History FridgeBrilliance / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicSeason1

** This is taken UpToEleven when you realize that Rainbow Dash's friendship causing the Sonic Rainboom also caused Twilight to get her Cutie Mark, and discover her potential and talent for magic, which is proof of what Princess Celestia is trying to teach Twilight in the first place, which is that [[MeaningfulName friendship is magic.]]

* Why is Trixie's magic so useless off the stage? Is she just weak? Maybe, but there's another explanation, one which probably makes more sense. Every unicorn has their own special talent. Trixie's is most likely ''showmanship''

* In "Boast Busters", Spike tries to attract Rarity by wearing a mustache, and is depressed that it doesn't work at the end of the episode. This makes perfect sense when you remember what happened to Rarity [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E2ElementsOfHarmony the last time she encountered a purple reptile with a mustache.]]

* Living in the Everfree forest and digging in the ground may not helped Zecora's public image at first, but she actually had no way of knowing this! She had 0 interactions with anypony, so she was most likely unaware that tgey saw the Everfree forest as terrifying and creepy. Also, since ponies always hide whenever she shows up, she had no idea that for them, digging in the groubd is seen as a threat.

*** 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 TastesLikeDiabetes 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.

** the digging can be a reason of why the ponies were scared of Zecora. Until then dig the ground with a hoof was only used in a threatening way.
** So Zecora was doing the human equivalent of tapping one's foot impatiently.

* It makes sense why people call the first song 'Art of the Dress', but call the reprise: 'Stitching it Together'. At first Rarity was making art, but the second time, she really was stitching things together to make the dresses.

** Pinkie Pie attempted to party down with the guests, but they were not amused by her.

** Rarity has greed for Blueblood's affections until she finally cuts her losses.
** Pinkie Pie attempted to party down with the guests, but they were not amused by her

** As for Pinkie Pie, well it is likely that Pinkie saw that Trixie is just as random as she is.

** Fluttershy is, well, ''shy'' and as seen in ''Hearth's Warming Eve'', ''Hurricane Fluttershy'', ''Filli Vanilli'' and a number of episodes, being in front of a crowd makes her veyr uncomfortable and would make her an easy target for Trixie's bullying.

** Applejack tried a dishonest method of selling her apples, knock them over to a potential customer than help him.

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** However, based on the Princess' comments, it appears that the parasprites are now attacking [[IncrediblyLamePun Fillydelphia]], subtly implying that the 'sprites that they shoved into the forest are now... elsewhere.
*** Unlikely. That would mean that there would haven been only a few seconds for the parasprites to reach Fillydelphia, which is implied to be far away, and for Princess Celestia to find out about it.
*** Though she could be referring to the Parasprite Katamari the mane cast sent into the forest. I often took the line to mean ''that'' group of Parasprites had reached Fillydelphia. Still a short amount of time, but more than if you were assuming Celestia meant the ones Pinkie Pie was Pipering.
** This is an example of TruthInTelevision. Many creatures that are, if not common, present in their native environment, will have population explosions when transplanted to new locales due to lack of predation or some other obstacle. Kudzu is a fantastic example of this. In Hawaii, wild pigs are also highly invasive and destructive.

** Just the parasprites' biology in general. They don't need that much energy to fly, considering their size, so where does all the food they digest go into? MORE PARASPRITES. The fact that they ''upchuck'' to reproduce lends enough credence to this substitute reproductive system.
** Of course Pinkie Pie knows what a Parasprite is! She grew up on a rock ''farm,'' and farmers have to deal with parasites and pests all the time! It makes sense that she not only knows what Parasprites are, but how to get rid of them, too.
*** But then shouldn't Applejack have also known about them seeing as how her family owns the only apple orchard in Ponyville and she's lived there all of her life? Maybe not, since orchards are usually treated against pests. Crop-dusting pegasi. If Twilight hadn't changed the parasprite's diet, maybe they would have avoided Sweet Apple Acres altogether.
** This also raises the question: Was it always a rock farm, or [[FridgeHorror were the rocks all they had left]]?
*** Probably not. Pinkie's parents both have cutie marks related to rock farming. One parent has a pickaxe and the other has a pile of rocks.
*** The song Pinkie used to lure the parasprites out of Ponyville is identical to the music she played at her first party. Given that it attracts parasprites, did Pinkie unintentionally devastate her own farm? (This theory obviously assumes that rock-clearing is a prelude to crop planting, otherwise there would be nothing for the parasprites to devour.)
*** Even if the Pie Family farm was just a farm that grew rocks (or as many fan theories say, grew things inside the rocks), a parasprite infestation would wreak havoc on the family, as the parasprites would eat up all the family's food, making it impossible to live at the farm until the infestation was taken care of.
*** It's entirely possible that she had a brush with them shortly after discovering her party-planning talent, and that she ''happened'' to be a one-pony band when they showed up, discovering that music is the key to solving the problem entirely by sheer luck.

