My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic - A Hearth’s Warming Tail
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Show Notes
🎄 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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