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At an all-pegasus meeting, Rainbow Dash announces that Ponyville's reservoir has been chosen this year to supply Cloudsdale with the water for all the rain for Equestria -- and Ponyville's pegasi will get the water from the ground to Cloudsdale by flying together and making a tornado of at least 800 wing power. Rainbow Dash wants Ponyville to break the record of 910 wing power set by Fillydelphia the previous year with a hurricane of over 1,000 wing power! Everypony's cheering is marred by a little coughing.
As training begins, Rainbow Dash watches over the proceedings, scolding the coughing ponies for attempting to malinger. Fluttershy is conspicuously absent -- she's at home, faking being sick and injured. Rainbow Dash spots the ploys, forcing Fluttershy to admit the real problem: she was humiliated by her weak flying in front of the other young pegasi at Flight Camp, and now she feels a crippling sense of performance anxiety. Rainbow tones down her usual brash approach and reminds her friend how important their mission is. Fluttershy agrees to try despite her obvious misgivings.
Twilight brings [[Shown Their Work|an anemometer]] to the training grounds to test pegasus wing power. When it's Fluttershy's turn, she makes a valiant effort, but when she hears laughter from twin pegasi on the sidelines, it causes her to [[Flash Back]] to being teased:
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* [[Artistic License Physics]]: While the spinning air in a tornado can lower the pressure at the center, and a pressure drop can create some lift on internal fluids, it's not like it's going to suddenly shoot water high into the air immediately upon crossing some threshold. Furthermore, it's not like the trajectory of such a thing would be as reliably predictable as the trajectory Cloudsdale relied on.
* [[Badass Adorable]]: One of the participant in the tornado making is a little colt, Rumble.
** There's also [[Fan Nickname|Tornado Bolt]] shown just before Fluttershy's first measurement.
* [[Bad Bad Acting]]: Fluttershy tries to fake sickness and a hurt wing. Unfortunately, her voice is too monotone to be convincing. Even her sneezes are [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1 E20 Green Isn't Your Color|grac]]-- erm, monotone.
* [[Be Quiet Nudge|Be Quiet Slap]]: Twilight does this towards Spike when he's accidentally being insensitive towards Fluttershy.
* [[Big Yes]]
** The muscular white pegasus, whose every appea--
** '''{{color|red|YEAH!!!}}'''
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** This actually goes beyond this episode and for the rest of the series beforehand. In initial episodes like "Dragonshy", Rainbow Dash had zero patience for Fluttershy's cowardice and was most insistant she be left behind. While previous Season Two episodes made subtle pushes into a [[Cool Big Sis|kinder role]], this cements it, with Rainbow Dash being nothing short of gentle and supportive towards Fluttershy despite her excessive lack of self esteem.
* [[Circle of Shame]]: Fluttershy keeps imagining that everypony is laughing at her like in her [[Flash Back]].
* [[Incurable Cough of Death|Chekov's Cough]]: At first Rainbow Dash sharply tells Thunderlane not to fake a cough to get out of the competition. Then the mare next to him also coughs. Next thing you know eight pegasi are in the hospital.
* [[Comic Role Play]]: Angel Bunny, the animals of the cottage, and the animals of the forest wear little outfits, some in pony masks, to help Fluttershy learn to cope with her fear of performing with other ponies watching.
* [[The Determinator]]: Rainbow Dash and all of the Ponyville pegasi.
{{quote|'''Rainbow Dash:''' No! One more time! I gotta know we gave it our all! If I'm going down, I'm going down flying!}}
** Fluttershy also becomes this when she [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|sucks an about-to-fall tear right back up into her eye!]]
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* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The overly-muscled pegasus stallion wi--
** '''{{color|red|YEAH!!!}}'''
** ...with disproportionately small wings is somewhat suggestive of steroid abuse. (Hence, why one [[Fan Nickname]] for this pony is "Roid Rage.")
* [[Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud]]: Somewhat averted, everybody outside the tornado gets tossed around.
* [[Dope Slap]]: Spike gets dope slapped a few times by Twilight during his bouts of being [[Innocently Insensitive]].
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* [[Meaningful Echo]]: "Fluttershy, Fluttershy, Fluttershy can hardly/really fly!".
