History Recap / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E13ThePerfectPear

* TitleDrop: In the beginning of Pear Butter's love song to Bright Mac.

** Bringing up past problems and issues isn't always so simple. The trick is to know when is the right time to share it.

* VisualPun: During the song, Bright Mac and Pear Butter use a black-capped chickadee to ferry messages back and forth between each other. They're [[Website/{{Twitter}} tweeting]] each other.

* SeriesContinuityError: For one scene of Pear Butter and Bright Mac's courting, we see Sugarcube Corner, looking like it does on the present day, despite being set before any of the Mane Six were born. However, the first alternate timeline of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E25TheCutieRemarkPart1 The Cutie Re-Mark – Part 1]]" showed it looking like a plain bakery, implying that without Pinkie Pie coming to Ponyville it wouldn't have gained its gingerbread house appearance.

* CharacterDevelopment: Big Macintosh, while still somewhat laconic, is speaking in complete sentences more often.

Mrs. Cake takes the Apples to Mayor Mare, who explains that on the eve of the Pears' departure, Bright Mac had arranged for her to marry him and Pear Butter in secret, with Burnt Oak and Mrs. Cake as witnesses. To show their lasting love for each other, they planted an apple and pear seed at the base of the rock they carved before as part of their wedding vows. Grand Pear and Granny Smith discovered the marriage, and Grand Pear insisted that Pear Butter leave with her family. She refused, claiming that the Apples are her family now, too. While Granny showed compassion and takes Pear Butter in, Grand Pear disowned her on the spot and moved with the rest of the Pears the next day to Vanhoover.

* {{Adorkable}}: Bright Mac and Pear Butter are sweet and goofy around each other. It is More noticeable with Bright Mac, particularly when expressing his love for Pear Butter.

* {{Adorkable}}: Bright Mac and Pear Butter around each other. More noticeable with Bright Mac, particularly when expressing his love for Pear Butter.

** Frequently used by all three Apple siblings, though the largest is probably when Apple Bloom comes over with a jar of pear jam in the opening, causing Big Mac and Applejack to panic.
** Also used by Granny Smith and Grand Pear when they discover their children are in love and about to marry each other.

* CallForward: In a flashback, Granny Smith is seen reading a bedtime story to her trees, just like Applejack was seen doing back in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over a Barrel]]". Grand Pear also tucks his trees in at night, which Applejack also does in the above episode.

** Grand Pear, in his old age, has mellowed out considerably from his anger.

* ForegoneConclusion: Bright Mac and Pear Butter obviously end up together despite their parents' meddling, and Grand Pear's kind treatment of Apple Bloom in the first scene shows he would outgrow his petty rivalry with the Apples. More subtly done with the fact that the Apple siblings never knew about their Pear lineage, which foreshadows the falling out between Pear Butter and her father.

* TheILoveYouStigma: Averted. Pear Butter lets it slip during her song and tries to pretend it didn't happen, but Bright Mac is all over it. In fact Bright Mac is playfully upset because he had a big fancy plan to say it first, and Pear Butter beat him to it by accident.

* {{Mondegreen}}: Goldie Delicious misreads "Feud with the Pears" as "Feud with the [[BearsAreBadNews Bears]]".

* {{Pride}}: The main failing of both the Apples and the Pears; neither side was willing to accept the relationship between Bright Mac and Pear Butter because family pride and the rivalry mattered more than potentially bridging the gap.

** Chiffon Swirl is fully supportive of the relationship between her best friend and Bright Mac. Burnt Oak was implied to be this too; both of them are even shown in attendance at the couple's secret wedding.

* MustMakeAmends: Grand Pear's choice to return to Ponyville years after Pear Butter leaves the family is so he can bury the hatchet with her surviving relatives.

* VisualPun: During the song, Bright Mac and Pear Butter use a black=capped chickadee to ferry messages back and forth between each other. They're [[Website/{{Twitter}} tweeting]] each other.

* BluebirdOfHappiness: The bird used by Bright Mac and Pear Butter to exchange messages in secret is a bluebird, fittingly bringing much happiness to the StarCrossedLovers.

* ExplodingCloset: When the Apple siblings knock at the door of Goldie Delicious's cottage, said door bulges outward and explodes in an avalanche of books and furniture entirely covering the front lawn.

* VisualPun: During the song, Bright Mac and Pear Butter use a bluebird to ferry messages back and forth between each other. They're [[Website/{{Twitter}} tweeting]] each other.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: Bright Mac's body type and eye color went to Big Mac, while his mane and coat colors went to Apple Bloom. Applejack also got Pear Butter's freckles, and Applejack's coat/mane coloration is a reverse of Pear Butter's.

* FriendToAllChildren: Grand Pear appears to be such in the ColdOpen, offering Apple Bloom a free sample of his pear jam and then giving her a jar of it for free after seeing she likes it, but then we learn she is his granddaughter something he was fully aware of so he might have just gave it to her on account of being family.

* FriendToAllChildren: Grand Pear appears to be such in the ColdOpen, offering Apple Bloom a free sample of his pear jam and then giving her a jar of it for free after seeing she likes it.

[[caption-width-right:350:Love blooms like two certain fruits. [[note]] But shouldn't it be the other way around?[[/note]]]]

* AscendedFanon: This episode pretty much confirms that the reason that pretty much ''every'' pony seems to have a MeaningfulName is because they change them if they feel their old name doesn't fit.

* WhatNowEnding: Grand Pear and Granny Smith have finally reconciled with each other after many years of personal emnity. But what about the other members of the Apple Clan and Pear Clan? Would they be willing to make peace with each other as easily as they did?

* IHaveNoDaughter: Grand Pear cut off ties with Pear Butter for marrying Bright Mac. He regrets it to this day, especially [[NeverGotToSayGoodbye after his daughter's death]], redeeming himself by reconciling with the Apple family.

* IHaveNoDaughter: Grand Pear cut off ties with Pear Butter for marrying Bright Mac. He regrets it to this day, especially [[NeverGotToSayGoodbye after his daughter's apparent death]].