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Trivia about ''[[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]'' include:
== TV Tropes-specific ==
* [[Trope Namer]] for [[Party of One]] and partial namer for [[Twenty Percent More Awesome]]<ref>The actual phrase used in the show is "20% cooler", but that could have a meaning that doesn't fit the trope.</ref>
* Inspiration for [[Wrong Context Magic]] and [[Just Toying With Them]]<ref>Kind of. Several other works could be credited with the inspiration as well, but this one most clearly.</ref>
 
== TV TropesTroping-specific ==
* [[Trope Namer]] for [[Party of One]] and partial namer for [[Twenty Percent20% More Awesome]]<ref>The actual phrase used in the show is "20% cooler", but that could have a meaning that doesn't fit the trope.</ref>
* Inspiration for [[Wrong -Context Magic]] and [[Just Toying Withwith Them]]<ref>Kind of. Several other works could be credited with the inspiration as well, but this one most clearly.</ref>
 
== Voice Actors ==
* [[Celebrity Voice Actor]]: Discord, voiced by John de Lancie of ''[[Star Trek: the Next Generation (TV)|Star Trek theThe Next Generation]]''.
* [[Cross -Dressing Voices]]:
** [[Cathy Weseluck]] as Spike, [[Tabitha St. Germain]] as Pound Cake, and [[Hey Ocean (Music)!|Ashleigh Ball]] as the buffalo who talks to Spike in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E21 Over a Barrel|"Over a Barrel"]] as well as one of the dragons in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 /E21 Dragon Quest|"Dragon Quest"]] ([[Ambiguous Gender|possibly unless the dragon in question is Crackle]]). Also, while both Derpy and her original VA [[Tabitha St. Germain]] are female, Tabitha later revealed that at the time she was recording the episode [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 /E14 The Last Roundup|"The Last Roundup"]], she thought Derpy was male and voiced her as such.
** In the Polish dub, [[She's a Man In Japan|Little Strongheart is referred to as male]], but is still voiced by a woman.
** Possibly Spitfire in the Polish dub. She's voiced by a man, but she might just [[She's a Man In Japan|be male in that dub]].
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: No kidding. Hasbro apparently went to [[The Ocean Group]] for their talents, resulting in:
** [[Tara Strong|Twilight Sparkle]] is [[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Raven]] and [[Batman: Arkham City|Harley Quinn]].
*** Amusingly enough, out of all the varied voices Tara can pull off, she uses a voice very similar to what she used for [[Drawn Together|Princess Clara]]. This has [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z0nQcC9cPI not gone unnoticed].
** [[Tabitha St. Germain|Rarity/Princess Luna]] is [[Martha Speaks|Martha]], making [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LXXSY4mhBk this clip] rather hilarious for bronies. Anime fans may know her better as [[Shakugan no Shana|Shana]], [[Black Lagoon|Roberta]], [[Hamtaro (Anime)|Pashmina]], or [[Death Note (Manga)|Naomi Misora]].
*** Slightly off-topic to the trope at hand, but shouldn't go without mention: Both Tabitha and Madeline weren't the only connections between Martha and FiM. ''The studio itself'' being the most blatant one. Which in this troper's opinion turns the meta humor knob on the above clip up to eleven and beyond.
*** Tabitha was also Kootie Pie/Wendy O. Koopa back in ''Adventures of [[Super Mario Bros.]] 3'', though this isn't particularly obvious until [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw4vHMXqEt4 she starts whining].
** [[Andrea Libman|Fluttershy/Pinkie Pie]] is [[Madeline]].
*** Fluttershy was once also a [[Dragon Tales|girl who befriended and rode on Diamond Tiara regularly]]. Ironically, at that time, Diamond Tiara ''was'' a dragon.
*** Pinkie Pie's singing voice (as well as Silver Spoon) is [[Death Note (Manga)|Misa Amane]]. This too, has [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVK9HKN0Jbo not gone unnoticed].
*** "Flutterguy" in "Bridle Gossip" and the dragon from ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E7/E07 Dragon Shy|Dragonshy]]'' are [[Beast Wars (Animation)|Tigatron.]]
** [[Hey Ocean (Music)!|Applejack/Rainbow Dash are part of an indie pop band]].
*** She's also [[Iron Man: Armored Adventures|Black Widow]] (who sounds likes an older Rainbow Dash).
** [[Cathy Weseluck|Spike]] is [[Death Note (Manga)|Near]]. This has also [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjK8N3be2-4 not gone unnoticed]. He's also [[Hamtaro (Anime)|Snoozer]] and [[Cybersix]], using the same voice she used as Six's Adrian persona. To quote [[Familiar Faces|CR]], "Now I think Spike's cross-dressing all the time."
*** Spike is also [[Ranma ½ (Manga)|Shampoo]] and [[Inuyasha (Manga)|Kagome's mother]].
*** News update: Spike was a ''[[Dragon Tales|Dragon Fairy]]''.<ref>Don't imagine him wearing a tutu and faux wings and holding a wand. Been there, can't get it out of my head.</ref>
** Scootaloo (Madeline Peters) and Apple Bloom (Michelle Creber) are [[Martha Speaks|Helen Lorraine and Alice]].
** [[Maryke Hendrikse|Gilda]] is [[Black Lagoon|Revy]]. Oddly enough, she's also [[Playing Against Type|Spitfire]].
** Trixie/Queen Chrysalis is [[Re BootReBoot|Dot Matrix]]. Kathleen Barr also voices [[Cross -Dressing Voices|one of the Pegasus bullies]] ([[Fan Nickname|Hoops]]) using her [[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy|Kevin]] voice.
*** She's also [[Dragon Tales|one side of a conjoined twin dragon]].
*** And she's [[Bionicle|Roodaka]].
** [[Matt Hill|Soarin']] is [[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy|Ed]] - and, perhaps more fittingly for a Pegasus, [[Storm Hawks (Animation)|Finn]].
*** Where there's [[Matt Hill]], there's [[Samuel Vincent]] ([[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy|Double D]]), who voices Flim and the lead Pegasus bully ([[Fan Nickname|Dumb-Bell]]).
** Discord is [[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation|Q from Star Trek]]. This has ''definitely'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5DE6xrCgLA not gone unnoticed].
** [[Chantal Strand|Diamond Tiara]] [[Playing Against Type|is]] [[Hamtaro (Anime)|Bijou]]. Seriously.
*** And as mentioned above, ''[[Dragon Tales|Cassie]]'' of all characters. [[Playing Against Type]] almost doesn't cover it.
** [[Richard Ian Cox|Snails]] is ''[[Inuyasha]]''.
** Snips, voiced by [[Lee Tockar]], sounds like a slightly higher-pitched [[Johnny Test|Bling-Bling Boy]].
*** He's also ''[[Bionicle|Makuta Teridax]]''.
** [[Scott McNeil|Chief Thunderhooves/Flam]] is [[Dawn of War|Firaeveus Carron]]. Once again, this has [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM1JoYTXkC0 not gone unnoticed.].
*** He is also [[Dawn of War|A number of Space Marines, SINDRI, and Sergeant Merrik]].
** Prince Blueblood/Fancy Pants is [[Stargate SG -1|Kvasir]].
** Daring Do is [[Hamtaro (Anime)|Hamtaro]]. Don't even think of imagining her eating a lot of Sunflower Seeds.
** Princess Cadance is [[Bratz|Cloe]] and [[Sabrina the Animated Series|Sabrina]].
** Shining Armor and Braeburn's voice actor, [[Andrew Francis]], voiced Jaller from the first [[Bionicle]] movie, who was also [[Actor Allusion|a captain of the guard.]]
** Little Strongheart is either [[Dinosaur Train|Stacie, Vera or Judy]].
** There's also a fair degree of overlap with the previous generation of ''[[My Little Pony]]'' cartoons.
*** Fluttershy/Pinkie Pie was [[My Little Pony G 3|Zipzee and Sweetie Belle.]]
*** Spike used to be [[My Little Pony G 3|Rarity]], making his crush even more entertaining.
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*** Princess Luna/Rarity is [[Transformers Armada|Alexis]].
** Additionally to its connection to the older My Little Pony, the voice actors were also well known for voicing a lot of characters in the English dubbing of the Gundam series. {{spoiler|Makes you wonder now if they can pilot mobile suits using their hooves}}. So then we have:
*** Fluttershy/Pinkie Pie is [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Anime)|Mileina Vashti]], the latter sounds like Pinkie if she ''weren't'' hyper.
*** Silver Spoon is [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Anime)|Christina Sierra]].
*** Braeburn and Shining Armor were [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Anime)|Lasse Aeon]].
*** Big Macintosh is [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Anime)|Ian Vashti]].
*** Rarity is [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Anime)|Soma Peries]] and [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (Anime)|Flay Allster]].
*** Diamond Tiara is either [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Anime)|Feldt Grace]], [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny (Anime)|Meer Campbell]] or [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (Anime)|Lacus Clyne]].
*** Prince Blueblood and Fancy Pants were [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (Anime)|Mu La Flaga/Neo Roanoke]] and [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Anime)|Patrick Colasour/Howard Mason]]. [[Playing Against Type|DEFINITELY against his character type]].
*** Spike is [[Mobile Suit Gundam (Anime)|Mirai Yashima]], [[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (Anime)|Dorothy Catalonia]], [[Playing Against Type|and]] [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Anime)|Kati Mannequin]].
*** Soarin' is [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (Anime)|Kira Yamato]].
**** That means Flim is [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (Anime)|Athrun Zala]]. '''''KIRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!'''''
*** Gilda/Spitfire is [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (Anime)|Lunamaria Hawke]] and [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Anime)|Wang Liu Mei]].
