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Look Before You Sleep (December 3rd 2010, 22 minutes)

Summary: Applejack and Rarity have to survive a night together, at Twilight's first Slumber Party.

The pegasi have some kind of quota for the amount of rainfall within a period. The sheer amount of micromanaging that these ponies do to their environment is really strange.

Twilight is just slightly psychotic. But we knew that.

Not much to really talk about worldbuilding-wise in this one.

Ah! S'mores. Okay, what do I know about S'mores... It's uniquely American, associated with the Girl Scouts normally. The earliest reference I can find goes back to the 20's, but there's a good chance it's older than that. The earliest they could possibly exist is 1830 or so, as that's when Graham crackers came about, but Graham crackers were actually marketed as a health food originally, so that's unlikely. I can find no indication on when they switched over from a hard unsweetened biscuit meant to curb sexual appetite (yes, really) to the modern sweet cookie-like thing. That's likely in or around the time that the s'more came about.

Where the heck did that outfit come from? Does Twilight have that kind of thing in her closet normally? Did she bring it from Canterlot? Or was it something Rarity foisted off on her prior to this episode? In any case, it's typical fantasy princess nonsense. While each individual item did occur historically sort of, they didn't occur together. The cone hat is a hennin, 1430-1530 in Italy. The Juliet sleeve with the puff at the shoulder is from 1795-1820 again in Italy, the scalloped skirt with lace edging and enough petticoats to keep it that voluminous is from 1820-1875, mainly in France.