Condense All Of MLP Into One Season

[Denim&Venöm 20,459]

Suppose hypothetically that Hasbro had already made all the MLP episodes, but they only had the budget to air one season to be remembered though out all of time.

 

Which 26 episodes from all 3 1/2 seasons 5 and a half seasons would you take and make up the one definitive MLP season with?

Edited February 12, 2017 by Denim&Venom

[Scootalove 10,692]

That's a tough question.

 

 

Opener:

Friendship is Magic: Part 1 & 2

 

Twilight:

Winter Wrap Up

Lesson Zero

Ticket Master

Luna Eclipsed

 

Rarity:

Suited for Success

Rarity Takes Manehattan

Green Isn't Your Color

Simple Ways

 

Rainbow Dash:

Wonderbolt Academy

Sonic Rainboom

The Mysterious Mare-Do Well

 

Fluttershy:

Hurricane Fluttershy

 

Pinkie Pie:

Party of One

Friend in Deed

Pinkie Pride

 

Applejack:

The Last Roundup

Applebuck Season

Apple Family Reunion

 

Cutie Mark Crusaders:

Flight to the Finish

Call of the Cutie

Family Appreciation Day

Sisterhooves Social

Sleepless in Ponyville

Stare Master

 

Spike:

Secret of My Excess

Power Ponies

 

Mane 6:

The Best Night Ever

 

Finale:

The Return of Harmony 1 & 2

A Canterlot Wedding

Edited February 9, 2014 by Scootalove

[Megas 28,119]

Opener:

Return of Harmony1&2

 

Twilight episodes:

Ticket Master

Winter Wrap Up

 

Applejack:
Applebuck Season

Apple Family Reunion

 

Rainbow Dash:

Sonic Rainboom

Wonderbolts Academy

 

Rarity: 

Suited for Success

Sweet and Elite

 

Fluttershy:

Hurricane Fluttershy

Keep Calm and Flutter On

 

Pinkie Pie:

Pinkie Pride

Too Many Pinkie Pies

 

Spike:

Secret of my Excess

Power Ponies

 

CMC:

Call of the Cutie

Family Appreciation Day

Sisterhooves Social

Sleepless in Ponyville

 

Ensamble:

Bridle Gossip

Green isn't Your Color

Griffin the Brush-Off

Cutie Mark Chronicles

Look Before You Sleep

 

Finale:
Best Night Ever

 

Mainly season 1 with a few S2, 3, and 4 thrown in

An admittedly crappy list

 

[Guest90210 3,569]

Opener:

Return of Harmony1&2

 

Twilight episodes:

Ticket Master

Winter Wrap Up

 

Applejack:

Applebuck Season

Apple Family Reunion

 

Rainbow Dash:

Sonic Rainboom

Wonderbolts Academy

 

Rarity: 

Suited for Success

Sweet and Elite

 

Fluttershy:

Hurricane Fluttershy

Keep Calm and Flutter On

 

Pinkie Pie:

Pinkie Pride

Too Many Pinkie Pies

 

Spike:

Secret of my Excess

Power Ponies

 

CMC:

Call of the Cutie

Family Appreciation Day

Sisterhooves Social

Sleepless in Ponyville

 

Ensamble:

Bridle Gossip

Green isn't Your Color

Griffin the Brush-Off

Cutie Mark Chronicles

Look Before You Sleep

 

Finale:

Best Night Ever

 

Mainly season 1 with a few S2, 3, and 4 thrown in

An admittedly crappy list

 

I mostly agree with your list but I would have Magical Mystery Cure as the finale

[Moved to Elsewhere 11,331]

Friendship is magic part 1 and 2

return of harmony

magical mystery cure

[Megas 28,119]

I mostly agree with your list but I would have Magical Mystery Cure as the finale

To tell you the truth I put the The Best Night Ever because it was my favorite finale. That said there were still a lot of episodes I wanted to include(Last Roundup and May The Best Pet Win especially come to mind)

[duidamasterXD 9,627]

Friendship is Magic 1 and 2

You kind of need these

 

Applebuck Season

Solid Applejack episode and will help us get to know the Mane Six better as a whole

 

Call of the Cutie

Needed to introduce CMC

 

Mysterious Mare Do Well

Having it earlier on will make it feel less out of place, and it's a good Dash episode.

 

Green Isn’t Your Color

Gives Rarity and Fluttershy and their relationship some time time to shine, and an episode about open communication and talking to your friends about your problems would be most welcome after Mare Do Well

 

Winter Wrap Up

Great song, great Twilight episode, a little worldbuilding, gives all of the Mane Six a little time in the sun, perfect.

 

The Cutie Mark Chronicles

Gives the CMC some screentime, good backstory for the Mane Six, perfect.

