The Big Mac Question is the twenty-third[1][2] episode of season nine of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic and the show's two hundred and nineteenth episode overall.[3] The title is a reference to the saying "the big question", which is often used as a euphemism for a marriage proposal.
This episode was originally scheduled to air on September 21, 2019 on Polish channel MiniMini+, but was replaced with a rerun of an earlier episode. However, it was still released the following day on the nc+ GO on-demand service.
The episode begins with Spike, Discord, Mrs. Cake, and the Cutie Mark Crusaders all explaining to an off-screen character about a crisis that recently occurred in Ponyville. Beginning from Spike's point of view, the story flashes back to some time prior; on a hill overlooking Sweet Apple Acres, Big McIntosh shows Spike and Discord an engagement ring that he plans to give to Sugar Belle when he asks her to marry him.
As part of his elaborate marriage proposal, Big Mac is putting together a romantic hilltop meal on a picnic table similar to the shelf he made for Sugar Belle in Hard to Say Anything and leaving apples with messages tied to them around Ponyville inviting Sugar Belle to the hilltop. While Big Mac finishes building the table, Spike volunteers to get the picnic food while Discord leaves the apples around town.
Outside Sugarcube Corner, Spike tells Discord to carefully leave apples around town for Sugar Belle to find while he gets food from Mrs. Cake. All of a sudden, Sugar Belle and the Cutie Mark Crusaders come out of the bakery and run past them. Inside, Spike finds Mrs. Cake frantically baking twenty-one desserts and placing a piece of paper in each one for a mysterious reason. When Spike offers to help Mrs. Cake complete her task faster with his message-delivering fire breath, he accidentally sets all the desserts on fire.
Discord tries leaving an apple with a message attached for Sugar Belle to find, but Sugar Belle does not notice. In an attempt to be more direct, Discord brings all the apples to life and instructs them to go to their designated locations and verbally deliver their messages to Sugar Belle. As a result, all of Ponyville quickly devolves into chaos as the living apples terrorize the ponies in their mission to deliver their messages.
Spike confronts Discord over the trouble he has caused, and when Sugar Belle wanders into town during the chaos, Discord transports her to Sweet Apple Acres. Upon realizing Big Mac is not there, he blindfolds Sugar Belle and brings her back to Sugarcube Corner, where Spike, Big Mac, and Mrs. Cake have gathered. Before Big Mac can chew out Discord for nearly ruining his proposal plans, the Crusaders and Granny Smith suddenly appear being followed by a giant monster.
The story then shifts to the Cutie Mark Crusaders' point of view; while Spike and Discord help Big Mac with his proposal plans, the Crusaders and Mrs. Cake help Sugar Belle, who also has plans to ask Big Mac to marry her. As part of her proposal, Sugar Belle is making twenty-one desserts and putting part of a proposal message in each one, and she instructs the Crusaders to deliver an extra dessert to Big Mac with an invitation to Sugarcube Corner inside.
When Sugar Belle and the Crusaders notice Spike and Discord outside the bakery, they quickly run past them before they realize what is going on. The Crusaders head to Sweet Apple Acres to find Big Mac, but he inadvertently eludes them while building the picnic table. When Big Mac finishes building the table, he waits for Sugar Belle to arrive. When she takes too long to appear, Big Mac heads into town to look for her.
With the episode's two storylines now together, the giant apple delivers Big Mac's "will you marry me?" message in front of Sugar Belle, causing his surprise to be ruined. As Mrs. Cake chews out Spike for ruining Sugar Belle's proposal plans and nearly everyone casts blame on Discord, Big Mac and Sugar Belle go off on their own.
Big Mac and Sugar Belle walk together to the apple and pear trees that were planted by Big Mac's parents. Big Mac apologizes to Sugar Belle for everything that happened that day, comparing the day's disaster to what happened in Hard to Say Anything and The Break Up Break Down.
However, Sugar Belle recalls Bright Mac and Pear Butter's story and the hardships they faced trying to be together, and she is certain that just as Big Mac's parents survived everything they went through together, so too will she and Big Mac. With that, both Big Mac and Sugar Belle propose to each other, and they both answer yes, much to the delight of the friends that tried to help them throughout the day.
The story shifts back to present day, and it is revealed the off-screen character that Spike, Discord, Mrs. Cake, and the Cutie Mark Crusaders were speaking to is Applejack, who is moved to tears after hearing their story. With their explanations over, the ponies gather for Big Mac and Sugar Belle's wedding, with all their friends and family in attendance and Mayor Mare as the officiant. The mayor declares them husband and wife, and Discord celebrates the occasion with more of his living apples.
