Yes, I'm including this. It's real, it happened. I doubt there will be much I can pull out for worldbuilding, but it's valid.

The World's Biggest Tea Party (G3 Live Action, 2006, 75 minutes)

Summary: The ponies put on the biggest party of all!

Giant sentient ladybugs stealing Spike's How-To book.

Why has he got a giant watch around his neck? That's awfully white rabbit.

It's not a watch, it's a tuning whistle it seems. Maybe it's an ocarina. Or maybe an ocarina *and* a pocket watch? That would be a neat thing.

This is set up like a Panto. An English tradition of a children's play where the audience is encouraged to cheer and boo at the various characters. That's oddly fitting, as panto derives from mummer's plays and the like, with a stock character called the Hobby Horse (or Panto Horse) that reaches all the way back to the worship of the Celtic goddess Epona. (For those of a linguistic bent, this is one of the words that points out whether you are dealing with the old clasification system of Q-Gaelic/P-Gaelic. In one set of dialects certain sounds in words are in the back of the throat as a Q's while in the other set of dialects that same position has a front of the mouth P. Epona is P-Gaelic (Welsh and others) where the English words 'Pony' and 'Foal' come from. Equosa is the same word in a much older Q-Gaelic dialect which the Romans picked up as 'Equus' from which we derive 'Equine'. If you track it back further, you can tie it into the Proto-Germanic Hrussa from which we get 'Horse'. I find languages fun.)

The costumes are... odd, but it's an interesting way of dealing with it. It's more efficient than panto horses that requires two people per character. However, I'm not seeing any way for the actors to actually see what they're doing? They must be able to see through the mane at the top of the 'head', as the eyes and mouth are mechanically operated.

Earth ponies and one pegasus, Thistlewistle.

There we go, Rarity the unicorn.

And Minty is just as much a walking disaster.

I just noticed the heart on their front right hooves. They all seem to have it, but I don't remember seeing it in the animations.

And the Breezies, as stickpuppets.

I've noticed the ponies never seem to eat anything outside of baked goods in this generation.

Pinkie Pie Squink again. I'm glad they changed the name of this for G4, as 'squink' is just unfortunate, especially the way they're describing needing the 'squeeze your squinker'.

This is where Pinkie Pie got the 'party pony' thing from, it seems.

You know, that teapot song always confused me when I was a kid. You don't boil the water in the teapot, you use the kettle. The teapot is for steeping. At some point the teapots were also kettles, but that style went away long before the 80's so I'm confused as to why all the MLP shows still show it that way. Oh, did you know that originally you drank tea directly from the teapot using the spout? That's why most teapots are small, they're supposed to serve one person. Sorta puts that ''Friendship is Manly' video in perspective.

The Rainbow is used to deliver mail regularly now. Rainbow Dash is apparently the post pony.

Intermission.

I remember this song from somewhere else. Strange.

An interesting note, when it's 'tea and cakes', traditionally it's fruit cake. Not the sponge and butter cakes you may be used to.

Try a new color on size, and Minty and Pinkie come out in green and pink respectively. Not practicing what you preach are you?

What? Disco Dash? Heh. Scratching and rapping. People forget that hip hop started as a disco off-shoot.

And this is the origin of the Pinkie Promise. Interesting.

Pinkie never forgets *anything*...

*ANYTHING*

Amusing that the teapot has a paper tag from a teabag. So we're not dealing with loose-leaf.