I. Establish Tree Bark and his lifestyle
(Tree Bark and the deer are foreign to us, so we need to establish who they are and what they mean for our viewers. People who have never even seen MLP are liable to stumble across this video, and we have to write for them too.)

1. Tree Bark is becoming a teen and most bucks his age are developing urges. Namely the desire to mark out territory and claim girls. Tree Bark doesn't really get it, but he's trying.

2. A female deer enters and gives some swift exposition about the changing seasons and Tree Bark's plans for the future. Tree Bark is awkward around deer girls, not really comfortable about dating them like the real deer are, so he awkwardly hits on his young friend.

3. A male deer drops in and spoils the dialogue, but in a friendly way. Mainly by trying to engage Tree Bark in play fighting and by flirting a bit more successfully with the girl. Nobody is mean to Tree Bark – we're not following the “outcast misfit” trope. Tree Bark knows he's kind of different but confesses to it, and he's not weepy about it.

4. Cue intro here. We're established!

II. Being different but goddamned typical anyway

1. Fluttershy is in the woods helping a family of porcupines renovate their tree hovel, but she's exhausted and clumsy. She makes a small mistake and excuses herself, explaining that she had to settle a housing dispute between an armadillo and a gopher tortoise the night before. The porcupines offer a nice area for Fluttershy to lay down and have a nap, and she politely accepts their generosity.

2. Tree Bark decides to have a short talk with his dad. Tree Bark thinks himself gay, maybe, though we won't explicitly say this. Dad is willing to accept Tree Bark anyway, but questions the line of thinking. Eventually Tree Bark admits he doesn't know what's wrong. Dad tries to chalk things up to jitters about the future; everyone tends to freeze up a little when life starts to change. Tree Bark goes for a walk.

3. We cut back to Fluttershy, who realizes she's been sleeping a while. She dashes off in a hurry. Seconds afterward, Tree Bark enters the scene she left and takes advantage of the abandoned bed. He drops into in a huff and lays his head down in a fit of depression. At that point he catches a whiff of Fluttershy's scent and perfume.

4. Tree Bark realizes the bed smells really nice for some reason. Really nice. He spots the family of porcupines and persistently needles them about the smell. He just wants to know where it's from, not who, since he doesn't realize it's a mare yet. Reluctantly, the porcupines direct Tree Bark towards Ponyville.

III. Girls and brain

1. Fluttershy is outside sweeping up when Tree Bark stumbles across her abode. He freezes, but Fluttershy says a quiet hello, which gives Tree Bark a chance to gather up his courage. He approaches the girl as nonchalantly as he's learned by watching the local stags and begins asking leading questions, which frankly makes Fluttershy just a tad uncomfortable.

2. Getting the hint that conversation is not going well, Tree Bark says goodbye, and then sets to action. He goes out and fetches some sticks and posts so that he can place them around the area to mark his territory, and the broad area he's selected just happens to include Fluttershy's house.

3. Fluttershy asks what Tree Bark is doing. Tree Bark explains the territory situation, and Fluttershy asks him very politely to maybe not include her house in his territory. Tree Bark agrees, and settles for just claiming the area right outside her house, so she's only in his territory if she goes outside.

4. Fluttershy locks herself in her house and decides to nervously wait it out until Twilight arrives.

IV. Communication failure

1. When Twilight shows up, she just steps around the expectantly waiting Tree Bark, who's hanging around Fluttershy's gate. As she passes him, Tree Bark suddenly realizes there's two girls in or near his territory now and starts to panic. Things are moving faster than he planned.

2. Twilight meets with Fluttershy, who remarks on her sheer unadulterated horror at this point. Tree Bark is outside gathering up every stray flower he can find in a blind panic. Twilight agrees to go talk to him.

3. Tree Bark dumps all the flowers he could find in front of Twilight and yammers like an idiot, not sure if he should treat Twilight like an older woman or a girlfriend. He's in well over his head according to his own understanding. The conversation goes in circles, with neither pony really understanding the context.

4. Pinkie shows up, and Tree Bark runs off to find a better gift for both new girls. Given a lull in Tree Bark's overtures and antics, Pinkie, Fluttershy, and Twilight confer with one other. They deduce that he's acting like a stag for some reason. Before they can discuss why that might be, Pinkie leaps to a plan.

