Audio Play / Doctor Whooves Adventures

How do you hold a sonic screwdriver with hooves, anyway?

The Doctor falls into Equestria. Hilarity, among other things, ensues.

Another entry into the adventures of the Doctor in Equestria, Doctor Whooves Adventures is an audio series based around the ever-popular background character from the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic series, Doctor Whooves. This time around he travels with the show's main characters, including Twilight Sparkle, and occasionally Pinkie Pie or Spike.

Based off the popular Fan Fiction Number 12 (written by the author of this series, Squeak Anon), it starts off with the Doctor crash landing into Twilight's library while she's out running errands. She returns to find the TARDIS embedded in her basement and the Doctor beginning his twelfth incarnation. Though as it turns out... he may not have come alone.

The series has had seven full episodes and several short adventures, all available on YouTube. (There are also a few non-canon "extra" videos with the Doctor answering fan mail and such.) The series takes a noticeably darker tone than its sister show Doctor Whooves and Assistant with a slightly more "Doctor Who-esqe" bent to the adventures. It is also notable in that it takes a page out of the classic Doctor Who radio plays, and actually airs, on Celestia Radio.

Produced by Pony In A Box Productions - see the page, or their wiki for more information and other projects.

Full Episodes:

• Number 12 (Part One): Twilight Sparkle finds a strange blue box has crashed into her library, with a strange earth pony inside. But he didn't come alone…
• Number 12 (Part Two): The second part of the pilot, in which Twilight is kidnapped by creatures that can never, ever die...^note The first two "Pilot" episodes are based on the original fan fiction, and new content will start with episode three.
• Chords of Chaos: The Doctor and Twilight's first adventure through time, to the nation of Prance during one of the greatest events in its history. But something's wrong; ponies are vanishing into thin air... what's going on?
• Pony of the Opera: The conclusion to Chords of Chaos
• Wrong Way Backwards Part 1: In the middle of The Doctor and Twilight running errands, a mysterious Cheshire cat appears and causes the Doctor to regenerate... except not really.
• Wrong Way Backwards Part 2: Twilight and another Doctor^note called "Time Turner" for simplicity's sake must team up to find the Doctor ^note "Clockwork".
• Wrong Way Backwards Part 3: The third and final installment of the story and crossover with DW&A.
• Shadows of the Lunar Republic: The Doctor and Twilight head home... only to find something waiting in the darkness...^note This episode takes place before Wrong Way Backwards
• Bells of Fate: The Doctor and Twilight set the TARDIS to random... but the land they find themselves in might not be as friendly as they'd hoped. With a land divided, and our heroes separated, how can they hope to bring peace?^note This episode also takes place before Wrong Way Backwards
• Rhapsody in Blue Box: Wait...what's going on? Who is this mare? Wasn't the Doctor in the Green Isles? What's happening back there?...No wait...what's happening here? Perhaps...what's happening in both places at the same time?....Something is going on throughout time and space...And it's got something to do with the Doctor.
• Traveler: Not yet released. An adaptation of the Fan Fic Traveler, the sequel to Number 12. The Doctor and Twilight head into the future, where Equestria is ruled by a tyrant queen and trapped in eternal twilight.

Short episodes:

• Fashionably Late: The Doctor bumps into Rarity. Hilarity Ensues.
• Partners in Crime: Twilight's first time offworld... is to visit an intergalactic prison.
• Crossed Wires: An On a Cross and Arrow inspired story where an accident with the TARDIS causes the appearance of some unusual ponies.
• Express Delivery (Which is TOTALLY serious)^note It's actually an April Fool's joke.
• Cell Mates: In the future, in a prison cell somewhere deep in the underbelly of an oddly familiar castle, two cell mates get to talking. One of them shares a strange story. A birthday gift for The Jamjar, the Doctor's VA.
• Lovestruck: The Doctor and Twilight return from an adventure to find they've brought along a hitchhiker... with some odd side effects.
• Last Light: The Doctor, still on his search for a particular moment of time, comforts a being before they fade.

