My Little Pony has been one of the most popular toylines out there since it's debut in the early 1980s. Naturally, it gets referenced quite a bit in fiction.
This doesn't include My Little Phony references, which are copyright friendly parodies of My Little Pony but not actual My Little Pony references. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has its own page as well.
- Dennis the Menace (US): In this strip◊, Dennis complains to Alice that Margaret tricked him into watching My Little Pony with her.
- Transformers Film Series:
- Transformers (2007) has a little girl with a large stuffed Pinkie Pie asking a landing Ironhide if he is the toothfairy.
- Transformers: Age of Extinction: The long-haired male KSI scientist playing with the Transformium makes a My Little Pony, then a gun.
- In Planet Earth Is Blue, Francine gives Nova a pink My Little Pony lunchbox. Nova generally dislikes the color pink, but is still happy to have her own lunchbox.
- In The State of Grace, Grace is trying to decide what to wear to Charlotte's birthday party. Anna suggests a My Little Pony T-shirt, which she says is ironic. Grace says, "If I wear it, it's not going to look ironic. I'll just look like a complete loser with a My Little Pony obsession."
- Whateley Universe: From "Dorms of Our Lives (Part 2)":Breakdance was a quiet, Japanese-looking girl in old jeans and an MLP t-shirt.
- Doctor Who: In Last Christmas, Shona McCullough does not believe she is meeting with Santa Claus. To convince her, he responses with My Little Pony.
- In S.W.A.T. (2017) 2x2 "Gasoline Drum": A little girl lists Peppermint Crunch, Banana Surprise, and Peachy, then SWAT officer Deacon asks about Swirly Whirly and Cherries Jubilee.
- Dark Secrets of Garry's Mod: One segment from Garry's Mod Sötét Titkai (2009/8/8) where a character sings while riding a horse then explodes.
My little pony, my little pony. Isn't the world a lovel-? Fucking Windows 98!
- Milhouse from The Simpsons has been shown to own G1 merchandise.
- Robot Chicken had a sketch that showed a teenage pony (voiced by Tara Strong no less) showing her father that she got a butt tattoo that is supposed to parody cutie marks. The father then complains that his daughter won't get a decent job because of the tattoo, but the daughter doesn't believe that and thinks she'll become famous making YouTube videos. Cut to 20 years later where the daughter now has a miserable job at a bank and has a boss who keeps telling her to "cover her ass."
- Transformers: Animated has Professor Princess owning a white/light yellow unicorn.
- In the HouseBroken episode "Who's A Party Pony?" Honey attempts to call over a pony by saying "My Little Pony, My Little Pony.."