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{{quote| '''Fluttershy:''' I've tried everything I know! I've tried begging, and pleading, and beseeching, and asking politely, and...}}
Twilight begins to panic, fearing the worst if they can't get the bugs under control before Celestia arrives. Applejack then shows up with a cart full of apples (which gets promptly eaten), and soon joins their cause. They manage to herd the swarm into the Everfree forest, only to find ''another'' swarm at Fluttershy's because [[I'm Taking Her Home
Over in Ponyville, the bugs have descended and are eating every food and crop, causing Applejack to run back home to protect her farm. Twilight casts a spell on the creatures to get them to stop eating the food. It works, but now they've started eating ''everything else'' instead... buckets... tents... lampposts... '''everything.''' Panicking, the ponies break off to defend their homes, only to find themselves helpless against the horde. Twilight snatches a parasprite and rushes to Zecora for help, but the zebra can only tell her that they're doomed.
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=== Tropes (YMMV items can be found [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* [[Big Eater]]: The parasprites, to the point where magically ruining their appetite for food will cause them to go after objects and buildings instead.
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* [[Extreme Omnivore]]: Use magic to inhibit their appetite for real food? The parasprites will simply eat everything else instead.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: When Pinkie Pie plays the harmonica, you can see the parasprites in Rarity's bag react to the sound.
* [[Friend to Bugs]]: Fluttershy and Twilight each find parasprites endearing when unaware of the devastation they cause…and even after that, Fluttershy in particular [[I'm Taking Her Home
** Rarity deserves special mention as well; not only does she not seem particularly freaked out to have so many in her house all of a sudden (although, we never actually ''see'' her waking up to them like we did the others) she somehow even gets them to start helping her around the shop. She only stops liking them when she finds out exactly ''[[Vomit Indiscretion Shot|how]]'' [[Eye Scream|they]] [[Explosive Breeder|multiply]].
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Celestia at the end seems to know just what the little winged fuzzballs are, and concludes that Ponyville isn't exactly in presentable form at the moment, so she thanks them for the "parade" and extricates the town from the visit by claiming that she's needed elsewhere to deal with an "infestation".
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* [[Idiot Ball]]: Most definitely Fluttershy for keeping one of the parasprites even after their devastation was clear, thus thwarting Applejack's herding attempt, which otherwise would have worked.
* [[Imagine Spot]]: Twilight has one, where she envisions Princess Celestia being forcibly whisked away by the parasprite swarm.
* [[I'm Taking Her Home
* [[Inferred Holocaust]]: Read the first quote on the page. It seems Zecora's people have experience with the little monsters.
* [[It Got Worse]]: And how!
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** Maybe it rhymed with something she said before we arrived.
* [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]]: Rainbow Dash: "Time to take out the adorable trash."
* [[Riddle for
* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: The Parasprites.
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Briefly occurs to Twilight during the climax.
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* [[Scenery Gorn]]: The parasprites reduce Ponyville to this.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** This entire episode is essentially a [[Whole-Plot Reference]] to [[Star Trek:
** The Parasprites start multiplying in numbers when Spike [[Gremlins|feeds one after midnight.]]
** And this line:
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