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May the Best Pet Win! (November 19th 2011, 22 minutes)

Summary: Rainbow Dash confuses looking for a pet and looking for an accessory.

Rainbow Dash has a tendency to sleep *everywhere*.

This is a park, which means it's a maintained area for recreation. Given the ponies' previous reactions to 'wild' regions like the Everfree, the assumption seems to be that there are ponies actively maintaining every location other than the Everfree or similar forests. So basically every inch of Equestria?

Pet wasp? Really? Well, I guess they all show a similar level of intelligence so that's not a barrier.

The eagle knits. That's funny. Though I personally would give it to the bat.

Ghastly Gorge. Looks like this is the Equestrian equivalent to the Grand Canyon, cut through the ground by erosion of that river down there.

While this is supposed to be a generic briar patch standard to animations, that looks a lot more like what happens when you get Himalayan Blackberry as an invasive species. Here in the Pacific Northwest, there are massive patches of Himalayan Blackberry that only have leaves on the outermost 'shell' of canes, leaving the inner area a twisted thorny mess just like what is shown here. It crowds out other plants, and grows faster than the animals can eat it. This means that the assumption that all of Equestria outside the Everfree is manicured is wrong. Everfree is just the most extreme of that kind of thing.

Quarry eels. This is neat, as this is the first real monster that isn't pulled from D&D or other RPGs. (Unless they're from some video JRPG I'm not familiar with.) Actual moray eels are not particularly aggressive for a predator fish, attacking only things that they recognize as a food species normally. In any case, for a predator that large, there has to be a pretty substantial prey population (of appropriate size) in the area. Given the scale of the creature, they're likely feeding on flocks of large birds like condors and the like.

While feathers fall out over time and grow to replacement, pulling one out deliberately must be as painful as pulling a fingernail off. More likely, however, Rainbow Dash's wingtip is actually caught, given that it needed to be bandaged against her body afterwards.

Rainbow Dash talks about Tanks, which is a name applied to armored combat vehicles in the World War I on. The word 'tank' was adopted as part of the secrecy of building these vehicles in England during World War I. It was a code name, meant to deceive spies into thinking they were building water tankers, and the name stuck. The way Rainbow Dash is using the term means the ponies are fully aware of the concept of armored combat vehicles. I'd be curious to see what a pony 'tank' would look like. Probably built off the same framework as those enclosed plows from the Winter Wrap Up episode.