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=== Tropes present in this episode. ([[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E15 The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000/YMMV|YMMV tropes can be found here.]]) ===
=== Tropes present in this episode. ([[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2 E15 The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000/YMMV|YMMV tropes can be found here.]]) ===


* [[AcCENT Upon the Wrong SylLABle]]: "In this ve-RY community."
* [[AcCENT Upon the Wrong SylLABle]]: "In this ve-RY community."
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** Applejack grabbing Rainbow Dash by the tail to hold her back. Seriously, [[Running Gag|it is about the sixth or seventh time she did it since episode 1]].
** Applejack grabbing Rainbow Dash by the tail to hold her back. Seriously, [[Running Gag|it is about the sixth or seventh time she did it since episode 1]].
** [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1 E4 Applebuck Season|"Sure, I could tell you I learned something about how my friends are always there to help me and I can count on them no matter what... but truth is, I knew that already too."]]
** [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1 E4 Applebuck Season|"Sure, I could tell you I learned something about how my friends are always there to help me and I can count on them no matter what... but truth is, I knew that already too."]]
** This wouldn't be the first time the townsponies [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E14 The Last Roundup|nearly unknowingly screwed over the Apples.]] This time, however, they're more responsible for it than before, though [[My God, What Have I Done?|they realize the error of their ways]], and ran the Flim-Flam brothers out of town for it.
** This wouldn't be the first time the townsponies [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2 E14 The Last Roundup|nearly unknowingly screwed over the Apples.]] This time, however, they're more responsible for it than before, though [[My God, What Have I Done?|they realize the error of their ways]], and ran the Flim-Flam brothers out of town for it.
** Yet again, the Friendship [[Leitmotif]] from [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E1 The Return of Harmony Part 1|the Return]] [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E2 The Return of Harmony Part 2|of Harmony]] is played, this time when Twilight and co. prepare to help the Apple family.
** Yet again, the Friendship [[Leitmotif]] from [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2 E1 The Return of Harmony Part 1|the Return]] [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2 E2 The Return of Harmony Part 2|of Harmony]] is played, this time when Twilight and co. prepare to help the Apple family.
** Apple Bloom's task of catching falling apples in a basket on her head is similar to the role she played in catching bruised apples with Applejack in [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E5 Sisterhooves Social|"Sisterhooves Social"]].
** Apple Bloom's task of catching falling apples in a basket on her head is similar to the role she played in catching bruised apples with Applejack in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2 E5 Sisterhooves Social|"Sisterhooves Social"]].
** [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E17StareMaster Who wants a picture of a hammer on their flank?] Apparently Mjolna did, and it looks awesome!
** [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E17StareMaster Who wants a picture of a hammer on their flank?] Apparently Mjolna did, and it looks awesome!
* [[The Cameo]]: Doctor Whooves is seen a couple times, but specifically one shot with a tie, running the hourglass for the competition. Sibsy, one of the storyboard artists, affirms that this was an intentional nod to the fan-named character.
* [[The Cameo]]: Doctor Whooves is seen a couple times, but specifically one shot with a tie, running the hourglass for the competition. Sibsy, one of the storyboard artists, affirms that this was an intentional nod to the fan-named character.
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* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: [[Sam Vincent]] plays Flim and [[Scott McNeil]] voices Flam.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: [[Sam Vincent]] plays Flim and [[Scott McNeil]] voices Flam.
* [[Hoist By Their Own Petard]]: The Flim Flam Brothers, first by accepting the Mane Cast's choice to help the Apples, then turning off quality control, ultimately leading to their downfall. They also made the contest explicitly about quantity over quality -- claiming they could make cider ''faster'', not better. They won on quantity but ended up with a product that wouldn't sell.
* [[Hoist By Their Own Petard]]: The Flim Flam Brothers, first by accepting the Mane Cast's choice to help the Apples, then turning off quality control, ultimately leading to their downfall. They also made the contest explicitly about quantity over quality -- claiming they could make cider ''faster'', not better. They won on quantity but ended up with a product that wouldn't sell.
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: Granny Smith risked her farm and livelihood on a silly bet just because the Flim Flam brothers [[Nobody Calls Me Chicken|called her a chicken]]. The same farm that was built through years of effort, on the lands that were [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E11 Family Appreciation Day|granted to her father by]] ''[[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E11 Family Appreciation Day|Celestia herself.]]''
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: Granny Smith risked her farm and livelihood on a silly bet just because the Flim Flam brothers [[Nobody Calls Me Chicken|called her a chicken]]. The same farm that was built through years of effort, on the lands that were [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2 E11 Family Appreciation Day|granted to her father by]] ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2 E11 Family Appreciation Day|Celestia herself.]]''
** Actually, she never bets the farm, only the right to sell cider, hardly the Apple Family's only business. Once they win, the Flim Flam brothers just ACT like they've won the farm, and nobody calls them on it. They're just that slick.
** Actually, she never bets the farm, only the right to sell cider, hardly the Apple Family's only business. Once they win, the Flim Flam brothers just ACT like they've won the farm, and nobody calls them on it. They're just that slick.
* [[Huddle Shot]]: The Apple family gets into one when deciding whether to work with Flim and Flam. {{spoiler|They sneak in on them.}}
* [[Huddle Shot]]: The Apple family gets into one when deciding whether to work with Flim and Flam. {{spoiler|They sneak in on them.}}