Web Animation / My Little Pony: Equestria Girls Digital Series

aka: My Little Pony Equestria Girls

You are my Equestria Girls!

Whoa ~ oh ~ oh
Whoa ~ oh ~ oh
You are my Equestria Girls!
I met you when light switched on
It brightens up my day like the sun
When my friends come a-runnin'
You were right all along that together
We're always better
We can turn a sketch into a masterpiece
When you're here I feel like I'm complete
You are my Equestria Girls!

A YouTube original web series based on the My Little Pony: Equestria Girls franchise, the series centers around the Mane Seven (Sunset Shimmer, Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Applejack) and their magical adventures while dealing with their daily school lives. Episodes run roughly 2-3 minutes in length.

The series officially premiered on November 17, 2017 with the episode "A Fine Line." However, the first 11 episodes premiered early on the Discovery Family GO! app and Discovery GO! website, released in three blocks from November 2 through November 8. The first season consisted of 37 episodes and ran through October 5, 2018. A second season of 33 episodes ran from January 11, 2019 to June 23, 2020; the series ended at this point due to Hasbro's plans to reboot the My Little Pony franchise (into what would become Generation 5).

Most episodes are self-contained stories, with some loose arcs here and there. A few are presented as music videos, and several contain an interactive element that allows the viewer to decide which way the story plays out.

The series is available on Hasbro's YouTube channel:

• Season 1
• Season 2

The trailer used in Comicbook.com's initial announcement of the series can be seen here; the second trailer released shortly after the first episode can be seen here. The second season's trailer is available here.

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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls provides examples of:

• Adaptation Dye-Job: The (fictional video-game character) Tirek from this universe is seen in his eponymous game's box art and related promotional material with a very different color scheme to the one from Equestria: he has dark brown skin, he's entirely covered in reddish orange fur barring his face, and has yellow horns and claws. The Tirek from Friendship is Magic has bright red skin, furless arms, has a white mane and beard, grey horns, and black fur on his chest.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Micro Chips' toast-making robot, introduced in "Best in Show", later goes rogue in "Cheer You On", attacking both its creator and the other students.
• Air Quotes: Twilight does the gesture when she describes how she's gonna go "hang out" with Timber Spruce.
• Alas, Poor Villain: The music video "Find the Magic" paints the Dazzlings in a more sympathetic light following their defeat in Rainbow Rocks, depicting them as lost souls trying to adjust to a world without magic. It ends with them performing a Heel–Face Turn when they learn to appreciate the simple joys in life, inspiring them to share that joy with others. Subverted in Sunset's Backstage Pass where their attitude is just as bitter as usual and they clearly hate being stuck in the human world just as much as before. They state they are simply doing whatever they can to survive in the human world without their magic.
• Alternate Self: Human counterparts for Zephyr Breeze (Fluttershy's younger brother), Prim Hemline, and Cranky Doodle Donkey appear at various times.
• Art Evolution:
  • The series is part of a larger case of this for the franchise as a whole. The logo has been subtly redesigned and the episode title cards are all designed to look like a teenager's notebook (i.e. cutouts, stickers, drawings), fitting with the overall "marker drawing" feel of the 2018 redesign.
  • More and more characters have transitioned from using "old model" clothes (i.e. big, square boots or shoes; huge skirts) to newer, more natural and realistic models.
  • The series also sees the introduction of more different facial expressions and body shapes for various characters.
• Artistic License – Cars: A few in "Driving Miss Shimmer".
  • Sunset says her upcoming retest for her driver's license is her last chance to pass the test. There is no "last chance" in most countries that let you take a driving test — generally, the worst that happens is the time between retests keeps increasing.^note The first failure makes you wait until the next day to try again, the second failure makes you wait a week, etc. In most states, you must wait at least 14 days before trying again.
