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* DrivenToSuicide: Pinkie, in the ''FanFic/{{Bittersweet}}'' adaptation. Unable to afford insulin, she deliberately gives herself fatal ketoacidosis out of spite.
--> '''Pinkie Pie''': And on the eve of her demise, the Equestrian healthcare system will take the trip of guilt! Eheheheheheheh, yes!
--> '''Pinkie Pie''': And on the eve of her demise, the Equestrian healthcare system will take the trip of guilt! Eheheheheheheh, yes!
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* TheFunInFuneral: Only the rest of the Mane Six attend Pinkie's funeral in ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Fanfic/{{Bittersweet}}'', and when asked to speak about her, Rarity gloats that she totally called that Pinkie would [[spoiler: commit suicide]], Twilight expresses disbelief about how Pinkie died in this day and age, Applejack has nothing to say, Fluttershy is drowned out by dubstep as per Pinkie's last will and testament, and Rainbow Dash makes it about herself and her own feelings of guilt.
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* TheFunInFuneral: Only the rest of the Mane Six attend Pinkie's funeral in ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Fanfic/{{Bittersweet}}'', and when asked to speak about her, Rarity gloats that she totally called that Pinkie would [[spoiler: commit suicide]], Twilight expresses disbelief about how Pinkie died in this day and age, Applejack has nothing to say, Fluttershy is drowned out by dubstep as per Pinkie's last will and testament, and Rainbow Dash makes it about herself and her own feelings of guilt.
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* FreudianTrio: Scootaloo is TheId, Applebloom is TheEgo and Sweetie Belle is TheSuperego.
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* IncestIsRelative: In Bittersweet, [[spoiler:Fluttershy]] admits to having a large crush on her uncle, which she believes caused her father to leave.
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* StopHelpingMe: Rarity suffers from this when everypony tries to cheer her up after she gets dumped.
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* SillyReasonForWar: The whole reason the thing with Nightmare Moon happened was because [[spoiler: Celestia refused to dress up as a banana.]]
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They've also announced that [[http://petirep.deviantart.com/journal/RDP-update-and-Equestria-Primates-403919108 Rainbow Dash Presents: Bittersweet]] is planned to be the last RDP due to other commitments, but they're also planning a GrandFinale collaboration called "Equestria Primates".
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They've also announced that [[http://petirep.deviantart.com/journal/RDP-update-and-Equestria-Primates-403919108 Rainbow Dash Presents: Bittersweet]] is planned to be the last RDP due to other commitments, but they're also planning a GrandFinale collaboration called "Equestria Primates".
Primates", a parody of ''Equestria Girls''.
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Unlike most of the other [=MLP:FiM=] AbridgedSeries out there, this one skips the pilot episodes completely and just starts with the third episode ("The Ticket Master"), which means every episode number mentioned here is the same as the original series number minus 2.[[hottip:*: O.[[note]]O.S.3=M.A.1, O.S.8=M.A.6, etc.]]
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* YouDontLookLikeYou: An unintentional example. ''Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla'' features Blossomforth as the teacher in charge of the filly-flyers race, but makes her a green Pegasus re-skin of Cheerilee.[[note]] Blossomforth is white with a green-&-red striped mane.[[/note]] In Greg's defense, his episode came out months before Blossomforth actually appeared in the show.[[hottip:*: She's been featured in the toy-line since the initial waves, with the white-&-watermelon color scheme, but Greg and Petirep had no idea.]]
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* YouDontLookLikeYou: An unintentional example. ''Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla'' features Blossomforth as the teacher in charge of the filly-flyers race, but makes her a green Pegasus re-skin of Cheerilee.[[note]] Blossomforth is white with a green-&-red striped mane.[[/note]] In Greg's defense, his episode came out months before Blossomforth actually appeared in the show.[[hottip:*: She's [[note]]She's been featured in the toy-line since the initial waves, with the white-&-watermelon color scheme, but Greg and Petirep had no idea.]][[/note]]
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* AccidentalMisnaming: Twilight almost never gets Fluttershy's name right, even though she [[RunningGag keeps claiming that she knows it]].
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The "Mentally Advanced" episodes have been blocked in the United States after getting caught up in "[=ContentID=]", Youtube's automated program that flags popular videos perceived to be copyright violations. Youtube then rejected Greg's appeal. He then attempted to move to Blip (due to its being more accepting of fair use claims), but Blip deleted his account after just a week, taking even the original-content videos with it.
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The "Mentally Advanced" episodes have been blocked in the United States after getting caught up in "[=ContentID=]", Youtube's automated program that flags popular videos perceived to be copyright violations. Youtube then rejected Greg's appeal. He then attempted to move to Blip (due to its being more accepting of fair use claims), but Blip deleted his account after just a week, taking even the original-content videos with it.
it. As of July 19, 2013, the series is "on life support" due to a variety of issues, both personal and related to copyright.
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*** Thrackerzod instructs the foals how to escape the factory like Olmec would in ''LegendsOfTheHiddenTemple''.
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* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: In ''Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla'', Dazzler's cat is a doctor.
-->"How do you think he pays ze RENT?!"
-->"How do you think he pays ze RENT?!"
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** In RDP: Biker Gorilla, the rules state one pegasus can't help another in the flight exam. It says nothing about earth ponies or unicorns. Subverted in that the loophole abuse actually causes Scootaloo to fail her exam.
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** Also in the Rainbow Fun Factory song. Rainbow sticks to 8-syllable meter and doesn't care about sounding stilted.
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* MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes: Twilight in Episode 8.
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* MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes: Twilight in Episode 8. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when Pinkie Pie interrupts her {{flashback}} sequence.
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-->'''Orion''': I'm Orion. Orion Comet. You can call me OC for short!
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-->'''Orion''': I'm Orion. Orion Comet. You can call me OC [[FunWithAcronyms OC]] for short!
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Removing Nightmare Fuel potholes. NF should be on YMMV only.
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* CrapsaccharineWorld: The world is bright, colorful, and populated by adorable animals. There's also a lot of FantasticRacism going around, the government is incompetent when it isn't corrupt, the ruling god-queen is a [[TheCaligula twisted]], [[CompleteMonster malevolent]], [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen iron-hoofed tyrant]] who practices all manner of torture and genocide, and there are all manner of [[CosmicHorrorStory Lovecraftian]] [[EldritchAbomination horrors]] lurking at the fringes of reality.
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* CrapsaccharineWorld: The world is bright, colorful, and populated by adorable animals. There's also a lot of FantasticRacism going around, the government is incompetent when it isn't corrupt, the ruling god-queen is a [[TheCaligula twisted]], [[CompleteMonster malevolent]], malevolent, [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen iron-hoofed tyrant]] who practices all manner of torture and genocide, and there are all manner of [[CosmicHorrorStory Lovecraftian]] [[EldritchAbomination horrors]] lurking at the fringes of reality.
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* EvilBrit: Celestia [[BritishAccents sounds like an East End gangster]], which compliments her [[CompleteMonster grotesque evil]].
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*** The drive-thru they stop at has a [[WebOriginal/HomestarRunner familiar looking, whale-shaped speaker]].
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* FatGirl: Parodied in ''Rainbow Dash Presents'' when Aurora is designated the fat kid by the others.
-->'''Aurora:''' Owwwww... I don't even like chocolate.
-->'''Scootaloo:''' Too bad, fatty.
-->'''Aurora:''' Owwwww... I don't even like chocolate.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: In ''Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla'', when Orion called Aurora the fat kid causing her to cry.
--> ''''[[DemonicPossession Thrackerzod]]''': "Wow, you are such a jerk."
--> ''''[[DemonicPossession Thrackerzod]]''': "Wow, you are such a jerk."
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* AuthorTract: Greg is prone to these, This trait is mostly carried over to Rainbow Dash.
** Let's ramble usually begins with these.
** Let's ramble usually begins with these.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: Rainbow Dash in ''Cupcakes'', and Orion, Aurora, and Scootaloo in the Rainbow Factory adaptation. Apple Bloom and Thrackerzod don't count cause they weren't in the original fanfic.
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-> ''[[ThemeSong My Little Ponies! My Little Ponies! Aaa-aaa-aaa]]—okay, let's skip this part. It is not my favorite. [[LaughingMad Hehehehe]]!''
''The Mentally Advanced Series'' is an AbridgedSeries of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', which is mainly written, voiced, and produced by Greg Hoffman, a.k.a. [=FimFlamFilosophy=]. Later episodes start featuring additional people doing voices and editing. The show features a more adult sense of humor than the original show, which include darker interpretations of the original characters that come from the [[PeripheryDemographic brony]] community's {{fanon}} and from the team's own creations.
Unlike most of the other [=MLP:FiM=] AbridgedSeries out there, this one skips the pilot episodes completely and just starts with the third episode ("The Ticket Master"), which means every episode number mentioned here is the same as the original series number minus 2.[[hottip:*: O.S.3=M.A.1, O.S.8=M.A.6, etc.]]
Apart from the AbridgedSeries, the team also does the {{spinoff}} ''Rainbow Dash Presents'', which features re-imaginings of popular ''Friendship Is Magic'' {{fanfiction}} as narrated by ''Mentally Advanced'''s Rainbow Dash. Well, narrated up to the point that she even read the story; a better descriptor would be that she skimmed it over breakfast and then decided to fill in the blanks with whatever was on her mind that day.
The "Mentally Advanced" episodes have been blocked in the United States after getting caught up in "[=ContentID=]", Youtube's automated program that flags popular videos perceived to be copyright violations. Youtube then rejected Greg's appeal. He then attempted to move to Blip (due to its being more accepting of fair use claims), but Blip deleted his account after just a week, taking even the original-content videos with it.
The series can still be found on the team's website [[http://www.dawnsomewhere.com here]].
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!!This work provides examples of:
* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: Scootaloo in ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla''.
--> '''Scootaloo''': What if we ''opt'' out of taking the test?
* AdaptationExpansion: The "Beautiful Day" episode of ''Rainbow Dash Presents'' shows the canon ending to the fic. [[spoiler:Twilight finds a gorilla night club.]]
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Rarity implies that Applejack will do this as a Result of hearing how much her Big Brother gets around in ''Rainbow Dash Presents: The Haunting Nightmare''.
* {{Adorkable}}: Rainbow Dash in the spinoff ''Rainbow Dash Presents''.
* AmbiguouslyBi: It is implied that Big Mac has had sex with Rarity, and in "Spiderses" he proposed having sex with Twilight. However he also mentioned he missed Caramel which leads us to...
** [[LovableSexManiac Rarity]] says she should sleep around with some mares, just to be less [[FlatCharacter monodimensional]].
** In "Griffon the Brush Off", Rainbow Dash's double entendres intentionally make her sexuality unclear.
*** Then again, it's also implied that she doesn't even know what sex ''is''.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Big Mac is implied to be "a certain colt-cuddling stallion" and in ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Spiderses'', he wishes he could go back to Caramel. However, he initiates sex with Twilight within the same episode.
** This is also frequently played with Rainbow Dash.
* AnythingThatMoves: Scootaloo will happily hit on anyone, regardless of gender or age.
