EXT. WOODS - BIKE PATH - EVENING

A female TEENAGE UNICORN wearing a prom dress emerges from

the trees on one side of the path. A male TEENAGE PEGASUS

wearing a football uniform emerges on the other side.

TEENAGE UNICORN

This isn't the prom!

TEENAGE PEGASUS

This isn't the game!

TEENAGE UNICORN

Oh well. Wanna make out?

TEENAGE PEGASUS

Okay!

The Teenage Pegasus throws off his helmet and flies across

the path to the Teenage Unicorn, and they start making out.

TEENAGE PEGASUS/UNICORN

Mmm!

The sound of a chainsaw firing up blares from above. The two

teenagers turn their heads upward in surprise -

Before they can react, LEATHERMUZZLE, a grimy horse wearing a

feedbag made of flesh, drops from a tree and slams the blade

of a chainsaw down lengthwise across both of their faces.

LEATHERMUZZLE

(screaming)

Aaaaaggggghhhhh!

The teenagers' bodies shake violently - blood spraying as

their heads are sawed in half - then collapse limply to the

ground. Leathermuzzle raises his chainsaw victoriously.

LEATHERMUZZLE

Aaaaaggggghhhhh!

CAPTAIN THUNDERHOOF appears in a burst of light several yards

up the path.

CAPTAIN THUNDERHOOF

Leathermuzzle!

Leathermuzzle stares at Captain Thunderhoof in confusion.

LEATHERMUZZLE

Agh?

CAPTAIN THUNDERHOOF

It's rude to cut someone's head in

half without asking! And what did

I tell you about making feedbags

out of dead bodies? You're getting

a time-out!

LEATHERMUZZLE

Uh... Aaaaaggggghhhhh!

He charges at her with his chainsaw.

CAPTAIN THUNDERHOOF

My Guillotine Blade of Goodness

will settle you down!

Captain Thunderhoof conjures a floating, sparkling guillotine

blade out of thin air. It flies straight at Leathermuzzle

and slices his head clean off, blood gushing from the neck

stump as his body falls on his own chainsaw.

CAPTAIN THUNDERHOOF

Now apologize!

CUT TO:

INT. CORN & PEG'S HOUSE - LIVING ROOM - DAY

CORN and PEG are sitting on the couch in their Captain

Thunderhoof costumes, watching the previous scene on TV.

CORN/PEG

Yay Captain Thunderhoof!

The doorbell rings.

CORN

Oh boy, the doorbell!

They run to the door, and Peg opens it to reveal Captain

Thunderhoof standing on the porch, looking very worried.

CORN/PEG

Captain Thunderhoof!

CAPTAIN THUNDERHOOF

Hi, Corn and Peg.

PEG

We just watched your latest

Hallowhinny special!

CORN

Yeah, it was the best one yet!

Captain Thunderhoof sighs.

CAPTAIN THUNDERHOOF

Thank you, but the next one may not

be so great.

PEG

Why do you say that?

CAPTAIN THUNDERHOOF

I was talking with the executives

at Nickerlodeon, and they say they

aren't going to hire Tom Savineigh

for next year's special.

CORN/PEG

Whaaat?!

CORN

But Tom Savineigh has done the gore

effects for all your Hallowhinny

specials!

PEG

Yeah, he's the master of the craft!

CAPTAIN THUNDERHOOF

I know, but the budget for

practical effects is getting

slashed. They want to do

everything with CGI, like they did

with the vomit blood in "Twinkle

Piggy's Possession Party."

CORN

Oh no!

PEG

That's terrible!

CAPTAIN THUNDERHOOF

I don't know what to do. Do you

two have any ideas?

CORN/PEG

(thinking)

Hmmmm.

PEG

I know! We could do a hayride to

raise money!

CORN

Yeah! Then we could save it and

give it to Tom Savineigh to do the

effects for next year's special!

Captain Thunderhoof brightens up.

CAPTAIN THUNDERHOOF

That's a great idea! Thank you,

Corn and Peg! I must be going now.

A good deed probably needs to be

done somewhere. Goodbye!

Captain Thunderhoof launches herself off the porch up into

the sky.