  • In Applejack's version, Sunset passes the test by knowing how to change a tire after her test car's front wheel goes flat. While knowing how to change a tire is certainly an important skill to have for a driver, Cranky marks Sunset as passing the test the moment she pulls a jack from the trunk. Also, Cranky was ready to fail Sunset when the tire blew out a moment earlier; not only was that not Sunset's fault, she hadn't even started the engine yet.
  • Rarity's version has Sunset learning how to drive a limousine to help with her driver's test in a regular car. A limousine requires an entirely different license to operate, and has an entirely different standard for testing.
• Art Shift:
  • "Super Squad Goals" randomly shifts to a pulp comic-style of artistry throughout the short. Justified, as it's Sunset drawing a comic book.
  • "X Marks the Spot" shifts to a simplistic video game style as Twilight, Pinkie, Sunset head for the treasure chest at the beach, mirroring the one Sunset was playing on her phone.
• Aside Glance: Given by Sunset to the audience at the end of "Super Squad Goals" short.
• Badly Battered Babysitter: Played with. In "Pinkie Sitting", Pinkie Pie completely tires herself out while acting out a story being read by the little girl she is babysitting. The short ends with the girl reading Pinkie to sleep.
• Beach Episode: The season 1 episodes 13–21 are set on the beach, taking place shortly after Forgotten Friendship.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: When Sunset asks her friends to guess the best bit of the Tirek's Revenge video game, others guess "The quests?" "The powerups?" But it's Fluttershy who suddenly gains an evil look in her eyes and says "The revenge?"
• Big "NO!": Twilight screams this in "Last Day of School" twice, first when she finds out it's the last day and again when the bell rings, both of which are followed by Rainbow doing the inversion.
• Braces of Orthodontic Overkill: In the webisode "Tip Toppings", the cashier at a frozen yogurt shop has braces with a ring going all around her head, making her talk with a pronounced lisp and spluttering a lot.
• Bullet Time: Most of the "Run to Break Free" short is in bullet time, from Rainbow Dash's perspective.
• The Bus Came Back:
  • Timber Spruce — Twilight's love interest last seen in 2016's Legend of Everfree — reappears to go on a date with her at a planetarium. He also shows up as a lifeguard in a few beach shorts.
  • The Dazzlings finally make a return in "Find the Magic" after having been absent since Rainbow Rocks.
• …But He Sounds Handsome: In "Display of Affection", Rarity praises Flanksy's graffiti art style, saying she can't imagine what it's like to do all that work for just artistic praise. Sunset, who is Flanksy, agrees that she can't imagine what that's like while looking rather suspiciously off to the side.
• Call-Back:
  • "Super Squad Goals" has the girls shifting at will into their superhero-esque forms from the climax of Legend of Everfree.
  • Twilight Sparkle's and Timber Spruce's budding relationship was introduced in 2016's Legend of Everfree, and the episode "Star Crossed" shows them going on a date.
  • Sunset Shimmer shows her proficiency for graphic art — first seen in the Summertime short "The Art of Friendship" — in "Display of Affection" and "Super Squad Goals". In the former, she helps Rarity finish a shop display and in the latter it's revealed that the entire short is a comic she drew herself.
  • In the Sunset Shimmer ending of "The Last Drop", DJ P0N-3's game allows Sunset's avatar to level up to a pixellated version of her Daydream Shimmer form.
• Clothing Reflects Personality: Compared to their earlier everyday clothes, which respected their color schemes but were a bit generic, the new costumes introduced with this series are more varied and fit their respective personalities more closely. For example, Fluttershy's long skirt looks more conservative, fitting with her shyness, and her open shoes reflect her closeness to nature. Likewise, Rainbow Dash is dressed in a track suit emphasizing her tomboyishness and love of sports. Rarity is the most elegant, Twilight is just as nerdy as always, etc.
• Continuity Nod:
  • "Queen of Clubs" shows Twilight, at one point, wearing the blond wig Rarity had used to disguise her pony counterpart back in the first film.
