Talk:Hearth's Warming Eve/@comment-5490610-20111128083429/@comment-4126310-20111130021254

I don't have the quote ready, but I seem to recall Lauren Faust explicitly saying that all of season 1 was aired in production order. Showing winter before autumn was a creative decision on her part so the whole "ponies make the trees shake off their leaves" premise wouldn't sound too weird to the audience, and The Hub went along with it.