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* Meta example: Many episodes have often one big moral and a small one, or two morals bundled together. This makes more sense when you consider that, originally, Hasbro wanted the series to run in two shorts per episode.

* The conflict of Luna's rebellion and Celestia's 'solution' gains much more credibility and seriousness when you consider the dark tone of Equestria implied a millennium ago. They had overthrown a sadistic chaos god sometime before, and were just building their world around the Everfree Forest (The ancient palace being encroached within it) before taking control of their own 'world'. They had no concept of 'fun' as we know it. Discord even states he forgot how 'grim' Celestia could be. So given the climate, it seems would've been a tough, no nonsense era. Think the Equestrian equivalent of the Dark Ages or the Inquisition, only with worldwide genocide and tyranny at risk via magical/chaotic deities.

** And that would put Equestria somewhere between modern times and the enlightenment/colonial era. They have trains and settlements, but also horses/carriages, and still in land conflicts with buffalo. Ignorance towards other cultures (Zecora) was widespread throughout a small town. They have a 'mayor' but still a divine ruler by default. (Similar to how the 13 Colonies had leaders but the monarchy came first) And they seem like a primarily agricultural based society slowly making their headway towards industrialization.

** Even the Cutie Mark Crusaders follow the [[Rule of Three]] in multiple ways. Aside from being a trio of three different types of ponies (an earth pony, a pegasus, and a unicorn), they also all have three syllables in their names. (A-pple Bloom, Scoo-ta-loo, and Swee-tie Belle)

** Additionally, her cutie mark is the only one that does not have a three part pattern (though Rainbow Dash may also seem like an exception at first, the rainbow lighting bolt is comprised of blue, yellow, and red, the three primary colors).

*** In fact the only other main character with a four syllable name is Ce-les-ti-a, not even Nightmare Moon and Luna have it.

*** Where does that leave Pin-ka-me-na Di-ane Pie?

*** Rainbow Dash is the likely candidate for a Tsundere.

* The order in which Twilight Sparkle befriended the other ponies cannot have been an accident. Applejack is first. She is forthright, down to earth, and hard working; in other words, she's the pony who is most like Twilight. Fluttershy is second. She's awfully timid, but her compassion and gentle nature make for someone who is almost universally beloved. Pinkie Pie is third. Pinkie is... shall we say... [[Cloudcuckoolander|unique]] but her cheerful nature lets her laugh at the unknown when it is most terrifying. Rarity is fourth. She is very socially conscious and seems to focus on appearances, which mean nothing to Twilight, but in the right circumstances [[Hidden Depths|her generosity rises to the fore]]. Rainbow Dash is fifth, and last. Her relationship to Twilight had been the most negative, and even briefly antagonistic, but she sacrificed a shot at her heart's desire without a single regret, and that allowed Twilight to see a very different side to her personality.

** The above order is incorrect -- Twilight meets Rainbow Dash before Rarity. However, the theory that Celestia set this up is entirely plausible; the reason Twilight seeks out the other members of the Mane Six is because they're each in charge of a different section of the preparations for the Summer Sun Festival. And Celestia is the pony who both picked Twilight to supervise the Summer Sun Festival, and presumably had a hoof in selecting who else would be involved in the arrangements.

* Speaking of [[GLaDOS]] and Celestia, has anyone noticed that the two are slowly becoming more and more similar? Both are the dominant powers over their respective domains, both maintain a nuclear reaction, both have a thing for "testing" in some form or another, and both have made themselves infamous for trolling. Both are mostly white with yellow/gold accents, and now, both have a thing for cake that neither will live down. Both have, as of "A Canterlot Wedding," appeared suspended from the ceiling. There are other similarities, but it's clear just from those listed that we may have a Princess CelestiOS on the way in a future episode...

== Season 1 ==

 

 

* The design of Twilight's cutie mark is somewhat vague, and we wouldn't really know it is a representation of magic until we are told about it. However, the mark is five small stars, surrounding a big pink one; the most powerful and important star on the mark. An exact representation of the Elements of Harmony, specifically, Magic, as it has to be unlocked by the other five. This also could be the reason that Celestia knew to take Twilight in, after seeing the mark, she knew what it meant, and she knew Twilight was destined to save Princess Luna.

* "On the longest day of the thousandth year, the stars will aid her escape." That prophecy wasn't about Nightmare Moon using the night sky to escape from the moon, it was about the Elements of Harmony, the "stars" of the show helping Luna escape from the Nightmare she'd trapped herself in.

* The ruined castle in the forest used to be the Princesses' home. Therefore the forest used to be as tame as Canterlot. All the roads must date to that period, and presumably led somewhere a thousand years ago, like ancient Roman roads today.

 

* Spike's attitude towards the Grand Galloping Gala in "The Ticket Master" is basically a stand-in for all of the peripheral demographic viewers. "I don't want any of that girly, frilly, frou-frou nonsense," he says, and giggles at being invited to the gala too. In other words, Lauren Faust gave all of us a cameo.

** This troper agrees, having encountered so many boys (and girls) who are reluctant to display any inclination towards things like "frilly frou frou" or "rough and tumble boys stuff" because they're afraid of being laughed at or teased, it's nice to see that Spike is both sympathising with this fear, and basically showing us it's okay anyway.

* Why didn't Twilight teleport away at any of the many opportunities during the episode? Because she was starving, and teleporting takes a lot of energy! (Which also explains why Spike ended up singed when she did finally teleport - it was an emergency teleport that she couldn't control.)

 

* Applejack's dog is named Winona. "Winona" means "first-born daughter". Who's the first-born daughter in her family? Applejack!

* The rabbit stampede in Applebuck Season looks like pure [[Rule of Funny]] at first. But then think about what the rabbits actually do. They start eating the all the flowers in the village. By themselves. With ''nopony telling them what to do.'' That's Everfree levels of mindscrewery right there.

** Additionally... no flowers means that if bees come around, they won't find nectar to gather, or in turn, anything to pollinate. And that could be very bad...

 

* In a bit of [[Fridge Brilliance]] Pinkie Pie claims that she won't play a prank on Fluttershy because she's too sensitive and might take it the wrong way. However, it's often implied that Pinkie is well aware of the [[Fourth Wall]], and [[Talking to Himself|she and Fluttershy share a voice actress.]]

* Applejack's moment of extreme shock at the painted apples in may seem out of context for the sensible pony considering its just colour on apples... until you realize that they look much like zap apples. For a split second, she thinks the farm has missed its opportunity for one of its cornerstone harvests, seeing as they disappear so quickly.

