History Recap / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E21EveryLittleThingSheDoes

** Using magic on other ponies is a really bad habit that Starlight [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E6NoSecondPrances ''still'' hasn't broken yet]].

* {{Irony}}: Starlight proclaimed back in "The Cutie Map – Part 1" that being equal with no cutie marks makes everypony a winner. Now she believes that using a mind-control spell to help complete all of her friendship lessons quickly will be a win-win situation that results in a positive outcome.

** Trying to please everyone will end up pleasing no one.

* DeflectorShields: Twilight and Starlight's magic training in the beginning include magical barriers, and we see several types in display. First Starlight conjures a personal round shield (CaptainAmerica-style); then Twilight creates a hemispherical bubble, followed by Starlight encasing herself in a crystal-shaped field.

* DoubleMeaningTitle: The full title of the song [[Music/ThePolice ''Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic'']] ties in with the episode's Aesop and the overall series concept of [[ThePowerOfFriendship Friendship Is Magic]].

* DoubleMeaningTitle: The full title of the song "[[Music/ThePolice Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic"]] ties in with the episode's Aesop and the overall series concept of [[ThePowerOfFriendship Friendship Is Magic]].

* DoubleMeaningTitle: The full title of the song "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" ties in with the episode's Aesop and the overall series concept of [[ThePowerOfFriendship Friendship Is Magic]].

-->'''Starlight Glimmer''': I didn't want to be a disappointment to anypony, and I ended up being a disappointment to ''everypony''...

-->'''Twilight Sparkle:''' Starlight, I'm not mad at you, but I am ''disappointed''. You were doing so well.

-->'''Twilight Sparkle''': Starlight, I'm not mad at you, but I am ''disappointed''. You were doing so well.

* HollywoodHealing: The Mane Five quickly and miraculously get over their "hangover" after Starlight apologizes to them. Enough to return to the castle and help her clean up the mess and do the friendship lessons.

-->'''Twilight Sparkle:''' What made you think that casting a spell on your friends to do your bidding was even remotely a good idea?
-->'''Starlight Glimmer:''' Well, when you put it ''that'' way, that sounds really bad...
-->'''Twilight Sparkle:''' That's because it ''is'' really bad!

* HomoeroticSubtext: There are ''two'' portraits of Trixie in Starlight's bedroom. In the one next to Starlight's bed, Trixie has a more luxurious mane and bedroom eyes.

* RunningGag: Every story Applejack relates either alludes to or outright copies a famous scene or quote from a real movie or book.

* KarmaHoudini: Except for being yelled at, having to make a sincere apology to the others, having to earn their trust back by working to clean up her mess, and finally going through the Friendship lessons properly, Starlight receives no comeuppance for mind-controlling her friends.

* EasilyForgiven: Downplayed. Starlight Glimmer has to endure some harsh (though constructive) criticism from her teacher and earns a few verbal jabs from her friends -- Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie go as far as shouting at her while Applejack [[BrutalHonesty calmly but effectively]] makes her anger known -- yet a solid apology from Starlight turns them all around pretty quickly. They even help her out for the rest of the day, despite being worn out by Starlight's magic. Though Pinkie does give Starlight the cold shoulder when they bake together -- until Starlight covers herself in flour.

* KarmaHoudini: Except for being yelled at, Starlight receives no comeuppance for mind-controlling her friends.

* GratuitousLatin: The spells Starlight cast all have Latin names, most with actual meanings. ''Fiducia compellus'', for instance, means "compels trust."

* DispelMagic: Twilight is able to remove the effects of Starlight's spell on her friends. Though she mentions this was powerful stuff and "they're going to feel it in the morning."

** The morning after the MindControl spell is taken off, Applejack says she feels like she's been put through the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E15TheSuperSpeedyCiderSqueezy6000 Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000]].

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Starlight didn't exactly consider using magic to MindControl the Mane Five might cause issues, not to mention her not considering their reactions afterwards.

* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Starlight gets glowing white eyes when activating the MindControl spell on the Mane Five.

* {{Irony}}: Starlight proclaimed back in "The Cutie Map – Part 1" that being equal with no cutie marks makes everypony a winner. Now she believes that using a MindControl spell to help complete all of her friendship lessons quickly will be a win-win situation that results in a positive outcome.

* LiteralMinded: The Mane Six, sans Twilight, under Starlight's MindControl spell. They do what Starlight tells them to, but only that. Starlight tries to rectify the problem by telling them to keep going without her, which results in each activity being done to its extreme when Starlight isn't there to tell them to stop.

