Line #78 Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E23TheHooffieldsAndMcColts


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:A hootenanny, this ain't.]]
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4	->''"If you ain't fer us, yer agin' us."''
5	-->-- '''Big Daddy [=McColt=]'''
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7	->Written by Joanna Lewis and Kristine Songco
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9	While getting ready to start a book club meeting with her animal friends, Fluttershy's cutie mark glows, indicating the map in Twilight's castle is summoning her. Fluttershy arrives, only to find a very eager Twilight Sparkle already waiting. The map has summoned the two of them to a valley in Equestria called the Smokey Mountains which is known for its beauty, with a river running between two mountainous hills. Twilight, along with a "friendship portfolio," travels with Fluttershy to the valley.
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11	When the two friends arrive at Smokey Mountains, they're suddenly set upon by pumpkins being launched from one of the peaks. Upon investigating, they find a family of earth ponies called the Hooffields launching food at the other peak, which holds a family called the [=McColts=]. The Hooffields are expert farmers, while the [=McColts=] are expert builders, and the two families are engaged in a bitter feud. Twilight and Fluttershy attempt to get to the root of the problem, but are constantly stymied. At first, the families simply dismiss their attempts, but further investigation reveals that neither family really knows what started the feud, or why they keep going. However, neither family is willing to back down.
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13	Finally, Twilight seems to have convinced Ma Hooffield to make peace by baking a large cake, bringing it to the [=McColts=]. But the Hooffields hid inside of the cake, and emerge once it's inside the [=McColt=] fort. This triggers a massive brawl between the two families, with Twilight all but giving up on solving the problem. While Twilight sulks away from the fighting, Fluttershy sees several hungry, cold animals in the area, who tell her all about how the feud really started.
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15	Twilight uses a spell to freeze all of the Hooffields and [=McColts=] in place while Fluttershy explains: the feud started when their ancestors Grub Hooffield and Piles [=McColt=] wanted to preserve the valley and protect the animals, but couldn't agree on how to do it. Grub wanted to start growing crops for the animals to eat, whereas Piles wanted to build a shelter for the animals to live. Since both of them were insistent on doing things their own way, and neither one was willing to back down, they eventually began sabotaging each others efforts. Their arguing turned into a full-blown feud with each other that eclipsed their original goal to preserve the valley, a feud that their descendants are now pointlessly continuing. The Hooffields and [=McColts=] finally see that they've been fighting over nothing and, after realizing how their fighting has hurt both the land and the animals, they call a truce. As the two families come together to start farming and building, Twilight and Fluttershy's cutie marks glow, indicating they solved the problem. They begin heading back to Ponyville, with Twilight wondering out loud that, now that the map has summoned all of the Mane Six, where they'll be sent next.
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17	[==]Cue {{Bluegrass}} version of credits music
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20	!!Tropes:
21	* {{Applicability}}: InUniverse. Fluttershy's book club is studying "the theme of nature as it applies to Hoofcliff's love" in ''Wuthering Hooves''.
22	* AppliedMathematics: The blackboard Twilight points to when she says she's been "testing out potential friendship problems" has many parts of the equation replaced with Cutie Marks and smiling ponies.
23	* BattleCry: The Hooffields jumping out of the Trojan Cake yell "For glory!"
24	* BigBallOfViolence: Several occur during the big fight between the Hooffields and [=McColts=].
25	* TheBigGuy: One of the [=McColt=] stallions has the same body structure as Trouble Shoes, towering over the other ponies.
26	* BigOlEyebrows: The Hooffields (including the mares, save for one) have big bushy eyebrows that would put Tree Hugger's to shame. The [=McColts'=] aren't small either, but not as noticeable since theirs are straight.
27	* BigOlUnibrow: Big Daddy [=McColt=] sport a unibrow among plenty other facial hair, not helping his already gruff appearance.
