History Recap / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E15TwoFourSixGreaaat

* AnAesop: Even when you don't care about something, you should still care about your friends that do and can enjoy working with them on it.

* SuddenlyVoiced: One of the Friendship Students named [[https://derpicdn.net/img/view/2021/9/22/2706200.png Summer Breeze,]][[note]] Who is [[OnlySixFaces virtually identical to]] Wonderbolts Academy rookie [[https://derpicdn.net/img/2013/7/2/362665/large.png Pizzelle]][[/note]] who was always a background character, speaks for the first time in this episode.

* BaitAndSwitch: One of the people Rainbow Dash sees is Zecora to get help with Ocellus' rhyming.... only to reveal Zecora wasn't very helpful and Rainbow Dash just gets a rhyming dictionary from the library.

* BaitAndSwitch: One of the ponies Rainbow Dash sees is Zecora to get help with Ocellus' rhyming.... only to reveal Zecora wasn't very helpful and Rainbow Dash just gets a rhyming dictionary from the library.

* MassOhCrap: Yona, Ocellus, and Smolder, Shimmy Shake and Lighthoof just before the party cannon fires in their direction.

* SuddenlyVoiced: One of the Friendship Students named Pizzelle, who was always a background character, speaks for the first time in this episode.

* FaintInShock: Fluttershy faints when Twilight tells her that she will coach a Buckball team. Pinkie almost immediately wakes her up by throwing water on her face.

* FaintInShock: Fluttershy faints in when Twilight tells her that she will coach a Buckball team. Pinkie almost immediately wakes her up by throwing water on her face.

* AbsenteeActor: Silverstream is the only one of the Student Six who doesn't make an appearance in this episode, despite [[GenkiGirl her character]] being well suited to being a cheerleader. She doesn't even appear as a cameo like Gallus and Sandbar.

Rainbow reluctantly goes meet with the potential squad members, which include Shimmy Shake and Lighthoof, two students who have some experience in cheerleading, as well as Yona, Ocellus, and Smolder. Rainbow remains distracted from the actual buckball practice, and the assembled group attempt to find some type of routine under Snips' watch. However, there's too many problems: Yona's hoof-beating unbalances Shimmy Shake and Lighthoof's routine, Ocellus is too soft-spoken to be heard, and Smolder, though able to breathe smoke, has little interest. Further, Snips' idea for outfits, by loading their outputs with flags and buttons, make it difficult to cheer. The students beg Rainbow to seek the help of her friends to figure out how to help them practice.

Rainbow goes around Ponyville to ask for help, and returns the next day with a bunch of cheerleading equipment and outfits for the crew, but leaves them there for the students to figure out, while she goes to watch the buckball practice. While the equipment helps them to coordinate a bit more, the squad is still stumbling around each other, and they are to be ready to show Pinkie and Fluttershy their cheering in a few days. With practice over, the other students leave, but Smolder stays behind to chew out Rainbow Dash for being a terrible coach.

* WhatTheHellHero: After their first attempt at a routine fails, the cheer squad call out Rainbow Dash for not doing anything to coach them. Smolder in particular lets her have it, admitting that she was excited to have Rainbow as a coach, believing she could make it fun, and disappointed that she didn't.

* SeriesContinuityError: The episode's premise posits that Rainbow Dash has no respect, knowledge, or interest in cheering. The problem is that Rainbow Dash has demonstrated all of these things in past episodes; in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E16SonicRainboom Sonic Rainboom]]" she coached Fluttershy on how to cheer for her properly; in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E12GamesPoniesPlay Games Ponies Play]]" she took part in an organized cheer demonstration; and in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E7ParentalGlideance Parental Glideance]]" we find out her parents spent years enthusiastically cheering for her and she joins them in cheering for Scootaloo in the episode's ends. Not to mention her ''Equestria Girls'' counterpart hosted a pep rally in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames''.

* AbsenteeActor: Silverstream is the only one of the Student Six who dosen't make an appearance in this episode, despite [[GenkiGirl her character]] being well suited to being a cheerleader. She dosen't even appear as a cameo like Gallus and Sandbar.

* AbsenteeActor: Silverstream is the only one of the Student Six who dosen't make an appearance in this episode, despite [[GenkiGirl her character]] being well suited to being a cheerleader. Not even as a cameo like Gallus and Sandbar.

* AbsenteeActor: Silverstream is the only one of the girls of the Student Six who dosen't make an appearance in this episode, despite [[GenkiGirl her character]] being well suited to being a cheerleader.

* AbsenteeActor: Silverstream is the only one of the girls of the Student Six who dosen't make an appearance in this episode, despite her character being well suited to being a cheerleader.

->''Cheerleading?!''
-->--'''Rainbow Dash'''

->'''Rainbow Dash:''' ''Cheerleading?!''

Rainbow goes around Ponyville to ask for help, and returns the next day with a bunch of cheerleading equipment and outfits for the crew, but leaves them there for the students to figure out, while she goes to watch the buckball practice While the equipment helps them to coordinate a bit more, the squad is still stumbling around each other, and they are to be ready to show Pinkie and Fluttershy their cheering in a few days. With practice over, the other students leave, but Smolder stays behind to chew out Rainbow Dash for being a terrible coach.

* BaitAndSwitch: One of the ponies Rainbow Dash sees is Zecora, who gets her an object offscreen... only for Rainbow to reveal Zecora wasn't helpful and just got a rhyming dictionary from the library.