** There's some [[Fridge Horror]] here too, since according to medieval lore, griffins mated for life and would never seek a new mate if the old one died, and may even refuse to eat and simply starve to death. This makes the [[Love Triangle]] interpretation of that episode a lot more tragic.

 

* Why is Trixie's magic so useless off the stage? Is she just weak? Maybe, but there's another explanation, one which probably makes more sense. Every unicorn has their own special talent. Trixie's is most likely ''showmanship''

** It's probably more than that when you consider that Trixie is Twilight's [[Shadow Archetype]] and while Twilight is nice and has a lot of friends, Trixie is arrogant and has no friends. Now think about what Twilight learned in her battle against Nightmare Moon, and it all makes perfect sense: [[Meaningful Name|Friendship Is Magic.]]

* In Boast Busters, Spike wanted to grow a mustache to impress Rarity. Perhaps because he knows Rarity is impressed by dragons with mustaches (Steven Magnet)?

 

* In Dragonshy, Rarity and Pinkie Pie play tic-tac-toe while waiting for Fluttershy to coax the dragon. Rarity says that's 35 games in a row, and to play best of 71. That means they had just played best of 69.

** It also means that one of them has won all the games.

* In ''Dragonshy'', during the preparation montage Big Macintosh is seen loading apple juice into Applejack's saddlebags. He's seen looking winded right afterwards, but this is THE Big Macintosh, who can kick ponies over the horizon. This is also the Big Macintosh who was recovering from a serious rib injury not too long ago.

 

* Why does Applejack come down so hard on Rarity's nitpicking and high-class behavior in "Look Before you Sleep"? Because Rarity reminds Applejack of her snobby relatives in Manehatten and the social exclusion she felt there as revealed in "The Cutie Mark Chronicles".

** From the same episode, Applejack came to Mane-hattan to try the city life with her orange themed relatives, only to find that it's just not her and returns to the apple ranch. In a sense, you could say that she was trying to compare [[Just for Pun|apples and oranges!]]

** Explains why she says "Ya just eat'em" about the marshmallows.

 

* Twilight Sparkle getting a floppy horn in "Bridle Gossip" makes even more sense once you notice that {{spoiler|Rainbow Dash taps Twilight on the horn immediately after flying through the Poison Joke.}}

* At first the effects of the "curse" in "Bridle Gossip" seemed rather random to me, but then I realized it was targeting each of the ponies' personal strengths: Twilight prides herself on her magical abilities, and her horn goes limp; Rarity takes pride in her appearance, and ends up with long, goofy-looking hair; Rainbow Dash, who enjoys her graceful flying abilities, becomes incredibly clumsy; Applejack prides herself on her physical strength and ability to take charge, and gets shrunk; the highly social Pinkie Pie is rendered unable to talk; and the gentle and soft-spoken Fluttershy is given a deep and somewhat intimidating voice.

* There's a bit of [[Shown Their Work]] in one of the misunderstandings between Zecora and the population of Ponyville. Zecora's pawing at the ground gesture she does several times in town? In the real-world, zebras make that gesture to try and dig for water... but horses make that same gesture as a threat display.<ref>And so do Equestrian ponies; watch Twilight's forehoof right before she charges at Nightmare Moon in the season 1 pilot.</ref> Zecora's foreign body language is sending all the wrong signals and she doesn't even know it.

 

* The parasprites are apparently native to the Everfree Forest, and they should be able to strip the forest of its entire food supply within a day. So why haven't they destroyed the forest yet? Because the Everfree Forest is home to some of the largest, nastiest predators know to ponykind- the Ursa Major can probably gulp down an entire swarm just by inhaling. This explains why Zecora has never seen one despite living in the same forest. This means, however, that all the parasprites that Applejack and Pinkie Pie sent into the forest are [[Fridge Horror|going to die very, very, soon.]]

** However, based on the Princess' comments, it appears that the parasprites are now attacking [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Fillydelphia]], subtly implying that the 'sprites that they shoved into the forest are now... elsewhere.

*** It's entirely possible that she had a brush with them shortly after discovering her party-planning talent, and that she ''happened'' to be a one-pony band when they showed up, discovering that music is the key to solving the problem entirely by sheer luck.

 

* I thought it was weird that nopony had assigned Twilight a job in "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E11 Winter Wrap Up|Winter Wrap Up]]". I later realized that this was a symptom of Ponyville's poor organization of the event.

** This troper's interpretation of it was that Ponyville's population has very few unicorns (only Rarity?) prior to Twilight coming in town. They probably don't know what she can do to help. And thus don't give her a job. Even then, they probably hold a distaste for using magic to complete a task that can be done with physical labor, seeing as most of them are earth ponies. The Winter Wrap-Up seems like a community task, not meant to be efficient, moreso to bring everypony together so they can bond through working hard and co-operation. Few ponies have magic, so you'd be working alone by using it, and thus not participating in the community bonding. Though back on the main subject, they probably just neglected to give Twilight a task because she's still new to town. Perhaps they don't actually see her as a member of Ponyville yet.

* Twilight eventually ends up organizing the event (and having them complete everything on-time for the first time ever). What did she do all throughout the 'Winter Wrap-up' musical number and the first part of the episode? ''Find out about every task that takes place during the Winter Wrap-up.'' Everypony else was knowledgeable about their own task but nopony else's, as evidenced by Applejack and Fluttershy both giving Rainbow Dash competing assignments. Twilight is the ''only'' pony who's bothered to get the complete picture. Organization is one of her skills, sure, but what they ''really'' needed was anypony with a big-picture view. - [[User:Alphacat]]

 

* In "Call of the Cutie", the pony the fandom knows as "Doctor Whoof" is an earth pony with the hour glass cutie mark, spiky hair and a mature man's voice. In "Sonic Rainboom", the same pony is featured, but he is now a pegasus and speaks in a much younger boy's voice. Isn't the real Doctor reincarnated over and over? Fridge Brilliance!

** And if we see Dr. Whoof as an Earth Pony again, that's hardly a barrier. He's just been time-traveling and pegasus!Whoof is from the future.

* Isn't it frustrating that no matter how often they fail, the Cutie Mark Crusaders never understand that you're supposed to just wait for your cutie mark instead of trying and trying to make it happen? Even Apple Bloom, probably the most even-headed of the three fillies, just doesn't get it. Even after Cheerilee explained it to her class in ''Call of the Cutie''! "Discovering what makes you unique isn't something that happens overnight, and no amount of hoping, wishing, or begging will make a cutie mark appear before its time." Too bad Apple Bloom, who had been diligently taking notes, was momentarily distracted by Diamond Tiara's note-passing. She mighta learned something.

