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5	[[caption-width-right:350:"It's so much fun playing with [[MyLittlePhony Our Tiny Equines]][[TradeSnark ™]]!"]]
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7	->'''Hazel:''' What's this? A miniature pony?\
8	'''Zach:''' In case you didn't like the tickets. All girls like ponies.
9	-->-- ''Webcomic/GirlsWithSlingshots''
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11	In [[RealLife reality]], ''some'' girls like ponies. In TV Land, ''all'' girls ({{tomboy}} ''and'' {{girly girl}} alike) like ponies. ''Especially'' the {{Spoiled Brat}}s. This especially applies to girls who are young enough to be in the PrincessPhase.
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13	Ponies tend to be the stock Christmas wish that has no chance of ever coming true. References to formerly owned ponies can also mark a character as a FallenPrincess or an UpperClassEquestrian.
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15	Of course, the trope is parodied [[RealMenWearPink when it's a boy who likes ponies]], and is an easy opportunity for creators to slip in MyLittlePhony jokes. Even a CoolHorse isn't immune to this, because both boys and girls want Cool Horses. No punny relation with [[TomboyishPonytail girls having ponytails]], though they can like ponies.
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17	This trope is mostly confined to North America and Western Europe, and relatively recent times. Back before the automobile, and in many parts of the world down to the present day (especially the Middle East, home of the world's best horses), there's nothing particularly feminine about liking horses (although many European countries and the USA have now significantly more female practitioners and champions in UsefulNotes/EquestrianSports than males). Nor even about liking ponies; UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan rode a pony. In fact, [[VirileStallion horses were more associated with manliness]].
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19	And even in North America and Western Europe, this is an [[SarcasmMode Evolving Trope]], which has been undergoing some highly unexpected developments [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic since about 2010]].
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21	Compare PonyTale (a specific kind of book where the pony love is central to the plot), GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals, PinkMeansFeminine, MenLikeDogsWomenLikeCats. The DistaffCounterpart to BoysLikeCreepyCritters. And expect some RainbowsAndUnicorns to show up.
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23	No relation to girls driving or liking [[CoolCar cool pony cars]]. [[MyHorseIsAMotorbike That would be this trope.]]
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26	!!Examples:
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30	[[folder:Advertising]]
31	* One of those odious car commercials that came out in the US Christmas 2008 had a little girl berating her adult self for thinking a new car was a better present than the ''pony'' she got when she was seven, that made her scream so loud the neighbors came over, and made the girl next door sickly jealous.
32	* A Verizon commercial where three older girls are suggested to have each got what they actually wanted for Christmas, and one of them asked for a pony (the others? Cell phones). [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-prMb6BdNs Turns out]] it [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor wasn't such a great gift]] after all.
33	* A radio ad tells the tale of a father who couldn't afford a new car for his daughter's Sweet Sixteen -- so he got her a pony to ride everywhere instead.
34	* [[http://www.deagostini.com.au/ilovehorses/ I love horses, they're my friends!]]
35	* When Cracker Jack introduced a bigger size bag for their product, the advertising played up the size of the bag to mythic proportions: A guy bringing home a bag tied to the roof of his car can't fit it in his garage, a guy buying Cracker Jack at a baseball game gets crushed by a flying bag, etc. The prize inside also got scaled up; guess what a young girl gets inside her Cracker Jack bag? That's right:
36	--> "Mommy! Mommy! I got a pony!"
37	* An advertisement about spending money to earn reward points for NFL swag has a father going on a shopping spree for his daughter; at the end of the commercial, she is seen riding on a pony.
38	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4TVRPvFGt0 This commercial]] for Ally bank, invoking YouDidntAsk.
39	* A commercial for Pedialyte has a man drinking a bottle of it late at night, when his daughter comes out and whines that it was hers. He offers to make it up to her by buying her a pony.
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42	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
43	* ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'': Beauty in the dub.
44	* ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'': Marcille is usually appropriately wary around monsters but she gets very excited at the thought of riding a kelpie.
45	* In ''Anime/FateGrandCarnival'', the only Servant that Ritsuka actually cares about is [[OurCentaursAreDifferent Red Hare]], who in Videogame/FateGrandOrder is a [[ComMons Three-star rarity Servant]]. She not only spent a ridiculous amount of resources to boost his level to 100 but gets very angry when anyone suggests that not feeding him doesn't take priority over everything else.
46	* In ''Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode'', the very feminine [[spoiler:Ciel Kirahoshi]] is themed around pegasi, and gets to ride one as well.
47	* The second half of ''Manga/{{Lady}}'' takes place in an elite school for the English, and has a whole club of horse girls - Lynn, Cathy, Vivian and Betty, amongst others, love horses and horse-riding. Lynn later ropes her friends Dorothy and Lara into joining it.
48	* ''Manga/SilverSpoon'': Aki was practically raised on horseback, though the trope is played with since she doesn't like ponies so much as she likes massive draught horses.
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51	[[folder:Comedy]]
52	* ''Creator/LouisCK'', no stranger to deconstructing "adorable animal" cliches, recounts a story of him showing his daughter a large gathering of Italian wild ponies. She was elated right up until one of them reached down and bit her on the leg. CK and his kid looked it up later and discovered that, in fact, "ponies are assholes; they bite all the time!"
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55	[[folder:Comics]]
56	* In one ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' strip, Susie ends a list of wishful thinking about improvements/politeness from Calvin with "and as long as I'm dreaming, I'd like a pony."
57	* ''ComicStrip/FootrotFlats'': The Dog hopes that Pongo will ''grow into'' the pony stage soon, so she will leave him alone.
58	* ''ComicStrip/ModestyBlaise'': StreetUrchin Samantha 'Sam' Brown falls in love with horses the first she encounters some on Modesty's farm, and has a natural affinity with them. Her love of horse becomes a major plot point in "Ivory Dancer".
59	* Phoebe of ''ComicStrip/PhoebeAndHerUnicorn'' watches the ''[[MyLittlePhony Pastel Unicorns]]'' TV show and owns the toys, despite having a ''real'' talking unicorn for a best friend.
60	* One ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' strip has Sally [[MakeAWish wishing on a star]] for a pony, then yelling "You stupid star!" when a pony fails to instantly appear.
61	* ''ComicBook/PowerPack'': Katie Power does this on the cover to ''Thor and the Warriors Four''. The pony in question is Beta Ray Bill.
62	* In "ComicBook/TheSuperSteedOfSteel", ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} comes to own Comet, a white horse who can fly (and is secretly a cursed centaur).
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65	[[folder:Fan Works]]
66	* A line in ''Fanfic/FrozenMoonlight'' reads "Misao had the gleeful shock of a child who'd suddenly gotten everything they'd ever wanted for Christmas, plus a pony."
