History Recap / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E15ScareMaster

* EverythingsBetterWithPlatypi: Apple Bloom is dressed as a platypus.

* DumbassHasAPoint: More "ridiculously overcautious" than "dumb", of course, but during the chase scene in the maze, Rarity trips over her costume tail, which leads her to admit that Fluttershy was right to worry about her dress being a tripping hazard.

* AnAesop: This episode actually provides two.

** Alternatively, just because some pony tries something new doesn't ''mean'' they will necessarily like it.

*** Alternatively, just because some pony tries something new doesn't ''mean'' they will necessarily like it.

* CuteMonsterGirl: Flutterbat with Fluttershy's personality is surprisingly cute.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Fluttershy's friends want her to become scary. When she does finally act scary, it sends her friends running and screaming in terror. Even ''Rainbow Dash'' is intimidated by Fluttershy.

* BittersweetEnding: Kinda; 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.

* 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 (somehow) makes the giant web her friends get stuck to.

* IncrediblyLameFun: Fluttershy's "scary tea party" amounts to this.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Fluttershy bringing up every single bad thing that has a remote chance of happening and ruining the fun might end up reminding people of MoralGuardians.

* FlatWhat: Pinkie's reaction to the "unplanned guests" from Fluttershy's tea party.

** The episode revisits Fluttershy's fear of Nightmare Night from [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E4LunaEclipsed "Luna Eclipsed"]].
** Fluttershy's lesson in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E14FilliVanilli "Filli Vanilli"]] is directly alluded to when she says she'll give spending Nightmare Night with her friends a chance like she gave singing in front of them. She even declares it's time to stop taking "baby steps" and start taking "grown-up ones".

* CrossReferencedTitles: The episode title is a play on the Season 1 Fluttershy-centric [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E17StareMaster "Stare Master"]].

* SeriesContinuityError: In this episode, the foliage on the roof of Fluttershy's cottage has turned brown by Nightmare Night, unlike in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E4LunaEclipsed "Luna Eclipsed"]] when it was green. The Season 5 production team seem to be under the impression that Fluttershy's house is a treehouse, but it's actually a sod-roof cottage, and grass is supposed to stay green in autumn.

* ShownTheirWork: Rainbow Dash's spacepony costume includes a cap similar to the "Snoopy cap" of NASA's EMU.

* BrickJoke: Fluttershy warns Rarity about her impractical gaudier costumes which would limit a pony's ability to escape from danger. Rarity dresses up as a mermaid and, while she her friends are being chased by ghosts, she trips over the tail of her costume.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** Fluttershy has a small one early on when she feels ashamed for being so afraid and sucking all the fun out the Nightmare Night games.
** Fluttershy wants to give her friends a fun time by giving them the scariest horror attraction she and her animal friends can muster. When she sees her friends fearing for their lives before her, she realizes she's made it ''too'' scary and immediately drops the act to apologize to them.

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

* AscendedMeme: Granny Smith wears a realistic horse head mask, an item that has been popular in the brony fandom as well as used by the show staff in a FreezeFrameBonus during the episode "Slice of Life".

* BittersweetEnding: Kinda, 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.

* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Zigzagged, Twilight panics for a while in the maze's web before remembering she can teleport.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Fluttershy wants to give her friends a fun time by giving them the scariest horror attraction she and her animal friends can muster. When she sees her friends fearing for their lives before her, she realizes she's made it ''too'' scary and immediately drops the act to apologize to them.
** She also has a smaller one earlier on when she feels ashamed for being so afraid and sucking all the fun out the Nightmare Night games.

-->'''Big Macintosh''': Boooooooo...yup.

* OffscreenCrash: Pinkie Pie barreling on her rollers results in this a couple times.

** At one point in the episode two ponies (Cloud Kicker and Blossomforth) can be seen dressed up like Anime/SailorMoon and WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}.

* StealthPun: The Apple Family corn maze - or should we say, "maize maze".

** In the same shot, Snips and Snails are dressed as [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 He-Man and Skeletor]], respectively.

* OhCrap: Fluttershy's friends panic when they realize they're not in Applejack's maze anymore.

* MilesGloriosus: Applejack during the corn maze, insisting she knew the tricks were all part of the show, even as she gets creeped out by ones Fluttershy added. Rainbow Dash, who was most dismissive of Fluttershy's timidness, also starts freaking out.

->'''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.

->Written by Natasha Levinger

** Big Mac's mummy costume, which tends to make ponies laugh more than scare them.