The Filly of the Distant Star series of shorts (starring Goodnight):

• Goodnight Goodnight: The Doctor rescues a filly from a robot.^note It was made as a "Get Well" project from members of the cast and crew to the VA of their Twilight, Lauren Goodnight, who at the time was recovering from eye surgery.
• Good Day Goodnight: Goodnight gets used to life in Ponyville.
• Good Show Goodnight: Goodnight awakes to find the world is covered in snow, but that might not be the only odd thing in Ponyville...
• Bitter Sweet Squeaks: A Very Special Episode on school phobia (or social phobia and anxiety in general). Surprisingly realistically played for a story about magical time traveling ponies. Made by the team as a show of their appreciation for Squeak.

Extras:

• He's the Doctor: JamJar recites famous Doctor speeches.
• She's the Professor: The female version of the Doctor speaks
• Q&A 1-2: The Doctor and Twilight answer some fan mail.
• No Business like Show Business: The Doctor and Twilight sing the song of the same name.
• Q&A #3: The Doctor answers more mail with some very special guests.
• The Search: The Doctor and his allies search for a mysterious figure.^note This was a surprise "Happy Birthday" message for Squeak, the leader of Pony in a Box Productions.

Their main blog can be found here and their tumblr (which includes comics and other side projects) can be found here.

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This series provides examples of:

• Alternate History: The Ponyverse diverges from regular history obviously, but one particular example is that in this universe World War II was replaced by a giant party, or World Party II in which Prance (France) and Hoffinay (Germany) went into a war to see which nation could out-party the other. If only regular history could be that much fun.
• Alternate Universe: Almost all the shows made by Pony In A Box Productions take place in a single universe, known as "The Boxiverse," and are canon for one another. It's slightly different from the main MLP universe.
• Amnesiac Resonance: Penny Dreadful keeps going to places (around her home city) where she met the Doctor before. May be considered Tear Jerker.
• Anachronic Order: Shadows Of The Lunar Republic and Bells of Fate take place before Wrong Way Backwards, despite being released later.
• And I Must Scream: Luna was the food source for Vashta Nerada for nearly twenty years, causing her to snap back to her Nightmare Moon persona before the events of Friendship is Magic.
• Apocalypse How: In Last Light the Doctor visits (accidentally) the heat death of this universe.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: When Twilight lists the things the Doctor has done so far that annoy her in Number 12, the constant getting her name wrong goes after destroying the library and bringing the Weeping Pegasi into Equestria.
• At the Opera Tonight: The Doctor and Twilight attend an opera in Chords of Chaos. It is interesting to note that the opera they attend is real, and called back to several times as background music. This is also where they first run into The Phantom, aka Dorian Mode.
• Badass Boast: "No matter where you go, no matter what you're planning, I will find you. And then you'll wish the Abstract Plane had turned you into a pebble."
  • "I am alive. I am myself. I am Dorian Mode And YOU! WILL! NOT! WIN! THIS! DAY!"
  • "When I'm done, Equestria will never have to fear the darkness again. Onwards and Upwards!"
• Bad Future: In Traveler, where Twilight Sparkle, who has had something evilifying happen to her is the evil empress, Applejack and Rainbow Dash run La Résistance (as Future Badasses), Fluttershy looks after the incapacitated princesses and the memory-wiped personal Daedalus of the empress - the Doctor in the Castle of the Two Sisters, Rarity sews the Raggedies and Pinkie Pie is missing. Twilight has a bit of a Heroic BSoD upon finding out all this.
• Big Damn Heroes: Viva the lunar pony's introduction is jumping out of nowhere to rescue the main characters.
• Bill... Bill... Junk... Bill...: In Lovestruck, Twilight is looking for a quill and finds:
  Twilight: Book... book... Element of Harmony... book... Adipose... Ah, there it is! A quill.
• Blessed with Suck: Yphrum considers her fate this, since who needs a ruler in a place where everything will always go smoothly?
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: At the end of every episode and short the characters suddenly become aware they're in a radio drama, reading the credits in character, and even going so far as to point out how well their voice actors did and say hello to the audience.
  Doctor: "This has been a Pony in a Box producti-"
  Berry Bubble: "What are you doing?"
  Doctor: "What? I'm announcing the end credits, you know, the people who make these things."
  Pinkie Pie: "Oh you mean the people out there? Hello!"
  • Played with in Express Delivery when the Doctor stops reading the script and is cut off by a censor.
  • Also played with during the Interview with QCom after Episode 2 was released.
  • The short entitled The Search is about the characters trying to locate Squeak (the leader of Pony in a Pox Productions and the creator of Doctor Whooves Adventures) so they can wish him Happy Birthday.
    • Not only do they break the fourth wall with the audience, they break the walls with other franchises. At one point, Berry Bubble pulls a lever and the characters suddenly find themselves talking to Wrex from Mass Effect.
  • Wrong Way Backwards Part 3 has the characters even lampshading how Doctor Whooves and Assistant doesn't have a name for their studio, unlike the Adventures cast (Pony In A Box Productions).
• Breaking Speech: The Vashta Nerada, speaking through a possessed Celestia, give one to Twilight after knocking out Viva and Pinkie, trapping the Doctor and taking Luna back, stating that Sparkle is all alone unless she just gives up and lets the Vashta Nerada possess her.
  • In Good Show, Goodnight part 3, the Will-o-wisps deliver a cruel one to Goodnight. Using the Doctor's voice in order to better Break the Cutie. She copes by singing his lullaby, and then the real (kind of...) McCoy pulls a Big Damn Heroes.
