Old Reliable Shining Armor

Old Reliable Shining Armor is the first episode of the eighteenth season of Spike the Dragon and Friends, and the four hundred and fifteenth episode overall. It is a parody of the Thomas and Friends episode, Old Reliable Edward.

Cast

 * Spike as Thomas
 * Shining Armor as Edward
 * Big Macintosh as Henry
 * Chief Thunderhooves as Gordon
 * Cranky Doodle Donkey as James
 * Pipsqueak as Percy
 * Rarity as Emily
 * Apple Bloom as Annie
 * Sweetie Belle as Clarabel
 * Braeburn as Toby (cameo)
 * Cheese Sandwich as Salty (cameo)
 * Hoity Toity Sir Topham Hatt (mentioned)
 * Everyone else as Themselves

Transcript
Narrator: "Shining Armor is one of the older unicorns in Ponyville. He is a mixed-traffic unicorn, which means sometimes he takes buffaloes, and sometimes he takes changelings.

He's not the smallest animal, but he's not the big either. Some of the bigger animals like to tease Shining Armor, especially Chief Thunderhooves."

Chief Thunderhooves: "It's a shame you're such an old unicorn, Shining Armor. You're not very reliable."

Shining Armor: "What do you mean?"

Chief Thunderhooves: "You know, getting injured all the time."

Shining Armor: "I haven't been injured in ages."

Chief Thunderhooves: "Oh, really?"

Narrator: "Hoity Toity knows that Shining Armor is a really useful unicorn. And that is why he's given him is own route; the route that runs to the Crystal Empire.

One day, Chief Thunderhooves was taking the express buffaloes up Chief Thunderhooves' Hill, when he thought he saw a red flag blowing beside the path."

Chief Thunderhooves: "Oh no. That's a danger signal. I'd better stop.

That's not a danger signal, those are red..."

Narrator: "It was a pair of pants that had blown off a washing line.

Then there was trouble. Chief Thunderhooves couldn't start up again on the steep hill with his long heavy express buffaloes."

Chief Thunderhooves: "Oh."

Narrator: "Shining Armor had just arrived at Sugar Cube Corner when the stationmaster stopped him."

Stationmaster: "Chief Thunderhooves is stuck on his hill. He needs a banker animal to give him push."

Shining Armor: "Not again. And he says I'm the one that's unreliable. Honestly."

Narrator: "Chief Thunderhooves was waiting very impatiently for Shining Armor when Rarity came along."

Rarity: "Having a rest, are you, Chief Thunderhooves?"

Chief Thunderhooves: "I wish Shining Armor would get here and give me a push before anymore animals see me."

Spike: "Oh dear, Chief Thunderhooves." (Laughs) "I see you got stuck on your hill again."

Chief Thunderhooves: "It wasn't my fault, Spike. There were some red pants by the path, and they looked like a danger signal."

Spike: "Red pants? Danger signal?"

Spike, Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle: (Laugh)

Chief Thunderhooves: "Humph!"

Narrator: "By the time Shining Armor arrived, Chief Thunderhooves was rather cross."

Chief Thunderhooves: "You took your time, Shining Armor! You're so old and slow, I'm surprise Hoity Toity keeps you on!"

Spike: "You're not moving very quickly yourself, Chief Thunderhooves."

Narrator: "Chief Thunderhooves was still fumming as Shining Armor pushed him up the hill."

Shining Armor: (Grunting)

Chief Thunderhooves: "Express coming through!"

Shining Armor: "Aren't you even gonna say 'thank you'?

Why is Chief Thunderhooves so ungrateful? He doesn't even say 'thank you' when I give him a push. He only says how old and unreliable I am."

Spike: "Maybe it's time we taught that big buffalo a lesson."

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