History Fanfic / AHairyProblem

* {{Homage}}: The last scene in chapter 4 is actually a reference to the "Series/TwilightZone: Tower of Terror" ride at Disney parks. The building is called the "Heywood Tower Hotel" (as opposed to Hollywood Tower Hotel) and Luna uses the elevator to go directly to the dreamlands (as opposed to how the narrator for the Disney ride says the elevator will take riders "directly to the Twilight Zone").

* RubeGoldbergHatesYourGuts: In order to protect the Elements of Harmony better than the magic door Discord easily bypassed, Celestia ends up creating a rather elaborate deathtrap similar to a Rube Goldberg machine that would instantly kill anypony other than herself and Twilight Sparkle who tried to get the Elements by firing a large number of exploding crossbows to make the entire trap explode. It backfires spectacularly when Celestia and Luna need to get the Elements and Celestia finds disarming the trap is significantly harder than she thought.

** A new pony in town, Sandalwood, is a deliberate AlternateUniverse version of DJ Martinez from ''[[Fanfic/AllAmericanGirl All-American Girl]]''

** A new pony in town, Sandalwood, is a deliberate AlternateUniverse version of DJ Martinez from ''[[Fanfic/ShinzakurasAllAmericanGirl All-American Girl]]''

* MenstrualMenace: Forced to try and explain her recent strange behavior, Applejack gives the reason as being an extremely bad case of this. Everypony believes her.
** Later this is subverted in the story when [[spoiler: Applejack actually has to go though "the joys of marehood"]] and [[spoiler: her werewolf hormones end up causing every dog in town to chase her]].

* [[spoiler: GenerationXerox: Applejack looks strikingly similar to Fair Vista because she is a direct descendant. This is also why Applejack didn't become a mindless wolf: Fair Vista's genes were immune to the lobotomy that the lycanthropy usually causes, and Apple inherited that from her.]]

** [[spoiler: Twilight uses an apple and the chariot transformation spell from ''The Best Night Ever'' on the CMC's car so that everyone can help track down Applejack. The combination turns out to create a truck.]]

* CallForward: There's quite a few to the episode ''Magical Mystery Cure''.

** Pinkie once mentions getting rid of timberwolves by [[LetsPlay/{{Boatmurdered}} pulling a lever and flooding the area]], then wondering if that only works on elephants. Twilight yells at Pinkie, asking of she looks like a {{dwarf|Fortress}}.

** Pinkie once mentions getting rid of timberwolves by [[{{Boatmurdered}} pulling a lever and flooding the area]], then wondering if that only works on elephants. Twilight yells at Pinkie, asking of she looks like a {{dwarf|Fortress}}.

** Played straight later on when the vehicle Lyra and Sandalwood were building turns out to be much more reliable [[spoiler: and ends up being the means as to how the duo save Applejack from a crowd of dogs chasing her through town]]
* BodyHorror: Comes with the territory of involving werewolves, but even then [[spoiler: Applejack's first transformation into her wolf form is rather traumatic in the description from her view point]]

** [[spoiler: Applejack also initially thinks that being a werewolf could actually be pretty cool shortly after undergoing her first transformation.]]

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: the werewolf in this case is a pony/wolf rather than the usual.
* PainfulTransformation: [[spoiler: Applejack's first change into her wolf-like form]]

** Pinkie once mentions getting rid of timberwolves by [[{{Boatmurdered}} pulling a lever and flooding the area]], then wondering if that only works on elephants.

''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/92460/a-hairy-problem A Hairy Problem]]'' by BlueBastard is a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic.

** In Chapter 17, it's revealed that [[spoiler: the parents were attacked by a werewolf Celestia thinks was Sable Loam, but they survived and are said to have become werewolves themselves. Somehow this ties into the mysterious circumstances of how they simply went into the woods one winter night and were found the next morning having apparently died in a fight with something]]

** In Chapter 17, it's revealed that [spoiler: the parents were attacked by a werewolf Celestia thinks was Sable Loam, but they survived and are said to have become werewolves themselves. Somehow this ties into the mysterious circumstances of how they simply went into the woods one winter night and were found the next morning having apparently died in a fight with something]]

** [[spoiler: Applejack also initially thinks that being a werewolf could actually be pretty cool shortly after undergoing her first transformation]]

** The author has also hinted that even the reason the parents are dead is considerably more complex than that.

* InfoDump: Chapter 4

* AffectionateParody: Rarity tells Sandalwood that they'll get along fabulously, and indeed they do, when in the original fic Sandalwood is based on;''[[Fanfic/ShinzakurasAllAmericanGirl All-American Girl]]'', Sandalwood (a.k.a. DJ Martinez) and her birth mother Rarity absolutely hate each other.

* ShoutOut: A new pony in town, Sandalwood, is a deliberate AlternateUniverse version of DJ Martinez from ''[[Fanfic/ShinzakurasAllAmericanGirl All-American Girl]]''

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* SchizoTech: Equestria now has a limited number of TV sets with accompanying VCR players and a small number of movies on tapes. It's implied only the princesses and the mane six have such devices due to them still being highly experimental, but even then Queen Chrysalis somehow managed to steal a TV and VCR for herself.

* PredatoryBusiness: Subverted. Rich's Barnyard Bargains would appear to be this, but its owner Filthy Rich is described as not wanting to drive every small business in town into bankruptcy.