Jan
27th
2020
Does Sweet Apple Acres have a barn or not? · 5:02pm Jan 27th, 2020
The house looks like a barn, but it's a house. None of the maps I've found or screenshots show an actual separate building in a place that's reasonable to find a barn, but... they're a farm. They've gotta have a barn. And I feel like I've seen the inside of it, maybe in a CMC episode?
This is important to know because I have a certain asshole goose friend who needs to know where the barn is.
They've definitely had barns. Said barns have been eaten by parasprites, dive bombed by Rainbow Dash, mobbed by Pinkie clones, wrecked by runaway hayrides...
Suffice to say, the goose will be in good (bad?) company.
They had a barn but it was racist.
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Raise this barn! Not - ah, skip it.
grumble grumble homophones grumble
This was a relevant question for me when I was writing To Keep the Fire Burning as well, since several chapters were set in and around Sweet Apple Acres, so I did some research of my own. I don't think I turned up any definitive answer, but for writing purposes, what I eventually concluded was that the Apple house is both a house and a barn. The upper floors are obviously inhabited, containing bedrooms and such. That part protruding from the side is the kitchen, I think. A small part of the rest of the bottom floor may also be used for living purposes. But much like a house with a garage attached, at least some portion of the bottom floor is used like an actual barn, and that'll be the part that the barn doors on the front lead into.
It's pretty weird, but it worked for me.
From what I remember, a large part of the lower level appears to be a traditional barn with the Apple Family living quarters being upstairs and as add-ons.
There are in fact FOUR buildings they show in the seasons.
1)The apple home
2)Main barn, sits to the left of the home and back, as you look at it from the road approaching.
3)Smaller older barn, destroyed by Rainbow Dash in Zero Lesson, and then rebuilt.
4)Back storage barn, always shown in the background somewhere near the zap apple area.
In general, most farms have three barns. One for Hay storage, one for Farm animals and one for general equipment storage. Plus a few smaller building and the homestead.
Like everyone else has said they have three.
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My husband wants me to write the story of the racist barn at Sweet Apple Acres. Maybe someday. :-)
There definitely is a barn -- the inside of it is visible in a few episodes.
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The Apples are working in it during the setup and conclusion to "Where the Apple Lies", for example, and it's where Pinkie's birthday party is held in "Party of One".
The issue is that it doesn't seem to have any features distinguishing it from the main house from the outside -- as far as I can tell it only seems to exist when an episode needs a scene set inside it.
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They had four of them, actually.
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I'd love to see what you do with that one. In the meantime perhaps he'd be content with this: Racist Barn.
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Technically, "raze this barn" would be a homophone. "Racist barn" is a mondegreen.
Yes and no.
Generally speaking, the Sweet Apple Acre local quantum barn field has a strongly fluctuating occupation number; it does have a non-zero expectation value, but there is also a non-zero probability of measuring exactly zero barns at Sweet Apple Acres at a given time.
However, excluding the possibility of Bose condensation, there will be no more than 24.5 barns at Sweet Apple Acres under any circumstances.
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Thank you, Sparkle.
They've shown the interior of at least one barn there in at least one episode. Given the size of the farm (*), I've always assumed that there was a main barn near the farmhouse, and subsidiary storage structures located elsewhere on the property.
(*) Small compared to a real modern American Midwestern American agribusiness, but remember that their farm equipment is mostly the sort you'd see on a farm 100-150 years ago.
Wasn't there an episode that featured a barn-raising? And I got the impression it wasn't a rare event. Maybe it's not a permanent structure and they just build one when they need it?
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Aww, I was going for Mudbriar.