Equestria Girls TV and Movies

To promote the line, full length films have been released, at a rate of one per year, followed by specials and shorts. The first two films had limited theater releases, while all movies since have debuted exclusively on television. While the films and shorts take place in the same canon as My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and reference events from the series, events in these typically have no bearing on the TV series.

The world of Equestria Girls is one that can typically be traveled to via a magic mirror portal, and is an alternate universe where human counterparts of the ponies reside. The main setting is Canterlot High, a school headed by Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna, and is the school which most of the human characters attend.

Four main films have been released. The first, My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, was released in June 2013, and featured Twilight Sparkle traveling to the human world after her Element of Magic tiara is stolen. The sequel, called Equestria Girls 2: Rainbow Rocks, was released in September of 2014, and revolves around a band competition that the main characters compete in. The third, entitled Equestria Girls: Friendship Games, has the students of Canterlot High competing in the titular Friendship Games, a series of athletic and academic events, against the students of the accomplished Crystal Prep Academy. Equestria Girls: Legend of Everfree has the girls spending time at Camp Everfree, which is plagued by strange magical events.

A series of three half-hour specials have been released, which together make a whole story collectively called Magical Movie Night. "Dance Magic" has the girls competing in a music video contest. In "Movie Magic," the girls visit a movie set and solve a mystery there. Finally, "Mirror Magic" has the girls along with the visiting Starlight Glimmer dealing with consequences of Equestrian magic enchanting a mirror.

Five more specials were released:

• "Forgotten Friendship" focuses on Sunset Shimmer mysteriously being forgotten by her friends.

• "Rollercoaster of Friendship" focuses on Rarity and Applejack's friendship at an amusement park.

• "Spring Breakdown" focuses on the girls going on a cruise when a storm created by the Storm King's magic appears.

• "Sunset's Backstage Pass" focuses on Sunset Shimmer and Pinkie Pie's friendship as Sunset is stuck in a time loop at a music festival.

• "Holidays Unwrapped" is a collection of stories that happen around the holidays.

Many shorts were released around the movies, some of which are just music videos. And a two season show of shorts called Better Together were also released.

My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (2013)

DVD

My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, takes place sometime after the Season 3 finale, "Magical Mystery Cure". Twilight, and her friends travel to the the Crystal Empire where Twilight is to attend her first princess summit. Twilight is shown to be struggling with her new-found alicorn status, and the potential responsibilities of a princess. While Twilight is sleeping that night, a unicorn, Sunset Shimmer, comes and steals Twilight's crown, with the intention of replacing it with a fake. While Twilight discovers the attempt, she is unable to stop the unicorn from traveling through a mirror, actually a portal to another world, after the crown falls through it.

Twilight is forced to enter the other world to retrieve her crown, as it is the element of Magic and key to the defense of Equestria. In the other world, Twilight becomes a teenage girl, and is must cope with her new body and lack of magic as she navigates the high school Sunset Shimmer attends. There, Twilight learns that to retrieve her crown, she must become Princess of the Fall Formal. Twilight then works with five girls who closely resemble her pony friends to win back her crown and return to Equestria. However, at the same time, she must deal with the machinations of Sunset Shimmer, who wants the Element of Magic in order to use its power to take over Equestria.

Live Action Music Video

A live action music video came out on September 2, 2013, with actors dressed as the characters and mixing in some animated shots. The song is called "Magic of Friendship" in the video, "Friendship is Magic" in the video title, and usually "EG Stomp" otherwise (such as in the Gameloft game).

Rainbow Rocks

The second movie came with eight shorts before and three shorts after.

Prequel Shorts

1. Music to My Ears (March 27, 2014)

MUSIC VIDEO - DJ is listening to her dubstep music in her headphones as she walks down the city street. Everything and everyone starts moving on beat or dancing with the music (except Pinkie, because Pinkie). She goes to get some desserts from Mrs. Cake, then goes to school, where similarly everyone dances or is on beat. That is until the bell rings and Principal Celestia confiscates her headphones, but DJ Pon 3 just takes out her earbuds to continue listening.

• The title is a play on the idiom for something to be pleasant to hear.

2. Guitar Centered (April 4, 2014)

The girls are at the music store trying to get a guitar for Rainbow Dash. She ends up picking a guitar and grabbing it at the same time that Trixie does. The two decide to have a "shred off," competing against each other on other guitars. Rainbow Dash does her pony power up and wins, but decides to buy and keep the guitar that she won with. Trixie is all excited to get the guitar they were fighting over, until she realizes that it is $12,000. When Trixie yells out like a classic villain "You'll pay for this, Rainbow Dash!," Pinkie chirps in with a "No, silly. If you want it, you'll have to pay for it."

• DJ Pon 3's music can be heard at the beginning of the short.

3. Hamstocalypse Now (April 11, 2014)

Fluttershy is so excited to finally get to clean the hamster habitat, and Rarity is there to watch the hamsters for her while she works. But while Fluttershy was busy, Rarity named all the hamsters and dressed all of them and started drama among them. The girls start trying to scoop the hamsters up in their bags since the hamsters refuse to calm down and go home, but Fluttershy's tambourine falls out of her bag and she begins to play that, which causes her to pony power up and hypnotizes the hamsters to go home.

• The title seems to be a play on the movie "Apocalypse Now."
• Two of the hamsters appear again in "Shake Your Tail!"

4. Pinkie on the One (April 25, 2014)

Rainbow Dash is getting onto Pinkie for not helping her look for a drummer, and everytime Rainbow Dash mentions how a drummer should be, Pinkie is unintentionally proving that she can do it. Pinkie is being taught baking by Granny Smith, and mixes two bowls at once while Rainbow talks about drummers having to do things with both hands at once. They are working on a banner when Rainbow Dash mentions a drummer's instincts, and Pinkie starts drumming on a tub of glitter. They are at lunch with Applejack and Rarity when Rainbow mentions a drummer's energy, as Pinkie starts drumming all over the lunch table with her silverware and bouncing everything around on the table. Rainbow Dash eventually realizes Pinkie is perfect to be their drummer, and the friends watch her play on a drumset as she pony powers up.

5. Player Piano (May 10, 2014)

Rarity is struggling to get a whole grand piano to school so she can play it when she sees the human versions of the Diamond Dogs out in the schoolyard. They get to the band room right before the girls' time in the band room is up and they are going to have to move to the gym some distance away. That's when Pinkie suggests Rarity play a keytar instead. Rarity tries it out and pony powers up.

6. A Case for the Bass (May 24, 2014)

Granny Smith is running a garage sale and has accidentally sold Applejack's bass to Flim and Flam for $2. The girls go to Flim and Flam's store to get it back and the brothers try to charge them a premium price for it. They try to prove it is hers by her initials monogrammed on it, but the brothers still question it and she then plays the bass to prove it, and pony powers up. The other girls even threaten the brothers and that's when they let Applejack have it back for the price of having her dressed as a banana and promoting their shop. Granny Smith comes up to her outside the shop and asks "Since when did you play the bass?"

• A picture of the Pink Floyd prism is seen on the wall in Flim and Flam's shop behind Applejack.

7. Shake Your Tail! (June 6, 2014)

MUSIC VIDEO - The girls try to come up with a theme for a dance in the gym, trying out all sorts of ideas from each of them. Pinkie wants a hula, Rainbow Dash wants it sports themed, Applejack wants it country farm themed, Rarity wants a masquerade ball, Twilight wants it to be a whole library and classroom, and Fluttershy wants it filled with animals. They end up with something rainbow themed and a mix of all their ideas.

• During Fluttershy's idea, Rarity can be seen struggling with two of the dressed up hamsters from Hamstocalypse Now.

8. Perfect Day for Fun! (June 19, 2014)

MUSIC VIDEO - The girls are out at the fair and are trying to find each other. The girls are split with Rarity and Pinkie, Twilight and Fluttershy, and Applejack and Rainbow Dash. Applejack and Rainbow try the strongman game and lose to Spike the dog. Fluttershy plays Whack a Mole when Twilight comes up to her with a Discord plush, and Fluttershy gets scared and hits it. Rarity and Pinkie are looking at cotton candy when Pinkie's cotton candy makes the shape of her head and hair. They finally all realize that they are at the photo booth area at the same time and finally group up for a few photos before it's their time to perform on stage. A montage of various pictures of them having fun at the fair together then plays, before ending with them riding the ferris wheel together and looking at the moon and stars.

