My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Trivia

TV Tropes-specific

 * Trope Namer for Party of One and partial namer for 20% More Awesome
 * Inspiration for Wrong-Context Magic and Just Toying with Them

Voice Actors

 * Celebrity Voice Actor: Discord, voiced by John de Lancie of Star Trek the Next Generation.
 * Cross-Dressing Voices:
 * Cathy Weseluck as Spike, Tabitha St. Germain as Pound Cake, and Ashleigh Ball as the buffalo who talks to Spike in "Over a Barrel" as well as one of the dragons in "Dragon Quest" (possibly unless the dragon in question is Crackle). Also, while both Derpy and her original VA Tabitha St. Germain are female, Tabitha later revealed that at the time she was recording the episode "The Last Roundup", she thought Derpy was male and voiced her as such.
 * In the Polish dub, Little Strongheart is referred to as male, but is still voiced by a woman.
 * Possibly Spitfire in the Polish dub. She's voiced by a man, but she might just be male in that dub.
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: No kidding. Hasbro apparently went to The Ocean Group for their talents, resulting in:
 * Twilight Sparkle is Raven and Harley Quinn.
 * Amusingly enough, out of all the varied voices Tara can pull off, she uses a voice very similar to what she used for Princess Clara. This has not gone unnoticed.
 * Rarity/Princess Luna is Martha, making this clip rather hilarious for bronies. Anime fans may know her better as Shana, Roberta, Pashmina, or Naomi Misora.
 * Slightly off-topic to the trope at hand, but shouldn't go without mention: Both Tabitha and Madeline weren't the only connections between Martha and FiM. The studio itself being the most blatant one. Which in this troper's opinion turns the meta humor knob on the above clip up to eleven and beyond.
 * Tabitha was also Kootie Pie/Wendy O. Koopa back in Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, though this isn't particularly obvious until she starts whining.
 * Fluttershy/Pinkie Pie is Madeline.
 * Fluttershy was once also a girl who befriended and rode on Diamond Tiara regularly. Ironically, at that time, Diamond Tiara was a dragon.
 * Pinkie Pie's singing voice (as well as Silver Spoon) is Misa Amane. This too, has not gone unnoticed.
 * "Flutterguy" in "Bridle Gossip" and the dragon from Dragonshy are Tigatron.
 * Applejack/Rainbow Dash are part of an indie pop band.
 * She's also Black Widow (who sounds likes an older Rainbow Dash).
 * Spike is Near. This has also not gone unnoticed. He's also Snoozer and Cybersix, using the same voice she used as Six's Adrian persona. To quote CR, "Now I think Spike's cross-dressing all the time."
 * Spike is also Shampoo and Kagome's mother.
 * News update: Spike was a Dragon Fairy.
 * Scootaloo (Madeline Peters) and Apple Bloom (Michelle Creber) are Helen Lorraine and Alice.
 * Gilda is Revy. Oddly enough, she's also Spitfire.
 * Trixie/Queen Chrysalis is Dot Matrix. Kathleen Barr also voices one of the Pegasus bullies (Hoops) using her Kevin voice.
 * She's also one side of a conjoined twin dragon.
 * And she's Roodaka.
 * Soarin' is Ed - and, perhaps more fittingly for a Pegasus, Finn.
 * Where there's Matt Hill, there's Samuel Vincent (Double D), who voices Flim and the lead Pegasus bully (Dumb-Bell).
 * Discord is Q from Star Trek. This has definitely not gone unnoticed.
 * Diamond Tiara is Bijou. Seriously.
 * And as mentioned above, Cassie of all characters. Playing Against Type almost doesn't cover it.
 * Snails is Inuyasha.
 * Snips, voiced by Lee Tockar, sounds like a slightly higher-pitched Bling-Bling Boy.
 * He's also Makuta Teridax.
 * Chief Thunderhooves/Flam is Firaeveus Carron. Once again, this has not gone unnoticed..
 * He is also A number of Space Marines, SINDRI, and Sergeant Merrik.
 * Prince Blueblood/Fancy Pants is Kvasir.
 * Daring Do is Hamtaro. Don't even think of imagining her eating a lot of Sunflower Seeds.
 * Princess Cadance is Cloe and Sabrina.
 * Shining Armor and Braeburn's voice actor, Andrew Francis, voiced Jaller from the first Bionicle movie, who was also a captain of the guard.
 * Little Strongheart is either Stacie, Vera or Judy.
 * There's also a fair degree of overlap with the previous generation of My Little Pony cartoons.
 * Fluttershy/Pinkie Pie was Zipzee and Sweetie Belle.
 * Spike used to be Rarity, making his crush even more entertaining.
 * Rarity/Princess Luna, meanwhile, voiced several ponies, including Minty and Scootaloo.
 * Trixie/Queen Chrysalis was Kimono, Puzzlemint, and Sweetberry.
 * Gilda/Spitfire was Brights Brightly.
 * Diamond Tiara was Starsong and Tiddly-Wink.
 * Daring Do was Bon Bon.
 * Princess Cadance is Tra-La-La.
 * Little Strongheart is both Lily Lightly and Toola-Roola.
 * Transformers crossover! Yes, there's some overlap with Hasbro's other big franchise, starting with Twilight Sparkle being Sari Sumdac.
 * Cranky Doodle Donkey is Rhinox.
 * Trixie/Queen Chrysalis is Botanica.
 * One of the Diamond Dogs is Optimus Primal/Prime.
 * Chief Thunderhooves is Dinobot.
 * Snips is Ravage.
 * Prince Blueblood/Fancy Pants is Alpha Q.
 * Snails is Scattorshot.
 * Gilda is Thunderblast.
 * Princess Celestia is Override.
 * Princess Luna/Rarity is Alexis.
 * Additionally to its connection to the older My Little Pony, the voice actors were also well known for voicing a lot of characters in the English dubbing of the Gundam series. . So then we have:
 * Fluttershy/Pinkie Pie is Mileina Vashti, the latter sounds like Pinkie if she weren't hyper.
 * Silver Spoon is Christina Sierra.
 * Braeburn and Shining Armor were Lasse Aeon.
 * Big Macintosh is Ian Vashti.
 * Rarity is Soma Peries and Flay Allster.
 * Diamond Tiara is either Feldt Grace, Meer Campbell or Lacus Clyne.
 * Prince Blueblood and Fancy Pants were Mu La Flaga/Neo Roanoke and Patrick Colasour/Howard Mason. DEFINITELY against his character type.
 * Spike is Mirai Yashima, Dorothy Catalonia, and Kati Mannequin.
 * Soarin' is Kira Yamato.
 * That means Flim is Athrun Zala. KIRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
 * Gilda/Spitfire is Lunamaria Hawke and Wang Liu Mei.
 * You don't want to mess with Snails, or he'll go Allelujah Haptism on you.
 * Snips is Joshua Edwards.
 * Chief Thunderhooves is Duo Maxwell and both Ali Al-Saachez and Daryl Dodge.
 * Princess Celestia/Cheerilee is Regene Regetta and Holly Smirnov.
 * A number of voice actors have also starred in X-Men: Evolution.
 * Chief Thunderhooves is Wolverine.
 * Fluttershy/Pinkie Pie is X-23.
 * Braeburn/Shining Armor is Iceman.
 * Daring Do is Jubilee.
 * Diamond Tiara is Wolfsbane.
 * Rarity/Princess Luna is Dani Moonstar.
 * Soarin is Havok.
 * Billy Dumbbell is Forge.
 * Prince Blueblood/Fancy Pants is Pyro.
 * Snails is Quicksilver.
 * Cranky Doodle Donkey is Omega Red.
 * Princess Celestia is Risty Wilde.
 * In German:
 * Rarity is Wubbzy and Ruby Gloom.
 * Spike is Timmy Turner, (like the English Twilight Sparkle). German Spike is also Steve Smith and Piggley Winks.
 * Mayor Mare is Major Kira Nerys.
 * Zecora is B'Elanna Torres and the recurring voice of Diane Lane and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
 * Applejack has the recurring voice of Abigail Breslin and Anna-Sophia Robb.
 * Fluttershy shares one with Hello Kitty.
 * Pinkie's singing voice is also the recurring speaking voice for Amanda Seyfried. The singer is also Cera.
 * Rainbow Dash is Elizabeth Swann and Giselle.
 * Twilight Sparkle is Kurst the Worst. Other voice actors in the FIM German dub who worked on the Recess German dub include Rainbow Dash as Ashley A. and Spike as Gus Griswald.
 * Scootaloo is Coraline when speaking and turns into Sandy when singing.
 * Snips is Bloo and Yang.
 * Gilda is Edie Williams.
 * Silver Spoon is Babe.
 * Let's go to Spain! Oh boy, Applejack is Finn the human, while Pinkie Pie is Sam Manson. Braeburn will be D.J.
 * Here's the Italian rundown: Princess Celestia is Fifi, Twilight Sparkle is Princess Clara (just like her English voice actress), Applejack and Fluttershy are both Jimmy Neutron, Rainbow Dash is Chopper, and Pinkie Pie is Sailor Jupiter.
 * The Italian dub also doubles as a Dexter's Laboratory cast reunion: Rainbow Dash is Dexter, Cheerilee is Deedee, Princess Celestia and Snips are their parents, Gilda is Mandark and Twilight Sparkle is Agent Honeydew.
 * On a lesser note, the cast of Invader Zim joins forces once more. Snails is Dib, Apple Bloom is Gaz, Prince Blueblood is Zim, and Rainbow Dash is Gir.
 * Other characters aren't kidding about great voices: Snips and Steven Magnet are both the Joker, Snails and Mr. Cake are both Hunk, Granny Smith, Mayor Mare, Trixie, Sapphire Shores and Photo Finish are all Babs Bunny, Zecora is Airachnid, Prince Blueblood is Seto Kaiba and, talking about background characters, Doctor Whooves is Bat-Mite and Bon Bon is Sayaka.
 * Latin America:
 * Twilight Sparkle is Darcy
 * Spike is Rie Misumi.
 * Princess Celestia is Foxxy Love.
 * Rarity is Princess Clara, unlike the Italian and English Twilight.
