Talk:Friendship is Magic animated media/@comment-31093778-20190418205324/@comment-5632707-20190420210013

Perhaps it is a bit weird to count the BGE special as an episode... but the show's staff already did that, and they today called it their 200 episode, and Discovery Family advertised it as such... so it is the way it is. :)

Besides, it does make sense from the staff's perspective: that BGE special episode took twice as much effort the regular episode gets since it's twice as long, and it's in the canon of the show, so for them it was just like any other episode they worked on. So they counted it with all other episodes, in the production order.