The Best Episodes of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Season 8
Every episode of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Season 8 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Season 8!
Journey to the enchanted land of Equestria, where unicorn Twilight Sparkle and her pals have adventures and learn valuable lessons about friendship.
Season 8 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic" season 8 is "School Daze (1)", rated 7.7/10 from 386 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by Michael Vogel, Nicole Dubuc. "School Daze (1)" aired on 3/24/2018 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "School Daze (2)".
7.7/10 386 votes#1 - School Daze (1)
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 3/24/2018
When the Friendship Map grows bigger to reflect the world beyond Equestria, the Mane Six realize they'll need a way to spread the message of friendship far and wide. Luckily, Twilight knows just what to do - open a School of Friendship.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Vogel, Nicole Dubuc
7.8/10 384 votes#2 - School Daze (2)
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 3/24/2018
Twilight must reunite her students to stand up for what's right when the Friendship School gets closed by the EEA.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Vogel, Nicole Dubuc
7.0/10 387 votes#3 - The Maud Couple
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 3/31/2018
Pinkie Pie's super-best-friend-sister bond is challenged when Maud gets a boyfriend that Pinkie can't stand.
Director: N/A
Writer: Nick Confalone
7.1/10 377 votes#4 - Fake It 'Til You Make It
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 4/7/2018
Fluttershy vows to look after Rarity's Manehattan boutique while she's away and takes on a series of characters in order to cope with the intimidating clientele.
Director: Denny Lu, Mike Myhre
Writer: Joshua Hamilton
7.0/10 364 votes#5 - Grannies Gone Wild
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 4/14/2018
Rainbow Dash agrees to accompany Granny Smith and a group of elder ponies to Las Pegasus so she can ride a roller coaster before it closes.
Director: N/A
Writer: Gillian M. Berrow
7.7/10 376 votes#6 - Surf and/or Turf
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 4/21/2018
The Cutie Mark Crusaders are called by the Cutie Map to Mount Aris to help a Hippogriff find where he belongs - either with his seapony or Hippogriff relatives.
Director: N/A
Writer: Brian Hohlfeld
8.1/10 473 votes#7 - Horse-Play
Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 4/28/2018
Princess Celestia's dream of being in a play is fulfilled when Twilight casts her in one, but realizes that her talents lie elsewhere.
Director: N/A
Writer: Kaita Mpambara
7.4/10 367 votes#8 - The Parent Map
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 5/5/2018
When Starlight Glimmer and Sunburst are called by the Cutie Map to visit their old hometown, they discover that their parents are having a friendship problem.
Director: N/A
Writer: Dave Rapp
4.4/10 414 votes#9 - Non-Compete Clause
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 5/12/2018
Applejack and Rainbow Dash compete with each other to see who gets to be Teacher of the Month.
Director: N/A
Writer: Kim Beyer-Johnson
7.9/10 410 votes#10 - The Break Up Breakdown
Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 5/19/2018
When Big Mac overhears Sugar Belle talking to Mrs. Cake, he starts to believe that Sugar Belle is going to break up with him.
Director: N/A
Writer: Nick Confalone
7.5/10 367 votes#11 - Molt Down
Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 5/26/2018
Spike goes through a process that dragons suffer from that might kick him out of the house.
Director: N/A
Writer: Josh Haber
7.1/10 355 votes#12 - Marks for Effort
Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 6/2/2018
The Cutie Mark Crusaders try many attempts to attend Twilight's School of Friendship, despite making it clear that they've already mastered the curriculum.
Director: N/A
Writer: Nicole Dubuc
7.8/10 481 votes#13 - The Mean 6
Season 8 Episode 13 - Aired 6/9/2018
When the ponies decide to go on a camping trip, Queen Chrysalis creates evil clones of the Mane 6 to help her steal the Elements of Harmony so she can use their power to get revenge on Starlight.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Vogel
5.4/10 378 votes#14 - A Matter of Principals
Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 8/4/2018
When Twilight leaves Starlight in charge of the School of Friendship, Discord is frustrated that he wasn't asked, so he does what he can to make Starlight's new role impossible.
Director: N/A
Writer: Nicole Dubuc
6.4/10 360 votes#15 - The Hearth’s Warming Club
Season 8 Episode 15 - Aired 8/4/2018
Preparations for Hearth's Warming Eve are ruined, and while Twilight tries to figure out who's behind it, the students bond over shared memories of their home.
Director: N/A
Writer: Brian Hohlfeld
7.7/10 363 votes#16 - Friendship University
Season 8 Episode 16 - Aired 8/11/2018
When Twilight discovers there's another school of friendship, she and Rarity go to investigate and are shocked to discover that Twilight's idol and Pillar of Old Equestria, Starswirl the Bearded, is enrolled at Friendship U.
Director: N/A
Writer: Chris Wyatt, Kevin Burke
6.5/10 349 votes#17 - The End in Friend
Season 8 Episode 17 - Aired 8/18/2018
Rarity and Rainbow Dash begin to question why they are friends when they can't find anything they both like to do together.
Director: N/A
Writer: Gillian M. Berrow
6.5/10 349 votes#18 - Yakity-Sax
Season 8 Episode 18 - Aired 8/25/2018
Pinkie Pie has a new hobby that she absolutely loves - playing the Zenithrash. But when her friends discourage her from playing due to her lack of skill, it causes a series of events leading to Pinkie Pie possibly leaving Ponyville forever!
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael P. Fox, Wil Fox
7.9/10 444 votes#19 - Road to Friendship
Season 8 Episode 19 - Aired 9/1/2018
When Trixie is invited to bring her magic show to the far off land of Saddle Arabia, she can think of nopony better to bring along than her great and powerful assistant, Starlight-but, not all friends are meant to travel together.
Director: N/A
Writer: Josh Haber
7.2/10 367 votes#20 - The Washouts
Season 8 Episode 20 - Aired 9/8/2018
When Scootaloo becomes enamored with The Washouts, a touring group of stunt ponies, Rainbow Dash is concerned for her safety and worries that Scoot's day as her number one fan are over.
Director: N/A
Writer: Nick Confalone
7.4/10 327 votes#21 - A Rockhoof and a Hard Place
Season 8 Episode 21 - Aired 9/15/2018
When Rockhoof, heroic Pillar of the past, is having trouble fitting into the modern world, Twilight and her friends strive to help him find a new purpose.
Director: N/A
Writer: Kaita Mpambara
8.4/10 346 votes#22 - What Lies Beneath
Season 8 Episode 22 - Aired 9/22/2018
The students of Twilight's School of Friendship are cramming for "History of Magic in Equestria" exam in the school library when they discover a part of the school that no pony else knows about. When they decide to do some exploring they end up learning much more than they bargained for.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Vogel
9.1/10 495 votes#23 - Sounds of Silence
Season 8 Episode 23 - Aired 9/29/2018
Fluttershy and Applejack journey to the edge of Equestria on a Friendship Quest to help a group of creatures named Kirin who are so afraid of hurting each other's feelings, they've taken a vow of silence.
Director: N/A
Writer: Gregory Bonsignore
5.7/10 344 votes#24 - Father Knows Beast
Season 8 Episode 24 - Aired 10/6/2018
When a strange dragon crash lands in Ponyville claiming to be Spike's father, Spike is ready to do anything his "dad" says in order to learn how a to be a "real" dragon.
Director: N/A
Writer: Josh Haber
8.2/10 357 votes#25 - School Raze (1)
Season 8 Episode 25 - Aired 10/13/2018
When the magic of Equestria mysteriously begins to fail, Twilight leads her friends on a quest for answers, leaving the School of Friendship open to attack from a dangerous mastermind.
Director: N/A
Writer: Nicole Dubuc