*** You don't want to mess with Snails, or he'll go [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Anime)|Allelujah Haptism]] on you.
*** Snips is [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Anime)|Joshua Edwards]].
*** Chief Thunderhooves is [[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (Anime)|Duo Maxwell]] and both [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Anime)|Ali Al-Saachez and Daryl Dodge]].
*** Princess Celestia/Cheerilee is [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Anime)|Regene Regetta and Holly Smirnov]].
** A number of voice actors have also starred in [[X -Men: Evolution]].
*** [[Scott McNeil|Chief Thunderhooves]] is Wolverine.
*** [[Andrea Libman|Fluttershy/Pinkie Pie]] is ''[[Playing Against Type|X-23]]''.
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*** Daring Do is Jubilee.
*** [[Chantal Strand|Diamond Tiara]] is Wolfsbane.
*** [[Tabitha St. Germain|Rarity/Princess Luna]] is Dani Moonstar.
*** [[Matt Hill|Soarin]] is Havok.
*** [[Samuel Vincent|Billy Dumbbell]] is Forge.
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*** [[Richard Ian Cox|Snails]] is Quicksilver.
*** Cranky Doodle Donkey is Omega Red.
*** [[Nicole Oliver|Princess Celestia]] is Risty Wilde.
** In German:
*** Rarity is [[Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!|Wubbzy]] and [[Ruby Gloom]].
*** Spike is [[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents|Timmy Turner]], (like the English Twilight Sparkle). German Spike is also [[American Dad (Animation)|Steve Smith]] and [[Jakers! theThe Adventures of Piggley Winks|Piggley Winks]].
*** Mayor Mare is [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Major Kira Nerys]].
*** Zecora is [[Star Trek: Voyager|B'Elanna Torres]] and the recurring voice of Diane Lane and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
*** Applejack has the recurring voice of [[Abigail Breslin]] and Anna-Sophia Robb.
*** Fluttershy shares one with [[Hello Kitty]].
*** Pinkie's singing voice is also the recurring speaking voice for [[Amanda Seyfried]]. The singer is also [[The Land Before Time|Cera]].
*** Rainbow Dash is [[Pirates of the Caribbean (Film)|Elizabeth Swann]] and [[Enchanted (Film)|Giselle]].
*** Twilight Sparkle is [[Recess (Animation)|Kurst the Worst]]. Other voice actors in the FIM German dub who worked on the ''Recess'' German dub include Rainbow Dash as Ashley A. and Spike as Gus Griswald.
*** Scootaloo is [[Coraline (Animationanimation)|Coraline]] when speaking and turns into [[SpongeBob SquarePants (Animation)|Sandy]] when singing.
*** Snips is [[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (Animation)|Bloo]] and [[Yin Yang Yo (Animation)!|Yang]].
*** Gilda is [[Desperate Housewives|Edie Williams]].
*** Silver Spoon is [[Babe]].
** Let's go to Spain! Oh boy, Applejack is [[Adventure Time (Animation)|Finn the human]], while Pinkie Pie is [[Danny Phantom (Animation)|Sam Manson]]. Braeburn will be [[Total Drama Island (Animation)|D.J.]]
** Here's the Italian rundown: Princess Celestia is [[Fifi and Thethe Flowertots|Fifi]], Twilight Sparkle is [[Drawn Together (Animation)|Princess Clara]] (just like [[Tara Strong (Creator)|her English voice actress]]), Applejack and Fluttershy [[Talking to Himself|are both]] [[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: (Animation)Boy Genius|Jimmy Neutron]], Rainbow Dash is [[One Piece|Chopper]], and Pinkie Pie is [[Sailor Moon (Manga)|Sailor Jupiter]].
*** The Italian dub also doubles as a ''[[DextersDexter's Laboratory]]'' cast reunion: Rainbow Dash is Dexter, Cheerilee is Deedee, Princess Celestia and Snips are their parents, Gilda is Mandark and Twilight Sparkle is Agent Honeydew.
*** On a lesser note, the cast of ''[[Invader Zim (Animation)|Invader Zim]]'' joins forces once more. Snails is Dib, Apple Bloom is Gaz, Prince Blueblood is Zim, and Rainbow Dash is Gir.
*** Other characters aren't kidding about great voices: Snips and Steven Magnet are both [[DCAU|the Joker]], Snails and Mr. Cake are both [[Voltron (Anime)|Hunk]], Granny Smith, Mayor Mare, Trixie, Sapphire Shores and Photo Finish are all [[Tiny Toons|Babs Bunny]], Zecora is [[Transformers Prime|Airachnid]], Prince Blueblood is [[Yu-Gi-Oh!|Seto Kaiba]] and, talking about background characters, Doctor Whooves is [[Batman: theThe Brave And The Bold (Animation)|Bat-Mite]] and Bon Bon is [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica|Sayaka]].
** Latin America:
*** Twilight Sparkle is [[Thor (Filmfilm)|Darcy]]
*** Spike is [[Pretty Cure|Rie Misumi]].
*** Princess Celestia is [[Drawn Together (Animation)|Foxxy Love]].
*** Rarity is [[Drawn Together (Animation)|Princess Clara]], unlike the Italian and English Twilight.
*** Princess Luna is [[Ka BlamKaBlam!|June]]. She was [[Invader Zim (Animation)|Zim]] as her stint as Nightmare Moon
*** In the dub of [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E3/E03 The Ticket Master|The Ticket Master]] promotional DVD, Spike was [[Naruto|Naruto Uzumaki]], and Rarity was [[Naruto (Manga)|Sakura Haruno]], making their relationship very interesting.
** Poland:
*** Twilight Sparkle is [[Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi|Ami]](Formerly [[Doug (Animation)|Judy Funnie]]).
*** Applejack is [[SpongeBob SquarePants (Animation)|Sandy Cheeks]] and [[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Azula]] (Formerly [[Recess (Animation)|Miss Grotke]]).
*** Rarity (and Diamond Tiara) is [[Sabrina the Animated Series (Animation)|Sabrina Spellman]] (And ''she'' used to be [[Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi|Ami]]).
*** Pinkie Pie is [[Kappa Mikey (Animation)|Mitsuki]] (Formerly [[Hey Arnold (Animation)!|Phoebe]]).
*** Rainbow Dash is [[Ni Hao, Kai -Lan|Kai-Lan]].
*** Fluttershy is [[Danny Phantom (Animation)|Jazz Fenton]].
*** Spike is [[Clifford the Big Red Dog|Emily Elizabeth]].
*** Princess Celestia is [[Classic Disney Shorts|Daisy Duck]].
*** Princess Luna is [[Casper the Friendly Ghost|Casper]].
*** Gilda is [[Rugrats (Animation)|Tommy Pickles]].
*** Applebloom is [[Yin Yang Yo (Animation)!|Yin]].
*** Scootaloo is [[The Little Mermaid (Disney)|Ariel]].
*** Sweetie Belle is [[Drake and Josh|Megan Parker]].
*** Snips is [[Naruto (Manga)|Gaara]].
*** Snails is [[Lucky Luke]].
** Danish: Applejack is [[Fanboy and Chum Chum|Chum-Chum]], and Rainbow Dash is [[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (Animation)|Mac]].
** Hungarian: Spike is [[Captain Planet|Ma-Ti]], Applejack is [[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Azula]], Twilight is [[Jimmy Neutron|Cindy Vortex]], and Rarity is [[Total Drama World Tour|Sierra]].
** Arab World
*** Rainbow Dash is [[Transformers Prime|Miko Nakadai]].
* [[Most Annoying Sound]]: [[Andrea Libman]], voice of Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and (in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E8/E08 The Mysterious Mare Do Well|"The Mysterious Mare Do Well"]]) Daisy, has stated she hates hearing herself.
* [[Non -Singing Voice]]:
** Sweetie Belle's singing voice is Michelle Creber, who usually voices Apple Bloom. This makes Sweetie Belle's version "Fluttershy's Lullaby" all the more [[Crowning Music of Awesome|awesome]] when you realize that Michelle is ''a child''.<ref> It becomes obvious it's Michelle in that song when you notice Sweetie Belle sings with a noticeable twang. She fixes that by the Hearts and Hooves day song, though.</ref>
** And Pinkie Pie's singing voice is Shannon Chan-Kent. Andrea Libman however voices Fluttershy for both her speaking AND singing parts. The explanation is that the show's songwriter Daniel Ingram had Shannon, a friend of his, do some of the original demos (including the [http://soundcloud.com/dannyimusic/mlp-theme-demo-shan/s-VaBGI main theme]) and Hasbro liked her Pinkie voice so much they insisted on keeping her as the singing voice.
*** According to Andrea herself, she does ''some'' of Pinkie's singing, probably on the shorter songs but she hasn't elaborated beyond that. According to Daniel Ingram, Pinkie songs sung by Andrea include "Happy Monthiversary" from [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 /E12 Baby Cakes|"Baby Cakes"]] as well as [[Fan Nickname|"You're a Cranky Doodle Donkey"]], the "Welcome Song" and [[Fan Nickname|"Cranky Doodle Joy"]] from [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 /E18 A Friend in Deed|"A Friend in Deed"]].
** Also, Twilight Sparkle's singing voice is [[Rebecca Shoichet]], and Rarity's singing voice is [[Kazumi Evans]]. Not that [[Tara Strong (Creator)|Tara Strong]] and [[Tabitha St. Germain]] can't sing; they've both performed some singing roles in other shows in the past. For [[Tara Strong (Creator)|Tara Strong]] at least, this is due to her recording her lines separately (she’s based in a completely different country after all), and the ensemble songs require the actresses to be recorded together.
** The talking ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140915065720/http://www.target.com/p/Mymy-Littlelittle-Ponypony-Animatedanimated-Storystory-Tellerteller/-/A-13579989 Twilight Sparkle Animated Storyteller]'' and ''[http://www.walmart.com/ip/17270247 Pinkie Pie Animated Storyteller]'' toys [[The Other Darrin|have different voices]] when they speak, but have singing voices (taken from the show) done by Rebecca Shoichet and Shannon Chan-Kent.
* [[The Other Darrin]]:
** Background ponies generally have different voices from episode to episode, even when they're consistently named (as with Rose, who's been addressed by name in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E9/E09 Bridle Gossip|"Bridle Gossip"]] and [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 /E18 A Friend in Deed|"A Friend in Deed"]]). These voice changes have been especially noticeable in the case of [[All There in Thethe Script|Bon Bon]]; her five speaking parts so far generally sound completely different from each other ([[Wild Mass Guessing|which some fans have explained away by saying that Bon Bon herself is a voice actress, and is practicing for various parts]]).
** Almost all of the toy commercials include a few seconds of animation, and any pony who speaks during these will sound different (sometimes greatly so) than they do in the show. So far, this has happened with:
*** Applejack in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMatVdLyHq8 this commercial].
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*** Pinkie Pie in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrtUFeDB7gg this commercial], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTY3zJaA2Dc this commercial], and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPSY9QLNRY0 this commercial].
*** Rarity in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRSFsNbPp0o this commercial].
** Pinkie Pie has a different voice in the [[Face BookFacebook]] app ''[http://apps.facebook.com/ponyrificpictures/ Ponyrific Pictures]'' (even when she says lines from the show).
** Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash all have different voices in the Canadian live show.
** [[Non -Singing Voice|When they aren't singing]], the talking toys all count (with the possible exception of ''[http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_US/shop/details.cfm?guid=75772F80-5056-900B-1039-71172F211DE6 So Soft Newborn Sunny Daze]'', since in the show her voice hasn't been heard aside from a small gasp). ''[http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_US/shop/details.cfm?guid=75B991DA-5056-900B-10B6-1A6452E20001 So Soft Pinkie Pie Learns to Walk]'' and ''[http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_US/shop/details.cfm?guid=BE0E05EA-5056-900B-101B-08FAC4AD0DBD So Soft Newborn Sweetie Belle]'' having different voices can be believably [[Handwaved]] since those toys [[Spinoff Babies|depict them at younger ages than they've been shown at in the show]], but ''[http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_US/shop/details.cfm?guid=BE4ED12F-5056-900B-104B-E90F3F01878D Princess Celestia]'', ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140915065720/http://www.target.com/p/Mymy-Littlelittle-Ponypony-Animatedanimated-Storystory-Tellerteller/-/A-13579989 Twilight Sparkle Animated Storyteller]'', and ''[http://www.walmart.com/ip/17270247 Pinkie Pie Animated Storyteller]'' have no justification.
*** They sound close enough that it could be attributed to the cheapo teeny speaker distorting their speaking voices tho. However, this excuse cannot apply on the Ponyriffic pictures Facebook app since Pinkie still sounds off even with a home cinema speaker kit connected to the PC.
*** ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130123095621/http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_US/shop/details.cfm?R=C3C2BBC9-5056-900B-1091-96AF1754A2C0:en_US So Soft Newborn Spike the Dragon]'', and ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130123095626/http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_US/shop/details.cfm?R=C3C6D6FB-5056-900B-106B-67B78BDCFAFF:en_US So Soft Newborn Rainbow Dash]'' have different voices as well. Again, this can be [[Handwaved]] since the toy depicts them at a younger age.
*** Now, on the The ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20111230070639/http://www.target.com/p/My-Little-Pony-Purse-Set-Canterlot/-/A-13579987 Grand Galloping Gala Fashion Purse]'' wand. It does sound vaguely like Twilight Sparkle, but seasoned fans can clearly hear the difference. Unless the excuse is ''teeny speaker distorting things'', the box's advertisement of "...fun phrases in the voice of Twilight Sparkle" are [[Blatant Lies]].
** The sound clips played by the Pinkie Pie remote-controlled car's remote. Does the voice clips sound like Pinkie? Well, it actually sounds more like Sweetie Belle having a sugar rush...
** [[Your Mileage May Vary|Some argue that Big Macintosh sounds different than normally in Cutie Pox]], but there is no evidence that that's ''not'' Peter New saying more than just [[Catch Phrase|Eeeeyup]].
* [[Relationship Voice Actor]]: Since most of the cast comes from [[The Ocean Group]], a lot of them have worked together in other shows like [[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]], [[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]], [[Mobile Suit Gundam (Anime)|Mobile Suit Gundam]], [[Black Lagoon]], etc.
** On this show, Ashleigh Ball (Applejack) plays Michelle Creber's (Apple Bloom) older sister. On [[Dinosaur Train]] she plays her ''mother''.
** Here, Michelle Creber plays the main child character while Madeleine Peters (Scootaloo) plays her tomboy best friend. On ''[[Martha Speaks]]'', Peters plays the main child character and Creber is the tomboy friend. They also happen to be good friends in real life.
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** Also subverted with Shannon Chan-Kent, [[Maryke Hendrikse]], and [[Scott McNeil]], all of whom voice characters in [[Maryoku Yummy]], but have yet to have their respective characters interact with each other on-screen (unless you count Pinkie Pie's performance in "Over a Barrel").
* [[Talking to Himself|Talking To Herself]]:
** Andrea Libman pulls double duty as Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie. (How's THAT for acting range?) It's particularly evident when Fluttershy starts cheering towards the end of "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E16 Sonic Rainboom|Sonic Rainboom]]" and sounds nearly identical to Pinkie. She also voices Pumpkin Cake, making [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 /E12 Baby Cakes|"Baby Cakes"]] full of this.
*** Andrea has proved that she is capable of easily switching between the two voices on the fly. Pinkie-voice apparently gives the other actors a headache.
** Ashleigh Ball voices both Applejack and Rainbow Dash. Now go watch [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E13 Fall Weather Friends|"Fall Weather Friends"]] again, and marvel.<ref>Ashleigh has talked about how weird it was to be challenging herself to a race.</ref> She also voices one or more of the nurse ponies[[hottip:*:<ref>likely including Nurse [[Fan Nickname|Redheart]]</ref> in the [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 /E12 Baby Cakes|"Baby Cakes"]] [[Cold Open]] (when trying to get Pinkie to shut up, the nurse has a slight but noticeable Southern drawl), the male buffalo who talks to Spike in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E21 Over a Barrel|"Over a Barrel"]], and one of the dragons in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 /E21 Dragon Quest|"Dragon Quest"]].
*** Unlike Andrea, Ashleigh (being a professional singer), ''does'' sing both her characters' parts. At one point near the beginning of the [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E11 Winter Wrap Up|"Winter Wrap-Up"]] number, you can hear her switch from singing as AJ to Rainbow Dash ''mid-line''.
** [[Tabitha St. Germain]] voices Rarity, Princess Luna/Nightmare Moon, Granny Smith, Rarity's mom, Mrs. Cup Cake, Pound Cake, Photo Finish, (in the original version, at least) Derpy Hooves and (via a [[Stock Audio Clip]]) [[Fan Nickname|Millie]], but the only pairs of these characters who've had on-screen, two-way conversations are Rarity with Photo Finish and Rarity with her mom.
*** [[Word of God]] confirms that Tabitha also performs Twilight Sparkle during the studio recordings in Vancouver ([[Tara Strong (Creator)|Tara Strong]], based 2000 miles and an international border away, overdubs her part later), demonstrated by [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uJI1WdKOaw this behind the scenes video]. In other words, Tabitha probably talks to herself more than any other actress on the show!
*** This gets subverted in "Luna Eclipsed", Luna doesn't talk to the other Tabitha characters and [[Deleted Scene|Rarity's scene was cut for time]]<ref>And again, Tabitha does Twilight's scratch track ([[Tara Strong (Creator)|Tara Strong]] records separately later), who spends most of the episode talking to Luna. It must have been a ''fun'' day at the studio for her.</ref>
** Michelle Creber voices Apple Bloom and does Sweetie Belle's singing. The two of them talk to each other as part of the song in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 /E17 Hearts and Hooves Day|"Hearts and Hooves Day"]].<ref>Although given the technicalities of that song, Michelle probably was not ever switching voices on the fly.</ref>
** You'd think this wouldn't happen with [[Tara Strong (Creator)|Tara Strong]] since she only voices one character. It happens quite ''literally'' in "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 /E20 Its About Time|Its About Time]]" when Twilight talks to her future self.
** There's also one of the best songs in the show, This Day Aria, which is {{spoiler|Cadance singing with her changeling doppelganger.}}
 
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** Some of the dubs, from the previews seen so far, seem to be of the low-to-no-budget variety. The Canadian French dub is probably the worst.
** For unexplained reasons, Discovery Kids skipped the fifth episode during the initial Latin-American airing. It was later shown after episode 14, followed by an ongoing hiatus.
** In Canada, the show runs on [[Treehouse TV]] (which is geared towards preschoolers). The channel massively censored some episodes, the most well-known one being the silencing of all instances of the word "loser" from "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E6/E06 Boast Busters|Boast Busters]]", "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E12 Call of the Cutie|Call of the Cutie]]", and "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E25 Party of One|Party Of One]]". Keep in mind that ''the show is produced in Canada''.
** Now there's reports going around that Boomerang's airings of the show in some regions are incomplete, bringing in only half of each season.
