Toon City “A Little Smile Longer” Script

(Toon City. Day. Zoom in on one apartment. Inside, a gavel is being banged. Zoom out to reveal Twilight Sparkle (a purple pony from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic) banging the gavel.)

Twilight Sparkle: Alright, club.

(It turns out that Twilight Sparkle has gathered a group of people, her club: The Happy Hands Club.)

Twilight Sparkle: Let me check attendance for today’s Happy Hands Club meeting. Pinkie Pie!

Pinkie Pie (a pink excited pony from MLP): Here!

Twilight Sparkle: Rainbow Dash!

Rainbow Dash (a blue sporty pony from MLP): Yep!

Twilight Sparkle: Applejack!

Applejack (an orange cowgirl pony from MLP): Howdy!

Twilight Sparkle: Fluttershy!

Fluttershy (a yellow shy pony from MLP): Hi.

Twilight Sparkle: Rarity!

Rarity (a white fashionista pony from MLP): Here I am!

Twilight Sparkle: Leni!

Leni: Did you say here? Because I can hear.

Twilight Sparkle: Luan!

Luan (a teenage comedienne sister from The Loud House): You betcha!

Twilight Sparkle: Happy!

Happy (a cheerful musical dwarf from Snow White): As always!

Twilight Sparkle: SpongeBob!

SpongeBob: I’m ready!

Twilight Sparkle: Unikitty!

Unikitty (a joyful unicorn-kitty fusion from her own series): Yay!

Twilight Sparkle: Blossom!

Blossom (a redhead heroine from The Powerpuff Girls): Ready!

Twilight Sparkle: Bubbles!

Bubbles (a blonde childish heroine from PPG): Hi!

Twilight Sparkle: Buttercup!

Buttercup (a black haired tough heroine from PPG): That’s me!

Twilight Sparkle: And Cheer Bear!

Cheer Bear (a pink cheerful bear from Care Bears): Here to spread joy and love!

Twilight Sparkle: Okay. So for today’s project, we’ll be working on making a cheer up toy.

Leni: Like Fenton the Feel Better Fox?

(Note: Fenton the Feel Better Fox is a toy from the Loud House episode “The Crying Dame” .)

Luan: Not Fenton! His song is stuck in our ears!

Twilight Sparkle: Really? How does it go?

Luan: You wouldn’t wanna know.

Twilight Sparkle: Ohhhhhhkaaaaaaaay. Any other ideas?

Rainbow Dash: Ooh! Ooh! Happy skates! Every time you do a specific skating trick, you get happier and happier, so much, you’ll EXPLODE!

(The group gasps.)

Rainbow Dash: Sorry. Just a term for extreme excitement.

Twilight Sparkle: No thank you, since some of us can’t skate yet.

Pinkie Pie: I got an idea! Since me and Luan are related to laughter...

Luan: We decided to create...

(They hold a box up.)

Both: A laugh box!

SpongeBob: Ooh! You mean like mine? (laughs)

Pinkie Pie: No. When you squeeze this box, you’ll instantly be tickled, and you’ll have a good laugh!

(They squeeze it, and laugh hysterically.)

Twilight Sparkle: Tickling is a little creepy. Any other ideas? Well then, lemme share mine.

(Twilight Sparkle holds up a flashlight.)

Cheer Bear: Isn’t that just a flashlight?

Twilight Sparkle: (turns it on, and smiles at it) When you turn this thing on, you’ll be happy when you see the light, since it imitates a sun, which possesses the power of goodness.

Toons: Wow...

Twilight Sparkle: Well, what are we waiting for? Let’s distribute these flashlights!

Toons: YEAH!

(They run off, except for Leni.)

Leni: Umm, aren’t flashlights for the dark? It’s light outside.

Rarity: (offscreen) Come on, Leni!

(Leni walks off, still confused. In the city, the group is walking around selling flashlights.)

Twilight Sparkle: Flashlights! Get your Feel Good Flashlights!

(Squidward walks up to them.)

Twilight Sparkle: Hi, Squidward. Wanna try a Feel Good Flashlight? Turn it on, shine the light on yourself, and boom! You feel happy!

Squidward: The only thing I need to feel good is somewhere away from these sugary morons. Especially the sponge and the starfish!

(Squidward marches away.)

Bubbles: That wasn’t very nice.

SpongeBob: That’s Squidward for you.

Twilight Sparkle: Well, at least someone else will wanna buy our product. (seeing Spike (Twilight’s brother from My Little Pony) walk by) Oh! Spike, my dear brother, would you like one of these Feel Good Flashlights?

Spike: (angry) Psh! Flashlights? More like Lights Off. Hmph!

(Spike storms off.)

Fluttershy: I thought Spike is usually a nice pony.

