My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

The Cakes have a pair of twins: Pound Cake (a pegasus) and Pumpkin Cake (a unicorn). A month after their birth, the Cakes are forced to ask Pinkie Pie to babysit the pair while they cater an event. Pinkie, initially elated to be able to play with the babies, finds they are much more difficult to tend to, but refuses to accept Twilight's help believing that she can show responsibility. However, when the twins later exhibit their flying and magic abilities, Pinkie can no longer control them and breaks down in tears. The twins realise their mistake and cheer Pinkie up. The Cakes return to find everything is fine, and offer Pinkie to be their go-to babysitter in the future, which Pinkie accepts after hearing the twins say her name.

Twilight and her friends are asked to be the principal actors in a holiday play on the origins of Hearth's Warming Eve (the Equestrian equivalent of Christmas). The play shows that before Princess Celestia's rule, the three races of ponies did not live in harmony. When a severe winter ruined most of the food, the three leaders and their assistants set off to find a new land untouched by winter. By chance, they all come to the same spot and the leaders start bickering again. The hostility feeds the ghostly Windegos, the creatures responsible for the winter, causing the land and the leaders to freeze over. The assistants find that they share a common bond, and their friendship creates a great fire that dispels the Windegos and thaws out the land and their leaders. Putting their differences aside, the group names the new land Equestria and work together to make it thrive.

Applejack is going to the Equestria rodeo and plans on donating her winnings to repair the town hall. However, when she doesn't return and only sends a note that she will be back later, Twilight and her friends go off to locate her, finding her working on a cherry farm in Dodge Junction. Applejack refuses to answer their questions of why she did not return, but after suffering from Pinkie's hyperactivity, she agrees to tell them the next day. That morning, they find Applejack is trying to escape. After a chase, they catch up with her to discover that while she had won events at the rodeo, none of her wins were first place, and she instead hoped to earn money as she had no prize money to return with. Her friends assure her that they would rather have her back home than a fixed town hall, and Applejack happily returns to Ponyville.

Cider season has arrived, but the Apples cannot make apple cider fast enough by traditional methods to satisfy everyone. The Flim Flam Brothers arrive with their "Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000", claiming they can make as good a cider in a faster time. When the Apples refuse to accept a lopsided partnership, Flim and Flam instead challenge them to a cider making contest for rights to sell cider to Ponyville. The contest starts with the brothers in a strong lead, but Applejack's friends offer their help to speed up production. With their lead quickly diminishing, Flim and Flam speed up their machine, disabling the quality control. The brothers ultimately win the contest with the most barrels of cider, but the cider is undrinkable and they quickly flee town. With all of their cider made in the contest, the Apples celebrate with everyone else in town.

Rainbow Dash ends up in the hospital with a broken wing. Twilight offers her a book from the Daring Do novels, but Rainbow Dash refuses, considering reading to be an "egghead" hobby. However, boredom eventually overcomes her, and she starts reading, soon becoming engrossed in the adventure story. Just as she nears the conclusion, she is discharged from the hospital. Worried about revealing her reading to anyone else, she tries to sneak into the hospital to get the book, but ends up being chased around town at night, waking up her friends. Rainbow Dash admits to enjoying the book, and Twilight is only happy to share her copies with her.