Without her pest control cutie mark, Apple Bloom is unable to stop the swarm from destroying Sweet Apple Acres. When Apple Bloom returns to Ponyville, the town is in chaos due to a twittermite swarm. Apple Bloom accepts, and a gust of wind erases the mark from her flank. A voice suddenly calls out from the shadows, offering to take Apple Bloom's cutie mark away. With Apple Bloom taking up the pest pony mantle, the pest control stallion can finally retire.Īfter receiving ridicule from Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, Apple Bloom runs away into a dark forest, unsure if she wants her cutie mark. The stallion, a "pest pony," instructs Apple Bloom in the basics of pest control and informs her about a particularly dangerous species of insects called twittermites. As Apple Bloom voices her excitement at finally getting her cutie mark, an Earth pony stallion with a similar cutie mark enters. Once there, the two Apple sisters are shocked to discover that Apple Bloom got her cutie mark-a bug spray can spraying apple mist.
The next morning, a well-rested Apple Bloom meets Applejack in the kitchen for breakfast. Comforted by Applejack's song, Apple Bloom drifts off to sleep. As Applejack tucks Apple Bloom into bed, she assures her through lullaby that a cutie mark won't change her no matter what she gets. Considering the apple-themed cutie marks in Apple Bloom's family, Scootaloo lists off several negative possibilities for such a cutie mark, making Apple Bloom fraught with worry.Īpple Bloom's cutie mark-related anxieties persist until nightfall-she worries whether she'll like her cutie mark, what will become of the Crusaders, and if she'll have to leave the Apple family if her cutie mark isn't an apple. Scootaloo states matter-of-fact that "she can't be a Cutie Mark Crusader if she's already got her cutie mark." Sweetie Belle even imagines receiving a cutie mark that one doesn't like. While the Ponyville Crusaders are happy for her, they wonder who will run the Crusaders' Manehattan branch in Babs' place. In the Cutie Mark Crusaders' clubhouse, Apple Bloom calls a Crusader meeting to order and reveals in a letter from Manehattan that her cousin Babs Seed finally got her cutie mark-a pair of scissors. Summary A letter from BabsĪpple Bloom showing a letter from Babs Seed. The pancakes were made by character and prop designer Charmaine Verhagen. The melody of the lullaby Applejack sings to Apple Bloom was ad libbed by her voice actress, Ashleigh Ball, with backing music created by score composer William Anderson. The twittermites were designed by Rebecca Dart, Kora Kosicka, and Fernanda Ribeiro Kosicka also added in the little skeleton gag scene of when Apple Bloom's heart was an apple during her electrocution by a small swarm of twittermites. On March 3–5, 2015, an unofficial My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic season 5 episode listing on IMDb titling the fourth episode as "Fall Me Out" was discredited by Jim Miller. Pest Control Pony was previewed in one of the animation images shown at Ponycon NYC on February 16, 2015.
The forest clearing, used both for this episode and for the film My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games, was previewed in a background image shown online by November 2014.