• The Discord plush appearance.
• Pinkie can be seen riding a merry go round horse that looks like her pony self.

Rainbow Rocks (2014)

Equestria Girls 2: Rainbow Rocks, takes place some time after the Season 4 finale. As a result of Twilight's actions in the previous film, Equestrian Magic has entered the human world, causing a variety of effects. Meanwhile, the human counterparts of Twilight's friends have put together a band called the Rainbooms for an upcoming concert, while Sunset Shimmer is attempting to atone for her earlier actions. However, a mysterious trio of girls arrive and immediately turn the friendly exhibition into a battle of the bands. When Sunset Shimmer realizes that something is off about the trio of girls, she manages to send a message to Twilight Sparkle, who manages to open the portal to assist the humans with a magical counterspell to fight off the intruders.

Eventually, the trio of strangers are revealed to be sirens from Equestria who had been banished to the human world. The influx of magic had strengthed their natural ability manipulate others through song, allowing them to gain power from their victims. Luckily, the Rainbooms are able to harness their own magic through song, and during the Battle of the bands finale, engage in magical combat. However, they are only victorious when Sunset Shimmer arrives on stage to assist them. The Sirens are rendered powerless and are defeated.

Encore Shorts

All three were released April 1, 2015.

• My Past Is Not Today

MUSIC VIDEO - Sunset sings about her past and how she's changed and been reborn, like a phoenix.

• Scenes from her defeat in the first movie are shown.

• Friendship Through the Ages

MUSIC VIDEO - The girls sing about how times may change but friendship is eternal, and each showcase a different style of music and era. Twilight does classical piano, Fluttershy does folk music, Rarity has a groovy vibe, Rainbow Dash is a rockstar, Applejack does country, and Pinkie does pop.

• Life is a Runway

MUSIC VIDEO - Rarity sings about the importance of dressing up to show your personality and style.

Friendship Games

Prequel Shorts

1. The Science of Magic (August 1, 2015)

Sunset has a whole science lab set up to scientifically figure out how the girls pony power up while playing music and monitors each one playing their instruments, but she gets nowhere.

2. Pinkie Spy (August 8, 2015)

Rainbow Dash is spying on Crystal Prep High School athletes. Pinkie joins her and uses various costumes and outfits, like a bush, a cat (and dog) burglar, a tree, a bunny, and in pink camouflage. Pinkie at one point flies them up with a bunch of balloons, and listens in with a boom mic. At that point, Rainbow Dash completely loses it, and yells, which gets them caught and they have to retreat.

3. All's Fair in Love & Friendship Games (August 15, 2015)

Bon Bon and Lyra show how close and what good friends they are when they finish each other's sentences, until they hear Green Cycle mention that there are tryouts for limited spots on the team for the Friendship Games. The two then get super competitive at tryouts, increasingly doing crazier things more aggressively until Lyra in a peacock costume and Bon Bon in an owl costume aggressively run at each other. That's when Green Cycle interrupts them and they realize that no one is really watching them anymore and the team had already been decided. And they both made it in, which makes them friends again.

• The title is a play on "all's fair in love and war."

4. Photo Finished (August 22, 2015)

Vice Principal Luna tells Photo Finish to take yearbook photos to give it more pizzazz. She then aggressively takes photos, with the aid of two helpers, of people around the school. Each time she glams up the shot for the photos and then takes it all away, glamming up a guy eating his sandwich, a kid practicing basketball, and Cheerilee in the library. As she continues, she gets even more disruptive. Luna finally confronts her about the complaints she has been receiving, and Photo Finish shows her all the pictures she has taken. When Luna admits they are great and that Photo Finish just needs to tone it down, Photo Finish starts a photoshoot of Luna.

5. A Banner Day (August 29, 2015)

Flash Sentry, Micro Chips, and Green Cycle are put in charge of making the welcome banner for Crystal Prep. They each have very different ideas and try to do them all, and end up getting paint and glitter all over each other and the banner. Luna sees the banner they made and likes it, since they filled it with various good vibes all unintentionally woven together. But they have to make five more...

Friendship Games (2015)

Equestria Girls: Friendship Games, takes place sometime during or after the Season 5 finale. Sunset Shimmer and the Rainbooms are helping the school prepare for the upcoming Friendship Games, which is held every four years against Crystal Prep Academy, who has never lost. In addition, it seems that the Rainbooms collective magic is changing, after Rainbow Dash is seen "ponying up" while leading a pep rally. Sunset is charged with keeping magic a secret during the games, to avoid accusations of cheating. Meanwhile, the human counterpart of Twilight Sparkle is shown as a student at Crystal Prep. Since the events of the second film, she has been studying magic, which she assumes to be an unusual form of electromagnetic energy. Feeling like an outcase at her school, she plans on furthering her research during the friendship games, which she believes will allow her to enter a independent study program. However, Twilight is forced into competing at the games by Crystal Prep's Principal Cinch, who insists on maintaining Crystal Prep's high standards and winning record.

At the games, Twilight attempts to investigate the unusual energy with a device meant to detect it. However, the device also drains and stores magical energy, eventually resulting in Twilight unknowingly draining each of the Rainbooms energy. Meanwhile, the existence of magic is revealed during the second event, as a result of Rainbow Dash ponying up after saving Sunset Shimmer from a carnivorous plant that appeared as a result of Twilight's device. Principal Cinch assumes that Canterlot High is cheating and manipulates Twilight into releasing the stolen magic as a way of evening the score. However, the magic transforms Twilight into a magically-empowered monster that seeks to understand magic, no matter the destruction. However, the release of magic also restored the Rainboom's magic. Sunset Shimmer uses Twilight's device to tap into the magic of friendship, granting her her own magically empowered form. Sunset is able to get through to Twilight, who returns to normal. Principal Cinch threatens to go to the school board, but is countered with the fact that they are unlikely to believe in the existence of magic, which would ruin her reputation. Afterwards, Twilight transfers to Canterlot High with the goal of understanding the magic of friendship.

Summertime Shorts

A series of shorts and music videos set at various times.

1. Make Up Shake Up (July 30, 2017 / August 18, 2017)

The girls are getting dressed for the Fall Formal, and Rarity decides Applejack needs a makeover and the other girls encourage her. Rarity has her completely overdone with makeup and Applejack suggests she take a little away here and there, until she ends up wiping all of it off.

2. A Photo Booth Story (July 30, 2017 / August 25, 2017)

There is a long line for Photo Finish's photos, but it's finally the girls' turn. However, Photo Finish claims they have no style. The girls then grab a bunch of props and act out scenes and it gets Photo Finish excited again. After everything they do, Photo Finish says that she cannot top it, and leaves.

• Near the end, Rarity is given the same wings her pony self has in Sonic Rainboom. Similarly to that episode, her wings burn and Rainbow Dash has to swoop in and save her.

3. Raise This Roof (July 30, 2017 / September 1, 2017)

Applejack and Apple Bloom are dancing at the Fall Formal when Rainbow Dash decides to compete with her by dancing with Scootaloo. The two eventually kick the younger two out of the way, so Apple Bloom and Scootaloo team up to do their own dancing together. Those two end up winning a trophy from Pinkie, beating Applejack and Rainbow Dash, who offer to do a rematch.

4. Steps of Pep (July 30, 2017 / September 15, 2017)

Pinkie Pie is leading the crowd in cheers with Fluttershy, but Fluttershy is struggling to be loud enough. They go to the band room to practice but Fluttershy is still struggling, and while there they see The Wonder Tones practicing. Pinkie and Fluttershy then go to cheer again, but for a chess match, and when the competitors shush Pinkie, Pinkie lets Fluttershy lead the cheer herself, leading everyone to cheer very softly.

• The Wonder Tones are the human counterpart of The Pony Tones from Filli Vanilli.

5. Mad Twience (July 30, 2017 / August 11, 2017)

MUSIC VIDEO - Twilight Sparkle is working like a mad scientist in her lab, with Spike as her assistant. She keeps looking at pictures of Timber Spruce and doing random things here or there, hinting at her making some sort of robot. In the end, a robot does come out of a machine, a robot dog for Spike to play with.

