History Recap / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E16ItAintEasyBeingBreezies

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E10SwarmOfTheCentury Swarm of the Season]] ]]

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: Discussed by Rarity and Fluttershy, with Rarity's sequin-covered jacket -- and the blouse under it -- shown as [[SubvertedTrope subversions in-context]].

* CryCute: Seabreeze when he confesses to Fluttershy how upset he is that the other Breezies won't listen to him when he just wants to get home; and Fluttershy when she has to kick the Breezies out, and again at the end when they finally get home safely.

* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: Discussed by Rarity and Fluttershy, with Rarity's sequin-covered jacket -- and [[UpToEleven the blouse under it]] -- shown as [[SubvertedTrope subversions in-context]].

* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: [[TheFashionista Rarity]], as is her ''raison d'être''. She takes off her glittery purple jacket because Fluttershy convinces her that all the sequins would distract or blind the Breezies. What she's wearing under the jacket is [[UpToEleven so bright we can't clearly see it]].

* RapunzelHair: The manes and tails of some of the Breezies are longer than their bodies.

* BeeAfraid: Seabreeze crashes into a beehive, and the residents are more than a little upset at the damage.

* SceneryPorn: The Breezies' homeworld.

* ClusterFBomb: Downplayed and [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar eventually got past the censors]]. Despite being able to speak English, Seabreeze goes on one rant to the Mane Six in the Breezie language that Fluttershy politely refuses to translate. Make of it what you will.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: As mentioned above, Seabreeze lets out a rant in Breezie language--[[ClusterFBomb which Fluttershy doesn't want her friends or us to know what he just said.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Spike causes Seabreeze's group of Breezies to be separated from the rest by bouncing on a branch and releasing a leaf.

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: The Breezies' accent sounds like a strange mix between Scottish and Scandinavian. Or Eastern European -- Seabreeze sounds an awful lot like Dexter, especially in his cadence and in the way he pronounces "stupid".

In a clearing, the wind a few pegasi generate is either too strong or too weak for the group of Breezies because of their small number. To help them, Twilight casts a transformation spell that turns all of the Mane Six into Breezies, allowing the group to travel together. Along the way, Seabreeze shows what he has learned from Fluttershy, using encouragement and support rather than insults to motivate the struggling Breezies. They pass through the portal to the Breezie Kingdom with moments to spare, reuniting the weary Breezies with their families. As the Mane Six, transformed back to their normal selves, leave for Ponyville, Fluttershy is wearing a Breezie flower in her mane -- a gift from Seabreeze -- which gives off a rainbow shimmer...

* ClusterFBomb: Despite being able to speak English, Seabreeze goes on one rant to the Mane Six in the Breezie language that Fluttershy politely refuses to translate. Make of it what you will.

** There is a thing as being too nice: The somewhat excessive hospitality and the stress of having to travel long distances spurred the breezies to rebel against Seabreeze and side with Fluttershy with a spoiled and doting attitude.

* SurroundedByIdiots: Seabreeze may've been too harsh with his compatriots, but then It Ain't Easy Being Civil, when your compatriots are shortsighted and self-indulgent dead-beats, who are eager to abandon their homes and families (even if one argues it's their business, they are also denying Seabreeze the return to ''his'' family) for the sake of stuffing their mouths and lazing off at Fluttershy's expense. If that wasn't bad enough, they are doing this is a world that is a DeathWorld to them, and they are disrupting an important supply mission for their world.

* BrokenStreak:
** All the previous episodes where one of the Mane Six gets a [[PlotCoupon key]] ("Rarity Takes Manehatten", "Rainbow Falls" and "Pinkie Pride") had the name of the pony in question in the title; however, not only was Fluttershy's name ''not'' in this episode title, but the previous episode had Twilight's name in its title, and she didn't receive ''her'' key, thus setting up a meta RedHerring.
** Also, unlike previous episodes involving the keys, this episode has no hints of the "Friendship Rainbow" until the moment Fluttershy learns her [[AnAesop lesson]] [[ThePowerOfFriendship about friendship]].

-->'''Rarity:''' (''nearly incandescent'') I suppose this won't do either?

* AesopAmnesia: Until near the end of this episode, Fluttershy hasn't remembered from [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E10SwarmOfTheCentury "Swarm of the Century"]] and [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E19PuttingYourHoofDown "Putting Your Hoof Down"]] not to let animals push her over just because they're cute, or from [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E22ABirdInTheHoof "A Bird in the Hoof"]] that she shouldn't immediately believe them when they pretend to be sick.

* SpeakingSimlish: The Breezies speak in gibberish (fans note it kind of sounds like a strange combo of Scottish/Swedish), though Seabreeze can speak English, albeit [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent with an accent]].

* AnAesop: Being kind doesn't mean doing whatever someone else wants; it means doing what will help them the most in the long run.
** A second one: Just because you're trying to help, being too tough just makes you look mean and makes it harder to get your followers to listen to you. A true leader knows that they need to balance tough love and tenderness to get the best results.

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: In the Treehouse TV airing of this episode, two lines from Seabreeze are censored:
-->'''Seabreeze:''' I wish we did not need that [[spoiler:stupid]] breeze to activate our magic!\\\
'''Seabreeze:''' There is nothing special about these [[spoiler:losers]]!