** The morning after the mind-control spell is taken off, Applejack says she feels like she's been put through the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E15TheSuperSpeedyCiderSqueezy6000 Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000]].

** This is not the first time Starlight has used mind control, as Big Mac ("No Second Prances") and the residents of Our Town ("[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E1TheCutieMapPart1 The Cutie Map]]") can attest. Also, Starlight keeps two posters/pics right aside her desk that reference those episodes' events (see FreezeFrameBonus below).

* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Starlight gets glowing white eyes when activating the mind-control spell on the Mane Five.

* GratuitousLatin: The spells Starlight cast all have Latin names, most with actual meanings. Fiducia Compellus, for instance, means "compels trust".
* HistoryRepeats: Twilight has always been one to try and impress her mentor, Celestia, not necessarily with stellar results. Now, she has her own student who's likewise attempting to pass all tests, real or perceived, that her mentor has for her, and courting disaster in the process.

* {{Irony}}: Starlight proclaimed back in "The Cutie Map – Part 1" that being equal with no cutie marks makes everypony a winner. Now she believes that using a mind-control spell to help complete all of her friendship lessons quickly will be a win-win situation that results in a positive outcome.

* LiteralMinded: The Mane Six, sans Twilight, under Starlight's mind control spell. They do what Starlight tells them to, but only that, and no more. Starlight tries to rectify the problem by telling them to keep going without her, which results in each activity being done to its extreme when Starlight isn't there to tell them to stop.

** Pinkie sings "It's a piece of cake to bake a pretty cake," lyrically referencing the refrain of "Cooking by the Book" from ''Series/LazyTown''. Later, when under Starlight's instruction to "keep following the instructions in the book", Pinkie literally cooks by the ''entire'' book.

* SorcerersApprenticePlot: Surprisingly to the tee of the trope's namesake, with bonus points for the fact that Starlight is a ''princess's'' apprentice. Starlight tries to complete all the lessons at once by using a spell to mind-control Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie to get through the tasks quicker. The spell works too well as the five take her commands too literally and cause all manner of disasters. It even ends with the castle getting flooded thanks to Rainbow Dash using storm clouds to put out the burnt cakes. Eventually Twilight returns and undoes the spell before clarifying what she really wanted Starlight to learn: just spend time with the ponies and get to know them.

* SuperSpeed: The spell "Accellero", which Starlight uses to quickly shelve every book in the room.

* BottleEpisode: Only the Mane Six, Starlight, and Spike appear in this episode, with almost the entire setting taking place in Twilight's castle.

** This is not the first time Starlight has used mind control, as Big Mac ("No Second Prances") and the residents of Our Town ("The Cutie Map") can attest. Also, Starlight keeps two posters/pics right aside her desk that reference those episodes' events (see FreezeFrameBonus below).
** Starlight uses her self-levitation ability for the first time since "The Cutie Re-Mark – Part 2".
* CueTheFallingObject: After the library is wrecked by Starlight's spell, just as Twilight comments that "There's such a thing as too much studying...", a ladder behind her crashes to the floor.
* DeflectorShields: Twilight and Starlight's magic training in the beginning include magical barriers, and we several types in display. First Starlight conjures a personal round shield (Captain America-style), then Twilight creates a hemispherical bubble, followed by Starlight encasing herself in a crystal-shaped field.

* DispelMagic: Twilight is able to remove the effects of Starlight's spell on her friends. Though she mentions this was powerful stuff, and that "they're going to feel it in the morning."
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The morning after the magic trance, all ponies affected show hangover symptoms, Rainbow and especially Pinkie acting short-fused. Then there's Rarity:

* EasilyForgiven: Downplayed. Starlight Glimmer has to endure some harsh (though constructive) criticism from her teacher and earns a few verbal jabs from her friends -- Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie go as far as shouting at her while Applejack [[BrutalHonesty calmly but effectively]] makes her anger known -- yet a solid apology from Starlight turns them all around pretty quickly. They even help her out for the rest of the day despite being physically worn out by Starlight's magic. Though Pinkie does give Starlight the cold shoulder when they bake together -- until Starlight covers herself in flour.
* EverybodyLaughsEnding: At the very end as the whole gang "chillaxes" with Rainbow Dash, Starlight asks how long they're supposed to be doing it, leading everypony else to start giggling.