 

* It's implied repeatedly that earth ponies are stronger and/or have more endurance than pegasi, in general. After the Running of the Leaves, when Twilight mentioned most of the contestants being worn out by the end of the race, the camera cuts to a trio of exhausted ponies... all three are pegasi. For all their mistakes and shameless copypasting, the background pony animators sometimes do something especially clever.

** Also in the Running of the Leaves, Pinkie Pie's announcements of "It's Applejack...it's Rainbow Dash!" seem to be out of sync with who's actually ahead. But, since Applejack and Rainbow Dash have unknowingly fallen behind the others, she's actually announcing who's behind.

* A lot of people know of the [[Shout-Out]] in "Fall Weather Friends", but take a closer look at Twilight's cutie mark. There are 42 points. Either it wasn't really a shout out, or it's been there since episode 1...

 

 

* In "Suited for Success" one might look at the "second try" dresses and wonder, how can they look at that in a mirror and think it looks good? Then one remembers that they go around naked most of the time! It makes sense that they don't have any taste, since they don't have to exercise it on a daily basis.

* Rarity is able to make dozens of ''perfectly tailored'' dresses in a single night, with nothing more than a sewing machine, a few dress forms, and gentle telekinesis for the tricky bits. But she has a big advantage over human dressmakers: almost every pony in Equestria has the same body model!

*** This adds in even ''more'' Fridge Brilliance in the second episode, where, after the cliff collapse, Fluttershy saves Rarity, Rainbow Dash saves Pinkie Pie, and Applejack saves Twilight. In the ''second episode'', they hinted at who would be the closest of friends within the larger friendship group.

 

* When the mane cast was confronted by a monster in Feeling Pinkie Keen, it was a Hydra. Since it has four heads, Fluttershy couldn't stare it down. When Discord hypnotized Fluttershy, he did so by touching the top of her head, rather than staring into her eyes. If I remember correctly, when the cranky Ursa Minor attacked, Fluttershy wasn't there. If any of this were different, she would have stared it down.

* The reason Twilight's machine failed to analyze Pinkie sense in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E15 Feeling Pinkie Keen|Feeling Pinkie Keen]]? They were standing in a basement without moving. That meant nothing whatsoever was going to happen, so there was nothing for Pinkie sense to predict!

* I think this is why the doozy in "Feeling Pinkie Keen" was Twilight believing in Pinkie's pinkie sense instead of the hydra. The hydra was foreshadowed to make the viewers expect the hydra to appear. Twilight giving in wasn't.

 

** That and they saved Equestria from Nightmare Moon.

** Related to this...you know how happy and excited filly Pinkie was when she saw the rainbow? Well, that seemed more excited than she was to see Twilight for the first time in the first episode. So why did she claim she had never been that excited before? Because it was the first episode--making that statement also right in an odd way.

* After Rarity loses her wings, you never see her standing on a cloud - she's either held up by flying ponies, or sitting in the balloon. This makes perfect sense - Twilight never cast the cloudwalking spell on her because she already had wings. (While Rarity can be seen cloudwalking earlier, this is obviously an ability of the wings, as she also airwalks during the contest.)

 

* When Fluttershy tries to sleep on her living room couch in "Stare Master", we see that its back is higher at one end than the other. It's a [[wikipedia:Fainting couch|fainting couch]], which makes sense because we know Fluttershy is prone to fainting.

** Okay, so how did she GET that couch? As pointed out in examples relating to "Suited For Success," she's best friends with Rarity, who also faints as part of her "Drama Queen" persona. Rarity would understand the value of having a fainting couch, and she ''is'' the Element of Generosity...

 

* In "The Show Stoppers", Apple Bloom fixes up Applejack's broken-down tree house all by herself, no problem. So where was that talent when she and her friends were fixing Fluttershy's table in "Stare Master"? It makes a little more sense when you consider that Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo don't share Apple Bloom's talent (especially not Sweetie Belle), and Scootaloo was apparently working at cross-purposes with the other two ("We were making a table?"), which lead to a classic "too many cooks spoil the broth" situation.

** Moreover, "too many cooks" seems to be tripping them up even worse as the Cutie Mark Crusaders. They do EVERYTHING together, and the result is always a disaster.

** This makes sense - Twist mentions that she made those peppermint candies a lot, but it was only when she realized it was her special talent that she got her cutie mark.

 

* Of course Rarity's "whining" was painful to the Diamond Dogs, with their canine sense of hearing.

* It would seem odd that a bunch of ponies could easily pull big carts filled with gems while the diamond dogs struggle to pull them, despite being bigger and muscular. However, horses in [[Real Life]] are generally stronger than dogs, and can therefore pull heavier objects easier than dogs.

 

* Pinkie Pie's insistence on keeping secrets. It actually makes a lot of sense when you realize that not keeping them defeats the purpose of throwing surprise parties.

** I thought it had more to do with [[Just for Pun|"pinky swears".]]

** By the same token, Fluttershy's nervousness become worse because of Photo Finish's describing all the ponies out there about to watch her is just as karmic since that's what she did to Rainbow Dash in Sonic Rainboom.

 

* Read [http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2010/12/24/my-little-non-homophobic-non-racist-non-smart-shaming-pony-a-rebuttal/ this], especially the third paragraph about conflict being resolved by sharing. Then watch "Over a Barrel", specifically Pinkie Pie's song. It's basically a giant [[Take That]] against that idea.

** Except the conflict is, in the end, resolved ''by sharing''. So Pinkie was right all along! She was just a bit annoying about the idea... kinda like the previous MLP cartoons, I suppose.

* In "Over A Barrel" Rainbow Dash yells for Pinkie Pie to get away while she holds off the entire herd of buffalo currently surrounding them. At first it sounds like empty bravado, but then we see just how much damage she can do in "Lesson Zero." Those buffalo really were going to get held off. ''Hard.''

 

* Celestia having a phoenix is rather appropriate - considering that they're ''associated with the sun.''

** Not to mention the fact that a phoenix is reborn over and over again, so that would be the perfect companion for someone who's lived for over 1000 years.

* Rarity wears her Gala dress to the lunch with Celestia in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E22 A Bird in the Hoof|A Bird In The Hoof]], and is quite protective of it. Her behavior comes across as being a prissy fashionista, but then you realize her friends made the dress for her as an apology for ruining her reputation and career with their disastrous "dresses" in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E14 Suited for Success|Suited For Success]]. Not only is she very protective of their dress, she's showing off their work to the Princess herself. Now that's a friend!

