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* BlatantLies: "They said a survey found that eleven out of ten ponies want to hear an endless loop of the same holiday music when they go anywhere this time of year!"
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* BlatantLies: "They said a The book store pony claims that Flim and Flam told her that "a survey found that eleven out of ten ponies want to hear an endless loop of the same holiday music when they go anywhere this time of year!"
* HardTruthAesop: Commercializing holidays with [[BlatantLies straight-out falsehoods]] is perfectly fine, as long as the participators know that it's all a show.
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* HardTruthAesop: Commercializing holidays with [[BlatantLies straight-out falsehoods]] is perfectly fine, as long as the participators know that it's all a show.
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* HardTruthAesop: Commercializing holidays with [[BlatantLies straight-out falsehoods]] is perfectly fine, as long as ItsPersonal: Twilight becomes determined to put an end to Flim and Flam's scheme after finding a music box playing their "Windy the participators know Windigo" song [[BrokenRecord over and over]] has been placed in her favorite book store.
-->'''Twilight:''' They ruined a book store... Now they've gone too far!
* KickTheDog: When the craft store pony notes thatit's all a show.longer Hearth's Warming could lead to more of his gift boxes being needed, Flam buries him under some artificial snow.
-->'''Twilight:''' They ruined a book store... Now they've gone too far!
* KickTheDog: When the craft store pony notes that
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* ShoutOut: One of the ponies in the crowd vying for the Flim-Flam Brothers' merchandise resembles (and is dressed like) Phillip J. Fry from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. He is even posed in a way that mimics Fry's "shut up and take my money" [[MemeticMutation line]] from the episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E3AttackOfTheKillerApp Attack of the Killer App]]".
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* ShoutOut: One of the ponies in the crowd vying for the Flim-Flam Brothers' merchandise resembles (and is dressed like) Phillip J. Fry from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. He is even posed in a way that mimics Fry's "shut up and take my money" [[MemeticMutation line]] from the episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E3AttackOfTheKillerApp Attack of the Killer App]]".App]]".
* VerbalBackspace: Courtesy of Flam, following another successful fleecing of a pony's money.
-->'''Flam:''' Another satisfied pushover! - Eh - I mean, "customer"!
* VerbalBackspace: Courtesy of Flam, following another successful fleecing of a pony's money.
-->'''Flam:''' Another satisfied pushover! - Eh - I mean, "customer"!
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* HardTruthAesop: Commercializing holidays with [[BlatantLies straight-out falsehoods]] is perfectly fine, as long as the participators know that it's all a show.
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* BlatantLies: "They said a survey found that eleven out of ten ponies want to hear and endless loop of the same holiday music when they go anywhere this time of year!"
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* BlatantLies: "They said a survey found that eleven out of ten ponies want to hear and an endless loop of the same holiday music when they go anywhere this time of year!"
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Flim Flam Brothers claim to have Twilight's "princess endorsement" for their products. Twilight later uses this against them by telling their customers all the merchandise will be given away for free. Flim and Flam have no choice but to pretend they've run out of stock and leave town before they lose all their profits, rather than admit that they lied about having Twilight's endorsement.
* SelfDeprecation: Among TheMerch the Flim-Flam brothers are peddling is a Holiday Special Comic.
* ShipTease: In the final panel, Starlight Glimmer and Sunburst are seen standing side-by-side, looking at each other and sharing a very sweet smile.
* SelfDeprecation: Among TheMerch the Flim-Flam brothers are peddling is a Holiday Special Comic.
* ShipTease: In the final panel, Starlight Glimmer and Sunburst are seen standing side-by-side, looking at each other and sharing a very sweet smile.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Flim Flam Flim-Flam Brothers claim to have Twilight's "princess endorsement" for their products. Twilight later uses this against them by telling their customers all the merchandise will be given away for free. Flim and Flam have no choice but to pretend they've run out of stock and leave town before they lose all their profits, rather than admit that they lied about having Twilight's endorsement.
* {{Mascot}}: The Flim-Flam Brothers have one in the form of "Windy the Windigo", a LighterAndSofter version of the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E13HearthsWarmingEve old Equestrian myth]]. They claim that Windy will provide just the right amount of snow for Hearth's Warming Eve if young ponies buy the Brothers' specially-made cookies and leave them in their homes for her to find and eat.
* SelfDeprecation: Among TheMerch the Flim-Flambrothers Brothers are peddling is a Holiday Special Comic.
* ShipTease: In the final panel, Starlight Glimmer and Sunburst are seen standing side-by-side, looking at each other and sharing a very sweetsmile.smile.
* ShoutOut: One of the ponies in the crowd vying for the Flim-Flam Brothers' merchandise resembles (and is dressed like) Phillip J. Fry from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. He is even posed in a way that mimics Fry's "shut up and take my money" [[MemeticMutation line]] from the episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E3AttackOfTheKillerApp Attack of the Killer App]]".
* {{Mascot}}: The Flim-Flam Brothers have one in the form of "Windy the Windigo", a LighterAndSofter version of the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E13HearthsWarmingEve old Equestrian myth]]. They claim that Windy will provide just the right amount of snow for Hearth's Warming Eve if young ponies buy the Brothers' specially-made cookies and leave them in their homes for her to find and eat.
