Feeling Rapunzel Keen

Feeling Rapunzel Keen is the fifteenth episode of the first season of Legends of the Multivese: Friendship is Universe. In this episode, Kairi Sparkle learns that Rapunzel has an unusual ability to sense happenings in the immediate future, known as "Rapunzel Sense." The title of the episode is a play on the phrase "feeling peachy keen," which refers to one feeling upbeat and generally happy.

Production
The episode's premise stemmed from the common occurrence of having aching joints when the weather is about to change, and Kairi's skepticism towards the phenomenon. The episode was #8 in the We Heart Ponies Fan Favorite Mare-a-thon, in the leadup to Hearts and Hands Day.

Harley Quinn was present in the episode prior to becoming popular with the bronimals, and the show's director, Jayson Thiessen, called for a revision of the shot so that Derpy's eyes would be crossed.

After the episode aired, Lauren Faust expressed that she wishes she "could [go] back and clarify it further," since the message of the episode was misinterpreted by some viewers.

The scene when Rapunzel explains her twitching tail to Twilight reappears in Cakes for the Memories.

Frog from the sky
The episode begins with Kairi Sparkle practicing magic spells on Olaf and Navi. Olaf and Navi notices Rapunzel sneaking from cover to cover, wearing an umbrella hat and looking up at the sky.

Kairi dismisses it as Rapunzel being herself, but then approaches her and asks what she's up to. Rapunzel explains that her tail is twitching, which means her "Rapunzel Sense" is telling her that "stuff's gonna start falling!" Kairi dismisses this but a frog falls on her face mid-sentence.

Spectra Vondergeist is floating above Rapunzel and Kairi carrying a basket, a bag, and a cart, all loaded with goofy-looking frogs. She apologizes to Twilight and explains that she's moving the frogs from the pond to Froggy Bottom Bog, and then carries on her way.

More predictions
When Rapunzel tells Kairi she has something on her face (a frog), Kairi sarcastically asks if Rapunzel's Rapunzel sense told her that. Kairi, Olaf and Navi go on their way and talk about Rapunzel's prediction, which Kairi dismisses as a coincidence. Rapunzel catches up to them and warns them that her tail is twitching and something else is going to fall. Kairi dismisses this and again gets cut mid-sentence, this time falling into a ditch. Olafand Navi asks Rapunzel if it's safe to go help Kairi, and she confirms since her tail stopped twitching.

Sheriff Mulan arrives and asks Kairi what she's doing in the ditch, and Olaf and Navi replies that Rapunzel predicted it. Kairi again dismisses the events as a coincidence. When Sheriff Mulan hears Kairi mention "twitchy tail" she goes for cover, but Olaf and Navi tells her it's safe since the prediction already came true. Sheriff Mulan explains to Kairi that "those of us who have been in Multiville a while, have learned over time that, if Rapunzel's-a-twichin', you better listen." Rapunzel rushes back and warns them that her ears are flopping and that she'll start a bath for Kairi. Kairi, again, dismisses the prediction, but gets caked in mud from a hay cart passing through a puddle behind her.

Studying the Rapunzel Sense
The scene fades to Rapunzel's bathroom in her apartment above Corona Sugarcube Corner. She explains to Kairi, who's having a bath, that her Rapunzel Sense involves "different, little, niggly feelings [meaning] different things. [...] When my back is itchy, it means it's my lucky day. And, when my knee gets pinchy, that means something scary's about to happen [...] my shoulder's achy, that means there's an chameleon in the tub!" Kairi jumps out of the tub in fright and asks Pinkie why her knee didn't get tongue out. Rapunzel explains that it's not scary because it's her pet chameleon named Pascal who's got no teeth, while Pascal gums at her mane and tail.

The scene fades to Kairi and Rapunzel walking away from Corona Sugarcube Corner. Kairi says she still doesn't believe this "mumbo-jumbo." Rapunzel asks "What's not to believe? You do magic, what's the difference?" Kairi's jaw drops, and she exclaims that the difference is huge. She literally climbs onto a soapbox and explains that magic only happens when you decide it to happen, and that Pinkie's sense makes no sense at all.