 

* In The ''Cutie Mark Chronicles'', Fluttershy is a bit taller than all of the other main ponies at the time of the Sonic Rainboom. Why? As she said to Pinkie Pie in ''Griffon the Brush-Off'', "I'm a year older than you..."

** Also from that episode, for those who've seen ''Feeling Pinkie Keen'', you might've wondered why Pinkie's "Pinkie Sense" didn't kick in prior to the {{spoiler|sonic rainboom}}. Well, consider the fact that Twilight was able to pass her entrance exam the same day {{spoiler|due to the rainboom throwing her magic into high gear}}. In that sense, that ended up working for Twilight in the same vein as [[Spider-Man|the radioactive spider for Peter Parker]]. So, maybe that also caused Pinkie's young brain to be all scrambled and give her that "Pinkie Sense" of hers. It would also explain how she ended up with [[Cloudcuckoolander|her current personality]]...

** Rainbow Dash: She got her cutie mark after competing determinedly to defend the honor of one of her friends (Loyalty)

 

* I was wondering why Spike became so insanely jealous of Owlowiscious so quickly, but then I realised that every dragon so far is VERY territorial and Spike probably considers Twilight and the gang 'his' without realizing it! When he thought Owlowiscious was taking their attention from him his natural instincts kicked in and he became furious!

* More Owl-based Brilliance: According to Twilight, Owlowiscious was hired so Twilight would have someone to help her out during night (in itself Brilliance due to an owl's nocturnal status). So why was Owlowiscious so keen to help Twi during the day? Because the other reason he was hired was because Spike was exhausted from overworking... the owl was putting in some extra hours to give Spike a chance to catch up on lost sleep! Shame Spike didn't see it that way, but the road to strife is paved with good intentions...

* In "Owl's Well That Ends Well" Spike meets an adult dragon who tries to kill him. While Spike had just eaten part of his hoard, it still seemed excessive that he would start trying to kill Spike after giving him only a token effort to explain himself. And then comes "Secret of My Excess," and we see that if Spike had tried to claim that hoard, he would have reached adulthood almost instantly. That makes the adult dragon's attempt to kill Spike a reasonable, if grim, attempt to fend off a competitor before he becomes a problem.

 

* In ''Party of One'', when Pinkie Pie starts to believe her friends have abandoned and she sinks into depression, her mane flattens and her color goes drab, reverting back to her look prior to gaining her Cutie Mark. Without a Party, there is no Pinkie Pie; just Pinkamena Diane Pie.

** Note that when this happens she (particularly her mane and tail) deflates and inflates like a '''balloon''' (complete with sound effects).

* You might notice that when Pinkie was giving her singing telegram, as well as during Gummy's birthday, Spike was nowhere to be seen. Why not? He was taking that seven hour bath!

 

* Prince Blueblood is by himself such that a newcomer like Rarity was able to easily approach him and accompany him without constantly getting mobbed like with the Wonderbolts. That's because those who already know him ''can't stand being around him.''

* So, Applejack thought she would be earning enough at the Gala to pay for Granny Smith's hip replacement. That's probably a lot of money, considering she hadn't been able to save enough to pay for it throughout the months that have passed during the first season. Applejack must have brought a lot of merchandise with her if she thinks she could make that much money. But then it all gets destroyed! She ''lost'' merchandise worth ''that much money'' at the gala! Why does she still describe it as the best night ever? Then I realized she probably didn't bring that much stuff and just jacked the prices up ridiculously high.

== Season 2 ==

 

 

* If one takes Discord's hint how to find Elements of Harmony from other perspective (ie. ''you'' as viewers), you will find 0:00 of [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E01 The Return of Harmony Part 1|first episode]], which happens to be cover of guide to Elements of Harmony. Where Twilight finds Elements of Harmony? [[Mind Screw|In the guide to them]].

* Fluttershy says she's weak and helpless. This makes sense when you realize that alone she ''is'' weak and helpless; see how she reacted to Gilda's bullying when on her own. Fluttershy's strength comes from her friends.

* There's an old saying "[[Darkest Hour|It's always darkest just before the dawn]]," meaning that even in the worst of times, there is hope. When the battle with Discord reaches it's [[Darkest Hour]], guess who restores hope? ''Celestia'', the one who ''causes'' the dawn!

* Discord says the ponies have to "go back to where they began" to get the elements back. So, where do they have to go? Back to the book about The Elements Of Harmony, which is where episode one of season one began!

* Think about Discord's personality and methods for a moment. He uses lies, half truths, and [[Exact Words]] to decieve his enemies, [[It's All About Me|he cares only for his own amusement]] regardless of who he harms, he takes sick enjoyment out of causing others to suffer and laughs at their misfortune, he's cruel and outright sadistic, he makes deals which he twists and manipulates to his own ends without any semblence of fair play, and gets kicks out of breaking apart friendships. All of the above are twisted inversions or outright opposites of the Elements Of Harmony (remember, Magic means Friendship when it comes to the Elements)! Even at his core, Discord is an [[Evil Counterpart]] to them!

** Well, it could be hardly said he was selfish, or likely to betrayal (after all, he had loyalty to himself). However, take his methods and then his motivations. He usues subtle trickery to get his way when he could very well brute force it, but he prefers to use intelligence to get what he wants. However, he cares for nobody but himself, takes delight in hurting others, and rules for his own amusement. He's the [[Evil Counterpart]] to Celestia.

* When I first saw the second episode, I thought that it was pretty stupid of Discord not to get rid of Celestia, seeing as how her sending the letters to Twilight Sparkle was what led to the mane six being able to defeat Discord. But then I realised, he naturally wouldn't have thought of a plan to get rid of her- he's the embodiment of chaos; the less planning he can do, the better.

 

* At first it might seem like Twilight has the first breakdown on the show that isn't related to her cutie mark in "Lesson Zero", but then you have to remember that Twilight's area of expertise is magic, and in this show, [[Title Drop|friendship is magic]]. She didn't have a lesson on friendship to report to Celestia, and when her attempts to fix any problems her friends had were going nowhere fast (as in, they didn't need her to be a "good friend" at the time), she really started to lose it.

** In addition, she mentions ''repeatedly'' that she might have to ''leave Ponyville and all her friends''. When you think about it that way, her breakdown ''really'' makes sense. It's not just her fearing being tardy, it's fearing being taken from her [[True Companions]]!

