History Recap / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E8RarityTakesManehattan

* TalkingToHerself: Creator/TabithaStGermain, when Rarity and Suri converse together.

* BSODSong / DarkReprise: Rarity reprises her "Generosity" song after she finds her friends gone and feels horrible about her ungratefulness towards them.

* PyrrhicVillainy: Suri gets away with stealing Rarity's designs but still doesn't win the competition, and she ends up driving away her far more competent employee, ensuring she won't be able to capitalize on any prestige she may have gotten from them.

** CheatersNeverProsper. Suri's been abusing Coco into making all of 'her' dresses and taking all the credit for her work even when she never raised a hoof to make anything. Now she deliberately plagiarized Rarity for her new fabric to use in her own fashion line to try and ensure a certain win at the cost of Rarity's generosity. Then Suri tries to make a bold-faced lie to trick Rarity into forfeiting 1st place when she loses to her. [[LaserGuidedKarma But it all comes to a head when Coco, upon seeing Rarity's integrity, decides to quit working for Suri and brings the trophy to its rightful owner.]]

* SmugSnake: Suri shamelessly plagiarizes Rarity by remaking her line of dresses with the purple fabric that Rarity already used for her own dresses and then makes a bold-faced lie that Rarity had been disqualified for running off in order to steal first place by default. All of this done while treating Coco like a personal slave. The terms "Amoral" and "Parasite" don't even begin to describe her.

* TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity: Being the Element of Generosity, Rarity is very generous with giving things away throughout the episode, a fact that Suri takes advantage of when Rarity offers her some of her leftover cloth and Suri proceeds to use it for her own dresses, effectively stealing her idea.

* {{Irony}}: Rainbow Dash is sceptical of ponies who just burst into song. This, coming from a pony who hangs out with ''Pinkie Pie'', a pony who spontaneously and in Pinkie's own words is prone to "sing[ing] a random song out of nowhere". Still more irony follows, as Rarity's the one who bursts into song, not Pinkie. If that wasn't enough, Rainbow Dash is voiced by a [[Creator/AshleighBall professional singer]].

Using her favor to the costume designer, Rarity treats her friends to an exclusive showing of ''Hinny of the Hills'' in exchange for a costume designing opportunity that, unfortunately for her friends, will keep her away from Ponyville for a while. At the end of the show, Coco Pommel enters and tells Rarity she actually won the fashion show, but she and Suri lied to her in hopes Rarity would forfeit. She gives Rarity a gift to apologize, and Rarity in turn sets her up with the costume design job. Back in Ponyville, Rarity muses that having a generous spirit means not [[PayEvilUntoEvil returning evil for evil]], while behind her Coco's gift of rainbow thread [[PlotCoupon shimmers]] [[ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest iridescently.]]

Arriving in the nick of time, Rarity bumps into Suri Polomare, an old designer acquaintance from Ponyville. Suri admires Rarity's collection of dresses, which are made with an eye-catching new material that Rarity had created herself. Rarity loans some to Suri to help accent her dresses... only to find, upon arriving the next day, that Suri's presentation line is made entirely of the new fabric, sewn overnight by Suri's meek and overworked assistant, Coco Pommel. Suri shows no remorse, saying that it's every pony for herself in Manehattan. Realizing she'll be seen as a design thief by fashion show director Prim Hemline -- whom she's already failed to impress with her late arrival -- Rarity bolts from the rehearsal in tears.

->'''Suri Polomare:''' It takes some small-town fillies a while to learn it's every pony for herself in the big city, [[VerbalTic 'kay]]?

Rarity's new line is put on display, and it appears to be a success. However, Rarity's excitement is shot when she sees her friends aren't in the audience, and is stricken with remorse for how awfully she's treated them. A rainbow-hued shimmer suddenly catches her eye, and she dashes from the show in search of her friends at the hotel, only to find they are long gone. Despondent, Rarity returns to the fashion show venue to collect her things and thank Prim Hemline for her time, only to bump into Suri and the rest of the Mane Six (they merely overslept). Suri tells her that Prim is furious that she ran off, and that she lost the contest. However, Rarity couldn't care less about the show anymore and is relieved to be with her friends, who gladly accept her apologies.

