of a scene in the first episode where Twilight Sparkle pours a bottle of what looks like a an alcoholic drink (but, unfortunately for her, was actually a bottle of hot sauce) into a goblet. They will also drive you to insomnia, worms, stalking, and/or bondage, among other things. The line itself came from an old Chuck Jones cartoon entitled "The Dover Boys".]]
A meme that doesn't directly relate to My Little Pony, but was inspired instead by a promo for the 2010 Pound Puppies series that used to play over the credits and featured a clip of Niblet the sheepdog saying "Secret, but fun!" Amusingly enough, the promo in question and the episode the clip was taken from both ended up on The Friendship Express DVD.
Scary butt fun!explanation
An offshoot of this meme, inspired by Pipsqueak's line in "Luna Eclipse" about Nightmare Night being "scary, but fun". You'll notice they were /very/ careful about how they had him elocute the line.
". A nonsensical comment to anything involving sea ponies usually fan work or discussions. Usually another user will post a follow-up comment with the song's second line: "SHOO SHOO BE DOO".]]
Not so much a meme about the show as about the fandom: It's become something of a tradition among male fans to advertise their gender, age, and (sometimes) occupation in the comments section of the episodes posted on Youtube, often immediately followed by stating the name of a favorite pony or a general, "... and I love this show!"
A common variation is to comment on one of the earlier, but not the first ten, episodes, stating something along the lines of "why am I still watching this?".
I am gonna LOVE and TOLERATE the SHIT outta you. explanation
The fandom have found themselves conflicted between hating people who don't like the show and the show's overall message of love and tolerance. Compromises were made. Unfortunately, some Bronies do not practice what they claim to preach and will relentlessly insult anyone who enjoys any older incarnation of My Little Pony, or anyone who criticizes Friendship Is Magic. The phrase "Love & Tolerate" was eventually put
A variation on the "I can/can't fap to this" and/or the "I find this easy/difficult to masturbate to" memes, clopping being the pony equivalent of masturbation.
FiM is technically furry explanation
Originated as a way of trolling bronies, since, in the loosest definition of the term, they are technically part of the Furry Fandom. Now slightly memetic.
Pony variations of the DAT ASS meme include DAT PLOT, DAT FLANK, and DAT CUTIE MARK.
Less popular, but this also makes "plot hole" a valid and stealthy insult.
And of course, it tends to be combined with Twilight Sparkle's Unfortunate Name, leading to jokes about Twilight having well developed plot etc.
Fans have copied the Hold Your Hippogriffs instances from the show, and created more of their own. In particular, it is almost required for "anypony", "everypony" and variants to be used amongst fans, even when not referring to the characters.
"My Little [X]" explanation
A word play on the main title where the word "pony" is replaced with another kind of animal or creature. Words other than an animal are usually used in crossovers or practically anything.
"Friendship Is [X]" / "[X] Is Magic". explanation
The show's subtitle led to the creation of this snowclone meme.
"AND X MAKES IT ALL COMPLETE!" explanation
Another minor snowclone, from a line in the opening theme song "And magic makes it all complete".
This is most likely to be the comment of any brony that comes across past generations and actually watches them, or general praise towards Faust for anything, jokingly(?) attaining an almost mythical status.
"Can you do that? Can you explode twice?!" explanation
From Spike and Pinkie Pie's speculation on what the "doozy" in "Feeling Pinkie Keen" meant happened to Fluttershy; Spike suggests she might have exploded, and Pinkie follows it up by saying she might have exploded... and then exploded again. Things exploding twice quickly became a Running Gag in the fandom.
And then nothing sexual happened at all. The end. explanation
The traditional response to anything that could be taken as a Double Entendre within the show.
And then everything sexual happened. The end. explanation
A reaction to the above, claiming that said scenario did indeed lead to a sexual encounter
Truth Flower explanation
Near the end of "The Cutie Pox", Zecora plants "seeds of truth" that require spoken truth to blossom. It quickly became popular to edit in such things as ponies admitting their love/sexuality or lack thereof to one another, characters from other media pitching in (such as Vader's
A common reaction to any time the show appears to be making a Fandom Nod, coincidental or not.
"Bedroom eyes", taking a screenshot while a character is blinking their eyes and catching them half-lidded. The result is an expression that looks coy when taken out of context (as the Internet is often eager to do).
The phrase had become memetic waaay before ponies, mind, but the nature of Flash animation's keyframing makes it particularly easy to abuse in this show.
A metric ton of reaction images on the whole, but most notably by far the ponyshrug. Began with an innocent Pinkie Pie, and quickly exploded. Ponyshrugs may now be found of nearly the entire cast, as well as of original characters, and even ponified versions of characters from other works.
A fancomic that was made to look like an official German magazine comic has spawned a couple memes of its own:
Terry. explanation
Scootaloo's name.
"Around the zebras, never relax!" explanation
King Zebra was the evil mastermind. After putting him to prison, Rainbow Dash comments that zebras can never be trusted, referencing black race stereotypes and treatment. The meme itself is a travestation of "Around the blacks, never relax!"
Due to the fandom's tendency to turn the smallest comment or frame of animation into a massive meme, their tendency to think of many of these memes as canon, and the recent surge in some of these memes actually becoming canon, it has become popular to take a screencap of an episode, come up with some far-flung fan theory, and end with "[X] is now canon" where [X] is the topic in question. Example◊
.]]
Tara Strong is best pony. explanation
Twilight's voice actress has recently taken to shamelessly trolling the Internet via her Twitter. Led to "Twilighticious" further down the page. As such it has nothing to do with classifying other species as ponies.
frequently referenced for its sheer absurd Narm Charm.]]
"IT WAS CHANGELINGS!" explanation
In the second season finale "A Canterlot Wedding", the series introduces changelings, evil shapeshifters
who feed on love. Since then, changelings have been used to explain, a la Ancient Aliens and conspiracy theories, the various versions of characters appearing within the fandom such as Princess Molestia (which was originally conceptualized as a succubus who copied Princess Celestia's appearance) as an alternative to using the explanation that they came from an alternate reality of some sort, characters acting Out of Character within the show or fan work (especially) such as Cupcakes' Pinkie Pie, and why we see a lot of clones of background ponies in a lot of scenes within the show (or why they seem to have a different characterization and/or voice everytime they are put in a role). It has even been used to explain the changes to Derpy Hooves in The Last Roundup. Basically they are used as an excuse as to why a character or a group of characters doesn't seem and/or feel "right".]]
(thanks to repeated "stealth" sequences in the show: Apple Bloom's sneaking sequence in "Call of the Cutie", Rainbow Dash infiltrating the hospital in "Read It and Weep", Twilight Sparkle leading Spike and Pinkie Pie into the Canterlot Archives while looking remarkably like Snake in "It's About Time")
, and many more. And practically every character ever has been "ponified" at least once.
Speaking of TF2, the Scout has often been comically paired up/shipped with Rainbow Dash due to his infamous "Rainbows make me cry" meme.
In regards to the ponies on Gmod, there's also EPPALJECK, the name given to the creepy beta version of the Applejack rag-doll. She is Nightmare Fuel incarnate, and pretty much the Friendship is Magic equivalent of Vagineer and Painis Cupcake.
" was being aired, an X-Men: First ClassCommercial Pop Up featuring Magneto kept popping up in the lower-right corner of the screen. It was widely considered hilarious and led to, for example, the fans blaming him for ruining the Gala.]]
In an "Evolution of a Scene", made by one of the animators on the show (for both season one and two), at the end there is an animation of pony Magneto at the gala, using the pony statue to take down the Wonderbolts while saying "WELCOME TO DIE!!!"
The Spider-Man cartoon from the 60's has already undergone its own Memetic Mutation and a crossing of the memes was inevitable. Fans like to Photoshop Spidey into the show, causing almost as much chaos as Pinkie Pie.