 * Princess Luna is June. She was Zim as her stint as Nightmare Moon
 * In the dub of The Ticket Master promotional DVD, Spike was Naruto Uzumaki, and Rarity was Sakura Haruno, making their relationship very interesting.
 * Poland:
 * Twilight Sparkle is Ami(Formerly Judy Funnie).
 * Applejack is Sandy Cheeks and Azula (Formerly Miss Grotke).
 * Rarity (and Diamond Tiara) is Sabrina Spellman (And she used to be Ami).
 * Pinkie Pie is Mitsuki (Formerly Phoebe).
 * Rainbow Dash is Kai-Lan.
 * Fluttershy is Jazz Fenton.
 * Spike is Emily Elizabeth.
 * Princess Celestia is Daisy Duck.
 * Princess Luna is Casper.
 * Gilda is Tommy Pickles.
 * Applebloom is Yin.
 * Scootaloo is Ariel.
 * Sweetie Belle is Megan Parker.
 * Snips is Gaara.
 * Snails is Lucky Luke.
 * Danish: Applejack is Chum-Chum, and Rainbow Dash is Mac.
 * Hungarian: Spike is Ma-Ti, Applejack is Azula, Twilight is Cindy Vortex, and Rarity is Sierra.
 * Arab World
 * Rainbow Dash is Miko Nakadai.
 * Most Annoying Sound: Andrea Libman, voice of Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and (in "The Mysterious Mare Do Well") Daisy, has stated she hates hearing herself.
 * Non-Singing Voice:
 * Sweetie Belle's singing voice is Michelle Creber, who usually voices Apple Bloom. This makes Sweetie Belle's version "Fluttershy's Lullaby" all the more awesome when you realize that Michelle is a child.
 * And Pinkie Pie's singing voice is Shannon Chan-Kent. Andrea Libman however voices Fluttershy for both her speaking AND singing parts. The explanation is that the show's songwriter Daniel Ingram had Shannon, a friend of his, do some of the original demos (including the main theme) and Hasbro liked her Pinkie voice so much they insisted on keeping her as the singing voice.
 * According to Andrea herself, she does some of Pinkie's singing, probably on the shorter songs but she hasn't elaborated beyond that. According to Daniel Ingram, Pinkie songs sung by Andrea include "Happy Monthiversary" from "Baby Cakes" as well as "You're a Cranky Doodle Donkey", the "Welcome Song" and "Cranky Doodle Joy" from "A Friend in Deed".
 * Also, Twilight Sparkle's singing voice is Rebecca Shoichet, and Rarity's singing voice is Kazumi Evans. Not that Tara Strong and Tabitha St. Germain can't sing; they've both performed some singing roles in other shows in the past. For Tara Strong at least, this is due to her recording her lines separately (she’s based in a completely different country after all), and the ensemble songs require the actresses to be recorded together.
 * The talking Twilight Sparkle Animated Storyteller and Pinkie Pie Animated Storyteller toys have different voices when they speak, but have singing voices (taken from the show) done by Rebecca Shoichet and Shannon Chan-Kent.
 * The Other Darrin:
 * Background ponies generally have different voices from episode to episode, even when they're consistently named (as with Rose, who's been addressed by name in "Bridle Gossip" and "A Friend in Deed"). These voice changes have been especially noticeable in the case of Bon Bon; her five speaking parts so far generally sound completely different from each other (which some fans have explained away by saying that Bon Bon herself is a voice actress, and is practicing for various parts).
 * Almost all of the toy commercials include a few seconds of animation, and any pony who speaks during these will sound different (sometimes greatly so) than they do in the show. So far, this has happened with:
 * Applejack in this commercial.
 * Princess Celestia in this commercial and this commercial.
 * Pinkie Pie in this commercial, this commercial, and this commercial.
 * Rarity in this commercial.
 * Pinkie Pie has a different voice in the Facebook app Ponyrific Pictures (even when she says lines from the show).
 * Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash all have different voices in the Canadian live show.
 * When they aren't singing, the talking toys all count (with the possible exception of So Soft Newborn Sunny Daze, since in the show her voice hasn't been heard aside from a small gasp). So Soft Pinkie Pie Learns to Walk and So Soft Newborn Sweetie Belle having different voices can be believably Handwaved since those toys depict them at younger ages than they've been shown at in the show, but Princess Celestia, Twilight Sparkle Animated Storyteller, and Pinkie Pie Animated Storyteller have no justification.
 * They sound close enough that it could be attributed to the cheapo teeny speaker distorting their speaking voices tho. However, this excuse cannot apply on the Ponyriffic pictures Facebook app since Pinkie still sounds off even with a home cinema speaker kit connected to the PC.
 * So Soft Newborn Spike the Dragon, and So Soft Newborn Rainbow Dash have different voices as well. Again, this can be Handwaved since the toy depicts them at a younger age.
 * Now, on the The Grand Galloping Gala Fashion Purse wand. It does sound vaguely like Twilight Sparkle, but seasoned fans can clearly hear the difference. Unless the excuse is teeny speaker distorting things, the box's advertisement of "...fun phrases in the voice of Twilight Sparkle" are Blatant Lies.
 * The sound clips played by the Pinkie Pie remote-controlled car's remote. Does the voice clips sound like Pinkie? Well, it actually sounds more like Sweetie Belle having a sugar rush...
 * Some argue that Big Macintosh sounds different than normally in Cutie Pox, but there is no evidence that that's not Peter New saying more than just Eeeeyup.
 * Relationship Voice Actor: Since most of the cast comes from The Ocean Group, a lot of them have worked together in other shows like Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy, Death Note, Mobile Suit Gundam, Black Lagoon, etc.
 * On this show, Ashleigh Ball (Applejack) plays Michelle Creber's (Apple Bloom) older sister. On Dinosaur Train she plays her mother.
 * Here, Michelle Creber plays the main child character while Madeleine Peters (Scootaloo) plays her tomboy best friend. On Martha Speaks, Peters plays the main child character and Creber is the tomboy friend. They also happen to be good friends in real life.
 * Subverted so far with Matt Hill (Soarin') and Samuel Vincent (one of the Pegasus bullies). They're usually cast as best friends, but so far this isn't the case here unless Soarin' secretly hangs out with one of the Pegasus bullies who pick on Rainbow Dash.
 * Also subverted with Shannon Chan-Kent, Maryke Hendrikse, and Scott McNeil, all of whom voice characters in Maryoku Yummy, but have yet to have their respective characters interact with each other on-screen (unless you count Pinkie Pie's performance in "Over a Barrel").
 * Talking To Herself:
 * Andrea Libman pulls double duty as Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie. (How's THAT for acting range?) It's particularly evident when Fluttershy starts cheering towards the end of "Sonic Rainboom" and sounds nearly identical to Pinkie. She also voices Pumpkin Cake, making "Baby Cakes" full of this.
 * Andrea has proved that she is capable of easily switching between the two voices on the fly. Pinkie-voice apparently gives the other actors a headache.
 * Ashleigh Ball voices both Applejack and Rainbow Dash. Now go watch "Fall Weather Friends" again, and marvel. She also voices one or more of the nurse poniesRedheart in the "Baby Cakes" Cold Open (when trying to get Pinkie to shut up, the nurse has a slight but noticeable Southern drawl), the male buffalo who talks to Spike in "Over a Barrel", and one of the dragons in "Dragon Quest".
 * Unlike Andrea, Ashleigh (being a professional singer), does sing both her characters' parts. At one point near the beginning of the "Winter Wrap-Up" number, you can hear her switch from singing as AJ to Rainbow Dash mid-line.
 * Tabitha St. Germain voices Rarity, Princess Luna/Nightmare Moon, Granny Smith, Rarity's mom, Mrs. Cup Cake, Pound Cake, Photo Finish, (in the original version, at least) Derpy Hooves and (via a Stock Audio Clip) Millie, but the only pairs of these characters who've had on-screen, two-way conversations are Rarity with Photo Finish and Rarity with her mom.
 * Word of God confirms that Tabitha also performs Twilight Sparkle during the studio recordings in Vancouver (Tara Strong, based 2000 miles and an international border away, overdubs her part later), demonstrated by this behind the scenes video. In other words, Tabitha probably talks to herself more than any other actress on the show!
 * This gets subverted in "Luna Eclipsed", Luna doesn't talk to the other Tabitha characters and Rarity's scene was cut for time
 * Michelle Creber voices Apple Bloom and does Sweetie Belle's singing. The two of them talk to each other as part of the song in "Hearts and Hooves Day".
 * You'd think this wouldn't happen with Tara Strong since she only voices one character. It happens quite literally in "Its About Time" when Twilight talks to her future self.
 * There's also one of the best songs in the show, This Day Aria, which is

