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** Cheerilee's motivational speech to herself at the beginning of the story is an allusion to the Litany Against Fear from Literature/{{Dune}}. When that doesn't work, her motivational chant is a reference to [[{{Anime/DragonBallZ}} Piccolo's fusion with Nail]].
** One of Scootaloo's parents is an expy of Maes Hughes from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''.
** Cheerilee's musical number is based on Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "Virus Alert".
** References to ''Film/{{Rashomon}}'': Aside from [[RashomonStyle the namesake trope]], there's the use of a police interrogation as the FramingDevice--and the overall structure of three flashbacks by the participants in the scene, followed by a fourth flashback that claims it will set the record straight (then does nothing of the sort).
** The nickname "Terry" is a reference to [[https://derpibooru.org/10126 this comic]], a StylisticSuck parody of the official German ''MLPFIM'' comics.
** Scootaloo's TotallyRadical scooter tricks were inspired by ''Mad Snacks Yo'' from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', which itself was a parody of ''VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater''.
** Puddinghead's incantation is actually lyrics from Music/{{Korpiklaani}}'s "Tequila". The song she plays to fight Scootaloo is Heikki Harma's "Juodaan Viinaa" ("Let's Drink Booze").
** Trunks from ''Franchise/{{Dragonball}}'' pops in for a scene, with Beat, Note, Kabra, Froze, Tsumuri and Nico in tow.
** The whole "Waiting for Scootaloo's Parents" part is a parody of ''Theatre/WaitingForGodot''.
** Cheerilee's motivational speech to herself at the beginning of the story is an allusion to the Litany Against Fear from Literature/{{Dune}}. When that doesn't work, her motivational chant is a reference to [[{{Anime/DragonBallZ}} Piccolo's fusion with Nail]].
** One of Scootaloo's parents is an expy of Maes Hughes from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''.
** Cheerilee's musical number is based on Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "Virus Alert".
** References to ''Film/{{Rashomon}}'': Aside from [[RashomonStyle the namesake trope]], there's the use of a police interrogation as the FramingDevice--and the overall structure of three flashbacks by the participants in the scene, followed by a fourth flashback that claims it will set the record straight (then does nothing of the sort).
** The nickname "Terry" is a reference to [[https://derpibooru.org/10126 this comic]], a StylisticSuck parody of the official German ''MLPFIM'' comics.
** Scootaloo's TotallyRadical scooter tricks were inspired by ''Mad Snacks Yo'' from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', which itself was a parody of ''VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater''.
** Puddinghead's incantation is actually lyrics from Music/{{Korpiklaani}}'s "Tequila". The song she plays to fight Scootaloo is Heikki Harma's "Juodaan Viinaa" ("Let's Drink Booze").
** Trunks from ''Franchise/{{Dragonball}}'' pops in for a scene, with Beat, Note, Kabra, Froze, Tsumuri and Nico in tow.
** The whole "Waiting for Scootaloo's Parents" part is a parody of ''Theatre/WaitingForGodot''.
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Fullmetal Alchemist disambiguation
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Turns out Scootaloo ''isn't'' an orphan -- she just doesn't like to go out in public with her parents because they're constantly doting on her and taking pictures of her. One is even an {{Expy}} of [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist Maes Hughes]].
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Turns out Scootaloo ''isn't'' an orphan -- she just doesn't like to go out in public with her parents because they're constantly doting on her and taking pictures of her. One is even an {{Expy}} of [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist [[Franchise/FullmetalAlchemist Maes Hughes]].
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* BalefulPolymorph: A dose of poison joke leaves Cheerilee with ''hands'' for the length of several conferences.
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* IAteWhat: Truffle brings along a salad for his parents and Cheerilee, which he made himself. It's only after they've eaten that he mentions he gathered some of the ingredients from the Everfree Forest, and the adults realize they just ate Poison Joke...