* I thought it was weird that nopony had assigned Twilight a job in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E11WinterWrapUp Winter Wrap Up]]". I later realized that this was a symptom of Ponyville's poor organization of the event.
** This troper's interpretation of it was that Ponyville's population has very few unicorns (only Rarity?) prior to Twilight coming in town. They probably don't know what she can do to help. And thus don't give her a job. Even then, they probably hold a distaste for using magic to complete a task that can be done with physical labor, seeing as most of them are earth ponies. The Winter Wrap-Up seems like a community task, not meant to be efficient, moreso to bring everypony together so they can bond through working hard and co-operation. Few ponies have magic, so you'd be working alone by using it, and thus not participating in the community bonding. Though back on the main subject, they probably just neglected to give Twilight a task because she's still new to town. Perhaps they don't actually see her as a member of Ponyville yet.
*** I'd have to shoot down the 'rare unicorn' theory. Enough hang around in the background shots (although debatably Lyra Heartstrings moved in from Canterlot later).
*** Yeah, I'd say it has to do with the fact that Ponyville was settled by Granny Smith and her family of earth ponies, who would have no access to magic when wrapping up winter. Therefore using magic would be taboo solely based on the fact that it's just a tradtion that was never addressed...though that does make me wonder why the pegasi can use their wings...and how the early settlers were able to do anything with the skies at all.
** At the beginning of the episode Spike seems more lethargic than usual, this could be attributed to various reasons, until you take into account that Spike is a reptile and reptiles are cold-blooded i.e. they get sleepy at a lowered temperatures.
** Another little bit. Remember when Twilight's snowplow goes out of control and she ends up cutting off about five or six other plowers? Imagine what would have happened had she not done that. All of those other ponies were heading ''at each other''. Who planned their routes? [[note]]Which is also another example of their lack of organization.[[/note]]
*** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint ...Nopony?]]

* How is that the shy and {{Adorkable}} Twilight is so good at telling ghost stories when this is apparently the first time she does? Easy: she's the personal apprentice of Celestia, an EccentricMentor and a prankster so ferocious that she once ''filled an entire castle of boobytraps just to prank one person'' (her sister!) and invited the Mane Six to the Grand Galloping Gala expecting them to ruin it (they do). Either Celestia rubbed off, or ''purposely taught her a few tricks''.

** Prince Blueblood's behaviour possibly isn't him being a PrinceCharmless, but a gender role reversal of normal chivalrous conduct to show just how unreasonable the romantic fantasies themselves are in the first place...only for [[MisaimedFandom majority of the fandom to side with Rarity instead and spend years using him as a punching bag]] in fanon. A second, more widespread idea as to why he acts that way would be to stave of {{Gold Digger}}s and/or social climbers trying to make use of his status, which when you realise is [[JerkassHasAPoint fundamentally Rarity's reason for courting him.]]

* Scootaloo's famous {{Selective Obliviousness}} about the fact that getting your cutie mark ''requires'' you to figure out "who you are" is only natural when one remembers her hero-worship of Rainbow Dash. As Scootaloo makes it quite clear, she wants to be ''just'' like Rainbow Dash, and how does Rainbow's story depict her getting her cutie mark? By simply going so fast that she made the Sonic Rainboom! Naturally, a young tomboy like Scootaloo figures that getting a cutie mark is simply a matter of finding what you're good at, because that's how Rainbow's story makes it sound like Rainbow got hers -- furthermore, if that's how ''Scootaloo'' gets her cutie mark, then that's an added connection to Rainbow Dash. Scootaloo is too young to pick up on the fact that Rainbow underwent an epiphany just like all of the other five mares of the Mane 6, and Rainbow herself is far too much of a female jock to be that introspective about it, much less talk about in such a "mushy" fashion.

** 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 [[{{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]]...

* Cheerilee states that she wants to bring cheer to ponies [[AdultsAreUseless yet she fails to stop the whole class from laughing at Apple Bloom]] (instigated by [[AlphaBitch Diamond Tiara]], no less). [[{{Irony}} Seems ironic, right?]] Maybe not, as [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E19CrusadersOfTheLostMark "Crusaders of the Lost Mark"]] revealed that [[GrandeDame Spoiled Rich]] is on the school board. If Cheerilee dared to reprimand, let alone ''punish'', DT, [[DisproportionateRetribution her mother would likely respond by cutting ties with the school]], [[FromBadToWorse no doubt leading it to be potentially closed for good and put Cheerile out of a job]]. So overall, she isn't ''completely'' apathetic to some extent because (despite being at the mercy of a wealthy benefactor whose daughter is known for bullying) she wouldn't be able to bring cheer to her students if she cannot teach.

* It seems extremely wierd that Celestia wouldn't take Twilight's warning about Nightmare Moon's potential return so seriously considering just what kind of damage Nightmare Moon could do and this was her most studious student, after all, but remember that it was Celestia herself who banished Nightmare Moon in the first place. If anyone would know if the myth was true, it would be her.

** Some FridgeHorror with that; her punishment was to be alone and forgotten for a thousand years, no wonder so many fans think Celestia is evil.

* In "Owl's Well That Ends Well" Spike meets an adult dragon who tries to kill him. While Spike had just eaten part of his hoard, it still seemed excessive that he would start trying to kill Spike after giving him only a token effort to explain himself. And then comes "Secret of My Excess," and we see that if Spike had tried to claim that hoard, he would have reached adulthood almost instantly. That makes the adult dragon's attempt to kill Spike a reasonable, if grim, attempt to fend off a competitor before he becomes a problem.