History Recap / MyLittlePonyTalesS1E1SlumberParty

-->'''Patch''': (as Squire's father) Squire, if it is a knight you desire to be, then you must tame a dragon.
-->'''Patch''': (as Squire) A dragon?
-->'''Patch''': (as Squire's father) Not just any dragon, but the dragon named... ''[[FauxHorrific Basil!]]''\\
'''Melody''': [[LampshadeHanging Basil?]]

-->'''Bon Bon''': Oh! Snow White and the Three Dwarves!
-->'''Starlight''': Bon Bon, there are ''seven'' dwarves.\\
'''Bon Bon''': Sorry...

* SeparateSceneStorytelling: The story Patch tells about Squire is shown on screen as she decribes it.

The girls have gathered for a slumber party at Sweetheart's house, and are playing charades. It's Clover's turn, and after some difficulty, Starlight correctly guesses "Three Little Pigs". They then go into the kitchen for an ice cream sundae. But there's a storm outside, and it causes the lights to briefly go off. By the time the lights come back on, Bon Bon has taken the opportunity to eat some of the gigantic ice cream sundae. Everyone laughs, and then tucks in, then it's bedtime.

The girls have a pillow fight until Sweetheart's mother sternly reaffirms that it's time for bed. But while they're trying to sleep, the storm comes back, and at Patch's suggestion, they get under a tent for a ghost story.

In Patch's story, a young knight pony named Squire wishes to be a knight, so his father tells him that he must tame Basil the dragon. So Squire sets off with a sword the next morning, and after an encounter with a snake, finds Basil's cave. He tells Basil he's going to tame him, but Basil doesn't like the idea, and spews fire at him, causing Squire to fall into a hole. By the time Squire has climbed out, Basil is gone.

* NeverSayDie: The torch Squire finds in the cave is said to have probably belonged to another knight who will "never again see the light of day".

* GhostStory: Patch ''calls'' her story about Squire a "ghost story", [[InformedAttribute but there's no actual relation to ghosts in the story, which is about Squire trying and failing to tame the dragon Basil]].

* KnightInShiningArmor: Squire wants to be one of these, but he fails his goal of taming Basil the dragon.

* ChekhovsGun: Springfield the cat first appears lapping up melted ice cream, and is later responsible for the noise that the girls go to the attic to investigate.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first episode of the show establishes just how ravenous Bon Bon is by having her taking advantage of the [[ThirtySecondBlackout extraordinarily brief power outage]] to steal some ice cream, which she does a poor job of hiding once the power comes back on..

* ChekhovsGun: Springfield the Cat first appears lapping up melted ice cream, and is later responsible for the noise that the girls go to the attic to investigate.

* NeverSayDie: The torch Squire finds in the cave is said to have belonged to another knight who will "never again see the light of day".

* RobbingTheDead: Squire takes a torch that was left in the cave by a knight who didn't quite make it, although the body of the knight isn't seen.

* {{Determinator}}: Even after all many, many years (and as a ghost, even!), Squire is still on the hunt for Basil.