Common Ground

Common Ground is the 5th episode of the 9th and final season of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and the 201st episode in total. It marks the return of Quibble Pants and thus his voice actor, Patton Oswalt as he now deals with attempting to bond with his girlfriend Clear Sky's daughter, Wind Sprint, voiced by Oswalt's real-life wife and daughters Meredith Salenger and Alice Oswalt respectively.

Story
Since Buckball has become an Equestrian phenomenon, a stadium and museum were constructed in Appleloosa. When Team Ponyville, and  went to play there. Around this time, became a popular target for autographs and so Snips decided to cash in on his popularity by selling Team Ponyville merchandise. Dash came across Quibble Pants and eventually his new family. Quibble quickly confines into Dash about his inability to bond with Wind Sprint, the daughter of his girlfriend, Clear Sky and so Dash, who went to the museum for 's sake, decides to help him become a "sport pony" in order to bond with his athletic daughter. Around this time, Quibble bought Wind Sprint a copy of the Buckball Almanac, though she doesn't appreciate the gift.

Later, during their training Quibble's nonathletic and generally nerdy nature gets in the way however of their training. Later, Rainbow Dash tells Wind Sprint that Quibble had 'another' surprise for her and her her, joined by Snips and Quibble, to play against Team Ponyville. After Quibble Pants repeatedly failed at the game and made a scene pointing a potential loophole, Wind Sprint left the game and Clear Sky told Quibble that they were going to have to 'rethink' their marriage.

Fearing that met the worst, Quibble fell into a slump and nearly gave up until Rainbow Dash told him he should've gone to Wind Sprint to teach him how to play the game. In doing so, he and Wind Sprint bond over the game for once and Clear Sky confirms that she was never thinking of dumping Quibble Pants.

Characters

 * Sandra?
 * Blue Planet
 * Sweet Buzz
 * Goldengrape
 * Rainbow Stars
 * Rainbow Swoop
 * Rose
 * Fan Colt
 * Dark Moon
 * Green Candy
 * Sprouting Plant
 * Buzzsaw
 * Wind Sprint
 * Clear Sky
 * Wind Sprint's father
 * A.K. Yearling
 * Fire Diamond
 * Goldengrape
 * Rainbow Stars
 * Rainbow Swoop
 * Rose
 * Fan Colt
 * Dark Moon
 * Green Candy
 * Sprouting Plant
 * Buzzsaw
 * Wind Sprint
 * Clear Sky
 * Wind Sprint's father
 * A.K. Yearling
 * Fire Diamond
 * Green Candy
 * Sprouting Plant
 * Buzzsaw
 * Wind Sprint
 * Clear Sky
 * Wind Sprint's father
 * A.K. Yearling
 * Fire Diamond

Places

 * Equestria
 * Appleloosa
 * Buckball Stadium
 * Buckball Museum
 * Appleloosa Theater

Objects

 * Buckball equipment
 * Buckball Almanac

Organizations

 * Sky family
 * Pants-Sky family
 * Team Ponyville

Culture

 * Buckball
 * Romance
 * Family
 * Step-parenthood
 * Death

Continuity

 * The episode serves as a sequel to two different Season 6 episodes, "Buckball Season" and "Stranger Than Fanfiction". For the former, it brings back the concept of Buckball and expands upon the newly gained success the show received and the latter it brings back the character Quibble Pants and expands upon his character greatly.
 * The episode received a follow-up in the form of "2,4,6, Greaaat", which brought back Buckball and followed on the character arc that Snips' is a mercantile young man eager to sell Buckball merchandise.