• Buffy Speak: The entire beginning of Crossed Wires. These levers sure are jiggly... Generally, the Doctor's Technobabble tends towards this trope, and Pinkie happily joins in when she gets the occasion. Cherry Bomb isn't innocent of it, either, what with the "flippy notebooky things".
• Character Catchphrase:
  Doctor: Onwards and Upwards!
  • In Rhapsody in Blue Box, where JamJar sounds particularly tennant-ish, he also says "I'm sorry" several times, in a quite tennant-ish sort of a way.
• Celibate Hero: The Doctor, not for lack of trying on Rarity's (and, in Lovestruck, Twilight's) part.
  The Doctor: I know how to deal with Daleks, I don't know how to deal with Twilight...
• Cliffhanger: Squeak seems really fond of these, leaving the fate of the Doc and co. up in the air until the next release. Chords of Chaos is particularly full of this.
  • Lampshaded by the Doctor during the Chords of Chaos credits.
  • Justified in that the show takes many cues not from the modern Doctor Who (Doctors 9 through 12), but from the classic series, which did this frequently to stretch out a story.
• Composite Character: While the Doctor is supposed to be on his twelfth incarnation, he mostly comes across as a combination of Doctors ten and eleven.
• Continuity Nod: Wrong Way Backwards is an excellent reminder of all the other times that the Doctor has met up with other versions of himself (The Three Doctors, The Five Doctors, The Two Doctors, Time Crash, etc), and the most important fact about them: They. Do. Not. Get. Along. At all.
  • There's a lemon grove on site of the Ret-Gone shady organisation devoted to finding the Doctor. Lemons are good!
• Crash-Into Hello: How the Doctor meets Rarity. She is delighted, he's... less so.
• Creating Life: Goodnight's origin, a robot from an unspecified time and place made her in an attempt to understand how life works.
  • During her imprisonment on the moon, Luna created a whole nation of ponies. (Though it may have only been a small nation. Also, she's a Physical Goddess.)
• Creepy Monotone: The mind-controlled ponies in Chords of Chaos/Pony of the Opera
  The dance is coming.
• Crossover: With Doctor Whooves and Assistant in this non-canon comic from the Tumbler.
  • Another crossover with it happened here, where the "Assistant," Doctor received an audio message from the "Adventures" doctor.
  • And again in Wrong Way Backwards.
    • During part three of Wrong Way Backwards, the Doctors see at least two alternate universes, including one where his companion is Octavia, and the world of Discorded Whooves , which, for added bonus points, is made by the same person as Doctor Whooves and Assistant!
  • The premise of the whole story is The Doctor traveling with Twilight Sparkle.
  • The third mailbag special features an in-house crossover with The Vinyl Scratch Tapes Master Recordings.
    • Octavia shows up again in The Search.
  • Wrex (from the Mass Effect games) has a cameo in The Search.
• Crowd Song: An intriguing instance in The Bells of Fate. Only the Doctor hears it, or in any case can tell this sort of behaviour is unusual.
• Cruel to Be Kind: In Rhapsody in the Blue Box, Cherry Bomb arranges (read: brings Penny to the right place and time) Penny to meet the Doctor, so her paradox unravels and Penny ceases to exist outside of Doctor's (and possibly Leaflet's) memory. Cherry does that to spur him out of trying to save Penny and into saving the universe.
  The Doctor: That was cruel.
  Cherry: You were stuck there.
• Cute Bookworm: Goodnight, but she can be brave and investigative when she needs to be.
• Deadpan Snarker: Twilight Sparkle tends to be very snarky with the Doctor at first, though she warms up later.
• Digging Yourself Deeper: Sergeant Kazoo and Madam Kazoo, most of the time. The poor guy can't seem to win.
  • Then again, Mixo's biological father is Extatic Kazoo - so, mr and mrs Kazoo's marriage couldn't have been all bad.
• Dying Alone: In Last Light Omniva is already resigned to it, but when the Doctor comes, she can't resist asking him to keep her company. He does.
• Emotion Eater: Will-o-wisps.
• Evil Laugh: Dorian Mode, the villain of Chords of Chaos and Pony of the Opera.
• Eyelash Fluttering: Lovestruck, naturally:
  The Doctor: Twilight... your eyes are doing it again. This... fluttering motion.
• Eyepatch After Timeskip: Rainbow in Traveler has lost her wings. Later we learn precisely how...
• Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: In Number 12 (Part 2), Spike expresses his worries about the Weeping Pegasi to the Doctor. The Doctor explains that as long as they stick together, the Pegasi won't attack. Then Spike points out that Twilight went to another section of the library alone.
  • In Chords of Chaos the Doctor states they could escape the creature in the catacombs because it needed space to reverberate in order to exist. He then notices that they're in an opera house and reverberation is the main point of the whole building.
• Expy: Well... Cherry Bomb is sooo River Song of this reality. Mysterious? Flirty and supportive of others' crushes? Hops in time? Except when in a Cardboard Prison? Knows an awful lot of things? Kinda-sorta stalks the Doctor on whom she has a major crush? River Song. With hints of Jack Harkness (flirty former time agent!).
  • Also, Penny's editor in Rhapsody in Blue Box is a ponified Jonah J. Jameson. He constantly shouts for the photos and threatens to fire Penny.
• Face Your Fears: In Good Show, Goodnight part 3, she uses a song to give herself strength and defeat the fake Doctor, thus saving the day like a true companion.
• Failed Attempt at Drama: "And I'm gonna save the whole world of Equador!" the Doctor proudly announces, to Twilight's weary correction ("It's Equestria..."). Generally, Failed Attempts At Drama in this series go like this: the Doctor makes one of his speeches and he's immediately contradicted and/or deflated.
• Fanboy: Fetch from the Mailbag three is a Motor Mouth Loony Fan of the Doctor, who's a bit baffled at this. Octavia freaks out.
• First Snow: Goodnight's first experience with snow is in Good Show, Goodnight. She likes it a lot, but doesn't quite get this Snowball Fight thing.
• Foreshadowing: In the short Good Day Goodnight, two of the foals in Goodnight's class are named Bunsen Burner and Delta. These two characters play large roles in Traveler, which takes place fifty years after Number 12.
  • Beaker, another pony from Traveler, accidentally calls the Doctor during The Search.
  • Cell Mates takes place in 35 TR, and mentions the Raggedies.
  • Beaker later pops up in Cell Mates after being captured, only to be rescued by the Doctor.
  • Also in Cell Mates (and Last Light) the Doctor yells "What time is it!?" when he lands, one of the Arc Words of Traveler.
  • The Vashta Nerada proclaim that "The nightmare never dies" when they are defeated and princess Luna suspects that something bigger is at work.
  • The Doctor from Doctor Whooves and Assistant warns this Doctor that "One day, [his] mercy is going to get someone [he holds] dear killed... And [he knows] it." possibly hinting that the Doctor will eventually lose someone he holds dear, perhaps Twilight.
• Fourth-Wall Mail Slot: Somehow, questions submitted to the tumblr askbox get forwarded to the Doctor himself.
• Framing Device: Parts of Traveler are framed as the Doctor telling his story to Trixie, whom he met by accident in the middle of the adventure, sort of, Interference-style.
• Friendless Background: Mixo, due to shyness and frequently moving houses, only has one friend. And she's a will-o-wisp.
• Future Me Scares Me: Traveler has a very evil, ruthless, not-giving-a-damn-about-categorical-imperative version of Twilight Sparkle. This may be due to evil machinations of someone evil. Like Vashta Nerada. Then again, maybe not.
• Genki Girl: Pinkie Pie. Whimsy Bee.
• Ghost Song: Lydian's song, which plays whenever the Will'o'wisps manipulate Dorian, and finally when Lydian herself arrives in ghostly form.
• Good All Along: In Part 3 of Wrong Way Backwards, it is revealed that the Cheshire cats who started the whole thing were former pets of Lewis Carrot, and have been setting things up to defeat the Jabberwock the whole time.
• Happily Adopted: Goodnight. Her adoptive parents have been chosen by the Doctor, who, of course, would see to it.
• Heel–Face Turn: Dorian Mode, after a talk with the ghost of Lydian.
• Henchmen Race: Raggedies in Traveler. Full name The Raggedy Mares. Hoof-sewn sawdust-stuffed mooks. Just the thing for the discerning Evil Empress.
• Heroic Lineage: Of all ponies, Pinkie Pie. She's the great-granddaughter of Sergeant Pie from episodes 3 and 4, who "fought" on the front lines in World Party II. His sister, Coco Pie, friend and ally to Daring Do in Daring Do Adventures, is Pinkie's great great aunt.
  • It goes even further in the future, as in the year 1050 CR (in the new show "Mare-Do-Well Adventures"), Pinkie's granddaughter takes up the starring role.
• Hot-Blooded: Copper from The Bells of Fate has a seriously foul temper for a pony. Mostly, it's shouting and impulsiveness.
