History YMMV / MyLittlePonyTVSpecials

* EvilIsSexy: Catrina, considering she’s an anthropomorphic cat.

* {{AwesomeMusic/Awesome Music}}:
** The song, "Call Upon the Sea Ponies" is pretty catchy.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The sea ponies' musical number in the first special, which comes out of nowhere and is only tangentially referenced afterwards.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: To a lot of [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic FiM]] fans. Though these specials were pretty edgy for Franchise/MyLittlePony, the current incarnation has incorporated aspects of these specials, particularly Nightmare Moon and a more powerful Tirac, leaving some G4 fans unimpressed. Although it's downplayed as G4's villains end up being much more humorous after their first appearances unlike G1 Tirac who is never played for laughs.

* WhatTheHellCastingAgency: Music/PaulWilliams as Rep.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: To some viewers, the Sea Pony dance number exemplifies this.

* TrueArtIsAngsty: Tends to be considered by some fans among the best things put out by the ''My Little Pony'' franchise because of its darkness.

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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: A mild example, but some who flipped onto the station to watch this couldn't have have expected to '''behold the Power of Darkness'''.

* ClicheStorm: As good as the original special was, it is also this. An EvilOverlord is trying to TakeOverTheWorld and only a PluckyGirl KidHero and her [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits ragtag bunch of misfit]] friends can stop him using a powerful {{Macguffin}} given to them by a absent-minded wizard. The same goes for the follow-up.

* {{Tearjerker}}: Meta example-all these ponies you've watched and grown attached to in these specials? They're all going to be replaced by an entirely different cast and you'll never see or hear from them again.

* AngstWhatAngst: The ponies that were transformed into [[BalefulPolymorph baleful ponymorphs]] and were made to assist Tirac bring in TheNightThatNeverEnds sure don't seem too broken up about it at the end of ''Rescue from Midnight Castle'', if we are to assume that [[AlternateIdentityAmnesia they remember it in the first place]].

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Tirac]], a [[BigRedDevil demon]] of a [[OurCentaursAreDifferent centaur]] in ''Rescue at Midnight Castle'', was the ruler of the Midnight Castle, and planned to send Dream Valley into a state of eternal chaos. To do so, he used a sack containing magical spells in it to essentially torture and transform young ponies into his hideous, winged dragons which he could then use to pull his Chariot of Darkness. In addition, whenever his henchman Scorpan [[YouHaveFailedMe failed him]], Tirac would threaten to have Spike's head cut off if he ever screwed up again; Spike was a [[WouldHurtAChild baby dragon]].

* WhatTheHellCastingAgency: Music/PaulWilliams as Catrina's henchman.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Though the delivery of the Anti-Drug [[AnAesop aesop]] of ''Catrina'' was [[{{Anvilicious}} heavy-handed]] and [[FantasticAesop fantastic]], one can still appreciate it, since [[DrugsAreBad drugs really are bad]] for both the mind and body.

* Tearjerker: Meta example-all these ponies you've watched and grown attached to in these specials? They're all going to be replaced by an entirely different cast and you'll never see or hear from them again.

* TalkingToHimself: Laura Dean voices both Sundance and Baby Cotton Candy.

** As for Scorpan, while the special itself did make great use of him as a rare MyLittlePony AntiVillain / AntiHero who unwillingly serves his evil master inspite of his own good nature. He ultimately undergoes a HeelFaceTurn once Tirac has [[TheDogBitesBack kicked him a few too many times]]. After this, he is never seen again and he never undergoes anymore CharacterDevelopment. Once he actually undergoes the HeelFaceTurn, he accomplishes precisely bugger-all.
** Firefly, despite all her WolverinePublicity during G1, never appeared again in the cartoons. It's an especially bizarre case because she ''kept being sold.'' However, every time she got re-released, they'd just re-run or re-release the one special she was in. She was sold like she was the Optimus Prime of the franchise even ''beyond'' the show's era, to the point of being on shelves alongside ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTales,'' or even ''[[NoExportForYou instead of]]'' MLPT, nearly a decade after her debut.