History Recap / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E7ParentalGlideance

** It also carries a similar message to "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E2AllBottledUp All Bottled Up]]": if someone's behavior is bothering you and you don't want to hurt them, don't wait until pushes you too far and let it all out in a bad way. Find a civil and productive way to let them know how you feel so no one's feelings get hurt.

* RealityEnsues: Uneaten food that isn't properly stored or sealed ''tends'' to spoil.

* BrickJoke: Scootaloo physically crams a part of Rainbow Dash's favorite meal (a pasta and potato sandwich on sourdough bread) into her report book. Later, when grading Scootaloo's report, Cheerilee mentions finding a moldy sandwich inside and it winds up in the classroom trash can.

** Never take your parents for granted, they always want the best for you and you are who you are because of their support and love. They may not show it in the best ways, but that's no reason to reject their attempt.

* {{Adorkable}}:
** Scootaloo melts into a {{Squee}}-ing, giddy lump of goo when she meets Rainbow Dash's parents.
** Bow and Windy are insanely enthusiastic and supportive of Rainbow Dash, and it's downright adorable.

-->'''Scootaloo:''' I met your parents hoping to learn more about you, ''but I don't like what I found out!'' ''[throws her notebook on the ground]'' I'll find somepony ''else'' to do my hero report on.

* BrickJoke: Scootaloo physically crams a part of Rainbow Dash's favorite meal (a pasta and potato sandwich on sourdough bread) into her report book. Later, when grading Scootaloo's report, Cheerilee mentions finding a moldy sandwich in it and knocks Scootaloo's grade down as a result. The sandwich itself winds up in the classroom trash can.

At Wonderbolt practice, Rainbow Dash's parents show up, enthusiastically cheering on their daughter. Rainbow Dash is immediately embarrassed by their presence, trying to tell Scootaloo that she shouldn't have brought them here, calling her relationship with her parents "delicate". Later, at a Wonderbolt show, Bow and Windy continue loudly cheering Rainbow throughout the entire event, causing Rainbow Dash no end of embarrassment. Bow and Windy end up following her to the locker room, where they loudly cheer her on for hanging up a towel. This causes Rainbow Dash to finally snap; she screams at her parents that they're "too supportive", tells them that their constant cheering over anything she does (no matter how ordinary) has been driving her crazy, and tells them they need to go. Her parents leave in tears, along with an angry Scootaloo, who decides to write a new report as she leaves her old one behind. Rainbow sees a picture of her as a filly with her parents inside and instantly feels guilty.

* BrickJoke:
** Scootaloo physically crams a part of Rainbow Dash's favorite meal (a pasta and potato sandwich on sourdough bread) into her report book. Later, when grading Scootaloo's report, Cheerilee mentions finding a moldy sandwich in it and knocks Scootaloo's grade down as a result. The sandwich itself winds up in the classroom trash can.
** While distracted by her parents' cheering during a ribbon-cutting ceremony, Rainbow Dash accidentally snips off part of Spitfire's tail, much to her annoyance. Though it's an easy-to-miss detail, Spitfire's tail is still cut short during the Wonderbolts' final performance of the episode.
** After Scootaloo spends the episode photographing everything in sight, Cheerilee comments that her report was "a little heavy on the pictures."
* BrokenPedestal: Scootaloo briefly feels this way towards Rainbow Dash after she yells at her parents. She even tosses the notebook which contained her hero report on Rainbow Dash on the ground, and says that she's going to do her report on somepony else.

At Wonderbolt practice, Rainbow Dash's parents show up, enthusiastically cheering on their daughter. Rainbow Dash is immediately embarrassed by their presence, trying to tell Scootaloo that she shouldn't have brought them here, calling her relationship with her parents "delicate". Later, at a Wonderbolt show, Bow and Windy continue loudly cheering Rainbow throughout the entire event, causing Rainbow Dash no end of embarrassment. Bow and Windy end up following her to the locker room, where they loudly cheer her on for hanging up a towel. This causes Rainbow Dash to finally snap; she screams at her parents that they're "too supportive", tells them that their constant cheering over anything she does (no matter how ordinary) has been driving her crazy, and tells them they need to go. Heartbroken, her parents leave, along with an angry Scootaloo, who decides to write a new report as she leaves her old one behind, causing it to open up and show a picture of her as an infant with her parents together, making Rainbow Dash become emotionally tearful and guilty over snapping at her parents.

* BrokenAesop: The episode delivers a message about how you should accept your parents' support, even if it is embarrassing and too clingy. But when Rainbow Dash does this to her parents as an apology, they accept it, but they tell her it's too much and embarrassing and should tone it down a bit.

* BrokenAesop: The episode delivers a message about how you accept your parents' support, even if it is embarrassing and too clingy. But when Rainbow Dash does this to her parents as an apology, they accept it, but they tell her it's too much and embarrassing and should tone it down a bit.

