History Recap / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E5ThePointOfNoReturn

* TheBusCameBack: After making cameos in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E25TheCutieRemarkPart1 The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 1]]", [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017 the movie]], and [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E2TheBeginningOfTheEndPart2 the second part]] of the season premiere, Moon Dancer returns with a speaking role.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: As oppressive as the name of her office sounds, First Folio turns out to be one of these. She doesn't charge Twilight through the nose for the late book, puts her account back in good graces once the fee is paid, and allows Twilight to keep the book because the current edition of it's out of circulation.

** Twilight says with snark that the door on the overdue book office must read "[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Abandon all hope, ye who enter]]."

** The library has a cap on its late fees. Twilight was worried about getting a ShockinglyExpensiveBill for nothing. The reason the library doesn't tell its patrons this fact is to keep them from taking books for too long.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: As oppressive as the name of her office sounds, First Folio turns out to be one of these. She doesn't charge Twilight through the nose for the late book, and puts her account back in good graces once the fee is paid.

** The book Twilight tries to return is so old that, by the time she tries to actually return it, it's out of circulation because of newer editions being printed. As a result, First Folio allows Twilight to keep it after she pays the late fee.

* SeriesContinuityError: In the old portrait Twilight finds at the beginning, she is a blank flank. However, Spike is present in the picture, so Twilight would have her cutie mark at that moment.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Twilight forgot to return a library book because Princess Celestia sent her to live in Ponyville, and it ended up costing Dusty her perfect record. Subverted as this mistake actually gets Dusty to realize she has been wasting her life stubbornly clinging to a perfect record and she gets out of the library to try new things and have fun.
* OnlySaneMan: Spike spends pretty much the whole episode reining in Twilight's perfectionist tendencies.

** The book Twilight tries to return is so old that, by the time she tries to actually return it, it's out of circulation because of newer editions being printed.

** A flashback from the ''very first episode of the series'' ("[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon Friendship is Magic, part 1]]") shows that the library book central to this episode is one of those knocked away by Twilight while she was looking for Predictions and Prophecies.

%%* RealityEnsues
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: As oppressive as the name of her office sounds, First Folio turns out to be one of these.

** A flashback from the ''very first episode of the series'' ("[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon Friendship is Magic Part 1]]") shows that the library book central to this episode is one of those knocked away by Twilight while she was looking for Predictions and Prophecies.

** Twilight spends the episode also worrying about how big the late fee will be from the book being so late. While its never stated how long Twilight had the book, it's implied to be several years. Her bill is only 28 bits, because the library's late fees cap at a month late.

* MeaningfulTitle: In this case the "point" of forgetting to return the book was to accept imperfection.

* MistakenForServant: Spike gets mistaken for a waiter by one of the customers at the Tasty Treat. He actually takes her order and delivers it.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Twilight forgot to return a library book because Princess Celestia sent her to live in Ponyville, and it ended up costing Dusty her perfect record. Subverted as this mistake actually gets Dusty to realize she has been wasting her life and she gets out of the library to try new things and have fun.

* ShockinglyExpensiveBill: Twilight is worried about how extravagantly high her overdue late fee on her book is, and promptly averted when First Folio tells her the fee comes to just ''twenty-eight bits''.

** The Tasty Treat from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E13SpiceUpYourLife Spice Up Your Life]]" is the first location for Twilight and Spike to find Dusty Pages.

* CallBack:

* TheCameo: Smolder, Gallus and Silverstream make a brief appearance during Twilight's montage of finding Dusty Pages.
* JerkAss: The stallion that moved into Dusty's old home definitely qualifies. He might have been annoyed at getting Dusty's mail, but he was still pretty nasty about it.

* NiceJobBrrakingItHero: Twilight forgot to return a library book because Princess Celestia sent her to live in Ponyville, and it ended up costing Dusty her perfect record. Subverted as this mistake actually gets Dusty to realize she has been wasting her life and she gets out of the library to try new things and have fun.

* JerkAss: The stallion that moved into Dusty's old home definitely qualifies.
** Though, to be completely fair, he did have the right to be annoyed at getting Dusty's mail, even if he was still pretty nasty about it.

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