My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Better Together (season 1)

My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Better Together is a series of Equestria Girls episodes that premiered on YouTube on November 17, 2017. The first four shorts were posted on the Discovery Family GO! app on November 2, 2017. This series marks the debut of a new wardrobe for the main characters.

Production
According to Equestria Girls co-director Katrina Hadley, the animation is done by DHX Media. The girls' new wardrobes were designed by celebrity fashion stylist Laura Schuffman.

When asked whether there will be longer episodes, co-director Ishi Rudell replied "There may be some longer episodes... you’ll just have to wait and see."

Series synopsis
"The magic of Equestria cannot be contained! It’s found its way into the world of the all new My Little Pony Equestria Girls Digital Series and it’s turning everything on its head.

From afterschool clubs to beach days, music festivals to theme parks, and a rockin’ Spring Break on a yacht, magic is sure making things interesting. Join Sunset Shimmer, Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity as they learn what it means to be superheroes while they take on their biggest challenge yet: high school."

School of Rock
School of Rock is the first Better Together short. It was released on the Discovery Family GO! app on November 2, 2017 and was uploaded to the official Hasbro YouTube channel on November 24, 2017. The animation primarily focuses on Maud Pie. The title is a reference to the 2003 film of the same name.

Summary
At the Canterlot Natural History Museum, Maud Pie gives a boring lecture about rocks. As the museum patrons become bored to tears, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Twilight Sparkle use their geode powers to give the lecture some pizzazz. At the lecture's conclusion, the patrons cheer with excitement, and a young girl in Maud's fan club asks for her autograph.

A Fine Line
A Fine Line is the second Better Together short. It was released on the Discovery Family GO! app on November 2, 2017 and was uploaded to the official Hasbro YouTube channel on November 17, 2017. The animation focuses primarily on Sunset Shimmer.

Summary
At the Canterlot Mall, Sunset Shimmer gets in line for the new video game Tirek's Revenge but finds it to be exceedingly long. As time passes, Sunset gets stir-crazy and jealous of the fun that other people in line are having with their friends. Just then, Rainbow Dash arrives, and upon realizing that Sunset is waiting in line by herself, she uses her super speed to get the rest of their friends, making Sunset's wait in line more bearable. By the time she gets to the front of the line, the game is completely sold out. Luckily, Pinkie Pie had pre-ordered the game for her weeks prior, and the girls go home to play it together.

Pinkie Sitting
Pinkie Sitting is the third Better Together short. It was released on the Discovery Family GO! app on November 2, 2017 and was uploaded to the official Hasbro YouTube channel on December 8, 2017. The animation focuses primarily on Pinkie Pie and a new character named Lily Pad.

Summary
Pinkie Pie fills in for Rarity as babysitter for a little girl named Lily Pad when Rarity gets invited to a fashion designers' gala at the last minute. Pinkie suggests some fun activities for them to do, but Lily would rather sit quietly and read a book. As time passes by, Pinkie gets bored and asks Lily what she's reading. As Lily explains the premise of the pirate-themed story, Pinkie starts spontaneously acting out the scenes. Later that evening, Lily finishes reading the book out loud, and Pinkie compliments Lily on her babysitting skills before falling asleep.

Queen of Clubs
Queen of Clubs is the fourth Better Together short. It was released on the Discovery Family GO! app on November 2, 2017 and was uploaded to the official Hasbro YouTube channel on December 1, 2017. The animation focuses primarily on Applejack and Rainbow Dash. The title is a reference to the playing card. This short was adapted as the second chapter of My Little Pony Equestria Girls: A Friendship to Remember.

Summary
Applejack brings a pig to school, explaining to her friends that she needs it for the Young Farmers' Club yearbook photo. When Rainbow Dash brags about being in five different school clubs, Applejack boasts that she is in six. Despite Rarity insisting it is not a competition, Rainbow and Applejack join as many clubs as possible to see who will be in the most yearbook photos. When the yearbook is published, their competition ends in a tie. As it turns out, there was one school club left that neither of them joined: an exclusive fashion club in which Rarity is the president and Applejack's pig is the vice-president.

Overpowered
Overpowered is the fifth Better Together short. It was first previewed at HasCon 2017 and was released on the Discovery Family GO! app on November 5, 2017 and was uploaded to the official Hasbro YouTube channel on December 22, 2017. The animation focuses primarily on the Equestria Girls as a whole.

