- For the titular event, see Sisterhooves Social (event).
- For the similarly titled season five episode, see Brotherhooves Social.
Sisterhooves Social | |
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Season №: | 2 |
Season episode №: | 5 |
Overall episode №: | 31 |
Original airdate: | November 5, 2011 |
Written by: | Cindy Morrow |
Storyboard: | Sherann Johnson & Corey Toomey[1] |
Featured characters: | Sweetie Belle |
See also | |
credits • transcript • gallery • allusions animation errors • statistics • speculation | |
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Sisterhooves Social is the fifth episode of the second season of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic and the thirty-first episode overall. In this episode, Sweetie Belle wants to participate in the Sisterhooves Social just as she and Rarity face a crisis in their relationship. The titular term "sisterhooves" is a portmanteau of "sisterhood" and "hooves".
Development[]
Episode writer Cindy Morrow stated that the working title of Sisterhooves Social was Sissy Fit.[2]
Summary[]
Sweetie Belle tries to help[]
In her room at the Carousel Boutique, Rarity awakens to the smell of smoke and rushes downstairs to find Sweetie Belle attempting to make her breakfast in bed. Shocked to see her parents there as well, Rarity learns that they are dropping Sweetie Belle off to stay with her for a week while they go on vacation. Once they depart, Rarity begins to clear away the burnt food and make a "proper" breakfast. Sweetie Belle offers to help, and after some deflection, Rarity tasks her with placing a sprig of parsley on some fried eggs. Under the intense scrutiny of her sister, however, Sweetie Belle accidentally tips over the dining table.
After cleaning the kitchen, Rarity asks Sweetie Belle to bring the dirty towels to the laundry while she attends to work. Sweetie Belle decides to surprise her sister by washing the laundry as well, only for Rarity to be horrified when her wool designer sweater shrinks while drying in the sun. Later on, Sweetie Belle entertains herself by drawing a picture with paper and crayons, to which she adheres sapphires laying in a chest nearby. She presents the picture to Rarity, who panics upon seeing the rare sapphires she needed for an important client ruined.
A short time later, Rarity returns from gathering more sapphires to find that Sweetie Belle has cleaned her room. Distraught, Rarity explains that she had just finished laying out materials for a new fashion line before Sweetie put them away. Sweetie Belle protests that she had just been scolded for making a mess, to which Rarity responds by asserting that it's her right to determine which messes are allowed.
Sisters parting ways[]
Frustrated with her sister, Sweetie Belle goes for a walk outside and comes across Apple Bloom, who suggests that she and Rarity enter in the annual Sisterhooves Social at Sweet Apple Acres. Sweetie is eager to participate but finds Rarity wholly uninterested in the idea, and after a series of heated back-and-forths, the two angrily agree that they don't need each other.
Sweetie Belle heads over to Sweet Apple Acres, where she spends the day observing Applejack and Apple Bloom as they have fun performing chores together. Meanwhile, Rarity enters her room at the Carousel Boutique and produces a fashion line inspired by the way Sweetie organized her fabrics. She brings the new clothes to the laundry room and finds her shrunken sweater, which she realizes is now a perfect fit for Opalescence. Still upset with her sister, Rarity looks to recover the sapphires from Sweetie's drawing only to notice that the gems form a heart around an image of the two sisters. Suddenly realizing her earlier misjudgment, Rarity laments her mistake before vowing to recover her relationship with Sweetie Belle:
- "I must get her back! I must! As Celestia is my witness, I shall never be sisterless again!"
- — Rarity
That evening, Rarity finds Sweetie Belle at Sweet Apple Acres and tries to make amends, but Sweetie rejects her effort and declares that Applejack is her new big sister before walking off with Apple Bloom. Applejack tells a frustrated Rarity that sisterhood is a give-and-take and suggests that she focus more on giving in to the relationship. Inspired by the remark, Rarity comes up with an idea.
The Sisterhooves Social[]
On the day of the Sisterhooves Social, Applejack, Apple Bloom, and Sweetie Belle arrive at Sweet Apple Acres and briefly peruse some of the contests before Granny Smith announces that an obstacle course will begin shortly. Sweetie Belle laments not having a sister to participate with in the event, whereupon the Apple sisters reveal that they will let her run the course with Applejack. When the event starts, Sweetie Belle rushes forward only to look behind and see her partner recovering from a mudhole just past the starting line. The pair join back up and deftly coordinate through the various obstacles to gain the lead before finishing in a close second.
Sweetie Belle brushes off the loss and excitedly praises her mud-covered racing partner, only to find out it's actually Rarity when her cowboy hat falls off to reveal a white horn underneath. Applejack approaches from the starting line and explains that she and Rarity switched places at the first mudhole, and that Sweetie had therefore run most of the race with her. Realizing the effort Rarity made to join her in the event, Sweetie embraces her sister, and the two make amends.
At the Carousel Boutique, Rarity and Sweetie Belle dictate a friendship report to Spike about how sisterhood is a wonderful thing, but that it takes teamwork, compromise, and acceptance of each other's differences. They both conclude that it's also about having fun, though when they start to argue about how dirty they ought to get in the process, Spike intervenes and suggests a compromise, to which the sisters happily agree.
Quotes[]
- For more quotes, see the episode's transcript.
- Rarity: Oh... Are those sweet... carrot... pancakes I smell? Mmm, how divine, num num num num. The aroma... spiced warm apple cider. [sniff] Ahh, and the smell of... smoke... smoke? Smoke?! SMOO— AAH!
- Rarity: Let me guess. Applesauce?
- Sweetie Belle: Nope. Toast!
- Rarity: Sweetie Belle, what am I going to do with you?
- Sweetie Belle: Oh, we could paint together, we could ride bikes, play chess, sing a song, catch frogs, have a pillow fight...
- Rarity: That's not what I meant!
- Sweetie Belle: Oh.
- Rarity: My inspiration room! What did you do? What did you do?!
- Sweetie Belle: When I saw the big mess in your room, I thought I'd clean it up for you.
- Rarity: This wasn't a mess! It was organized chaos!
- Apple Bloom: What's 'uncouth'?
- Applejack: It means 'uncivil'. You know, bad mannered?
- Apple Bloom: [belches]
- Applejack: Exactly!
- Applejack: Oh Rarity, once again you're thinkin' about yourself. Bein' sisters is a give and take. You've been doin' a whole lotta takin', but you haven't been doin' a whole lotta givin'.
- Rarity: But of course I give. I give lessons. Reasonable demands.
- Applejack: But ya never give in. Bein' sisters is like... apple pie. You can have amazin' apples, and you can have a wonderfully crispy crust, but only together you can have a perfect apple pie.
- Rarity: But apart, all we are is just a pile of mush and some crumbly dry mess...
- Granny Smith: Now, the event you've all been waiting fer! The Sister Soci— The Socialhooves— Oh, dabnabbit, you know, the big race!
- Rarity: Us. I did it for us. You see? We are apple pie!
- Sweetie Belle: Huh?
- Rarity: I'll explain later.
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ Raven Molisee's DeviantArt journal (2012-02-23). Retrieved on 2012 February 23.
- ↑ Cindy Morrow on Twitter. (2013-03-14). Retrieved on 2013 March 14.
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