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The Show Stoppers (March 4th 2011, 22 minutes)

Summary: Cutie Mark Crusader Rock Anthem Go!

The only thing that stands out for the treehouse is the ramp up to it. That's actually what a lot of livestock farms do on ramps, attach bars going across the ramp at set intervals. It makes dealing with ramps a lot easier for hooved animals when the ramp is slick due to ice or... slime.

That's a lot of thrust those wings are generating.

Way too many hints as to what the various CMC talents are. Bringing up a weird point, it appears that the pony has to actively acknowlege the talent for it to count.

Taffy pull machine. I know these are used for saltwater taffy, especially down in Oregon, but I don't know anything else about that. Sorry.

Ah, the psychic match cards, more formally known as Zener cards. These are not actual Zener cards as there are only five proper cards with slightly different symbols than what you see here. Karl Zener designed the original set in 1930, to remove a lot of the culturally trained tells that subjects were using to guess at the actual playing cards that were used orginally. Interesting that these even exist.

I can't say anything about the swiming scene, as underwater biology isn't something I've spent any time on. That's some kind of squid, and I have the vague impression that those stacked 'rocks' is actually some kind of coral. But beyond that, I've got nothing.

Okay, they were reading that poster. But the only writing on it that we can see is that strange symbolic writing that was in the history/fairy tale books in the first episode. In fact... it's not just the same script, it's the exact same phrases, probably copy/pasted. If it's a generic fairy-tale saying about destiny and the like, then there has to be other script on the poster we can't see.

More reinforcement of what their actual talents are.

This version of the poster didn't even have the symoblic script on it. Odd.

Wow. That's... the seventies in a nutshell right there. Glitter punk, as it's called now.

I'm curious as to where they are getting the electric guitar music from. They must have electric guitars, or something that can replicate that sound. There was nothing in the episode about the CMC recording their own music so someone else had to do it, or is doing it right now, for them.

Impressive fan.

I wonder if Peachy Pie is related to Pinkie Pie.