History Recap / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E23TheHooffieldsAndMcColts

* BlindingBangs: The Hooffields are all quite hairy, but one even has his frizzy mane entirely covering the eyes.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Piles [=McColt=] built a shelter where Grub Hooffield was going to start his farm, not bothering to ask if it was alright and carelessly tossing his crops aside, starting of a feud between the families that ended up ruining the Smokey Mountins.

* UnwillingInstigatorOfDoom: Piles [=McColt=] built a shelter where Grub Hooffield was going to start his farm, not bothering to ask if it was alright and carelessly tossing his crops aside, starting of a feud between the families that ended up ruining the Smokey Mountins.

* EdibleAmmunition: The Hooffields bombard the [=McColts=] with pumpkins, tomatoes, and other food. This is actually ends up benefiting the [=McColts=]; since they're completely inept at growing their own food, they salvage whatever the Hooffields fire at them.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** The [=McColts=] are the most stereotypical hillbillies imaginable. They are also all varying shades of light to medium blue. This seems normal in a world of AmazingTechnicolorPopulation. However, it's been noted that the genetic condition [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methemoglobinemia methemoglobenemia]] results in blue skin; the most famous case is from the area of the Hatfield-[=McCoy=] feud (and actually later married into the [=McCoys=]) and is the result of frequent [[IncestIsRelative inbreeding]].
** One of the Hooffield mares is wearing a dress that, in contrast to other dresses that we've seen ponies wear and their human equivalent, would have an ''extremely'' low cleavage cut.
** As [[http://cheezburger.com/8585538048 Cheezburger pointed out]], Twilight's big freeze spell is just in time to prevent one [=McColt=] mare from flat-out killing a Hooffield one with a shovel.
** The [=McColt=] family patriarch is named Piles. In building, a pile is a post or column driven deep into the ground as part of a structure's foundation; however, "piles" is also a slang term for hemorrhoids.

* {{Adorkable}}: Twilight explains how she feels about finally being called by the map as feeling a little "[[{{Scatting}} skiddly-bopty-boo]]." Who else would use terms like that?

* {{Applicability}}: In-universe. Fluttershy's book club is studying "the theme of nature as it applies to Hoofcliff's love" in ''Wuthering Hooves''.

** The valley resembles the one in the Disney short "[[Disney/MakeMineMusic The Martins and the Coys]]", which is also about hillbillies feuding. Both even has a house at the top of each hill.

* TheBigGuy: One of the [=McColt=] stallions has the same body structure as Trouble Shoes.

* ShovelStrike: Twilight's freeze spell is shown to have interrupted a female [=McColt=] from striking a female Hooffield with a shovel. Of course, considering ToonPhysics and Earth pony resilience, it would have certainly just resulted in AmusingInjuries.

* UncannyFamilyResemblance: The Hooffields are a family of warm-colored Earth Pony farmers with curly, frizzy hair whereas the [=McColt=] clan are a family of blue-hued Earth Pony builders with straight hair. Given the normal variations of color within pony families, this [[ImpliedTrope suggests]] each clan has its own TangledFamilyTree.

* RedOniBlueOni: Just like in "A Bird in the Hoof", Twilight is the Red to Fluttershy's Blue.

** Continuing to fight will never settle anything.
** Don't get so focused on arguing about how to help that you end up forgetting and neglecting the thing you wanted to protect in the first place.

* {{Applicability}}: In-universe. Fluttershy's book club is studying "the theme of nature as it applies to Hoofcliff's love" in "Wuthering Hooves".

* BigOlUnibrow: Big Daddy [=McColt=] sport one among plenty other facial hair, not helping his already gruff appearance.

* ProducePelting: The main way of fighting for the Hooffields is to throw fruits and vegetables at their [=McColt=] foes. At one point, while Twilight and Fluttershy are seeking shelter, both gets hit with a barrage of tomatoes.

* ProducePelting: At one point while Twilight and Fluttershy are seeking shelter, the former gets hit with a barrage of tomatoes.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: Grub Hooffield and Piles [=McColt=] were two friends who wanted to help the animals in the Smoky Mountains. Disagreements over how to help and constant sabotaging ended that and escalated into a feud their descendants continued without knowing why.

* WorldBuilding: The episode introduces us to the Smoky Mountains, which seem to be an Equestrian analogue for the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smoky_Mountains Great Smoky Mountains]], part of the Appalachians in the eastern United States (although in the world maps from the show, the mountains are towards the western side, north of Las Pegasus). The ponies living there even speak in a [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents dialect associated with that region]].

** The [=McColts=] are shown to be expert carpenters, and three of them, as mentioned under FreezeFrameBonus, have saw Cutie Marks. [[spoiler:They're sawhorses.]]

* UnreliableExpositor: Both the Hooffields and [=McColts=] have their own inconsistent, clashing stories as to how their personal war with the other clan, spanning several years and generations, had started. Their stories are so unreliable that they've completely forgotten the actual reason that caused their war and simply don't care about anything else but winning.

* UnreliableExpositor: Both the Hooffields and [=McColts=] have their own inconsistent, clashing stories as to how their personal war with the other clan, spanning several years and generations, had started.

** Vengeful Grudges are one of the worst sins that an individual can steep into. Not only that, but even a long-lived grudge can originate from even the most pettiest of reasons.

** The [=McColt=} family patriarch is named Piles. In building, a pile is a post or column driven deep into the ground as part of a structure's foundation; however, "piles" is also a slang term for hemorrhoids.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: Grub Hooffield and Piles McColt were two friends who wanted to help the animals in the Smoky Mountains. Disagreements over how to help and constant sabotaging ended that and escalated into a feud their descendants continued without knowing why.