Main Characters

Voiced by: Willow Johnson

Willow Johnson

Willow Johnson is a Canadian voice actress working for the Ocean Productions based in Vancouver. She has performed the roles of several characters for many anime series...

The most sensible and responsible and leader of the group, Starlight dreams of becoming a teacher

Teacher

A teacher or schoolteacher is a person who provides education for pupils and students . The role of teacher is often formal and ongoing, carried out at a school or other place of formal education. In many countries, a person who wishes to become a teacher must first obtain specified professional...

 and holds Miss Hackney in high regard. Her mother owns the Rainbow Beauty Salon, as well as the ice cream shop at which Starlight works. Starlight has an unrequited

Unrequited love

Unrequited love is love that is not openly reciprocated or understood as such, even though reciprocation is usually deeply desired. The beloved may or may not be aware of the admirer's deep affections...

 crush on Ace. She is pink with golden-yellow hair, and her cutie mark is a Yellow star with four blue stars.

Voiced by: Maggie Blue O'Hara

Maggie Blue O'Hara

Maggie Blue O'Hara is a Canadian actress, noted for her voice acting and her recognizable "young teenage girl" voice. In addition to anime roles, she was the voice of Shadowcat in X-Men: Evolution....

She is the "sweetheart" of the group. She dislikes letting anyone down, but is sometimes forced into the middle of fights between her friends. She can see anyone's good nature, and knows very well that Teddy is not as bad as he seems. Sweetheart has three young siblings, two of whom are named Sugar and Peaches. She wants to be a doctor

Physician

A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

 when she grows up. She is white with pink hair and her cutie mark is a big red heart

Heart

The heart is a myogenic muscular organ found in all animals with a circulatory system , that is responsible for pumping blood throughout the blood vessels by repeated, rhythmic contractions...

, with three little orange hearts surrounding it.

Voiced by: Kelly Sheridan

Kelly Sheridan

Kelly Sheridan is a Canadian voice actress based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.-Biography:Sheridan has voiced various roles in anime and other animated cartoons, such as Barbie in the computer generated Barbie film series since 2001...

The lead singer in "The Rockin' Beats," Melody is somewhat shallow, gossipy, and rather spoiled, holding her own interests higher than those of her friends. She sometimes tries to offer beauty advice to the others, and hopes to become a famous rock star. She has two young twin

Twin

A twin is one of two offspring produced in the same pregnancy. Twins can either be monozygotic , meaning that they develop from one zygote that splits and forms two embryos, or dizygotic because they develop from two separate eggs that are fertilized by two separate sperm.In contrast, a fetus...

 sisters named Jing-A-Ling and Ting-A-Ling, and her mother is a nurse. Melody is pink with sea-blue hair, and her cutie mark is a yellow microphone

Microphone

A microphone is an acoustic-to-electric transducer or sensor that converts sound into an electrical signal. In 1877, Emile Berliner invented the first microphone used as a telephone voice transmitter...

 surrounded by several music notes.

Voiced by: Laura Harris

Laura Harris

Laura Elizabeth Harris is a Canadian actress.-Early life:Harris was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the daughter of school teachers. She began acting in radio dramas and animation series when she was five years old. As a child Harris was educated at Crofton House School and attended college...

As the smart one of her friends, she's quick to think things out logically when there's a problem. She loves to learn new things, and wishes to be an environmentalist

Environmentalist

An environmentalist broadly supports the goals of the environmental movement, "a political and ethical movement that seeks to improve and protect the quality of the natural environment through changes to environmentally harmful human activities"...

 when she grows up. She has an infatuation with Lancer. Although her family never appears, it is mentioned that her father works for the paper. She is dark cyan

Cyan

Cyan from , transliterated: kýanos, meaning "dark blue substance") may be used as the name of any of a number of colors in the blue/green range of the spectrum. In reference to the visible spectrum cyan is used to refer to the color obtained by mixing equal amounts of green and blue light or the...

 with dark orange hair, and her cutie mark is a notebook

Notebook

A notebook is a book or binder composed of pages of notes, often ruled, made out of paper, used for purposes including recording notes or memoranda, writing, drawing, and scrapbooking....

 and pen

Pen

A pen is a device used to apply ink to a surface, usually paper, for writing or drawing. Historically, reed pens, quill pens, and dip pens were used, with a nib of some sort to be dipped in the ink. Ruling pens allow precise adjustment of line width, and still find a few specialized uses, but...

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Voiced by: Venus Terzo

Venus Terzo

Venus Terzo is a Canadian actress best noted for her role as Detective Angela Kosmo in Da Vinci's Inquest and its spinoff, Da Vinci's City Hall. She was nominated in 2002 for the Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role in that same role...