Congratulations! Your Twilight Sparkle has evolved into Rapidash! Explanation
When Twilight starts Burning with Anger in "Feeling Pinkie Keen", she turns into a white unicorn with a flaming mane, which looks suspiciously like Rapidash
For obvious reasons, Luna asking what fun is in "Luna Eclipsed" is often answered with Spongebob's FUN song.
IT'S NOT JUST A BOULDER, IT'S A ROCK! Explanation
This phrase from the "Pizza Delivery" episode has become popular when applied to Rarity to both when she gets Mind Raped by Discord and when she finds the geode that earns her cutie mark.
In general, if the fandom can connect an FiM meme to one from SpongeBob, they will do so.
The Engineer is a Spy! explanation
Crossovers between Team Fortress 2 and MLP:FiM are very popular. In these crossovers, Applejack is usually the Engineer and Rarity is usually the Spy. In "Sisterhooves Social", Rarity disguises herself as Applejack by covering herself in mud and wearing Applejack's hat.
Going with the "Princess Cadence is X" meme below, there's "Cadence is Spy!"explanation
Queen Chrysalis' plan of absorbing Shining Armor's love by posing as Cadence would inevitably lead to comparisons to the Spy
Techno-music duo Daft Punk has consistently, through most of their career, appeared wearing helmets fashioned with a robot motif.
X Y is best Y explanation
Originally stemming from the League of Legends fandom, it eventually spread to the bronies. It's typically used as a response to a (normally main/recurring) character from the show exhibiting a one time quirk, such as Beatnik Rarity is best Rarity
A play on words melding the already memetic Like A Boss line and the name of the show's creator Lauren Faust.
A shot of Pinkie Pie waxing to Rainbow Dash about delicious cider looked uncannily like the "X, X Everywhere" meme. Fans pounced.
Website Specific Memes
Two of Equestria Daily's most well-known moderators, Cereal Velocity and Sethisto, have a serious thing for unicorns. Cereal firmly believes that "Rarity is the best pony!", while Sethisto firmly believes that "Trixie is the best pony"! The unicorn-love extends to their newest blogger Phoe, who runs the Artist Training Grounds and seems to have a serious crush on Lyra Heartstrings. Pretty much every ATG day has at least a few drawings referencing her obsession with Lyra using that day's theme. And now we have this◊.
*cue happy theme song* explanation
A bit of a Running Gag on This Wiki about the show's tendency to do a Mood Whiplash with the theme song, such as the cliffhanger at the end of the first episode.
Roboshi, Anchors, & yellowtdash are universal constants/fav'd this explanation
A Ponibooru joke, there's a group of users named Roboshi, Anchors, & yellowtdash. who have a tendency to favorite everything on the site.
They are typically considered the ponibooru "mascots", as they are the three most known members of ponibooru.
Roboshi is credited with being the originator of faving whereas anchors is considered the fastest with a capped record of 2,000+ per day, Yellow is an artist who does the artwork behind the tumblr.
Faustpony loves her Subway sandwiches. explanation
During a period where several Rule34 pictures of Lauren Faust's alicorn OC were posted, many pictures were edited with Subway sandwiches replacing... certain body parts. Even now, it is not uncommon to see Lauren's alicorn somehow connected◊
to Subway in fanarts or its logo edited into already existing ones.]]
A series of Tumblr art blog/role play accounts where people can ask a particular character in the show as if the characters themselves are answering them through a Tumblr account. You can find a comprehensive list of these blogs here
.]]
Chubbies/Blobs explanation
A recent offshoot of the meme where ponies are replaced with small hamster-like versions of themselves. It started out with two Ask
blogs but soon spread to otherexistingAsk blogs. Each converting their characters into one of these critters for a single post.]]
Rainbow Dash Chubby Flyby explanation
Ask Tumblr Blogs will have the Rainbow Dash Chubby fly by their character leaving a rainbow trail behind her. It all started here
when Chubby!Pinkie Pie launched her with her mini-party cannon. Since then she has been seen throughout various Ask Tumblrs.]]
A meme on Ponibooru where fans suggest potential pony crossovers.
December 9th is National Child Violence Day! explanation
On December 9th, 2011, within a few minutes of each other, Ponibooru saw postings of 1) APPLE.MOV-style Applejack brutally beating Applebloom and 2) Prince Blueblood braining a young colt with a brick. Someone suggested it was Child Violence Day. Someone else then posted a brony "calendar" listing December 9th as such.
on Alternate History Dot Com to mix My Little Pony with Nazis. Communists are also a lesser favorite.]]
Speaking of Nazis, Rarity's line "I didn't know you could burn juice!" is frequently misheard as "I didn't know you could burn Jews!" (Which gets even more bizarre in light of the Jewish Rarity meme...)
Lilo~explanation
From Nico Nico Douga. This one started from an attempt to turn the title theme into katakana, hence My Little Pony=Mai.Ritoru.Ponii. A combination of L-R substitution and further compressing the Ritoru turned it into Lilo, also the onomatopoeia for licking, which stuck.
The official Top Gear blog actually made note of My Little Top Gear: Friendship is Ambitious But Rubbish.
WeLoveFine is a T-shirt company with lots of Pony based shirts. It had a contest going on for more new pony designs and one of the big images was Lyrical Twilight
set to six of "Weird Al" Yankovic's polka medleys (in this case, Polkarama) that quickly went viral after gaining both the approval and the endorsement of no less than "Weird Al" himself. Since then, Weird Al/My Little Pony mash-ups have skyrocketed and Al has even been asked by one of the show's directors to do a guest appearance, presumably as a response to the video.]]
The fans have had a lot of fun with YouTube's automatic close-captioning generator. Among other things, Spike refuses to convert to Christianity in "Boast Busters" ("I am not going to believe the lord Jesus"), the river serpent from episode 2 is now named"Steven Magnet", and in "The Show Stoppers" Scootaloo wants to "sex that steve guy yes".
For the second season, the closed captions are responsible for naming the huge rock Rarity is tricked into believing it's a diamond "Dan". When the second episode actually had Rarity name the rock "Tom", the fanon agreed the rock to be called Tom Dan.
An advert that has been airing on the Hub recently parodying the iPod Touch/iPhone adverts and their 'There's an App for that' slogan. Includes eNay, Angry Mare
and Rarity's Secret (Victoria's Secret) to name a few.]]
In "Elements of Harmony", upon learning that Twilight Sparkle knows about Nightmare Moon and the Elements of Harmony, Rainbow Dash interrogates Twilight, ending it with "Are you a spy!?". Videos would take this line (titled after the line or "X Answers Rainbow Dash's question") and have various characters respond such as Applejack
Speaking of different languages, the Italian opening theme is now known as "the anime intro theme" because of its length (over two minutes) and an Ear Worm-tastic original song that seems to cross language barriers and is appreciated by a lot of non-italian speakers.
Seductive Ponies explanation
A sexy song plays while a character slowly closes in to the camera with bedroom eyes, the title often written in a way to suggest that the subject has just realized what is happening. Started with Twilight Sparkle and spread to many others
Seemingly random videos on Youtube will occasionally get a high-voted comment to the effect of "ponies brought me here". Presumably the ponies must have surprisinglyvariedtaste. Explanation
It's about half and half things that popped up as a related video to something more equine and resulted in a curious Youtube Walk
, and things linked from a pony forum or fan fiction or something.]]
These videos will often have the comment "This video is now about ponies."
Hey Ocean's lead female singer Ashleigh Ball is the voice actress for Applejack & Rainbow Dash. And now you know why she does her own singing
.]]
It's now practically routine for someone to shout "Lookout! Incoming Bronies!" whenever a video contains a reference that the latest episode just made.
*cut to credits* explanation
Many Youtube Poops of My Little Pony often have a character say something that resolves the plot, or just anything random, followed by a hard cut to normal credits of the show.