6. Monday Blues (August 4, 2017 / September 8, 2017)

MUSIC VIDEO - Sunset Shimmer and Twilight Sparkle are both having a rough start to their day. Sunset sleeps in and both of them get caught in the rain. Twilight gets splashed with a puddle, misses the bus, and loses one umbrella. Sunset gets coffee and breakfast only to get tripped and drop it all. And both are having to run through the downpour all the way to school while running late. But they meet up at school and cheer up, and they see their friends are also having a rough start: Rarity's hair and makeup are a mess, Fluttershy has branches and a bird nest in her hair, Pinkie's hair is down entirely, Rainbow Dash crashes into the lockers (while also implying she ran even faster with her powers because of how late she was), and Applejack came to school in her slippers. But they are all happier they are there together.

7. Pet Project (August 5, 2017 / September 22, 2017)

All the girls' pets are getting groomed and fixed up for a calendar to help support a local animal shelter, and Sunset is reminded that she doesn't have a pet. Just as they are going to take pictures, Sunset decides she wants to try to get a pet and Fluttershy agrees to help. They look at guinea pigs and betta fish and eventually the geckos, and Sunset sees one and adopts him, naming him Ray. They go back to do photos and he gets in on the group photo with the others after a little more reassuring from Sunset.

• Fluttershy also tries to help one of her friends get a pet in May the Best Pet Win!

8. Subs Rock (August 5, 2017 / September 29, 2017)

Principal Celestia has to fill in as a substitute teacher for a geology class, and is really excited to be a teacher again, but she keeps getting interrupted. She gets called away to deal with other problems in the library and cafeteria. And then Rainbow Dash is kicking her soccer ball against the wall and she has to confiscate the ball. Then the phone rings, too. And just when she thinks that nothing else will happen, the class bell rings.

9. Shake Things Up! (August 11, 2017 / October 6, 2017)

MUSIC VIDEO - Applejack is getting bored at the smoothie stand she is at and starts making it more fun.

10. The Art of Friendship (August 12, 2017 / October 13, 2017)

Sunset and Pinkie are in art class. Sunset is painting sunflowers, but Pinkie doesn't know what to paint. Pinkie goes to get juice when Sunset mentions creative juices. And goes up a tree and watches birds to get inspired by nature. And goes to the band room to play music for inspiration, but that makes her start drumming across the school, and her drumming in the art room starts disrupting everyone. Pinkie finally gets inspired by Sunset Shimmer and her art, throwing paint all over the whole room as she paints a portrait of Sunset herself.

11. The Canterlot Movie Club (August 20, 2017 / October 20, 2017)

The CMC, the Canterlot Movie Club in the human world, is at the theater watching and rewatching the new Daring Do movie. Pinkie shows up and tells them Gummy is missing, that he disappeared while she was getting candy. The girls offer to help her look and go all over the theater. They finally see him in one of the claw machines so Scootaloo tries to win him, finally getting him on the third try. They are excited for their next adventure, which just so happens to be seeing the movie again now that the next showing is starting.

12. Leaping off the Page (August 27, 2017 / October 27, 2017)

Rainbow Dash is at home reading Daring Do and the Forbidden City of Clouds (a real book, by the way). She imagines she is in the story, but keeps hearing a car horn honking at her, then her phone ringtone going off. She finally hears the sounds of someone knocking down the door, and looks to see Twilight and Rarity had come in. Her friends had been trying to get ahold of her to go to the movies. She finally puts the book down and leaves.

13. Get the Show on the Road (August 27, 2017 / November 3, 2017)

mostly MUSIC VIDEO - Applejack brings the girls an old, dilapidated school bus for them to use as a tour bus. The girls have to work together to fix it up.

14. Epic Fails (August 27, 2017 / November 10, 2017)

Rarity is looking in a magazine and points out a photoshoot of Countess Coloratura messing up in her yoga class, and everyone starts remembering all their embarassing moments. Twilight had a science experiment blown up in her face. Applejack and Pinkie burned pies in the oven because they were chatting and being distracted. Rainbow Dash kicked a soccer ball at work and knocked over balls stacked in a display. Fluttershy had birds mess up her hair and scare people. Rarity had lettuce in her teeth and Sunset tried to point it out to her and both got embarassed. The girls leave the cafeteria table they were at and start heading out, saying how they don't do anything embarassing, right before all of them slip on the freshly mopped floor in front of the whole cafeteria.

15. Coinky-Dink World (September 22, 2017)

MUSIC VIDEO - Pinkie Pie is at the 1950s diner she works at and sees two people that she thinks should be together. Both of them are sitting to where they don't see each other and have their noses in a book. After a couple tries, she ends up blowing up some ice cream that lands on the two, causing them to notice each other and that they are reading the same book. Then they both get up and dance together.

16. Good Vibes (September 22, 2017)

MUSIC VIDEO - The song plays at the mall with everything and everyone in dimmer colors, but as the kids get help from each other, they and the world gain their brighter colors. Flash Sentry is throwing a coin in the fountain when he sees Trixie about to drop what she is holding, so he helps her. Trixie sees Fluttershy looking for Angel Bunny and pulls him out of her hat. Fluttershy sees Pinkie drop exploding cupcakes on Bulk Bicep's head, ruining his hair, so she has a squirrel sit on his head to replace it. He sees Twilight lose a wheel on her hand cart, so he helps carry her stuff. DJ Pon 3 goes to Twilight for help with her turntable and Twilight is able to fix it. Rarity is upset no one is shopping at the clothes store she is at and DJ Pon 3 comes by to play music and bring in customers. Rarity sees the Cutie Mark Crusaders knock over the pyramid of shoes Rainbow Dash set up and uses her magic to keep them from totally toppling. Sunset is walking out of the sushi place she works at when her shoe breaks, so Rainbow gets her a new pair of shoes. Then Sunset sees Flash at the fountain and gives him the sushi she was carrying, bringing everything full circle.

Spring Breakdown (2019)

Twilight Sparkle organizes a cruise for the 7's spring break with the intention of relaxing, but Rainbow Dash is out for some adventure and ruins everyone's fun. She decides to attempt to use her own magic to attract Equestrian magic, but in doing so ends up depriving the ship of its power. While everyone attempts to have fun regardless and work is done on the engine, she sees a reflection in the water that resembles the Storm King's insignia while a thunderstorm kicks up. She takes a lifeboat to a nearby island and looks through the jungle. Fearing for their friend, Sunset Shimmer and Twilight Sparkle take another lifeboat to the same island to look for their friend. They find Rainbow Dash trapped in quicksand and about to be attacked by a plant monster. Sunset realizes the quicksand is a portal to Equestria, and takes the other two in with her. Once in Equestria, they visit pony Twilight in her castle to chat. During this time, the storm near the cruise ship is increasing in power and lightning strikes seem to attempt to hit people deliberately. Applejack is able to fix the engine, but it is unable to be stopped and begins to head towards some rocks near that same island Rainbow Dash went to explore. We cut back to the others, and pony Twilight is showing off artifacts. One of them is the Storm King's staff, to which Rainbow remarks she had seen that insignia in the water. Twilight gives them the staff and the three head back to their dimension to contain the storm in the staff one more. The seven "pony-up" to save the cruise-goers.

Better Together

This was a two season series of shorts. Two dates are shown where the shorts were released on different streaming sources.

Season 1

1. A Fine Line (November 2/17, 2017)

Sunset is excited to get in line for the new video game, Tirek's Revenge, but she's stuck in a long line going to a line for the game. Green Cycle and Micro Chips are in front of her, and rubbing it in that they can have fun waiting because they have each other. Sunset messages Rainbow Dash to join her, and Rainbow Dash manages to gather all the others to wait with her, too. She gets up to the counter just as the game has sold out, but Pinkie points out that she had already preordered it for her so she gets a copy anyway.

2. School of Rock (November 2/24, 2017)

Maud is doing a presentation in a natural history museum. She's passionate about it and making many puns, but most of the group is bored because of her monotone voice. But Pinkie, Twilight, and Rarity are there and being supportive. And they even use their powers to make a visual for everyone out of the museum display, resulting in the rest of the group getting excited.

• The title is a reference to the movie School of Rock.

3. Queen of Clubs (November 2 / December 1, 2017)

The school is taking pictures of all the clubs, and Applejack shows up with a pig for one of hers and tells Rarity and Rainbow Dash about it. Rainbow Dash tells her that she is in five clubs, Applejack mentions she is in six, and then the two start trying to join and hop in pictures of as many clubs as they can to outdo each other. They tie in number of clubs, but are at least satisfied they joined every club, when Rarity points out that neither of them were in one exclusive club that is just her and Applejack's dolled up pig.