* [[Executive Meddling]]: Lauren Faust has said that Hasbro's management of the show has generally been fairly easy-going, and she's been allowed a lot more freedom than she expected, with some exceptions:
** The overabundance of pink and hearts, [[Show Accuracy, Toy Accuracy|particularly in the design of the toyline]].
** Making Celestia [[Princesses Rule|a princess instead of a queen]].
** Faust would have preferred to do a series with an overarching storyline, probably keeping the [[Magical Girl]] stylings of the first two episodes, but Hasbro wanted the episodes to be viewable in any order.
*** On the other hand, Faust says "a lot of fans now seem to think that I had a grand scheme for a big, dramatic, serialized magical-girl style of a show. Actually, it was always my intention to have the show partially 'adventure stories' and partially 'relationship stories,' as I called them in my initial pitch bible."
** She also originally wanted the show's setting to be called Fillydelphia, since [[Author Appeal|most of her family live in Philadelphia]], but got [[Executive Veto|Executive Vetoed]]. Fillydelphia ended up being mentioned as a separate town in "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E10 Swarm of the Century|Swarm of the Century]]", "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 /E18 A Friend in Deed|A Friend in Deed]]", "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 /E20 Its About Time|It's About Time]]", and "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 /E22 Hurricane Fluttershy|Hurricane Fluttershy]]" instead.
*** Ironically, multiple fanfic authors have decided that Fillydelphia is a [[Crapsack World|Crapsack City]].
** Hasbro requested the inclusion of specific characters, though notably not ''how'' to use them -- only that they be in the show in some form. This is why Cheerilee became a teacher and got Happy Meal toys as part of the [[McDonald's]] promotions.
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* [[Line to God]]:
** [[Lauren Faust]] has a [[Deviant ART]] [http://fyre-flye.deviantart.com/ account], though she's quick to note that her [[Death of the Author|word isn't strictly canon]].
** Daniel Ingram, the show's songwriter, has a [[Face BookFacebook]] [http://www.facebook.com/dannyimusic page], a [[Twitter]] [http://twitter.com/dannyimusic account] and a [[YouTube]] [http://www.youtube.com/user/Coniferone channel].
** Jayson Thiessen, the show's current chief director and showrunner, has a [[Deviant ART]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130601145140/http://goldenrusset.deviantart.com/ account], a [[Twitter]] [http://twitter.com/goldenrusset account] and a [[YouTube]] [http://www.youtube.com/user/chubbydee channel], and is not shy about communicating with fans (at least about things he's allowed to discuss).
** A layout artist commonly going by "[http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showuser=14169 Nayuki]" posts on [http://www.allspark.com/forums the Allspark Forums], offering several bits of behind the scenes trivia. He's also the one who drew the San Diego Comic Con 2011 Pony Poster, which contained all the [[Shout -Out|shout outs]] to fans and [[Fanon]].
** And [http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Crew many, many more].
* [[No Export for You]]:
** Of the worst kind, [http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/01/clarification-from-hasbro-about.html due to deals made with TV networks outside of the US]. To date, the complete series has only been released for sale on the iTunes Store, which does not sell videos to those living in the remaining two-thirds of the world, and not even all of them are available outside the US in the one-third of the world where the iTunes Store sells videos. [[Netflix]] has all the episodes from seasons that have finished airing, as well as the episodes that [[Shout Factory]] has released on DVD. Selected episodes have also been released on the [[Leap FrogLeapFrog]] App Center, but that's region-locked too<ref>As of March 2012, the videos are only available on the US and Canada app sites, and only three pairs of episodes ("[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E7/E07 Dragon Shy|Dragonshy]]" with "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E10 Swarm of the Century|Swarm of the Century]]", "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E1/E01 Mare in Thethe Moon|Friendship is Magic, part 1]]" with "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E2/E02 Elements of Harmony|Friendship is Magic, part 2]]", and "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E18 The Show Stoppers|The Show Stoppers]]" with "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E17 Stare Master|Stare Master]]") are available</ref>. As for DVDs, Germany has a pair of 3-German-episode [[Region Coding|Region 0]] DVDs from Edel Germany GmbH, while Australia and New Zealand will start getting a five-volume [[Region Coding|Region 4]] DVD set of Season 1 from [[Madman Entertainment]] on June 20th, 2012. However, aside from those, only "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E3/E03 The Ticket Master|The Ticket Master]]" has been widely released (in some countries, only through limited-time promotions) on DVD outside the US (one or more countries may have received multiple episodes)--and even if you're willing to import, the two non-[[Shout Factory]] volumes, ''Celebration at Canterlot''<ref>containing "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E3/E03 The Ticket Master|The Ticket Master]]" and "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E14 Suited for Success|Suited For Success]]"</ref> and ''Adventures in Ponyville''<ref>containing "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E10 Swarm of the Century|Swarm of the Century]]", "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E16 Sonic Rainboom|Sonic Rainboom]]", "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E23 The Cutie Mark Chronicles|The Cutie Mark Chronicles]]", and the ''[[Family Game Night]]'' Season 1 episode featuring Leah's and Sabrina's families</ref>, are sold only at brick-and-mortar stores (in ''Celebration at Canterlot'''s case, only Target stores), so good luck finding them! Those who can't get Boomerang, which has somehow obtained the rights to air programming based on Hasbro's franchises almost everywhere outside North America, are screwed, since as noted in [[Screwed Byby the Network]], not all countries have pay-TV providers that carry Boomerang. [[Nick Jr.]]? Only in certain parts of East Europe, though the German dub of the entire first season can be watched for free on [[Nickelodeon]]'s [https://web.archive.org/web/20131005225246/http://www.nick.de/videos/show/1008-my-little-pony-freundschaft-ist-magie German site] as well as on [[Nick Jr.]]'s [https://web.archive.org/web/20120310185624/http://www.nickjr.de/list/video/my_little_pony German site]. And naturally, all the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131020072601/http://www.hubworld.com/my-little-pony/shows/friendship-is-magic/videos videos] on [[The Hub]]'s website are region-locked to the USA, even the short clips (and proxies apparently don't work)--the videos on Hasbro's main site may be viewable from outside the USA, but would require navigating to [http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_US/media/browse.cfm?type=videos the US version of the Videos page].
** Some parts of the [[Expanded Universe]]:
*** A British ''[[My Little Pony (Franchise)|My Little Pony]]'' magazine by Signature Publishing has printed at least six exclusive [[Tie-in Novel|stories]] (which are [[Novelization|novelizations]] of the episodes "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E1/E01 Mare in Thethe Moon|Friendship is Magic, part 1]]", "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E2/E02 Elements of Harmony|Friendship is Magic, part 2]]", "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E3/E03 The Ticket Master|The Ticket Master]]", "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E4/E04 Applebuck Season|Applebuck Season]]", "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E5/E05 Griffon the Brush Off|Griffon the Brush Off]]", and "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E7/E07 Dragon Shy|Dragonshy]]").
*** A French ''[[My Little Pony (Franchise)|My Little Pony]]'' magazine published by Panini has printed at least three exclusive [[Tie-in Novel|stories]] (one of which is a [[Novelization]] of the episode "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E4/E04 Applebuck Season|Applebuck Season]]").
*** A German ''[[My Little Pony (Franchise)|My Little Pony]]'' magazine published by Panini has printed at least ten exclusive [[Comic Book Adaptation|comics]] and at least three exclusive [[Tie-in Novel|stories]] (one of which is a [[Novelization]] of the episode "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E3/E03 The Ticket Master|The Ticket Master]]").
*** A Norwegian ''[[My Little Pony (Franchise)|My Little Pony]]'' magazine published by Egmont has printed at least four [[Tie-in Novel|stories]], two of which have also been printed in the Polish magazine mentioned below.
*** A Polish ''[[My Little Pony (Franchise)|My Little Pony]]'' magazine has printed at least two [[Tie-in Novel|stories]], both of which have also been printed in the Norwegian magazine mentioned above.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20120621013750/http://www.toywiz.com/mylittlepony2pack.html Judging] [https://web.archive.org/web/20120706122956/http://www.toywiz.com/mylittlepony2box.html by] [https://web.archive.org/web/20120619200016/http://www.toywiz.com/mylittleponys3pack.html these] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130729190110/http://www.toywiz.com/mylittlepony3box.html listings], it appears that the American release of the Blind Bags will be skipping wave 2 and jumping straight to waves 3 & 4. With only three waves [http://idlehands1.blogspot.com/2012/02/toy-fair-2012-my-little-pony-wedding.html announced] at the 2012 New York Toy Fair and a [http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/03/tons-of-new-blindbags-actual-lyra.html fifth] wave in the works for the European release, it's unknown if the second wave will ever make it to the US.
* [[Old Shame]]: As Lauren Faust pointed out in the page quote on the main page, the biggest obstacle against potential viewers giving ''Friendship Is Magic'' a chance is the reputation for being [[Merchandise-Driven]] and [[Tastes Like Diabetes|Tasting Like Diabetes]] that ''[[My Little Pony]]'' had gained in the previous 28 years of its history. In fact, this show first attracted [[Image Boards|/co/]]'s attention because of a post on Cartoon Brew accusing Faust of being a corporate sellout for taking this job even before the pilot aired.
* [[One of Us]]: Lauren Faust apparently is very aware of /co/'s obsession with the show, and (before leaving the show) would often post little in-jokes on her deviantART profile. Also, see [[Sure Why Not]] below.
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*** Ingram has also commented favourably on the efforts of certain Youtubers to remix his Pony songs. In fact, he was willing to personally help out one remixer who was having trouble figuring out the chord progressions in "At The Gala".