On brief clips of the show (most notably from kyrospawn
) taken out of context, a comment will often say something along the lines of a reaction a little girl may be having to watching the clip, whereas the second line will have the reaction of a brony watching it, generally around the lines of "OLOLOLOL SEX JOKES".]]
[Character Name].mp4. Interestingly, all of the Mane Six have at least one moment where their eyes roll around in a daze, usually in response to a sudden shock or blow to the head. For some reason, these scenes have been looped and then set to Parov Stelar's "Catgroove".
, short videos featuring one pony set to "Let Me Hit It" by Sporty-O; eg "When I'm 20% Cooler" for Rainbow Dash or "When I'm Magic" for Twilight Sparkle.]]
And somewhat related, X Sauce. explanation
A meme rather similar to When I'm X but a bit more simpler set to "Barbra Streisand" by Duck Sauce, where the name comes from. It started with "Pony Sauce
" for Twilight and since then has been done with other MLP characters and some that aren't even from MLP such as "Heavy Sauce" for Heavy, "Fox Sauce" for Tails and "Barbra Sauce" for Barbra Streisand of all people.]]
Hay bacon strips, hay bacon strips, hay bacon strips. explanation
The topper for Pinkie's pie from the "Epic Pie Time" flash animation
Apple Bloom's "Buy some apples!" or Fluttershy's Flat Joy "Yay." explanation
In-universe censor beeps for several of the Abridged Series or other media
Recently, it's also become quite popular to create separate accounts with the names of the characters and comment on pony videos as they would. They have a tendency to get top comment and often respond in-character.
A clip of something sad happening to one of the characters leads into the character tearing up. Said reaction is put on a loop and set to the chorus of "Untitled (How Could This Happen to Me?)" by A Simple Plan.
Character Memes
It seems that if anypony makes a goofy face on the show, fans will pounce on it. Aside from Derpy Hooves and her Fish Eyes in the first episode, "Applebuck Season" brings us Rainbow Dash'sgushing kissy-face (along with the accompanying phrase "So awesome!" and the emoticon "/)^3^(\") and Applejack's various loopy sleep-deprived faces, along with her look of disgust when she mishears the "wheat germ" part of Pinkie Pie's muffin recipe as "wheat worms", and "The Best Night Ever" brings "Flutterage".
As of Season 2, there has been an abundance of Uncanny Valley-ish expressions whenever a pony's head is looking directly at the camera. Ponibooru calls it the FAIC.
[X] IS BEST PONY explanation
A common way of expressing one's favor for a particular character. The omission of the word "the" is intentional. However, often used when [X] isn't a pony at all (like Spike or Gilda), or is a character from a completely different work (like Magneto) which still isn't a pony.
"Silly anon, that's not how you spell 'Pinkie Pie!'" explanation
Fans naming other ponies as their favorite character tend to attract image macros with this phrase, though there's at least one version where Pinkie admits Fluttershy
Minty liked socks before they were cool.explanation
Minty is a g3 pony who collected socks.
"Congratulations, X! You're the new Y!" explanation
A play on the original line "Congratulations, Spike! You're the new Rainbow Dash!" Examples include "Congratulations, Pinkie Pie! You're the new Scootaloo!" in response to Pinkie's chicken costume in "Luna Eclipsed" and "Congratulations, Twilight! You're the new Rarity!" in response to Apple Bloom giving Twilight's mane the same style as Rarity's in "The Cutie Pox".
Celestia's Batman Gambit for snapping Twilight Sparkle out of Discord's spell was simply to send Twilight copies of all the letters she'd written to Celestia in season 1, about what she'd learned about friendship, knowing that even a mindscrewed Twilight Sparkle would not be able to resist the written word. The quote is a reference to Patton.
depicting various characters shortly after waking up. Other artists have since joined in on the theme.]]
"Lock it under a rock, I'm sure it won't get out." explanation
Nightmare Moon and Discord, the two Big Bads of the series so far, were sealed in the moon and turned into a statue respectively, both by Celestia. Fan speculation for Celestia's reason for using essentially the same imprisonment strategy twice usually has someone suggest this was what she was thinking during both instances.
Many fans exaggerate this by making it her go-to solution for anything she doesn't like.
[PONY] found a [VEHICLE] explanation
Looping animations of one or more characters driving a vehicle at high speed accompanied with a fitting background music. Usually also includes extra elements happening around them as they drive. It started with this one
, which features Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy riding a TransAm down the side of a mountain. The car◊ they were driving and the background music (called "Yellow Line") are from an Anime movie called Red Line. Many others have followed in its wake. (A collection can be found here.)]]
Genderbends of the Mane Cast, usually created by lowering the pitch on the original voices. In this incarnation, their names become Butterscotch, Applejack, Elusive, Rainbow Blitz, Bubble Berry, and Dusk Shine (and his number one secretary, Barbara). In case you're confused as to who's who, they are male versions of Fluttershy, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Twilight Sparkle, and Spike.
At least one Youtuber has taken it a step further, not only voice acting as the colts, but changing their dialog to be more male-specific (for example, Elusive designs suits instead of dresses and wants to find a princess rather than a prince charming, to which viewer reception varies). Think The Gender-Flip of Haruhi Suzumiya, only with ponies.
And this itself has spawned a VA project that seeks to voice the Genderswapped Mane Six to use as a live reading for the story "On a Cross and Arrow" which popularized the Male Cast. The casting call can be found here, the accepted voice list can be found here, a demo of the accepted voices can be heard here and the first episode here.
This has started slowly to spread to the other background ponies/characters. For example, Eris as a gender-bent Discord.
Spinning Turntable Ponies explanation
An animated pixel art gif trend where a filly version of a pony is shown riding on a spinning turntable. Most of these can be found here
An art trend of ponies wielding large shoulder mounted cannons/bazookas/launchers. Color scheme of the cannon and its ammunition depends on its wielder. Originated from one of a series of FiM themed weapons created by Flamingo1986. One of which was called the "Pinkie Pie Launcher
". Other artists later edited Pinkie Pie herself holding the launcher[2] and it soon spread to other characters as well.]]
Party Cannon. explanation
Shown in the episode "Sweet and Elite" where Pinkie Pie shows it off as to explain how she can set up parties so quickly.
Wet manes. explanation
Fanart showing characters with their manes drenched and hanging down, inspired by a scene with Rarity in "Sisterhooves Social".
", one of Rainbow Dash's heroic deeds was saving a baby pony from falling off a cliff. While (older-looking) babies had previously appeared in the Spin-Off Babiestoy commercial and toys, this was the first time that any appeared in the show itself. With in-show reference for a baby at hand, the fandom had a field day. And now that "Baby Cakes" has aired, they're having another.]]
has inspired a flood of mini-fics about adorable but accident-prone pet fluffy ponies.]]
Fluffy pony abuse explanation
Said image board has since spawned numerous mini-fics involving rather disturbingly detailed slaughter and mistreatment of fluffy ponies, usually in the form of Disproportionate Retribution for the afformentioned stupidity. The most common form of abuse is the "Sorry Stick", an impromptu spanking device made from a thin rod of wood.
Now, let it be known that such stories has caused a bit of Creator Backlash from Mixermike662, the creator of Fluffle Puff and the man who popularized the Fluffy Ponies concept to begin with. And by "Creator Backlash", I mean they caused him to disown the fandom.
The image from "Winter Wrap Up" of Twilight Sparkle hiding in a tree from snakes led to photoshopping Twilight hanging onto... pretty much anything. It's adorable.
Twilight's speech in "Applebuck Season" getting interrupted inspired a lot of comparisons to Kanye West at the Video Music Awards. "Yo, Twilight, I'm really happy for you, and I'ma let you finish, but Applejack is the best pony of all time!"