The two reach Destiny Library, and Rapunzel tells Kairi that different combinations of her reactions also predict the future, for example "ear flop, then knee twitch, then eye flutter." means the sky will be graced with a beautiful rainbow. Rapunzel then experiences "ear flop, eye flutter, knee twitch," and Kairi gets squashed by Olaf and Navi slamming the library door open. Olaf and Navi backs up out of the library with an armload of books, accompanied by a sound effect of a truck backing up. Kairi, still recuperating, tells Rapunzel that she said the combo meant "beautiful rainbow," and Rapunzel corrects her about the order of the twitches, which in this case meant "look out for opening doors." Rapunzel tells Kairi she doesn't believe because she doesn't understand. Kairi hums and rubs her chin with a thoughtful expression on her face.

The scene cross-fades to the library basement where Rapunzel is hooked up to some sort of measuring instrument, a helmet with blinking lights strapped on her head, and her forelegs secured by metallic clasps. Kairi says that when she'll get another twitch, they'll have "all kinds of scientific information." They wait for a twitch, but Rapunzel says they just come and go, which Kairi says makes no sense. Rapunzel affirms that "sometimes you just have to believe in things," but Kairi protests and asserts she will not believe in anything she cannot explain. Kairi angrily gives up, and Pinkie slips out of her helmet and restraints. On their way out of the basement Rapunzel gets an ear flop, eye flutter, and knee-twitch, then Kairi again gets smashed behind a door that Olaf and Navi opens. Still stuck to the back of the door, she asks Olaf and Navi if he and Rapunzel planned this prediction. She asserts that "this can't be happening. This makes no sense" and that she has to figure it out.

Observation
In a brief scene, Spectra reaches Froggy Bottom Bog with the frogs. The scene wipes to Rapunzel skipping about, with Kairi spying on her using a bush as concealment. Kairi wears a pith helmet and uses binoculars to observe Rapunzel's actions. Olaf and Navi walks up to Kairi and accidentally startles her, and she explains to him that she's observing Rapunzel, "scientific name: Rapius Unzelicus, in its natural habitat," and expresses her mistrust in Pinkie's Pinkie Sense.

At the school playground, she sees her scratching her nose before rushing to find a place to hide "like something's about to fall from the sky." Kairi says this makes no sense because a twitchy tail indicates something would fall. Before she finishes dictating her conclusion to Olaf and Navi, a swarm of bees appears and attacks her. Next, outside Sheriff Mulan's barn, she sees another ear-flop eye-flutter knee-twitch combo. Olaf and Navi identifies it as the combo for opening doors, and Kairi scoffs her belief in the prediction, and again suffers mid-sentence when she falls into a cellar door that had just opened.

The scene fades to Kairi in leg casts sitting in a wheelchair, still observing Rapunzel with her binoculars. She reports "twitchy tail" to Olaf and Navi, who panics and runs away. Kairi again dismisses the prediction and tells Olaf and Navi he's overreacting, but before she can finish her sentence a series of classic cartoon props drop on her head: a flower pot, an anvil, a cart of hay and finally a piano. The frame moves up to reveal that the items were dropped by Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy, who are hovering next to a movers' truck.

Kairi later confronts Rapunzel and finds she was aware of her presence the whole time. Suddenly, Rapunzel's entire body begins shaking. Spike asks what this means, but Rapunzel answers that she doesn't know and she's never gotten it before, but that whatever it is, it's a "doozy," something completely unexpected, and that it's going to happen at Froggy Bottom Bog. Sheriff Mulan, Rapunzel, Olaf, and Navi rush to the bog to make sure Spectra, who was headed there earlier, is okay. Kairi dismisses the prediction yet again, but tags along anyway because she wants to be there to see the look on Rapunzel's face when they find out nothing's wrong. The scene wipes to Spectra at Froggy Bottom Bog with ominous music and an unidentified creature moving in the waters behind Spectra while she sets the frogs loose.

Froggy Bottom Bogg
Rapunzel keeps getting her twitches and Kairi makes sarcastic remarks towards her. Olaf and Navi thinks up of bad things that could happen to Spectra, but Kairi assures him that she's fine. They reach the bog and soon find Spectra safe and sound. Kairi gloats about how right she was that there was no "doozy" and goes on about how there's no point in believing anything you can't see for yourself. Without her noticing, a huge creature creeps around the animals, and Olaf and Navi calls Kairi's attention to it. She looks behind her at a gigantic four-headed onix which growls and roars.

