37:32 Cadance: "You're not so bad yourself."
It looks like they're already planning Flurry Heart's gift for next year: A new sibling!

That would be very epic! A powerful unicorn brother and a powerful alicorn sister

@@PuppitLoover Or more, if they have twins this time


Twilinanas :)  I love that Twilights family is so used to her freaking out that they gave it an official term.

And I love hoe Shining was able to tell she was freaking out so easily. He knows his little sis so well.

She’s going Twilinanas while Twilighting!


I'm glad Discord was apart of this episode and back to being his normal, chaotic "Jerk with a heart of gold"-self.<br>This is they way I enjoy Discord.

I'm glad Discord was apart of this episode and back to being his normal, chaotic "Jerk with a heart of gold"-self.
This is they way I enjoy Discord.

He wasn't even much of a jerk this special. He was just enjoyable.


This episode had so many adorable moments for the Mane 6.


When the sentence "Is that good angle for optimal smashing?" is in My Little Pony.


Among my favorite moments in this holiday special, it’s the post office scene with Rarity and Derpy. I like their exchanges in dialogue, it’s amusing to me. Plus, it was great that Derpy had a speaking role again. Tabitha must had a ball while recording her lines for that scene.

I'm a tad jealous that Rarity got a boop from Derpy.


28:40 "Dude, Flim and Flam are Hasbro."
Well, a comically exaggerated version of them, which is why I was a bit surprised that they allowed the writers to slip this into the special.


The character interactions made this special amazing. All of the characters they paired up played off each other perfectly. Friendship being the best gift ever was the most cheesy and predictable thing ever, but who really cares?


What to say about this?  The ending always hits me the same way it did you, and the message is a good one that more people should learn.  The whole story was awesomely written, and the references, both to pop culture and folklore are amazing.  Just to name a few:
The pony you kept thinking was Cheese was a reference to Will Ferrel's character in the movie Elf, along with the Charlie Brown reference, there was also a reference to Home Alone 2.
Finally, the reindeer, Aurora, Bori and Alis, other than the obvious reference in their names, are a reference to the old Pagan ideology of the Mother (Bori), the Maiden (Alis) and the Crone (Aurora), who symbolize Life, Death and Rebirth, or the Past, Present and Future.


Even if this special isn't included as a normal episode, it's very solid and entertaining and heartwarming in the best way that it could beat out many other epiosdes! They nailed it with this one, though one stand out scene to me is how rarity generously gave away that gift and even gave an invite opportunity! It's really kind and generous of her!

One of those rare moments where her element TRULY SHINES


Commercialism is the greatest gift of all!

Pinkie's gift being the exact items to counter Twilight's gift is "reindeer-ex-machina" (Or Deus-ex-reindeer, more accurately), but it is funny to think about Pinkie's reaction to the gift initially with her "I don't get it", and her joy at figuring it out, it was kind of a gift to Pinkie as well as Twilight.


This is my favorite of the MLP Christmas episodes even beating out a heartwarming tale.<br>It was also just before this episode aired that I have heard that season nine was going to be the last, so the line in the song “we’ve all been friends forever, and look how far we’ve come...” is an extra little gut punch that always brings the tears.

This is my favorite of the MLP Christmas episodes even beating out a heartwarming tale.
It was also just before this episode aired that I have heard that season nine was going to be the last, so the line in the song “we’ve all been friends forever, and look how far we’ve come...” is an extra little gut punch that always brings the tears.


This episode puts discord more back in character compared to the principals episode of s8

I dont care what others say who hate him

@@oliwermattsson1478 Those who hate Discord have some chaos in their soup.

@@oliwermattsson1478 Me too, he's the one who got me interested in this girlish from the first look, but actually better than most "adult" series show.


Awww yeah I agree with you all and I loved this holiday special it touched my heart and all of spike and twilight friends family and loved ones all spending time with each other is so sweet and beautiful and also that song that spike did for rarity that was very sweet of him to that for rarity.❤😊


Fun fact: Rainbow dash became a reindeer years ago in the MLP comics. Become first Reindeer to be in the MLP series.


