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* ShoutOut: Scootaloo catching the dirt Petunia is digging up in a bucket, including getting splattered in the face, is very reminiscent of the malfunctioning porridge cannon scene in the Franchise/WallaceAndGromit short ''WesternAnimation/ACloseShave''.
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* AllThereInTheManual: Petunia Paleo's last name is only mentioned in the credits.
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* AllThereInTheManual: AllThereInTheScript: Petunia Paleo's last name is only mentioned in the credits.
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-->"I'm just about the most excited any griffon has ever been about anything!"
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* TheAce: While she's trying to find her special talent, we see that Gabby is extremely good at pretty much everything she tries.
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* BadLiar: The only thing TheAce Gabby can't do? Lie convincingly.
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* BadLiar: The only thing TheAce RenaissanceMan Gabby can't do? Lie convincingly.
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* ParodySue: Gabby is [[ThePollyanna cheerful]], [[GenkiGirl energetic]], [[NiceGirl helpful]], [[TheAce ridiculously multi-talented]], and [[HundredPercentAdorationRating totally adored by everyone she meets]]. However, she's so good at everything that the Crusaders have no idea what the one thing she's best at is, which is what matters most to her.
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* ParodySue: Gabby is [[ThePollyanna cheerful]], [[GenkiGirl energetic]], [[NiceGirl helpful]], [[TheAce [[RenaissanceMan ridiculously multi-talented]], and [[HundredPercentAdorationRating totally adored by everyone she meets]]. However, she's so good at everything that the Crusaders have no idea what the one thing she's best at is, which is what matters most to her.her.
* RenaissanceMan: While she's trying to find her special talent, we see that Gabby is extremely good at pretty much everything she tries.
--> '''Cutie Mark Crusaders:''' She's so good at things it's frightening!
* RenaissanceMan: While she's trying to find her special talent, we see that Gabby is extremely good at pretty much everything she tries.
--> '''Cutie Mark Crusaders:''' She's so good at things it's frightening!
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* MeaningfulName: Petunia Paleo's special talent is finding and digging up fossils.
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** Petunia Paleo's special talent is finding and digging up fossils.
** Petunia Paleo's special talent is finding and digging up fossils.
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* {{Squee}}: Gabby's reaction when she meets the Cutie Mark Crusaders on account of how they were talked up by everypony in Ponyville, as illustrated in the page image caption.
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* {{Squee}}: Gabby's reaction when she meets the Cutie Mark Crusaders on account of how they were talked up by everypony in Ponyville, as illustrated in Ponyville:
-->"I'm just about thepage image caption.most excited any griffon has ever been about anything!"
-->"I'm just about the
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* OhCrap: Gabby gets quite uncomfortable once the CMC decide they have to show Twilight her cutie mark.
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This is natter. And not an error, it simply means zebras are ponies.
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** Which leads to a SeriesContinuityError, as various sources have said before that zebras also have cutie marks.
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* TakeAThirdOption: In the end, the Cutie Mark Crusaders give Gabby a pair of sigils matching their own Cutie Marks, to hang on her panniers. Cutie Mark or none, she becomes the first griffon member of the Crusaders, a compromise she's (of course) overjoyed with.
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** It's hard to get Gabby to quiet down once she starts talking about cutie marks.
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* TheGlomp: Courtesy of Gabby, naturally.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: While the Paleo parents laugh, Petunia raises the skull up out of the dig site in her sandbox.
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** Which leads to a SeriesContinuityError, as various sources have said before that zebras also have cutie marks.
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She had plenty of focus earlier in the season. Not a trope that can happen on an episode by episode basis.
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* DemotedToExtra: This is the fourth consecutive episode in which Rarity doesn't have a speaking role. The only other time this happened to a member of the Mane Six was Fluttershy in Season Five.
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* DemotedToExtra: This is the fourth consecutive episode in which Rarity doesn't have a speaking role. The only other time this happened to a member of the Mane Six was Fluttershy in Season Five.
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* GoshDangItToHeck: Twice in the episodes, Apple Bloom's usage of the word "apples" can clearly be seen as a substitute for "hell".
