YMMV / My Little Pony Tales S 1 E 10 Shop Talk

• Accidental Innuendo: "Well, I heard today in math, she got a D!"
• Alternative Character Interpretation: Lancer's meanness in this episode that he doesn't display in other episodes could be explained as Teddy being rude toward him; Teddy taunts Lancer while they're at the soccer net, and if Teddy is like this toward him usually, then Lancer may have wanted to teach Teddy a lesson.
• Don't Shoot the Message: The episode aims to teach that spreading false rumors is wrong, but motivation by revenge and blackmail is the only way it can be stopped.
• Fridge Logic: While the girls are exchanging gossip, Bright Eyes mentions that in class, the boys distracted Miss Hackney, causing her to misspell a word. Since the girls all go to the same school, shouldn't they already know about that?
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Three examples all relating to My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • An annoyed Teddy kicks an apple tree, and all the apples fall down (a good deal of them right onto him, naturally). Fast forward to Friendship is Magic and this is the main method of apple harvesting used by Applejack's family. Able to harvest an entire tree in one kick? If he were in Friendship is Magic, Teddy would be legendary for his "applebucking" skills.
  • In "A Juicy Story", Clover mentions Count Appaloosa as being Madame Percheron's fiancé. Friendship is Magic has a town by the name of Appleloosa which is a play on the breed of horse.
  • Gossip would later be the subject of "Ponyville Confidential", with the plot beats of the hypocrisy in spreading rumors but being offended when the rumors are about you, and being shunned by your friends for revealing their secrets.
• Jerkass Woobie: Teddy. It's easy to feel bad for him when he cries about how the ponies who were his friends are now mocking him and thinks Sweetheart deliberately told his secret.
• Signature Scene: Sweetheart and Teddy blackmailing Ace and Lancer with a photo of the latter two dressed as babies.
• Unintentional Period Piece: "A Juicy Story" is done in a rap-style that all but screams early 90s. Bon Bon's verse is about a pony coming down with the mumps, a disease that is nowhere near as common today thanks to the MMR vaccine.
• The Woobie: Sweetheart when Teddy accuses her of spreading rumors about his teddy bear. She clearly couldn't do anything to stop her friends, especially when Ace and Lancer hear about it. With everything that happens to her, you just can't help but give her a hug.

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