S05E19: Hearthbreakers

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S05E19: Hearthbreakers

Postby Wayoshi (?) » Wed Oct 21, 2015 3:40 pm

Applejack is excited to celebrate Hearthswarming Eve with Pinkie Pie's family but soon discovers that the Pies have very different ways of enjoying the holiday at their Rock Farm.


This thread is for discussion of this episode. The episode airs at 11:30 AM Eastern / 8:30 AM Pacific on Saturday, October 24!

Official preview clips and images are okay to post, as is speculation about the episode.

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Postby The Doctor (?) » Wed Oct 21, 2015 3:43 pm

:jingo: farewell, Slice of Pony Life headcanon. You will be missed.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Wed Oct 21, 2015 4:03 pm

I want it to be a shot for shot word for word recreation of George's Festivus episode.
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Postby Octavia (?) » Wed Oct 21, 2015 4:15 pm

Airing the Christmas episode before the Halloween episode? :rariwhat:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Wed Oct 21, 2015 4:19 pm

Octavia wrote:Airing the Christmas episode before the Halloween episode? :rariwhat:

We have Discovery Family to thank for this, I think. With the situation as it was, I would've tried to push this episode ahead as well, but perhaps the rest of S5 has to air in its production order.
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Wed Oct 21, 2015 4:24 pm

More Maud incoming :maud:
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Postby Durandal (?) » Wed Oct 21, 2015 4:34 pm

Incoming Weekend at Pinkie's episode :amazing:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Wed Oct 21, 2015 4:40 pm

PonyHag714 wrote:More Maud incoming :maud:

I want to see more of her parents and other sisters.

For that matter, I've always wondered why Meghan and the gang decided to create a fourth Pie sister instead of using one of the other two that already existed. Would it have been hard to make them as cold and humorless as Maud is, given that we saw those two partying with Pinkie in the flashback in The Cutie Mark Chronicles? If I ever make it to Bronycon then that's something I'd love to ask at the writers panel.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Wed Oct 21, 2015 4:46 pm

Durandal wrote:Incoming Weekend at Pinkie's episode :amazing:

Passed out drunk.
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Wed Oct 21, 2015 4:59 pm

Octavia wrote:Airing the Christmas episode before the Halloween episode? :rariwhat:

We must stop the Christmas episode from coming -- but how?
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Wed Oct 21, 2015 5:07 pm

I'll be honest, I always kinda wished the rock farm had remained an insane one-off joke, the kind you're never meant to know for sure whether it was for real or not. Pinkie finishes telling the CMCs her story of growing up there and finishes it off with "And that's how Equestria was made!" —and they just sit there going "Whaaaaaaa."

And then she mentions how her actual cutie mark story is a "gem". Which, coming right after Rarity's story, makes them (and me) go "Whaaaaa" again.

I thought that whole sequence was meant to be read as just a flight of fancy and a glimpse inside Pinkie Pie's cuckoo brain, and obviously the real story was probably something else entirely that we would never know.



But this is good too
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Wed Oct 21, 2015 7:26 pm

:maud: Welcome to the farm Applejack. We're going to rock this place.

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:maud: No. We're going to collect more rocks.

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Postby Davyinatoga (?) » Wed Oct 21, 2015 7:44 pm

Octavia wrote:Airing the Christmas episode before the Halloween episode? :rariwhat:

No different than Wal-Mart. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby Applepie (?) » Wed Oct 21, 2015 10:02 pm

At last another Hearth's Wamring Eve episode after 4 years.
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Postby Angel Beat (?) » Wed Oct 21, 2015 11:54 pm

We've been spending most our lives
Living on a rock farm paradise
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Thu Oct 22, 2015 12:51 am

I wonder why Applejack would not be spending the holidays with her family. Unless the rest of the Apples go as well.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Oct 22, 2015 1:27 am

The Doctor wrote:I wonder why Applejack would not be spending the holidays with her family. Unless the rest of the Apples go as well.

Maybe she simply doesn't trust Pinkie Pie to travel alone. :gotcha:
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Postby SneakHorse (?) » Thu Oct 22, 2015 3:18 am

Aramek wrote:I want it to be a shot for shot word for word recreation of George's Festivus episode.


