Essential MLP Episodes
I’ve decided to write up a list of the essential episodes of My Little Pony, episodes a new viewer should watch.
I’ve marked the episodes with different code words to indicate why they’re worth watching. This is, of course, doubly subjective.
PLOT: The episode has plot significance that affects other episodes.
GOOD: The episode is good.
SONG: The episode has a good song.
Character: For episodes that deal with side characters, I’ve marked them with the particular character. For example, CMC for the Cutie Mark Crusaders, Trixie for Trixie, etc.
Episodes in italics introduce something marginally significant, but could be skipped without much harm. Ex. Twilight’s Owl.
Pretty simple!
Here we go…
Season One
Friendship is Magic, Part One and Two: PLOT GOOD
Ticket Master: PLOT
Applebuck Season: PLOT, Apples
Griffon the Brush-off: Gilda
Boast Busters: Trixie, GOOD
Bridle Gossip: Zecorah
Winter Wrap Up: SONG GOOD
Call of the Cutie: CMC
Feeling Pinkie Keen: Pinkie Sense
The Show Stoppers: CMC
The Cutie Mark Chronicles: PLOT GOOD
Owl’s Well that Ends Well: Owlowicious
The Best Night Ever: GOOD
Season Two
The Return of Harmony: Part One and Two: PLOT GOOD Discord
Lesson Zero: PLOT GOOD
Luna Eclipsed: Luna GOOD
May The Best Pet Win: GOOD SONG Pets
Sweet and Elite: Twilight’s Dancing
Hearth’s Warming Eve: Hearth’s Warming Eve
Baby Cakes: Cakes
Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000: GOOD SONG Flim-Flam
Read it and Weep: Daring Do
A Friend In Deed: GOOD SONG Cranky
It’s About Time: GOOD
Dragon Quest: Spike/Dragons
Ponyville Confidential: CMC
A Canterlot Wedding: Part One and Two: EVERYTHING
Season Three
The Crystal Empire: Part One and Two: PLOT
One Bad Apple: CMC
Magic Duel: Trixie
Keep Calm and Flutter On: Discord
Magic Mystery Cure: GOOD SONG PLOT
Season Four
Princess Twilight Sparkle: Part One and Two: PLOT, Discord
Daring Don’t: Daring Do
Pinkie Apple Pie: SONG GOOD
Pinkie Pride: SONG GOOD
Maud Pie: Maud
Equestria Games: Spike
Twilight’s Kingdom: Part One and Two: PLOT
Season Five
The Cutie Map: Part One and Two: PLOT, Starlight
Castle Sweet Castle: Castle
The Lost Treasure of Griffonstone: Griffons
Slice of Life: GOOD GOOD GOOD
Amending Fences: Moondancer
Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?: Luna
Crusaders of the Lost Mark: CMC
The One Where Pinkie Pie Knows: PLOT
The Mane Attraction: SONG
The Cutie Re-Mark: Part One and Two: PLOT, Glimmer
Season Six
The Crystalling: Part One and Two: PLOT
The Gift of the Maud Pie: Maud
On Your Marks: CMC
Gauntlet of Fire: PLOT, assuming they ever deal with dragons again.
No Second Prances: PLOT GOOD
Newbie Dash: Wonderbolts
A Hearth’s Warming Tail: THOSE SONGS THOUGH
Flutter Brutter: Zephyr
The Times They are a Changeling: Thorax
The Fault in Our Cutie Marks: CMC, Gabby
To Where and Back Again: Part One and Two: PLOT
Hey @belvuoel sorry I can’t help you but I don’t remember a single thing to update this list from seven years ago. I’d have to watch all the episodes over again. You’d have to pay me so much money to update this.
Also the show really drops off over time. You could probably stop watching after Hearth’s Warming Tail and be fine.
Actually, I do remember there’s an episode where the CMC gets their cutie marks. That was an OK resolution to that arc. The last episode was pretty good.
