Sisterhooves Social

Sisterhooves Social is the fifth episode of the second season of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic and the thirty-first episode overall. In this episode, Sweetie Belle wants to participate in the Sisterhooves Social just as she and Rarity face a crisis in their relationship. The titular term "sisterhooves" is a portmanteau of "sisterhood" and "hooves".__TOC__
==Development==
Episode writer Cindy Morrow stated that the working title of Sisterhooves Social was Sissy Fit.
==Summary==
===Sweetie Belle tries to help===
 In her room at the Carousel Boutique, Rarity awakens to the smell of smoke and rushes downstairs to find Sweetie Belle attempting to make her breakfast in bed. Shocked to see her parents there as well, Rarity learns that they are dropping Sweetie Belle off to stay with her for a week while they go on vacation. Once they depart, Rarity begins to clear away the burnt food and make a "proper" breakfast. Sweetie Belle offers to help, and after some deflection, Rarity tasks her with placing a sprig of parsley on some fried eggs. Under the intense scrutiny of her sister, however, Sweetie Belle accidentally tips over the dining table.
 After cleaning the kitchen, Rarity asks Sweetie Belle to bring the dirty towels to the laundry while she attends to work. Sweetie Belle decides to surprise her sister by washing the laundry as well, only for Rarity to be horrified when her wool designer sweater shrinks while drying in the sun. Later on, Sweetie Belle entertains herself by drawing a picture with paper and crayons, to which she adheres sapphires laying in a chest nearby. She presents the picture to Rarity, who panics upon seeing the rare sapphires she needed for an important client ruined.
A short time later, Rarity returns from gathering more sapphires to find that Sweetie Belle has cleaned her room. Distraught, Rarity explains that she had just finished laying out materials for a new fashion line before Sweetie put them away. Sweetie Belle protests that she had just been scolded for making a mess, to which Rarity responds by asserting that it's her right to determine which messes are allowed.
===Sisters parting ways===
 Frustrated with her sister, Sweetie Belle goes for a walk outside and comes across Apple Bloom, who suggests that she and Rarity enter in the annual Sisterhooves Social at Sweet Apple Acres. Sweetie is eager to participate but finds Rarity wholly uninterested in the idea, and after a series of heated back-and-forths, the two angrily agree that they don't need each other.
Sweetie Belle heads over to Sweet Apple Acres where Applejack is doing chores with Apple Bloom. Seeing their enjoyment as they perform tasks together, Sweetie Belle notes that Applejack, unlike Rarity, is what a sister should be - kind, patient, active, and fun.
===Rarity's regret===
 Later, as Rarity restarts her fashion line, she is struck by a new idea due to Sweetie Belle's organization and completes her new line, "Full Spectrum Fashions". She begins to forgive Sweetie Belle, but quickly stops herself, only to soften again when she finds the sweater Sweetie Belle shrank was perfect for Opalescence, and not herself. Rarity's ultimate realization of her mistake comes up after looking, a second time, at the picture that Sweetie Belle made her. While decorating a dress with baby blue sapphires, Rarity decides to take a few from her sister's picture. The picture is revealed to be an image of herself and Sweetie Belle superimposed into a heart made out of sapphires. This makes Rarity realize that what she said and did was wrong.
Rarity goes to Sweet Apple Acres in order to apologize, but finds that Sweetie is with Applejack and does not want to be with her anymore. Sweetie Belle then claims Applejack as her big sister, much to the dismay of everypony. Sweetie Belle continues berating Rarity while praising Applejack, going so far as to say that Rarity could learn how to be a better sister from Applejack. Rarity pleads for Sweetie to return, but shows that she hasn't fully learned the true meaning of sisterhood as she continues suggesting activities that appeal to her rather than Sweetie, hinting that she still does not understand. Sweetie Belle is not impressed and storms off angrier than before. Applejack helps Rarity understand what sisterhood means (comparing it to apple pie) and Rarity finally realizes that she has not been a good sister to Sweetie Belle after all, so she decides she must do whatever it takes to regain her sister.
===The Sisterhooves Social===
 At the day of the event, which takes place at Sweet Apple Acres, Apple Bloom and Applejack agree that Applejack can be Sweetie Belle's sister for the day. They enter the race together, but Applejack falls into the mud of the first obstacle. Rarity emerges from the mud, wearing Applejack's hat and remaining silent throughout the race, making Sweetie Belle believe she's still racing with Applejack. Rarity's blue eyes are still visible though, as opposed to Applejack's green, though her eye style is the same as Applejack's. They manage to jump over the haystacks, quickly eat the apple pies, fill a jar with grape juice, and carefully place their egg from a hen house into a basket. While they don't win the race, only coming up short to Berryshine and Piña Colada, Sweetie Belle says she doesn't mind because she had so much fun. Applejack's hat falls off, revealing a white horn. Sweetie Belle wipes the mud from Rarity's flank and, after seeing her three-diamond cutie mark, discovers she'd been racing with her own sister the entire time, while Applejack stayed under the mud the entire race and only now surfaced.
Sweetie Belle finds out that Applejack, Rarity, and Apple Bloom were all in on the plan. The sisters make up, and Rarity offers to go to the spa as a treat, but the rest of the girls burst out laughing, thinking Rarity is just joking, but she insists she wasn't.
===Epilogue===
 The sisters compose a letter to Celestia together, in which they inform her that, while being sisters is wonderful, it often requires teamwork, sometimes is about compromise, sometimes is about accepting each other's differences, but mostly is about having fun. In the end, they disagree again, over whether it's okay to get one's hooves a little dirty or a lot dirty when having fun. Since Spike is writing the letter he gives them a happy medium of a medium amount of dirty (not too little, not too much, just right), and they agree on this compromise.
==Quotes==
:Rarity: Oh... Are those sweet... carrot... pancakes I smell? Mmm, how divine, num num num num. The aroma... spiced warm apple cider. [sniff] Ahh, and the smell of... smoke... smoke? Smoke?! SMOO— AAH!
:Rarity: Let me guess. Applesauce?
:Sweetie Belle: Nope. Toast!
:Rarity: Sweetie Belle, what am I going to do with you?
:Sweetie Belle: Oh, we could paint together, we could ride bikes, play chess, sing a song, catch frogs, have a pillow fight...
:Rarity: That's not what I meant!
:Sweetie Belle: Oh.
:Rarity: My inspiration room! What did you do? What did you do?!
:Sweetie Belle: When I saw the big mess in your room, I thought I'd clean it up for you.
:Rarity: This wasn't a mess! It was organized chaos!
:Apple Bloom: What's 'uncouth'?
:Applejack: It means 'uncivil'. You know, bad mannered?
:Apple Bloom: [belches]
:Applejack: Exactly!
:Rarity: Oh, Sweetie Belle! My one and only sister! What have I done? All the time I could have spent with you was wasted complaining and wishing you were gone! Woe is me! No! I must get her back! I must! As Celestia is my witness, I shall never be sisterless again!
:Applejack: Bein' sisters is like... apple pie! You can have amazin' apples, and you can have a wonderfully crispy crust, but only together can you have a perfect apple pie.
:Rarity: But apart, all we are is just a pile of mush and some crumbly, dry mess. I know what I need to do! I just hope it isn't too late!
:Granny Smith: Now, the event you've all been waiting fer! The Sister Soci— The Socialhooves— Oh, dabnabbit, you know, the big race!
:Rarity: Us. I did it for us. You see? We are apple pie!
:Sweetie Belle: Huh?
:Rarity: I'll explain later.
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==References==
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