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** Early concept sketches of Pinkie Pie were just straight up [http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/6947/mylittleponysurprisebyf.jpg Surprise]. Her wings were passed on to Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie was given her G3 color scheme, sans the mane and tail.
*** Pinkie's first word is "surprise".
*** Though it might be unintentional, Pinkie covered in flour in "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E12 Baby Cakes|Baby Cakes]]" causes her to resemble Surprise.
*** Surprise herself may have made a [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]] as one of the Wonderbolts in the episodes "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1 E3 The Ticket Master|The Ticket Master]]" (and some of its adaptations), "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1 E26 The Best Night Ever|The Best Night Ever]]" & "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E10 Secret of My Excess|Secret of My Excess]]" ([[Depending on the Artist|possibly]]), the [[IOS Games|iOS game]] ''[http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-little-pony-twilight-sparkle/id465213808 Twilight Sparkle: Teacher for a Day]'', the French [[Tie-in Novel|magazine story]] ''Les surprises de l'amitié'', and the licensed [[The Merch|art print]] ''[http://www.welovefine.com/product.php?id_product=1901 Everypony]''. This Wonderbolt could also be [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--gv0rMPY0o0/T16NUqJMUeI/AAAAAAAAibI/gLA9D84OsX8/s1600/5.jpg Breezie], who was a G3 pony.
*** Its worth noting that the [http://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/view/74249 original Surprise] had somewhat greenish blonde hair and Pinkie's mother is white with green hair, though she's not a pegasus.
** Twist shares the name with a G1 pony, however it's probably coincidental. G1 Twist was an adult and her Cutie Mark was pretzel related.
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* Cheerilee being a teacher is similar to her original unicorn version role in one of the G3 specials, notably ''[http://www.hubworld.com/watch/610729115001 Crystal Princess: The Runaway Rainbow]''.
* The plot of "The Ticket Master" is near identical to a ''My Little Pony Tales'' episode (And the Winner is..) where one of the ponies wins a pair of tickets to a concert and has to choose which friend to take.
* "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E7 Dragon Shy|Dragonshy]]" is about the ponies climbing a mountain to deal with a dragon in a cave, which also happened in the G3.5 special ''Twinkle Wish Adventure''.
** In G3, Spike wakes up from a thousand year nap. In G4, dragons are mentioned to nap for one hundred years.
* "Winter Wrap Up" brings to mind the the opening theme to the the 1986 ''[[My Little Pony]]'' movie:
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* [[Canon Foreigner|Toy line exclusive pony]] Sweetie Swirl, a [[Palette Swap]] of Rarity, is colored similarly to Rarity's G3 incarnation.
* The foal that Rainbow Dash rescues from the well in "The Mysterious Mare Do Well" has the same body color (and a near-identical voice) as Lickety Split, who had a musical number involving someone else trapped in a well in the original movie.
* "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E10 Secret of My Excess|Secret of My Excess]]" features a [[Viewer Gender Confusion|pony]] named Lickety Split and a mare named Junebug.
* In "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E13 Hearths Warming Eve|Hearth's Warming Eve]]" when Rarity (as Princess Platinum) claims Equestria as her own she christens it Unicornia. Unicornia is the name of the unicorns' kingdom from G3 whose princess is named Rarity.
** Fluttershy's character in the play is name "Pansy", which almost sounds like "Posey", the G1 pony Fluttershy was base on.
* The euphemisms and pony-versions of words characters use come from G1, mainly from European canon. Terms like "Pony feathers!" are the most obvious. Applejack in particular liked to use that term in the British comics, and her G4 [[Expy]] often uses it in G4 to.
* "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E14 The Last Roundup|The Last Roundup]]" includes a pony named Cherry Jubilee. There was a G1 pony named Cherr''ies'' Jubilee.
* ''Party Of One'''s plot is unusually similar to a comic in the British G1 comics called "[http://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/view/115775 A Surprise For Surprise]''. In the comic, everypony is ignoring Surprise and telling her to leave them alone. Surprise believes they all hate her and runs off, but it turns out they were throwing a party for Surprise. All the ponies the Mane Cast are based off appear in the strip too.
* Flower Wishes, Daisy's name from the toy line, was also the name of a G3 pony.
* The stunt that causes Rainbow Dash to crash in "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E16 Read It and Weep|Read It And Weep]]" is, going by the motions of the onlookers' heads as they follow it, Firefly's trademark double inside-out loop.
* Bizarrely, "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E18 A Friend in Deed|A Friend in Deed]]" gives Daisy Jo, the name of a G3/G3.5 pony, to one of the cows from "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1 E4 Applebuck Season|Applebuck Season]]".
* "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E21 Dragon Quest|Dragon Quest]]" has quite a bit in common with the ''[[My Little Pony and Friends]]'' episode "Spike's Search": They both involve a little purple dragon named Spike leaving behind his pony friends to look for his draconic roots, only to fall in with a crowd of trouble-making dragons, which leads him to decide he's more at home with the ponies.
** One of the dragons, Garble, has the same color scheme as Fiery from G1.
* In "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E22 Hurricane Fluttershy|Hurricane Fluttershy]]", during the big tornado scene one can see a male pegasus with the color scheme of Firefly, the G1 pegasus who inspired Rainbow Dash.
* A pony in "Putting Your Hoof" down - dubbed Valley Swirl by fans - has a blue mane, pink fur, lightning bolt earrings, and looks like she came right out of [[The Eighties]]. She seems to be a [[Shout-Out]] to Firefly.
* "Pinkie Sense" is sort of like Pinkie's "Pinkie Squink" from G3.
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** Not to mention that it "calls" Rainbow Dash "Chump!".
