As the group travels through a forest, Horse and Wammawinks butt heads over their conflicting leadership styles — Horse wants to forge ahead fearlessly into the unknown, while Wammawinks wants to proceed slowly and cautiously. After the two disagree over whether to cross into a barren region Wammawinks feels uneasy about, the centaurs begin turn back but return to catch up to Horse after the rest of the herd decides they don't especially want to return to their valley. However, the reunited group soon runs afoul of a "taurnado", and although they all make it through in one piece Horse's brazen disregard for safety turns the centaurs more deeply against her way of doing things.
An embittered Horse decides to forge on alone, but soon finds herself hopelessly lost. She sings dejectedly about her missing Rider, and to her luck the centaurs are camped nearby and overhear. Wammawinks empathizes with Horse's wish to stay together with her loved ones, and agrees to reunite on the condition that Horse accepts her slower and more cautious leadership.
The next day, the group is traveling along the rainbow road once more. Horse briefly freaks out when she realizes she's missing her armor, which was lost to the taurnado, but this issue is soon forgotten when she sees a shadow that looks suspiciously like Rider. She sets off in pursuit, with the centaurs hurrying to keep up, as the episode ends.
This episode contains examples of:
- The Assimilator: The taurnado implies that it's composed of thousands of individual souls that it has taken, and intends to add the herd to its gestalt by drawing them into itself.
- Both Sides Have a Point: "Fragile Things" has Horse and Wammawink duke out their respective viewpoints, each having a bit in truth in them. Although she comes across as overprotective, Wammawink isn't too far off to say her herd is vulnerable considering this is their first time venturing a potentially dangerous world. And while Horse's viewpoint lead to the herd being endangered, she's not wrong to say sheltering the herd from everything can be just as counterproductive as actively putting them in harm's way.
- Homesickness Hymn: Horse has "What If I Forget Your Face" as she laments over missing Rider and wishes to be reunited with her.
- Hypocritical Humor: Ched thinks it's dumb that Rider rides on Horse's back... while riding on Durpleton's head himself.
- Our Nudity Is Different: Horse panics after realizing that she is nude after losing her battle armor before Durpleton explains that they're all nude as well, not to mention that many animals are used to not wearing anything on their body. After he thinks about the implications for a few seconds, he freaks out too.
- Potty Emergency: Glendale briefly suffers from this, which Wammawink refers to as needing to use the "Tinkle Tinkle Bye-Bye Zone". She resolves it after rushing into a nearby bush.
- Quarreling Song: The titular song "Fragile Things" begins with Wammawink singing that she has to protect her herd, but Horse argues that they can protect themselves. The song turns into an argument about what's best for the herd and which of them should be the leader.
- Shout-Out: Wammawink is a character associated with the color pink who can conjure a magical pink bubble to protect herself and others.
- Toilet Humor: Glendale steps in what is clearly a giant colorful turd.
- When trying to guess Horse's name, one of the suggestions (from Zulius) is "Splashy", a word Glendale used to refer to her abovementioned potty emergency, prompting Horse to respond with, "As in pee? No!"
- Villain Song: The taurnado's half of the reprise of "Fragile Things", where it sings in opposition to Horse and about its intent to consume her and the herd.
- Weird Weather: The group runs into a "taurnado", a tornado with funnels arranged like four legs, a body and a neck, which actively tries to suck them into itself.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Wammawink chastised Horse for endangering the Herd, and even though she is overprotective, she has every reason to be angry at her.
- Your Soul Is Mine!: As it tries to consume the herd, the taurnado sings about how it will add their souls to the thousands that already compose it.
