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** It also has another Yakety Sax chase-scene, with a ScoobyDoo door gag thrown in for good measure.

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** It also has another Yakety Sax chase-scene, with a ScoobyDoo [[ScoobyDoobyDoors door gag gag]] thrown in for good measure.
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* "A Bird in the Hoof" has Angel running around with a watch, and Fluttershy eventually remarks [[AliceInWonderland "I'm late for a very important date!"]]

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* "A Bird in the Hoof" has Angel running around with a watch, and Fluttershy eventually remarks [[AliceInWonderland "I'm late for a very important date!"]]date!"]]
** It also has another Yakety Sax chase-scene, with a ScoobyDoo door gag thrown in for good measure.

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** Nightmare Moon's exit from her first appearance in the first episode is a shout out to Malificent's exit in Disney/SleepingBeauty.

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** Nightmare Moon's exit from her first appearance in the first episode is a shout out to Malificent's Maleficent's exit in Disney/SleepingBeauty.Disney/SleepingBeauty.
*** She does it again in the same episode after [[spoiler: shattering the elements]]
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** This episode makes at least two shout-outs to the classic Bugs Bunny short "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvy_s-GfDxA Bully For Bugs]]": both the buffalo from this episode and the bull from the Bugs Bunny cartoon sharpen their horns using a grinding wheel, and the buffalo running into an anvil hidden in a hay bale mirrors the bull running into an anvil hidden behind Bugs's red muleta.

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** This episode makes at least two shout-outs to the classic Bugs Bunny short "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvy_s-GfDxA Bully For Bugs]]": both the buffalo from this episode and the bull from the Bugs Bunny cartoon sharpen their horns using a grinding wheel, and the buffalo running into an anvil hidden in a hay bale mirrors the bull running into an anvil hidden behind Bugs's red muleta.muleta.
* "A Bird in the Hoof" has Angel running around with a watch, and Fluttershy eventually remarks [[AliceInWonderland "I'm late for a very important date!"]]
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** And don't forget the line immediately afterwords: [[ApocalypseNow "The horror! The horror!"]]

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** And don't forget the line immediately afterwords: [[ApocalypseNow "The horror! horror!]] [[HeartOfDarkness The horror!"]]
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** Pinkie uses the phrase "okey-dokey loki" twice when Twilight tries to analyze her Pinkie sense. Loki is a god in {{Norse mythology}} who is famous for being a trickster. He is also a shape-shifter and in one tale, takes the form of a mare. One wonders what he may have looked like.
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** And don't forget the line immediately afterwords: [[ApocalypseNow "The horror.! The horror!"]]

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** And don't forget the line immediately afterwords: [[ApocalypseNow "The horror.! horror! The horror!"]]
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*** Nightmare Moon is trying to bring about TheNightThatNeverEnds, just like Tirek. However, while Tirek only seemed to be doing it ForTheEvulz, Nightmare Moon's backstory establishes her as TheResenter.

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** Pinkie Pie, after she saves the day and hears about another infestation: "Well, [[HaveGunWillTravel have tuba - will travel]]."

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** Pinkie Pie, after she saves the day and hears about another parasprite infestation: "Well, [[HaveGunWillTravel have tuba - will travel]].""
* "Winter Wrap Up" has an ice skating scene similar to the one in Bambi, with Spike taking the place of Thumper and Twilight being the Bambi.



* In "The Show Stoppers", Scootaloo's frustrated "NEVER, NEVER!" and piano headdesking are lifted straight from Don Music in ''SesameStreet''.[[hottip:*:A character who was dropped because of concerns that children were imitating this behavior.]]

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* In "The Show Stoppers", Scootaloo's frustrated "NEVER, NEVER!" and piano headdesking head-desking are lifted straight from Don Music in ''SesameStreet''.[[hottip:*:A character who was dropped because of concerns that children were imitating this behavior.]]



** The climactic slapstick pie fight near the end of the episode is an obvious ''BlazingSaddles'' reference.
** This episode makes at least two shout-outs to the classic Bugs Bunny short "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvy_s-GfDxA Bully For Bugs]]": both the buffalo from this episode and the bull from the Bugs Bunny cartoon sharpen their horns using a grinding wheel, and the buffalo running into an anvil hidden in a hay bale mirrors the bull running into an anvil hidden behind Bugs's red muleta.
* "Winter Wrap Up" has an ice skating scene similar to the one in Bambi, with Spike taking the place of Thumper and Twilight being the Bambi.

