The Ice Cream Wars

Doctorwhobox
serial_name=58 The Ice Cream Wars
writer=David Wise
series= Series 2
length=1 episode
date=September 18, 1987
preceding=Flight to Cloud Castle
following=Somnambula|

"The Ice Cream Wars" is the twenty-third serial in the United States children's television series "My Little Pony".

ynopsis

When a feud between two chefs leaves the Sweet Shoppe without ice cream, the Baby Ponies are determined to establish a truce.

Plot

The First Tooth Baby Ponies have been left in charge of the Newborn Twins, who misbehave terribly. To ease their nerves, they visit the Satin Slipper Sweet Shoppe for some ice cream, but to their horror the shopkeeper Scoops tells them there's none left. Scoops explains that Rocky Ripple, the ice cream manufacturer, is feuding with Fudgy McSwain, who makes toppings, and is refusing to make ice cream to drive his rival out of business. Baby Lickety-Split is determined to get the two to make up, figuring that the babies can use their cuteness as a weapon.

Rocky Ripple refuses to back down, saying that his newly-completed ice cream recipe has disappeared and that he blames Fudgy McSwain. The ponies convince Fudgy to apologise to Rocky, but just as the two make up, a malfunctioning machine fires ice cream straight into Fudgy's face. Fudgy takes control of a huge tank with chocolate-firing turrets and declares war on Rocky, who retaliates with his own ice cream war machine.

As an all-out ice cream war wages outside, the babies take the twins to hide in the Sweet Shoppe, reasoning that it's the one place that doesn't have any ice cream. Scoops reveals that she's been saving one last tub, feeding it to the Newborn Twins to calm them down. Milkweed gags and spits out a piece of paper - Rocky's missing recipe was in the ice cream. Baby North Star grabs it and flies into the battle, stopping right between the two tanks as they're about to destroy each other. The horrified confectioners stop their tanks and finally see that their feud is needless. Gratefully, they offer the baby ponies all the ice cream they want - but Baby Lickety-Split suddenly has cravings for a salad.

Notes

* Includes song 'Babysitting'
* Baby Lickety-Split has grown her first tooth to reflect her new toy. Like in season 1, she speaks very poorly, although she was fully fluent for her starring role in . Also, Baby Lickety-Split's eyes are now purple, like they should be, instead of blue as in the Movie and first season.
* Baby Lickety-Split is shown briefly in Spike's Search and Somnambula without her first tooth.
* Although Baby Fifi's mother is a unicorn, Baby Fifi herself is an earth pony because there are no First Tooth unicorns since they could not come up with a new baby unicorn pose in Year 5 that would fit a First Tooth unicorn.
* Every character other than Baby Lickety-Split makes their first appearance here.
* Baby Lickety-Split gets blue eyes every now and then throughout the episode. Similarly, Baby Tic Tac Toe and Baby Fifi's eyes turn purple even they are supposed to be blue.
* At one point during the ice cream battle, two Baby Lickety-Splits appear to be talking to each other. This is actually Baby Bouncy recolored.
* The ponies go from a group of four to six, and back to four or less during the episode when they are meant to be the same group of four ponies. Even two when Baby Lickety-Split talks to herself... (maybe that's considered one).
* Baby Bouncy suddenly appears in Rocky Ripple's factory, even though she wasn't there before.
* This one part episode seems to have more mistakes then the ten part episode, The End of Flutter Valley.
* The first tooth ponies that are randomly dispersed throughout the episode do not appear together until almost 9 minutes into the episode.
* A non-existent white pony is seen talking to the other first tooth ponies. This is also Baby Bouncy recolored.
* In real life, Scoops is a Twice as Fancy, or a pony with symbols dispersed all over her body. In the show, however, she simply has symbols on her hips. Scoops is the only Twice as Fancy to appear in animation.
* In one scene, Baby Tic Tac Toe turns white.
* In the ice cream scene, Baby Quackers turns pink.
* At one point Sniffles and Snookums both look like Snookums.
* Many of the ponies (Baby North Star, the twins, etc) change color throughout the episode.
* Baby Fifi is shown at the door of the Satin Slipper Sweet Shoppe, but Baby Tic Tac Toe is the one who walks in!
* A "Baby Locket" appears walking to the Satin Slipper Sweet Shoppe.
* Baby Lickety-Split's tooth turns red while feeding the newborn twins their ice cream.
* The French translation was titled La guerre de deux crèmes - 'The War of Two Creams'

DVD Releases

* Region 1: "Flight To Cloud Castle and Other Stories"
* Region 4: "The Ice Cream Wars & Mish Mash Melee & The Return of Tambelon"

External links

* [http://dreamvalley-mlp.com/songs87-2.html#babysitting Song lyrics]