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Episode 4	Applebuck Season	Aired: November 5 2010
Outside, Applejack reasons with her big brother that she'll do all the work herself but is somehow regretting it inside.  She figures she'd better start kicking but hears a rumble that Rainbow Dash identifies as a stampede (cows to be exact). While others run for cover, Pinkie Pie uses the rumble to make her voice sound silly. Applejack and her (cow herder if you will) dog manage to steer (no pun intended) away from Ponyville and the cows explain the reason for their behavior but agree to stay away from Ponyville in the future. Once again, Pinkie Pie decides that a party seems fit for what just occurred.  Despite the fact that no one has seen AJ since the stampede, RD assures them that AJ will be there. As Twilight gets her speech going, the others interrupt with the fact that AJ is helping each of them with specific tasks. When it seems like no one else has anything to say, Twilight continues but the mayor has something to say so Twilight gives up, tossing the sheets of paper into the air. The mayor speaks, announcing that AJ gets her own award but when the curtain is pulled back, she's not there. She finally shows up but is clearly tired yet has enough energy to play with the reflection given off by the trophy with accompaniment from Pinkie Pie. She nods off to sleep before waking up and dragging her trophy away. Twilight wasn't the only one that noticed AJ being off but Pinkie Pie claims that AJ seemed fine. Later, AJ gets a few baskets full of apples before beginning to lose concentration from lack of sleep. Twilight finds her asking what Applebuck season is and AJ explains. AJ is doing it alone because Big Mcintosh (I presume her brother we saw earlier, if I spelt his name right) hurt himself and the others were just there for the big reunion and are busy with their own harvesting. Now AJ is looking more like your typical intoxicated driver as she cannot seem to stand up properly and is losing focus but insists she's still fine. She meets Rainbow Dash to help with her stunt but when she dives, she misses the spot she should've landed and instead does a belly flop on the grass. RD reminds AJ where she's supposed to land but AJ continues missing the spot. RD demands to know what's going on so AJ tries simply to walk up onto the landing but it's not what RD meant so she finally performs the jump properly but RD wasn't ready and is flung onto the upper railing of Twilight's house, telling Twilight that someone else needs help. Back at the harvesting, AJ is getting worse by not having baskets underneath for the apples and hits her head on one of the tree branches. Worse yet, she's mishearing what Twilight is saying and while she admits she wasn't herself that morning, she denies that she needs any sort of help. AJ hits another tree branch head first, then wobbles over to help Pinkie Pie. While Pinkie Pie reads the recipe, AJ gets the ingredients put into place but unbeknownst to Pinkie Pie, they aren't the right ones because AJ kept mishearing what Pinkie Pie said. AJ isn't convinced that the muffins are going to be as good as Pinkie Pie says (and neither do I). At the "free sample area", the others try the muffins and end up getting very sick. Twilight rushes over with Spike when she heard the news. Spike seems to enjoy the muffin and offers Twilight one. Twilight arrives back with AJ, whom is still having trouble with her job and ends up getting stuck in the air trying to put apples in a container in the haystack, still insisting that she needs no help. She gets down but with plenty of struggle and kicks a dead tree, then moves on to Fluttershy's task. Fluttershy tells AJ that the bunnies need to be told gently but AJ does things her way and scares the bunnies into a clump, then into a stampede that runs through Ponyville and with the help of 3 ponies that faint, provide a Lion King parody. Despite Fluttershy's pleads to stop, the bunnies continue eating the flowers and Twilight decides that enough is enough and heads off to meet with AJ again. AJ does manage to get another tree free of any apples but Mcintosh points out that there are still many more trees left with apples on them, making AJ dizzy enough to collapse on the ground. When she awakens, she pleads Twilight to help with her friends and that's what they do while Twilight has written a letter to Celestia. AJ offers them apple juice and apologizes for how she acted. Spike arrives with a few muffins from the trash, saying they're a perfect treat, much to the others' (and my) disgust, and pleads that they'll take a bite.