* AttentionWhore: Rainbow Dash
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Celestia's long list of atrocities include genocide, earth salting, torture, and {{Ass Shove}}s.
* ArtEvolution: ''Rainbow Dash Presents'' went all the way from simple slideshow to limited animation, still done entirely by one guy.
* AuthorAppeal: The reason for all the Gorillas? They make Greg happy.
** The reason for the Applebloom cameos at the end of each ''RDP'' episode? She's Petirep's favorite pony.
* AxCrazy: Pinkie Pie
* BadassBaritone: Thrackerzod and [[spoiler:Smarty Pants]].
* BiggerIsBetterInBed: They don't call him '''Big''' Mac for nothing.
* BilingualBonus: Snips and Snails. They mostly talk about food (Snips reads lines from a German recipe for Wienerschnitzel, while Snails takes quotes from a Swedish recipe for Janssons Frestelse), but occasionally they'll say stuff that is downright hilarious (not matching the subtitles at all).
** Lampshaded when Spike wonders why he always feels hungry after talking to them.
* BlackSpeech: The language that Thrackerzod and [[spoiler:Smarty Pants]] speak to each other in until Zecora shows up.
* BlessedWithSuck: Fluttershy gets mind-reading powers because of a curse. All the other ponies think it's cool, but she finds others' thoughts disturbing.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Tends to happen a lot in ''Rainbow Dash Presents''. Perhaps due to the [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} narrator]].
* BritishAccents: Celestia speaks with a thick, gruff cockney accent.
* BuffySpeak: Rainbow Dash herself in ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Cupcakes''.
--> '''Rainbow Dash:''' "You put too much dizzy stuff in the cupcakes."
* ButtMonkey: Fluttershy.
** Every character (except Pinkie) gets it to an extent. Mostly Twilight.
** Aurora in ''Rainbow Dash Presents''. She has Pony AIDS and her wing keeps snapping off. Physics and biology quit being consistent just so that she'd fail her exam.
* TheCaligula: Celestia and the Mayor of Ponyville.
* CatchPhrase: Fluttershy often responds to Twilight getting her name wrong with "My name is Fluttershyyy!"
** Twilight's standard response: "Shut up."
* ChainOfDeals: The plot of episode 9 (the Winter Wrap-Up episode). Twilight needs holy water from Pinkie, who wants vengeance on Fluttershy, who wants her hairbrush back from Rarity, who wants Applejack to lend her some farmhands for her work. It eventually falls apart when Twilight can't remember who wanted what or why.
--> '''Pinkie Pie:''' ''You were to procure misery from the miserable Fluttershy. An easy task, if Pinkie were to remark. Yes. But instead... YOU RETURN WITH A HAIRBRUSH!''
--> '''Twilight:''' ''No! I know hairbrush fits prominently into the equation here!''
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Subverted. Rainbow Dash thought that a hat would give her super powers, but it didn't.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Rainbow Dash.
** Pinkie Pie as well, as a rare malevolent example.
** Zecora, especially in ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Haunted Nightmare''.
* ComedicSociopath: Pinkie Pie
--> '''Pinkie Pie:''' ''I have a better plan! I am going to wear a box, and the box is full of poison lobsters!''
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Rarity in episode 6.
--> '''Applejack:''' Maybe I should kick y'all in your pretty face!
--> '''Rarity:''' You really think my face is pretty?
** This scene carries it further when AJ then follows Rarity's train of thought and completely loses the point she was trying to make.
** In ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Cupcakes'', Mrs. Cake finds Pinkie in her cutie mark gown with sewn-on wings and unicorn horn necklace with Rainbow Dash (dressed as a gorilla) strapped to a table. The basement is also adorned with organ balloons, painted skulls, and bone furniture. She's more annoyed that Pinkie isn't manning the cash register and has stuff cluttering the basement than the bones, organs, and obvious evidence of murder.
* CrapsaccharineWorld: The world is bright, colorful, and populated by adorable animals. There's also a lot of FantasticRacism going around, the government is incompetent when it isn't corrupt, the ruling god-queen is a [[TheCaligula twisted]], [[CompleteMonster malevolent]], [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen iron-hoofed tyrant]] who practices all manner of torture and genocide, and there are all manner of [[CosmicHorrorStory Lovecraftian]] [[EldritchAbomination horrors]] lurking at the fringes of reality.
* CrossdressingVoice: All the main characters are voiced by the same guy, who does not even try to make them sound female (except arguably Fluttershy and, later, Rarity). Somehow, it still works.
** PlayedWith[=/=]{{Lampshaded}} when ''every'' male character (except Big Mac and Spike) is voiced by a girl.
*** And in ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Spiderses'' we learn that Big Mac has a "girl's voice".
*** The males in ''Rainbow Dash Presents: My Little Dashie'' have women's voices.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Princess Celestia will [[AssShove shove a thing in your butt]].
** DisproportionateRetribution: One of Celestia's advisors once warned another that he was slated to be executed. Celestia, after killing the advisor she was planning to put to death by pouring molten silver into his ears, killed the one who blabbed by pouring more molten silver down ''his'' throat.
* CursedWithAwesome: In episode 7, Fluttershy's curse lets her read minds. Her friends think they all got gypped curse-wise after learning that.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Or rather, it's not ''intentionally'' evil. Luna genuinely wants to be friendly, but her attempts at doing so are frightening and/or dangerous and she doesn't take rejection too well.
** LightIsNotGood: Celestia, on the other hand, ''is'' a gleefully evil tyrant.
* DeconstructiveParody: ''Rainbow Dash Presents'' pokes holes into many of the stories it makes fun of.
** ''Cupcakes'' shows how impossible it would be for Pinkie to really have her own secret dungeon in the basement of Sugarcube Corner after Mrs. Cake walks into it.
** ''Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla'' shows that Rainbow Dash couldn't run a factory to save her life, let alone a secret one that processes [[HumanResources Pony Resources]].
** ''My Little Dashie'' shows the actual inevitable outcome of keeping Rainbow Dash locked in a small house for the entirety of her formative years.
--->'''Rarity''': Whoa. You got ''faaaaaaaaaaat''.
* DemocracyIsBad: In ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla'', the Pegasi didn't want to grind up their youth to produce rainbows... but they were outvoted by the other two races. And the reason the subject came up in the first place is because the electorate wanted rainbows.
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Sweetie Belle, who is possessed by Thrackerzod.]]
** In ''Haunting Nightmare'', [[spoiler:Twilight is possessed by Smarty Pants, who in this series is an avatar for a similar being.]]
* DirtyKid: Scootaloo, oh so much.
* DoubleEntendre: Scootaloo speaks mainly in this form.
** Rainbow Dash says a few in ''Griffon the Brush Off''. One is that she's gay because she's so colorful, but she meant it in the "[[HaveAGayOldTime happy]]" way. Later she says she doesn't want anything to do with dicks ("dick" here meaning "jerk", referring to Gilda).
** Subverted when Twilight tells Applejack that Rarity is building a nest, and Applejack wonders if it's a DoubleEntendre. Then, Twilight intentionally makes several several double entendres just to mess with her.
* DoWrongRight: When Twilight finds that Zecora's curse made her horn floppy, gave it a rash, and made it incapable of using magic, she's more annoyed about how stupid it is as a curse than how much it disfigures and weakens her.
* DrowningMySorrows: Twilight, every time she is reminded of her spectacularly abusive upbringing.
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler:Thrackerzod turns up in the Stinger for episode 7 claiming that there is no such character as "Sweetie Belle".]]
* EldritchAbomination: The demon living in Twilight's attic. It's described as [[MixAndMatchCritters half-rat, half-cricket, and having the face of a pony]], and it dragged Twilight to "[[EldritchLocation the place where all points converge]]." She calls it Taz, but its real name is Thrackerzod. [[spoiler:It eventually possesses Sweetie Belle.]]
** For a while, there was apparently a [[CthulhuMythos Shoggoth]] living in Rainbow Dash's fireplace. She urged everyone to not make eye contact with it.
** The... whatever it was that initially manifested as [[spoiler:Smarty Pants]] in ''Haunting Nightmare''. It, in its own words, "seeks the highest star such that [it] may be devoured and allowed to reproduce." When it reveals its true form to Rarity and Applejack, it claims that "[[Literature/TheDunwichHorror Dunwich Horror's]] got nothing on me!"
* [[EverythingIsBetterWithMonkeys Everything Is Better With Primates]]: ''Rainbow Dash Presents''. Rainbow Dash likes to put primates into her stories in some way. First in "Cupcakes" she dresses as a gorilla. In "Somewhere Only We Know", her owner is an Orangutan, and in "Rainbow Factory" she hides it under the title of "Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla".
** "A Beautiful Day in Equestria" ends with Twilight running into the Everfree Forest. TheStinger reveals [[spoiler:it has a nightclub where a large number of primates gather]]. "Somewhere Only We Know" also replaces the humans in the story with apes.
*** "MyLittleDashie" replaces all the humans with apes [[spoiler:until Jokermort uses a device to transform all of them into ponies]].
* EvilBrit: Celestia [[BritishAccents sounds like an East End gangster]], which compliments her [[CompleteMonster grotesque evil]].
* EvilLaugh: Celestia at the beginning of [[SpinOff Rainbow Dash Presents]]: [[FanFic/TheSpiderses Spiderses]].
* EvilOverlord: Princess Celestia.
* EvilSoundsDeep: [[VocalDissonance Celestia]].
* EyeScream: Pinkie Pie was going to have Fluttershy's face sprayed with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_regia aqua regia]], mentioning she might go blind.
* ExtremeDoormat: Fluttershy.
* ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation: ''Something'' does this to a pony secretary in "Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla" when Thrackerzod is startled.
* FakeIrish: [[RuleOfFunny For whatever reason]], Spike talks like he's from {{Scotireland}}.
* FantasticRacism: Twilight ''really'' hates Earth Ponies and Pegasi. As does Rarity.
** Pinkie has some less-than-kind things to say about griffons.
* FantasticSlurs: Sometimes, Twilight and Rarity call the earth ponies "mud ponies."
** They also use 'horsefly' as a slur against pegasi, and Surprise calls unicorns 'boneheads' in her song.
* FlatCharacter: Rarity worries [[LampshadeHanging she may be this]].
* FollowTheBouncingBall: A bouncing cupcake is used during Pinkie Pie's song in ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Cupcakes''.
* FreezeFrameBonus: Episodes usually have long messages to read in the credits, sometimes only for a few seconds. Video descriptions also have messages and anecdotes from the creator.
** During the "Rainbow Fun Factory" segment of ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla'', pause when the camera pans down the list of Celestia's powers. A lot of them are hilarious.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Celestia. Good Lord.
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Snips and Snails speak only German and Swedish respectively. Spike then tries to speak to them in ''Russian''.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Applejack.