  • In "Queen of Clubs", Twilight brings the robotic puppy she built in "Mad Twience" to a school club photo shoot.
  • "Game Stream" has Sunset back in her standard outfit from Friendship Games. The only difference is that she's swapped her high-heeled boots for a pair of sneakers.
  • In "How to Backstage", Sunset uses Twilight’s selfie robot from Forgotten Friendship to livestream her backstage tour. Pinkie Pie also uses it in "5 Lines You Need to Stand In".
  • In "Costume Conundrum", one of the possible costumes Sunset finds for Fluttershy are vampire fangs. Ironically enough, Sunset says she "can't picture [Fluttershy] as a bat".
• Costume Evolution: The most clear example is the main characters' brand new wardrobe, but even the recurring although nameless extras at school get some of it.
  • Each of the girls get a new wardrobe, getting rid of the skirts-and-big-boots that all of the main characters except Twilight and Sunset have worn since the first film in favor of more unique and character-fitting outfits. Rarity gets elegant gem-encrusted high heels and a pencil skirt, Fluttershy gets a green breezy dress, Pinkie Pie gets a mostly white and pink outfit with a rah-rah skirt, and Rainbow Dash gets what looks like sportswear with black tights. Applejack's outfit is actually fairly close in overall "look and feel" to her original clothes, but uses the newer, more natural boot and skirt designs. Sunset's design also echoes her original one, with an orange/black/purple color palette and a skirt, and Twilight's clothes bear a superficial similarity to the Equestrian Princess-as-human's (blue shirt with slightly poofy shoulders, bright pink bowtie, purple skirt).
  • Some of the recurring background and supporting classmates also get wardrobe overhauls, some minor (Trixie swaps the giant boots for ankle-high boots with similar design) and some major (one of the most commonly recurring jocks — a blue fellow usually seen accompanying a techie — got a new jacket, shoes and pants).
  • One girl previously seen as a Crystal Prep student seems to have transferred like Twilight and is now among the background students at CHS. Of course, she has ditched her uniform for new, casual clothes (and a fedora) in the process.
  • Flash Sentry's first appearance in the series was as a cameo in "Queen of Clubs", where he looked as he always did (barring the Labcoat of Science and Medicine). He then opens the "Best Trends Forever" episode with a light redesign: his hairstyle is subtly different, and his shoes use the new model instead of the big design used for non-Crystal Prep boys and men since the first film.
• Cower Power: Timber hides behind Twilight in "Unsolved Selfie Mystery". She isn't amused by it.
• Crisis Catch And Carry: When Micro Chips is threatened by his rogue robot in "Cheer You On", he is Bridal Carried to safety by, of all people, the usually nonathletic Fluttershy.
• Crush Blush: Twilight and Timber both blush while sitting together admiring the fireflies outside the planetarium.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Spike spending a fortune buying a smelly sock on the internet is reminiscent of people buying used underwear from adult entertainers.
• The Dog Was the Mastermind: In the Trixie ending for "Rarity Investigates: The Case of the Bedazzled Boot", Rarity and Trixie discover it was Spike who took the missing boot, because he wanted to know what it was like to be a dancer.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: Although she's too nice to swear or be overtly mean, Twilight certainly lays down the law in "The Finals Countdown". She makes sure they don't nap (Rainbow Dash), pretend to study (Rarity), or skip studying due to overconfidence (Sunset).
• Drives Like Crazy: In "Road Trippin", Granny Smith takes the Rainbooms on a high-speed, hazard-filled ride through the woods to reach their latest gig.
• Driving Test: "Driving Miss Shimmer", in which Sunset failed her driving test, and learns about cars from either Applejack, Rarity, or Fluttershy, depending on which ending the viewer chooses, in an attempt to pass on the retest. Fluttershy annoys Sunset with a long lecture on safety, Applejack's old farm truck breaks before Sunset can drive it, and Rarity has Sunset try to drive a rented limo.