* Princess Celestia arrives at the end of the episode to resolve the crisis Twilight created. Sure, as the embodiment of the Sun (and being over 1000 years old) she's probably well-versed in magic, but what do other sun dieties get in their portfolios? ''Healing.'' - [[User:Alphacat]]

 

* Fluttershy isn't seen dressed up for Nightmare Night, she just stays in her home. On a night of scares and frights, it would be much worse for a pony that already gets frightened pretty easily as it is.

* Read the page quote on the [[Nightmare Fuel]] page. Now remember what Pinkie Pie says to Twilight that helps her realize how to help Luna.

* Twilight was the only one who knew Luna wasn't Nightmare Moon anymore. She was ''also'' the only one who recognized her when she ''was'' Nightmare Moon in episode 1.

 

* Sisterhooves Social shows us another example of [[Schizo-Tech]] in Equestria: smoke detectors and feedback-inducing megaphones, but Rarity has an old-fashioned scrub-tub in her laundry room and a clothesline out back. [[Schizo-Tech]]? Maybe, but then remember she's also a seamstress, and a mechanical washer and dryer are no good for all the delicate fabrics she has to wash after piecing a new outfit together.

* After rewatching "Sisterhooves Social," I realized that there was an ulterior motive for the scene where Apple Bloom accidentally covers Applejack with grape mush: it is not jusy a very sweet sister scene between Apple Bloom and Applejack, it allows the audience to see Applejack covered with something messy before the race later on. If you pause that scene and then look at a mud-covered Rarity at the race, they look exactly the same (except for the eyes, of course). The animators wanted to be absolutely sure that both Sweetie Belle and the audience would be completely fooled as to who was actually running the race by showing us what a messy Applejack looks like beforehand!

*** or maybe she added too little of it, which would make it something close to batter.

 

* Notice how pony bowling balls have no finger holes? That's paying attention right there!

** Except, oddly enough, in one filly's [[Imagine Spot]]. Well, 2 of the 3, anyways. Course, that could just be representative of the Crusaders themselves, but it's still a bit odd since the ponies have no reason for finger holes...

** In fairness to Apple Bloom, she did tell the truth in the end and it cured her, in a way...

 

* Rainbow Dash picking the tortoise as her pet in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E07 May the Best Pet Win|May the Best Pet Win]] may confuse people. But then you remember Rainbow Dash's element of Harmony is Loyalty, so of course she would pick the pet that was the most loyal to her.

* [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E14 Suited for Success|" . . . Rainbow won't look like a Tank."]] [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E07 May the Best Pet Win|But her pet sure will.]]

* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E07 May the Best Pet Win|May the Best Pet Win!]]'' Applejack's dog Winona pops up at random and licks Twilight in the face. Hmmm. [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E02 The Return of Harmony Part 2|Where have we seen that before...]] Would this prove that Big Mac and Winona switched minds when Discord took over?

 

 

* In "The Mysterious Mare Do Well", after the Mare Do Well constantly shows up Rainbow Dash and she utterly fails at looking like a hero again, she is shown lying on a black cloud rather than a white one while seeming rather depressed. She's on top of her [[Personal Raincloud]].

* In one scene, we have Rainbow Dash saying her middle name was "Danger." In the G1 opening, guess what Firefly says when she tries a stunt! [[Captain Obvious|Then again...]]

* A lot of people are upset with Scootaloo for her role in the episode, but remember [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E04 Applebuck Season|Applebuck Season]]? Rainbow Dash was perfectly content to attend a party declaring somepony else to be the most reliable friend in Ponyville without feeling like the town was calling her a worse friend in comparison. Scootaloo had no reason to assume Rainbow Dash would feel differently about this parade, especially since the 'who's the better hero' competition was all in Dash's head.

 

* "Sweet and Elite": One would think that the others would know better than to crash a big, fancy party in Canterlot and make a huge mess of it. Then again, they ''had'' "livened up" a [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E26 The Best Night Ever|boring, stuffy Canterlot party in a similar fashion before]], ''and'' with Celestia's seal of approval, at that.

* In "Sweet and Elite", part of the reason Rarity gets caught up with the Canterlot elite is the ponies inviting her actually say things like "it'll be a disaster without you" or how much they ''need'' her there. It wasn't just her wanting to be part of the elite crowd, but trying to ''help'' them. So not only is it appealing to her personal interest in high society, but also to the Element of Generosity.

** It's also a measure of the individual personalities involved. Applejack and Apple Bloom are both calm, down-to-earth sorts of ponies, with differences largely caused only by differing maturity level. So they get along very well. Rarity, OTOH... as much as we love her, she's a highly-strung diva and she knows it. Sweetie Belle's also lovable, but more than a bit of a ditz. And so, friction.

 

* So, I’m thinking to myself, the first words in the description for the episode [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E10 Secret of My Excess|Secret of My Excess]] are as follows: “Spike gets greedy on his birthday…” Now, at first glance, this seems like severe [[Out of Character]], even for Spike, when all of a sudden, it hit me. Dragons, by nature, are natural hoarders ([[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E07 Dragon Shy|as has been]] [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E24 Owl's Well That Ends Well|demonstrated before]]). Being greedy is, in turn, a sign of Spike growing up, a (presumably) central theme in this episode. You never know what you’ll come up with if you just think about it.

* The entire episode of [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E10 Secret of My Excess|Secret of My Excess]] had multiple scenes of Spike receiving affection from Rarity after he gives her his treasured Fire Ruby that he was saving for months to be eaten as his birthday dinner. Rarity was obviously moved by his gesture, because she's the element of generosity, but there's more to it than that when you remember that Spike occasionally breaks the fourth wall, and that the one thing Spike has wanted more than anything is for Rarity to notice him, which happened a lot on an episode about ''his birthday''. The whole episode was a tribute to Spike and Rarity, as well as an actual gift from the writers to him on his birthday as sort of a fourth wall inversion.

* Spike simply getting a book for his birthday is likely the reason this hasn't happened before.

 

* The Timber wolves in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E11 Family Appreciation Day|Family Appreciation Day]] are easily scared off by Granny Smith's banging of pots and pans. But these wolves live in the Everfree forest - home to dragons, Cockatrice, the Ursa Major, killer pony cults.....who knows what. They've learned long ago that if something is making that much noise, it is something that poses a very, very serious danger to them.

* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E11 Family Appreciation Day|Family Appreciation Day]]'' is one of the few episodes to end without a letter to Celestia.

* Silver Spoon is the first pony to start clapping for Granny Smith. [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Looks like there's a reason for the heart in the handle of her Cutie Mark.]]