** Some people who work on children's cartoons aren't too proud of their work. ''Friendship is Magic'' animators [http://sibsy.deviantart.com/#/d47xkjb draw OCs] and ''[http://princesschuchi.deviantart.com/gallery/32099918# cosplay]''.
** William Anderson is ''definitively'' a brony. His [https://web.archive.org/web/20131122091513/http://www.andersonscores.com/ homepage] opens to a ponification of himself. There is also a photo of himself, in his studio, working on an episode of ''Friendship Is Magic'', while wearing a T-shirt that says "BRONY".
* [[Promoted Fanboy|Promoted Fangirl]]: Lauren Faust played with the G1 toys as a child. (She even named her [[Deviant ART]] handle "fyre-flye" after her favorite MLP G1 character.)
** A few other staff members also have fond memories of the older shows. And a lot more became very fond of it in the work process.
* [[Rule Thirty Four 34/Creator Reactions]]: "I'm a big girl. When stuff gets too icky I just find something else to do."
** Lauren ''did'' eventually have to clarify this a bit, insisting that fans please ''not'' remind her that Rule 34 Pony art exists.
** [[Tara Strong (Creator)|Tara Strong]] jokingly posted ''[http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/4d91fb767fe5e6e1f06fa161ad758729/133410%20-%20artist%3Abrianblackberry%20celestia_tier_troll%20plot%20Tara_Strong%20tara_strong_is_best_pony%20tara_strong_is_best_troll%20twilight_sparkle%20Twitter.jpg this]''{{Dead link}} along with some other pictures of characters she's voiced on [http://twitter.com/#!/tarastrong her Twitter], then later asked what [[Rule Thirty Four34]] and trolling was and said "Dear Princess Celestia, the Internet scares me". Then again, she's been in the business long enough to see the trend, and she's known for having a quirky sense of humor on her twitterTwitter account, so who knows at this point.
*** It's pretty much confirmed at this point that Tara Strong is totally trolling the bronies, and most of them know it too. The problem is the fans [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys|who take her seriously...]]
* [[Screwed Byby the Network]]: Thus far actually subverted within the US. Despite having a terrible airtime for new episodes—the middle of the day on a Friday! (until Season 2 that is)—on a non-mainstream channel that's only available on upper-tier cable and satellite packages, the show's been doing very well even with its target demographic, and [[The Hub]] considers it one of its A-list shows. ''Outside'' the US, however, this trope is being played depressingly straight: For most of the world (barring the East Europe Blocs, where the rights went to Viacom, who airs it on Nick Jr in that region), the show's rights went to Time Warner, which is screwing it over by airing it on Boomerang instead of Cartoon Network. In many parts of the world, as in parts of the US, Boomerang is almost always a premium add-on channel, whereas Cartoon Network is bundled with the basic packages, so it would have a wider audience on the latter. Aside from that, as stated before, some countries don't get Boomerang even ''if'' they get Cartoon Network.<ref>If you think about it and apply [[Insane Troll Logic]], CN's reason to screw Hasbro over is very clear, and it appears that Hasbro's management are probably [[Genre Blind]]. [[Cartoon Network]] and Boomerang are owned by Time Warner. Time Warner also owns DC, whose toy rights are with Hasbro's arch-rival, Mattel. Aggravating things is that Hasbro themselves currently hold the toy rights to DC's rival Marvel, which in turn is owned by Time Warner rival and former Hasbro broadcaster Disney. Why Hasbro didn't think about this themselves is beyond anyone's guess.</ref>
** Another relatively mild example is in Canada, where the show airs on [[Treehouse TV]], a channel otherwise dedicated to pre-school programming, and the airing times verge on the completely random. Let's hear it for DVRs.
** And how the network screwed it. Treehouse [[Bowdlerize|mutes out every uttering of the word "loser"]] (except [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E16 Sonic Rainboom|once, when Rainbow Dash says it]]) and rarely airs [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E5/E05 Griffon the Brush Off|an episode about bullying]].
** Screwed to the extreme by [[NTV 7]] in Malaysia. The show was supposed to premiere on March 3, 2012 on said channel. It was yanked in the last minute and replaced with ''[[Lily The Witch]]''. More egregiously is that the show ID overlay still shows the airing show as ''My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic''. It's like the ''Screwed by Fox Network'' joke in [[Futurama]] taken up to 11 in which the show was screwed before it could even premiere!
** [[Network to Thethe Rescue]]: Recent episodes are shown on the Hub website for free, [http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/05/friendship-is-magic-finally-gets-real.html the show is now being shown three times a day on the Hub network itself during the summer when its younger audience will be off from school], and every episode can still be found in full length HD form on [[YouTube]], since little effort has been made to remove them by the corporations who own the copyrights and trademarks (the notable exception to this is that Hasbro ''has'' taken considerable effort of late to keep the iTunes rips off of Youtube, since that directly affects their sales, as well as runs the risk of pissing off Apple, which no one wants to do).
*** New episodes of Season 2 were originally being aired on Saturday at 9 AM ([[ANSI Standard Broadcast TV Schedule|''The Hub'' operates only on Eastern Time for most packages]]), but are now pushed back to 10 AM
**** And 1 PM eastern as of March 3, 2012, coincidentally placing it at 10 AM on the other side of the country!
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** This whole thing got started because [[Lauren Faust]] was [http://www.awn.com/blogs/miscweant/ponies-and-bronies pitching to Hasbro] an animated series based on her own dolls, ''[[Milky Way and The Galaxy Girls]]''. We almost got an original property and ''[[My Little Pony]]'' would still be in G3.5 or someone else would have handled the reboot, and who knows how ''that'' would have turned out.
** Several characters had name changes for legal reasons. Twilight Sparkle was Twilight Twinkle (a G3 pony), Princess Luna was Princess Selena, Apple Bloom was Appleseed, Big Macintosh was Big Apple, and Gilda was Grizelda.
*** The [[Novelization|storybook version]] of the [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E1/E01 Mare in Thethe Moon|pilot]] [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E2/E02 Elements of Harmony|episodes]] does call Luna "Selena."
*** Along with Big Apple, Sweet Apple Acres was going to be called Big Apple Orchard or Big Apple Farm - the idea was that Applejack's brother inherited the farm while she just ran things. It also was originally not supposed to be in Ponyville at all, but in a different town known as Fillysire.
** In the original pitch Apple Bloom was alone in her quest for a Cutie Mark. Lauren was asked (not forced, as she puts it) to add Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo and the Crusaders were born. Oddly enough, Lauren Faust always thought they should have their own [[Spin-Off]] show for preschoolers (where kids learn how to do stuff while the Crusaders are engaging in new activities looking for their cutie marks).
** In Lauren's original pitch for the show, Pinkie Pie was a Pegasus and Fluttershy was an Earth Pony. The entire cast went through a design change, from G1 Ponies to G3 Ponies (though some of them are [[In Name Only]]).
** Lauren has said she had a [http://comments.deviantart.com/4/1603670/2041358198 sea ponies episode] in mind, but it didn't get made under her watch. We almost got shoo-be-doo'd!
** Composer Daniel Ingram posted to his SoundCloud [http://soundcloud.com/dannyimusic profile] an [http://soundcloud.com/dannyimusic/mlp1-hop-skip-jump-song early version] of "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3VmzZU4XuA Hop, Skip, and Jump]" from "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E7/E07 Dragon Shy|Dragonshy]]" in response to receiving 3500 likes on his [[Face BookFacebook]] [http://www.facebook.com/dannyimusic page].
** The show was originally going to be named ''My Little Pony Adventures''.
** Trixie was originally going to be a boy.
** Lauren originally designed several monsters to be [http://fyre-flye.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d48boas cuter] and [http://fyre-flye.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d48bovf prettier] thinking Hasbro wouldn't let her get away with the monsters being "too scary". Turns out she was wrong and Hasbro didn't think her original designs were scary ''enough''.
*** On the other end, the Ursa Major was [http://fyre-flye.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4axk45 much uglier] and scarier before getting toned down (and it's still pretty ugly and scary). Interestingly, in this case, the change was not due to worries that it might be too scary but because it the difference between adult and baby was too drastic and executives were worried that the intended demographic might not recognize the larger monster as being the same species.
** The show was originally intended to be 1/3 adventure stories, but it quickly became apparent that the extra workload they entailed meant they were difficult to pull off on the ''very'' tight production schedule. Lauren said that the main casualty of this was Zecora, with her originally planned mentorship role not really needed.
*** Similiarly, Lauren originally envisioned a lot more diversity in body types for the ponies, but that too would've been more work for the animators.
** [[Word of God]] [https://twitter.com/M_A_Larson/status/209496334707863552 says] that "all eps have sort of "placeholder" titles and lots of them change." The episodes with known [[Working Title|Working Titles]] are:
*** "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E1/E01 Mare in Thethe Moon|Friendship]] [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E2/E02 Elements of Harmony|is Magic]]" may have been "Mare In The Moon". This ended up being used as the alternate title of part 1.
*** "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E10 Swarm of the Century|Swarm of the Century]]" was originally called "Pied Piper Pinkie" before a story meeting.
*** "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E12 Call of the Cutie|Call of the Cutie]]" originally had the same title, but without the "the." It was changed because the Hub didn't want MLP to reference [[Call of Duty|an M-rated video game series.]]
*** "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E14 Suited for Success|Suited For Success]]" was "Dress for Failure". It was changed for sounding too negative.
*** "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E17 Stare Master|Stare Master]]" was "Fluster-shy".
*** "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E26 The Best Night Ever|The Best Night Ever]]" may have been "The Grand Galloping Gala".
