Canterlot Boutique


 * [thonk]
 * [tick]
 * Rarity: [sighs]
 * [sewing machine whirring]
 * Rarity: [humming]
 * [bell ringing]
 * Rarity: [gasps] Was that the Pony Post?!
 * Opalescence: [mewls]
 * Rarity: Oh, it's just you, Opal.
 * Opalescence: [mewls]
 * Rarity: Ohhh... Every other day he's here like clockwork! Not today! What could possibly be holding him up?!
 * [thonk]
 * Pinkie Pie: [muffled] Strawberry cinnamon cilantro salutations!
 * Rarity: What?
 * Pinkie Pie: What indeed. I bet you're wondering what warrants such a welcome! Well, that welcome is warranted by a pony that whisked up a warm batch of strawberry cinnamon cilantro cupcakes!
 * [thonk]
 * Pinkie Pie: [chomp] That strangely sickening flavor combination sounds just as bad as it tastes. [gulps] Ugh. So I came here to offer you some!
 * Rarity: After that visually descriptive and disturbing endorsement, I'll pass.
 * Pinkie Pie: Oh, I almost forgot! I have this letter for you, Rarity! The post pony was going to deliver it, but after a strawberry cinnamon cilantro cupcake, he was feeling kinda queasy. And since I was heading over anyway, I figured I could do it for him! Here you go!
 * Rarity: [gasps]
 * [paper ripping]
 * Rarity: [inaudible reading]
 * Pinkie Pie: [chews]
 * Rarity: [loud gasp]
 * Pinkie Pie: [with mouth full] What's it say?
 * Rarity: I got it!
 * Pinkie Pie: Woo-hoo! Got what?
 * Rarity: Oh, I have been holding out for the perfect location, and it finally became available! So now I can fulfill my dream of opening a boutique in Canterlot!
 * Pinkie Pie: Whoo! I'm so excited, I think I'm gonna lose my cupcakes! [hurk]




 * [train brakes hissing]
 * Twilight Sparkle: Rarity's such a savvy businesspony. I'm so impressed she used the huge bonus she earned making the costumes for Sapphire Shores' Equestria-wide tour to open this second boutique!


 * Main cast sans Rarity: [various exclamations of awe]
 * Rarity: I take it from your reaction that you like the boutique?
 * Fluttershy: It's lovely.
 * Applejack: Gosh, Rarity. I know hard work when I see it, and it looks like you worked your hooves to the nub!
 * Pinkie Pie: I don't know. Those hooves don't look nubby. They look scrubbied and buffied and pedied!
 * Rarity: Well, despite my 'nubby scrubby buffy pony pedi, I actually have been working very hard! However, I never could have gotten the boutique ready for the grand opening without the help of my new manager Sassy Saddles!
 * Sassy Saddles: Bust my buttons, Rarity! The ponies from Ponyville!
 * Main cast sans Rarity: [various greetings]
 * Rarity: I knew I needed a manager for Canterlot Carousel, so when Sassy showed me her resumé and I saw that she worked in all of the finest boutiques in Canterlot, I hired her right on the spot!
 * Sassy Saddles: I then laid out this plan, or "pattern" as we say in the fashion biz, for Canterlot Carousel so that Rarity's boutique will be a guaranteed success and those doors will never, ever, ever close!
 * Twilight Sparkle: Wow, Sassy. Your attention to detail is truly impressive.
 * Sassy Saddles: I've already put a pin in the first piece of the pattern – Beautify the Boutique! But next was the very crucial pattern piece – Marketing to the Mares! Turns out that everypony here loves royalty!
 * Rarity: So I created a collection that beautifully revolves around the royal element of Canterlot!
 * Sassy Saddles: And it just so happens there's a hot new princess in Equestria!
 * Rarity: [to Twilight] In every poll Sassy Saddles took, you were the most popular princess! Coincidentally, one of my gowns is inspired by the window in Canterlot Castle commemorating your coronation!
 * [curtains unfurling]
 * Main cast sans Rarity: [various exclamations of awe]
 * Rarity: While I've always prided myself on paying attention to detail, I've taken my latest collection to a whole new level with "Rarity's Rules of TLC"!
 * Pinkie Pie: Judging by this baby, TLC stands for Tasty Liquorice Candy!
 * [thump]
 * Rarity: TLC stands for 'Time, Love, and Couture'. And while I do agree that this dress has potential, I've not had enough time to give it enough love to become couture.
 * [door shuts]
 * Rarity: But the rest of the gowns in tonight's line have met Rarity's Rules and are ready to be presented!
 * Sassy Saddles: My marketing research also confirmed that customers that viewed somepony famous wearing a gown wish to own that gown for themselves. I call this piece of the pattern Celebrity Status!
 * Rarity: So, Twilight, we were wondering if perhaps you might possibly wear this tonight?
 * Twilight Sparkle: If being a princess and wearing that dress can help your boutique in any way, then I say stick a pin in it. It's done.
 * Sassy Saddles: Alright, everypony! Let's set the stage!
 * Rarity: Ever since I was a little filly, all I've ever wanted was to own a boutique here in Canterlot. Somepony pinch me! I'm about to open the doors to that very boutique!
 * [door opens]
 * Sassy Saddles: Welcome to the grand opening of Canterlot Carousel!
 * [crowd cheers]


