History WesternAnimation / MyLittlePonyTales

** A very subtle one. In "The Great Lemonade Stand Wars", the camera focuses on Lancer throwing away a paper cup and missing the garbage can after Ace and Teddy both hit it. This doesn't come up in the episode and seems just to show Lancer isn't like his friends. In "Blue Ribbon Blues" ,Teddy ends up accidentally losing an entire picnic basket and its contents into the water which gets washed away and no one ever retrieves them. This seems just to be the inciting incident for the episode, but the SeasonFinale [[spoiler:focuses on the fact the townsponies being careless with their trash and throwing it away recklessly clogs up the river and floods the town, with several ponies doing that exact thing during the episode.]] They'd been doing it multiple times throughout the season.

* GarageBand: Rockin' Beats.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Sweetheart and Teddy (although in Teddy's case it's more like JerkassFacade). And later, Starlight and Ace.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Again, everyone: they always learn their lessons in the end and usually didn't have malicious intent in the beginning. Teddy was really ''intended'' to be this type of character, but in practice, [[InformedAttribute we've only got Sweetheart's word to suggest]] that Teddy is a saint with a JerkassFacade, as ''most'' episodes that heavily feature him basically make him the villain of the story, and he learns his lesson at the end just in time to get AesopAmnesia by the next time. ''Ace,'' the ''designated'' jerk character, on the other hand, fits better as he has more than one PetTheDog moment that ''wasn't'' forced on him.

* IWasJustJoking: Happens between Patch and Clover in "Out Of Luck":

* JustKiddingJustification: Bon Bon sheepishly tells Patch she was just kidding when she is called out on having an injured frog have its legs be cooked.

* JustKiddnigJustification: Bon Bon sheepishly tells Patch she was just kidding when she is called out on having an injured frog have its legs be cooked.

* KarmaHoudini: In "The Impractical Joker", Patch somehow gets away with sabotaging Bright Eyes' term project ''right in front of the teacher'' and not even trying to hide with it.

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[[caption-width-right:300:"[[BreakingTheFourthWall Something is starting, right now,]] [[EarWorm something is starting, oh wow..."]]]]

** In "Birds of a Feather", Bon Bon runs out of food and complains that they'll starve to death. ''In a forest full of grass''. Their solution? [[ArtisticLicenseBiology To go fishing]]. In "Sweetheart's Birthday Party," they sit around eating carrots and speak of being happy when they'll be able to eat real food again.

** Teddy also threatens to show Ms. Hackney the entry in "Bon Bon's Diary" that says she cheated in a test unless she goes to the school dance with him. And he was stopped by Sweetheart threatening to reveal his UnmanlySecret. These ponies will fight fire with fire!

* FeatherFingers: My gosh, the confusion here rivals ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}''. How the heck are animals with hooves supposed to use guitars and ice-cream scoops anyway? (Answer: [[BellisariosMaxim they just do]], no questions asked and no explanations given)

* FurryConfusion: Like Woah. See FeatherFingers.
** The most outstanding example had to be royal carriage being pulled by ''horses''. In a world of sentient ''ponies''. Of course one could assume that in this world draft horses are to ponies what chimpanzees are to humans, but still...

* GenreShift: From ''fantasy'' to ''slice of life''. Fans tuned in hoping to see ponies and Megan fighting evil. They got something along the lines of WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}} (or if you want to be period-accurate, WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}) instead. That said, some episodes do shift BACK to fantasy elements. Normally [[WeirdnessMagnet when Patch is involved.]]

** One ImagineSpot featured Bon Bon as a cover girl for a magazine. She's wearing a onepiece bathing suit that resalts her breasts and next to her, two young mares (dressed as nurses) are hugging while they stare deep into each other's eyes. ''Wow.'' Considering the scene is about modeling I'm guessing Bon Bon understand what 'adult' models do.

* LostAesop: In "Just for Kicks", Starlight joins the soccer team hoping to impress her crush Ace (as suggested by their teacher), but he keeps humiliating her out of jealousy towards her natural skill. She goes on to score the winning goal, Ace storms off in a huff, and her friends are thrilled for her. So it's an episode about trying new things, right? Well, no...Starlight laments that she only joined the team in the first place to get Ace's attention. Oh, so surely the moral must be "stay true to yourself and don't try to fit another person's ideal." Maybe, if Ace didn't show up in the episode's final minute to ask Starlight out. It's not so much a broken aesop as a very muddled one.

** When a bird [[BalloonBurstingBird pokes a hole in the hot-air balloon]], Patch says "At least the flame is still burning". Three guesses what happens next.

* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: The only way to tell a background pony's gender is by its single clothing accessory or by the length of its mane. And sometimes, not even then. Teddy's farming cousins with the pink coats and long, curly rainbow-colored manes? Half of them are men. And the father looks identical to the mother, but that's a [[IncestIsRelative different trope entirely....]] This is actually [[RealityIsUnrealistic more realistic than it seems]], as horses really don't have much in the way of obvious sexual dimorphism, so clothing or mane style being the only differing feature is logical.
* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: OnceAnEpisode! Or twice, if consider the TwoShorts format, for a total of 26 songs, or 27 if you count the theme song. 28 if you consider the fact that "The Perfect Pair" in "Just For Kicks" has a DarkReprise.

Released for TV in the early [[TheNineties nineties]], ''My Little Pony Tales'' is the second TV series based on the toyline, ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'', by Hasbro. Unlike the previous incarnation like ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends My Little Pony 'n' Friends]]'', which was a fantasy/adventure series, this was decided to give the ponies a [[SliceOfLife slice of life]] angle, and removed most of the fantasy elements. As the result, the only breed of pony in this series are Earth Ponies. Your mileage will vary on whether this was a good thing or not. The show was set in an unnamed suburb, somewhere in Ponyland.

The show centered on seven pony girls named Starlight, Sweetheart, Melody, Bright Eyes, Patch, Clover, and Bon Bon. However, the show is notable for averting the LadyLand rule that ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' normally prescribes to by introducing three male main ponies: Ace, Teddy, and Lancer. The show focused on their daily lives and how they dealt with things like stage fright, dating, personal responsibility, the environment, pets, cultural differences, school, trust, bullies, and other things normal kids deal with. This was the first of three attempts to make a SliceOfLife style ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' show. The producers did this to try to reach their core demographic, girls, who watched the original series but would be old enough by then to worry about any of the above issues the show tackled. Depending on who you ask, it may or may not have been a good idea.

!! ''My Little Pony Tales'' contains examples of:

** In "The Impractical Joker", Patch's response to seeing the fake flying saucer her friends are using to prank her is to excitedly shout she 'always knew they existed'. Come "Up, Up, and Away", a ''real'' UFO appears and she is likewise excited about it. [[spoiler:She even meets the UFO, who may or may actually be aliens.]]

* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Melody's baby sisters Ting-A-Ling and Jing-A-Ling are identical twins.

* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: One ImagineSpot in "Ponies in Paradise" involves rumors that tropical ponies, in the middle of a famine, turn into [[ImAHumanitarian horses of Diomedes]], complete with CapturedByCannibals imagery.

* [[AgonyOfTheFeet Agony of the Hooves]]: In "The Tea Party", Clover accidentally hammers her hoof.

* InfantImmortality: Implied aversion with Squire, whose ghost is still a child.

** Bon Bon running away to the woods in "The Masquerade" when she thinks everyone at the party is laughing at her. Her parents worry about her getting lost but after they find her, she nearly falls off a cliff.

* VagueAge: It's hard to pinpoint the exact age the main characters are supposed to be, considering that their behavior and the things they're into could point to anything between six and sixteen.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: A very subtle one. In "The Great Lemonade Stand Wars", the camera focuses on Lancer throwing away a paper cup and missing the garbage can after Ace and Teddy both hit it. This doesn't come up in the episode and seems just to show Lancer isn't like his friends. In "Blue Ribbon Blues" ,Teddy ends up accidentally losing an entire picnic basket and its contents into the water which gets washed away and no one ever retrieves them. This seems just to be the inciting incident for the episode, but the SeasonFinale [[spoiler:focuses on the fact the townsponies being careless with their trash and throwing it away recklessly clogs up the river and floods the town, with several ponies doing that exact thing during the episode.]] They'd been doing it multiple times throughout the season.

* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: The only way to tell a background pony's gender is by its single clothing accessory or by the length of its mane. And sometimes, not even then. Teddy's farming cousins with the pink coats and long, curly rainbow-colored manes? Half of them are men. And the father looks identical to the mother, but that's a [[IncestIsRelative different trope entirely....]]

* WereStillRelevantDammit: What this series kind of was to G1.

* FreezeFrameBonus: During the FantasySequence in "And the Winner is...", we see Clover switching channels on a big TV. Among the many briefly visible pictures, some of them just small miniatures on 4x4 or 8x8 grids, are [[UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus the Santa Maria ship]], WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies, a dog carrying a mallet, a duck, a rocker pony, a highway junction, a Shinkansen train, and even a pair of [[FurryConfusion human laced boots]].