• Identical Great-Grandniece: Pinkie Pie to Coco Pie, in terms of voice and personality. Their coats and manes are different colors, though. (Coco is green.)
• In Love with the Mark: Cherry Bomb used to be a member of this universe's Time Agency, tasked with bringing the Doctor in. After he paradoxed the Agency out of time, she's the only remaining agent, but keeps stalking him, because she's infatuated with him. Just listen to her describing his eyes...
• Improbable Weapon User: Pinkie Pie. A battleaxe might not seem improbable in itself, but it's certainly a bit off kilter for ponies and oddly effective on Weeping Pegasi.
• Improbably High I.Q.: Goodnight tries to count the stars in the sky sometimes. It seems like something all of us have done, but Goodnight, unlike most of us, counted over a million in one night using an algorithm to work out how much light each galaxy was emitting, though she admitted it was a flawed process because red dwarfs just aren't consistent. If her memory is to be trusted Goodnight is hardly a few weeks old.
• Innocent Prodigy: Goodnight, at everything science or math-related. On the other hand, she can't do magic at all (as of yet).
• Interspecies Friendship: Whisper and Mixo.
• Kissing Under the Influence: The (Doctor's words!) "bloody fairy!" exerts the influence on Twilight and Rarity in Lovestruck. The Doctor is mortified.
• Last of Her Kind: Shadows of the Lunar Republic introduce the last of the created by Luna moon ponies - her name is Viva. Cherry Bomb is the last time agent in this universe.
• The Load: Madame Kazoo not only complains incessantly when she and Twilight are kidnapped, she also refuses to try to escape ("'zis is not ladylike!"), belittles Twilight's attempts, and tells her to stop trying because the noise Twilight's making hurts her ears. Twilight compares her to Rarity, but notes that Rarity would have been helping.
• Machine Monotone: The thick robot that created Goodnight.
• Meaningful Name:Dorian and Lydian Mode are both musical scales.
  • Who can rule the kingdom where nothing ever goes right? Of course, Murphy. It's Murphy's law there.
• Motor Mouth: Pinkie Pie. Cherry Bomb, an enthusiastic time-traveller, can talk fast, as well, when she has a mind to. Especially when Penny Dreadful attempts to Pull the Thread and Cherry doesn't want to give her answers.
• Musical Episode: Chords of Chaos/Pony of the Opera, Good Show, Goodnight, The Bells of Fate.
• Musical Exposition: Bells of Fate has two expository songs.
• Music for Courage: The climax of Good Show, Goodnight.
• Mythology Gag: In Wrong Way Backwards Part 2, events in each show reference each other for this part, such as the assistants/companions refusal to refer to the Doctors as the Doctor.
  • As a reference to the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic tendency to use Punny Names for location, when the Doctor is explaining where he's from to Twilight she initially mispronounces Gallifrey as Gallopfrey.
  • Also, the sound TARDIS makes is described as sounding exactly like a key being dragged ove piano wire.
• Never Split the Party: The Doctor, Pinkie, Spike, and Twilight try to do this… but Doc's screwing up of Twilight's name sends her off in a huff getting her captured by the Weeping Pegasi.
• Never Trust a Trailer: After the season one trailer people assumed that the pony with the feather in his cap from the Chords of Chaos poster was the Master. It's actually Dorian Mode, aka the Phantom. He's the antagonist of Chords of Chaos and Pony of the Opera.
• Non-Indicative Name: Dreary and Cheerful Kazoo.
• Noodle Implements: From the first mailbag video: "Pinkie! I brought the banana!" You always want to bring a banana to a party.
• Not Now, Kiddo: The Doctor really must stop this habit of his.
• Ominous Pipe Organ: Toccata and Fugue in D minor is used to herald the villain in Chords of Chaos/Pony of the Opera.
• Oireland: The Green Isles, judging by the inhabitants' accents and the background music, is the Equestrian version of it.
• Paradox Person: Penny Dreadful, whose parents met at the very event that split the timelines. She can only exist in the timeline that's wrong and leads to a seriously Bad Future, and the Doctor needs to make it Retgone to save the day...
• Parental Substitute: Elderly Dorian for young Mixo, a grandson of his best friend.
• The Power of Friendship: Saves the day in Good Show, Goodnight. And in Shadows of the Lunar Republic. And hopefully in more plays to come.
• The Power of Love: It's what makes Dorian Mode realize he's been tricked, and what brings Lydian back to life for their final goodbye.