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: From ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Captain Hook, The Biker Gorilla'':
-->'''Rainbow Dash''': Darn it, I've got my own ''songs'', a lengthy script with over two hundred fifty lines of dialogue, several voice actors, and the entire thing is hand-drawn and edited frame by over one thousand frames! Seriously, I have more than one thousand pictures in this folder! BUT THEY SAID THEY'RE NOT GONNA TOUCH IT!\\
'''Twilight Sparkle''': Well, if they let ''everyone'' get by with ''that'' amount of effort, I imagine they'd be buried in thousands of submissions doing the exact same thing! They've gotta set standards.
* HighClassGlass: Rainbow Dash imagines a rubber duck in a top hat with a monocle, 'cause he's rich.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Twilight, at the hooves of Princess Celestia
** If [[SpinOff Rainbow Dash Presents]] is anything to go by, Rainbow Dash had one as well. [[UnreliableNarrator Possibly]].
* HostileShowTakeover: Celestia takes over from Rainbow Dash's reading in ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Spiderses''. Luna does it in " Rainbow Dash Presents: Haunting Nightmare".
-->'''Princess Luna''': Nopony invites Luna!
* IHaveManyNames:
-->"I go by many names: Seaty Belt, Sweaty Belt, Treaty Teats... but you may call me... Thrackerzod!"
* IllGirl: Aurora. Her wing keeps breaking off and she has [[CrossesTheLineTwice Pony-AIDS]].
* InNameOnly: Other than [[spoiler:Twilight getting possessed, and Smarty Pants coming to life]] ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Haunting Nightmare'' has almost ''nothing'' to do with the fanfiction it was based on.
** Ditto with ''Rainbow Dash Presents: My Little Dashie''.
** Hell, a couple episodes of ''Mentally Advanced'' themselves fall under this, particularly the "Suited For Success" abridgement, which manages to turn an episode about Rarity nearly driving herself insane attempting to satisfy all her friends' demands into [[spoiler:the Mane cast begrudgingly (and halfheartedly) trying to convince Rarity to get over being dumped.]]
*** Similarly, "Winter Wrap-up" is turned into [[spoiler:Twilight Sparkle's quest for holy water.]]
* InTheBlood: Luna somewhat implied that Celestia is like this inherently due to their mother's mental illness.
* InsufferableGenius: Twilight, especially in the later episodes. In episode 10, she debates Apple Bloom to the point of tears, then fears she might be turning into Celestia.
-->'''Apple Bloom''': Well, maybe I won't need the sciences! Maybe your science can't explain the reasons why I feel... and it can't explain all the big things, like what makes as angry... or in love... or full of hate about something!\\
'''Twilight Sparkle''': Your amygdala.\\
'''Apple Bloom''': My ''what?''\\
'''Twilight Sparkle''': Your amygdala probably regulates a storage of emotional memories, which is why--\\
'''Apple Bloom''': What the heck is an amygdala?\\
'''Twilight Sparkle''': ''Oooh well'', looks like ''someone'' knows less about science than science knows about her!
** What makes it worse is that Twilight started the debate by saying that Apple Bloom would end up getting ADegreeInUseless.
*** BattleOfWits. Twilight just wouldn't pull any punches, the bully.
* InterspeciesRomance: In ''Rainbow Dash Presents: My Little Dashie'', Dash forms one with the simian [[spoiler:[[TheJoker The Jokermort]].]] Though at the end, he attempts to address this via [[spoiler:a device that transforms everyone in the world into ponies.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Twilight. She can't stand any of the other ponies, only associating with them out of fear of Celestia.
** FreudianExcuse: Said fear and bitchiness comes from Celestia constantly and mercilessly abusing her.
-->"This book is made for kids! It's got illustrated pictures of little fillies enjoying the childhood '''''that I never had!'''''"
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Twilight has moments where she is of decent moral fiber, such as apologizing to Apple Bloom.
*** Although Twilight did start the argument with Apple Bloom in the first place.
** JerkassWoobie: After we find out exactly what Celestia did to Twilight.
* JiveTurkey: Scootaloo talks with this type of flair. [[VerbalTic HOO!]]
* KickTheDog: Parodied in ''Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla''. Apparently, the rainbow making process works better if the kid is sent into the machine with a puppy, a picture of the kid's family, and some crayons so they can draw in Pony Heaven.
* KidsAreCruel: Apple Bloom uses this as an argument to bully a pony into buying some apples so she would get ice cream.
--> '''Apple Bloom:''' [[LackOfEmpathy Children have no Empathy]]; I don't even ''care!'' Now you get me some ''friggin' ice cream!!''
* KissingCousins: Apparently, Applejack's first kiss (we hope) was her cousin Braeburn.
* KnightTemplarParent: Harry Wayne from "Rainbow Dash Presents My Little Dashie" is portrayed this way. In his bid to keep Rainbow Dash safe, he locks her up in the house, expressly forbids her from going outside, doesn't let her socialize with other apes, and gives her no opportunities to exercise or use her bundles of energy. She grows up rebellious and resentful of him. WordOfGod is that this is pretty much how Greg saw the man as in the original fic.
* LampshadeHanging: Done HARD (HOO!) in ''Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla'' (but it's really Rainbow Factory), in particular with the fact that the titular rainbow factory is made of clouds.
* LaughingMad: Pinkie Pie
* LetsPlay: [[http://youtu.be/5v6kTcms51A Let's Ramble over Pony Fantasy 6, part 1]], notable for being done in character as Rainbow Dash.
* LighterAndSofter: ''Rainbow Dash Presents'' is this to FanFic/RainbowFactory and {{Cupcakes}}, dialing back the NightmareFuel greatly while upping the funny.
* LipLock: In the early episodes, Greg openly admitted he had no idea what he was doing, so scenes were minimally edited, and the dialogue written to fit the preexisting lip-flaps, which sometimes led to some... weird lines. Shrimps.
* LightBulbJoke: In the "Winter Wrap Up" episode, Rarity tells a [[FantasticRacism racist]] light bulb joke about Pegasi.
* TheLoad: Fluttershy. During the journey to slay the dragon, all she ended up doing was slow everyone down. Later, when they went to confront Zecora, she was tasked with bringing a shovel that they would kill the zebra with, but she forgot to bring it.
* LoopholeAbuse: Applejack figures out how to cancel Twilight's Celestia-mandated slumber party by daring Twilight to do so in a game of Truth Or Dare.
* LovecraftLite: Especially in Haunting Nightmare. What's with all those [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] targeting Twilight Sparkle? See also CrapsaccharineWorld entry.
* LovableSexManiac: Scootaloo. Strangely enough.
* MadnessMantra: Bones and skin and bones and blood [[NightmareFuel and bones and skin]] [[EldritchAbomination and bones and blood]] [[VillainSong and bones and skin]] [[CreepyDoll and bones and blood and...]]
* ManOfAThousandVoices: All the main characters are voiced by the same guy.
** Somewhat subverted in the earlier episodes when most of the ponies (except of course for Pinkie) sound alike. He varies the voices more as the series goes on.
* MasterRace: The unicorn ponies, who see themselves as the master race due to their magic powers and look down on the earth ponies and even the pegasus ponies.
** The pegasus ponies seem to have this attitude as well.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Rainbow Dash in ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla''. However, she's supposed to be the one in charge of the Rainbow Factory, which technically makes her a BigBad with an F in Evil.
** DragonInChief: As a result, the Factory's day to day operations fall to chief engineer Surprise.
-->'''Surprise''': Man, get over it! After a few of these, it's like nothing! Sure, you stay up late at night thinking about how your family would think of you, you wonder what Pony Hell's gonna be like, but other than that it's no big deal!
* MissingEpisode: Episode 11 got stuck in DevelopmentHell and was eventually cancelled. Episode 12 was released instead after the hiatus.
* MistakenForGay: Rainbow Dash. Gilda outright says she's a lesbian and operates under the assumption that they're in a relationship, but Dash thinks that means Gilda's from the island of Lesbia.
* MostDefinitelyNotAVillain: Thrackerzod and [[spoiler:Smarty Pants]] are... not convincing as normal ponies.
-->'''Thrackerzod''': I love to ride bikes! In the park! With... my friends!
-->'''[[spoiler:Possessed!Twilight]]''': [[AC: I too love riding bikes, and other common activities!]]
-->'''Thrackerzod''': We are normal.
* MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes: Twilight in Episode 8.
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Twilight almost never gets Fluttershy's name right, even though she [[RunningGag keeps claiming that she knows it]].
* TheNicknamer: Twilight seems to have taken to calling Rainbow Dash "Chump" recently.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Zecora talks like one of the ''many'' impersonations of the late comedian EdWynn's "Perfect Fool" persona.
* ObliviouslyEvil: Luna. Unlike Celestia, who is a sadist, Luna just wants to have friends and is genuinely unaware of how horrifying and dangerous her attempts at befriending ponies are.
* ObliviousToLove: Rainbow Dash does not realize Gilda's feelings.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Rainbow Dash is a government employee. In "Winter Wrap Up", she complains about all the paperwork she would have to fill out to change the weather.
** Discussed in "Swarm of the Century", when the characters are trying to figure out how to get rid of the parasprite infestation.[[note]] There's a spray, but it's too expensive, so in order to get the city to consider buying some they'll need to bring up the issue at the next council meeting.[[/note]]
* OneOfTheKids: Deconstructed. Rainbow Dash, by her own admission, isn't good with kids; not because she doesn't like them, but because she encourages and joins in on their shenanigans.
-->'''Rainbow Dash''': This one time, I was supposed to be watching my cousin's kid, and her kid wanted to try eating ice cream for dinner! And y'know, I thought, I'd never really tried that before! Kids have good ideas sometimes! But then I got all hyperactive, and I did a bunch of tricks to impress her, but then I crashed and broke both my wings and all four legs, and she started throwing up because she had too much ice cream... And when I woke up in the hospital, I wasn't allowed to watch my cousin's kids anymore.\\
'''Apple Bloom''': Your cousin's daughter got to eat ice cream for dinner?! That sounds fantastic!\\
'''Rainbow Dash''': It was great at the time!
* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Pony]]: Apparently, Apple Bloom. Naturally she gets ignored.
** Although it's more she does what her children's books tell her is right.
** Applejack has shades of this at times, as does Fluttershy. Twilight ''thinks'' she is this, but she isn't.
* OriginalCharacter: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla'' video:
-->'''Orion''': I'm Orion. Orion Comet. You can call me OC for short!
* OverlyLongGag: Miss Blossomforth describing the criteria for failure in ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla''.
** Also in the same video, we have Thrackerzod's escape plan, which also doubles as a ShoutOut to ''LegendsOfTheHiddenTemple''.
** Again in the same video, we see the very long introduction. It is even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]]
* PokemonSpeak: None of the background ponies say anything other than "[[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants meep]]".[[note]] There are three exceptions so far. Once in "The Ticket Master" when Daisy and Shoeshine offer Twilight random crap (but everypony else speaks in meeps). Once in "Applebuck Season" when Roseluck and Lily complain about the rabbit stampede (but Daisy speaks in meeps). And finally in "Swarm of the Century" when Carrot Top argues with Twilight about a misspelled banner.[[/note]]
** Twist also only speaks in meeps, yet inexplicably [[SpeechImpediment still has a lisp.]]
--> '''Twist:''' thmeep thmeepthmeep thmeep!