 

* In ''Baby Cakes'', Rarity doesn't even provide an excuse as to why she won't babysit the twins.

** Though it's easy to figure out what reason exactly: [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E05 Sisterhooves Social|she knows her shop isn't child-safe]].

** In addition, Pinkie went to some pains to comfort them when they cried— whenever they cried, as a matter of fact. So they learned that's what you do. You don't leave someone you care about sad and crying. They immediately sought to comfort her with something she technically taught them at first on accident, and then kept using because it was the only thing she could use to get them to cheer up: the bag of flour.

*** In addition to being their constant playmate as the above posters just mentioned, Pinkie ''lives in an apartment above the shop'', as the Cakes themselves apparently do. The twins haven't just ''played'' with Pinkie their whole lives up to this point, she ''lives with them'', unless she had to move out in order to give the babies room. As such, the twins may not be aware Pinkie ''isn't'' biologically related to them, so not only do Cup Cake and Carrot Cake think of Pinkie as their daughter, the twins may not realize she ''isn't'' related to them. They may believe she ''is'' their actual older sister due to their young age. Think about it. They know their parents because they most likely saw them at birth. Who was one of the next ponies they saw, and kept seeing on a near-constant basis? Pinkie. Not that it exactly matters if they think she's really their sister or not. They ''live with her''. This is part of why they would never have expected a time would come where she wouldn't just be playing with them until she snapped and started bawling. She had ''never'' been in a caretaker role with them before. They thought she was just playing with them to make them feel better until their parents returned. To be fair, she kind of ''was'' doing that because it's what she largely assumed it would work best in keeping them happy in between dealing with the responsibilities laid out for her by their parents.

** Besides which, magic Unicorn pony, so comparisons to [[Real Life]] horses may not necessarily apply.

* Why did the twins immediately start crying when their parents left? Because their parents just ''left''; that's why! Additionally they're unaware of when their parents are coming back so of course they're upset.

* Rarity refusing to babysit the Cake twins was actually generous of her; as a seamstress, her house is FILLED with needles, scissors, pins, beads, spools, and countless other things hazardous to babies. Combine that with the power of Pumpkin Cake's magic spurts, which Rarity knew was going to start happening soon, and you have a recipe for disaster.

 

* In ''Hearth's Warming Eve'':

** There's an in-universe [[Casting Gag]] in the fact that the mane six end up all with roles that are almost completely identical to their regular personalities, which seems amazingly coincidental. Then we remember that Princess Celestia, who has already had her fair share of interactions with the mane cast, gave them the roles in the first place. Of ''course'' she'd have them play characters with similar personalities to their own!

* When Princess Platinum returned, Clover the Clever asked, "Did the other pony tribes see reason as I predicted?" Now, the meeting Platinum had just been to ended without solving anything; ''however'', her prediction does come true by the end of the story...

 

* The Last Round Up finally has Derpy Hooves as a canon character with her own voice lines and if it weren't for her constant appearances, such as in Luna Eclipsed when she bobs for apples and drains the tub, or has a costume of paper bags or any of her other similar appearances, there would be nothing to base her on. It would be like they introduced a character for very little reason, but in reality they brought a background pony to the front that everyone had known all along.

* Why is Derpy so clumsy? She has no depth perception due to her eyes facing different directions!

* The board with ''five'' blue ribbons just after Applejack is announced as a ''ten''-time champion is pretty much explained in-universe - AJ's habit is obviously in taking on all the events each time, and the five ribbons were all from the same outing. And if it's true about other ponies only competing in one or two events, five blue ribbons is ''a lot''. Which sheds some light on the way things turned out - most of the other competitors would probably marvel at her ability to get one medal for every event at all, but only the hoity-toity winners would make sure to point out that none of them are blue, explaining all the added pressure on her.

 

 

* The moral of the story in "Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000" seems to be more directed towards the citizens of Ponyville, as they are at first ungrateful towards the Apple family for not having enough cider for everyone but finally realize the value of quality over quantity in the end.

* The fan-dubbed Dr.Whooves (Named for his David Tennant-esque hairstyle and hourglass cutie-mark) Is the official ''time''-keeper of the competition in "Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000." At a small stretch you could say that it's being acknowledged that the rules of time are his to control.

* A small one but the scene where Fluttershy covers herself in embarrasment after Rainbow Dash throws rips her covers away is a little more than a call back to when Rarity didn't want to let Spike in when the girls are getting dressed from an earlier episode. [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E20 Green Isn't Your Color|Think, who does Fluttershy hang out with the most from the mane cast?]]

 

* "Read it and Weep". Why would the first "Daring Do" book be the third on the shelf? Anachronic order. It's a little-known fact even today that ''[[Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom]]'' is placed chronologically ''before'' ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]''.

* Of course Daring Do is a [[Palette Swap]] of Rainbow Dash. We're seeing the events filtered through Rainbow's imagination, and RD immediately empathizes with the novel's heroine. She's putting a bit of herself into the reading.

* Daring Do seems awfully sweaty when she's in the room with the Sapphire Stone. At first it might be because she's nervous, which would make sense, what with being in a temple full of death traps and all, but don't forget - that room only has a thin floor separating her from a pit of boiling hot magma. It has to be ''hot'' in there.

 

* Fans have wanted Big Macintosh to have a larger role in the show pretty much since the beginning and in season two he starts getting a little more attention, but here's the thing: most of the stuff he gets to do is showing off his softer side, such as his love of Twilight's old Smarty Pants doll, helping his granny with the Sisterhooves Social, or crying [[Manly Tears]] when he finds out his sister won't be returning to Ponyville (and then tears of ''joy'' when she comes home) it's all well and good until you find out {{spoiler|a future episode will revolve around the CMC attempting to set him up with Cheerilee. They're showing us that he's just as sweet and sensitive as he is big and tough, pretty much the perfect boyfriend!}}

* In "Hearts and Hooves Day" Doctor Whooves gets two quick appearances, and in one of them he's shown ''running'' - if you're at all familiar with the 9th-Doctor-and-onwards ''[[Doctor Who]]'', you'll know why the simple word 'Run' became [[Arc Words]] for three Doctors in succession.<ref>Incoming [[Info Dump]]: The 9th Doctor ([[Christopher Eccleston]]) met his companion Rose while fleeing, so the first thing he said to her was "Run", which was how he identified himself to her after regenerating into the 10th ([[David Tennant]]). Down the line, the 11th ([[Matt Smith]])'s [[Badass Boast]] to his enemy boiled down to "Basically: '''Run.'''"</ref> That and the whole "I've always been a runner" or something like that.