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* MalignedMixedMarriage: Moquette's factually-dubious flashback has Cheerilee being rude and dismissive toward her and Corduroy, because they're a unicorn / earth pony couple.
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* MalignedMixedMarriage: Moquette's factually-dubious flashback has Cheerilee being rude and dismissive toward her and Corduroy, [[HalfBreedDiscrimination because they're a unicorn / earth pony couple.couple]].
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* MixedAncestry: Garter is the offspring of a pony and a Sayan. He looks like a pony with a monkey tail.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: Garter, offspring of the Interspecies Romance below. He looks like a pony with a monkey tail.
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-->[Cheerilee said,] “I did discover that her friend is an adult mare. That in itself isn’t worrying. There should be more intergenerational friendships, but accompanying the secrecy and the fact that Sunny said that they like to dress in dark cloaks and have secret meetings together, it is a bit concerning.”
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-->[Cheerilee said,] “I "I did discover that her friend is an adult mare. That in itself isn’t isn't worrying. There should be more intergenerational friendships, but accompanying the secrecy and the fact that Sunny said that they like to dress in dark cloaks and have secret meetings together, it is a bit concerning.”"
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Misuse; this is textbook By No I Mean Yes.
* ByNoIMeanYes:
-->High Note was a good kid, always getting along with everyone except for when she didn't. Pretty good grades for the most part, though she scored low in quantum mechanics. And advanced firewall configuration. And Gaelic. And...\\
Okay, so maybe High Note was a pretty lousy student. But her parents didn't need to know that, did they?
-->High Note was a good kid, always getting along with everyone except for when she didn't. Pretty good grades for the most part, though she scored low in quantum mechanics. And advanced firewall configuration. And Gaelic. And...\\
Okay, so maybe High Note was a pretty lousy student. But her parents didn't need to know that, did they?
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-->High Note was a good kid, always getting along with everyone except for when she didn't. Pretty good grades for the most part, though she scored low in quantum mechanics. And advanced firewall configuration. And Gaelic. And...\\
Okay, so maybe High Note was a pretty lousy student. But her parents didn't need to know that, did they?
-->High Note was a good kid, always getting along with everyone except for when she didn't. Pretty good grades for the most part, though she scored low in quantum mechanics. And advanced firewall configuration. And Gaelic. And...\\
Okay, so maybe High Note was a pretty lousy student. But her parents didn't need to know that, did they?
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Turns out Scootaloo ''isn't'' an orphan--she just doesn't like to go out in public with her parents because they're constantly doting on her and taking pictures of her. One is even an {{Expy}} of [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist Maes Hughes]].
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Turns out Scootaloo ''isn't'' an orphan--she orphan -- she just doesn't like to go out in public with her parents because they're constantly doting on her and taking pictures of her. One is even an {{Expy}} of [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist Maes Hughes]].
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* [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Equine Hybrid]]: Garter, offspring of the Interspecies Romance below. He looks like a pony with a monkey tail.
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: The foal Sunny Daze has struck up a friendship with an adult, which would normally be a good thing. Unfortunately, the adult in question is The Cultist.
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: The foal Sunny Daze has struck up a friendship with an adult, which would normally be a good thing. Unfortunately, the adult in question is The the Cultist.
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** There's DramaticIrony when Cheerilee warns Twos Daze and Inner Daze about their daughter Sunny hanging out with a possibly-dangerous adult who wears dark robes--not realizing that the adult in question is The Cultist, who just got arrested, right there at the schoolhouse.
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** There's DramaticIrony when Cheerilee warns Twos Daze and Inner Daze about their daughter Sunny hanging out with a possibly-dangerous adult who wears dark robes--not robes -- not realizing that the adult in question is The the Cultist, who just got arrested, right there at the schoolhouse.
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* ShoutOut: During her pep talk to herself in the beginning, Cheerilee says [[Literature/{{Dune}} "You will show no doubt, for doubt is the authority-killer. Ignorance is the little death that brings total obliviousness."]]
