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[[File:Boast-Busters-Trixie_4177.jpg|frame|"Behold the Great and Powerful [[The Wizard of Oz|Oz]]... er... Trixie!"]]
 
 
{{quote| '''Rarity:''' Just because one has the ability to perform lots of magic does not make one better than the rest of us.<br />
'''Rainbow Dash:''' Especially when you got ''me'' around being better than the rest of us! }}
 
{{quote| Written by Chris Savino}}
 
After a bout of magic practice, Twilight is busy modestly shrugging off praise from Spike, who is impressed by the variety of magical spells she can accomplish. Suddenly, they learn from [[Those Two Guys|two excitable boy unicorns]], Snips and Snails, that "The Great and Powerful" Trixie is in Ponyville to perform her magic show. Twilight and her friends go see the show, but some of the others quickly grow tired of Trixie's boasting that she's the greatest magician in all Equestria and her tall tales about her defeat of a bear-like monster called the Ursa Major, and Rainbow Dash starts heckling her.
 
{{quote| '''Trixie:''' Well, well, well, it seems we have some ''neeeigh''-sayers in the audience!}}
 
Trixie retaliates by challenging Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity to test her claim that "anything you can do, I can do better!", then proceeds to turn their challenges against them and humiliate them one by one. Despite urging from Spike, Twilight Sparkle refuses to do anything because she's afraid of being mistaken for a show-off herself.
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Snips and Snails are impressed by the act, but Spike tries to convince them not to take Trixie's stories at face value:
 
{{quote| '''Spike''': Look, unless an Ursa Major comes walking up the street for Trixie to "vanquish", I am ''not'' going to believe a word she says, and neither should you!<br />
'''Snips:''' Hmmm... [[Comically Missing the Point|an Ursa walkin' up the street, eh?]] Snails, you thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?<br />
'''Snails:''' [[Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?|Why is it they call it a flea market when they don't really sell fleas?]] }}
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=== Tropes ([[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E6/E06 Boast Busters/YMMV|YMMV items can be found here]]). ===
 
* [[Absentee Actor]]: The first episode to [[Demoted to Extra|reduce several mane-players to background characters]]. Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy appear as spectators for Trixie's magic show, but otherwise play no part in the episode's events.
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* [[By the Lights of Their Eyes]]: When Snips and Snails enter the cave.
* [[Celestial Body]]: The Ursas.
* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: [[Badass Mustache|Number 25]].
* [[Early -Bird Cameo]]: Cheerilee appears for the first time as a background pony in this episode, though she wouldn't actually play a role in the show until [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E12 Call of the Cutie|six episodes later]].
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The Ursas
* [[Everything's Worse Withwith Bears]]: The Ursa Major (and Minor).
** Not just any bears: bears made out of ''stars''.
* [[The Exit Is That Way]]: Slamming the door just created in the middle of the room isn't an effective way to make an exit.
* [[Fake Ultimate Hero]]: Trixie presents herself as a powerful unicorn who saved another city from an Ursa Major and has the personality to go with it. The first thing she does when a ''real'' Ursa shows up is to scream and run away, then when she ''tries'' to stop it, all she does is annoy it more, causing her to reveal her story was a lie to make her look tougher than she really was.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: The Great and Powerful Trixie is voiced by Kathleen Barr, who ironically is a Generation 1 My Little Pony Voice Actress as she has played Strawberry and Island Delight in the original cartoon
** [[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]] fans will also recognize her as the voice of Marie Kanker(She also voiced Kevin in that same cartoon). So does that mean the Great and Powerful Trixie is really a Kanker sister in disguise?
* [[Hoist By Their Own Petard]]: Trixie counters Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Applejack by turning their own tricks against them.
* [[Hold Your Hippogriffs]]: "It seems we have some NEI-EI-EI-EIGH sayers in the audience!"
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* [[Magicians Are Wizards]]: All unicorns have some degree of magic, but Trixie augments hers in her stage act with fireworks and smoke bombs.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Trixie is a unicorn who does magic tricks.
* [[Miles Gloriosus]]: Played with. Trixie claimed to be powerful enough as to defeat a powerful monster called an Ursa Major, and when Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Rarity challenged her to a skills duel, she defeated them by interfering with their own tricks rather than by displaying superior skill. May come with a side of [[TedSmall BaxterName, Big Ego]], since when Snips and Snails lead an Ursa into Ponyville, Trixie attempts to fight it; only after failing does she admit that all of her amazing tales were just lies to make her look more important.
* [[Monster Is a Mommy]]: The Ursa Minor is gigantic and took Twilight at her strongest to placate, much less "defeat." It's about the same size as the dragons usually depicted as the most dangerous creatures in the series. [http://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/view/6916 The Ursa Major]{{Dead link}} is [[Attack of the Fifty 50-Foot Whatever|pretty much a MLP]] [[Kaiju]]. Given how protective mother bears are of their young, Ponyville is seriously lucky Twilight avoided a [[Beowulf (Literature)|Grendel]] [[Mama Bear|situation.]]
* [[NoWon't SellWork On Me]]: The entire Trixie vs Ursa Minor "bout", if it can even be called that.
* [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]]: On [[Treehouse TV]] airings of the episode, an entire line said by Trixie is silenced.
{{quote| '''Trixie:''' When Trixie is through, the only thing they'll call you [Rainbow Dash] is "loser".}}
* [[Pun-Based Title]]: [[Ghostbusters|Who ya gonna call?]]
* [[Robe and Wizard Hat]]
* [[Running Onon the Spot]]: Trixie, when she sees [[Everything's Worse Withwith Bears|exactly]] [[Eldritch Abomination|what]] is stomping its way through Ponyville towards her.
* [[Sidetracked Byby the Analogy]]
{{quote| '''Snips:''' The Great and Powerful Trixie vanquished an Ursa Major. Can your Twilight claim that?<br />
'''Spike:''' Oh, really? Were you guys actually there?<br />
'''Snips:''' Well, uh... no, but--<br />
'''Spike:''' But nothing! The proof is in the pudding!<br />
'''Snails:''' Huh huh huh huh huh... I like pudding! }}
* [[Smoke Out]]: Though it doesn't last long enough to completely cover Trixie's exit.
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* [[Third Person Person|Third-Pony Pony]]: The Great and Powerful Trixie!
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?]]: [[Squick|There's a lot of things wrong with your hair]], Rarity. It being ''green'' is the least of them.
* [[Word, Schmord]]: How Rainbow Dash disapproves of Trixie showing off, following a glare from Applejack when Rainbow herself starts bragging.
{{quote| ''Yeah! Uh, magic schmagic! Boo!''}}
* [[You Do NOT Want to Know]]: When asked what an Ursa Major is like, Twilight gives this response. Not [[Scare Chord|before showing]] the audience, however.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Rarity is horrified that her mane (normally purple) has been turned green. But of course there is already one pony in the audience who has green hair and is offended by this. Ironically, the otherwise identical character (named Carrot Top) usually has orange hair and only ever appears with a green mane in this scene. Even in this episode, the orange-maned version is seen later. (Maybe she dyed it after the comment earlier?)
 
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[[Category:My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap]]
[[Category:My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic S 1 E 6 Boast Busters/Recap]]
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