My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (season 2)
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic season 2 | |
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Official cover art for the season 2 DVD box set | |
Country of origin |
United States Canada |
No. of episodes | 26 |
Release | |
Original network | The Hub |
Original release | September 17, 2011 – April 21, 2012 |
The second season of the animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, developed by Lauren Faust, originally aired on The Hub in the United States. The series is based on Hasbro's My Little Pony line of toys and animated works and is often referred by collectors to be the fourth generation or "G4" of the My Little Pony franchise. Season 2 of the series premiered on September 17, 2011, on The Hub, an American pay television channel partly owned by Hasbro.
The show follows a studious unicorn pony named Twilight Sparkle as her mentor Princess Celestia guides her to learn about friendship in the town of Ponyville. Twilight becomes close friends with five other ponies: Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie. Each represents a different face of friendship, and Twilight discovers herself to be a key part of the magical artifacts, the "Elements of Harmony". The ponies share adventures and help out other residents of Ponyville, while working out the troublesome moments in their own friendships.
Development
Concept
The show follows a studious unicorn pony named Twilight Sparkle as her mentor Princess Celestia guides her to learn about friendship in the town of Ponyville. Twilight becomes close friends with five other ponies: Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie. Each represents a different face of friendship, and Twilight discovers herself to be a key part of the magical artifacts, the "Elements of Harmony". The ponies share adventures and help out other residents of Ponyville, while working out the troublesome moments in their own friendships.
Hasbro selected animator Lauren Faust as the creative director and executive producer for the show. Faust sought to challenge the established "girly" nature of the existing My Little Pony line, creating more in-depth characters and adventurous settings, incorporating Hasbro's suggestions for marketing of the toy line. From season 2 onward, E/I ("educational and informational") content was dropped in favor of only TV-Y (designed for ages 2 and up).
Production
Lauren Faust left the show after the conclusion of the first season. She was credited in the second season as Consulting Producer. Her involvement in the second season consisted mainly of story conception and scripts, and the involvement ceased after the second season. Despite leaving, she still has high hopes for the staff members, stating that "the gaps I have left are being filled by the same amazing artists, writers, and directors who brought you Season 1. I'm certain the show will be as entertaining as ever".[1]
Cast
Main
- Tara Strong as Twilight Sparkle (speaking voice)
- Rebecca Shoichet as Twilight Sparkle (singing voice)
- Tabitha St. Germain as Rarity (speaking voice)
- Kazumi Evans as Rarity (singing voice)
- Ashleigh Ball as Applejack and Rainbow Dash
- Andrea Libman as Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie (speaking voice)
- Shannon Chan-Kent as Pinkie Pie (singing voice); Libman occasionally
- Cathy Weseluck as Spike
Recurring
- Nicole Oliver as Princess Celestia and Cheerilee
- Tabitha St. Germain as Princess Luna and Granny Smith
- Peter New as Big McIntosh
- The Cutie Mark Crusaders
- Michelle Creber as Apple Bloom
- Madeleine Peters as Scootaloo
- Claire Corlett as Sweetie Belle (speaking voice)
- Michelle Creber as Sweetie Belle (singing voice)
Minor
- Kelly Metzger as Spitfire
- Chantal Strand as Diamond Tiara
- Shannon Chan-Kent as Silver Spoon
- Trevor Devall as Fancypants
- Brenda Crichlow as Zecora
- Lee Tockar as Snips
- Richard Ian Cox as Snails
- Cathy Weseluck as Mayor Mare
- Vincent Tong as Donut Joe and Garble
- The Cakes
- Brian Drummond as Mr. Cake
- Tabitha St. Germain as Mrs. Cake and Pound Cake
- Andrea Libman as Pumpkin Cake
Guest stars
- John de Lancie as Discord
- William Lawrenson as Pipsqueak
- Tabitha St. Germain as Derpy Hooves
- Sylvia Zaradic as Cherry Jubilee[2]
- The Flim Flam Brothers
- Samuel Vincent as Flim
- Scott McNeil as Flam
- Richard Newman as Cranky Doodle Donkey
- Brenda Crichlow as Matilda
- Trevor Devall as Iron Will
- Mark Oliver as Gustave le Grand
- Jan Rabson as Mulia Mild
- Andrew Francis as Shining Armor
- Britt McKillip as Princess Cadance
- Kathleen Barr as Queen Chrysalis
Episodes
The second season began on September 17, 2011 (with Part 1 of the two-part premiere "The Return of Harmony"), and ended on April 21, 2012 (with the two-part finale "A Canterlot Wedding"). Like the first season, it also contains 26 episodes.
