Your applebucking isn’t only causing you problems: it’s overpropelled a Pegasus, practically poisoned plenty of ponies and terrorized bushels of brand-new bouncing baby bunnies. I don’t care what you say, you need help! – Twilight Sparkle

Applejack takes on the job of bucking all the apples out of the trees due to Big MacIntosh's injuries. Before she can start, she is forced to save Ponyville from a stampede. This action inspires the town to give her a big shiny trophy, but when she arrives to receive it, we discover that she hasn't slept all week, and is going a little bit loopy. All of Twilight's attempts to get her to accept help are rejected, and the sleep-deprived AJ starts messing everything up. She accidentally launches Rainbow Dash onto Twilight's balcony, then ruins Pinkie's free sample of muffins and ends up poisoning half the town. Then she gets short with a bunch of brand-new bouncing baby bunnies, sending them into another stampede... much less threatening to Ponyville lives but much more threatening to Ponyville gardens. Having had quite enough, Twilight goes to AJ again to tell her to accept help, just as AJ kicks the apples from the last tree, boasting about how she "did it all by herself". Her triumph is short-lived; Big MacIntosh points out the other half of the farm still to go. Finally admitting that she's in over her head, Applejack accepts the moral of the episode and the help of her friends.

The Good
There is a nice little continuity nod to Ticket Master: It seems wearing Granny's girdle is the cause of BM's injury, since the bandages are wrapped around his middle. He also gets to speak quite a few sentences, in contrast to his "Eeyup" and "Nope", which is nice.

The comedy in this episode is perfect. The awards ceremony is a classic scene, with Twilight's constantly interrupted speech and her final fit of exasperation, the sleepy Applejack's loopy behaviour, the long slow dragging of the award as she leaves, and her friends' reactions to her appearance are all great.

The bunny stampede is funny both for the ironic echo of the earlier stampede, and for the fact that it's a bunch of cute little baby rabbits this time around, which adds a note of ridiculousness to the proceedings. Plus we get an introduction to the Flower trio of ponies.

Not their finest hour...

This exchange:

AJ: "Look! I did it! I harvested the entire Sweet Apple Acres without your help! How do you like them apples?!"
BM: "Um... how do you like them apples?"
Points to the other half of the farm, still untouched
AJ: Faints

That is all.

The Bad
None

Summary
There really is not much wrong with this episode. The comedy is good, the characters act as they should, and overall, it's just a perfect slice-of-life episode, which is what the series tends to do very well.

Final Rating

5 – Celestia Rank: A great episode. It will be re-watched frequently.
4 – Luna Rank: A good episode, but with one or two problems that prevent it from being great.
3 – Spike Rank: An average episode. Positives and negatives are balanced.
2 – Discord Rank: Worth watching once. After that, turn it to stone and put it in the garden.
1 – Nightmare Moon Rank: Send it to the moon!