- Pinkie Pie: [Fluttershy is drinking tea] Fluttershy!
- [panting]
- Pinkie Pie: There... you... are...! Doing...
- [deep breath]
- Pinkie Pie: anything...
- [deep breath]
- Pinkie Pie: fun?
- Fluttershy: Not especially.
- Pinkie Pie: Oh, good. Fun... is hard...!
- [sighs and falls down]
- Pinkie Pie: I've got so many wonderful friends having fun in every last corner of Ponyville, I can't figure out how to keep up with it all! It's driving me even more coco-loco than usual!
- Fluttershy: I can promise to not do anything fun at all if that would help.
- Pinkie Pie: You are such a good friend!
- Fluttershy: Oh, Pinkie Pie, I'm so glad you wandered by. I know I promised not to have any fun today, but, oh, I couldn't help myself. All of my critter friends wanted a picnic, and I couldn't disappoint them. Come join us. We have plenty of hay juice and marmalade to go around, don't we, critters?
- [the critters chatter in agreement; a mouse brings a wedge of cheese up to Pinkie Pie 2. She eats it]
- Pinkie Pie 2: Wait, but that sounds super fun! Oh, but Applejohn sounds super fun too! Uh, and, and I can't do one without missing out on the other!
- Fluttershy: Who's Applejohn?
- Pinkie Pie 2: Two fun things at once? But which, which? Oh, can't decide...
- [breathes heavily]
- Pinkie Pie 2: Trouble breathing... Walls closing in!
- [as she says this, the frame of the cartoon zooms in on her, leaving less screen space around her]
- Fluttershy: Walls? But we're outside.
- Spike: I miss the real Pinkie.
- Pinkie Pie: [sighs] I bet she misses you too. Bet she'd do just about anything to get to be with her friends again. Hey. Hey! What if you gave them a test? Pick something really hard for a Pinkie to do, something not fun at all! Any Pinkie that can't do it goes back into the pond. But whoever wants to stay the most, that must be the real Pinkie!
- Rainbow Dash: [after most of the Pinkie Pies have been eliminated for looking away from the paint drying, only two remain] Ugh, I can't take it anymore!
- [she flies up and points to the window]
- Rainbow Dash: Somepony's making balloon animals!
- Pinkie Pie Duplicate: What? Where?
- [Twilight poofs her away back to the Mirror Pool. She, Rarity, and Fluttershy turn to look expectantly at the final Pinkie Pie]
- Twilight Sparkle: Pinkie, you can look away now.
- Pinkie Pie: I passed?
- Twilight Sparkle: You passed. You're the only Pinkie who kept staring at the wall.
- Pinkie Pie: I had to. I just had to. I couldn't leave my friends, I just couldn't. But I guess sometimes I will have to choose between them.
- Twilight Sparkle: I knew you'd be up to the challenge.
- Pinkie Pie: I'm me! I'm me! I'm *me*! Or am I?
- [she feels her head]
- Pinkie Pie: Yeah, I'm pretty sure I am.
- Pinkie Pie: Dear Princess Celestia: It's great to have fun, but it's even greater to have great friends. And having lots of friends means that you sometimes have to make choices as to who you'll spend your time with. But that's okay, because good friends will always give you lots of opportunities to have fun. So even if you're missing out, it's never for long. Respectfully yours, Pinkie Pie.
- Pinkie Pie: Seems like hardly anypony's been here in ages. I hope I'm remembering the rhymes right from my Nana Pinkie's story. "Where the brambles are thickest, there you will find a pond beyond the most twisted of vines!"
- [echoes]
- Pinkie Pie: What was that? Oh, I heard a voice! Oh. Hehe. It was me.
- [walks past some brambles]
- Pinkie Pie: Ouch! Ooh! Stop scratching me up, you brambles, and- Whoooaaa!
- [she falls down a hole into a big cave]
- Pinkie Pie: [gasp] The Mirror Pool!
- [echoes]
- Pinkie Pie: Oh, and there's that voice again! Tsk, tsk, tsk. Ah Pinkie, you have got to stop talking to yourself. Starting... now. "And into her own reflection she stared, uh, yearning for one whose reflection she shared, and solemnly sweared not to be scared at the prospect of being doubly mared!"
- Pinkie Pie 2: [a clone of Pinkie Pie walks out of the Mirror Pool] Wheee-heee!
- Pinkie Pie: Wow, the legend is true. It really worked!
- Pinkie Pie 2: [while Pinkie 1 talks] Fun, fun!
- [continues]
- Pinkie Pie: Okay, wait. I promised not talk to myself anymore. I should say something to her. Or... would that still be talking to myself? Excuse me, me? Can I have a word with you? Uh, I mean, me? Listen, I can see you're having lots of fun, but...
- Pinkie Pie 2: Fun? Did somebody say fun? Where?
- Pinkie Pie: I did, over here!
- Pinkie Pie 2: I thought someone said something about fun! Where is it? Over here? Over here? I don't see it! Where is it? Where is it?
- Pinkie Pie: Whoa, calm yourself, Pinkie, there's loads of fun to be had in Ponyville with my girls! Trot on over back to Ponyville with me and I'll tell you all about 'em.
- Pinkie Pie: [at the lakeside where Rainbow Dash is sunbathing] So you see, that's how I'm able to have fun in two places at once.