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Windy and Bow are correct in that they're just trying to be supportive of their daughter, but Rainbow rightfully points out that they can be excessive despite their intentions.

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Windy and Bow are correct in that they're just trying to be supportive of their daughter, but Rainbow rightfully points out that they can be excessive despite their intentions. [[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong Of course, only Rainbow Dash is the one portrayed in the wrong here. ]]

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Windy and Bow are correct in that they're just trying to be supportive of their daughter, but Rainbow rightfully points out that they can be excessive despite their intentions.

* EatTheCamera: Played straight during Scootaloo's CatapultToGlory; inverted during her AdBreakDoubleTake (i.e. Spit Up The Camera; also see the respective entries).

* GiverOfLameNames: Rainbow Dash is very on-the-nose about the intent of her special, private show for her parents after yelling at them:
-->'''Rainbow Dash:''' Mom and Dad, welcome to the... "[[MotorMouth I Love My Parents and I'm Sorry That I Took Them for Granted and I Know That They Made Me Who I Am Today So I Really Wanna Make It Up to Them]]"... [[OverlyLongName event]]. Enjoy.

** Rainbow Dash describes her relationship with her parents as "delicate." The episode, however, seems to indicate it's not that great (at least before she makes amends). Especially when you consider that ''she didn't tell her parents she was a Wonderbolt.'' Rainbow feared how they would react in their usual way upon learning she fulfilled her dream.

* MinorInsultMeltdown: Rainbow Dash yells at her parents for praising her in ''hanging up a towel'' and it reduces them to tears.

-->'''Windy Whistles:''' First of all, great job yelling at us, sweetie. No one, ''[sniffs]'' can make their parents feel more worthless than you!\\

* ShrineToSelf: Rainbow's parents have build one for their daughter, including everything from genuine momentoes, to rather unremarkable ones, to [[NauseaFuel pretty disgusting ones]].

* EatTheCamera: Played straight during Scootaloo's CatapultToGlory; inverted during her AdBreakDoubleTake (i.e. Spit Up The Camera).

* FacePalm: Rainbow Dash reacts this way throughout the episode to the embarrassment fromr her parents' antics, either with her hoof or with her wing.

* FacePalm: Rainbow Dash reacts this way to the embarrassment for her parents' antics, either with her hoof or with her wing.

* NeverMyFault: When Rainbow Dash has her outburst, her parents turn her arguments around, saying Rainbow embarassed them by yelling at them. On top of that, the ending has Rainbow doing all the realization and apologizing, while her parents don't have any realization at all. In fact, they do the exact same thing for Scootalo! Although, she literally asked for it.

-->'''Scootaloo:''' I met your parents hoping to learn more about you, ''but I don't like what I found out!'' ''[throws her notebook on the ground]]'' I'll find somepony ''else'' to do my hero report on.

* BrokenPedestal: Scootaloo briefly feels this way towards Rainbow Dash after she yells at her parents. She even tosses the notebook which contained her hero report on Rainbow Dash on the ground, and says that she's going to do her report on someone else.

'''Rainbow Dash:''' Well I'm ''tired'' of it! I've had enough of you two being so proud of every little ridiculous insignificant thing I do! ''(beat)'' I think you should leave.

-->'''Scootaloo:''' I met your parents hoping to learn more about you. ''But I don't like what I found out!''

'''Rainbow Dash:''' Well I'm ''tired'' of it! I've had enough of you two being so proud of every little ridiculous insignificant thing I do!

* InstantlyProvenWrong: When Rainbow’s parents see her perform as a Wonderbolt, Fleetfoot assures her that besides being a little loud they weren’t ''that'' bad. Then Rainbow’s parents set off fireworks, one of which goes off in the shape of Rainbow’s face. Fleetfoot can only say a sympathetic “wow” as if to say “I stand corrected.”

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Scootalo names herself as one of those ponies who would dream of having parents as supportive of her as Windy and Bow are of Rainbow Dash. In the final scene, both of them ''and'' Rainbow Dash lavish that kind of support and praise on her after she delivers her report (she got a "B"). The IrisOut focuses on her cringe from how embarrassing they are.

* ImpairmentShot: A non-alcoholic example, as Scootaloo first lands in Cloudsdale and hasn't yet registered that she wound up on somepony's cloud lawn.

Scootaloo is doing a report on Rainbow Dash, intending to use a giant slingshot to reach Cloudsdale and get a report on Rainbow Dash as a Wonderbolt. However, the slingshot misfires, causing her to be launched early and land in the yard of a pegasus couple. Scootaloo sees the pegasus in front of her has a rainbow mane and tail, and concludes that he's Rainbow Dash's dad, Bow Hothoof. Bow's wife, Windy Whistles, also comes out in the yard when she hears Scootaloo's excited squeal, the two confirming they are indeed Rainbow Dash's parents.