Social theme
Making friends
Making friends is one of the first big social tasks of early childhood, and it takes years of practice. Children have to learn to notice another person, share space and things, handle a no, and repair a moment that went wrong. A calm, well made series about friendship gives them small, clear examples of how that works, at a pace that leaves room to watch and think.
For 2-year-olds
At two, friendship mostly looks like playing next to someone rather than with them. Toddlers watch other children closely, copy what they do, and find sharing genuinely hard because a toy in hand still feels like part of themselves. Look for a series with few characters, faces that are easy to read, and simple moments of helping or giving something back. Slow pacing matters here: a toddler needs time to see what happened before the next thing starts.
Numberblocks
Another One
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co-watching from 2
One, a small red block, wakes up in a sunny landscape and tries to play tennis but realises there is only one of him. After trying to run between both sides of the court, he discovers a magic mirror that lets another One appear. The two combine into Two, an orange block, and the story ends with the pair playing tennis together while the math '1 + 1 = 2' is reinforced through dialogue and on-screen text. The episode closes with end credits.
Ready Eddie GO!
New Classmate
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co-watching from 2
Eddie, a young boy, learns that a new girl named Frida is joining his class and worries that his familiar routines will change. Guided by a calm narrator through chapters called Preparing, Welcome, Changes and Being kind, he watches classmates make welcome cards, practises greeting someone new, and eventually offers Frida his rocket toy when she looks unsure. Set almost entirely in a colourful classroom, the story follows his shift from resisting change to accepting it. By the end Eddie says he is really glad Frida is there and is ready for a new classmate.
Miffy and Friends
Miffy Meets Snuffy
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co-watching from 2
Miffy hears a strange scratching at her front door and finds a friendly brown dog waiting outside. She names him Snuffy, gives him cold water in the kitchen and takes him out into the garden, where he shows that he can sit, beg and roll over. Snuffy then runs to the kitchen window and barks until Miffy realises she has forgotten to turn off the tap and quickly closes it. The episode ends with Miffy thanking Snuffy with a biscuit and inviting him to come back any time, followed by an end card with subscribe and next-video prompts.
Bea's Block
New Kid on the Block
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co-watching from 2
When a moving truck brings a new family to the block, Bea and her friends welcome the new kid, Priya, with homemade cookies. Priya cannot find her favourite puppets among the moving boxes and grows worried, so the friends form a 'kindness club' and play detectives to track them down. They follow clues, a smiley face on the box, its large size, and the oink of a piggy bank inside, until they open the right box. Priya reunites with her puppets and the group welcomes her to the neighbourhood.
Ready Eddie GO!
Breaktime
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co-watching from 2
Eddie, a young boy in a red school uniform, is guided by a friendly narrator through everything that can happen at break time. He tries building blocks, joins in hopscotch and tag, gets confused when the game turns into animal tag, and learns he can ask friends or a teacher for help. When it all feels like too much, Miss Mac invites him to rest on the friendship bench. The bell rings, break time ends, and Eddie heads back to class feeling ready.
Donkey Hodie
Clyde's Surprise Playdate
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Donkey Hodie learns that his friend Clyde the Cloud has never had a playdate, so he floats up into the sky to give him one. The two discover they are very different, a cloud who drifts and rains and a donkey who runs and plays, and their first tries at catch and spinning do not work. A song about differences and a flashback to Donkey's first playdate with Purple Panda help them see that being unalike can lead to new games. They end up inventing floating tag, bird-call games and Ring Around the Rainbow, and plan another playdate for the next day.
Duck & Goose
Find Something Round
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co-watching from 2
In a sunny meadow, two friends, a duck and a goose, stop their game of tag when they discover a large round spotted object. Believing it is an egg, they climb to a high nest to keep it warm, shelter it from rain, give it names and make a doll to practice caring for a baby. A passing bluebird points out that it is actually a ball, not an egg. They take the news cheerfully and float the ball over to Mama Duck's new duckling as a gift, making a new friend.
Disney Junior Ariel
Clamming Up
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co-watching from 2
Ariel, Lucia, Fernie, and Flounder are on an undersea nature swim when they find a lone clam resting by the rocks. Hoping to befriend it, they nickname it Ruben and try one idea after another to make it open up, from knock-knock jokes and human treasures to a magic blanket, fireworks, and a song. Nothing works, and they decide to return the clam to its home. Only then does the clam speak, revealing her name is Clamilla and that she is simply shy and needs time, and the friends agree that everyone is different and welcome to be themselves.
