My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: A Hearth’s Warming Tail

🎄 It’s 2016, and a Scrooge-like unicorn is brewing a potion to eliminate Hearth’s Warming Eve from the calendar. That’s how potions work, right? Join us for a Scrooge Sunday canter through a “Christmas Carol” adaptation set in Equestria, the world of “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.” **** 🎙 Guests: Jon and Bin ( Bin’s Toy Bin , Santa by the Minute ). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Watch “A Hearth’s Warming Tail” on YouTube. 2. Mike on Santa by the Minute . 3. The first My Little Pony special, from 1984: “ Rescue at Midnight Castle .” 4. Patton Oswalt on My Little Pony . 5. Patton Oswalt literally on My Little Pony . 6. “ It’s a Pony Kind of Christmas ,” featuring characters who don’t celebrate Christmas singing Christmas songs, so the show’s composer had to clarify it wasn’t canon . 7. The mysterious “ Derpy ,” a.k.a. Muffins. 8. A short tangent about “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms” air fresheners . 9. Today’s TV Trope: And You Were There . 10. A scene was cut featuring Discord in the Jacob Marley role . 11. He’s not in this episode, but there’s a character named Cheese Sandwich who is literally “Weird Al” Yankovic as a pony. 12. Bin takes roll call at the Hearth’s Warming Eve party. **** 📼 Retro Commercial Break: My Little Pony Dream Castle Commercial , 1983. The Hub Network: 12 Days of Ponies Promo , 2014. **** 🎤 And Now, These Messages: Santa by the Minute , covering “Santa Claus: The Movie” one minute at a time. **** “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic” and “A Hearth’s Warming Tail” © 2016 Hasbro Studios. Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost . Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house . Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost . Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house .