• Epic Fail: When Sunset fails to get a handle on the video game controls for the "squirrel game" in "Game Stream" and ends up mashing the buttons in a futile rage, it leads to her in-game squirrel not only repeatedly falling out of a tree, but eventually knocking itself out with the nut it was trying to store.
• Food Coma: In the Pinkie Pie ending of "Wake-Up!", Sunset and Pinkie both end up in one after gorging on sweets, with Sunset having a massive stomachache and suffering nausea.
  Rainbow Dash: Nobody should try to keep up with Pinkie Pie.
  Applejack: Not even Pinkie Pie.
• Gamer Chick: Sunset has her own livestream gaming channel. In the short "Game Stream", she plays a video game with Fluttershy about squirrels collecting nuts. Fluttershy defeats Sunset in the game effortlessly, with Sunset quickly reaching a Rage Breaking Point over how badly she's doing.
• Genre Shift: Slightly implied by the official press release(s) describing the series, but it seems the magical shenanigans will now have a heavier superhero (or Magical Girl Warrior) bent to them, and the girls will have to learn how to deal with that.
• Greasy Spoon: "Pinkie Pie: Snack Psychic" takes place in a 1950's-style diner, where Pinkie is a roller-skating waitress. She sees the food people eat, knows intuitively what their needs are, and brings one of her friends to help them.
• Growling Gut: When asked by Sunny Sugarsocks how Pinkie knew just what everyone needs, Pinkie replies "It's just a gut feeling, you know?" Then Pinkie's stomach growls — and Sunny whips up a sundae for Pinkie.
• Heel–Face Return: "Find the Magic" features the Dazzlings after they've fallen from grace, deprived of their magic and struggling to adjust to their new lives. In the process, they learn to see the magic of life's simpler pleasures and turn their singing into a means of providing such joys to others. Subverted as of My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Sunset's Backstage Pass, where their attitude is just as bad as it has ever been and they mock Sunset Shimmer when they see her suffering from a "Groundhog Day" Loop. Adagio explains their song is actually about everyday being a new start for them as they try to survive in a world that they hate without their magic.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Sunset Shimmer's artistic talents are expanded upon throughout the shorts, after they were first shown off in the "The Art of Friendship" Summertime short. She likes to draw superhero comics in her spare time featuring herself and her friends, and also does graffiti art under the alias "Flanksy". She's also shown to enjoy video games — she's on the line for the line to get the latest installment of a series she loves. And in "Queen of Clubs", she's part of the fencing club.
  • "Queen of Clubs" gives a few for various characters:
    • Rainbow Dash is shown being really good at knitting when she briefly joins the knitting club, and is among the extremely few club activities she's explicitly successful in.
    • Rarity, Derpy and Flash Sentry are shown to be part of the chemistry club alongside Twilight.
    • Twilight herself is shown in a picture of what seems to be a club dedicated to wearing silly wigs.
    • Various background and secondary students can be seen indulging in clubs that do not seem to fit them at first glance: a fairly large, burly football player background student is part of the chess club; a "techie" girl who wears really big and implicitly thick glasses is part of the cheerleading squad; and besides the chemistry club, Flash is part of the baking club (and is apparently decent at it).
  • "Road Trippin" reveals that Granny Smith is either an ace daredevil driver or certifiably insane.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Although it's mostly in the background, My Little Pony: Equestria Girls Digital Series regularly depicts big bodybuilder Bulk Biceps and petite girl Derpy Hooves as a couple.
• Hurricane of Puns: In "School of Rock", Maud gives a lecture filled with clever rock puns. They might be hard to notice at first due to Maud's intensely monotone delivery.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Tirek's name is spelled as "Tyrek" in the description for "Sunset Shimmer's Fine Line". It's not the first time, though with the original in G1, it's at least clear from the pronunciation and cartoon bible that it was Tirac. "Tyrek" has also been used with the G1 character in the past, but only by fans.