No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | U.S. viewers (in millions) |
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27 | 1 | "The Return of Harmony" (Part 1) | Jayson Thiessen | M.A. Larson | September 17, 2011 | 0.48[3] |
Discord, the spirit of chaos and disharmony, escapes from his stone imprisonment following an argument between the Cutie Mark Crusaders, and Princess Celestia summons Twilight and her friends to use the Elements of Harmony to recapture him. They find the Elements missing, and Discord teases them with a riddle. Twilight, believing the Elements to be at the center of the Canterlot garden hedge maze, leads her friends there, but Discord continues to manipulate them, separating them in the maze and brainwashing all but Twilight into polar opposites of their usual selves, with Rainbow Dash flying away in the belief that Cloudsdale is in trouble. Discord gloats that he has bested Twilight and promises to spread chaos across all of Equestria. | ||||||
28 | 2 | "The Return of Harmony" (Part 2) | Jayson Thiessen | M.A. Larson | September 24, 2011 | 0.48[3] |
Twilight leads her friends to a chaos-affected Ponyville. She recognizes the true answer to Discord's riddle and finds the Elements in the library. However, without Rainbow Dash, they fail to work, and Twilight is finally broken by Discord's spell. However, as she packs to leave Ponyville, Spike coughs up letters from Princess Celestia, all being Twilight's old friendship reports. Twilight's lifted spirits break Discord's spell on her, and she uses it to return her friends to normal, including Rainbow Dash. The six successfully turn Discord back into stone using the Elements and are welcomed as heroes. | ||||||
29 | 3 | "Lesson Zero" | James Wootton | Meghan McCarthy | October 15, 2011 | N/A |
Twilight Sparkle realizes she has until sunset to write her weekly friendship report to Princess Celestia and worries she will face terrible punishment if she is late. Spike and her friends dismiss her fears, but she refuses to listen. Driven to insane desperation as she fails to find anyone in town with a friendship problem, she decides to cause one herself, using an old doll infused with a spell to make the Cutie Mark Crusaders fight over it so that she can break up the fight. However, the fight gets out of control, and the influence of the doll spreads across town. As the sun sets, Princess Celestia arrives to reverse the spell. Fearing the worst, Twilight is relieved when princess says that she would not have punished her in any way, and decrees that Twilight, or any of her friends, only have to send friendship reports when they have something to write about. | ||||||
30 | 4 | "Luna Eclipsed" | James Wootton | M.A. Larson | October 22, 2011 | N/A |
Princess Luna, who had been saved by Twilight Sparkle and her friends from her evil alter persona, Nightmare Moon, decides to visits Ponyville on the festival of Nightmare Night, which centers around Nightmare Moon. The residents all panic at her appearance and outdated mannerisms, but Twilight helps her to acclimate her to the festival. Despite this, Pinkie Pie and several children still run away at her approach, angering her into threatening to cancel the celebration. Twilight learns from Pinkie that she is just having fun being scared, so she uses this to show Princess Luna that the children love her but want to have fun being scared on that night. Heartened by this revelation, Princess Luna happily joins in the rest of the festival. | ||||||
31 | 5 | "Sisterhooves Social" | James Wootton | Cindy Morrow | November 5, 2011 | N/A |
Sweetie Belle is staying with Rarity while their parents are on vacation. Not used to Rarity's work, Sweetie Belle gets in the way and ruins Rarity's efforts. When Apple Bloom tells Sweetie Belle about the upcoming Sisterhooves Social race, Sweetie Belle tries to get Rarity to participate, but her sister refuses. Sweetie Belle then angrily declares that Rarity is no longer her sister, and goes to stay with Apple Bloom and her older sister Applejack, considering Applejack to be a better sister. Rarity realizes her selfishness and works out a plan with Applejack and Apple Bloom for the Social. At the race, Rarity switches places with Applejack using a mud pit. When Sweetie Belle finds out that Rarity actually raced with her, she is overjoyed and the two make amends. | ||||||
32 | 6 | "The Cutie Pox" | James Wootton | Amy Keating Rogers | November 12, 2011 | N/A |
