Spike marvels at Applejack's skills and thanks her immensely for saving his life. Applejack, proving to be far more resourceful than Spike, dispatches the wolves and leaves them as piles of leaves and tree bark. She distracts the beasts so that Spike can get away, and the timberwolves chase after her. Just before the timberwolves can make a quick meal out of the dragon, however, Applejack comes to the rescue. They chase him through the forest and soon corner him. The horrors of the Everfree Forest are quickly made apparent to Spike, and he's confronted by a pack of three timberwolves. Spike re-tethers the balloon to the ground before realizing where he's ended up. He chases the runaway hot air balloon across Ponyville, nearly crashing into Granny Smith in the process, and eventually catches it as it floats over the Everfree Forest. In his excitement though, he accidentally undoes the balloon's rope tether, and it takes off without him. Spike jumps at the chance to do things he's been wanting to do, such as touching his nose with his tongue, playing bongos on his belly and smelling his own feet, but quickly runs out of things to do when it turns out he's not as good at putting together to-do lists as Twilight is.īored, Spike wanders through Ponyville for a bit before deciding to take a ride in the Twinkling Balloon. Realizing how busy such an assignment will be keeping her, Twilight gives Spike the day off. Princess Celestia has assigned twelve books for Twilight to read over the course of a weekend. The episode opens at Twilight Sparkle's library in Ponyville. Twelve books in one weekend? 'Not a problem'!

The final version uses Applejack instead. However, it was re-written because Rarity was too mean to Spike in the original script. In the episode's early stages, it was a Rarity and Spike episode. When asked about the Dragon Code, Dave Polsky admitted that Dragon Quest had shown Spike knew little about being a dragon but ' felt it credible he'd taken initiative to learn about his dragon heritage since'. The timberwolves, except for the big one, were modeled and animated with 3D cel-shaded graphics (instead of Adobe Flash) by John Cantlie in Autodesk Maya. The episode was released on the iTunes Store hours before the scheduled airing. Ī clip was released by Entertainment Weekly a day before the episode's scheduled airing. Show layout supervisor Tim Stuby wrote on Twitter 'Apple Fam Reunion is 309' in response to an Equestria Daily post that, at the time, listed Apple Family Reunion and Spike at Your Service as the respective eighth and ninth episodes of the third season, show storyboard artist Sabrina Alberghetti wrote on deviantArt that Apple Family Reunion was slotted as 9 when she 'did it, but stuff like that changes all the time', and show storyboard artist Raven Molisee listed the episode as number 310 on DeviantArt. The episode is listed on both the iTunes Store and Zap2it as the tenth episode of the third season, and the keywords of Hasbro's YouTube upload of a clip from the episode include 'Ep 310'.

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