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* FurryReminder: Starburst actually neighs when his mother’s antics make cause him to lose his temper.

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* OverlyLongGag: "Welcome to Sire's Hollow! Welcome to Sire's Hollow! Welcome to Sire's Hollow! [[MostAnnoyingSound Welcome to Sire's Hollow!]]"

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* OverlyLongGag: Sunburst's mother enchanted the gate at the entrance to the town to announce "Welcome to Sire's Hollow!" whenever it's opened. At one point Sunburst just repeatedly closes and opens the gate to demonstrate to her how annoying it is.
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* OhCrap: Starlight’s reaction when her dad says she can stay in her old room and that it is just like she left it. Perhaps she’s embarrassed by her former emo-like state she left it in.


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* RageBreakingPoint: Starlight and Sunburst eventually have enough of their parents meddling and shout they don’t want their help and chew them out for pestering them.
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Separately, the two work to find what the problem may be, with their respective parents wanting to help given the importance of the mission. But this sets off past behaviors that irks both Starlight and Sunburst. Firelight wants to keep treating Starlight as a young filly, while Stellar Flare wants to make sure Sunburst as a direction for his light. Both Starlight and Sunburst yell at their parents, and soon realize the friendship problem to solve is the broken relationship they each have with their parents.

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Separately, the two work to find what the problem may be, with their respective parents wanting to help given the importance of the mission. But this sets off past behaviors that irks both Starlight and Sunburst. Firelight wants to keep treating Starlight as a young filly, while Stellar Flare wants to make sure Sunburst as has a direction for his light.life. Both Starlight and Sunburst yell at their parents, and soon realize the friendship problem to solve is the broken relationship they each have with their parents.
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* FormerTeenRebel: Starlight was one, judging by the contents of her old room, which includes a guitar, an amp, skulls, and posters of rebellious-looking ponies on the walls.

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* FormerTeenRebel: Starlight was one, judging by the contents of her old room, which includes a guitar, an amp, skulls, a bat-winged alicorn toy and posters of rebellious-looking ponies on the walls.



* VisibleOdor: One of the bookseller ponies lifts her foreleg which gives off a visible odor.

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* VisibleOdor: One of the bookseller ponies lifts states that she doesn't wish to cover up her foreleg which gives "natural scent" with the essences, and illustrates her point by lifting her foreleg, giving off a visible odor.odor from her armpit.
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* OverlyLongGag: "Welcome to Sire's Hollow! Welcome to Sire's Hollow! Welcome to Sire's Hollow! [[MostAnnoyingSound Welcome to Sire's Hollow!]]"
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* CutawayGag: The quick pan to Starlight's old bedroom, showing her to have a very emo-like nature based on its decor.


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* VisibleOdor: One of the bookseller ponies lifts her foreleg which gives off a visible odor.
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* ForegoneConclusion: Starlight and Sunburst are called by the Map for a friendship mission in their hometown and they're both estranged from their parents. It's fairly obvious their relationships with their parents are the reason they were called.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedAThisPlot: If Sunburst had maintained communication with his mother, he could have pointed out to her that he now had an important position as the official Crystaller of the Crystal Empire, and had helped saved Equestria with Twilight and co., as well as helped restore the Pillars of Equestria. Similarly, Starlight could have informed her father that she was now the Guidance Counselor at Twilight's Friendship School, and was well past the pain of her DarkAndTroubledPast

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* CallBack: Starlight & Sunburst's hometown along with Sunburst's parents, glimpsed briefly in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E26TheCutieReMarkPart2 the Season 5 finale]] and in a flashback in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E1TheCrystallingPart1 the Season 6 premiere]], are the primary setting and conflict of this episode, respectively.
* FormerTeenRebel: Starlight was one, judging by the contents of her old room, which includes a guitar, an amp, skulls, and posters of rebellious- looking ponies on the walls.

