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Magical Mystery Cure seems to be the most obvious answer. There is even a brony song titled literally Everything has changed:



Also, Crusaders of the Lost Mark - CMCs changed, though not as much as many people expected.

Destruction of the library, introduction of Starlight, and, to a lesser extent, Discord's and changelings' reformations can also be mentioned.
 
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When the Cutie Mark Crusaders got their marks is the one for me. Never before has a cartoon show somehow filled me with such a sense of pride for fictional characters...There was liquid pride too, plenty of it.

 

 Plus, it just seemed like something that wouldn't happen. The CMC's were NEVER going to get their marks, or at least not until the final episodes, that's what they all said. Twilicorn and the Castle were just for toy sales they said. Then this episode drops like a bomb and proves them wrong.

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Magical Mystery Cure would be the most obvious choice given how it changed the dynamic of the show's central character, but it wasn't the only episode to provide a "wham" effect. Crusaders of the Lost Mark gave the CMC their cutie marks ending five years of them--in our time--searching for their special talents so now they have changed forever. To Where and Back Again changed the Changelings into a different variation of themselves, something that never happened before until that moment.

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The biggest changed to the status quo were Magical Mystery Cure, Twilight's Kingdom Part 2, and Crusaders of the Lost Mark. I believe MMC would likely be the largest due to the volume of subsequent episodes that are directly related to Twilight's ascension. We have had about ten map episodes, and only a handful about the CMC that focused on them with their cutie marks.

 

Each of these led to major changes, but Alicorn Twilight is the biggest.

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I'm going with Twilight's ascension in Magical Mystery Cure and the Crusaders getting their cutie marks in Crusaders of the Lost Mark.

 

The Season 6 finale just did not have as much wham to it regarding the Changelings' reformation when compared to those episodes since it was mostly a way for Starlight to complete her own reformation by being put into a similar position she put Twilight in back in the Season 5 premiere and bringing someone's followers around to a new way of life from their old one.

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"Magical Mystery Cure." Only other episodes I can think of qualifying are "Crusaders of the Lost Mark," "The Cutie Re-Mark," and maybe "Twilight's Kingdom," though in both cases a lot of things are still the same.

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Like everyone has said above me, Magical Mystery Cure and Crusaders of the Lost Mark are MLP's biggest "wham" episodes. When reading this topic at 1st glance, I originally thought you meant the popular 80's band Wham! featuring George Michael  :pinkie:.

 

Twilight getting a new castle in Twilight's Kingdom and a new pupil in The Cutie re-mark certainly changed things up w/in the show, but it was the events in the 2 episodes listed above that really changed the path that the show would take. 

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