• Inner Monologue:
  • Nearly all of Trixie's ending in "Rarity Investigates: The Case of the Bedazzled Boot" consists of this, with Rarity's and Trixie's thoughts heard in voice-over as they barely say anything out loud to each other. Lampshaded by Spike at the end.
    Spike: [narrating] How come nobody's talking out loud?
  • In the Rainbow Dash ending of "Best Trends Forever", Rarity finds herself surrounded by CHS students with rainbow hair. Her voice-over narrates that she is in an alternate dimension called the "Rainbow Zone".
• Ironic Echo: In "Friendship Math", Twilight decides to do her own calculations to prove that she and Pinkie are best friends. Later, she unleashes her inner Pinkie Pie by saying the word "FOREVER!" which is a reference to the Season 1 episode "Green Isn't Your Color".
• "Last Day of School" Plot: "The Last Day of School" revolves around Twilight and Rainbow's perspectives on how they see the last day of school. Twilight panics as she has lots of work to finish as possible and worries she'll be unable to finish it by the time the day ends, while Rainbow is excited for summer vacation and can't wait for the day to end, especially when the class has to watch a Daring Do movie.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall:
  • In the "Choose Your Own Ending" shorts, every single time one of the characters tries to choose which character to help them out with their problems, they look at three YouTube links with three characters. Observe:
    • "Best Trends Forever"◊
    • "Fluttershy's Butterflies"◊
    • "Text Support"◊
    • "Driving Miss Shimmer"◊
  • Several episodes from Season 2 are presented in the style of online videos recorded by the girls (and Spike).
  • In "Accountibilibuddies", Applejack is given the choice between receiving aid from two of her friends, Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash... and also Snips. If you choose Snips, the first thing he'll do is point out how ridiculous that choice was.
  • Similarly, in "Tip Toppings", if you (as Pinkie) choose Fluttershy in spite of Fluttershy specifically asking not to, which leads to everyone getting kicked out of the shop when Fluttershy's animal friends rush inside, Pinkie explains her actions with "I don't know what came over me!", referencing how it wasn't really her choice.
• Losing a Shoe in the Struggle: Played for Laughs in "How to Backstage" in which Sunset sees one of the gift bags for the bands, looks inside and sees it's just socks. But figures they're special enough since one of her bands is getting them and tries them on. Later when she meets said band, it's shown she never put her shoes back on and been going around from that point in said socks.
• Match Cut: In the "Super Squad Goals" short, There's a match cut from prison bars to the lines of a "cupcake".
• Monster-Shaped Mountain: At large from the beach where most of the Beach Episodes happen, we can see a rocky islet shaped like a horse head.
• Multiple Endings: The "Choose Your Own Ending" shorts let the viewer pick one of three different endings, each corresponding to a different character.
• Mythology Gag:
  • In "A Fine Line", the titular line is for the latest installment of a popular video-game series: Tirek's Revenge, sequel to Rise of Tirek.
  • In "My Little Shop of Horrors", Twilight accidentally creates Flories.
  • In the Applejack ending to "Costume Conundrum", the costume is of G1 Posey (sans cutie mark/symbol).
  • The "Pony" smartphone filter in "Festival Filters" turns all the girls into ponies...Generation 3 ponies. They all shudder.
• New Transfer Student: A few new background students at Canterlot High School were originally seen as Crystal Prep students. Apparently, Twilight Sparkle wasn't the only one to transfer following Cinch's downfall.
• Novelization: A very peculiar example, but the "Queen of Clubs" short gets adapted as a chapter in the novel A Friendship to Remember, which is otherwise an adaptation of the following special My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Forgotten Friendship. An interesting change (that ties into the rest of the plot of the novel): Sunset Shimmer is not part of the fencing club, instead being the photographer and editor for the Yearbook.
• Pac Man Fever: In "Game Stream", Sunset and Fluttershy play a video game. It's a physical release, with a disc and everything, yet when Sunset puts it into her console it's a comically simple split-screen minigame with a terrible framerate, abrasive 8-bit sound effects, and comically large scanlines (on an HDTV).