Staff and Production

 * Bad Export for You: The McDonald's Happy Meals toys in Malaysia. For whatever brain-dead reason, Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack and Princess Celestia are not available in the country. Since the show is not available in the country because no Pay TV provider carries Boomerang, McDonald's and Hasbro probably thought they could get away with this...
 * Some of the dubs, from the previews seen so far, seem to be of the low-to-no-budget variety. The Canadian French dub is probably the worst.
 * For unexplained reasons, Discovery Kids skipped the fifth episode during the initial Latin-American airing. It was later shown after episode 14, followed by an ongoing hiatus.
 * In Canada, the show runs on Treehouse TV (which is geared towards preschoolers). The channel massively censored some episodes, the most well-known one being the silencing of all instances of the word "loser" from "Boast Busters", "Call of the Cutie", and "Party Of One". Keep in mind that the show is produced in Canada.
 * Now there's reports going around that Boomerang's airings of the show in some regions are incomplete, bringing in only half of each season.
 * Executive Meddling: Lauren Faust has said that Hasbro's management of the show has generally been fairly easy-going, and she's been allowed a lot more freedom than she expected, with some exceptions:
 * The overabundance of pink and hearts, particularly in the design of the toyline.
 * Making Celestia a princess instead of a queen.
 * Faust would have preferred to do a series with an overarching storyline, probably keeping the Magical Girl stylings of the first two episodes, but Hasbro wanted the episodes to be viewable in any order.
 * On the other hand, Faust says "a lot of fans now seem to think that I had a grand scheme for a big, dramatic, serialized magical-girl style of a show. Actually, it was always my intention to have the show partially 'adventure stories' and partially 'relationship stories,' as I called them in my initial pitch bible."
 * She also originally wanted the show's setting to be called Fillydelphia, since most of her family live in Philadelphia, but got Executive Vetoed. Fillydelphia ended up being mentioned as a separate town in "Swarm of the Century", "A Friend in Deed", "It's About Time", and "Hurricane Fluttershy" instead.
 * Ironically, multiple fanfic authors have decided that Fillydelphia is a Crapsack City.
 * Hasbro requested the inclusion of specific characters, though notably not how to use them -- only that they be in the show in some form. This is why Cheerilee became a teacher and got Happy Meal toys as part of the McDonald's promotions.
 * This also seems to apply to Shining Armor and Cadance, though in that case the wedding was also mandated.
 * Judging by the blog post linked in YMMV under Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch, she would have preferred to add a few more guy ponies for a better-rounded society (and possibly making the Periphery Demographic less peripheral).
 * After season 2, she has announced that she's only working as a consulting producer instead of an executive producer. Inverted in that it sounds like that she had too much to control as opposed to too little.
 * After her speaking role in "The Last Roundup" brought her to full Ascended Meme status, it would appear that poor Derpy Hooves got hammered by this trope (or some other stuff that we won't go into here) rather hard; the episode now has a new version that has been edited to change her voice, mostly "fix" her eyes, and remove reference to her name.
 * God Does Not Own This World: Lauren Faust, despite being the main creative force, has neither absolute control nor ownership of the franchise. This is punctuated by the fact that she demoted herself to consultant producer for Season 2, and then left the show entirely.
 * God Never Said That: Lauren Faust and company have been misquoted or misunderstood a few times. For example, its a common belief that the show was pitched as much more Magical Girl adventure style but Hasbro demanded a more Slice of Life format. This isn't true, as Lauren has stated that she planned to have a mix of adventure and Slice of Life from the beginning. The reason why there aren't more adventure episodes is because they're harder to produce on a tight schedule while still being enjoyable.
 * Line to God:
 * Lauren Faust has a Deviant ART account, though she's quick to note that her word isn't strictly canon.
 * Daniel Ingram, the show's songwriter, has a Facebook page, a Twitter account and a YouTube channel.
 * Jayson Thiessen, the show's current chief director and showrunner, has a Deviant ART account, a Twitter account and a YouTube channel, and is not shy about communicating with fans (at least about things he's allowed to discuss).
 * A layout artist commonly going by "Nayuki" posts on the Allspark Forums, offering several bits of behind the scenes trivia. He's also the one who drew the San Diego Comic Con 2011 Pony Poster, which contained all the shout outs to fans and Fanon.
 * And many, many more.
 * No Export for You:
 * Of the worst kind, due to deals made with TV networks outside of the US. To date, the complete series has only been released for sale on the iTunes Store, which does not sell videos to those living in the remaining two-thirds of the world, and not even all of them are available outside the US in the one-third of the world where the iTunes Store sells videos. Netflix has all the episodes from seasons that have finished airing, as well as the episodes that Shout Factory has released on DVD. Selected episodes have also been released on the LeapFrog App Center, but that's region-locked too . As for DVDs, Germany has a pair of 3-German-episode Region 0 DVDs from Edel Germany GmbH, while Australia and New Zealand will start getting a five-volume Region 4 DVD set of Season 1 from Madman Entertainment on June 20th, 2012. However, aside from those, only "The Ticket Master" has been widely released (in some countries, only through limited-time promotions) on DVD outside the US (one or more countries may have received multiple episodes)--and even if you're willing to import, the two non-Shout Factory volumes, Celebration at Canterlot and Adventures in Ponyville, are sold only at brick-and-mortar stores (in Celebration at Canterlot's case, only Target stores), so good luck finding them! Those who can't get Boomerang, which has somehow obtained the rights to air programming based on Hasbro's franchises almost everywhere outside North America, are screwed, since as noted in Screwed by the Network, not all countries have pay-TV providers that carry Boomerang. Nick Jr.? Only in certain parts of East Europe, though the German dub of the entire first season can be watched for free on Nickelodeon's German site as well as on Nick Jr.'s German site. And naturally, all the videos on The Hub's website are region-locked to the USA, even the short clips (and proxies apparently don't work)--the videos on Hasbro's main site may be viewable from outside the USA, but would require navigating to the US version of the Videos page.
 * Some parts of the Expanded Universe:
 * A British My Little Pony magazine by Signature Publishing has printed at least six exclusive stories (which are novelizations of the episodes "Friendship is Magic, part 1", "Friendship is Magic, part 2", "The Ticket Master", "Applebuck Season", "Griffon the Brush Off", and "Dragonshy").
 * A French My Little Pony magazine published by Panini has printed at least three exclusive stories (one of which is a Novelization of the episode "Applebuck Season").
 * A German My Little Pony magazine published by Panini has printed at least ten exclusive comics and at least three exclusive stories (one of which is a Novelization of the episode "The Ticket Master").
 * A Norwegian My Little Pony magazine published by Egmont has printed at least four stories, two of which have also been printed in the Polish magazine mentioned below.
 * A Polish My Little Pony magazine has printed at least two stories, both of which have also been printed in the Norwegian magazine mentioned above.
 * Judging by these listings, it appears that the American release of the Blind Bags will be skipping wave 2 and jumping straight to waves 3 & 4. With only three waves announced at the 2012 New York Toy Fair and a fifth wave in the works for the European release, it's unknown if the second wave will ever make it to the US.
 * Old Shame: As Lauren Faust pointed out in the page quote on the main page, the biggest obstacle against potential viewers giving Friendship Is Magic a chance is the reputation for being Merchandise-Driven and Tasting Like Diabetes that My Little Pony had gained in the previous 28 years of its history. In fact, this show first attracted /co/'s attention because of a post on Cartoon Brew accusing Faust of being a corporate sellout for taking this job even before the pilot aired.
 * One of Us: Lauren Faust apparently is very aware of /co/'s obsession with the show, and (before leaving the show) would often post little in-jokes on her deviantART profile. Also, see Sure Why Not below.
 * And has even posted on Ponychan a few times.
 * Some of the directors, animators, and other folks who work on the show are also well aware of the Periphery Demographic. Song writer Daniel Ingram in particular has talked about the bronies in recent interviews and answered fan questions and has DJ-P0n3 fanart on his Facebook page (His favorite pony is Rainbow Dash).
 * Ingram has also commented favourably on the efforts of certain Youtubers to remix his Pony songs. In fact, he was willing to personally help out one remixer who was having trouble figuring out the chord progressions in "At The Gala".
 * Some people who work on children's cartoons aren't too proud of their work. Friendship is Magic animators draw OCs and cosplay.
 * William Anderson is definitively a brony. His homepage opens to a ponification of himself. There is also a photo of himself, in his studio, working on an episode of Friendship Is Magic, while wearing a T-shirt that says "BRONY".
 * Promoted Fangirl: Lauren Faust played with the G1 toys as a child. (She even named her Deviant ART handle "fyre-flye" after her favorite MLP G1 character.)
 * A few other staff members also have fond memories of the older shows. And a lot more became very fond of it in the work process.
 * Rule 34 Creator Reactions: "I'm a big girl. When stuff gets too icky I just find something else to do."
 * Lauren did eventually have to clarify this a bit, insisting that fans please not remind her that Rule 34 Pony art exists.