• The title is a play on a card in a deck of cards.

4. Pinkie Sitting (November 2 / December 8, 2017)

Rarity has Pinkie babysitting Lily for her while she goes to a Young Designer's Gala. Pinkie is all ready to do activities with Lily, but all Lily wants to do is read on her electronic device. Pinkie gets bored until she asks Lily what the story is about, and as Lily tells her about how it is about girl pirates getting trapped on an island and making friends with the local animals, Pinkie puts out props and puts on costumes to act it out. She wears herself out, and Lily ends up reading her story out loud to her, while she starts falling asleep.

5. The Finals Countdown (November 5 / December 15, 2017)

Finals are coming up in two weeks and Twilight is excited but her friends are not. There is a montage of her helping them study for them. (Song is "Rise Up!".) Twilight realizes she has to help them by having them study in their own ways, and when they take their exams they all get various A grades.

• The title is a reference to the song "The Final Countdown."

6. Overpowered (November 5 / December 22, 2017)

Sunset Shimmer has been hearing the thoughts of everyone around her without even touching them, and asks her friends if they have also had issues with their powers acting up. They don't say it out loud, but she can read their minds and sees that they, too, have had issues. Fluttershy gets swarmed with birds, Twilight and Spike fly on her bike, Applejack breaks her locker, and Pinkie's apple explodes. Twilight realizes Rainbow has been using her super speed excessively and it has been boosting everyone else's powers. Zephyr Breeze shows up to ask Rainbow out to the mall, and Rainbow declines, wishing she can use her speed but not doing so because her friends remind her she shouldn't be. With Rainbow Dash no longer using her speed willy nilly, Sunset can finally go around without hearing everyone's thoughts all the time.

• Twilight and Spike's scene is a reference to E.T..
• In the scene where they all look at Rainbow Dash after Twilight explains what has been happening, Rarity's hair clips briefly.

7. Star Crossed (November 5 / December 29, 2017)

Twilight has a date, "hang out," with Timber Spruce. She is telling Fluttershy about it in her room and Fluttershy gives her a jar of bugs. When Twilight gets to the planetarium and Timber joins her, she's really nervous and the trip isn't going as she planned at all. They sit on the steps outside and Twilight is a bit upset. Timber mentions how he brushed up on astronomy to prepare for the trip, too, which impresses her, and she ends up bumping the jar and releasing the fireflies, who do a small light show for them.

• The title is a play on the phrase "star crossed lovers."

8. My Little Shop of Horrors (November 8, 2017 / January 5, 2018)

Twilight looks after Principal Celestia's greenhouse for her. (Song "Room to Grow.") As she waters all the plants, the plants begin singing and dancing with her and start growing out of control, since the watering can she is using has some Equestrian magic in it. She texts Applejack to help her while the plants start harassing her for more water, and Applejack turns on the sprinklers which causes the plants to go back to normal.

• The title is a mix of "My Little Pony" and "Little Shop of Horrors."

9. A Little Birdie Told Me (November 8, 2017 / January 12, 2018)

Fluttershy is taking a test in Crankle Doodle's class when three birds fly in through the window and start talking to her. Trixie sits behind Fluttershy and hears her talking to the birds, believing that they are helping her cheat. Trixie tells on her to the teacher, and Fluttershy explains that she was trying to help the birds with a problem they were having over their nests. Fluttershy then has to prove she did study by doing math equations on the chalkboard. At the end, Trixie shows up at the birds' nest asking them to help her with trigonometry.

• The title is a play on the idiom for getting information from a secret source.

10. Display of Affection (November 8, 2017 / January 19, 2018)

Rarity is working for Prim Hemline at Carousel Boutique, and is tasked with working on the window display. The pressure is too much for her and she has a creative block. She is walking with Sunset Shimmer down the street telling her about it when they see people admiring some graffiti by Flanksy. Inspired by that, Rarity tries to do a similar style with the display, but breaks down into tears and admits it is ugly when Sunset comes up. Rarity goes home crying, and comes back to work the next day to see the display was redone by Flanksy herself. Rarity turns to see Sunset Shimmer in the nearby alley with paint on her face, revealing to Rarity that she was Flanksy all along.

• Flanksy is a parody of Banksy.
• G5 My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale also does a Banksy parody with Izzy Moonbow being Sneaksy.

11. Super Squad Goals (November 8, 2017 / January 26, 2018)

The whole episode is themed like a comic book, by interspersing the episode with a comic art book style, sound effects, and interrobangs. The main characters are excited to be in the big city when they see a jewelry store thief. They power up and chase him through the city, finally apprehending him and sending him to jail. Then they celebrate with the cupcakes that Pinkie had mentioned looking forward to in the beginning. At the end of the episode, it is revealed that the whole story was a comic Sunset was making.

12. Road Trippin (December 19, 2017 / March 2, 2018)

The main characters are in a bus driven by Granny Smith and are on their way to Goldie's party. When they hit traffic, Granny takes them on a shortcut. A tire gets popped so Applejack and Twilight use their powers to replace it, a herd of cows blocks the road so Fluttershy uses her powers to make them move, a fallen tree is on the road and Pinkie blasts it, and a bridge is out ahead that turns out to just be a backdrop. But finally, they make it to the party.

13. X Marks the Spot (March 9, 2018 / April 13, 2018)

Sunset is playing a mobile game about pirates until she finds an actual treasure map in a bottle. She runs into Pinkie and Twilight and they follow the map all the way to another treasure chest with a code inside. Following that takes them to a sushi truck, and it turns out it was just a promotion that got them a discount and endless wasabi, the latter of which Pinkie takes advantage of.

14. Aw... Baby Turtles (March 9, 2018 / April 20, 2018)

Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Fluttershy are at the beach when Fluttershy hears crying. She realizes it is a group of baby sea turtles but she doesn't know where they are. They try to get Tank to help but it's slow going at first. When they do find the baby sea turtles, Fluttershy realizes how many obstacles they are facing, from crabs to shipwrecks. Knowing that it would be wrong to just carry them to the water, the girls at least remove the obstacles in the way. But when they look back to where the babies were, they are gone, and it turns out Tank had already safely led them to the water.

15. Lost and Found (March 9, 2018 / May 4, 2018)

Rarity interrupts Rainbow Dash and Applejack at the beach, crying over losing an earring. The three of them use metal detectors to search and end up finding everything and the kitchen sink. Rarity is still sad, though the other two are excited about everything they found. Rarity goes to put her headphones on again to start combing the beach over again with the metal detector when the missing earring falls from its hiding spot in her hair.

• There is a joke poking fun at a Nokia phone that Rainbow Dash finds in the sand.

16. Too Hot to Handle (March 9, 2018 / May 11, 2018)

Fluttershy, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie are working a Crab Adoptathon event on the beach when Pinkie decides to bring them all shaved ice. She starts walking away from the shaved ice truck when she sees a kid drop his, and decides to give him one. Then she gets attacked by seagulls, one of which takes another. With her remaining two, she tries to walk back to the others but the sand is too hot. She does everything from bouncing around to flying to avoid the sand, and ends up back with the others but with the shaved ice covered in sand from her rough landing. When they point out that the crabs are too hot, she sacrifices another shaved ice cone for them. With Pinkie disappointed, Rainbow Dash uses her super speed to get them all shaved ice cones, and Pinkie accidentally drops the last when Rainbow runs back up to her.

17. Unsolved Selfie Mysteries (March 9, 2018 / May 25, 2018)

Sunset, Twilight, Pinkie, and Fluttershy take a selfie, and when they look back at the photo they think they see a sea monster in the background. They all get excited over it but Fluttershy doesn't hear an animal and decides to swim out to see if she can hear it better there. Twilight goes onto the lifeguard tower where Timber Spruce is working to see if she can spot it through binoculars. Pinkie and Sunset are about to swim out when Pinkie realizes her floatie is missing, but they have no time to do anything about it when they see the "monster" coming toward the shore. It turns out to be Pinkie's missing floatie being carried back by Fluttershy.

• The title is probably a reference to the show "Unsolved Mysteries."
• Instead of just saying "cheese!" Pinkie has them say Cheese Sandwich, in reference to the pony character.