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* GoshDangItToHeck: Twice in the episodes, Apple Bloom's usage of the word "apples" can clearly be seen as a substitute for "hell"."hell" or [[PrecisionFStrike another word]] [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar that kids should not use]].
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** The foal Gabby rocks to sleep during "Find The Purpose In Yur Life" is the same one Rainbow Dash saved in "The Mysterious Mare Do Well."
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* AdultFear: While it's PlayedForLaughs, Petunia's parents' worry that their daughter might grow up to become a pirate reflects the very real fear that any good parent has about their beloved children potentially turning to a life of crime.
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* AdultFear: AdultFear:
** While it's PlayedForLaughs, Petunia's parents' worry that their daughter might grow up to become a pirate reflects the very real fear that any good parent has about their beloved children potentially turning to a life of crime.
** While it's PlayedForLaughs, Petunia's parents' worry that their daughter might grow up to become a pirate reflects the very real fear that any good parent has about their beloved children potentially turning to a life of crime.
* AnAesop: Your calling in life isn't what you're good ''at'', but rather what makes you ''feel'' good when you do it.
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* AnAesop: Your calling in life isn't what you're good ''at'', but rather what makes you ''feel'' good when you do it.
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* CirclingBirdies: The CMC gets to have stars circling their heads after getting dizzy from Gabby shaking their hooves ''very'' energetically.
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* CirclingBirdies: The CMC gets to have stars circling their heads after getting dizzy from Gabby shaking their hooves ''very'' energetically.
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** The colt with the large buck teeth, from "Crusaders of the Lost Mark" appears, getting braces applied by Gabby.
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** The colt with the large buck teeth, teeth from "Crusaders of the Lost Mark" appears, getting braces applied by Gabby.
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** InUniverse, the CMC are completely justified in expecting [[MeaningfulName Petunia Paleo]]'s special talent has to do with archeology or paleontology.
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** InUniverse, the CMC are completely justified in expecting [[MeaningfulName Petunia Paleo]]'s special talent has to do with archeology archaeology or paleontology.
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* GenkiGirl: Hoo-boy. Gabby could probably give even Pinkie and Cheese Sandwich a run for their bits.
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* GenkiGirl: Hoo-boy. Gabby could probably give even Pinkie Pie and Cheese Sandwich a run for their bits.
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* {{Squee}}: Gabby's reaction when she meets the Cutie Mark Crusaders on account of how they were talked up by everypony in Ponyville, as illustrated in the page image caption.
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* AllThereInTheManual: Petunia Paleo's last name is only mentioned in the credits.
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** Scootaloo's comment about knowing what it's like to have a DreamCrushingHandicap (while glancing back at her tiny wings) is a reference to "Flight to the Finish".
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* ArtisticLicenseLinguistics: Petunia is called an archaeologist despite that her cutie mark being bones and she digs up a dinosaur, which would make her a paleontologist.
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* ArtisticLicenseLinguistics: Petunia is called an archaeologist despite that her cutie mark being a skull and bones and she digs as well as digging up a dinosaur, which would make her a paleontologist.
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** Twilight reminds the Crusaders of Apple Bloom's own GoneHorriblyRight situation in "The Cutie Pox" when they briefly consider just using a spell or potion to give Gabby an artificial Mark.
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** Twilight reminds the Crusaders of Twilight's caution against trying to use magic to get a cutie mark refers to both her failure to give Apple Bloom's own GoneHorriblyRight situation Bloom one by casting a spell on her in "Call of the Cutie," and of the multiple marks Apple Bloom picked up in "The Cutie Pox" when they briefly consider just using a spell or potion to give Gabby an artificial Mark.Pox."
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** Bulk Biceps has taken the advice offered by the Crusaders in "On Your Marks" and is teaching foals to lift weights.
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* ToothyBird: Like Gilda and other griffons, Gabby has a set of teeth behind her eagle beak.
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** Wanting something so badly but being unable to have it just because you were born different.
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* ContinuityNod: The colt with the large buck teeth, from "Crusaders of the Lost Mark" appears, getting braces applied by Gabby.
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** The colt with the large buck teeth, from "Crusaders of the Lost Mark" appears, getting braces applied byGabby.Gabby.