• Potty Dance: The season 2 episode "Five Lines You Need to Stand In" features Pinkie ranking her favorite lines during a festival, with number one being the bathroom line. Pinkie helps distract the students' urgency by making a conga line, turning this into a literal potty dance.
• Potty Emergency: The aforementioned bathroom line in "Five Lines You Need to Stand In", with an assortment of characters including Trixie, Lyra, Bulk Biceps, Snips and Snails, and Fleur de Lis.
• Power Incontinence: The aptly-titled short "Overpowered" is about the girls dealing with a sudden surge of their powers for a day. Sunset can read the minds of anyone nearby without touching them, and can't turn it off; on their way to school, Twilight ends up telekinetically lifting herself, bike and all, high into the sky and Fluttershy is followed by a swarm of many different animals; Applejack tears off her locker's door; Pinkie accidentally makes an apple explode; and nothing is mentioned about Rarity. Rainbow Dash acts like an over-excited Motor Mouth who uses her superspeed for the most mundane of tasks but otherwise doesn't seem to having incontinence, per se. This tips off Twilight that their geodes are in sync, so when one girl — Rainbow Dash, in this case — overuses her powers, the others get a power boost in turn. Cue a barrage of disapproving looks towards Rainbow.
• Recycled Title: A weird zig-zag — the title card on the episodes only says "Equestria Girls" — with no subtitle stated or implied — which, among many things, is the plain title of the film that started it all. Early press releases and promotional materials call the series by the full (and rather clunky) "Equestria Girls Digital Series", but the Discovery Family GO! app, Discovery GO! website and YouTube description subtitle it "Better Together".
• Right on Queue: "A Fine Line", where Sunset Shimmer waits in line to buy a copy of the video game Tirek's Revenge. She starts out waiting by herself, annoyed at how much fun everyone else is having until her friends show up. When Sunset finally gets to the front, the store has just sold the last copy. Lucky for Sunset, Pinkie Pie pre-ordered it for her.
• Rotating Arcs: While a good chunk of the episodes are completely stand-alone, there are a number of small arcs sprinkled throughout both seasons. The first season's "Better Together" shorts include a set of Beach Episodes set shortly after the events of Forgotten Friendship, while the first batch of "Choose Your Own Ending" videos is a Half-Arc Season that kicks off with an episode setting up an upcoming school play, which then becomes the focus of the final episodes. There's also one episode in each category dealing with Twilight's relationship with Timber Spruce. For the second season, the "Better Together" episodes include a two-episode arc focused on a pet show, while both "Better Together" and "Choose Your Own Ending" feature several episodes dealing with the Starswirled Music Festival, tying into Sunset's Backstage Pass.
• Rule of Symbolism: At the end of "Find the Magic", the Dazzlings' broken pendants appear to be restored when the trio learn to see the magic in the simple things; according to director Katrina Hadley, however, this is not meant to be taken literally, but rather symbolically of their new lease on life.
• Schmuck Bait: One of the choices in "Tip Toppings" is Fluttershy, who explicitly warns Pinkie, (and by extension, the viewer) that her animals aren't allowed inside the frozen yogurt shop. Sure enough, picking her leads to her animals running amuck and Pinkie getting kicked out.
• Series Continuity Error: In Rollercoaster of Friendship, the name of the the theme park from that special is given as "Equestria Land". Any time it's referenced in the digital series, it's named as "Equestria World".
• Ship Tease: "Star Crossed" centers on Twilight's "hang-out" with Timber Spruce, and she has a picture of herself and Timber stuck to her bedroom mirror.
• Shout-Out:
  • What might be a subtle reference to Sailor Moon, but Twilight wears her Amulet of Concentrated Awesome as a brooch or pin on her collar bow. The titular character of Sailor Moon did the same on her school uniform. (Rarity wears hers on the collar of her dress as well.)