Oh God, Twilight's about to miss a deadline! RUN! explanation
During the Season 2 episode Lesson Zero, Twilight Sparkle being the organization freak she is, becomes increasingly unstable
the further into the day she goes when a letter to Princess Celestia is due for sending. She eventually comes to the conclusion that if she can't find a friend's problem to fix as a friend, then she would have to create one. It doesn't end well.]]
"Hi, giirrllss!" explanation
Twilight Sparkle's creepy greeting to the CMC in "Lesson Zero"
The face she made immediately before also gave rise to a lot of exploitable images. Not that the episode isn't already full of weird faces otherwise.
Twilight Snapple/Twilight Psycho explanation
In "Lesson Zero", Twilight begins to lose her grip on sanity, complete with creepy facial expressions, eventually coming to the point that it looks almost as if she's stalking the CMC.
A meme in a similar fashion to "Lyra wants hands" (See "Background Pony Memes"). It's about Twilight Sparkle wanting to be qualified as Rainbow Dash's pet. She's usually depicted with a leash to symbolize her "dedication". It came from a line
in the episode "May the Best Pet Win" where Rainbow Dash explains to Twilight Sparkle why she can never be qualified to be her pet. Fan art examples so far: [3][4][5][6][7][8][9] and also some Ask Tumblrs (see "Ask Tumblrs" under "Website Specific Memes") referencing the meme: [10][11]]]
Tara Strong (Twilight's VA) puts out a vocal Twitter message, singing I'm T to the W-I-L-I-G-H-T/And ain't no other pony troll it down like me/I'm Twilightlicious! Cue the talented fandom...
The saga continues as the voice actress and her followers attempt to make "Twilightlicious" trending on Twitter.
Given the reactions (both ways) from her Twitters (typically, stating something along the lines of "Here's a picture of me naked", attached to a tasteful photo of one of the clothes-less characters she voices), Tara's even called out these acts as Twolling.
Also with Metal Gear Solid, as she looks uncannily similar to Naked Snake.
Recognition of Twilight Sparkle's voice actress in the video game Lollipop Chainsaw led to numerous people referencing her in Youtube comments and fanart such as this one depicting her as the main character.
Twilight is now a machine guninspired by this scene of Pinkie Pie using Twilight as a machine gun.
Sweatervest explanation
Whenever Twilight is anthropomorphised, she would almost always be depicted wearing a sweatervest.
Applejack, being the Element of Honesty, almost never tells a lie. When corrupted by Discord in "The Return of Harmony", however, she permanently lies, while doing the linked face. Has spawned a crapton of image macros; the captions usually border on Suspiciously Specific Denial.
Applejack is one of the rare characters in the series who comes from a previous series, in this case Generation 1 My Little Pony. G1 Applejack was a klutz to the extreme. In a UK My Little Pony audiobook, Applejack was introduced with this song to showcase her clumsy nature. Fans have since taken the song and attached it to scenes where Friendship Is Magic Applejack is being shown as acting weird.
In The Return Of Harmony: Part II, the shot of a smug Applejack bringing up Rarity's brief fling with "Tom" has been used by fans for various clever one-liners in image macros for different ways to one-up Rarity.
Applejack has had one feature episode since the beginning of the show, and a split ticket with a couple episodes, most commonly with Rarity. When the DVD The Friendship Express was revealed to contain an episode titled "The Last Roundup", the fans went nuts. When the episode's synopsis was released, revealing that Applejack was missing and the manes had to find her, the fans were less impressed. When the episode after was confirmed to be a truly Apple-Family-centric episode, the fans perked up again, and when Applejack actually appeared throughout all of The Last Roundup their ire disappeared completely.
And then the episode was remembered not for Applejack, but for a certain fan favorite background character appearing throughout the opener, and actually talking. At least the following episode mostly focused on AJ, though in the context of her family and, again, being partially upstaged by the characters of the week.
"Forget you, I can eat ALL these apples!" explanation
At a panel at the January 2012 Bronycon, fans convinced guest speaker Ashleigh Ball (the voice of Applejack) to quote the fan animation APPLE.MOV
, Applejack proudly proclaims that she did not learn anything from the episode in her letter to Celestia. Since that means she never had a reason to send a letter, this led to people claiming that she was trolling Celestia. Her smug "haters gonna hate" trot while narrating said letter, followed by presumably going out to get wasted on cider helps considerably.]]
Pinkie Pie blurts this out following Twilight's Big "Shut Up!" in "The Ticket Master". Posting any image of oatmeal now guarantees a Pinkie Pie reaction image.
In "Green Isn't Your Colour", Pinkie ensures that Twilight doesn't break her promise by appearing from nowhere and ominously saying this.
NOPONY BREAKS A PINKIE PROMISE!!!! explanation
In "The Last Roundup", Applejack made a Pinkie Promise to explain everything during breakfast. When the Mane 5 discover she ran before breakfast, Pinkie takes it rather personally.
This is how Pinkie Pie ends her cutie mark story in "Cutie Mark Chronicles". While the Cutie Mark Crusaders brush it off as "Pinkie Pie being Pinkie Pie
", fans have joked that somehow, someway, Pinkie Pie really is responsible for the creation/foundation of Equestria. Others just joke that Pinkie would end her rendition of the Equestrian Creation Myth with "...and that's how I got my cutie mark!"]]
Pinkie's "Parasprite Polka" from "Swarm of the Century" is gaining more and more fame.
An incredibly infamous, gore-riddled Fan Fic (someone on Equestria Daily compared it to Higurashi no Naku Koro ni) that has wormed its way into a permanent spot in the collective fandom consciousness. Much like Warhammer 40,000 fans and Squad Broken, mentioning "cupcakes" without any context is likely to make some fans suffer horrible flashbacks.
There are many parallels between the characters of Deadpool and Pinkie Pie - they're fourth wall breakers, id personified, wild cards, and Motor Mouths.
Many of Pinkie's lines as Chancellor Puddinghead have become quite prominent, but one in particular stands out, helped by the adorablyridiculous smile she makes while saying it:
in which Pinkie asks one of the changelings, nicknamed "Doomie" thanks to Pinkie's line "Do me! Do me!", to transform into her, though what it transforms into is not exactly the Pinkieshe'sthinkingof.]]
Rainbow Dash
X needs to be about/is now 20% cooler. explanation
From Rainbow Dash's hilariously vague suggestions for her dress in "Suited for Success", "It just needs to be about 20% cooler."
TEN. SECONDS. FLAT. explanation
From the pilot, Rainbow Dash claiming she can clear the skies over Ponyville of stray clouds in "Ten seconds flat", and then delivering on that promise.
LIVING THE DREAM! explanation
Rainbow Dash, who wants to go to the Grand Galloping Gala so she can show off for the Wonderbolts, says this to Twilight in "The Ticket Master" in an effort to convince Twilight to give her the extra ticket.
Wingboners. explanation
At the start of Pinkie Pie's stage show in "Over A Barrel", Rainbow Dash's wings are folded, but when PP appears in her show-girl outfit, RD's wings are spread
A video showing G4 Rainbow Dash reacting to her cutesy, ultra-girly G3.5 incarnation. It inspired similar videos featuring Scootaloo, Cheerilee, Pinkie Pie, and Sweetie Belle, all of whom share names with G3 ponies.
Rainbow Dash has balsa-wood wings. explanation
The most common source of Hurt/Comfort Fic for this fandom is fanfic in which Rainbow Dash breaks her wings (which actually happens in the Canadian live show, though not onstage). It's reached the point where Equestria Daily has jokingly banned this sort of fic outright.