When visiting Zecora's hut to receive medicine for her chipped tooth, Apple Bloom finds a "Heart's Desire" flower which can make "talent come into view". While Apple Bloom believes it could help her finally discover her special talent, she instead becomes afflicted with the Cutie Pox, an ailment that causes various cutie marks to appear on her body, and forcing her to continually perform the talents they represent. Zecora arrives to find where her Heart's Desire went, and upon seeing Apple Bloom, provides her with the cure after Apple Bloom admits to taking the flower. Apple Bloom apologizes and realizes she cannot rush finding her talent. | ||||||
33 | 7 | "May the Best Pet Win!" | James Wootton | Charlotte Fullerton | November 19, 2011 | N/A |
After seeing the rest of her friends out in the park on a playdate with their pets, Rainbow Dash (with the help of Fluttershy) tries to find herself an animal to be her pet using a series of contests. However, Fluttershy insists that a tortoise compete in the competition as well. After a series of events, Rainbow Dash challenges the four flying finalists to a race through Ghastly Gorge, the one crossing the finish line with her to be her new pet. In the race, Rainbow Dash's wing is caught under a rock, but the tortoise, who had continued to race, arrives to help free and take her to the finish line. Rainbow Dash is proud to call the tortoise her new pet and names him Tank due to his tenacity. | ||||||
34 | 8 | "The Mysterious Mare Do Well" | James Wootton | Merriwether Williams | November 26, 2011 | N/A |
Rainbow Dash's flying abilities make her a hero around Ponyville, but she lets the publicity go to her head, and her friends are concerned. Later, Rainbow Dash finds she is being upstaged by a masked hero, Mare Do Well, who appears to be a winged unicorn. Angered by the competition, Rainbow Dash chases Mare Do Well only to discover that all of her friends had a role in playing Mare Do Well. They had worked out this plan to help show Rainbow Dash the dangers of letting praise go to one's head, and she thanks them for revealing her folly. | ||||||
35 | 9 | "Sweet and Elite" | James Wootton | Meghan McCarthy | December 3, 2011 | N/A |
Rarity is in Canterlot to design a dress for Twilight's upcoming birthday. When members of the elite class snub her Ponyville background, she is convinced that she can demonstrate high fashion. She runs into another upper-class unicorn, Fancy Pants, who is more curious to her background, and invites her to a high class event. This soon builds to many more invitations to other fancy events for Rarity, leaving her torn between attending the events or finishing the half-completed dress. She decides to stay in Canterlot to mingle with the upper class and is surprised when Twilight and her friends arrive, having moved the birthday party to Canterlot. At Twilight's party, Rarity attempts to sneak out to a fancy garden party next door, but when her friends discover this, they decide to join the party as well. The upper class is initially shocked at their behavior, but Rarity stands up for her Ponyville friends. Fancy Pants finds her friends "charmingly rustic" and compliments Rarity on Twilight's simple dress, assuring her more orders from the other upper class. | ||||||
36 | 10 | "Secret of My Excess" | James Wootton | M.A. Larson | December 10, 2011 | N/A |
Spike celebrates his first birthday in Ponyville, and is surprised at the number of gifts he has received from his new friends. However, this triggers a hoarding instinct in him, and the next day, Twilight is shocked to find he has grown larger. Twilight learns that as a dragon becomes more greedy, it will grow to larger and larger sizes. Spike's greed soon runs out of control, and as a giant dragon, he kidnaps Rarity and climbs a nearby mountain. When Spike sees Rarity wearing a fire ruby gemstone, he remembers when he had willingly given it to Rarity before his birthday. The generous thoughts reverse his growth, returning him to normal. Despite the damage his rampage has done to Ponyville, Rarity still thinks Spike is the most generous dragon she knows. | ||||||
37 | 11 | "Hearth's Warming Eve" | James Wootton | Merriwether Williams | December 17, 2011 | N/A |