*** Likewise, Apple Bloom is at the bottom of the ladder because as the CMC's resident earth pony, she's physically the strongest of them.

** It may also be further evidence that she ''can't'' fly ''PERIOD'', a theory that has existed for some time among fans and which is underscored by the flashback to Rainbow Dash's own childhood in Cutie Mark Chronicles, where she is the same age if not ''younger'' than Scootaloo, and was already capable of flight. There's also Pound Cake, who is shown to possibly be a prodigy as he can fly at only ''ONE MONTH OLD''.

* The name of the holiday (and the episode). Hearts And Hooves Day seems to be a reference to human burial practices for racehorses: bury the head, heart and hooves. Double brilliance in that there is a depiction of a funeral service (presumably for a pony) on-screen, and that St. Valentines Day originates from a rather bloody tale from Catholic history but has shifted to be romantic over the years.

* Big Mac says very few words himself this episode. Remember that an episode [[What Could Have Been|that never got put through production]] starring him was supposed to have him barely speak at all.

* Where did Twilight learn the "Want It, Need It" spell? From her Hearts and Hooves Day book. The illustration even has the same heart-shaped irises as in Lesson Zero.

* How come the Mane Six were pretty much absent besides Twilight giving the CMC that book? So they wouldn't be subjected to [[Ship Sinking]] (Big MacIntosh pairings excluded).

 

* [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E18 A Friend in Deed|A Friend In Deed]] shows how Pinkie really feels the need to be best friends with every pony in Ponyville. But if thats the case, what was with her behaviour with Rainbow Dash in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E05 Griffon the Brush Off|Griffon The Brush Off]]? After all, Rainbow Dash was certainly acting like they were not friends at the beginning. And thats why Pinkie was trying to get her to go pranking - to fix just that. Given Pinkie's persistence, suddenly Rainbow Dash running off when she hears Pinkie is looking for her makes a bit more sense....

* There is a ''reason'' for Pinkie Pie remembering everypony's birthday in "A Friend In Deed": the last time she forgot her own birthday was a disaster! She just doesn't want anything like that to happen ever again. Alternatively, remembering all those birthdays was why she forgot her own in the first place. Of course, she apparently remembers her own birthday ''now'', so she's still learned her lesson.

* The reason why Pinkie's thoughts are shown as felt animation could be a Stealth Pun. The Cuckoo-lander Pinkie has "fuzzy" logic.

 

* It seems somewhat strange that Iron Will would hold his assertiveness training course in a hedge maze, but [[Greek Mythology|when you consider the original myth of the Minotaur...]] Also making the hedge maze location a perfect choice for the site of his seminar: remember where Fluttershy originally [[Took a Level in Jerkass]] back in "The Return of Harmony?

* It's kinda easy to understand why some ponies keep calling Iron Will a monster: Who else is depicted as a bipedal figure with horns and hoofed feet who is associated with goats? Oh right, [[Satan]]. [[Our Demons Are Different|Or in this universe]], [[Eldritch Abomination|Discord.]]

* There's a theory that "Putting Your Hoof Down" is a "flashback" episode (that it takes place before Twilight came to Ponyville.):

** Fluttershy, even in her earliest days, was ''never'' that much of a doormat. She's nervous, yes, and she prefers not to fight, but it's not because she doesn't know ''how'' to stand up for herself. This supports the theory that the episode took place before the beginning of the series.

** The recent episode [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E21 Dragon Quest|Dragon Quest]] seems to give this a level of credibility. Cranky Doodle Donkey's apperance makes it clear that that episode takes place before [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E18 A Friend in Deed|A Friend In Deed]], confirming that not all the episodes take place in exact order. So this could very well be a flashback episode.

** The tone of Fluttershy's letter to Princess Celestia backs this up. She talks about "when I first tried [to be assertive]", putting some distance between the letter and the events of the episode. As well, if this IS a flashback episode, and the first time Fluttershy learned to be assertive without being a jerk, it could explain the origin of her stare. It's brief, but you can see Fluttershy give Angel a stare for a moment right before he finally tries the salad she made for him. If she'd been capable of that all along, she would have used it already. - [[User:Alphacat]]

* In Putting Your Hoof Down, we see that a lot of the background ponies have become Jerkasses. At first, this seems like a cheap plot device to get Fluttershy in Iron Will's assertiveness class. However, in Iron Will's class we see that there's an enormous crowd of ponies there. Since Fluttershy became a bully after the class, its safe to say that other ponies could have been affected that same way. Now if Iron Will has held previous classes this could explain where the meanness of the background ponies came from. More Jerkass ponies would result in more ponies feeling like doormats and deciding to take the class, creating a viscous cycle. This means that Fluttershy was probably the first to realize the flaw in Iron Will's program and explain it to him, likely ending (or at least reducing) the cycle of meanness.

 

* In, "It's About Time", the [[Stable Time Loop]] may seem like a [[Shaggy Dog Story]]...except that because Twilight was worried about a disaster, she ended up fixing a lot of potential ones, as shown in the montage, and making Cerberus go back to his post. So in actuality, messaging herself from the future actually helped a lot.

* Same episode-it may seem Twilight's gone back to [[Super OCD]]...except that from her POV, she's trying to prevent a catastrophe she knows next-to-nothing about, and is legitimately worried rather than anal-retentive. Once she realizes there really wasn't anything, she calms down instantly and actually goes back to give herself a chill pill, rather than worrying more.

* Twilight has taken a lot of flak for leaving Spike alone during this season, but in "Its About Time", he says he ''likes'' it when Twilight goes off on adventures because he can catch up on his sleep.

 

* Knowing that dragons can swim in lava certainly makes Spike's once using all of Ponyville's hot water on a seven hour bubblebath a lot more understandable. It's also a nod, to the episode [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E05 Griffon the Brush Off|Griffon The Brush Off]], where he says that dragons are fireproof.

* In one of the pictures, during the end sequence, you see that Spike cut and pasted a photo of himself into a group photo of the Mane six. Why on earth wasn't he in the picture with them? Because it was in Canterlot during [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E09 Sweet and Elite|Twilight's Birthday]], and he was absent, for some [[What Happened to the Mouse?|unspecified reason]].

* After this episode, Twilight has an owl and a phoenix living in her house. They are birds of night and day, which makes sense, considering her name is ''Twilight'' Sparkle

 

 

* Why the ''hell'' didn't Spitfire help with the tornado? She's a ''Wonderbolt''--if Dash has over sixteen wingpower during casual training, Spitfire could definitely have helped boost them the five they needed. Why would she just stand there while pegasi are struggling--and getting ''hurt''?