18. The Salty Sails (March 12, 2018 / April 27, 2018)

Twilight, Rarity, and Pinkie are going out on a boat together. Twilight made plans and even plotted when exactly they would get a strong wind for them to set sail, but it turns out the wind is the opposite direction from what she wanted. It pushes them to shore, so they try to steer back on course, and end up inadvertently using Rarity's hat to catch more wind. Then they get pushed toward the rocks further out, and Pinkie causes a small explosion to create a wave that pushes them away from those. They make it back to do the dock, soaking wet, but thankfully Rarity has towels. And the whole episode, Pinkie has been talking like a crazed and/or wise old sailor.

• The title is a play on "the salty seas."
• When the episode starts and Twilight checks her map, the sea serpent they have pictured (like how many whimsical maps will have sea monsters pictured) is Steven Magnet from Friendship is Magic.
• For another G4 episode where Pinkie and Rarity and one other Mane 6 member go on a boat and end up in somewhat disaster: P.P.O.V. (Pony Point of View).

19. Blue Crushed (March 13, 2018 / May 18, 2018)

Rainbow Dash and Applejack are about to teach Fluttershy how to surf when her brother, Zephyr Breeze, shows up. He pretends he's always surfed, but Fluttershy knows he's lying. The other two drag him out to the waves to prove it, and he almost immediately falls off his board in a huge wave. He comes clean about it and then begs Rainbow Dash to teach him to surf, which she agrees to do, even if only for his surfboard's sake.

20. Turf War (March 24, 2018 / June 8, 2018)

Applejack is working as a lifeguard and starts competing with Timber for lifeguard duties. He's got experience from working at Camp Everfree, and she's got a strong work ethic. They start racing each other to save a child drowning, Lyra from falling off her surfboard, and even a scoop of icecream that was falling. They both see Bulk Biceps struggling in the water and reach him at around the same time, but start pulling him opposite directions while trying to save him. He starts crying and tells them that it is because he doesn't like that they are fighting. And they both realize they could work together and be a team, and once Bulk Biceps is out of the water they rush off to help the next person together.

21. Friendship Math (March 24, 2018 / June 1, 2018)

Pinkie is reading a magazine and goes up to Twilight and has her do a friendship quiz with her. They fail horribly at it, so Twilight is determined to find a scientific way to prove that they are friends. She spends a while doing calculations in the sand, only for it to all get washed away in a wave. But she tells Pinkie that their friendship just "can't be measured."

• On the cover of the magazine Pinkie is reading, there looks to be a human version of Feather Bangs (from Hard to Say Anything) on the cover.

22. The Last Day of School (March 24, 2018 / June 15, 2018)

Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle are opposites when it comes to school: Twilight is bummed that school is about to be over and Rainbow Dash is excited. Twilight is rushing to write thank you notes to all the teachers and is hoping for more projects and extra credit. They get to Cheerilee's class and Rainbow Dash makes the suggestion that they watch the movie "Daring Do vs. the Swamp Monster," which Cheerilee agrees to. The whole time, Rainbow Dash is bored and Twilight is furiously working on her own projects. When the day is over, Twilight is devastated until Rainbow Dash points out that summer vacation means Twilight can do all the reading she wants.

23. Outtakes (March 24, 2018 / June 22, 2018)

Fluttershy is trying to take videos of the shelter animals to try to get them adopted. At first she tries to record herself holding and talking about the animals, but she's too shy to do it. Then she tries to take videos of the animals while she's behind the camera, but then the animals refuse to cooperate. They get out of hand and make a mess. Twilight and Applejack show up and see Fluttershy laying down defeated, take a look at her recordings, and decide they can edit the video to fix it. The final video makes the animals look adorable and Fluttershy manages to deliver her lines... from very far away from the camera.

24. Pinkie Pie: Snack Psychic (March 24, 2018 / June 29, 2018)

Rainbow Dash, Twilight, and Rarity are chilling at the 1950s themed diner Pinkie works at, and Pinkie starts pulling them away to help other customers. She sees Flash Sentry stressing out over studying and pulls Twilight over, sees one client spill food on them and pulls Rarity over, and sees a swim team that is eating after a loss and pulls Rainbow Dash over. When her coworker asks her how she does it, she says that it's a gut feeling, right before her stomach growls. That's when her coworker pulls out a giant sundae for them to eat together.

25. Five to Nine (March 24, 2018 / July 6, 2018)

MUSIC VIDEO - Applejack sings a country song about working all day on the chores and fixing up the barn for a party for her friends.

• The song somewhat parodies Dolly Parton's song "9 to 5," which Dolly Parton herself made a new version of in 2021 called "5 to 9."
• Her outtakes for this music video are seen in the later episode "Do it for the Ponygram!" along with ones for "The Other Side."

26. So Much More to Me (March 24, 2018 / July 13, 2018)

(mostly) MUSIC VIDEO - Fluttershy turns down Sunset's invitation of doing karaoke with her friends and hides in the animal sanctuary. She ends up singing by herself there about how she's painfully shy in front of people but likes to sing freely alone. Then Sunset comes back to say the girls changed their minds and are going to see a movie, which Fluttershy agrees to go to.

27. The Other Side (October 5, 2018)

MUSIC VIDEO - Rarity is struggling while working on fashion designs and sings about it.

• Her outtakes for this music video are seen in the later episode "Do it for the Ponygram!" along with ones for "Five to Nine."

Season 2

A lot of these are formatted like an internet video.

1. Reboxing with Spike! (January 11, 2019)

ONLINE VIDEO - Spike the dog is doing a vlog of himself opening a box of dog toys. He's in the middle of sniffing a particularly smelly sock, when Twilight walks in with a receipt showing he spent $200 on that box. So now Spike has to repack the box to return it for a refund.

2. DIY with Applejack (January 18, 2019)

ONLINE VIDEO - Applejack is helping Rarity by doing her new dressing room while Rarity films it. But Rarity gets bored as Applejack goes through the process of cutting down each tree, sanding the wood, painting, measuring, and looking at samples. Rarity finally completely passes out, and Applejack finishes the room with Rarity asleep.

3. The Craft of Cookies (January 25, 2019)

ONLINE VIDEO - Pinkie Pie is filming a cooking video with her Gummy plush and Tank. The whole time she is trying to make cookies, Tank is trying but failing to sneak in a bite since he is too slow. But Pinkie finally feeds him one at the end.

4. Street Magic with Trixie! (February 1, 2019)

Trixie is doing street magic, and is about to do the trick where she saws Spike in half in a box. A crowd gathers. But to her surprise, all her equipment begins to float, and she tells the audience she is using telekinesis, when it is revealed it is really Twilight doing it from the back of the crowd.

5. Sic Skateboard (February 8, 2019)

ONLINE VIDEO - Rainbow Dash is skateboarding at the skate park and is about to have Tank go down a ramp in front of some kids. While from their end it isn't as impressive, she edits the video for Tank later.

6. Street Chic (February 15, 2019)

ONLINE VIDEO - Rarity is outside of Carousel Boutique with some clothes racks. It's a very obviously cold Fall day, with everyone dressed for the occasion, Fall leaves blowing in the wind, and even geese flying overhead. But Rarity believes she needs to do summer fashion. She grabs Applejack as she walks by and dresses her for summer, then Fluttershy, and then Rainbow Dash, too. All three shiver and start huddling together, before everyone gets blanketed in snow at the end.

7. Game Stream (February 22, 2019)

ONLINE VIDEO - Sunset Shimmer brings Fluttershy on to do a gaming stream and Fluttershy chooses a game about squirrels gathering acorns. The whole time Sunset has been overconfident about her gaming skills and Fluttershy has been very obviously a newbie. But when they start playing, Sunset cannot get the squirrel to even begin climbing a tree while Fluttershy starts winning. Sunset rages, but ends up having more fun watching Fluttershy play.

8. Best in Show: The Pre-Show (March 1, 2019)

VIDEO - Canterlot High is doing a pet show, and Applejack and Fluttershy are hosting. Fluttershy is being really shy and trying to avoid the camera. But as Applejack begins to interview the pet owners, Fluttershy begins talking with the pets, and ends up taking over. Applejack sees Winona entered the competition, too, and leaves Fluttershy to sign off by herself.

9. Best in Show: The Victory Lap (March 8, 2019)

VIDEO - Applejack and Fluttershy are doing commentary on the pets in the victory lap.