Twilight and her friends are asked to be the principal actors in a holiday pageant on the origins of Hearth's Warming Eve. The play shows that before Princess Celestia's rule, the three races of ponies did not live in harmony. When a severe winter ruins most of the food, the three leaders and their assistants set off to find a new land untouched by winter. By chance, they all come to the same spot, and the leaders start bickering again. The hostility feeds the ghostly Windegos, the creatures responsible for the winter, causing the land and the leaders to freeze over. The assistants find that they share a common bond, and their friendship creates a great fire that vanquishes the Windegos and thaws out the land and their leaders. Putting their differences aside, the three tribes name the new land Equestria and work together to make it thrive. | ||||||
38 | 12 | "Family Appreciation Day" | James Wootton | Cindy Morrow | January 7, 2012 | N/A |
Apple Bloom is scheduled to bring a family member to school for Family Appreciation Day, but with the lucrative Zap Apple harvest nearing, only Granny Smith is available, and Apple Bloom worries that she will be embarrassed by Granny's antics in front of her class, particularly Diamond Tiara. She, along with the other Cutie Mark Crusaders, try a number of tactics to stall Granny, but to no avail. To their surprise, Granny Smith recounts how she, as a filly, had discovered the Zap Apple trees and their unusual magic properties, leading to the formation of Ponyville. The rest of the class is awed by the story, and when Diamond Tiara tries to dismiss it, Apple Bloom stands up for Granny Smith. In the end, Apple Bloom has a new appreciation of her grandmother's eccentric ways while Diamond Tiara is forced to participate by her father as punishment for insulting Granny Smith, his most important produce supplier. | ||||||
39 | 13 | "Baby Cakes" | James Wootton | Charlotte Fullerton | January 14, 2012 | N/A |
The Cakes have a pair of twins: Pound Cake (a pegasus) and Pumpkin Cake (a unicorn). A month after their birth, the Cakes are forced to ask Pinkie Pie to babysit the pair while they cater an event. Pinkie, initially elated to be able to play with the babies, finds they are much more difficult to tend to, but she refuses to accept Twilight's help, believing that she can show responsibility. However, when the twins later exhibit their flying and magic abilities, Pinkie can no longer control them and breaks down in tears. The twins realize their mistake and cheer Pinkie up. The Cakes return to find everything is fine, and offer Pinkie to be their go-to babysitter in the future, which Pinkie accepts after hearing the twins say her name. | ||||||
40 | 14 | "The Last Roundup" | James Wootton | Amy Keating Rogers | January 21, 2012 | N/A |
Applejack goes to the Equestria rodeo with plans to donate her winnings to repair the town hall. However, when she doesn't return and only sends a note that she will be back later, Twilight and her friends go off to look for her, finding her working on a cherry farm in Dodge Junction. Applejack refuses to answer their questions of why she did not return, but after suffering from Pinkie's hyperactivity, she agrees to tell them the next day. That morning, they find Applejack is trying to escape. After a chase, they catch up with her to discover that while she had won events at the rodeo, none of her wins were first place, and she instead hoped to earn money as she had no prize money to return with. Her friends assure that they would rather have her back home than a fixed town hall, and Applejack happily returns to Ponyville. | ||||||
41 | 15 | "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000" | James Wootton | M.A. Larson | January 28, 2012 | N/A |
Cider season has arrived, but the Apples cannot make apple cider fast enough by traditional methods to satisfy everyone. The Flim Flam Brothers arrive with their "Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000", claiming they can make as good a cider in a faster time. When the Apples refuse to accept a lopsided partnership, Flim and Flam instead challenge them to a cider making contest for rights to sell cider to Ponyville. The contest starts with the brothers in a strong lead, but Applejack's friends offer their help to speed up production. With their lead quickly diminishing, Flim and Flam speed up their machine, disabling the quality control. The brothers ultimately win the contest with the most barrels of cider, but the cider is undrinkable and they quickly flee town. With all of their cider made in the contest, the Apples celebrate with everyone else in town. | ||||||
42 | 16 | "Read It and Weep" | James Wootton | Cindy Morrow | February 4, 2012 | N/A |
