My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (TV Series)

Family Appreciation Day (2012)

Tabitha St. Germain: Granny Smith, Daisy

Quotes 

• Apple Bloom : Ready, Granny!

  Granny Smith : Ready for what?

  Apple Bloom : For makin' zap apple jam!

  Granny Smith : Darn tootin'! It's time for some good old-fashioned zap apple jammin'!

  Apple Bloom : [jumps up]  Yes ma'am. I can't wait ma'am!

  Granny Smith : [pause as Granny rocks in her rocking chair]  Wait for what?

  Apple Bloom : To make zap apple jam with you!

  Granny Smith : O'course. Now I been doing this ever since I was a little pony, so be warned, pickle pear. There's a whole mess steps in this process and you gots to get each one of them just right, or no zap apple jam. Take this.

  [hands her a broom] 

  Apple Bloom : Uh, is this one of your gazillion secret herbal ingredients for the zap apple jam?

  Granny Smith : That there's a broom. Now get sweepin', pipsqueak! Now while you sweep, I'll get to- uh... something there... umm... Oh ponyfeathers. Bet I'd forget my mane if it wasn't attached to my head.

• Diamond Tiara : Oh, you poor, poor thing, having to make all that zap apple jam with Granny Smith.

  [yawns] 

  Apple Bloom : Actually, I been looking forward to making zap apple jam for years!

  Diamond Tiara : I'm not talking about the jam, I'm talking about Granny Smith! You must be sooo embarrassed.

  Granny Smith : [muffled, with a caldron on her head]  Soup's on!

  Apple Bloom : Uh- what do ya mean?

  Diamond Tiara : You know, with all her silly ways, how she forgets things, and makes you wear these ridiculous costumes?

  [referring to the bunny costumes Bloom and her grandmother are wearing] 

  Apple Bloom : Granny said that the water needs...

  Diamond Tiara : Thank goodness you're here on the farm and not in town where everypony could see you.

  [hushed] 

  Diamond Tiara : Don't worry. Your secret is safe with me.

  [she zips off] 

  Apple Bloom : "Silly ways"?

• Granny Smith : Shake a leg there, slowpoke! We got a gaggle's worth of goods to gather before the harvest. Come on!

  [singing to the tune of "Skip to My Lou"] 

  Granny Smith : Gonna make zap apple jam, oopdie ooh! Gatherin' the goodies now, oopdie hee! Singin' and dancin', diddleye ooh, flippity floo my darlin!

  [sees Daisy selling some pots] 

  Granny Smith : They don't make 'em like they used to.

  [bites on a pot] 

  Daisy : Hey! You bite it, you buy it!

• Diamond Tiara , Silver Spoon : [laughing at Apple Bloom] 

  Apple Bloom : Granny, please! Those ponies over there are watchin' me!

  Granny Smith : What? Are those fillies your friends? Hello, Half-pint's friends!

  Silver Spoon : [Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon wave at Apple Bloom mockingly]  Hiii, Granny Smith! Hi, Half-pint!

  Diamond Tiara , Silver Spoon : [laughing] 

  Granny Smith : What dolls. Why, when I was little, ponies didn't come that purdy.

  Apple Bloom : Are we done shopping, Granny? 'Cause I'd like to get back to the farm, fast.

• Granny Smith : [speaking to a line of glass jars like a drill sergeant]  Ten-hut! Now listen here, troops! Now, I don't want any whinin', or cryin', or crackin' under pressure! Do I make myself clear?

  [a jar cracks] 

  Granny Smith : Court-martialed!

  [she throws it up against the wall and into a waste bin] 

• Cheerilee : Granny Smith, it's Miss Cheerilee! Apple Bloom said you wanted to speak with me?... Hello? Granny Smi...

  Apple Bloom : [Apple Bloom is imitating Granny Smith's voice while Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle puppeteer her while she naps in a chair]  Well hello there! Howdy do!

  Cheerilee : [from outside, through the window]  Hi... uh... Granny Smith... is, ugh, everything okay?

  Apple Bloom : [as Granny]  Of course it is! Why wouldn't it be?

  Apple Bloom : [snoring, the glasses that make it appear as if she's awake fall off, and Apple Bloom quickly puts the glasses back on her granny; one foreleg is moved to cover Granny's mouth as if she just burped]  Oh, er, excuse me. Uh, pickles always give me the hiccups! I need to tell you that I can't make the presentation on Monday after all!

  Cheerilee : Oh no, is that so?

  Apple Bloom : [as Granny]  No doubts about it! I gotta shear the flowers and water the sheep! I mean, I have to water the flowers and shear the sheep!

  Cheerilee : Oh, well that's too bad. We can reschedule.

  Granny Smith : [Cheerilee turns to leave, and in celebration, Scootaloo jumps up, causing Granny Smith to hit the ceiling and wake up]  E- whut- hai- where am I?

  [she sticks her head out the door while still attached to the ropes] 

  Granny Smith : Well howdy, Miss Cheerilee! You window shopping?

  Cheerilee : Uh... no? You asked me to come here to tell me that you wouldn't be making it to Family Appreciation Day?

  Granny Smith : Fiddlesticks! I wouldn't miss it for all the tea in Canterlot!

  Cheerilee : But- didn't you just say...

  Granny Smith : [Granny is lifted up by the ropes]  See you Monday!

• Cheerilee : For today's Family Appreciation Day, we are pleased to welcome Granny Smith. Um... Apple Bloom? Is Granny Smith here?

  Apple Bloom : [badly acting]  Oh, I'm sorry, Miss Cheerilee, but she got called out of town on account of a family emergency...