CORN/PEG

Goodbye, Captain Thunderhoof!

CORN

All right, Peg. Ready to get to

work?

PEG

I sure am, Corn! 'Cause what do we

do?

CORN/PEG

We do good!

Corn and Peg high-hoof each other.

CORN/PEG

Do-gooders unite! Here! We! Go!

[INSERT "DO-GOOD" SONG]

CUT TO:

EXT. WOODS - DAY

FERRIS and FERDY sit in a hay cart, eager looks on their

faces. Peg flies down and lands on a log.

PEG

Ferris and Ferdy, welcome to a free

test run on the Hayride of Horror!

FERRIS

Thunderrific!

Ferdy bounces in his seat excitedly.

FERDY

Haywite of Hohwa!

PEG

Now, we have to be careful because

these woods are haunted by the

ghost of -

A dummy made of a pillow-stuffed plaid shirt and a filled

water balloon with a happy face drawn on it in marker for a

head rises up from behind the log.

CORN (O.S.)

(deep voice)

Hi there!

PEG

Oh no! It's Dead Dan!

FERRIS/FERDY

Yay!

CORN (O.S.)

(deep voice)

You're all gonna die in these

woods!

FERRIS/FERDY

Yay!

Hidden behind the dummy, Corn is holding it up.

CORN

(deep voice)

Just like I did when I was walking

on this very spot and got a really

bad headache.

Corn pops (hehe) the balloon with his horn. The bursting

balloon splatters ketchup all over the dummy. Ferris and

Ferdy laugh uproariously.

CORN

(deep voice)

Then I had a heart attack.

Corn blows on the end of a rubber hose going into the dummy's

back. Spaghetti explodes out of the front of the shirt.

FERDY

Pasghetti!

Ferdy leaps from the cart onto the dummy and eats the

spaghetti, causing the dummy to fall sideways on the log,

making Corn visible.

CORN

Ta-da!

Ferris claps.

FERRIS

That was great! What's next?

CORN/PEG

(to each other)

Uhh...

PEG

That's it.

CORN

Yeah, that's all we got.

Ferris blinks, befuddled.

FERRIS

That's all? What about this cart?

Does it even move?

CORN/PEG

(to each other)

Uhh-

FERRIS

I don't think a Hayride of Horror

that isn't a hayride and only has

one horror is going to make very

much money.

Peg sighs.

PEG

He's right, Corn.

CORN

But we already put up all the

fliers that say we're opening

tonight. We need to think of

something fast.

FERRIS

Wait, where's Ferdy?

Corn, Peg and Ferris look around. Ferdy has disappeared.

FERDY (O.S.)

Hey! Ober 'ere!

CORN/PEG/FERRIS

Ferdy!

They rush off, following Ferdy's voice into a dense thicket

of trees, where they find him jumping in place.

FERDY

'Ere! 'Ere!

Lying on the ground next to Ferdy are the prop bodies of

Teenage Pegasus and Teenage Unicorn, their heads sawed in

half, covered in dried fake blood.

FERDY

I fown det boties!

PEG

It's the fake bodies that were used

in this year's Hallowhinny special!

CORN

You're right, Peg!

Ferris notices something under a bush and lifts up some of

the branches, uncovering another prop - a severed horse head

with corkscrews jammed its eyes.

FERRIS

Here's another one!

CORN

That's from last year's special!

Peg holds up a cardboard box full of bloody hooves.

PEG

And the one before that!

CORN

What are all these doing out here?

A van backs in through a clearing across from the group.

PEG

Hide!

The four quickly hide behind a tree as the van comes to a

stop. They watch as the driver's-side door opens and TOM

SAVINEIGH, a goateed horse, steps out. Corn and Peg gasp.

CORN/PEG

Tom Savineigh!

TOM SAVINEIGH

Huh?

Corn and Peg spring out of hiding and run up to Tom.

CORN

Oh...my...Thunderhoof! It's really

you! I can't believe it!

PEG

We love your work, Mr. Savineigh!

TOM SAVINEIGH

Oh, thanks a bunch! It's always

nice to meet fans.

