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And so, we finally reach season 3, the only "single-cour" or "half-length" season of MLP:FiM (see "65 episode rule"). This incidentally also means that it's now T-14 days until we watch Equestria Girls (2013), and I am more hyped for that than I perhaps should be.

—But in any case!

What's the chef cookin' tonight?

• "The Crystal Empire" introduces us to a new and somewhat confusingly-named recurring location, which is Totally Not Just a Toy Tie-in. We also meet a new bad guy, who we will see again... But not for a pretty darn long while!
• "Too Many Pinkie Pies" is a very fun (fun! fun! fun!) episode in which Pinkie Pie becomes the very thing she sought to destroy in the season 1 episode "Swarm of the Century", and also maybe dies.
• "One Bad Apple" reminds you that Bronx is just one letter off from Brony, as Apple Bloom's cousin from Manehattan (who will be seen later, but is nonetheless underutilized) comes to visit. However, things do not go as planned, and things end with yet another reason to call the Cutie Mark Crusaders the Ojamajos of Equestria.
• "Magic Duel" sees the Great and Powerful Trixie — Everypony's Favorite Itinerant Transgender Mare — return to Ponyville more greater and powerfuller than ever before.
• "Sleepless in Ponyville" is an episode about ghost stories, and a key episode in Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo's relationship.

Content warnings

• slavery ("The Crystal Empire", "Magic Duel")
• PTSD ("The Crystal Empire")
• claustrophobia or isolation from the outside world ("The Crystal Empire", "Magic Duel")
• a character falls down stairs ("The Crystal Empire")
• implied murder ("The Crystal Empire", "Too Many Pinkie Pies")
• identity theft ("Too Many Pinkie Pies")
• bullying of a child ("One Bad Apple")
• child endangerment ("One Bad Apple")
• African witch doctor zebra ("Magic Duel")
• mild body horror ("Magic Duel", "Sleepless in Ponyville")
• mistreatment of animals ("Magic Duel")
• somewhat fascistic looking iconography ("Magic Duel")
• ageism and beauty standards? ("Sleepless in Ponyville")

Is there anything I should change about or add to this list? Please tell me!

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