The Mane Six, Friendship, and the Elements of Harmony
Those three things; The Mane Six, Friendship, and the Elements of Harmony are the backbone of the show. The full title of the show it My Little Pony; Friendship is Magic. “The mane six” refers to the main 6 ponies that the show centers around. Before I can talk about the second two things I will need to tell you about the Mane Six. In order to do that I must explain the plot of the very first two episodes of the show.
The show starts with a explanation of the current state of Equestria. It tells how two regal sisters ruled the land creating harmony for all who lived there. Celestia raised the Sun every morning and Luna raised the moon every night. The ponies played and enjoyed the day time and slept through the night. This made Luna very jealous and her jealousy turned her into nightmare moon. Using the elements of harmony Celestia banished Nightmare Moon to the moon.

Twilight Sparkle is the very first pony introduced when the show starts in season one. Spike, her baby dragon and loyal assistant is the next important character introduced. Twilight lives in Canterlot, the town I guess would be considered the capital of Equestria. Twilight LOVES books and in the first scene of the show she is reading one about the Elements of Harmony. She does some more reading and realizes that the legend of the character Nightmare Moon is actually true and that this evil pony that Celesita banished to the mood thousands of years ago would be coming back to bring about eternal night. She writes a letter to Celestia about her findings and receives a fast response. Celestia tells her to “stop reading those dusty books.” Celestia asks her to visit the the town of Ponyvile where the annual summer sun celebration is being held. Princess Celestia has asked her to work on making friends. Twilight doesn’t believe that she needs friends and she has her mind set on finding out information on a possible return of night mare moon. This is the town in which she meets the rest of the mane six.
In Ponyvile Twilight Sparkle meets; Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Fluttershy. The rest of the Mane Six.
Nightmare Moon returned and vowed to bring eternal night. Twilight sparkle runs to the library that she was staying in while visiting Ponyvile to look for answers. The rest of the Mane six show up at the library and offer to help. They find a book that says the elements of harmony where last kept in the castle of the two sisters which was destroyed in the fight between nightmare Moon and Celestia thousands of years ago. The castle is right outside of Ponyvile through a forest and rest of the mane six go with Twilight to this castle.
Their journey to the castle is the MOST significant part of the backbone of this show. Nightmare Moon secretively puts obstacles in their way to try to stop them from reaching the castle.
Nightmare Moon’s first attempt at preventing the mane six from getting to the castle was to break the grown below them. Which caused them to slide down and almost go over into a ravine. Applejack grabs onto a twig to slow her down but twilight ends up hanging over the edge. Applejack lets go of the twig and slides down to help Twilight hold on. Moments later Applejack looks up and then tells twilight to let go. Twilight objects. Applejack says “Listen here, what I am telling you is the honest truth.” Twilight reluctantly agrees and lets go. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy catch Twilight mid air.
The second obstacle the gang faces is a manticore. The main six start fighting it one at a time. All but Fluttershy who is trying to get everyone to stop. She finally yells “WAIT” and walks up to the angry manticore and rubs her nose on his paw. He shows her a thorn stuck in his paw. She removes it and the manticore picks her up and begins to lick her in thanks. Twilight asks her how she knew about the thorn. Fluttershy didn’t know about it. She said “Sometimes we just need to be shown a little Kindness”

Nightmare Moon continued to place obstacles in their way. Nightmare Moon uses her magic to put scary faces on the trees that scare the ponies. All of the ponies screamed except for Pinkie Pie. The other ponies stopped screaming when they heard Pinkie Pie laughing. Pinkie did a whole song about how you laugh the “gosties” away.
The fourth thing Nightmare Moon did to try to stop the group from getting to the castle was to cut the mustache off of a sea dragon. His crying caused the river to overflow. Rarity stepped up to save the day. She pulled one of the sea dragons sharp scales and used them to cut off her tail. She used her magic to secure her tail on the sea dragons mustache.

Finally, Nightmare Moon turned herself into ponies that called themselves “Shadow Bolts” a team of the best flyers in all of Equestria. Rainbow Dash’s loyalty was tested but she turned down their offer and went back to her friends.
The group finally gets to the castle and they find the elements of harmony. However, Nightmare Moon gets there at the same time and breaks the stones. Twilight thinks all home is lost but when her 5 friends show up a spark twinkles in her eyes as she realizes her friends are the elements of harmony.
Applejack; Honesty. Fluttershy; Kindness. Pinkie Pie; Laughter. Rarity; Generosity. Rainbow Dash; Loyalty.
The sixth element of harmony is Magic. Twilight Sparkle realizes she represents that element of Magic.