* SelfDeprecation: Among TheMerch the Flim-Flam
* ShipTease: In the final panel, Starlight Glimmer and Sunburst are seen standing side-by-side, looking at each other and sharing a very sweet
* ShoutOut: One of the ponies in the crowd vying for the Flim-Flam Brothers' merchandise resembles (and is dressed like) Phillip J. Fry from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. He is even posed in a way that mimics Fry's "shut up and take my money" [[MemeticMutation line]] from the episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E3AttackOfTheKillerApp Attack of the Killer App]]".
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* CallBack: This isn't the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E21LeapOfFaith first time]] the Flim-Flim Brothers have used one of the Mane Six to unwillingly help them endorse their products.
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* SelfDeprecation: Among TheMerch the Flim-Flam brothers are peddling is a Holiday Special Comic.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Flim Flam Brothers claim to have Twilight's "princess endorsement" for their products. Twilight later uses this against them by telling their customers all the merchandise will be given away for free. Flim and Flam have no choice but to pretend they've run out of stock and leave town before they lose all their profits, rather than admit that they lied about having Twilight's endorsement.
* SelfDeprecation: Among TheMerch the Flim-Flam brothers are peddling is a Holiday SpecialComic.Comic.
* ShipTease: In the final panel, Starlight Glimmer and Sunburst are seen standing side-by-side, looking at each other and sharing a very sweet smile.
* SelfDeprecation: Among TheMerch the Flim-Flam brothers are peddling is a Holiday Special
* ShipTease: In the final panel, Starlight Glimmer and Sunburst are seen standing side-by-side, looking at each other and sharing a very sweet smile.
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* {{Deconstruction}}: The TrueMeaningOfChristmas is deconstructed by having Applejack and Twilight Sparkle object to and thwart the Flim-Flam brothers commercialization of Hearth's Warming. Rather than this being treaded as a good thing this [[WhatTheHellHero them called out by everyone]] as they were enjoying this monetized holiday, [[JerkassRealization making them realize they were ruining everyone else's joy by forcing the Aesop on them]].
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Twilight and Applejack are right to not trust the Flim-Flam Brothers from past experiences with their duplicitous nature, while Spike, Pinkie Pie, and Apple Bloom (and the other ponies upset with how they drove the brothers out) are right in how Twilight and Applejack decided to speak for everyone else without their consent or for automatically thinking they were too dumb to not know how ridiculous the whole "Windy the Windigo" thing was when they just wanted to have some fun.
* {{Deconstruction}}: The TrueMeaningOfChristmas is deconstructed by having Applejack and Twilight Sparkle object to and thwart the Flim-Flam brothers commercialization of Hearth's Warming. Rather than this beingtreaded treated as a good thing this [[WhatTheHellHero has them called out by everyone]] as they were enjoying this monetized holiday, [[JerkassRealization making them realize they were ruining everyone else's joy by forcing the Aesop on them]].
* {{Deconstruction}}: The TrueMeaningOfChristmas is deconstructed by having Applejack and Twilight Sparkle object to and thwart the Flim-Flam brothers commercialization of Hearth's Warming. Rather than this being
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* BlatentLies: "They said a survey found that eleven out of ten ponies want to hear and endless loop of the same holiday music when they go anywhere this time of year!"
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* BlatentLies: BlatantLies: "They said a survey found that eleven out of ten ponies want to hear and endless loop of the same holiday music when they go anywhere this time of year!"
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!!This issue provides examples of:
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!!This issue provides examples of:of:
* BlatentLies: "They said a survey found that eleven out of ten ponies want to hear and endless loop of the same holiday music when they go anywhere this time of year!"
* {{Deconstruction}}: The TrueMeaningOfChristmas is deconstructed by having Applejack and Twilight Sparkle object to and thwart the Flim-Flam brothers commercialization of Hearth's Warming. Rather than this being treaded as a good thing this [[WhatTheHellHero them called out by everyone]] as they were enjoying this monetized holiday, [[JerkassRealization making them realize they were ruining everyone else's joy by forcing the Aesop on them]].
* SelfDeprecation: Among TheMerch the Flim-Flam brothers are peddling is a Holiday Special Comic.
* BlatentLies: "They said a survey found that eleven out of ten ponies want to hear and endless loop of the same holiday music when they go anywhere this time of year!"
* {{Deconstruction}}: The TrueMeaningOfChristmas is deconstructed by having Applejack and Twilight Sparkle object to and thwart the Flim-Flam brothers commercialization of Hearth's Warming. Rather than this being treaded as a good thing this [[WhatTheHellHero them called out by everyone]] as they were enjoying this monetized holiday, [[JerkassRealization making them realize they were ruining everyone else's joy by forcing the Aesop on them]].
* SelfDeprecation: Among TheMerch the Flim-Flam brothers are peddling is a Holiday Special Comic.
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--> Written by James Asmus, Art by Brenda Hickey
"The New Year is around the corner, and the ponies of Equestria are ready to celebrate in some very silly and unexpected ways! (Except Pinkie Pie. Her celebrations are always silly and unexpected.)"
!!This issue provides examples of:
"The New Year is around the corner, and the ponies of Equestria are ready to celebrate in some very silly and unexpected ways! (Except Pinkie Pie. Her celebrations are always silly and unexpected.)"
!!This issue provides examples of:
