The Canon of "The Day the Show Reset": A Quick and Dirty Guide · 12:13am Apr 22nd, 2018
In the world of The Day the Show Reset, there are a lot of differences to real life, minor alterations from the show, and decisions on how the chronology of the show plays out. This blog will be updated as more details about the fic's canon are decided.
- Equestria Girls is canon.
- Every month has 30 days, and there are no leap years. Because I hate math.
- The series begins in the year 1106.
- Twilight and her friends are about 15-17 when the series begins (and 22-24 when it ends).
- Spike and the CMC are around 7-8 when the series begins (and 14-15 when it ends).
- There are 7 years between the first episode and the last.
LAST UPDATED: 7/18 (will be updated again later, possibly to add Rollercoaster of Friendship and the rest of Season 8)
PRE-RETCON TIMELINE (FULL)
Year 1 (6/14/1106 - 6/13/1107)
Summer
Friendship is Magic
Griffon the Brush-Off
Boast Busters
Bridle Gossip
Dragonshy
Feeling Pinkie Keen
Look Before You Sleep
(5 weeks of unknown letters)
The Ticket Master
Sonic Rainboom
Autumn
Call of the Cutie
Stare Master
The Cutie Mark Chronicles
(3 weeks of unknown letters)
Luna Eclipsed
(2 weeks of unknown letters)
Over A Barrel
Buckball Season
Applebuck Season
Fall Weather Friends
Winter
(Twilight is on Winter Break from letters to Celestia)
Spring
Winter Wrap Up
Suited For Success
Swarm of the Century
Green Isn't Your Color
Owl's Well That Ends Well
A Dog and Pony Show
A Bird in the Hoof
The Return of Harmony
The Best Night Ever
The Show Stoppers
Party of One
Lesson Zero
Year 2 (6/14/1107 - 6/13/1108)
Summer
Sisterhooves Social
Baby Cakes (prologue / birth)
Secret of My Excess
Putting Your Hoof Down
The Last Roundup
Baby Cakes (main episode / monthiversary)
The Mysterious Mare Do Well
Wonderbolts Academy
Magic Duel
Read It and Weep
MMMystery on the Friendship Express
One Bad Apple
Autumn
Ponyville Confidential
Family Appreciation Day // Spike At Your Service
Somepony to Watch Over Me
Hearts and Hooves Day
The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000
Dragon Quest
Winter
Hearth's Warming Eve
Spring
Hurricane Fluttershy
A Friend in Deed
Sweet and Elite
May the Best Pet Win!
The Cutie Pox
Too Many Pinkie Pies
A Canterlot Wedding
The Crystal Empire
It's About Time
Games Ponies Play // Just For Sidekicks
Apple Family Reunion
Flight to the Finish
Keep Calm and Flutter On
Sleepless in Ponyville
Magical Mystery Cure
Equestria Girls
Year 3 (6/14/1108 - 6/13/1109)
Summer
Princess Twilight Sparkle
Castle Mane-ia
Testing Testing 1, 2, 3
Power Ponies
Inspiration Manifestation
Three's A Crowd
Leap of Faith
It Ain't Easy Being Breezies
Daring Don't (Main episode)
Filli Vanilli
Trade Ya!
Maud Pie
Pinkie Apple Pie
Simple Ways
Autumn
Twilight Time
Rarity Takes Manehattan
Rainbow Falls
Daring Don't (Epilogue/Journal Entry; ~2 months later)
Bats!
Scare Master
Pinkie Pride
For Whom the Sweetie Belle Toils
Equestria Games // Twilight's Kingdom (Games are why the Maretonian officials are visiting: Equestria Games happens between "You'll Play Your Part" and Celestia's vision.)
Rainbow Rocks
The Cutie Map
Castle Sweet Castle
Winter
Tanks For the Memories
Spring
Canterlot Boutique
Rarity Investigates!
Slice of Life
Make New Friends but Keep Discord
Princess Spike
Amending Fences
Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?
Campfire Tales
Year 4 (6/14/1109 - 6/13/1110)
Summer
Made in Manehattan // Brotherhooves Social
Bloom & Gloom
Appleoosa's Most Wanted
P.P.O.V. (Pony Point of View) // Friends Forever #18 (After Rainbow Falls, but clearly before Starlight's presence, likely in summer)
The Lost Treasure of Griffonstone
Crusaders of the Lost Mark
On Your Marks
The Hooffields and McColts
Autumn
Party Pooped
What About Discord?
