My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E14 Suited for Success: Difference between revisions

 

 

'''Rainbow Dash:''' The shape's fine, just make the whole thing, you know, cooler. (''pause'') [[20% More Awesome|It needs to be about 20% cooler.]]<br />

'''Rarity: *[[Head Desk]]*''' }}

 

 

Rarity's hard at work on a personal project: a dress for the Grand Galloping Gala. When Twilight shows up to have a loose button sewn back onto an old dress of hers, Rarity gets the inspiration to design a set of customized dresses for the entire mane cast. She also decides to throw a little local fashion show to drum up business for the shop.

Needless to say, the show is a disaster, and Hoity Toity's scathing criticism of the redone dresses leaves Rarity utterly humiliated, driving her to lock herself in her room for days to wallow in "whatever it is ponies are supposed to wallow in." Feeling guilty, Rarity's friends manage to cook up a scheme to cheer her up: first, they put Fluttershy's knowledge of sewing to use putting the finishing touches on Rarity's Gala dress, then trick her out of her room long enough to show it to her.

 

'''Rarity:''' No, I don't like it...I ''love'' it!! }}

 

* [[Complaining About Things You Haven't Paid For]]: The other ponies learn a lesson about doing this.

* [[Crazy Cat Lady|Crazy Cat Mare]]: Pinkie Pie is afraid Rarity will become one during her [[Heroic BSOD]].

'''Pinkie Pie:''' Give her time... }}

* [[Damned By Faint Praise]]: Rarity's friends' reaction to the original designs is tepid.

'''Fluttershy:''' It's... nice. }}

** Rarity does the same regarding the redesigns, which she's privately declared the ugliest things she's ever made; she has to resort to claiming that she's happy that her friends are happy with them.

* [[Dark Reprise]]: The second version of "Art of The Dress" serves as a 'Stressed Reprise' for lack of a better term. Even the lines that are repeated are sung in such a stressed and strained tone of voice as to change the meaning entirely.

* [[Didn't Think This Through]]: After going under the spotlight, the ponies start to realise some of their design ideas aren't quite as elegent as they thought.

'''Applejack:''' Okay, maybe a little. }}

* [[Distracting Disambiguation]]:

** Later, when contemplating exile, she is stymied over what to pack.

* [[Eat the Camera]]: Rarity does this during "Art of the Dress."

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: The failure of the fashion show causes Rarity to lock herself in her room for days and consider running away in exile.

* [[Hidden Depths]]: Fluttershy turns out to have a "freaky knowledge of sewing", as demonstrated when Rarity browbeats her into giving a critique of the dress Rarity designed:

'''Rarity:''' [''[[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|gasp]]'']<br />

'''Fluttershy:''' But...uh...you know...um...whatever you want to do is fine...<br />

** The music during the second fashion show is a rapid-fire medley of sound-alike musical motifs; "[[Also Sprach Zarathustra]]" for Twilight's dress; [[Aaron Copland]]'s "Hoedown" for Applejack's; "I Want Candy" for Pinkie Pie's; the [[Westminster Chimes]] for Rainbow Dash's; [[Claude Debussy]]'s "L'Apres-Midi d'une Faune" for Fluttershy's.

* [[Kitchen Sink Included]]

'''Rarity:''' [''quickly pushes a kitchen sink offstage''] }}

* [[Large Ham]]: Rarity in full breakdown mode.

* [[Oh Crap]]: Rarity, first after hearing Hoity Toity is looking at her revised dresses, and later when he places order for six dozen of the originals.

** The other ponies after realising what the hell they are wearing.

* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: The DJ pony that turns on the music during the first fashion show has less screen time than most characters in the entire series, yet its one of the most memorable moments from the episode and she went on to become a massive [[Ensemble Darkhorse]].

** Possibly a Two Scene Wonder. The other scene that people seem to remember from this episode is the [[20% More Awesome|"20% Cooler"]] line.

* [[Shown Their Work]]:

** The lyrics of "The Art of the Dress" refers to parts of the body that are critical in proper dress design. Or more specifically, proper anatomical parts of a ''pony'' body that would be important for a pony's dress.

Croup, dock, haunch, shoulders, hip. }}

** Fluttershy's "freaky knowledge" is not just random nonsense but are appropriate terms of art for the fashion industry.

* [[Taking Advantage of Generosity]]: The episode's [[Aesop]].

* [[Tempting Fate]]

'''Rarity:''' (confident laugh) Ohohoho Applejack...you make it sound like as if it's going to be hard. }}

** To her credit, the first six dresses ''weren't'' hard for her. Aaaaand then she started work on the second set of dresses.

* [[Working Title]]: According to one of the animators, [[What Could Have Been|the episode was originally titled "Dress for Failure]]", which was deemed too pessimistic.

* [[Your Answer to Everything]]:

'''Rainbow Dash:''' That's your answer for everything! }}