 * Tara Strong jokingly posted this along with some other pictures of characters she's voiced on her Twitter, then later asked what Rule 34 and trolling was and said "Dear Princess Celestia, the Internet scares me". Then again, she's been in the business long enough to see the trend, and she's known for having a quirky sense of humor on her twitter account, so who knows at this point.
 * It's pretty much confirmed at this point that Tara Strong is totally trolling the bronies, and most of them know it too. The problem is the fans who take her seriously...
 * Screwed by the Network: Thus far actually subverted within the US. Despite having a terrible airtime for new episodes—the middle of the day on a Friday! (until Season 2 that is)—on a non-mainstream channel that's only available on upper-tier cable and satellite packages, the show's been doing very well even with its target demographic, and The Hub considers it one of its A-list shows. Outside the US, however, this trope is being played depressingly straight: For most of the world (barring the East Europe Blocs, where the rights went to Viacom, who airs it on Nick Jr in that region), the show's rights went to Time Warner, which is screwing it over by airing it on Boomerang instead of Cartoon Network. In many parts of the world, as in parts of the US, Boomerang is almost always a premium add-on channel, whereas Cartoon Network is bundled with the basic packages, so it would have a wider audience on the latter. Aside from that, as stated before, some countries don't get Boomerang even if they get Cartoon Network.
 * Another relatively mild example is in Canada, where the show airs on Treehouse TV, a channel otherwise dedicated to pre-school programming, and the airing times verge on the completely random. Let's hear it for DVRs.
 * And how the network screwed it. Treehouse mutes out every uttering of the word "loser" (except once, when Rainbow Dash says it) and rarely airs an episode about bullying.
 * Screwed to the extreme by NTV 7 in Malaysia. The show was supposed to premiere on March 3, 2012 on said channel. It was yanked in the last minute and replaced with Lily The Witch. More egregiously is that the show ID overlay still shows the airing show as My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. It's like the Screwed by Fox Network joke in Futurama taken up to 11 in which the show was screwed before it could even premiere!
 * Network to the Rescue: Recent episodes are shown on the Hub website for free, the show is now being shown three times a day on the Hub network itself during the summer when its younger audience will be off from school, and every episode can still be found in full length HD form on YouTube, since little effort has been made to remove them by the corporations who own the copyrights and trademarks (the notable exception to this is that Hasbro has taken considerable effort of late to keep the iTunes rips off of Youtube, since that directly affects their sales, as well as runs the risk of pissing off Apple, which no one wants to do).
 * New episodes of Season 2 were originally being aired on Saturday at 9 AM (The Hub operates only on Eastern Time for most packages), but are now pushed back to 10 AM
 * And 1 PM eastern as of March 3, 2012, coincidentally placing it at 10 AM on the other side of the country!
 * Sure Why Not: Lauren Faust, as a Promoted Fangirl, listened to the fans very hard, to the point of canonizing Unicorn Pegasi (On the other hand, since the only winged unicorns we've seen thus far are God-Tier, a lot of Pony-sonas just got a whole lot more Sue-y).
 * She also listens to the fanbase when it comes to which background characters become Ensemble Darkponies, and we're gradually seeing this bear fruit. For instance, Derpy Hooves has been officially canonized, being included in episode storyboards as a Where's Waldo-style challenge in season 1 ("Derpy" is even her canon name according to some Season 2 concept art) and getting lines, a ditzy personality and even being called "Derpy" by Rainbow Dash in S2's The Last Roundup.
 * While it's unknown if it was intended to be so before the fandom reaction, Luna's characterization as The Atoner seeking to make up for her actions as Nightmare Moon was probably one of the most common fanon interpretations of her character.
 * Throw It In: Derpy Hooves (see Sure Why Not) was only cross-eyed in her first appearance because of an animation mistake. She had normal eyes for her next few appearances, until the team heard about the popularity of the cross-eyed Derpy.
 * What Could Have Been:
 * This whole thing got started because Lauren Faust was pitching to Hasbro an animated series based on her own dolls, Milky Way and The Galaxy Girls. We almost got an original property and My Little Pony would still be in G3.5 or someone else would have handled the reboot, and who knows how that would have turned out.
 * Several characters had name changes for legal reasons. Twilight Sparkle was Twilight Twinkle (a G3 pony), Princess Luna was Princess Selena, Apple Bloom was Appleseed, Big Macintosh was Big Apple, and Gilda was Grizelda.
 * The storybook version of the pilot episodes does call Luna "Selena."
 * Along with Big Apple, Sweet Apple Acres was going to be called Big Apple Orchard or Big Apple Farm - the idea was that Applejack's brother inherited the farm while she just ran things. It also was originally not supposed to be in Ponyville at all, but in a different town known as Fillysire.
 * In the original pitch Apple Bloom was alone in her quest for a Cutie Mark. Lauren was asked (not forced, as she puts it) to add Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo and the Crusaders were born. Oddly enough, Lauren Faust always thought they should have their own Spin-Off show for preschoolers (where kids learn how to do stuff while the Crusaders are engaging in new activities looking for their cutie marks).
 * In Lauren's original pitch for the show, Pinkie Pie was a Pegasus and Fluttershy was an Earth Pony. The entire cast went through a design change, from G1 Ponies to G3 Ponies (though some of them are In Name Only).
 * Lauren has said she had a sea ponies episode in mind, but it didn't get made under her watch. We almost got shoo-be-doo'd!
 * Composer Daniel Ingram posted to his SoundCloud profile an early version of "Hop, Skip, and Jump" from "Dragonshy" in response to receiving 3500 likes on his Facebook page.
 * The show was originally going to be named My Little Pony Adventures.
 * Trixie was originally going to be a boy.
 * Lauren originally designed several monsters to be cuter and prettier thinking Hasbro wouldn't let her get away with the monsters being "too scary". Turns out she was wrong and Hasbro didn't think her original designs were scary enough.
 * On the other end, the Ursa Major was much uglier and scarier before getting toned down (and it's still pretty ugly and scary). Interestingly, in this case, the change was not due to worries that it might be too scary but because it the difference between adult and baby was too drastic and executives were worried that the intended demographic might not recognize the larger monster as being the same species.
 * The show was originally intended to be 1/3 adventure stories, but it quickly became apparent that the extra workload they entailed meant they were difficult to pull off on the very tight production schedule. Lauren said that the main casualty of this was Zecora, with her originally planned mentorship role not really needed.
 * Similiarly, Lauren originally envisioned a lot more diversity in body types for the ponies, but that too would've been more work for the animators.
 * Word of God says that "all eps have sort of "placeholder" titles and lots of them change." The episodes with known Working Titles are:
 * "Friendship is Magic" may have been "Mare In The Moon". This ended up being used as the alternate title of part 1.
 * "Swarm of the Century" was originally called "Pied Piper Pinkie" before a story meeting.
 * "Call of the Cutie" originally had the same title, but without the "the." It was changed because the Hub didn't want MLP to reference an M-rated video game series.
 * "Suited For Success" was "Dress for Failure". It was changed for sounding too negative.
 * "Stare Master" was "Fluster-shy".
 * "The Best Night Ever" may have been "The Grand Galloping Gala".
 * "The Return of Harmony" may have been "Seeds of Chaos" and possibly "The Return To Harmony".
 * "May the Best Pet Win!" was "The Tortoise & the Mare". They changed it because it gave away
 * "Secret of My Excess" was "Attack of the 50 Foot Dragon", and before that it was "Giving Dangerously".
 * "Read It and Weep" was apparently "Reading Rainbow". Legal issues with the TV show prevented this, though The Merch did get to use it.
 * "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000" was apparently "Cider Horse Rules".
 * Adventures in Ponyville was going to have a Fluttershy game, which can be glimpsed here and read about here.
 * According to Lauren, Rarity had a scene scripted for "Luna Eclipsed" where she goes overboard designing an outfit to soften Princess Luna's demeanor, leading to another humorous misunderstanding, but it apparently got cut for time, so Rarity is ultimately an Absentee Actor (though her voice actress is still present as Granny Smith and Luna ).
 * The dress Rarity made for Luna in the above scene does appear in a file Dummied Out from The Hub's version of the Castle Creator game, though.
 * Kathleen Barr, the voice of Trixie, apparently did a "very good" audition for Celestia.
 * Pinkie Pie's "Piggy Dance" song from "Baby Cakes" was originally written for "The Best Night Ever", but was cut at the last minute due to time restrictions.
 * There were plans for an episode centered around Big Macintosh. The episode was supposed to have little dialogue coming from the star character. However, it was dropped for a probable number of reasons (namely, that silence can get very boring).
 * Princess Cadance previously wasn't going to be a Winged Unicorn. Lauren was surprised (not necessarily pleasantly) at this development.
 * According to Amy Keating Rogers, Derpy's scene in "The Last Roundup" was originally going to be a little longer complete with a flashback on how the Town Hall got ruined. She was also named Ditzy Doo (a character previously mentioned in "Winter Wrap Up" that Lauren Faust considered using Derpy's design for), but was referred to as "Derpy" as a Fandom Nod.
 * According to M.A. Larson, the Ponyville Schoolhouse's school paper was originally called The Horse's Mouth instead of Foal Free Press, and Featherweight was originally called Milquetoast and he was Namby-Pamby's little brother.
 * According to Lauren, she initially wanted Tara Strong to voice Pinkie Pie, and Tara wanted to voice her with a Bubbles-esque voice.
 * Lauren had planned for Twilight to acquire the power of self-levitation at some point.

