Updated 27th September 2024: added S1E16
Since Hasbro has been uploading Friendship is Magic episodes to YouTube in a pretty haphazard way, here is a linked list of everything that I've found so far. I would be very happy to hear of any I've missed, although I am only interested in full-length episodes uploaded, cleanly and in full, by an official source, most likely the "My Little Pony Official" YouTube account.
Bear in mind that some video titles are misleading, even on the official account. For example, this one's might lead you to believe it was "Lesson Zero". It isn't. It's one scene from that episode, followed by a bunch of other scenes from unconnected episodes. For the purposes of this post, all I want is the actual episodes, as seen in the lists below.
This is what I've found as things stand. Far from complete, but we now have mor than half of all FiM episodes available this way. Edit: I've also added the four EqG films. Not FiM of course, but they're the only EqG content to be added that wasn't free from the start like the shorts and specials were. So it seemed a little churlish to leave the movies out. :P
Note: in some cases the YouTube channel uses production order for episode numbering. I have stuck to the familiar US air-date ordering.
FiM Season 1
S1E01 Friendship is Magic, part 1
S1E02 Friendship is Magic, part 2
S1E03 The Ticket Master
S1E04 Applebuck Season
S1E05 Griffon the Brush Off
S1E06 Boast Busters
S1E07 Dragonshy
S1E08 Look Before You Sleep
S1E09 Bridle Gossip
S1E10 Swarm of the Century
S1E11 Winter Wrap Up
S1E12 Call of the Cutie
S1E13 Fall Weather Friends
S1E14 Suited for Success
S1E15 Feeling Pinkie Keen
S1E16 Sonic Rainboom¹
S1E17 Stare Master¹
S1E22 A Bird in the Hoof
S1E26 The Best Night Ever
¹These episodes are part of a multi-episode compilation. Links are correctly timestamped.
FiM Season 2
S2E01/02 The Return of Harmony, parts 1 & 2 (combined)
S2E03 Lesson Zero
S2E04 Luna Eclipsed
S2E05 Sisterhooves Social
S2E06 The Cutie Pox
S2E07 May the Best Pet Win!
S2E08 The Mysterious Mare Do Well
S2E09 Sweet and Elite
S2E10 Secret of My Excess
S2E11 Hearth's Warming Eve
S2E12 Family Appreciation Day
S2E13 Baby Cakes
S2E14 The Last Roundup
S2E15 The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000
S2E16 Read It and Weep
S2E17 Hearts and Hooves Day
S2E18 A Friend in Deed
S2E19 Putting Your Hoof Down
S2E20 It's About Time
S2E21 Dragon Quest
S2E22 Hurricane Fluttershy
S2E23 Ponyville Confidential
S2E24 MMMystery on the Friendship Express
S2E25/26 A Canterlot Wedding, parts 1 & 2 (combined)
FiM Season 3
S3E01 The Crystal Empire, part 1
S3E02 The Crystal Empire, part 2
S3E03 Too Many Pinkie Pies
S3E04 One Bad Apple
S3E05 Magic Duel
S3E06 Sleepless in Ponyville
S3E07 Wonderbolts Academy
S3E08 Apple Family Reunion
S3E09 Spike at Your Service
S3E10 Keep Calm and Flutter On
S3E11 Just for Sidekicks
S3E12 Games Ponies Play
S3E13 Magical Mystery Cure
FiM Season 4
S4E01/02 Princess Twilight Sparkle, parts 1 & 2 (combined)
S4E03 Castle Mane-ia
S4E04 Daring Don't
S4E05 Flight to the Finish
S4E06 Power Ponies
S4E07 Bats!
S4E08 Rarity Takes Manehattan
S4E09 Pinkie Apple Pie
S4E10 Rainbow Falls
S4E11 Three's a Crowd
S4E12 Pinkie Pride
S4E13 Simple Ways
S4E14 Filli Vanilli
S4E15 Simple Ways
S4E16 It Ain't Easy Being Breezies
S4E17 Somepony to Watch Over Me
S4E18 Maud Pie
S4E19 For Whom the Sweetie Belle Toils
S4E20 Leap of Faith
S4E21 Testing Testing 1, 2, 3
S4E22 Trade Ya!
S4E23 Inspiration Manifestation
S4E24 Equestria Games
S4E25/26 Twilight's Kingdom, parts 1 & 2 (combined)
FiM Season 5
S5E01/02 The Cutie Map, parts 1 & 2 (combined)
S5E05 Tanks for the Memories¹
S5E07 Make New Friends But Keep Discord¹
S5E08 The Lost Treasure of Griffonstone¹
S5E09 Slice of Life
S5E12 Amending Fences¹
S5E13 Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?¹
S5E14 Canterlot Boutique¹
S5E15 Rarity Investigates!¹ ²
S5E16 Made in Manehattan¹
S5E17 Brotherhooves Social¹
S5E18 Crusaders of the Lost Mark¹
S5E20 Hearthbreakers
S5E21 Scare Master¹
S5E23 The Hooffields and McColts¹
S5E24 The Mane Attraction¹
S5E25 The Cutie Re-Mark, part 1¹
S5E26 The Cutie Re-Mark, part 2¹
¹ These episodes are part of a multi-episode compilation. Links are correctly timestamped.