** Tender Taps, from "On Your Marks", is entertaining a crowd with his dancing.
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** Tender Taps, from "On Your Marks", is entertaining a crowd with his dancing.
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* AssInALionSkin: A downplayed example, since Gabby never pretends to be a pony, but she uses makeup to fake a pony characteristic, the Cutie Mark. Bonus points for being a reversal of sorts of the TropeNamer fable; a lion-like creature pretending to have equine characteristics.
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* DudleyDoRightStopsToHelp: The reason the Cutie Mark Crusaders can catch up with Gabby when she was leaving Ponyville; the griffon is so nice that she had to stop to help Doctor Hooves.
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** The Crusaders have built up an incredibly good reputation in Ponyville, since they do such a good job helping ponies who undergo existential crises. All of the citizens they've aided in the past are all to happy to point Gabby their way when she comes asking for someone who can solve a cutie mark problem.
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** The Crusaders have built up an incredibly good reputation in Ponyville, since they do such a good job helping ponies who undergo existential crises. All of the citizens they've aided in the past are all to too happy to point Gabby their way when she comes asking for someone who can solve a cutie mark problem.
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** To the Creator/JohnGreen novel ''Literature/TheFaultInOurStars'', the story is about a girl dreaming about a future of love and adventure, but having a terminal stage of cancer, making her dream impossible to achieve. This also reflects the episode's central theme of wanting something that is not biologically possible.
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** To the Creator/JohnGreen novel ''Literature/TheFaultInOurStars'', the story is about a girl dreaming about a future of love and adventure, but having a terminal stage of cancer, making her dream impossible to achieve. This also reflects the episode's central theme of wanting something that is not biologically possible. It also reflects the inspiring yet heart-wrenching dilemma faced by the CMC of trying something they know is not going to happen.
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* OutOfOrder: More displaced than any other episode in the series. In production order, this is the ninth episode of Season 6. In broadcast order, it's the ''nineteenth''. According to the director, this was done because they wanted a CMC episode airing in the second half of the season.
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* OutOfOrder: More displaced than any other episode in the series. In production order, this is the ninth episode of Season 6. In broadcast order, it's the ''nineteenth''. According to the director, this was done because they wanted a CMC episode airing in the second half of the season. It also pays off by making their greatly increased reputation feel more natural than if it had only been a few episodes since we last focused on them.
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* LiteraryAllusionTitle: To the Creator/JohnGreen novel ''Literature/TheFaultInOurStars''. And thusly, to Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar''.
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* LiteraryAllusionTitle: Two of them in the title:
** To the Creator/JohnGreen novel''Literature/TheFaultInOurStars''. And thusly, ''Literature/TheFaultInOurStars'', the story is about a girl dreaming about a future of love and adventure, but having a terminal stage of cancer, making her dream impossible to achieve. This also reflects the episode's central theme of wanting something that is not biologically possible.
** The reference in the title also goes all the way back to Creator/WilliamShakespeare's''Theatre/JuliusCaesar''.''Theatre/JuliusCaesar''. "The fault in our stars" refers to one's place in life not being decided by the stars (i.e., by fate), but that it lies in ourselves to decide our fates. Similarly, the episode shows that one's place in life is not decided by a cutie mark, but by what someone wishes to do with their life themselves.
** To the Creator/JohnGreen novel
** The reference in the title also goes all the way back to Creator/WilliamShakespeare's
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* ForegoneConclusion: Gabby staying cutie-markless was pretty obvious, since it goes against everything we know about griffons and cutie marks for her to get one.
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** Gabby staying cutie-markless was pretty obvious, since it goes against everything we know about griffons and cutie marks for her to getone.one.
** InUniverse, the CMC are completely justified in expecting [[MeaningfulName Petunia Paleo]]'s special talent has to do with archeology or paleontology.
** Gabby staying cutie-markless was pretty obvious, since it goes against everything we know about griffons and cutie marks for her to get
** InUniverse, the CMC are completely justified in expecting [[MeaningfulName Petunia Paleo]]'s special talent has to do with archeology or paleontology.
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