♪♪
[clattering]
Happy Hearth's Warming Eve!
[crash]
[giggle]
Shucks, Twilight, y'all done it up nice and cozy in here.
We're about to hang our Hearth's Warming Dolls,
if you want to join us.
Well, that's mighty sweet of you,
but we're just stopping in to wish y'all
a happy Hearth's Warming before we go.
I think it's sweet that your families
are spending the holiday together.
Picture the most funtacular thing you can think of.
Now multiply that times infinity! IT'S GONNA BE GREAT!
[train whistle]
That's us! See you later!
Now can we open presents?
But tonight is Hearth's Warming Eve.
Everypony knows you don't open presents till tomorrow.
When Spike and I spent our first Hearth's Warming Eve together,
he couldn't wait all night to open his presents.
Ever since then, we've always opened them the night before.
It's kinda like... our tradition.
That's not how our family does it.
And I reckon it can't be how Pinkie's does it, is it?
No, sir-eee!
To each their own, I suppose.
[train whistle]
AH! GOTTA GO! BYE!
[grunts]
Just what I always wanted! A book!
♪ My little pony, my little pony ♪
♪ Aaaahhh ♪
♪ My little Pony ♪
♪ I used to wonder what friendship could be. ♪
♪ My Little Pony ♪
♪ Until you all shared its magic with me. ♪
♪ Big adventure! ♪ ♪ Tons of fun ♪
♪ A beautiful heart! ♪ ♪ Faithful and strong! ♪
♪ Sharing kindness ♪ ♪ it's an easy feat ♪
♪ And magic makes it all complete! ♪
♪ To have my little pony ♪
♪ Do you know you're all my very best friends? ♪
♪♪
Chancellor Puddinghead Puddings?
How about a Windigo-frosted snow cone?
It's so exciting. Related or not, it's gonna be a hoot
havin' our families together under one roof.
Apples and Pies, together again for the first time, maybe,
unless we're related, which maybe we're not.
I think I just confused myself.
Friends or family, this here's about togetherness.
Have you tried the Equestria Flag Crepes?
The blue is BLUEBERRY!
And don't tell Granny I saw, but her trunk is full of presents!
Applejack: Now hang on, Sugarcube.
You know Hearth's Warming isn't just about
candy and presents, right?
Uh oh. That's your boring sisterly lecture voice.
'Fraid so. Ahem. A long time ago, the Earth Ponies,
Pegasus Ponies,and Unicorn Ponies weren't friends.
"I don't like you!"
"I don't like you either!"
But then the icy chill of the Windigos
almost iced up everything.
So the ponies decided to work together
and their friendship drove them nasty critters away.
"Beat it, Windigos!"
Triumphant, they raised a new flag to celebrate
all three tribes, and Equestria was born.
[chomp]
Uh, what happened to the flag...?
[munching]
I don't know.
[gulp] [slurp]
Is that why we celebrate with a flag-raising tomorrow?
Mm-hm. And tonight we'll have the traditional
Hearth's Warming Eve Dinner
to remember the shared bounties of our ancestors.
We do that, too!
Then we'll hang our Hearth's Warming Dolls
over the fireplace, to remind us of the warmth shared
on that fateful night.
That's what our family does too!
And tomorrow, we open presents.
WE DO THAT TOO!
It sounds like the Apples and the Pies
do everything the same way.
Of course! We might be related!
Hey, I was going to say that!
Stop saying what I'm saying!
You stop it first!
[laughter]
[train whistle blows]
[squeaking wheels and brakes]
[train whistle]
I'm so happy I need to make up a new word for how happy I am.
What about, "Rooftastic!"?
Rooftastic?
As in: I gotta get on the roof and yell to everypony
HOW ROOFTASTIC THIS IS!
[crash]
What if our families don't like each other?
We are friends, Applejack.
And after tonight, our families are going to be friends too!
Do you know what that means?
Number of Apples times number of Pies is 24
minus my pre-existing friendships plus 1 for Maud
and you makes 5 from 24 is--
[big breath]
Nineteen new friendships!
Maud!
[monotone voice]
I'm so excited to see you, Pinkie Pie. You too, Applejack.
I hope you had fun sledding yesterday.
How'd you know that?
Isn't it obvious?
There's specks of Extrusive Andesite on your hoof.
It's a mountain rock.
Oh... she's good.
How's school going?
If you thought Quartz was high on the Mohs Hardness Scale,
wait'll I tell you about Corundum.
I missed you so much!
♪♪
This place looks amazing!
C'mon everypony, meet my super-mega-funderful family!
♪♪
Everypony... meet... everypony!
Surely thy name is not but Granny Smith.
I am called Igneous Rock Pie, son of Feldspar Granite Pie.
Thou shalt know me as Cloudy Quartz.
May providence favor thee well and to thou comfort
our humble homestead bring.
Y'all gabbin' with words real funny-like.
What'd ya say them names were:
"Iggy?" And I'm just gonna call you, "Big Mama Q."
