Sounds of Silence

Sounds of Silence, titled Sound of Silence by some sources, is the twenty-third episode of season eight of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic and the one hundred and ninety-second overall. The title is a reference to the 1964 Simon &amp; Garfunkel song "The Sound of Silence" and/or their 1966 studio album Sounds of Silence.

In this episode, Fluttershy and Applejack journey to the edge of the map on a friendship quest to help a group of ponies called Kirin, who are so afraid of hurting each other's feelings, they've taken an oath of silence.

Production
An clip of the episode was shown at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con.

This episode aired on August 24, 2018, on Nickelodeon in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, thirty-six days ahead of its scheduled premiere on Discovery Family. It also aired on Boomerang in Australia on September 1, 2018, and it is scheduled to release on Ruutu's on demand service on September 22, 2018.

As of this episode, the Hasbro Studios logo at the end of the closing credits is replaced by the new Allspark Animation logo.