67	* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fanfic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6697660/24/The-Discworld-Tarot The Ace of Swords]] by Creator/AAPessimal, Zoo director Johanna Smith-Rhodes drops everything to capture the unicorn she covets for the zoo. In her overwhelming desire to get a unicorn, she forgets everything her Assassin training taught her, including making sure there's an escape route if it all goes pear-shaped. She is rescued, ingloriously, by the City Watch and her more level-headed colleague Miss Alice Band.
68	** In a ContinuationFic set quite a few years later, Johanna's daughter is learning to be a witch. Rebecka Smith-Rhodes assists at a very unique foaling. And discovers she has been adopted by a very rare {{Pegasus}} - a winged horse, who bond almost at birth to a witch of their choosing. Bekki is delighted and overjoyed. she considers the downside of this - riding/flying for the City Watch and in the service of Lord Vetinari - is the pineapple in this particular fruit basket.
69	* ''Fanfic/OopsImEquineAgain'': Human!Fluttershy [[CutenessProximity immediately starts gushing]] over Sunset's pony form.
70	* ''Fanfic/NotCompletelyAltogetherHere'': It's mentioned that at age seven Glinda had wanted a pony for Lurlinemas. Her father instead drew her a picture of a pony.
71	* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainSeekerOfCrocus'' has GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak [[Characters/InfinityTrainSeekerOfCrocusChloeCerise Chloe Cerise]] having once gush over ponies in the Nightmares Car...specifically, they're horses but have macabre paint jobs and Chloe herself is a NightmareFetishist. She also was said to have gone on the haunted carousel a few times.
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74	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
75	* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'': Jessie's previous owner Emily. At least until she grows older...
76	* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', a sticker of a unicorn is featured on Mei's flute case as well as on the cellphones of some of her female classmates. Mei also draws her and Devon riding on a unicorn.
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79	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
80	* ''Film/CruelIntentions 2'' uses a racy version of this trope where proper horse-riding technique is used as a metaphor for sex.
81	* In ''Film/{{Serenity}}'', Mal dresses as a woman to get into the temple where Inara is being held. His first words to her are:
82	-->'''Mal:''' Dear Buddha, please bring me a pony, and a plastic rocket--
83	* Discussed in ''Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle''. The girls are all watching George frolicking with the horses, when one of the male guests at the party (who, of course, cannot see the King of the Jungle) comments "What is it with chicks and horses, huh?"
84	* From Tim Burton's ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'': Veruca obtains her golden ticket, smiles and says: "Daddy, I want [[OhNoNotAgain another]] pony."
85	* ''Film/BatmanReturns'': Lampshaded:
86	-->'''The Penguin:''' Hey...why should I trust some cat-broad anyway? Maybe you're just some screwed-up sorority chick, who's getting back at her daddy for not buying her that pony when she turned sweet sixteen!
87	* ''Film/DodgeballATrueUnderdogStory'': There's a close equivalent where Peter finds out through Kate's home decorating that she's obsessed about unicorns.
88	* ''Film/PreyForRockAndRoll:'' Jacki always wanted a pony as a little kid, even pretending her bike was a pony and naming it Lucky.
89	* In ''Film/TheUltimateGift'', Jason was told by a dying girl that her wish is to ride a horse. He takes her horseback riding and comes to find out it is her mother who is the one who likes horses so the trope is still being used but this one girl might be one of the few in fiction to ever says that she doesn't like horses.
90	* In ''Film/{{Taken}}'', Bryan Mills wants to build a closer relationship with his teenage daughter Kim. She lives with her mother, Lenore, and her wealthy stepfather, Stuart. During Kim's 17th Birthday, he buys her an expensive karaoke machine because she wants to become a singer, only to be upstaged by Stuart, who surprises her with a horse which makes her so happy she forgets all about the karaoke machine.
91	* ''Film/JeepersCreepers3'': Addy is a teenaged girl who is introduced while riding her horse and showing sadness upon learning that her grandmother has to sell that horse.
92	* ''Film/LostInTranslation2003'': Discussed. Charlotte mentions all girls go through a horse phase and a photography phase.
93	* In ''Film/{{Logan}}'': Laura demonstrates a fascination with horses. At one point she can be seen clutching a toy horse while she sleeps, and later in the film is drawn to the Munson family's herd. She also has a unicorn on the shirt she wears throughout the second half of the film.
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96	[[folder:Literature]]
97	* ''Literature/AmericanGirlsCollection'':
98	** Kaya is known for being close to her horse, an Applaoosa named Steps High, and races on her against other kids --including when she should be watching her brothers (resulting in all the children being punished). Steps High is captured as part of the raid on Kaya's band and when Kaya escapes, she is just as devastated to leave Steps High behind as she is her sister Speaking Rain. [[spoiler:She later reunites with Steps High, who has escaped into the wild and had a colt that Kaya names Sparks Flying.]]
99	** Felicity Merriman is a horse lover, finding herself in trouble often for thinking about horses more than anything else and even doodling them in her copybook. One of her books' main plot lines has her befriending and rescuing an abused horse, Penny. Along with her fancy colonial clothes and being one of the older characters, this is probably another reason for her continued popularity.
100	** Modern characters Nicki, Saige, and Lila all have horses as part of their collections. Nicki rides her horse Jackson when she's feeling down. Saige trains her grandmother Mimi's horse Picasso for the locla parade. Lila attends riding camp and befriends a palomino, Hollyhock.
101	** Since 1998, the modern collection has always had some type of horse available (unless there is a horse being sold as part of a Girl of the Year's collection), starting with the American Girl Horse that was designed to look like Felicity's horse Penny and be part of her collection as well as the modern one.
102	* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
103	** In ''Literature/SoulMusic'', there's a bit about how a certain type of girl who will refuse to clean her bedroom, even at gunpoint, will fight for the privilege of mucking out a stable. Susan, however, is very much an exception, until she meets [[CoolHorse Binky]].
104	** Adora Belle Dearheart (aka Spike) averts this, mentioning that she had a pony when she was younger but didn't like it very much. But she used to watch it run around or whatever you're supposed to do with the things.
105	** In ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'', '''Death''', posing as Santa, promises to deliver a pony to a little girl, complete with jodhpurs. Cue said girl's mother trying to explain they live in an apartment.
106	* One ''Literature/RossOCarrollKelly'' novel claims that girls who grew up owning a horse end up mentally messed up, as their first love never showed any affection (horses not being the kindest of pets).
107	* At least some of the adaptations of ''Literature/BlackBeauty'', which [[TropeMaker may have even started the whole trend]].
108	* Creator/GeorgeRRMartin has somebody theorize in his ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' that women like horses because they rub them the right way. Although there are a few women who dislike horses, namely Sansa.
109	* ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'':
110	** While a shrewd merchant/scholar, Laisa is immediately taken with the idea of riding a horse when she visits Barrayar. This is justified though; her home planet, Komarr, is two notches up from being a lifeless rock, and so her wanting to ride a horse outside is kind of like someone from Arizona wanting to ski.