10. Schedule Swap (March 9 / 15, 2019)

All of the main characters realize they are either in the wrong classes or their friends aren't in classes with them. They go to Principal Celestia to fix it, but her changes don't make their class schedules any better. She lets them do one last change, giving them all lunch together. But they realize Sunset is missing, and she's seen going up to Principal Celestia to point that out to her.

• Micro Chips is seen drawing his robot in art class.
• Principal Celestia has "DIY with Applejack" up on her computer.

11. Twilight Under the Stars (March 16 / 22, 2019)

Twilight and Pinkie are at the Canterlot Celestial Society Member's Social, and Twilight is nervous because Rosette Nebula, an astrophysicist she admires, will be there. Every time Twilight approaches her, Pinkie does something to try to help that just ends up messing it up. But then Pinkie brings out a cake, and Rosetta approaches Twilight to talk about the chocolate cake before Twilight even realizes Rosetta is the one talking to her.

12. Five Stars (March 16 / 29, 2019)

Pinkie Pie is working at a 1950s themed diner, and she and her coworkers are so happy that they have 5 star reviews on Screech. Pinkie is happy until she runs into an older woman who just wants to read the newspaper. She gives Pinkie a 4 star review, which causes Pinkie to throw more and more at her until she finally decides to leave the woman alone, and the 4 star review gets changed to 5 stars.

• Screech is a parody of Yelp!
• One of the things Pinkie brings is Sunset's book that she uses to message Equestria's Twilight Sparkle, and Bulk Bicep's dog.

13. FOMO (March 16 / April 5, 2019)

Rarity invites Rainbow Dash to hang out, but Rainbow Dash has plans. Rarity sees Rainbow ride off on a motorcycle with Twilight and decides to stalk them in a taxi. Then she sees them shopping with Fluttershy and Sunset Shimmer. Feeling down, she decides to go home, but it turns out they are all there throwing her a surprise birthday party.

14. I'm on a Yacht (May 5 / 24, 2019)

MUSIC VIDEO - A music video of the main girls partying on a yacht.

• The title and video are a parody of The Lonely Island's "I'm on a Boat."

15. Run To Break Free (May 5 / May 31, 2019)

MUSIC VIDEO - Rainbow Dash sings while everything around her is in slow motion. She sees her friends about to fall into disaster and helps them with her super speed and ends with a Sonic Rainboom.

16. Camping Must-Haves (May 12 / June 7, 2019)

ONLINE VIDEO - Applejack and Rarity are discussing what to bring for camping, with Applejack mentioning practical things, and Rarity...not. But then Rarity reveals to Applejack that they are going glamping.

17. Festival Filters (May 12 / June 14, 2019)

Applejack doesn't get filters, so her friends start showing her all of their favorite ones and start taking a bunch of selfies. Pinkie eventually joins them and shows them a picture of some cake. They ask what filter that is, and she points out that it is real, so they all go to get some.

• One of the filters is a pony filter and gives them G3 style pony heads.

18. How to Backstage (May 19 / June 21, 2019)

DRONE VIDEO - Sunset gets a VIP backstage pass and starts wandering around. When she goes to where the band would be, she just sees the stage crew. But she's more excited to see them and points out everything they do. When the actual band shows up, she asks them to take a picture of her with the crew instead of with them.

19. Festival Looks (May 26 / June 28, 2019)

VIDEO CALL - Rarity calls up her friends to talk about their outfits.

20. Five Lines You Need to Stand In (June 2/July 5, 2019)

ONLINE VIDEO - Pinkie is at the music festival, and talks about five lines to stand in: 1) the security line, 2) the nacho food truck line, 3) the photo booth line, 4) a mystery line (a loop around a tree), and 5) the bathroom line (or the conga line, according to Pinkie).

21. Find the Magic (June 9 / September 1, 2019)

MUSIC VIDEO - The full performance of the Dazzlings' song in Sunset's Backstage Pass.

22. Let It Rain (August 25, 2019)

MUSIC VIDEO - Sunset Shimmer singing on stage outdoors in the rain.

• Wallflower Blush is in the crowd.

23. Cheer You On (September 1, 2019 / March 8, 2020)

MUSIC VIDEO - Flash Sentry and his band are performing in the gym at school about how he supports the main characters. They get interrupted watching as Micro Chips' robot goes berserk and the girls have to fight it, with Flash's help.

24. Do It For the Ponygram! (August 30, 2019)

SHORTS/REELS - A bunch of shorts of: Rarity doing her hair, Twilight's science experiment, Pinkie shooting her party cannon at her friends, Rainbow Dash bouncing Fluttershy in the air, Rarity and Pinkie talking about abbreviations, Rainbow Dash trying to scare Pinkie by hiding in her locker but getting scared instead, Sunset and the girls doing a photoshoot at school, Snips and Snails doing the bottle flip challenge but failing and then Celestia doing it flawlessly, Trixie filming the girls using magic to play basketball, Pinkie putting filter stickers on people but it turns out these really appear on them physically, Rarity's outtakes from her "The Other Side" music video, Applejack's outtakes from her "Five to Nine" music video, and Cranky Doodle dancing to hip hop in an empty classroom.

• Twilight is seen with Timber Spruce from Legend of Everfree and Sunset is seen with Flash Sentry, two hinted at couples from that movie.

Choose Your Own Ending

Along with Better Together was a series of shorts that gave the viewer multiple options to decide how a story ends.

Season 1

The running storyline for these is the play that the girls are a part of. "Best Trends Forever," "Text Support," and "Driving Miss Shimmer" do not have any correlation to the play storyline while the rest do.

1. Best Trends Forever (December 5 / 30, 2017)

Rarity is on the school news and is about to do a segment on the latest trends when she realizes none of her material is in her bag.

• Pinkie Pie - If Rarity chooses Pinkie as inspiration and says confetti, Pinkie fills everyone's lockers with confetti. Twilight, Rarity, and Applejack clean it all up before they get in trouble with Principal Celestia. Celestia herself walks by them on her way to her office when they are done, only to open her office door and unleash a flood of confetti into the hall. So Rarity updates her forecast to be detention.
• Rainbow Dash - If Rarity chooses Rainbow Dash as inspiration and says rainbows, everyone in school wears Rainbow Dash's hair. Rarity slowly makes her way through the school, completely freaked out by everyone looking like Rainbow Dash. Then she bumps into the actual Rainbow Dash, who says "I don't know what it is, but everyone looks awesome today."
• Twilight Sparkle - If Rarity chooses Twilight Sparkle as inspiration and says that "smart is chic," all the other students will start wearing glasses and trying to sound and look as smart as they can. Some of them ask Twilight questions to help make them look smarter, and Twilight can't even get the book she wants from the library because there is a waitlist. Rarity apologizes to her, and mentions capes right before some kids walk by. They hear her mention capes and change over to the new trend immediately.

The title is a play on "best friends forever."

When Rarity is freaked out by everyone having Rainbow Dash's hair, she does a small monologue like she is narrating an episode of "The Twilight Zone" and even calls it "The Rainbow Zone."

2. Fluttershy's Butterflies (December 23, 2017 / February 2, 2018)

The girls see that a play is going to be put in and auditions are opening and decide they could try out. Fluttershy is nervous about auditioning. Rainbow Dash and Applejack see her trying to practice in the library and offer to help.

• Rainbow Dash - Rainbow makes her the announcer at a soccer game. She's quiet and nervous at first, but she starts getting into the game. She then uses that energy at the audition.
• Applejack - Applejack takes her to her chickens on the farm and tells her to pretend the audience is a bunch of chickens. Fluttershy ends up doing the audition, but tells Applejack that she just pretended everyone was her, cheering her on. Then it is revealed that Applejack's backup plan was bringing her whole flock of chickens to school, which Big Mac was dealing with.
• DJ Pon 3 - DJ Pon 3 is also at the library, and if chosen will give Fluttershy a huge dubstep entrance with smoke and lights and will have her on stage as a hologram.

3. Text Support (December 23, 2017 / February 9, 2018)

Twilight gets a text in emojis from Timber Spruce but she doesn't understand what it means.