** The sequence may be a nod to the ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]'' episode "Hermit Ren", right down to the splotchy paint backgrounds.
** At the end of the episode, we can see Spike dance like [[John Travolta (Creator)]] in ''[[Saturday Night Fever]]''.
* The opening of "The Best Night Ever" has Twilight channeling [[Cinderella (novel)|the Fairy Godmother]] by making a carriage out of an apple and horses out of mice, even adding the stipulation that they'll revert by midnight. The ending also includes a bit about one of Rarity's [[The Girl Who Fits This Slipper|glass slippers]].
** Of course, {{spoiler|after seeing how much of a douche her dream prince actually is, she [[Defied Trope|destroys the slipper]], not wanting him to find her.}}
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* A part of the soundtrack of ''Hearth's Warming Eve'' comes from the opening of the ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsmZeo1Tc9A Exodus]'' theme.
** The fire of friendship is a heart that looks similar to the background of the intro of ''[[Powerpuff Girls|The Powerpuff Girls]]''
* At one point in "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E14 The Last Roundup|The Last Roundup]]", the chocolate line scene from ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' gets [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFj9Cxt4oD8 the pony treatment], only with cherries.
** YMMV on this, but Pinkie's sudden obsession with 'Chimichangas' [[Trademark Favorite Food|might be a nod to]] [[Deadpool|another well-known]] [[Cloudcuckoolander]] [[Motor Mouth]] [[Deadpool|famous for Forth-Wall breaking.]]
** Rainbow Dash asks if Applejack met [[wikipedia:Wild Bill Hickok|Wild Bull Hickok]] and [[wikipedia:Calamity Jane|Calamity Mane]] while competing at the rodeo.
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** One of the background ponies has a [[Norse Mythology|Mjolnir]] cutie mark.
** Praying to Celestia that it is merely coincidence, but another background pony strongly resembles a certain pony from a certain MLP game that is not suitable for younger audiences.
* In "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E16 Read It and Weep|Read It and Weep]]", the ''[[Just for Fun/Daring Do/Just For Fun|Just For Fun]]'' book Rainbow Dash reads is based on ''[[Indiana Jones]]'', with the "step on the right tiles" puzzle from ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade|Last Crusade]]'' followed by a gesture-by-gesture recreation of his stealing the idol from the opening of ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark|Raiders]]''.
** But instead of leaving behind a bag of sand, Daring then decides to just yoink the idol & walk away, like Weird Al did in the opening scenes of [[UHF]] (with predictable results).
** The scene with Rainbow Dash bouncing the ball off the wall was taken right from [[The Great Escape]]
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** Right before Rainbow hits the ground, Pinkie Pie exclaims "Ay-yi-yi-yi-yi!", a la Alpha 5 of ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]''.
** The mental patient who sneaks out of a hospital to indulge in the latest hijinks elsewhere. Now, are we talking the barking pony, or [[The A-Team|Murdock?]]
* Pinkie Pie spends much of "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E18 A Friend in Deed|A Friend in Deed]]" trying to cheer up [[Winnie the Pooh|a sarcastic, depressed old donkey]] [[Up (animation)|who's very protective of the things he has with which to remember a long-lost love]].
** Cranky's snowglobe is clearly based on the one from the infamous final episode of ''[[St Elsewhere]]''.
** One of Pinkie's guesses as to what the "C" in C.D.D. stands for is [[The Marx Brothers|"Chico"]].
** Pinkie Pie's [[Sesame Street|repetitions of "yep" and "nope"]] in the opening segment.
* The music that accompanies Iron Will's first appearance in "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E19 Putting Your Hoof Down|Putting Your Hoof Down]]" is a play on Eye of the Tiger from the Rocky movies.
** The music that plays when Fluttershy {{spoiler|realizes her assertiveness has gone too far}} is almost exactly like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d4C1ZQKmw4 The Lonely Man] from the ''[[The Incredible Hulk (TV series)|The Incredible Hulk]]''. What is more, it plays as Fluttershy walks down a road slowly, away from the camera.
** Iron Will says "I pity [[Funetik Aksent|da]] [[Just for Pun|foal]]" at one point, a shout out to [[Mr. T]] and his [[Catch Phrase]]
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** Fluttershy's way of dealing with Mr. Greenhooves overwatering her petunias just might be a reference to [http://youtu.be/Kd4jSTBhYDw L'Arroseur arrosé], the first comedy film ever made.
** Pinkie's haggling and later her handling of Iron Will when coming to collect his fee from Fluttershy [[Rabbit Season Duck Season|would make Bugs Bunny proud]].
* In "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E20 Its About Time|It's About Time]]", Twilight Sparkle [[Metal Gear|wears a headband, an eye-patch, and sneaks around in a black bodysuit]], and her time-travelling spell is reminiscent of the ''[[Terminator (franchise)|Terminator]]''.
** The music playing during her conversation with herself (both in the beginning of the episode, and when the same scene is revisited at the end) is a remix of "I am the Doctor", a piece of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' music. Also, Future Twilight's appearance is preceded by a sound similar to the one heard when the TARDIS materializes. (A key being rubbed against a piano string, incidentally.)
* "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E21 Dragon Quest|Dragon Quest]]"'s [[Dragon Quest|name]].
** One of the teenage dragons resembles a [[How to Train Your Dragon|Gronkle]].
* In the episode ''Hurricane Fluttershy'', Spike asks Twilight Sparkle what a squirrel says. She says, "[[Sarcasm Mode|Do I look like I speak squirrel?]]". The answer is no, but [[Powerpuff Girls|Bubbles]] could, and [[Tara Strong]] voiced both of them. [[Lauren Faust]] developed both series, at this point the [[Shout-Out]] borders on [[Mythology Gag]].
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