Exactly how canon this is has been zig-zagging wildly during Season 2. At first her "Atomic Rainboom" scene (see above) essentially nullified all of them. Later during "May the Best Pet Win!", Dash gets the tip of one wing pinned under a boulder and later has to have it bandaged up after being freed. This either gave the fics some credibility again, or killed them off for good, depending on how you look at it (her wings aren't immune to damage, but she only needed a bandage after a boulder fell on one of them). In "Read it and Weep," she does in fact break a wing, giving the fics credibility again, but again she walks it off in under a week, and while she certainly wasn't happy about the incident she was more grumpy than "traumatized".
Rainbow Dash dyes her mane explanation
A fan art trend where Rainbow Dash is drawn dying her mane rainbow using either a can of rainbow paint
Fans are trying to make a meme out of Rainbow's face in "May the Best Pet Win!" I mean just look at her grin!
It also overlaps with another meme: "I like turtles.".
Rainbow Dash unmasking the Mysterious Mare Do Well, finding unexpected results, and reacting somehow (almost identical to the Mass Effect gag with Shepard removing Tali's mask).
Rainbow Dash plus sunglasses (three times through the first 8 episodes of season 2, as well as in the Fashion Style Rainbow Dash toy, several licensed shirts, and the fanimation Epic Cupcake Time) equals numerous "DEAL WITH IT" memes.
Ninja Dash explanation
Rainbow slips on her very own stealth suit in order to break into the hospital.
Fluttershy's Freak Out during "The Best Night Ever", the same scene that inspired the "Flutterage" meme, became memetic for being completely unexpected and terrifying.
Stems from a conversation in "Over a Barrel" in which Pinkie Pie takes Rainbow Dash's sarcastic remark about Fluttershy being a tree at face value. Combined with Fluttershy's remark "I'd like to be a tree", it sparked a lot of half-joking debate as to whether or not Fluttershy is, in fact, a tree, or simply the pony equivalent of a furry. It also inspired a number of pictures of Fluttershy as a tree, often combined with the phrase "Leaf-ing the dream!" Much later, the Cold Opening of "Hurricane Fluttershy" has a scene in which Rainbow Dash addresses a tree as Fluttershy and said tree turns out to be Fluttershy trying to hide using a tree costume. Even later, WeLoveFine came out with merchandise
depicting Fluttershy as a tree or with a tree.]]
In the episode "Green isn't Your Color", a shot of a magazine cover featuring a mopey-looking Fluttershy with black streaks in her hair inspired a brief burst of "Emoshy" art.
Most videos on youtube featuring Fluttershy (usually videos lasting less then 10 seconds) doing something that makes quiet noises (screaming, for example) will almost always have people complaining about how loud the video is, despite the truth being the opposite.
Tying into that, Fluttershy as the Dovahkin is incredibly common.
In The Return of Harmony Part 1, Discord attempts to get Fluttershy riled up in order to discord her, but Fluttershy instead fullheartedly and quietly agrees with everything he's saying about her, including that she's "weak and helpless", much to the hilarity of the fans who have seen her face dragons and manticores alike, staring down a cockatrice
, and many other awesome deeds (most recently, wrestling a bear). Many insist that she has trolledDiscord. A few videos on Youtube have Fluttershy saying she's weak and helpless, followed by a montage of her Crowning Moments of Awesome.]]
Fluttershy wrestling with a bear in "Lesson Zero" (even if she was actually giving it a chiropractic massage). It didn't take long for the Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat inspired images
In the episode "Suited For Success" Fluttershy rather quickly
points out the flaws in Rarity's dress (before quickly reverting to her usual timid self), despite not showing any obvious knowledge about dressmaking previously. This has been reused in fanfics, showing Fluttershy's Hidden Depths about pretty much everything she does, before going shy again and saying something along the lines of "But, you know, however you do it is fine..."]]
Fluttershy crying over Philomena's Disney Death in "A Bird in the Hoof" inspired a string of pics in which she is seen watching a sad or touching scene (like the death of Bambi's mother, the death of Aerith, or the ending of Toy Story 3). A less popular version is where she actually smiles, basically watching anything to make her happy instead (or for those with a cruel sense of humor, something that starts out looking innocent, like the movie adaptation of Watership Down or an episode of Happy Tree Friends).
Later expanded to manipulated images depicting any character reacting differently to anything, such as Twilight enjoying an educational program like Bill Nye the Science Guy, Applejack being disgusted by a B-movie or reality TV , Rainbow Dash watching an action movie, Spike watching Anime/Sentai/ giant robot or monster shows, or Derpy Hooves watching something downright surreal.
of Dash Academy, a fancomic, and popularized by this Ask Tumblr. It's about Fluttershy's liking of juiceboxes. It has since then spread to other ask Tumblrs and fan art.]]
The same as Fluttertree above, but with Fluttershy as a doormat instead. Stems from Rarity's description of Fluttershy's attitude in "Putting Your Hoof Down"
Hootershy/Flutterack explanation
Anthropomorphised Fluttershy art tends to depict her with an abundant bustline, for any number of reasons ranging from an interpretation of her motherly instincts and Moe personality to Author Appeal.
When fansubbed versions of the show began to show up on Nico Nico Douga, Japanese fans decided that Fluttershy's similarity to the Yamato Nadeshiko archetype meant she was honorarily Japanese. Although mostly localized to Japan, a few articles and blogs have brought the meme to the attention of Western fans.
Rarity
Dumb Rock! explanation
Said by Filly Rarity in "The Cutie Mark Chronicles" when her horn leads her to an apparently-ordinary rock.
No one must ever know that I am part marshmallow! explanation
A shot of Rarity reaching towards the camera from "A Dog and Pony Show", with her hooves drawn in a way that they resemble marshmallows, inspired a string of jokes about Rarity actually being a marshmallow, much like "Fluttertree" and "Scootachicken". This, in turn, led to jokes about Rarity's sister Sweetie Belle being a marshmallow too. "Marshmallow pony" was eventually used by WeLoveFine
to refer to Rarity in the online description and tags of their Rarity Nouveauart printandshirt.]]
Fridge Brilliance: Their whole family is made of marshmallows! The most common colors for marshmallows are white, followed by pink. Guess what colors the parents are? White and Pink.
of Rarity being pulled to "her destiny" in "The Cutie Mark Chronicles" has been edited into a variety of images showing poor Rarity getting dragged everywhere, ala BRODYQUEST. It even has its own Ask Tumblr blog.]]
In part 2 of the Season 2 premiere, Rarity continues to haul the rock around that Discord made her think was a ginormous diamond and named it Tom.
Prior to part two, the boulder was dubbed "Dan" by fans due to Youtube captions, the same way Steven Magnet was named. When part two aired and Rarity named him Tom, people compromised and decided his name was Tom Dan, and made him a Memetic Badass for good measure.
A scene with Tom hurled out of a window resulted in jokes of him being replaced with anyone else named Tom.
<Mundane problem> is the... WORST... POSSIBLE...THING!explanation
Rarity being a hammy drama queen in "Lesson Zero"
"I'll show you something worthy of Canterlot!" explanation
From "Sweet and Elite", after Rarity gets ridiculed by some upper-class ponies for being "country", she retreats to her suite at Canterlot castle, says this line, and whips up a design for Twilight's new dress. It inspired a meme where Rarity says her line, and is shown to draw something silly, then react to it with delight or disgust as appropriate.
Rarity is Jewish. explanation
Amongst the many drawings of ponies doing Christmas activities, the fans have decided - for unclear reasons, but possibly based on either the accent used by their mother
or an old Religious Stereotype about tailors or jewelers being Jewish - to have Rarity and Sweetie Belle celebrate Hanukkah. One Equestria Daily banner even shows them playing dreidel with Pinkie Pie and losing heavily.]]
Rarity's newspaper reaction. explaination
A three panel image exploitable, based on Rarity reading the school paper in "Ponyville Confidential". The top and bottom shots are of Rarity reading the paper intently, and a shocked reaction, but the order may change to justify the joke around the middle panel. Also has been used as "implied facehoof" reaction images, as at one point, Rarity's look while holding the newspaper is similar to Tommy Lee Jones' character in No Country for Old Men as blunt non-vocal criticism of a stupid idea.