111	** Subverted by Cordelia Vorkosigan. When confronted with horseback as the only option for escape from assassins, she's not happy about it. Her home planet, like Laisa's, isn't known for its animals, and she's never been on one before. Afterward, she still doesn't care for horses, possibly because they remind her of her possibly-homicidal father-in-law.
112	** In ''Literature/TheMountainsOfMourning'', you have this: "God, thought Miles jealously, if I had half the sex-appeal of that bloody horse I'd have more girlfriends than my cousin Ivan." Ivan being well known for his bed hopping.
113	** In ''Literature/{{Komarr}}'', Ekaterin admits to having gone through this phase.
114	* At the beginning of ''Literature/AndAnotherThing'', four of the main characters experience a LotusEaterMachine in which each of them are saved from the cliffhanger of ''Literature/MostlyHarmless'' in different ways. Fourteen year old Random Dent thinks they were rescued by unicorns.
115	* This trope is the reason {{Pony Tale}}s exist, including ''The Saddle Club'', ''Pony Pals'' and ''Thoroughbred'' books.
116	* Creator/ShelSilverstein's poem "Little Abigail and the Beautiful Pony" is about a girl who withers away and dies when her foolish parents refuse to buy her a pony; the poem ends with the suggestion that the young reader use it to get stuff from his/her parents.
117	* Averted in ''Literature/TheSecretCountry'' books by Creator/PamelaDean. Of the three female main characters, Ruth and Ellen are competent riders, but not terribly interested in horses. Laura, however, hates horses with a passion and tends to fall off of them as soon as she's put in the saddle. This is inconvenient for her, since the person she pretends to be for two books plays this trope straight.
118	* Subverted in ''The God of Animals'' by sisters Alice and Nona, who, having grown up in depressing circumstances on a struggling horse farm, have no illusions about horses, particularly in regards to the show circuit. Played more or less straight with Sheila, though she's viewed as a silly SpoiledBrat by the protagonist.
119	* {{Exaggerated\|Trope}} in ''Literature/WinniAllfours''. The girl of the title loves ponies, but her parents won't buy her one. In a whimsical twist, Winni eats all her vegetables to turn ''into'' a pony herself!
120	* In the third ''Literature/CodexAlera'' book, double-agent Rook has her daughter held hostage as leverage, and said daughter is very intent on getting away and going somewhere with ponies.
121	* Parodied in ''Literature/OurDumbWorld'', where the map of Zimbabwe points out a [[ChildSoldiers little girl soldier]] who wants to blow up an pony for her birthday.
122	* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'', Parvati Patil and Lavender Brown go into fits of delight whenever they get shown horse-like magical creatures such as Hippogriffs, centaurs and unicorns. With regards to the unicorns, AlphaBitch Pansy Parkinson is described as having to "work hard to conceal how much she liked them."
123	* Jessi and Mallory in ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'' books.
124	* ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'' features a broad [[StereotypeFlip inversion]] of most gender roles. The two most prominent young men in the book, Jerin and Cullen, both adore horses, Cullen moreso than Jerin. Cullen's sisters don't let him near them because he had some "great-great-grandfart that got kicked in the head and died". His cousin sometimes takes him to the stables to pet them over a low wall, but won't let him get closer. He's deeply envious of Jerin, whose family raises horses and lets him ride the older, gentler mares.
125	* Both invoked and averted in ''[[Literature/{{Chrestomanci}} The Pinhoe Egg]]'' when Julia and Janet fall passionately in love with the idea of owning a horse, but one is terrified of the actual animal and the other dislikes riding.
126	* A male example is Zandakar - a prince - and his pony Didijik being extremely close in Karen Miller's ''[[Literature/GodspeakerTrilogy Empress]]''. Hekat, [[VillainProtagonist his mother]] and [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen effective queen]] of Et-Raklion, uses Didijik's death in a fall [[spoiler:to accuse the warlord's right-hand-man Hanochek of dereliction of duty and has him expelled from the city and sold into slavery]]. She punishes her son as well, making him wear leggings made from the pony's hide.
127	* It's implied in ''[[Literature/TheLaundryFiles Equoid]]'' that there's a sinister reason for girls' love of ponies... [[spoiler:Shub-Niggurath, (which is a bizarre equine creature, at least in part of its life-cycle) uses them to spread (as its female young resemble My Little Ponies) and... other things]]
128	* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in the ''Literature/JunieBJones'' books. Junie B. is scared to death of ponies because her babysitter let her watch a reality show on TV called ''When Ponies Attack''.
129	* Several Creator/LurleneMcDaniel books feature the heroines riding or having an affinity for horses, most notably ''A Horse for Mandy'' and ''When Happily Ever After Ends''. Anne Wingate of ''Sixteen and Dying'' uses her One Last Wish money to visit a dude ranch and do some riding, as well.
130	* In the ''[[Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse Star Trek]]'' novel ''Enterprise: The First Adventure'', Athene the Equiraptor works with Amelinda in the Warp-Speed Classic Vaudeville Company.
131	* Hetty, the Duke of Taunton's young-teen niece in the ''Literature/VillageTales'' series, has two interests in life. One is horses. The other is [[BoyBand boy bands]] (notably [[Music/OneDirection One Direction]]). Her mother is ''much'' less appalled by the former. (Her uncle the Duke mutters about Thelwell cartoons, but buys her shares in National Hunt racehorses for Christmases and birthdays; and Professor the Baroness Lacy uses Hetty's enthusiasms to lure her into an interest in archaeology, by [[BlatantLies casually]] mentioning horse cults and Epona in connection with the local chalk horses all over Wildest Wiltshire.)
132	* ''Literature/{{Firestarter}}'': Discussed by Rainbird after the Shop has managed to capture Charlie and her father. Rainbird predicts that Charlie would love horses, since all little girls like horses, and that allowing her to visit the stables, or better, ride the horses, would be a good way to bribe her into cooprerating. He's right.
133	* In the horror novel ''Literature/{{Jago}}'', one of the characters mentally regresses to childhood as a result of her experiences; in the epilogue, she has the personality of an eight-year-old and is going through a major pony phase. (Although it's noted, in defiance of the trope name, that she actually never had a pony phase the first time she was eight years old.)
134	* Zilpha Keatley Snyder takes this to a mysterious dark level in her second book, ''Season of Ponies''. Here the ponies are more like Arabian horses, and they are mostly soft grey with unusually colored manes and tails.
135	* ''Literature/EarthsChildren'':
136	** In ''The Valley of Horses'', Ayla (who is about 14 or 15) adopts an orphaned foal out of loneliness and becomes one of the first people to tame and ride horses. She absolutely adores her horse Whinney (along with her eventual foals, Racer and Grey) and regards her as one of her best friends (Whinney is also one of Ayla's ''only'' friends for close to the three years, as there are no people living nearby).