 (Episodes 1-16), Brigitta Dau (Episodes 17-26)

The adventurous tomboy

Tomboy

A tomboy is a girl who exhibits characteristics or behaviors considered typical of the gender role of a boy, including the wearing of typically masculine-oriented clothes and engaging in games and activities that are often physical in nature, and which are considered in many cultures to be the...

 of the group, Patch was adopted by her parents and is an only child. An active member of the soccer team, she is always on the lookout for something to do, and is fond of practical jokes. She wants to join the circus

Circus

A circus is commonly a travelling company of performers that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, unicyclists and other stunt-oriented artists...

 when she grows up. Patch is peach-colored with dark pink hair, and her cutie mark is a patch of pink cloth. She seems to be the only pony who sees unnatural phenomenon like Squire's ghost and the Glow n' Show Ponies.

Voiced by: Lalainia Lindbjerg

Lalainia Lindbjerg

Lalainia Lindbjerg is a Canadian voice actress who works for Ocean Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.-Biography:...

Tremendously clumsy and prone to breaking things, Clover frequently bursts into tears in dismay at her own ineptitude. Nevertheless, things generally work out for her in the end, as a result of either luck or the intervention of her friends. A very superstitious pony, she can be quite gullible. She dreams of being a ballerina

Ballerina

A ballerina is a title used to describe a principal female professional ballet dancer in a large company; the male equivalent to this title is danseur or ballerino...

, like her big sister. She is lavender purple with rose-pink hair, and her cutie mark is a clover leaf

Clover

Clover , or trefoil, is a genus of about 300 species of plants in the leguminous pea family Fabaceae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution; the highest diversity is found in the temperate Northern Hemisphere, but many species also occur in South America and Africa, including at high altitudes...

. Her surname is revealed as "Bloom" in the episode "Sister Of The Bride," the only surname mentioned in the entire series.

Voiced by: Chiara Zanni

Chiara Zanni

Chiara Zanni is a Canadian actress & voice actress, performing in movies such as BIONICLE: Mask of Light as Hahli, playing the role of Hamtaro in the TV anime cartoon series. Young Joe in Cyborg 009, Hamtaro, Jubilee in X-Men: Evolution, Bon Bon in My Little Pony Tales and Nori, the mermaid in...

Extremely fond of food and cooking, Bon Bon dreams of becoming a fashion model. She loves to write in her diary, detailing daily events. Her family is quite large, consisting of four younger siblings (Amber, Twink, Rusty, and unnamed baby brother), one older sister (Misty), and her parents. She is also mentioned as having another older sibling in the UK 1994 My Little Pony annual. Bon Bon is yellow with Burgundy

Burgundy (color)

Burgundy is a shade of purplish red associated with the Burgundy wine of the same name, which in turn is named after the Burgundy region of France. The color burgundy is similar to other shades of dark red such as maroon...

 hair, and her cutie mark is a blue piece of candy

Candy

Candy, specifically sugar candy, is a confection made from a concentrated solution of sugar in water, to which flavorings and colorants are added...

.

Recurring Characters

Voiced by: Tony Sampson

Tony Sampson

Tony Sampson is a former Canadian voice and television actor who was based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He played the role of Flash in the Canadian television drama The Odyssey from 1992 to 1994, but was probably best known as Eddy in Ed, Edd, n Eddy...

One of the male ponies, Teddy is a complete show-off and often gets on the nerves of others with his impulsive actions. Later in the series he is paired with Sweetheart. Sometimes he carries a satchel over his neck. It is later revealed that he sleeps with a teddy bear. Teddy is blue with an orange ginger Mohawk

Mohawk hairstyle

The mohawk is a hairstyle in which, in the most common variety, both sides of the head are shaven, leaving a strip of noticeably longer hair...

, and his cutie mark is a comb

Comb

A comb is a toothed device used in hair care for straightening and cleaning hair or other fibres. Combs are among the oldest tools found by archaeologists...

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Voiced by: Brad Swaile

Brad Swaile

Bradley "Brad" Swaile is a Canadian voice actor. He has acted in several animated series, known mostly for his anime roles; particularly that of Amuro Ray in the original Mobile Suit Gundam series, Mousse in Ranma 1/2, and Quatre Raberba Winner in Gundam Wing...

A very athletic and confident male, Ace is Teddy's best friend and often his partner in influencing Lancer. He is the handsome jock of the school, and a dream date for many of the girls. Ace is a very sporty pony who enjoys soccer and many other activities. He has a crush on Melody, but this is largely unrequited. He is gold-colored with light blonde hair, and his cutie mark is a soccer ball.