Get Rolling with Otis
A New Truck in Town
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co-watching from 2
Otis, a red farm tractor, spends the day doing chores with his friend Celeste, a young pink piglet, on a country farm. When Kevin, a big new truck, arrives and turns out to be faster and stronger at every job, Otis begins to worry that no one needs him anymore. The turning point comes when Celeste gets stuck in sticky mud and is frightened, and Otis makes a plan and teams up with Kevin to pull her out. By the end Otis sees that he still matters, and the friends welcome Kevin to the farm.
Me & Winnie the Pooh
Meet Piglet
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co-watching from 2
Piglet introduces himself to the child watching and spends a short visit playing together in his cozy treehouse. He shares that he sometimes gets scared, makes a list of his fears, and pretends to be a brave 'Super Piglet' who flies around. He then builds a block town, rebuilds it after it topples, and is briefly startled by a falling helmet. The visit ends with Piglet thanking the viewer for being his friend and saying goodbye until next time.
For 3-year-olds
Three year olds begin to play together properly, with roles and rules they invent as they go. Friendship is still concrete and of the moment, often meaning whoever is standing beside them right now. Small conflicts over turns and toys are constant and normal. Helpful at this stage are stories where a disagreement is named out loud, solved calmly and quickly, and where an adult stays nearby without taking over. Repetition helps the pattern sink in.
Phoebe & Jay
Paint on the Mail
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co-watching from 2
Siblings Phoebe and Jay live in an apartment building called Tobsy Towers with their dad and grandma. When wet paint smears the addresses on two packages, the family delivers them by reading the leftover clues, floor numbers, apartment letters, and wayfinding signs, meeting several neighbors along the way. They reach the right doors, make new friends, and learn that a kind neighbor named Mr. Gurley never gets any mail. The episode ends with the children hand-delivering him a gift that blends their two favorite games.
Jessica's Big Little World
The Big Kid Playground
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co-watching from 2
Jessica decides she is ready to leave the little kid playground and take on the big kid playground by herself, while her dad watches from a bench with snacks. She meets Stanley, a boy who plays at being a superhero, and he shows her the slides, jumping mushrooms and wiggly bridge, though she keeps slipping and falling. After nearly giving up, she remembers her dad's words about trying, then climbs up to rescue Stanley when he gets stuck too high. She ends proud of herself and asks to come back tomorrow to keep practicing.
Jessica's Big Little World
Pool School
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Jessica, an imaginative girl who loves pretending to be a shark, arrives with her mother for her first swimming lesson at an outdoor pool. Their teacher, Mr. Mark, guides a small group of children through floating, doggy paddle, kicking and getting their faces wet. Along the way Jessica makes friends with Logan and Stanley, talks about how everyone's body looks different, and works past her fear of the water. She ends by putting her whole head under and standing up for Stanley, with her mom cheering her on.
Sago Mini Friends
Pineapple Pat
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co-watching from 2
Harvey the dog receives a package holding a squeaky pineapple toy, which he names Pineapple Pat and treats as a living friend. He introduces Pat to his pals Ginger the cat and Jack the rabbit, but their games of catch, kite-flying and joke-telling keep going sideways. Ginger grows frustrated until Harvey suggests she spend time alone with Pat, and she discovers she enjoys the toy after all. The friends end the day playing catch together and sharing a song about being thankful.
Jessica's Big Little World
Little Twin
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Jessica meets a girl named Myra at the park and, because they look so alike, decides they are 'twins'. As they play bubbles, hopscotch, share a sandwich and dig in the sandbox, they keep discovering they like different things, which leads to an argument. With gentle advice from Grandma Jojo, Jessica apologises and the two combine their ideas into a shared 'space castle kingdom'. They end the day playing together as friends who are happily different.
Pocoyo
A Little Cloud
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Pocoyo sets out to play and notices a shadow that turns out to be a little cloud following him. His friend Pato is wary of it, and when the cloud rains the narrator explains its feelings are hurt. Pocoyo has an idea to reach the cloud, and by shouting together the friends learn it simply wants company. The episode ends with the cloud giving Pocoyo and Pato a ride and everyone celebrating a new friend.
Paprika
The Newcomer
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co-watching from 2
Stan and Olivia want everyone to play with their giant beach ball, but Bigfoot cannot join because a seagull is sitting on his head and refuses to play. The two friends try one idea after another to befriend the bird, talking to her, sharing a snack, and even wearing seagulls on their own heads. In the end the birds squabble and the newcomer flies off, and Bigfoot reveals she was never his friend, just a bird that had landed on him three days earlier. He thanks the friends and finally takes his turn with the beach ball.
