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* CreativeClosingCredits: Just like in the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E16RarityInvestigates previous episode]], the usual credits music is replaced by a different composition (one similar to ragtime).

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* CreativeClosingCredits: Just like in the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E16RarityInvestigates previous episode]], the usual credits music is replaced by a different composition (one - in this case, a melody very similar to ragtime)."Working in the Coal Mine," complete with pickaxe-like clangs.
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* LiteralMinded: Applejack tells Coco that she can "bet her boots" she and Rarity will help. Coco replies she doesn't wear boots as they chafe. {{Lampshade}}d by Applejack.

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* LiteralMinded: Applejack tells Coco that she can "bet her boots" she and Rarity will help. Coco replies she doesn't wear boots as they chafe. {{Lampshade}}d She is gently chided by Applejack.
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* IdiosyncraticWipe: Happens several times, first during AJ and Rarity's search for volunteers (newspaper, popcorn bag), then while AJ is trying to clean up the park on her own (lawnmower, paintbrush).

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* ContrivedCoincidence: The coincidence of them doing so is {{lampshade}}d by Coco after Rarity and Applejack find her flyer.


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* ThereAreNoCoincidences: The coincidence of them doing so is {{lampshade}}d by Coco after Rarity and Applejack find her flyer. Rarity believes it's fate.
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** There are several to ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} including Rarity setting up a "Friendship Advice" stand similar to Lucy's Psychiatric Help stand, Rarity saying Charlie Brown's catchphrase ("Good grief"), and even a pony that walks past the stand has a similar zig-zag sweater and single hair curl on its head like Charlie Brown (his cutie mark is even a football, which Lucy tends to pull away from him).

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** There are several to ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} including Rarity setting up a "Friendship Advice" stand similar to Lucy's Psychiatric Help stand, Rarity saying Charlie Brown's catchphrase ("Good grief"), and even a pony that walks past the stand has a similar zig-zag sweater and single hair curl on its head like Charlie Brown (his cutie mark is even a football, which Lucy tends to pull away from him). The music also shifts briefly to a Music/VinceGuaraldi-inspired ditty when the booth is first revealed.

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** The overhead shot of Applejack trying to cross the street looks like ''VideoGame/{{Frogger}}''.


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** The newsstand pony is modeled off of Christian Bale's character Jack Kelly from ''Film/{{Newsies}}''.
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* BaitAndSwitch: The episode starts with Twilight bemoaning it being slow as of late and being bored until she hears Rarity call for her. Twilight quickly jumps at the chance for some action... until she realizes the map wants Rarity and Applejack for the current problem, to her disappointment. The rest of the episode focuses on the latter two.

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* BaitAndSwitch: The episode starts with Twilight bemoaning it her life being slow as of late and being bored until she hears Rarity call for her. Twilight quickly jumps at the chance for some action... until she realizes the map wants Rarity and Applejack for the current problem, to her disappointment. The rest of the episode focuses on the latter two.
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* WriteWhoYouKnow: The play is a dramitization of how Charity Kindheart, the mare who inspired Coco,founded the Theater Revival.

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* WriteWhoYouKnow: The play is a dramitization of how Charity Kindheart, the mare who inspired Coco,founded Coco, founded the Theater Revival.
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* AbsenteeActor: Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and Rainbow Dash do not appear in this episode.
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* ShowWithinAShow: the play.


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* WriteWhoYouKnow: The play is a dramitization of how Charity Kindheart, the mare who inspired Coco,founded the Theater Revival.
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** In Coco's scrapbook there's pictures of Charity Kindheart working on costumes for WizardOfOz. Coco herself is working on costumes for [[MyFairLady My Fair Filly.]]

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** In Coco's scrapbook there's pictures of Charity Kindheart working on costumes for WizardOfOz. Coco herself is working on costumes for [[MyFairLady My Fair Filly.]]Filly]]. ''[[Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof Trotter on the Roof]]'' is mentioned in the play.

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* DramaQueen: Rarity's in top form as she falls into Applejack's hooves in frustration.



* DramaQueen: Rarity's in top form as she falls into Applejack's hooves in frustration.



* RunningGag: Just after the scene at the newspaper stand, a newspaper flashes by showing a photo of the huge unicorn [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E14CanterlotBoutique who wanted a Princess Dress]].

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* RunningGag: Just after the scene at the newspaper stand, a newspaper flashes by showing a photo of the huge unicorn [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E14CanterlotBoutique [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E14CanterlotBoutique who wanted a Princess Dress]].
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The huge unicorn shows up again.

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* RunningGag: Just after the scene at the newspaper stand, a newspaper flashes by showing a photo of the huge unicorn [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E14CanterlotBoutique who wanted a Princess Dress]].
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* Adorkable: A bored Twilight is an adorable Twilight.