Voiced by: Shane Meier

Shane Meier

Shane Meier is a Canadian actor who is probably most notable for playing the title role in The Matthew Shepard Story, a TV movie about the life and murder of Matthew Shepard....

The quietest of the boys, Lancer is shy and fond of books. His parents are very wealthy and often away on trips. Lancer seems to have feelings for Bright Eyes, and is shown to be talented at roller skating

Roller skating

Roller skating is the traveling on smooth surfaces with roller skates. It is a form of recreation as well as a sport, and can also be a form of transportation. Skates generally come in two basic varieties: quad roller skates and inline skates or blades, though some have experimented with a...

. He wants to be an explorer when he grows up. He is much softer than the other boys and often takes side with the girls, mostly to impress Bright Eyes. Lancer is dark blue with crimson-red hair, and his cutie mark is a fleur-de-lis

Fleur-de-lis

The fleur-de-lis or fleur-de-lys is a stylized lily or iris that is used as a decorative design or symbol. It may be "at one and the same time, political, dynastic, artistic, emblematic, and symbolic", especially in heraldry...

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Voiced by: Kate Robbins

Kate Robbins

Katherine Robbins is an English actress, comedienne and singer.-Biography:Robbins is a first cousin once removed of Paul McCartney and older sister of Amy Robbins . She attended Wirral Grammar School for Girls and won the Drama Prizes each year, notably with her monologue "All this glitters is not...

She's the ponies' teacher. She has quite a lot of patience, having to deal with Patch's behavior in class. Very wise, she is a good role model and is strict but fair. Starlight looks up to her. She is periwinkle with lavender hair, and her cutie mark is a small chalkboard

Chalkboard

A chalkboard or blackboard is a reusable writing surface on which text or drawings are made with sticks of calcium sulfate or calcium carbonate, known, when used for this purpose, as chalk. Chalkboards were originally made of smooth, thin sheets of black or dark grey slate stone...

. It is suggested that she may have an affection for Mr. Kiddoo.

Minor characters

• Mr. Bloom - Clover and Meadowlark's Father, who is an artist making art out of junk he gathers from the dump. He is purple with orange hair, and his cutie mark is a clamp.
• Mrs. Bloom - Clover's and Meadowlark's mother. She is purple with red hair and her cutie mark is a yellow book. She also wears glasses.
• Starlight's Mother - Owns the Rainbow Beauty Salon. She is red with yellow hair, and her cutie mark is yellow flowers.
• Sweetheart's Father - Sweetheart's and triplets' father. He is white with pink hair, and his cutie mark is an old-style cash register.
• Sweetheart's Mother - Sweetheart's and triplets' mother. She is white with red hair, with braids, and her cutie mark is a gift.
• Sweetheart's younger triplet sisters: they are virtually identical, white coat with dark pink mane and tail and a green bow on their heads. They are distinguished only by their mane styles:
  • Sugar - She wears her bangs
    Fringe (hair)
    Fringe are a shaped cutting of the front part of the hair so that it is combed forward and hangs or curls over the forehead. A classic fringe is cut fairly straight at or above the eyebrows, but fringes can also be ragged or ruffled, spiked up with hair gel, swept to one side or the other, and...
    
     in a single stand.
  • Peaches - She wears her bangs
    Fringe (hair)
    Fringe are a shaped cutting of the front part of the hair so that it is combed forward and hangs or curls over the forehead. A classic fringe is cut fairly straight at or above the eyebrows, but fringes can also be ragged or ruffled, spiked up with hair gel, swept to one side or the other, and...
    