Gaze into the eyes of Limestone Pie.
Ma and Pa may own this rock farm, but I keep it running.
Cross me and--
--Aye aye, Captain Grumpy!
No one's gonna mess with your precious mine.
Or Holder's Boulder!
[sigh]
Everypony stay away from Holder's Boulder.
There, you happy now?
And you must be...
This is Marble Pie, my baby sister
who's only a few minutes younger than me
but she'll always be a baby to me, isn't that right?
She's so excited to meet everypony!
Oh, and she wishes you all a happy Hearth's Warming!
Mmm-hmm.
Guess Pinkie Pie always did the talkin' for her.
[giggle]
[beckoning whistle]
ATTENTION!
What'd I say about the boulder?
I'll just be a second!
Everypony, get settled in. There's plenty of room upstairs,
and then it's time for Hearth's Warming Eve Dinner!
So far, so good "cousin!"
Hee Hee!
I can't wait to taste their fresh sweet rolls.
They're my favorite part of Hearth's Warming Eve Dinner.
I'm more of a six-layer bean dip filly, myself.
I love that too! Oh, Applejack,
do you think theirs will be even better than ours?
Oh, that's a mighty tall order,
but it wouldn't surprise me in the least.
Are you excited for dinner time because guess who is?
Spoiler alert: it's ME!
[clunk]
♪♪
What about hot rolls? And mulled cider? And double-baked pot-pie?
What about 6-layer bean dip?
We have rock soup.
Potato, po-tah-to! Double-baked-pot-pie, rock soup!
Dinner is dinner, Am I right or am I right?
Yeah, um... you know what?
This is what we were expecting, right everypony?
[mumbles]
Heh heh.
[slurp]
Is everything all right, Applejack?
Of course. I'm just bein' a rusty fiddle.
Tune me up and let's get back to dinner!
[slurping]
[choke]
More rock, please!
Eat up, so we can get to our Hearth's Warming dolls!
Now that's somethin' I know all about.
Who wants a Hearth's Warming doll?
Are you sayin' that rock is a Hearth's Warming Doll?
Don't be silly, silly.
[crack]
Our dolls are these little pieces!
Isn't that right, Marble Pie?
Mm-hm.
[clinking]
Our dolls... are rocks?
[crack]
Y'all don't have traditional crocheted dolls
passed down in your family?
Ohhhh, you're just a frown factory
because you got a weird rock.
Cheer up! I'm sure you'll do great in the
Flag-Finding Mission.
What-findin' what-now?
Limestone Pie, you're the judge.
Big Mac? Marble Pie? You're team 1.
Apple Bloom and Maud? You're team 2.
Ma? Pa? You're gonna be with Granny Smith.
Don't think of it as "team old," think of it as team three.
And I'm with Applejack, of course!
Since we might be cousins!
So now that we're all split up,
mind tellin' us what we're doing?
As everypony knows--
STAY OFF HOLDER'S BOULDER!
Sheesh.
When the three tribes united to form Equestria,
the first flag was sewn by Nimble Thimble.
It's tradition to raise a flag on Hearth's Warming
to celebrate that famous day.
[agreement]
But who gets to put the flag on Holder's Bolder?
You mean on the flagpole?
No, silly!
It goes on the highest point. And who's the lucky pony?
Traditionally, it's the youngest...
ON YOUR MARK, GET SET, GO!
Pinkie Pie, will you please tell us what's going on?
I'll explain on the way!
Oh!
I still don't understand.
Earlier today, Limestone Pie hid an obsidian stone.
Whoever finds it gets to raise the flag!
It's all just so... complicated. And "rock-based."
Well, how else would we do it?
I don't know.
I sure hope everypony else is havin' a better time.
Mmm-hmm.
Eyup.
Mmmmmmm-hmm.
Eyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyup.
So, how'd ya meet this Iggy fella?
We were chosen by the pairing stone
and betrothed within a fortnight.
The choosing stone decreed "thou shalt love one another,"
and lo, it was so.
Hoo-wee. I gotsta look into this oldfangled choosin' stone thing.
Do you reckon it knows any Apple farmin' hunks?
Indeed so.
What does the rock look like?
It looks like something that formed
when volcanic lava cooled quickly.
Oh.
Have you ever wished you could turn into a rock?
I had a dream once I was an apple.
We have a lot in common
when it comes to thinking about turning into things.
Pinkie: FOUND IT! FOUND IT! FOUND IT!
A picture? I been lookin' for a real stone, Pinkie Pie.
Um, that would be weird. Do you know what this means?
I get to raise the flag! And now it's time to hide the presents!
Y'all hide your presents?
Of course! What's more fun than getting a present?
FINDING A PRESENT!
Although most years nopony finds one.
So nopony gets presents?
Not usually.
So let me get all this straight.
You're only allowed to eat Rock Soup for dinner.
Then, the pony who finds this rock gets to raise the flag,
but not really cause you don't got no flag pole.