5. Pinkie goes outside, gathers up a few stray branches of her own, and puts them on her ears like Tree Bark does. She then challenges Tree Bark to a battle of dominance, which she swiftly wins given her larger size, greater confidence, and extraordinary energy. In the wake of the victory, Pinkie declares herself the owner of Tree Bark's territory, then assumes his position by weirdly waiting outside just like Tree Bark was doing. Tree Bark sheepishly stands by Pinkie, not at all sure what to think of this turn of events.

V. Boys are linear

1. Twilight rails on Pinkie, and as she does so AJ shows up. AJ has no idea what's going on, and doesn't realize yet that three of four ponies here are taking things seriously. Then Tree Bark's dad arrives, claiming that Tree Bark's mothers thought he should spend more time with his son.

2. Tree Bark tries to tell his dad how well things are going, which essentially clears up a lot of confusion for all the girls. AJ then steps in and has a polite dialogue about the friend zone, more or less, outlining the benefits of it and encouraging Tree Bark to give Fluttershy and everyone else more space.

3. The very direct approach and the way AJ explains the situation so it sounds like giving up is a winning situation for Tree Bark is pretty appealing to the young guy. He agrees to just be friends, and maybe he can visit some time. He'll set up his new territory off in the woods somewhere so they can visit him if he wants.

4. Tree Bark runs off! He's learned a lesson as well as it will stick to his hormone-addled mind, and as an adult it will probably be valuable. Before he leaves, AJ asks Tree Bark's dad if he knows that Tree Bark is a pony. Dad remarks that they'll work on one problem at a time. “See you around!” dad says, knowing that Tree Bark will be lured again by pony girls if nothing else.

5. The episode ends! If Twilight is not an alicorn, then we can also do a moral at the end like the show used to. Sort of a “sometimes it pays to be honest and straightforward” kind of message. As far as how an episode like this might relate to young girls, it's probably never too early to learn that boys are dumb and need to have things explained to them.

Tree Bark's Dad:

Dad is the quintessential dad. He's the man around the house who spends every weekend in socks and underwear, reading the newspaper while his kids watch cartoons on television. Dad has approximately six wives, being that deer are not monogamous and any girl in dad's territory is either his wife or one of his kids. However, dad is not exactly a stud – the buck has six wives; it would be impossible to be a stud.

Rather, Dad understands women as well as the quintessential dad can understand women, which is to say he merely agrees with everything any woman says and does his best, however lazily, to comply with every and any request a female makes of him. He doesn't always successfully complete his assigned chores, but he surrenders to the harangue he gets for his failures just fine, and he never, ever criticizes his wives.

Quite the contrary, as a survival trait, dad has learned to see very honest and truthful value in the women in his life, and he knows well enough to say so when he appreciates something. He never asks them to do anything for him, and he does try to make them feel happy and respected. As a result, his wives do take good care of him, and he escapes a certain amount of scrutiny throughout the week.

Dad has an awesome mustache. He knows manliness is fundamentally nothing but a joke among men, but he enjoys the joke. He knows his son doesn't realize the things Dad has come to know about girls yet, but he also knows his son will learn through hard experience – there's sadly no way around that fact of life. All things considered, Tree Bark's dad is a smart guy and a kind guy, so he's relaxed and trusting because, if things fall apart due to someone else's actions, he's smart enough to salvage a situation regardless.

Tree Bark's female friend:

She's your fairly typical girl. Intelligent, beautiful, and a quick, passionate thinker. In terms of her relationship with Tree Bark, she's not really interested in him, but she does value friends and worries about Tree Bark's well being. This girl is thinking about the future, and she both knows and feels that anyone could get places in life.

She has a certain amount of ambition, and since deer often place the alpha female in the position of prime leadership, that's what she wants to be some day. She's just got to find that niche. She needs to figure out where the best guy is, but one who's young enough that she can get established and placed above the other girls competing for authority.

Tree Bark isn't the best guy, but he's got friends. His friends have promise. And the girl has friends, and her friends have promise too. It's all a social game for her, and one she's a sharp thinker for.

Tree Bark's male friend:

This guy is what you'd call stable and well-rounded. As far as male personalities go, he's not far out of the norm. He'd like to fight a little, he'd like to flirt a little. Then he wants kids and a secure future. He won't step on toes or go out of his way to engage in conflicts. He just wants a family and a life, and beyond that he's happy!

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