History YMMV / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E7MayTheBestPetWin

* UnintentionallySympathetic: It's pretty easy to feel sorry for the falcon getting shot down by Rainbow Dash after it managed to finish the race, especially with the broken, puppy eyed look it gives and the fact it even accepts rejection gracefully.

* AccidentalInnuendo: "And that's why ''you'' would never qualify to be [[HoYay my]] [[UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} pet]]".

* AccidentalInnuendo: "And that's why ''you'' would never qualify to be [[HoYay my]] [[UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} pet]]."
* EarWorm: That song!

* BrokenBase: Whether or not Rainbow Dash putting the animals through so much danger was fine, even if they were willing. Oddly, a lot of people that feel Rainbow Dash was a jerk for doing so seem to forget or ignore that [[FriendToAllLivingThings Fluttershy]] was just fine with the contest too, even exuberant about it.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: It's pretty easy to feel sorry for the hawk getting shot down by Rainbow Dash after it managed to finish the race, especially with the broken, puppy eyed look it gives and the fact it even accepts rejection gracefully.

* {{Distracted by the Sexy}}: While not easily noticed by other viewers of the show, and where Rainbow Dash and her pet competitors are about to race, she explains to them that if one of them will cross the finish line with her, will be qualified as her pet. While doing so, she's seen to be doing push ups, but before that, she thrusts herself both upwards and forwards. In consequence of this hardly noticeable part, at least some had already did; making GIF images of her looping her thrust movement back and forth, which is directly involved with the I Want to Cum Inside Rainbow Dash meme.

* {{Mondegreen}}: "There are falcons and eagles / They are both quite legal!" Sorry, "regal!"

** Rainbow gets her wing stuck under a boulder, without any chance of help arriving any time soon. Similarities to ''[[OneHundredAndTwentySevenHours 127 Hours]]'' have not gone unnoticed All her friends knew exactly where she went and she was within easy binocular range, so she was probably being a little overdramatic.

* JerkassWoobie: Let's not sugarcoat it. Rainbow Dash's behaviour in this episode was very similar to the hare in The Tortoise and the Hare only caring about speed, brushing Tank off, and she's a DrillSergeantNasty, but at the end of the episode, when her wing is trapped under a boulder, you can't help but feel sorry for her.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: A lot of fans were rooting for the bat after the preview image was shown. [[spoiler:Shame he came in third in the race. He was still pretty awesome.]]

** In addition, there is a little known Dash fic wherein Rainbow adopts and trains a falcon. [[spoiler: Sure enough, a falcon is one of the contestants and even appeared to be the winner.]] Coincidence? Yes, definitely, but no less hilarious either way.

* BrokenBase: Whether or not Rainbow Dash putting the animals through so much danger was fine, even if they were willing.
** Oddly, a lot of people that feel Rainbow Dash was a jerk for doing so seem to forget or ignore that [[FriendToAllLivingThings Fluttershy]] was just fine with the contest too, even exuberant about it.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: A lot of fans were rooting for the bat after the preview image was shown. [[spoiler:Shame he came in third in the race. He was still pretty awesome in the episode, though.]]

* NightmareFuel: Rainbow Dash's amalgam of the other Mane cast's pets looks so silly and harml--[[http://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/view/86839 OH MY CELESTIA!]]
** Rainbow gets her wing stuck under a boulder, without any chance of help arriving any time soon. Similarities to ''[[OneHundredAndTwentySevenHours 127 Hours]]'' have not gone unnoticed.
*** To be fair about it, all her friends knew exactly where she went and she was within easy binocular range, so she was probably being a little overdramatic.

* UglyCute: The Angel, Gummy, Owlowiscious mix thing. Until [[NightmareFuel Opalescence popped out.]]

* {{Narm}}: Spike's shout of "Rainbow!" Especially since it's the ''first'' time he speaks in the whole episode.

* BaseBreaker: Whether or not Rainbow Dash putting the animals through so much danger was fine, even if they were willing.

* UncannyValley: During parts of the song, certain Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy's smiling faces seem a bit off, to the point of being eerily disconcerting to some viewers. [[http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/14fc9fd8bac8ef524844b80047504291/87110%20-%20Hubble%20expressions%20fluttershy%20meta%20rainbow_dash.png This is a good explanation of why it looks weird]].

* AccidentalInnuendo: "And that's why ''you'' would never qualify to be [[LesYay my]] [[{{BDSM}} pet]]."

* IKnewIt: [[spoiler:Ever since Hasbro released a Rainbow Dash toy with a turtle for a pet, fans speculated that it would be Dash's pet here. While Tank is [[RunningGag a tortoise, not a turtle]], he's [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute close enough to count]].]] Then again, the animation team and the toy department are completely separate (and the latter has less creative freedom), so it's most likely either a [[HilariousInHindsight coincidence]] or a friendly TakeThat.