  • Another one for Sailor Moon in "Queen of Clubs"; what looks like a manga club is seen doing the Sailor Soldiers' iconic transformation poses for a photo; Applejack photo bombs them by holding a rose and wearing a black and red cape, like Tuxedo Mask.
  • In "Overpowered", Twilight's telekinesis makes her ride her bike up (with Spike in her basket) in front of the sun in a reference to E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (including the music).
  • In "A Little Birdie Told Me", Fluttershy says the quote, "Go on. Make my day." in a reference to Dirty Harry.
  • In "Best in Show: The Victory Lap", Micro Chips's "pet" robot is named JVJ-24601.
• Smart People Play Chess: During the Training Montage in "Finals Countdown", Sunset and Twilight play chess. Notably, when Twilight was putting a complicated math problem on a chalkboard, Sunset is the only one who gets it right on the first try, indicating she didn't need Twilight's help.
• Smelly Feet Gag:
  • In "Reboxing w/ Spike", Spike orders a stinky sock online. Twilight isn't amused.
  • The Bulk Biceps ending of "Sock it to Me", where Bulk gives Rainbow Dash a sock that he hasn't had washed since finding $5 with it — six years ago. (It has a very strong Visible Odor to boot.) It ends up helping Dash win easily by making everyone who gets near her on the field recoil at the stench. It turns out Bulk actually made up the story about the money and, due to being completely oblivious to the intense smell, insists the sock was a Magic Feather.
• Stating the Simple Solution: In Sunset's ending for "Text Support", she tells Twilight to just call and ask Timber what his strange emoji text meant instead of sending more strange emoji texts like Rarity and Fluttershy suggest. Then when Twilight wants to accept his offer but doesn't know how to do it via emoji, Sunset hands her the phone to say it directly to Timber.
  Twilight: Calling?! No calling! Who talks on the phone?!
• Superhero Episode:
  • "Super Squad Goals" involves the girls — in their "Crystal" forms from Legend of Everfree — stopping a jewel thief. It's actually Sunset Shimmer writing and animating a superhero comic starring herself and her friends.
  • "Cheer You On" has the girls ponying up to fight a real threat, not only using a Combined Energy Attack typical of the franchise, but in an extended battle sequence where each of their individual powers come into play.
• The Swear Jar: A Lighter and Softer example in "Costume Conundrum". Rarity has to put money in a jar every time she says "darling".
• Throw the Dog a Bone: In "Run to Break Free", Rainbow Dash saves the ice cream of a young boy; said boy is normally the subject of a Running Gag where his ice cream is constantly getting ruined, including in "Mirror Magic", Rollercoaster of Friendship and other shorts.
• Title Confusion: A surprising amount, given how only eleven episodes are out as of this writing.
  • Mixing with a recycled title, the title card calls the series "Equestria Girls", the press releases add a subtitle of "Digital Series", but in official sources (YouTube, Discovery (Family) GO!) subtitle it as "Better Together".
  • The episode titles get worse:
    • "A Queen of Clubs"^note Discovery GO! vs. "Queen of Clubs"^note The title card vs. "The Queen of Clubs"^note as called when adapted into a chapter for the A Friendship to Remember book.
    • The official YouTube releases add weird possessives: "Sunset Shimmer's Fine Line" on the video title vs. "A Fine Line" elsewhere.
• Title Drop: Courtesy of Spike and Flash Sentry respectively, the music videos "I'm on a Yacht" and "Cheer You On" are the only animated media in the entire franchise to refer to the main characters as "Equestria Girls" in-universe.
• Visual Pun: In "Driving Miss Shimmer", Sunset pulls a jack from the trunk of her test car with an apple on it. In other words, an "apple jack".
• Whole-Plot Reference: The episode "My Little Shop of Horrors" is basically a G-rated version of... well, guess.
• Worthless Yellow Rocks: In "Lost and Found", Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity completely ignore the gold coins and bars they turn up in their search for Rarity's missing earring.

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