*** "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E1/E01 The Return of Harmony Part 1|The Return]] [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E2/E02 The Return of Harmony Part 2|of Harmony]]" may have been "Seeds of Chaos" and possibly "The Return To Harmony".
*** "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E7/E07 May the Best Pet Win|May the Best Pet Win!]]" was "The Tortoise & the Mare". They changed it because it gave away {{spoiler|the species of Dash's eventual pet.}}
*** "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 /E10 Secret of My Excess|Secret of My Excess]]" was "Attack of the 50 Foot Dragon", and before that it was "Giving Dangerously".
*** "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 /E16 Read It and Weep|Read It and Weep]]" was apparently "Reading Rainbow". Legal issues with the TV show prevented this, though [[The Merch]] did get to [https://web.archive.org/web/20120605020107/http://www.welovefine.com/2066-reading-rainbow.html use] [https://web.archive.org/web/20120430213022/http://www.welovefine.com/2107-reading-rainbow.html it].
*** "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 /E15 The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000|The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000]]" was apparently "Cider Horse Rules".
** ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131027194050/http://www.hubworld.com/my-little-pony/shows/friendship-is-magic/games/mlp-adventures-in-ponyville Adventures in Ponyville]'' was going to have a Fluttershy game, which can be glimpsed [http://www.hubworld.com/hubworld/flash/games/GAME_A_MLPHUB/assetsuitcase/MishMash.swf here]{{Dead link}} and read about [https://web.archive.org/web/20130808041755/http://www.hubworld.com/hubworld/flash/games/GAME_A_MLPHUB/assetsuitcase/strings.xml here].
** According to Lauren, Rarity had a scene scripted for "Luna Eclipsed" where she goes overboard designing an outfit to soften Princess Luna's demeanor, leading to [[Not What It Looks Like|another humorous misunderstanding]], but it apparently got cut for time, so Rarity is ultimately an [[Absentee Actor]] (though her voice actress is still present as Granny Smith and Luna<ref> and Twilight during the studio recording.</ref>).
*** The dress Rarity made for Luna in the above scene does appear in [http://www.hubworld.com/hubworld/flash/games/GAME_C_MLPCASTLE/assetsuitcase/characters/MLP_CharH_Luna.swf a file]{{Dead link}} [[Dummied Out]] from [[The Hub]]'s [https://web.archive.org/web/20131027135357/http://www.hubworld.com/my-little-pony/shows/friendship-is-magic/games/game-mylittlepony-castle-creator version] of the ''[http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_US/play/details.cfm?guid=5B309E58-5056-900B-1040-324367303E14 Castle Creator]'' game, though.
** Kathleen Barr, the voice of Trixie, apparently did a [http://comments.deviantart.com/4/1603670/2248568130 "very good"] audition for Celestia.
** Pinkie Pie's "Piggy Dance" song from "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 /E12 Baby Cakes|Baby Cakes]]" was originally written for "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E26 The Best Night Ever|The Best Night Ever]]", but was [[Cut Song|cut]] at the last minute due to time restrictions.
** There were plans for an [http://comments.deviantart.com/4/1603670/2371989638 episode centered around Big Macintosh]. The episode was supposed to have little dialogue coming from the star character. However, it was dropped for a probable number of reasons (namely, that silence can get very boring).
** Princess Cadance [http://comments.deviantart.com/4/1603670/2410503146 previously wasn't going to be] a [[Winged Unicorn]]. Lauren was surprised (not necessarily pleasantly) at this development.
** According to [http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/02/amy-keating-rogers-response-to-derpy.html Amy Keating Rogers], Derpy's scene in "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 /E14 The Last Roundup|The Last Roundup]]" was originally going to be a little longer complete with a flashback on ''how'' the Town Hall got ruined. She was also named Ditzy Doo (a character previously mentioned in "Winter Wrap Up" that [[Lauren Faust]] considered using Derpy's design for), but was referred to as "Derpy" as a [[Fandom Nod]].
** According to [https://twitter.com/#!/M_A_Larson M.A. Larson], the Ponyville Schoolhouse's school paper was originally called ''The Horse's Mouth'' instead of ''Foal Free Press'', and Featherweight was originally called Milquetoast and he was Namby-Pamby's little brother.
** According to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZWBQMA1wcE&t=37m55s Lauren], she initially wanted [[Tara Strong]] to voice Pinkie Pie, and Tara wanted to voice her with a [[Powerpuff Girls|Bubbles]]-esque voice.
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** Derpy Hooves' name and personality, all extrapolated from an animation glitch in an early episode.
** Ever since the Pegasus Derpy became the unofficial mother of the Unicorn Dinky, fans try to explain how that's possible; theories range from the father being a Unicorn to it being in their DNA. "Baby Cakes" revealed that the Cakes' new baby twin foals, {{spoiler|Unicorn and a Pegasus}}, got those traits from their parents' other family members.
{{quote| '''Mr. Cake''': That makes sense, right?}}
** [[All There in Thethe Script]] names from the toy line include [[Fan Nickname|Cherry]] Berry, [[Fan Nickname|Lyra]] Heartstrings, and Sunny [[Fan Nickname|Rays]]. Of course, most of the ascended [[Fan Nickname|Fan Nicknames]] are generic enough that they could just be cases of [[I Knew It!]], and the name "Cherry Berry" had previously been used as the British name of the G1 pony Crunch Berry.
* [[Dye Hard]]: [[All There in Thethe Script|Golden Harvest]] ([[Fan Nickname|Carrot Top]])'s hair was briefly green in "Boast Busters" as part of a gag and goes back to orange right afterwards.
{{quote| '''Rarity:''' No! Green hair? Not green hair! Such an awful color!<br />
'''Golden Harvest:''' ...Well...I never! }}
** [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 /E23 Ponyville Confidential|"Ponyville Confidential"]] shows that the mayor's hair is naturally {{spoiler|pink}}.
* [[Fan Community Nicknames]]: Fans who are older than the target demographic are known as "bronies."
** Many female fans call themselves "pegasisters".
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*** And sometimes "The Mane Cast" if one's willing to include [[And Zoidberg|Spike]].
*** Also, if any of the Mane Characters has a breakdown, shows off a different personality, or otherwise something is different about them than usual it tends to get its own nickname, such as "Pinkamena" for straight-haired depressed Pinkie, "Flutterage" for Fluttershy's rampage in "The Best Night Ever", "Flutterbitch" for Fluttershy's Discorded personality in "The Return of Harmony", and "Psycho Twilight" for Twilight's breakdown in "Lesson Zero". There are many, many more; too many to really list them all here.
** Almost ''every'' [[Memetic Bystander|background pony]] has a nickname, and it'd be way too much to list them all. See our [[Main/My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Characters/Background Ponies/Characters|Character page]] and [[Ensemble Darkhorse/Western Animation/My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Ensemble Darkpony page]] for a list of the more prominent ones or [http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_ponies here] for a more complete list. Be warned, [[Loads and Loads of Characters|there's a lot of them]].
** Many fans call the Mayor of Ponyville [[A Worldwide Punomenon|"Mayor Mare"]], sometimes with the first name [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!|"Cougar"]].
** Rarity's [[Impractically Fancy Outfit|costume]] and [[Uncanny Valley Makeup|make-up]] for the Best Young Flyer Competition in "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E16 Sonic Rainboom|Sonic Rainboom]]" seems to have led to people calling her [[Lady Gaga (Music)|"Pony Gaga"]].
*** At least, up until "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E20 Green Isn't Your Color|Green Isn't Your Color]]". The nickname seems to have officially transferred to Photo Finish since then (despite clear evidence that Photo Finish is actually based on "Vogue" fashion editor Anna Wintour).
*** Coincidentally, [[Lady Gaga (Music)|Lady Gaga]] is a fan of the show.
** The big red dragon from "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E7/E07 Dragon Shy|Dragonshy]]" seems to have attracted the nickname "Basil", after a dragon from the G1 series.
** Thanks to some fans fooling around with [[YouTube]]'s [[So Bad It's Good]] auto-caption function, a lot of fans have taken to calling the river serpent from episode 2 "Steven Magnet".
*** These captions have also inspired the nickname "Reginald" for the green dragon in "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E24 OwlsOwl's Well That Ends Well|Owl's Well That Ends Well]]".
** Pinkie's sisters are often called Blinkamena/Bellamina Marie ("Blinkie") and Inkamena/Isabelle Lilly ("Inkie"); likewise, her parents are often dubbed "Clyde" and "Sue". [[Pac-Man|There's a theme here.]]
** Prince Blueblood, Celestia's infamous nephew, was known for a while as "Prince Astron", since he wasn't referred to by name during his first appearance (during Rarity's fantasy sequence in "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E3/E03 The Ticket Master|The Ticket Master]]"). When he turned out to be [[Prince Charmless|a pompous jerk]] in "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E26 The Best Night Ever|The Best Night Ever]]", he quickly attracted a host of unflattering nicknames, including "Prince Glueblood" and "Prince Douchebag".
*** Lauren Faust and the staff have since regretted implying Blueblood was related to Celestia ''at all'' and have pretty much [[Retcon|Retconned]] it. The original plan was to have him be a [[Blue Blood|duke]], but the idea was dropped because they were concerned that the target audience wouldn't understand what a duke is (turned out for the best since some [[Periphery Demographic|bronies]] didn't know either).
** [[Tropers/Mugen Kagemaru|A certain fan's]] comment on some fan-art of Princess Luna's adult self found on Ponibooru before the reveal has led to Adult!Luna being referred to as "Moonlight Dream".
** Discord is sometimes referred to as DisQord to draw attention to his voice actor having played Q from ''[[Star Trek]]''. Some fans have also taken to shortening his name to "Disco", because of a short clip of him doing "the running man" while hopping around in Celestia's stained glass windows.
