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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Season 2

26 episodes Premiered Sep 17, 2011
Previously on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Season 1.
  • Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Season 2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 2: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (4): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (22): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S2·E1 Mytharc

The Return of Harmony (1)

Sep 17, 2011

The peace of Equestria is threatened when Discord, a mischievous spirit of disharmony, escapes from his imprisonment in stone. Twilight and her friends must defeat him using the El

S2·E2 Core

The Return of Harmony (2)

Sep 24, 2011

Twilight's friends have been corrupted by Discord, and all of Equestria is about to fall into total chaos. Twilight remembers about the riddle of finding the stolen Elements of Har

S2·E3 Core

Lesson Zero

Oct 15, 2011

Hyper-organized Twilight panics when she can’t find a lesson about friendship for her weekly letter to Princess Celestia.

S2·E4 Core

Luna Eclipsed

Oct 22, 2011

It's Nightmare Night and the macabre celebrations are in full swing when Luna herself shows up in Ponyville, determined to change her frightening public image.

S2·E5 Core

Sisterhooves Social

Nov 5, 2011

Sweetie Belle comes up with an idea to celebrate sisterly unity in an impromptu party with not much planning, and when Rarity decides not to be part of the celebration, Sweetie Bel

S2·E6 Core

The Cutie Pox

Nov 12, 2011

Applebloom finally gets her Cutie Mark! But joy turns to panic as she gets a second, then a third, then a dozen cutie marks.

S2·E7 Core

May the Best Pet Win!

Nov 19, 2011

Rainbow Dash holds a flying race to determine who will win the honor of being her pet.

S2·E8 Core

The Mysterious Mare Do Well

Nov 26, 2011

A new masked avenger is stealing Rainbow Dash's thunder as Ponyville's resident hero.

S2·E9 Core

Sweet and Elite

Dec 3, 2011

During a successful trip to Canterlot, Rarity has to choose between the important social connections she's made in the capitol and her uncouth Ponyville friends.

S2·E10 Core

Secret of My Excess

Dec 10, 2011

After Spike's birthday gifts activate his greedy dragon instincts, he undergoes an outrageous growth spirt that threatens to destroy all of Ponyville, so he must find a way to stop

S2·E11 Core

Hearth's Warming Eve

Dec 17, 2011

The six friends are honored to put on Canterlot's most important play of the season, the Hearth's Warming Eve's holiday pageant, which illustrates how Unicorns, Pegasi and Earth Po

S2·E12 Core

Family Appreciation Day

Jan 7, 2012

Apple Bloom does everything she can think of to stop Granny Smith from speaking to her class and causing everlasting embarrassment.

S2·E13 Core

Baby Cakes

Jan 14, 2012

Pinkie Pie takes on the task of babysitting the Cakes' twin toddlers but is woefully unprepared for the challenge.

S2·E14 Core

The Last Roundup

Jan 21, 2012

The friends travel all over Equestria to track down Applejack, who has mysteriously disappeared after attending a rodeo competition in Canterlot.

S2·E15 Mytharc

The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000

Jan 28, 2012

The Flim Flam brothers challenge the Apples to a Cider Making Contest and the winner of the showdown gets to take Sweet Apple Acres, so with the farm in peril, the Apple ponies mus

S2·E16 Core

Read It and Weep

Feb 4, 2012

After mocking it as an 'egghead' pursuit, Rainbow Dash discovers the joys of reading while laid up in Ponyville Hospital. Can she finish her book before her friends discover her se

S2·E17 Core

Hearts and Hooves Day

Feb 11, 2012

The Cutie Mark Crusaders create a love potion to make Miss Cheerilee and Big Macintosh fall in love, but quickly regret their actions when they discover that serious side effects h

S2·E18 Core

A Friend in Deed

Feb 18, 2012

When Pinkie Pie meets Cranky Doodle Donkey, she becomes flummoxed about what to do when the donkey refuses her usual offer of lifelong friendship, so she must decide what to do nex

S2·E19 Core

Putting Your Hoof Down

Mar 3, 2012

When Fluttershy becomes tired of being pushed around for too long, she decides to seek some assertiveness training from self-help guru Iron Will. With the help of her new teacher,

S2·E20 Core

It's About Time

Mar 10, 2012

When Twilight Sparkle receives a strange and vague warning about impending doom and disaster from her future self, she drives herself nearly mad in an attempt to stall a cataclysmi

S2·E21 Core

Dragon Quest

Mar 17, 2012

Spike goes on a journey of self-discovery by joining the Great Dragon Migration. But does a rough and tumble gang of teenage dragons really hold the key to the questions Spike has

S2·E22 Core

Hurricane Fluttershy

Mar 24, 2012

Fluttershy struggles to overcome her fear of public humiliation so she can help Rainbow Dash and the other pegasi create a Tornado powerful enough to lift the water required for Ra

S2·E23 Core

Ponyville Confidential

Mar 31, 2012

The Cutie Mark Crusaders adopt the name 'Gabby Gums' to become the gossip columnist for their school paper. They seem to have finally found something they're good at! But is it wor

S2·E25 Mytharc

A Canterlot Wedding (1)

Apr 21, 2012

Twilight Sparkle is confused by her conflicting feelings when she finds out her brother, Shining Armor, is marrying Princess Celestia's niece, Cadance.

S2·E26 Mytharc

A Canterlot Wedding (2)

Apr 21, 2012

Shining Armor and Princess Cadance are set to be married, but Twilight Sparkle has just discovered a dark secret about the bride-to-be.