A smiling Ferris walks up, Ferdy bouncing happily behind him.

FERRIS

Look, Ferdy! It's Tom Savineigh!

FERDY

Dom Sabeenay!

TOM SAVINEIGH

Hi there! So is there a party in

the woods today or somethin'?

PEG

We were working on our Hayride of

Horror.

Corn looks around at the props.

CORN

Um, what are you doing out here,

Mr. Savineigh?

TOM SAVINEIGH

Well, I'm gonna have to start

living in my van soon, so I have no

choice but to dump all my old props

in the woods.

CORN/PEG

Whaaat?!

TOM SAVINEIGH

Even my blood barrels.

Tom opens the back of his van, revealing several large

barrels inside.

PEG

Wow, that's a lot of blood!

TOM SAVINEIGH

No one wants to hire me to do

practical effects anymore.

CORN

We know! That's why we're doing a

hayride to raise money so you can

keep working on Captain

Thunderhoof's Hallowhinny specials!

TOM SAVINEIGH

Really? That's so nice of you!

PEG

But...our hayride isn't so

Thunderrific.

CORN

Oh. Yeah.

Corn and Peg look down dispiritedly. Then, their eyes light

up as smiles break out on their faces.

CORN

Wait.

They turn to each other.

CORN

Peg, are you thinking what I'm

thinking?

PEG

Abso-Thunderhoof-ly!

Corn and Peg do their "left-right-hey-pachow" routine.

CUT TO:

POV - Looking at a video playing on a phone held by a hoof.

ON PHONE:

In a dance hall, a group of PIG PRIESTS wearing party hats

stand in a row, holding up crucifixes. Lights flash overhead

as pop music plays.

PIG PRIESTS

Let the power of Oinkhrist compel

you! Let the power of Oinkhrist

compel you!

TWINKLE PIGGY, also wearing a party hat, is floating in the

air in front of the Pig Priests, her eyes glowing red. She

screeches demonically, then vomits pixelated CG blood on the

Pig Priests.

OFF PHONE:

The hoof holding the phone moves it out of view, revealing a

prop horse head behind it that vomits fake blood right at us.

END POV TO REVEAL:

EXT. WOODS - NIGHT

The blood splashes on CLARISSA and the POSIES sitting in the

hay cart, which now has SHERIFF SWIFTSTONE harnessed to the

front of it. The surrounding area is lit up with orange

string lights in the trees.

The Posies cheer enthusiastically as Clarissa thoughtfully

considers both the horse head and the video on her phone.

CLARISSA

Hmm.

(smiles)

They're right. Practical effects

really are better than CGI!

SHERIFF SWIFTSTONE

All right, horror hayriders, next

up, probably more blood!

CLARISSA/POSIES

Yay!

Over in a nearby area, Corn and Peg stand next to a booth

where Tom Savineigh is signing autographs for a long line of

fans. The next autographee, MAYOR MONTAGU, steps up.

CORN/PEG

How do, Mayor Montagu?

MAYOR MONTAGU

I must say, this is the best

hayride event I've seen in all my

days as mayor of Galloping Grove!

CORN/PEG

Thanks!

CORN

It sure was nice of Sheriff

Swiftstone to volunteer to pull the

hay cart.

PEG

And thank you for letting us have

your props, Mr. Savineigh!

TOM SAVINEIGH

This is perfect! My old props can

be put to good use, and I can make

extra money signing autographs!

Captain Thunderhoof flies down.

CORN/PEG

Captain Thunderhoof!

CAPTAIN THUNDERHOOF

I just talked to the Nickerlodeon

executives. They say as long as

they're not the ones paying for it,

Tom can keep doing the effects for

my specials!

CORN/PEG

Awe-Thunderhoof-some!

TOM SAVINEIGH

And it's all thanks to the best do

gooders ever, Corn and Peg!

Corn and Peg high-hoof.

PEG

We did good, Corn.

CORN

We sure did, Peg.

The stuffed plaid shirt rolls itself in front of Corn and

Peg. Ferdy bursts from the chest covered in spaghetti.

FERDY

(to camera)

Appy Allowhimmy!

THE END