The Dazzling Opera, a traveling circus run by ringmaster and founding pony, Dazzle Clem, brings its show to Ponyville. Overnight the show posts heralds all around town to promote the big top and sideshows that came along with. Fluttershy, on a walk, observes their barbaric behind-the-scenes practices and tries shedding light on their backstage behavior, but will it be enough to stop the circus from breaking a profit?