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[[File:Bridle-Gossip_9209.jpg|frame|Think that's bad? Wait until you hear ''Flutterguy''!]]

 

 

'''Rainbow Dash:''' Here we go... }}

 

 

Taking a walk through Ponyville, Twilight discovers her friends and neighbors hiding from Zecora, a mysterious zebra who lives in the Everfree Forest, visits town about once a month, and is rumored to be a witch. Twilight is skeptical, as is Applejack's kid sister Apple Bloom, who decides to tail Zecora and see if the rumors are true. Applejack and the rest chase her down before Apple Bloom gets herself in trouble, and confront Zecora at the edge of the Everfree Forest, near a patch of blue-flowered vines. Zecora cryptically warns them "Those leaves of blue are not a joke!", then retreats into the forest. The other ponies are convinced Zecora is trying to put a curse on them, but Twilight is equally convinced curses are nothing but superstition.

 

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* [[Ad Break Double Take]]: "What if she's making Apple Bloom soup?" is repeated twice in a row.

* [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]: "Curses don't exist" said the magical talking unicorn to her talking horse friends and dragon assistant, in the land populated with dragons, gryphons, and manticores.

* [[Aside Comment]]: When Spike is coming up with nicknames for the cast after the "curse" takes effect, he comments to the audience that he can't really work with Twilight Sparkle's name.

* [[Blinding Bangs]]: Rarity suffers from this after her coat and mane grow ridiculously long.

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: An infamous animation error in the final shot makes it look like Pinkie Pie is staring at the camera. This was later incorporated deliberately.

* [[Characterization Marches On]]: This is the first major appearance Apple Bloom has with her big sister, though the chemistry is somewhat different. Applejack is rather condescending and overprotective of Apple Bloom, who is ultimately portrayed as even more of an [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Mare]] than Twilight, compared to her much more impressionable and hyperactive persona in later episodes, with Applejack being the voice of reason between them.

* [[Comeback Tomorrow]]: Spike is unable to come up with a joke name for Twilight (Twilight Flopple) until she's left the house.

** Zecora speaks mock-Swahili, wears African jewelry, has an African spiral design for a cutie mark, decorates with African masks, and is a zebra: an African species. Ponies are not allowing her to enter stores.

* [[Double Aesop]]: Don't judge a book by its cover — even literally. Twilight was skeptical about the poorly informed negative assumptions about Zecora from the start almost to the end, likely along with any [[Genre Savvy]] viewers, but the book was slyly put in as something that made her (and potentially us) make the same sort of mistake all the same.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: This is essentially "[[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: [[The Movie|The Episode]]", with events such as:

** Spike's nickname for minimized Applejack: "Appleteeny" (which sounds exactly like Appletini).

** The racism undertones concerning Zecora.

* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]

* [[Incredible Shrinking Man|Incredible Shrinking Pony]]: Applejack becomes "Appletini" (Apple-Teeny), as Spike puts it.

* [[Magic Pants]]: Applejack's hat and rope shrink with her.

* [[The Nicknamer]]: Spike gives all of the mane ponies nicknames to fit their embarrassing conditions.

** [[Comeback Tomorrow|After the girls leave]], he manages to come up with "Twilight Flopple".

* [[No Sense of Personal Space]]: Pinkie, when looking through Rarity's hair for "Appletini". Rarity even asks Pinkie if she's ever heard of personal space, to which she bluntly answers "nope!".

* [[Not Helping Your Case]]: Despite how negatively people treat the cast's suspicions, Zecora did literally ''nothing'' to dissuade their suspicion until Apple Bloom cleared things up. If anything, she made herself ''even more'' suspicious.

** Though on the other hand, Apple Bloom says that Zecora told her that whenever she came to town, all the stores "mysteriously closed", implying she didn't know why the ponies hid whenever she came to town and may not have had any idea they thought she was a witch.

* [[Not So Above It All]]: [[Only Sane Man|Twilight]] goes from being perfectly reasonable and scolding the others for being silly to thinking Zecora really is a wicked witch on [[Genre Blindness|remarkably little evidence]].

** [[Team Mom|Applejack]] is actually the most paranoid of Zekora, to the point she's actually ''trembling in fear'' from Pinkie's song (which even [[Lovable Coward|Fluttershy]] and Rainbow Dash respond to with bewildered glares).

* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: If Zecora's warning had been a ''little'' less vague and cryptic, the whole ponies-thinking-you-cursed-them thing wouldn't have come up.

* [[Rearrange the Song]]: "Evil Enchantress", Flutterguy jazz club edition.

do not help her reputation of being a witch. }}

** Lampshaded by Applejack of all ponies:

* [[That Poor Cat]]: Heard when Rainbow Dash crashes into some bushes.

* [[The Unintelligible]]: Pinkie Pie, who gets a swollen (and spotted) tongue {{spoiler|after being exposed to the "poison joke" flower.}}

* [[Vocal Dissonance]]: "[[Fan Nickname|Flutterguy]]", who, as seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmGJJDL5EUA here], has easily the deepest voice yet seen on the show, being voiced by black Vietnam veteran [[Awesome McCoolname|Blu]] [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0542558 Mankuma].

'''Twilight Sparkle:''' Pinkie, I eat hay. ''You'' eat hay. }}

* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: Discussed by Spike when he starts wondering why the town looks so deserted.

 

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