History Recap / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E9BridleGossip

* GeniusBonus: All of Zecora's oddities are eventually explained away in the episode... except her tendency to paw at and dig small holes in the ground. This is a habit of actual zebras.

** A FreezeFrameBonus shows that this is even true of her eyelashes... she has five instead of the normal four.

* ActorAllusion: Blu Mankuma played a jazz singer in ''{{TwoThousandTwelve}}''.

->'''Pinkie Pie:''' And that wicked Enchantress, Zecora, lives there doing her evil...stuff! She's so evil; I even wrote a song about her!\\

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* HarsherInHindsight: Spike nicknaming the cursed Rainbow Dash "Rainbow Crash" probably brought up some bad memories for her, as we learn a few episodes later that it was a cruel nickname she was labeled with in flight school.

* ZombieApocalypse: Discussed by Spike [[CrowningMomentOfFunny when he starts wondering why the town looks so deserted]].

->'''Pinkie Pie:''' And that wicked Enchantress, Zecora, lives there doing her evil...stuff! She's so evil, I even wrote a song about her!\\

* LarynxDissonance: "Flutterguy". The normally soft-spoken pegasus is briefly voiced by the deep-voiced Blu Mankuma.

->'''Pinkie Pie:''' And that wicked Enchantress, Zecora, lives there doing her evil... stuff! She's so evil, I even wrote a song about her!\\

** I think she probably took it the way Spike seemed to mean it: as gentle teasing from a close friend. So it probably didn't hurt as much as it could have.

--> '''Pinkie Pie:''' I've heard that Zecora eats ''hay!''
--> '''Twilight Sparkle:''' Pinkie, I eat hay. ''You'' eat hay.

** Zecora has African jewelry- and zebras are from Africa. Ponies are not allowing her to enter stores.

->'''Pinkie Pie:''' And that wicked Enchantress, Zecora, lives there doing her evil... stuff! She's so evil, I even wrote a song about her!
->'''Rainbow Dash:''' Here we go...

** Moments later, he manages to come up with "Twilight Flopple".

* AsideComment: When Spike is coming up with nicknames for the cast after the "curse" takes effect, he comments to the audience that he can't really work with Twilight Sparkle's name.

* DoubleAesop: Don't judge a book by its cover -- even literally. Twilight was skeptical about the poorly informed negative assumptions about Zecora from the start almost to the end, likely along with any GenreSavvy viewers, but the book was slyly put in as something that made her (and potentially us) make the same sort of mistake all the same.

* HeyItsThatVoice: The "curse" gives Fluttershy the voice of [[BeastWars Tigatron]]

** Though on the other hand, Apple Bloom says that Zecora told her that whenever she came to town, all the stores "mysteriously closed", implying she didn't know why the Ponys hid whenever she came to town and may not have had any idea they thought she was a witch.

* TheUnintelligible: Pinkie Pie, who gets a swollen (and spotted) tongue [[spoiler: after being exposed to Poison Joke.]]

* WrongContextMagic: Twilight denounces curses as impossible until affected by [[spoiler:the Poison Joke, which she mistakes for a curse by Zecora]].

[[caption-width-right:350:Think that's bad? Wait until you see ''Flutterguy''!]]

* AudioErotica: The Flutterguy voice...wouldn't be the worst of curses if she was a stallion.

[[caption-width-right:350:Wait until you see ''Flutterguy''!]]