Spike
Tailboner. explanation
The same thing as a wingboner, but for Spike's tail.
Spike is quickly becoming identified as a stoner. explanation
Similarly to the Bedroom Eyes meme above, the Running Joke of someone pausing a clip of an episode and seeing Spike with an expression of someone with cannabinoid intoxication. That, and his portrayal in later PONY.MOV episodes.
In part 2 of the Season 2 premiere, Rainbow Dash is missing and thus they have no Element of Loyalty. Twilight, who is stressed out and in a hurry, gives Spike the Element of Loyalty necklace and says he's the "new Rainbow Dash".
"That won't end well..." explanation
Right after Twilight makes Spike the new Rainbow Dash, he's afraid of what will happen to him once Rainbow Dash finds out. This has led to various images of what would happen when Rainbow Dash finally does confront him on the matter.
]]
Pega-Spike explanation
Spike transformed into a Pegasus has appeared in many fanarts and at least one fanfic, starting from back in season 1. More recent fanart naturally depicts his Pegasus version as a recolor of Rainbow Dash, thanks to the previous meme.
And then Spike died. explanation
Early on in Luna Eclipsed, Rainbow Dash scares Pinkie, Spike and some fillies with her lightning cloud. Spike promptly passes out, and is carried off by Twilight; because of his shaking and drooling, nearly every online chat about the episode will invariably include a "Spike died." comment.
Spike is the new main character. explanation
Until "Sweet and Elite", Spike had appeared in more episodes of Season 2 than Twilight Sparkle, who was missing from "Sisterhooves Social", and was only one of two characters (the other, humorously enough, being Applejack) to appear in every season 2 episode up to that point. This meme has since become heavily ironic as Spike hasn't appeared on the show reqularly since "Hearth's Warming Eve."
SPIKE WANT! explanation
In "Secret of My Excess", Spike goes into a rapid growth spurt and displays the infamous dragon greed. As he gets bigger, his speech gradually devolves into yelling "SPIKE WANT!"
. ]]
Run! It's Spikezilla! explanation
Also from "Secret of My Excess", Spike's form at his peak size drew a lot of comparisons to the American version of Godzilla.
The Cutie Mark Crusaders
Photoshopping fake cutie marks onto the Cutie Mark Crusaders. (Bonus points if it's the cutie marks belonging to the previous generation versions of the Crusaders.)
The Sex Pit Explanation
The Crusaders' solution to the problem they caused in Hearts and Hooves Day involved getting Big Macintosh to fall into a deep pit they dug with a matress at the bottom. The fun here comes in the form of shopping in other characters and/or altering the Crusaders' reactions.
in "Sisterhooves Social", Apple Bloom lets Sweetie Belle borrow Applejack for the contest, but makes sure she understands it's only temporary. This line made it onto
In "The Cutie Pox", one of Apple Bloom's loop-de-hoop tricks involves spinning the hoop around her tail fast enough that she takes off like a helicopter.
A snowclone spawned from another scene in "The Cutie Pox", where Apple Bloom gets a fleur-de-lis cutie mark that causes her to compulsively speak French, to which a baffled and horrified Applejack remarks "My sister's speakin' Fancy!" This scene inspired a few comics where Apple Bloom is forced to speak in other "languages", such as Chinese, British English, "Internet", Wingdings, and Daedric
Like Sweetie Belle before her, in Family Appreciation Day, it's Apple Bloom's turn to be called a dictionary following her lamentations about Granny Smith representing her family on the eponymous day.
Bunny Bloom explanation
Apple Bloom wears a rabbit suit in Family Appreciation Day. The fans think it makes her extremely
When asked whether Scootaloo is Rainbow Dash's little sister Lauren Faust said no, stating that Dash would not be a good big sister. Some fans took this a little too far, which resulted in various fanarts depicting Rainbow Dash physically abusing Scootaloo, some more gruesome than others. On the other hand, this comic
strongly suggests that Rainbow Dash doesn't necesarily need to be the one doing the abusing. It also, however, leads us right into...]]
Scootalove explanation
Formed as a reaction to Scootabuse, consisting of heartwarming fanart and fanfics about Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo. This has, in turn, led to such things as "ScootaBDSM" and other bizarre images.
Scootachicken explanation
Apple Bloom calling Scootaloo a chicken in "Stare Master" inspired a lot of jokes about Scootaloo being a literal chicken, and even led to officially licensed shirts
Pinkie Pie dressing up as a chicken for Nightmare Night spawned a few more jokes about this.
Scootadodo explanation
And then jokes emerged of Scootaloo being a dodo, after a clip from the season 2 premiere was posted in which Sweetie Belle calls Scootaloo a dodo.
Sweetie Belle
Sweetieabuse. explanation
In much the same way as Scootabuse, Sweetie Belle isn't immune to being treated badly by her sister. Various fanart depicts her as actually being an illegitimate child of Rarity's by whom she's very embarrassed. She's also depicted as being a ditz
and gross variation of Sweetie abuse. In addition to being a ditz, Sweetie is presented as being incontinent, and uncontrollably defecating in large quantities.]]
"I, uh, really like her mane..." in response to a fan's OC pony (most of which aren't really that great, due to Sturgeon's Law). The quote comes from Sweetie Belle's original reaction in being forcefully offered a raggedy old doll named "Smarty Pants" by a crazy Twilight.
Has since expanded to a response to just about anything.
It's becoming popular to post various images inside Sweetie Belle's thought bubble in "Sisterhooves Social".
As re-imagined in the Abridged Series "Friendship is Witchcraft", Sweetie Belle is actually a robot, given a robotic voice (think a cuter version of Glados), and has questionable means to an end.
"OH COME ON!" explanation
Sweetie Belle's reaction in "Hearts & Hooves Day" when Cheerilee and Big Macintosh fail to hit it off the first time, used in response to an unexpected result of a highly anticipated event (such as the Mass Effect 3 ending).
of Celestia and Luna as fillies. The meme itself began when a member of Know Your Meme known as C Charmander K, also a known Troper, used the image as his avatar.]]
. It's an exploitable meme which contains a picture of Princess Cadence to the left, an equal sign in the middle, and a random picture to the right, implying that Cadence is somehow related to the other picture and/or has something to do with her dark secret.]]
A recurring joke whenever a Pony thinks they'll be punished by Celestia, or adding it on like it's a threat to a bird like Philomena, all due to the fact she banished Luna to the moon
. It's also considered her go-to solution when things don't work for her.]]
"Do you like bananas? So, you're a bitch that likes bananas? Well, that's great. Cause you 'bout to GO bananas! On the MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONAAAAAAAA! Be-YETCH!" explanation
"No one mare should have all that power!" explanation
Snowclone of "No one man should have all that power" (the refrain from Kanye West's also-memetic "Power"), related to expressing doubt in Celestia's rule. Likely introduced by this fan video's intro
After the fanfiction Progress depicted Luna as obsessed with an abacus for various reasons, it became common for other stories to mention Luna's extreme attachment to "Abby"
, even in stories that romantically pair her with someone else.]].
Along the same lines, the leaked episode synopsis rekindled interest in the "Where My Woona!?" meme, seeing as she's finally making an appearance in the show proper since the whole Nightmare Moon incident.
The Royal Canterlot Voice has been described as her talking with capslock on, and various jokes about capslock were re-purposed (such as "The Royal Canterlot Voice is cruise control for cool").
Canon Luna is the best Luna. explanation
Said as a form of praise to Luna's first canonical appearance in "Luna Eclipsed", after all the fan work and speculation that had surrounded her canon personality for the whole year prior to that episode.
Luna killed my fanfics! explanation
The direct opposite of the above.
