History Recap / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E15ScareMaster

* BedsheetGhost: A trio of such ghosts pursue the ponies (and Spike) inside the corn maze. It's later revealed those were Fluttershy's bird friends in disguise.

->''"Or maybe some hay? But that means I'll need to go out... on Nightmare Night!"''

->''" Or maybe some hay? But that means I'll need to go out... on Nightmare Night!"''

->'''Fluttershy:''' You all may love Nightmare Night and I may be good at being a part of it, but it's no fun for me to see my friends feel like they're in danger, even if I know they're not. I really don't like it. It's just not my cup of tea.\\
'''Pinkie Pie:''' Spoooooooooky tea?\\
'''Fluttershy:''' No. Just regular tea.

* SecurityCling: When Flutterbat corners the Mane Six on the edge of a cliff, Rarity and Spike hold onto each other for dear life.

* BittersweetEnding: Fluttershy succeeds in scaring her friends and spending Nightmare Nights with them, but in the end she ultimately decides that the holiday still isn't for her and she'll continue to spend it at home when it rolls around.

* BookEnds: The episode starts and ends with Fluttershy in her cottage.

* DeathGlare: Rainbow Dash gives one to Pinkie Pie when she offers to stay home with Fluttershy because she’s too scared of Nightmare Night to go out.

* BittersweetEnding: Fluttershy succeeds in scaring her friends and spending a night of Nightmare Nights with them, but in the end she ultimately states the holiday still isn't for her and she'll continue to spend it at her house when it rolls around.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Among Rarity's costume collection is... a "Vampire Fruit Bat Costume" (complete with a slinky black dress). While Rarity immediately rejects this costume, Fluttershy's FacialDialogue shows that she likes it.

* HandRubbing: Angel rubs his paws when he comes with his ''evil'' plans.

* IncrediblyLameFun: Fluttershy's "scary tea party" amounts to this; Fluttershy thought it was the most mortifying event possible. Her friends are just annoyed.

** Granny Smith gets this too, big time. When she asks Big Mac if she scared Fluttershy too much, Big Mac looks at her with an expression that can be translated as, "What do you think, dummy?"

* SexyWhateverOutfit: Pinkie Pie's costume is a glammed-up UsefulNotes/RollerDerby outfit.

While in Ponyville, Fluttershy is scared by all of the spooky decoration and Granny Smith's description of the corn maze she's setting up on the Apple family farm. Fluttershy runs to Twilight's castle, where she finds Spike, who invites her to go out with the rest of the Mane Six. Fluttershy tries to turn him down, but Spike points out that she's already away from home, so she should hang out with her friends. Fluttershy agrees, and finds the others up in the library, telling ghost stories. While the Mane Six are excited to have Fluttershy with them, she's still rather reluctant to join in. Rarity helps Fluttershy pick out a costume, and Pinkie Pie creates bags of candy for everypony, as well as getting some non-scary Nightmare Night games for them to play. But, at every turn, Fluttershy comes up with increasingly worried reasons not to participate.

%%%% So she does, why does it matter?
%%%* BlushSticker: Fluttershy gets these several times during the episode.

* FailedAttemptAtScaring: The others try to get the shy and easily frightened Fluttershy to enjoy Nightmare Night by having her set up the haunted house. But the scariest things Fluttershy can think of are social anxieties rather than monsters. Ponies looking for scares are unimpressed by the awkward tea party with uninvited guests that Fluttershy sets up for them.

%%* NeverSayDie isn't simply the use of any synonym for death; "didn't make it out alive" and "beyond the grave" still strongly imply death. It only applies to obvious censorship of death.

* MegaTwintails: When in costume, Pinkie wears her mane in huge, poofy pigtails that are bigger than her head.

* YouCanPanicNow: Invoked during the "scary tea party".

* AdultFear: In-Universe; Fluttershy's initial attempts to frighten her friends are surprisingly cerebral, focusing on things like being a social outcast or loneliness, which can actually be pretty sobering concepts if you think about them too hard. Too bad her attempts fly right over the heads of the rest of the Mane Six (and clash with the more Halloween-esque fears of Nightmare Night).

* ChekhovsGunman: Fluttershy's critter friends in the opening scene all show up later to put on her horror attraction: her birds float around in ghost sheets, Harry the Bear dresses up as the cave monster and Fuzzy Legs the Spider makes the giant web her friends get stuck to.

* RealityEnsues: Just because Fluttershy tried something new (like Nightmare Night) doesn't necessarily lead to her automatically liking it. In the end, she doesn't have to like it either.

* BlushSticker: Fluttershy gets these several times during the episode.

* RealityEnsues: Just because Fluttershy tried something new (like Nightmare Night) doesn't necessarily lead to her automatically liking it. And in the end, she doesn't have to like it either.

* SlasherSmile: Angel sports a toothy one when Fluttershy asks him for ideas on how to be scarier.

At the Apple family's corn maze, the Mane Six are all enjoying the normal spooky delights, until they start seeing something stalking them out of the corner of their eyes, along with ghosts flying at them. Eventually they fall down a hole and are sealed in by a large rock. While Applejack tries to play down her fears, she admits that none of it was part of the maze that she drew up. Finally, while in the hole, a giant monster chases them onto a cliffside, where none other than Flutterbat swoops in over them, terrifying her friends. Suddenly, Fluttershy drops the act, apologizing for scaring them so badly, revealing that she and her animal friends set everything up with Granny Smith to make the maze more scary. But, the Mane Six are happy that Fluttershy finally came out of her shell. Still, Fluttershy admits to them that Nightmare Night will never be her cup of tea, even if she enjoyed this one. Back at her cottage, Fluttershy reads a book in her hiding spot, saying that she wasn't sure why she ever doubted herself.