Buttercup: (seeing her, Blossom, and Bubbles’ professor (from PPG) run by) Professor! Can you-

Professor: No time, girls. I’m late, so move it!

Pinkie Pie: Why is everyone acting so mean today?

Blossom: It’s yet another crime of Mojo Jojo!

Luan: Maybe the weather’s just bad.

Unikitty: Perhaps they’re just going through bad luck.

Twilight Sparkle: Guys, I think I know why. This is just a big and bustling city, the chaos of it is making them grumpy. We have to find a way to make everyone happier. (gets an idea) Or the happiest on one day!

Applejack: How the hay are we goin’ to do that sort of thang?

Twilight Sparkle: Simple. With just a little magic, fun things, and music, provided by Happy, we’re gonna give Toon City the happiest...day...EVER! Who’s with me?

Group: WE ARE!

Twilight Sparkle: Then let’s get to work!

(Twilight’s watch beeps.)

Twilight Sparkle: Tomorrow though. We’ve ran out of time.

(The group nods. The next morning, the sun is refusing to come out. Rainbow Dash wakes up and notices this. She blows the clouds out of the way, and cues Happy, in his apartment, to start a song, with him on accompaniment as Pinkie Pie runs up to the rooftop of her building, taps on a microphone, and starts singing.)

Song: Listen to the Joy in Your Heart:

(Note: While they are singing throughout the song, the group will be spreading love and kindness throughout the city using their powers and magic, and turning everything happy. The song starts out slow, and then picks up speed with the first chorus.)

Pinkie Pie:

If you feel like you are sad,

And really feeling bad,

Your mood is turning sour,

Teardrops every hour,

Just open up your blinds,

And soon you will find,

That the sun is out to play,

And it’s coming out to say...

(tempo change)

Listen to the joy in your heart

Even when you’re falling apart

It will turn your frown upside down

And shower you with happiness all around

Listen to the joy in your heart

It will bring you back from finish to start

Say goodbye to rain, and hello to the sun

It’s time to have some fun

By listening to joy

Happy:

Laugh a lot, joke a lot, smile a lot, talk a lot

Dance a lot, jump a lot,

(spoken)

Give it all you got!

(sung)

Take away your tears and fears

And change it to some cheers

Never cry, never scream, never yell, never pout

That’s what it’s all about

And when you’re hurtling towards the earth

Happiness will soon rebirth

Pinkie Pie:

(spoken)

Umm, rebirth?

Happy:

(spoken)

I’m trying to think of rhymes here!

Both:

(sung)

If...you...

Listen to the joy in your heart

Even when you’re falling apart

It will turn your frown upside down

And shower you with happiness all around

Listen to the joy in your heart

It will bring you back from finish to start

Say goodbye to rain, and hello to the sun

It’s time to have some fun

By listening to joy (Backup singers: Joy, joy, joy)

Listening to joy (Backup singers: Joy, joy, joy)

Just listen to the joy in your...

(spoken)

HEART SOLO!

(Heart beating four times: Thump thump, thump thump, thump thump, thump thump)

(sung)

...hearrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt!

(Throughout the song, the group has been turning things from bad to good and from sad to happy. The result is a very happy Toon City, filled with toons dancing and singing the song, hugging, playing, and laughing.)

Twilight Sparkle: Good work, team. I think we’ve got everyone. Oh no. Squidward isn’t happy yet!

Luan: You mean (pointing offscreen) him?

(Squidward is dancing and playing his clarinet, joyfully.)

Twilight Sparkle: Okay, then what about the goths?

(The goths are reading poems with smiles on their faces.)

Rainbow Dash: That’s a relief. Heck, even the villains are joyful!

(The villains are dancing around, laughing.)

Cheer Bear: Now that that’s settled, race you all to the ice cream parlor!

(The group cheers and runs off, except for Bubbles. She looks around at all the cheer, and thinks about it. The next day, Twilight Sparkle wakes up. She looks out the window of her apartment, only to see everyone still hugging, laughing, dancing, and singing in joy.)

Twilight Sparkle: Uh, why is everyone still so happy?

(Rarity excitedly opens her door, startling her.)

Rarity: Didn’t you hear? Yesterday was such a success, Bubbles decided to make another very happy day!

Twilight Sparkle: Wh-wh-why would she do that?!

Rarity: I dunno. Cause she’s a very happy girl?

Twilight Sparkle: I’ll go talk to her.

(Twilight goes to the Powerpuff Girls’ apartment and knocks on the door. Bubbles answers.)

Bubbles: Hello?

Twilight Sparkle: Bubbles, why did you do this?!

Bubbles: The world needs to be happy all the time, so I answered their request.