Redo the fanon! explanation
A call to all fans to redo their fanwork to match Canon Luna. Some, like the comic that started the "BLEEEEH ALFALFA MONSTER" meme, have already been redone in the Traditional Royal Canterlot Voice
. The Luna tumblr accounts also immediately adapted it.]]
Spawned from the Joseph Ducreux meme where famous catch phrases and memes are translated into Old English. This variation replaces Ducreux with Luna herself. Phrases used are often brony memes such as phrases from the show or other brony memes.
A few frames of Luna rearing back threateningly got edited into her decking Chrysalis as an alternate ending to A Canterlot Wedding. This being the Internet, she soon moved on to punching various other characters from different shows.
After a massive buildup over months and months of wondering how the show would introduce a new winged unicorn to the show's pantheon, it wasn't that big a deal during and after the show aired.
Others
"Who is responsible for subjecting our eyes to these... horrors?" explanation
From Hoity Toity's reaction to the first batch of dresses in "Suited for Success", this is the standard response to Brain Bleach moments.
Soarin' of the Wonderbolts was shown in "The Best Night Ever" (his first, and so far only, speaking or named appearance) to be a Big Eater, and since the food he bought and ate in that episode was a pie, the fandom decided that pie is his Trademark Favorite Food.
The Most Interesting Pony In The World explanation
Fancypants from "Sweet and Elite" impressed a lot of fans by being classy without being stuck-up, earning a number of comparisons to The Most Interesting Man in the World.
Madame Jubilee explanation
Cherry Jubilee, from "The Last Roundup" runs a cherry orchard in a western-themed town called Dodge Junction. Her business-attitude, Southern Belle accent, and constant bedroom-eyes have led to her being compared to a brothel madame.
shut off the quality control of their machine to make a profit, resulting in a series of minicomics where they turn something into a cheap, mass-produced alternative.]]
An art trend where artists make their own cover arts for the fictional Daring Do franchise. Usually comes in two flavors: the usual book cover format and comic book (complete with fake publisher logos, price tag, and a random issue number).
) popping up to deliver this line with enthusism throughout "Hurricane Fluttershy".]]
Peepingweight explanation
Featherweight, a shutterbug pegasus introduced in "Ponyville Confidential" looking through a cellar window or into the spa with camera at the ready, followed by a candid image.
Swiss Cheese Legs explanation
The holes in the legs of Queen Chrysalis and the other changelings look like... yeah.
]]
Trixie
Trixie wears her heart on her cloak. explanation
Almost every shipping fic with Trixie has one of the Mane Cast salvage and repair her hat and cloak as a romantic gesture. The hat and cloak themselves are usually described as either an inheritance from an adored family member, or things Trixie made herself with her magic when she first started her show, and almost always have some sentimental value for Trixie, regardless if the fic is shipping or not.
Tied in with the meme directly above, if the character Trixie is being shipped with isn't Rarity, the one she is being shipped with will have talked Rarity into fixing the hat and cloak for them to give to Trixie.
Trixie's favorite food is pinecones. explanation
A brony by the name of Bronymike spent quite a lot of time requesting art of Trixie eating pinecones. He
of Trixie dancing to the song "Fancy Footwork" with the words "WHAT NOW?" on top. It's based on a Homestuck meme known as "WH4T NOW?".]]
Discord
Discord dancing on Twilight's head seems to have swiftlybecomeone. (And now, people can make their own.) It didn't take long for a piece of fananimation showing the real Discord doing that dance, either.
DisQord. explanation
Discord was voiced by John de Lancie, who also voiced Q in various Star Trek series, and the character was heavily inspired by Q as well, resulting in this Fan Nickname. Star Trek/MLP mashups were also inevitable following the first episode.
Near the end of Lesson Zero, after everyone reverts to normal from the spell that Twilight Sparkle placed on the Smarty Pants doll, Big Mac notices the discarded doll and takes it for himself.
Big Macintosh is a brony. explanation
See previous explanation.
"Big Macintosh gets ALL the mares!" explanation
A popular fan depiction of Big Macintosh as a Memetic Sex God. The phrase is used as a reactionary comment or title to any fan work or discussion depicting him as this.
Within hours of the Cider Squeezy episode airing, Mac's unusually stern "Apple Family huddle" has been subjected to exploitable 3-panel comics. Typically it involves him shamelessly depressing the hell out of another character.
Another background character, making his first prominent appearance in "Winter Wrap-Up", though he cameos in the pilot, a male pony with brown fur and an hourglass cutie mark who kinda looks like the Tenth Doctor.
It also has a followup meme, involving splicing clips from the Doctor Who episode Day Of the Moon into clips of its show. explanation
Specifically, the clip where one of the Silence is recorded saying "You should kill us all on sight", and then turned into a post hypnotic suggestion so people can defeat them. This often gets superimposed on scenes of My Little Pony as a creepy spoof of subliminal messages.
While most likely a coincidence, one of the background ponies during the party in "Sweet and Elite" looks suspiciously like the Eleventh Doctor.
A blue pony with a blonde mane from "The Best Night Ever", "Sweet and Elite", "MMMystery on the Friendship Express", and "A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2" looks like the Fifth Doctor.
He's speculated to be the Fifth Doctor, the Eleventh Doctor, or the Seventeenth Master Explanation
The Doctor's rival
.
"Sweet and Elite" also had Pokey Pierce appear with an hourglass cutie mark while wearing a red tailcoat and an ascot, making him look like the Third Doctor.
There's a blue pegasus with wavy black hair and that cutie mark in "Sonic Rainboom" who appears for a couple of seconds, rather appropriate as it resembles the equally briefly-appearing Eighth Doctor.
In "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000" Doctor Whooves turns the sand timer for the competition. In other words, even the writers acknowledge that he should be in control of time.
(Fan Nicknamed "Colgate" since her blue and white mane resembles toothpaste) getting her head brushed with a toothbrush inspired a string of similar pictures with other ponies, frequently getting brushed in certain other parts of the anatomy.]]
tumblr and a response to anything that warrants a Flat "What.". Sometimes comes with this stamp.]]
There's a popular trend on YouTube where DJ Pon3's bobbing head animation is synchronized with some Electronic Music, making it look as if she's banging her head to the beat of the music.
Octavia adds her own spin to the trend by having her playing animation synchronized with a piece of Classical Music, making it look like she's playing the piece herself.
Bon Bon: Equestria's top voice actress. explanation
Background pony Bon Bon has had speaking parts in five different episodes ("Call of the Cutie", "Green Isn't Your Color", "Lesson Zero", "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000", and "Putting Your Hoof Down"), each time with a different voice. This has led to some fans joking Bon Bon is actually a talented voice actress who keeps changing the way she sounds in order to keep her skills sharp.
Since the release of the blind bag toys that resemble the background ponies, some fans have adopted the toy names as their second names. Be it their surname, first name, or even their secret real name in Carrot Top's case
.]]
Examples of name combinations are Lyra Heartstrings (which has since become Ascended Fanon), Blues Noteworthy or Noteworthy Blues, Rose's full name being Roseluck and Berryshine "Berry" Punch.
One that happened afterwards is Trixie—who is named in the show—being officially given the surname Lulamoon in the fifth wave after the fourth wave infamously called her just Lulamoon.
Octo Octavia/Octotavia explanation
In a similar vein to sea pony Lyra, an art trend where Octavia is depicted as an "octopus pony
". It started out as a simple pun to Octavia's name and its comparison to the word "octopus" and one of the nicknames that is often used by fans: "Octi/Octie/Octy" which is similar in name to Bubble's stuffed octopus. Its inspiration came from a Vocaloid meme where one of the Vocaloid characters (Luka Megurine) is depicted as an octopus head known as "Tako Luka". The art trend was started by John Joseco[12][13]. Other artists soon followed.[14][15][16][17][18]]]
Crackle, a one-shot gag character that looks a lot like Rarity's Paper-Thin Disguise dragon costume, has since become something of a memetic character due to its bizarre appearance.
