Maud Pie (episode)

Maud Pie is the eighteenth episode of the fourth season of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic and the eighty-third episode overall. In this episode, the Mane Six meet Pinkie Pie's older sister, but they have trouble becoming friends with her.

Production and development
On April 1, 2013, Meghan McCarthy wrote as part of an April Fools' Day joke that the nineteenth episode of the fourth season would be titled "Maude [sic] Pie" and be part of a season mini-arc in which Pinkie Pie becomes the Princess of Pie. The plot of the episode was first teased at San Diego Comic-Con 2013.

Rock candy necklaces
Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Fluttershy, and Rarity arrive at Sugarcube Corner some time before sunrise. When Pinkie Pie answers the door and shoves them inside, they find the pink pony's upper-story loft filled with mountains of rock candy. With the arrival of Pinkie's sister Maud approaching, Pinkie asks her friends to taste-test her rock candy recipes.

After some time of taste-testing—and the ponies collapse from stomach and toothaches—Pinkie explains that the candies are part of a tradition between herself and Maud in which they make and trade rock candy necklaces. Pinkie wishes to let her friends in on this tradition, especially with Maud going away soon to get her "rocktorate" in rock science. Pinkie tells them how much she's looking forward to seeing her best friends and closest sister get along. When Rarity informs Pinkie that Maud will be arriving at the train station soon, she bolts out of the bakery.

Quotes

 * Rainbow Dash: Hold on. The secret ingredient is rocks?
 * Pinkie Pie: Yeah. But these are a special kind of rock that Maud discovered.
 * Fluttershy: Oh, what kind of a rock are they?
 * Pinkie Pie: Can't tell ya that, silly! [whispering] It's a secret!


 * Rarity: Pinkie Pie tells me you share my love for fashion!
 * Maud Pie: I'm really into expressing myself through my wardrobe.
 * Rarity: And-and what is the delightful frock you're wearing now saying?
 * Maud Pie: [beat] It doesn't talk. It's a dress.


 * Applejack: [to Maud] Pinkie Pie told us you have a pet, too.
 * Maud Pie: [deadpan] He's in my pocket.
 * Fluttershy: Oh, you have a pocket pet? Like a tiny mouse? Or a baby bird? Or a trained butterfly?
 * Maud Pie: [deadpan] It's a rock. His name is Boulder.


 * Rainbow Dash: We spent all day diggin' in the dirt, and he was in her pocket the whole time?!
 * Fluttershy: On the bright side, Boulder seems really sweet.
 * Rainbow Dash: HE'S A ROCK!!!


 * Rainbow Dash: [about Maud] That pony is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an igneous.
 * Rarity: Don't you mean "inside an enigma"?
 * Rainbow Dash: No. I mean "igneous". It's a kind of rock. Ask me how I know that.


 * Maud Pie: I don't know if you've noticed, but I don't show my enthusiasm for things quite in the same way my sister does.