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* FearIsNormal: Scootaloo has been plagued by nightmares as a result of Rainbow Dash's [[GhostStory spooky stories]] about [[HeadlessHorseman the Headless Horse]]. She does not want Rainbow to know about this, as she fears she will think less of her. When Rainbow saves her from an InevitableWaterfall, she admits to Rainbow that her tales have freaked her out. Rainbow confesses that those stories scared her when she was younger as well and that she is not the only one.

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* HowlingToTheNight: One of the nighttime noises that spook Scootaloo is howling. Timber wolves, maybe?


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* SpookyAnimalSounds: During the weekend forest camping trip, Scootaloo finds herself gripped by terror at the idea of spending the night in the forest and spends both nights startling at a variety of intimidating noises, with wolf howls punctuating creaking branches and blowing wind.
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* FailedAttemptAtScaring: Rainbow Dash tells a GhostStory about a headless pony. This scares Scootaloo, but Applejack just heckles the story by asking where the horse's brain is if it has no head.
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* TastesLikeDiabetes: Invoked, as Scootaloo tries to tell a story as non-threatening and cutesy as possible to keep Rainbow Dash from telling another scary one. (May or may not be a TakeThat to previous generations of ''My Little Pony''.)
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* GhostStory: Two of them, both told by Rainbow Dash. Scootaloo tries to [[DefiedTrope defy]] it when she offers to tell [[TastesLikeDiabetes her own story]], but fails.

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* GhostStory: Two of them, both told by Rainbow Dash. Scootaloo tries to [[DefiedTrope defy]] it when she offers to tell [[TastesLikeDiabetes her own story]], story, but fails.
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* AbsenteeActor: Twilight, Pinky, Fluttershy, and Spike do not appear at all in this episode.
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Adult Fear is now a disambig, and this is misuse which boils down to "listing all the scary stuff without context"


* AdultFear: Going on a camping trip in the middle of a dark forest with your friends? Not scary. Having one of the kids you are supposed to be responsible for run off in the middle of the night into the dark forest? ''Scary''. Finding said kid moments away from death with you the only one who can save them? ''' ''Terrifying'' '''. Even more so considering it's shown Rainbow Dash really ''does'' care about Scootaloo like her little sister, so you can't really blame her for yelling at the filly.
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* TrivialTitle: Ponyville is only shown for at least few minutes in the episode.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: A focus episode for Scootaloo.

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* ADayInTheLimelight: A focus episode for Scootaloo.Scootaloo and her first one at that.

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* WellDoneSonGuy: Scootaloo is revealed to have wanted [[TheAce Rainbow Dash's]] approval. It's extremely touching when Rainbow Dash reveals her sisterly feelings for Scootaloo.



* WellDoneSonGuy: Scootaloo is revealed to have wanted [[TheAce Rainbow Dash's]] approval. It's extremely touching when Rainbow Dash reveals her sisterly feelings for Scootaloo.

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* WellDoneSonGuy: WormInAnApple: Applejack tells Scootaloo is revealed to have wanted [[TheAce Rainbow Dash's]] approval. It's extremely touching when Rainbow Dash reveals her sisterly feelings for Scootaloo.that she appears "more nervous than a worm in an apple on cider making day."
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** Scootaloo being grabbed by a tree branch in her nightmare is similar to [[Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Snow White's hallucinations in the forest]].

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** Scootaloo being grabbed by a tree branch in her nightmare is similar to [[Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Snow White's hallucinations in the forest]].
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* ScratchyVoicedSenior: The elderly, homeless mare has a very scratchy, deep voice.
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* WickedWitch: The Olden Pony is an old hag in the forest looking for something special. Once she gets her rusty horseshoe back, she's content to leave everyone in peace. Which makes one wonder just what makes the pony equivalent of an elderly woman looking for her shoe on par with an EldritchAbomination to begin with.

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* WickedWitch: The Olden Pony is an old hag in the forest looking for something special. Once she gets her rusty horseshoe back, she's content to leave everyone in peace. Which makes one wonder just what makes the pony equivalent of an elderly woman looking for her shoe on par with an EldritchAbomination so scary to begin with.
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* AbsenteeActor: Twilight, Pinky, Fluttershy, and Spike do not appear at all in this episode.


* WellDoneSonGuy: Scootaloo is revealed to have wanted [[TheAce Rainbow Dash's]] approval. It's extremely [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming touching]] when Rainbow Dash reveals her sisterly feelings for Scootaloo.

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* WellDoneSonGuy: Scootaloo is revealed to have wanted [[TheAce Rainbow Dash's]] approval. It's extremely [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming touching]] touching when Rainbow Dash reveals her sisterly feelings for Scootaloo.
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* OutOfCharacterMoment: [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E18TheShowStoppers Sweetie Belle singing badly?]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E17StareMaster She CAN be a bit loud...]]. Blane the RuleOfFunny.

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* OutOfCharacterMoment: [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E18TheShowStoppers Sweetie Belle singing badly?]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E17StareMaster She CAN be a bit loud...]]. Blane Blame the RuleOfFunny.

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* CurbStompBattle: Princess Luna verses the Headless Horse.

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* CurbStompBattle: Princess Luna verses the Headless Horse.Horse ends with a single ZAP!.



* ADayInTheLimelight: For Scootaloo.

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* ADayInTheLimelight: For A focus episode for Scootaloo.



* DutchAngle: Used at the start of Scootaloo's second nightmare.

