History Recap / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E6BoastBusters

* BigWhat: Twilight after Snips tells her he and Snails brought an Ursa to Ponyville.

* SnakeCharmer: Trixie "charms" a rope and then uses it to tie up Applejack. If that is not "snakey" enough, fast forward to ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E17SomeponyToWatchOverMe Somepony To Watch Over Me]]'', in which Applejack uses an actual flute to charm a snake that is part of a chimera.

* TheMunchausen: The Great and Powerful Trixie's main claim to fame is that she vanquished an [[BearsAreBadNews Ursa Major]]. She couldn't even manage an Ursa Minor.

* FelonyMisdemeanor: The episode itself towards Trixie. She hypes up her show by bragging, is shamed for it, then has her home destroyed and her reputation (vital for her line of work) destroyed. This is played as a LazerGuidedKarma.

* DisproportionateRetribution: The episode itself towards Trixie. She hypes up her show by bragging, is shamed for it, then has her home destroyed and her reputation (vital for her line of work) destroyed.

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: On TreehouseTV airings of the episode, an entire line said by Trixie is silenced.

* StopHelpingMe: Invoked; Trixie's reaction to Snips and Snails bringing the Ursa Minor to Ponyville so she could "vanquish" it.

* KarmaHoudini: Snips and Snails are actually ''rewarded with mustaches'' for bringing an Ursa Minor to Ponyville that nearly destroys the town. Granted, Twilight was able to prevent this, and she does make them clean up the town, but the fact that they're rewarded for doing something so incredibly reckless, their punishment doesn't seem very proportionate.

* GaleForceSound: The Ursa Minor roaring. Though it's doing it from close enough that its breath probably comes into play too.

[[caption-width-right:300:"Behold the Great and Powerful [[TheWizardOfOz Oz]]... er... Trixie!"]]

!!Tropes present in this episode (YMMV tropes can be found [[YMMV/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E6BoastBusters here]]):

* DisproportionateRetribution: The episode itself towards Trixie. She hypes up her show by bragging, is shamed for it, then has her home destroyed and her reputation(vital for her line of work) destroyed.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Cheerilee appears for the first time as a background pony in this episode, though she wouldn't actually play a role in the show until [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E12CallOfTheCutie six episodes later]].

* ShoutOut : Trixie's self-title is a reference to TheWizardOfOz, and, like the eponymous Wizard, her supposed greatness is nothing but cleverly used stage magic and acting.

* YouDoNOTWantToKnow: When asked what an Ursa Major is like, Twilight gives this response. Not [[ScareChord before showing]] the audience, however.

* AnythingYouCanDoICanDoBetter: Trixie ''claims'' to be able to do this, but she just interfered with Rainbow Dash and Rarity's tricks to humiliate them. Oddly, it's only in these two cases that the tricks could be taken as being impressive, given that every unicorn we've seen using magic has telekinesis.

'''Twilight Sparkle:''' And it wasn't rampaging. It was just cranky because someone woke it up.\\

'''Twilight Sparkle:''' You don't want to know.

** Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack also decry Trixie's lack of ability compared to Twilight ("All hat and no cattle") even though they themselves spent the whole showdown against the Ursa doing nothing, while Trixie at least tried to stop it before Twilight stepped in.

!!Tropes (YMMV items can be found [[YMMV/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E6BoastBusters here]]):

(''cut to a monster large enough to cradle the Ursa Minor in its arms and rock it back and forth'')\\

!!Tropes (YMMV items can be found [[YMMV/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E6BoastBusters here]].)

!!Tropes ([[YMMV/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E6BoastBusters YMMV items can be found here.]])

!!Tropes ([[YMMV/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E6BoastBusters YMMV items can be found here]]).

After a bout of magic practice, Twilight is busy modestly shrugging off praise from Spike, who is impressed by the variety of magical spells she can accomplish. Suddenly, they learn from [[ThoseTwoGuys two excitable boy unicorns]], Snips and Snails, that "The Great and Powerful" Trixie is in Ponyville to perform her magic show. Twilight and her friends go see the show, but some of the others quickly grow tired of Trixie's boasting that she's the greatest magician in all Equestria and her tall tales about her defeat of a bear-like monster called the Ursa Major, and Rainbow Dash starts heckling her.

* HoldYourHippogriffs: "It seems we have some [=NEI-EI-EI-EIGH sayers=] in the audience!"

* LoveMakesYouDumb: [[ThoseTwoGuys Snips and Snails']] PrecociousCrush on [[CuteWitch Trixie]] is often cited as the reason they went to such extremes to see her perform and help her reputation as a mare who defeat an Ursa Major. Of course in the end, it really didn't work out as planned.

** Rarity, Rainbow Dash and Applejack also decry Trixie's lack of ability compared to Twilight ("All hat and no cattle") even though they themselves spent the whole showdown against the Ursa doing nothing, while Trixie at least tried to stop it before Twilight stepped in.

* RobeAndWizardHat: Trixie

* SplitScreenReaction

** And later, Snips, Snails and Spike receiving mustaches.

* [[ThirdPersonPerson Third-Pony Pony]]
** The Great and Powerful Trixie!

* DubInducedPlotHole: The Japanese dub has Snips outright state in front of Spike that he plans to bring an Ursa Major to Ponyville, but he doesn't do anything to try and talk them out of it, which is probably what he would have done if he heard it in the original version.

* DubInducedPlotHole: The Japaneses dub has Snips outright state in front of Spike that he plans to bring an Ursa Major to Ponyville, but he doesn't do anything to try and talk them out of it, which is probably what he would have done if he heard it in the original version.

* DubInducedPlotHole: The Japaneses dub has Snips outright state in front of Spike that he plans to bring an Ursa Major to Ponyville, but he doesn't do anything to try and talk them out of it.

* DubInducedPlotHole: The writers were careful not to have Snips outright state in front of Spike that he plans to bring an Ursa Major to Ponyville, because that’s something Spike would have tried to talk him out of. This obviously went right over the heads of the people responsible for the Japanese dub.