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Applebuck Season (November 5th 2010, 22 minutes)

Summary: Big Mac is injured, and Applejack must take on the entire harvest by herself all while keeping her promises to help all her friends with their own interests.

That's a huge orchard. I mean *huge*. I've never seen an orchard run by one family that is that ridiculously huge. That size is agricorp level.

And the terrain is surprisingly hilly. It looks like the orchards in Western Washington just on the other side of the Cascades, and not like the Midwest area that the official map would stick it.

The cows talk as well. And the spokescow has a very distinct Minnesota accent.

Why is Twilight doing this? This is the mayor's job.

Twilight goes from never having teleported in the prior episode, to popping in and out everywhere today instead of just walking.

Yep, this explicitly says the first episode was the Apple Family Reunion. This will become important in later seasons.

Rainbow Dash refers to Applejack as 'Ponyville's greatest athlete'. Either she thinks Applejack is better than herself, or she doesn't think of herself as a Ponyville pony.

I lived in residence at University, and worked part-time in the residence kitchen in order to pay my way. The 'baked bads' look familiar. The stuff that passed through those kitchens to be categorized as 'food' was... disturbing at best.

Yeah, that's pretty much what the cafeteria food was like. Again Spike shows a more universal digestive system.

Bunny stampede. We've switched to Australia, apparently.

Okay, just a note. Loosing one member of the family, and Applejack almost dies of exhaustion trying to complete the harvest. The episode gives the impression that she just barely made it to the half-way mark. Which means Big Mac does a *lot* of the work around the farm, or knows tricks and techniques that he hasn't shared with Applejack yet.