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[[File:winterwrapup_3175.png|frame|<small>Three months of winter coolness...</small> ]]
 
{{quote| '''Spike:''' You're good at a lot of things, just not nest-making, ice-skating, animal waking, snow clearing...<br />
'''Twilight Sparkle:''' [[Sarcasm Mode|Thanks a lot for making me feel SO much better.]] }}
 
{{quote| Written by Cindy Morrow}}
 
Winter comes to an end, and Ponyville prepares for an annual cleanup to make way for spring. Since the town was founded by Earth Ponies, the tradition for cleaning up the snow and planting seeds is to avoid using magic, leaving Twilight Sparkle, a unicorn whose main talents all involve magic, with a dilemma: what can she do that is useful?
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=== Tropes ([[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E11 Winter Wrap Up/YMMV|YMMV items can be found here]]). ===
 
* [[AcCENT Upon the Wrong SylLABle]]: "So quietLY and nice", "Help the earth poNY way".
* [[All Animals Are Dogs]]: Caramel makes sounds like a whimpering dog when Applejack berates him.
** This could possibly be explained by the fact that the ponies seem to be on human level intelligence and so he's making an active choice to make that sound the way humans will sometimes whine or make similar noises when scolded.
* [[Alone in Aa Crowd]]: Twilight at the end of the song, to represent the fact that, at the time, she really has no place in the wrap-up.
* [[An Aesop]]: "Everyone has a talent and can be useful, no matter how specific". Less specifically, as Twilight is depressed about screwing up, she overhears that the wrap-up has been a disaster due to pretty much ''everyone'' making some blunder or conflict (not just this year, the year before and so on). A side aesop here could be "Everyone makes mistakes, so don't think you're alone when you screw up").
* [[Bishie Sparkle]]: Happens briefly to Twilight when the sun hits her during the [[Crowd Song]].
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* [[Humiliation Conga]]: Twilight specifically when trying to help wake the hibernating animals, though her entire attempts to help out at other tasks can be seen as the extended cut…
* [["I Want" Song]]: At least Twilight's verses.
* [[Just Trying to Help]]: Twilight chokes this out after getting a [[What the Hell, Hero?]] from Applejack for using magic before running off.
* [[Like a Weasel]]: Spike spends a chunk of the episode convincing Twilight to use her magic. When she does to help plow fields and things get out of control, Applejack calls her out on it. [[Hypocrite|Spike immediately changes his position, chiding her for using magic.]]
* [[Ludd Was Right]]
* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: Rainbow Dash sings about awesome holidays, Pinkie about parties and Rarity about Fashion. Applejack? She's singing about possible starvation due to running out of food. Wow.
* [[Magical Underpinnings of Reality]]
* [[Musical World Hypothesis]]: The song may be partly the Diegetic version, mostly because they do this every year and this may be the song and dance they do every year. Twilight's solo throws it off a bit.
* [[Painting the Frost Onon Windows]]: The main point of the episode.
* [[Human Snowball|Pony Snowball]]: The result of Twilight's attempt to clear the snow from the fields. Also recurs to an extent when Twilight tries her hand at ice skating, and ends up crashing into Pinkie and Spike.
* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: Used and averted - Twilight is terrified by the snakes; Fluttershy the animal lover has no problem with them.
* [[Serious Business]]: Twilight even refers to it by name.
* [[Shout -Out]]: To the original [[Bambi (Disney)|four-legged ice-skater]].
* [[Smelly Skunk]]: Twilight Sparkle ends up in a den of them. The scene then cuts to her receiving a tomato juice bath to get rid of the stench.
* [[Spring Is Late]]: The ponies have to wrap up winter or else spring will be late. In fact, it has been late every year, until Twilight Sparkle gets everypony organized.
* [[Super OCD]]: Both Twilight and Rarity show this behavior. Twilight immediately lays out all the components of the bird's nest in an orderly fashion before constructing it, and then later her organization skills [[Chekhov's Skill|help to save the day]]. Rarity, on the other hand, becomes obsessed with trying to fix Twilight's attempt at the bird's nest, leaving her drastically behind schedule.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Applejack gives Twilight a good chewing out after the latter uses magic to help clear the snow from the fields, with disastrous results (although she looks regretful when Twilight runs off in tears).
** Though after watching [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 /E11 Family Appreciation Day|Family Appreciation Day]], Twilight's disobeying of the rules could be considered as a variation of [[Harsher in Hindsight]], due to the fact that not only did Twilight break the sacred Earth Pony tradition rule on Applejack's farm, a very earthy... Earth pony. But also consider and remember the fact that the ponies who founded Ponyville were actually Applejack's great-grandparents, making Twilight's act of rule-breaking especially disrespectful towards Applejack.
** The mayor gives one to just about ''everyone else'' afterwards, since their arguments and bumbling have delayed spring another year round.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: For Twilight, literally. And bats.
 
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