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  • Accidental Innuendo: Filthy Rich is embarrassed by his first name simply because... well... it means "mucky" or "messy" after all but it isn't hard to think it also makes him sound like a porn star... especially when he just gets "Filthy".
  • Alternate Character Interpretation: With Filthy Rich's more antagonistic roles in the comics and Legend of Everfree, plus his failure to actually curb his daughter's bullying, it's now open to question if his portrayal here was Characterization Marches On or he only objected to her bullying important clients.
  • Aluminum Christmas Trees: While it is usually a carnival sideshow stunt and involves a queen bee in a box under the chin, bee bearding is actually done in real life and is generally safe for the bearder.
  • Crosses the Line Twice: The Cutie Mark Crusaders controlling a napping Granny Smith in an attempt to fool Cheerilee, especially when Scootaloo wakes her up by bumping her head against the ceiling.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: The scene where a bee lands on Apple Bloom's nose is hard to watch after "On Your Marks" revealed Apple Bloom is allergic to bees.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • The fact that the Granny Smith's family founded Ponyville makes the fact that Applebloom is mayor in this fanfic kind of funny in hindsight.
    • Sweetie Belle also mentioned such an idea way back in "Call of the Cutie".
  • Narm Charm: Granny Smith's eccentric ways, especially the singing to the water cans, initially seem a bunch of cringy Narm. However, the ending has the kids doing the same as part of their appreciation for Granny Smith and all she has done for Ponyville, and a just punishment for Diamond Tiara for insulting her.
  • Nightmare Fuel: The Timber Wolves are surprisingly scary-looking.
  • Unintentional Uncanny Valley: While the Flash objects animated in this show tend to be seamless, the Timberwolves have a deliberately reduced rendering that makes them look more like leather shadow puppets come to life, lending an additional otherworldly air to them. Fridge Brilliance sets in if you know that some Eastern cultures did use shadow puppets as a media for retelling ancient tales.


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