Does every animal have their copy of "Wuthering Hooves"?
Hooray! I love Furry Friends Book Club.
Now let's discuss the theme of nature
as it applies to Hoofcliff's love--
Did somepony leave a light on?
Oh, It's me.
OH! It's me!
We'll continue this discussion when I get back!
[door clicks closed]
[chittering]
♪ My little pony, my little pony ♪
♪ Aaaahhh ♪
♪ My little Pony ♪
♪ I used to wonder what friendship could be. ♪
♪ My Little Pony ♪
♪ Until you all shared its magic with me. ♪
♪ Big adventure! ♪ ♪ Tons of fun ♪
♪ A beautiful heart! ♪ ♪ Faithful and strong! ♪
♪ Sharing kindness ♪ ♪ it's an easy feat ♪
♪ And magic makes it all complete! ♪
♪ To have my little pony ♪
♪ Do you know you're all my very best friends? ♪
♪♪
You're here!
[poof]
Isn't this exciting!
Oh, you were called too! Thank goodness.
I feel so much better going with a friend.
I was about to come and get you but then I got distracted.
Oh.
Ever since the map called us,
I've been doing a ton of research.
[zap]
Testing out potential friendship problems,
diversifying my solution portfolio...
[pop]
"Ever since the map called us"?
But that happened five minutes ago.
I know, but I want to be one hundred percent prepared.
I mean, I'm the Princess of Friendship.
How would it look if I couldn't solve a friendship problem?
Oh, I'm so lucky I'm being sent with you.
Speaking of which, where are we going?
The Smokey Mountains!
Oh, I've never been there before.
Neither have I. And there isn't a lot of information on them.
All I could find was this.
"The Smokey Mountains harbor the most beautiful valley
in all of Equestria between its two majestic mountain peaks."
That's gorgeous.
And where there's nature, there's a ton of animal friends!
I can't wait to get started.
I'm a little nervous, since that's all I could find.
I usually like to be a bit more prepared.
You seem pretty prepared to me.
Are those...for us?
Yup! I've prepared our things: Snacks, books, blankets, books.
You said books twice.
There are a lot of books.
Oof!
What do you think our friendship problem's going to be?
[struggling]
I don't know. But I'm sure we'll figure it out.
Do you think it'll be a problem about lying?
I'm sure we'll find out when we get there.
You're right.
Ooh! Could it be about when two friends just randomly decide
to do something together but they forget to invite
the third friend and the third friend feels left out?
Or where one friend tells another friend's secret
after they ask them not to?
We'll know very, very soon, since we're almost there.
Here, let me get that.
Oh, thank you.
Sorry I've been a little scidilly-bopty-boo.
I just can't believe this is finally happening!
[whoosh]
Whoa!
Whoa. What in Equestria is happening?
It's nothing like your book said it would be.
Oh, boy, I'm feeling very unprepared.
Where do we even start?
[whoosh]
Maybe by figuring out where the flying pumpkins are coming from?
Ready?
♪ [banjo picking] ♪
Aim.
♪♪
Fire!
[boom]
Um, hi, hello. Excuse us, but... what are you doing?
We're pumpkining our neighbors!
Yes. But, umm, why are you pumpkining your neighbors?
Well, because the McColts are just plain rotten.
Hey, wait a tick. Who are you two?
You're not spies for the McColts are Yeah?
I am Twilight Sparkle, the Princess of Friendship.
And I am here to solve your friendship problem.
I'm Fluttershy. And um, I'm here, too.
Ma Hooffield.
Pleased to meet you, but you're wasting your time.
We don't have a friendship problem;
we have a McColt problem.
And there's absolutely no friendship there.
Well, maybe there could be if we figure out what the McColts did
to make you so mad.
Oh, well they've done so many things!
Why just today, they shot pebbles at our farmhouse
and wrecked it!
See, we're not very good at building
so all it took was a little pebble. But still.
♪♪
[squeaks]
Oh, no!
I know what to do. We're gonna talk with these McColts
and hear their side of the story.
Once we have all the facts,
we can put an end to this, using reason and rationale.
Good plan!
That's why she's the Princess.
In the meantime, could you please call off the pumpkining?
Oh, all right.
Thanks. Come on, Fluttershy.
[knock knock]
State your business.
Don't even bother.
They're probably spies for the Hooffields.
Hey wait, you're an Alicorn.