• Public Domain Soundtrack: In Chords of Chaos the background music features several opera pieces from Howard Purcell (Or Howard P. Horsenail, as the episode credits him).
• Pun: "Well, I guess diplomacy really is the key."
• Radio Voice: In Penny's taped interviews.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Melancholic Goodnight and her Sanguine best friend, Whimsey.
• Rule 63: The entire premise of the Crossed Wires short. Featuring such well-known names as The Professor, Dusk Shine, and Berry Bubble.
  • In the Cell Mates short, Cherry mentions that she visited an Alternate Universe and met her male counterpart.
  • In The Search, the Professor notes that Squeak-Anon is female in her universe.
• Running Gag:
  • The Doctor throughout the first episode can't seem to get Twilight Sparkle's name right.
    Doctor: "It's nice to meet you Midnight Twinkle"
    • This later turns into a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming when he finally does get it right.
    • Played with here.
    • This joke was brought up again in Wrong Way Backwards by BOTH doctors shortly after switching places and meeting each other's companion
  • Also "How about the name Georgia?". Nobody likes the name Georgia…
  • Weeping Angels. Or Weeping Pegasi, for consistency's sake.
  • The Pony In A Box group (the ones responsible for making the show) loves to respond to any questions about future episodes or shorts with pictures of River Song saying "Spoilers."
  • In the Goodnight shorts, apparently nopony knows what the word "people" means. The Doctor says it in front of Goodnight, who is momentarily confused and it may be counted as Fridge Brilliance that Goodnight makes the very same slip up the Doctor does in the next short afterwards. Cherry makes it too in Rhapsody in the Blue Box.
    • The Doctor in general has problems with Equestrian terminology, such as how people respond to 'everypony' rather than 'everybody', how the rulers are referred to as princesses rather than queens, among other things.
  • Also in Goodnight shorts: Goodnight gets serious and excited (or seriously excited) about a subject, explains what's so interesting and important, and then inevitably has to translate it into plain English for Whimsy.
• Screaming Woman: Madame Kazoo. The screamiest pony ever.
• Screw the War, We're Partying: World Party II is essentially the Breaded Eggs version of this trope: where Prance and Hoofinay challenged one-another to see who could throw the best party: complete with games, music, food, cake, and party favors. Pinkie Pies' Great-grandfather was a Hoofinay Sergeant in this celebration that liked to regularly play tag with his best friend and rival, Sergeant Dreary Kazoo of Prance.
• Sdrawkcab Name: The twins Murphy and Yhprum.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: The twins Murphy and Yhprum. Their Winds of Destiny, Change! powers are incredibly potent and work automatically, meaning everyone in Murphy's part of the island's unlucky and nothing ever goes right, while Yhprum's lands are prosperous and perfect without her doing anything.
• Shout-Out: In the first episode, having not yet been introduced to Twilight, the Doctor randomly asks if her name is Georgia. Georgia likely refers to Georgia Tennant, David Tennant's wife and Peter Davison's daughter, who plays Jenny, the Doctor's daughter.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: Twilight's response to the above breaking speech is to point out that she'd never betray her friends and that she's not alone, then unleashing the power of her new friend the TARDIS to prove her point.
• Skewed Priorities: After the security bot in Partners in Crime reads the Doctor's List of Transgressions (it doesn't have nearly all of them on record...), Twilight only wants to know:
  Twilight: How. Did you. Rack up. A 198 895 385 late book returns!?
• Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence: The robot that created Goodnight is smart enough to create life from scratch, but too thick to realize that the Doctor does not operate on robot logic, allowing the Doctor to escape with her.
  Doctor: Love a thick robot.
• Snarky Inanimate Object: In Pony of the Opera it's revealed that in this world the Doctor's screwdriver can talk to inanimate objects (because magic), in this particular case the lock of a cell they happen to be trapped in. It turns out to be very snarky.
  • But it did pose a good argument. Why should it let them out when the entire point of its existence is to keep them in?
• Standard Snippet: Careless Whisper for whenever will-o-wisps affect somepony in Lovestruck.
• Take Me to Your Leader: In The Bells of Fate the Doctor still loves saying that.