Fandom
"Mr. Cake: That makes sense, right?"
 * Approval of God: Hasbro and/or The Hub have sent official material to popular fansites Equestria Daily and Ponychan, including exclusive interviews with the show's creative staff.
 * Ascended Fanon:
 * Derpy Hooves' name and personality, all extrapolated from an animation glitch in an early episode.
 * Ever since the Pegasus Derpy became the unofficial mother of the Unicorn Dinky, fans try to explain how that's possible; theories range from the father being a Unicorn to it being in their DNA. "Baby Cakes" revealed that the Cakes' new baby twin foals,, got those traits from their parents' other family members.

"Rarity: No! Green hair? Not green hair! Such an awful color!
 * All There in the Script names from the toy line include Cherry Berry, Lyra Heartstrings, and Sunny Rays. Of course, most of the ascended Fan Nicknames are generic enough that they could just be cases of I Knew It!, and the name "Cherry Berry" had previously been used as the British name of the G1 pony Crunch Berry.
 * Dye Hard: Golden Harvest (Carrot Top)'s hair was briefly green in "Boast Busters" as part of a gag and goes back to orange right afterwards.

Golden Harvest: ...Well...I never!"

"Luna: "EUREKA! I AM THE GODDESS OF MATH ONCE AGAIN! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!""
 * "Ponyville Confidential" shows that the mayor's hair is naturally.
 * Fan Community Nicknames: Fans who are older than the target demographic are known as "bronies."
 * Many female fans call themselves "pegasisters".
 * While other female fans dislike the term and prefer to just be "bronies", considering it gender-neutral.
 * Another term is "bronette", nowhere near as popular as "brony" or "pegasister".
 * Fan Nickname: By the truckload.
 * The main six ponies are referred to collectively as the Mane Six by fans, though it's not a term used in show.
 * And sometimes "The Mane Cast" if one's willing to include Spike.
 * Also, if any of the Mane Characters has a breakdown, shows off a different personality, or otherwise something is different about them than usual it tends to get its own nickname, such as "Pinkamena" for straight-haired depressed Pinkie, "Flutterage" for Fluttershy's rampage in "The Best Night Ever", "Flutterbitch" for Fluttershy's Discorded personality in "The Return of Harmony", and "Psycho Twilight" for Twilight's breakdown in "Lesson Zero". There are many, many more; too many to really list them all here.
 * Almost every background pony has a nickname, and it'd be way too much to list them all. See our Character page and Ensemble Darkpony page for a list of the more prominent ones or here for a more complete list. Be warned, there's a lot of them.
 * Many fans call the Mayor of Ponyville "Mayor Mare", sometimes with the first name "Cougar".
 * Rarity's costume and make-up for the Best Young Flyer Competition in "Sonic Rainboom" seems to have led to people calling her "Pony Gaga".
 * At least, up until "Green Isn't Your Color". The nickname seems to have officially transferred to Photo Finish since then (despite clear evidence that Photo Finish is actually based on "Vogue" fashion editor Anna Wintour).
 * Coincidentally, Lady Gaga is a fan of the show.
 * The big red dragon from "Dragonshy" seems to have attracted the nickname "Basil", after a dragon from the G1 series.
 * Thanks to some fans fooling around with YouTube's So Bad It's Good auto-caption function, a lot of fans have taken to calling the river serpent from episode 2 "Steven Magnet".
 * These captions have also inspired the nickname "Reginald" for the green dragon in "Owl's Well That Ends Well".
 * Pinkie's sisters are often called Blinkamena/Bellamina Marie ("Blinkie") and Inkamena/Isabelle Lilly ("Inkie"); likewise, her parents are often dubbed "Clyde" and "Sue". There's a theme here.
 * Prince Blueblood, Celestia's infamous nephew, was known for a while as "Prince Astron", since he wasn't referred to by name during his first appearance (during Rarity's fantasy sequence in "The Ticket Master"). When he turned out to be a pompous jerk in "The Best Night Ever", he quickly attracted a host of unflattering nicknames, including "Prince Glueblood" and "Prince Douchebag".
 * Lauren Faust and the staff have since regretted implying Blueblood was related to Celestia at all and have pretty much Retconned it. The original plan was to have him be a duke, but the idea was dropped because they were concerned that the target audience wouldn't understand what a duke is (turned out for the best since some bronies didn't know either).
 * A certain fan's comment on some fan-art of Princess Luna's adult self found on Ponibooru before the reveal has led to Adult!Luna being referred to as "Moonlight Dream".
 * Discord is sometimes referred to as DisQord to draw attention to his voice actor having played Q from Star Trek. Some fans have also taken to shortening his name to "Disco", because of a short clip of him doing "the running man" while hopping around in Celestia's stained glass windows.
 * The boulder that Discord tricks Rarity into lugging around was dubbed "Dan" by the fans as a result of Youtube captions. Then the next episode came out, revealing that Rarity had named it "Tom". The boulder is now sometimes known as "Tom Dan" by the fans.
 * "Tia" is a common pet name for Celestia used by her younger sister Luna among the fandom.
 * From "Lesson Zero", Rainbow Dash's aerial dive that utterly decimated Applejack's old barn and left a rainbow-colored mushroom cloud has been given many different nicknames like the Atomic Rainboom, the Sonic Rainbomb, or the Sonic Rainnuke. The latter seems to be the most popular.
 * The Nice Hat that Cheerilee gives Spike in "Secret of My Excess" has made the fans give Spike the nickname of Smooth Criminal, to go with all the Michael Jackson jokes.
 * Scootaloo has been given the name "Terry" thanks to a Stylistic Suck fancomic.
 * The Japanese fansubs on Nico Nico Douga have led to a few: 'Aniki' (Big Bro) for Big Macintosh and 'Air Waifu' for Rainbow Dash
 * The changeling that took up Pinkie's request to transform into her has become popular enough that ponibooru dubbed the changeling Doomie, based on the line that got it to transform in the first place ("Do me! Do me!").
 * I Knew It!:
 * We have a list of Wild Mass Guesses that turned out to be true.
 * Although that's only a fraction of the size of the list of Jossed guesses. So even a stopped clock is right at least twice a day.
 * The idea that the pink-haired blue pony who works in the spa (with the Fan Nickname Lotus) has a twin sister named Aloe originated in Fan Fiction. In "Green Isn't Your Color", we see her Palette Swapped twin for the first time. Turns out there are twin Europe-only G1 toys who look very much like them.
 * This image and this image predicted events that would happen in "The Return of Harmony Part 2".
 * A common fandom interpretation of Luna was that she'd be The Atoner trying to improve her image. That's pretty much the exact plot of the season 2 episode "Luna Eclipsed".
 * The Pony POV Series accurately guessed that Luna would have a scary sense of taste.
 * But the Large Ham and No Indoor Voice took everyone by surprise.
 * Everyone?


