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Getting Crap Past The Radar is when the writers intentionally sneak past mature content. Please think about whether your example is genuine or if you've just read too much into it before adding an example. Mentions of Alcohol or alluding to its existence does not count as Getting Crap Past the Radar. Parental Bonuses may also not be necessarily examples. Read the main Getting Crap Past the Radar page if you are unsure if your example is an example, or if you are just reading too much into things.


  • In the very first episode, the ponies are apparently having coconut rum bloody marys at Twilight's welcome party. While a bit of implicit drinking might itself be fine and even Twilight's apparent unsuccessful attempt to drown out Pinkie's talking with alcoholism, it goes further by having Spike, who is a "baby" dragon (and at most 13), appear later with a lampshade over his head acting drunk. In the next episode, he is conspicuously so tired he can't be awake to help save the world, unlike the rest who were also up just as much as him, with an excuse that he's "just a baby dragon".
  • In "Feeling Pinkie Keen", Twilight has to rush to check on Fluttershy, and she puts Spike atop her by ramming him with her head. Thankfully, her horn stays a bit to the side. However, later in the episode, she has to pull the same maneuver to rescue him from a swamp, and her horn is nowhere to be seen as she races with him atop her head...while he has a shocked expression and his limbs splayed out, upper body rocking around, yet lower body firmly stuck in place.
    • Earlier in the episode, Twilight also rams him from the rear to scoop him up onto her head, which up until he's up there, looks like she's about to put her horn where his sun doesn't shine. Both of these are actually not in the script, as in the script, both times she just put Spike on her back like normal.
  • In "The Cutie Pox", a pony version of the cast of The Big Lebowski makes a cameo appearance. Including a ponified Jesus Quintana - a registered sex offender.
  • In "Putting Your Hoof Down" Fluttershy holds up one of her hooves as she tells off her friends, giving the impression that she's flipping them off.
  • In "A Canterlot Wedding", Twilight tries to remind Cadance of who she is by doing their dance from her childhood, which involves shaking her butt. This of course is used as an excuse to have Twilight happily shaking her butt and presenting at the camera.
  • "Pinkie Apple Pie" has a rather minor example in that Pinkie apparently keeps a specially-shaped-framed photo of Big Macintosh's butt in her scrapbook. Considering Animals Lack Attributes is in effect for the audience, but certainly not in-universe, this is a rather sneaky way to say Pinkie might be rather interested in him.
  • In "Pinkie Pride", Cheese Sandwich says to a female lookalike "Hey good lookin', want some mayonnaise?". While he does actually bring out a jar of mayonnaise from hammerspace, it's an awfully strange pairing of a compliment on looks and a question to be innocent.
  • "Filli Vanilli" sees Big Mac, while singing, sweating profusely and staring directly at Fluttershy (who's singing for him since he lost his voice) just out the window. Fluttershy at that moment is getting into the rhythm by intensely shaking her rear. This is likely because they're singing in a classroom in front of a bunch of foals.
  • "Appleoosa's Most Wanted" has a blink and you'll miss it moment where a cactus doesn't just get sat on by Troubleshoes, but apparently goes right up his buttcrack.
  • In "Rarity Investigates!", Rarity questions three guards, and to Rainbow Dash's shock, is dressed in a very frilly way, sprawled on a couch seductively, then comes up and says softly, with a closeup shot, in a guard's ear that guarding can "get a bit...boring...". The guards don't really react much other than answering the question, but Rarity really seemed like she wanted to titillate them.
  • In "Hearthbreakers", the Pie family are revealed to have an enormous rock named "Holder's Boulder". An "over-the-shoulder boulder-holder" is slang for a well-endowed woman's bra.
  • "The Cutie Remark" really ups the darkness for the series overall with multiple timelines where the good guys didn't win, and while it does keep things pretty tame and not show the Inferred Holocaust that would happen each time (especially with the changelings in part 2), it does very briefly show a pony being strangled by one of Sombra's forces amidst more cartoonish fighting.
  • "No Second Prances" has Trixie doing an escape trick involving being eaten by a Manticore and then teleporting out. She however can't teleport herself, but Starlight is able to. Naturally, drama unfolds right before the trick, and so Starlight doesn't want to help, but a crying Trixie does it anyways while clearly indicating that if Starlight doesn't help, she'd like to die from it. Starlight of course does come around in time, after Trixie has merely suffered a change to her normal outfit, but torn up.