- Rainbow Dash: Duplicates of you, huh? Heh, teah, sure, Pinkie.
- [yawns]
- Rainbow Dash: Look, I was just gearing up to catch some Z's, so, uh...
- Pinkie Pie: Gotcha. I'll have the rest of my fun *really* quietly
- [she quietly says "Whee" as she first jumps into the pond, but right before hitting the water, she slows down considerably, lowering herself into the water with nothing but air supporting her]
- Pinkie Pie: Wheeeee...
- Rainbow Dash: How'd you do that?
- Pinkie Pie: Just trying to show a little consideration for my sleepy friend.
- Applejack: [many Pinkie Pie clones have ruined the raising of a new barn] I wanna know right now where all you Pinkies came from, so I can find out who's responsible for y'all ruinin' our barn raisin'!
- [the unfinished silo collapses under multiple Pinkies jumping on it]
- Pinkie Pie: Uh, you look pretty busy right now, so
- [laughs nervously]
- Pinkie Pie: maybe we should talk a little later?
- Pinkie Pie duplicates: Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun!
- Applejack: Y'all come back here and clean up after yourselves this instant!
- [duplicates shouting]
- Pinkie Pie: Oh no, what have I done, what have I done? My poor friends...
- Twilight Sparkle: Please, everypony, hang on while I try to figure something out! Come on, Spike. I've gotta try to remember the name of that legend she mentioned.
- [Spike looks in a bookshelf and pushes a button hidden in the back. A panel opens up, revealing a dusty book. He pulls it out with some effort and falls to the floor. Twilight picks the book up]
- Twilight Sparkle: Aha, here it is! "The legend of the Mirror Pond"... It describes a spell I can use to send them back where they came from!
- Spike: That's perfect! Let's go!
- Twilight Sparkle: But there's a catch. If I can't figure out which one's the real Pinkie, I might send her back by mistake!
- Spike: Well, we'll just have to figure out who the real one is then. Shouldn't be too hard.
- Pinkie Pie: Twilight! I have to talk to you, I need your help!
- Twilight Sparkle: Excuse me, whoever you are, but I'm not talking to any of you Pinkies unless you're the real Pinkie.
- Pinkie Pie: Oh, but, but I am the real Pinkie!
- Pinkie Pie Duplicate: No, you're not! I'm the real Pinkie!
- Pinkie Pie Duplicate 2: I'm the real Pinkie!
- Pinkie Pie Duplicate 3: No, *I'm* the real Pinkie!
- Pinkie Pie Duplicate 4: I'm the real Pinkie!
- Pinkie Pie Duplicate 5: No, *I'm* the real Pinkie!
- Pinkie Pie Duplicate 6: I'm the *real* Pinkie!
- Pinkie Pie Duplicates: Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun!
- Applejack: How in tarnation are we supposed to tell which is the real Pinkie?
- Twilight Sparkle: I have no idea.
- Pinkie Pie: Me either. Ohh... We've all got the same adorable tails, we've all got the same adorable manes, we've all got the same adorable hooves! Which one of us is the real Pinkie? Oh! I haven't the slightest clue! And if I can't tell us apart... who can?
- [crying]
- Twilight Sparkle: Hi, Pinkie Pie. We were thinking we should go out and celebrate.
- Applejack: You up for some wheelbarrow races?
- Rainbow Dash: Or I could take everypony on a cloud ride!
- Rarity: I could throw a party with punch and zesty cucumber sandwiches! Ooh!
- Pinkie Pie: You wanna know exactly what I feel like doing right now?
- [she backs up into her home, sighs, and falls asleep]
- Fluttershy: That looks like fun.
- [all laugh]
- Applejack: Oh, Pinkie.
- [Twilight closes the door]
- Twilight Sparkle: Welcome, Pinkies, welcome. Please have a seat and make yourselves comfortable.
- [pause]
- Twilight Sparkle: Okay, I suppose you can't be comfortable staying in one place, but have a seat anyway.
- [pause]
- Twilight Sparkle: Sit down!
- [duplicates stop shouting and quickly sit]
- Twilight Sparkle: Better. Now, I suppose you're all wondering why I've gathered you all here today.
- Pinkie Pie duplicate: For fun?
- Twilight Sparkle: No, just the opposite actually.
- Rainbow Dash: Wait up, I got one more! Found this one poking at the ground with her hoof, drawing frowny faces.
- [Rainbow Dash carries in the real Pinkie Pie, who is very sad and depressed]
- Twilight Sparkle: Have her come sit with the others.
- [Rainbow Dash drops her]
- Twilight Sparkle: Pinkies, you've been brought here to take a test.
- Pinkie Pie duplicates: [in chorus] Awww!
- Twilight Sparkle: Don't worry, it's a simple test, about as simple as they come, and whoever passes gets to stay.
- [duplicates make sounds of agreement]
- Twilight Sparkle: Curtain, please.
- [Spike pulls the curtain up, and Rarity and Fluttershy push forward the wooden wall they've just finished painting purple]
- Twilight Sparkle: The test... will be watching paint dry!
- [duplicates gasp]
- Twilight Sparkle: On your mark, get set, go!
- Spike: [reaches his hand into a bag of popcorn] Ooh, this is so exciting!
- [time skip]
- Spike: Okay, maybe not that exciting.