The chase
The animals, Olaf and Navi run and the hydra pursues them. Twice Kairi goes back, to pull Rapunzel along and to rescue Olaf and Navi from sinking in the bog. They run up a hill but get trapped at the edge of a cliff, with stepping-stone pillars leading to the other side. Spectra is the first animal to cross the chasm. Despite being a Floating Ferret she doesn't fly, however she recites to herself "a hop, skip, and a jump" from the song Pinkie Pie taught her in You've got a Friend in Need. Rapunzel has a Rapunzel Sense episode and shakes herself over the edge of the cliff, though she hangs in mid-air and gets pulled back by Sheriff Mulan, who carries her across by the tail.

Kairi decides to charge at the onix head-on, or in this case right under it. Before she has a chance to cross herself, the onix lunges at her but misses, driving one of its heads into the edge of the cliff and knocking over one of the stepping-stone pillars, which in turn knocks the next one and the next, so only two are left. Rapunzel tries to convince Kairi to "take a leap of faith." The onix lunges again and breaks off the ground Kairi was standing on. Kairi jumps but misses the pillar, and lands on a bog bubble that bounces her across the chasm and over to her friends.

The doozy
Just as Kairi congratulates Rapunzel for predicting the doozy, Rapunzel has another spell of shudders, and she tells Kairi that the onix wasn't the doozy. When Kairi hears the onix wasn't the doozy, Kairi literally bursts into flames in anger. She says she gives up, and that she's willing to believe the Rapunzel Sense is true even though she doesn't understand it. Rapunzel goes through some strange twitches which suddenly stop, and she tells Kairi that that was the doozy, Kairi's willingness to believe.

Epilogue
Wearing an umbrella hat with Rapunzel, Kairi gives Olaf and Navi a friendship report for Princess Palutena. As the episode ends, Rapunzel's tail twitches once more, and Spike takes Kairi's report out to the balcony. Before he can send it, though, Princess Palutena falls out of the sky and takes the scroll from him with a smile then lifts off again.

Quotes

 * Sheriff Mulan: Those of us who've been in Multiville a while have learned over time that if Pinkie's a-twitchin', you'd better listen.


 * Rapunzel: It's my tail! It's my tail! It's a-twitchin' twitchin'! And you know what that means...
 * Kairi Sparkle: Actually, Rapunzel, I haven't the slightest idea.
 * Rapunzel: The twitching means my Pinkie Sense is telling me stuff is gonna start falling.


 * Rapunzel: Um, Kairi? You got a little something on your face there...
 * Kairi Sparkle: Oh really? Did your "Rapunzel Sense" tell you that, too?
 * Rapunzel: No, I can just see it.


 * Kairi Sparkle: OK. Take this down: Twitchy... Tail...
 * Olaf: "Twitchy tail"? [gasp] Twitchy tail!
 * Navi: That a Twitchy tail?


 * Sheriff Mulan: Kairi! You came to visit my new chinese cellar, how nice! Twi, you okay?...Uh, Twi?


 * Rapunzel: Hey, Mulan. What'cha doin'?
 * Sheriff Mulan: Taking more chinese food to my new chinese cellar. How about you, Rapunzel? What'cha doin'?
 * Rapunzel: Oh, letting Kairi secretly follow me without me knowing...
 * Kairi Sparkle: You mean you knew all along?! Why didn't you tell me?!
 * Rapunzel: [giggle] Silly. That would've spoiled the secret.


 * Olaf: Like, what if, she exploded?
 * Navi: WHAT?!?!
 * Sheriff Mulan: Just exploded? For no reason?
 * Olaf: Yeah, like, boom!
 * Rapunzel: Woah!
 * Olaf: I know.
 * Navi: Count Me In!
 * Rapunzel: What if she exploded? And then... and then exploded again?!
 * Olaf: Can you do that? Can you explode twice?!
 * Sheriff Mulan: Of course not!


 * Kairi Sparkle: I can't make it!


 * Kairit Sparkle: WHAT?! The Onix the Rock Pokémon! wasn't the doozy?! How could it not be the doozy?! What could be "doozy-er" than that?!


 * Rapunzel: Honk (honk sound)!