10:11 Pinkie kissing her sisters is adorable.
14:52 That joke will never get old.
24:48 - 24:58 Big brother knows best.
33:37 Applejack: “Yay!”
Me: That's Fluttershy’s line.
42:00 This is one of the many MLP songs that makes me cry.


Fun fact: this Christmas special originally aired on Halloween, complete with a spooky logo and Halloween-themed ads during the breaks. You may be one of the first reactors to watch it in December.

They wanted people to see this before the first shopping season began, so that they could take the message of the special into consideration before getting gifts. Pretty nice of Hasbro, as a toy company, to approve of a message so anti-materialistic just before the holiday season.

Really?  I thought it was so they could get the special out on DVD in time for holiday shopping.


Damn, I had forgotten just how great this special is! Two excellent songs, lots of humor and pop culture references, and an incredibly adorable Rainbow Dash outfit to top it all off.

What more could you ask for?


Poor Marble though, she deserves some pony special after learning of Big Mac and Sugar Belle were a thing.

But aren't they related? Then that would be weird

@@mosscap It wasn’t directly confirmed in the show, but it is somewhat apparent considering that the writers made Big Mac and Sugar Belle an item for the remainder of the show.


Here’s how I rank the Hearth’s Warming themed stories:

1. A Hearth’s Warming Tail
2. The Best Gift Ever
3. The Hearth’s Warming Club
4. Hearth’s Warming Eve
5. Hearthbreakers

I like all of them, but there can only be one #1.

SpacialRend7 Hearth’s Warming Club didn’t do it for me (I rank that #5). Felt boring even if it did explore the Student Six’s ways of celebrating their family traditions.

A Hearth’s Warming Tail is the best as #1.

For me it's:
5. Hearthbreakers
4. The Hearths Warming Club
3. Hearths Warming Eve
2. The Best Gift Ever
1. A Hearths Warming Tale

Slight difference I know but still the God tier songs are what keep Hearths Warming tale at the top. Also the only reason why The Hearths Warming Club is so low is because of the "keep kids at school over the break" threat. I know it was revoked at the end but it still bugs me

1.Best gift ever
2.Hearths warming tail
3 Hearths warming club
4.Hearths warming eve
5.Hearthsbreakers


20:50 That's a meme to end all memes, son.
38:09 Fluttershy channels her inner anime.


Definitely my favorite special. If you want to have some more christmas themed pony stuff on the side, a couple years ago, they released a christmas music album sung by the ponies and even Spike has a song. They're all on youtube, definitely worth checking out.


17:20 "Her voice sounds a little bit different."
Methinks Derpy has been dealing with the holiday season stress via horse tranquilizers.


37:32  I cannot believe they put this into a kids show.  Like seriously man, that look, that line, and that delivery are way too much for MY LITTLE PONY!  I thought this was a kids show!


The pony you keep mistaking for Cheese Sandwich is actually supposed to be Buddy the Elf, from the movie Elf.


Episodes like this are what make me grateful that I gave this show a chance. Will be my all time favorite show forever. I fuckin love these characters and tear up ever time. Also best time to watch this one since its Christmas after all


So many amazing faces and memorable lines from this episode.


Back here once again on Christmas Eve 2023, and both the special itself and your reaction to it are still just as good as ever! Happy Hearth’s Warming, PonyBro!


I loved this special.
It was fun and wholesome.
Just how I like MlP.


This is a great special. All of the main six have a really good plot. The way that the plots tie together is great. The reindeer are interesting.


This is also one of my favorite My Little Pony episodes/specials/whatever. I'm a new subscriber and also new to My Little Pony in general. In fact, I started watching by the end of February 2020. It's funny you uploaded this on Dec 12 since that was my birthday. I really love your reactions and we kinda react the same way so I enjoy watching.


This is my rankings if the songs in Season 8 and Best Gift Ever:
1. Your Heart Is In Two Places
2. We’re Friendship Bound
3. Friendship Always Wins
4. One More Day
5. A Kirin’s Tale
6. The True Gift of Gifting
7. Friendship U
8. School Of Friendship
9. Just Can’t Be A Dragon Here


"You're gonna go there and back in a day?"<br>Well, that's what she did the first time.