137	** In ''The Mammoth Hunters'', Latie (who is around 13) quickly becomes attached to Whinney and Racer and is thrilled when Ayla lets her ride on Whinney. She even states a desire to tame a horse of her own someday, asking Ayla how she did it.
138	** Ayla's teenaged sister-in-law Folara is fascinated by Ayla's horses and even considers trying to raise one of her own.
139	** In ''The Land of Painted Caves'', Ayla and Jondalar's daughter Jonayla is fond of riding horses, like her parents, and takes Grey (Whinney's second foal, who was born round about the same time as her) as her personal mount.
140	* In ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'', Companions (intellectual spirit beings who look like the coolest of {{Cool Horse}}s) occasionally suffer being cooed over by horse-crazy girls.
141	* In a picture book's AdaptationExpansion of ''Literature/SleepingBeauty'', Princess Rose is delighted with the gift of her own horse as a young girl. However, her overprotective parents won't let her ride it because any physical pain will activate her curse, not just pricking a finger. This causes a realization of how stifled she really is, inspiring her to be more rebellious.
142	* ''Literature/PrincessPonies'' has an interesting take on it: young female ponies like Princess Stardust and Cinder on [[MagicalLand Chevalia]] have the same perspective on little girls as little girls typically have towards ponies, with both wanting one as a pet. Though Stardust doesn't actually ''treat'' Pippa like this, and comments upon learning Pippa had the same perspective on ponies that 'they're each other's pet.' Pippa suggests they just consider one another friends instead, which Stardust agrees too...but needs repeatedly reminded of.
143	* Gender-inverted with Prince Jalan of ''Literature/TheRedQueensWar'' trilogy. Jalan is a DirtyCoward, but one of his redeeming qualities is his genuine love of horses, and his vocal distaste for when people mistreat their mounts. He makes a point to name every horse he rides through the trilogy, and jokes that he and horses get along so well [[LovableCoward because they both like to run away from danger]].
144	* In ''Literature/WiseChild'', this is exploited by Maeve to tempt her daughter Wise Child into leaving Juniper to live with her; one of the luxuries she promises her is a pony of her own. When Wise Child temporarily lives with her, she indeed receives the pony and names him Bran. [[spoiler:She later uses him to escape when she discovers that Maeve intends to hurt Juniper with use of a wax voodoo doll.]]
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148	* In ''Series/TwoBrokeGirls'', both Caroline and Max adore Caroline's horse Chestnut.
149	* Ruthie rides a horse on Sunday in an episode of ''Series/SeventhHeaven''.
150	* ''Franchise/{{Buffyverse}}'':
151	** Cordelia on ''Series/{{Angel}}'' has a bracelet made of hair from the tail of her former pony, Keanu. (They actually manage to turn that into a plot point.)
152	** As a vampire, Harmony's passion for unicorn figurines has not diminished.
153	* On ''Series/{{Castle\|2009}}'':
154	** Castle offers to buy Beckett a pony to make up for having poked into her mother's murder when she asked him not to. She's distinctly unimpressed.
155	** Beckett herself explains that every girl goes through a phase of wanting a Moped "when we realize we're never going to get a pony".
156	* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'': Rebecca Howe at one point recounts how she used to have a pony when she was younger, but trails off as she starts recalling how she eventually had to stop riding it for... [[WeightWoe no particular reason]]. Eventually, Carla reduces her to tears by taunting her about this.
157	* ''Series/CriminalMinds'': In "Tribute", [[DamselInDistress Megan and her roommate]] have lots of pictures and figurines of horses in their dorm room, along with several ribbons that appear to be horse show prizes. Given the amount of expensive accessories Megan has, they (or she if it all belongs to one of them) may double as {{Upper Class Equestrian}}s.
158	* This goes through three generations of women in ''Series/TheCrown2016''. Queen Elizabeth, her mother, and daughter Princess Anne are all accomplished equestrians and Elizabeth's sister calls her horses her "one real passion". This is TruthInTelevision too.
159	* In the ''Series/{{Everwood}}'' pilot, Andy bribes Delia into moving to Colorado by telling her she can get her own pony.
160	* Rachel on ''Series/{{Friends}}'' mentions playing with pony dolls as a girl. And that she learned to sail as a teenager because "my pony was sick".
161	* In the later seasons of ''Series/FullHouse'', Michelle rides horses at a barn, and one of the other girls there races her and causes her to fall off the horse and get [[EasyAmnesia amnesia.]] In an earlier season, DJ and Kimmy try to buy a horse with hilarious results, and Becky mentions a love of horseback riding a few times.
162	* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
163	** The first hint of the ice breaking between Dany and Drogo is when the latter presents his new wife with a WhiteStallion.
164	** And lampshaded in the SnarkToSnarkCombat between [[BadassAndChildDuo Arya Stark and Sandor Clegane]] (which becomes a BrickJoke when Arya ends up with her own WhiteStallion by the end of the episode).
165	--->'''Arya:''' When am I going to get my own horse?\
166	'''Sandor:''' The little lady wants a pony.\
167	'''Arya:''' The little lady wants away from your ''stench.''
168	* Jenny from ''Series/HeyDad'' was obsessed with getting a pony.
169	* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E2AfterThePhantomsOfYourFormerSelf ...After the Phantoms of Your Former Self]]", the tractor salesman mentions to Lestat and Louis that his daughter Maggie wants a Palomino horse, and he's working hard so he can afford to buy one for her. Daniel then lampshades this trope when he points out that Louis was heartless for exsanguinating the man because Maggie lost both her dad and her dream of owning a horse.
170	-->'''Daniel''': You robbed a daughter of her father, maybe a pet pony.
171	* Hilariously averted in ''Series/{{Leverage}}'': Parker is absolutely [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes terrified]] of horses, stemming from a traumatic childhood incident in which a man in a horse suit beat up a clown during a birthday party. However, she does end up warming to the champion racehorse the team has to steal, remarking that "Horses are much less murderous than I originally thought."
172	* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': When Elendil mentions riding to the Hall of Lore to learn some informations Galadriel needs, she gets excited like a child. Next scene is a slow motion shot of her smiling and enjoying her riding.
173	* From ''Series/{{Merlin\|2008}}'', TomboyPrincess Elena tells Arthur that horse-riding is the only thing she's really good at.
174	* Young Olive from ''Series/PushingDaisies'' wanted one after her first riding lesson. When her parents refuse she tries to go to Arabia, [[DiggingToChina by taking the shortest possible route.]] About ten feet down she finds a T. Rex skeleton that an Arabian Shaw trades her a horse for the skeleton.
175	* ''Series/RobinHood'': After a fight with Marian, Guy of Gisborne tries to appease her by...bringing her a pony! And it works. Of course in the Middle Ages getting a horse was rather like getting a car; a pretty palfrey was the equivalent of a classic convertible.
