My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: A Hearth’s Warming Tail

🎄 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.”  

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🎙 Guests:  

Jon and Bin (Bin’s Toy Bin, Santa by the Minute).  

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💬 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.  

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:  

My Little Pony Dream Castle Commercial, 1983.  

The Hub Network: 12 Days of Ponies Promo, 2014.  

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🎤 And Now, These Messages:  

Santa by the Minute, covering “Santa Claus: The Movie” one minute at a time.  

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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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