* PowerIncontinence: Fluttershy, after Zecora's curse gives her the ability to read minds but she cannot turn it off, discovering that AMindIsATerribleThingToRead.
* PowerOfFriendship: [[AvertedTrope Nope]]! Applejack at one point tries to invoke this to get some stallions to do more efficient farm work. All that happens is they try to kill each other.
* PsychicStatic: Twilight uses [[Series/SesameStreet the Rubber Ducky Song]] to stave off mind reading.
* PsychoLesbian: [[ComedicSociopath Pinkie]] has displayed interest in both Gilda and Twilight. In Episode 12, she outright says she's a lesbian, removing all remaining doubt.
* PunchClockVillain: In ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla'', Dash makes it clear that she's only supervising the Rainbow Factory for the healthcare benefits.
-->'''Rainbow Dash''': "This job does not need a degree. That is how they got stuck with me. I need this for Healthcare, you see, so I can afford therapy!"
* PurpleProse: Luna talks in it.
* ReallyGetsAround: Rarity
--> '''Rainbow Dash:''' ''Oh my god, when we get back from this, we are SO getting laid!''\\
'''Rarity:''' ''But I already get laid frequently!''\\
'''Pinkie Pie:''' ''Ah, Rarity, you are a slut.''
* {{Room 101}}: Alluded to by name. Spike says he admitted to things that never even happened.
-->'''Spike''': They asked me if you were secretly workin' for [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Mothra]], I told 'em yes! If you weren't already on a list, you're definitely on one now!
* RunningGag: "There's punch and cookies by the door!"
** Also, Twilight [[MyNameIsNotDurwood forgetting Fluttershy's name]].
* SadistTeacher: Princess Celestia to Twilight Sparkle. Well, Sadist Homeschooling [[AbusiveParents Mother]].
* SanitySlippage: Twilight while speaking with Celestia in episode 8.
* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: "Screeeeeeeaaaaaammm!!!"
* TheScapegoat: Pinkie Pie uses Fluttershy to act as one a lot.
** ImplausibleDeniability:
-->'''Rarity''': Last week, I caught you spray painting the word 'ass' all over my windows, and you told me it was Fluttershy!\\
'''Pinkie''': It was! ''({{beat}})'' And you are an ass!\\
'''Rarity''': And then there was the time when I caught you in my room replacing all my condoms with live cobras, and you told me that was Fluttershy!\\
'''Pinkie''': That is just the kind of thing that she would do!\\
'''Rarity''': And then there was that time when you stole my sewing machine and left Fluttershy, dressed up as a burglar, tied and gagged in my living room!\\
'''Pinkie''': It seems Fluttershy gets blamed for a lot of things around here!
* SeinfeldianConversation: This series ''loves'' this trope.
** CavemenVsAstronautsDebate: Lampshaded in the description for episode 6:
-->"The interesting thing about this episode was that it was already about bickering ponies, so it was full of angry ponies shouting at each other no matter what I may have wanted to do."
* SelfInsertFic: [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Rainbow Dash accidentally locks herself into the story she's narrating]] in ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwtHeNlINV8&feature=related Rainbow Dash Presents: Bubbles]]''
* ShaggyDogStory: In ''Rainbow Dash Presents: [[Fanfic/RainbowFactory Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla]]'', [[spoiler:it turns out that the factory employees could have produced rainbows from crayons and photographs, and therefore didn't need to kill so many foals. Also may count as an inversion of ShootTheShaggyDog]]
* ShoutOut: Lots.
** Thrackerzod's dubious claims of normalcy, and her preferred name, are a reference to a one-off villain from TheTick.
** Dash makes the obligatory ''{{Cupcakes}}'' reference when being hounded by Pinkie in "Griffon the Brush Off".
-->'''Dash''': "I don't wanna be cupcakes!"
--> – ''moments later'' –
--> '''Pinkie:''' "Oh, you think I will cut your wings off!"
** A nod to ''TheTwilightZone'' in ''Pie in the Sky'': "[[ToServeMan It's a cookbook!]]"
** Spike says that they took him to [[{{Room101}} Room]] [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour 101]].
** In "Rainbow Dash Presents: Cupcakes", one of the skulls on the wall is painted like SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker. Later, Pinkie Pie sings part of the theme songs for ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' and the ''PowerRangers''.
** "Rainbow Dash Presents" is a reference to ''AlfredHitchcockPresents''.
** In the ''Somewhere Only We Know'' episode, the marquee over the movie theatre says ''PlanetOfTheApes''.
** The kids are taken to the Rainbow Factory by [[WizardPeopleDearReader Dazzler and the Blood-Eyed Cat of Security]].
*** One of the two ponies at the start is Firefly.
** Scootaloo's AnythingThatMoves behavior and her knack for posing and yelling "HOO!" seem to be a clear nod to ''JohnnyBravo''.
* SidetrackedByTheAnalogy: "[[LampshadeHanging Why are we talking about dishes]]? Pinkie is confused!"
* SimpletonVoice: Zecora talks in an Ed Wynn voice.
* SpinOff: ''Rainbow Dash Presents'', where Rainbow Dash reads and [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} puts her own spin]] on various fanfics, mostly ones that are already infamous within the fandom, such as ''Fanfic/{{Cupcakes}}''.
** Another episode parodies ''RainbowFactory'' and another episode parodies ''Spiderses''. Yes, you apparently ''can'' parody a blatant TrollFic.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vILUQbOLu0 Harry Potter and the Soul Stroller]].
** Allen Hour might become one, a series of short sketches written by Allen.
* SpoofAesop: At the end of episode 4.
-->'''Trixie:''' Dating someone is just like picking out a parakeet from the pet store. You should always look for a bird that's friendly and getting along with the others. Well, that's all I got.
* StartMyOwn: Greg used to be part of the team creating [[http://www.youtube.com/user/MLPFiMAbridged#p/a/u/2/31LEqC-E6PI another abridged series]] of the show but left over CreativeDifferences with the rest of the crew. He wound up completing 8 episodes in the time it took that team to do just one, and his were far more positively received.
* StopHelpingMe: Rarity suffers from this when everypony tries to cheer her up after she gets dumped.
* TheStraightMan: Applejack has by far the most common sense out of any of the main characters.
** To the point that she doesn't even get her lines changed in the theme song!
* SouthernBelle: According to WordOfGod Luna was supposed to be this in ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Haunting Nightmare''. She doesn't sound even remotely Southern.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: this gem from ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla'':
-->'''Surprise:''' See? We're all having fun! You don't need to run away through the cloud floor, or through the walls, or anything! You are not gonna be ground up into rainbows! Heh heh, that's a silly thing to think was gonna happen!
** Anytime Thrackerzod says "'''I am a normal pony.'''"
* SweetTooth: Apple Bloom's eyes light up at the mention of cupcakes, and she's willing to help Pinkie smuggle contraband cupcakes across the border in order to taste some. Earlier on, she is less than enthusiastic at the idea of selling apples, but throw in the promise of ice cream and she becomes rather ''too'' eager.
-->'''Apple Bloom:''' "Children ''have'' no empathy. I don't even ''care!'' Now you give me some ''friggin' ice cream''!!"\\
'''Doctor Hooves:''' "Ok, just take the money and leave me alone!"
* TakeThat: In Episode 4 (the "Boast Busters" episode), the original ''[=MLP:FiM=] Abridged'' project that Greg left is the butt of a few jokes.
--> '''Rarity:''' So what exactly ''is'' this show?\\
'''Trixie:''' Okay, I really loved Peter Pan On Ice, so I'm going to make a parody of Peter Pan On Ice, but every character is Darth Vader. That's the hook. And because I love the show, I really wanna stay true to the characters. So I'm gonna be holding open auditions to look for people who are EXACTLY like Peter Pan if he were Darth Vader. None of this "I'm a good actor but I only sound ''kinda'' like Pater Pan who is Darth Vader", I need ''exactly like the character''.\\
'''Applejack:''' Well, that's just plain stupid.\\
'''Trixie:''' Also, everyone gets to write.\\
'''Applejack:''' Well, that's just plain stupider!
** ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla'' refers to major MLP fansite "Equestria Daily" as "Trixie Variety Show", given the site owner's preference for Trixie.
*** There's also mention in Dash's rant of someone named "Alclop Pones", a pretty thinly-veiled reference to the maker of another [[FriendshipIsWitchcraft abridged series]], [[http://www.youtube.com/user/SherclopPones SherclopPones]]. This is due to Equestria Daily's administrative crew (and a lot of its userbase) traditionally having a blatant preference for ''Friendship Is Witchcraft'' over ''Mentally Advanced''.
* TalkingToHimself: [[RuleOfThree All the main characters are voiced by the same guy]]. The creator's friends Smeg and Allen voice Gilda and Celestia respectively, while his female friend voices Snips and Snails (and other male background ponies).
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Thrackerzod [[BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork saves Twilight]] from [[spoiler:Smarty Pants]] in ''Haunting Nightmare'', citing this.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: Twilight to Rarity
--> '''Applejack:''' I bet Rarity knows best about getting facials.\\
'''Rarity:''' (throws mud mask at Applejack's face) Yeah, here's a tip: don't get it in your eyes, and seriously was that a burn, Applejack? Did I just get burned?\\
'''Twilight Sparkle:''' I think you just got burned, bitch!
* ThirdPersonPerson: Pinkie Pie
* ThoseWackyNazis: "Sieg heil, sleep Nazi. Ven do ve put Applejack in der konzentration kamp?"
* ThrowawayCountry: The Gryphon Homeland was burned to the ground by Celestia in response to their invasion.
** However, this took place decades ago, so they may have rebuilt at least partially.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Few of the principal characters are all that good anyway, but Pinkie in particular is the only one that commits heinous crimes ForTheEvulz.
** Thrackerzod for the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
* TroubleEntendre: The weather is fast, and it's everywhere!
* {{Tsundere}}: Twilight. We pretty much only see the "tsun" side, though... until Celestia shows up.
* UnfortunateNames: Carwash Rugmuncher. She's a lesbian carwasher.
** PlayedWith. That is what Rainbow Dash wants her name to be changed to. [[spoiler:Because she likes washing cars, and is under the impression that Lesbia is a tropical island (and a nice place to live).]]
** From Twilight's story about a pair of wizards:
--> '''Twilight Sparkle:''' [[SdrawkcabName Toggaf]] was named as such because his dad thought it would be a funny surprise when he learned to spell his name backwards in school.
* UnstuckInTime: Played with in the beginning of ''Rainbow Dash Presents: My Little Dashie'', almost to the point of being a ShoutOut to ''SlaughterhouseFive''.
--> '''Rainbow Dash:''' "Harry Wayne lived his life like any normal monkey: One day at a time, experiencing one event after the next. Or, maybe every event all at once if you think about it, but he just thinks he's experiencing every event one at a time, or, y'know, anyway, uh..."
* [[spoiler:UsedToBeASweetKid]]: Twilight. [[spoiler:If her NightmareSequence in ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Haunted Nightmare'', where she is seen playing with her brother and lovingly embracing her parents, which leads to her being possessed by [[EldritchAbomination Smarty Pants]] is any indication]].
