

Applejack confronted Rarity to concentrate on the music and not fashion. In the end it ripped her sleeves into pieces and Rarity lamented. When other bands wanted to jeopardised their performance, Photo Finish jeopardised Rarity by dangling magnets from the backstage balcony. During their battle, singing ' Shake Your Tail,' she was a disco outfit with metal. With Rarity's creative flair of fashion, she often enthuse about looking fabulous in The Rainbooms. During helping, Applejack got covered in snow Rarity lifting the pile of snow off her with her magic. In" Not Asking for Trouble", the Mane Six went to help the Yaks clear up the snow at night. Twilight, Spike and Rarity help Applejack streamline her workload, finally allowing her to take the rest of the day off. Applejack returns to the farm to find that Twilight and Spike have not yet completed their task due to too many unnecessary steps in Applejack's instructions. To Rarity's annoyance, Applejack spends most of this time fixing the spa's plumbing, which has been accidentally causing larger problems around the spa. Twilight and Spike agree to do Applejack's chores by her exact instructions, freeing up an hour for Applejack to spend with Rarity. In "Applejack's Day Off" Rarity wishes to spend time with Applejack at the spa, but Applejack is too busy to make good on her promises. At last, they solve the problem and the two hug. She calms her down and says there is nothing they can't handle. Rarity freaks out and falls down only to have Applejack catch her. Later, they are trying to help Coco Pommel build her play, but time is running out and they haven't managed to figure out a plan yet. The booth has a drawing of Rarity and Applejack with a heart between them. To find the problem, Rarity sets up a booth to attract ponies with “friendship problems”. In "Made in Manehattan", Rarity and Applejack are on a mission after being called by the Friendship Map to solve a friendship problem in Manehattan. Finally, Applejack trades half of her stuff when she decides to get Rarity the vintage brooch she had always wanted. Rarity then decides to be "the better friend" and tells Applejack to trade their stuff for what she likes and AJ is shown arguing back the same thing.

They soon find themselves arguing over what items they should trade their stuff with. In "Trade Ya!", the group separates into three and Rarity decides to go with Applejack. Rarity understands this after she gets jealous and Applejack explains herself to her. Applejack sees the wrong in this, so she turns herself into a fashionista like Rarirty to prove a point to her- that she should never change herself for somebody else. Rarity tries hard to impress him by even becoming a farmer herself. Rarity is later shown obsessing over a celebrity pony named Trenderhoof in the episode, "Simple Ways", but he has interests in Applejack. Applejack instantly rescues and comforts her. One of the acts is to conjure an ugly dress onto Rarity. In "Magic Duel", a returning character named Trixie comes back to Ponyville and challenges Twilight to a magic duel. Rarity immediately understands her analogy and begs Applejack to help in her plan to get her sister back. AJ suggests to see her and Sweetie Belle's relationship as an "apple pie". In "Sisterhooves Social", Rarity is having a difficult time connecting with her sister, so she asks Applejack for advice. At the end of the episode, they finally tolerated each other but still kept their attitudes towards another. While it's getting late, Twilight suggests them to got to bed and since at that time her house was small, these two had to share a bed. AJ is a farmer while Rarity is a fashionista. They argued right off the bat about things like dirty hooves, girly stuff, etc. Their rivalry relationship is first shown in the episode, "Look Before You Sleep." Twilight invited them to a sleepover because of a huge storm outside and neither of them were close to their homes.
