My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Trivia: Difference between revisions

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== Troping-specific ==

* [[Trope Namer]] for [[Party of One]] and partial namer for [[20% 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>

* [[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.

** Lauren ''did'' eventually have to clarify this a bit, insisting that fans please ''not'' remind her that Rule 34 Pony art exists.

*** 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 by 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>

* 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>.