History Recap / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E3TheMaudCouple

** If your loved one has a boyfriend (or girlfriend) who makes them truly happy and cares for them in return, make an effort to get along with them.

* BirdsOfAFeather: Maud and Mudbriar are so alike it's scary. They both have narrow-minded obsessions with rocks and sticks respectively, they both have a dry sense of humor, they’re both calm and unemotional, and they're both LiteralMinded and have NoSocialSkills.

* BirdsOfAFeather: Maud and Mudbriar are so alike it's scary. They both have narrow-minded obsessions with rocks and sticks respectively, they both have a dry sense of humor, and they're both LiteralMinded and have NoSocialSkills.

* RestrainedRevenge: Despite holding a grudge seems to be very much against Pinkie's character, one can't help but see her sending Mudbriar toppling down a trapdoor and a slide into her party-planning cave as passive-aggressively getting back at the stallion for the earlier frustrations he caused.

* ShipSinking: Maud gaining a boyfriend shoots down any pairing she previously had.

* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The title is a reference to the Neil Simon play, ''Theatre/TheOddCouple'', as well as its subsequent [[Film/TheOddCouple film]] and [[Series/TheOddCouple1970 television]] [[Series/TheOddCouple adaptations]].

* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The title is a reference to the Neil Simon play, ''Theatre/TheOddCouple'', as well as its subsequent [[Film/TheOddCouple film]] and [[Theatre/TheOddCouple television]] [[Series/TheOddCouple adaptations]].

* WhenSheSmiles: This episode features Maud smiling more than she has in any previous episode. At various points she also breaks a bit from her usual monotone speech as well.

In Pinkie's party cave, she and Mudbriar come to a disagreement about Maud's preferences -- most importantly, Mudbriar is certain that Maud doesn't like surprise parties at all. Pinkie, growing further irritated, takes Mudbriar to where Maud and Starlight are flying kites and asks Maud directly about how she feels about surprise parties. Maud says she likes them, but only because they bring Pinkie so much happiness. Realizing that Mudbriar was right, Pinkie runs off, believing she's no longer Maud's "best sister friends forever". She travels to her family's rock farm to get away from Maud and Mudbriar, and talks to Limestone and Marble about how Maud's been behaving around him. Limestone offers Pinkie a metaphor, that Mudbriar is like a geode -- Pinkie may only see the blandness of Mudbriar's personality, but she should know that Maud likely sees something within him that she likes.

* BusmansVocabulary: In the midst of one of Pinkie's GroupHug, Limestone says that Pinkie is "crushing [her] to gravel."

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Mudbriar's impressionable appearance alone foreshadows this isn't the last we've seen of him, especially when Pinkie thoughtlessly shoos him out the door with "See you later" (a farewell that implies they'll see each other again).
** Also, when Pinkie Pie runs off after she decides Maud doesn't need a "best sister friend" anymore, Mudbriar calls out to her "see you later", a greeting which implies they'll see each other in the near future (see MeaningfulEcho).

* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The title is a reference to the Neil Simon play, ''Theatre/TheOddCouple'', as well as its subsquent [[Film/TheOddCouple film]] and [[Theatre/TheOddCouple television]] [[Series/TheOddCouple adaptations]].

* MentalWorld: Mudbriar has a "mind palace" where he has all the facets he knows about Maud. Visually, this is shown to the audience à la ''{{Series/Sherlock}}''-type interface, though Pinkie herself cannot see it.

* ShoutOut: Mudbriar is an [[{{Series/Sherlock}} uptight, asocial male character who catalogues facts in his "mind palace"]].

* StealthPun: Mudbriar and Maud's centers of interest are... [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticks_and_Stones sticks and stones]], respectively.

** If your loved one has a nice boyfriend (or girlfriend) who makes them truly happy, make an effort to get along with them.

** Mud Briar's annoying habit of correcting other ponies on every little thing makes him a ''stick''ler for accuracy.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The construction pony whose hat Pinkie pops out of walks away when she pops out of a barrel, clearly freaked out.