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Pinkie Apple Pie (January 11th 2014, 22 minutes)

Summary: Pinkie discovers that she might be a distant relative to the Apples, and she and the family go on a quest to find the truth.

Never challenge Pinkie Pie to a game of Jenga.

Really, Pinkie's abilities seem to be connected to being able to manipulate the laws of probability. She makes the improbable guaranteed.

A ponyville snail? Snap? Snat? I tried listening to that line several times and I couldn't quite make out what it was. And again, with the moons, but this time 48 moons which finally sounds *specific*. Technically hibernation is a specific type of periodical dormancy that only applies to mammals and marsupials. If this is a snail, then we're dealing with Aestivation instead.

It sounds like the Apples used to go on family road trips on a reasonably regular basis, but haven't for some time. Recent enough for Apple Bloom to remember being on one, but far enough back that they are really wired to be doing one again.

Equestria *and beyond*. Indicating that the Apple family extends to other nations. Still hoping that some time we'll get to *see* these other nations.

Applejack plays the banjo. Quite well, too.

I've experienced a total wagon failure at a draft horse show once. It looked pretty much like that. Thing is, some of those wagons at the shows are made to be disassembled almost completely for transport, and if you don't know what you're doing when you put it together (or assign that task to people who aren't... detail orientated), they do have a tendency to fly apart pretty completely.

Jalopy an old American term from the late 20's meaning a decrepit vehicle. For awhile in the 50's it was often used to refer to hot rods, especially those made from Model T's and other very old cars.

Scariest cave in Equestria. By Granny's standards, sure, but I wonder if that's an official designation?

For as isolated as that cabin looks, Pinkie Pie was able to find a store selling scrapbooking supplies pretty quickly. Even for Pinkie. I wonder what town this is actually near?

I know that voice (Golden Delicious). I swear I've heard that specific voice before.

I... wow. I knew a girl who lived like this. Crazy cat lady already, but she was only in her thirties.

Dustykat. Cute.

And if nothing else, Golden Delicious is connected to Pinkie, that's for sure.

Whoever copied out the page (or copied the scroll into the book) copied it complete with smudge. This may seem stupid, but it actually happened more often than you would think. There have been many times in history when reading and writing wasn't a common skill (I'm not going to be more definitive on that one, because literacy tended to cycle a lot throughout history in different regions), and even those who were professional copyists didn't always know how to read. So they literally *copied* the text, drawing out the letters exactly the same, including any mistakes, smudges, ink blots, etc. because they honestly didn't know if any of that was important.

And Pinkie continues to have far more control over her mane and tail than any other pony. We've seen AJ able to use her tail semi-prehensile with her lassoing skills, but Pinkie's tail is pretty much completely prehensile at this point.

That and she has access to Hammerspace.