 " The Return of Harmony " is the collective name for the first and second episodes of the second season of the Canadian @-@ American animated television series My Little Pony : Friendship Is Magic , as well as the twenty @-@ seventh and twenty @-@ eighth episodes of the series overall . Both episodes were directed by Jayson Thiessen and written by M.A. Larson . Part one of the episode aired in the United States on September 17 , 2011 on the Hub Network . Part two aired the following week , on September 24 . The episode received a Nielsen household rating of 0 @.@ 2 and was viewed by over 339 @,@ 000 viewers , making it the highest @-@ rated episode ever broadcast by the Hub at that point . This is also the last My Little Pony : Friendship Is Magic episode to be produced by Studio B Productions . 