² Incorrectly listed as "Made in Manehattan" in the YouTube description.
FiM Season 6
S6E01 The Crystalling, part 1
S6E02 The Crystalling, part 2
S6E03 The Gift of the Maud Pie
S6E04 On Your Marks
S6E05 Gauntlet of Fire
S6E06 No Second Prances
S6E07 Newbie Dash
S6E08 A Hearth's Warming Tail
S6E09 The Saddle Row Review
S6E10 Applejack's "Day" Off
S6E11 Flutter Brutter
S6E12 Spice Up Your Life
S6E13 Stranger Than Fan Fiction
S6E14 The Cart Before the Ponies
S6E15 28 Pranks Later
S6E16 The Times They are a Changeling
S6E17 Dungeons & Discords
S6E18 Buckball Season
S6E19 The Fault in Our Cutie Marks
S6E20 Viva Las Pegasus
S6E21 Every Little Thing She Does
S6E22 P.P.O.V. (Pony Point of View)
S6E23 Where the Apple Lies
S6E24 Top Bolt
FiM Season 7
S7E01 Celestial Advice¹
S7E07 Parental Glideance¹
S7E10 A Royal Problem¹
S7E12 Discordant Harmony¹
S7E13 The Perfect Pear¹
S7E14 Fame and Misfortune¹
S7E16 Campfire Tales¹
S7E18 Daring Done?¹
S7E23 Secrets and Pies¹
S7E25/26 Shadow Play, parts 1 & 2 (combined)
¹These episodes are part of a multi-episode compilation. Links are correctly timestamped.
FiM Season 8
S8E13 The Mean 6¹
S8E15 The Hearth's Warming Club¹
S8E25/26 School Raze, parts 1 & 2 (combined)
¹These episodes are part of a multi-episode compilation. Links are correctly timestamped.
FiM Season 9
S9E01 The Beginning of the End, part 1
S9E02 The Beginning of the End, part 2
S9E03 Uprooted
S9E04 Sparkle's Seven
S9E05 The Point of No Return
S9E06 Common Ground
S9E07 She's All Yak
S9E08 Frenemies
S9E09 Sweet and Smoky
S9E10 Going to Seed
S9E11 Student Counsel
S9E12 The Last Crusade
S9E13 Between Dark and Dawn
S9E14 The Last Laugh
S9E15 2, 4, 6, Greaaat
Equestria Girls
EQG1 Equestria Girls
EQG2 Rainbow Rocks
EQG3 Friendship Games
EQG4 Legend of Everfree
Note: films 1 and 4 are the second feature in a video; the link for each starts in the right place
Bear in mind that some video titles are misleading, even on the official account
ReplyDeleteThe trick is whether they have "Full Episode" in the title as a signifier. Well, that and the runtime being 20:5? or 21:3? (depending on whether they keep or omit the opening titles). Only bother looking at videos with those criteria, I say.
Yeah, the way the channel was publishing episodes in order in Season 1 and then just gave up is… frustrating. Outside of the fifteen from S1, the rest were uploaded around their holiday, or they had a vague "good enough" connection with it. Hearth's Warming Eve and A Hearth's Warming Tail last December; Family Appreciation Day last Thanksgiving; Luna Eclipsed, Bats!, Castle Mane-ia and a Bridle Gossip upload a month back for Halloween. Only the S2 openings and closers earlier this year break that pattern.
Sadly, it's because the managers of their social media channel have pinpointed that the algorithm, and YouTube Kids, HEAVILY favours the compilation uploads that parents just stick their tots down in front of to zombie from their tablet. This is the case to such as extent that Tell Your Tale has taken to keeping five prior shorts in the uploads of new shorts, to make it thirty minutes the kids can zone out to. Despite having the regular compilation uploads anyway (it's all about a video being new and getting eyeballs from it's initial home page push, so they don't care about constantly reuploading old content).
And, of course, the episodes we do have this way is undermined by all the Season One uploads remaining available on Netflix both in the US and the UK, least for now. Leaving just ten others, and at that point, especially with most of them having holiday connections, it's like having one or two of those themed DVDs.
In conclusion, the death of DVDs and the inclination of companies to do whatever the hell they want with the availability of their property online is only going to get more annoying for the customer with time.
Funnily enough, I thought you'd missed a few, so I went on a hunt for ones I was sure I'd seen before. But nope, false memory, didn't find any. Bugger.
Other than stuff that was always going to be free (eg various EqG specials) the only other thing I know of that's up there officially is Rainbow Rocks. Which I might add anyway, in spite of it not being FiM, since it's confusingly titled.
DeletePoint taken on Netflix, but plenty of people don't have that, and at least some are deciding it's no longer cost-effective for them. So at least some episodes available free will be worthwhile for those people even if Netflix does retain S1, which I have my doubts about anyway...