 * This was uploaded over two weeks before "Sisterhooves Social".
 * Some fans predicted Silver Spoon would show some hidden kindness because she has a heart in the handle of the spoon in her Cutie Mark. In "Family Appreciation Day", she's the first pony to start applauding Granny Smith's story about the foundation of Ponyville.
 * It was never implied that Spitfire was Captain of the Wonderbolts in her first couple of appearances, but most fans assumed she was after "The Best Night Ever", probably due to her being the more level-headed of the two named Wonderbolts. This was confirmed in "Hurricane Fluttershy".
 * Jossed:
 * For the better part of a year, Princess Luna was often portrayed in the fandom as a meek, soft-spoken Woobie. It was a surprise when Luna's reappearance in "Luna Eclipsed" portrayed her as a bellowing Large Ham with a taste for the macabre, but no less a woobie for it.
 * The toy line has revealed the names of several ponies not named in the show, though exactly how many names have been given is unclear (due to unclear distinction between You Don't Look Like You and Suspiciously Similar Substitute). In any case, very few official names had been used by fans beforehand (whether Ascended Fanon or I Knew It!); the few that had been Fan Nicknames include the first parts of Cherry Berry and Lyra Heartstrings as well as the second part of Sunny Rays.
 * A minor case with Vinyl Scratch, who returns in "A Canterlot Wedding, Part 2". Most fans believed her eyes were red behind the Cool Shades; they actually turned out to be magenta. Close, but no cigar.
 * Keep Circulating the Tapes: Inevitable due to the sad fact that the show's being screwed by Time Warner (who holds the rights to the show in almost all regions outside of the US, and proceeded to make the show as hard to access as possible to Joe Public) and by some terrestrial stations who have secured the per-country rights to the series (such as NTV7!), and Hasbro not doing anything to remedy the situation. Besides Edel Germany GmbH's two Region 0 volumes (containing the first six episodes in German) and Madman Entertainment's upcoming five Region 4 volumes (containing the first season), all of the DVDs are Out of Order themed sets of episodes (thanks to Executive Meddling and/or lack of retailer interest), and the two pre-Shout Factory volumes are not sold online. There's very slim chance (if any chance at all) of complete season releases in other regions, and it isn't guaranteed that the individual discs will include every episode. So far, 12 episodes have been released on DVD within the US: "Friendship is Magic, part 1" ; "Friendship is Magic, part 2" ; "The Ticket Master" ; "Applebuck Season" ; "Swarm of the Century" ; "Suited For Success" ; "Sonic Rainboom" ; "Over a Barrel" ; "The Cutie Mark Chronicles" ; "Lesson Zero" ; "Hearth's Warming Eve" ; and "The Last Roundup" . The upcoming DVD Royal Pony Wedding will add five more episodes to this pool: "The Best Night Ever", "Sweet and Elite", "Hearts and Hooves Day", "A Canterlot Wedding - Part 1", and "A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2".
 * Though the entire first season is now on Netflix.. in America at least.
 * And season 2 is on iTunes
 * Name's the Same:
 * There's a popular Doctor Who companion named Rose. Given the popularity of Doctor Whooves in this fandom, it's a little surprising that Rose, a minor recurring and named character in the show, doesn't show up more in crossover fanworks (most of them instead use Derpy as The Doctor's Companion).
 * Background pony Golden Harvest shares her All There in the Script name with a film company which has produced many Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan movies.
 * Celestia is also the name of a popular astronomy software.
 * Changelings have invaded Canterlot!...No, not the Zerg, a race of bug-like shapeshifting creatures that follow an evil Queen...wait, now that's just confusing!
 * Separated by a Common Language: For those outside Northern America it's really weird seeing Ponyville going nuts for cider in The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000. This is because in the US and Canada 'cider' primarily means a soft drink, while everywhere else cider is alcoholic by default.
 * The US and Canada certainly do have alcoholic cider (even if it's not the norm), and given the ponies' expressions after drinking it—and Berry Punch's reaction to NOT getting to drink it—this ambiguity was definitely intentional on Studio B's part.

Bloopers
As the show is animated primarily in a fairly old version of Adobe Flash, many Bloopers are as likely (if not more likely) to be the result of software error as they are to be the result of animator error. A scene may look perfectly normal within the program itself, but when exported to video, a layer may fail to render, or else be rendered in front of another layer that it should have been rendered behind.

General

 * Most animation goofs can be attributed to the fact that most characters have an asymmetrical design and the animators, rather than creating a different set for each side of said characters, merely flip it to the other side. This is also the explanation for the ponies wearing inverted number tags during "Sonic Rainboom", and why most of the ponies have reversible numbers like 8 and 11 in "Fall Weather Friends".
 * Characters on the show usually use "anypony" instead of "anybody," but the show slips up and uses "anybody" on occasion, even when addressing or referring to characters who aren't ponies.
 * Applejack's freckles are layered above her eyelashes.
 * It almost seems to be a Running Gag for saddlebags to appear and disappear at random, as this happens just about every time they're used. The single most extreme example is in "Dragonshy", where everypony's saddlebags appear and disappear at random throughout the entire episode.
 * Each character who has freckles (e.g. Applejack and Snails) has at least one scene where one or more of their freckles vanish, only to reappear seconds later.
 * Applejack in particular, as her season 1 running animation (which was used a lot) had them missing.
 * Due to the time and difficulty of creating multiple unique ponies, any time there's a crowd scene, background ponies will be doubled. Especially noticeable with ponies like Bon Bon that have unique mane colors.
 * In several crowd scenes, many--if not all--of the generic background ponies will be blank-flanked.
 * Though it's hard to notice, a certain aerial shot of Ponyville contains multiple Trixies--what's more, all of them are blank flanks, even though Trixie already has a cutie mark.
 * Quite a few animation errors happen to Cheerilee. The most common error for her is the top of her normally two-toned mane becoming solid-colored, but (as detailed below) she's also had a missing leg, had Fluttershy's tail, had her face disappear, had a different cutie mark, and had a different eye color.
 * Twist earned her Cutie Mark in "Call of the Cutie", but in "The Show Stoppers" and "The Return of Harmony Part 1" she's back to being a blank flank. In "The Cutie Pox" and "Family Appreciation Day", she goes back and forth between having her mark and not having one.

Season 1

 * This video provides an extensive overview of most of the errors throughout the first season.

Friendship is Magic, part 1 (Mare in the Moon)

 * When Twilight is introduced to the Apple family, Applejack shoves a green apple in Twilight's mouth. A few seconds later, she spits out the pieces of a red apple. The same scene also includes [[media:twilighteye_7147.png|this rather bizarre]] animation error with Twilight's eye.
 * Maybe her inherent magical field caused it to go ripe.
 * That, or her mouth bled.
 * Twilight's Cutie Mark is missing when she is shown after Fluttershy bumps her out of the way to talk to Spike.

Friendship is Magic, part 2 (Elements of Harmony)

 * There is a scene where Princess Celestia's tail is coming from her Cutie Mark rather than straight behind her.

The Ticket Master

 * Applejack talks about getting "these Golden Delicious in the barn by lunchtime" while she's transporting two baskets of bright red and green apples (and just possibly one yellow one on the other side that is barely visible for a moment). The number of green apples also decreases between shots.
 * When Twilight finds Fluttershy doing her 'spring cleaning', her wings start flapping out of sync.
 * During a group shot of Twilight's friends, one of Fluttershy's wings is blue.

Griffon the Brush Off

 * After Rainbow Dash collapses after Pinkie Pie finds her at the lake, the view switches and Dash's wings disappear.
 * The circle of ink is initially around Rainbow Dash's left eye. When she looks at her reflection in the lake, the ink circle is suddenly on her right eye.

Dragonshy

 * When Rainbow Dash runs and jumps off the ledge, her Cutie Mark is different--specifically, it's an old, unused design.
 * When all the others pile up behind Fluttershy to push her towards the cave, Rainbow Dash is second in line right after Twilight Sparkle. When they look up from behind her in the next shot, she is farthest away instead.
 * Towards the beginning avalanche zone segment, Fluttershy is startled by a falling leaf landing on her flank. As she screams "AVALA--!!", she is temporarily drawn with Twilight Sparkle's almond-shaped eyes instead of her usual Tareme.

Look Before You Sleep

 * When Applejack knocks Rarity off the bed, Rarity has an extra leg for one frame.
 * In the following scene, the bedsheet is missing its stripe at its top.

Bridle Gossip

 * A tray of cupcakes spontaneously appears on the table Pinkie Pie is standing on at the end of her song about Zecora.
 * When Twilight says "Catchy", Pinkie Pie is standing on the table, but when she responds "It's a work in progress", she is standing on the floor without having moved.
 * ...but then again, Pinkie has rather the history for appearing in places she shouldn't. Watch 'Green Isn't Your Color' if you don't believe me.
 * After Appletini puts a makeshift bridle on Rainbow Dash and attempts to ride her off, the leaf on the bridle disappears momentarily as Rainbow protests.
 * Right after Twilight and friends get into Zecora's place, Zecora's golden bracelets change from one arm to the other.
 * Twilight is seen using her magic to brush her hair... and then it is revealed her horn was limp. Perhaps the Poison Joke doesn't actually have any effect on the horn's powers, only its appearance.
 * Or levitation of very small objects was the only magical ability Twilight retained.

