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{{quote| Written by Meghan McCarthy}}

* [[Actor Allusion]]:

** Of a sort. At one point, Princess Mi Amore Cadenza smiles in a very similar way to one of [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E6 Boast Busters|Trixie's]] expressions back in season one. {{spoiler|Once she's revealed as the Changeling Queen and returns to her true form, she shares a voice actor with Trixie.}}

** Shining Armor gives Twilight an affectionate hoof noogie during the [[Flash Back]] accompanying the "B.B.B.F.F." song.

** Princess Mi Amore Cadenza reaches out with a hoof and strokes Twilight's mane {{spoiler|right before casting the fire circle and sending her under the castle}}.

* [[Broken Pedestal]]: Twilight's first reaction to being told her brother is marrying Cadence is nothing more than absolute glee that her childhood friend and the "best foalsitter ever" is marrying her brother. Then she sees the [[Jerkass]] Cadence has become {{spoiler|(or seemed to)}}. {{spoiler|In the end, thanks to Impostor Cadence, she ends up becoming this in everyone else's eyes to some degree.}}

* [[Call Back]]:

*** She was using it to portray The Chicken Dance, an old wedding tradition in some circles.

** We see that force field that Twilight conjured [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E23 Ponyville Confidential|in "Ponyville Confidential'']] except this time Shining Armor's the one who made it. (Maybe she learned the spell from her big brother.) The [[Anti-Magic]] bubble from [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E2 The Return of Harmony Part 2|"The Return of Harmony Part 2"]] also looked the same.

** The [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E3 Lesson Zero|Smarty Pants doll]] makes a brief reappearance in Twilight's flashback to Cadence. Twilight is pulling Smarty Pants out of a toy chest with her magic just before Cadence walks into the room. When Twilight sees Cadence, she drops Smarty Pants to get a hug. Smarty Pants is even seen with her quill and notebook!

* [[The Cameo]]: Luna appears several times throughout the two-parter, though she has no bearing on the plot.

* [[Chaste Toons]]: Mi Amore Cadenza is Celestia's niece, despite Luna having come down from the moon only short while ago. Presumably she's like Celestia's nephew Blueblood, whom [[Word of God]] [http://comments.deviantart.com/4/1603670/1932962564 specifies] to be "the great great great great great great great great great great great (and probably even more greats) nephew on Celestia's and Luna's mother's side, about 52 times removed, roughly speaking."

* [[Chekhov's Gun|Chekhov's]] [[Care Bear Stare]]: Cadence's signature spell (Seen in flashback) becomes very important next episode

** While the ending of Part 1 bluntly reveals that Twilight's accusations of Cadence being evil were {{spoiler|perfectly correct}}, only a split-second {{spoiler|unnatural green}} flash in Cadence's eyes hints that she is {{spoiler|not the real Cadence (nor even a pony) at all}}!

** When Pinkie Pie goes over the games with Cadence, she rolls two dice. A close look at the dice reveals that she rolls two ones, or Snake Eyes. This roll is usually associated in most games with bad luck, and snakes themselves are associated with deceit and betrayal.

* [[Furry Reminder]]: Twilight snorts during her fit of rage towards the beginning.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]:

* [[Ironic Echo]]: A nonverbal one; in Twilight's "BBBFF" song, she's shown absentmindedly crashing into Shining Armor, who scowls and then breaks into a grin. After Cadence runs out of the chapel crying, the same scenario happens, only this time Shining Armor is ''absolutely'' not smiling.

* [[Irony]]: Twilight says in her song that she and her brother "never had a single fight", but that's clearly no longer the case by the end of the episode.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: No doubt the audience is confused about Twilight having a brother they never heard of until this episode.

* [[Meaningful Name]]:

* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: If Twilight had explained herself better and on a better occasion, rather than declaring Cadence "evil" and bursting in at the rehearsal to do so, the others might not have brushed off her concerns so easily, not to mention got so angry. Princess Celestia in particular had apparently never once doubted her before. {{spoiler|Ironically, however, this may have worked better in the long run because it scared the villain to reveal herself unambiguously; as recounted by Shining Armor, Cadence did have an excuse ready for every accusation.}}

* [[Reality Subtext]]: It has not been lost on the fandom that Twilight and Cadence's relationship has an awful lot in common with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Nt2IVcrVkdc#! this particular story.]

* [[Season Finale]]

* [[Secret Handshake|Secret Hoofshake]]: Twilight and Cadence have one.

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