My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E17 Hearts and Hooves Day: Difference between revisions

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''Are you talking about my brother?'' }}

 

 

Hearts and Hooves Day has come to Ponyville, a day for ponies to let their loved ones (be they friends, family, or significant others) know how much they mean to each other. The Cutie Mark Crusaders offer their teacher Cheerilee a huge, lavishly decorated paper heart the size of a rug, and in return discover that Cheerilee doesn't have a "very special somepony" to share the day with. According to Apple Bloom, a mare as wonderful as Miss Cheerilee clearly deserves to have somepony special in her life, and Sweetie Belle gets the idea for the Crusaders to go find him. One musical montage later, they've narrowed down the list of eligible bachelors to one: Apple Bloom's older brother, Big Macintosh.

 

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* [[Absentee Actor]]: With the exception of Twilight (who appears for less than a minute), ''none'' of the Mane Cast makes an appearance.

** A [[Fourth Wall Mail Slot]] interview on [[McDonald's|HappyMeal.com]] later revealed that Pinkie Pie "celebrated by having the best Hearts and Hooves party ever with every pony in Ponyville!" Probably not canon as it was just meant to promote the [[McDonald's]] [[My Little Pony]] toys, but an explanation is an explanation.

* [[A Day in the Limelight]]: For Cheerilee and Big Mac.

* [[Alternate Animal Affection]]: Rubbing noses.

* [[Anticlimax]]: On the first attempt by the CMC to hitch Cheerilee and Big Macintosh, the fillies wait in a nearby bush, getting more excited by the moment, as the two get closer, and closer, and Cheerilee looks deep into Big Mac's eyes, and then utters...

'''Sweetie Belle''': (popping up out of hiding) '''OH, COME ON!''' }}

* [[Ass Kicks You]]: About a minute into the CMC's song, Sweetie Belle bounces into Scootaloo.

* [[Big No]]: The Cutie Mark Crusaders in unison, when they think {{spoiler|that the "love poison" is still in effect at the end}}.

** Twilight is shown as eager to get others interested in reading, just like the previous episode (perhaps to the point of not paying proper attention to ''why'' they're interested).

* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]: Big Macintosh is easily able to pull two bulls and a cart of anvils without breaking a sweat. He ''initially'' notices the increased weight when Apple Bloom adds Berry Punch's house to the load, but then he just applies a little extra force and ends up dragging the whole house with him.

** Before that, we can see how, unlike Applejack, Big Macintosh can buck a whole tree's apple harvest at once, by merely tapping it with ''one'' of his hind legs.

** Consistent with the superior physical strength of earth ponies, Cherilee bursts open the changing room door blocked by furniture and [[There Was a Door|knocks down the Carousel shop's front wall.]]

** One of the jewelry pieces Big Mac and Apple Bloom consider buying has the gems arrayed like the Elements of Harmony symbol from the first episode. It's the one Apple Bloom claimed was too flashy.

* [[Cringe Comedy]]: Boy, and ''how.''

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Cheerilee is this when she responds to the CMCs' tree identification "question".

* [[Deconstruction]]: The whole episode is basically one gigantic Deconstruction of [[Shipping]], or [[Romance Novel|Romance Novels]] altogether.

* [[Disco Dan]]: One pony has an open jacket showing his [[Carpet of Virility]] and a disco ball cutie mark.

* [[Fourth Date Marriage|First Date Marriage]]: Big Macintosh and Cheerilee are easily coaxed into getting married while under the influence of the love potion, but it's all a plot by the Cutie Mark Crusaders to keep them apart until the potion wears off.

* [[Funny Background Event]]

** When the CMC are discussing hooking Cheerilee up with somepony, Twist is playing "pin the heart on the pony". She pins it on ''Cheerilee'' instead of the target.

** Diamond Tiara...''[[Alpha Bitch|Diamond Tiara!]]''...gets an H-and-H card. She's pretty shocked.

*** Or even further, to remember the big rule about experimentation: READ ALL THE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE YOU START.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: Played with. Cheerilee is able to pick up on the CMCs' plot and quickly explains the situation to Big Macintosh, apologizing for her student's setup. However, she doesn't count on them using a love potion.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]

** The "love potion" is served in what are obviously shot glasses.

* [[Gonna Need More Trope]]: "I think we're gonna need a bigger envelope."

* [[Head Desk]]: Apple Bloom, when she finds out that she and her friends may have permanently screwed up Cheerilee and Big Macintosh.

* [[High-Class Glass]]: The stallion Apple Bloom dismisses as "way too uptight" wears one.