* FridgeBrilliance: Though used to set up the ChekhovsSkill for Tank, the tortoise's plan of tipping over Opal's cage on top of her from behind would have been rather effective to get the mouse from her if the butterfly hadn't beaten him to it. In general, Tank appeared to have several moments of genius hampered by being a slow tortoise than anything else.
* FridgeHorror: When Applejack points out that there's been an avalanche in the valley, for a moment just before Pinkie and Fluttershy spot Tank with Rainbow Dash in tow they have no idea what happened. For all they know, Rainbow Dash could've been crushed under the rocks. In this light, Applejack's fear and urgency take on a much darker tone. It's even worse if you consider that, from this perspective, that she may not have been immediately killed, but badly broken, suffering great pain as she slowly suffocates.
* FridgeLogic: One wonders where Tank can sleep since only Pegasi[[note]]and apparently birds[[/note]] can stand on clouds.
** Solid objects can be placed on clouds (like buildings and the balloon gondola). Tank will just have to be ''very'' careful about getting out of bed. Unless he sleeps with his shell copter on or Twilight uses the same spell she use in Sonic Rainboom to walk on the clouds.
** Tank's shell copter has a rotor glowing with a mysterious yellow aura. Since with the addition of telltale ColorCodedMagic of Season 2, does this mean that Celestia helped place a permanent enchantment on the device?
** Was there anything the non-Tank competitors could have done to help Rainbow out of her predicament?
*** [[FridgeBrilliance Considering that Dash seemed more concerned about being left alone than trapped, yes.]]
** What exactly stops Rainbow Dash from having two pets?
*** The amount of time required for controlling Ponyville's weather, hanging out with her friends, saving the world, trying to become a Wonderbolt and caring for two pets would probably not leave enough naptimes in her daily schedule.

*** The amount of time required for controlling Ponyville's weather, hanging out with her friends, saving the word, trying to become a Wonderbolt and caring for two pets would probably not leave enough naptimes in her daily schedule.

* {{Narm}}: Spike's shout of "Rainbow!"

* FridgeLogic: One wonders where Tank can sleep since only Pegasi[[hottip:*:and apparently birds]] can stand on clouds.

*** [FridgeBrilliance Considering that Dash seemed more concerned about being left alone than trapped, yes.]

** Solid objects can be placed on clouds (like buildings and the balloon gondola). Tank will just have to be ''very'' careful about getting out of bed.
*** Unless he sleeps with his shell copter on, of course!
** Perhaps Twilight would use the same spell she use in Sonic Rainboom to walk on the clouds.
** Speaking of spells, Tank's shell copter has a rotor glowing with a mysterious yellow aura. Since with the addition of telltale ColorCodedMagic of Season 2, does this mean that Celestia helped place a permanent enchantment on the device?
** Was there anything the non-Tank competitors could have actually done to help Rainbow out of her predicament?
*** Actually notice the problem and go for help?

* HilariousInHindsight: Back during Rarity's "Art of the Dress" song in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E14SuitedForSuccess Suited for Success]], she sings the line "Rainbow won't look like a tank." Well, she might not, but her tortoise sure is a tank!

** There's also the ''massive'' number of fanfics were Rainbow Dash gets her wing injured. Guess what happens in this episode?
*** [[HurtComfortFic Only here she doesn't fall in love with anypony.]]
* IKnewIt: [[spoiler:Ever since Hasbro released a Rainbow Dash toy with a turtle for a pet, fans speculated that it would be Dash's pet here. While Tank is [[RunningGag a tortoise, not a turtle]], he's [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute close enough to count]].]]
** Then again, the animation team and the toy department are completely separate (and the latter has less creative freedom), so it's most likely either a [[HilariousInHindsight coincidence]] or a friendly TakeThat.
*** Or maybe it's because the writers have to somehow incorporate the toys into the show.
** Most of the fans called it in the middle of the song.
** Well of ''course'' the falcon would be Rainbow Dash's first choice for a pet; peregrine falcons are the fastest animals on earth.

** The Quarry Eels. While the scene was played for laughs and took RefugeInAudacity, Rainbow Dash's lack of consideration for the animals' safety doesn't come off well when the bat nearly gets eaten, and the eagle briefly looks like its head was bitten off.
*** You could argue that this is why only ''those'' animals participated in the race (the tortoise wasn't invited but joined anyway). All the different animals participated in the other contests, so there's no evidence that any sort of elimination was going on. Maybe for the final event Rainbow only included the ones she knew could handle it (hence why the butterfly doesn't join, even though it "won" an event).

** The problem is the line ending in "bat". If you follow the rhyming structure of the rest of the song, "bat" and "do" would have to rhyme, and obviously, they don't even remotely. It could be argued that "do" was meant to rhyme with "you", which would be acceptable, but even then, "bat" would be similarly paired with "too", which ''still'' doesn't rhyme.
*** The way the melody is structured, Fluttershy's "no' is the last word on the second line; yes, it's still out of whack for rhyming, but it fits a lot closer to "too", "you", and "do".
** It's an A-B-A-A rhyming scheme, so the word "bat" is not rhymed with anything. While not common, it's still a recognized pattern. YMMV indeed, as I found this part of the song to flow just as well as the rest.

** The "fixed" versions, while slightly improved, can still look off: Audiences probably subconsciously picked up how improbable the mouth shapes are, given the ponies' facial structures. Overall, the animation style gives a lack of recognizable depth for their extended snouts, meaning neither option fully works.
*** Not actually improbable, though, just flattened by perspective. From the side, you'd be able to see the pony's lower jaw extending downwards and the smile curving up around her snout, but from the front it's just a smiley face with a mouth curve that changes shape.
* {{Wangst}}: Rainbow Dash carries on about being trapped forever, despite her friends expecting her at the finish line very shortly and knowing exactly where to look for her, and two of them easily being able to magic the boulder off her wing. Though she was probably just giving in to panic for a bit.

* TheUntwist: [[spoiler: The turtle wins! Oh man, who ever thought that the underdog would win in a children's show?]]