28	* ABloodyMess: Used together with a {{Parodied\|Trope}} PaintTheTownRed when Ma Hooffield calls to reload the tomato slingshots and "paint their mountaintop red".
29	* {{Bluegrass}}: The genre that the background music changes to once we're introduced to the feuding clans. Each of the families has its own {{Leitmotif}}.
30	* BrickJoke:
31	** The plot is kicked-off by the Hooffields attacking the [=McColts=] with pumpkin barrage. This is in retaliation to their retaliation that ruined their supply of food, meaning the [=McColts=] have to salvage the pumpkins as their only source, which isn't that bad taste-wise but will get old. At the end when everyone is made up and both sides are offering their services to each other's shortcomings, where the Hooffields explain they're going to provide the [=McColts=] with some crops, a [=McColt=] stallion pops in asking for no pumpkins.
32	** The episode begins with Fluttershy hosting a book club with her animal friends before her cutie mark starts glowing. Later on, when she's planning to rescue all the animals left cold and hungry from the constant fighting, she asks them how they feel about book clubs.
33	* BuffySpeak: Ma Hooffield loves gerunding EdibleAmmunition.
34	* TheCameo: Spike is briefly seen reading a comic under a pile of books, which Twilight briefly lifts up before going back to her business.
35	* CameraAbuse: During the tomato bombardment, one strikes close to the "camera" and covers it in red.
36	* CanOnlyMoveTheEyes: The ponies that Twilight immobilizes with her freeze spell can still move their eyes and mouths, allowing to see some range of expression as Fluttershy's story on how the feud started sinks in.
37	* CaughtInASnare: The Hooffields that jump out of the Trojan Cake are a big surprise for the [=McColts=], but they're nevertheless promptly caught in a net by the fort's inner defenses.
38	* CherryTapping: The Hooffields are so terrible at building that all the [=McColts=] have to launch to knock down their buildings are pebbles.
39	* CircularReasoning: The whole reason the Hooffields and [=McColts=] continue feuding. When they aren't fighting, they're getting ready to fight, and what they hope to get out of fighting is the satisfaction of winning... the fight, to prove their family is the best... at winning.
40	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: The Hooffields are generally reddish coat colors, while the [=McColts=] are blueish. This in fact was [[https://twitter.com/TheBiggestJim/status/665574105845014528 by design]] based on the Looney Tunes short "WesternAnimation/HillbillyHare".
41	* ContinuityNod:
42	** When Twilight turns around suddenly to show off her glowing cutie mark, Fluttershy cringes as she barely avoids getting slapped in the face by her tail. Clearly, [[https://derpibooru.org/1025272 she remembers this happening twice to her with Rarity's mermaid costume]] in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E15ScareMaster Scare Master]]".
43	** When Twilight is speculating what kind of friendship problem they could be dealing with, she lists off several that already happened in earlier episodes. Oddly, Twilight was largely involved in one of the episodes referenced.
44	** Twilight pulls out the freeze spell from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E3CastleManeia Castle Mane-ia]]", even noting that it's a lot harder to hold all these ponies than just her friends.
45	** This hasn't been the first time Twilight was [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E2ElementsOfHarmony accused of being a spy for another side]].
46	* CrazyPrepared: Twilight tries to invoke this when she's finally summoned by the map, but when she finally gets to the Smokey Mountains, she discovers that it was all for naught.
47	* CripplingOverspecialization: The Hooffields are excellent farmers but are useless at construction, whereas the [=McColts=] are experts at building, but have poor to nonexistent farming skills.
48	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:
49	** Of the "You said X twice" variety.
50	--->'''Twilight:''' I've prepared our things. Snacks, books, blankets, books.\
51	'''Fluttershy:''' You said "books" twice.\
52	'''Twilight:''' There are a lot of books.
53	** The icing on the "apology cake".
54	--->'''Fluttershy:''' Nothing says "Let's be friends" like a cake that says "Let's be friends".
