It's one of the highest services a pony can aspire to. Some ponies shouldn't aspire that high.
After the early summer tourist trade produces an endless parade of traveling Canterlot residents who refuse to make a Ponyville purchase, Rarity decides to help the strangers in her shop -- help them buy absolutely nothing from her at all.
Having realized that the duration of Discord's "reform" may exactly equal his only friend's lifespan, the palace sends Fleur to assist Fluttershy with acquiring a social life and guarantee a next generation to adore. (What could possibly go wrong?)
Do you know what Canterlot really needs to make the city complete? A big, bright, well-lit butcher shop.
Sometimes there just aren't enough dead bodies to go around.
You'd think a spell which merely changed the color of things wouldn't cause so much havoc around Ponyville. You'd really like to think that.
"Infiltrated."
Turns out the bureaucracy has no idea how to deal with Flurry Heart either.
On a beautiful summer morning, the lonely space marine approached the isolated cottage to ask if he could have his rabbit back.
After Celestia's School For Gifted Unicorns runs out of repair money and no more can be found in Equestria's budget, Luna invents a means to raise the funds. Now if she can just keep it from destroying the nation's economy...
As Twilight's starting to learn, being a Princess comes with certain responsibities. Ceremonies to attend. Functions to host. And of course, being properly kidnapped, on schedule, as contractually obligated -- wait. What?
So the options are 'Tell the Princesses exactly what happened during that fiasco of a mission' or 'Death'? Death. Death sounds pretty good.
On one of the last nice autumn days for his first fall in Ponyville, all Spike has to do is collect late fees and a lost book from a unresponsive library patron. A pony who isn't answering letters. A pony who might as well have never existed.
Following a certain eclipse, both halves of the Diarchy have agreed to work on their absent culinary skills. Anise Verum and Blending Stock are the lucky ponies who get to change that status. ('Lucky' may not be the right word.)
As half of the Diarchy, Luna must fulfill a large number of civic responsibilities. And now she has one which she just couldn't get out of.