* VerbalTic: Pinkie Pie ends a lot of her sentences with "Yes!" Yes.
--> '''Pinkie Pie:''' ''It is so cute when you give up on life. Yes!''
** Scootaloo also apparently has... *hoof gesture* HOO! ...one.
* VillainSong: In ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla'', [[MinionWithAnFInEvil Rainbow Dash]] and [[DragonInChief Surprise]] explain their motivations through song.
** [[spoiler:Smarty Pants]] has quite an epic one in ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Haunting Nightmare''.
* VillainousRescue: In ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Haunting Nightmare'', [[spoiler:Thrackerzod]] plays a role in saving the cast from [[spoiler:Possessed Twilight]] due to an earlier claim on Twilight's body.
* VirginityMakesYouStupid: Rainbow Dash is completely clueless about how Gilda [[LesYay sees their relationship]] and thinks "Lesbia" is a tropical island somewhere.
** Made extra funny due to the fact that the word "lesbian" ''is'' traditionally used to describe people from the Greek island of Lesbos.
** In ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Cupcakes'', she talks about ponies "hugging" each other.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Twilight Sparkle and Applejack, besides the fact that they are constantly at each other's throats and the casual [[FantasticRacism racist remark]], really do seem to get along better than the others.
* VocalDissonance: Thrackerzod.
** Technically ''all'' the characters bar Spike and Big Macintosh have this, as all mares are voiced by men and the stallions we've seen so far have female voices.
*** ''Technically-technically'', Spike still counts since he's voiced by a woman in the original.
** Also, [[EvilSoundsDeep Celestia]].
** Aurora sounds like BillCosby.
** {{Enforced|Trope}}, all characters have a voice opposite of what's expected of their gender, except Big Mac, who has a "girly" voice.
* VocalEvolution: Rainbow Dash's voice gets higher every episode (this is very noticeable in episodes 1 and 2, for instance), and the others' voices become more distinct as well, although [[OohMeAccentsSlipping there have been occasional lapses]].
* VoiceOfTheLegion: [[spoiler:Twilight, while she is possessed by Smarty Pants.]]
* WhamLine: The very ''second'' line delivered in "Rainbow Dash Presents: Spiderses" changes whatever you expected this episode was going to be like.
-->'''[[spoiler: Celestia:]]''' Good morning.
-->'''Rainbow Dash:''' It's the middle of the afternoon.
-->'''[[spoiler: Celestia:]]''' It's always morning somewhere.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Pinkie Pie's accent is... Russian mob leader? Colombian Drug Dealer?
** ''[[VerbalTic ...Yes.]]''
*** She seems to be some kind of [[http://rainbowdash.net/conversation/110748 communist revolutionary]]. So possibly Russian. Or [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FARC both]].
** Luna's accent is equally incomprehensible, although not intentionally.
* WideEyedIdealist: Apple Bloom, who despite – perhaps because of – being a child, is the only member of the cast who tries to stick to principles (and, for that matter, basic pony decency).
* WhatBeautifulEyes: Said in [[spoiler:Smarty Pants]]'s VillainSong, though it was probably meant in a mocking manner.
--> You've pretty eyes, yes you do!/Flesh and blood, I want it too!
* WrongGenreSavvy: Rainbow Dash has no flipping idea what any of the stories she reads in ''Rainbow Dash Presents'' are really about. Most notably, she thought that the infamous DarkFic ''Cupcakes'' was a romantic comedy!
* {{Yandere}}: Luna has some traits of this.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: An unintentional example. ''Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla'' features Blossomforth as the teacher in charge of the filly-flyers race, but makes her a green Pegasus re-skin of Cheerilee.[[note]] Blossomforth is white with a green-&-red striped mane.[[/note]] In Greg's defense, his episode came out months before Blossomforth actually appeared in the show.[[hottip:*: She's been featured in the toy-line since the initial waves, with the white-&-watermelon color scheme, but Greg and Petirep had no idea.]]
* YouJustToldMe: How Rarity finds out about Applejack and Braeburn.
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-> ''[[ThemeSong My Little Ponies! My Little Ponies! Aaa-aaa-aaa]]—okay, let's skip this part. It is not my favorite. [[LaughingMad Hehehehe]]!''
''The Mentally Advanced Series'' is an AbridgedSeries of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', which is mainly written, voiced, and produced by Greg Hoffman, a.k.a. [=FimFlamFilosophy=]. Later episodes start featuring additional people doing voices and editing. The show features a more adult sense of humor than the original show, which include darker interpretations of the original characters that come from the [[PeripheryDemographic brony]] community's {{fanon}} and from the team's own creations.
Unlike most of the other [=MLP:FiM=] AbridgedSeries out there, this one skips the pilot episodes completely and just starts with the third episode ("The Ticket Master"), which means every episode number mentioned here is the same as the original series number minus 2.[[hottip:*: O.S.3=M.A.1, O.S.8=M.A.6, etc.]]
Apart from the AbridgedSeries, the team also does the {{spinoff}} ''Rainbow Dash Presents'', which features re-imaginings of popular ''Friendship Is Magic'' {{fanfiction}} as narrated by ''Mentally Advanced'''s Rainbow Dash. Well, narrated up to the point that she even read the story; a better descriptor would be that she skimmed it over breakfast and then decided to fill in the blanks with whatever was on her mind that day.
The "Mentally Advanced" episodes have been blocked in the United States after getting caught up in "[=ContentID=]", Youtube's automated program that flags popular videos perceived to be copyright violations. Youtube then rejected Greg's appeal. He then attempted to move to Blip (due to its being more accepting of fair use claims), but Blip deleted his account after just a week, taking even the original-content videos with it.
The series can still be found on the team's website [[http://www.dawnsomewhere.com here]].
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!!This work provides examples of:
* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: Scootaloo in ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla''.
--> '''Scootaloo''': What if we ''opt'' out of taking the test?
* AdaptationExpansion: The "Beautiful Day" episode of ''Rainbow Dash Presents'' shows the canon ending to the fic. [[spoiler:Twilight finds a gorilla night club.]]
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Rarity implies that Applejack will do this as a Result of hearing how much her Big Brother gets around in ''Rainbow Dash Presents: The Haunting Nightmare''.
* {{Adorkable}}: Rainbow Dash in the spinoff ''Rainbow Dash Presents''.
* AmbiguouslyBi: It is implied that Big Mac has had sex with Rarity, and in "Spiderses" he proposed having sex with Twilight. However he also mentioned he missed Caramel which leads us to...
** [[LovableSexManiac Rarity]] says she should sleep around with some mares, just to be less [[FlatCharacter monodimensional]].
** In "Griffon the Brush Off", Rainbow Dash's double entendres intentionally make her sexuality unclear.
*** Then again, it's also implied that she doesn't even know what sex ''is''.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Big Mac is implied to be "a certain colt-cuddling stallion" and in ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Spiderses'', he wishes he could go back to Caramel. However, he initiates sex with Twilight within the same episode.
** This is also frequently played with Rainbow Dash.
* AnythingThatMoves: Scootaloo will happily hit on anyone, regardless of gender or age.
* AttentionWhore: Rainbow Dash
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Celestia's long list of atrocities include genocide, earth salting, torture, and {{Ass Shove}}s.
* ArtEvolution: ''Rainbow Dash Presents'' went all the way from simple slideshow to limited animation, still done entirely by one guy.
* AuthorAppeal: The reason for all the Gorillas? They make Greg happy.
** The reason for the Applebloom cameos at the end of each ''RDP'' episode? She's Petirep's favorite pony.
* AxCrazy: Pinkie Pie
* BadassBaritone: Thrackerzod and [[spoiler:Smarty Pants]].
* BiggerIsBetterInBed: They don't call him '''Big''' Mac for nothing.
* BilingualBonus: Snips and Snails. They mostly talk about food (Snips reads lines from a German recipe for Wienerschnitzel, while Snails takes quotes from a Swedish recipe for Janssons Frestelse), but occasionally they'll say stuff that is downright hilarious (not matching the subtitles at all).
** Lampshaded when Spike wonders why he always feels hungry after talking to them.
* BlackSpeech: The language that Thrackerzod and [[spoiler:Smarty Pants]] speak to each other in until Zecora shows up.
* BlessedWithSuck: Fluttershy gets mind-reading powers because of a curse. All the other ponies think it's cool, but she finds others' thoughts disturbing.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Tends to happen a lot in ''Rainbow Dash Presents''. Perhaps due to the [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} narrator]].
* BritishAccents: Celestia speaks with a thick, gruff cockney accent.
* BuffySpeak: Rainbow Dash herself in ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Cupcakes''.
--> '''Rainbow Dash:''' "You put too much dizzy stuff in the cupcakes."
* ButtMonkey: Fluttershy.
** Every character (except Pinkie) gets it to an extent. Mostly Twilight.
** Aurora in ''Rainbow Dash Presents''. She has Pony AIDS and her wing keeps snapping off. Physics and biology quit being consistent just so that she'd fail her exam.
* TheCaligula: Celestia and the Mayor of Ponyville.
* CatchPhrase: Fluttershy often responds to Twilight getting her name wrong with "My name is Fluttershyyy!"
** Twilight's standard response: "Shut up."
* ChainOfDeals: The plot of episode 9 (the Winter Wrap-Up episode). Twilight needs holy water from Pinkie, who wants vengeance on Fluttershy, who wants her hairbrush back from Rarity, who wants Applejack to lend her some farmhands for her work. It eventually falls apart when Twilight can't remember who wanted what or why.
--> '''Pinkie Pie:''' ''You were to procure misery from the miserable Fluttershy. An easy task, if Pinkie were to remark. Yes. But instead... YOU RETURN WITH A HAIRBRUSH!''
--> '''Twilight:''' ''No! I know hairbrush fits prominently into the equation here!''
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Subverted. Rainbow Dash thought that a hat would give her super powers, but it didn't.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Rainbow Dash.
** Pinkie Pie as well, as a rare malevolent example.
** Zecora, especially in ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Haunted Nightmare''.
* ComedicSociopath: Pinkie Pie
--> '''Pinkie Pie:''' ''I have a better plan! I am going to wear a box, and the box is full of poison lobsters!''
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Rarity in episode 6.
--> '''Applejack:''' Maybe I should kick y'all in your pretty face!
--> '''Rarity:''' You really think my face is pretty?
** This scene carries it further when AJ then follows Rarity's train of thought and completely loses the point she was trying to make.
** In ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Cupcakes'', Mrs. Cake finds Pinkie in her cutie mark gown with sewn-on wings and unicorn horn necklace with Rainbow Dash (dressed as a gorilla) strapped to a table. The basement is also adorned with organ balloons, painted skulls, and bone furniture. She's more annoyed that Pinkie isn't manning the cash register and has stuff cluttering the basement than the bones, organs, and obvious evidence of murder.
