My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E17 Hearts and Hooves Day: Difference between revisions

* [[Big No]]: The Cutie Mark Crusaders in unison, when they think {{spoiler|that the "love poison" is still in effect at the end}}.

* [[Big Yes]]: Sweetie Belle when Cheerilee asks Big Macintosh to be her very special somepony. Many have noted that it sounds a lot like [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1 E3 The Ticket Master|Rarity's]].

** Twilight Sparkle is shown carrying the book about the Elements of Harmony from [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1 E2 Elements of Harmony|the first episode]].

** Also, this is not the first time we get to see how much trouble can result from [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2 E3 Lesson Zero|mind-controlling someone as strong as Big Macintosh]].

** Before that, we can see how, unlike Applejack, Big Macintosh can buck a whole tree's apple harvest at once, by merely tapping it with ''one'' of his hind legs.

** Consistent with the superior physical strength of earth ponies, Cherilee bursts open the changing room door blocked by furniture and [[There Was a Door|knocks down the Carousel shop's front wall.]]

** There's also the fact that every ingredient has something to do with pegasi ("making hearts soar" indeed), and it's Scootaloo who collects them. She picks off a bit of cloud with her teeth (Pegasi can naturally walk on/touch [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1 E16 Sonic Rainboom|clouds]]), vacuums the rainbow (produced by the [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1 E16 Sonic Rainboom|Weather Factory]]), and of course, provides one of her feathers. (Well, Sweetie Belle plucks it without asking.)

** One of the jewelry pieces Big Mac and Apple Bloom consider buying has the gems arrayed like the Elements of Harmony symbol from the first episode. It's the one Apple Bloom claimed was too flashy.

*** Or even further, to remember the big rule about experimentation: READ ALL THE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE YOU START.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: Played with. Cheerilee is able to pick up on the CMCs' plot and quickly explains the situation to Big Macintosh, apologizing for her student's setup. However, she doesn't count on them using a love potion.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]

** The "love potion" is served in what are obviously shot glasses.

* [[Gonna Need More Trope]]: "I think we're gonna need a bigger envelope."

* [[Head Desk]]: Apple Bloom, when she finds out that she and her friends may have permanently screwed up Cheerilee and Big Macintosh.

* [[High-Class Glass]]: The stallion Apple Bloom dismisses as "way too uptight" wears one.

* [[Hold Your Hippogriffs]]: The phrase "very special somepony" is used constantly, as Equestria obviously has no St. Valentine.

* [[No Hugging, No Kissing]]: For the Mane Six, who are almost completely missing from the episode. Probably justified in that they're quite young and none of them is in a relationship, and the writers didn't want to show them shunning the holiday either.

* [[Non-Ironic Clown]]: One of the rejected stallions, rejected for being "too silly".

* [[Off-Model]]: The pony soaking in jelly blinks just once, causing the jelly to ''overlap'' the rest of his face, for no other reason than to make him look [[Uncanny Valley|even MORE creepy.]]

* [[Old Dark House]]: during an [[Imagine Spot]], Applebloom visualizes their school becoming one of these, complete with boarded up windows and the sky becoming [[Always Night|perpetually dark]]

** Also, during the cold opening, Twist and [[Fan Nickname|Truffle Shuffle]] can be seen as a couple as well.

* [[The Pig Pen]]: One of the stallions is rejected for being abnormally filthy and messy. He even has a garbage can for a cutie mark.

* [[The Power of Love]]: See [[Super Strength]]

* [[Promoted to Love Interest]]: The CMC do this to Big Mac

** The CMC use a vacuum cleaner to suck up the rainbow's coloring.

* [[Shipper on Deck|Shippers On Deck]]: '''CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS CHERIMAC SHIPPERS YAY!!!!'''

** This hasn't stopped certain parts of the fandom from calling her [[The Beard]].

** {{spoiler|A number of Fluttermac and Twimac shippers are also crying [[Ruined FOREVER]], [[Completely Missing the Point|in spite of the episode's Aesop]] and the fact that the [[Ship Tease]] is implied to simply be a ''literal'' tease to the CMC}}.

* [[Stealth Pun]]: The CMC are looking for the "perfect stallion" for Cheerilee or, in other words, a major stud.

** It also qualifies as giving an Apple to their teacher.

** Alternatively, since she's clearly rolling her eyes, she's just annoyed at once again being asked why she's single.

* [[Strangled by the Red String]]: [[Invoked]], [[Lampshaded]], and [[Deconstructed]]. Thanks to Apple Bloom deciding to grab the [[Love Potion|Red String]] after the CMCs' first attempt at getting them together failed, Bic Mac and Cheerilee go from clearly not being interested in each other to using lovey-dovey nicknames. [[Sickeningly Sweethearts|It disgusts and/or annoys everypony around them]], and we quickly find out how bad the consequences of said trope could possibly get.

* [[Valentine's Day Episodes]]

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Well Intentioned Extremists]]: The CMC basically tricks Cheerilee and Big Macintosh into drinking a rape drug potion, but they really meant well and they really just wanted to see their teacher happy.

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: You may notice that the CMC never use all of the love potion, leaving quite a bit in the pitcher. What happened to it? Who knows!

** To fanfic writers this could be the loose end that launched a thousand [[A Worldwide Punomenon|ships]].