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* CallBack: Sire's Hollow, Starlight & and Sunburst's hometown along with Sunburst's parents, glimpsed briefly in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E26TheCutieReMarkPart2 the Season 5 finale]] and in a flashback in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E1TheCrystallingPart1 the Season 6 premiere]], are the primary setting and conflict of this episode, respectively.
* CouldHaveAvoidedAThisPlot: If Sunburst had maintained communication with his mother, he could have pointed out to her that he now had an important position as the official Crystaller of the Crystal Empire, and had helped saved Equestria with Twilight and co., as well as helped restore the Pillars of Equestria. Similarly, Starlight could have informed her father that she was now the Guidance Counselor at Twilight's Friendship School, and was well past the pain of her DarkAndTroubledPast
* DisappearedDad: Despite having been seen earlier in the Season 5 finale and Season 6 premiere, Sunburst's father is never seen, and neither is Starlight's [[MissingMom mother]].
* ForegoneConclusion: Starlight and Sunburst are called by the Map for a friendship mission in their hometown and they're both estranged from their parents. It's fairly obvious their relationships with their parents are the reason they were called.
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FormerTeenRebel: Starlight was one, judging by the contents of her old room, which includes a guitar, an amp, skulls, and posters of rebellious- looking rebellious-looking ponies on the walls.


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* PoorCommunicationKills: One of the root causes of the friendship problem is that Starlight and Sunburst never thought to keep in touch with their parents or were too lax in keeping them appraised of their whereabouts and well-being.

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Official synopsis: Neither Starlight nor Sunburst have visited their parents in a long time, but when both are called by the Map to their hometown, they discover their parents are at the center of the friendship problem they need to solve.

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Official synopsis: Neither In the Crystal Empire, Sunburst is surprised that he is being called by Twilight's map, and makes his way to Ponyville. To his further surprise, Starlight nor has also been called, but she's far less excited about the mission, particularly once she points out that it is taking them to Sire's Hollow, the village they both grew up in. On the train ride, Starlight complains that her father Firelight was always trying to coddle her, while Sunburst have visited is upset that his mother Stellar Flare has continually pestered him about his plan for life.

When they arrive, they find that Sire's Hollow has changed significantly from
their last visits: part of the village now houses extremely upper end shopping establishments, while other stores are set aside for historical purposes. They find their respective parents, learning it is their conflict that has created this duality within Sire's Hollow, and both Starlight and Sunburst initially take this as the problem they are here to solve. After getting over the initial embarassment of their parents, Starlight and Sunburst set off to try to reconcile their differences, but quickly enough, both Firelight and Stellar Flare agree that they've been battling over how to develop Sire's Hollow and agree to work together. Starlight realizes that this isn't the problem they were meant to solve, particularly as the map has not yet called them back.

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parents in a long time, but when wanting to help given the importance of the mission. But this sets off past behaviors that irks both are called by the Map Starlight and Sunburst. Firelight wants to keep treating Starlight as a young filly, while Stellar Flare wants to make sure Sunburst as a direction for his light. Both Starlight and Sunburst yell at their hometown, they discover their parents are at the center of parents, and soon realize the friendship problem to solve is the broken relationship they need each have with their parents.

Both sets of parent-child work out their issues: Starlight convinces Firelight
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not treat her like a young kid anymore, and she'll appreciate his help, while Sunburst asks Stellar Flare to not keep pushing on him to find a plan while he works it out for himself. When they come to this reconcilation, they find that their cutie marks are glowing, and their mission is complete. As Starlight and Sunburst prepare to return home, Firelight and Stellar Flare suggest that they can maybe help them on any other cutie map missions, making a road trip out of it. Starlight and Sunburst cannot wait for the train to come fast enough.
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* IndestructibleEdible: The bread made by the baker pony is made from "ancient pony grains"... and is also as hard (and dense) as a rock.


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* TheNicknamer: Firelight keeps embarrassing his daughter Starlight with cutesy pet names for her.


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* TemptingFate: The baker pony says they don't have to worry about Starlight and Sunburst's parents overhearing, because no one ever comes into the antiquities section of the book store. Who should turn out to be in there with them but Firelight.

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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Both Starlight dad Firelight and Sunburst's mom Stellar Flare refuse to leave their kids alone, with the former treating Starlight like she's still a kid, and the latter treating Sunburst like he can't take care of himself without her to guide him.