  Granny Smith : [appears at the door]  Well howdy, my little ponies!

• Granny Smith : Howdy, y'all! I'm as happy as a pig in a fresh mudpile to be here!

  Apple Bloom : Whuh- what are you doing here? Did you miss the train?

  Granny Smith : Er no, it came. And Uncle Apple Strudel was on it.

  Apple Strudel : [thoroughly tousling Apple Bloom's mane]  Ooooooh, noogie noogie noggie!

  [laughs madly] 

  Diamond Tiara : I can't wait to hear Granny Smith's presentation. If she can remember any of it.

  [she and Silver Spoon giggle under their breaths] 

  Granny Smith : Long ago, when I was a little pony, things were very different here in Ponyville, 'cause there was no Ponyville!

• Granny Smith : [Granny Smith tells her story to Apple Bloom's class]  That's right, my little ponies. Me and my family were pilgrim pony folk, back when I was a little filly. Oh, we ventured far and wide, collecting new seeds and sellin' the old. But my pa was the finest seed collector in all of Equestria. Then, one day, the Smith family found themselves in the most brilliant, most grand, most magnificent of all cities. A place called... Canterlot. Well, I bet your hooves to hindquarters I had never seen anything like it before nor since. And as if the beauty of that city wasn't enough, suddenly, she appeared. Princess Celestia, the most regal of all ponies. When lo and behold, she stopped to look at my pa's seed collection. Then Princess Celestia saw that we were plumb-tuckered, and hankerin' to find our forever home. And bein' a royal Princess and all, she knew exactly the place for us to lay down our stakes. My pa gave the Princess a mighty thanks. We quickly found that land near the Everfree Forest, and we built our first home. Next, we planted our first orchards. But an orchard don't grow overnight, and we were getting mighty short on food. Now mind you, we were cautioned about the forest, and we knew that it was not fit to enter.

  [timber wolf howling] 

  Granny Smith : But I knew there was critters livin' there. There must be somethin' to eat. It was dark and musty, and I won't lie, it was scary. But every inch was covered in plant life, and before I knew it wasn't I standin' in front of the most incredible apple trees! I had never seen anything that bore this kind of colorful fruit! Oh I started picking apples quick as a whip!

  [timber wolf howling and growling] 

  Granny Smith : I turned, and there before me stood the timber wolves! I've never run so fast in my life. I did the only thing I could think of.

  [young Granny Smith bangs a pot on a kettle to scare the timber wolves away] 

  Granny Smith : My pa and I planted those special apple seeds, and before our eyes they grew like wildfire. Well, we had full grown trees faster than you could say lickety split. Then each year, I paid close attention to the signs of the zap apple special harvesting times. How the weather affects the Everfree Forest, how the timber wolves howl when the zap apples first start growing, and how they zapped away if you didn't pick 'em all in one day! And the fruits of our labor were the best fruit we ever tasted. Soon enough I was mixing up batches of zap apple jam. Just like harvestin' the zap apples had its special rules, so did makin' zap apple jam. I learned that you gotta be extra friendly with the bees, otherwise their honey won't taste rightly sweet to mix in with the zap apples. Who'd'a thought that glass jars needed talking to? Or that zap apples like pink polka dots? But magic is as magic does. Just funny that way. Then ponies started comin' to our farm from far and wide just to get a taste of my zap apple jam. Some of them decided to stay, like Stinkin' Rich, Diamond Tiara's great grandfather. Matter of fact, the first thing he ever sold was my zap apple jam. And before we knew it, we had ourselves a nice little town, bustling with all kinds of ponies. And that is how Ponyville was founded.

• Granny Smith : [after she finishes her story, most of Apple Bloom's classmates are clapping]  Oh, thank you kindly, little ponies. Oh, now now, let's settle down.

  Scootaloo : So if it weren't for you and the zap apples, Ponyville wouldn't even exist?

  Granny Smith : Darn tootin', little filly!

  Apple Bloom : [to Diamond Tiara]  If it weren't for my Granny Smith, your daddy wouldn't have Barnyard Bargains.

  [other classmates agree] 

  Diamond Tiara : But - But she's just a... kooky old lady!

  Apple Bloom : She is not a kooky old lady! She is the most amazing pony in all of Ponyville!

• Scootaloo : I think this is the best zap apple jam I've tasted yet!

  Sweetie Belle : Must be 'cause you had something to do with it, Apple Bloom.

  Granny Smith : You betcha. Apple Bloom is one humdinger of a zap apple jammer!

  Apple Bloom : I am?

  [she hugs Granny] 

  Applejack : So I take it Family Appreciation Day went well?

  Apple Bloom : Did it? My Granny Smith is super special! I just forgot that for a little while.

  Granny Smith : Aw, don't fret. I forget things all the time. Now, I'll get you...

  [trailing off, mumbling] 

  Granny Smith : ... something.

  [Apple Bloom smiles and hugs her again] 

  Applejack : Who wants to help Granny sing to the water?

  Scootaloo , Sweetie Belle , Twist , Truffle Shuffle : We do, we do!

• Granny Smith , Foals : [hopping over watering cans with bunny suits and singing]  A, b, c, d, e f g...

  [continues] 

  Filthy Rich : [from offscreen, sternly]  Diamond Tiara!

  Diamond Tiara : [Diamond is pushed into view, wearing bunny ears with her father following; she sighs and whines]  But, Dad!

  [he continues to shove her towards the others to participate] 

  Applejack , Apple Bloom : [laughing]