* IdiotBall: It should have been fairly simple to prove Suri stole Rarity's fabric and copied her designs -- the bellhop pony (and by proxy other hotel ponies) surely saw her wheeling them around the day before, and Rarity has design sketches of her dresses, not to mention other colors of the fabric that she created herself and only she knows how it was made.

Using her favor to the costume designer, Rarity treats her friends to an exclusive showing of ''Hinny of the Hills'' in exchange for a costume designing opportunity that, unfortunately for her friends, will keep her away from Ponyville for a while. At the end of the show, Coco Pommel enters and tells Rarity she actually won the fashion show, but she and Suri lied to her in hopes Rarity would forfeit. She gives Rarity a gift to apologize, and Rarity in turn sets her up with the costume design job. Back in Ponyville, Rarity muses that having a generous spirit means not [[PayEvilUntoEvil returning evil for evil]], while behind her Coco's gift of rainbow thread [[PlotCoupon shimmers]] [[ItMayHelpYouOnYoirQuest iridescently.]]

Using her favor to the costume designer, Rarity treats her friends to an exclusive showing of ''Hinny of the Hills'' in exchange for a costume designing opportunity that, unfortunately for her friends, will keep her away from Ponyville for a while. At the end of the show, Coco Pommel enters and tells Rarity she actually won the fashion show, but she and Suri lied to her in hopes Rarity would forfeit. She gives Rarity a gift to apologize, and Rarity in turn sets her up with the costume design job. Back in Ponyville, Rarity muses that having a generous spirit means not [[PayEvilUntoEvil returning evil for evil]], while behind her Coco's gift of rainbow thread shimmers iridescently.

** The dress covers on the rack Rarity brings in, as well as the spools of thread on the shelf near then end, use the colors of the Mane 6's bodies.

* {{Irony}}: Rainbow Dash is sceptical of ponies who just burst into song. This, coming from a pony who hangs out with ''Pinkie Pie'', a pony who spontaneously and in Pinkie's own words is prone to "sing[ing] a random song out of nowhere". Still more irony follows, as Rarity's the one who bursts into song, not Pinkie. If that wasn't enough, Rainbow Dash is voiced by a [[Music/HeyOcean professional singer]].

** CheatersNeverProsper. Suri's been abusing Coco into making all of 'her' dresses and taking all the credit for her work even when she never raised a hoof to make anything. Now she deliberately plagiarized Rarity for her new fabric to use in her own fashion line to try and ensure a certain win at the cost of Rarity's generosity. Then Suri tries to make a bold-faced lie to trick Rarity into forfeiting 1st place when she loses to her.

** Although her voice is more similar to that of Janine Melnitz, the secretary in ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}''.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: InUniverse. The filly in ''Hinny of the Hills'' was hanging on a rope for the play. One can only wonder why they don't cast a pegasus in the role.

* UsefulNotes/StatueOfLiberty: The mane six visit the Equestrian equivalent during Rarity's song.[[note]]They visit the torch area, and public access to the area has been barred from the Statue since 1916.[[/note]]

** Coco Pommel exposed her crooked employer and was rewarded for it with a job as a costume designer. She's a snitch who got stitches.
** When AJ lifts the broken taxi on her back she becomes... an Apple''jack''.

* VisualPun: When the ponies stop to help a cabbie replace a wheel, Applejack is underneath propping the vehicle up, acting as a car jack.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: InUniverse. The girl in ''Hinny of the Hills'' was hanging on a rope for the play. One can only wonder why they don't cast a pegasus in the role.

Rarity is headed to Manehattan for a fashion show, taking the rest of the Mane Six with her to see the sights of the big city. In particular, Rarity intends to take them to see ''Hinny of the Hills'', a sold-out musical that she managed to earn tickets for by designing costumes for the play. As befits the Element of Generosity, Rarity takes pains to be a considerate guest and a liberal tipper, for in Manehattan, doing favors for ponies encourages them to be generous in return. The Mane Six have so much fun seeing the sights that Rarity loses track of the time, and suddenly realizes she has only ten minutes to make it to the fashion show's dress rehearsal! Fortunately, her philosophy on favors pays off at exactly the right time -- a taxi cab takes her to the show because she helped fix a wheel, and her dresses are delivered by a bellhop she generously tipped.