My Little Pony Tales: Difference between revisions

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The show centered on seven pony girls named Starlight, Sweetheart, Melody, Brighteyes, Patch, Clover, and Bonbon. However, the show is notable for averted the [[Lady Land]] rule that ''My Little Pony'' normally prescribes to by introducing three male ponies: Ace, Teddy, and Lancer. The show focused on their daily lives and how they dealt with things like stage fright, dating, personal responsibility, the environment, pets, cultural differences, school, trust, bullies, and other things normal kids deal with. This was the first of three attempts to make a [[Slice of Life]] style ''[[My Little Pony]]'' show. The producers did this to try to reach their core demographic, girls, who watched the original series but would be old enough by then to worry about any of the above issues the show tackled. Depending on who you ask, it may or may not have been a good idea.

 

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* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Sweetheart and Teddy (although in Teddy's case it's more like [[Jerkass Facade]]). And later, Starlight and Ace.

* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: Starlight has a crush on Ace, who's far more interested in Melody, who's more interested in herself. Averted with Sweetheart/Teddy and Bright Eyes/Lancer, however.

* [[Anthropomorphic Shift]]: The most well-known in the series. Characters are periodically changing from moving like horses to being barely below [[Funny Animal]]'s.

** In "Birds of a Feather", Bon Bon runs out of food and complains that they'll starve to death. ''In a forest full of grass''. Their solution? [[You Fail Biology Forever|To go fishing]].

* [[Big Eater]]: Bon-Bon, which ''maybe'' could explain her shifting model and shifting weight between episodes.

* [[Blackmail]]: Done to Ace and Lancer in "Shop Talk" when the girls lure them into doing something embarrassing to entertain some baby ponies they're babysitting, then take pictures and threaten to expose them unless they stop teasing Teddy.

* [[Edutainment Show]]: It was one of the first ''slice of life'' type show to enter the market back when the market lacked shows of said genre. And in hindsight, it was [[Too Good to Last]].

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Apparently, mainland ponies believe that tropical ponies practice cannibalism and make [[Human Sacrifice|pony sacrifices]] to the volcano.

* [[Five-Man Band]]

** [[The Hero]] - Starlight

* [[Green Aesop]]: "Who's Responsible", and to a lesser extend "Birds of a Feather".

* [[Happily Adopted]]: Patch.

* [[Human-Focused Adaptation]]: Rare example of an [[Inverted Trope|inversion]] -- this and all series that followed were completely human-free.

* [["I Want" Song]]: "The Best Dream", Bon-Bon's song in "The Masquerade" about her dream of becoming a model.

* [[Invisible Anatomy]]: The Ponies can hold objects, grip on things, press buttons, play musical instruments, hold small pencils and operate precision machines, using just their hooves.

* [[Jerkass]]: Everyone took turns to be this against each other, but Melody, Patch, Ace and Teddy were the biggest offenders of all.

* [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]]: See [[No Export for You]] below. Want it on DVD? Be prepared to spend money on importing the four volumes from Australia and a region-free DVD player.

* [[Leave the Two Lovebirds Alone]]: Used at the end of the episode "Just for Kicks"

* [[Morality Pet]]: Sweetheart serves as this for Teddy, as she's typically the one who sets him back on the straight and narrow.

* [[No Export for You]]: ''None'' of the toys based on this series were available in the USA.

* [[That Reminds Me of a Song]]: [[Once an Episode]]!

* [[The Prankster]]: Patch and Teddy. Both have taken it too far, to the point where Patch sabotaged Bright Eye's class project and caused its failure while Teddy got the girls disqualified from a swim meet.

* [[Relationship Upgrade]]: Bright Eyes and Lancer became an [[Official Couple]] after "Roll Around the Clocks".

* [[Schizo-Tech]]: Ponies have desktop computers and... steam trains. Also, the cars on the streets range from pre-war vans to modern convertibles.

* [[The Kiddie Ride]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R8SW-0xlw0 This Youtube video's description says it all]. For those unable to see the video tho: {{spoiler|The rides were made in the early 90s and were modelled after My Little Pony Tales characters. They were licensed, but [[Did Not Do the Research|frequently mismatched the color of the ponies with their symbols]]. The company that made the ride was subsequently bought over by Jolly Roger}}.

* [[Theme Tune Roll Call]]: Well, for the core female ponies anyway.

* [[Through His Stomach]]: Referenced by Bon-Bon's line in the song "Play It Cool":

* [[Twice Shy]]: Bright Eyes and Lancer, until their [[Relationship Upgrade]] in "Roll Around the Clocks".

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Lancer calls out Teddy and the rest of Sweetheart's friends when their feuding leads to her miserably cancelling her own birthday party.

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