* CrapsaccharineWorld: The world is bright, colorful, and populated by adorable animals. There's also a lot of FantasticRacism going around, the government is incompetent when it isn't corrupt, the ruling god-queen is a [[TheCaligula twisted]], [[CompleteMonster malevolent]], [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen iron-hoofed tyrant]] who practices all manner of torture and genocide, and there are all manner of [[CosmicHorrorStory Lovecraftian]] [[EldritchAbomination horrors]] lurking at the fringes of reality.
* CrossdressingVoice: All the main characters are voiced by the same guy, who does not even try to make them sound female (except arguably Fluttershy and, later, Rarity). Somehow, it still works.
** PlayedWith[=/=]{{Lampshaded}} when ''every'' male character (except Big Mac and Spike) is voiced by a girl.
*** And in ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Spiderses'' we learn that Big Mac has a "girl's voice".
*** The males in ''Rainbow Dash Presents: My Little Dashie'' have women's voices.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Princess Celestia will [[AssShove shove a thing in your butt]].
** DisproportionateRetribution: One of Celestia's advisors once warned another that he was slated to be executed. Celestia, after killing the advisor she was planning to put to death by pouring molten silver into his ears, killed the one who blabbed by pouring more molten silver down ''his'' throat.
* CursedWithAwesome: In episode 7, Fluttershy's curse lets her read minds. Her friends think they all got gypped curse-wise after learning that.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Or rather, it's not ''intentionally'' evil. Luna genuinely wants to be friendly, but her attempts at doing so are frightening and/or dangerous and she doesn't take rejection too well.
** LightIsNotGood: Celestia, on the other hand, ''is'' a gleefully evil tyrant.
* DeconstructiveParody: ''Rainbow Dash Presents'' pokes holes into many of the stories it makes fun of.
** ''Cupcakes'' shows how impossible it would be for Pinkie to really have her own secret dungeon in the basement of Sugarcube Corner after Mrs. Cake walks into it.
** ''Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla'' shows that Rainbow Dash couldn't run a factory to save her life, let alone a secret one that processes [[HumanResources Pony Resources]].
** ''My Little Dashie'' shows the actual inevitable outcome of keeping Rainbow Dash locked in a small house for the entirety of her formative years.
--->'''Rarity''': Whoa. You got ''faaaaaaaaaaat''.
* DemocracyIsBad: In ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla'', the Pegasi didn't want to grind up their youth to produce rainbows... but they were outvoted by the other two races. And the reason the subject came up in the first place is because the electorate wanted rainbows.
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Sweetie Belle, who is possessed by Thrackerzod.]]
** In ''Haunting Nightmare'', [[spoiler:Twilight is possessed by Smarty Pants, who in this series is an avatar for a similar being.]]
* DirtyKid: Scootaloo, oh so much.
* DoubleEntendre: Scootaloo speaks mainly in this form.
** Rainbow Dash says a few in ''Griffon the Brush Off''. One is that she's gay because she's so colorful, but she meant it in the "[[HaveAGayOldTime happy]]" way. Later she says she doesn't want anything to do with dicks ("dick" here meaning "jerk", referring to Gilda).
** Subverted when Twilight tells Applejack that Rarity is building a nest, and Applejack wonders if it's a DoubleEntendre. Then, Twilight intentionally makes several several double entendres just to mess with her.
* DoWrongRight: When Twilight finds that Zecora's curse made her horn floppy, gave it a rash, and made it incapable of using magic, she's more annoyed about how stupid it is as a curse than how much it disfigures and weakens her.
* DrowningMySorrows: Twilight, every time she is reminded of her spectacularly abusive upbringing.
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler:Thrackerzod turns up in the Stinger for episode 7 claiming that there is no such character as "Sweetie Belle".]]
* EldritchAbomination: The demon living in Twilight's attic. It's described as [[MixAndMatchCritters half-rat, half-cricket, and having the face of a pony]], and it dragged Twilight to "[[EldritchLocation the place where all points converge]]." She calls it Taz, but its real name is Thrackerzod. [[spoiler:It eventually possesses Sweetie Belle.]]
** For a while, there was apparently a [[CthulhuMythos Shoggoth]] living in Rainbow Dash's fireplace. She urged everyone to not make eye contact with it.
** The... whatever it was that initially manifested as [[spoiler:Smarty Pants]] in ''Haunting Nightmare''. It, in its own words, "seeks the highest star such that [it] may be devoured and allowed to reproduce." When it reveals its true form to Rarity and Applejack, it claims that "[[Literature/TheDunwichHorror Dunwich Horror's]] got nothing on me!"
* [[EverythingIsBetterWithMonkeys Everything Is Better With Primates]]: ''Rainbow Dash Presents''. Rainbow Dash likes to put primates into her stories in some way. First in "Cupcakes" she dresses as a gorilla. In "Somewhere Only We Know", her owner is an Orangutan, and in "Rainbow Factory" she hides it under the title of "Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla".
** "A Beautiful Day in Equestria" ends with Twilight running into the Everfree Forest. TheStinger reveals [[spoiler:it has a nightclub where a large number of primates gather]]. "Somewhere Only We Know" also replaces the humans in the story with apes.
*** "MyLittleDashie" replaces all the humans with apes [[spoiler:until Jokermort uses a device to transform all of them into ponies]].
* EvilBrit: Celestia [[BritishAccents sounds like an East End gangster]], which compliments her [[CompleteMonster grotesque evil]].
* EvilLaugh: Celestia at the beginning of [[SpinOff Rainbow Dash Presents]]: [[FanFic/TheSpiderses Spiderses]].
* EvilOverlord: Princess Celestia.
* EvilSoundsDeep: [[VocalDissonance Celestia]].
* EyeScream: Pinkie Pie was going to have Fluttershy's face sprayed with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_regia aqua regia]], mentioning she might go blind.
* ExtremeDoormat: Fluttershy.
* ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation: ''Something'' does this to a pony secretary in "Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla" when Thrackerzod is startled.
* FakeIrish: [[RuleOfFunny For whatever reason]], Spike talks like he's from {{Scotireland}}.
* FantasticRacism: Twilight ''really'' hates Earth Ponies and Pegasi. As does Rarity.
** Pinkie has some less-than-kind things to say about griffons.
* FantasticSlurs: Sometimes, Twilight and Rarity call the earth ponies "mud ponies."
** They also use 'horsefly' as a slur against pegasi, and Surprise calls unicorns 'boneheads' in her song.
* FlatCharacter: Rarity worries [[LampshadeHanging she may be this]].
* FollowTheBouncingBall: A bouncing cupcake is used during Pinkie Pie's song in ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Cupcakes''.
* FreezeFrameBonus: Episodes usually have long messages to read in the credits, sometimes only for a few seconds. Video descriptions also have messages and anecdotes from the creator.
** During the "Rainbow Fun Factory" segment of ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla'', pause when the camera pans down the list of Celestia's powers. A lot of them are hilarious.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Celestia. Good Lord.
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Snips and Snails speak only German and Swedish respectively. Spike then tries to speak to them in ''Russian''.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Applejack.
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: From ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Captain Hook, The Biker Gorilla'':
-->'''Rainbow Dash''': Darn it, I've got my own ''songs'', a lengthy script with over two hundred fifty lines of dialogue, several voice actors, and the entire thing is hand-drawn and edited frame by over one thousand frames! Seriously, I have more than one thousand pictures in this folder! BUT THEY SAID THEY'RE NOT GONNA TOUCH IT!\\
'''Twilight Sparkle''': Well, if they let ''everyone'' get by with ''that'' amount of effort, I imagine they'd be buried in thousands of submissions doing the exact same thing! They've gotta set standards.
* HighClassGlass: Rainbow Dash imagines a rubber duck in a top hat with a monocle, 'cause he's rich.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Twilight, at the hooves of Princess Celestia
** If [[SpinOff Rainbow Dash Presents]] is anything to go by, Rainbow Dash had one as well. [[UnreliableNarrator Possibly]].
* HostileShowTakeover: Celestia takes over from Rainbow Dash's reading in ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Spiderses''. Luna does it in " Rainbow Dash Presents: Haunting Nightmare".
-->'''Princess Luna''': Nopony invites Luna!
* IHaveManyNames:
-->"I go by many names: Seaty Belt, Sweaty Belt, Treaty Teats... but you may call me... Thrackerzod!"
* IllGirl: Aurora. Her wing keeps breaking off and she has [[CrossesTheLineTwice Pony-AIDS]].
* InNameOnly: Other than [[spoiler:Twilight getting possessed, and Smarty Pants coming to life]] ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Haunting Nightmare'' has almost ''nothing'' to do with the fanfiction it was based on.
** Ditto with ''Rainbow Dash Presents: My Little Dashie''.
** Hell, a couple episodes of ''Mentally Advanced'' themselves fall under this, particularly the "Suited For Success" abridgement, which manages to turn an episode about Rarity nearly driving herself insane attempting to satisfy all her friends' demands into [[spoiler:the Mane cast begrudgingly (and halfheartedly) trying to convince Rarity to get over being dumped.]]
*** Similarly, "Winter Wrap-up" is turned into [[spoiler:Twilight Sparkle's quest for holy water.]]
* InTheBlood: Luna somewhat implied that Celestia is like this inherently due to their mother's mental illness.
* InsufferableGenius: Twilight, especially in the later episodes. In episode 10, she debates Apple Bloom to the point of tears, then fears she might be turning into Celestia.
-->'''Apple Bloom''': Well, maybe I won't need the sciences! Maybe your science can't explain the reasons why I feel... and it can't explain all the big things, like what makes as angry... or in love... or full of hate about something!\\
'''Twilight Sparkle''': Your amygdala.\\
'''Apple Bloom''': My ''what?''\\
'''Twilight Sparkle''': Your amygdala probably regulates a storage of emotional memories, which is why--\\
'''Apple Bloom''': What the heck is an amygdala?\\
'''Twilight Sparkle''': ''Oooh well'', looks like ''someone'' knows less about science than science knows about her!
** What makes it worse is that Twilight started the debate by saying that Apple Bloom would end up getting ADegreeInUseless.
*** BattleOfWits. Twilight just wouldn't pull any punches, the bully.
* InterspeciesRomance: In ''Rainbow Dash Presents: My Little Dashie'', Dash forms one with the simian [[spoiler:[[TheJoker The Jokermort]].]] Though at the end, he attempts to address this via [[spoiler:a device that transforms everyone in the world into ponies.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Twilight. She can't stand any of the other ponies, only associating with them out of fear of Celestia.
** FreudianExcuse: Said fear and bitchiness comes from Celestia constantly and mercilessly abusing her.
-->"This book is made for kids! It's got illustrated pictures of little fillies enjoying the childhood '''''that I never had!'''''"
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Twilight has moments where she is of decent moral fiber, such as apologizing to Apple Bloom.
*** Although Twilight did start the argument with Apple Bloom in the first place.
** JerkassWoobie: After we find out exactly what Celestia did to Twilight.
* JiveTurkey: Scootaloo talks with this type of flair. [[VerbalTic HOO!]]
* KickTheDog: Parodied in ''Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla''. Apparently, the rainbow making process works better if the kid is sent into the machine with a puppy, a picture of the kid's family, and some crayons so they can draw in Pony Heaven.
