History Recap / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E12DiscordantHarmony

** Discord fading out echos [[Film/BackToTheFuture Marty]] [[RippleEffectIndicator fading out]], complete with looking through a transparent hand.

* {{Mondegreen}}: Discord hears "ginseng tea" and assumes it actually sings. He then dons a zoot suit appropriate for a gin joint. He then makes his way of hearing it more accurate.

* NotSoDifferent: When worrying about what Fluttershy will think of his realm, Discord invokes FreakOut just like [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E1CelestialAdvice Twilight and Celestia]].

* {{Adorkable}}: Fluttershy attempting to re-crazy Discord's house is so adorably underwhelming since she's thinking outside her element. Even before that, she excitedly asks what the green tea Discord is serving does.
-->'''Fluttershy:''' Oooh! Does it actually turn us green? Is it really envious of the other teas? What's it do, what's it do?!

** The music theme used for Discord's "help team" obviously takes inspiration from [[Disney/{{Fantasia}} "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"]].

-->'''Fluttershy:''' ''You and I'' make sense to ''me''.

* CharacterDevelopment: A lot for Discord; far from petulantly trying to get his own way, like in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E18DungeonsAndDiscords previous]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E7MakeNewFriendsButKeepDiscord episodes]], here his whole concern is trying to make Fluttershy feel comfortable. Not only that, but he's perfectly nice to all the ordinary ponies he meets, even when they irritate him by questioning his friendship with Fluttershy. The worse he does to them is casually covering each in bits -- which they probably don't mind. Basically, this is the first Discord-centered episode where [[TookALevelInKindness he never does anything mean or selfish.]]

* Fiction500: Technically -- being able to conjure bits for the salesponies means that money is no object to Discord.

* AdviceBackfire: Pinkie Pie advises Discord to focus on making Fluttershy feel comfortable at his tea party. Discord takes her advice a little too far, and nearly fades from existence from suppressing his chaotic powers while trying to make things "normal" for Fluttershy.

** However, when he starts to fade away and Fluttershy urges him to do something chaotic, an attempt at a fingersnap only results in his fingers going through each other. A major OhCrap moment: as he is no longer solid enough to use his powers to make everything chaotic again, he would have helplessly continued to fade and ''ceased to exist'' if not for Fluttershy having been there to help him.

* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: The strangeness of Discord's realm and his connection to its chaos becomes a major plot element.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Discord decides to make his realm and his appearance "normal" like the rest of the world outside it, but the problem is that he's ''trying to fix what isn't broken and is essential to his existence''.
* DissonantSerenity: Discord continues trying to act perfectly calm and normal, even as suppressing his chaotic nature causes him to slowly fade from existence.

* EldritchLocation: Discord's house, like usual, only he tries his absolute best to make sure it isn't for his tea party with Fluttershy.

* Fiction500: Technically -- being able to just conjure bits for the salesponies [[{{Understatement}} probably]] means that money is no object to Discord.

* FreakyIsCool: Fluttershy eagerly anticipates how strange a tea party in Discord's realm could be, is almost horrified by how normal it is due to Discord making his home as normal as possible, and enjoys it once she and Discord return his home to its normal chaos.

* IronicEcho: Many of the actions Fluttershy does to restore Discord to normal (for him, at least) is [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike repeating the same actions and thoughts he did earlier in the episode]] prior to deciding on a more normal party.

* KryptoniteFactor: For the first time ever, Discord's life is at stake -- the removal of all chaotic factors from his surroundings causes him to start fading away, and seemingly takes a toll on his sanity as well, as he continues to attempt normal, idle chit-chat while it's occurring.
* LavaAddsAwesome: Discord turning lava lamps into mini volcanoes with actual lava counts, though he quickly determines that having lava dripping from the ceiling would be [[{{Understatement}} a bit hazardous]].

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Fluttershy is visibly bothered by how normal Discord's place is, because she knows him well enough to realize it's not right.
* PokeThePoodle: Fluttershy's initial attempts at causing chaos at Discord's tea party involve tipping over an empty cup, taking bites out of all the finger sandwiches, and making faces.

* ShipTease: The Fluttercord ship tease is ''very'' strong in this episode. In particular, Discord describes his friendship with Fluttershy thusly, which makes it sound almost like a downplayed StarCrossedLovers scenario:

'''Fluttershy:''' Oh. OK.