History FridgeBrilliance / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicSeason1

* In Dragonshy, Rarity and Pinkie Pie play tic-tac-toe while waiting for Fluttershy to coax the dragon. Rarity says that's 35 games in a row, and to play best of 71. That means they had just played best of 69.

** I thought it had more to do with [[JustForPun "pinky swears".]]

** From the same episode, Applejack came to Mane-hattan to try the city life with her orange themed relatives, only to find that it's just not her and returns to the apple ranch. In a sense, you could say that she was trying to compare [[JustForPun apples and oranges!]]

** Also from that episode, for those who've seen ''Feeling Pinkie Keen'', you might've wondered why Pinkie's "Pinkie Sense" didn't kick in prior to the [[spoiler: sonic rainboom]]. Well, consider the fact that Twilight was able to pass her entrance exam the same day [[spoiler: due to the rainboom throwing her magic into high gear]]. In that sense, that ended up working for Twilight in the same vein as [[Franchise/SpiderMan the radioactive spider for Peter Parker]]. So, maybe that also caused Pinkie's young brain to be all scrambled and give her that "Pinkie Sense" of hers. It would also explain how she ended up with [[CloudCuckooLander her current personality]]...

** It is an ''exact'' demonstration of Creator/ScottAdams' ''Dilbert Principle''. Because she failed disastrously at ''every'' job, Twilight eventually landed in the ''one spot'' where she could do the least damage: management.

* This might fall under UnfortunateImplications as well, but whatever. In "Bridle Gossip", Applejack is very noticeably scared of and hostile towards Zecora, even more so than most of her friends. But wait a second - Applejack has a Southern accent, and the Southern part of America is [[AcceptableEthnicTargets stereotyped]] as being prejudiced against African-Americans.

** EXTREMELY the same. To the point where one member of the Mane Six impersonating another is a frequent plot point: see Rarity herself passing for Applejack in Sisterhooves Social. A dzzzling urbanite fashion pony who, with but a sopping of mud, can fool her own sister into believing she's a hay-bale-heaving, tree-shaking country girl? Why, the only thing that could be more absurd than that would be a skintight outfit allowing the country girl, a librarian, a baker, and a zookeeper to pass themselves off as the same person...or a bit of makeup allowing the worst athlete in town to impersonate the best...

* As the song "Art of the Dress" goes on, it becomes slightly more nonsensical and deviated from the plot, culumlating in the line "Make sure that it stays within our budget." There is subtle leaning on the fourth wall here, as the song -- and the episode as a whole -- is a commentary on the issues that creatives face when dealing with clients. Rarity represents the stressed out creative trying to please her clients, while the others take up the archetypes of typical cilente, from the hands-off "I'll know it when I see it" Rainbow Dash to the overly-exact Twilight Sparkle. In this light, the secondary moral of the story can be considered to be "Let creative people have their breathing room."

* I was a bit puzzled when Rarity so easily agreed to find gems for Diamond Dogs, they kidnapped her and demanded to do a work for free after all. Then I remembered that her Element of Harmony is Generosity. Of course she would agree to do a favour. If Diamond Dogs just asked nicely and didn't try to imprison her, they'd ended up with much more profit.

*** Well that's basically it, isn't it? I mean when you get down to it the childish morals that pop up in most kids cartoons (don't be greedy, don't judge somebody by their looks, don't be ill mannered about generous gifts, etc) are all pretty solid. Even adults know this. The problem most kids shows have is that they're so sappy and sweet about it, and don't respect the fact that the real world is more complicated than the ideals. Lauren Faust ''knows'' that, can poke fun at it, and respects that characters with flaws are more relatable, and believable than the sugar-sweet expies of characters, whose 'adventures' in no way solve the problems of little girls today. Sharing with the nasty Diamond Tiara-esque people they encounter at school isn't going to necessarily make them nice straight away, and being open minded isn't going to automatically solve the prejudices they encounter around them. Basically, we trusted the ending of Over a Barrell more after Pinkie's song was terrible and everyone missed the point, because it demonstrated that we know it's not as simple as singing a pretty song to fix everyone's problems, but the solution itself is still there IN the song. Essentially, the show doesn't treat small girls like naive idiots.

* At the end of her singing telegram, Pinkie hoarsely comments that next time she'll just hand out written invitations. What is she doing when she's inviting everypony to Gummy's after-party? Handing out written invitations.

** Fluttershy, just befoe she lays the snare (and catches the groundskeeper) says to herself, "I just have to be more bold, like Twilight said." Just as Pinkie's "Hop, skip and a jump" from "Dragonshy" came back to Fluttershy in "Feeling Pinkie Keen", Twilight's words in "A Bird In The Hoof" came back to her in this episode. Unfortunately, taking to heart everything other ponies say isn't always a good thing, as Fluttershy goes on to prove.

* When a leaf falls on Fluttershy's flank, she screams "AVALA--" before Applejack shoves her hoof into the pegasus's mouth. In French, the word "avala" means "swallowed".