176	* On the ''Film/SantaClausConquersTheMartians'' episode of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', Gypsy stated she want a pony for Christmas.
177	* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'':
178	** JD's love for ponies and unicorns should be noted as detrimental to his image in Dr Cox's eyes.
179	** Prior to one episode, Elliot Reid's "best moment" of working in medicine was being able to ride a horse to work.
180	** Season 9 has Lucy (JD's SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute with a bit of Elliot thrown in) who is completely ''obsessed'' with horses. she even has a funeral for one of her stuffed horses after it gets destroyed.
181	* In the ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' episode "The Pony Remark", Jerry talks about how anyone who had a pony when they were a kid is a SpoiledBrat and he hates them, [[CultureClash only to accidentally offend a Polish immigrant who had come from a country where having a pony was very common]].
182	* Daisy in ''Series/{{Spaced}}'', while arguing with Marsha about mothers (Series 1 Episode 6). According to the DVD commentary, Daisy had originally wanted a Tacchini jacket, but that was felt to be too obscure:
183	-->'''Marsha''': All she wanted to do was show you somebody cared about you.\
184	'''Daisy''': If she'd wanted to do that, then she could have bought me that pony!
185	* In the ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' episode "Stand by Your Man", Dorothy explains just how badly she wanted a pony when she was six:
186	-->'''Rose:''' I really wish you'd try to get along with Bingo. I mean, maybe you don't know the ''fun'' you can have with a pet. Have you ever actually had one?\
187	'''Dorothy:''' Well, of course I had a pet. Remember, Ma? I was six years old and I wanted a pony?\
188	'''Sophia:''' Not the pony thing again.\
189	'''Dorothy:''' She promised me a pony. She swore I'd get a pony. She brings me a little paper bird on a stick from the circus. You know, the kind that you have to twirl around your head to get them to tweet?\
190	'''Rose:''' And that was your pet?\
191	'''Sophia:''' They're very clean.\
192	'''Dorothy:''' Then she tells me if I'm a good girl, a really good girl, God will turn the paper bird into a real one. Which I believe, because why would a mother lie? So every day I'm being very good, and praying, and looking for any sign of life. And becoming very attached to that ridiculous paper bird. So you can imagine my heartbreak when one morning I find it dead.\
193	'''Rose:''' How does a paper bird die?\
194	'''Dorothy:''' Good question. Someone used it to restart the pilot light.
195	* In one episode of ''Series/TheLWord'', the titular lesbians have a party, and one of them speculates that straight girls wanted ponies, while lesbians wanted monkeys, and they ask around the table. The bisexual ones say ponies, and one says "Racecar".
196	* Amanda from ''Series/TheLatestBuzz'' even goes so far as attempting to hide her pony in the office when she thinks her father is going to take it away.
197	* Similarly, on ''Series/TheMentalist'', when Patrick Jane misses Teresa Lisbon's birthday (or at least turns up without a present,) she gets upset. Rather annoyed, he says, "What? Upset you didn't get your pony?" [[spoiler: At the end of the episode, her absent present comes. It is, of course, a pony.]]
198	* Summer from ''Series/TheOC'' Also, Marissa's little sister Caitlin, before she got SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome. And non-little-girl Seth, of course.
199	* In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', Molly O'Brien draws a pony in "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E17Accession Accession]]", and has a favorite pony in a holoprogram in the novel ''The Tempest''.
200	* ''Series/That70sShow'': In "Christmas", Red gets hired as a Santa Claus at a local mall, and one of the children he encounters asks about getting a pony for Christmas.
201	-->'''Girl:''' I want a pony.
202	-->'''Red:''' [[TheEeyore Ponies die]]. (''the girl stares in shock'') What you need is a good pair of boots. Go on, keep it moving.
203	* ''Series/VeronicaMars'' must have used the pony joke [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sBu_mkcpSU at least five times]].
204	* ''Series/VicePrincipals'': Neal gives his daughter a horse and pays out the nose for its stabling fees as a means of buying his daughter's affections, but she's not really interested in horses and insists that she'd rather [[MyHorseIsAMotorbike ride motorbikes]] like her mother's current boyfriend. Neal refuses to believe this for a while.
205	* Princess Anne of ''Series/TheWindsors'' is completely obsessed with horses, to the point she sleeps in the stables with them at Sandringham. She also claims the only time she's ever smiled is while having a discussion with Kate about ''Literature/BlackBeauty''.
206	[[/folder]]
207
208	[[folder:Music]]
209	* Music/TomPetty's "Free Falling".
210	-->''"She's a good girl; she's crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend too..."''
211	* Music/JonathanCoulton's "Skullcrusher Mountain"
212	-->''I made this half-pony half-monkey monster to please you''\
213	''But I get the feeling that you don't like it''\
214	''What's with all the screaming?''\
215	''You like monkeys, you like ponies''\
216	''Maybe you don't like monsters so much''\
217	''Maybe I used too many monkeys''\
218	''Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you?''
219	* Music/CarbonLeaf's "A Girl and Her Horse" is all about this trope.
220	-->"You can wave goodbye"\
221	"A girl and her horse"\
222	"Have a bond you'll never know"\
223	"And away she rides"\
224	"With the best in show you know"\
225	"Unicorns don't exist of course"\
226	"But every girl in this world has a horse"\
227	[[/folder]]
228
229	[[folder:Radio]]
230	* ''Radio/BleakExpectations'':
231	** One of the few things Victorian gentlewomen are allowed to do is liking horses "a bit too much".
232	** When Ripley is forced to get a job, talking cockney for money, she insists on being paid in ponies for the whole rhyming slang. And no, that's ''not'' a euphemism.
233	[[/folder]]
234
235	[[folder:Theatre]]
236	* ''Theatre/{{Equus}}'' discusses this; Jill says a lot of girls find horses [[VirileStallion "sexy"]], and says she enjoys the parts of her stable job that involve brushing and otherwise touching the horses. Gender-inverted in that Alan does too, but his deep-rooted issues with his sexuality means he's not able to express the pleasure he gets from working with them in a harmless way. While the play explores many factors that feed in to his repression, at least some of it is likely to be that he feels that, being male, it's unacceptable for him to acknowledge it.
237	[[/folder]]
238
239	[[folder:Toys]]
240	* Bella Sara is a trading card game that banks on this trope.
241	* Breyer horse models are popular with girls and women, though they're technically unisex.
242	* ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' is made of this trope, though it was supposed to be unisex aimed until ExecutiveMeddling began advertising it only for girls. The first generation featured humans prominently - most famously Megan - but all other gens scrapped them.
243	* Filly, a Chinese ''My Little Pony'' AlternateCompanyEquivalent[[note]]It's the basis for the animated series, WesternAnimation/FillyFuntasia.[[/note]]
244	* There have been a number of Toys/{{Barbie}} toys over the years involving ponies and horses.