Background pony copies are actually changelings! explanation
Now that "A Canterlot Wedding" is out, people have designed this as an explanation for "clones" of background characters.
One pegasus in the background in episode 1 appeared cockeyed. In short order she was given a Fan Nickname and associated with mail and the postal service. She's also been given an obsession with muffins (based on a dreamy exclamation of "muffin" in "Applebuck Season" which may or may not have been said by her
), a unicorn daughter named Dinky, the ability to do anything provided she forgets that it should be impossible, a friendship with another background pony known as "Carrot Top", and a bad habit of raiding Carrot Top's refrigerator ("I emptied your fridge" has become a meme in itself).]]
Lauren Faustsaid in response "she can be Derpy if everyone likes", and she showed up as a delivery pony in "Feeling Pinkie Keen".
At the ceremony honouring Twilight and her friends in part 2 of the Season 2 premiere, Derpy/Ditzy is seen in the background without her traditional cockeyed appearance.
But apparently it didn't take. explanation
She can be seen in Lesson Zero being attracted to the enchanted Miss Smartypants. When the spell is broken, she was fighting the Mayor hoof to hoof, derpy eyes and all.
A Catch Phrase and Running Gag where Derpy empties the entire contents of somepony else's fridge for varying reasons or even no given reason at all. May or may not be through the consumption of the food inside. Usually Carrot Top's fridge to her annoyance due to the meme's origin
A variation of the Ancient Aliens image macro meme where muffins are the answer to every weird or odd occurrences in the show such as animation errors or plot holes as explained by Derpy Hooves. The image used in the macro originated from a deviantART submission by Equestria-Prevails called "Ancient Humans
". Prior to the artwork, a photoshopped version of the Ancient Aliens guy with Derpy's head pasted over his was used.]]
Where's Derpy? explanation
Derpy has appeared in every episode since "The Best Night Ever", and fans have made a habit of pointing her out in the same vein as Where's Waldo?. Starting with "Lesson Zero", Derpy's appearances have become a Once per EpisodeRunning Gag, to the point that The Hub themselves posted
on their Facebook and Twitter pages about keeping an eye out for Derpy in "Hearth's Warming Eve" (incidentally making her name even more official than it already was).]]
. She had her own scene, and in it she plops down onto a floor...and breaks through. Taking Rainbow Dash with her.]]
Derpy Shot First explanation
After being removed from iTunes and skipped in The Hub's reruns, 'The Last Roundup' was re-released with Derpy's name not mentioned, her scenes revoiced, and her wall-eyed expression lessened. Reaction was... mixed.
is often quoted whenever somepony makes a mistake. Also often used in a sad context concerning the edit. Sometimes accompanied by the emoticon 9_6]]
They changed her voice/eyes, now we shall rage. explanation
In response to the edit, dozens of reaction videos had soon followed depicting frustrated, irritated, and enraged feelings from the fans.
Derpy Drama/Derpygate. explanation
A name for all aforementioned memes concerning Derpy's recent controversy. The other name is obviously referencing the infamous Watergate scandal.
THEY CHANGED ONE VERSION OF ONE EPISODE! EVERYONE PANIC! explanation
Fans had interpreted Hasbro's statement(s) to mean that Derpy would only be changed in the iTunes version, as the DVD release still contains the original Derpy. When the fans still kept raging and crying, the backlash meme began.
This character might be considered offensive; expect censorship. explanation
The brief Derpy scare brought on a joke where similar characters will be censored. Including the mental patient barking Pony in "Read It and Weep" and Crackle in "Dragon Quest"
Lyra Heartstrings
Sitting Lyra. explanation
One of the background ponies, a mint green unicorn with a lyre cutie mark often engaged in some sort of Funny Background Event, was seen in "Dragonshy" sitting like a human being on a bench, leading to many fanworks and jokes about her wanting to be human, mostly centered around her odd sitting patterns but recently branching into wanting human hands as well. Some officially licensed merchandise
Ever since the sitting Lyra, fans have speculated that she might in fact have an obsession with humans (even though there are no humans in Equestria). This ranges from her
, former US president Bill Clinton stated "Krastos the Glue Maker" should be the lead villain on the show. Krastos has started to appear in fan art showing him interacting with the ponies (as well as jokes showing the characters reacting to bottles of glue), drawn as a human with long arms wearing a hat and bib overalls, a bear with a gluepot and hammer, an armored pony, and other designs.]]
the fandom almost immediately accepted her as a new OC, declaring her to be the third alicorn of Equestria, or even Celestia and Luna's parent. Still there's that matter with reclassifying species though.]]
Lauren Faust is the only one allowed to have an Alicorn OC. explanation
Said in response for Ms. Faust having an alicorn OC as alicorn OCs are normally considered Mary Sues and the arguement is because she is creator, she is allowed to represent herself as an alicorn without it being considered a Mary Sue.
I really like her/his... mane? explanation
Often said in response to seeing someone's OC as a reference to Sweetie Belle's reaction to Twilight's less-than-impressive "Smarty Pants" doll.
I really like her/his mane! explanation
Another reference, in this case it's to Sweetie Belle's reaction once Twilight brainwashes her into liking the "Smarty Pants" doll. Generally used for cases when someone's OC is actually considered a pretty cool pony design.
of a bottle of Coca-Cola. She is an Earth pony with red hair, a brown transparent glass for a body, and a bottle of coke for a cutie mark. Her inside is hollow and instead is filled with coke. Drawn by various fan artists and made a cameo in Fluffle Puff's game "GO FAST".]]
, such as "PONY PULLS THE WAGON". This relatively minor snowclone was the result.]]
Since there is a toy for it, a few fanarts depict Applejack with a pink pickup truck, always with a cardboard cutout of Twilight Sparkle in the truckbed.
Naturally, the memetic nature of the Cardboard Cutout made an Alan Wake crossover inevitable.
"No one man should have all that pony!" explanation
When a particularly thorough merchandise collection is on display in a forum. Reference to Kayne West's "Power" video recreated as the opening to Ponies: The Anthology.
DAMN YOU, HABSRO!! explanation
Common exclamation of bad news on the pony front, placing the blame on one of the powers that be, or an everyday troll. Referring to when copies of episodes on Youtube were taken down by a copyright claim from Habsro.
ran during the episode "Sisterhooves Social". This has not escaped the notice of the fans.]]
Creepily enough, there was already a video mashing up the theme song and another ad for the same game four months prior to the episode.
"Fanon names are best names." explanation
A belief and phrase uttered by those who refuse to accept the Blind bag toy names as a particular background pony's official name. Reasons include their toy names not being confirmed as canon in the show yet due to the fact that the toy department and the animation studio are working separately from each other, their toy designs, especially the character profile cards that came along with the toys, are too different from their supposed show counterparts to be the same pony, and because they just don't like the toy names in general.
"Toy names are best names." explanation
The antithesis of the one above. There are in fact those who took a liking on the toy names but this one is usually invoked by others to Troll those who believe that the Fan Nicknames are the only true name.
Some fans take a third option and combine the two, making one or the other a surname, a full name, or a nickname.
Hasbro has officially made it naming policy in the fifth wave of Blind Bags to combine the names for Lyra Heartstrings and Trixie Lulamoon. PRAISE BE TO HASBRO!!
. This fan-made version of Star Swirl is a mare who possesses the color scheme and cutie mark of the toy Star Swirl and sports the unicorn horn, wizard hat and cape of the show's Star Swirl. Thesearesomeexamples.]]
Comic shorts in magazines of various languages are a fountain of memes, mostly due to their questionable quality, for example reusing low-quality vectors.
Know Your Meme.