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* Adorkable: A bored {{Adorkable}}: Twilight is an adorable Twilight.bored and keeps expressing it with raspberries and bored sighs.



* [[FacePalm Face Hoof]]: AJ does this when she realizes the trip to Manehattan will cause her & Rarity to miss the Sisterhooves Social.

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* [[FacePalm Face Hoof]]: FacePalm: AJ does this when she realizes the trip to Manehattan will cause her & and Rarity to miss the Sisterhooves Social.



* FelonyMisdemeanor: Rarity is horrified by the hat a Manehattanite mare wanted to buy.

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* FelonyMisdemeanor: Rarity is horrified by the hat a Manehattanite mare wanted to buy.buy, and does the same for another fashion emergency at the end.



* [[PuttingAHandOverHisMouth Putting A Hoof Over Her Mouth]]: AJ does this to Rarity to stop her when she starts getting overly melodramatic about the difficulties in getting the park and the stage ready for the play.

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* [[PuttingAHandOverHisMouth Putting A Hoof Over Her Mouth]]: PuttingAHandOverHisMouth: AJ does this to Rarity to stop her when she starts getting overly melodramatic about the difficulties in getting the park and the stage ready for the play.
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* Adorkable: A bored Twilight is an adorable Twilight.


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* BeleagueredAssistant: Twilight gets no sympathy from Spike.


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* BoredomMontage: A very brief one courtesy of Twilight (she even made a pyramid out of books.)


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* DramaQueen: Rarity's in top form as she falls into Applejack's hooves in frustration.


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** In Coco's scrapbook there's pictures of Charity Kindheart working on costumes for WizardOfOz. Coco herself is working on costumes for [[MyFairLady My Fair Filly.]]
* StylisticSuck: The final production of Midsummer Theater Revival.

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* BlushSticker: AJ and Coco Pommel get these a couple of times in the episode.



* [[FacePalm Face Hoof]]: AJ does this when she realizes the trip to Manehattan will cause her & Rarity to miss the Sisterhooves Social.
* FascinatingEyebrow: AJ gives one of these to Rarity in response to Rarity suggesting that giving that one mare a new hat was what the two had been summoned to Manehattan for.



** At the newspaper stand, there are covers that are clearly meant to be ponified versions of ''The Weekly World News'' (particularly the Batboy issue), and ''Oprah Magazine''.
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** At the newspaper stand, there are covers that are clearly meant to be ponified versions of ''The Weekly World News'' (particularly the Batboy issue), and ''Oprah Magazine''.
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* WingdingEyes: Twilight gets these when thinking about the libraries in Manehattan.
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* CountryMouse: AJ is apprehensive about traveling to Manehattan and struggles to cope with the hectic pace and huge crowds once she gets there.
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** Rarity and Applejack mention that their visit to Manehattan will cause them to miss the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E18BrotherhoovesSocial Sisterhooves Social]] this time around.

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* CallBack: Rarity hangs off a lamp post immediately upon arriving in Manehattan and says the first line of "Generosity", calling back to "Rarity Takes Manehattan".



** Applejack [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E23TheCutieMarkChronicles still feels out of place in the city]]. More then likely the reason why it wasn't an issue before when [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E8RarityTakesManehattan she came to Manehattan last time]] was because she was with the rest of the Mane 6 at the time.

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** Rarity hangs off a lamp post immediately upon arriving in Manehattan and says the first line of "Generosity", calling back to "Rarity Takes Manehattan".
** Applejack [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E23TheCutieMarkChronicles still feels out of place in the city]]. More then than likely the reason why it wasn't an issue before when [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E8RarityTakesManehattan she came to Manehattan last time]] was because she was with the rest of the Mane 6 Six at the time.



* FelonyMisdemeanor: Rarity is horrified by the hat a Manehattenite mare wanted to buy.

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* FelonyMisdemeanor: Rarity is horrified by the hat a Manehattenite Manehattanite mare wanted to buy.



* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Applejack spends a lot of time in the episode completely confused as to why the map would call ''her'' to Manehatten, often stating she has nothing to offer.

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* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Applejack spends a lot of time in the episode completely confused as to why the map would call ''her'' to Manehatten, Manehattan, often stating she has nothing to offer.



* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Subverted. Twilight ''wants'' to be this, since she's already read ''every'' book in the castle library and is bored out of her mind waiting for something to happen, but the map calls Rarity and AJ to Manehatten instead of her, much to her dejection.

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* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Subverted. Twilight ''wants'' to be this, since she's already read ''every'' book in the castle library and is bored out of her mind waiting for something to happen, but the map calls Rarity and AJ to Manehatten Manehattan instead of her, much to her dejection.



* SynchronousEpisodes: Takes place at the same time as [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E18BrotherhoovesSocial Brotherhooves Social]].