Summary
One day at school, Sunset Shimmer's empathy powers get so out of control that she starts hearing others' thoughts without touching them, and she discovers her friends are experiencing the same thing. As they wonder why, Rainbow Dash zooms in with her super speed, bragging about using her powers to do everything. Twilight theorizes that, because their magical geodes are connected, the more each of the girls use their powers for everyday tasks, the more they get supercharged. So they agree to use their geodes in moderation. When Zephyr Breeze enters and asks Rainbow out on a date, Rainbow is about to use her super speed to run away, but her friends warn her not to, and she simply walks away from Zephyr. Later, Sunset's powers return to normal.

The Finals Countdown
The Finals Countdown is the sixth Better Together short. It was released on the Discovery Family GO! app on November 5, 2017 and was uploaded to the official Hasbro YouTube channel on December 15, 2017. The animation focuses on the Equestria Girls as a whole. The title is a reference to the 1986 Europe song "The Final Countdown".

Summary
In Miss Cheerilee's class, Cheerilee reminds the students that final exams are two weeks away. The Equestria Girls are stressed about their finals, but Twilight is confident they can pass. Over the next couple of weeks, she helps her friends study and set aside all distractions while singing the song Rise Up! When conventional studying doesn't work, she helps them learn by catering to their individual styles and interests. On the day of their finals, the girls pass with flying colors.

Star Crossed
Star Crossed is the seventh Better Together short. It was released on the Discovery Family GO! app on November 5, 2017 and was uploaded to the official Hasbro YouTube channel on December 29, 2017. The animation focuses primarily on Twilight Sparkle and Timber Spruce.

Summary
Twilight is excited about her upcoming date with Timber Spruce at the planetarium, which she insists is merely a "hang-out". She has the entire evening planned out, and Fluttershy gives her something special for the occasion: a jar of bugs. At the planetarium, Twilight and Timber start their evening together, but all of Twilight's planning ends up being in vain: the exhibit on gravitational fields has been removed, the planetarium show has been cancelled, and the sky is overcast with clouds, preventing them from seeing the stars and constellations with the telescope. Twilight is disappointed that she wasn't able to impress Timber, and Timber is equally disappointed about not being able to impress her with his new knowledge on astronomy. When Twilight lightly kicks her backpack, the bugs in the jar Fluttershy gave her fly out, revealed to be fireflies, and they light up the night by forming the constellations. Starstruck, the two spend the rest of the evening looking at the fireflies.

My Little Shop of Horrors
My Little Shop of Horrors is the eighth Better Together short. It was released on the Discovery Family GO! app on November 8, 2017 and was uploaded to the official Hasbro YouTube channel on January 5, 2018. The animation focuses primarily on Twilight Sparkle and Spike. The title and overall plot is a reference to the musical Little Shop of Horrors, itself based on the similarly named Roger Corman B-movie.

Summary
Principal Celestia leaves Twilight Sparkle and Spike in charge of tending to her garden while she's on vacation. Unbeknownst to Twilight, some Equestrian magic enchants her watering can. As Twilight begins watering and singing to the plants, the plants start to grow and come to life, singing along to Twilight's song. As Twilight gives them more and more water, the singing plants become increasingly aggressive and demand more. Twilight sends an SOS text to Applejack, and when she arrives, she turns on the sprinklers to turn the plants back to normal. Just then, Celestia returns and warns Twilight not to over-water the plants.

Display of Affection
Display of Affection is the ninth Better Together short. It was released on the Discovery Family GO! app on November 8, 2017 and was uploaded to the official Hasbro YouTube channel on January 19, 2018. The animation focuses primarily on Rarity and Sunset Shimmer.

Summary
During her fashion internship at Prim Hemline's boutique, Rarity is tasked with designing a new window display for a visiting Fashion Week style scout. Unfortunately, the pressure starts to get to her, and she confides in Sunset Shimmer. As they walk through the city, they come upon some graffiti drawn by a mysterious and popular street artist named "Flanksy", and Rarity gets inspiration. Later that night, she is dissatisfied with her finished work, but Sunset gets an idea.

