My Little Pony 'n Friends: Spike's Search (G1 TV Episode, 1987, 10 minutes)

This is actually an interesting episode just from a franchise point-of-view, as it parallels the 'Dragon Quest' episode from Friendship is Magic.

Spike's growing up, supposedly. He's losing control of his fire.

He's going to go learn from 'real dragons', but unlike the G4 episode he's bringing the human boy Danny.

Talking eagle fledgeling, named Weston.

Animation makes it look like the flame is actually coming from the *top* of Spike's mouth, like from something similar to a venom gland.

Over the mountains into another valley.

Teenage dragons? We're following not that far from the G4 episode really. Only three of them.

Village of... things? I'm not sure what kind of creatures these are supposed to be, we don't see them very clearly.

Standard dragon-like behaviour, but stealing food.

Garden hose.

Marshmallows. Marshmallows are ancient, tracing back to ancient Egypt. But the version we're familiar with came about in the 19th century when French confectioners replaced the whipped marshmallow plant sap with gelatine and egg whites.

Okay, while the setup is very similar, and the message is the same, the actual events between the two episodes are *completely* different.