55	* DoubleTake: In TheTeaser, Fluttershy distractedly notes that her cutie mark is glowing, before turning back to her book. Then she snaps back to it when she realizes what it means.
56	* DownHereShot: "Big Daddy" [=McColt=] is introduced this way, the shot at first only showing his very tall hat, before moving down, very deliberately pointing out his IronicName in the process.
57	* EatDirtCheap: In the flashback, Grub Hooffield tests whether the dirt is good for planting by eating a hoofful with every sign of enjoyment.
58	* EdibleAmmunition: The Hooffields bombard the [=McColts=] with pumpkins, tomatoes, and other food. This actually ends up benefiting the [=McColts=]; since they're completely inept at growing their own food, they salvage whatever the Hooffields fire at them.
59	* EscalatingWar: How the feud started. The families' forefathers, Grub Hooffield and Piles [=McColt=], ran into a small disagreement, then inconvenienced the other until it was flat out war.
60	* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The titular clans are clearly meant to be Appalachian hillbillies, specifically the Hatfields and [=McCoys=]. Oddly, Grub Hooffield's characterization is closer to that of "Old Ranel" [=McCoy=] and Piles [=McColt=] is closer to "Devil Anse" Hatfield.
61	* FeudingFamilies: The basic premise of the episode involves a bitter feud between the Hooffield and [=McColt=] families. The kicker here is that neither side can recall what started the feud in the first place.
62	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
63	** The families' {{crippling overspecialization}}s are hinted at by the mountains their respective lands occupy. The Hooffields have pumpkins growing everywhere surrounding their peak, but their houses are ramshackle and badly built. The [=McColts'=] compound at their peak looks like a sturdy fortress built out of logs, but they have nothing but stumps surrounding their land, with no crops whatsoever.
64	** The significance of the animals struggling for both food and shelter is also hinted at before Fluttershy learns the truth, generally by her theme for her book club, and more specifically during the various battles between the clans.
65	* FreezeFrameBonus: Three of the [=McColts=] appear to be triplet sisters as their cutie marks are various types of saws.
66	* FreudianExcuse: Piles [=McColt=] technically started the war by setting up his first house right where Grub Hooffield was going to plant his first field. Grub then helped kick off the war with an even more inconsiderate act by knocking down Piles' first house.
67	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The episode is chock-full of hilarious fights going on in the background while Fluttershy and Twilight are trying to solve the issue. The image title itself reveals the end result of such a event where a Hooffield mare with a pineapple mace is slowly and menacingly advancing on a downed [=McColt=] just before she sees a [[OhCrap hay barrel coming to flatten her]]. [[https://media.giphy.com/media/6bxdfakQcrdTi/giphy.gif]]
68	* FurryReminder:
69	** The [=McColts=] nodding to Big Daddy's statement is accompanied by light whinnying.
70	** Twilight shakes herself like a dog to get rid of tomato juices and bits clinging to her coat.
71	* GenreBlind: Neither Twilight, Fluttershy or the [=McColts=] anticipate the "Trojan Cake" filled with hostile ponies... quite unlike a good part of the audience.
72	* TheGlovesComeOff: Twilight tries very hard to settle things peacefully between the two feuding families, by talking it out and staying rational, rather than using her powers or princess authority. However, when she's hit by a cupcake in the face during the big brawl, you can tell that she's fed up with the fighting. Next thing, she's using a massive immobilizing spell encompassing ''all'' the belligerents in the field.
73	* GreenAesop: Sort of. The valley used to be beautiful, but much of that beauty was destroyed when the ponies started focusing more on their feuding than protecting the land like they originally came there to do.
74	* GrowlingGut: The guts of a squirrel and a few mice are growling loud enough for Twilight and Fluttershy to notice. This clues them that the critters are starving, and that the valley's problem concerns not just the two feuding families.
