History Recap / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E23SecretsAndPies

* HatesBaths: Apparently, Rainbow hates washing. She actually doesn't, she's just incredibly self conscious about it and [[GuiltyPleasure doesn't want others to know]].

* HatesBaths: Apparently, Rainbow hates washing.

* ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare: Pointed out by Dr. Fauna when she treats Tank for digestive problems. Rainbow Dash had fed Tank her discarded pies (tin included), and she does the same to Cheerilee's class hamster.

* LethalChef: When Rainbow Dash tries to cook a pie herself, she creates a "smelly circular monstrosity" with a crust that may or not be concrete and a filling that looks like mud, with a smell bad enough for Pinkie to smell it from the top of Sugar Cube Corner.

* MasochistsMeal: The "humble pie" at the end looks like nothing so much as a pastry version of Harmburger from ''Awful Hospital'', and is constructed from cement and garbage. Complete with bubbling garbage juice.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Pinkie Pie becomes ''enraged'' at Rainbow Dash after finding out she had been lying to her about liking her pies all this time. This causes Rainbow to realize how bad she screwed up, despite it having been only meant to spare Pinkie feeling bad.

* SeriousBusiness: Pinkie believes her pie baking is "more art than science", considering the pie she makes for Rainbow at the beginning of the episode to be her "masterpiece".

* SupremeChef: Pinkie, as usual. Not even she can make a pie Rainbow likes though, and her catching onto Rainbow's attempts to spare her feelings set off the plot.

* UnwantedGiftPlot: Rainbow has been pretending to like Pinkie's pies for years, because she doesn't want to hurt Pinkie's feelings. And she's done such a good job, she accidentally convinced Pinkie that pies are her favorite dessert, so Pinkie keeps making more and more of them.

Pinkie Pie is busy baking a pie over at Sugar Cube Corner, explaining her method to Twilight Sparkle. The pie Pinkie is preparing is to celebrate Rainbow Dash's 73rd Wonderbolts training session. Pinkie's hard work is done with the belief that Rainbow Dash can't get enough of her pies, and Pinkie enjoys making Rainbow happy.

Pinkie takes the pie up to the Wonderbolts facility and presents it to Rainbow Dash, cutting her a slice. Rainbow quickly distracts Pinkie and when she looks back, it appears she had devoured the piece and compliments Pinkie. Pinkie offers her another but Rainbow instead takes the pie, saying she has other places she has to be and will eat it later. Proud of herself, Pinkie sets off but suddenly notices that what looks like her pie is sitting atop a trash can being wheeled out by the janitor. She gives chase and questions the janitor if that was in fact the pie but doesn't get an answer.

Pinkie returns to her sanctum underneath Sugar Cube Corner to ponder the implications of what she witnessed. She checks into her files of some recent pies she had baked for Rainbow Dash and tries to recall if she ever saw Rainbow take a bite of any of them. In every instance, Rainbow had done the same thing: briefly distract Pinkie then upon looking back, the pie appeared to have been eaten. Deciding she doesn't know enough, Pinkie sets out to investigate.

She returns to the Wonderbolts facility and questions the other members, who tell her they get monthly pie donations from an unknown source. Pinkie then pays a visit to Dr. Fauna, who has been treating Rainbow Dash's tortoise Tank for stomach problems and diagnoses it as sugar overload. Pinkie correlates the first instance of it with a pie she baked a week before. Dr. Fauna also shows Pinkie an x-ray that shows Tank had ingested a pie, directing her to Cheerilee, whose class hamster had shown similar symptoms. Cheerilee tells Pinkie that Rainbow Dash had given her class her half-birthday pie every year, which confirms Rainbow had been offloading Pinkie's pies without eating them.

Pinkie, now sure that Rainbow Dash has been lying to her, realizes Rainbow Dash doesn't enjoy eating pies and flips out. Meanwhile, Applejack pays a visit to Sugar Cube Corner and hears Pinkie's freak out before stumbling into the party planning sanctum. Pinkie explains her suspicion of Rainbow to Applejack and then imagines that Rainbow Dash has turned into a pie-hating monster with laser eyes. Applejack reassures her that isn't the case and offers her a tub of apples with which to make pies. Pinkie decides to make enough pies to either get Dash to confess or to catch her red-hoofed ditching them.

Pinkie Pie goes to Rainbow Dash's house and offers her a "Wake Your Friends Up Day" pie, which Rainbow quickly disposes of by throwing it down a chute to Tank while making Pinkie Pie sneeze. Then Pinkie meets Dash at the Wonderbolts facility and offers her a pie for her 74th training session. Rainbow seemingly tries to distract Pinkie as usual but this time she gets plowed into by Spitfire because she was standing on the runway, during which time Rainbow once again chucks the unwanted pastry.

Pinkie's next strategy is to stand on a huge tower of pies and attempts to make Rainbow Dash eat all of them in order to get her down but Rainbow simply flies to the top and picks her up, after which the tower falls on top of Pinkie. As "gratitude" for being saved, Pinkie gives Rainbow a whole bunch of pies but Rainbow manages to get the Ponyville foals to take them off her hooves and pretends to have eaten one in the ensuing rush. Pinkie, now furious, disheveled, and fairly insane, has a pie gathering for the whole town and ambushes Rainbow there, demanding she eat hers, refusing to blink until she does. Rainbow stalls until Pinkie is finally forced to blink, at which point she quickly ties the pie to a balloon and gets rid of it out of Pinkie's sight.

Pinkie finally breaks and openly accuses Dash of betraying her. Rainbow Dash tries to deny it but the balloon she used to ditch her most recent pie drops it on Pinkie's head, confirming once and for all Rainbow had been lying. Rainbow then tries to make up excuses but Pinkie won't have it, storming off back to Sugar Cube Corner. Rainbow Dash goes back to Twilight's castle to try and work out a solution with Applejack and Twilight but doesn't get much sympathy from them for lying. Suddenly she is hit with inspiration and sets out to right her wrong.