"You're gonna go there and back in a day?"
Well, that's what she did the first time.


I completely agree - this special <b>was</b> amazing!

I completely agree - this special *was* amazing!


25:24 AT THIS TIME OF YEAR
AT THIS TIME OF DAY
IN THIS PART OF THE COUNTRY
LOCALISED ENTIRELY WITHIN YOUR KITCHEN


A great reaction! You really got my emotion.


Honestly Twilight and her friends did themselves in a rocky situation haha but this episode was awesome.


The two Ninjas from Gi'joes the outfits discord and Rainbow dash wore. Dash was Storm Shadow and Discord was Snake eyes.


This video is almost 4 years old, happy Hearth's Warming :)


I swear to God, Derpy was high this whole episode. I mean the poor girl works as a mail mare... and its Hearths Warming! She's probably so stressed. I bet the entire Ponyville mail crew have a stash and a 3ft bong in the back for their "break time"


This was my first time watching this, too. I was tearing up alongside you ^^


20:52 Twilight: "PUDDING!"
PonyBro: "Wtf was that?!"
The most blatantly forced meme ever.


Happy Hearth's Warming! :)
03:23 Yeah, Marble seemed to be genuinely hurt :/  She's not as emotionally strong as Ms. Cheerilee :q
03:42 That's the pigeon lady from "Home Alone 2" :)
03:45 "Peanuts" reference ;)
03:47 Nope, it was Will Ferrell from "Elf" :D
05:10 Teleporting epilepsy :D
05:55 Pretty much Secret Santa :q
06:17 No, AJ, you don't understand. All that exchange of gifts is there so that people could notice how ridiculous the money-based economy is, and what's wrong with socialism ;)  If you buy something for me, and I buy something for you, then overall, none of us gained or lost, which means that we don't actually needed money for this exchange, and that none of us got any richer from that exchange. But involve more people and now you have to buy everyone a gift, which requires a lot more money. Overall, each one of us won't end up any richer too after that exchange, and all those expenses will eventually come around to you again, but now you need much more money to perform that. That's what socialism does: it merely shifts resources around from one person to another, so overall none gets any richer form that, but the expenses grow more and more, the more people are involved in this shifting ;)
07:00 Also this randomization scheme is flawed, because it doesn't stop any pony from picking themselves accidentally. Inb4 you say "But in that case  just drop the coupon back into the hat and pick another one": yeah, that would solve the randomization problem, but it would introduce another one: because now everyone will know who's on the coupon that has been put back into the hat ;q  So even after shuffling the coupons again, one could still pretty much estimate who's paired with whom. The only way to solve both problems is to put all the coupons back into the hat in case some pony picked themselves, and start the entire procedure all over. But that would introduce a lot of unnecessary retries :P  There's a better shuffling algorithm, based on derangements ;)
07:34 Pop quiz:  How many possible configurations are there for who is buying a present for whom? :>  How many possible cycles are there for each particular cycle length? (A 3-cycle is, for example, when Spike is buying a present for AJ, then AJ is buying a present for Rarity, and Rarity is buying a present for Spike.)  Those are the questions I've been asking to myself when first watching this episode ;) I simply had to stop watching it and do some math first :)  Then I started a process of elimination every time I learned some new information from the episode, trying to figure out who's paired with whom before they reveal it ;)  It was kinda fun detective work :)
08:37 Spike, you and your big mouth again.... :q  You're the master of inception, and you don't even need the dream state for that :P
10:46 Yeah, sounds like an oxymoron :q  Hey, maybe just give her something from your southern collection from that "Simple Ways" episode? :J
11:19 I'm pretty sure Fluttershy's just messing with her, after she figured out that Rainbow Dash picked her ;)
14:41 Fluttershy.... always first to drink the Kool Aid :q
15:08 More than Angel Bunny? :q
16:26 Yeah, I do that too. I have several perfectly organized piles in my room :J
17:20 Yeah... a little bit more retarded than usual :q
18:13 BOOP :)  As for a pony with walled eyes, she can aim her hoof at things quite precisely :g
OK, next part in another comment...