75	* HeadDesk: She has no desk, but once Twilight gets frustrated by the Hooffields and [=McColts=]' circular logic, and concludes she just can't find the root of the problem, she simply slams her face on the ground.
76	* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Fluttershy's ability to [[SpeaksFluentAnimal communicate with small woodland creatures]] proves to be [[TheoryOfNarrativeCausality the reason the Map summoned her]] because only the critters remember how the feud started.
77	* HeroicBSOD: When the big brawl breaks out, Twilight walks off and sulks, convinced that they'll just start their feud back up no matter what she does. Fluttershy getting the story from the animals snaps her out of it.
78	* HoldYourHippogriffs: Fluttershy expands the "everypony" theme with "everyanimal" when addressing her Furry Friends Book Club.
79	* HopeSpot: A giant cake made by the Hooffields when it arrived to the [=McColts'=] compound due to Twilight's suggestion. Lampshaded by Twilight herself when she said it would be the first step toward forgiveness. That's when [[TrojanHorse several Hooffields explode out of the cake and attack the compound from the inside]].
80	* HyperAwareness: In a blink-and-you-miss-it moment, Twilight can be seen using her magic to pull Fluttershy out of the way of a launched pumpkin, even as Twilight herself had her back turned at the time. It seems [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E22TestingTesting123 she's picked up on Rainbow Dash's own flight awareness capabilities]].
81	* InnocentlyInsensitive:
82	** Twilight doesn't seem to notice that Fluttershy can barely carry the saddle bags she (Twilight) can transport without breaking a sweat, at least when they're walking; once they're flying, she finally notices and offers to help Fluttershy with the bags.
83	** The feuding families don't notice how their fighting is hurting both the valley and the animals; Fluttershy has to save the animals more than once, and the families only notice this after Twilight freezes them with her magic, and force them to listen to Fluttershy.
84	* IronicName: "Big Daddy" [=McColt=] is a MiniatureSeniorCitizen.
85	* JumpingOutOfACake: Not a festive example, as several Hooffields are jumping out of the "apology cake" used as TrojanHorse to attack the [=McColts=] from inside their fort.
86	* LadyLooksLikeADude: One of the [=McColt=] mares has the ''exact'' same body structure as her stallion siblings, with the only discerning differences being the show's usual TertiarySexualCharacteristics, as well as her voice.
87	* MassOhCrap: The entire [=McColt=] clan when they see the Hooffields [[JumpingOutOfACake jumping out of the]] TrojanHorse cake.
88	* MeaningfulName: Piles [=McColt=] is named for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_foundation piling]], which helps make buildings more sturdy.
89	* MiniatureSeniorCitizen: Big Daddy [=McColt=], as his name doesn't indicate, is a midget elderly pony, a fact that is made fun of from his [[DownHereShot very introduction]]. It's all the more noticeable since the other [=McColts=] as a whole are rather big ponies, even the youngest-looking mares being taller than alicorn Twilight.
90	* MistakenForSpies: Twilight and Fluttershy are initially accused of being spies of the opposite family when they first meet each side.
91	* MonochromePast: The flashback to Grub Hooffield and Piles [=McColt=]'s arrival in the valley has muted colors with a sepia tint.
92	* MotiveDecay: The feud between the Hooffields and the [=McColts=] has gone on so long, that they forgot why the feud started in the first place. It takes Fluttershy talking with the local animals to figure out that the feud started because they disagreed on how to best take care of the animals.
93	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Once Fluttershy has explained how the feud started and what it has done to the animals and the valley, both families show expressions of this as the guilt and remorse of their actions set in.
94	* MyGodYouAreSerious: "Wait, you were serious about apologizing? WHY IN EQUESTRIA WOULD WE DO THAT?!"
95	* NoSell: A beefy [=McColt=] stallion doesn't even flinch when a Hooffield tries to grapple with him, but just pushes him effortlessly away.
