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Oh, and I'm pretty sure I forgot to mention last time: There are two subtitle tracks for each episode. The one labeled English is for the English SDH captions, which include sound effects and similar; and the one labeled Latin is for the English non-SDH captions, which only include dialog. The weird labeling is for technical reasons.

Let's thank Aer once again for taking the time to upload these episodes for us with the proper subtitles!

What's the chef cookin' tonight?

• "Castle Mane-ia" continues the "Chest of Harmony" arc set up by the season premiere, and also establishes what we might call the post-princessification successor to Twilight Sparkle's "epistles" to Princess Celestia. This episode is also a perhaps rare example of a double-layered pun in an episode title.
• "Daring Don't" introduces a new recurring character: the author of the fiction-within-fiction adventure novel series Daring Do. Those books' last prominent appearance in FiM was back in season 2, if you can remember that.
• "Flight to the Finish" is an episode advancing the "Equestria Games" arc, which started at the tail end of season 3. This episode focuses on the Cutie Mark Crusader's efforts to become Ponyville's flag bearers for the Equestria Games, and in particular this episode focuses on Scootaloo's disability. It's also got a musical number!
• "Power Ponies" is... I dunno, does it count as isekai? It's a superhero parody in any case, and it's a Spike episode. I learned the term "humdrum" from this episode, fun fact.
• "Bats!" is not named after the endangered Northeast Caucasian language spoken in Tushetia, Georgia, but rather is named after the most successful type of mammal. This is because this is an episode centered on vampire fruit bats, and a certain vampire pony. This episode's got a fun musical number, too.
• "Rarity Takes Manehattan" is the first of the "key" episodes of the "Chest of Harmony" arc. This episode sees Rarity enter a fashion contest, and introduces a new recurring character called Coco Pommel, whose name was later changed to Miss Pommel due to a threat of legal action from the estate of Coco Chanel.

...Oh, when I say that Coco Pommel is a "recurring character", I mean that she's got like two prominent appearances after this episode, one of which is like a single scene that lasts for less than a minute. And otherwise she's got a few cameos and namedrops here and there. So yeah, she's really just got one more episode after this in which she plays a major role.

But naturally, despite not actually having many appearances in the show, I feel like Coco Pommel became a bit of a fan favorite among many bronies. Was this because of her personality? Was it because her design looks vaguely like a tareme blue-haired anime schoolgirl? Who knows!

Also, "Rarity Takes Manehattan" has a musical number. Should I specify that for every episode with one? Maybe, but there's a lot!

Content warnings

• A character is trapped inside an abandoned building ("Castle Mane-ia")
• A character believes her pet has died ("Castle Mane-ia")
• Characters are covered in bees ("Castle Mane-ia")
• Child in peril ("Castle Mane-ia", "Power Ponies")
• Characters named in reference to horrible people ("Daring Don't", "Rarity Takes Manehattan")
• Colonial pilfering; Latin and Indigenous-coded characters portrayed as villains ("Daring Don't")
• Strangers entering somepony's house without her knowledge or consent ("Daring Don't")
• Ableism ("Flight to the Finish")
• Childhood bullying ("Flight to the Finish")
• Characters are frozen ("Power Ponies")
• A large bug is harmed ("Power Ponies")
• Speciesism or mistreatment of animals ("Bats!")
• A character is hypnotized ("Bats!")
• Depiction of poor working conditions and harassment by an employer ("Rarity Takes Manehattan")
• Classism ("Rarity Takes Manehattan")

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