History Recap / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E11WinterWrapUp

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Applejack "did" have every right to be upset with Twilight for breaking the "no magic allowed" rule, but she clearly didn't mean to hurt her feelings, as shown by her reaction to Twilight running off in tears after being scolded.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Applejack may have been upset with Twilight for breaking the "no magic allowed" rule, but she clearly didn't mean to hurt her feelings, as shown by her reaction to Twilight running off in tears after being scolded.

** A big one. Rainbow Dash tells Twilight she can't be part of the weather team because she doesn't have wings.

* HumanSnowball: The result of Twilight's attempt to clear the snow from the fields. Also recurs to an extent when Twilight tries her hand at ice skating, and ends up crashing into Pinkie and Spike.

* [[AscendedMeme Ascended Ear Worm]]: In Season 4 alone, "Winter Wrap-Up" has gotten two nods to how catchy and popular it is.

* [[HumanSnowball Pony Snowball]]: The result of Twilight's attempt to clear the snow from the fields. Also recurs to an extent when Twilight tries her hand at ice skating, and ends up crashing into Pinkie and Spike.

* [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer When All You Have Is Your Magic]], you screw up nearly every task you try your hoof at.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: For Twilight, literally. And bats.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment:The joke played on Spike at the end is pretty funny. That is until you remember that reptiles are cold blooded and can easily freeze to death.

* SomewhereAHerpetologistIsCrying: In the [[TheTeaser cold open]], when Twilight wakes Spike, he responds with "Mommy? You're not Mommy." Since Spike was hatched from an egg, he would have no concept of "Mommy". [[note]]Alternatively, if a hatchling imprints on the first authority figure it sees, this is a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]]; since Princess Celestia showed up to fix Twilight's mess right after Spike was hatched, he would think of Celestia as "Mommy".[[/note]]

** When Twilight Sparkle hears that spring is usually late in Ponyville, she says "Late?" in a way that makes it sound pretty serious. Nothing way out there, but it takes on a new meaning ''after'' you've seen [[Recap/LessonZero just what "tardy"]] [[SeriousBusiness means to her]].

* ActorAllusion: Albeit likely an inadvertent one, Twilight's screaming of "Snakes!" is this for her voice actor Tara Strong, who was the voice of Paz in MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker.

** Likewise, there are hints that the wrap-up is a disorganized mess even before it's called attention to: Twilight is left to find a job completely on her own, and when we see the ponies clearing the fields for planting, the plows are all moving in random directions.

* LyricalDissonance: Rainbow Dash sings about awesome holidays, Pinkie about time off to play, and Rarity about her boots. Applejack? She's singing about possible starvation due to running out of food. Wow.

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!!Tropes ([[YMMV/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E11WinterWrapUp YMMV items can be found here]]).

Winter comes to an end, and Ponyville prepares for an annual cleanup to make way for spring. Since the town was founded by Earth Ponies, the tradition for cleaning up the snow and planting seeds is to avoid using magic, leaving Twilight Sparkle, a unicorn whose main talents all involve magic, with a dilemma: what can she do that is useful?

* CripplingOverspecialization: Being a unicorn bookworm from a town filled with unicorns, and thus used to Winter Wrap Up being done by magic, Twilight simply doesn't have any of the skills or abilities needed to physically tidy away the winter, making her a fish out of water in Ponyville's earth pony-inspired, traditionally mundane version of the celebration. Thankfully, she has other, less physically-oriented skills which come in handy.

* DramaticSpotlight: The start of the song is ''all'' about this trope. It even is the trope image!

** Pretty much ''everything'' Twilight tries to do to help in the Winter Wrap Up results in this in some fashion until the end.

** Likewise, there are hints that the Wrap Up is a disorganized mess even before it's called attention to: Twilight is left to find a job completely on her own, and when we see the ponies clearing the fields for planting, the plows are all moving in random directions.
** Or the lines of Applejack and chorus: "We must work so very hard, /it's just so much to do!"

* LuddWasRight: Shades of this in the episode; Ponyville's Winter Wrap Up traditionally disallows any magical interference (beyond the innate abilities of pegasi to move clouds), in part due to having been founded by earth ponies. Meanwhile, Twilight's attempts to use a little magic to help out with the plowing only cause a total disaster and get her angrily chewed out. Finally, Twilight's biggest contribution is not her magical skills, but her ability to organise the chaotic mess that the ill-handled Ponyville Wrap Up teams are.
* LyricalDissonance: Rainbow Dash sings about awesome holidays, Pinkie about parties and Rarity about Fashion. Applejack? She's singing about possible starvation due to running out of food. Wow.

* PaintingTheFrostOnWindows: The main point of the episode; ponies throughout Equestria have to purposefully manage the turning of the seasons, so the titular Winter Wrap Up literally brings Spring back to each settlement.

* RedArmbandOfLeadership: A few ponies can be spotted wearing an armband as well as star patch on their team vest, although its color matches the team color: Rainbow Dash leads the Blue-Weather Team, Applejack leads the Green-Planting team (an unnamed blue earth pony is also spotted with one). Although Rarity and Fluttershy are both on the Tan-Animal team, neither of them have it (it can be spotted on a light purple unicorn, possibly foreshadowing what would become of a certain dark purple unicorn).
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Twilight is terrified by the snakes.

* JerkassRealization: Applejack may have been upset with Twilight for breaking the "no magic allowed" rule, but she clearly didn't mean to hurt her feelings, as shown by her reaction to Twilight running off in tears after being scolded.

* MusicalWorldHypothesis: The song may be partly the Diegetic version, mostly because they do this every year and this may be the song and dance they do every year. Twilight's solo throws it off a bit.