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== TV Tropes-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 With 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 the 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 (Animation)|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].
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** 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 Boot|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]].
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*** 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 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.
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** Pinkie Pie has a different voice in the [[Face Book]] 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]'', ''[http://www.target.com/p/My-Little-Pony-Animated-Story-Teller/-/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.
*** ''[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 ''[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.
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** Daniel Ingram, the show's songwriter, has a [[Face Book]] [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]] [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]]:
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** 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 The 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 The 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 />
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** 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|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|list of Jossed guesses]]. So even a stopped clock is right at least twice a day.
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* [[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 The 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 Mare in The Moon|Friendship is Magic, part 1]]"<ref>on ''The Friendship Express''</ref>; "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E2 Elements of Harmony|Friendship is Magic, part 2]]"<ref>on ''The Friendship Express''</ref>; "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E3 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 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 Lesson Zero|Lesson Zero]]"<ref>on ''Lesson Zero''</ref>; "[[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E13 Hearths 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 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]]".
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*** 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 The 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 [[Starcraft II (Video Game)|Zerg]], a race of bug-like shapeshifting creatures that follow an evil Queen...wait, now that's just confusing!
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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.
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