S06E08: A Hearth's Warming Tail

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S06E08: A Hearth's Warming Tail

Postby Wayoshi (?) » Wed May 11, 2016 2:58 pm

Starlight Glimmer has a case of the holiday blues, so Twilight tries to help cure her by reading one of her favorite Hearth Warming's Eve stories, A Hearth's Warming Tale.


This thread is for discussion of the episode. This episode airs at 11:30 AM Eastern / 8:30 AM Pacific on Saturday, May 14!

Official preview clips and images are okay to post (including a couple of snippets in general promos already), as is speculation about the episode.



Writer: Mike Vogel (debut)

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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Wed May 11, 2016 3:12 pm

I'm still curious about the song in those preview clips. It doesn't seem like what I'd expect of a Hearth's Warming song, but the "we're gonna fight it forever / until the sun shines through" lyric does make me think of the old story of the ponies surviving the Windigo storm and coming out to the first light after an endless blizzard. Could just be coincidence, though.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Wed May 11, 2016 3:24 pm

I love me some Xmas episodes, so this is gonna rock.

Also RAINBOW DAD! DEFCON TWO! :ponydrugs:
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Wed May 11, 2016 3:44 pm

Nothing like a Christmas episode in spring to remind you how wonderful the previous winter was.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Wed May 11, 2016 3:57 pm

Starlight as a curmudgeon will be fun.

Still hoping Celestia, Luna, and Cadance play the three ghosts, if this is in fact a Pony Christmas Carol.
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Postby Octavia (?) » Wed May 11, 2016 4:12 pm

Gotta love two Hearthswarming episodes within 7 months of each other. :fluttershock:
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Wed May 11, 2016 4:25 pm

Soft Snow wrote:Nothing like a Christmas episode in spring to remind you how wonderful the previous winter was.
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:ponder: "But it feels strange to be celebrating again, so soon after last time ..."
:twiright: "Well, seasons have been a bit erratic ever since the weather factory blew up."
:twismug: :awkward: "Under MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES that NOPONY KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT."
:twismug: :modesty: "And which we ALL AGREED will remain an UNSOLVED CASE, FOREVER."

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Postby Aramek (?) » Wed May 11, 2016 5:12 pm

I hope they somehow bring up Dash's giant cloud mansion.
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Postby Sidotsy (?) » Wed May 11, 2016 5:47 pm

Aramek wrote:I hope they somehow bring up Dash's giant cloud mansion.

Why are you so obsessed about where Dash lives.
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Postby PictishBeast (?) » Wed May 11, 2016 6:06 pm

haha did you ever notice that tale meaning story sounds the same as tail meaning the part of an animal

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haha did you ever notice that tail meaning the part of an animal sounds the same as tale meaning story

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makes u think :v:
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Postby Aramek (?) » Wed May 11, 2016 6:10 pm

Sidotsy wrote:Why are you so obsessed about where Dash lives.

Because she's got a totally amazing cloud mansion. It's awesome and hilarious.
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Wed May 11, 2016 6:12 pm

PictishBeast wrote:haha did you ever notice that tale meaning story sounds the same as tail meaning the part of an animal
And yet it's the only animal pun this show hasn't made yet. :iamapony:
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Postby Angel Beat (?) » Wed May 11, 2016 7:08 pm

This'll be a nice episode. :vogue:
PictishBeast wrote:haha did you ever notice that tale meaning story sounds the same as tail meaning the part of an animal

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haha did you ever notice that tail meaning the part of an animal sounds the same as tale meaning story

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makes u think :v:

Tall tales with long tails. :cheese:
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Postby Wylie (?) » Wed May 11, 2016 7:38 pm

The Doctor wrote:Starlight as a curmudgeon will be fun.

Still hoping Celestia, Luna, and Cadance play the three ghosts, if this is in fact a Pony Christmas Carol.


Just the mental picture of Luna as Christmas Future pointing sternly at "RIP STARLIGHT GLIMMER, WHO NOBODY LIKED" is enough for me, thanks.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Wed May 11, 2016 7:40 pm

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Just the mental picture of Luna as Christmas Future pointing sternly at "RIP STARLIGHT GLIMMER, WHO NOBODY LIKED" is enough for me, thanks.

Get on that fanart ahead of time, thanks in advance. :awesomedash:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Wed May 11, 2016 7:54 pm

Honestly, I hope this isn't A Christmas Carol ponified. If it is some sort of Christmas ghost story then that's fine, but A Christmas Carol is such a rote thing in contemporary media that the writers would be missing out on an opportunity to tell something more specific to FiM if this episode were to follow that story.
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Wed May 11, 2016 8:14 pm

I think it won't be A Christmas Carol because that's the story you tell to someone who's being, well, a Scrooge; not someone who's got the winter blues and needs cheering up. That's why I'm guessing it'll be either Wonderful Life or something original.

:twismug: "You think you've got problems? Well, let me tell you about the Little Match Filly ..."
:no: "No! Not the Little Match Filly!"
:sweetiefrown: :saddershy: "Anything but the Little Match Filly!"
:twiright: "Tough love, baby!"
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Postby Aramek (?) » Wed May 11, 2016 9:18 pm

"Why do I have to always play the Little Match Filly?" :ngh:
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Wed May 11, 2016 9:43 pm

Mechanical Ape wrote:I think it won't be A Christmas Carol because that's the story you tell to someone who's being, well, a Scrooge; not someone who's got the winter blues and needs cheering up. That's why I'm guessing it'll be either Wonderful Life or something original.