• Rarity - Rarity takes her phone and starts texting back and forth with him. Twilight doesn't understand what they are saying the whole time, but Rarity ends it with getting Twilight a date with Timber Spruce at 3 on Sunday for ice cream.
• Fluttershy - Fluttershy leads Twilight into the woods and has her send a message with a bunch of animal emojis. Timber assumes Twilight wants to go on a date to the zoo.
• Sunset Shimmer - Twilight and Sunset go to the coffee shop and Sunset takes Twilight's phone and calls Timber herself to ask him what he meant. He explains that he was asking if Twilight wanted to go do Pirate Alligator mini golf, and Sunset hands Twilight the phone to respond to him.

The title is a play on "tech support."

4. Stressed in Show (December 23, 2017 / July 20, 2018)

The girls are practicing for the play, but Twilight is stressed out, so the girls offer to help.

• Fluttershy - Fluttershy takes her to the woods to see all the animals, but everything she says triggers Twilight into thinking of something that needs to be done with the play. Fluttershy uses her magic to gather all the animals together to give her a flower crown, massage, and a nice nap.
• Rainbow Dash - Rainbow takes her to exercise, running, playing badminton and basketball, and chopping boards. She eventually gets in shape and has fun. Sunset and Spike are also there, but exhausted.
• Pinkie Pie - Pinkie chases Twilight all over the school to bombard her with ideas. Every time, Twilight sneaks off and hides. Finally, Pinkie pops out of her locker, and Twilight confronts her about how distracting she is being. That's when Twilight realizes that Pinkie's antics stopped her from thinking about and stressing over the play all day.

5. Driving Miss Shimmer (December 23, 2017 / February 16, 2018)

Sunset failed her driving test and has to retake it Monday. She has to drive with one of her friends to practice.

• Rarity - Rarity pulls up in a limousine and starts giving Sunset advice that is more practical for the comfort of the passengers (having different drinks, music at a reasonable volume, and party lights ready). Sunset finally does practice, while Rarity gets a massage in the back of the car. Having the limo practice helps her pass.
• Applejack - Applejack and Granny Smith try to take Sunset driving in an old farm truck, but they immediately have a flat tire from a nail when they drive out of the barn. Applejack teaches Sunset how to change the tire. When Sunset goes to her test, the testing car has a flat tire so Cranky Doodle was going to automatically fail her, but Sunset shows she knows how to fix it and passes.
• Fluttershy - Fluttershy brings Sunset her little car and starts bothering her with all her safety memory rhymes before they even drive. When Sunset gets to the test, Cranky Doodle mentions the importance of safety, and when Sunset starts reciting all the rhymes, he's pleased.

The title is a reference to "Driving Miss Daisy."

6. Rarity Investigates: The Case of the Bedazzled Boot (December 23, 2017 / July 27, 2018)

The girls are practicing the play with Flash Sentry when they realize one of the two bedazzled boot props is missing. Snips and Snails were in charge of props, but aren't taking their job seriously. Rarity decides to play detective and question people.

• Pinkie Pie - Rarity goes to question Pinkie and Pinkie cries and confesses, even though Rarity points out that it couldn't have been Pinkie: Pinkie was at the frozen yogurt shop and still had the frozen yogurt in her hands. Pinkie starts confessing to random things at the frozen yogurt shop before Rarity reminds her that she is talking about the boot. Then Pinkie points out that the boot is sticking out of a box of costumes on the floor behind them.
• Trixie - Rarity interviews Trixie, already assuming that she is guilty, and decides to play tough by not speaking first. Then the two have an entire conversation only in their heads and facial expressions. They stay in silence for a while until Rarity pulls out her makeup, which Trixie realizes means Rarity can last hours longer. Trixie gives up and leaves, but trips over some rocks. When Rarity looks, she sees Spike wearing the boot and saying that he wanted to dance in it. So Rarity offers to get him a spot in the play.
• Applejack - Rarity asks Applejack and she mentions the costume rack. When they look, they see Maud holding it, with Snips and Snails providing sound effects. Maud tells them that it is made of amethyst and starts Rarity practically drooling over a fact about the largest amethyst gem. Then Sunset comes by and takes the boot.

Rarity becomes a noir detective just like she does in Rarity Investigates!

7. All the World's Off Stage (December 30, 2017 / August 3, 2018)

Sunset and the crew are practicing the effects for the play. Snips and Snails complain about heavy the city prop is when they fail to get it across the stage.

• Twilight Sparkle - Sunset thinks Twilight will use her Equestrian magic, but Twilight wants to use a robot. The robot manages to use its arms to pull the city across nicely. When Sunset says they should practice the scene again, Twilight uses her magic to put the city prop back in its starting place.
• Pinkie Pie - Pinkie fills the stage with balloons. She mounts the city prop on a pile of balloons, so that when they practice the scene, she just turns on a fan and it blows across the stage.
• Micro Chips - Micro Chips explains in so many words that they can't use a pulley to move the city prop. Snips tries to make a snarky comment and Micro Chips gets back at him. Then Micro Chips mentions that he'll get Bulk Biceps to move it, even though Sunset asked him before and couldn't get him to. When Bulk Biceps moves it, Micro Chips explains to her that he made a fake article in Bulk Biceps' magazine that encouraged him to pull ropes to get buffer.

The title is a play on the phrase "all the world's a stage."

8. Constructive Criticism (December 30, 2017 / August 10, 2018)

Applejack is the set designer for the play, but Sunset is worried Applejack won't get them all done in time. Sunset distracts her while she's hammering and Applejack ends up hammering her hand, so they need to find someone to help while she recovers.

• Rainbow Dash - Rainbow Dash comes in and does the set as fast as possible, all while Applejack is worrying that Rainbow isn't looking at the blueprints or measuring enough. But the set she creates is even better than the blueprints, and that's when Rainbow brings out Applejack's vision board. It was filled with Applejack's ideas that she didn't think she'd be able to get done for the play.
• Pinkie Pie - Pinkie drums and builds the set while drumming with the hammers. Applejack just leads her to drum where she needs to.
• Photo Finish - Applejack starts explaining to Photo Finish what she wants, but Photo Finish starts doing her own thing based on vibes. The initial look at the stage looks like she has done nothing, until they turn off the lights and it is revealed that she created the whole set with lasers.

9. Opening Night (December 30, 2017 / August 17, 2018)

The play is finally happening. Rarity plays the lead who leaves in a coal mining family/town and wants to follow bigger dreams. She finds the bedazzled boots and the story continues. It then gets to Fluttershy's part where all she has to do is ring a bell and say one line, but Snips and Snails accidentally drop the bell. Fluttershy is left standing there with stage fright not knowing what to do.

• Applejack - Applejack asks Snips and Snails for a costume but the only one they have around is a tree. She goes in and holds the bell up to Fluttershy so that she can ring it and do her line.
• Twilight Sparkle - Sunset signals to Twilight to use her magic to raise the bell. Then Fluttershy rings it and says her line.
• Sunset Shimmer - Sunset comes out and does a monologue and leads the whole crowd and cast to act out the bell ringing before Fluttershy says her line.

10. Happily Ever After Party (December 30, 2017 / August 24, 2018)

The CMC are upset because it's time for the party after the play is over, but Cranky Doodle doesn't want them to use the projector for the memory slideshow they made.

• Applejack - Applejack decides to be more stubborn than Cranky Doodle, but the whole time they are arguing the CMC use the distraction to just steal the projector. He walks into the party later and doesn't even notice.
• Rarity - Rarity treats the whole thing like a court case and points out that the projector belongs to the school, the taxpayer, and the students themselves. By the end of it, Rarity says she is confiscating the projector and they allow Cranky Doodle to join the party so he can supervise it.
• Rainbow Dash - The CMC find an excuse to get Cranky Doodle out of the classroom while Rainbow Dash snoops around the classroom and finds it. Everyone is enjoying the party, but Cranky Doodle has the CMC held up trying to teach them more math formulas.

Applejack can be seen in her tree costume from choosing her in "Opening Night."

In the Rarity option, a picture of Pinkie drumming with hammers can be seen from when the viewer chooses her in "Constructive Criticism."

In the Rainbow Dash option, the pictures show Pinkie's balloon idea in "All the World's Off Stage" and Rainbow Dash and Applejack in the Rainbow Dash option of "Constructive Criticism."

Season 2

1. Wake-Up! (June 16 / September 3, 2019)

Pinkie Pie was playing drums all night and it kept the others from sleeping well. Sunset especially is still fast asleep in the morning.