Twilight Sparkle: No they don’t! Happiness isn’t the only emotion. There’s also sadness, anger, fear, disgust, love, humor, etcetera, etcetera. So please, bring the emotions back!

Bubbles: Okay, Twilight. If you say so.

(Unbeknownst to them, Lucy, Raven, Gwen, and Haiku have secretly been listening in on their conversation.)

Lucy: Did they just say...sadness?

Gwen: Girls, I have the perfect idea.

(Gwen whispers her idea to them. The next day, Twilight wakes up again, and notices that everything is quiet.)

Twilight Sparkle: Finally. They stopped.

(Twilight heads up to the window and looks out of it, only to see that it’s all dark and gloomy.)

Twilight Sparkle: What in the world?

(Everyone is dressed up like goths, sighing and walking around, frowning. Goths are lined up against the walls, texting and writing poems.)

Twilight Sparkle: Who...who did all this? Well, might as well join in.

(Twilight covers her eyes with her hair and puts on a black dress. She exits her apartment building and walks down the streets.)

Twilight Sparkle: (with the other goths) Sigh.

(Twilight Sparkle sees Lucy, Gwen, Raven, and Haiku, and runs up to them.)

Twilight Sparkle: Girls! Did you do all this?

Haiku: Why would we?

Raven: Yeah. It’s probably Mavis who did it. She is a vampire, you know.

(Note: Mavis is a teenage vampire girl from the Hotel Transylvania franchise.)

Buttercup: (sees a recording device in Gwen’s purse) Ah ha! (grabbing it) Let’s see what this sounds like.

(Buttercup hits the button, and the device starts playing.)

Twilight Sparkle: (on device) Happiness isn’t the only emotion. There’s also sadness, anger, fear, disgust, love, humor, etcetera, etcetera.

(The recording ends.)

Gwen: Fine. You got us.

Luan: Why would you even wanna frown around with your antics? (laughs) But seriously, why did you choose sadness as the city’s emotion?

Lucy: Because we are goths. And goths need to be sad.

Haiku: Why did you make us happy in the first place?

Applejack: We saw y’all being grumpy as a goat, so we decided to sprinkle up some cheer into the city.

Pinkie Pie: We did so with a song! 1, 2, 3-

Rainbow Dash: No time for a reprise. We’ve got like (insert minutes here) left to talk!

(Note: This is a reference to the episode’s runtime, aka a “fourth wall break”, where characters talk to the audience or reference the episode, show, or network they’re in.)

Twilight Sparkle: Girls, can you change everything back to normal so everyone can just live their normal lives again?

Gwen: Not if you take happiness away from the emotion lineup.

(The group gasps.)

Blossom: You take that back! Not if we reduce all sadness!

(The goths gasp.)

Raven: Oh, really, then? Not if-

Voice: (offscreen) Ahem!

(Lynn Jr. (a sporty sister from The Loud House) has said that, and walks up to them, along with Grumpy (an angry dwarf from Snow White), her former 7th grade teacher Mr. Bolfhofner (a drill sergeant teacher from The Loud House), Amanda (Bunsen’s female rival from Bunsen is a Beast!), and Buford (a bully part of the gang from Phineas and Ferb).)

Lynn Jr.: You think you can get in the way, Happy Hands and Gloom Girls? Not if we Angry Ants prove you wrong.

Buford: It’s gonna be...A BOXING MATCH!

Another Voice: (offscreen) Stop!

(A fearful group, The Panic Peeps: Bobby Santiago (a teenage Hispanic cashier from The Casagrandes), Baljeet Tjinder (an Indian genius from Phineas and Ferb), Cheese (an panicky imaginary friend from Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends), Edd (a genius from Ed, Edd n Eddy), and Pony (the title character from It’s Pony) walk up.)

Bobby: We five Panic Peeps hate being scared.

Baljeet: And to cure our fear, we challenge you to...A PILLOW FIGHT!

Buford: What?! Why does my own buddy have to go against me?!

Yet Another Voice: (offscreen) Excuse me.

(The Disgusted Divas, Lori (a bossy sister from The Loud House), Heather (a teenage competitor from Total Drama), Carlota (a fashionista teenager from The Casagrandes), Fiona (Leni’s friend from The Loud House), Pearl (a teenage whale from SpongeBob SquarePants) and Whitney (Lori’s friend from The Loud House) head up to them.)

Lori: But you are not getting in our way. Because the power of the Disgusted Divas is literally taking over.

A Fourth Voice: (offscreen) Wait just a minute!

(The Lovely Lillies walk up: Cupid (from The Fairly OddParents), Jenny (Candace’s friend from Phineas and Ferb), Suzy Sheep (Peppa’s best friend from Peppa Pig), Dee Dee (Dexter’s hyperactive sister from Dexter’s Laboratory), and Brittany (girly chipette from Alvin and the Chipmunks).)