The next day, Rarity returns to the shop and sees a crowd of people impressed by the now improved window display, including Prim Hemline. Looking behind her, Rarity sees Sunset in an alleyway with paint on her cheek and realizes that Sunset is in fact "Flanksy".

A Little Birdie Told Me
A Little Birdie Told Me is the tenth Better Together short. It was released on the Discovery Family GO! app on November 8, 2017 and was uploaded to the official Hasbro YouTube channel on January 12, 2018. The animation focuses primarily on Fluttershy and Trixie.

Summary
In Cranky Doodle's class, Mr. Doodle administers a pop quiz to his students. As the students begin, Trixie Lulamoon catches Fluttershy talking math with her bird friends and openly accuses her of cheating on the quiz. Fluttershy explains that she was just settling an argument about nests, but Trixie doesn't believe her. So Fluttershy goes up to the chalkboard and solves a complex math equation without the help of her bird friends, much to Trixie's embarrassment. Later, Trixie approaches the birds and asks one of them to be her tutor.

Super Squad Goals
Super Squad Goals is the eleventh Better Together short. It was released on the Discovery Family GO! app on November 8, 2017 and was uploaded to the official Hasbro YouTube channel on January 26, 2018. The animation focuses primarily on the Equestria Girls as a whole.

Summary
In a comic book-style setting, the Equestria Girls discuss their big-city plans for the day when they witness a jewelry store being robbed. Using their magical geodes, the girls transform into their Crystal Guardian outfits and chase after the thief, superhero style. After a while of chasing, the girls catch the thief and send him to prison. They return the stolen jewels to the jewelry store owner and celebrate with treats. In the end, the whole affair is revealed to be a comic book drawn by Sunset Shimmer.

Road Trippin
Road Trippin is the twelfth Better Together short. It was included as a bonus feature on the digital release of My Little Pony The Movie on December 19, 2017, and uploaded to the Hasbro YouTube channel on March 2, 2018. The animation focuses primarily on the Rainbooms.

Summary
Granny Smith drives the Rainbooms' tour bus to their scheduled appearance at Goldie Delicious' party. Along the way, Granny takes a "shortcut" past a traffic jam, Applejack and Twilight fix a flat tire, Fluttershy redirects a herd of cattle in the road, and Pinkie Pie clears away a fallen tree with her explosion powers. As the bus drives toward a broken bridge, Granny speeds up and goes through what is actually a movie set. The bus finally makes it to the party in time for Goldie to introduce the Rainbooms to the stage.

X Marks the Spot
X Marks the Spot is the thirteenth Better Together short. It was released on the Discovery Family GO! app on March 9, 2018. The animation focuses primarily on Sunset Shimmer, Twilight Sparkle, and Pinkie Pie.

Summary
While playing a game on her smartphone at the beach, Sunset Shimmer discovers a message in a bottle. She shows it to Twilight and Pinkie Pie, and they realize it's a treasure map that looks like the beach they are on. When they follow the map to a treasure chest under the pier, they discover a second message in a bottle that's encoded and a decoder ring. Sunset decodes the message using the decoder ring, and it tells them to follow a trail of seashells to an "X" at "the end of the rainbow".

The "rainbow" in question is revealed to be an ice cream truck, and the "X" turns out to be a Rollin' Sushi Truck. The sushi truck attendant congratulates the girls on solving their promotional treasure hunt, for which they win sushi at a discounted price. The girls are a little disappointed at not finding real treasure, but they enjoy the sushi anyway.

Aww... Baby Turtles
Aww... Baby Turtles is the fourteenth Better Together short. It was released on the Discovery Family GO! app on March 9, 2018. The animation focuses primarily on Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Rarity.

Summary
While sunbathing at the beach, Fluttershy hears the sound of recently hatched and crying baby sea turtles. Fluttershy wants to help them get to the water, and Rainbow Dash uses Tank's help to find them. They and their friends then spend the afternoon clearing a path for the sea turtles to get to the water. However, by the time they finish clearing a path, Tank has already led the baby turtles to the ocean. Having imprinted onto Tank and believing him to be their parent, the sea turtles bid him farewell and swim off into the sea.

Lost and Found
Lost and Found is the fifteenth Better Together short. It was released on the Discovery Family GO! app on March 9, 2018. The animation focuses primarily on Rarity, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash.