Caillou
Caillou's Not Afraid Anymore
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Grandma reads the children a story about a time when 3-year-old Caillou was afraid of his neighbor Mr. Hinkle, who looked spooky from a distance. After running away from him outside, Caillou hides at home when Mr. Hinkle comes over to apologise. Mr. Hinkle turns the moment into a game of hide and seek, and by the time he finds Caillou, the two are laughing together and become friends.
Peppa Pig
The Playgroup
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Peppa and George travel to Peppa's playgroup for George's first day, watched over by Madam Gazelle. Peppa first worries her little brother is too small, but after Danny Dog admires George's toy dinosaur she becomes proud of him. During a painting session Peppa tries to teach George to paint a flower while he paints a dinosaur instead. Madam Gazelle praises both pictures and hangs them on the wall, and the children ask if George can come again next time.
Hello, Jack! The Kindness Show
Jack and Olivia's Big Bus Adventure
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co-watching from 3
Jack, the host of a kindness show, helps a girl named Olivia who feels nervous about her first school bus ride. At the Hummingbird Cafe he gives her a practice ride, a toy bus buddy and encouragement from friends until she climbs aboard the real bus on her own. When Olivia leaves her lunch behind, Jack rushes it to the class at the farmer's market. There they watch how sunflower seeds are turned into sunflower butter, and the episode closes with a song about spreading kindness.
For 4-year-olds
Four is when preferences sharpen. Children pick favourites, form pairs, and sometimes tell another child they cannot join in, which stings on both sides. Pretend play gets elaborate and needs constant negotiating about who is who. Useful stories at this age show the whole arc: something goes wrong between friends, someone feels it, and they find their way back through an apology or a new idea. Watching characters repair a friendship teaches more than watching them avoid trouble.
Bluey
Camping
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Bluey meets Jean-Luc, a French-speaking dog, while her family is camping in the Australian bush. Over several days the two invent games together, pretending to live in the forest, planting a seed and chasing a wild pig. One morning Bluey finds Jean-Luc's tent packed away and learns his family has gone home. Her mum comforts her with the idea that special people sometimes come for a while and then leave, and the seed they planted grows into a small tree.
Puffin Rock
Lamb Chase
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co-watching from 4
On a calm Irish coastal island, the puffling Oona and her baby brother Baba meet a lamb that seems to have wandered away from its mother. Guided by a warm narrator, Oona decides to walk the lamb back to the meadow, but the lamb keeps leading Baba on playful detours around the island. In the end they discover the mother sheep was hidden in the tall grass the whole time, so the lamb was never truly lost. The lamb reunites with its mum while Oona and Baba look on.
The Berenstain Bears
Go to School
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co-watching from 2
Sister Bear is nervous about starting third grade after Too Tall's gang teases her that it is impossibly hard. At home, Brother, Mama and Papa reassure her, and Mama uses a photo album to recall how Sister once dreaded kindergarten yet quickly came to love it. Encouraged, Sister tries third grade and comes home pleased, while Papa faces his own fear and bakes his first apple pie. The episode ends with the family together and the lesson that new things are worth trying.
Mira, Royal Detective
The Mystery of the New Kid
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Mira, the royal detective, helps her cousin Mina find a missing gold earring in the bustling town of Jalpur. When Mina blames Sandeep, a boy new to town, Mira insists on gathering clues first and traces a feather to a shiny-loving crow. The earring turns up in the crow's nest, Mina apologises to Sandeep, and Prince Neil builds the crow a shiny toy of its own. The episode ends with the group sharing a meal and welcoming Sandeep as a new friend.
Puffin Rock
A Summer Visitor
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co-watching from 4
On the Irish island of Puffin Rock, young puffin Oona befriends Chloe, an arctic tern visiting for the summer, and shows her around the burrows, dunes and beach while introducing her to family and animal neighbours. A narrator weaves in facts about how terns migrate across the world each year. Over sunny days and a sleepover, the friends grow close. When Chloe must leave, the two exchange feathers and part with the reassurance that she will return next summer.
Pete the Cat
Another Cat's Shoes
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co-watching from 2
When a new family moves in across the street, Pete the Cat sets out to welcome Gustavo Ornitorinco, a shy platypus who is nervous about fitting in. Pete introduces him to friends like Callie, Grumpy, and Emma, but Gustavo cannot climb, leap, or paint the way they do and leaves feeling like the odd one out. The friends track him down and discover he is a talented drummer, so they invite him to join their band. The story ends with the lesson that everyone has something that makes them special.
