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1'''Also known as''' '''''The Perfect Dress''''' '''in the Nickelodeon dub.'''
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3On Spring Break while searching for a dress for her upcoming Princess Ball, Stella crosses paths with Beta fairy Chimera who is out to beat her to it. Meanwhile, the Trix are imprisoned in the Omega Dimension and thaw out the evil sorcerer Valtor.
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7* DidNotThinkThisThrough: The people who decided the Trix's punishment didn't figure out that Icy could use her ice-based powers to free herself and her allies from their blocks of ice.
8* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Musa’s hair becomes longer as of this episode.
9* FaceMonsterTurn: The mermaids that Valtor transformed into monsters upon escaping the Omega Dimension.
10* ForeShadowing: When explaining what a Princess Ball is all about to Bloom, Musa brings up that these events also used to be when arranged marriages were announced back when they were a tradition, with Aisha adding that some realms still follow that tradition. A few episodes later has Aisha finding out that her parents have chosen someone for her to marry.
11* SealedEvilInACan: Valtor was sealed in an ice block until the Trix release him.
12* ShoutOut: Stella's dress is under the label "Dolce and Gabblina", which is this universe's version of ''Dolce and Gabbana''. Chimera's blouse is also from a company called "Spella [=McCartney=]", which parodies ''Stella [=McCartney=]''.
13* StandardizedSpaceViews: The golden Solaria and the inhospitable Omega Dimension are introduced this way as the girls travel there by spaceship. In both cases, an Owl is shown approaching the planet's surface.
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