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* SynchronousEpisodes: Takes The episode takes place at the same time as [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E18BrotherhoovesSocial "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E18BrotherhoovesSocial Brotherhooves Social]].Social]]", which shows what Apple Bloom was up to at the Sisterhooves Social while Applejack was away.
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* [[PutAHandOverHisMouth Put A Hoof Over Her Mouth]]: AJ does this to Rarity to stop her when she starts getting overly melodramatic about the difficulties in getting the park and the stage ready for the play.

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* [[PutAHandOverHisMouth Put [[PuttingAHandOverHisMouth Putting A Hoof Over Her Mouth]]: AJ does this to Rarity to stop her when she starts getting overly melodramatic about the difficulties in getting the park and the stage ready for the play.
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* [[PutAHandOverHisMouth Put A Hoof Over Her Mouth]]: AJ does this to Rarity to stop her when she starts getting overly melodramatic about the difficulties in getting the park and the stage ready for the play.
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* BaitAndSwitch: The episode starts with Twilight bemoaning it being slow as of late and being bored until she hears Rarity call for her. Twilight quickly jumps at the chance for some action... until she realizes the map wants Rarity and Applejack for the current problem, to her disappointment. The episode focus on the latter two proper for the remainder.

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* BaitAndSwitch: The episode starts with Twilight bemoaning it being slow as of late and being bored until she hears Rarity call for her. Twilight quickly jumps at the chance for some action... until she realizes the map wants Rarity and Applejack for the current problem, to her disappointment. The rest of the episode focus focuses on the latter two proper for the remainder.two.

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* CallBack: Rarity hangs off a lamp post immediately upon arriving in Manehattan and says the first line of "Generosity", calling back to "Rarity Takes Manehattan".



** Twilight again being left out of traveling to a desired destination for a friendship problem. She even lampshades that the map seems to do this to her a lot.

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** Twilight again being left out of traveling to a desired destination for a friendship problem. She even lampshades {{lampshade}}s that the map seems to do this to her a lot.



* ContrivedCoincidence: The coincidence of them doing so is lampshaded by Coco after Rarity and Applejack find her flyer.

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* ContrivedCoincidence: The coincidence of them doing so is lampshaded {{lampshade}}d by Coco after Rarity and Applejack find her flyer.



* LiteralMinded: Applejack tells Coco that she can "bet her boots" she and Rarity will help. Coco replies she doesn't wear boots as they chafe. Lampshaded by Applejack later.

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* LiteralMinded: Applejack tells Coco that she can "bet her boots" she and Rarity will help. Coco replies she doesn't wear boots as they chafe. Lampshaded {{Lampshade}}d by Applejack later.Applejack.



* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Twilight ''wants'' to be this, since she's already read ''every'' book in the castle library and is bored out of her mind waiting for something to happen, but the map calls Rarity and AJ to Manehatten instead of her, much to her dejection.

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* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Subverted. Twilight ''wants'' to be this, since she's already read ''every'' book in the castle library and is bored out of her mind waiting for something to happen, but the map calls Rarity and AJ to Manehatten instead of her, much to her dejection.



** An elderly mare yells "Hey, I'm walking here!" at a taxi-cart just like in Film/MidnightCowboy.

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** An elderly mare yells "Hey, I'm walking trottin' here!" at a taxi-cart just like in Film/MidnightCowboy.



* TakeAThirdOption: Since holding the program at the park was out of the question and they could hardly advertise. Rarity, Applejack and Coco decide to just build a stage outside the park and hold the performance there in the hope it'll attract ponies. It works.

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* TakeAThirdOption: Since holding the program at the park was out of the question and they could hardly advertise. advertise, Rarity, Applejack and Coco decide to just build a stage outside the park and hold the performance there in the hope it'll attract ponies. It works.
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* SimultaneousArcs[=/=]SynchronousEpisodes: Takes place at the same time as [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E18BrotherhoovesSocial Brotherhooves Social]].

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* SimultaneousArcs[=/=]SynchronousEpisodes: SynchronousEpisodes: Takes place at the same time as [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E18BrotherhoovesSocial Brotherhooves Social]].
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* CallForward: Rarity and Applejack mention that their visit to Manehattan will cause them to miss the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E18BrotherhoovesSocial Sisterhooves Social]].
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* AbsenteeActor: Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and Rainbow Dash are completely absent in this episode.

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* AbsenteeActor: Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and Rainbow Dash are completely absent do not appear in this episode.
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* HatDamage: Applejack accidentally runs over her hat with the lawnmower, then has it flattened by a statue. Ultimately it get so beaten up, that Rarity has it thrown away and gets her a new hat.

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* HatDamage: Applejack accidentally runs over her hat with the lawnmower, then has it flattened by a statue. Ultimately it get so beaten up, that After the play, Rarity has throws it thrown away in the trash and gets buys her a new hat.one.

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