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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Both Starlight Starlight's dad Firelight and Sunburst's mom Stellar Flare refuse to leave their kids alone, with the former treating Starlight like she's still a kid, and the latter treating Sunburst like he can't take care of himself without her to guide him.him. Also, both parents keep constantly embarrassing them in public by calling them pet names and pestering them about the future.
* AnythingButThat: When Starlight and Sunburst figure out they have to improve their relationship with their parents, Starlight exasperatedly wonders why they couldn't have been sent to stop a war instead.
* BadBadActing: The townsponies Stellar Flare has help fake a friendship problem are obviously bad actors. Sunburst isn't fooled for a second, and storms off in anger.


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* FormerTeenRebel: Starlight was one, judging by the contents of her old room, which includes a guitar, an amp, skulls, and posters of rebellious- looking ponies on the walls.
* MeddlingParents: Sunburst's mother Stellar Flare keeps pestering Sunburst to make plans for the future, while at the same time refusing to listen about the things she's trying that aren't helping.


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* NoExceptYes: Starlight and Sunburst insist that they're not trying to hide from their parents as they sit in the dark corner of a bookstore while whispering to avoid being caught. One of the townsponies even points out the absurdity of this logic.


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* SecurityBlanket: Invoked. Firelight gives Starlight her old "blankie" from when she was a filly by wrapping it around her head. Starlight is more than a little annoyed by this.

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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Both Starlight dad Firelight and Sunburst's mom Stellar Flare refuse to leave their kids alone, with the former treating Starlight like she's still a kid, and the latter treating Sunburst like he can't take care of himself without her to guide him.
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* MyBelovedSmother: Starlight's father and Sunburst's mother both treat them like they're still children.
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* CallBack: Starlight & Sunburst's hometown along with Starburst's parents, both glimpsed briefly in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E26TheCutieReMarkPart2 the Season 5 finale]] and in a flashback in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E1TheCrystallingPart1 the Season 6 premiere]], are the primary setting and conflict of this episode, respectively.

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* CallBack: Starlight & Sunburst's hometown along with Starburst's Sunburst's parents, both glimpsed briefly in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E26TheCutieReMarkPart2 the Season 5 finale]] and in a flashback in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E1TheCrystallingPart1 the Season 6 premiere]], are the primary setting and conflict of this episode, respectively.
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* CallBack: Starlight & Sunburst's hometown along with Starburst's parents, both glimpsed briefly in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E26TheCutieReMarkPart2 the Season 5 finale]] and in a flashback in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E1TheCrystallingPart1 the Season 6 premiere]], are the primary setting and conflict of this episode.

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* CallBack: Starlight & Sunburst's hometown along with Starburst's parents, both glimpsed briefly in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E26TheCutieReMarkPart2 the Season 5 finale]] and in a flashback in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E1TheCrystallingPart1 the Season 6 premiere]], are the primary setting and conflict of this episode.episode, respectively.
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* CallBack: Starlight's hometown, glimpsed briefly in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E26TheCutieReMarkPart2 the Season 5 finale]] and in a flashback in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E1TheCrystallingPart1 the Season 6 premiere]], is the primary setting of this episode.

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* CallBack: Starlight's hometown, Starlight & Sunburst's hometown along with Starburst's parents, both glimpsed briefly in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E26TheCutieReMarkPart2 the Season 5 finale]] and in a flashback in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E1TheCrystallingPart1 the Season 6 premiere]], is are the primary setting and conflict of this episode.
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* ShoutOut: The episode's title is a reference to the film ''Film/TheParentTrap'' and its 1998 remake.

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* ShoutOut: PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: The episode's title is a reference to the film ''Film/TheParentTrap'' and its 1998 remake.
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* ShoutOut: The episode's title is a reference to the film ''Film/TheParentTrap'' and its 1998 remake.remake.
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* ContinuityNod: Starlight's hometown, glimpsed briefly in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E26TheCutieReMarkPart2 the Season 5 finale]] and in a flashback in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E1TheCrystallingPart1 the Season 6 premiere]], is the primary setting of this episode.

