Send in the Clown (G1.5 TV episode, September 4^th 1992, 11 minutes)

Summary: Clover feels she cannot live up to her sister Meadowlark's career as a ballerina, but an accident forces Clover into the role of Harlequin alongside Meadowlark in the Nutcracker.

Nutcracker. I wonder what got altered to make it ponified.

Not much, apparently, if they include the pas de duex between the Harlequin and Columbine dolls.

That's not right. That's the music from Trepak, the Russian Dance from Act II of the Nutcracker, not the pas de duex from the Act I Dance of the Puppets. And only one of those characters is supposed to be Harlequin, the other is Columbine. Usually depicted as a ballerina doll the Harlequin (a jester and acrobat doll) falls in love with to do a really brief reference to the even older Harlequinade story.

Right, okay, so they changed a *lot* for the ponies.

And they used different music again during the performance. Heh.