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Hearts and Hooves Day (February 11th 2012, 22 minutes)

Summary: The CMC play matchmaker with Cheerilee, Big Mac, and chemistry!

Back when I used to teach summer school, the classroom ended up looking like that a lot. Mind you I was supposed to be teaching grade 8 math, but still.

A relatively modern-looking clock. If they count time starting at midday and midnight like we do, then we're looking at school letting out at the equivalent of 3 pm.

A couple of those houses are crazier looking than normal. Ponyville usually keeps to a vaguely Tudor architecture, but we've got two houses in the background that look more like jester hats than houses. As if they are modelled after tents, specifically multiple bell tents attached together. I've seen something vaguely similar before, in California, but it was one of those 'architect model buildings'. One-offs just to show off the architect's creativity.

Okay, these go by fast: Button Mash in some kind of outdoor arcade, with at least three video arcade cabinets, and a crane cabinet.

An outdoor funeral complete with coffin... the elderly pony is wearing a clerical collar, which came into existence in the late 1800's for the Presbyterian and Anglican faiths. It took until the 1960's before it was adopted by the Roman Catholics.

Ambulance, with a white cross on a red circle. Which is the symbol for Switzerland, not any medical service. With the inevitable pony extra decorative hearts and whatnot.

Leisure suit. The style is originally from the 1930's, but the cheap disco version this is representing is from the mid to late 70's.

Doctor Whooves!

I refuse to ask about the giant jam jars.

I love the little skippy dance. I rode a horse once that I swear was trying to do that. It was extremely unpleasant trying to ride it.

The barn at Sweet Apple Acres seem to have two settings. This one is the one the various parties and what-not happen at, due to the large storage ground floor, and walkway on the second floor but open otherwise. The other is where the Apples actually live with bedrooms on the second floor and living area with kitchen on the ground floor. I'm trying to think of a way to reconcile them, but the best I've come up with is that there are actually two barns that are otherwise built functionally identically on two parts of the property.

Above the big doors of the barn, on the interior, there are three horseshoes nailed up there. I was at a barn once owned by a German family, and noticed two horseshoes in much the same position. I asked about it, and the lady said it was one for each of their children's luck. There are three young Apples. Nice.

Hearts and Hooves day was started due to a love potion, in a book complete with the formula for said potion? Okay, fine.

Cylinder vacuum, running without any power source. Huh.

"Served to two ponies who aren't in the know." So neither victim can know about this?

The faces are hilarious.

These fillies will make great computer users some day. Never, ever, read the manual first.

Okay, the prince gives the princess the potion, but he knew about it. So either that part of the recipe was incorrect, or there's more to this story than what is in the book. I bet on more story.

The princess is drawn as an alicorn, with wings and horn. The prince is an earth pony it seems, or if he's a pegasus, his wings are off-panel.

Dragon coming, kingdom falling, chaos reigning.... sounds like Discord to me.

Comedy aside, Cheerilee totally destroyed that door.

Pronking.

I like the kitty door for Opal.

We have to allow that something about the magic potion/love is increasing these two ponies' strength. But still, that's freaking impressive. Both of them are being depicted as incredibly strong during this time. Big Mac regularly demonstrates a lot of physical strength, but that's likely because he's... well, he's Big Mac. Applejack also is shown as being stronger than the average pony, and I'm sure Apple Bloom is also quite strong. It's likely a family thing, not necessarily because they're Earth Ponies.