"Mom, I'm ready for school!"[]
- Button Mash: [voiceover] My name is Button Mash. I'm eight years old, and I like video games. I live in Ponyville with my mom, my dad, and my brother. I don't have a cutie mark yet, but I don't care much about that. And today is the first day of the new school year!
- Button Mash: Mom! I'm ready for school!
- Cream Heart: It's Sunday! Go back to bed!
- Button Mash: Never mind!
Are you a winner?[]
- Button Mash: Hmm... [gasps]
- [fridge door closes]
- Button Mash: [slurps] [sighs] Hmm?
- [hopeful music notes]
- Button Mash: [gasps]
- [low, flat music notes]
- Button Mash: [crying] Mooooooom!
Old-school gaming[]
- [video game sounds]
- Cream Heart: Button, I have something for you.
- Button Mash: Huh? What is it?
- Cream Heart: It's your father's old video game machine. I found it in the attic. Oh, me and him used to play this all the time when we were your age, and I think it's still works.
- Button Mash: Oh, cool! Can I play on it?
- Cream Heart: Of course you can, sweetie.
- Button Mash: Yay!
- Cream Heart: Have fun!
- [beat]
- Button Mash: Is it... Is it broken? Mom? Hmm.
- [video game sounds]
- Button Mash: I don't get it.
Derailed[]
- Button Mash: Choo-choo! [imitates train sounds] Choo!
- [flames crackling]
- Button Mash: I... u-uh... um... A-All right.
Milkshake race![]
- Pony: Order up!
- Button Mash: Milkshake race! One, two, three, go! [slurps] [screams and wails]
"I am... the 'Stache!"[]
- Button Mash: Mom, have you seen my Joy Boy?
- Cream Heart: It's in my room, sweetie. You must take better care of your things when you put them down. I nearly fell over this morning.
- Button Mash: Thanks, Mom! Now I just wish I knew where my-- Whoa!
- [crash]
- Button Mash: Found it!
- Button Mash: [gasps] Hmm? Hmm... Hmm...
- Cream Heart: Sweetie, do you want any ketchup with your...?
- [beat]
- Button Mash: Hi, Mom.
- Cream Heart: Take that off. That's your father's.
- Button Mash: But it looks so cool!
- Cream Heart: Button, I said...!
- Button Mash: I'm not Button anymore, Mom. I am... the 'Stache!
- [smack]
"Oh, hey, a bit!"[]
- Button Mash: Oww! Owww! It hurts! It hurts! It hurts! [screams and wails] Oh, hey, a bit!
Grounded[]
- Cream Heart: Button, sweetie! Time for school!
- Button Mash: Uh-huh. Give me a minute.
- [video game sounds]
- Cream Heart: Have you been up all night?
- Button Mash: No, it's okay. The cat's got it with the salad.
- Cream Heart: What?
- Button Mash: I already put— I, uh— the— wh— the French toast.
- Cream Heart: Button!
- [game powers off]
- Cream Heart: This is getting ridiculous! You stay up all night, and you...!
- [video game sounds]
- Cream Heart: Button, stop. It's gonna mess with your head.
- Button Mash: But, Mom, I need to fight the coherds to save the village of Gumbai if I want any luck in defeating the alixes of Humgonia!
- [beat]
- Cream Heart: No! Go to school now!
- Button Mash: [speaking Humgonian] Tee ni ektum kai. (Translation: I will slay you, She-Devil.)
- Cream Heart: [speaking Humgonian] Thry tee den, tein kaflora. (Translation: You're nothing without me.) I was young once, too, you know. Oh, and by the way... [speaking Humgonian] Thry tee blyn. (Translation: You're grounded.)
- Button Mash: [speaking Humgonian] Zeykamiff! (Translation: §%#*!) Agh!