  The Doctor: Oh. Shivers.
• Timey-Wimey Ball: In The Search.
  Pinkie: Hi, Twilight!
  Twilight: Pinkie? When did we even give you a radio?
  Pinkie: Oh, I just got one from the future.
  Twilight: You what.
  • Traveler reaches Moffat-levels of wibbly-wobbly timelines. E.g. from Fluttershy's point of view, the whole thing starts In Medias Res - then Twilight goes to have a word with the Doctor about it, but he hasn't done this part yet. And so on.
• Trademark Favorite Food: The Doctor has a thing for lemons, good for all sorts of purposes. In addition to taste, they can be used to aid in breaking causality loops and, in a pinch, used as a fusion generator.
• Trapped in the Past: Night Shift, and he's actually a lot happier and more successful (both professionally and in love) than he was in present day.
• Tsundere: Mrs. Kazoo is a Type A. Normally she complains about her husband (and everything else). But when he's hurt, she's seriously scared and worried.
• Voice of the Legion: The swarm of Vashta Nerada possessing Celestia.
• Wham Episode:
  • Shadows of the Lunar Republic. Let's count it off, shall we? Twilight has to decide whether or not she wants to stay with the Doctor, but before you have five seconds to come to terms with the idea she might say no she's... (deep breath) Almost eaten, discovers Celestia's in danger, has to outrun a wall of shadows that want to eat her, communicates magically with the TARDIS, becomes its FRIEND, ends up on the moon, finds the last member of a dead race, discovers Luna was being EATEN by Vashta Nerada for 19 YEARS which made her turn back into Nightmare Moon, gets back to Equestria, distracts them with Tiptoe Through the Tulips, only for Celestia herself to show up POSSESSED BY VASHTA NERADA, who try to EAT PRINCESS LUNA and are only stopped by Twilight using her friendship with the TARDIS to use her light to drive them back and letting Luna use her powers to make the moon brighter than the sun to drive them away. There is literally not a single dull moment in this episode.
  • Rhapsody in Blue Box starts off pretty low-key, with a new character named Penny Dreadful investigating reports from ponies who've encountered the Doctor and the TARDIS (known as "the Call Box"), but then... Cherry Bomb from Cell Mates shows up and whisks her off to investigate a site where the TARDIS may show up. Along the way, Cherry reveals her nature as a time traveler and confirms that the Doctor is one as well, and Penny explains that she thinks there's some sort of connection between the Doctor and herself, as the reported incidents all happened very close to her own haunts. They reach the site, and Cherry abandons her just before the TARDIS appears. The Doctor emerges and is horrified to see Penny, and she starts to remember having been his companion, and yet having not. He sadly explains that she only exists because the timeline has been altered — and the key event is Twilight becoming Equestria's new Princess and taking over from an ailing Celestia. Penny starts to be erased from existence due to her nature as a living time paradox, and though she quickly comes to terms with it, the Doctor is torn up with grief and guilt over her having to be aware of it. Later, after she's "dead", he meets up with Cherry, who tries to comfort him over his loss and reminds him that they have bigger problems right now — the timeline is in worse and worse flux, and Twilight is at the center of it all, with the Doctor describing her time with him as having been a trap from the start. Thus, an episode that initially seems like filler between The Bells of Fate and The Castle Above contains a key piece of the larger Story Arc and quite the unexpected gut-punch.
• What Year Is This?: Cherry asks this and, upon meeting suspicions, cheerfully claims to have lost her calendar. The Doctor asks in Bells of Fate and Silver Platter finds this a very odd question.
• Wham Line: In Bells of Fate:
  The Doctor: I'm going to start a war.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: In the Green Isles every creature has a "knack" a minor (or not so minor) magical power, like the ability to banish dust from rooms, fix broken crockery or, with less Mundane Utility, make coins shine.
• Who Writes This Crap?!: The Doctor does go along with the insanity that is Express Delivery... until he doesn't and starts to rant at the Fourth Wall. Cue singing.
• You Will Be Beethoven: Night Shift was sent back in time to become a weather pioneer who already existed in the timeline (and Twilight already owned seven books about him).

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