Meanwhile, Pinkie Pie is napping at Sugar Cube Corner when she is awoken by an awful stench. She looks out her window and sees Rainbow Dash, Twilight, and Applejack. Dash admits she was in the wrong and shows her a large pie she "baked"; a disgusting-looking gray and green mess that was the source of the foul odor. Rainbow says she'll eat the "pie" in order to show how sorry she is and to make up for ditching all of Pinkie's previous pies. Pinkie spares Rainbow from torturing herself and accepts her apology, realizing why Rainbow had been faking all this time (since seeing Pinkie overjoyed at how much she seemingly enjoyed eating her pies was what Rainbow wanted). The two friends make up and hug it out, even though Rainbow would prefer if Pinkie hugged a little less tight.

* {{Balloonacy}}: Pinkie uses a bunch of party balloons tied to her torso to stand on the clouds of the Wonderbolts' Headquarters.

** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E7NewbieDash Newbie Dash]]" established that ponies should look both ways before crossing the runway at Wonderbolts HQ in case members of the team are using it. Pinkie stands in the middle of the runway at one point while trying to talk to Dash, and ends up having Spitfire crash into her. In addition, Spitfire briefly refers to Rainbow as "Crash".

* TheCameo: [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E24TopBolt Sky Stinger and Vapor Trail]] are in the background at Wonderbolt HQ, still donning their cadet outfits.

* CrazyPrepared: Rainbow Dash ''is'' really well prepared for any "pie emergency"... including a drop chute hidden in her bedroom behind a Wonderbolts poster, and delivering the pie straight to Tank to devour. Understandable when you consider this has been going on for ''years'', meaning Rainbow had plenty of time to realize this was gonna be a regular thing and prepare accordingly before the events of the episode.

* IAteWhat: Inverted: Rainbow decides to make things up to Pinkie by eating a pie she made herself. The word "pie" is a very subjective term for what Rainbow concocted; Rainbow legitimately doesn't know if it uses a pie crust or concrete, the smell is bad enough to wake up Pinkie Pie and immediately disgust her, and there are visible bits of garbage stuck to it. Luckily, Pinkie stops Rainbow before she can take a bite.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Dash lies about liking Pinkie's pies in an effort to spare her feelings. Not thinking that when she did find out, she wouldn't react well to her friend lying to her for ''years''.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Pinkie Pie becomes ''enraged'' at Rainbow Dash after finding out she had been lying to her about liking her pies all this time. This causes Rainbow to realize how bad she screwed up, despite it was only out of sparing Pinkie of her feelings.
* PieInTheFace: Why, in an episode entirely about pies, you think none of them would end up in somepony's face?

* SanitySlippage: As Pinkie's attempts to get Dash to eat one of her pies escalates, she slowly loses it until she refuses to blink before she sees Dash eat a pie.

* BedmateReveal: Rainbow wakes up, rolls over, and finds Pinkie lying on the bed next to her, ready to offer yet another pie.

* ShoutOut: The {{Idiosyncratic Wipe|s}} of a pie seguing to the Party-Planning Cave is, appropriately enough, using the typical transition music and rythme from the ''Series/{{Batman}}'' TV series.

* CrazyPrepared: Rainbow Dash ''is'' really well prepared for any "pie emergency"... including a drop chute hidden in her bedroom behind a Wonderbolts poster, and delivering the pie straight to Tank to devour.

* FurryReminder: Subverted by Dr. Fauna's explanation of why Tank was repeatedly sick - animals can't handle pony food.

** The one time Pinkie gets suspicious and refuses to look away is the one time Rainbow is ''actually'' trying to warn Pinkie--in this case, because Spitfire is about to crash into her.

* ThirdPersonFlashback: Pinkie's first trio of flashbacks clearly show Rainbow Dash tossing her pies away--and the reactions of the ponies who received those pies--even though at this point, Pinkie doesn't know Rainbow has been doing that.

** Pinkie gets entirely covered in pies, some of them smeared on her face, after stomping the ground in frustration and her instable pie pyramid crash on her.

* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: While trying to figure why Rainbow threw out her pie, one of Pinkie's thoughts was that Rainbow was BrainwashedAndCrazy. After being caught in her lie, Rainbow tried to claim she was brainwashed. Pinkie shot it down both times because Rainbow hates washing.

* GoneHorriblyRight: Rainbow pretended to like Pinkie's pies in order to avoid hurting her feelings, but accidentally makes her think that she ''loved'' Pinkie's pies, and this leads to the pink chef blowing up at Rainbow when she learns the truth.

* IdiosyncraticWipes: Several pies, zooming in or out, are used as scene transitioners. At another time, it's the bubbles from Pinkie's bubble pipe which are wiping the screen.

* {{Flashback}}: As Pinkie Pie remembers, a series of flashbacks show several instances where she offered pies to Rainbow Dash (including one obviously set during "Pinkie Pride", and she realizes that RD never ate the pies.

* BrickJoke: Pinkie Pie shoots down her theory that Rainbow was brainwashed because Rainbow hates washing. When Rainbow tries to claim she was brainwashed when her lie is exposed, Pinkie Pie brings this up again.

* BulletTime: In the time it takes Pinkie to blink, Rainbow Dash is able to quickly tie a pie to a balloon to pretend she ate it.

* EyeBeams: The Evil Rainbow Dash from Pinkie's fantasy can blast pies with beams shooting from her eyes.

* IdiosyncraticWipes: Several pies, zooming in or out, are used as scene transitioners.