville in a frantic binge of random activities that interests me the most. I know it’s a fairly small slice of the episode, but I think it’s most fun part of the episode.

Here’s a list of the jobs they tackled in order:

1. Feeding Pigs
   
2. Candy Making
   
3. Hair Care
   
4. Mind Reading
   
5. Mountain Climbing
   
6. Snorkeling/Scuba Diving
   
7. Librarian
   

(Btw, the squid cracks me up and I don’t know why)

rawr

All of which is set to some cheery… erm, “on the go” music. Of course, the CMCs flub every attempt at a job.

Permission

Now, here’s my question: Did the Cutie Mark Crusaders get permission to try all of those jobs?

It is my head canon that they did not. Which makes it especially amusing in the case of dirtying (or possibly damaging) the Cake’s taffy pull machine (I thinkthat that was what that machine was)

…and the circus clown hair dye.

I think our little frantic filly foals simply barreled around town stealing, breaking-and-entering and destroying property in their quest to find their destinies.

Cutie Mark Crusaders, Juvenile Delinquents! Yay!

Thoughts?