     in three strands.
  • Sweetheart's Third Sister - She wears her mane in a bun with a stand of hair sticking out the top of her bow.
• Springfield - Sweetheart and her family's pet cat.
• Melody's Mother - Mother of Melody, Jing-A-Ling and Ting-A-Ling. She is a nurse. She is purple with light purple hair, and her cutie mark is a clock.
• Jing-A-Ling - Melody's younger sister. She is purple with orange hair and blue bow on her tail, and her cutie mark is a bell.
• Ting-A-Ling - Melody's younger sister. She is purple with orange hair and blue bow on her tail, and her cutie mark is a bell.
• Patch's Father - Patch's adoptive father. He is orange with green hair, and his cutie mark is a brown little home.
• Patch's Mother - Patch's adoptive mother. She is orange with pink hair, and her cutie mark is a blue ball of wool.
• Bon Bon's Father - Father of Bon Bon and her siblings. He is yellow with blue hair, and his cutie mark is a green garden hose.
• Bon Bon's Mother - Mother of Bon Bon and her siblings. She is yellow with pink hair, and her cutie mark is a slice of strawberry cake.
• Amber - Bon Bon's younger sister. She is white with purple hair, and her cutie mark is a pink lollipop.
• Twink - Bon Bon's younger brother. He is yellow with green, hair, and his cutie mark is a star.
• Rusty - Bon Bon's younger brother. He is yellow with light orange hair, and his cutie mark is a baseball bat and ball. He wears a blue cap.
• Misty - Bon Bon's older sister. She is pale yellow with pink hair, and her cutie mark is a mint green
  Spring green (color)
  Spring green is a color included on the color wheel that is precisely halfway between cyan and green . When plotted on the CIE chromaticity diagram it corresponds to a visual stimulus of 505 nanometers on the visible spectrum. Spring green is a pure chroma on the color wheel...
  
   phone.
• Unnamed baby - Bon Bon's youngest brother. He is cream with blue hair, and his cutie mark is a green rattle.
• Dazzle — The host of PTV, a popular television network (that seems to parody MTV
  MTV
  MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
  
  ). She is yellow with bright green hair, a huge black hat with a white flower and her cutie mark is a Star. She has a British
  British English
  British English, or English , is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere...
  
   accent.
• The Cleveland Bays - A popular rock group. Melody is known to have a massive crush on Chain Link, the band leader.
• Mr. Kiddoo - A yellow pony with gray hair and a hot air balloon
  Hot air balloon
  The hot air balloon is the oldest successful human-carrying flight technology. It is in a class of aircraft known as balloon aircraft. On November 21, 1783, in Paris, France, the first untethered manned flight was made by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes in a hot air...
  
   cutie mark. He wears a top hat and loves tea. He is a hot air balloon pilot who owns a red balloon. It is possible that he may have feelings for Miss Hackney.
• The Police Chief - A pale gold pony with white hair and a badge
  Badge
  A badge is a device or fashion accessory, often containing the insignia of an organization, which is presented or displayed to indicate some feat of service, a special accomplishment, a symbol of authority granted by taking an oath , a sign of legitimate employment or student status, or as a simple...
  
   cutie mark. He wears a police cap.
• The Glowing Magic Ponies/Glow 'n' Show Ponies - A band of glowing flying ponies with heart and star designs all over their bodies. They are first viewed as a glowing cloud of stardust. They consist of Starglow (dark blue with blue wings, red and green hair and piano as her cutie mark), Happyglow (light pink with pink wings, white and blue hair and three blue clown hats as her cutie mark), Brightglow (orange with yellow wings, pink hair and white doves as her cutie mark, the only one who speaks) and their leader Dazzleglow (pink with white wings, white and blue hair, and three yellow umbrellas as her hip mar, the first Alicorn prior to Princess Celestia and Princess Luna in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
  My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
  My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is an animated television series that premiered on October 10, 2010 on the United States cable network The Hub, and is based on Hasbro's My Little Pony line of toys and animated works. The series is produced by Hasbro Studios and DHX Media Vancouver...
  
  ).
• The Rockin' Beats — Melody (pink lead singer), Pretty Beat (reddish-pink drummer with blue and red hair and orange and yellow miscellaneous shapes), Tuneful (dark green pianist with orange and pink hair and orange and purple miscellaneous shapes as her cutie mark), Sweet Notes (hot pink guitarist with yellow and pink streak and Blue and yellow miscellaneous shapes as her cutie mark), and Half Note (orange guitarist with pink and yellow hair with braids and green and pink stars, triangles and circles as her cutie mark).
• The Barringtons — A new family who moved into the house the girls were using as a tea house. They consist of Mr. Barrington (cutie mark is red car), Mrs. Barrington (cutie mark is orange basket filled with groceries), their baby Posey (cutie mark is tricycle), and Logan (cutie mark is skateboard
  Skateboard
  A skateboard is typically a specially designed plywood board combined with a polyurethane coating used for making smoother slides and stronger durability, used primarily for the activity of skateboarding. The first skateboards to reach public notice came out of the surfing craze of the early 1960s,...
  
  ), who the girls invite to join their club. The Barringtons are all white with yellow, orange, green and pink hair.
• Rosy — A pony from the local orphanage
  Orphanage
  An orphanage is a residential institution devoted to the care of orphans – children whose parents are deceased or otherwise unable or unwilling to care for them...
  