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* CompletelyOffTopicReport: Young Dinky Doo is [[ShipperOnDeck obsessed with romance]] and finds ways to shoehorn it into all of her schoolwork. The one example mentioned in the story was her assigned history report, which she used as an excuse to write a ship-fic about historical figures.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Cheerilee, who expresses desire to have liquor served to her by a muscular stallion in the narration around the middle of the story and gets some ShipTease with Luna in the end of the story.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Cheerilee, who expresses desire to have liquor served to her by a muscular stallion in the narration around Cheerilee. In the middle of the story, she fantasizes about drinking liquor shots off the abs of a muscular stallion, but at the end of the story and she gets some ShipTease with Luna in the end of the story.Princess Luna.
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* DrivenToSuicide: The wait for Scootaloo's parents to show up causes Cheerilee to think about suicide as an abstract concept. A few more minutes of waiting convinces her to actually kill herself. But she can't go through with it, because she doesn't have anything sturdy enough to make a good noose.
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* DrivenToSuicide: The wait for Scootaloo's parents to show up causes Cheerilee to think about suicide as an abstract concept. A few more minutes of waiting convinces her to actually kill herself. But she can't go through with it, because she doesn't have anything sturdy enough to make a good noose.
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* TakeOurWordForIt: When the extended Apple family shows up for Apple Bloom's conference and ''won't shut up'', Cheerilee brandishes very ominous lever. She describes what will happen if she pulls the lever. The audience doesn't get to hear, but Cheerilee's description scares everypony present into silence.
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* TakeOurWordForIt: When the extended Apple family shows up for Apple Bloom's conference and ''won't shut up'', Cheerilee brandishes a very ominous lever. She describes what will happen if she pulls the lever. The audience doesn't get to hear, but Cheerilee's description scares everypony present into silence.
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* ShipTease: The story ends with one between Cheerilee and ''Princess Luna''. Lu-lu shows up in Cheerilee's dream to reassure her that she's doing a good job as a teacher, and they bond over their shared experience of hard work going unappreciated. Cheerilee notes that the princess is "tall, dark, and handsome", and she asks Luna to visit again sometime.
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* ThemeNaming: Moquette, Corduroy, and Terry (as in terry cloth) are all pile-woven fabrics.
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* DrivenToSuicide: The wait for Scootaloo's parents to show up causes Cheerilee to think about suicide as an abstract concept. A few more minutes of waiting convinces her to actually kill herself. But she can't go through with it, because she doesn't have anything sturdy enough to make a good noose.
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* [[HalfHumanHybrid Half Equine Hybrid]]: Garter, offspring of the Interspecies Romance below. He looks like a pony with a monkey tail.
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* CrazyPrepared: When the Cultist attacks the schoolhouse with rapidly growing vines, Cheerilee already knows what to do.
-->Cheerilee’s instincts took over: she dove under her desk and retrieved the machete that had been taped to the underside for just this purpose.
-->Cheerilee’s instincts took over: she dove under her desk and retrieved the machete that had been taped to the underside for just this purpose.
* MyLittlePanzer: Garter has a digital wrist communicator so he can keep in touch with his dad. But it also has a built-in energy weapon and can ''manipulate time''. His parents don't think anything of this until Cheerilee points out how crazy that is.
-->“Do you think something that can create massive holes in the ground is deemed safe for someone his age?”
-->“Do you think something that can create massive holes in the ground is deemed safe for someone his age?”
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* TheVamp: In Corduroy's dubiously-factual flashback, Cheerilee flirts with Corduroy very aggressively--right in front of his wife, no less.
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''Parents of Ponyville'' is a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic by {{Creator/Insaneponyauthor}}, set in the same 'verse as all their prior fics.
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Turns out Scootaloo ''isn't'' an orphan--she just doesn't like to go out in public with her parents because they're constantly doting on her and taking pictures of her.