* FatalFlaw: Starlight's reliance on magic, her lack of social skills and her poor history with friendship all cause problems here when she tries to brute-force her friendship lessons with the former.

* ForgottenPhlebotinum: At the start of the episode, Starlight demonstrates the power of SelfDuplication. However, when faced with a problem where duplication seems the obvious solution (namely, attempting to help Twilight's friends with five different tasks ''at the same time''), she panics and turns to MindControl instead. That said, she does say the duplication spell is very difficult, so maintaining it long enough may have been a problem.

** As before in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E18DungeonsAndDiscords Dungeons & Discords]]" and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E10KeepCalmAndFlutterOn Keep Calm and Flutter On]]", ''friendship requires compromise''. Starlight couldn't come to a compromise with Twilight's five friends on what to do first, where to do it, and how it should be done.
* AscendedMeme: Rainbow Dash had said "chillax" exactly ''once'' prior to this episode, and that was in the context of telling Applejack to calm down in "Winter Wrap-Up". This episode takes the term's more common use of relaxing quietly with friends, which is how it is frequently used in Rainbow Dash fan art, and turns it into one of Starlight's friendship lessons.

** As before in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E17DungeonsAndDiscord Dungeons & Discord]]" and "[[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E10KeepCalmAndFlutterOn Keep Calm and Flutter On]]", ''friendship requires compromise''. Starlight couldn't come to a compromise with Twilight's five friends on what to do first, where to do it, and how it should be done.

** Starlight Glimmer tries to "Hit Two Birds with One Stone". She ends up [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_effect snowballing several small problems into a bigger one]].
** Lampshaded by Applejack who was told by Big Mac that "With a whole lot of power comes a heck of a lot of responsibility." Starlight desperately misuses her magic to make a shortcut that would make her friendship lessons easier but ends up causing a disaster instead.
** As before in "Dungeons & Discord" and "Keep Calm and Flutter On", ''friendship requires compromise''. Starlight couldn't come to a compromise with Twilight's five friends on what to do first, where to do it, and how it should be done.

* KarmaHoudini: Except for being yelled at, GlimGlam received no comeuppance for mind controlling her "friends."

** After Creator/ThePolice song "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic".

--> '''Spike''': I'm never sleeping again.

* DeflectorShields: Twilight and Starlight's magic training in the beginning include magical barriers, and we several type in display. First Starlight conjures a personal round shield (Captain America-style), then Twilight creates a hemispherical bubble, followed by Starlight encasing herself in a crystal-shaped field.

* ForgottenPhlebotinum: At the start of the episode, Starlight demonstrates the power of SelfDuplication. However, when faced with a problem where duplication seems the obvious solution (namely, attempting to help Twilight's friends with five different tasks ''at the same time''), she panics and turns to MindControl instead. That said, she does say the duplication spell was very difficult, so maintaining it long enough may have been a problem.

* FriendToBugs: When Starlight asks Fluttershy to "round up all the animals", Fluttershy dutifully gathers all her critter friends, as well as several insects, arachnids, and myriapoda. And they're crawling all over her.

'''Starlight:''' In a minute, Fluttershy.

** While practicing shield spells with Twilight, Starlight creates a shield very reminiscent of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, right down to the star emblazoned on the front.

* SorcerersApprenticePlot: Surprisingly to the tee of the trope's namesake, with bonus points for the fact that Starlight is a ''princess's'' apprentice. Starlight tries to complete all the lessons at once by using a spell to mind-control Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie to get through the tasks quicker. The spell works too well as the five take her commands too literally and cause all manner of disasters. It even ends with the castle getting flooded thanks to Rainbow Dash using storm clouds to put out the burnt cakes. Eventually Twilight returns and undoes the spell before clarifying what she really wanted Starlight to learn: Just spend time with the ponies and get to know them.
* SuperSpeed: The spell "Accellero," which Starlight uses to quickly shelve every book in the room.

* {{Teleportation}}: One of the things Starlight is being tested on at the start of the episode is teleportation.

--> '''Twilight:''' ''[coming back from her trip with Spike]'' What is going on?!

* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: The brainwashed Mane 5 sport these.

** Twilight mentions that Starlight hasn't tackled any friendship lessons since she met Trixie in "Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E6NoSecondPrances".
** Spike states he thought Twilight was the "master of the freak-out," referencing her famous freak-outs in such episodes as "Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero" and "Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E20ItsAboutTime".

** Spike expresses a fear of spiders, referencing said fear (of the star spiders) from "Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E3CastleManeia."