Lofty, North Star and Paradise are exploring the lands beyond Paradise Estate, and while flying through a range of desolate mountains they find a golden door in the middle of nowhere. North Star is intrigued and wants to take a look inside, but the others think that it would be a bad idea. Paradise recalls a legend about a wizard creating the door to seal a terrible monster away in the Land of Legends, which would stay inside as long as nobody enters past the door.
North Star wants a look anyway, and cracks opens the door. Out come Robin Hood and his Merry Men, Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox, Prince Charming, Sherazade, Aladdin and Hercules; something big almost comes through as well, but the door is shut before it can pass.
Soon enough, the legendary figures arrive at Paradise Estate and start to make nuisances of themselves. Prince Charming hits on anything that moves, which collides awkwardly with Heart Throb's wishes for romance; Hercules is a neat freak obsessed with cleanliness; Sherazade starts teaching the baby ponies belly dancing; Aladdin trades his lamp to Buttons, and the genie is tremendously nitpicky about wishes. The ponies are starting to get very annoyed.
Meanwhile, Heart Throb flies off to the Door to look for Prince Charming. She enters the Land of Legends, a place filled with different fairytale castles and palaces, and a huge dragon-like beast takes the opportunity to leave it for the real world.
This episode contains examples of:
- Genie in a Bottle: Aladdin comes out of the door holding the archetypal oil lamp holding a genie that comes out when a pony polishes it up with her tail. The genie then offers to use his powerful magic to conjure up whatever the ponies wish for, although his anal retentiveness causes him to spend so long obsessing over the minute details of each wish that he never gets around to doing much until the legends' magic starts to fade.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: Robin Hood is a master archer, which he demonstrates by shooting an arrow lengthwise with another arrow and then doing the same to the second with a third and by getting a bull's eye with five arrows at once.
- Literal Genie: Aladdin's genie turns out be tremendously anal-retentive and focused on the minute details and permutations of each wish. In a twist, this doesn't cause any wishes to backfire because he spends too much time asking for further detail to actually do much. He only gets the degree of specific information he requires to grant a wish when Wind Whistler steps in.Lickety-Split: I wish the weather was perfect.
Genie: Perfect, hm? Could you be more specific? Temperature? [...] Relative humidity? [...] And I also need to know the prevailing wind speed, and the percentage of the color orange in the sunset!
Lickety-Split: Look, all I want is a perfect day, so what's so difficult about that?
Genie: What about the sky? You have your cerulean blue, your robin's egg blue, your...
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Genie: ... and what about barometric pressure? Pollen count? - Merchandise-Driven: Heart Throb's outfit from this episode is Hearts and Candy
sold as part of the year three pony wear series. - Refugee from TV Land: The legendary characters all originate in the Land of Legends, the place where stories and tales play out and archetypes and fictional characters live. They enter the real world when North Star opens the door separating the two worlds.
