Tear Jerker / The Wheel and the Butterfly Saga

• Dan finally getting his revenge on Pinkie, only to find out too late, there is a big difference in hurting someone who wronged you and hurting someone who only wanted to help.
  Dan: I think I just crushed a butterfly with a wheel.
• Though her Humiliation Conga is both funny and awesome, Sunset being dumped and left alone in ice cold water, as the lights in the rink go out and not a single person coming to help her, is pretty sad.
  • Word of God says pulling off a Moment of Awesome and a Tear Jerker was a proud moment.
• Though it’s played for laughs, the times where Pinkie comes close to killing Dan, among other things, really show how being in Dan's world is corrupting her.
• The biggest one may just be, Dan's childhood. Apparently his parents told him he was a mistake at the age of two and the source of all his problems, and kept him in a cage.
  • It gets worse, as he continues to explain his past to Pinkie, she realizes just how much of Cosmic Play Thing he-and by extension her-is.
• It's Played for Laughs, but Dan not fully comprehending what love is, is becomes tragic, after learning about his childhood.
• Dan and Pinkie coming very close to losing each other during the end of the Terry-Guy arc.