
"FLIPPY!"
"This isn't just a game, something big is coming. When it's over, you will know TRUE TERROR!"
Everything Is Broken- FI Creepybloom, part 10


- Happy Tree Friends
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Luna Game
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent
- Dreamy Rainbow
- Cupcakes (Sergeant Sprinkles)
- Flutter Island
- Rainbow Factory
Everything Is Broken provides examples of:
- Anxiety Dreams: Flippy dreams about killing his friend in part 10.
- Art Evolution: At the beginning the series seems to be amateur but as it progresses the animation becomes smoother.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall:
- When Flippy plays Luna Game he starts to scream, Flaky hears him from the other room and holds up a sign reading "Should I ask?" to the audience in part 1.
- The Author Avatar holds up a sign reading "Thought I should break the fourth wall before dying" in part 12.
- Canon Welding: Parts 1 – 3 were originally titled Luna Game In A Nutshell and parts 4 – 6 Amnesia In A Nutshell. They were their own separated series until their titles were changed to HTF + Luna Game and HTF + Amnesia, with the two being formally connected in HTF + Amnesia (Part 3)/HTF + Luna Game (Part 4).
- Can't Take Criticism: In part 8 an unseen character criticizes how Luna Game is a boring game and not scary. LG Creepybloom take this as offensive and beats them up.
- Conditioned to Accept Horror: In part 8 LG Creepybloom shows up in Flippy's mirror again to scare him but Flippy just does not react or care after all the horrible things he went through.
- Dark Is Not Evil: LG Creepybloom started out as evil, she constantly jumpscared and annoyed Flippy throughout in the beginning of the series. Then she and Zalgo Pie decided to cook him into a cupcake but after realizing the error of her ways she pulled a Heel–Face Turn in part 9. Since then she is good friends with Flippy who visits him for film nights.
- Death by Cameo: Rhianna's Author Avatar gets murdered by Flippy in part 12.
- Disney Death: Flippy sacrifices himself by blowing up the building with the HTF zombies in it to save Flaky in part 6, in part 7 he comes back.
- Dramatic Irony: In part 13 Rainbow Dash sees Scootaloo talking with RF Rainbow Dash, she does not understand what is happening but if the viewer have read RF then it is obvious.
Scootaloo: I thought you loved me!
RF Rainbow Dash: I did love you! I tried so hard for you! In hopes you would pass your test! You had it in you, kid. It was up to you to save yourself!
- Even Evil Has Standards: FI Creepybloom is a murderous cannibal but when Nutty calls her on a phone in part 13 to bring him "bathroom candy" she refuses because she thinks it "sounds illegal".
- Evil Counterpart: In part 9 it turns out all the evil ponies are actually seperate entities from the originals.
- FI Creepybloom is pretty much an eviler personality of LG Creepybloom who was already a version of Applebloom, but later she turned to the good side in part 9.
- Formula-Breaking Episode: It is an animated series, but the episode "No Plan" is actually an Audio Play.
- The Game Plays You: Flippy starts to play Luna Game and later the evil ponies come out to kill him.
- Lumpy plays FI and the same thing happens in part 10.
- Haunted House: It first appears in part 4 later becomes a regular location.
- Haunted Technology: In part 3 Zalgo Pie and LG Creepybloom are shown to be able to posses televisions.
- In part 9 Zalgo Pie is also shown to communicate with subtitles on the screen to Flippy.
- Heel–Face Turn: In part 9 LG Creepybloom only wanted to cook Flippy into a cupcake so she could earn her cutie mark. But she realized having a cutie mark for murder does not seem to be a good look on her, so she decided to help Flippy to escape.
- The Hero: Flippy.
- Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: The series used to have its episode titles begin with "HTF +", with whatever work the crossover was with coming after the plus.
- Instant Sedation: LG Creepybloom knocks out Flippy with a drugged napkin in part 9.
- Minion with an F in Evil: Zalgo Pie orders LG Creepybloom to capture Flippy when they break into his house. LG Creepybloom finds a cleaver on a tool holder but instead of using it to harm Flippy, she adjusts it on the holder. She also puts a spider on Flippy's shoulder to scare him, which obviously doesn't work.
- Mirror Monster: In part 3 Flippy looks onto his mirror and LG Creepybloom looks back at him in it. This is repeated in part 8.
- "Open!" Says Me: LG Creepybloom knocks on the door of Lumpy's caravan. When he does not answer she angrily kicks it open in part 10.
- Orwellian Retcon:
- In the original upload of part 7, Flippy starts to run away from evil Flaky when Celestia comes out of nowhere and whispers "run" into his ear and she is never seen again. But in the 2020 reupload that is edited out and Flippy runs away by himself.
- In the original upload of part 9, LG Creepybloom explains to Rainbow Dash they are not the original characters but came from fanfics. But in the 2020 reupload that is edited out so they are not aware of their fanfics anymore.
- Pass the Popcorn: LG Creepybloom eats popcorn while the corrupted HTF characters chase Flippy in part 7.
- Rain of Blood: Due to the return of Zalgo Pie this happens in part 8.
- Recursive Fanfiction: The series is mostly a fan work of other My Little Pony fan works.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Rainbow Dash deletes the file of Luna Game on the computer and thus defeating Zalgo Pie in part 9, but in part 10 she is freed from the recycle bin by FI Creepybloom.
- Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Flippy finds Sniffles' time machine and uses it to stop playing Luna Game in part 7.
- Shout-Out:
- The series' soundtrack is made out of remixes of already existing music, the full list can be found here
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- When Flippy looks onto his cabinet mirror and LG Creepybloom looks back at him in it he snaps and yells "What do you want from me?" and angrily shakes it in part 3.
- LG Creepybloom makes a trollface and snorts like Spy in part 3.
- Part 5 is an animated recreation of Tobuscus's Let's Play video on Amnesia: The Dark Descent here
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- Flippy's Big "NO!" in part 7 is a borrowed voice clip from Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.
- The series' soundtrack is made out of remixes of already existing music, the full list can be found here
- Synchronization: In part 14, FI Creepybloom tells LG Creepybloom whatever feeling happens to one of them, the same will happen to the other, as long as they stay in the same universe. FI Creepybloom and Zalgo Pie were the ones who saved LG Creepybloom from drowning only because the same thing would have happened to FI Creepybloom.
- Taking the Bullet: Zalgo Pie tries to kill LG Creepybloom with an axe but Flippy steps inbetween them in part 9.
- Vengeful Ghost: Zalgo Pie tortured and killed Rainbow Dash to make her into a cupcake. In part 9, she comes back as a ghost and tells Flippy to avange her, in the end, Rainbow Dash bakes Zalgo Pie into a cupcake.