* KidsAreCruel: Apple Bloom uses this as an argument to bully a pony into buying some apples so she would get ice cream.
--> '''Apple Bloom:''' [[LackOfEmpathy Children have no Empathy]]; I don't even ''care!'' Now you get me some ''friggin' ice cream!!''
* KissingCousins: Apparently, Applejack's first kiss (we hope) was her cousin Braeburn.
* KnightTemplarParent: Harry Wayne from "Rainbow Dash Presents My Little Dashie" is portrayed this way. In his bid to keep Rainbow Dash safe, he locks her up in the house, expressly forbids her from going outside, doesn't let her socialize with other apes, and gives her no opportunities to exercise or use her bundles of energy. She grows up rebellious and resentful of him. WordOfGod is that this is pretty much how Greg saw the man as in the original fic.
* LampshadeHanging: Done HARD (HOO!) in ''Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla'' (but it's really Rainbow Factory), in particular with the fact that the titular rainbow factory is made of clouds.
* LaughingMad: Pinkie Pie
* LetsPlay: [[http://youtu.be/5v6kTcms51A Let's Ramble over Pony Fantasy 6, part 1]], notable for being done in character as Rainbow Dash.
* LighterAndSofter: ''Rainbow Dash Presents'' is this to FanFic/RainbowFactory and {{Cupcakes}}, dialing back the NightmareFuel greatly while upping the funny.
* LipLock: In the early episodes, Greg openly admitted he had no idea what he was doing, so scenes were minimally edited, and the dialogue written to fit the preexisting lip-flaps, which sometimes led to some... weird lines. Shrimps.
* LightBulbJoke: In the "Winter Wrap Up" episode, Rarity tells a [[FantasticRacism racist]] light bulb joke about Pegasi.
* TheLoad: Fluttershy. During the journey to slay the dragon, all she ended up doing was slow everyone down. Later, when they went to confront Zecora, she was tasked with bringing a shovel that they would kill the zebra with, but she forgot to bring it.
* LoopholeAbuse: Applejack figures out how to cancel Twilight's Celestia-mandated slumber party by daring Twilight to do so in a game of Truth Or Dare.
* LovecraftLite: Especially in Haunting Nightmare. What's with all those [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] targeting Twilight Sparkle? See also CrapsaccharineWorld entry.
* LovableSexManiac: Scootaloo. Strangely enough.
* MadnessMantra: Bones and skin and bones and blood [[NightmareFuel and bones and skin]] [[EldritchAbomination and bones and blood]] [[VillainSong and bones and skin]] [[CreepyDoll and bones and blood and...]]
* ManOfAThousandVoices: All the main characters are voiced by the same guy.
** Somewhat subverted in the earlier episodes when most of the ponies (except of course for Pinkie) sound alike. He varies the voices more as the series goes on.
* MasterRace: The unicorn ponies, who see themselves as the master race due to their magic powers and look down on the earth ponies and even the pegasus ponies.
** The pegasus ponies seem to have this attitude as well.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Rainbow Dash in ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla''. However, she's supposed to be the one in charge of the Rainbow Factory, which technically makes her a BigBad with an F in Evil.
** DragonInChief: As a result, the Factory's day to day operations fall to chief engineer Surprise.
-->'''Surprise''': Man, get over it! After a few of these, it's like nothing! Sure, you stay up late at night thinking about how your family would think of you, you wonder what Pony Hell's gonna be like, but other than that it's no big deal!
* MissingEpisode: Episode 11 got stuck in DevelopmentHell and was eventually cancelled. Episode 12 was released instead after the hiatus.
* MistakenForGay: Rainbow Dash. Gilda outright says she's a lesbian and operates under the assumption that they're in a relationship, but Dash thinks that means Gilda's from the island of Lesbia.
* MostDefinitelyNotAVillain: Thrackerzod and [[spoiler:Smarty Pants]] are... not convincing as normal ponies.
-->'''Thrackerzod''': I love to ride bikes! In the park! With... my friends!
-->'''[[spoiler:Possessed!Twilight]]''': [[AC: I too love riding bikes, and other common activities!]]
-->'''Thrackerzod''': We are normal.
* MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes: Twilight in Episode 8.
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Twilight almost never gets Fluttershy's name right, even though she [[RunningGag keeps claiming that she knows it]].
* TheNicknamer: Twilight seems to have taken to calling Rainbow Dash "Chump" recently.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Zecora talks like one of the ''many'' impersonations of the late comedian EdWynn's "Perfect Fool" persona.
* ObliviouslyEvil: Luna. Unlike Celestia, who is a sadist, Luna just wants to have friends and is genuinely unaware of how horrifying and dangerous her attempts at befriending ponies are.
* ObliviousToLove: Rainbow Dash does not realize Gilda's feelings.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Rainbow Dash is a government employee. In "Winter Wrap Up", she complains about all the paperwork she would have to fill out to change the weather.
** Discussed in "Swarm of the Century", when the characters are trying to figure out how to get rid of the parasprite infestation.[[note]] There's a spray, but it's too expensive, so in order to get the city to consider buying some they'll need to bring up the issue at the next council meeting.[[/note]]
* OneOfTheKids: Deconstructed. Rainbow Dash, by her own admission, isn't good with kids; not because she doesn't like them, but because she encourages and joins in on their shenanigans.
-->'''Rainbow Dash''': This one time, I was supposed to be watching my cousin's kid, and her kid wanted to try eating ice cream for dinner! And y'know, I thought, I'd never really tried that before! Kids have good ideas sometimes! But then I got all hyperactive, and I did a bunch of tricks to impress her, but then I crashed and broke both my wings and all four legs, and she started throwing up because she had too much ice cream... And when I woke up in the hospital, I wasn't allowed to watch my cousin's kids anymore.\\
'''Apple Bloom''': Your cousin's daughter got to eat ice cream for dinner?! That sounds fantastic!\\
'''Rainbow Dash''': It was great at the time!
* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Pony]]: Apparently, Apple Bloom. Naturally she gets ignored.
** Although it's more she does what her children's books tell her is right.
** Applejack has shades of this at times, as does Fluttershy. Twilight ''thinks'' she is this, but she isn't.
* OriginalCharacter: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla'' video:
-->'''Orion''': I'm Orion. Orion Comet. You can call me OC for short!
* OverlyLongGag: Miss Blossomforth describing the criteria for failure in ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla''.
** Also in the same video, we have Thrackerzod's escape plan, which also doubles as a ShoutOut to ''LegendsOfTheHiddenTemple''.
** Again in the same video, we see the very long introduction. It is even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]]
* PokemonSpeak: None of the background ponies say anything other than "[[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants meep]]".[[note]] There are three exceptions so far. Once in "The Ticket Master" when Daisy and Shoeshine offer Twilight random crap (but everypony else speaks in meeps). Once in "Applebuck Season" when Roseluck and Lily complain about the rabbit stampede (but Daisy speaks in meeps). And finally in "Swarm of the Century" when Carrot Top argues with Twilight about a misspelled banner.[[/note]]
** Twist also only speaks in meeps, yet inexplicably [[SpeechImpediment still has a lisp.]]
--> '''Twist:''' thmeep thmeepthmeep thmeep!
* PowerIncontinence: Fluttershy, after Zecora's curse gives her the ability to read minds but she cannot turn it off, discovering that AMindIsATerribleThingToRead.
* PowerOfFriendship: [[AvertedTrope Nope]]! Applejack at one point tries to invoke this to get some stallions to do more efficient farm work. All that happens is they try to kill each other.
* PsychicStatic: Twilight uses [[Series/SesameStreet the Rubber Ducky Song]] to stave off mind reading.
* PsychoLesbian: [[ComedicSociopath Pinkie]] has displayed interest in both Gilda and Twilight. In Episode 12, she outright says she's a lesbian, removing all remaining doubt.
* PunchClockVillain: In ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla'', Dash makes it clear that she's only supervising the Rainbow Factory for the healthcare benefits.
-->'''Rainbow Dash''': "This job does not need a degree. That is how they got stuck with me. I need this for Healthcare, you see, so I can afford therapy!"
* PurpleProse: Luna talks in it.
* ReallyGetsAround: Rarity
--> '''Rainbow Dash:''' ''Oh my god, when we get back from this, we are SO getting laid!''\\
'''Rarity:''' ''But I already get laid frequently!''\\
'''Pinkie Pie:''' ''Ah, Rarity, you are a slut.''
* {{Room 101}}: Alluded to by name. Spike says he admitted to things that never even happened.
-->'''Spike''': They asked me if you were secretly workin' for [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Mothra]], I told 'em yes! If you weren't already on a list, you're definitely on one now!
* RunningGag: "There's punch and cookies by the door!"
** Also, Twilight [[MyNameIsNotDurwood forgetting Fluttershy's name]].
* SadistTeacher: Princess Celestia to Twilight Sparkle. Well, Sadist Homeschooling [[AbusiveParents Mother]].
* SanitySlippage: Twilight while speaking with Celestia in episode 8.
* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: "Screeeeeeeaaaaaammm!!!"
* TheScapegoat: Pinkie Pie uses Fluttershy to act as one a lot.
** ImplausibleDeniability:
-->'''Rarity''': Last week, I caught you spray painting the word 'ass' all over my windows, and you told me it was Fluttershy!\\
'''Pinkie''': It was! ''({{beat}})'' And you are an ass!\\
'''Rarity''': And then there was the time when I caught you in my room replacing all my condoms with live cobras, and you told me that was Fluttershy!\\
'''Pinkie''': That is just the kind of thing that she would do!\\
'''Rarity''': And then there was that time when you stole my sewing machine and left Fluttershy, dressed up as a burglar, tied and gagged in my living room!\\
'''Pinkie''': It seems Fluttershy gets blamed for a lot of things around here!
* SeinfeldianConversation: This series ''loves'' this trope.
** CavemenVsAstronautsDebate: Lampshaded in the description for episode 6:
-->"The interesting thing about this episode was that it was already about bickering ponies, so it was full of angry ponies shouting at each other no matter what I may have wanted to do."
* SelfInsertFic: [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Rainbow Dash accidentally locks herself into the story she's narrating]] in ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwtHeNlINV8&feature=related Rainbow Dash Presents: Bubbles]]''
* ShaggyDogStory: In ''Rainbow Dash Presents: [[Fanfic/RainbowFactory Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla]]'', [[spoiler:it turns out that the factory employees could have produced rainbows from crayons and photographs, and therefore didn't need to kill so many foals. Also may count as an inversion of ShootTheShaggyDog]]
* ShoutOut: Lots.
** Thrackerzod's dubious claims of normalcy, and her preferred name, are a reference to a one-off villain from TheTick.
** Dash makes the obligatory ''{{Cupcakes}}'' reference when being hounded by Pinkie in "Griffon the Brush Off".
-->'''Dash''': "I don't wanna be cupcakes!"
--> – ''moments later'' –
--> '''Pinkie:''' "Oh, you think I will cut your wings off!"
** A nod to ''TheTwilightZone'' in ''Pie in the Sky'': "[[ToServeMan It's a cookbook!]]"
** Spike says that they took him to [[{{Room101}} Room]] [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour 101]].
