History Recap / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E11ApplejacksDayOff

* AnAesop:
** Sometimes you should break routine and think outside the box. You'll be surprised with how different the results can be.
** Sometimes, an outside perspective can help you find an issue you're overlooking.

At the spa, Applejack and Rarity want to head into the steam room, but are confronted by a very long line of ponies in front of them (including Rainbow Dash, who happens to be wearing [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E5TanksForTheMemories the exact same robe she wore back when she was going through a HeroicBSOD when Tank had to hibernate for her first winter with him]]), waiting to use it. While waiting, several of the spa guests use hot towels to keep warm instead, running the spa's washers and dryers on full blast around the clock. Rarity offers to do something else at the spa, but Applejack is insistent on getting into the steam room before anything else. Applejack discovers that one of the valves has sprung a small leak, leading to slower steam buildup, which in turn results in more hot towels being used by the customers. Despite Rarity's pleas for time, Applejack fixes the leaking steam valve herself. Applejack says that the spa was creating its own problem, since the employees had gotten so used to their workaround solution that they never bothered to fix the original leak. While this solves the long wait time for the steam room, it uses up the remainder of the hour that she and Rarity had for it, forcing them to go back to Sweet Apple Acres.

At the spa, Applejack and Rarity want to head into the steam room, but are confronted by a very long line of ponies in front of them, waiting to use it. While waiting, several of the spa guests use hot towels to keep warm instead, running the spa's washers and dryers on full blast around the clock. Rarity offers to do something else at the spa, but Applejack is insistent on getting into the steam room before anything else. Applejack discovers that one of the valves has sprung a small leak, leading to slower steam buildup, which in turn results in more hot towels being used by the customers. Despite Rarity's pleas for time, Applejack fixes the leaking steam valve herself. Applejack says that the spa was creating its own problem, since the employees had gotten so used to their workaround solution that they never bothered to fix the original leak. While this solves the long wait time for the steam room, it uses up the remainder of the hour that she and Rarity had for it, forcing them to go back to Sweet Apple Acres.

* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: The rest of the Apple family are said by Applejack to be out selling their harvest, meaning Twilight's suggestion of having one of them cover Applejack's chores for a while while she joins Rarity at the spa can't be followed.

* AwesomeYetImpractical: Applejack's methods for chores. Yes, they look interesting, but they're extremely time-consuming and she's never bothered to change them even after fixing the problems she conceived them to circumvent in the first place.

* ShoutOut: As Twilight and Spike feed the pigs while [[MakesSenseInContext having her hang from a rope]], she nearly falls until she is just inches from landing in and spreads her front legs out just like [[Film/MissionImpossible Ethan Hunt]]. The first musical notes of the series' theme are even heard.

* ImplausibleDeniablity: When Rarity and Applejack find Dash at the spa wearing a pink coat and turtle slippers, she claims she's just there for a quick sport massage... and continues trying to convince them of this after the spa workers reveal she's there for the pampered treatment.

* GoneHorriblyRight: Giving ''Twilight'' a point-by-point checklist for every action necessary to feed the pigs would make sure it would done exactly as Applejack would do it, but this leads to Twilight dangling from a rope, despite the fact that she can fly, because Applejack can't fly. The fact that the list is much more complicated than it needs to be and doesn't make sense to anyone besides Applejack makes the problem worse.

* IdiotBall: Applejack. One presumes that an expert farmer like her, as well as being a personality that obviously prefers simplicity over complexity, should know already how to optimize the work.

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: When Rarity and Applejack find Dash at the spa, she claims she's just there for a quick massage... until one of the spa workers reveal she's there for the pampered treatment.

->''"I guess it's possible to get stuck in a routine where you're doin' all this extra stuff and not realize it, but I can't for the life of me think of how!..... Why are y'all staring at me like that?"''
-->--'''Applejack'''

->Story by Neal Dusedau, Michael P. Fox, & Wil Fox
->Written by Michael P. Fox & Wil Fox

* ObliviousToHisOwnDescription: Applejack starts going on about the spa ponies and how they were blind to their problem while doing her own overly complex pig feeding process.
* OutOfOrder: This is the eleventh episode in production order but is the ''tenth'' episode in broadcast order.