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It’s a very spooooopy week as Jen and Micah of I Never Saw That join us for Fluttershy's worst nightmare - having to be out and about on Nightmare Night. The Mane Six do their best to help Fluttershy join the activities, but she's a little too worried about impossibly rare monsters to enjoy herself. As creepy as she gets at the Apple family hay maze, though, nothing will prepare you for this week's ultimate terror - Fluttershy's darkly depressing haunted tea party. Enjoy our review of "Scare Master!"

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Intro and outro music is "Madgapuff March (rmx) by JS Bach" by Lee Rosevere. Licensed under a CCO 1.0 Universal License. For the song and information about the artist, visit the song page at the Free Music Archive.

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This week, we’re off to celebrate Hearth’s Warming Eve at the Pie Rock Farm! Pinkie Pie and Applejack are celebrating being (maybe) cousins by bringing the Pie and Apple families together, but things get derailed pretty quickly. Applejack’s pretty dang judgmental about holiday traditions, while Pinkie Pie desperately tries to hold things together. Funny enough, though, the two families get along pretty well until Applejack decides to upend everything. Will this Hearth’s Warming Eve be the worst or the best ever? And how will our namesakes get along with each other in their first on-screen meeting? Enjoy our review of “Hearthbreakers!”

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Intro and outro music is "Madgapuff March (rmx) by JS Bach" by Lee Rosevere. Licensed under a CCO 1.0 Universal License. For the song and information about the artist, visit the song page at the Free Music Archive.

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This week, Pinkie Pie has to keep a secret and nearly explodes from the pressure. Like, literally - it's taking everything in her power not to let EVERYONE know there's a royal baby on the way. And it doesn't make things easier as the Mane 6 prepare for Princess Cadence and Shining Armor's arrival and Pinkie keeps getting reminded of surprises. And babies. It's a crazy Pinkie-sode this week as we watched "The One Where Pinkie Pie Knows!"

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This week Sarah Kinney (Little Realms) joins us again for the musical event of season five as the Cutie Mark Crusaders find their ultimate purpose and, just maybe, their cutie marks! To do so, though, they’ll need to help Pipsqueak get elected class president, re-evaluate Diamond Tiara’s bad attitude, and learn a ton about friendship in the process. Plus, when we get Sarah on, things get crazy, like when we equate the school election to the current political primaries and…well you get where we’re going. Join us for a fun and emotional review of “Crusaders of the Lost Mark!”

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Clips taken from “We’ll Make Our Mark (Prelude),” “The Vote,” “The Pony I Want to Be,” “Light of Your Cutie Mark,” and “We’ll Marke Our Mark” written and composed by Daniel Ingram. Copyright 2015 Hasbro Inc.

Intro and outro music is "Madgapuff March (rmx) by JS Bach" by Lee Rosevere. Licensed under a CCO 1.0 Universal License. For the song and information about the artist, visit the song page at the Free Music Archive.

Content Warning: We directly confront disrespectful and transphobic tropes used in this episode of My Little Pony (a stallion dresses in drag, which is used mostly for comedic purposes). While many of these moments are mild in nature, some of this content may be upsetting to some listeners. Please take care of yourselves and do not listen to this episode until you feel safe doing so. Thank you.

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Every season or so of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, an episode comes along that has not aged well. This episode in particular sees Big Macintosh wanting to re-connect with Apple Bloom so much that he’s willing to dress in drag to be her partner at the Sisterhooves Social. The gesture is, as Sweetie Belle points out: “Sweet. Weird, but sweet.” Except that the writers missed the mark badly by leaning into the drag tropes and jokes waaaaaay too hard. And yet despite that layer of ickiness, the final scene of the episode sees Big Macintosh open up his sweet stallion heart to his little sister, feeling a little overshadowed by Applejack. As problematic as this episode is, it’s super sweet and meaningful to see this experience open Big Mac up to share his feelings. This week we review a problematic pony fave, “Brotherhooves Social.”

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Clip taken from “Sisterhood” as sung in the episode by Michelle Creber and Peter New, and written and composed by Daniel Ingram. Copyright 2015 Hasbro Inc.

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Back to Manehattan this week after the Cutie Mark calls Rarity (AGAIN) and Applejack. Of course, it’s Manehattan, so the friendship problem isn’t clear until it literally smacks Rarity in the face. Turns out Coco Pommel is having trouble keeping a local community event afloat, and needs Rarity and Applejack to get some help. It’s a fun adventure for these two, and an amazing message of helping your community (and supporting local theatre!). Enjoy our review of “Made in Manehattan” on this week’s epsiode of Macintosh & Maud!

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We're back with Rarity this week as she goes full film noir with Rainbow Dash. After Dash gets picked as an alternate for a Wonderbolts performance, she gets embroiled in a controversy as Spitfire gets sent away on (gasp) false pretenses. Rarity's been deep in detective novels for her new fashion line, though, and she takes on the case. Between Rarity's "narration," lots of adorable randoponies, and a wonderful message of friendship, there's a lot to enjoy in this episode. Enjoy our review of "Rarity Investigates!" this week on Macintosh & Maud!

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Kate Harlow a/k/a @ArgonKitten of Kids on Bikes Podcast joins us this week for our first official Rarity episode of the season! Rarity seems to have learned from her past friendship problems, and her fashion business is doing pretty great as well. So naturally, she wants to expand into the next adventure - the fashion hub of Canterlot! Rarity obviously can’t handle things on her own, so she’s invited a new pony to manage things in Canterlot, a well-known but not exactly successful fashion pony, Sassy Saddles. Sassy has some ideas on how to make Rarity’s new location a success…but it might just destroy Rarity’s joy for fashion. Find out how Rarity retains her inspiration this week on Macintosh & Maud!

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Excerpt taken from “My Little Pony” from Patton Oswalt’s special Talking for Clapping. © 2016 Aspecialthing Records.

Excerpt taken from “Rules of Rarity” written by Amy Keating Rogers and Daniel Ingram, and performed by Kazumi Evans. © 2015 Hasbro Studios, LLC.

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This week our resident pony expert Jon Baley of Gumbie Cat Networks returns to talk about what is one of the most beautiful episodes of this show we’ve ever seen. The Mane 6 have to help Luna solve a problem, but it’s up to Luna to confront her own guilt and fear to defeat her own nightmare come to Ponyville. Every time Luna gets featured, something beautiful happens, and having her be the focus of this episode is a unique but really fantastic touch for this midpoint of this season. Join us as we talk Pinkie’s crazy dream physics, Rainbow Dash’s ultimate nightmare, Demon-Bunny Angel, and how even princesses aren’t always perfect, all this week on Macintosh & Maud!

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This week, Thomas Howeth of Crit Storm Cast and Neverending Minute joins us for a very unexpectedly real Twilight episode. She’s been enjoying a little downtime after a really crazy few weeks of Princess duties, only for Spike to remind her just how horrible a friend she was in Canterlot before Celestia sent her on assignment to Ponyville. And when we say horrible, we really mean it - she can’t remember the name of a single friend she used to have. Or anything about the very important party she missed when she ditched her life to go on assignment for Princess Celestia. She’s in for a rude awakening, and we’re all here for it as we review “Amending Fences” on this week’s Macintosh & Maud!

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Intro and outro music is "Madgapuff March (rmx) by JS Bach" by Lee Rosevere. Licensed under a CCO 1.0 Universal License. For the song and information about the artist, visit the song page at the Free Music Archive.