245	[[/folder]]
246
247	[[folder:Video Games]]
248	* The box cover art for pretty much every horse-caring/raising/racing game will be aimed towards girls.
249	** This includes the online game ''VideoGame/StarStable''[[note]]Just keep in mind that it's an AllegedlyFreeGame.[[/note]].
250	* Maria Luna of ''VideoGame/BackyardSports'' almost perfectly fits this trope. She has a huge collection of pony dolls and wants a real one. This is subverted, however, when she goes to the circus; she hates the ponies there.
251	* Referenced in a rather dark manner in ''[[VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift BlazBlue: Continuum Shift EXTEND]]'' during the true ending of ''Slight Hope''. After [[spoiler:being told that asking Tsubaki about [[RetGone Noel]] caused his plans to implode]], Makoto demands Hazama explain himself. He retorts that she might as well ask for a pony if she's going to wish for unlikely things. The reason it's dark is that [A] Hazama is not known for being [[FantasticRacism politically correct]] and [B] his tone of voice and facial expression at the time are meant to tell the viewer [[spoiler:that his patience with her has ''finally'' expired.]]
252	* In ''Videogame/DeathSpank'', while performing fetch quests for Orphan Annie, [=DeathSpank=] [[TemptingFate tells her]] "If the next words out of your mouth are ''I Want a Pony''..." to which Annie answers "Really?!". Quest Update: Buy a pony for Annie.
253	* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'': If [[GenkiGirl Cynthia]] is [[spoiler:Chrom's daughter]], her recruitment conversation with Chrom mentions that when she was little, her father used to call her "my little pega-pony princess." [[spoiler:And she won't believe that Chrom is her father until he calls her that]].
254	* A really bizarre character beat in ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' sees Senna, the Redeemer, a dour, [[CameBackWrong half-living half-wraith]] hunter of monsters practically ''{{squee}}'' the first time she encounters fellow champion Hecarim. Hecarim, by the way, is a monstrous [[NonhumanUndead undead]] [[OurCentaursAreDifferent centaurine]] AnimatedArmor filled with spectral flames who revels in slaughter and, in life, was an evil [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder treacherous]] butcher heavily responsible for the creation of the Shadow Isles themselves, so Senna's reaction is even ''more'' bizarre.
255	-->'''Senna:''' ''[[NotSoStoic Horsey!]] <{{beat}}>'' [[DefensiveWhat What?]] I can like horses. I can like... things.
256	* Referenced in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' when Liara's "father" ([[OneGenderRace another asari]]) buys her a commando unit. When Liara questions why a commando unit, her father tells her that she's too old for a damn pony. (Liara is barely 100 years old, which still is very young for Asari).
257	* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' references this when Cassie Cage first encounters [[HugeGuyTinyGirl Ferra/Torr]], the dimunitive Ferra riding on the shoulders of the brutish Torr.
258	-->'''Cassie:''' You couldn't ask for a pony like every other girl?
259	* In ''[[VideoGame/MySims MySims Kingdom]]'', "a new pony or two" is the standard gift for placating Princess Butter, though special cases -- like not being made Wandolier -- call for something rarer, like a ''unicorn''.
260	* On Wild West Island from ''VideoGame/{{Poptropica}}'', one of the first things you do is get yourself a horse.
261	* In the final chapter of ''VideoGame/Portal2'', the BigBad tries to lure you into a BottomlessPit by [[BlatantLies claiming]] there's a Pony Farm down there, among other things.
262	* ''VideoGame/RobotUnicornAttack'' is this trope {{exaggerated\|Trope}}. Although honestly, who ''wouldn't'' want a robot rainbow unicorn?
263	* ''VideoGame/SissysMagicalPonycornAdventure'' features the eponymous ponycorns, which are sort of like {{Unicorn}}s, but smaller. Pony-sized, you might say.
264	* The protagonist of ''VideoGame/{{Unpacking}}'' has a few pony toys in her childhood collection.
265	* ''VideoGame/WordOnTheStreet'': Your little sister Sophie's doll collection includes toy ponies, which you have to brush if you agree to play dollies with her.
266	* "Ghostcrawler promised me a pony!" is a ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' meme, referenced in-game by the 2010 addition of the Celestial Steed.
267	[[/folder]]
268
269	[[folder:Web Animation]]
270	* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'': GenderInverted with Blitzo as he ''adores'' horses. His [[https://instagram.com/blitzorodeo/ Instagram account]] (itself named "blitzo'''rodeo'''") not only features frequent mentions of [[HellishHorse Blitzo's horse]], but frequently features doodles of himself riding horses or doodles of horses in general; he possesses a number of horse figurines and plushies (one of which he pulls from his coat pocket near the end of "Murder Family"), and his favorite movie is ''WesternAnimation/SpiritStallionOfTheCimarron''. His love of horses is also well known amongst the cast, as Stolas's Instagram has him also [[IntimateArtistry sketching Blitzo]] [[https://instagram.com/p/CCohDJ3gzPZ/ with horses]]; and Moxxie's account shows him making [[https://instagram.com/p/CFGTcbXg2Mt/ Horse-Shaped pasta]] as a gift for Blitzo, as well as topping food [[https://instagram.com/p/CChAyPzgcpP/ made for Blitzo]] [[https://instagram.com/p/CHoenhmgNSZ/ with horse-shaped decorations]].
271	[[/folder]]
272
273	[[folder:Webcomics]]
274	* In ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'', Sally [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0020.html "invents"]] Jar Jar Binks, giving him a pony face, then later describes the Gungan army as having [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0153.html dinosaur ponies.]]
275	* [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak Millie]] from ''WebComic/OzyAndMillie'' likes ponies. (On the other hand, so does the Dread Pirate Locke, so in that universe it might be a species thing instead of a gender thing. [[spoiler:Or even [[MerlinSickness a hereditary thing.]]]]) WordOfGod wonders just what exactly Millie would do with a pony. "[[FurryConfusion Make it do her homework]]?"
276	* Amber from ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' collects ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' figurines. Ethan got her started because he wanted to comfort her and give her something to do. The fact that this also turned her into a willing accomplice for his own toy collecting obsessions must have been purely coincidental, in no way at all. She was rather annoyed when a Brony showed up and claimed that [[FanDumb nobody liked brushable My Little Ponies.]] She also nearly has a {{Squee}}splosion when Robin brings a pony into the house as a gift for another person.
277	* One story arc of ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' involves the characters encountering {{unicorn}}s, and both Jean and Molly are [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/1146402 totally smitten with the creatures.]] Molly, in particular, had requested a pony for her first birthday, and assumes she has gotten her wish when she meets the [[{{Kaiju}} giant]] unicorn [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20090509.html Unigar the Vast Unicorn.]]
278	** Molly's sister Golly is the same way. Faced with a vastly powerful cosmic being, her two wishes are immortality and a flying pony; and honestly, she seems more fixated on getting the pony. She receives neither.
