Discussion Recap / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E7MayTheBestPetWin

Way too much. A shout out would be Rainbow wearing a shell and training someone by making them wear it to. Or something.

Shared imagery does not a shout out make. In fact the already listed shout outs are almost all rather ridiculous. Brony tropers have serious Fan Myopia

I notice you removed the Lion King shoutout. Is no one else seeing the connection there?

@theodrixx What Lion King Shout-Out?

Rainbow being caught in a gorge is not a Shout-Out to anything as far as I can see. I deleted Lion King because I didn't see anything in particular. Like AJ and Twi in S 1 E 02 is not Scar and Mufasa with a different ending just because some of the shots are similar and fellow bronies have parodied it that way. Its just a generic problem.

Now excuse me I have to go delete the 127 Hours one for the same reason. That we've got different people thinking Lion King and 127 Hours for the same situation is evidence enough. But I see no connection from that either. Now if Dash was actually caught for awhile and seriously considered amputating a wing we'd be talking.

The quotation is almost exact in terms of specific wording; Rainbow Dash implores "Somepony! Anypony" to help her and Simba says "Somebody! Anybody! Help."

Plus it's in a gorge.

One could argue that it wasn't intentional (in which case it wouldn't be a shout out) but "Lion King" jumped into my mind the moment RD said those words. If most people didn't have this reaction, it probably doesn't apply, but there you go.

This troper thought with the glasses Tank reminded me of the turtle who made the fortune cookies in the "Pucca" cartoons for Disney HD (then known as Jetix).

Of course he started as a "tank" then the tortise became a "helicopter"—it's a bit of a stretch, but you remember another tank that goes into a "flight form" as well? (Yeah, I know said form's a fighter jet *Blitzwing from Transformers* and not a combat chopper, but work with me...)

Nope, Chuck Testa. Does that meme know no mercy?

I think there's a trope for when a character becomes excited about a specific something that means something to them (being any number of things), but I don't know what it's called, if it exists.

I was thinking of something similar:

When a character needs/wants something, and another character is incredibly eager (notably more eager than the first character) to help them out, because they have a personal interest in that something.

Is there a trope for this?

Right in her very first scene, Fluttershy demonstrates enthusiasm and openness on the subject of animals/exotic creatures. I don't see how her enthusiasm and openness in this episode could possibly qualify to be out of character.

Plus you have to remember that Rainbow Dash is Fluttershy's oldest friend. I can easily imagine Fluttershy hoping for something like this for a long time.

It seems to me that this is a case of Cuteness Proximity because Fluttershy's excessive shyness always vanishes the instant pets become involved (as in the first episode). Fluttershy's "proximity" just has a ridiculously wide radius of effect.

She also took part in At the Gala and Winter Wrap-Up, though; either it was Early-Installment Weirdness, she got used to it, or there's an odd "you are only aware of the existence of spontaneous musical numbers you are not a part of" effect going on for everybody but Pinkie.

There seem to be two types of musical numbers in the show: there's the cast members randomly bursting into song to tell their part of the story[[hottip:*:It seems that these songs aren't really treated as "songs" by the characters; they never point out that they other characters are singing; sort of like how in a musical the singing is just a device used to tell the story rather than an element of the story itself), and when a character (almost always Pinkie Pie), bursts into song In-Universe. RD appears to only be annoyed by the latter, while her duet with Fluttershy is the former.

The above explanation works for me.

As far as In-Universe canon goes, Pinkie Pie is the only one that's given to bursting into song randomly.

The rest of the time, the Musical World Hypotheses kick in.

Of course, there's Scootaloo complaining about the singing in Cutie Mark Chronicles. Hrm.

Fluttershy's clearly aware that she's singing, as when at the end of the episode she asks "Shall we sing about it again?"

Yeah, I just got back here to correct myself, but you beat me to it.

Man, I don't even know anymore.

Well, if all theories about the singing are true, then the Let's Duet was NOT an in-universe song. That means that Fluttershy was Leaning on the Fourth Wall when she did a Call-Back to it.

Pinkie Pie is the only one who bursts in to solo 'public' numbers. The others participate in group songs and sing when they're on their own (or with one other pony who's in the same situation, in this case), but they don't 'impose' their songs on others.

Does it sound like the strings from Psycho? Then they'd be "Psycho" Strings. Else, Scare Chord.

It seems to be filed under Scare Chord as of writing, though.

That's why I'm asking. I was going to put it down as "Psycho" Strings, but now I'm not sure.

I rewatched the episode. Definitely "Psycho" Strings.

They're called "Friendship Reports," after all. They probably felt they had to shoehorn a lesson about friendship in there somehow.

Last episode was like that too =/ >Edit page checked out by you I'm assuming that's what you're doing, then? (maybe I should shorten Cutie Pox's summary too... wonder if people will get mad?)

No, sorry, I do this thing where I suggest something be done and expect people not to ask me to do it. :P

It'll take me a while to draft something up; some sections just can't be shortened without making them awkward so they'll need a rewrite.

The Cutie Pox one was not especially long. I only pointed this one out because I feel like it just describes everything that happens in the episode instead of isolating the pertinent facts.

As the one who initially wrote the summary for "The Cutie Pox", it totally was too long. :P I was hoping somebody better at omitting irrelevant details would trim it down a bit (and best I can tell, they did).

I was a little surprised at the initial length of this one, though, since it seemed that much longer.

I didn't restore it intentionally. It goes on the main trope page.

Tends to happen on the day of new eps; only one troper can edit at a time, and we're so full of tropes, that we NEED the 20 minutes the site gives us to edit. and then there're the tropers who are constantly clicking the edit button in case someone checks out early. So if you want to contribute a trope to the page before someone else does keep an eye on the timestamp and click "edit" RIGHT when your clock hits that time, otherwise, you could wait a day or two.