** Not only that, but she probably wasn't allowed to help if she even wanted to: It is tradition that every year, a town in Equestria is chosen to bring the rainwater to Cloudsdale. This is seen as a big honor for the town's local pegasi. Hence why Rainbow was making a big deal over beating Fillydelpia's record. Having an outsider like Spitfire help would undermine the effort made by the local town in question, otherwise Cloudsdale could easily send a team of specially-trained weather pegasi to do the job themselves.

** Also, its not a life-or-death emergency for Cloudsdale; if Ponyville fails to provide the water that day, they'll just move on to an alternate location or else try again when the missing ponies are off the sick list. The only people who are at risk of injury are the Ponyville pegasi themselves... and you don't become team captain of the ''Wonderbolts'' without accepting the fact that if a pegasus wants to risk themselves pushing the envelope, then that's their choice to make.

* Rumble's presence is [[Heartwarming in Hindsight]]. At first it seems a pegasus couple just couldn't find a sitter for their foal, so they decided to drag him along. Then it's revealed that he probably just wanted to be with his big brother. What's more, when Thunderlane gets sick and can't make it, Rumble shows up willing to take his place.

** It also explains how they can use a tornado as a reverse funnel. It's not just the wind, it's their magic pushing the water into the pony-free centre, letting it float freely and making the water shoot up into Cloudsdale through the actual wind force. Otherwise, the water would all be in the same space as the ponies, there would be no shooting action and it wouldn't be very nice to fly in.

 

* It might seem incredibly odd to some that ''Big Macintosh'' would deliver a stern lecture to the Cutie Mark Crusaders, but didn't Applejack once warn Applebloom that she'll tell Big Mac if she didn't do as told way back in "Bridle Gossip"? Perhaps he really is the main giver of discipline in the Apple family household.

** Possibly suggested earlier on Hearts & Hooves Day, when he's more than willing to go along with Cheerilee's idea that the Cutie Mark Crusaders do all of his chores as punishment.

* It's easy to blame the Mane Cast for being insensitive to the CMC for the Gabby Gums stories, but remember, those three are their ''friends and younger siblings'', Scootaloo being Rainbow Dash's, the Element of ''Loyalty's'', number one fan, basically ''betraying'' her, so of course she's going to be upset. Just imagine how much it hurt the mane cast to have their loved ones humiliate them like that, and we see that towards the end the stories just get more and more hurtful, turning from partial truths to outright lies, which is why Applejack, the Element of Honesty, whom while she enjoyed the articles, those articles were kinda true and one article almost put a wedge between Spike and Twilight's friendship. Anyone that's had a loved one betray them will tell you just how much that hurts, especially the Fluttershy scene.

 

* It turns out, {{spoiler|Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Rarity ate the MMM cake, while the other bakers ate the other goods}}. That leaves {{spoiler|Applejack}} being the only innocent one, while Pinkie Pie and Twilight Sparkle where the ones investigating. If it was {{spoiler|Applejack, then being the element of Honesty, she would have honestly spoken up about it.}}

** {{spoiler|I am skeptical about this, seeing as how the Element of Generosity stole, the Element of Kindness selfishly ruined months of hard work, the Element of Loyalty betrayed her friend, and the Element of Laughter freaked out about this. You can't claim character X would have acted according to their Element when we have four other characters betraying theirs. Applejack was just not being a jerk.}}

** She also wouldn't do it in the first place, since she isn't sneaky either.

** [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E25 Party of One|She's also really bad at keeping secrets.]]

* Marzipan Mascarpone Meringue. MMMystery on the Friendship Express. It's a little obvious, but the MMM in Mystery stands for Marzipan Mascarpone Meringue, as well as being "Mmm", a sound one makes if they are hungry.

* It makes sense that Pinkie Pie first suspects Gustave le Grande of sabotaging the cake, given that she's [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E05 Griffon the Brush Off|had a bad experience with griffons in the past]].

* Doughnut Joe's motivation for entering the contest is that he wants his restaurant to be famous. You might say he wants ponies to...(wait for it)...[[Stealth Pun|Eat At Joe's.]]

 

* Twilight showed the ability to conjure an identical force field in ''Return of Harmony Part 2'' and ''Ponyville Confidential''. It seems to be quite a powerful ability, as casting it even seemed to dispel some of [[Reality Warper|Discord]]'s magic, returning a section of ground to normal. Many of Twilight's spells are copied from other unicorns, and her special talent for magic allows her to imitate them. But of the unicorns we've seen, most have far less impressive skills than something as useful as force fields, so you'd think a talent like that would be worth mentioning. This episode reveals that it's Shining Armor's special ability, which both explains how Twilight was able to learn it (he taught her), and that it is indeed rather impressive compared to most spells (it's probably what landed him such a prestigious position).

* When it was revealed that Shining Armor was Twilight's brother, there were a lot of questions about where he was and what he was doing during the incidents with Nightmare Moon and Discord. His special power provides a good answer. While he isn't as versatile as his sister, he could provide near perfect protection to whatever he could cover with his shield. During the Summer Sun Celebration he was probably holding a shield over Canterlot, and during Discord's escape he was likely keeping watch over whatever ponies he could.

* The reason Celestia was beaten so easily is because changelings feed on love. When Celestia rose furiously to defend her people, Crysalis simply took the ''love'' Celestia had for her people and used it to fuel her own power. Celestia was defeated because she cares so much about the ponies of Equestria that it's ''genuine love''. Fridge Brilliance coupled with [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]].

* In a bit of meta brilliance and amusement, Changelings need love, right? The Queen and her minions must be quite full due to the love they are getting.

* {{spoiler|The Changeling Queen}} [[Call Back|is an evil enchantress, she does evil dances, if you look into her eye, she will put you in trances!]]

* Why did {{spoiler|the ponies not put the shield back up after Chrysalis' defeat? Chrysalis was at the epicenter of a massive blast that flung her clear out of Equestria, while the others Changelings were too, Chrysalis took it full force at point blank. On top of that, the momentum she probably had when thrown, being carried ''all the way out'' by the blast probably threw her much further than her minions. Also, the swarm was scattered in all directions and ''very'' far by the blast, meaning even if Chrysalis did survive what happened to her, her army is gone. Even considering her regrouping it, it'd take a very long time to do so, and she'd probably never find all of them. For all intents and purposes, Chrysalis may have suffered the most crippling defeat of any [[Big Bad]] period! At least Discord is still around, and Luna turned good.}}

 

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