  • "The Saddle Row Review" has a pony with a pacifier necklace dancing in a club. This is a direct reference to ecstasy use.
  • "Flutter Brutter", in addition to seeing Fluttershy swear in-universe ("peeved", presumably treated as "pissed" in-universe, with ponies not thinking it appropriate to say around children), has a moment where Fluttershy is cleaning up several crumpled papers from her couch that her brother Zephyr Breeze was using to sleep on, with nothing prior indicating why. Considering as well that Zephyr, a lazy failure, barely spent time on the couch during the day and got out early, and the papers are about where his hind legs would be on the couch, they must've been for...nighttime purposes (little bit of ew given Fluttershy picks one up with her mouth). While she's doing this, there are two framed pictures of him, one holding a rose in his mouth seductively, and the other black and white with him in a seductive pose.
  • In "Uncommon Bond", Starlight, desperate to rekindle her connection to her childhood friend Sunburst, takes him to the Mirror Pool, and promptly talks up the idea of them cloning themselves, while (seemingly) alone in the woods, with a slightly seductive manner of speaking. She acts like the irresponsible cloning was a joke when Sunburst doesn't seem to catch what she wanted to do with him.
  • Mudbriar, introduced in "The Maud Couple" seems fairly innocent as a Sheldon Cooper expy, but his particular main area of interest is sticks, very specifically sticks, not even just branches (which would fit more with Maud's being rocks, not pebbles or such)...he's (like his cutie mark) a stick in the mud...or...a stick in the Maud, and Maud's the one (other than him) character who would likely be described as "having a stick up their ass"..and his name is basically "mud thorn". Yep, his whole concept is an innuendo.
    • And later, the one time we see him doing much at all, which makes Maud excited, it's because he was hard as a rock (petrified)...
  • "The Mean 6" features clones of the Mane 6 who end up killed by the Tree of Harmony as it detects them as fake copies of the element bearers...by melting them. This was one of a handful of episodes that leaked in a pre-broadcast form, which showed a more intense melting. The final thing however isn't that much better.
  • "A Rockhoof and a Hard Place" features the titular character struggling to find work in modern society, and, after he's seemingly exhausted his options, he asks to be turned to stone, implicitly permanently.
    • This episode also sneaked in a genitals joke. Twilight flashes back to when she tried to get Rockhoof a job as a delivery pony. In said flashback, he yells that he's looking for Cranky Doodle Donkey, who, and I quote: "Has a rash in a very embarrassing place"...while a nearby mare acts shocked by this (as opposed to laughing at him or just being grossed out, suggesting she wants to be away from thinking about...certain things with him).
  • "Father Knows Beast" sees the usual joke about nudity, but with a twist in that Twilight is rather freaked out by looking directly at Sludge's crotch as he took on a seductive pose (and a pink pillow is near his crotch). In the next shot, there's more bright pink objects near his crotch. Finally, when she is framed by legs, part of the background on the top of a door (which shouldn't be there) is in just the right spot to suspiciously resemble his male genitalia.
  • "The Beginning of the End's 2nd part" sees Sombra's return, and the Mane 6 eventually realize as they did in the first episode that the elements of harmony aren't just the physical items, but are within them. In the episode's script, Sombra's second blasting just has a flash of light, but in the actual episode...he's torn apart in a way you can briefly see his skin separate from muscle if you're paying attention.
  • "Dragon Dropped" is fairly innocent despite being about Rarity, an adult, being jealous that Gabby is taking Spike, a child, from her socially, even with how creepy she is about it (standing over him as he sleeps to wake him up and such). However, late in it slips in a very brief moment where Gabby and Spike are seen having milkshakes together, seemingly on a date, and Gabby digs out her cherry from her milkshake to let Spike pop it. Slipped in at the same time are Lyra and Bon Bon sharing the same drink with two straws (in a show that was hesitant to even show straight couples together outside of marriage).
  • In "Frenemies", Chrysalis is seen to still have the purple wooden remains of Mean Twilight, which in addition to being basically the skull of a former minion, is awfully phallic in shape for something for her to be holding close...and that's very different in shape to when it originally dropped to the ground.

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