Swarm of the Century

 * When Spike complains that the parasprites are messing up his cleaning, the window next to him shows a night sky instead of day like all the other windows.
 * Rainbow Dash's goggles appear and disappear at random when Twilight's group is back at Ponyville.
 * Pinkie Pie's accordion moves from her right flank to the left and then returns to her right flank.
 * Princess Celestia's wings switch from unfurled to furled between shots.
 * Pinkie Pie holds the trombone completely incorrectly at the end (moving the slide with the wrong hoof and supporting the instrument from the wrong side), as well as the fact that the physics when Pinkie Pie both mimes and plays the trombone are reversed. When she sings the "Daaaauuuuuuuuu-uh!" glissando, her arm should move out then in, instead of in then out. When she plays it at the end, the pitch is rising at the beginning of each "wah!" as she moves the slide out, which is the opposite of how a trombone works. Still hilarious, though.

Winter Wrap Up

 * During the opening scene when Twilight goes outside only to find that she's a little bit too early for the titular wrap-up, the entire exterior shot is devoid of snow.
 * Joke goes that she's just THAT early.
 * Both Rainbow Dash's and Applejack's team armlets spontaneously swap from one foreleg to the other, or disappear entirely.
 * In the song, Cheerilee is missing a leg when she pulls a cart.

Call of the Cutie

 * During the classroom scene at the beginning, Cheerilee has Fluttershy's tail for two shots and the Sweetie Belle Palette Swap at the desk to Twist's left is replaced by Sweetie Belle herself for two other shots.
 * During the scene where Rainbow Dash is coaching Apple Bloom on getting her Cutie Mark, Rainbow Dash says "I said, are you ready?" as the camera zooms in on her face. When the camera cuts back to Apple Bloom, her ear is missing.
 * In the shot where Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle reveal that they don't have their Cutie Marks, the porch outside the door overlaps the floor inside the door.

Fall Weather Friends

 * Applejack and Rainbow Dash play horseshoes at the beginning of the episode. Rainbow has the closest horseshoe to the stake before Apple's final throw, but when the shot changes to first person, Apple's first horseshoe is closer.
 * Rainbow Dash is drawn without her wings when the race is about to begin.
 * During the race, after Rainbow Dash trips, the thundering herd of ponies that goes past includes another Rainbow Dash.
 * The Rainbow Dash clone is also visible mixed in with the pack when Applejack trips. Both times she's wingless and ropeless.

Suited For Success

 * When Rarity brings her friends in to see their (first) new dresses, she leads them to stand directly in front of her bed. A couple of shots later they're standing in front of the door, with the bed behind them on their left.
 * Rainbow Dash's Cutie Mark is absent when Rarity discovers her in the tree with Opalescence.
 * This is not necessarily an error; what we saw very well may have been the INSIDE of her flank, in which case no Cutie Mark would be visible.
 * When Twilight models her dress in the second fashion show, she isn't wearing earrings, but is seen wearing them in later shots.

Feeling Pinkie Keen

 * When Twilight first starts spying on Pinkie Pie, Twilight's Cutie Mark is missing up until she pounces on Spike.
 * Twilight and Spike disappear for a split-second during Pinkie's second "twitchy tail" incident.

Sonic Rainboom

 * When all the ponies are in the library, Fluttershy switches from standing on the floor next to Rainbow Dash to standing on the stairs (but still next to her) and back again.
 * Right before Rainbow suggests that she and Fluttershy could show the others around Cloudsdale, a brief shot past her from behind shows her wings folded, whereas for the rest of the scene and immediately before and afterwards they're spread.
 * The ponies are asked to wear white coats and white hard hats during their visit to the weather factory, but Twilight's hard hat disappears between scenes and Applejack's hard hat is replaced by her cowboy hat for no apparent reason.

Stare Master

 * Scootaloo's wings appear and disappear during the entire scene where the CMC is trying to catch Fluttershy's chickens.
 * In the next scene, when the girls promise not to do any more crusading for the night, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle are animated speaking each other's lines.
 * When Fluttershy warns Cutie Mark Crusaders of the cockatrice, you can see her Cutie Mark on the inside of her rump, possibly due to poor copy-pasting of hindquarters in Flash.
 * When Fluttershy stares down the cockatrice, seen from the side, her wings are tucked, clearly frozen in stone. Seen from the front, they're open and giving her much more presence.
 * We could be seeing from the cockatrice's perspective. He might see the wings out when they really aren't because Fluttershy's Stare is just that intimidating.

The Show Stoppers

 * During the montage where the Cutie Mark Crusaders are trying to get Cutie Marks for rock-climbing, all three fillies have orange eyes. Apple Bloom's eyes are supposed to be that color, but Scootaloo's are normally purple while Sweetie Belle's are normally green.
 * Twilight and Cheerilee walk into the library. After Scootaloo pops up out of the pile of books, Cheerilee is suddenly wearing a pair of saddlebags.
 * Shortly afterward, when the Crusaders walk out of the pile, Scootaloo is missing her wings (again).
 * The above two notes are Lampshaded in this comic. It's hilarious!
 * The audience at the talent competition consists, ironically enough, entirely of adult ponies with no Cutie Marks (plus Applejack).
 * When the Cutie Mark Crusaders are walking away from the stage, the objects in front of the back wall and parts of the back wall itself move as the camera pans across.

A Dog and Pony Show

 * During one of Spike Big No moments Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash are missing. Even more bizarre is this error only appears in the iTunes version. According to Jayson Thiessen, this is because somehow an older version of the episode was sent to iTunes.

Green Isn't Your Color

 * When Spike is telling his secret to Twilight and Pinkie Pie, Pinkie Pie's head suddenly and blatantly vanishes.

Over a Barrel

 * When we see some Appleloosans dancing their Wild West dances, the town hall can be seen damaged with a huge hole in the place of clock tower, even though the tower didn't collapse until later in the episode.

A Bird in the Hoof

 * Applejack can be seen wearing her cowboy hat for one brief shot during the dinner for Princess Celestia. In all other scenes from the dinner, Applejack is hatless.
 * Fluttershy's wings disappear as she runs to catch Philemena.

The Cutie Mark Chronicles

 * In Pinkie Pie's flashback, her Cutie Mark can be seen on her flank in the scene before she actually gets it.
 * Shots of the moon in the episode do not have Nightmare Moon's silhouette, even though the flashbacks take place at a point in time when she should still be imprisoned.

Party of One

 * When Pinkie Pie is interrogating Spike, right at the beginning, the shadow of Spike on the wall is not moving but static in a crouching position.
 * In the conga line in the end, each pony's tail should logically be between the hooves of the one coming behind her, but instead the hooves both cover the tail.
 * Watch the party hats in that whole scene. At first they all have patterns that correspond to their Cutie Marks. Over time though, some become generic, some have another pony's hat, and some disappear entirely.

The Best Night Ever

 * When Rarity's charming a couple of her neighbors, pay close attention to [[media:wtf_ponyface_1682.jpg|Noteworthy]].
 * When Applejack sets up her stand and makes a sale, her shoes are mysteriously absent in a few frames.
 * Later in that episode, Rarity's golden tiara disappears and reappears during one of her temper tantrums.
 * Similarly to the example above with Pinkie's trombone, the harp player during the "Pony Pokey" segment is supporting his harp from the wrong side.

The Return of Harmony Part 1

 * In the opening shot, Cheerilee's face disappears for a few frames after the camera finishes zooming out.
 * The episode's title is displayed with two spaces between the words "Harmony" and "Part" instead of one.
 * The Stained Glass Window depicting the ponies and the Elements of Harmony changes many times before and during the time Discord is showing off his knowledge of the mane cast. In the scenes before he shows up, the window is normal. When he appears, Twilight disappears from the top, then in the next scene he's in the previously not present area Twilight is in, disappears again when Rainbow Dash charges the window, and finally reappears when he says that Twilight's got the most elusive element of all and when he dances on her head. One might chalk this up to his powers, though. In the same scene, Discord is depicted as a stone statue in one window, which has disappeared in its next appearance (shortly before Discord appears in the window personally) even though Discord came to life from a different window.
 * The long carpet in the tower corridor does not remain at all consistent (the trim, the pattern on the trim, and the center weave each disappear at random in every shot shot).
 * When the ponies discover the Elements of Harmony are missing, Pinkie Pie declares she's going to be outside in the chocolate milk rain and runs out of frame—but after the commercial break is in exactly the same position she had been before running out of frame, in the middle of the ponies, as if nothing had happened. (There is no indication that any time actually passed at all between those shots.) Then again, trying to make any sense of Pinkie Pie is doomed to failure.
 * At one point Discord seems to be missing his wings. Given their small size and the fact he's a Reality Warper, it could be explained he just made them disappear for whatever reason.
 * When the mane six split up in the labyrinth, Rarity (who's supposed to be hornless at this point) has her horn when Fluttershy screams.
 * The vision shown to Applejack involves everypony still hornless and wingless, except Twilight -- but the close-up of her face shows her hornless too. Granted, it's a fake vision, but it's still probably not meant to be inconsistent like that.
 * Around the first time Applejack lies, her visible eye is the shape of Twilight's or Rarity's instead of the normal oval for one shot. While eyes in this show can be pretty expressive, there's no apparent reason for this, and it's unprecedented for her.