 * Sassy Saddles: Oh, hello! Oh, nice to see you! Welcome, welcome! Oh, I'm so happy to... [fades out]
 * Applejack: That Sassy totally stepped on your hooves, Rarity.
 * Pinkie Pie: Oh, no! Did she mess up that nice pony pedi?! [sighs] Okay. Phew!
 * Rarity: Oh, I don't think she meant to.
 * Sassy Saddles: Rarity, are you ready to reveal the collection?
 * Applejack: [under her breath] Is she sure she doesn't wanna do it herself?
 * Rainbow Dash: [snorts] [under her breath] Yeah.
 * Rarity: Yes, I am. Fluttershy, could you help Twilight get ready?
 * Fluttershy: Oh, certainly.
 * [customers chattering]
 * Rarity: Fillies and gentlecolts! I am designer and couturier Rarity, I'd like to welcome you – again [laughs nervously] – to the grand opening of Canterlot Carousel, and I'm thrilled that you are here to see my newest collection inspired by this regal city!
 * [crowd oohs]
 * [camera clicking]
 * [BGM starts]
 * Fashion Plate: Rarity, I'm—
 * Rarity: Fashion Plate of Cosmare magazine! I'm so honored that Cosmare was able to do a piece on the grand opening of my boutique!
 * Fashion Plate: Well, when Sassy Saddles calls, saying she's found the latest and greatest in fashion, we hightail without fail! Now tell me all about your latest collection!
 * Rarity: Oh, uh, it's called "Rarity's Royal Regalia".
 * Fashion Plate: [gasps] Royally radiant!
 * Rarity: My favorite part of being a designer is finding my inspiration, and that really wasn't difficult when it came to Canterlot. Everywhere I looked, the royal city just spoke to me! I call it "In-spire-ation".
 * [crowd oohs]
 * Fashion Plate: Genius! Simply genius!
 * Rarity: I spent hours by the lily pond on the castle grounds, which inspired this gown – "Water Filly"!
 * [crowd oohs]
 * Fashion Plate: Oh, the whimsy!
 * Rarity: Watching Celestia raise the sun each morning literally lit up my day... [beat] This is "Tripping the Light".
 * [crowd oohs]
 * Fashion Plate: Fantastic!
 * Rarity: [giggles] And of course, Luna raising the moon guided me to sleep. I call this "Over the Moon"!
 * [crowd oohs]
 * Fashion Plate: Well, I certainly am!
 * Rarity: And for our finale, I have something very special. I was inspired by the stained glass window created in honor of Princess Twilight... I call this "The Reign in Stain"!
 * Fashion Plate: Because the dress is inspired by the—
 * Fashion Plate and Rarity: —stained glass window of a reigning princess!
 * Rarity: Yes!
 * Sassy Saddles: Oh, well, I think "The Reign in Stain" is too difficult to explain! [short laugh] Especially for the signature piece of a collection?
 * Rarity: But I rather like the—
 * Sassy Saddles: Fillies and gentlecolts, I, Sassy Saddles, am pleased to introduce the grand finale of the grand opening of Rarity's Royal Regalia – the "Princess Dress"!
 * Fashion Plate: [gasps] Success!
 * [crowd oohing and chattering]
 * Sassy Saddles: Everypony, please follow me and you can all place your orders for the Princess Dress!
 * [crowd chattering]
 * Fashion Plate: Rarity, I want to be the first pony to congratulate you! The Princess Dress has just guaranteed Canterlot Carousel's success! [gasps]
 * [crowd chattering]
 * Main cast sans Rarity and Twilight: [various congratulations]
 * Twilight Sparkle: Yeah! Rarity's Royal Regalia is amazing! And everypony seemed to love the Princess Dress!
 * Sassy Saddles: You bet your saddle they did. Rarity now has one hundred orders for her signature gown!
 * Rarity: [stammers] One hundred orders?! All at one time?!
 * Sassy Saddles: According to my pattern, the next piece is The Success of the Signature Dress, so I do not see the problem!
 * [beat]
 * Applejack: Uh...
 * Pinkie Pie: Cupcake?
 * Rarity: [clears throat] First of all, Sassy Saddles, I would have appreciated getting to name the final gown from my collection myself.
 * Sassy Saddles: [short laugh] My research shows that your "Reign in Stain" name was a play on words that was both very confusing and quite unappealing.
 * Rarity: [disgruntled laugh] While I see your point, we should have discussed it prior to the grand opening, Sassy.
 * Sassy Saddles: My only goal is for Canterlot Carousel to succeed. That's why I changed the name, and that is why I took all those orders for the Princess Dress.
 * Rarity: [stammering] But... But receiving orders for one hundred dresses in one day, [stammering] it's just too much too soon!
 * Sassy Saddles: Are you actually saying we should... cancel these orders?!
 * Rarity: Wha... But... [stammering] Uh, n-no, Sassy. Promises were made, and I shall sew my very best to provide each and every pony a Princess Dress full of TLC.
 * Sassy Saddles: Oh, thank you, Rarity, thank you!
 * Rarity: [sighs]