96	* OrangeBlueContrast: The feuding families, the Hooffields being warm shades of brown, red and orange and the [=McColts=] being cool shades of blue, teal and violet.
97	* PaintTheTownRed: {{Parodied\|Trope}} by means of ABloodyMess when Ma Hooffield calls to reload the tomato slingshots and "paint their mountaintop red."
98	* PermaStubble: One of the [=McColt=] stallions has some rather scruffy, unshaven facial hair in addition to his mustache.
99	* PieInTheFace: Twilight is hit by a stray cupcake in the face during the big brawl. As she was already running out of patience with all the fighting, this happens to be the last straw.
100	-->'''Twilight Sparkle:''' EVERYPONY '''''FREEZE'''''!
101	* PoorCommunicationKills: The feud started because Pile [=McColt=] built a barn over Grub Hooffield's future farm plot. Rather than either side talking to the other, they just decide to sabotage the other's goals. This could also be applied to the later generations, where neither side was willing to talk to the other and arrange peace, preferring to just be angry and continue feuding.
102	* PowerEchoes: Twilight yelling "EVERYPONY '''''FREEZE'''''!" gets a lot of echo on the last word. No surprise considering the sheer power of the ensuing spell.
103	* 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 get hit with a barrage of tomatoes.
104	* RecycledPremise: The episode's premise is similar to that of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE60TheIceCreamWars The Ice-Cream Wars]]" from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyNFriends''. Both episodes have two old ponies getting into a fight over a misunderstanding using machines to throw food at the other while other characters try to stop them.
105	* RedOniBlueOni: Just like in "A Bird in the Hoof", Twilight is the Red (more outgoing and assertive) to Fluttershy's Blue (more sensitive and given to listening first).
106	%% ** And for a literal example, there's also the Red Hooffields and the Blue [=McColts=].
107	* RidingIntoTheSunset: How the episode ends, with Twilight and Fluttershy heading in direction of the sunset. Except they're not riding, because, you know, ponies. They're more like walking... at a snail's pace in Fluttershy's case, because of the weight of her satchels, again.
108	* SceneryGorn: The Smokey Mountains are shown, in Twilight's book and in the flashbacks, as a pristine natural paradise. In the modern day, they've been turned into a scarred wasteland by generations of feuding.
109	* SeriesContinuityError: Twilight remarks that she previously froze six ponies, when in fact -- assuming she's referencing the incident from "Castle Mane-ia" -- she really only froze four.
110	* ShamingTheMob: Fluttershy calls the Hooffields and [=McColts=] out for letting their petty feud escalate to the point of nearly destroying the valley their ancestors set out to protect. Cue both families having a MyGodWhatHaveIDone revelation.
111	* ShapedLikeItself: "Did you say cake? As in... cake?"
112	* ShoutOut:
113	** Fluttershy's book club is reading a pony version of ''Literature/WutheringHeights'', which, if you know anything about the book, is just as surprising for Fluttershy to be a fan of as [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E15ScareMaster those animes]]. The book also sports a ponified version of Catherine on the cover.
114	** To ''Film/ForrestGump'', when Big Daddy [=McColt=] rattles off [[TheLongList many pumpkin dishes]] that they have to make using the pumpkins the Hooffields throw at them.
115	** Two feuding settlements on mountains on either side of a valley tossing odds and ends at each other is similar to the ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' version of "The Good Samaritan".
116	** The feud and the way it's solved is similar to the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheGreatDivide The Great Divide]]".
117	** The valley resembles the one in the Disney short "[[WesternAnimation/MakeMineMusic The Martins and the Coys]]", which is also about hillbillies feuding. Both even has a house at the top of each hill.
118	* 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.
119	* SpitShake: Between Ma Hooffield and Big Daddy [=McColt=] when they agree to end the feud.
120	* StealthPun:
121	** Part of Twilight's AppliedMathematics chalkboard includes Pinkie Pie's, Rarity's, and Rainbow Dash's cutie marks as "elements" of a molecular model.