28 Pranks Later
The One Where Pinkie Pie Knows
The Cart Before the Ponies
The Mane Attraction
The Perfect Pear
Winter
Hearthbreakers
Spring
The Cutie Re-Mark // Friendship Games
The Crystalling
No Second Prances
Newbie Dash
The Times They Are A-Changeling
A Health of Information
Gauntlet of Fire
Spice Up Your Life
Applejack's "Day" Off
Top Bolt
Year 5 (6/14/1110 - 6/13/1111)
Summer
Stranger Than Fan Fiction
Every Little Thing She Does
Fluttershy Leans In
Viva Las Pegasus
The Gift of the Maud Pie
Autumn
Discordant Harmony
Flutter Brutter
Where the Apple Lies // Legend of Everfree
Not Asking for Trouble // Dance Magic, Movie Magic, Mirror Magic
The Saddle Row Review
Daring Done?
Honest Apple
The Fault in Our Cutie Marks
Parental Glideance
Winter
A Hearth's Warming Tail
Spring
A Flurry of Emotions // To Where And Back Again (Flurry's in Ponyville while Starlight and Trixie head off to Our Town)
Celestial Advice
All Bottled Up
Once Upon A Zeppelin
Triple Threat
Rock Solid Friendship
Forever Filly
To Change A Changeling // Forgotten Friendship
Hard To Say Anything
Uncommon Bond / Shadow Play
Fame and Misfortune
Year 6 (6/14/1111 - 6/13/1112)
Summer
Marks and Recreation
It Isn't The Mane Thing About You
Dungeons and Discords
Secrets and Pies
A Royal Problem
It Isn't The Mane Thing About You (Epilogue: Rarity has hair again)
Autumn
MLP: The Movie
School Daze
Fake It 'Til You Make It (Early in the semester: Twilight is still making the curriculum, but classes are in session)
The Maud Couple (Happens after Fake It 'Til You Make It, since Mudbriar is why Maud's schedule is filled up)
Surf and/or Turf (Early in the semester: Twilight is just now getting field trip permissions, but it's been enough weeks that she needs a break)
Grannies Gone Wild (Could happen any time after the school is opened)
Horse Play (Could happen any time after the school is opened)
The Parent Map (Could happen any time after the school is opened and before Spike gets his wings)
The Break-Up Break Down (Could happen any time after The Maud Couple and before Molt-Down)
Non-Compete Clause (Late in the semester: Fluttershy has been Teacher of the Month a number of times; CHANGE FROM CANON: Instead of 9 months, it has been 3.)
Molt-Down (Late in the semester: Must happen after Non-Compete Clause, but before Hearth's Warming.)
Marks for Effort (Late in the semester: Spike's wings are described as "new".)
More episodes TBA
Winter
The Hearth's Warming Club (Season 8 Episode 15; Airs on August 4th)
Spring
The Mean 6 (Episode shows newly hatched birds and a few flowers, as well as the school already being built, implying the following Spring.)
More episodes TBA
Year 7 (6/14/1112 - 6/13/1113)
More episodes TBA
POST-RETCON TIMELINE (FULL)
WARNING! SPOILERS AHEAD!
Year 1 (6/14/1106 - 6/13/1107)
Summer
6/14 - Chapter 1
Twilight wakes up to find herself transported seven years into the past, and in her past body. She rectifies the Moon Dancer situation early, and informs Celestia of the situation, though she remains purposefully vague on specific dates, details, and the order of events. Celestia sends her to Ponyville.
6/14-6/16 - Chapter 2
Twilight does her best to make sure the Nightmare Moon incident goes as it originally did to prevent any major tragedies, and has Celestia allow anypony to send her letters to get ahead of the Lesson Zero curve. That afternoon, she writes down all of the things she can remember about the future, and creates various charts and graphs. Compiling everything into a succinct report, she sends the report to Celestia, who shows up the next day and asks Twilight if she's really okay with sacrificing the future she once knew for the apparant benefit of Equestria. Twilight takes some time to think.
6/19-6/20 - Chapter 3 (upcoming)
More chapters TBA
I hate math too, specifically Algebra XD
And my MLP story, MLP: Friendship vs Evil, takes place either within the TV show, after the movie, or after the speculative end of the show. EG isn't canon, but there are human characters in there. The majority of main villains exist in the storyline, but as high followers of the actual main antagonist.
And most of my OC characters are canon, but the entire timeline of the story, is an entire loop. Not an infinite loop, cause eventually, the loop is cancelled.
I explained more about it in a blog post. 😄
But anyway, I like your idea of your " Day the show restarted " story. 😄
So, this story begins after this season 8 episode (which I have no clue what it is and I don't want to know yet) or doesn't this begin at season one, episode one?
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Let me simplify that sentence for you.
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So... is this season one, episode one?
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Yes.