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-->High Note was a good kid, always getting along with everyone except for when she didn't. Pretty good grades for the most part, though she scored low in quantum mechanics. And advanced firewall configuration. And Gaelic. And...\\
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-->High Note was a good kid, always getting along with everyone except for when she didn't. Pretty good grades for the most part, though she scored low in quantum mechanics. And advanced firewall configuration. And Gaelic. And...\\
Okay, so maybe High Note was a pretty lousy student. But her parents didn't need to know that, did they?
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* ComicBookTime: This was written during season 5, and different authors made references to whichever episode had just come out. As a result, the whole story (which happens in a single afternoon and evening) takes place ''before'' [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E7MakeNewFriendsButKeepDiscord Tree Hugger visited Fluttershy in Ponyville for the first time]], yet ''after'' [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E13DoPrincessesDreamOfMagicSheep the Tantabus incident]].
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* ComicBookTime: This was written during season 5, and different authors made references to whichever episode had just come out. As a result, the whole story (which happens in a single afternoon and evening) takes place ''before'' [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E7MakeNewFriendsButKeepDiscord Tree Hugger visited Fluttershy in Ponyville for the first time]], yet ''after'' [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E13DoPrincessesDreamOfMagicSheep the Tantabus incident]].
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* ComicBookTime: This was written during season 5, and different authors made references to whichever episode had just come out. As a result, the whole story (which happens in a single afternoon and evening) takes place ''before'' Tree Hugger visited Fluttershy in Ponyville for the first time, yet ''after'' the Tantabus incident.
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* ComicBookTime: This was written during season 5, and different authors made references to whichever episode had just come out. As a result, the whole story (which happens in a single afternoon and evening) takes place ''before'' [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E7MakeNewFriendsButKeepDiscord Tree Hugger visited Fluttershy in Ponyville for the first time, time]], yet ''after'' [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E13DoPrincessesDreamOfMagicSheep the Tantabus incident.incident]].
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** The TotemPoleTrench scene retroactively becomes situational irony with the reveal that one of the participants was a changeling: an experienced master of disguise resorted to a PaperThinDisguise that fooled nopony.
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* TakeOurWordForIt: When the extended Apple family shows up for Apple Bloom's conference and ''won't shut up'', Cheerilee brandishes very ominous lever. She describes what will happen if she pulls the lever. The audience doesn't get to hear, but Cheerilee's description scares everypony present into silence.
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* PastLifeMemories: Tree Hugger arrives convinced that she has a meeting with Harsh Grade... who taught at the schoolhouse back when Ponyville was first founded. Turns out one of Tree Hugger's past lives cheated on an assignment and never got the appropriate punishment, so she needs Cheerilee to restore the cosmic balance by punishing her.
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* PastLifeMemories: Tree Hugger arrives is convinced that she has a meeting with Harsh Grade... who taught at the schoolhouse back when Ponyville was first founded. Turns out one of Tree Hugger's past lives cheated on an assignment and never got the appropriate punishment, so she needs Cheerilee to restore the cosmic balance by punishing her.
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* TomatoSurprise: One of the students [[spoiler:was a changeling all along. It's Silver Spoon.]]
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* TomatoSurprise: One of the students [[spoiler:was [[spoiler:Silver Spoon]] is actually a changeling. And she's been a changeling all along. It's Silver Spoon.]]along.
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-->''“Alright, Cheerilee, the night you’ve been dreading all year is finally here, but you’re going to get through it. You always do,” she told her reflection.''
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''Parents of Ponyville'' is a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic by {{Creator/Insaneponyauthor}}, set in the same 'verse as all their prior fics.
It's Parent-Teacher Conference Night at Ponyville Schoolhouse, so it falls to Cheerilee to deal with a building full of the most irrational, unruly ponies in Ponyville--[[BaitAndSwitchComparison and their children, too]]. As if that weren't already stressful enough, Cheerilee also has to contend with bizarre interruptions from time travelers, would-be conquerors, unpleasant transformations, and hallucinogenic drugs.
She's gonna need a stiff drink when this is all over.