** The boulder that Discord tricks Rarity into lugging around was dubbed "Dan" by the fans as a result of Youtube captions. Then the next episode came out, revealing that Rarity had named it "Tom". The boulder is now sometimes known as "Tom Dan" by the fans.
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** From "Lesson Zero", Rainbow Dash's aerial dive that utterly decimated Applejack's old barn and left a [[Everything Makes a Mushroom|rainbow-colored mushroom cloud]] has been given many different nicknames like the Atomic Rainboom, the Sonic Rainbomb, or the Sonic Rainnuke. The latter seems to be the most popular.
** The [[Nice Hat]] that Cheerilee gives Spike in "Secret of My Excess" has made the fans give Spike the nickname of Smooth Criminal, to go with all the [[Michael Jackson]] jokes.
** Scootaloo has been given the name "Terry" thanks to a [[Stylistic Suck]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20120501224647/http://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/view/131034 fancomic].
** The Japanese fansubs on [[Nico Nico Douga]] have led to a few: 'Aniki' (Big Bro) for Big Macintosh and 'Air Waifu' for Rainbow Dash<ref>RD's second most identifiable trait to the Japanese fans (after being a [[Bokukko]]) was her [[Innocently Insensitive]] nature, known in Japanese slang as 'kuuki yome' (short for 'kuuki yomenai' = 'can't read the atmosphere'). And those two words happen to be homonymous with 'air' and 'wife', alluding to RD being a pegasus and connecting it to the My Waifu meme.</ref>
** The changeling that took up Pinkie's request to transform into her has become popular enough that ponibooru dubbed the changeling Doomie, based on the line that got it to transform in the first place ("Do me! Do me!").
* [[I Knew It!]]:
** We have a [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Confirmed/WMG/Confirmed|list]] of [[Wild Mass Guessing|Wild Mass Guesses]] that turned out to be true.
*** Although that's only a fraction of the size of the [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Jossed/WMG/Jossed|list of Jossed guesses]]. So even a stopped clock is right at least twice a day.
** The idea that the pink-haired blue pony who works in the spa (with the [[Fan Nickname]] Lotus) has a twin sister named Aloe originated in [[Fan Fiction]]. In "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E20 Green Isn't Your Color|Green Isn't Your Color]]", we see her [[Palette Swap|Palette Swapped]] twin for the first time. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110830054045/http://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/view/7606 Turns out there are twin Europe-only G1 toys who look very much like them.]
** [http://sweetiebelle-fim.deviantart.com/art/MAKE-IT-STOP-205208721 This image] and [http://death-driver-5000.deviantart.com/art/Corrupted-Twilight-Sparkle-259390898 this image] predicted events that would happen in "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E2/E02 The Return of Harmony Part 2|The Return of Harmony Part 2]]".
** A common fandom interpretation of Luna was that she'd be [[The Atoner]] trying to improve her image. That's pretty much the exact plot of the season 2 episode "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E4/E04 Luna Eclipsed|Luna Eclipsed]]".
*** The ''[[Pony POV Series (Fanfic)|Pony POV Series]]'' accurately guessed that Luna would [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant|have a scary sense of taste.]]
*** But the [[Large Ham]] and [[No Indoor Voice]] took ''everyone'' by surprise.
*** Everyone?
{{quote| '''Luna''': [[Progress|"EUREKA! I AM THE GODDESS OF MATH ONCE AGAIN!]] [[Evil Laugh|MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"]]}}
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20140211034039/http://aleximusprime.deviantart.com/art/I-m-Sorry-264085937 This] was uploaded over ''two weeks'' before "Sisterhooves Social".
** Some fans predicted Silver Spoon would show [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold|some hidden kindness]] because she has a heart in the handle of the spoon in her Cutie Mark. In "Family Appreciation Day", she's the first pony to start applauding Granny Smith's story about the foundation of Ponyville.
** It was never implied that Spitfire was Captain of the Wonderbolts in her first couple of appearances, but most fans assumed she was after "The Best Night Ever", probably due to her being the more level-headed of the two named Wonderbolts. This was confirmed in "Hurricane Fluttershy".
* [[Jossed]]:
** For the better part of a year, Princess Luna was often portrayed in the fandom as a meek, soft-spoken [[Woobie]]. It was a surprise when Luna's reappearance in "Luna Eclipsed" portrayed her as a bellowing [[Large Ham]] [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant|with a taste for the macabre]], but no less a woobie for it.
** [[All There in Thethe Script|The toy line has revealed the names of several ponies not named in the show]], though exactly how many names have been given is unclear (due to unclear distinction between [[You Don't Look Like You]] and [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]). In any case, very few official names had been used by fans beforehand (whether [[Ascended Fanon]] or [[I Knew It!]]); the few that had been [[Fan Nickname|Fan Nicknames]] include the first parts of Cherry Berry<ref>a name Hasbro had used for a G1 pony in the UK</ref> and Lyra Heartstrings as well as the second part of Sunny Rays.
** A minor case with Vinyl Scratch, who returns in "A Canterlot Wedding, Part 2". Most fans believed her eyes were red behind the [[Cool Shades]]; they actually turned out to be magenta. Close, but no cigar.
* [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]]: Inevitable due to the sad fact that the show's being screwed by Time Warner (who holds the rights to the show in almost all regions outside of the US, and proceeded to make the show as hard to access as possible to Joe Public) and by some terrestrial stations who have secured the per-country rights to the series (such as NTV7!), and Hasbro not doing anything to remedy the situation. Besides Edel Germany GmbH's two [[Region Coding|Region 0]] volumes (containing the first six episodes in German) and [[Madman Entertainment]]'s upcoming five [[Region Coding|Region 4]] volumes (containing the first season), all of the DVDs are [[Out of Order]] themed sets of episodes (thanks to [[Executive Meddling]] and/or lack of retailer interest), and the two pre-[[Shout Factory]] volumes are not sold online. There's very slim chance (if ''any chance'' at all) of complete season releases in other regions, and it isn't guaranteed that the individual discs will include every episode. So far, 12 episodes have been released on DVD within the US: "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E1/E01 Mare in Thethe Moon|Friendship is Magic, part 1]]"<ref>on ''The Friendship Express''</ref>; "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E2/E02 Elements of Harmony|Friendship is Magic, part 2]]"<ref>on ''The Friendship Express''</ref>; "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E3/E03 The Ticket Master|The Ticket Master]]"<ref>on ''Celebration at Canterlot'' and ''The Ticket Master''</ref>; "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E4/E04 Applebuck Season|Applebuck Season]]"<ref>on ''Applebuck Season''</ref>; "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E10 Swarm of the Century|Swarm of the Century]]"<ref>on ''Adventures in Ponyville''</ref>; "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E14 Suited for Success|Suited For Success]]"<ref>on ''Celebration at Canterlot''</ref>; "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E16 Sonic Rainboom|Sonic Rainboom]]"<ref>on ''Adventures in Ponyville''</ref>; "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E21 Over a Barrel|Over a Barrel]]"<ref>on ''The Friendship Express''</ref>; "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E23 The Cutie Mark Chronicles|The Cutie Mark Chronicles]]"<ref>on ''Adventures in Ponyville''</ref>; "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E3/E03 Lesson Zero|Lesson Zero]]"<ref>on ''Lesson Zero''</ref>; "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 /E13 HearthsHearth's Warming Eve|Hearth's Warming Eve]]"<ref>on ''The Friendship Express''</ref>; and "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 /E14 The Last Roundup|The Last Roundup]]"<ref>original version on ''The Friendship Express''</ref>. The upcoming DVD ''Royal Pony Wedding'' will add five more episodes to this pool: "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E26 The Best Night Ever|The Best Night Ever]]", "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E9/E09 Sweet and Elite|Sweet and Elite]]", "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 /E17 Hearts and Hooves Day|Hearts and Hooves Day]]", "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 /E25 A Canterlot Wedding Part 1|A Canterlot Wedding - Part 1]]", and "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 /E26 A Canterlot Wedding Part 2|A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2]]".
** Though [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|the entire first season is now on Netflix..]] in America at least.
*** And season 2 is on iTunes
* [[Name's the Same]]:
** There's a popular ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' companion named Rose. Given the popularity of Doctor Whooves in this fandom, it's a little surprising that Rose, a minor recurring and named character in the show, doesn't show up more in crossover fanworks (most of them instead use Derpy as The Doctor's Companion).
** Background pony Golden Harvest shares her [[All There in Thethe Script]] name with [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Harvest:Golden Harvest|a film company]] which has produced many [[Bruce Lee]] and [[Jackie Chan]] movies.
** Celestia is also the name of a popular astronomy software.
** Changelings have invaded Canterlot!...No, not the [[StarcraftStarCraft II (Video Game)|Zerg]], a race of bug-like shapeshifting creatures that follow an evil Queen...wait, now that's just confusing!
* [[Separated Byby a Common Language]]: For those outside Northern America it's really weird seeing Ponyville going nuts for cider in ''The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000''. This is because in the US and Canada 'cider' primarily means a soft drink, while everywhere else cider is alcoholic by default.
** The US and Canada certainly ''do'' have alcoholic cider (even if it's not the norm), and given the ponies' expressions after drinking it—and Berry Punch's reaction to NOT getting to drink it—this ambiguity was definitely intentional on Studio B's part.
 
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* Due to the time and difficulty of creating multiple unique ponies, any time there's a crowd scene, background ponies ''will'' be doubled. Especially noticeable with ponies like Bon Bon that have unique mane colors.