:eyebrow: Is there a tree?

:geno: No. Instead, there's a pole. Requires no decoration. I find tinsel distracting.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Thu Oct 22, 2015 4:59 am

The Doctor wrote:I wonder why Applejack would not be spending the holidays with her family. Unless the rest of the Apples go as well.

:aghast: But... I was going to spend the holiday with MY family!
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Postby WandereringPony (?) » Thu Oct 22, 2015 6:33 am

Winter before fall, go figure!

I blame Rainbow Dash. :v:
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Postby Applepie (?) » Thu Oct 22, 2015 9:48 pm

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Postby The Doctor (?) » Thu Oct 22, 2015 9:53 pm

Applepie wrote:A brandnew preview is up on Youtube.


:-/ You don't say this without a link.



The Doctor wrote:I wonder why Applejack would not be spending the holidays with her family. Unless the rest of the Apples go as well.


:dwi: called it!
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Postby Applepie (?) » Thu Oct 22, 2015 10:02 pm

It finally happened. I had been waiting in four years for a Hearth's Warming Eve episode. :yay:

Winter before fall, go figure!


Yeah, seasons work a funny way in Equestria.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Thu Oct 22, 2015 10:46 pm

For some reason I read this episode as just AJ going to the rock farm, no idea why I didn't consider the rest of them coming.
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Fri Oct 23, 2015 12:06 am

Winter is coming early? I am ok with this. :dreamworks:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Oct 23, 2015 1:27 am

Man, I couldn't understand half of what Apple Bloom was saying. (I suspect that was the point, but still. :v:)
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Fri Oct 23, 2015 2:01 am

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Postby Master_Twig (?) » Fri Oct 23, 2015 3:57 pm

That is one of the least spoilery preview clips they've ever done.

Looking forward to this one. I always like episodes that expand the ponies families.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Oct 23, 2015 4:09 pm

Something I've noticed with most of the preview clips this year is that they're missing their sound effects and backing score. I know those steps are generally the last ones before an episode airs, but given how episodes are usually finished at least a couple months in advance, it seems odd for the preview clips to be taken from the episodes before William Anderson does his work on them.
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Fri Oct 23, 2015 10:55 pm

I can understand everything Apple Bloom is saying clearly. C'mon, I can't be the only one who can understand her, right? Guys, you're messing with me, right? Tell me you're joking. I don't want to be the weird one here. :nnngh:

In case you are not joshing with me I will translate everything she is saying...

:sweet: "Have you tried the Equestria flake crepes? The blue is blueberry! And don't tell granny I saw but her trunk is full of presents."

Her voice sounds off, like it is a bit deeper.

Maybe I gained this talent from having to talk with people who have poor English skills at work? :ponder:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 1:23 am

I thought Apple Bloom was saying something about grapes, which left me terribly confused as to why she was talking about blueberries in the next sentence. Neither of those things seemed to make sense when looking at the rock candy she was holding, either.
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 1:57 am

I remember that rock candy comes in different flavors and I assume if you make a pie out of them they would have the same flavor. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby die Fledermaus (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 5:56 am

Sick of this war on Halloween
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Postby Nemrex (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 6:45 am

shotgunbadger wrote:Sick of this war on Halloween


There is only one solution to this:

Halloween must invade and take over Christmas.

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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 11:21 am

Octavia wrote:Airing the Christmas episode before the Halloween episode? :rariwhat:


Well, they already aired Tanks For Your Memories before the Halloween episode :-I
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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 3:36 pm

:maud: :"We have it harder here down on the rock farm, than you do Applejack."

:) :"Yup, rocks don't exactly grow on trees!"

:hilarious: :"Uhhhhh .... begging your pardon, but what exactly is the point of a rock farm?"

:deflated: :"Applejack ..."

:maud: :"Please leave."

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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 3:41 pm

Can't say I particularly like Old English speak trait that much, but at least it's only the parents.
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Postby Davyinatoga (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 3:41 pm

I'm glad the names of Pinkie's family are consistent with other pony media (for the most part).
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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 3:53 pm

Limestone Pie. :anticipation:
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 4:00 pm

Maud's poem was actually rhyming this time :maud:
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