 * Sassy Saddles: Oh, satin and silk, Rarity, are you sure you don't want your friends to help you make the dresses?
 * Rarity: No, Sassy. These orders are my responsibility. All I have to do is stick to my plan so I can deliver each and every Princess Dress in keeping with my Rules of Rarity!
 * [door opens]
 * [bell rings]
 * Rarity: Is that the customer who ordered this Princess Dress?
 * Sassy Saddles: I'll take care of her. You keep working.
 * Rarity: Uh, actually, I'd love to see her reaction to this particular dress.
 * Sassy Saddles: Paisley and poplin, Rarity, look at all the orders you still have to finish, and you want to take a break? Now?
 * Rarity: Well, it's just I made some really lovely changes to this dress—
 * Sassy Saddles: You did what?! But every Princess Dress is supposed to be exactly the same!
 * Rarity: Yes yes I know, but these gems just spoke to me, and—
 * Sassy Saddles: Fine. Go see her reaction.
 * Sassy Saddles: Fine. Go see her reaction.


 * Rarity: Hello, and welcome to Canterlot Carousel! I am so pleased to present to you your—
 * "Cayenne": Princess Dress! Finally! I've been simply desperate to get this ever since I saw Princess Twilight wearing it on your— ...Wait a minute. There's something different.
 * Rarity: Well as an artiste, I did take the liberty to change a few minor details.
 * [beat]
 * Rarity: I, eheh, I saw these gems glistening in the light, and they just spoke to me. Aren't they lovely? And so unique!
 * "Cayenne": [sigh] They're... fine. But they're not what I ordered, are they?
 * Rarity: Uh, no. No, they're not.
 * "Cayenne": I want the dress to be exactly like the one Princess Twilight wore. Understand?
 * Rarity: Yes... Y-Yes, of course.
 * [sewing machine whirring]
 * Sassy Saddles: Raving rick-rack, Rarity! You made two hundred Princess Dresses!
 * Rarity: [deadpan] Yes. Isn't it spectacular?
 * Sassy Saddles: And I have a special surprise for you! The latest issue of Cosmare magazine just hit the stands!
 * Rarity: [reading] "Canterlot's newest rising star"?
 * Sassy Saddles: And in the hour since the magazine's come out, we've gotten another hundred new orders for the Princess Dress!
 * [thud]
 * Rarity: [weakly] One... hundred more... Princess Dresses?! I'm the Cosmare cover pony... I have the most successful shop in Canterlot... I've gotten everything I ever wanted... but I'm miserable!
 * Sassy Saddles: [short laugh] How could you possibly be miserable? My pattern is perfect! Cosmare Cover Pony – done! You have your signature gown, the Princess Dress of Success!
 * Rarity: I don't want to make another hundred Princess Dresses!
 * Sassy Saddles: I have a piece for that! Assemble the Assembly Line! You'll never have to sew again!
 * Rarity: What?! No!
 * Sassy Saddles: Yes! Then the Canterlot Carousel never closes! And Sassy Saddles' boutique succeeds!
 * Rarity: Stop! This is not your boutique! And if this is what success in Canterlot looks like, I want no part of it! Now, make up flyers for a going-out-of-business sale! I'm closing Canterlot Carousel!
