🎄 It’s 2016, and a Scrooge-like unicorn is brewing a potion to eliminate Hearth’s Warming Eve from the calendar. That’s how potions work, right? 

🎙 Jon and Bin from Bin’s Toy Bin and Santa by the Minute join us for a Scrooge Sunday canter through a “Christmas Carol” adaptation set in Equestria, the world of “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.” 

📺 You can watch “A Hearth’s Warming Tail” for free on YouTube. 

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💬 Topics & Tangents: 

Mike on Santa by the Minute. 

The first My Little Pony special, from 1984: “Rescue at Midnight Castle.” 

Patton Oswalt on My Little Pony. 

Patton Oswalt literally on My Little Pony. 

“It’s a Pony Kind of Christmas,” featuring characters who don’t celebrate Christmas singing Christmas songs, so the show’s composer had to clarify it wasn’t canon. 

The mysterious “Derpy,” a.k.a. Muffins. 

A short tangent about “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms” air fresheners. 

Today’s TV Trope: And You Were There. 

A scene was cut featuring Discord in the Jacob Marley role. 

He’s not in this episode, but there’s a character named Cheese Sandwich who is literally “Weird Al” Yankovic as a pony. 

Bin takes roll call at the Hearth’s Warming Eve party. 

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📼 Commercials: 

My Little Pony Dream Castle Commercial (1983) 

The Hub Network: 12 Days of Ponies Promo (2014) 

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“My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic” and “A Hearth’s Warming Tail” © 2016 Hasbro Studios. 

Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost. 
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