History WesternAnimation / MyLittlePonyTales

** During the FantasySequence described above, we can briefly see LawyerFriendlyCameo of Kermit and Miss Piggy from ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies''.

* AerithAndBob: The girl ponies usually had outright fantastical names, like Starlight and Bright Eyes, while the boys tended to have more normal names like Ace and Teddy. This even happened with supporting and one-off characters - one episode has a pony mention offhand that "Justin finally proposed to Moonglow."

* 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, a jet fighter, a helicopter, a desktop computer, a guitar, a seaport, and even a pair of [[FurryConfusion human laced boots]].

* HumanFocusedAdaptation: Rare example of an [[InvertedTrope inversion]] -- this and all series that followed were completely human-free. However, in a way, this does fit it - the focus is on humanlike characters in an Earthlike world.

* ParanormalEpisode: The episode "Up, Up, and Away", notable for being the only episode featuring [[spoiler: non-earth ponies]] - who were otherwise absent from the show.

* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:Brightglow and her fellows are believed to be a UFO, and are the only pegasi (or WingedUnicorn in Dazzleglow's case) in the entire series. It's unclear if they're ponies from somewhere else on the same world or if they're actually aliens. This is only amplified due to sharing features with both the toyline exclusive Sparkle Ponies (who all had some association with space) and the unmade Celestial Ponies, who were supposedly aliens, making it even more ambiguous.]]

* OffModel:
** Boy, the animators cut a ''lot'' of corners when making this series (This is Creator/{{AKOM}} we're talking about after all). For example, when the ponies are facing to the camera, they become something ''hideous.''
** Bon Bon's weight shifted among episodes as if the animators couldn't decide if she was pudgy, fat or a complete porker.

Released for TV in the early [[TheNineties nineties]], ''My Little Pony Tales'' is a TV series based on the toyline, ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'', by Hasbro. It was decided to give the ponies a {{slice of life}} angle. As a 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 ImprobablyFemaleCast 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 series ran for twenty-six episodes told over the course of thirteen airings in 1992.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: In Patch's ghost story, the knight pony's task is to ''tame'' a dragon.

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

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

* MythologyGag: When Bon Bon is standing dressed up in front of her mirror at the end of "The Best Dream" song, she has a bow tied on her tail, like ponies in the original My Little Pony series had.

* ParanormalEpisode: The episode "Up, Up, and Away", notable for being the only episode featuring [[spoiler: non-earth ponies]] - who were otherwise absent from the show as this iteration had removed most fantastic elements.

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 ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends My Little Pony 'n' Friends]]'', which was a fantasy/adventure series, it was decided to give the ponies a {{slice of life}} angle, and removed most of the fantasy elements. As a 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 ImprobablyFemaleCast 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, [[GrowingWithTheAudience who watched the original series but would be old enough by then to worry about any of the above issues the show tackled.]]

Much like its predecessor, ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'', the series was comprised of [[QuarterHourShort quarter hour shorts]], but unlike before, shared its running time with no other properties. The series ran for twenty-six episodes told over the course of thirteen airings in 1992.

* AlternateContinuity: Separate from the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends first cartoon]]; lacking most of the supernatural elements with few exceptions (such as the ghost pony and the UFO that turns out to be [[spoiler: three pegasi and an alicorn]].) and focusing on a completely different cast of characters. No humans, either.

* ContrastingSequelSetting: While ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'' takes place in a medieval-ish fantasy world populated by LoadsAndLoadsOfRaces, this series takes place in a [=90s=] suburbia and almost all of the characters are Earth ponies.

* {{Expy}}: Most noticeable with the similarities between Shady from the previous TV show, MLP and Friends, and Clover here, with both being generally lacking in confidence AND being somewhat clumsy (Clover obviously more so than Shady).

* FranchiseCodifier: Unlike the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends original cartoons]], ''Tales'' has no humans, is SliceOfLife, and focuses on an ensemble cast instead of constantly rotating the ponies. All of these would carry over to future adaptations.

* 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.]]

* AdultFear:
** In "Battle of the Bands", Melody is unable to find a babysitter so she brings her little sisters Ting-a-Ling and Jing-a-Ling to the contest. She is forced to chase after them when they go missing.
** 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 and it's clear they're ''very'' scared for her.
** The King and Queen of the Isle of Pony lost their only daughter at sea when she was a baby and had no idea if she was alive or dead since. And because of Dad's job, they obviously have their share of unscrupulous enemies...

--> '''Teddy''': Yeah, but I don't have one. [[WhatAnIdiot I'd do anything to get one]].

** 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 and it's clear they're ''very'' scarred for her.

* 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. Half of Teddy's farming cousins, who wear pink coats and have long, curly rainbow-colored manes, are male. 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.

* MistakenForMurderer: Bright Eyes thinks that the tropical ponies killed the last exchange student and are going to do the same to her.

** And Shout! Factory's complete boxset uses the G3 logo too.

* AnAesop: One per episode, many of them pertaining to friendship, not unlike [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic a later incarnation]] of the franchise. So, NotSoDifferent? Also, a good chunk of them dealt with real life...ish, subjects that many kids deal with.

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 {{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.

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

* FiveManBand
** TheHero - Starlight
** TheLancer - Melody (sometimes Patch)
** TheSmartGuy - Bright Eyes
** TheBigGuy - Bon Bon
** TheChick - Clover (sometimes Sweetheart)
** TheHeart - Sweetheart
** ActionGirl - Patch

* HumanSacrifice: Sweetheart tells Bright Eyes a rumor that islander ponies "feed" ponies to the volcano.

** The King and Queen of the Isle of Pony lost their only daughter at sea when she was a baby and had no idea if she was alive or dead since.

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 ImprobablyFemaleCast 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.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** The animators seemed to be rather fond of Bon Bon's rear. She also got bedroom eyes and even ''breasts'' on a few episodes.
** 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. Considering the scene is about modeling one can guess Bon Bon understands what 'adult' models do.
** The episode "Birds of a Feather" had Ace and Bright Eyes massaging her rear end and flanks. Granted, they were just rubbing mud onto her nettle-stings, but still.
** Overall, most of scenes from Bon Bon's fantasy sequence in "The Masquerade" could count as this, the above mentioned cover girl example being just one of them.

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 ImprobablyFemaleCast 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.

The series was met with mixed responses from its viewers and only lasted a [[ShortRunners single season]] of 26 fifteen-minute shorts as the result. Some see that as a good thing. Others think it was {{too good to last}}. Much like its predecessor, ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'', the series was comprised of [[QuarterHourShort quarter hour shorts]], but unlike before, shared its running time with no other properties. The series ran for twenty-six episodes told over the course of thirteen airings in 1992.

* ChangingYourselfForLove: In "Roll Around the Clock", Bright Eyes and Lancer are encouraged by their friends to change their looks and personalities to attract each other. Unfortunately, they liked each other the way they already were, and both end up being repulsed by the other's "new".