Experience it [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/279291/parents-of-ponyville here]].
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!Provides examples of:
* {{Absurdism}}: Scootaloo shows up and waits for her parents to arrive, and the story turns into a ''Theatre/WaitingForGodot'' parody.
* AlternateUniverseFic: Aside from all the craziness that carries over from the prior Insaneponyauthor stories, this story establishes that Cheerilee has been an unofficial diplomat to a changeling hive since sometime before Twilight came to Ponyville.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Turns out Scootaloo ''isn't'' an orphan--she just doesn't like to go out in public with her parents because they're constantly doting on her and taking pictures of her.
-->“Mom, dad! You're embarrassing me in front of everypony!” Scootaloo hissed, sidling up to her parents with one hoof shielding her face from the other waiting families. “This is exactly why I never go anywhere with you guys!”
* BalefulPolymorph: A dose of poison joke leaves Cheerilee with ''hands'' for the length of several conferences.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Cheerilee explains to Gossamer that her daughter, Cara, has been bullying classmates. Gossamer and Cara both have trouble grasping why this is a problem.
-->[Gossamer said,] “But how are her classmates to know that they are inferior otherwise?”
* CallBack:
** To ''Derailed'': Octavia and Princess Celestia are still a couple, and now they have a daughter in Cheerilee's class. Celestia uses her Sunny Skies disguise to attend the PTC.
** The Cultist from ''Tealove's Steamy Adventure'' crashes one of the conferences.
** Agents Blaze and Briefs from ''Diamond and Silver's Excellent Adventure'' also have a son in Cheerilee's class.
* ComicBookTime: This was written during season 5, and different authors made references to whichever episode had just come out. As a result, the whole story (which happens in a single afternoon and evening) takes place ''before'' Tree Hugger visited Fluttershy in Ponyville for the first time, yet ''after'' the Tantabus incident.
* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: Diamond Tiara convinces Snails to impersonate her dad, dressing him in an oversized trench coat and a hat that covers most of his face.
* ContinuityNod:
** Applejack shows up as Apple Bloom's "parent", but she can't outright admit that AB is an [[ArtificialHuman Artificial Pony]] that she created.
** Princess Luna is ''still'' dressed like a pirate, and can't explain why.
** "The drugs were beginning to wear off."
* DeadAllAlong: Discussed. The nonsensical wait for Scootaloo's parents convinces Cheerilee that she's actually in the afterlife.
-->Cheerilee breathed a long, desperate, exasperated sigh. “This is absurd,” she said. “I'm fairly certain I'm in hell.”\\
“Absurdist,” Scootaloo corrected. “And Purgatory. Although that's very much up for debate.”
* DependingOnTheAuthor: The contradictions are more blatant than any prior Insaneponyauthor story, with a few children (Scootaloo, Apple Bloom, and Featherweight) getting multiple conferences with Cheerilee, or multiple sets of parents, or both. And there's the way the opening scene portrays Cheerilee and Big Macintosh as just friends, while the musical number implies she has a crush on him.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Moquette and Corduroy only ever refer to their daughter as Terry. Afterwards, "Terry" asks Cheerilee to not let any other ponies know about that nickname.
* [[HalfHumanHybrid Half Equine Hybrid]]: Garter, offspring of the Interspecies Romance below. He looks like a pony with a monkey tail.
* IAteWhat: Truffle brings along a salad for his parents and Cheerilee, which he made himself. It's only after they've eaten that he mentions he gathered some of the ingredients from the Everfree Forest, and the adults realize they just ate Poison Joke...
* IntergenerationalFriendship: The foal Sunny Daze has struck up a friendship with an adult, which would normally be a good thing. Unfortunately, the adult in question is The Cultist.
-->[Cheerilee said,] “I did discover that her friend is an adult mare. That in itself isn’t worrying. There should be more intergenerational friendships, but accompanying the secrecy and the fact that Sunny said that they like to dress in dark cloaks and have secret meetings together, it is a bit concerning.”
