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Green Isn't Your Color (March 18th 2011, 22 minutes)

Summary: Fluttershy, the fashion model. Rarity, the jealous.

Wow, that's definately a hat.

The spa is quite elaborate. Spas like this have been around since... well, forever, really. The name is an abreviation of the famous Roman town Aquae Spadanae (basically Water Fountain), now known simply as Spa, Belgium, but the concept of the healing properties of mineral springs goes back to prehistoric times all over the world. The social aspect of going to a spa, with a variety of beauty and health treatments dates back to the 1700's. Interestingly for this episode such things were also connected directly with seasonal fashion shows.

Having a spa like this in Ponyville doesn't mean the town is built on a mineral spring, but it would help. There were many such spas built in rural towns in America, with the rural setting being considered a part of the treatment. Given Rarity's high fashion business, the Spa, the Elements of Harmony, and the fact that ponies like Sapphire Shores, Hoity Toity, and Photo Finish show up in Ponyville on a regular basis, it wouldn't surprise me to find out that Ponyville is actually the equivalent of a resort town deliberately cultivating it's rural atmosphere to attract tourist trade from Canterlot.

Wow. Again with a definite hat.

Photo Finish. Yeah, that's Anna Wintour in attitude, haircut, sunglasses, and dress. The accent is silly, because Anna is English, but the rest is dead on. And I'm not even going to try to figure out what the heck her assistants are wearing. It's typical 80/90's high fashion nonsense.

Ack, more Elvis outfits.

Uhm. Where is this show, actually? Is this some place in Ponyville, or did it get moved to Canterlot? And now on a train back to Ponyville, so I guess it was Canterlot.

Suddenly Pinkie!

Apparently Pinkie Promises need practice.

Okay, all of Pinkie's general weirdness is fine, and her ability to suddenly appear out of nowhere can be excused as more weirdness. But her appearing in the mirror without being in the room takes a lot more. It's *funny* yes, but like her ability to outpace Rainbow Dash back in Griffon the Brush Off, it's one of the real incidents that indicate she has abilities beyond that of a normal Earth Pony.