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** The climactic slapstick pie fight near the end of the episode is an obvious almost certainly a ''BlazingSaddles'' reference.
reference, and Pinkie's dancing-girl outfit makes her look kinda like Lili von Shtupp.
** This episode makes at least two shout-outs to the classic Bugs Bunny short "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvy_s-GfDxA Bully For Bugs]]": both the buffalo from this episode and the bull from the Bugs Bunny cartoon sharpen their horns using a grinding wheel, and the buffalo running into an anvil hidden in a hay bale mirrors the bull running into an anvil hidden behind Bugs's red muleta.
* "Winter Wrap Up" has an ice skating scene similar to the one in Bambi, with Spike taking the place of Thumper and Twilight being the Bambi.
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** Pinkie Pie, after she saves the day and hears about another infestation: "Well, [[HaveGunWillTravel have tuba - will travel]]."
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* In "Griffon the Brush Off", [[GenkiGirl Pinkie Pie's]] relaxed, easygoing hopping in pursuit of mega-fast [[{{Tomboy}} Rainbow Dash]] -- who is frantically trying to lose her -- is a shout out to the old Pepe [=LePew=] shorts. Her ability to materialize out of nowhere, regardless of where Dash tries to hide, brings [[TexAvery Droopy]] to mind, though Pepe himself was known to do this as well.

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* In "Griffon the Brush Off", [[GenkiGirl Pinkie Pie's]] relaxed, easygoing hopping in pursuit of mega-fast [[{{Tomboy}} Rainbow Dash]] -- who is frantically trying to lose her -- is a shout out to the old Pepe [=LePew=] shorts. Her ability to [[TheCatCameBack materialize out of nowhere, regardless of where Dash tries to hide, hide]], brings [[TexAvery Droopy]] to mind, though Pepe himself was known to do this as well.
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Cockatrices are actual mythical creatures. Mother 3 probably based those enemies on the same story.


* "Winter Wrap Up" has an ice skating scene similar to the one in Bambi, with Spike taking the place of Thumper and Twilight being the Bambi.
* From "Stare Master: Hey, wasn't there an enemy in {{Mother 3}} that was a [[http://walkthrough.starmen.net/mother3/image/enemies/slitherhen.png chicken and a snake]]?

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* "Winter Wrap Up" has an ice skating scene similar to the one in Bambi, with Spike taking the place of Thumper and Twilight being the Bambi.
* From "Stare Master: Hey, wasn't there an enemy in {{Mother 3}} that was a [[http://walkthrough.starmen.net/mother3/image/enemies/slitherhen.png chicken and a snake]]?
Bambi.
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** And don't forget the line immediately afterwords: [[ApocalypseNow "The horror.! The horror!"]]
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* "Winter Wrap Up" has an ice skating scene similar to the one in Bambi, with Spike taking the place of Thumper and Twilight being the Bambi.

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* "Winter Wrap Up" has an ice skating scene similar to the one in Bambi, with Spike taking the place of Thumper and Twilight being the Bambi.Bambi.
* From "Stare Master: Hey, wasn't there an enemy in {{Mother 3}} that was a [[http://walkthrough.starmen.net/mother3/image/enemies/slitherhen.png chicken and a snake]]?
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** This episode makes at least two shout-outs to the classic Bugs Bunny short "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvy_s-GfDxA Bully For Bugs]]": both the buffalo from this episode and the bull from the Bugs Bunny cartoon sharpen their horns using a grinding wheel, and the buffalo running into an anvil hidden in a hay bale mirrors the bull running into an anvil hidden behind Bugs's red muleta.

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** This episode makes at least two shout-outs to the classic Bugs Bunny short "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvy_s-GfDxA Bully For Bugs]]": both the buffalo from this episode and the bull from the Bugs Bunny cartoon sharpen their horns using a grinding wheel, and the buffalo running into an anvil hidden in a hay bale mirrors the bull running into an anvil hidden behind Bugs's red muleta.muleta.
* "Winter Wrap Up" has an ice skating scene similar to the one in Bambi, with Spike taking the place of Thumper and Twilight being the Bambi.
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Shout outs are intentional, so please not coincidences or unintentional similarities.


** Staying with the ''Lord of the Rings'' mythos, many elements of the dragon (his design, the fact that he's lazy but can be terrible when angered, his massive treasure) are similar to that of the dragon Smaug in TheHobbit.



* Might not be intentional, but at one point during the musical number in "Winter Wrap-Up", sunlight falls directly on Twilight, and she's very clearly [[{{Twilight}} sparkling]].
* In "Fall Weather Friends", Twilight's racing number is 42. No, Rainbow, she didn't read "The Egghead's Guide to Running", she read ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''.
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Dr whoof is fannon only.


* A brown pony with a short spiky mane and an hourglass cutie mark bears resemblance to a [[DavidTennant certain]] [[DoctorWho doctor.]]
** Fanon has named that pony "Dr. Whoof".
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** This episode makes at least two shout-outs to the classic Bugs Bunny short "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvy_s-GfDxA Bully For Bugs]]": both the buffalo from this episode and the bull from the Bugs Bunny cartoon sharpen their horns using a grinding wheel, and the buffalo running into an anvil hidden in a hay bale mirrors the bull running into an anvil hidden behind Bug's red muleta.

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** This episode makes at least two shout-outs to the classic Bugs Bunny short "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvy_s-GfDxA Bully For Bugs]]": both the buffalo from this episode and the bull from the Bugs Bunny cartoon sharpen their horns using a grinding wheel, and the buffalo running into an anvil hidden in a hay bale mirrors the bull running into an anvil hidden behind Bug's Bugs's red muleta.
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** This episode makes at least two shout-outs to the classic Bugs Bunny short "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvy_s-GfDxA Bully For Bugs]]": both the buffalo from this episode and the bull from the Bugs Bunny cartoon sharpen their horns using a sharpening wheel, and the buffalo running into an anvil hidden in a hay bale mirrors the bull running into an anvil hidden behind Bug's red muleta.