Rainbow Dash ends up in the hospital with a broken wing. Twilight offers her a book from the Daring Do novels, but Rainbow Dash refuses, considering reading to be an "egghead" hobby. However, boredom eventually overcomes her, and she starts reading, soon becoming engrossed in the adventure story. Just as she nears the conclusion, she is discharged from the hospital. Worried about revealing her newfound reading hobby to anyone else, she tries to sneak into the hospital to get the book, but ends up being chased around town at night, waking up her friends. Rainbow Dash admits to enjoying the book, and Twilight is only happy to share her copies with her. | ||||||
43 | 17 | "Hearts and Hooves Day" | James Wootton | Meghan McCarthy | February 11, 2012 | 0.32[4] |
After their consideration, the Cutie Mark Crusaders attempt to create a relationship between their schoolteacher Cheerilee and Apple Bloom's older brother Big Macintosh, for Hearts and Hooves Day with a love potion. However, they discover too late that the recipe is for a love poison, making the two unable to do anything else beyond thinking about the other. The Crusaders barely manage to keep the two out of eyesight of each other for an hour, breaking the spell. They apologize to Cheerilee and Big McIntosh, and as punishment, the three take up Big McIntosh's chores for the entire day. | ||||||
44 | 18 | "A Friend in Deed" | James Wootton | Amy Keating Rogers | February 18, 2012 | N/A |
Pinkie Pie tries to become friends with new Ponyville resident Cranky Doodle Donkey. However, the donkey absolutely refuses to become friends with her, no matter how hard Pinkie Pie tries. When Pinkie accidentally sets fire to a scrapbook, Cranky demands she leave him alone, and refuses to accept her apology. However, his outcries and the scrapbook give Pinkie an idea, and she is able to reunite Cranky with Matilda, another donkey that lives in town. Cranky is amazed to see his love, having lost track of her after a Grand Galloping Gala years ago, and happily thanks Pinkie and calls her his friend, to Pinkie's elation. | ||||||
45 | 19 | "Putting Your Hoof Down" | James Wootton | Charlotte Fullerton (story) Merriwether Williams (teleplay) | March 3, 2012 | N/A |
Fluttershy is told by Pinkie and Rarity that she is too much of a doormat, letting others take advantage of her. She attends a self-help seminar by a minotaur named Iron Will where she learns to become more assertive in her actions, but these lessons change Fluttershy's personality dramatically beyond recognition. When Pinkie and Rarity try to convince her to be less assertive, she insults them, making them run off in tears. Fluttershy becomes ashamed and hides in her cottage. When Iron Will comes around to collect payment on the seminar, Pinkie and Rarity try to stop him, fearing that Fluttershy will crumble at his demand. Instead, to their surprise, Fluttershy explains she is not satisfied with Iron Will's course, and refuses to pay as per his guarantee. Iron Will is stunned but accepts this reason, and Pinkie and Rarity praise Fluttershy for being herself. | ||||||
46 | 20 | "It's About Time" | James Wootton | M.A. Larson | March 10, 2012 | N/A |
Twilight Sparkle is briefly visited by her bedraggled future self to warn her about something that would happen next Tuesday morning, but her interruptions prevent her future self from explaining what to be prepared for before she disappears. Twilight fears the worst and tries to take steps to prevent it. However, while nothing bad happens, Twilight suffers minor injuries that mirror her future self's look. Convinced the only way to prevent the disaster is to stop time, she, Pinkie, and Spike go to the Canterlot library to look for time-stopping spells. When Tuesday morning arrives, nothing happens, and Twilight realizes she was worried for nothing. However, using a time travel spell Pinkie found, Twilight travels back a week to explain this to her past self, realizing too late that she completed the time loop. | ||||||
47 | 21 | "Dragon Quest" | James Wootton | Merriwether Williams | March 17, 2012 | N/A |
After observing the Great Dragon Migration with his pony friends, Spike starts to question his dragon roots and wonder about his true identity. He sets out to join the dragon migration on a quest of self discovery, but Twilight, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash know he will need help and tail him in a hastily made dragon costume. At a volcano, Spike joins other teenage dragons, who challenge him to prove he is a dragon. With some help from the ponies, Spike shows off his worth. Later, the dragons attempt to raid a nest of phoenix eggs, using Spike to lure the phoenixes away. Spike returns to find an unhatched egg remaining but refuses to smash it. The ponies reveal themselves, and help to rescue Spike and the egg. Later in Ponyville, Spike hatches the egg, naming the new phoenix chick "Peewee" and promising to take good care of it. | ||||||