Happy Hearth's Warming! :)
03:23 Yeah, Marble seemed to be genuinely hurt :/  She's not as emotionally strong as Ms. Cheerilee :q
03:42 That's the pigeon lady from "Home Alone 2" :)
03:45 "Peanuts" reference ;)
03:47 Nope, it was Will Ferrell from "Elf" :D
05:10 Teleporting epilepsy :D
05:55 Pretty much Secret Santa :q
06:17 No, AJ, you don't understand. All that exchange of gifts is there so that people could notice how ridiculous the money-based economy is, and what's wrong with socialism ;)  If you buy something for me, and I buy something for you, then overall, none of us gained or lost, which means that we don't actually needed money for this exchange, and that none of us got any richer from that exchange. But involve more people and now you have to buy everyone a gift, which requires a lot more money. Overall, each one of us won't end up any richer too after that exchange, and all those expenses will eventually come around to you again, but now you need much more money to perform that. That's what socialism does: it merely shifts resources around from one person to another, so overall none gets any richer form that, but the expenses grow more and more, the more people are involved in this shifting ;)
07:00 Also this randomization scheme is flawed, because it doesn't stop any pony from picking themselves accidentally. Inb4 you say "But in that case  just drop the coupon back into the hat and pick another one": yeah, that would solve the randomization problem, but it would introduce another one: because now everyone will know who's on the coupon that has been put back into the hat ;q  So even after shuffling the coupons again, one could still pretty much estimate who's paired with whom. The only way to solve both problems is to put _all_ the coupons back into the hat in case some pony picked themselves, and start the entire procedure all over. But that would introduce a lot of unnecessary retries :P  There's a better shuffling algorithm, based on *derangements* ;)
07:34 Pop quiz:  How many possible configurations are there for who is buying a present for whom? :>  How many possible _cycles_ are there for each particular cycle length? (A 3-cycle is, for example, when Spike is buying a present for AJ, then AJ is buying a present for Rarity, and Rarity is buying a present for Spike.)  Those are the questions I've been asking to myself when first watching this episode ;) I simply _had to_ stop watching it and do some math first :)  Then I started a process of elimination every time I learned some new information from the episode, trying to figure out who's paired with whom before they reveal it ;)  It was kinda fun detective work :)
08:37 Spike, you and your big mouth again.... :q  You're the master of inception, and you don't even need the dream state for that :P
10:46 Yeah, sounds like an oxymoron :q  Hey, maybe just give her something from your southern collection from that "Simple Ways" episode? :J
11:19 I'm pretty sure Fluttershy's just messing with her, after she figured out that Rainbow Dash picked her ;)
14:41 Fluttershy.... always first to drink the Kool Aid :q
15:08 More than Angel Bunny? :q
16:26 Yeah, I do that too. I have several perfectly organized piles in my room :J
17:20 Yeah... a little bit more retarded than usual :q
18:13 BOOP :)  As for a pony with walled eyes, she can aim her hoof at things quite precisely :g
OK, next part in another comment...

20:14 Oh, come on, Rainbow Dash, you're so easy to troll :D
20:52 The sign that all that princessing is slowly turning Twiggie's brain into pudding? :J
21:18 I'm pretty sure I saw the recipe in one of the earlier episodes...
22:17 Unfortunately, chargeback does not apply to trades that involved money :q  Mostly because the money you traded it for might have been already spent on something else and all those trades would be hard to trace back and reverse. When you spend your money, you're on your own :q
23:36 Mr. and Mrs. Nut, I'm afraid your son Pistacchio is gay :J
24:24 "untold colonary devastation" :)  Only in MLP ;)
27:18 As if it were in any way surprising to you, Mr. Psychic ;>
28:42 I would say they're better than Hasbro ;J  Flim & Flam would never be that stupid to put down a golden-eggs-laying chicken that the MLP franchise was :P  Or to mess with the formula that worked so well.
30:12 It's because of the glue vapours :J
33:27 Look, it's those ponies from "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" movie again :)
34:06 And she even replaced herself with a bag of flour so that Cadence didn't notice the change in weight :D  Because that's apparently enough to trick her ;J