* InterspeciesRomance: Agent Blaze Burst Briefs (a pony) is married to Agent Trunks Briefs (a Saiyan).
* {{Irony}}: Happens due to the different authors' sections interacting in strange ways.
** There's DramaticIrony when Cheerilee warns Twos Daze and Inner Daze about their daughter Sunny hanging out with a possibly-dangerous adult who wears dark robes--not realizing that the adult in question is The Cultist, who just got arrested, right there at the schoolhouse.
** The TotemPoleTrench scene retroactively becomes situational irony with the reveal that one of the participants was a changeling: an experienced master of disguise resorted to a PaperThinDisguise that fooled nopony.
* MalignedMixedMarriage: Moquette's factually-dubious flashback has Cheerilee being rude and dismissive toward her and Corduroy, because they're a unicorn / earth pony couple.
-->[Cheerilee said,] "Everypony knows the children of mixed-tribe marriages are bad at math."
* {{Montage}}: The second half of Cheerilee's musical number.
-->Two down, and how many to go? It seemed about time for a montage. Once you establish the pattern, you can get away with spending barely any time on the rest. Out of the corner of her eye, Cheerilee saw coordinated groups of ponies ready to jump in and start dancing during the chorus.
* MushroomSamba: Cheerilee gets high on some weed cookies. First it gives her some MediumAwareness (for example, she sees the entire room lean to the right every time there's ''a sentence in italics''). Then she hallucinates that she's a human, using a computer, and that Octavia and Sunny Skies are just empty suits. Then her mom shows up in the hallucination to nag Cheerilee, and her speech degenerates into word salads.
* MusicalWorldHypotheses: The songs and music actually happen in-universe. Cheerilee starts singing, and the accompanying music starts playing spontaneously, and other ponies join in the chorus. And Cheerilee does this deliberately to exploit the fact that time flows differently during a musical number.
-->And then [Cheerilee] remembered the saying. ''Time flies when you’re singing a song.'' Well, it was worth a try.
* PastLifeMemories: Tree Hugger arrives convinced that she has a meeting with Harsh Grade... who taught at the schoolhouse back when Ponyville was first founded. Turns out one of Tree Hugger's past lives cheated on an assignment and never got the appropriate punishment, so she needs Cheerilee to restore the cosmic balance by punishing her.
* ThePowerOfRock: Terry vanquishes Puddinghead with a totally awesome guitar solo.
* RashomonStyle: The conference with Terry's parents is shown via flashbacks. Moquette, Corduroy, Cheerilee, and Terry all have very different interpretations of what happened.
* {{Retcon}}: Back in ''Tealove's Steamy Adventure'', the Cultist was strongly implied to be Pinkie Pie in disguise. This story strongly implies she was actually the time-traveling Puddinghead in disguise.
* RousingSpeech: The story opens with Cheerilee talking to her reflection in the mirror, trying to psych herself up.
* ShipperOnDeck: Dinky Doo is obsessed with romance. She finds some way to shoehorn romance into all her schoolwork, such as turning her history essays into shipfics about historical figures. When Cheerilee brings in Time Turner as a guest teacher, Dinky becomes convinced the two of them are destined to marry.
* TheStoner: "This Tree Hugger was clearly off the wagon." Also, Cheerilee experimented with drugs in college, and she still recognizes the taste of a pot cookie.
* TomatoSurprise: One of the students [[spoiler:was a changeling all along. It's Silver Spoon.]]
* TotemPoleTrench: Diamond Tiara ropes Silver Spoon and Snips into impersonating her mom, so SS stands on Snips' back and they wear an adult-size dress.
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''Parents of Ponyville'' is a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic by {{Creator/Insaneponyauthor}}, set in the same 'verse as all their prior fics.