Summary
Rarity interrupts Applejack and Rainbow Dash in the middle of their lounging on the beach and tells them she lost one of her one-of-a-kind earrings. Applejack and Rainbow agree to help her find it, and she supplies them with some metal detectors. Rarity, Applejack, and Rainbow spend all afternoon looking for Rarity's missing earring, but all they find is a variety of other lost beach junk.

Rarity apologizes for wasting her friends' day, but they've enjoyed the thrill of discovering things under the sand. When Rainbow Dash sees how distraught Rarity is over her lost earring, she uses her super speed to look through the pile of junk one more time. She finds an earring, but it's not the one Rarity lost.

Rarity thanks her friends for their help and decides to do one more search with the metal detector. Just then, she discovers her earring was never missing—it had gotten tangled in her hair, much to her embarrassment.

Too Hot to Handle
Too Hot to Handle is the sixteenth Better Together short. It was released on the Discovery Family GO! app on March 9, 2018. The animation focuses primarily on Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash.

Summary
As Fluttershy and her friends organize an adoption for all the crabs on the beach, Pinkie Pie decides to get some shaved ice for them. On her way back from the shaved ice truck, Pinkie gives one of her cones away to a little boy who accidentally drops his on the ground, and another gets snatched by a seagull. In order to get across the hot beach sand, Pinkie rolls on a beach ball, jumps across beach umbrellas, and sails on a kite before returning to her friends.

As the crabs get irritable from the heat, Pinkie gives them her last shaved ice cone so they can cool down. With no cool treats left, Rainbow Dash zooms over to the shaved ice truck to buy a second batch.

Unsolved Selfie Mysteries
Unsolved Selfie Mysteries is the seventeenth Better Together short. It was released on the Discovery Family GO! app on March 9, 2018. The animation focuses primarily on Sunset Shimmer, Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie.

Summary
Pinkie Pie, Twilight Sparkle, Sunset Shimmer, and Fluttershy take a selfie at the beach, and Twilight notices a black splotch in the photo's background. Sunset and Pinkie believe it to be a sea monster, but Twilight and Fluttershy are more skeptical. They each decide to do their own investigations into the matter.

Twilight views the ocean from the lifeguard stand, accompanied by Timber Spruce. Just as Sunset and Pinkie approach the ocean, Pinkie realizes she doesn't have her floatie. Suddenly, something rises out of the water and approaches the shore, and even Twilight and Timber begin to believe it is a sea monster. It turns out to be Fluttershy, and she reveals the true identity of the "sea monster": Pinkie's missing floatie.

The Salty Sails
The Salty Sails is the eighteenth Better Together short. It was released on the Discovery Family GO! app on March 12, 2018. The animation focuses primarily on Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity.

Summary
Twilight, Pinkie, and Rarity prepare to go sailing at the beach, with Twilight having memorized a nautical dictionary just for the occasion. Rarity overpacks for the trip, and Twilight is forced to leave her luggage behind due to the extra weight on the boat. When the sea winds carry the boat in the wrong direction, Twilight guides her friends in correcting their course, but the turbulent waters cause her to lose her map. As the boat heads on a collision course with a large rock, Pinkie uses her geode powers to create a wave that brings the boat back to the pier. With the three girls soaked, Rarity produces some towels, and they share a laugh over their exciting adventure.

Blue Crushed
Blue Crushed is the nineteenth Better Together short. It was released on Spectrum On-Demand on March 13, 2018, and the Discovery Family GO! app on March 15, 2018. The animation focuses primarily on Zephyr Breeze, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack.

Summary
Rainbow Dash and Applejack invite Fluttershy to go surfing with them, but she doesn't know how to surf. Her brother Zephyr Breeze suddenly arrives, bragging to Rainbow about being a long-time surfer, but Fluttershy knows for a fact he is lying. When Rainbow and Applejack invite him to show them his surfing skills, he instantly loses much of his confidence but joins them anyway.

Out on the waves, Rainbow and Applejack surf with ease, but Zephyr wipes out almost immediately. Back on the shore, he admits he actually doesn't know how to surf, and he begs Rainbow Dash for forgiveness and surfing lessons. Begrudgingly, Rainbow agrees to give Zephyr some pointers.