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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: A Hearth’s Warming Tail
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: A Hearth’s Warming Tail
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Length:
65 minutes
Released:
Dec 18, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
? 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? Join us for a Scrooge Sunday canter through a “Christmas Carol” adaptation set in Equestria, the world of “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.” **** ? Guests: Jon and Bin (Bin’s Toy Bin, Santa by the Minute). **** ? Topics & Tangents: 1. Watch “A Hearth’s Warming Tail” on YouTube. 2. Mike on Santa by the Minute. 3. The first My Little Pony special, from 1984: “Rescue at Midnight Castle.” 4. Patton Oswalt on My Little Pony. 5. Patton Oswalt literally on My Little Pony. 6. “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. 7. The mysterious “Derpy,” a.k.a. Muffins. 8. A short tangent about “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms” air fresheners. 9. Today’s TV Trope: And You Were There. 10. A scene was cut featuring Discord in the Jacob Marley role. 11. He’s not in this episode, but there’s a character named Cheese Sandwich who is literally “Weird Al” Yankovic as a pony. 12. Bin takes roll call at the Hearth’s Warming Eve party. **** ? Retro Commercial Break: My Little Pony Dream Castle Commercial, 1983. The Hub Network: 12 Days of Ponies Promo, 2014. **** ? And Now, These Messages: Santa by the Minute, covering “Santa Claus: The Movie” one minute at a time. **** “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic” and “A Hearth’s Warming Tail” © 2016 Hasbro Studios. Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost. Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.
Released:
Dec 18, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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