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** This episode makes at least two shout-outs to the classic Bugs Bunny short "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvy_s-GfDxA Bully For Bugs]]": both the buffalo from this episode and the bull from the Bugs Bunny cartoon sharpen their horns using a sharpening grinding wheel, and the buffalo running into an anvil hidden in a hay bale mirrors the bull running into an anvil hidden behind Bug's red muleta.
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** This episode makes at least two shout-outs to the classic Bugs Bunny short "Bully For Bugs": both the buffalo from this episode and the bull from the Bugs Bunny cartoon sharpen their horns using a sharpening wheel, and the buffalo running into an anvil hidden in a hay bale mirrors the bull running into an anvil hidden behind Bug's red muleta.

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** This episode makes at least two shout-outs to the classic Bugs Bunny short "Bully "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvy_s-GfDxA Bully For Bugs": Bugs]]": both the buffalo from this episode and the bull from the Bugs Bunny cartoon sharpen their horns using a sharpening wheel, and the buffalo running into an anvil hidden in a hay bale mirrors the bull running into an anvil hidden behind Bug's red muleta.
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** The climactic slapstick pie fight near the end of the episode is an obvious ''BlazingSaddles'' reference.

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** The climactic slapstick pie fight near the end of the episode is an obvious ''BlazingSaddles'' reference.reference.
** This episode makes at least two shout-outs to the classic Bugs Bunny short "Bully For Bugs": both the buffalo from this episode and the bull from the Bugs Bunny cartoon sharpen their horns using a sharpening wheel, and the buffalo running into an anvil hidden in a hay bale mirrors the bull running into an anvil hidden behind Bug's red muleta.
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* In "Over a Barrel", when Spike walks off in a huff because the girls keep interrupting his sleep, Fluttershy calls him "[[PuffTheMagicDragon Huffy the Magic Dragon]]".

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* In "Over a Barrel", when Spike walks off in a huff because the girls keep interrupting his sleep, Fluttershy calls him "[[PuffTheMagicDragon Huffy the Magic Dragon]]".Dragon]]".
** The climactic slapstick pie fight near the end of the episode is an obvious ''BlazingSaddles'' reference.
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*** The lyrics to the song of the same name on the album includes the line "The diamond dogs are poachers, and they hide behind trees". When we first see the dogs, they are hiding in a tree and planning to steal the gems Rarity and Spike are collecting.

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*** The lyrics to the song of the same name on the album includes the line "The diamond dogs are poachers, and they hide behind trees". When we first see the dogs, they are hiding in a tree and planning to steal the gems Rarity and Spike are collecting.collecting.
* In "Over a Barrel", when Spike walks off in a huff because the girls keep interrupting his sleep, Fluttershy calls him "[[PuffTheMagicDragon Huffy the Magic Dragon]]".
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** And the shot of them swarming around the fallen pony is a clear homage to TheLionKing.
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** Fanon has named that pony "Dr. Whoof".

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** This may be a coincidence, but did anyone notice that the pilot was the [[{{Touhou}} quest of a group of girls to track down a villain who escaped from the moon and complete 6 impossible requests to put an end to an imperishable night,]] after which DefeatMeansFriendship?



*** The lyrics to the song of the same name on the album includes the line "The diamond dogs are poachers, and they hide behind trees". When we first see the dogs, they are hiding in a tree and planning to steal the gems Rarity and Spike are collecting.
* This may be a coincidence, but did anyone notice that the pilot was the [[{{Touhou}} quest of a group of girls to track down a villain who escaped from the moon and complete 6 impossible requests to put an end to an imperishable night,]] afterwhich DefeatMeansFriendship?

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*** The lyrics to the song of the same name on the album includes the line "The diamond dogs are poachers, and they hide behind trees". When we first see the dogs, they are hiding in a tree and planning to steal the gems Rarity and Spike are collecting.
* This may be a coincidence, but did anyone notice that the pilot was the [[{{Touhou}} quest of a group of girls to track down a villain who escaped from the moon and complete 6 impossible requests to put an end to an imperishable night,]] afterwhich DefeatMeansFriendship?
collecting.
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I had noticed some parallels that I thought deserved mention here, though it may only be a fluke...

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Celebrity caricatures go in No Celebrities Were Harmed on the main page.


* "Green Isn't Your Color" features a pony named Photo Finish, who seems quite reminiscient of Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of the fashion and lifestyle magazine Vogue.
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Lady Gaga looks like everyone.


* "Green Isn't Your Color" features a pony named Photo Finish, who seems quite reminiscient of LadyGaga.

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* "Green Isn't Your Color" features a pony named Photo Finish, who seems quite reminiscient of LadyGaga.Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of the fashion and lifestyle magazine Vogue.
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* "Green Isn't Your Color" features a pony named Photo Finish, who seems quite reminiscient of LadyGaga.

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