• Applejack - Applejack wakes up Sunset and has her spend all morning setting up the campsite for everyone.
• Rainbow Dash - Rainbow Dash has Sunset doing yoga, which starts easy, but gets harder. Right as Sunset is totally giving up, Rainbow Dash points out that they are in the perfect position to watch the sunrise.
• Pinkie Pie - Pinkie has Sunset eat a whole breakfast of desserts and sweets. The two of them and Spike get a sugar high, and they crash later.

2. The Last Drop (June 23 / September 6, 2019)

DJ Pon-3 is playing a set at Starswirl and a spotlight appears over Big Mac, Sunset, and Fluttershy.

• Sunset Shimmer - A old style platformer game appears on the screen behind DJ, and Sunset's phone acts as the game controller and she plays it.
• Fluttershy - The screen shows pictures of a wolf howling, and Fluttershy gets surrounded by animals. The animals add to the music and Fluttershy dances and howls.
• Big Mac - Big Mac is handed a banjo and starts playing with DJ, while digital apple imagery is shown around him.

3. Inclement Leather (June 30 / September 8, 2019)

Applejack, Twilight, and Rarity are enjoying the festival, but then the rain pours down. Rarity is upset because she is in suede.

• Applejack - Applejack tells Rarity about how to enjoy the mud, like finding worms or camouflaging to catch a pig. Then Rarity thinks about mud masks, and ends up with a mud mask by Applejack.
• Twilight Sparkle - Twilight has trash bags, which inspires Rarity to turn them into ponchos ("with fringe!").
• Vignette - Rarity video calls Vignette for help, but instead Vignette compliments her soaked hair look, which apparently is trendy.

4. Lost and Pound (July 7 / September 10, 2019)

Twilight is walking around with Rarity, Fluttershy, and Spike, and is busy looking at all their food options, when Spike bumps into a lost dog.

• Rarity - The dog gets mud all over Rarity and tries to lick her, and eventually freaks out Rarity enough that Rarity runs off and gets chased through photo booths and bushes. It turns out the dog, Princess Thunder Guts, belongs to Su-Z of Post Crush, and Rarity gets rewarded with a feather boa for returning her.
• Spike - The dog goes up to Spike, who acts all nervous like he has a crush. They do dog things together like barking at squirrels, laying in flowers, playing fetch, and even doing a reference to the famous Lady and the Tramp scene. Su-Z of Post Crush sees them at a table and takes her back, but at least Princess Thunder Guts gives him a lick before she leaves.
• Fluttershy - Fluttershy uses her Equestrian magic and talks to Princess Thunder Guts, who tells them exactly who she belongs to. They return her and go back to the food trucks.

5. Accountibilibuddies (July 14 / September 13, 2019)

Applejack is all excited to dance in the crowd for Dirk Thistleweed, but she ends up getting her foot stomped on and having to get it cared for.

• Rainbow Dash - Rainbow puts together a weird salve in a tent, which Applejack hesitates to use. Just then, Dirk Thistleweed himself walks in, with his voice hoarse, saying that he could smell the cure all. He puts some on his throat, and begins to perform right then and there. Applejack starts putting some on her own throat in her excitement.
• Pinkie Pie - Pinkie gets an idea and tosses Applejack in a wheelbarrow and carries her up a hill. From there, Applejack gets a good view of the stage. Then Pinkie disappears just to appear on stage, pushing Dirk more directly in Applejack's view, right before security jumps her and tosses her into the crowd.
• Snips - Applejack thinks Snips looks lonely without Snails, who apparently walked off right after Snips mentioned losing his ear plugs. As Snips continues monologuing about missing Snails, Applejack tries to offer to be his friend. But that is when Snails shows up, with Dirk Thistleweed, who he'd been hanging out with. Dirk lets the three of them stay backstage for the performance.

Dirk's last name is "Thistleweed," but the credits have him as "Thistlewood."

6. The Road Less Scheduled (July 21 / September 15, 2019)

Twilight has her whole day planned out on her phone, but she trips and her phone lands on Bulk Biceps' sweaty skin, ruining her phone. Spike is excited to do something unplanned, and Twilight looks for someone to hang out with.

• Principal Celestia - Twilight sees Principal Celestia and ends up joining her, Luna, and Cranky Doodle, who all have been coming to the festival for many years. They show her the secret falafel truck, take photo booth photos, and do some breakdancing, before ending the day on a hilltop watching the sunset.
• Fluttershy - Twilight chooses to hang out with Fluttershy, and finds out she is into Skullcruncher, a metal group.
• Micro Chips - Twilight sees that Micro Chips is going to see MC Dex Effex, and starts talking trivia about them with him, but everything she knows is wrong and Micro Chips keeps correcting her. When they get to the stage, Micro Chips gets up there and puts on the helmet, revealing to Twilight that he was MC Dex Effex all along.

The title is a reference to the saying "the road less traveled."

Principal Celestia mentions Twilight potentially sending her letters about what she learned at every music festival, referencing the main Friendship is Magic show's original method of summarizing the lessons.

Skullcruncher is also the name of a Transformers character.

MC Dex Effex is a reference to Daft Punk, with the helmet and music style.

7. Sock It To Me (August 4, 2019 / May 23, 2020)

Rainbow Dash realizes right before a game that she is missing her lucky sock.

• Rarity - Rarity sews a new sock right there in front of her locker, but she takes forever. The teams are tied and Rainbow Dash comes in for the final score. She kicks the soccer ball into the goal after blinding all her opponents with the shiny gems unintentionally, and her team carries off the sock in celebration, leaving Rainbow behind.

• Trixie - Trixie pulls out a lucky sock from her hat. The sock is/seems magical and starts moving Rainbow Dash around, helping her score. Rainbow takes the sock off to pull a bunny out of it.

• Bulk Biceps - Bulk Biceps has a sock he hasn't washed in six years. The smell is horrendous, and it helps her score the winning goal. When she thanks Bulk, he says it was never lucky, but that he was teaching her self confidence. And she accidentally gets too much of a whiff of the sock and passes out.

8. Tip Toppings (August 11, 2019 / July 21, 2020)

Pinkie goes to the frozen yogurt place and it turns out she is the one thousandth customer, which means she gets one free topping. She can't decide.

• Applejack - Applejack insists Pinkie has fruit for a topping, but Pinkie really wants candy. Pinkie tries to sneak on a candy cherry, and Applejack sneaks in real cherries, which Pinkie doesn't notice.

• Twilight Sparkle - Twilight tries to sample, observe, and compare the toppings to figure out the perfect one, concluding that chocolate covered walnuts are the best. But by the time they decide, the frozen yogurt has melted.

• Fluttershy - If Pinkie opens the door for Fluttershy to come in, all of her animals burst in and cause chaos. Everyone gets kicked out. A squirrel offers to cover Pinkie's frozen yogurt in acorn bits he coughs up, so Pinkie just has to give up and laugh.

9. Costume Conundrum (August 18, 2019 / August 26, 2020)

The girls get invited to a costume party at Bulk Biceps' house, but Fluttershy needs help with a costume.

• Sunset Shimmer - Sunset starts pulling out various costume pieces from her closet, finally landing on one she thinks is scary enough. Bulk Biceps sees Sunset come in and is then horrified at Fluttershy's Cthulu type costume.
• Rarity - Rarity starts throwing fabric all over Fluttershy and creates a lovely pink princess dress, before revealing that it is actually for Rarity herself. Then she pulls out a whole rack of pretty dresses for Fluttershy to choose from.
• Applejack - Applejack starts rummaging through an old chest and mentions a costume she had tried to do with Sunset before. Sunset and Rarity are already at the party waiting for them, when they see the two show up in a costume resembling G1 Posey. Sunset is visibly most freaked out when Applejack pops out of the back.

Fluttershy is playing the game from "Game Stream" (Better Together season 2 episode 7).

Sunset makes a comment in her option when she sees a fangs costume part, saying "can't picture you as a bat." In Friendship is Magic's Bats!, Fluttershy does temporarily (or maybe not so temporarily?) turn into Flutterbat.

In Rarity's option it is revealed that she has a "darling" jar that she puts a coin in every time she says the word.

G1 Posey is a fitting choice, since she was the inspiration for G4 Fluttershy's look.

See Also

• G1 TV and Movies
• G2 TV and Movies
• G3 TV and Movies
• G4 TV and Movies
• G4.5 TV and Movies
• G5 TV and Movies