Carl the Collector
The Green Piece/The Fuzzyworld Book of Records
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co-watching from 4
In the first story, a new friend named Dylan brings a board game to a party, then knocks the playing pieces into a floor vent and becomes furious, yelling at the others before Carl, his friends and Carl's mother help him calm down and make a plan. They end up using the colored beads from Dylan's scooter as replacement pieces and finally play together. In the second story, Carl reads a book of world records and decides to set one by building a giant pyramid of playing cards, which keeps collapsing. His parents share their own stories of failing many times before succeeding, and Carl resolves to keep trying.
Mira, Royal Detective
The Mongoose Cousin Mystery
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Mira, a young royal detective in the kingdom of Jalpur, welcomes the visiting mongoose cousins Preeti and Neethi to a kite parade. When the boastful older brothers Miku and Chiku lose the cousins' kite off a table, Mira follows a ribbon, cart tracks and a trail of yellow lentils to trace it to a little girl named Dimple. The kite is returned just in time, the cousins admit they only pretended to be kite experts, and everyone reconciles. The episode ends with the kites flying high over the parade.
Jessica's Big Little World
Grocery Store Friend
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co-watching from 2
Jessica and her Daddy go to the grocery store on a pretend secret-agent mission to gather three ingredients for spaghetti dinner: tomatoes, noodles and cheese. Jessica keeps running into a new friend named Poppy, and their playing leads to the groceries accidentally ending up in another family's cart. Daddy stays patient, and Jessica works out that they can catch the other cart to swap the bags back. They recover the food, the two families meet, and Jessica and Poppy arrange a play date before heading home.
Doug Unplugs
A Whole Bot of Fun
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co-watching from 2
Doug, a boy robot from Rebots, delivers a handmade table tennis ball to a girl named Emma in Mega City. Curious about why humans play games, he spends the day with Emma chasing the ball that keeps bouncing away, using roller-skates, a grown-up disguise, and a ball pit along the way. Emma realizes they were having fun the whole time, and Doug learns what a hug means. He flies home and shares his new hug with his proud parents.
For 5-year-olds
By five, children start reading how others feel and comparing themselves to the group. Being left out registers deeply, and so does loyalty, keeping a secret, or standing up for someone. Friendships last longer and carry expectations. Look for stories with a bit more room in them, where a character notices someone on the edge of the group and does something about it, and where kindness costs a little effort rather than happening automatically.
Lyla in the Loop
3, 2, 1 Liftoff!
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Lyla, a girl who solves problems step by step with her blue companion Stu, joins a classroom project to build model spaceships with a partner. She teams up with Joey, a new boy, on a water-powered rocket, but Joey keeps going quiet and slipping away whenever the group gets big. Over two days Lyla realizes Joey feels shy in crowds, and she finds ways to include him one person at a time while they work out why their rocket won't fly. The episode ends at the park, where they seal a leak in the bottle and launch their spaceship together with the whole class.
Dinosaur Train
The Call of the Wild Corythosaurus
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co-watching from 3
Buddy, a young Tyrannosaurus rex raised by a Pteranodon family, travels on the Dinosaur Train to find a herd of crested Corythosaurus. The family watches and listens as the dinosaurs call to one another, and Buddy forms an idea about how they communicate before testing it with his sister Tiny. The animated story ends with the family back on the train, and a real paleontologist, Dr. Scott, closes the episode out in the field talking about real Corythosaurus. Along the way the characters name dinosaur species and describe how the crested heads help the animals make their sounds.
The Hive
A Royal Visit
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co-watching from 2
At Honeydew School, the bees learn that the Queen is coming to celebrate the school's 100th birthday. Everyone is given a job, but Busby keeps being turned away and his painting gets ruined, so he slips off to a quiet spot on his own. There he meets a friendly stranger who suggests he paint a new picture to send to the Queen. When the visitor is announced, Busby discovers his new friend is the Queen herself, who asks him to keep his painting for her.
Dinosaur Train
Beating the Heat
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The Pteranodon mother and her children, including the young T. Rex Buddy, ride the Dinosaur Train and spend a hot day in a prehistoric prairie. There they meet a large green Stegosaurus and work out how its back plates help it cope with the heat. A live-action segment with a paleontologist, Dr. Scott, compares the Stegosaurus to an elephant and shares real facts about the animal. The episode returns to the family before closing.