It's Parent-Teacher Conference Night at Ponyville Schoolhouse, so it falls to Cheerilee to deal with a building full of the most irrational, unruly ponies in Ponyville--[[BaitAndSwitchComparison and their children, too]]. As if that weren't already stressful enough, Cheerilee also has to contend with bizarre interruptions from time travelers, would-be conquerors, unpleasant transformations, and hallucinogenic drugs.
She's gonna need a stiff drink when this is all over.
Experience it [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/279291/parents-of-ponyville here]].
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!Provides examples of:
* {{Absurdism}}: Scootaloo shows up and waits for her parents to arrive, and the story turns into a ''Theatre/WaitingForGodot'' parody.
* AlternateUniverseFic: Aside from all the craziness that carries over from the prior Insaneponyauthor stories, this story establishes that Cheerilee has been an unofficial diplomat to a changeling hive since sometime before Twilight came to Ponyville.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Turns out Scootaloo ''isn't'' an orphan--she just doesn't like to go out in public with her parents because they're constantly doting on her and taking pictures of her.
-->“Mom, dad! You're embarrassing me in front of everypony!” Scootaloo hissed, sidling up to her parents with one hoof shielding her face from the other waiting families. “This is exactly why I never go anywhere with you guys!”
* BalefulPolymorph: A dose of poison joke leaves Cheerilee with ''hands'' for the length of several conferences.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Cheerilee explains to Gossamer that her daughter, Cara, has been bullying classmates. Gossamer and Cara both have trouble grasping why this is a problem.
-->[Gossamer said,] “But how are her classmates to know that they are inferior otherwise?”
* CallBack:
** To ''Derailed'': Octavia and Princess Celestia are still a couple, and now they have a daughter in Cheerilee's class. Celestia uses her Sunny Skies disguise to attend the PTC.
** The Cultist from ''Tealove's Steamy Adventure'' crashes one of the conferences.
** Agents Blaze and Briefs from ''Diamond and Silver's Excellent Adventure'' also have a son in Cheerilee's class.
* ComicBookTime: This was written during season 5, and different authors made references to whichever episode had just come out. As a result, the whole story (which happens in a single afternoon and evening) takes place ''before'' Tree Hugger visited Fluttershy in Ponyville for the first time, yet ''after'' the Tantabus incident.
* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: Diamond Tiara convinces Snails to impersonate her dad, dressing him in an oversized trench coat and a hat that covers most of his face.
* ContinuityNod:
** Applejack shows up as Apple Bloom's "parent", but she can't outright admit that AB is an [[ArtificialHuman Artificial Pony]] that she created.
** Princess Luna is ''still'' dressed like a pirate, and can't explain why.
** "The drugs were beginning to wear off."
* DeadAllAlong: Discussed. The nonsensical wait for Scootaloo's parents convinces Cheerilee that she's actually in the afterlife.
-->Cheerilee breathed a long, desperate, exasperated sigh. “This is absurd,” she said. “I'm fairly certain I'm in hell.”\\
“Absurdist,” Scootaloo corrected. “And Purgatory. Although that's very much up for debate.”
* DependingOnTheAuthor: The contradictions are more blatant than any prior Insaneponyauthor story, with a few children (Scootaloo, Apple Bloom, and Featherweight) getting multiple conferences with Cheerilee, or multiple sets of parents, or both. And there's the way the opening scene portrays Cheerilee and Big Macintosh as just friends, while the musical number implies she has a crush on him.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Moquette and Corduroy only ever refer to their daughter as Terry. Afterwards, "Terry" asks Cheerilee to not let any other ponies know about that nickname.
* [[HalfHumanHybrid Half Equine Hybrid]]: Garter, offspring of the Interspecies Romance below. He looks like a pony with a monkey tail.
* IAteWhat: Truffle brings along a salad for his parents and Cheerilee, which he made himself. It's only after they've eaten that he mentions he gathered some of the ingredients from the Everfree Forest, and the adults realize they just ate Poison Joke...
* IntergenerationalFriendship: The foal Sunny Daze has struck up a friendship with an adult, which would normally be a good thing. Unfortunately, the adult in question is The Cultist.
