History Recap / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero

* WouldHitAGirl: Big Macintosh bucks dozens of mares out of his way when Mayor Mare absconds with Smarty Pants.

* AmbidextrousSprite: The overhead shot of the picnic seems to confirm that, yes, a pony's cutie mark is on both sides of a pony's rear. Before, there was much debate as to whether this was true or not (due to being made in Flash, where sprites are easily flipped to signify change in direction). And shown to be mirrored on both sides, eg., Rainbow Dash's bolt moves down and towards her rear regardless of which side you look at her.

* AppleOfDiscord: Twilight tries to use her old Smarty Pants doll as one of these. It works after she uses a "Want-It Need-It" spell on it. [[GoneHorriblyRight Far too well]]. Said doll is working as such even before the spell in question (although not as Twilight intended), see FailedASpotCheck below.

** Twilight was so dead-set on getting the Cutie Mark Crusaders to fight over being the first to play with Smarty Pants that she completely failed to notice that they already ''were'' fighting... over ''not'' being the first to play with Smarty Pants. Though in her defense, that's not the kind of fighting she needed.

** There's also Rarity, who goes into full drama queen mode (the first of many such instances during the episode) when she can't find her ribbon. Five seconds after Twilight shows up, Rarity finds it... lying in the middle of the floor.

* HypocriticalHumor:
-->'''Rarity:''' Oh, what a drama queen!\\
(''everypony else stares at Rarity and her fainting couch'')\\
'''Rarity:''' [[HypocrisyNod Ahem. Relatively speaking]].

* DescriptionCut: Princess Celestia shows up looking [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness angry]] with Twilight after she manages to brainwash the entire town into a riot over her old doll. She tells Twilight to meet her in the library. Twilight and friends worry that she'll be sent back to Canterlot. Cut to the library, where Celestia is busy explaining to Twilight that she's gotten all worked up over nothing.
* DeusExMachina: Twilight, the only pony who isn't affected by the "Want It, Need It" spell on Smarty Pants, can't remove it because every pony that sees it just adds another body to the brawl over it. Instead, Princess Celestia removes it herself upon her DramaticEntrance to Ponyville. If you accept the fanon regarding Celestia's divinity that means the problem is ''literally'' removed by the abrupt intervention of a deity.

->'''Twilight Sparkle:''' ''Sooooo...'' got any problems, troubles, conundrums, or any other sort of issues major or minor that '''''I''''' as a ''good friend'' could help you solve? ''(grin!)''\\
'''Spike:''' Hum...hmm...huh...huuuh...I got nothing.

** A group of children are playing normally when suddenly they are approached by a disheveled, mentally-unstable figure w
obsessed with "friendship" and offering them toys.

(''ponies go flying'')\\

%%* CreepyCircusMusic: when Twilight introduces Smarty Pants to the CMC.

** A group of children are playing normally when suddenly they are approached by a disheveled, mentally-unstable figure obsessed with "friendship" and offering them toys.

* OffModel: When Celestia is standing over cowering Twilight, shortly after removing her "Want-It, Need-It" spell from everypony, her forelegs are disproportionally thick compared to the rest of her body.

* DescriptionCut: Princess Celestia shows up looking [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness angry]] with Twilight after she manages to brainwash the entire town into a riot over her old doll. She tells Twilight to meet her in the library. Twilight and friends worry that she'll be sent back to Canterlot. Cut to the library, where Celestia is busy explaining to Twlight that she's gotten all worked up over nothing.

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* SurpriseCreepy: When Apple Bloom is bewitched by Twilight's spell, she says "I need it" with a creepy tone of voice.

* BigBrotherInstinct: Spike constantly tries to calm Twilight over her SuperOCD breakdown, and ultimately calls Princess Celestia after her neurotics worry him more and more.

* CharacterisationClickMoment: This story is considered to be where Twilight's SuperOCD busybody personality starts to hone in and become the subject matter of most of her limelight episodes.

* {{Flanderization}}: Not an overwhelming case, but from this episode onward, Twilight's role as TheFinickyOne would become a more primary foible in her character, compared to Season One where her moments of being SuperOCD or a ControlFreak were more subtle and brief over being a FishOutOfWater or OnlySaneMan.

** Even she finds Twilight's SuperOCD nature melodramatic.

* SuperOCD: Just a bit, Twilight? Even her ''toys'' reflect it. See ThisExplainsSoMuch below.

* EverythingsBetterWithPlushies: Inverted, since the plushie in question has a spell put on it by a frazzled Twilight Sparkle that causes all of Ponyville to start fighting over it. [[DoubleSubversion Double Subverted]] thanks to Big Mac, who is still fascinated by the doll even after the "Want-It Need It" spell is broken.

* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Fluttershy's bear massage includes a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_crab#Single_leg_Boston_crab Silgle-Leg Boston Crab.]]

* BearsAreBadNews: Parodied. Fluttershy appears to be fighting a bear ([[BewareTheNiceOnes complete with the snapping of the neck]]), but she's just giving him a massage.

* EverythingMakesAMushroom: When Rainbow Dash decides to apply the Sonic Rainboom as a ''demolition charge'', it produces a ''rainbow-colored'' mushroom cloud.

** "[[FullNameUltimatum TWILIGHT SPARKLE]]!" As soon as Celestia storms in, ''nopony'' dares to cross her any further.

* NoEyeInMagic: Rainbow Dash's pupils start to turn into hearts when she looks at the Smarty Pants doll, but Twilight stops it by covering her face and yelling, "Don't look at it!"

** So basically, Twilight disappoints and angers Celestia with her attempt to avoid disappointing and angering her?

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: What Twilight did as a result of her fit of InsaneTrollLogic (See above). She is so intent on averting her mentor's wrath[[note]] forgetting that her mentor has boundless patience, has never used her power for any petty reason and would only be considered wrathful if you threaten or lay a hold on those she considers her subjects[[/note]] that clearly it's okay for her to drive a wedge between the Cutie Mark Crusaders if she's there to fix it right away. And when that fails, it's also justified for her to put a spell on her doll that makes people fight over it, right? It's all in the name of learning a valuable lesson. (Yes, this is a Villain Trope, but really, Twilight Sparkle ''was'' acting on ill-mannered intentions.)