48 | 22 | "Hurricane Fluttershy" | James Wootton | Cindy Morrow | March 24, 2012 | N/A |
Ponyville's pegasi are challenged to create a tornado to move water from their reservoir to Cloudsdale for the cloud-making machine. Rainbow Dash wants all the pegasi to improve their speed to beat the record, but finds that Fluttershy suffers from public anxiety from her time at flight school. Fluttershy tries to train on her own with her animal friends, and while she does improve, her performance is far worse than the other pegasi, and runs off. On the day of the attempt, a number of pegasi have come down with a flu, and they barely have enough to assure that the tornado can be made successfully. After a botched first attempt, their second tornado falls just short of the necessary speed. Twilight convinces Fluttershy to try to help. Fluttershy is able to dispel her fears long enough to give enough speed to complete the tornado. Rainbow Dash and the other pegasi cheer Fluttershy on as their hero. | ||||||
49 | 23 | "Ponyville Confidential" | James Wootton | M.A. Larson | March 31, 2012 | N/A |
The Cutie Mark Crusaders join the school newspaper in their attempts to earn their cutie mark. Diamond Tiara, the paper's editor, wants the paper to be more exciting and has the Crusaders write a gossip column under the pen name "Gabby Gums". The columns become a huge success, but Diamond Tiara makes the Crusaders conjure untruths and expose embarrassing secrets of all the other ponies, including their own friends and families. Realizing that getting their cutie marks is not worth the pain and misery they spread by not valuing others' privacy, the Crusaders try to quit but Diamond Tiara threatens to publish humiliating photos of them if they fail to find another story. When Rarity discovers the truth about Gabby Gums, she rats on the three fillies for the deed and the entire townsfolk severely shuns their very presence, making their search for stories difficult. Having disgraced the whole town and while sulking in their treehouse, they come up with a plan to write an apology letter to the town, successfully slipping it under Diamond Tiara's nose to publish at the deadline. The townsfolk accept their apology, while Diamond Tiara is demoted to operating the printing press. | ||||||
50 | 24 | "MMMystery on the Friendship Express" | James Wootton | Amy Keating Rogers | April 7, 2012 | N/A |
Pinkie is in charge of guarding the Cakes' dessert for a competition in Canterlot. She and her friends share the train with three rival bakers who have brought their own entries. Overnight, the Cakes' dessert is partially eaten. Pinkie immediately accuses the other bakers, but Twilight instead shows her how to investigate, and finds clues that point to their friends, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Rarity, each admitting to taking a taste. The other bakers' desserts are similarly eaten, but Pinkie, using Twilight's advice, deduces the bakers had eaten each others' desserts after hearing Pinkie's delicious descriptions of them. The collected group use the remains of the desserts to create a single entry that wins the competition. | ||||||
51 | 25 | "A Canterlot Wedding" (Part 1) | James Wootton | Meghan McCarthy | April 21, 2012 | 0.49[5] |
The ponies are summoned to plan a wedding for Shining Armor, Twilight's older brother and captain of the royal guard at Canterlot, and Princess Cadance, her childhood foalsitter. Twilight becomes suspicious of Cadance when the princess fails to remember her, and even more so when Cadance continually puts down all of her friends. When her friends refuse to listen to Twilight's accusations, Twilight attempts to warn Shining Armor, only to witness Cadance place a seemingly evil spell on him. Twilight accosts Cadance at the wedding rehearsal, causing her to break down in tears. Shining Armor, furious at Twilight, bans her from the wedding, while her friends and Princess Celestia angrily abandon her to reflect on her actions. When Twilight tries to apologize to Cadance, the princess uses a magic spell that teleports her underground, leaving with a malicious grin. | ||||||
52 | 26 | "A Canterlot Wedding" (Part 2) | James Wootton | Meghan McCarthy | April 21, 2012 | 0.48[5] |
