Friendship Is Witchcraft: Difference between revisions

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: From "Lunar Slander":

{{quote|'''Twilight Sparkle''': When Fluttershy isn't helping animals learn to read, she's tempting the devil with her dulcet tones! And she's yellow!}}

** {{spoiler|And at long last, Pinkie's parents... as babies.}}

* [[Bad Bad Acting]]: Applejack and Rarity playing "Applesack" and "Charity" in Twilight's fanfiction.

* [[Characterization Marches On]]: In the first episode, Princess Celestia seems to actually '''like''' Twilight Sparkle -- albeit in more of a "celebrity and [[Big Name Fan]]" way than their close relationship in the actual show -- and actually asks her for a friendship report. Later episodes show Princess Celestia to consider Twilight obnoxious at best and creepy at worst, and establishes the letters as something Twilight took it upon herself to send and Celestia wishes would just stop.

** This may have something to do with the massive shipfic about two of her friends that Twilight sent.

** In the same episode as Pinkie's Brew, Cheerilee gives a seemingly irrelevant and paranoid lesson about robots that seems to have no bearing on anything. Then, at the end of the episode, [[Robot Girl|Sweetie Belle]] is introduced.

* [[Cloudcuckooland]]: You'd be hard pressed to pick which character in Ponyville is the ''farthest'' off the deep end.

* [[Disney Owns This Trope]] / [[Clumsy Copyright Censorship]]: Parodied in "Lunar Slander", right from the beginning:

{{quote|Dear viewers,

The word "apple" and the image of an apple are legal copyrights of the Dole corporation. This episode has been modified from its original version to keep within good legal standing. We thought that DOLE would be a BRO about this, but clearly there is no BRO in DOLE. We hope you enjoy the episode regardless. }}

** Through the rest of the episode, any apple-related imagery is blurred out, and any mentions of apples is [[Sarcasm Mode|subtly changed]] to [[Sound Effect Bleep|other fruits]]. This includes {{smallcaps|Cherry}}jack's name.

** Earlier their dragon destruction team was called team D.E.S.U. although the u in desu is silent when pronounced.

* [[Great Offscreen War]]: "Read It and Sleep" and "Neigh, Soul Sister" contain numerous references to "the war" and what happened in it. Despite this, all we know is that Applejack considers Rarity a deserter, and [[I Did What I Had to Do|has done things she wouldn't otherwise do]], including at least one war crime. Meanwhile, Rarity [[Shell-Shocked Veteran|was traumatized by her time in the trenches]].

''"[[What the Hell, Hero?|I'm sure that's what you said while you were driving that stampede into a school house!]]"'' }}

* [[Hair-Trigger Avalanche|Hair Trigger]] [[ABBA|ABBAlanche]]: Invoked by Fluttershy. For that moment, the falling rocks (and mountainside) {{spoiler|play a music video of the song ''SOS''}}.

* [[Human Mom, Nonhuman Dad|Pony Mom, Non-Pony Dad]]: {{spoiler|Fluttershy}}, whose normal appearance is justified.

{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Fluttershy:''' Dragon-ness is recessive.}}}}

* [[Religion of Evil]]: Rarity is in a cult led by [[Devil in Plain Sight|Fluttershy]]. They worship "Lord Smooze", a monster from the G1 movie. Oh, and they attempted to summon him during a solar eclipse with the intention of ending the world.

* [[Ridiculously-Human Robots|Ridiculously Equine Robots]]: Cheerilee starts episode 4 by giving a lecture about the dangers of robots, who are indistinguishable from, and believe they are, actual ponies. Then Sweetie Belle appears and starts talking in [[Robo Speak]] and nopony bats an eye.

* [[Rhymes on a Dime]]: Subverted with Zecora, who is introduced as "the whimsical rhyming zebra" and proceeds to screw up her first chance:

...Hey, kids, who wants to follow me to the creepy statue? }}

** She later botches what should be an easy rhyme while trying to console the children over the cancellation of Molest Fest as well:

** Among the cutie marks Twilight gives Apple Bloom are [[Beanie Babies|the Ty Inc. logo]], [[Code Lyoko|the eye of XANA]], and [[Past Sins|Nyx]].

** The use of "plot" in [[Unusual Euphemism|the sense]] [[Memetic Mutation|fans of the show have come to use it]].

** Spike singing "Reflection" from ''[[Mulan]]''.

** "[[The Killers|I've got soul, but I am not a soldier.]]"