* [[Hold Your Hippogriffs]]: The phrase "very special somepony" is used constantly, as Equestria obviously has no St. Valentine.

* [[Imagine Spot]]: Apple Bloom has one about Ponyville's certain doom when she is told that the Love Potion is really a Love Poison and how it led to the destruction of a kingdom.

* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: Apple Bloom's overexaggeration of the effects of Cheerilee and Big Macintosh remaining under the influence of the love poison.

* [[I Want Grandkids]]: When the Cutie Mark Crusaders ask Cheerilee why she doesn't have a "very special somepony", the expression on her face could be seen as someone who's received the same question ''lots'' of times from her parents...

* [[Karma Houdini]]: {{spoiler|Averted. The CMC get a proper punishment for their actions instead of one of those "I think you learned your lesson" lines.}}

* [[No Hugging, No Kissing]]: For the Mane Six, who are almost completely missing from the episode. Probably justified in that they're quite young and none of them is in a relationship, and the writers didn't want to show them shunning the holiday either.

* [[Non-Ironic Clown]]: One of the rejected stallions, rejected for being "too silly".

* [[Off-Model]]: The pony soaking in jelly blinks just once, causing the jelly to ''overlap'' the rest of his face, for no other reason than to make him look [[Uncanny Valley|even MORE creepy.]]

* [[Old Dark House]]: during an [[Imagine Spot]], Applebloom visualizes their school becoming one of these, complete with boarded up windows and the sky becoming [[Always Night|perpetually dark]]

* [[OOC Is Serious Business]]: The first thing that tips off the CMC that the potion isn't working the way they expected is when [[The Stoic|Big Macintosh]] starts using rather cheesy pet names for Cheerilee.

* [[Pair the Spares]]: A literal case, as Cheerilee is single and the CMC find out that out of all the candidates they list, Big Macintosh is the only one that fits their "good" and "still available" criteria.

* [[The Pig Pen]]: One of the stallions is rejected for being abnormally filthy and messy. He even has a garbage can for a cutie mark.

* [[The Power of Love]]: See [[Super Strength]]

* [[Promoted to Love Interest]]: The CMC do this to Big Mac

** The CMC use a vacuum cleaner to suck up the rainbow's coloring.

* [[Shipper on Deck|Shippers On Deck]]: '''CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS CHERIMAC SHIPPERS YAY!!!!'''

** This hasn't stopped certain parts of the fandom from calling her [[The Beard]].

** {{spoiler|A number of Fluttermac and Twimac shippers are also crying [[Ruined FOREVER]], [[Completely Missing the Point|in spite of the episode's Aesop]] and the fact that the [[Ship Tease]] is implied to simply be a ''literal'' tease to the CMC}}.

* [[Stealth Pun]]: The CMC are looking for the "perfect stallion" for Cheerilee or, in other words, a major stud.

** It also qualifies as giving an Apple to their teacher.

** Alternatively, since she's clearly rolling her eyes, she's just annoyed at once again being asked why she's single.

* [[Strangled by the Red String]]: [[Invoked]], [[Lampshaded]], and [[Deconstructed]]. Thanks to Apple Bloom deciding to grab the [[Love Potion|Red String]] after the CMCs' first attempt at getting them together failed, Bic Mac and Cheerilee go from clearly not being interested in each other to using lovey-dovey nicknames. [[Sickeningly Sweethearts|It disgusts and/or annoys everypony around them]], and we quickly find out how bad the consequences of said trope could possibly get.

* [[Tastes Like Diabetes]]: [[In-Universe]]. The CMCs are disgusted by Big Mac and Cheerilee's displays of affection.

* [[Terrible Interviewees Montage]]: The Crusaders' song is something like this, with them going around town rejecting various stallions (and one colt) for various reasons.

(His ''girlfriend'' sure thinks so!) }}

* [[Team Rocket Wins|The Cutie Mark Crusaders Win]]: Subverted in that they do get Big Macintosh and Cheerilee together, but now [[Gone Horribly Right|breaking the love potion's hold on them]] is the crux of the episode. {{spoiler|[[Double Subverted]] when they manage to pull that off too without any of The Mane Cast intervening.}}

* [[Valentine's Day Episodes]]

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Well Intentioned Extremists]]: The CMC basically tricks Cheerilee and Big Macintosh into drinking a rape drug potion, but they really meant well and they really just wanted to see their teacher happy.

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: You may notice that the CMC never use all of the love potion, leaving quite a bit in the pitcher. What happened to it? Who knows!

** To fanfic writers this could be the loose end that launched a thousand [[A Worldwide Punomenon|ships]].

 

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