122	** The [=McColts=] are shown to be expert carpenters, and three of them, as mentioned under FreezeFrameBonus, have saw Cutie Marks. They're sawhorses.
123	* StraightMan: Surprisingly, Fluttershy is this to Twilight Sparkle throughout this episode. Twilight is too focused on solving the problem by-the-book through following her notes to see the bigger picture.
124	* SuddenlyShouting: Big Daddy [=McColt=] has a tendency to raise his voice without warning during conversations, mostly each time he says "the Hooffields".
125	* SuperScream: More played for laugh than anything else, but when Big Daddy [=McColt=] yells toward the mountaintop of the Hooffields, the force of his scream causes their ramshackle houses to crumble. [[CherryTapping Not that it would take much]] considering their professed ineptitude at construction.
126	* TheThemeParkVersion: The FeudingFamilies are {{very loosely based on\|ATrueStory}} the feud between the Hatfields and [=McCoys=].
127	* TheoryOfNarrativeCausality: Neither Fluttershy nor Twilight questions why the Map has specifically summoned them. After the events of "The Lost Treasure of Griffonstone" and "Made in Manehattan", they understand from the beginning that they were summoned because they're the right ponies for whatever friendship problem is at hoof.
128	* ThirdTimesTheCharm: After being passed over the first [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E8TheLostTreasureOfGriffonstone two]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E17MadeInManehattan times]] to go somewhere for a friendship problem, Twilight finally gets picked for a mission.
129	* TrojanHorse: Ma Hooffield's supposed "apology cake" has several Hooffield members hidden inside it, who attack as soon as they are inside the [=McColts'=] fort. Bonus for real horses being involved.
130	* 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.
131	* 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 reasons that caused their war and are too preoccupied with fighting to even care about remembering what they were.
132	* UntrustingCommunity: Both the Hooffields and [=McColts=] are suspicious of Fluttershy and Twilight's intentions when they first arrive, with both clans [[MistakenForSpies assuming they're spies]] at first.
133	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Zig-zagged starting from an aversion; Ma Hooffield seems too paranoid and focused on their feud with the [=McColts=] to take any exception to a new alicorn princess, but the stallion sentry at the [=McColt=] stronghold holds a short conversation with Twilight about the fact that there's a ''fourth'' princess. Both sides have been rather out of the loop because of their conflict. Implies some FridgeBrilliance at the earlier instances of this trope being played straight, as Twilight's coronation was surely news spread throughout all of Equestria.
134	* 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 off a feud between the families that ended up ruining the Smokey Mountains.
135	* UtilityMagic: Twilight Sparkle uses a simple spell to amplify her voice enough that she's heard from both mountaintops.
136	* WeUsedToBeFriends: Grub Hooffield and Piles [=McColt=] were two friends who wanted to help the animals in the Smokey Mountains. Disagreements over how to help and constant sabotaging ended that and escalated into a feud their descendants continued without knowing why.
137	* WithUsOrAgainstUs: Big Daddy [=McColt=] says this directly in response to Twilight stating that she's not here to help them fight against the Hooffields.
138	-->'''Big Daddy [=McColt=]:''' If you ain't fer us, yer agin' us.
139	* WholePlotReference: The title and plot of the episode are based on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield%E2%80%93McCoy_feud Hatfields and McCoys]], two families from the American Appalachians who were engaged in a bitter blood feud for decades.
140	* WorldBuilding: The episode introduces us to the Smokey 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]].
141	* WrestlerInAllOfUs: During the big free-for-all, a Hooffielfd mare catches a [=McColt=] mare in a painful-looking hold by bending her leg backward, and the latter repeatedly slaps the ground with her hoof.
142	* YouKnowWhatYouDid: Both families' explanation for how the feud started boils down to this. [[LampshadeHanging Twilight sees this as a sign that neither of them knows what the other did]].

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