34:48 I wonder if that broken recipe for Counsellor Puddinghead's pudding could be the actual recipe for Smooze? :J
39:36 At first glance I thought that those are Pinkie's bones that didn't dissolve :q
43:15 No shit! How did you figure that out?! :o
43:35 Starlight's voodoo dolls of the Mane Six :)  (BTW "Coraline" anypony? ;> )
44:32 Why so sad, Flim & Flam? You ended up with hundreds of best Hearth's Warming gifts (according to your own definition) :D


When discord, Rainbow dash and Twilight say “Zilla” I start thinking about Godzilla


How were you able to go through the series so fast?


27:17 That's something you and Alice have in common. Both of you can accurately predict what a pony is going to say right before they say it. ;)

@@Narrator007 I'd say I ship it, but I'm pretty sure the only pony we're allowed to ship Ponybro with is Flutters.

But we can't take butterball from ponybro


This special was the best gift ever(for the holidays)


Hands down one of the shows greatest episode plus I love the kiss rarity gave spike sparity for life 😁😁😁😁


Fluttershy: I am so mad i could just...
(Kick the rock very softly and make a guilty face)
(me): awww, she is so cute...!!!

(Nappa): Vegeta, what is her cuteness level?!!
(Vegeta): It's Over 9000!!!!!


Just in time for the holidays!

Not to mention the various Christmas movie references. Elf is one of them!

Right, also Home Alone 2 and A Charlie Brown Christmas.

SpacialRend7 Gremlins and A Christmas Story too

And that pony holding that sculpture of Rarity was from the polar express.


what’s cool about this is the first time I watched best gift ever was when one of my friends told me about it and now it’s one of my favorites!


'they're fucking tonight'  that cracked me up :)


I love the Snake Eyes and Storm Shafoe references from GI Joe.


Candle Discord is a reference to The Beauty and the Beast animated movie by Disney

Ninja Discord and Rainbow Dash are a reference to G.I Joe, i think

If you took the name of the 3 Reindeer and fuse them, They made the word Aurora Borealis, the name of this famous and rare natural phenomenon who's happening in the North Pole


Now it's time to celebrate, heart's warming eve is here once again~


Derpys cockeyed look reminds  me of British comedian, Marty Feldman, who also had cockeyed look


Once we did secret Santa at school just me and some friends but the funny thing me and my sister got each other lol. The year before that we did it as a class and me and my friend got each other what a coincidence.


I like how Hasbro made mlp and he said her that Hasbro you told them to hear themselves 21:45


24:37 "Flurry Heart is a star?"
But not the star.  Obviously, that would be Derpy.  :)

24:37 "Flurry Heart is a star?"
But not _the_ star.  Obviously, that would be Derpy.  :)


What is with the MarbleMac ship? They are distant relatives, though I suppose in the victorian era people had arranged marriages with 1st cousins? That wasn't frowned upon somehow despite their other hangups...


The only teeny tiny thing I don’t like about this special is that they made pairs. It would have been funner to me if everypony had someone different. But it’s minor and barely affected my opinion at all.


1:53 "Who's narrating?"
It wasn't me, I swear!


It's funny, for me, the sweetest scene of the secondary characters was Flim and Flam. Maybe they are bad guys, maybe they are trying to deceive everyone they see, maybe they are greedy capitalists, but they do it together, they are brothers. And all these costumes and the atmosphere of the train in the snow finished the scene


Less than a week until the holidays here!


Question: How were you pepper sprayed and why?

It happened halfway through his season 8 finale reaction, during the short break he took between the two episodes. He explains the exact circumstances in the finale reaction video.

CinCoutMagus Oh I gotcha. Thanks for the info


Watch his season 8 finale. He explains, kinda...


how is that possible that i never seen it


20:53 What is it you ask? It's obvious meme baiting, that's what it is! 😉


It's not a movie, it's a special. A movie is around a hour long and this special is only 22 minutes long. So it ain't a movie


Marble a year after 3:23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLQl3WQQoQ0