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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Season 6

26 episodes Premiered Mar 26, 2016 Updated Sep 30, 2026
Previously on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

Season 6 Lore Primer

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

  • ⚡ Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Season 5.
  • ⚡ Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
  • ⚡ Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
  • ⚡ Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
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Season 6 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 6: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (23): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S6·E1 Mytharc

The Crystalling (1)

Mar 26, 2016 · 22 min

The Mane Six attend the Crystalling of Cadence and Shining Armor's new baby at the Crystal Empire; Twilight gets the chance to present Starlight with her first friendship lesson.

S6·E2 Core

The Crystalling (2)

Mar 26, 2016 · 22 min

The Mane Six scramble to save the Crystal Empire from an eternal winter; Starlight struggles after the failed reunion with her old friend.

S6·E3 Core

The Gift of the Maud Pie

Apr 2, 2016 · 22 min

Rarity and Pinkie Pie are in Manehattan looking for an ideal location for Rarity's new store and searching for the perfect gift for Pinkie Pie's sister.

S6·E4 Core

On Your Marks

Apr 9, 2016 · 22 min

Now that they've finally received their cutie marks, the Cutie Mark Crusaders struggle with the question of what's next; the friends do not all agree on how to embrace their destin

S6·E5 Core

Gauntlet of Fire

Apr 16, 2016 · 22 min

In order to save his friends, Spike is forced to compete in a perilous Gauntlet for the title of Dragon Lord.

S6·E6 Core

No Second Prances

Apr 30, 2016 · 22 min

When Starlight Glimmer starts becoming friends with a fellow formerly-bad pony. Twilight tries to stop her.

S6·E7 Core

Newbie Dash

May 7, 2016 · 22 min

Rainbow Dash finally achieves her dream of becoming a Wonderbolt, but makes a disastrous first impression with the team and gets saddled with a mortifying nickname she is determine

S6·E8 Core

A Hearth's Warming Tail

May 14, 2016 · 22 min

It's Hearth's Warming Eve and everypony is excited. Everypony except for Starlight Glimmer. Twilight decides that to cure Starlight of her holiday blues, she will read her one of h

S6·E9 Core

The Saddle Row Review

May 21, 2016 · 22 min

When Rarity opens her flagship store in Manehattan, a tell-all article threatens to expose how badly her friends almost ruined the Grand Opening.

S6·E10 Core

Applejack's 'Day' Off

May 28, 2016 · 22 min

While Rarity struggles to get Applejack to relax at the spa, Twilight and Spike find covering her "simple" farm chores to be a more difficult job than they thought.

S6·E11 Core

Flutter Brutter

Jun 4, 2016 · 22 min

When Fluttershy's self-absorbed brother starts freeloading off their parents, she encourages him to move out, but he moves in with her instead, forcing Fluttershy to stand up to he

S6·E12 Core

Spice Up Your Life

Jun 11, 2016 · 22 min

Pinkie Pie and Rarity are called to Canterlot to solve a friendship problem. Once there, they discover a father and daughter whose relationship is strained as they struggle to keep

S6·E13 Core

Stranger than Fan Fiction

Jul 30, 2016 · 22 min

Rainbow Dash attends the Daring Do Convention in Manehattan and meets a pony named Quibble Pants who despises Daring Do as much as she loves it. The two of them get wrapped up in

S6·E14 Core

The Cart Before the Ponies

Aug 6, 2016 · 22 min

The Cutie Mark Crusaders are excited for the chance to race in the annual Applewood Derby until their teammates Rarity, Applejack and Rainbow Dash take over the competition

S6·E15 Core

28 Pranks Later

Aug 13, 2016 · 22 min

When Rainbow Dash's pranking gets out of hand, the ponies decide to give her a taste of her own medicine zom-pony style!

S6·E16 Core

The Times They Are a Changeling

Aug 20, 2016 · 22 min

When Spike travels with Twilight and Sunburst back to the Crystal Empire to visit Flurry Heart, they discover the entire empire in a panic due to the reported presence of Changelin

S6·E17 Core

Dungeons & Discords

Aug 27, 2016 · 22 min

When the Mane 6 leave town, Discord decides to join Spike and Big Mac's top secret Guys' Night; Much to Discord's disappointment, the Guys' Night turns out to be an evening of fant

S6·E18 Core

Buckball Season

Sep 3, 2016 · 22 min

When Appleloosa challenges Ponyville to a game of buckball, Applejack and Rainbow Dash discover (and must cultivate) their friends' unrealized potential.

S6·E19 Core

The Fault in Our Cutie Marks

Sep 10, 2016 · 22 min

The Crusaders encounter a problem that might be impossible for them to solve when an enthusiastic young griffin asks them to help her get a Cutie Mark of her own.

S6·E20 Core

Viva Las Pegasus

Sep 17, 2016 · 22 min

The Map sends Applejack and Fluttershy to Las Pegasus where they find Film and Flam working in a resort called Gladmane's, where suspicious dealings are going on.

S6·E21 Core

Every Little Thing She Does

Sep 24, 2016 · 22 min

Although Starlight Glimmer is excelling at her magical studies with Twilight Sparkle, she has been avoiding her friendship lessons. Feeling pressure to impress her teacher, Starlig

S6·E22 Core

P.P.O.V. (Pony Point of View)

Oct 1, 2016 · 22 min

When Applejack, Rarity and Pinkie Pie all return from a boat trip angry at each other, Twilight, after hearing three very different versions of the events, must discern the truth t

S6·E23 Core

Where the Apple Lies

Oct 8, 2016 · 22 min

When Apple Bloom tells a white lie to cover up a mistake, Applejack shares the story of how she came to value honesty after telling a series of lies that almost destroyed the farm

S6·E24 Core

Top Bolt

Oct 15, 2016 · 22 min

Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle are sent to the Wonderbolt Academy to help two friends, Vapor Trail and Sky Stinger, solve a friendship problem that could prevent them from getti

S6·E25 Mytharc

To Where and Back Again (1)

Oct 22, 2016 · 22 min

Without the help of Twilight Sparkle and the Mane Six, Starlight Glimmer assembles an unlikely team of heroes to defend Equestria from the return of one of its greatest threats.

S6·E26 Mytharc

To Where and Back Again (2)

Oct 22, 2016 · 22 min

Starlight Glimmer leads an unlikely squad of rescuers against one of the ponies' oldest and greatest foes in order to save her friends and Equestria.

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