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== [[My Little Pony and Friends]] ==
* Alright, take Nightshade. He's a [[Michael Jackson]] [[Expy]]. He's white and he shouts, "It wasn't my fault" when getting into trouble for doing bad things to children.
* ''Moondreamers'' featured a big cat named ''Ursa Major'', something that would eventually find its way back into [[My Little Pony]]-related media 23 years later in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]].
== [[My Little Pony G 3]] ==
* After ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' brought [[Tomboy|completely]] [[Badass|redesigned]] Rainbow Dash, the line in the Core 7 opening which says "Rainbow Dash always dresses in style" sounds pretty ironic, and of course it went through [[Memetic Mutation]], as seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwyIR598a_s here].
* Another one involving Rainbow Dash. She didn't believe in "flying ponies" (pegasi) in ''Friends Are Never Far Away'', but come the next generation and she's a Pegasus.
* In G3.5's ''Twinkle Wish Adventure'', a [[Blooper]] [http://www.ponibooru.org/post/view/55933 gives Cheerilee googly eyes] for about a second. This was almost an entire year before [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|Derpy Hooves]].
== [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]] ==
* The best example has to this. Back in 2008 [[Lauren Faust]] posted a [http://fyre-flye.deviantart.com/journal/poll/384328/ poll] on her [[Deviant ART]] page asking if any of her followers were ''[[My Little Pony]]'' fans. At the time it wasn't announced that she was involved in a reboot and one of her comments says she has a "very specific reason" on why she's asking her fans about Ponies. One fan, a [[Real Men Wear Pink|male]] at that, says [[Older Than They Think|he likes cute ponies]] and isn't afraid to admit to it. Lauren had this to say.
{{quote| '''Lauren Faust:''' My favorite kind of guy!!!!! [[Foreshadowing|Wish there were more guys like you]]...}}
* [[Twilight (Literature)|Twilight]] [[Our Vampires Are Different|Sparkle]] was named before... well.
* One of the common complaints about Twilight Sparkle's toy was that it had replaced Spike with an owl. Come the plot of "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E24 Owls Well That Ends Well|Owl's Well That Ends Well]]", however....
* When Photo Finish made her début, nearly everyone compared her appearance to [[Lady Gaga]]. Her demeanor, however, is an homage to Anna Wintour, editor for Vogue Magazine. What makes this hilarious in hindsight? This statement from Lady Gaga, which has a minor [[Take That]] to Wintour:
{{quote| I’ll never forget when Anna Wintour called me to play at this event, she called me and said, "I would like you to play at the Met gala, but I just want to make sure, because I’ve seen you perform before, that you won’t be swearing during the performance." So Anna, [[Crowning Moment of Funny|I will do my f#@&ing best!]]}}
* Pinkie Pie's comment in the pilot about quiet parties being boring seems like a throw-away comment; fast-forward to the Grand Galloping Gala, and Pinkie's first excitement of the event is quickly dashed when she finds its exactly the kind of quiet, stuffy party she lambasted.
* Also from the pilot, Twilight Sparkle's [[Fire
* "[[Memetic Mutation|Rainbow Dash always dresses in style]]!" While this is true for the [[The Fashionista|G3 Rainbow Dash]], this is [[Out of Character|completely contrary]] to the [[Tomboy|tomboyish]] one of this show. This is because the ''Friendship is Magic'' Rainbow Dash is simply [[My Little Pony TV Specials (Animation)|Firefly]], an equally energetic pegasus who loved to fly, with Rainbow Dash's colors.
** But then there's that preppy outfit she wore in [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E7 May the Best Pet Win|May The Best Pet Win...]] And the gala dress Rarity made for her.
** The garish outfit Fashion Style Rainbow Dash ships with. Dresses in Style indeed.
* In "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E16 Sonic Rainboom|Sonic Rainboom]]", one of the pegasus bullies tells Rainbow Dash that she should get herself some wings like Rarity's. [http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/08/glimmer-wings-rainbow-dash.html Almost six months later], the first image of the ''[http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_US/shop/details.cfm?guid=C2D7D92A-5056-900B-1014-E122BBE206E2 Glimmer Wings Rainbow Dash]'' toy was leaked.
* Before the show, a "pink pony" was (and still is, admittedly) associated with trippy hallucinations, a crazy person, or a [[Non Sequitur Thud]] from someone who is just knocked out. Then in prances Pinkie Pie...
* In "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E23 The Cutie Mark Chronicles|The Cutie Mark Chronicles]]", Rarity finds a big rock and is underwhelmed by it. [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E1 The Return of Harmony Part 1|In the next season...]]{{spoiler|Although this is due to Discord's mind-raping and hypnosis taking ahold of her.}}
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXoYK4b_q24 This] [[Real Trailer Fake Movie]], which was actually inspired by the ''[[Transformers]]'' and ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' movies, and predates FiM by ''about a year''.
* In August 2011, a fanfic called [http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/08/story-writers-block_17.html Writer's Block] was released that revolved around Twilight Sparkle having trouble coming up with a friendship lesson to send to Princess Celestia. Then came the season 2 episode "[[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E3 Lesson Zero|Lesson Zero]]"...
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== [[Film]] ==
* The first ''[[Transformers (Film)|Transformers]]'' film features a small cameo from Pinkie Pie (a little girl is holding a G3 Pinkie Pie plushie) as a nod to Hasbro owning both franchises. Suddenly [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKjBViIt-y8 this commercial] makes a bit more sense.
* Disney's ''[[Tangled (Disney)|Tangled]]'' came out little more than a month after the première of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''. Now try to think of the sun-themed kingdom, the heroine's snarky reptilian sidekick, the fact that the royal army's got a horse as the one competent member, and most of all the fact that one of the Snuggly Duckling thugs collects ceramic unicorns (which happen to be same in color scheme to Twilight Sparkle) and ''not'' chuckle.
