In the nursery, the younger ponies are babysitting two pairs of newborn twins. This is going very badly, and the babies are running circles around them. Fed up with this, the baby ponies decide to grab the infants and go out to get some ice cream. Unfortunately, there's no ice cream to be had. The guy who makes all of Ponyland's ice cream and the guy who makes the toppings used to be good friends, but they've become embroiled in a bitter feud and have ceased production to spite each other. Baby Lickety-Split decides that the only thing to do is to get them to make up, rekindle their friendship, and keep the ice cream coming.
Unfortunately, this proves easier said than done. Rocky Ripple, the ice cream maker, says that Fudgy McSwaine, the topping maker, stole the recipe for his greatest ice cream flavor. Fudgy, when talked to, seems more amenable, and offers to talk to Rocky — but, as he's still bitter over the accusation, he uses the meeting to frame Rocky for attacking him. The feud soon escalates into an all-out ice cream war, as the two roll out a pair of giant war machines and start pelting each other with ammunition made out of their own products.
The ponies take shelter in the ice cream shop, where the baby ponies begin to throw a tantrum out of hunger. The shop owner breaks out her last bucket of ice cream, which she had been saving for a special occasion, to calm them down. As luck would have it, Rocky's lost recipe is found crumpled up within the ice cream — apparently, it fell inside his mixtures when he wasn't paying attention. Baby North Star hurries to bring it to the feuding ice cream makers, and when the two realize what must have happened they apologize, make up with each other and cease their conflict, returning everything to normal.
This episode contains examples of:
- Babysitting Episode: The episode starts with the child ponies begrudgingly babysitting the newborn twins, and its plot is started by the formers' attempt to get ice cream for the latters.
- Edible Ammunition: Rocky Ripple and Fudgy McSwaine fight each other with tank-like vehicles that shoot globs of ice cream and volleys of ice cream toppings.
- Gilligan Cut: When the baby ponies approach Rocky Ripple's factory, Baby Tic-Tac-Toe is doubtful about how likely they are to get the feuding ice cream barons to see reason. Baby Lickety Split is confident that they'll easily be able to talk them into reconciling. The next scene is of Rocky Ripple angrily refusing to do this.Baby Lickety-Split: You kidding, Baby Tic-Tac-Toe? A bunch of cute kids like us? He'll do anything we ask.
Rocky Ripple: Never! Fudgy McSwaine's a thief! - Silly Reason for War: The two ice cream makers become embroiled in a conflict fought with actual (if food-shooting) tanks, all because one of them dropped a recipe in his ice cream and though the other stole it.
- We Used to Be Friends: Rocky Ripple and Fudgy McSwaine used to be close friends and business partners, but fell out when Rocky accused Fudgy of stealing his secret recipe and are now bitter enemies.