** In "Rainbow Dash Presents: Cupcakes", one of the skulls on the wall is painted like SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker. Later, Pinkie Pie sings part of the theme songs for ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' and the ''PowerRangers''.
** "Rainbow Dash Presents" is a reference to ''AlfredHitchcockPresents''.
** In the ''Somewhere Only We Know'' episode, the marquee over the movie theatre says ''PlanetOfTheApes''.
** The kids are taken to the Rainbow Factory by [[WizardPeopleDearReader Dazzler and the Blood-Eyed Cat of Security]].
*** One of the two ponies at the start is Firefly.
** Scootaloo's AnythingThatMoves behavior and her knack for posing and yelling "HOO!" seem to be a clear nod to ''JohnnyBravo''.
* SidetrackedByTheAnalogy: "[[LampshadeHanging Why are we talking about dishes]]? Pinkie is confused!"
* SimpletonVoice: Zecora talks in an Ed Wynn voice.
* SpinOff: ''Rainbow Dash Presents'', where Rainbow Dash reads and [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} puts her own spin]] on various fanfics, mostly ones that are already infamous within the fandom, such as ''Fanfic/{{Cupcakes}}''.
** Another episode parodies ''RainbowFactory'' and another episode parodies ''Spiderses''. Yes, you apparently ''can'' parody a blatant TrollFic.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vILUQbOLu0 Harry Potter and the Soul Stroller]].
** Allen Hour might become one, a series of short sketches written by Allen.
* SpoofAesop: At the end of episode 4.
-->'''Trixie:''' Dating someone is just like picking out a parakeet from the pet store. You should always look for a bird that's friendly and getting along with the others. Well, that's all I got.
* StartMyOwn: Greg used to be part of the team creating [[http://www.youtube.com/user/MLPFiMAbridged#p/a/u/2/31LEqC-E6PI another abridged series]] of the show but left over CreativeDifferences with the rest of the crew. He wound up completing 8 episodes in the time it took that team to do just one, and his were far more positively received.
* StopHelpingMe: Rarity suffers from this when everypony tries to cheer her up after she gets dumped.
* TheStraightMan: Applejack has by far the most common sense out of any of the main characters.
** To the point that she doesn't even get her lines changed in the theme song!
* SouthernBelle: According to WordOfGod Luna was supposed to be this in ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Haunting Nightmare''. She doesn't sound even remotely Southern.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: this gem from ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla'':
-->'''Surprise:''' See? We're all having fun! You don't need to run away through the cloud floor, or through the walls, or anything! You are not gonna be ground up into rainbows! Heh heh, that's a silly thing to think was gonna happen!
** Anytime Thrackerzod says "'''I am a normal pony.'''"
* SweetTooth: Apple Bloom's eyes light up at the mention of cupcakes, and she's willing to help Pinkie smuggle contraband cupcakes across the border in order to taste some. Earlier on, she is less than enthusiastic at the idea of selling apples, but throw in the promise of ice cream and she becomes rather ''too'' eager.
-->'''Apple Bloom:''' "Children ''have'' no empathy. I don't even ''care!'' Now you give me some ''friggin' ice cream''!!"\\
'''Doctor Hooves:''' "Ok, just take the money and leave me alone!"
* TakeThat: In Episode 4 (the "Boast Busters" episode), the original ''[=MLP:FiM=] Abridged'' project that Greg left is the butt of a few jokes.
--> '''Rarity:''' So what exactly ''is'' this show?\\
'''Trixie:''' Okay, I really loved Peter Pan On Ice, so I'm going to make a parody of Peter Pan On Ice, but every character is Darth Vader. That's the hook. And because I love the show, I really wanna stay true to the characters. So I'm gonna be holding open auditions to look for people who are EXACTLY like Peter Pan if he were Darth Vader. None of this "I'm a good actor but I only sound ''kinda'' like Pater Pan who is Darth Vader", I need ''exactly like the character''.\\
'''Applejack:''' Well, that's just plain stupid.\\
'''Trixie:''' Also, everyone gets to write.\\
'''Applejack:''' Well, that's just plain stupider!
** ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla'' refers to major MLP fansite "Equestria Daily" as "Trixie Variety Show", given the site owner's preference for Trixie.
*** There's also mention in Dash's rant of someone named "Alclop Pones", a pretty thinly-veiled reference to the maker of another [[FriendshipIsWitchcraft abridged series]], [[http://www.youtube.com/user/SherclopPones SherclopPones]]. This is due to Equestria Daily's administrative crew (and a lot of its userbase) traditionally having a blatant preference for ''Friendship Is Witchcraft'' over ''Mentally Advanced''.
* TalkingToHimself: [[RuleOfThree All the main characters are voiced by the same guy]]. The creator's friends Smeg and Allen voice Gilda and Celestia respectively, while his female friend voices Snips and Snails (and other male background ponies).
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Thrackerzod [[BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork saves Twilight]] from [[spoiler:Smarty Pants]] in ''Haunting Nightmare'', citing this.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: Twilight to Rarity
--> '''Applejack:''' I bet Rarity knows best about getting facials.\\
'''Rarity:''' (throws mud mask at Applejack's face) Yeah, here's a tip: don't get it in your eyes, and seriously was that a burn, Applejack? Did I just get burned?\\
'''Twilight Sparkle:''' I think you just got burned, bitch!
* ThirdPersonPerson: Pinkie Pie
* ThoseWackyNazis: "Sieg heil, sleep Nazi. Ven do ve put Applejack in der konzentration kamp?"
* ThrowawayCountry: The Gryphon Homeland was burned to the ground by Celestia in response to their invasion.
** However, this took place decades ago, so they may have rebuilt at least partially.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Few of the principal characters are all that good anyway, but Pinkie in particular is the only one that commits heinous crimes ForTheEvulz.
** Thrackerzod for the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
* TroubleEntendre: The weather is fast, and it's everywhere!
* {{Tsundere}}: Twilight. We pretty much only see the "tsun" side, though... until Celestia shows up.
* UnfortunateNames: Carwash Rugmuncher. She's a lesbian carwasher.
** PlayedWith. That is what Rainbow Dash wants her name to be changed to. [[spoiler:Because she likes washing cars, and is under the impression that Lesbia is a tropical island (and a nice place to live).]]
** From Twilight's story about a pair of wizards:
--> '''Twilight Sparkle:''' [[SdrawkcabName Toggaf]] was named as such because his dad thought it would be a funny surprise when he learned to spell his name backwards in school.
* UnstuckInTime: Played with in the beginning of ''Rainbow Dash Presents: My Little Dashie'', almost to the point of being a ShoutOut to ''SlaughterhouseFive''.
--> '''Rainbow Dash:''' "Harry Wayne lived his life like any normal monkey: One day at a time, experiencing one event after the next. Or, maybe every event all at once if you think about it, but he just thinks he's experiencing every event one at a time, or, y'know, anyway, uh..."
* [[spoiler:UsedToBeASweetKid]]: Twilight. [[spoiler:If her NightmareSequence in ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Haunted Nightmare'', where she is seen playing with her brother and lovingly embracing her parents, which leads to her being possessed by [[EldritchAbomination Smarty Pants]] is any indication]].
* VerbalTic: Pinkie Pie ends a lot of her sentences with "Yes!" Yes.
--> '''Pinkie Pie:''' ''It is so cute when you give up on life. Yes!''
** Scootaloo also apparently has... *hoof gesture* HOO! ...one.
* VillainSong: In ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla'', [[MinionWithAnFInEvil Rainbow Dash]] and [[DragonInChief Surprise]] explain their motivations through song.
** [[spoiler:Smarty Pants]] has quite an epic one in ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Haunting Nightmare''.
* VillainousRescue: In ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Haunting Nightmare'', [[spoiler:Thrackerzod]] plays a role in saving the cast from [[spoiler:Possessed Twilight]] due to an earlier claim on Twilight's body.
* VirginityMakesYouStupid: Rainbow Dash is completely clueless about how Gilda [[LesYay sees their relationship]] and thinks "Lesbia" is a tropical island somewhere.
** Made extra funny due to the fact that the word "lesbian" ''is'' traditionally used to describe people from the Greek island of Lesbos.
** In ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Cupcakes'', she talks about ponies "hugging" each other.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Twilight Sparkle and Applejack, besides the fact that they are constantly at each other's throats and the casual [[FantasticRacism racist remark]], really do seem to get along better than the others.
* VocalDissonance: Thrackerzod.
** Technically ''all'' the characters bar Spike and Big Macintosh have this, as all mares are voiced by men and the stallions we've seen so far have female voices.
*** ''Technically-technically'', Spike still counts since he's voiced by a woman in the original.
** Also, [[EvilSoundsDeep Celestia]].
** Aurora sounds like BillCosby.
** {{Enforced|Trope}}, all characters have a voice opposite of what's expected of their gender, except Big Mac, who has a "girly" voice.
* VocalEvolution: Rainbow Dash's voice gets higher every episode (this is very noticeable in episodes 1 and 2, for instance), and the others' voices become more distinct as well, although [[OohMeAccentsSlipping there have been occasional lapses]].
* VoiceOfTheLegion: [[spoiler:Twilight, while she is possessed by Smarty Pants.]]
* WhamLine: The very ''second'' line delivered in "Rainbow Dash Presents: Spiderses" changes whatever you expected this episode was going to be like.
-->'''[[spoiler: Celestia:]]''' Good morning.
-->'''Rainbow Dash:''' It's the middle of the afternoon.
-->'''[[spoiler: Celestia:]]''' It's always morning somewhere.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Pinkie Pie's accent is... Russian mob leader? Colombian Drug Dealer?
** ''[[VerbalTic ...Yes.]]''
*** She seems to be some kind of [[http://rainbowdash.net/conversation/110748 communist revolutionary]]. So possibly Russian. Or [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FARC both]].
** Luna's accent is equally incomprehensible, although not intentionally.
* WideEyedIdealist: Apple Bloom, who despite – perhaps because of – being a child, is the only member of the cast who tries to stick to principles (and, for that matter, basic pony decency).
* WhatBeautifulEyes: Said in [[spoiler:Smarty Pants]]'s VillainSong, though it was probably meant in a mocking manner.
--> You've pretty eyes, yes you do!/Flesh and blood, I want it too!
* WrongGenreSavvy: Rainbow Dash has no flipping idea what any of the stories she reads in ''Rainbow Dash Presents'' are really about. Most notably, she thought that the infamous DarkFic ''Cupcakes'' was a romantic comedy!
* {{Yandere}}: Luna has some traits of this.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: An unintentional example. ''Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla'' features Blossomforth as the teacher in charge of the filly-flyers race, but makes her a green Pegasus re-skin of Cheerilee.[[note]] Blossomforth is white with a green-&-red striped mane.[[/note]] In Greg's defense, his episode came out months before Blossomforth actually appeared in the show.[[hottip:*: She's been featured in the toy-line since the initial waves, with the white-&-watermelon color scheme, but Greg and Petirep had no idea.]]
* YouJustToldMe: How Rarity finds out about Applejack and Braeburn.
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