Peter Rabbit
Peter Rabbit's Christmas Tale
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co-watching from 4
When his uncle is hurt and cannot make the Christmas deliveries, Peter Rabbit volunteers to carry the woodland animals' food from Ginger and Pickles' shop before nightfall. He sets off through the snowy woods with his cousin Benjamin and a talkative new neighbour, Lily, facing a washed-out shopping list, a lost sledge, deep snow and a hungry fox named Mr. Todd. With teamwork and a borrowed wheelbarrow they make every delivery and reach home in time. The family shares Christmas dinner and Peter is given his late father's adventure journal to fill with his own.
Sago Mini Friends
Gary's New Horn
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co-watching from 2
Gary the unicorn spends his day making rainbows for his friends until his horn suddenly falls off. Learning that unicorns get a replacement from the horn fairy, he and his dog friend Harvey set out to find her, helping several characters along the way by inventing new uses for the old horn. They reach the horn fairy, who grants Gary a shiny new horn that produces his biggest rainbow yet. The episode closes with two songs about being thankful and sharing kindness.
Lovely Little Farm
Begins
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co-watching from 2
Jill, a young girl on a family farm, has to move her pets out of her bedroom and into a backyard farm because a new baby is coming and her little sister Jackie needs a room. With help from her dad and the handyman Jammer, Jill settles the goats, chickens, pony, alpaca and a grumpy duck into cozy homes and teaches them to share a barn. Along the way she takes in a pregnant sheep named Barbara and is reassured that she can be a real farmer. The day ends with the family preparing for the baby, Mum leaving for the hospital, and the sisters discovering a mysterious golden egg.
Dinosaur Train
Valley of the Stygimolochs
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co-watching from 3
Buddy, a young Tyrannosaurus Rex, and his Pteranodon sister Tiny ride the Dinosaur Train with their mother to the Valley of the Stygimolochs. There they meet a family of dome-headed Stygimolochs and learn how these dinosaurs look and behave, with Buddy forming a guess and checking it against what he sees. The animated adventure moves between train rides and exploring the valley on foot. It closes with Dr. Scott, a real paleontologist, who connects the episode to actual dinosaur science.
Dora
Boots' Rubber Band Ball
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co-watching from 3
Dora and her friend Boots play baseball with a rubber band ball Boots made himself from a hundred rubber bands. When the ball flies into the forest next door and lands with Cynthia, a friendly centipede with a hundred feet, the two set off to get it back. Boots is nervous about meeting Cynthia, but Dora encourages him to ask politely, and they cross Crocodile Lake with help from their friend Benny. In the end Boots frees the ball from Cynthia's tangled foot, makes a new friend, and everyone plays baseball together.
Meekah
Meekah Flips on a Trampoline at Skyzone
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co-watching from 3
Meekah visits a trampoline park to learn how to do a flip. She picks out grippy socks, counts the trampolines, jumps into a foam pit, and tries shooting baskets while she searches for an instructor named Quincy. When she finds him, he leads her through warm-ups and somersaults and shows a front flip, reminding her to only try one with a grown-up. Meekah decides to keep practicing and closes by inviting viewers to look up her name.
For 6-year-olds
Six year olds test friendships. They handle differing opinions, broken promises, jealousy when a friend plays with someone else, and the pull between fitting in and being themselves. They can follow a story that stretches across an episode and hold two sides of a disagreement in mind. Worth looking for are honest conversations, characters who are wrong sometimes without becoming the bad one, and friendships that survive a real difference rather than a misunderstanding.
Pinecone & Pony
In Plain Sight
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co-watching from 4
In a fantasy training world, warrior-in-training Pinecone is paired with the quiet, nature-loving Wizkid Fauna to care for a magical snake root plant and earn a plant care token. Distracted by jealousy over her best friend Hawthorne befriending Annabelle, Pinecone bungles the plant care while Fauna patiently does the real work. By the end Pinecone admits she did not earn the token and gives Fauna the credit, then makes up with Hawthorne. The episode closes with Fauna inviting Pinecone to the hidden waterfall.
Pinecone & Pony
The Straight and Arrow
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Princess Pinecone, an eight-year-old archer, is thrilled to meet her hero Prince Randolph at a garden party, but he is arrogant and dismissive. Stung by his taunts, she challenges him to an archery duel with her trophy at stake, and when he cheats with his falcon she cheats back using a wizard's magic arrows. On the verge of winning, she confesses to the crowd that she used enchanted arrows and does not deserve the prize. The king makes Randolph return the trophy, and the group shares cake as Pinecone decides she would rather be herself than be like the prince.