The Last Roundup is the fourteenth episode of the second season of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic and the fortieth episode overall. In this episode, when Applejack refuses to return to Ponyville following a rodeo competition in Canterlot, her friends determine to find out what's going on.
On November 8, 2015, episode writer Amy Keating Rogers posted a scene from the first draft of the script on Twitter that was cut from the final episode. The scene involves Applejack reluctantly accepting a saddle from Rarity before she leaves for the Canterlot Rodeo.[4]
Shortly after airing, some viewers complained that Derpy's portrayal was offensive to mentally disabled people and contradicted the show's lessons about friendship. Amy Keating Rogers responded with a statement which was republished on Equestria Daily.[5] According to Rogers, Derpy's scene was originally longer and included a flashback that showed how town hall was damaged; when Derpy was removing lightning from thunderclouds, she "bucked bolts" too close to the building. Rogers intended this clumsy pony to be called Ditzy Doo as a reference to the episode Winter Wrap Up, but was asked to name her Derpy as a "tip of the hat" to the fans.[5]
One week later, Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity help the Apple family finish preparing the barn at Sweet Apple Acres for a surprise party in anticipation of Applejack's return from Canterlot. Everyone hides when they hear someone approach only to realize that it's just a courier with a telegram. Twilight reads the message aloud, causing alarm when it turns out to be a note from Applejack saying that she won't be returning to Ponyville but will send money soon. As the Apple family agonize over the news, Twilight promises that she and the rest of the Mane Six will find Applejack and bring her home.
Unsatisfied with Applejack's response, her friends decide to work as sorters while she runs on a treadmill to power a cherry conveyor belt. Soon after the work starts, however, Twilight, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash begin probing Applejack about what happened at the rodeo. Their questions become increasingly directed at her refusal to return to Ponyville, causing her to run faster and faster on the treadmill until Fluttershy, still trying to sort the cherries on the now overflowing conveyor belt, calls out to stop. The sudden halt causes a mass of cherries to fly off the conveyor and splatter all over Applejack, leading her to walk away in indignation.
While bucking cherry trees later on, Applejack encounters Pinkie Pie and accepts her offer to help on the condition that she not ask questions. She ends up permitting Pinkie to ask if she's tried a "cherrychanga" before, though this quickly escalates into an incessant ramble about silly-sounding words that leads Applejack to beg her to stop. Rainbow Dash approaches wearing earplugs and demands that she "spill the beans" in order to stop the rambling. When Applejack agrees to do so at breakfast the next day, Pinkie makes her commit with a Pinkie promise.
The next morning, the five friends head to Applejack's bedroom but find it vacant, causing Pinkie Pie to become enraged. As Applejack waits anxiously at the train station, she sees the rest of the Mane Six running toward her and takes a nearby coach to leave town. The friends find an empty cart nearby and use it to chase Applejack through the desert. At one point, Pinkie Pie leaps into her coach and accuses her of breaking her Pinkie promise, though Applejack points out that the promise was to confess at breakfast, which she did not attend. Pinkie Pie accepts her excuse for the time being and jumps backwards directly into Rarity, sending them both flying off the cart.
As Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Twilight Sparkle continue to give chase, Applejack tries to lose them by rushing her coach through a railroad crossing moments before a speeding train passes by. Her victory is short lived when the near miss prompts the coach ponies to abandon her at the same time that Rainbow and Fluttershy fly their cart over the train cars. Applejack attempts to run away on foot but gets tackled by Rainbow, spilling a large stash of award ribbons from her saddlebag onto the ground.
Defeated, Applejack admits to her friends that she never managed to win any first place ribbons or prize money at the Equestria Rodeo, which made her feel too ashamed to return to Ponyville. She explains her intent to send money that she earned working on the cherry farm. Her friends assure her that she isn't a failure regardless of what place she came in at the rodeo, and the group make amends.
Deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest, rugged men make their living doing one of the deadliest jobs in the world... logging. Their mission is to retrieve timber perched on mountainsides too steep to access with machines, but it's no easy task. Plagued by mechanical failures, relentless weather, and unpredictable terrain, these brave men risk their lives retrieving the timber with which we built our country. Meet four companies trying to survive each day. Pihl Logging--a rag-tag group of loggers based in Vernonia, Oregon. Gustafson Logging--a close-knit crew working one of the most dangerous jobs in the region. J.M. Browning--the best of the best. Stump Branch Logging--the young guns with a lot to prove. These are the Ax Men.
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