** In several crowd scenes, many--if not all--of the generic background ponies will be blank-flanked.
** Though it's hard to notice, a certain aerial shot of Ponyville<ref>used in "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E9/E09 Bridle Gossip|Bridle Gossip]]" and partially in "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E1/E01 The Return of Harmony Part 1|The Return of Harmony Part 1]]"</ref> contains multiple Trixies--what's more, all of them are blank flanks, even though Trixie already has a cutie mark.
* Quite a few animation errors happen to Cheerilee. The most common error for her is the top of her normally two-toned mane becoming solid-colored, but (as detailed below) she's also had a missing leg, had Fluttershy's tail, had her face disappear, had a different cutie mark, and had a different eye color.
* Twist earned her Cutie Mark in "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E12 Call of the Cutie|Call of the Cutie]]", but in "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E18 The Show Stoppers|The Show Stoppers]]" and "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E1/E01 The Return of Harmony Part 1|The Return of Harmony Part 1]]" she's back to being a blank flank. In "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E6/E06 The Cutie Pox|The Cutie Pox]]" and "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 /E11 Family Appreciation Day|Family Appreciation Day]]", she goes back and forth between having her mark and not having one.
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=== Season 1 ===
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== The Ticket Master ==
 
* Applejack talks about getting "these [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Delicious:Golden Delicious|Golden Delicious]] in the barn by lunchtime" while she's transporting two baskets of bright red and green apples (and just possibly one yellow one on the other side that is barely visible for a moment). The number of green apples also decreases between shots.
* When Twilight finds Fluttershy doing her 'spring cleaning', her wings start flapping out of sync.
* During a group shot of Twilight's friends, one of Fluttershy's wings is blue.
 
== Griffon the Brush Off ==
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== Dragonshy ==
 
* When Rainbow Dash runs and jumps off the ledge, her Cutie Mark is different--specifically, it's [http://www.ponibooru.org/post/view/67462 an old, unused design]{{Dead link}}.
* When all the others pile up behind Fluttershy to push her towards the cave, Rainbow Dash is second in line right after Twilight Sparkle. When they look up from behind her in the next shot, she is farthest away instead.
* Towards the beginning avalanche zone segment, Fluttershy is startled by a falling leaf landing on her flank. As she screams "AVALA--!!", she is temporarily drawn with Twilight Sparkle's almond-shaped eyes instead of her usual [[Tareme]].
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== Look Before You Sleep ==
 
* When Applejack knocks Rarity off the bed, Rarity has an extra leg for one frame.
** In the following scene, the bedsheet is missing its stripe at its top.
 
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* When Spike complains that the parasprites are messing up his cleaning, the window next to him shows a night sky instead of day like all the other windows.
* Rainbow Dash's goggles appear and disappear at random when Twilight's group is back at Ponyville.
* Pinkie Pie's accordion moves from her right flank to the left and then returns to her right flank.
* Princess Celestia's wings switch from unfurled to furled between shots.
* Pinkie Pie holds the trombone completely incorrectly at the end (moving the slide with the wrong hoof and supporting the instrument from the wrong side), as well as the fact that the physics when Pinkie Pie both mimes and plays the trombone are reversed. When she sings the "Daaaauuuuuuuuu-uh!" glissando, her arm should move out then in, instead of in then out. When she plays it at the end, the pitch is rising at the beginning of each "wah!" as she moves the slide out, which is the opposite of how a trombone works. Still hilarious, though.
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* Twilight and Cheerilee walk into the library. After Scootaloo pops up out of the pile of books, Cheerilee is suddenly wearing a pair of saddlebags.
* Shortly afterward, when the Crusaders walk out of the pile, Scootaloo is missing her wings (again).
** The above two notes are [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in [httphttps://wwwweb.ponibooruarchive.org/postweb/view20210321044750/24440http://ww1.ponibooru.org/?subid1=9654e026-8a00-11eb-abbb-5dc845aad6bd this comic]{{Dead link}}. It's [[Rule of Funny|hilarious]]!
* The audience at the talent competition consists, ironically enough, entirely of adult ponies with no Cutie Marks (plus Applejack).
* When the Cutie Mark Crusaders are walking away from the stage, the objects in front of the back wall and parts of the back wall itself move as the camera pans across.
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* When Rarity's charming a couple of her neighbors, [[Nightmare Fuel|pay close attention to]] [[media:wtf_ponyface_1682.jpg|Noteworthy]].
* When Applejack sets up her stand and makes a sale, her shoes are mysteriously absent in a few frames.
* Later in that episode, Rarity's golden tiara disappears and reappears during one of her temper tantrums.
* Similarly to the example above with Pinkie's trombone, the harp player during the "Pony Pokey" segment is supporting his harp from the wrong side.
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== The Last Roundup ==
 
* There is a chase sequence between a stagecoach and a ponycart. Applejack, in the coach, looks over the back and down at Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash, who are harnessed to the cart and staring back at her. During the bit shown from the former's point of view, the later two don't have wings (which should be visible, even if under the harnesses).
** Less animation error, more vocal. Apparently someone [http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/01/tabitha-derped-thought-derpy-was-male.html forgot to tell Derpy's VA that Derpy was a girl.] (It still works anyway.)
** When Pinkie Pie is just beginning to freak out over Applejack breaking her promise, Fluttershy's tail is missing.
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* From [[The Hub]]'s promos:
** The outro clip used during any ''Hub Family Movie'' uses only the upper half of Pinkie Pie, as seen at the ends of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV8aN2nwCQ8 these] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkXj9_JnLbw three] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiG3qlqdtKQ commercials].
** In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C0DukozIYs this commercial], the decorations on [[Dan Vs.|Dan]]'s car are different in every shot.
** The original version of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ2TChJ_w50 this commercial] [http://www.ponibooru.org/post/view/95848 misspells Discord's name as Dischord]{{Dead link}}.
** The [http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/07/my-little-pony-iphone-parody/ original version] of ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43yodRbQrd4 There's a Pony For That]'' misspells Pinkie's name as Pinky.
* [http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa312/eonity/Together.png The picture of the mane six that appears at the end of the opening] is frequently reused on official materials, sometimes with the ponies repositioned in order to add Spike and Princess Celestia, but often with one of Rarity's eyes glitched. And that isn't the only problem--the image was designed with the original positions in mind, so the non-visible parts of the ponies weren't drawn (as seen in [https://web.archive.org/web/20120218025253/http://www.hubworld.com/hubworld/img/shows/my-little-pony/mlpfim-showSubPge-fore-1600x1215.png one background] on [[The Hub]]'s website). This is usually worked around by keeping the missing parts covered, with the other ponies or (less effectively) with the show's logo. But on at least [http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/02/mlp-on-itunes.html one occasion], Twilight Sparkle's lack of front legs or a tail was [http://outphase.tumblr.com/post/3321508568/this-is-twilight-sparkfoot-she-could-probably left uncovered], creating [[Fan Nickname|Twiworm]].
* The intro of [http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_CA/play/details.cfm?guid=E300C93D-5056-900B-1050-A310A192B6BD Applejack's game] from ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131027194050/http://www.hubworld.com/my-little-pony/shows/friendship-is-magic/games/mlp-adventures-in-ponyville Adventures in Ponyville]'' has two:
** Some of the leaves in the background are floating in midair instead of being attached to the vines in the background.
** Snips' Cutie Mark is missing.
* Hasbro's story galleries don't always use stills from the final versions of the episodes, as some elements of the stills are [[Chroma Key|bright green]] instead of what they should look like. So far, this has happened with Twilight's book in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E1/E01 Mare in Thethe Moon|episode 1]]'s [https://web.archive.org/web/20131205135034/http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_US/play/details.cfm?R=748FD778-5056-900B-1058-67C660F92478:en_US story gallery] and with an Ursa in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E6/E06 Boast Busters|episode 6]]'s [http://www.hasbro.com/common/assets/Flash/Demos/dad2af6e1c4311ddbd0b0800200c9a66/C21AD62C5056900B109690D7D6FB6F09/C21C78D85056900B10540B526C90E7D8.swf story gallery].
* Hasbro's [http://www.hasbro.com/common/assets/Image/Printables/dad2af6e1c4311ddbd0b0800200c9a66/4BC966AF5056900B10E755DFD697230C/4BCA80115056900B10B49BF9C81A255F.pdf printout] of Pinkie Pie's mask from "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E5/E05 Griffon the Brush Off|Griffon the Brush Off]]" spells her name as "Pinky Pie."
* [http://www.hasbro.com/common/assets/Image/Printables/dad2af6e1c4311ddbd0b0800200c9a66/ea361a985056900b103d65352ea58245/EA376EBA5056900B10C9AC16940CB418.pdf The original version] of Hasbro's [http://www.hasbro.com/common/assets/Image/Printables/dad2af6e1c4311ddbd0b0800200c9a66/ea361a985056900b103d65352ea58245/FA4ED8625056900B10F0CCB4DD37CCE7.pdf Princess Luna coloring page] is captioned "Night Mare Moon" instead of "Princess Luna."
* In advertisements for the toys, Hasbro has gotten Apple Bloom and Scootaloo confused on two different occasions, though in both cases the toy sets themselves label the fillies correctly.
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* On the [[My Little Pony]] Facebook page, some images of the cast in their Nightmare Night costumes was posted as a teaser for the upcoming episode. This is all well and good, except that the caption identified Rainbow Dash's costume as a Wonderbolt<ref> The MLP equivalent of the Blue Angels</ref>, when she's rather clearly dressed as a ''Shadow''bolt<ref>The [[Psycho Rangers]] counterpart to the Wonderbolts that Nightmare Moon cooked up in the pilot</ref>.
 
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