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The Ticket Master (October 29th 2010, 22 minutes)

Summary: Twilight has two tickets to the Grand Galloping Gala, can she choose which of her friends to take?

Spike may have trouble spelling words, but he can read complex words with the correct pronunciation just fine.

Not just letters, but the tickets get transported by Dragonfire.

These are tickets to the Grand Galloping Gala, and are rare enough that they don't seem to be regularly purchasable, so we're dealing with a weird kind of Society Event. Big enough that a gate list is unable to cope, but still technically 'exclusive', much like various awards ceremonies in modern day. Given that we have 'Princesses' and 'Kingdoms', but there no reference to any other ranks of nobility (Dukes, Barons, etc.) it's likely the society has feudal remnants but is not a true feudal system anymore. As such, it's possible that the Gala started as the end celebration of the ceremony of Knighthood and has evolved beyond that. Likely there are still some awards and medals given out at the begining.

The plow is an oversized Iron Beam Scotch-style Walking Plow from the early 1800's, missing the handles. These were specifically for heavy work in rocky soil.

Rainbow Dash can hover upside down. And the various high-speed pegasi have distinctive contrails. Sorta. Two of them are the same, apparently.

Very distinct images of what ponies *think* the Grand Galloping Gala is about. It seems that the Equestrian media is as good about depicting current events as the real life media is.

Celestia's nephew. No name mentioned.

Actually, Twilight can probably get Fluttershy into the private gardens without the Grand Galloping Gala. And Applejack's dream is also not got anything to do with being a guest. She wants to be a caterer.

Spike demonstrates that he is capable of digesting a much wider range of food than any pony. He eats gemstones *and* hay.

Ah, here we go at the carousel. This very much resembles the Columbia Carousels (there are two of them), the only two-story carousels in the world, built in 1976 to resemble the French-style carousels of the 1850's.

Apple Brown Betty... what? Pause to look up. Okay, this is a real thing that I was unaware of. Apparently it's an American variation of the Apple Cobbler where it's done in layers with the crumble crust between said layers. Usually served with lemon sauce? Interesting. I'm going to have to try this at some point.

Countrified version of the Benny Hill theme music, actually called Yakety Sax. This version is extremely similar to the version known as Yakety Axe as done by Chet Atkins in 1965.

Twilight teleported *and didn't know that she could*. Unlike previous generations, teleportation is apparently not a normal Unicorn trick.

The Library main doors are... odd. It's setup like a Dutch Door, but the lower portion is a double door.

It makes me wonder if Twilight ever went to the Grand Galloping Gala in previous years. Or maybe this isn't an annual event, but happens ever x number of years. If she hasn't, then her status as Celestia's *personal* student may not be quite what is assumed by everyone else.

Spike feels the need to open the window to sent the letter this time. Interesting.

Celestia is really fast with her replies. She reads and writes very fast, or has these letters already penned up 'in case'.

Canterlot Castle is easily visible from Ponyville. That can't be Canterlot itself, because that was shown with wide open spaces, where the Castle is on the side of a mountain and is very vertical.