A Hearth's Warming Tail 

Starlight Glimmer has a case of the holiday blues, so Twilight tries to help cure her by reading one of her favorite Hearth Warming's Eve stories, A Hearth's Warming Tale.

Directors:

Denny Lu, Tim Stuby

Writers:

Lauren Faust (developed for television by), Michael Vogel

Stars:

Kelly Sheridan, Tara Strong, Andrea Libman

Cast

Episode cast overview:
Kelly Sheridan	...	Starlight Glimmer / Snowfall Frost (voice)
Tara Strong	...	Twilight Sparkle (voice)
Andrea Libman	...	Pinkie Pie / Fluttershy / Flutterholly (voice)
Ashleigh Ball	...	Applejack / Rainbow Dash / Snowdash (voice)
Tabitha St. Germain	...	Princess Luna / Rarity / Merry (voice)
Cathy Weseluck	...	Spike (voice)
William Samples	...	Professor Flintheart (voice)
Kazumi Evans	...	Rarity (singing voice)
Shannon Chan-Kent	...	Pinkie Pie (singing voice)
Aloma Steele	...	Princess Luna (singing voice)
Rebecca Shoichet	...	Twilight Sparkle (singing voice)

Storyline

Starlight Glimmer has a case of the holiday blues, so Twilight tries to help cure her by reading one of her favorite Hearth Warming's Eve stories, A Hearth's Warming Tale.

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Genres:

Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

TV-Y

Details

Release Date:

14 May 2016 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

DHX Media, Hasbro Studios

Technical Specs

Runtime:

22 min

Did You Know?

Trivia

During the scenes in the past, DJ Pon3 can be seen wearing old times spectacles instead of her trademark shades. She also plays with an old times record player rather than her modern equipment.

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Quotes

Starlight Glimmer: Wait a minute. Snowfall doesn't like Hearth's Warming Eve so she decides to cast a spell to get rid of it altogether? That seems a bit extreme.
Spike: Says the pony who tried to make every pony the same by replacing their cutie marks with equal signs.

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Connections

References Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)

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Soundtracks

One Of These Nights
Lyrics by Seo Ji-eum
Music by Hwang Chan-hee, Andreas Öberg and Maria Marcus
Performed by Red Velvet

User Reviews

Really good Christmas story to add to the list of amazing filler episodes

This episode was the best Hearth's Warming episode for me so far, it captures the spirit and magic of Christmas perfectly and it chooses to retell A Christmas Carol by the eyes of Starlight, which definitely made things interesting. It is a musical episode, but the songs fit in the story and don't hurt the pacing, plus they're awesome, principally the This Day Aria lookalike that Starlight sang while making the spell and Luna's one. There is an obvious lead here; but except for Fluttershy and Rarity, all of the characters have their moment to shine and, while not revolutionary, this is a really well made "feel good" episode.