279	* Joyce Brown from ''Webcomic/ItsWalky'', to the point where her battle mech only responds to commands with the word "pony" in them.
280	** Also played with, in that by that time [[TookALevelInBadass she has changed a lot]] and is actually annoyed that the mech's programmer made those assumptions about her.
281	* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', is a subversion in that Rose's mom presents a pony to her in (what [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Rose views as]]) a passive-aggressive attempt to smother her, and really doesn't ''want'' the pony (named MAPLEHOOF). Somewhat double-subverted in that in spite of herself, Rose still seems to like the pony fine.
282	* In one chapter of ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'', Nina is hit by a [[GenderBender gender-reversal orb]] and becomes a boy. Later, when she is changed back, she says: "Hey! I like ponies again!"
283	* Averted in ''Webcomic/{{The Legend Of Maxx}}''. During interviews with the characters, it is revealed that Hannah doesn't even know what a pony ''is'', despite being the {{Team Mom}} and arguably the most feminine character of the cast. {{Deadpan Snarker}} June, on the other hand, has [[http://legendofmaxx.com/archives/1125 very strong opinions on the subject.]]
284	--> "Fluttershy wins forever, and I will fight anyone who says otherwise."
285	* Played straight ''and'' parodied in [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/1/9/ this strip]] of Webcomic/PennyArcade. All of the girls do love ponies, but then, so does Gabe.
286	%% commented out as Administrivia/WeblinksAreNotExamples * [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws452/ This]] ''Webcomic/GirlsWithSlingshots'' strip.
287	* Graham offers Celeste a Pony in ''Webcomic/WizardSchool'' to let him go back to the real world - although he wants to feed it [[http://www.meetmyminion.com/?p=1303 "processed pony chow, made from other ponies. Or whatever it is neglected ponies eat."]]
288	* In ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'', Unity's [[http://skin-horse.com/2010/todays-comic-444/ reaction]] when she ends up in an allegedly wish-granting grove is, "I'mo get a pony made out of bacon!"
289	* In ''Webcomic/YellowBrickRamble'', Tip becomes giddy upon finding the sawhorse and explains what horses are to Jack by listing all of their good qualities and calling them man's best friend, as a way to hint at his inner transfeminine gender identity.
290	[[/folder]]
291
292	[[folder:Web Original]]
293	* Sarah of ''WebVideo/{{lonelygirl15}}'' thinks "ponies are awesome", as stated in "Getting Her Back".
294	* In reviewing the (original) ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'', WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick claims that all girls go through a "horsie" phase ([[TheLadette not her, though]]), which Creator/{{Hasbro}} exploited and exploited well.
295	* Serenity in ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'', who opens an evil door on the promise of ponies. Twice.
296	** The door was trying to trick Tristan with the pony though, who is also really tempted by it, if not quite as enthusiastic.
297	* ''Series/TheWhitestKidsUKnow'' used this [[CrossesTheLineTwice and abused it]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tguEfzN6BKA in a similar matter to]] ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy.''
298	* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'':
299	** Superchick has a dozen and a half plush unicorns each with their own name and story.
300	** As said in [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/content_page/9/742-boys-of-summer-part-2 Boys of Summer: Part 2]]: Tansy "went through a really intense horse phase when [she] was ten."
301	** Possibly Light Ling, who enchanted her horse into a Pegasus, and gave it other abilities.
302	** This goes in a completely different direction in the Gen 2 stories, when Charger, a young mutant Horse Animan[[note]]the Animen being several subspecies of BeastMan created by a MadScientist as breeding stock for future SuperSoldier troops[[/note]] attending Whateley in 2016, starts getting more female attention than even he can handle, initially due to how wearing swim trunks highlights his, ''ahem'' [[BiggerIsBetterInBed striking physique]].
303	* Despite being a middle-aged woman with [[ToiletHumour the personality of]] [[VulgarHumor an adolescent boy]], LetsPlay/{{Lucahjin}} loves her some horses, to the point of them being her {{Animal Motif\|s}}.
304	[[/folder]]
305
306	[[folder:Western Animation]]
307	* DW in ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' is obsessed with ponies. When Arthur is trying to invent a new holiday, she immediately blurts out "Pony Day!" without missing a beat. In another episode, her choice for where to go on vacation is -- or rather, in a bit of a plot twist, ''isn't'' -- the theme park Ponyland.
308	** Francine's dream in one episode was to be an Olympic horseback rider even though at the beginning she had never been on a horse.
309	* Ginger of ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' likes horses enough that her room is decorated with a horse motif.
310	* Tina from ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' likes horses almost as much as she likes [[NightmareFetishist zombies]].
311	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'' had the Beanscout trio trick their {{Distaff Counterpart}}s, the Squirrel Scouts, into taking their spitting llama (which they thought was a unicorn) by sticking an ice-cream cone on its head. In addition, the Scouts themselves felt lousy that they didn't have any horses.
312	* ''WesternAnimation/CraigOfTheCreek'' {{exaggerate\|dTrope}}s this with the Horse Girls, who are obsessed with horses to the point of ''acting'' like them. Or at least, [=MacKenzie=], Maney, and Melissa do; Marie doesn't actually care much about horses and only reluctantly follows along because her friends do and [[IJustWantToHaveFriends she'd be alone otherwise]].
313	* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/DaveTheBarbarian'' with Twinkle the Marvel Horse (who sounds like Creator/ChristopherWalken). After Princess Candy grows out of this stage she stops visiting and he doesn't cope very well with being abandoned...
314	-->'''Twinkle the Marvel Horse''': I've been... so lonely... in here. Such ''terrible'' thoughts one has. Alone. In the dark.\
315	'''Candy''': Uh, like I said, I'm ''really'' sorry I haven't visited you in a while.
316	* Pictured above: Dee Dee from ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' is a pony fancier, as are her cloney best friends. There was an episode where she asked Dexter to turn her into a pony because she liked the ''My Little Pony'' knockoff so much.
317	* [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak Webby]] from ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' owns a book titled "So You Like Ponies?", and gets super-excited when she encounters colorful talking ponies (actually kelpies) in Moorshire. She also loves unicorns, but [[PlayingWithATrope not for their cuteness or beauty, but their badassery]], calling them "[[CallARabbitASmeerp sword horses]]".
318	* In the episode "The Story on Page One" from ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Peter attempts to give Meg a pony that she has wanted since she was 6 years old. Except, "Oh. Oh God, that's right... ponies... [[ForgotToFeedTheMonster ponies like food, don't they]]? Oh boy." No girls like dead ponies. Especially skeletal ones.
319	* Amy from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. When Kif creates a holographic pony for her as a romantic gift, she comments that it looks exactly like the pony her parents wouldn't let her have, because she already had too many.