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* ContinuityNod: CallBack: Starlight's hometown, glimpsed briefly in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E26TheCutieReMarkPart2 the Season 5 finale]] and in a flashback in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E1TheCrystallingPart1 the Season 6 premiere]], is the primary setting of this episode.
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%%* CouldHaveAvoidedAThisPlot: If Sunburst had maintained communication with his mother, he could have pointed out to her that he now had an important position as the official Crystaller of the Crystal Empire, and had helped saved Equestria with Twilight and co., as well as helped restore the Pillars of Equestria. Similarly, Starlight could have informed her father that she was now the Guidance Counselor at Twilight's Friendship School, and was well past the pain of her DarkAndTroubledPast
* ForegoneConclusion: Starlight and Sunburst are called by the Map for a friendship mission in their hometown and they're both estranged from their parents. It's fairly obvious their relationships with their parents are the reason they were called.
* PoorCommunicationKills: One of the root causes of the friendship problem is that Starlight and Sunburst never thought to keep in touch with their parents or were too lax in keeping them appraised of their whereabouts and well-being.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: One of the root causes of the friendship problem is that Starlight and Sunburst never thought to keep in touch with their parents or were too lax in keeping them appraised of their whereabouts and well-being.

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%%* CouldHaveAvoidedAThisPlot: If Sunburst had maintained communication with his mother, he could have pointed out to her that he now had an important position as the official Crystaller of the Crystal Empire, and had helped saved Equestria with Twilight and co., as well as helped restore the Pillars of Equestria. Similarly, Starlight could have informed her father that she was now the Guidance Counselor at Twilight's Friendship School, and was well past the pain of her DarkAndTroubledPast



* ShoutOut: The episode's title is a reference to the film ''Film/TheParentTrap'' and its 1998 remake.
%%* WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis: If Sunburst had maintained communication with his mother, he could have pointed out to her that he now had an important position as the official Crystaller of the Crystal Empire, and had helped saved Equestria with Twilight and co., as well as helped restore the Pillars of Equestria. Similarly, Starlight could have informed her father that she was now the Guidance Counselor at Twilight's Friendship School, and was well past the pain of her DarkAndTroubledPast

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* ShoutOut: The episode's title is a reference to the film ''Film/TheParentTrap'' and its 1998 remake.
%%* WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis: If Sunburst had maintained communication with his mother, he could have pointed out to her that he now had an important position as the official Crystaller of the Crystal Empire, and had helped saved Equestria with Twilight and co., as well as helped restore the Pillars of Equestria. Similarly, Starlight could have informed her father that she was now the Guidance Counselor at Twilight's Friendship School, and was well past the pain of her DarkAndTroubledPast
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* ShoutOut: The episode's title is a reference to the film ''Film/TheParentTrap'' and its 1998 remake.

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* ShoutOut: The episode's title is a reference to the film ''Film/TheParentTrap'' and its 1998 remake.remake.
%%* WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis: If Sunburst had maintained communication with his mother, he could have pointed out to her that he now had an important position as the official Crystaller of the Crystal Empire, and had helped saved Equestria with Twilight and co., as well as helped restore the Pillars of Equestria. Similarly, Starlight could have informed her father that she was now the Guidance Counselor at Twilight's Friendship School, and was well past the pain of her DarkAndTroubledPast
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* ForegoneConclusion: Starlight and Sunburst are called by the Map for a friendship mission in their hometown and they're both estranged from their parents. It's fairly obvious their relationships with their parents are the reason they were called.
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* ContinuityNod: Starlight's hometown, glimpsed briefly in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E26TheCutieReMarkPart2 The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 2]]", is the primary setting of this episode.

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* ContinuityNod: Starlight's hometown, glimpsed briefly in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E26TheCutieReMarkPart2 The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 2]]", [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E26TheCutieReMarkPart2 the Season 5 finale]] and in a flashback in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E1TheCrystallingPart1 the Season 6 premiere]], is the primary setting of this episode.
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Official synopsis: Neither Starlight nor Sunburst have visited their parents in a long time, but when both are called by the Map to their hometown, they discover their parents are at the center of the friendship problem they need to solve.

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* ContinuityNod: Starlight's hometown, glimpsed briefly in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E26TheCutieReMarkPart2 The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 2]]", is the primary setting of this episode.
* ShoutOut: The episode's title is a reference to the film ''Film/TheParentTrap'' and its 1998 remake.

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