I thought just the three princesses were Alicorns.
There are four Alicorn princesses in Equestria now.
I am Twilight Sparkle, The Princess of Friendship!
And I'm Fluttershy.
We have a new princess? When did that happen?
And, and how did the Hooffields come by a princess spy?
We are not spies! Why does everypony assume we're spies?
[rattling wood]
Because we don't get a lot of visitors. I'm Big Daddy McColt.
You caught us at a weird time.
We're in the middle of a giant feud
with our terrible neighbors!
[echo]
[crash]
Well, actually, that's why we're here.
To solve your problem with the Hooffields.
So you're here to help us get rid of them?
[whooping cheers]
No, that's not what I meant at all!
Well, if you ain't for us, you're against us.
Twilight: We are not on anypony's side.
We're here to help you become friends again.
Well, that's gonna be hard.
I don't believe we've ever been friends with the Hooffields.
But you could be.
They're just really upset you ruined their farmhouse--
Wait a hog-wogglin' minute! We only did that
because the Hooffields pulled the pin out of our wagon wheel.
[clunk]
A whole week's worth of food rollin' down the mountain!
Us McColts are mighty fine builders
but we don't know the first thing about farming.
We have to travel a ways away to buy our food.
And now, we'll be stuck eating the pumpkins
the Hooffields launched at us!
Pumpkin bread, pumpkin soup, pumpkin quesadillas,
pumpkin paella, pumpkin cheese, pumpkin pie, pumpkin fri-ta-tas.
Actually that all sounds pretty good, but it'll get old.
♪♪
Have you tried meeting at a neutral location,
talking about your problems, and really listening to each other?
What? No. They'd sooner launch their dinners at us
than listen to us.
Well, they'll listen to me. I'm an impartial third party.
♪♪
[amplified] Attention, Hooffields and McColts!
I'm not on anypony's side, but I can see you're both wasting time
and resources on being mean to each other.
Ponies are supposed to help each other and be kind.
So, let's stop this senseless fighting.
There. That should do it. Ready to go home, Fluttershy?
I'd love to, but if we've solved the problem already,
shouldn't our cutie marks be glowing again?
Oh, yeah. They should be glowing any minute now.
[splat]
Or not.
[splat]
[panicked shouts]
So much for potential friendship solution number twenty-eight.
I guess we should find out why the Hooffields
are launching tomatoes now.
One at a time, Greenhoof.
If you smush them tomaters in the slingshot,
they won't break on the McColts!
What are you doing? I asked you to stop fighting!
Oh, is that what you were hollerin' about?
We thought the McColts rubbed you the wrong way,
so we tomatered them for ya. My mistake.
Stop the tomater slingshots!
[thud]
Reload the tomater slingshots!
We're gonna paint their mountaintop red!
Well, that didn't work. I was so sure it would.
♪♪
[crashes]
[galloping hooves]
[gasp]
It was a good plan, but we need to think of another one.
And soon.
This fight is really affecting the animals around here.
Not to worry. I'll just...find the root of the problem
and work from there!
[crash]
Pardon us, Ma, but do you remember what started
this whole feud in the first place?
They know what they did.
I'm starting to think neither of you know
what either of you have done.
Sure we do. Them Hooffields did us a grave injustice
some time ago for some reason.
Hear, hear!
O-kay, backup plan to the backup plan.
Maybe we can find some common ground that you can bond over.
What do you do when you're not fighting?
That's easy. Getting ready to fight.
What do you hope to get out of fighting?
The satisfaction of winning.
Of winning what?
The fight, of course. To prove our family is the best!
The best at what?
Winning! Haven't you been listenin'?
So the only thing they have in common is that they both want
to win a fight and neither of them know what it's over.
How can I end this feud if I don't know what it's about?
Ooh. Maybe somepony just needs to say they're sorry.
That's a good idea.
And friendship solution #48, but we can move it up.
I'm so glad you agreed to do this!
This apology cake will go a long way
to making amends between you two.
Which part of my argument changed your mind?
The part where I said the benefits of friendship
outweigh the cost of war? Or the part where I said
forgiveness is an investment in happiness?
Yeah, yeah, all of it.
Wait, are you even listening to me?
Who goes there?
It's Ma Hooffield--
Hooffield alert! Arm the canons!
--with an apology cake.
Did you say...cake? As in, cake?
Consider it a gesture of good will, from us to you.
