Trope trivia
- First Appearance: Of Goldie.
- Harpo Does Something Funny: Michelle Creber was told to improvise a rap song for Apple Bloom when she found the map. She chose to replicate a "Ponylicious" meme, unprompted.
- One-Book Author: Before this episode, Natasha Levinger had only one writing credit. It was for a 2004 Lifetime movie called My Sexiest Mistake.
Other trivia
- "Pinkie Apple Pie" was one of Meghan McCarthy's April Fools episode titles that she tweeted on April 1, 2013; this is the second episode title after "Bats!" which came from that set.