Cupid: Love is in the air, and you are falling down, because we, the Lovely Lillies will fight you!

Dee Dee: Now, KISS ME!

(Dee Dee puckers her lips, and everyone backs away. Edd can be seen hiding behind everyone, embarrassed. Just before Dee Dee can kiss someone...)

A Fifth Voice: (offscreen) HOLD IT!!!

(Krusty the Clown (from The Simpsons), Binky the Clown (from Garfield and Friends), and Jokey Smurf (comedic smurf from The Smurfs) walk up. They are the Classy Clowns.)

Krusty: (laughs hysterically) You guys are hilarious! But not when Krusty and the Classy Clowns pinch all of your noses!

Luan: Hey! Clowns! Mind if I join? (runs up to join them)

Twilight Sparkle: Luan! Agh! Okay, all of you: CHALLENGES...ACCEPTED!

(An anime style screen shows up of everyone split into screens: the first screen is the Happy Hands, the second is the Gloom Girls, the third is the Angry Ants, the fourth is the Panic Peeps, the fifth is the Disgusted Divas, the sixth is the Lovely Lillies, and the seventh is the Classy Clowns. An anime style fanfare starts playing. Everyone charges at each other, yelling a battle cry.)

Everyone: RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

(They all fight each other. Gwen bites Pinkie Pie’s tail, and Rainbow Dash karate kicks Jokey. Whitney does a backflip and lands on Happy, while Lori uses her phone light to electrocute Dee Dee. Bobby stomps on Buford while he’s pulling Applejack’s tail while she’s lassoing up Brittany. Meanwhile, Carlota and Pony are punching Buford and Grumpy. Candace and Jenny are chasing after Leni and her purse, and Amanda is whacking Haiku with a baseball bat. Everything is complete chaos, until a light suddenly shines, stopping the fighting and the music. Everyone, all beaten up, looks up weakly. A heavenly chorus sings as Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust, all from the Disney-Pixar movie Inside Out, and now reanimated in 2D to blend in with everyone else, float down into the Earth. They land as the light fades away and the chorus stops singing.)

Joy: Friends, we come to you from, well, the mind. Anyways, we saw you fighting, and we were completely angered by all of you guys.

Anger: I led that, of course.

Joy: And we were just wondering: who has happened to start all of this?

Twilight Sparkle: I believe we did. Me and the Happy Hands. We were going to start a smaller project, but we saw everyone grumpy. So, the next day, we cheered them up with a song...

Pinkie Pie: It goes like this! A 1, 2-

(Rainbow Dash silences her by gently covering her mouth.)

Twilight Sparkle:...and it worked, but then Bubbles wanted everyone to keep being happy, so she used her powers to do just that. Then, I told her to stop it, and she tried to, but the goths overheard our conversation and ruined it by making everyone sad. Then we fought, and called the attention of all these other random groups we didn’t know existed, we all fought, and that’s how we ended up here. We’re deeply sorry, Joy.

Joy: While I’m usually happy, I’m very disappointed of you. So I’ve got a new rule: all emotion groups are banned from this point onward.

(The groups all gasp and complain.)

Joy: But! I promise you that things will go back to normal, IF you groups can all do one last thing before you disband.

Everyone: What’s that?

(Soon, everyone is turning things back to normal by using their emotions. The Happy Hands are having two fighting toons make up and hug and revive happiness, The Gloomy Gals are closing the zoo to make children cry and revive sadness, The Angry Ants push someone into another to make them argue and fight and revive anger, The Disgusted Divas give someone a yucky soup to disgust them and revive disgust, The Panic Peeps show someone a horror movie to frighten them and revive horror, The Lovely Lillies matchmake a pair and make them fall in love to revive love, and The Classy Clowns perform comedy to make children laugh and revive humor. Once they are all done, they disband and watch as the emotions turn back to normal.)

Twilight Sparkle: (to the viewers) You know what? I’m gonna miss my fellow Happy Hands, but that’s okay, because it’s not about choosing one emotion, it’s about keeping all of them.

Pinkie Pie: (approaching her) Hi, Twilight! Wanna try my laughbox again?

(Twilight squeezes it, and it tickles her, sending her into a laughing fit. She rolls around on the ground, laughing hysterically.)

Pinkie Pie: (giggling along) Looks like humor is the best option to choose if you need to! Right, Twilight? Twilight?

(Twilight won’t stop laughing, and soon runs off, laughing maniacally.)

Pinkie Pie: Umm, Twilight? You can stop laughing now. Twilight? Hello, Twilight? Can someone call a surgeon for laugh box removal?

(The end.)