  , eventually revealed to be a lost princess
  Princess
  Princess is the feminine form of prince . Most often, the term has been used for the consort of a prince, or his daughters....
  
  . She is yellow with pink hair. Her cutie mark is a pink rose
  Rose
  A rose is a woody perennial of the genus Rosa, within the family Rosaceae. There are over 100 species. They form a group of erect shrubs, and climbing or trailing plants, with stems that are often armed with sharp prickles. Flowers are large and showy, in colours ranging from white through yellows...
  
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• Meadowlark — Clover's older sister, a famous ballerina
  Ballerina
  A ballerina is a title used to describe a principal female professional ballet dancer in a large company; the male equivalent to this title is danseur or ballerino...
  
  . She is very supportive and patient with her woefully clumsy younger sibling. She is purple with bright yellow hair, sometimes braided in braid, and her cutie mark is a ballet shoe in a yellow star.
• Cheval — Meadowlark's husband, a white red-haired pony with a French
  French language
  French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
  
   accent. Like Meadowlark, he is skilled in ballet
  Ballet
  Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...
  
  . He marries Meadowlark. His cutie mark is a crossed top hat
  Top hat
  A top hat, beaver hat, high hat silk hat, cylinder hat, chimney pot hat or stove pipe hat is a tall, flat-crowned, broad-brimmed hat, predominantly worn from the latter part of the 18th to the middle of the 20th century...
  
   and cane.
• The Sunbrights - A family of tropical ponies who live on an island similar to Hawaii
  Hawaii
  Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...
  
  . They are all orange with blue, pink, yellow and red hair (children has purple in place of red), which is adorned with several decorations, such as starfish clips. The family consists of Papi (cutie mark is sailing boat), Mami (cutie mark is pink clam shell and blue conch shell), and their children Moki (girl, who's cutie mark is purple flower) and Ichi (boy, who's cutie mark is green and orange fish jumping out of orange water). Papi is a pearl
  Pearl
  A pearl is a hard object produced within the soft tissue of a living shelled mollusk. Just like the shell of a mollusk, a pearl is made up of calcium carbonate in minute crystalline form, which has been deposited in concentric layers. The ideal pearl is perfectly round and smooth, but many other...
  
   diver, and the family lives in a straw hut.
• The Meadowsweet family - Relatives of Teddy who are all pink with yellow, blue, purple and dark pink hair. They include his uncle Mr. Meadowsweet (cutie mark is orange butterflies), his aunt Mrs. Meadowsweet (cutie mark is red apples) and his cousins Corny (cutie mark is an ear of corn
  Maize
  Maize known in many English-speaking countries as corn or mielie/mealie, is a grain domesticated by indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica in prehistoric times. The leafy stalk produces ears which contain seeds called kernels. Though technically a grain, maize kernels are used in cooking as a vegetable...
  
  ) and Daisy (cutie mark is two daisies
  Asteraceae
  The Asteraceae or Compositae , is an exceedingly large and widespread family of vascular plants. The group has more than 22,750 currently accepted species, spread across 1620 genera and 12 subfamilies...
  
  ). They all live and work on a farm
• Mr. Tidwell - The custodian at the ponies' school. His cutie mark is a brush
  Brush
  A brush is a tool with bristles, wire or other filaments, used for cleaning, grooming hair, make up, painting, surface finishing and for many other purposes. It is one of the most basic and versatile tools known to mankind, and the average household may contain several dozen varieties...
  
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• Dandy and Buddy - Two boy ponies. They were the roller skating partners of Clover and Patch (respectively) in the episode 'Roll Around The Clock'. Dandy is Blue with Blonde hair and a wagon cutie mark. Buddy is White with Aqua hair with a Hockey Puck cutie mark.

Episodes

Reception

Australia/Region 4

1. Bon Bon's Diary
   Diary
   A diary is a record with discrete entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period. A personal diary may include a person's experiences, and/or thoughts or feelings, including comment on current events outside the writer's direct experience. Someone...
   
   , Just For Kicks, Slumber Party, Too Sick to Notice, The Battle of the Bands, And the Winner Is..., Stand By Me, The Tea Party
2. The Masquerade, Out of Luck, The Play's the Thing, Shop Talk, Blue Ribbon Blues, Roll Around the Clock
3. Princess Problems, An Apple for Starlight, Up, Up and Away, Sister of the Bride, Birds of a Feather, Send in the Clowns
4. The Impractical Joker, The Great Lemonade Stand Wars, Happy Birthday Sweetheart, Gribet, Ponies in Paradise, Who's Responsible?

United Kingdom/Region 2