** The coat-of-arms for the sun kingdom is, by coincidence, ''identical'' to Celestia's Cutie Mark.
* Remember the [[Memetic Mutation|infamous]] ''[[Something Else Also Rises|Wingboner]]'' from ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''? It looks like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnYnumI0cCw it happened a lot earlier].
== [[Literature]] ==
* From ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Guards Guards|Guards Guards]]'' by [[Terry Pratchett]]: "They felt, in fact, thoroughly bucked up, which was likely how Lady Sybil would have put it and ''definitely'' several letters of the alphabet shy of how they normally felt." Cue "buck" being used as a common [[Unusual Euphemism]] by [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|FIM's]] [[Periphary Demographic]].
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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** Turns out "Ponyville Confidential" shares its premise with part of Fourze #25-26 (the gossip column).
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4f9m4OYkCY Friendship is Magic Bitch], a fanmade animation where Princess Celestia frequently utters the phrase, "You ain't findin' no bananas... ON THE MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNAAAAHHHH!!!!!!" becomes much funnier when you watch [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvVNf1BC4fo this All That sketch from 1997] (skip to about 2:06 in, the line itself is about 4:00 in).
* "Apple's rubbish, I hate apples." says [[Doctor Who (TV)|the Doctor]] to a little girl in "[[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S31 E01 The Eleventh Hour|The Eleventh Hour]]", which aired in April of 2010. Fast forward to "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E12 Call of the Cutie|Call of the Cutie]]" where a certain background pony gets terrified of a little girl trying to sell him some apples...
== Magazines ==
* During the early days of [[Nintendo Power]], the Player's Pulse section once featured a topic of the issue being the most infuriating gaming moments for players. One such player ranted about something involving his sister, and ended his post with "God must be a girl!"<ref> Ironically, this was a time when Nintendo of America didn't allow religious references in any games it licensed, and since NP was an American magazine...</ref> [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|Three decades later...]]
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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== [[Web Animation]] ==
* In the ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' cartoon "Commandos in The Classroom'', the Cheat Commandos are settling to watch "Pony Fights 2" at the beginning of the cartoon. Who would have thought manly grown men watching ponies [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|would eventually become a reality?]]
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In the comment section of the final part of the webcomic [[Ensign Sue Must Die]]! a user sarcasticly comments: "My Little Pony, eh? Now THAT'S a fan demographic waiting to happen..." in response to {{spoiler|one of Mary Sue's reincarnations being a pony.}} The comment is made 1 month before the premiere of [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|a certain animated show.]]
* "For Pony!" was used as a battlecry by Richard of ''[[Looking for Group (Webcomic)|Looking for Group]]'' fame...[http://lfgcomic.com/page/42 years and years before Friendship is Magic was even conceived.]
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* In [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]]'s review of ''[[A Troll in Central Park]]'', the NC lists several [[Tastes Like Diabetes|cutesy]] and girly franchises that he says are butch compared to the movie. One of these franchises is ''[[My Little Pony]]'' which was in G3 when this episode was released. Then ''Friendship is Magic'' was released, with gained a large male [[Periphery Demographic]].
** Another ''My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'' example: In his review of ''[[IT]]'', Critic commented on the abundance of balloons and asked [[Tempting Fate|when one would look intimidating]]. Well, Critic, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6l0VvDWJF4 Discord did just that...].
* During [[The Nostalgia Chick (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Chick]]'s ''[[My Little Pony]]'' review, Nella tells us the tales of her own ponies, including that of the kindly schoolteacher with a heart of gold that all the children loved even though she was sometimes a whore. Flash forward to the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "Call of the Cutie", the schoolteacher introduced in that episode, and the photo of [[I Was Quite a Fashion Victim|the way she dressed back in the day.]]
* While this is more [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] in a [[Black Comedy]] sort of way, it's hard not to at least chuckle when watching [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AOuFn83-n4&feature=related this video] (original video is going to be deleteted sometime in the near future) if one read the infamous ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' [[Dark Fic]] [[Cupcakes]] beforehand.
* In the [[Abridged Series]] ''[[Friendship Is Witchcraft]]'', Pinkie Pie is represented as secretly being a gypsy witch. In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "It's About Time", Pinkie Pie dresses up as a gypsy when trying to see Twilight Sparkle's future. Also, Twilight has a brother, Rainbow Dash has to dash, and robots do exist in some capacity.
* [[http://pippin1178.deviantart.com/art/Edward-C-vs-My-Little-Pony-140070967?q=gallery<!-- 3Apippin11782F9990595&qo=11 This]] anti-''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' picture from 2009, which predates the Twilight Sparkle character itself. -->
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The mere existence of "bronies" makes [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmIfGqPS41o this scene] from the pilot for [[
** Even funnier is that [[Lauren Faust]] worked on that show as well
*** Even more hilarious when you find out who voiced [[Tara Strong|Terrence.]]
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* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy (Animation)|The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]'' episode "The Schlubs" opens with Grim watching Billy's ''My Troubled Pony'' DVDs and actually enjoying it. That episode first aired five years before ''Friendship is Magic''
* On October 9, 2010, a season 2 episode of [[The Penguins of Madagascar]] had [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwOC4ViZEU0 this scene] that was intended as a joke about Private being...odd. ONE DAY LATER...
* In a 2000 episode of [[The Simpsons]], Milhouse is revealed to have an old [[My Little Pony]] blanket. To make things funnier, a contributor to the Simpsons Archive episode capsule commented that the toys "were babyish for Milhouse" and "marketed to little girls to boot." [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|Ten years later...]]
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