My Little Pony: Best Gift Ever

***My Little Pony: Best Gift Ever*** is an animated double length Christmas themed special based on the television series *My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic*, taking place in between the eighth and ninth seasons. It premiered on Discovery Family on October 27, 2018.

## Plot

Hearth's Warming Eve is approaching, and Twilight Sparkle and her friends decide to hold a "Hearth's Warming Helper" so that each of them only has to find one gift for one other friend. For Pinkie Pie, Twilight decides to find a legendary pudding recipe that can be dangerous if prepared incorrectly. She gets stressed trying to prepare it when Shining Armor, Princess Cadance and Flurry Heart come to visit for the holiday. None of them notice when Flurry adds extra ingredients that make the pudding boil over.

Pinkie travels to Yakyakistan to seek advice for Twilight's gift. She is directed by Prince Rutherford to the home of Aurora, Bori and Alice, a trio of reindeer who claim to have the perfect gift whose significance she will understand later.

For Applejack, Rarity orders a special hat which is misdelivered to a nut farm. When she travels to collect it, the resident couple believes it to be a gift for their son Pistachio, a budding fashion designer. Pistachio deduces that the hat was not meant for him and offers the hat back to Rarity, but she insists he keep it to encourage his passion.

Spike swaps his recipient with Fluttershy so that he can give a gift for Rarity. He tries to crash a gift to acknowledge her creativity, but fails asleep after several failed attempts.

Now tasked with Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy travels with Applejack, who has Spike, to Rainbow Falls for their gifts. They find Flim and Flam swindling shoppers into buying cheaply made dolls, but manage to expose them by buying out several dolls and using up their gift money.

Rainbow Dash is badgered by Discord into buying a meaningless gift for Fluttershy, and catches a small creature called a Winterchilla, unaware that it turns into a monstrous Winterzilla after dark.

The gang meets back up at Twilight's castle to find it flooded with the unstable pudding, and the Winterzilla is blocking the exit. Pinkie realizes that her present is the remaining ingredients for the pudding and throws them in to stabilize it. Fluttershy manages to calm the Winterchilla, which Discord had planned all along. The friends all apologize to each other for the disappointing gifts they ended up with and make up. Spike uses a makeshift guitar to sing a song as his gift to Rarity, who is appreciative. The group then realizes that their friendship is the best gift they could give each other.

## Cast

	+ Rebecca Shoichet as Twilight Sparkle (singing)
* Tabitha St. Germain as Rarity, Flurry Heart, and Derpy
	+ Kazumi Evans as Rarity (singing)
* Ashleigh Ball as Applejack and Rainbow Dash
* Andrea Libman as Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy
	+ Shannon Chan-Kent as Pinkie Pie (singing)
* Cathy Weseluck as Spike
* Andrew Francis as Shining Armor
* Britt McKillip as Princess Cadance
* John de Lancie as Discord
* Scott McNeil as Flam
* Garry Chalk as Prince Rutherford and Oak Nut
* Ingrid Nilson as Limestone Pie, Maud Pie, Marble Pie, and Butternut
* Sean Thomas as Pistachio
* Asia Mattu as Aurora
* Alison Wandzura as Bori
* Meaghan Hommy as Alice

## Home media

Main article: *My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (videography)*