History Recap / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E23TheBigMacQuestion

* TheyDo: Sugar Belle and Big Macintosh end this episode with their wedding, even doing so in the shade of the apple-pear trees planted by Pear Butter and Bright Mac.

* WeddingEpisode: Big Mac and Sugar Belle get married at the episode's end.

* UnreliableNarrator: During the ColdOpen, Spike claims that Discord "insisted" on being involved in the proposal. But in the actual course of events, Spike invokes GotVolunteered on an annoyed Discord.

From the perspective of flashbacks from Spike and Discord, Big Mac reveals his plan to them to propose to Sugar Belle by having a number of apples placed carefully around town, each with a riddle that would lead to the next, and eventually to a hill in Sweet Apple Acres, where he will build a bench like the shelves he build for Sugar Belle's shop and propose there. Spike, and reluctantly, Discord, offer to help; Spike will get a pie made by Mrs. Cake while Discord is responsible for planting the apples. In town, Discord finds Big Mac's little riddles rather sappy but goes and starts placing them. Sugar Belle, racing out from Sugarcube Corner, appears to miss the obvious apple Discord placed there, and finds she keeps missing these as well. Spike, meanwhile, finds that Mrs. Cake needs to bake 21 pies of various flavors and needs to place a small message in each, and can't get to Big Mac's request. Spike offers to help by using his fire breath to transfer the messages into the pies, but this ends up burning all the pies to a crisp. Meanwhile, a frustrated Discord transforms the apples into sentient beings and instructs them to deliver their messages correctly. However, his instructions were poor, and they start rampaging across the town. Discord teleports the apples all back to Sweet Apple Acres and goes to take Sugar Belle directly to the hilltop, but finds Big Mac no longer there. Teleporting Sugar Belle back to town, they run into Big Mac, Spike, and Mrs. Cake, while the Crusaders and Granny Smith are running away from a giant monster fused from the apples.

* BreatherEpisode: The last regular "filler" episode before the big GrandFinale which comes up next.

* CannotKeepASecret: Despite his claims to the contrary, Discord reveals several secret about certain ponies, such as how Fluttershy is [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes afraid of clowns]], or how he once found Twilight [[{{Sleepwalking}} sleeptrotting]] through Ponyville.

* ConfessionCam: It seems like Spike, Discord, and the Cutie Mark Crusaders are doing this at first to explain everything that happened in the episode up until the wedding, but it turns out that they're actually explaining the situation to ''Applejack.''

** Discord's ExactWords mentioned below -- it didn't occur to him to actually tell his living apples ''who'' they were supposed to deliver their messages to, resulting in them running loose through town and shouting their messages at everyone they met.

* LowerDeckEpisode: None of the main characters appear except for Applejack and Fluttershy briefly, and they don't get speaking lines. This episode purely revolves around the secondary cast for one last outing before the finale.

* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: As described below, Big Mac and Sugar Belle get married.

* TemptingFate: After Big Mac's proposal crashes and burns, Spike says that [[RockBottom "at least it can't get any worse".]] Discord responds with "As the Lord of Chaos, I'd advise against saying things like that." Sure enough, immediately afterwards, a giant apple monster roams into Ponyville.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The official summary of the episode states that both Big Mac and Sugar Belle were planning to propose, something that wasn't revealed until later in the episode.

* AbsenteeActor: Only Applejack and Fluttershy appear out of the Mane Six. This is the final episode of the series where any of the Mane Six are not present.