I haven't had cake in ages.
Open the gates!
It's such a beautiful cake.
Think of this as more than just a cake.
It's the first step in the long road to forgiveness.
Nothing says let's be friends like a cake that says
"let's be friends".
I wrote that in icing on the top.
For glory!
♪♪
[scream]
McColts! Assume delta force formation!
[battle cries]
Ready?
Aim!
Fire!
Ma Hooffield! You planted ponies in that cake?
Yeah. Wait, were you serious about apologizing?
Why in Equestria would we do that?
We didn't do anything wrong!
What are you talkin' about?
You've done so many things wrong!
Not as many as you!
Take that, Hooffields!
You started it!
No, you did!
[shouting continues]
[angry shouting]
If you could just not yell so much,
or maybe stop saying words altogether...
[screaming]
Agh!
Twilight?
♪ [sad music] ♪
[sigh]
Um, Twilight? We should probably get back there.
I mean, if you need a break, that's fine
but I really can't do this without you.
I don't know if we can do this at all.
Even if I make things right,
they're just going to fight again.
[chittering]
Hey, little fellas. That's OK. You can come out.
[chirping and chittering]
[growl]
What was that?
[growling tummies]
Oh, you poor things! There isn't enough food here for you.
Brr! And you're freezing! I'm gonna take you all home with me
and get you all hot cocoas. How do you feel about book clubs?
Twilight: I don't get it.
This was supposed to be the most beautiful valley
in all of Equestria. What happened?
[chittering]
What's that?
Oh.
Uh huh.
Twilight! They know what happened here!
What?
[shouts]
Stop! You have to listen to me!
[splat]
EVERYPONY FREEZE!
[echo]
[whoosh]
[silence]
Fluttershy, you have to tell them!
It's a lot harder to freeze an army of ponies
than just six of them.
[straining]
Before you keep fighting, there is something you should know.
Long ago, there were two best friends...
...Grub Hooffield and Piles McColt.
When they found the valley between the Smokey Mountains,
they knew it was something special.
So they made a promise to each other to protect and preserve
the valley for all its adorable furry inhabitants.
But, they disagreed on how to go about it.
Grub wanted to start by planting crops
so that everypony would have something to eat.
But Piles thought it would be better to start
by building a shelter to protect them against the cold and wind.
The two ponies were unable to come to an understanding.
So Piles went ahead and built a shelter anyway,
exactly where Grub was going to start his farm.
♪♪
Grub was upset, so he tore down Piles' shelter
so he could plant his crops.
They kept fighting, back and forth,
until it turned into a feud.
♪♪
The valley suffered from the constant destruction
until finally the Hooffields and McColts moved
to separate mountains.
Even then, the valley and all the animals in it
continued to be caught in the crossfire.
You see, by fighting, you're destroying the very thing
that brought you here in the first place.
So it's time you both put your differences aside
and come together, if not for yourselves,
then for the sake of these cute and cuddly guys.
[grunts]
Aw, shucks. We never meant to hurt you little critters.
Yeah, we're sorry.
[chitter]
They say they accept your apology!
Um, Princess? You can unfreeze us now.
[grunt]
Oh, right.
Ma Hooffield? We promise we won't fight you no more.
Us too. Except we promise not to fight you.
I suppose it doesn't matter who's right. We're both wrong.
That's one thing we can agree on.
[spit]
This is wonderful!
I am so proud of you two.
Thanks, Princess.
Though I would just like to point out
that I was the first to admit I was wrong.
That may be, but I promised not to fight first.
That counts for more.
Oh, yeah?
[urgent chirping & chittering]
Oh, all right. We don't have to speak animal
to know what y'all are sayin'. Truce?
Truce.
♪♪
Hoo-wee, ain't that a pretty sight!
Sure is.
The McColts are going to help us rebuild our homes --
good ones this time.
And the Hooffields are going to help us grow some crops.
Not pumpkins!
Thanks for teaching us that friendship is so much better
than winning a silly argument.
Yay! I told you we'd figure it out.
We did. And we didn't need my friendship portfolio to do it.
We just needed each other.
[poof]
So what do you think will happen next?
We've all been called by the map now.
I'm sure we'll find out when we get home.
What if it summons all six of us to another place?
Or another pony we weren't expecting? [gasp]
What if it wants us to solve other kinds of problems like
quantum physics or why the apple doesn't fall far from the tree?