-->[Cheerilee said,] “I did discover that her friend is an adult mare. That in itself isn’t worrying. There should be more intergenerational friendships, but accompanying the secrecy and the fact that Sunny said that they like to dress in dark cloaks and have secret meetings together, it is a bit concerning.”
* InterspeciesRomance: Agent Blaze Burst Briefs (a pony) is married to Agent Trunks Briefs (a Saiyan).
* {{Irony}}: Happens due to the different authors' sections interacting in strange ways.
** There's DramaticIrony when Cheerilee warns Twos Daze and Inner Daze about their daughter Sunny hanging out with a possibly-dangerous adult who wears dark robes--not realizing that the adult in question is The Cultist, who just got arrested, right there at the schoolhouse.
** The TotemPoleTrench scene retroactively becomes situational irony with the reveal that one of the participants was a changeling: an experienced master of disguise resorted to a PaperThinDisguise that fooled nopony.
* MalignedMixedMarriage: Moquette's factually-dubious flashback has Cheerilee being rude and dismissive toward her and Corduroy, because they're a unicorn / earth pony couple.
-->[Cheerilee said,] "Everypony knows the children of mixed-tribe marriages are bad at math."
* {{Montage}}: The second half of Cheerilee's musical number.
-->Two down, and how many to go? It seemed about time for a montage. Once you establish the pattern, you can get away with spending barely any time on the rest. Out of the corner of her eye, Cheerilee saw coordinated groups of ponies ready to jump in and start dancing during the chorus.
* MushroomSamba: Cheerilee gets high on some weed cookies. First it gives her some MediumAwareness (for example, she sees the entire room lean to the right every time there's ''a sentence in italics''). Then she hallucinates that she's a human, using a computer, and that Octavia and Sunny Skies are just empty suits. Then her mom shows up in the hallucination to nag Cheerilee, and her speech degenerates into word salads.
* MusicalWorldHypotheses: The songs and music actually happen in-universe. Cheerilee starts singing, and the accompanying music starts playing spontaneously, and other ponies join in the chorus. And Cheerilee does this deliberately to exploit the fact that time flows differently during a musical number.
-->And then [Cheerilee] remembered the saying. ''Time flies when you’re singing a song.'' Well, it was worth a try.
* PastLifeMemories: Tree Hugger arrives convinced that she has a meeting with Harsh Grade... who taught at the schoolhouse back when Ponyville was first founded. Turns out one of Tree Hugger's past lives cheated on an assignment and never got the appropriate punishment, so she needs Cheerilee to restore the cosmic balance by punishing her.
* ThePowerOfRock: Terry vanquishes Puddinghead with a totally awesome guitar solo.
* RashomonStyle: The conference with Terry's parents is shown via flashbacks. Moquette, Corduroy, Cheerilee, and Terry all have very different interpretations of what happened.
* {{Retcon}}: Back in ''Tealove's Steamy Adventure'', the Cultist was strongly implied to be Pinkie Pie in disguise. This story strongly implies she was actually the time-traveling Puddinghead in disguise.
* RousingSpeech: The story opens with Cheerilee talking to her reflection in the mirror, trying to psych herself up.
* ShipperOnDeck: Dinky Doo is obsessed with romance. She finds some way to shoehorn romance into all her schoolwork, such as turning her history essays into shipfics about historical figures. When Cheerilee brings in Time Turner as a guest teacher, Dinky becomes convinced the two of them are destined to marry.
* TheStoner: "This Tree Hugger was clearly off the wagon." Also, Cheerilee experimented with drugs in college, and she still recognizes the taste of a pot cookie.
* TomatoSurprise: One of the students [[spoiler:was a changeling all along. It's Silver Spoon.]]
* TotemPoleTrench: Diamond Tiara ropes Silver Spoon and Snips into impersonating her mom, so SS stands on Snips' back and they wear an adult-size dress.
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