History Heartwarming / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicSeason8

[[folder: School Daze]]

[[folder: The Maud Couple]]
* The new opening intro.
** It introduces so many characters the first two intros did not. We see Ember and Thorax flying together as friends, Big Mac having a picnic with Sugar Belle, Vinyl Scratch trotting and listening to her headphones, and much more.

[[folder: Fake It 'Till You Make It]]

[[folder: Grannies Gone Wild]]

[[folder: Surf and/or Turf]]

[[folder: Horse Play]]

[[folder: The Parent Map]]

[[folder: Non-Compete Clause]]

[[folder: The Break Up Breakdown]]

[[folder: Molt Down]]

[[folder: Marks for Effort]]

[[folder: The Mean 6]]

[[folder: A Matter of Principals]]

[[folder: The Hearth's Warming Club]]

[[folder: Friendship University]]

[[folder: The End In Friend]]

[[folder: Yakity-Sax]]

[[folder: On the Road to Friendship]]

[[folder: The Washouts]]

[[folder: A Rockhoof and a Hard Place]]

[[folder: What Lies Beneath]]

[[folder: Sounds of Silence]]

[[folder: Father Knows Beast]]

[[folder: School Raze]]

--> '''Yona:''' ''(exclaims happily and [[TheGlomp glomps]] Sandbar)'' Yona knew Sandbar still was our friend!

%%[[folder: School Raze]]
%%* After Sandbar seemingly turns against his friends, both Yona and Silverstream hold onto hope that he didn't really mean anything he said. In fact, the latter is the one who suggests that Sandbar is a FakeDefector to figure out what going on, which turns out to be true when he sneaks himself and the CMC back into the dorms.
%%--> '''Yona:''' ''(exclaims happily and [[TheGlomp glomps]] Sandbar)'' Yona knew Sandbar still was our friend!
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** The look they share when they realize the others are still lost, before they sacrifice their own safety to keep searching.

--> '''Yona:''' ''(exclaims happily and [[TheGlomp glomps]] Sandbar)'' Yona knew Sandbar still was our friend!

%%[[folder: What Lies Beneath]]
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%%[[folder: Father Knows Beast]]
%%* Spike thanking Smolder with a pillow for giving him flying lessons.
%%* Even though it [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished blows up in their faces]], the Mane 6 are nothing if not benevolent. If there's a strange dragon who crash lands in Ponyville who insists he doesn't need help, do they turn him away? Nope, they help him recuperate and heal until he's back on his feet.
%%* Granted it was just a ruse to get on Spike's good side, Sludge indulges Spike by [[PetTheDog doing everything the young dragon has ever wanted to do with his father]].
%%* Spike admitting that Twilight is more like his real family than his "father".
%%** Just the context of it: After 8 seasons of dancing around it, Spike finally acknowledges Twilight as his ''family''! Not his boss, not just a friend, '''his family'''!
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%%[[folder: A Rockhoof and a Hard Place]]
%%* Yona adores Rockhoof due to his yak-like qualities. When she hears that Rockhoof wants to be turned into a statue, she goes to convince him otherwise by reading him an essay she wrote in class about how she wants to be like Rockhoof when she grows up. Yona even goes to the trouble of getting herself a trowel to match Rockhoof's shovel.

%%[[folder: What Lies Beneath]]
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%%* Spike admitting that Twilight is more like his real family.
%%** Just the context of it: After 8 seasons of dancing around it, Spike finally acknowledges Twilight as his ''family''! Not his boss, not just a friend, his family!

* Starlight is Twilights first choice as her substitute and she is determined to not let her friend down.

* Despite that his trust in Flim and Flam lead to him nearly being scammed out of all his money, Starswirl's sense of friendship hasn't become embittered. He just has a wiser sense to be more careful who he trusts next time. Guess Twilight really rubbed off on the once abrasive wizard after all.
* While Flim and Flam are bad guys, it's still heartwarming to see them in good terms with eachother, given that the last time they almost stopped being friends.

* Even after, nearly sending her new-found friends into the Stream of Silence, Autumn Blaze is forgiving enough to try and help her village regain their speech.
* Despite that they only met a while ago, Autumn Blaze considers Applejack such a close friend that she [[BigDamnHeroes saves her and Fluttershy from being dunked in the Stream of Silence]].

%%[[folder: Sounds of Silence]]
%% * Even after, nearly sending her new-found friends into the Stream of Silence, Autumn Blaze is forgiving enough to try and help her village regain their speech.
%% * Despite that they only met a while ago, Autumn Blaze considers Applejack such a close friend that she [[BigDamnHeroes saves her and Fluttershy from being dunked in the Stream of Silence]].
%% * Autumn Blaze is this when she's not being funny or [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} nutty]]. She's a sweetheart with a deep, spiritual appreciation for beautiful views and conversation.
%% * Applejack and Fluttershy may tend to argue, but they make up very quickly, proving arguments shouldn't get in the way of friendship.
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[folder: The Washouts]]

%%[[folder: The Washouts]]
%%* In the end, Rainbow Dash addresses that she never intended for poor Scootaloo to feel she has to be like Rainbow Dash (flying in the Wonderbolts) [[TearJerker when she can't]]. How does Rainbow Dash make up for it? By starting a club that celebrates Scootaloo!

%%[[folder: A Rockhoof and a Hard Place]]

%%[[folder: What Lies Beneath]]
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%%* Admittedly, the Washouts are nothing if not impressive at their death-defying stunts.
%%* Rainbow Dash saving Scootaloo from pulling the Washouts' latest stunt. The latter is nothing short of relieved.
%%** This is Rainbow Dash's loyalty at its finest.
%%* Lightning Dust angrily yelling "RIVALS FOR LIFE", and Rainbow Dash replying "Wouldn't have it any other way" is pretty mature on the show's part. It's the show's way of admitting that [[RealityEnsues not every friendship can be redeemed, especially one that's toxic]].

* At the beginning of the episode, Rainbow has a casual conversation with several of the Wonderbolts, showing she has been with them long enough to really make friends with them. Also, the way Soarin casually leaves a foreleg around her during this shows how a definitive friendship between two.

%%[[folder: On the Road to Friendship]]

%%[[folder: The Washouts]]

%%[[folder: A Rockhoof and a Hard Place]]

%%[[folder: What Lies Beneath]]

%%[[folder: Sounds of Silence]]

[[folder: Father Knows Beast]]
* Spike admitting [[spoiler: that Twilight is more like his real family.]]
** Just the context of it: [[spoiler: After 8 seasons of dancing around it, Spike finally acknowledges Twilight as his ''family''! Not his boss, not just a friend, his family!]]
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