 

Sonic Rainboom

Dash insecurities and the payoff of seeing her overcome them. Having it take place after Cutie Mark Chronicles also reinforces the thoughts hanging in her mind that her greatest accomplishment might've been a fluke.

 

Suited For Success

Perfect Rarity episode, sets up for the Gala later, and will hopefully wash away and bad impressions people got of her from Sonic Rainboom.

 

Party of One

Great Pinkie episode, sets up her insecurities at being left behind and abandoned, for later use.

 

Lesson Zero

Good Twilight episode about her anxieties how her friends have her back

 

Sisterhooves Social

Sweetie Belle episode, also gives Rarity a lot of great screentime and portrays her fantastically in the end. Very relatable for people with siblings, also gives AJ and Apple Bloom some time in the sun and good characterization. A must.

 

Stare Master

Gives the CMC some more attention and gives us a protective and motherly Fluttershy which is good development for her.

 

Luna Eclipsed

Good Twilight episode, great visually, fits everyone but Rarity into the episode seamlessly, sets aside Luna for later use.

 

Secret of My Excess

Gives Spike some well-needed and deserved screentime as well as giving Rarity some time with him as well.

 

Pinkie Pride

Pinkie's insecurities from Party of One will be fresh in everyone's mind, lots of great music, and possibly the best Pinkie episode.

 

Hurricane Fluttershy

Best episode, development for Flutters, showcases Dash's development and ability to be sensitive when the situation calls for it.

 

Return of Harmony 1 and 2

You don't need these, but I feel it'd be a shame to exclude them anyway. Showcases the bond between the Mane Six while managing to be very epic at the same time.

 

Sleepless in Ponyville

Scootaloo episode, second best episode, showcases more of Dash's newfound maturity, more of how far Luna's come since the first episodes and Luna Eclipsed, I can't leave it out.

 

The Last Roundup

Wonderful Applejack episode that shows how important she is to her friends and family.

 

Wonderbolt Academy

Payoff of Dash's growth

 

Rarity Takes Manehattan

Good Rarity episode that used all the Mane Six pretty well too.

 

Pinkie Apple Pie

Gives AJ and Pinkie some time together, gives us a great song, gives AJ's family some attention, seems like a solid choice.

 

The Best Night Ever

 

Great Mane Six episode, the only finale that would conclude the series in a halfway satisfying manner.

 

 

Well, that's the best I got. May have given too much weight to Dash's arc and feels like Spike should've been shown more love (though the series itself could stand to do that too ). The CMC also feel out of place since there's no real payoff for what they're working towards, and it focuses more on their relationships with their families than actual Cutie Mark Crusading. Trying to put them in a sensible order was kinda tricky too. Oh well. I tried, and I think I did about as good as I'm able. Might try to watch the episodes in this order sometime.

Edited February 23, 2014 by DashForever

[Denim&Venöm 20,459]

Thought I'd unearth this.

 

Since all 4 seasons have finished airing, how would you condense all of MLP into one, 26 episode season?

[Pastel 7,630]

Premiere:

Friendship is Magic, 1&2

 

Twilight:

Lesson Zero

Luna Eclipsed

Magical Mystery Cure

Princess Twilight Sparkle 1&2

 

Fluttershy:

Hurricane Fluttershy

It Ain't Easy Being Breezies (key)

 

Applejack and her family:

The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000

Family Appreciation Day

Leap of Faith (key)

 

Rainbow Dash:

Sonic Rainboom

Wonderbolts Academy

Rainbow Falls (key)

 

Rarity:

Suited for Success

Rarity Takes Manehattan (key)

 

Pinkie Pie:

Too Many Pinkie Pies

Maud Pie

Pinkie Pride (key)

 

CMC:

Call of the Cutie

The Cutie Mark Chronicles

One Bad Apple

 

Finale:

Equestria Games

Twilight's Kingdom 1&2

[Rainboom Dash 1,056]

My personal season:

 

1/2: Friendship is Magic

3: The Ticket Master

4: Look Before You Sleep

5: Winter Wrap Up

6: Fall Weather Friends

7: Feeling Pinkie Keen

8: Sonic Rainboom

9: The Cutie Mark Chronicles

10: The Best Night Ever

11/12: The Return of Harmony

13: Lesson Zero

14: Secret of My Excess

15: The Last Roundup

16: It's About Time

17: Dragon Quest

18: Too Many Pinkie Pies

19: Keep Calm and Flutter On

20: Magical Mystery Cure

21: Power Ponies

22: Bats!

23: Rarity Takes Manehattan

24: Pinkie Pride

25/26: Twilight's Kingdom

[Shadowking58 1,137]

Episodes Taken from Season 1:
1/2: Friendship is Magic: Part 1 and 2.

