The Answer To A Question Nobody Asked -Episode Order

I see that I haven't yet posted the episode sequence for June & July yet. Apparently, I've just had so much aggravation with it that I just assumed I'd already posted it (I don't know why my mind hates me. I've never done anything to it -or with it, either). Well, posting stuff is enough -ING pain that I'm not going to change it.

July is sort of a dumping ground (so far). I'm tentatively putting stuff there that IMO, is early but I'm not sure where it goes. I'll post June next time.

August, Year 1
IMO, August Timeline looks like this
Aug 1
Call of the Cutie (part 1) 1 day
The first part is Wed, Aug 1st because
1) School used to start on Wednesday when I was a kid.
2) Staremaster is on a weekend & the timeline works better
if you assume school starts on Wed.
Aug 2-3
Crusaders not present (school?)
Apple Buck Season (part 1) 1 day
The stampede
Baby Cakes (part 1) 1 day
Twins are born, AJ present
(possible non specified letter or 2)
Aug 4-5
1st weekend
Call of the Cutie (part 2) 1 day
Diamond's cuteceana party is that weekend.
Letter (possibly not written that day)
Aug 6
Ponyville Confidential 1 day (to start)
Crusaders get their jobs w school paper
this will run concurrently w other episodes, possibly until October
Gabby Gums story "Gum on the Bum"
Aug 11-12
second weekend in August
Stare Master
Letter
Aug 13
Gabby Gums Story about Baby Cakes (Possibly out sequence?)
Aug 19
Apple Buck Season
end of part 2
Perhaps AJ hasn't been gone exactly 2 weeks, but close enough.
Letter
Aug 26
Lesson Zero 1 day
it's been a week since the last letter
AJ has recovered enough for a picnic
Aug 27
Too Many Pinkies 1 day
The barn is to replace the one wrecked in Lesson Zero
Ironically, if Twilight had just waited 1 day....
Aug 28
Ticket Master 1 day
late August/Early October
Baby Cakes (part 2) 1 day
Pinkie baby sits & writes a Letter.

This is why I think so
August has problems. The weekly Friendship Letter determines a LOT of the schedule
Call of the Cutie
2 days (but perhaps nonconsecutive days)
Crusaders are in the same class, so this must be 1st week of August
& Diamond's cuteceana is the first weekend. Twilight writes a letter
Poneyville Confidential
Should start 2nd week of August but that school has weird timing
(look at when Pip's election is)
Crusaders get their jobs with the school paper
IMO, the school paper is a weekly & this stretches into
at least September, possibly October & overlaps a lot of other episodes
But I couldn't tell how many issues of Foal Free Press were involved
(Pictures of Celestia w cake are from Bird in the Hoof)
(AJ asleep on the job are from Applebuck Season)
I'm assuming that the spa has a lot of back issues floating around,
so that doesn't really help.
AJ has the time to be in the spa, so that's at least the end of August (& after Lesson Zero)
Dash's spa pictures are what upsets her, so it stretches at least to September if not later.
Baby Cakes
Gabby Gums Story about Baby Cakes (? Possibly out sequence)
is in the second week of Ponyville Confidential, so the Cake twins have been born
& this must have been in August because
AJ is in the first part (birth at the hospital),
so the twins' birth must be before nobody sees AJ for 2 weeks
However, Pinkie writes a Friendship Letter, so "a month later"
must be after Lesson Zero
Applebuck Season
mid August for start of harvest?
(Wikipedia says "maybe")
Bloom helps herding sheep (ICR which episode)
but not with the cattle stampede. Maybe they are just too big
for her, or maybe she's in school. The problem is that
before the second part, Twilight says that nobody has seen
AJ for 2 weeks. This means that it's either after Lesson Zero
or it overlaps at least 1, maybe 2 episodes.
The problem with THAT is that, in the first 3 seasons
there are only 4 episodes without AJ as at least a background pony
Putting Your Hoof Down
Fluttershy writes the letter. No help.
Hearts & Hooves Day
Pony Valentine's Day. Mac isn't injured. No help
Hurricane Fluttershy
Fluttershy writes the letter. No help.
Stare Master
Fluttershy meets the CMCs, so after Call of the Cutie
This has to be during ABS. Either 2nd or 3rd weekend in August
If you assume that Twilight wrote about the stampede,
(even though it's not specified) then that covers August.
otherwise, Apple Buck Season has to be after Lesson Zero
& the timing is (probably) too tight for that.
Lesson Zero
Must be after
Apple Buck Season part 2 &
Call of the Cutie
but before
Baby Cakes part 2 (Pinkie writes Letter)
Ticket Master
Twilight helps Apple Jack, so it's after Applebuck Season
Fluttershy says she is Spring cleaning &
Twilight replies "It's Summer", so before September 21
& probably before the end of August
Dash describes her proposed Gala routine & does NOT mention
doing a Rainboom, so before Sonic Rainboom.

The title is a reference to an episode of The Simpsons. Ned Flanders called Lisa Simpson that.