Read And Smile

Read And Smile
 * Season #: 5
 * Episode #: 15
 * Overall Ep #: 88

Plot
While Raspberry is stuck in the hospital, he discovers the joys of reading but hides it from the Candies.

Episode
(Opening shot: fade in to Choco Cream and Gelatin Soft, sitting in the grass in the ice cream watermelon fields during the day. Something is heard clashing two pieces of metal together from a distance o.s., and the two turn their heads to track its movements as Lollipop Pops walks up.) (A cut to Swirly Freeze with an epee sword frames the rosy-skinned boy with the same weapon, for a fencing match before the camera shifts back to the earthbound trio.) (A jab from Swirly nearly gave Raspberry whiplash. In close up, Choco follows up by describing a large vertical circle with his head while turning it 360 degrees on his neck. An equally impossible 180-degree turn allows him to see the next trick, and all three voices of awe with Lollipop and Gelatin o.s. at this point. Zoom out to frame them; Choco's contortions finally catch up with him and untwist the body to leave him disoriented for a moment. Admiration quickly gives way to terror on the trio.) (Their gazes drop back to ground level in time with the sounds of a hurtling descent and a very hard landing that nearly shook the camera to pieces.) --
 * {Lollipop Pops} "Hey, Choco Cream. Hey, Gelatin Soft." (gazing at the screen) "What are you guys looking at?"
 * {Choco Cream} "Raspberry Ripple!"
 * {Choco Cream} "Isn't he the most daring devil -- I mean, the most devilish darer -- I mean --"
 * {Gelatin Soft} "He's dazzling!"
 * {Choco Cream} "Oh! Good word. He's dazzling!"
 * {Lollipop Pops} "Uh oh..."
 * {Choco Cream} "Ay-yagh!"
 * {Lollipop, Choco, Gelatin} "Ohhhhh!"
 * {Swirly Freeze} (from o.s.) "So much for dazzling."

(Opening shot; the black screen splits as if it were an opening eye, accompanied by the beeping of a heart monitor. The view is extremely fuzzy at this point, but enough detail can be picked out on all twelve colored blobs to identify them as the CandyCake Guppies.) (Another blink focuses the image and clarifies the quality of the voices greatly.) (A close-up of the boy reveals a woozy Raspberry, who clearly came down too hard from that fencing match he did with Swirly in the beginning. A bandage is stuck under one eye, and wrappings are visible around the base of his tail. He is in a hospital bed, as seen when the camera zooms out to frame the entire group, and he has been dressed in a green johnny. A longer shot of the room frames a curtain dividing his bed from the other side, as well as Dr Cauliflower.) (He whisks away the dividing curtain to expose the occupant of the next bed; a male pony who has more broken bones than sound ones.) mcs
 * {Caramel Cider} (very muffled) "Is he gonna be okay?" (Blink.)
 * {Lemon Drop} (a bit clearer) "Oh, I'm so worried!"
 * {Cotton Puffy} (voice echoing a bit) "Is his face gonna stay that way?"
 * {Lollipop Pops} "How is it, Cauliflower?"
 * {Dr Cauliflower} "He's going to be fine. Luckily, he has friends like you who got him over here in a jiffy."
 * {Raspberry Ripple} (groaning impatiently) "How long do I need ta lie here? I got things ta do!"
 * {Dr Cauliflower} "Well, that all depends on your recovery, but I'd say a few days minimum."
 * {Raspberry Ripple} "You guys have gotta get me outta here! I'm gonna climb the walls!"
 * {Cotton Puffy} "Just like a spider!"
 * {Choco Cream} (to Cauliflower) "Did the crash somehow give him super-duper spider powers?"
 * {Dr Cauliflower} "N-no. Nor did it give him amazing healing powers." (back to Raspberry; he continues o.s.) "He needs to stay in bed for a few days."
 * {Raspberry Ripple} "Few days?" (He falls back onto his pillow.) "Might as well be a few months, years, forever." (Caramel & Lemon approach.)
 * {Lemon Drop} "It's not so bad, Raspberry Ripple."
 * {Caramel Cider} "I bet the chow in here is hand-lickin' good." (Cut to Cinnamon at the window.)
 * {Cinnamon Buns} (holding a johnny) "And the hospital gowns...they match the curtains!" (Big grin.)
 * {Cotton Puffy} "And look!"
 * {Choco & Cotton} "You have a roommate!"