3: The Ticket Master

4: Applebuck Season

5: Dragonshy

6: Swarm of the Century

7: Winter Wrap Up

8: Fall Whether Friends

9:  Suited for Success

10: Feeling Pinkie Keen

11: Green Isn't your Color

12: Party of One

Episodes taken from Season 2:
13: The Return of Harmony pt 1/2

14: Lesson Zero

15: Luna Eclipsed

16: Hurricane Fluttershy

17: A Canterlot Wedding pt 1/2

 

Episodes Taken from Season 3: 

18: Too Many Pinkie Pies

19: Sleepless in Ponyville

20: Magical Mystery Cure

 

Episodes Taken from Season 4: 
21: Princess Twilight Sparkle pt 1/2

22: Castle Mane-ia

23: Daring Don't

24: Bats!

25: Rarity Takes Manehattan

26: Twilight's Kingdom Pt 1/2

 

These are pretty much just a list of the episodes I enjoyed the most, so I really want them to stay.

[GuillermoGage 246]

I totally could not do this. I can't even trim down the episode count to half. I believe that is a testament to how good this cartoon is, compared to many other cartoons of its category in which only like, every other episode is entertaining.

I I had to erase from existence as many episodes that I could, while still maintaining the core spirit of the series, I would get rid of episodes that don't really contribute much to the memorable tone, lessons, and lore of the series.

 

The episodes would be:

Griffon the Brush-Off, Swarm of Century, Stare Master, Dog and Pony Show, Bird in the Hoof, Party of One,

Mare-Do-Well, Last Roundup, Hearts and Hooves Day, It's About Time, Ponyville Confidential, MMMystery on Friendship Express,

Spike at Your Service,Just For Sidekicks, Games Ponies Play,

maybe Castle-mania , perhaps Daring Don't, and then definitely Power Ponies, Simple Ways, Fill Vanilli, Somepony to Watch Over Me, and Trade Ya!

This list classifies twenty episodes as non-essential episodes that definitely could have never been aired and the quality reputation of the FiM cartoon would be kept intact if not better than with these episodes, as much as fans like some of these episodes for their "crazy pony" moments.

 

Coincidentally, this list nearly trims The seasons down to twenty episodes for the Seasons 1 and 2, and 4, and 10 episodes for seasons 3.

I had been considering docking off Too Many Pinkie Pies as a non-essential episode for its magical weirdness, and semingly pointless moral for real life, but then thought about FOMO, tha concept of fear of missing out, and realized that, rather than the moral of TMPP being pointless in a non-saccharine world of modern day humans... that the opposite is true. The lesson is still relevant for today's society even in our world, as much of an exaggeration is made of it when being portrayed by Pinkie Pie clones in the context of the social lives of everyday regular people in our world.

 

So yeah... find myself docking off 20 episodes, maybe 22 if Castle-Mane-ia and Daring Don't are just throwaway, fan-pandering cartoony episodes... I've only see Casltemane-ia once and Daring Don't Twice... and am not so sure about them.

 

If someone forced me to peg it down to 26 episodes, I'd just take my s1 episodes and replace the six reject episodes with both S2 two-parters and then Luna Eclipsed and Sweet and Elite.... or mabe one of those would be Hearth's Warming Eve.

 

This whole strict "one season, 26 episodes" idea is too disturbing. I have become accustomed to this show having so many great moments that it would be preposterous to retroactively produce only a coupke dozen episodes of this show... FiM has an innate beauty to it; it was always destined to have like, last at least like, two to three times longer than some short-running series like Invader Zim, and that's just if you discounted the bottom 25th percentile of FiM episodes and retroactively ever wrote them, in some effort to retroactively give FiM some more perfect track record for the history books, in terms of episode quality.

[Denim&Venöm 20,459]

Every now and I again when I'm bored at work, I find myself thinking about this. 

 

Probably my order.

 

1-2. Return of NMM

3. Ticket Master

4. Applebuck season

5. Suited for succsess

6. Party of one

7.. Call of the cutie

8. Cutiemark Chronicles

9. Sonic Rainboom

10-11. Return to Harmony

12. Lesson Zero

13. Luna Eclipsed

14. Secret of my excess

15. Putting Your hoof down

16-17. Canterlot Wedding 1-2

18. Too many Pinkie Pies

19. Sleepless in Ponyville

20. Wonderbolts Acedemy

21. Keep Calm & flutter On

22. Magical Mystery Cure

23. For Whom the Sweetie Belle Toils

24. Testing Testing 1,2,3

25. Flight to the finish

26. Twilight Time

 

 

tough call cutting this down. Made sure to cut out the non essentials like Trixie, Zecora, the crystal empire or the key episodes. Also made sure to give all the characters equal exposure.  As much as I would like magical mystery cure to be the end, the other episodes wouldn't make sense before it. Twilight time works as an ending as it finalizes Twi's role as a mentor figure now and hints at the CMC's growth as characters.