Shout Out / The Unexpected Love Life of Dusk Shine

• Dash references both Cupcakes and Pattycakes (two Dark Fics where she gets ground into cake batter and lobotomized into a toy for Fluttershy's infantilism fetish respectively) when Nightmare Moon offers her a Faustian Bargain. As things she'd rather have happen to her instead of taking the deal.
• When Nightmare Moon tries to have her way with Dusk Shine:
  Dusk: I NEED AN ADULT!!!
  Nightmare Moon: WE ARE AN ADULT!!!
• The first part of Chapter 3 is a reference to the "What?" scene from Pulp Fiction.
  Pinkamena: "What" ain’t no country I’ve ever heard of! They speak Equuish in "What"?
  Dusk: What?
  Pinkamena: EQUUISH, MOTHER-CLOPPER, DO YOU SPEAK IT?!
  • This has turned into a full-on Running Gag, because now every time Dusk says "What?" around Pinkie (no matter the occasion), she hits him in the nether-regions with a crowbar.
    *WHACK*
    Dusk: MY BALLS!
• In the first part of the Applebuck Season chapter (chapter 5), Applejack is unsure of Rainbow's catapult stunt plan, specifically because Derpy built it.
  AJ: “Rainbow, you know ya sound like th’ infamous Lemon Johnson, right?”
  RD: “Pfft, you say that all the time. What could possibly go wrong?”
• Fluttershy is the direct descendant of the Dovahkin. Dragonrend is apparently pronounced "How dare you?" in Equuish. Also, royal guards are trained to speak entirely in non-contextual guardspeak soundbites.
• For a scary story during a Slumber Party, Trixie tells The Legend of the Brony. The listeners find the story preposterous.
• Zecora's explanation about the avatar of Anansi (aka Featherweight) is taken from an official and generally fan-rejected storyline intended to make Spider-Man a Legacy Character.
• Pinkie tells Fluttershy to tell the dragon to "stay out of my shed" as a scare tactic.
  • Rainbow Dash's father works in the Rainbow Factory, and doesn't like to talk about his work...
• Luna pulls a slightly altered version of Sailor Moon's In the Name of the Moon speech, complete with "SAILOR MOON!" crossed out in the text. She even uses Moon's basic tiara attack!
• Pinkie Pie's unique solution to the parasprite problem (i.e. construct a spritebot to lure them away with) is a reference to Fallout: Equestria.
  • After that, she made it big and hired Iron Will as a spokesperson.
  “AS YOU KNOW, SPRITEBOT ENTERPRISES HAS BEEN EXPANDING TO PRODUCTS OTHER THAN SPRITEBOTS! WE’VE GOT INVENTIONS OF ALL KINDS: PARTY-TIME MENTALS, WATER TALISMANS, RADIGATOR MEAT, MEGASPELLS, CRUSADER MAINFRAMES, AND BEST OF ALL, OXICLEAN STAIN REMOVER!”
  • Scootaloo ends up shoplifting a “Junior Pinkie-Spy Kit,” thus looking like Stalkerloo. She then goes up to Diamond Tiara’s bedroom and screams, “SO, HOW’S YOUR SEX LIFE??!!”
• Pipsqueak and Vinyl Scratch both had brief careers as kid idols. Their hits songs? Equestrian equivalents of "Baby" and "Friday".
  • Their father, Fancy Pants, was essentially one half of Bill & Ted back in the day.
• Manga Rarity has a star-shaped beauty mark, and has caused Dusk to be Distracted by the Sexy because of her Head-Turning Beauty. Sounds pretty similar to another series with a snarky main character who also ends up distracted by an attractive girl with a star-shaped beauty mark.
  • Also in the manga, Button Mash and his mother make a cameo, along with a ponified Tara Strong.
• Slendermane needs somepony to give him twenty bits.
• On Silver Spoon’s second date with Snails, they went to see the latest Con Mane movie, but then found out that they were both underage. So, they went to a Hetalian place down the street instead.
• The entire "Feeling Pinkie Keen" arc is called Pinkieception.
  • In the same arc, Dusk Shine's "inner self" is revealed to be an alicorn, while Pinkie's is a white pegasus with blonde mane - styled after "Surprise", a G1 pony who was originally supposed to fill Pinky Pie's role in the show. It's more than a Shout-Out, she actually is Surprise, Dusk's Imaginary Friend who became not so imaginary, by taking posession of serial-killer-to-be Pinkamenia
• The first Wonderbolt Captain was apparently named Captain Storm Wing.
• Rainbow Dash has six brothers (one for each color of the rainbow), one of which's name is Booster Gold.
• One of the fan's Continuity Reboots is called "no need for meme."
• The comic version has one to Naruto. In the firts story the group goes trough the "Valley Of The End" with the statues of Nightmare Moon and Celestia that resemble exactly the statues of Madara and Hashirama.

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