Magical Mystery Cure
| "Magical Mystery Cure" | |
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| My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode | |
Twilight Sparkle is crowned as a princess in her new alicorn form.
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| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 13 |
| Directed by | James Wootton |
| Written by | M.A. Larson |
| Produced by | Sarah Wall Devon Cody Chris Bartleman (executive) Stephen Davis (executive) Kirsten Newlands (executive) |
| Featured music | See Featured songs |
| Editing by | Mark Kuehnel Meghan McCarthy (story) |
| Production code | 313 |
| Original air date | February 16, 2013 |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Awards | "Best Musical Score in an Animation Program or Series" Winner(Leo Awards) |
"Magical Mystery Cure" is the thirteenth and final episode of the third season of the Canadian-American animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and the sixty-fifth episode of the series overall. The episode premiered on February 16, 2013 on The Hub. In the episode, the destinies and cutie marks of Twilight Sparkle's friends get switched around, forcing Twilight to create a magic spell of her own in order to correct it. The title itself is a reference to the Beatles' 1967 album Magical Mystery Tour.
An aspect of the episode focused on Twilight Sparkle's ascent to becoming a princess (an event which would also involve her transformation into an alicorn). The Hub heavily emphasized the event while promoting the episode in a coronation-themed advertising sweepstakes campaign, which included a special concert event featuring Miss America 2013 winner Mallory Hagan, and a nine-episode marathon which preceded the episode's premiere.
Twilight Sparkle awakens one morning to find that her friends' cutie marks and duties around Ponyville have swapped: Rarity's creativity in doing Rainbow Dash's weather control causes havoc around town; Rainbow is completely unable to tame Fluttershy's animals, who run wild around her cottage; Fluttershy is barely able to throw Pinkie Pie's parties and cheer up the residents of Ponyville, who are now very grumpy and tetchy; Pinkie has difficulties working on Applejack's farm, where her apple trees are now bare and blackened; and Applejack's dressmaking skills are awful and is forced to close Rarity's boutique. Twilight's friends are unaware of the change, believing that they are following their true destinies despite their ineptitude with their tasks.
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