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[[File:Cutie-Mark-Chronicles_6752.jpg|frame|Twilight Sparkle gets extra [[Adorkable]]]]
 
 
{{quote| '''Pinkie Pie:''' You're looking for Rainbow Dash? If I was her, I'd be at Sugarcube Corner! Of course, if I was anyone I'd be at Sugarcube Corner. Hey! I have an idea. Wanna go to Sugarcube Corner?}}
 
{{quote| Written by M.A. Larson}}
 
The Cutie Mark Crusaders fail to gain their cutie marks by zip lining, and end up covered in tree sap ''[[Oh, No, Not Again|again]]''. Apple Bloom decide it's time to go see somepony else for cutie mark advice, and Scootaloo has just the pony in mind:
 
{{quote| '''Scootaloo:''' We can start with the coolest pony in Ponyville...<br />
'''Apple Bloom:''' [[Cool Big Sis|Applejack!]]<br />
'''Sweetie Belle:''' [[Cool Big Sis|Rarity!]]<br />
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'''Pinkie Pie:''' Back when Pinkie was a filly, she supposedly lived a dull, humorless existence on a rock farm with her family. One day, an explosion shook the farm, followed by a rainbow. The beautiful sight of the rainbow was enough to make Pinkie smile for the first time, and she was determined to make everyone around her just as happy. So, the next day, she throws her very first party just for her family. The results make her parents and sisters smile for the first time, giving Pinkie her new purpose in life and her cutie mark.
 
{{quote| '''Pinkie Pie:''' ...[[Unreliable Narrator|and that's how Equestria was made!]]<br />
'''Scootaloo:''' Wha...huh?! }}
 
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* [[Big Yes]]: Twilight, both in her flashback and as she's telling the story.
* [[Call Back]]:
** Fluttershy's filly self is taller and ganglier than the designs for the others, which seems to support her claim that [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1 E5/E05 Griffon the Brush Off|she's a year older than Pinkie Pie]].
** [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1 /E16 Sonic Rainboom|"Sonic Rainboom"]] was about Rainbow Dash's second Sonic Rainboom, and that she performed the first one when she was a little filly. This episode shows that very first one. The music played during the race also happens to be same music that played during "Sonic Rainboom"'s Sonic Rainboom.
** In her flashback, Rarity says "Dumb rock!" similarly to the way her sister Sweetie Belle said "Dumb fabric!" in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1 /E18 The Show Stoppers|"The Show Stoppers"]].
** At her first attempt at a party, Pinkie Pie plays the same music she later on uses to lead away the parasprites in "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1 /E10 Swarm of the Century|Swarm of the Century]]".
* [[The City vs. the Country]]: Applejack relates how when she was younger she decided to leave Ponyville and live the sophisticated life with wealthy relatives in Manehattan.
* [[The Cloud Cuckoolander Was Right]]: Everyone really ''was'' at Sugarcube Corner. Including the ponies to whom they'd already spoken.
* [[Cold Open]]: "I've never even heard of a pony zip-lining before."
* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: The Cutie Mark Crusaders, as usual, but especially Scootaloo. One can't help but admire her unwavering dedication to ignoring [[An Aesop|the Aesop]].
{{quote| '''Scootaloo:''' Argh! These namby-pamby stories aren't getting us any closer to our cutie marks! They're all about 'finding out who you are' and boring stuff like that!}}
* [[Coming of Age Story]]
* [[Commercial Break Cliffhanger]]: One of them interrupts Fluttershy's story just as she falls from the clouds. Though since she clearly lives to tell the story, it's sort of a [[Did You Die?]] situation.
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* [[Fun Size]]: Newborn!Spike. Extra tiny. Extra cute.
* [[Furry Confusion]]: There are horse carriage sounds in the background in Applejack's flashback of arriving in Manehattan. The carriages are never actually shown.
** Later episodes show that some Ponies do in fact pull carriages and carts for a living.
* [[Gilligan Cut]]: Scootaloo insisting they need to talk to Rainbow Dash instead of another pony, and cut to them talking to Twilight Sparkle.
* [[Group Hug]]
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* [[Noodle Incident]]: Scootaloo mentions that a surprising number of their past Cutie Mark attempts have ended with them covered in tree sap. We of course never see any of those...or find out ''how'' they ended with them covered in tree sap.
* [[No Ontological Inertia]]: Twilight's parents and Spike are transformed when she starts channeling uncontrolled magical energy, but turn right back when she stops doing it.
* [[Oh, No, Not Again]]:
{{quote| '''Scootaloo:''' It's no use. No matter what we try, we always end up without our Cutie Marks...and [[Lampshade Hanging|surprisingly often]], covered in tree sap.}}
* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: Fluttershy's voice actress slips into her Pinkie Pie voice a little bit when singing the "I love everything" song.
* [[Power Incontinence]]: Twilight suffering from this gave her her cutie mark. She made the entrance jury float, turned her parents [[Baleful Polymorph|into plants]], and turned the baby dragon she was supposed to catch into an adult dragon on the nation's capital before being calmed down.
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*** Plus she describes the reveal about the Rainboom as "uncanny."
** Rarity's encounter with [[2001: A Space Odyssey|a giant monolithic black rock.]]
{{quote| "A ''rock?! That's'' my destiny? What is your problem, horn? You dragged me all the way out here for a ''ROCK!?''"}}
*** This part also brings to mind the scene in ''[[The Road to El Dorado]]'' in which the main duo also come before a great big rock (Rarity's complaints about it have a similar tone to Tulio's) after thinking that it led to their main goal (which in both cases, turns out to be true).
** While Celestia is speaking to Twilight, Twilight goes "Huh?" in three rising, more astounded tones of voice, similar to [[Doctor Who|the Tenth Doctor's]] [[Catch Phrase]] of "What? What? ''What?''"
** At the start of Rainbow Dash's race, a [[Suspiciously Similar Song]] to the theme tune of "The Wizard of Speed and Time" short film plays.
** Pinkie Pie's opening description of life on the rock farm is reminiscent of the opening of ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]''.
{{quote| "There was no talking; there was no smiling. There were only rocks."}}
* [[Stealth Pun]]:
** Applejack went to {{spoiler|the pony equivalent of the Big Apple}} to get her cutie mark.
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[[Category:My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap]]
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