History Recap / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E12CallOfTheCutie

* BegoneBribe: [[FanNickname Doctor Whooves]] ends up buying an apple just so that Apple Bloom would stop hounding him.

Apple Bloom tries to hide her lack of a cutie mark and sneak out of the party, but despite all her efforts she's found out. Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon start to mock her for being "not special", only for two other blank-flanked fillies, a unicorn named Sweetie Belle and a pegasus named Scootaloo, to rush to her defense. They, and Twilight, point out that still having the potential to become anything can be regarded as special too, turning the crowd turn positively interested towards Apple Bloom, much to Diamond Tiara's and Silver Spoon's annoyance.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Aside from the whole cutie mark = puberty metaphor, at the party at the end, one of the ponies stops to take a surreptitious slurp of punch straight from the bowl. Her cutie mark includes a bunch of grapes. [[TheAlcoholic Wonder how she earned that]]?

!!Tropes present in this episode (YMMV tropes can be found [[YMMV/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E12CallOfTheCutie here]]):

* BlatantLies: At the cute-ceañera, Apple Bloom claims that she now has a cutie mark but can't show it because it's so incredibly amazing. Diamond Tiara actually buys it when threatened with being outshone at her own party, but the ruse doesn't hold for long.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Cheerilee tells her class about an important part of growing up and is not above including awkward information about herself to make it relatable and interesting. Admirable - except that three quarters of her class had already (visibly) passed the point at which they would have needed that information.

* MotorMouth: Apple Bloom explaining her problem to Rainbow Dash, and again when explaining to Twilight Sparkle. Her exact quote is way too long to put here.
** This quote she does in two breaths:
-->Apple Bloom: (Inhales)There's a cute-ceañera this afternoon and everypony in my class will be there and they'll all have their cutie marks and I wanna get my cutie mark but I'm no good at sellin' apples but I really wanna go to the party but how can I go to the party if I don't have my cutie mark which my big sister says I'm gonna get eventually but (Inhales) ... I WANT IT NOW!

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: On Creator/TreehouseTV airings of the episode, a line said by Silver Spoon is altered.
-->'''Silver Spoon:''' Whatever. [[spoiler: We still think you're losers]], right, Diamond Tiara?

* ChildrenAreCruel

* ADayInTheLimelight

* LowerDeckEpisode

* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: Was intended to be one for a spinoff starring the Cutie Mark Crusaders, which never surfaced.
** However, the CMC later get many ore episodes focused around them, to the point where they're usually considered the show's second set of protagonists.

* SelectiveEnforcement[=/=]CantGetAwayWithNuthin: The second Apple Bloom's lips touch the note Diamond Tiara is trying to pass, Cheerilee comes down on her like a ton of bricks -- ignoring Diamond Tiara being on the other end of it, and ''then'' ignoring that DT loudly mocks her in the middle of class, ''and'' that the whole thing was a setup. Ponyville's school system clearly has not instituted a zero-tolerance policy on bullying.

* ShoutOut: Apple Bloom's kite inexplicably disintegrating could be a reference to a ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' strip where Charlie Brown's kite suddenly explodes.

* AbsenteeActor: Spike and Fluttershy; although Carousel Boutique appears, Rarity is absent as well. As such, Sweetie Belle's relationship to Rarity is established in this episode.

* AbsenteeActor: Spike and Fluttershy; although Carousel Boutique appears, Rarity is absent as well.

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: On TreehouseTV airings of the episode, a line said by Silver Spoon is altered.

** After spending the entire episode trying to find her talent Apple Bloom quickly improvises a decent-looking dress by using a table cloth. In a later episode, [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E18TheShowStoppers "The Show Stoppers"]] it is implied that her talent will be related to construction and design.
** On the same note, when the Cutie Mark Crusaders are dancing near the end of the episode, Scootaloo is noticeably more proficient, easily performing a somersault from a standing position. As we see later in "The Show Stoppers", dancing and acrobatics are ''her'' talents.

!!Tropes (YMMV items can be found [[YMMV/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E12CallOfTheCutie here]]):

!!Tropes (YMMV items can be found [[YMMV/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E12CallOfTheCutie here]].)

Desperate, Apple Bloom begs Twilight Sparkle to conjure up a cutie mark for her, but as Twilight demonstrates, even magic can't force a cutie mark to appear before its time. Bloom is all but ready to give up on going to the cuteceañera after all... unfortunately, she'd forgotten in her haste that the party is being held right there at Sugar Cube Corner.

!!Tropes ([[YMMV/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E12CallOfTheCutie YMMV items can be found here]])

* EightiesHair: Schoolfilly!Cheerilee

* AlphaBitch: Diamond Tiara, with Silver Spoon as BetaBitch.

* BittersweetEnding: Appebloom doesnt get a cutie mark, but she makes new friends.

** Apple Bloom, telling Bon Bon that she (Bon Bon) bought those apples.

** Later, Apple Bloom is worried about being behind her entire class in that field- especially when she discovers her family has a history of being behind their classmates in it.

* FantasticSlur: "Blank flank."

* IWasQuiteAFashionVictim: Cheerilee's EmbarrassingOldPhoto from high-school gets a few laughs from her class.
* JustForPun: "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincea%C3%B1era Cute-ceañera]]."

* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: Was intended to be one for a spinoff starring the Cutie Mark Crusaders, it sadly never surfaced.

* EightiesHair: Schoolgirl!Cheerilee