Happy Holidays Ponies! Well, at least in Ponyville. This week’s My Little Pony episode was full of festive cheer for Hearth’s Warming Eve. While everypony seems to be full of joy and good will Starlight is feeling a bit out of sorts.

After a big musical number to kick everything off, Twilight asks Starlight if she’s excited to celebrate in Ponyville for the first time and she says she thinks she’ll skip it. Starlight gives a brief recap of the holiday, but says that she thinks ponies just use it as an excuse to eat candy and buy presents. Twilight tells Starlight that she thinks she hasn’t heard the right story yet and begins telling her A Hearth’s Warming Tail.

The story begins with a powerful and miserly unicorn in Canterlot named Snowfall Frost, who just so happens to look like Starlight, who long ago hated Hearth’s Warming Eve. She wished to become a perfect wizard and felt the holiday was a distraction. Snow Dash, who resembles Rainbow Dash, is her assistant and tries to tell her just how great the holiday is, but Snowfall doesn’t care. She begins to cast a spell, in song of course, to eliminate Hearth’s Warming.

Starlight thinks that this sounds like a bit of an extreme idea, but Twilight says that there are reasons that Snowfall wants to cast the spell. The Spirit of Hearth’s Warming Past, a ghostly looking Applejack, appears to show Snowfall her past holiday experiences through a song about the seeds of the past. Snowfall used to love the holiday, but one of her former professors told her that real magic takes time and that these celebrations would do nothing to help her become a powerful wizard. She then immediately stopped celebrating and became focused on her studies.

After seeing the past, the Spirit of Hearth’s Warming Presents, you read that right presents, appears to show Snowfall what Hearth’s Warming is like in the city. The spirit also looks a lot like Pinkie Pie so the presents aspect really shouldn’t surprise you. She says that the presents aren’t just presents, but that the meaning behind them is what’s important. Hearth’s Warming Presents shows her everyponies’ celebrations, including Snow Dash’s in a song all about spending time with your friends. At the party the crowd boos Snowfall’s dislike of the holiday and Merry and Flutterholly, Rarity and Fluttershy lookalikes, say that the holiday seems to be the perfect expression of a a great and wonderful Equestria.

The final spirit appears, but while there should have been future Hearth’s Warmings there is nothing there. If Snowfall casts the spell it will succeed and Equestria will be doomed. It will become a frozen wasteland full of nothing but despair, according to the song of Princess Luna, technically the Spirit of Hearth’s Warming Future. In the story Snowfall grew to love Hearth’s Warming and became it’s greater supporter. Twilight and Spike invite Starlight to come with them to the party and she is much more excited to spend time with all of the other ponies. We end with another wonderful song, in the most musical episode of My Little Pony so far this season.

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