:twiright: And that, Starlight Glimmer is why the world would be better if you had never been born...
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Thu May 12, 2016 1:03 am

Plus, frankly, no way are they going to do a Christmas Carol episode when they've already done For Whom the Sweetie Belle Toils.
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Postby Bremen (?) » Thu May 12, 2016 2:49 am

Fizzbuzz wrote:I'm still curious about the song in those preview clips. It doesn't seem like what I'd expect of a Hearth's Warming song, but the "we're gonna fight it forever / until the sun shines through" lyric does make me think of the old story of the ponies surviving the Windigo storm and coming out to the first light after an endless blizzard. Could just be coincidence, though.


It sounds to me like "We're gonna party forever / until the sun shines through let's party!"

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:twiright: And that, Starlight Glimmer is why the world would be better if you had never been born...


Okay, yeah, I have to admit Starlight Glimmer would be a hilariously bad fit for a Wonderful Life story :gotcha:
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Thu May 12, 2016 3:02 am

I'd like to see a version of It's A Wonderful Life. :allears:
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Postby Sidotsy (?) » Thu May 12, 2016 3:39 am

Bremen wrote:
It sounds to me like "We're gonna party forever / until the sun shines through let's party!"



Okay, yeah, I have to admit Starlight Glimmer would be a hilariously bad fit for a Wonderful Life story :gotcha:


Yeah, after listening a few times it sounds like they say party instead of fight.
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Thu May 12, 2016 2:29 pm

This is looking really good. I got a bit of a Chryssy "This Day" vibe from that clip. :evil:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu May 12, 2016 2:32 pm

Now I wonder if this'll be another full-on musical episode or if that's the one big song in it.
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Postby Wylie (?) » Thu May 12, 2016 3:00 pm

So Glimglam is straight up a villain in this one? Casting a magic spell with a cauldron to make people forget a holiday exists?

Either she's dumb as a bag of bricks or Twilight is galactically bad at teaching. ("¿Por qué no los dos?")
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Postby Sidotsy (?) » Thu May 12, 2016 3:06 pm

Wylie wrote:So Glimglam is straight up a villain in this one? Casting a magic spell with a cauldron to make people forget a holiday exists?

Either she's dumb as a bag of bricks or Twilight is galactically bad at teaching. ("¿Por qué no los dos?")

No no no. Twilight is telling Starlight a story, that's why they have the costumes. The episode is about Starlight feeling glum, so Twilight tells her a story, much like what happened in Hearth's Warming Eve.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu May 12, 2016 3:41 pm

Sidotsy wrote:No no no. Twilight is telling Starlight a story, that's why they have the costumes. The episode is about Starlight feeling glum, so Twilight tells her a story, much like what happened in Hearth's Warming Eve.

Yeah, that's how I saw it, it's just Twilight and Starlight (and the other five of the Mane Six, judging by what we saw in those Discovery Family promos) being the characters in this story.
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Thu May 12, 2016 3:59 pm

Liberal unicorns and their war on Hearth's Warming :applejargh:
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Postby Bremen (?) » Thu May 12, 2016 4:46 pm

Wylie wrote:So Glimglam is straight up a villain in this one? Casting a magic spell with a cauldron to make people forget a holiday exists?

Either she's dumb as a bag of bricks or Twilight is galactically bad at teaching. ("¿Por qué no los dos?")


Well in Ponyville they say - that Starlight's Heart grew three sizes that day!

More seriously, did anyone else think those things that came out of her cauldron looked an awful lot like Windigos?
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Thu May 12, 2016 4:58 pm

And we thought RD's grinch face last season was the worst of it... :amazed:

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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu May 12, 2016 5:54 pm

I thought Mike Vogel was too busy with the movie to do something like write an episode of the show. Maybe production on it has gotten to the point where the creative staff aren't needed quite so much?
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Postby Marimo (?) » Thu May 12, 2016 9:56 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:I thought Mike Vogel was too busy with the movie to do something like write an episode of the show. Maybe production on it has gotten to the point where the creative staff aren't needed quite so much?

He said quite some time ago that he went from VP of Development for Hasbro Studios to becoming a writer for the show to work more closely on it.
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Fri May 13, 2016 12:05 am

While listening to this brief song I can only imagine them thinking while writing it "Let's see Madagascar top this one!" :maneiac:
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Sat May 14, 2016 2:15 am

The show has been real good on giving traditional holidays their own unique pony feel to them. Almost what you expect to see if you want to an alternate dimension. You get what is going on, they are just doing it for different reasons. Then again, that was with a different cast of writers. So far, these writers have proven themselves time and again, but I'm interested in see their take on this. I'm sure it will be great.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat May 14, 2016 2:31 am

I'm not sure Mike Vogel counts as a new writer. I mean, this is technically the first episode that he directly wrote, but he's been involved through his Hasbro Studios VP position for years and years now.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat May 14, 2016 4:50 am

PictishBeast wrote:haha did you ever notice that tale meaning story sounds the same as tail meaning the part of an animal

haha did you ever notice that tail meaning the part of an animal sounds the same as tale meaning story

I don't know where you're going with this. The episode's obviously going to teach kids that if they sit too close to the hearth, their tails might catch fire.

Soft Snow wrote:While listening to this brief song I can only imagine them thinking while writing it "Let's see Madagascar top this one!" :maneiac:

They'll nominate a LPS song instead. :dreamworks:
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Postby die Fledermaus (?) » Sat May 14, 2016 5:11 am

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Postby PaulloDEC (?) » Sat May 14, 2016 6:40 am

Fizzbuzz wrote:I'm not sure Mike Vogel counts as a new writer. I mean, this is technically the first episode that he directly wrote, but he's been involved through his Hasbro Studios VP position for years and years now.


I'd say if this is his first TV episode he absolutely counts as a new writer. It's one thing to edit or manage, but it's entirely another to write a script of his own.
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