* [[Mythology Gag]]: A male pegasus spotted during the final tornado attempt is [[Palette Swap|Caramel in G1 Firefly's colors.]]
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Rainbow Dash calls out Thunderlane for trying to [[Playing Sick|play sick]] to get out of training and tornado duty and forces him to train with the other pegasi. {{spoiler|Turns out Thunderlane<ref>or Blossomforth</ref> really ''was'' sick and managed to get several other pegasi sick on the big day, which not only prevented them from breaking the wing power record, but nearly prevented them from raising the water to Cloudsdale.}}
** Fluttershy, Rainbow, and Twilight seemed satisfied with her 0.5 first attempt, but Spike then had to be snide about it, sending the poor girl into tears. Twilight's thump to his head was well deserved.
* [[Nigh Invulnerable]]: Both Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash end up crashing halfway through a tree, neither suffering more than the minor inconvenience of being in that position. Rainbow's, we can sort of expect, given this was after being hastily ejected from the first failed tornado attempt. But Fluttershy's came while she was practicing with her animal friends to overcome her performance anxiety and she wasn't flying very fast. Ergo, [[Insane Troll Logic|all trees in Equestria must be made of balsa wood]].
* [[Non
** '''{{color|red|YEAH!!!}}'''
** ...who has drawn comparisons to the works of [[John Kricfalusi]] and been [[Fan Nickname|Fan Nicknamed]] Roid Rage.
** Cloudchaser's [[Anime Hair]] is straight out of [[Final Fantasy]].
* [[Painting the Frost on Windows]]: Either normal water evaporation doesn't happen, or normal condensation doesn't happen, because water must be brought to the raincloud factory in liquid form. This itself requires a bare minimum of 80 pegasi with an average of 10.0 wingpower to generate a large tornado.
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* [[Schizo-Tech]]: 1950 style propaganda films and the anemometer. And Twilight's ''abacus''.
** Also, in Dash's chart, Ponyville is represented by the expected thatched roofs and cottages, but Fillydelphia has a skyline full of skyscrapers.
* [[Second Place Is for Winners]]: The pegasi might not have broken the previous wing power record, but Spitfire congratulates everypony for having the guts to keep trying.
* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: [[Adorkable|Twilight]] naturally, when trying to explain the anemometer to Cloudchaser and Flitter.
{{quote|'''Cloudchaser:''' What exactly does this machine do?
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'''Pegasi:''' ''(collective "Ohhhh.")'' }}
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Twilight refers to a device to measure the "wing power" of the pegasi as an [[wikipedia:Anemometer|anemometer]]. While arguably the design is unconventional, this is a scientific device used to measure wind speed.
* [[Shout-Out]]: To the [[My Little Pony and Friends]] episode "The Magic Coins", which was all about the importance of rain.
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: Fluttershy telling her own flashback of kids taunting her to shut up.
* [[Spock Speak]]: Twilight's technical term-filled explanation of the anemometer.
* [[Stylistic Suck]]: The educational film shown to the pegasi
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** Twilight's anemometer measures [[Fantastic Measurement System|wing power]] by how fast the the propeller on it moves.
** By creating the tornado's vortex, [[Shown Their Work|the pegasi are helping to draw water from the reservoir]].
* [[Writers Cannot Do Math]]: As [[Fantastic Measurement System|Wing Power]] is stated to be cumulative for the 8 Pegasi missing to account for breaking the record versus barely not able to make the tornado would require them to have an average of over 13.75, unlikely given that only Dash displays a higher number. And that's only to beat Fillydelphia's 910, Dash's over 1000 goal would require the 8 to have been averaging over 25.
** But then, [[Fridge Brilliance]]: are the numbers merely additive? Usually, flying on the air that has already been 'cut' by someone else makes you faster, so it's possible that the total wing power is not simply the sum of the individual wing powers of the ponies taking part in the tornado!
* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]]: The first time Fluttershy attempts to test run, she gets off to a good start, but her trauma kicks in and she stumbles at the last second making only 0.5. After an intense training montage and bulk up in courage, she tries again, more hopeful and confident, but still only makes 2.3. {{spoiler|[[Give the Dog A Bone|She finally musters up a proper speed for the actual tornado]].}}
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