The Cutie Mark Crusaders try to get Cheerilee and Big Macintosh to fall in love with a strong potion, but they quickly regret their actions when some serious side effects arise.The Cutie Mark Crusaders try to get Cheerilee and Big Macintosh to fall in love with a strong potion, but they quickly regret their actions when some serious side effects arise.The Cutie Mark Crusaders try to get Cheerilee and Big Macintosh to fall in love with a strong potion, but they quickly regret their actions when some serious side effects arise.
- Twilight Sparkle
- (voice)
- Mrs. Cake
- (voice)
- Cheerilee
- (voice)
- Apple Bloom
- (voice)
- …
- Scootaloo
- (voice)
- Sweetie Belle
- (voice)
- (as Claire Corlett)
- Big Macintosh
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- …
- Directors
- Writers
- Lauren Faust
- Meghan McCarthy
- Bonnie Zacherle(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaHearts and Hooves Day is the Equestria equivalent of Valentine's Day.
- Quotes
Cheerilee: [after drinking the potion the girls made] Big Mac?
Big Macintosh: [also affected] Yup?
Cheerilee: Will you be my very special somepony?
Big Macintosh: [smitten] Eeyup.
Sweetie Belle: YES!
Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle: [sing-song voice] He's her special somepony. She's his special somepony.
Cheerilee: He's my special somepony.
Big Macintosh: Eeeeeyup.
Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle: [cooing] Aww.
Cheerilee: [overly affectionate] He's my shmoopy-doopy sweedy-weedy pony pie.
Big Macintosh: You're my shmoopy-doopy sweedy-weedy pony pie.
Apple Bloom: Did *he* just say...
Cheerilee: You're my cutie-patootie lovie-dovie honey-bunny.
Big Macintosh: You're my heartie-smartie smirchy-wirchy baby-waby.
Apple Bloom: Big Mac! Hey! *Hello*! What's going on?
Sweetie Belle: Miss Cheerilee, are you alright?
Cheerilee: I have a special somepony. A kissy-wissy snuggy-wuggy sugar bear.
Sweetie Belle: I think we may have given them too big of a nudge.
Big Macintosh: You're my cuddly-wuddly boopsie-woopsie pumpkin pie.
Scootaloo: Ya think?
- ConnectionsReferenced in Double Rainboom (2013)
- SoundtracksThe Perfect Stallion
Lyrics by Meghan McCarthy
Music by Daniel Ingram
Performed by Michelle Creber and Madeleine Peters
By all means "Hearts and Hooves Day" is not a terrible episode, just wanted to make that clear as the above paragraph probably made it sound like it in my view was. It is not one of 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic's' worst and is not even one of the very worst of Season 2, with "Putting Your Hoof Down", "The Mysterious Mare Do Well" and "Dragon Quest" being worse. As far as the season goes though, "Hearts and Hooves Day" is in the lesser half and one of those conflicted opinion/missed opportunity episodes.
"Hearts and Hooves Day" is significantly advantaged by very clever and colourful animation. The tubs of jelly for instance was quite imaginatively done. As well as the apocalyptic fantasies. The music is funky and has lovely and characterful use of instrumentation. The best character by far is Big Mac, and quite a lot of his appeal is his expressions which are really quite funny and adorable.
There are a few amusing moments, not just Big Mac's expressions but also Sweetie Belle's "Aw come on", the delivery of "that's an apple tree" and the reactions Applebloom (the second most likeable character). The moral is a good one, 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic' was mostly very good at this. The voice acting is strong.
On the other hand, "Hearts and Hooves Day" is mostly not very funny at all and tries so hard that it becomes rather overblown. The sweet talk goes well overboard on the mushiness, generally the writing has moments but comes over as contrived.
Really hate it when anything is wasted and that is the perfect way to sum up Twilight's role in the episode, she serves so little point here and her material is very thin. Other than the writing, "Hearts and Hooves Day" is the treatment of the Cutie Mark Crusaders, their punishment is far too ruthless and harsh for no reason so the episode really loses its heart. What they did was not deliberate and they had learnt their lesson, judging from the way they're punished you'd think they'd committed a criminal offense. Cherilee is really unlikeable here, especially in her treatment of the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
Summarising, watchable but lacking. 5/10
- TheLittleSongbird
- Apr 12, 2020
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Details
- Runtime23 minutes
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- 1080i (HDTV)
- 480i (SDTV)