The Return of Harmony Part 2

 * Right after defeating Discord Rainbow Dash briefly has Fluttershy's cutie mark.
 * As the ponies enter Twilight's library, when Fluttershy stomps on the plants outside the door, they disappear for one frame.
 * Rarity's eyelashes disappear for a split-second slightly after Applejack's Han Solo wink in the finale.

Lesson Zero

 * When Twilight starts to imagine what it will be like to be sent back to "Magic Kindergarten", a Pegasus filly that's appeared before is shown with a horn added on. Word of God has stated that she was supposed to be a normal unicorn like the other fillies in that scene.
 * Twilight opens a box containing thirteen cupcakes, all with pink icing. Worried that one has more icing than the others, she begins "fixing" them up, resulting in barely a dollop of icing on each cupcake. When she's putting the lid back on the box, not only do the cupcakes have the same amount of icing as they did when she opened the box, but they're all different colours.
 * Near the end, when Spike is watching Twilight and Celestia in the library, Twilight's mane and tail are as straight and groomed as they normally are. In the next shot of Twilight, her hair is back to being messy and unkempt.
 * When Twilight first shows up at the picnic, Rainbow Dash's wings are up. In the next shot, they're folded down. In the shot after that, they're up again.
 * When Pinkie Pie tells Twilight she's "such a crack-up," Pinkie is in front of Twilight, off of the blanket. In the next shot, she's with the rest of the Mane Cast, behind Twilight, and on the blanket (Though this is Pinkie Pie we're talking about).
 * After the background ponies stampede through the picnic, Rainbow Dash and the folded up blanket both disappear. Also, Pinkie Pie moves back quite a ways.

Luna Eclipsed

 * At the beginning of the Mayor's speech (specifically, when she says "Thank you, everypony"), the audience consists of the same group of ponies twice.
 * When Luna says "Huzzah! How many points do I receive?," she has part of her hair from her season 1 design.
 * This happens several times throughout the episode, apparently due to her mane design being changed very late in production.

Sisterhooves Social

 * One of the more common bloopers is inverted: when Applejack is covered in purple goop from Applebloom, her freckles are not missing when they're supposed to be.

The Cutie Pox

 * In "The Cutie Pox", Applejack's hat briefly disappears while Pinkie Pie is confessing to how many corn cakes she ate.

May the Best Pet Win!

 * When Rainbow Dash skids to a halt before saying "Guts!", a duck which is supposed to be in the background is layered improperly, so it appears to be floating in front of her face.
 * Right after Rainbow Dash says that she might want a pet, Fluttershy's mouth disappears for a couple of frames.
 * Fluttershy's wings briefly flap completely out of sync during the song.

Sweet and Elite

 * The number of Wonderbolts in the derby changes between shots.
 * Not only that, but the referee standing on the side of the track is an Earth Pony.
 * Though this might not actually be a blooper, but an instance of continuity. Remember the Cloud-Walking spell from Sonic Rainboom?

Secret of My Excess

 * As June Bug walks away from Spike, a glitchy third basket repeatedly appears and disappears.

Family Appreciation Day

 * Cheerilee has Fluttershy's tail (again) and a trio-of-umbrellas Cutie Mark (the same as that of background Pegasus Parasol/Showers, who Cheerilee shares the upper half of her mane style with) for two separate shots just before she talks to puppet Granny Smith.

Baby Cakes

 * Just as Mr. and Mrs. Cake are leaving Sugarcube Corner to deal with their catering gig, Pumpkin and Pound Cake are shown playing on the ground in the buff, despite their diapers having been changed not long before. The next shot with the twins in it has their diapers reappear.

Hearth's Warming Eve

 * The characters in the play raise a banner for Equestria, then the play ends, the actors take a bow, and the ponies sing. However, after the song begins the banner disappears for no apparent reason (it simply vanishes between shots of the stage, and doesn't reappear).
 * Fluttershy's walking animation skips slightly when she and the other ponies arrive in Canterlot.

The Last Roundup

 * There is a chase sequence between a stagecoach and a ponycart. Applejack, in the coach, looks over the back and down at Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash, who are harnessed to the cart and staring back at her. During the bit shown from the former's point of view, the later two don't have wings (which should be visible, even if under the harnesses).
 * Less animation error, more vocal. Apparently someone forgot to tell Derpy's VA that Derpy was a girl. (It still works anyway.)
 * When Pinkie Pie is just beginning to freak out over Applejack breaking her promise, Fluttershy's tail is missing.
 * In the scene where Pinkie Pie is talking Applejack to the brink of insanity, Applejack is missing her cutie mark when she yells, "Noooooo! Make it stop!"

The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000

 * Just after Applejack tells Princess Celestia she "didn't learn anything," her eye is a lot larger than normal.
 * During the montage at the beginning where everypony is drinking cider, Cheerilee's eyes are the wrong color. Interestingly, they're the same color as those of a background unicorn who otherwise shares Cheerilee's color scheme (and whose eye color wasn't revealed until this episode).

Read It and Weep

 * After Daring Do escapes the death traps only to set off a few more, her mouth moves to form words, but all we hear is an annoyed grunt.
 * Inversely, while Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie are visiting Rainbow, Applejack says "go ahead and eat up," but the mouth-flap animation is far too short to match the line.
 * Spike's spines are missing from the back of his head in one scene in Twilight's library.

Hearts and Hooves Day

 * During the close-up shot of Mr. Waddle, his frizzed-up hair is back to normal for the one frame in which he faces the camera.
 * In the book that contains the recipe for the love potion: the first time it's shown to the audience (by Twilight Sparkle) the princess in the illustration appears to be an earth pony, but the other two times it's shown to the audience (by Sweetie Belle) the princess in the same illustration is now of an alicorn.
 * The hour that the Crusaders have to keeps switching between 4:00 to 5:00 and 5:00 to 6:00.

A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2

 * During the sequence when the Mane 6 are running to the vault where the Elements of Harmony are kept, Applejack's hat disappears and reappears at least twice.

Others

 * From The Hub's promos:
 * The outro clip used during any Hub Family Movie uses only the upper half of Pinkie Pie, as seen at the ends of these three commercials.
 * In this commercial, the decorations on Dan's car are different in every shot.
 * The original version of this commercial misspells Discord's name as Dischord.
 * The original version of There's a Pony For That misspells Pinkie's name as Pinky.
 * The picture of the mane six that appears at the end of the opening is frequently reused on official materials, sometimes with the ponies repositioned in order to add Spike and Princess Celestia, but often with one of Rarity's eyes glitched. And that isn't the only problem--the image was designed with the original positions in mind, so the non-visible parts of the ponies weren't drawn (as seen in one background on The Hub's website). This is usually worked around by keeping the missing parts covered, with the other ponies or (less effectively) with the show's logo. But on at least one occasion, Twilight Sparkle's lack of front legs or a tail was left uncovered, creating Twiworm.
 * The intro of Applejack's game from Adventures in Ponyville has two:
 * Some of the leaves in the background are floating in midair instead of being attached to the vines in the background.
 * Snips' Cutie Mark is missing.
 * Hasbro's story galleries don't always use stills from the final versions of the episodes, as some elements of the stills are bright green instead of what they should look like. So far, this has happened with Twilight's book in episode 1's story gallery and with an Ursa in episode 6's story gallery.
 * Hasbro's printout of Pinkie Pie's mask from "Griffon the Brush Off" spells her name as "Pinky Pie."
 * The original version of Hasbro's Princess Luna coloring page is captioned "Night Mare Moon" instead of "Princess Luna."
 * In advertisements for the toys, Hasbro has gotten Apple Bloom and Scootaloo confused on two different occasions, though in both cases the toy sets themselves label the fillies correctly.
 * Early versions of the Fun at the Fair with Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle playset came with Scootaloo in the package instead of Apple Bloom, though this was soon fixed.
 * On the My Little Pony Facebook page, some images of the cast in their Nightmare Night costumes was posted as a teaser for the upcoming episode. This is all well and good, except that the caption identified Rainbow Dash's costume as a Wonderbolt, when she's rather clearly dressed as a Shadowbolt.