320	* ''WesternAnimation/GodTheDevilAndBob'': Bob mentions that he doesn't think he's ready to deal with his daughter dating. God suggests a pony. "What's a pony gonna do?" "I dunno, I thought girls liked ponies."
321	* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'':
322	** Played with when the cast goes to a backwards shadow dimension. Mandy meets an ultra-girly, feminine version of herself who of course loves ponies. Mandy psychologically breaks her and turns her into an indistinguishable clone of herself. The pair then proceed to destroy all of the stuffed animals in the room with a chainsaw and a flamethrower.
323	** One episode has Grim try to get money to renew a canceled series obviously parodying ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'', called "My Troubled Pony," by turning the violent Schlubs in Billy's backyard (who are themselves parodies of Franchise/TheSmurfs) into gold.
324	** Subverted when the main characters go to Costmo (the BlandNameProduct version of Costco) and Mandy buys a gigantic box filled with porcelain unicorns, prompting Grim to wonder out loud why unicorns are such a big deal to little girls. Becomes a BrickJoke at the end where the unicorns are used as baseballs for Mandy to smash with her baseball bat.
325	* Played straight with Annie from ''WesternAnimation/ItsPony'', she owns a talking pony literally named [[ADogNamedDog Pony]], who she adores, and goes on adventures with. Even her bedroom is decorated with horse-related items and posters, downright to one side of her room having a horse-motif to it.
326	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': This trope was an important plot driver in the episode "What if We Played at Riding Ponies?", where Kaeloo and [[AlphaBitch Pretty]] get into a fight over a pony. The same episode also suggests that in the show's universe, literally all girls like ponies.
327	-->'''Stumpy:''' Is that supposed to be cool? Must be a girl thing.
328	* ''WesternAnimation/LesSisters'': Marine, Nath and Loulou, who are all seven year old girls, love ponies. Subverted with Wendy, since she's a teenager and too old.
329	* [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] on ''WesternAnimation/MyFriendsTiggerAndPooh''. Darby likes reading about ponies and imagining having one, but admits she [[WantingIsBetterThanHaving wouldn't actually want to have a real pony]].
330	* ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' is built off this trope.
331	** In Generation 1, Megan, the main human character, has a pony of her own (that can't talk). She also takes Firefly's appearance out of nowhere and being whisked off to a land of talking ponies quite well.
332	** Ironically, this trope has no in-universe presence in most adaptations of the toyline, since there are ''no humans''. The girls are ''the ponies themselves.'' The first series was the only one with humans in it.
333	** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', in spite of its PeripheryDemographic (adults ranging from 18-25), is very much aimed at little girls, and the diverse personalities of the characters were made specifically to appeal to various little girls. As Creator/LaurenFaust says, "There's no wrong way to be a girl." That said, ''Friendship Is Magic'' seems to prove that a good number of ''men'' like ponies. Being able to stare down dragons, smash titans into the ground, and [[DeadpanSnarker snark with the best of them]] doesn't hurt.
334	* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
335	** While not touched upon directly in the show, Isabella has ridden her share of horses in the show: a real, feminine-looking one in "The Magnificent Few," a mechanical one in "Ain't No Kiddie Ride," and...Phineas as a centaur in "Isabella and the Temple of Sap." (Thankfully that was [[AllJustADream just a daydream though]].)
336	** Also, when Candace is having a weird dream and her brothers try to lure her off the straight and narrow with pastel unicorns. Dream-Phineas comments on how uncharacteristically girly that is and dream-Ferb reminds him that they ARE inside Candace's dream.
337	* Played with and (double?) subverted in the first ChristmasEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''. Mr. Krabs wishes for a pony... [[MoneyDearBoy with saddlebags full of money]].
338	* On ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'', Jasmine is so desperate to get a pony (which she wants to name "Sammy Davis, Jr. the Pony") that she buys one on credit from the local CorruptCorporateExecutive, Ed Wuncler. She promises to pay him back with proceeds from her lemonade stand. But she ends up so deeply in debt to him that she's forced to work day and night just to keep up with the payments, and it's never really clear if her pony even ''exists'' (all she ever sees is a photo.)
339	* Margo Sherman from ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'' (mostly horses, though).
340	* Penny from ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyB'' really wanted a pony for her birthday.
341	* ''WesternAnimation/PCPinkerton'': Joanna Beatty went off from her mother and went missing for a brief period of time in "Calling All Units" because she got distracted by a horse a policeman was riding.
342	* Riley from ''WesternAnimation/TheReplacements''. Her obsession with Rainbow Jumper from the movie ''The Majestic Horse'' takes on epic proportions.
343	* Lisa Simpson from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. On her Christmas list, she listed "a pony" over and over again. She finally got one in Season 3, "Lisa's Pony".
344	** Not to mention the time she's at a country club, complaining about the snobs, when she sees someone riding a horse. The predictable happens.
345	** In "She of Little Faith", her family attempted to bribe her into converting back from Buddhism to Christianity by presenting her with a gift shaped like a pony (it was really Milhouse and Ralph inside).
346	** {{Lampshaded}} by Bart in "The Hateful Eight-Year-Olds."
347	--->'''Bart:''' What is the deal with girls and horses? Is it 'cause boys took all the good animals, like [[MenLikeDogsWomenLikeCats dogs]] and ninjas?
348	* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/UglyAmericans'' when male demon Twayne is instructed to think of his favorite thing to counter stage fright, he whispers "ponies, ponies, ponies" to himself.
349	* Becky occasionally mentions liking ponies in ''WesternAnimation/WordGirl''. In the episode where her birthday takes place, her parents rent out a pony so she can ride it around her yard. Becky and several other girls, including villains Leslie and Lady Redundant Woman, have been seen watching a ''My Little Pony'' knockoff.
350	* Yin from ''WesternAnimation/YinYangYo'' prefers Twonicorns, horses with two horns, but they're erudite and speak in tough guy voices.
351	* Raven on ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' is obsessed with the show [[MyLittlePhony Pretty Pretty Pegasus]]. Also an ActorAllusion to Creator/TaraStrong, who voices Twilight Sparkle in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic.''
352	* All of the Color Kids, male and female, in ''WesternAnimation/RainbowBrite'' have horse friends. Rainbow's is a talking rainbow-maned stallion named Starlite.
353	* This trope is translated the world of ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' in the form of dolls that are otherwise normal princess dolls as seen in the ChristmasSpecial.
354	* ''WesternAnimation/RosiesRules'': Rosie loves unicorns, and wanted to buy a unicorn squeaky toy for Crystal's bunny.
355	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheTalentedMrBixby'', in the episode "The Substitute Job Counselor", Amy wants to be a horse biologist and the job actually deals with mostly ponies.
356	* ''WesternAnimation/WildKratts'': In one episode, the team heads for the Virginia coast and meets up with some of the famous wild ponies of Chincoteague. Koki and Aviva promptly go nuts over the ponies.
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