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* %%%* DutchAngle: Used at the start of Scootaloo's second nightmare.



* ExhaustedEyeBags: Scootaloo after the first night.

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* ExhaustedEyeBags: Scootaloo Scootaloo, after the first night.night of nightmares, clearly didn't get any sleep.



* HowlingToTheNight: One of the nighttime noises that spook Scootaloo.

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* HowlingToTheNight: One of the nighttime noises that spook Scootaloo.Scootaloo is howling. Timber wolves, maybe?



* MundaneMadeAwesome: Rainbow Dash setting up the camp site. It seems she waited for the rest to reach the site so she's have an audience.

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* MundaneMadeAwesome: Rainbow Dash setting up the camp site. It seems she waited for the rest to reach the site so she's she'd have an audience.



* OutOfCharacterMoment: [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E18TheShowStoppers Sweetie Belle singing badly?]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E17StareMaster She CAN be a bit loud...]]

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* OutOfCharacterMoment: [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E18TheShowStoppers Sweetie Belle singing badly?]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E17StareMaster She CAN be a bit loud...]]]]. Blane the RuleOfFunny.



* RuleOfFunny: An explanation for the above-mentioned OutOfCharacterMoment.



* SecurityCling: The CMC on each other and their respective idols at various points.

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* SecurityCling: The CMC on grab each other and their respective idols at various points.points when scared.



* StylisticSuck: Sweetie Belle's campfire song, along with the backing music.

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* StylisticSuck: Sweetie Belle's campfire song, along with the backing music.music, is deliberately terrible for comedy.



** Scootaloo does this a lot. To a lesser extent, the other two CMC.

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** %%%** Scootaloo does this a lot. To a lesser extent, the other two CMC.



* TastesLikeDiabetes: Invoked, as Scootaloo tries to tell a story like this to keep Rainbow Dash from telling another scary one. (May or may not be a TakeThat to previous generations of ''My Little Pony''.)
* TeamMom: Applejack takes on this role like she did in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E7Dragonshy "Dragonshy"]].
* TwitchyEye: Once the sleep deprivation starts getting to Scootaloo.

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* TastesLikeDiabetes: Invoked, as Scootaloo tries to tell a story like this as non-threatening and cutesy as possible to keep Rainbow Dash from telling another scary one. (May or may not be a TakeThat to previous generations of ''My Little Pony''.)
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TeamMom: Applejack takes on this role like she did in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E7Dragonshy "Dragonshy"]].
* TwitchyEye: Once the sleep deprivation starts getting to Scootaloo.Scootaloo, her eye twitches as a sign of it.



* WickedWitch: The Olden Pony is an old hag in the forest looking for something special. Once she gets her rusty horseshoe back, she's content to leave everyone in peace.
** Which makes one wonder just what makes the pony equivalent of an elderly woman looking for her shoe on par with an EldritchAbomination to begin with.

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* WickedWitch: The Olden Pony is an old hag in the forest looking for something special. Once she gets her rusty horseshoe back, she's content to leave everyone in peace.
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peace. Which makes one wonder just what makes the pony equivalent of an elderly woman looking for her shoe on par with an EldritchAbomination to begin with.
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Scootaloo is riding through Ponyville and catching air off an impromptu ramp when Rainbow Dash drops in and says she has 'nice moves'. Thus Scootaloo becomes obsessed with getting the pegasus mare to take her under her wing. Apple Bloom invites the two to come along on a weekend camping trip with her, Applejack, Sweetie Belle, and (with a little convincing) Rarity. The trip goes off without a hitch as Scootaloo does everything she can to impress Rainbow Dash--but she starts to fray around the edges that night when Rainbow Dash tells a scary campfire story about a spooky Olden Pony searching for her missing rusty horseshoe. Scootaloo puts on a brave face that earns her a compliment from Rainbow Dash for her "fearlessness" but can't get a wink of sleep after suffering a terrible nightmare about the Olden Pony.

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Scootaloo is riding through Ponyville and catching air off an impromptu ramp when Rainbow Dash drops in and says she has 'nice moves'."nice moves". Thus Scootaloo becomes obsessed with getting the pegasus mare to take her under her wing. Apple Bloom invites the two to come along on a weekend camping trip with her, Applejack, Sweetie Belle, and (with a little convincing) Rarity. The trip goes off without a hitch as Scootaloo does everything she can to impress Rainbow Dash--but she starts to fray around the edges that night when Rainbow Dash tells a scary campfire story about a spooky Olden Pony searching for her missing rusty horseshoe. Scootaloo puts on a brave face that earns her a compliment from Rainbow Dash for her "fearlessness" but can't get a wink of sleep after suffering a terrible nightmare about the Olden Pony.
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* FancyCamping: Rarity brings along a fancy-looking two-story tent with her. It's even shown as the trope's image.
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* InNameOnly: The title is just about the only ShoutOut to ''Film/SleeplessInSeattle'': all the more apparent when the episode is sandwiched between a rather obvious {{Homage}} to ''TheEmpireStrikesBack'' and a wonderfully flagrant WholePlotReference to ''Film/TopGun''.

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* InNameOnly: The title is just about the only ShoutOut to ''Film/SleeplessInSeattle'': all the more apparent when the episode is sandwiched between a rather obvious {{Homage}} to ''TheEmpireStrikesBack'' ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' and a wonderfully flagrant WholePlotReference to ''Film/TopGun''.

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