History Recap / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E9HonestApple

* DoesNotLikeSpam : Strawberry Sunrise doesn't just like strawberries much better than apples, but considers apples to be almost inedible.

* HiddenDepths: Pinkie suggests Rarity relax by strumming a bit on a guitar. Rarity plays a few moments with an intense metal guitar solo. [[BeyondTheImpossible On an acoustic guitar, somehow]].

Applejack decides she has to make up for causing so much distress to Rarity and the others so tracks them all down and brings them back to the Carousel Boutique (in her own Applejack kind of way). She apologizes to the judges and participants and says while she still finds their work confusing, it was no excuse to shoot down the work itself. While the contestants resume their contest pieces, Applejack helps rebuild the stage and works with the contestants to get a better understanding of things from their point of view.

Pinkie Pie surprises Rarity with the completed stage and the fashion show goes off without a hitch. When the judging commences, Rarity picks Lily Lace's designs, Hoity Toity leans towards Inky Rose's, and Photo Finish gives Starstreak the nod. Applejack is then charged with deciding a winner between the three contestants. Ultimately, Applejack doesn't pick a winner at all and all three contestants go on to feature their work at the Boutique. While they tour Rarity's design for laying out the three contestants' designs in her shop, they come across a dress Rarity was working on. Applejack tries to critque it but struggles to find the right words until Rarity simply explains that the dress was a failed experiment, with which Applejack heartily agrees and the two friends laugh about it.

* SuddenlyVoiced: Strawberry Sunrise, previously just a [[RecurringExtra background pony]], gets their first speaking role.

* HeelRealization: Applejack has one when while she's ranting about Strawberry Sunrise's blunt dislike of apples, realizing that she's been treating Rarity and her fashion friends equally dismissively.

** And, to teach Applejack a lesson, Rarity makes Strawberry Sunrise hit Appejack's button by telling her that she doesn't like apples and that strawberries are better.

Rarity runs outside and stops construction of the stage. Pinkie Pie arrives and asks what's wrong and Rarity angrily blames Applejack for destroying her hard work. Applejack refuses to recant her opinion just because the judges and participants don't appreciate it so Rarity decides to demonstrate her point. She takes Applejack over to Strawberry Sunrise's house and asks for Strawberry's opinion of apples, to which she says they're nothing compared to strawberries, and in fact considers them almost inedible. Applejack gets highly defensive and finally grows offended by Strawberry's frank disapproval. Rarity forces Applejack to realize that Strawberry expressing her opinion without consideration for Applejack's hard work is what Applejack was doing to the contestants, telling them that their work is meaningless if she doesn't like what they make.

Unfortunately, Applejack's critiques continue to act as a sore spot among the contestants. She dislikes Inky Rose's decision to put prefabricated holes into her clothes, says Lily Lace is using far too much fabric and will cause the dress she's making to collect dirt off the ground, and thinks the mane-do that Starsteak is giving to his model is a mess. Applejack and Rarity leave the botique with everpony else getting sick of her opinions. Upon encountering Pinkie at Sugarcube Corner, Applejack thinks her contributions are doing a lot of good but Rarity is getting frustrated at all of Applejack's commentary.

Rarity takes the judges into her workroom to introduce them to the contestants: Lily Lace, Starstreak, and Inky Rose. They each explain their entries, which impress both Photo Finish and Hoity Toity but perplex Applejack's different sensitivities. Eventually Applejack openly expresses her criticisms, which again upsets the other two judges and causes the participants to become disheartened. Applejack begins to doubt her thoughts are being appreciated but Rarity reassures her that this is why she was brought in.

* AdBreakDoubleTake: Spike, Pinkie and Applejack let out a series of [[BigWhat Big Whats]] before the opening theme. Applejack lets out another one after the commercial break.

* BigWhat: Pinkie Pie, Spike and Applejack ''herself'' reactions when Rarity announced her choice of pick Applejack as judge for the fashion show.

* DefensiveWhat: After the three BigWhat from Applejack, Pinkie Pie and Spike, Rarity responds with a defensive "What?" as Applejack gives her a look.

* HiddenDepths: Pinkie suggests Rarity relax by strumming a bit on a guitar. Rarity plays a few moments with a intense metal guitar solo. [[BeyondTheImpossible On an acoustic guitar, somehow]].

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Rarity picking Applejack, who despite being Honest considers dresses to be "Fru-fru" , to be a fashion judge.

* HiddenDepths: Pinkie suggests Rarity relax by strumming a bit on a guitar. Rarity plays a few moments with a intense metal guitar solo. On an acoustic guitar, somehow.

* DefensiveWhat: After the three BigWhat from Applejack, Pinkie Pie and Spike, Rarity responds with a defensive "What?" as Applejack gives har a look.

* {{Fainting}}: Photo Finish faint after Applejack makes fun of a ''disco ball'' dress.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In the first season, Rarity was desperate to impress Hoity Toity and Photo Finish, who could make or break her career. Now she greets them as old friends, showing how far she's come.

* AnAesop: Be tactful. Honesty is appreciated, but be mindful of your phrasing because it may undermine someone's hard work and commitment, even if the final product wasn't to your taste.

* ArtisticLicenseMusic: Rarity shreds out some heavily distorted metal riffs on an unplugged acoustic guitar.

* PaletteSwap: Strawberry Sunrise is Carrot Top, but with different colors.

* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: Photo Finish greets Rarity with "Kiss! Kiss!" shouts "I faint!" before fainting, then "Gasp!" when Applejack shakes all the feathers off of Lily Lace's hat.

* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: Photo Finish shouts "I faint!" before fainting, then "Gasp!" when Applejack shakes all the feathers off of Lily Lace's hat.

* TakeThat: Applejack's critiques of ensembles designed for the fashion runway.