After being trapped in an underground cavern by Princess Cadance, Twilight encounters another Cadance and learns that the princess who Shining Armor is about to marry is actually an impostor. Twilight and the real Cadance escape in time to stop the wedding, where Cadance exposes the impostor as Queen Chrysalis, the shapeshifting leader of the changelings. Chrysalis reveals her plan to invade Canterlot, having taken over Shining Armor's mind and weakened his magic shield that protects the city. She is able to defeat Princess Celestia, and her horde of changelings prevent Twilight and her friends from retrieving the Elements of Harmony to stop her. As Chrysalis revels in her victory, Twilight frees Cadance, who subsequently frees Shining Armor from the queen's spell. Together, Shining Armor and Cadance use their magic to conjure a new shield that repels the queen and her minions. Twilight is congratulated for trusting her instincts, and the wedding goes on as scheduled. |
Songs
No. in series |
Episode | Song[lower-alpha 1] | Lyrics by[6] | Sung by |
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33 | "May the Best Pet Win!" | "Find a Pet" | Charlotte Fullerton & Kevin Rubio | Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash |
35 | "Sweet and Elite" | "Becoming Popular (The Pony Everypony Should Know)" | Meghan McCarthy | Rarity |
37 | "Hearth's Warming Eve" | "The Heart Carol" / "Circle of Friends"[lower-alpha 2] | Merriwether Williams | Crowd |
39 | "Baby Cakes" | "Happy Monthiversery"[lower-alpha 2] | Charlotte Fullerton | Pinkie Pie |
"Piggy Dance"[lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3] | Amy Keating Rogers | Pinkie Pie[lower-alpha 4] | ||
41 | "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000" | "The Flim Flam Brothers" | M.A. Larson & Daniel Ingram | The Flim Flam Brothers, Granny Smith, and crowd |
43 | "Hearts and Hooves Day" | "The Perfect Stallion"[lower-alpha 2] | Meghan McCarthy | Cutie Mark Crusaders |
44 | "A Friend in Deed" | "The Smile Song (Smile, Smile, Smile)" | Amy Keating Rogers | Pinkie Pie and crowd |
"Cranky Doodle Donkey"[lower-alpha 2] | Pinkie Pie[lower-alpha 4] | |||
"Welcome Song" | ||||
"Cranky Doodle Joy" | ||||
51 | "A Canterlot Wedding" (Part 1) | "B.B.B.F.F." | Meghan McCarthy | Twilight Sparkle, with Mane Six; Twilight Sparkle (reprise) |
52 | "A Canterlot Wedding" (Part 2) | "This Day Aria (Cadence Aria)"[lower-alpha 2] | Queen Chrysalis[lower-alpha 5] and Princess Cadance; Queen Chrysalis (reprise) | |
"Love Is in Bloom"[lower-alpha 6] | Twilight Sparkle |
Notes
- ↑ Unless noted otherwise, all songs are composed by Daniel Ingram and orchestrated by Steffan Andrews.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Song not orchestrated by Steffan Andrews.
- ↑ Song composed by Daniel Ingram and Amy Keating Rogers.
- 1 2 Pinkie's singing voice by Andrea Libman.
- ↑ Disguised as Princess Cadance.
- ↑ Song produced by Davey Badiuk and Sam Ryan of SOS Music, Ltd.
DVD release
My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic: Season Two | |||||||
Set details | Special features | ||||||
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Release dates | |||||||
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May 14, 2013[7] | November 28, 2014[8] | TBA |
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References
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- ↑ Miller, Jim (2013-12-10), "Sylvia Zaradic", (Self-published) (Twitter), retrieved 2013-12-10.
- 1 2 "Saturday, September 17, 2011 Broadcast & Cable Final Ratings". The Voice of TV. 2011-09-21. Archived from the original on 2011-09-29.
- ↑ Kondolojy, Amanda (2012-02-16). "'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic' Fan Favorite Mare-A-Thon Boosts The Hub". TV By the Numbers. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- 1 2 "Hub TV Network Scores Record High Audience With Outstanding Performance of Special Royal Wedding of the Year on 'My Little Pony Friendship is Magic'" (Press release). Hasbro. 2012-04-24. Retrieved 2012-04-24.
- ↑ Snider, Brandon T. (2013). The Elements of Harmony: My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic – The Official Guidebook. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 9780316247542.
- ↑ Lambert, David (2013-03-27). "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic – Shout! Press Release Announces Season 2 DVDs". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Retrieved 2013-11-29.
- ↑ "My Little Pony - Freundschaft ist Magie: Die komplette 2. Staffel zur TV-Serie [4 DVDs]". Amazon.de. Retrieved 2014-10-24.
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