 * Sassy Saddles: What?! No! Oh, you can't, Rarity! I-I've worked too hard to make this a success! I can't be a part of another failed boutique!
 * [door closes]
 * [magic noises]
 * [hooks clinking]
 * Rarity: [to a dress] Oh, don't you look lovely? Nice to see you out here again. [to herself, hushed] Seems Sassy Saddles isn't rushing to open the door this time. Hm.
 * [door opens]
 * Rarity: Welcome to the going-out-of-business sale of Canterlot Carousel.
 * [ponies chattering]
 * Pretzel: Hey, is this Princess Dress on sale?
 * Rarity: Oh, no, I'm sorry, the Princess Dress has been discontinued. But there are plenty of other lovely dresses on sale today.
 * "Moonlight Raven": [flatly] Whoa. This dress completely speaks to my soul. Can I try it on?
 * Rarity: Certainly. The dressing area is right back there.
 * "Sunshine Smiles": This is the most amazing of amazing dresses! Just looking at it brightens my day!
 * Rarity: And I'm sure you'll feel even brighter once you try it on!
 * "North Point": Do you still have this In-spire-ation dress that's in the new issue of Cosmare?
 * Rarity: Oh, yes, I do. It's-It's right here.
 * "North Point": Bats in the belfry! I have to try it on!
 * "Moonlight Raven": [flatly] Whoa. This dress makes me feel like a princess.
 * "Sunshine Smiles": And this dress makes me feel like a princess!
 * "Citrus Blush": This gown is quite beautiful, but it totally clashes with my complexion.
 * Rarity: Hmmm. Perhaps you'd be even more taken with this one. It was inspired by the fountain in the Canterlot Castle garden. I call it the "Fountain of Truth"!
 * "Citrus Blush": It's exactly what I've been dreaming of!
 * Rarity: Oh! Well, then I'll finish it, and the gown shall be yours! [to herself] How can I have forgotten? This is what I've been dreaming about!
 * Rarity: Attention, everypony! Canterlot Carousel will not be closing!
 * [crowd cheering]
 * "Moonlight Raven": [flatly] But this stuff's still on sale, right?
 * Rarity: [giggles] Yes, yes, of course.
 * Sassy Saddles: Oh, Rarity, I'm so sorry. I focused on that one dress, and the rest of Rarity's Royal Regalia paid the price.
 * Rarity: Well, so did the Princess Dress. The more I sold, the more each dress lost its time, love, and couture, becoming terrible, lackluster, and common.
 * Sassy Saddles: I think I finally understand the Rules of Rarity... and will apply them at my next job.
 * Rarity: I beg your pardon? The Rules of Rarity are only to be applied at Canterlot Carousel! Which is why you must continue to manage the boutique while I'm in Ponyville.
 * Sassy Saddles: Ponyville?
 * Rarity: Well, yes, I'll come to Canterlot with new designs and to see the customers of course, but Ponyville was always going to be my home base.
 * Sassy Saddles: [gasps] Bobbins and bodkins, Rarity! Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you! And I promise to run everything following your rules.
 * Rarity: I would expect nothing less.
 * "Whoa Nelly": Oh, my gosh, a sale! Do you have the Princess Dress?!
 * Rarity and Sassy Saddles: No! [laughing]
 * "Whoa Nelly": Oh, my gosh, a sale! Do you have the Princess Dress?!
 * Rarity and Sassy Saddles: No! [laughing]


 * [credits]