- Twilight Sparkle: [flipping though her "Perplexing Pony Plagues" book] Hay fever... the trots...
- [gasps]
- Twilight Sparkle: Cutie pox!
- Apple Bloom, Applejack, Spike: Cutie pox?
- Twilight Sparkle: Cutie pox. This puzzling pony plague afflicted a population of ponies back in the paleopony period!
- Spike: Heh, say that ten times fast!
- [first lines]
- Apple Bloom: Today's the day, Cutie Mark Crusaders! I can just feel it! Today's the day we are all gonna get our cutie marks in... bowlin'!
- Scootaloo: Woohoo!
- Sweetie Belle: [holding a bag in her mouth] Wooo!
- [spits out bag]
- Sweetie Belle: I mean, yay!
- Apple Bloom: Why, after today, we won't even be the Cutie Mark Crusaders anymore! We'll be the... the Three Strikes!
- Scootaloo: That makes us sound like we've struck out.
- Apple Bloom: Mmm. How 'bout the Pin Twins?
- Sweetie Belle: But there are three of us.
- Apple Bloom: Okay then... Um... the Bowling Dolls!
- Sweetie Belle: The Bowling Dolls! That's it!
- Scootaloo: Perfect!
- Apple Bloom: All righty then! Let's bowl 'em over!
- Sea Swirl: [a young colt in the bowling alley receives his cutie mark when Apple Bloom thought she would get hers] Cool! A bowling cutie mark!
- Apple Bloom: Whatcha got goin' on there?
- Zecora: I am brewing up another mix for a rooster and his chicks. It seems the rooster has lost its crow, making mornings very slow.
- Apple Bloom: Hey, I've seen that flower bloomin' in Ponyville! What is it?
- Zecora: It is one we call 'Heart's Desire'. A dash will ignite the rooster's fire. With Heart's Desire, his talent comes into view, and he'll give a mighty cock-a-doodle-doo!
- Apple Bloom: [It's] A loop-de-hoop! 'Least, that's what I always called it. Applejack made it for me from an old rain barrel when I was littler! Who knew that loop-de-hoop would end up bein' my special talent!
- Sweetie Belle: Wow, Apple Bloom, that's amazing!
- Diamond Tiara: That's it? That's your talent?
- Silver Spoon: Spinning a hoop around your waist? Puh-lease.
- Apple Bloom: Oh, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
- Cheerilee: [sternly] Apple Bloom?
- Apple Bloom: Yes, Miss Cheerilee?
- Cheerilee: I want you to take your loop-de-hoop into the yard,
- [happily]
- Cheerilee: and give us all a lesson on your amazing loop-de-hooping!
- Diamond Tiara: [Apple Bloom has just received a second cutie mark depicting plates on sticks] Miss Cheerilee, have you ever heard of a pony with two cutie marks?
- Cheerilee: I must say that I never have, but maybe Apple Bloom has two special talents!
- Silver Spoon: Oh yeah? Then let's see you do that!
- Snips: Spin plates!
- Snails: Yeah!
- [they toss her some sticks and plates and she begins spinning them]
- Applejack: Yee haw, little sis! Congratulations on gettin' not just one, but two cutie marks! We're mighty proud of you, right Big Macintosh?
- Big Macintosh: Eeyup.
- Applejack: I've never seen anythin' like it, have you Big Mac?
- Big Macintosh: Nnnope!
- Granny Smith: Why, the way you were a-hoopin' and a-hoppin' and kickin' and spinnin' reminded me of when I was a spry young filly.
- [dancing around, she pulls a muscle]
- Granny Smith: Guh, charlie horse, charlie horse!
- [Big Mac fixes it]
- Granny Smith: Ooh, that's better.
- Applejack: Why Apple Bloom, I think you're ready to hit the rodeo circuit right now!
- Apple Bloom: Actually, I'm ready to hit the hay right now. I'm plum tuckered. I'll see y'all in the mornin'. Night!
- Applejack: Night! Oh my, little Apple Bloom has finally blossomed, hasn't she, Big Mac?
- Big Macintosh: Eeyup!
- Apple Bloom: [a fleur-de-lis cutie mark appears on Apple Bloom] Oh no! Sacrebleu! Plus de marques de cutie!
- [gasps]
- Apple Bloom: Qu'est-ce c'est? Je parle français?
- Applejack: My sister's speakin' in fancy!
- Lily: [referring to Apple Bloom's multiple cutie marks] She's cursed!
- Rose: Hexed!
- Daisy: Enchanted!
- Spike: No, she's not.
- Lily, Rose, Daisy: [sigh of relief]
- Spike: She just has some weird mysterious disease with no known cure called cutie pox.
- Everypony: Cutie pox?
- [screaming, they run away]
- Zecora: [just arriving] I thought I had removed their fear the last time that I visited here. But, doors are barred and shutters shut, guess I should've stayed inside my hut.
- Twilight Sparkle: Zecora! Apple Bloom has cutie pox! We were just on our way to see if you had a cure!
- Applejack: But magically you're here! Was your zebra sense a-tinglin'?
- Zecora: My "zebra sense" did not bring me round, it was a special flower that I needed found. I thought I picked enough to fix all the potions I had to mix, but after my visit from Apple Bloom, some had mysteriously left my room. Apple Bloom! What do you say? Did this flower just walk away?
- Apple Bloom: I, um...
- Zecora: A cutie pox cure I have forsooth, for healing power is in the seeds of truth.
- Applejack: Well, well then give 'em to her! Quick!
- Zecora: These seeds must be planted in the ground. With the truth, they'll grow, and the cure is found.
- Applejack: Come again?
- Zecora: The seeds of truth do hold the cure, but one must speak words, true and pure.
- Applejack: Well then let's get to it! Alright, they're planted, now somepony tell the truth!
- Apple Bloom: [struggling with the "talents" her false cutie marks are making her perform] Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
- Applejack: Somepony! Anypony!
- Pinkie Pie: Yesterday I told Mrs Cake that I ate two corn cakes, but I really ate three!
- [tense pause]
- Pinkie Pie: Okay six! I ate six corn cakes!
- [cries]
- Pinkie Pie: Make it stop! Oh, make it stop!
- Apple Bloom: Wah, I can't stand it any more! It's me! I admit it! I didn't earn my cutie mark! They're all fake! I figured the Heart's Desire would help me get what I wanted most! So when Zecora left her hut, I mixed up a special potion and put the rest of the Heart's Desire in it!
- [she quickly chomps up the flower grown from the seeds of truth]
- Twilight Sparkle: Apple Bloom, would you mind writing to Princess Celestia and telling her what you've learned?
- Apple Bloom: I'd be happy to, Twilight! Spike?
- Spike: Ready!
- Apple Bloom: Dear Princess Celestia, waiting for what your heart desires can be really hard. So, you may try to take a shortcut. But this dishonesty never works, because you didn't earn what your heart desired. The only cure is being honest with yourself, and others. And that's something every heart desires.
- Applejack: I sure am proud of you, sis. Seems like you finally learned the importance of patience.
- Apple Bloom: Yup! All good things come to those who wait.
- [short pause]
- Apple Bloom: Well! I've waited long enough.
- Scootaloo: Actually, that was *way* too long.
- Applejack: What?