Awww. Sweet.

@cheezedoodle  
Oh if that’s just that…They let school ages filly (CMC) be guidance counselor

@TexasUberAlles  
They called her chicken.

@cheezedoodle  
That’s the same Granny Smith who was ready to literally bet the farm against a couple of fleabags in stripy shirts with an automagic cidermobile ten years later; it may have been medically necessary for her to let the young’uns start handlin’ the finances.

@TexasUberAlles  
Whether she’s 11 or 14 doesn’t change much, if anything. I do have a hard time believing granny smith would let a pre-teen make decisions in vital family business, though.

@cheezedoodle  
I never got the impression that AJ and Mac were that old, they both seemed solidly preteen to me. By that point in the series Ashleigh Ball was deliberately voicing Applejack with a huskier and lower voice, and Youngerjack definitely sounded squeaky and pre-adolescent to me.
 
AB being absent was always a silly thing to harp on anyway, since she would have been a wee sprout at the time and likely confined to the house to keep her from trying to explore the Everfree on her own.

@Background Pony #F1E7  
Well the story’s like this:
 

How is this a continuity error?!? If Pear died before Bloom was born, then she wouldn’t be her mother!

I’m just trying to understand this episode from applejack character progression. Idk what to take away from it. Is she just learning to cut loose and have fun with her little sister while she still can? Learning To be both a mother and a big sister?

@Wild Stallions  
The first three seasons continuity is terrible, season 4 smoothed it out a bit and it’s improved since then so I don’t know what you’re talking about.

@Film Reel  
The continuity of The Simpsons is not like that of FiM. Or at least not what the FiM continuity used to be. They constantly make blatant references to past episodes, Silver Quill even makes it a running gag in his reviews. In more recent years, it’s been all over the place.

I think they gave us this JUST so we’d stop talking about inbreeding and infidelity and other theorizing. “Okay, NOW you’ve seen her with her parents, so shut up already!”

With people having discussions on how these flashback connect to the present in the show or don’t, I just tend to not question it. It’s like connecting those flashback/future episodes from The Simpsons, the show will just ignore or kill the timeline and make up whatever it wants, despite them mentioning an exact year and the characters continue remaining the same age and personalities while everything else updates.

[ded of cute]

@Brony4Life  
The inbred headcanon? You’ve still got a chance with Granny Smith’ memory being in error. Memories get fuzzy with age, as is particularly evident with the errors in this flashback and in Granny’s statements.  

MUH HEADCANNON!

The main hangup seems to be the apparent age difference between Apple Bloom and Diamond Tiara, based on Where the Apple Lies. Seems to me that the best way to resolve it is that Filthy Rich got Spoiled Milk “teen pregnant” as a filly, and their engagement was a shotgun wedding sort of deal. This certainly explains Spoiled Milk’s/Rich’s attitude toward her daughter.

@DragonBoi471  
I have always thought that’s the most reasonable answer

@Inkan1969  
I must admit I love when canon kills fanon.

Ehy this is my imege!!!

Ignoring the drama below, I personally headcanon that PB and BM died roughly six months after Apple Bloom was born (hence why she doesn’t have good memory of them).

Y’all, come on. Everything we see happening in the Apple Family’s past so far has been told in flashbacks, and I’m pretty sure everyone here can recall some events from their own lives that turn out to be complete and utter hogwash compared to other accounts by other people of the same events. It’s a fact which drives defense attorneys worldwide bonkers that memory is, quantifiably, utter crap as a data storage device, because the human– and presumably cartoon equine– brain is literally editing information as it stores it in the first place based on a myriad of conditions both internal and external.
 
There’s also the fact that a huge number of fans seem incapable of parsing the difference between “a character onscreen says a thing happened” and “a thing actually happened in-universe”; Trixie calls herself Great And Powerful all the ding-dong time, but you’re risking having your roof torn off by a cranky star bear baby if you take her word at face value. When we see a flashback as narrated by a character, we’re not seeing events as they actually unfolded in-universe, we’re seeing events as that character interpreted them, filtered through their own memories, none of which necessarily has any bearing whatsoever on the “reality” of the situation.

They are so adorable.

Well, this kills the fanon speculation that Pear Butter died in childbirth.

I’m done. This is the best episode of the season for me!!