And to top it off, you don't even get presents?
Well, it doesn't sound very fun when you say it THAT way.
Well, how about you picture this:
both our families, opening presents, raising the flag...
Picturing it, loving it!
Goodnight, everypony!
Goodnight, Pinkie Pie!
We gotta do something, y'all.
Pinkie Pie's family's never had a real Hearth's Warming.
Is that really what she said?
Well, I'm sure it's what she meant.
These are their traditions.
Eyup.
I know they have their traditions and we have ours,
but I just want them to see how much better theirs could be.
[rooster crows]
Hearth's Warming!
Hearth's Wa-
Oh, my, oh my.
What. Happened. To. My. Farm.
It's Hearth's Warming, Apple style!
We've been doing everything your way.
I thought we could mix it up a bit.
Marble Pie, you could raise the Equestria flag up this pole,
because you're the youngest Pie.
Ma and Pa Pie, we'll cook you up a meal you'll never forget.
And look, we all get presents without having to find 'em!
Yeah! This is going to be great!
All the stuff she said. Right, everypony?
Pinkamina Diane Pie, truly thou do not favor this madness?
Well, I want to be one big family.
But what about what we usually do?
I, um, well? I don't know! Don't make me choose!
I didn't mean to cause a fuss.
Why don't we just open presents around the flagpole.
It'll be fun, you'll see.
Excuse me. You planted your pole on a fault line.
[crackling]
[crash]
NOOOOOOOO!
[smash]
[sigh] Oh boy.
You didn't have to ask them to leave.
They wanted to go.
We don't need anypony forcing their way into our family.
This was all a misunderstanding, everypony.
I know Applejack,
and she'd never do anything bad to anypony.
Look around, Pinkie Pie.
It's gonna take me ages to get this rock farm back on track.
And how're we gonna lift Holder's Boulder?
This is all her fault.
Then it's my fault too.
Probably best if we head back to Sweet Apple Acres.
Maybe in time we'll be friends again.
But for the now it's best if we give them a little space.
I wish we didn't have to. I really like Maud.
She's sweet once you get to know her. They all are.
Worst Hearth's Warming ever.
Has anypony seen Applejack?
[sobbing]
I really cracked the corn this time.
I really popped the piñata this time.
Pinkie Pie?
Ah! What are you doing here?
What are you doing here?
I came here to think.
You did? So did I!
[laughing]
I'm too ashamed to go back up there.
Your family, my family?
They all must think I'm such a nincompoop.
Aw, no one thinks that.
Pushy, aggressive, mean. Oh I'm not helping, sorry.
I'm sorry I forced my traditions over yours.
I don't want you to have to choose between the family
you were born into, and the friends who love you like one.
I really hoped we could be one big family. I guess not.
Don't say that!
[train whistle]
I wish I could stay but I have a train to catch.
Hap... hap... happy Hearth's Warming.
You, too.
[rattling train wheels]
You wanna know why Holder's Boulder's so dangit important?
Well, now, their great great great great great grandfather,
Holder Cobblestone, he found that boulder in a Dragon's nest,
older than time itself.
He built the family farm around it,
even though it was just an ordinary rock.
It's always brought them good luck.
Crickets! That is important.
I got so caught up in the things they were doin',
I never asked why they did 'em.
[clatter]
"To Applejack, from Pinkie Pie. ...cousins forever."
You just found your first Pie Hearth's Warming present ever!
Only Pinkie Pie could hide a present on a moving train.
What a great tradition!
STOP THE TRAIN!
♪♪
[grunts and groans]
C'mon, you boulder, c'mon!
I'm pushing as hard as I can, too.
[grunts and groans]
Oh, it's hopeless.
Applejack: Need a little help?
Pinkie: [gasp] Apples!
What do you want?
I wasn't trying to take your traditions away;
I was trying to share ours.
I was so focused on us bein' one big happy family,
I thought we needed the same traditions right away.
What I shoulda done is learn about yours
and teach you about ours.
And over time, we'd make new traditions together.
I'm sorry, y'all.
Well, don't just stand there.
We got a boulder to move!
♪ [bells] ♪
And I'm in charge!
[grunts and groans]
I think we just invented our first combined tradition!
Pushing Holder's Boulder out of the Quarry!
I can't wait for Applejack to knock it over
next Hearth's Warming!
[laughter]
♪♪
Marble Pie, you want to wish Big Mac a happy Hearth's Warming,
don't you? And you too, right, Big Mac?
Mm-hm.
Eyup.
Uh, let me see here. "If thou asketh me...
Thou two art OK-eth in my book."
"Yee...haw?"
♪♪
Happy Hearth's Warming.
Happy Hearth's Warming, Pinkie Pie.
Attention, everypony!
Maud wants to sing some Hearth's Warming carols that she wrote!
[excited chatter]
The first one is about rocks.
They're all about rocks.
♪♪
Hearth's Warming is great,
like Calcium Silicate.
What a wonderful day,
as good as Mica or Clay...