Allusions in MLP

[Envoy-in-exile 101]

Some examples I could find:

 

Reference to: Star Wars: A New Hope (end scene)

MLP episode: Season 2, episode 2 (end scene) - Return of Harmony Part 2

Probably the most famous one

 

Reference to: Skyrim

MLP episode: Season 1, episode 7 - Dragonshy

The title speaks for itself (Dragonshy = Dragonborn) and Fluttershy defeating the dragon with her Voice (not a Fus Roh Dah or Dragonrend, but by scolding him)

 

Reference to: Pied Piper of Hamelin

MLP episode: Season 1, episode 10 - Swarm of the Century

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOL1a6IYWPI

 

Reference to: Diamond Dogs (a David Bowie album)

MLP episode: Season 1, episode 19 - A Dog and Pony Show

A pretty obscure one, only alerted to it by a Youtube commentor

[SrFrog 926]

One of the most obvious ones must be the Benny Hill style chase.

[NeverNeverland 1,940]

 

That.

Edited February 12, 2012 by NeverNeverland

[Skullbuster 1,906]

Umm, I think episode 7 came out before skyrim

[Envoy-in-exile 101]

Umm, I think episode 7 came out before skyrim

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls_V:_Skyrim

 

http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Dragonshy

 

Skyrim was released 2 weeks before. Trailers before that.

[Radiance64 7,051]

My favorite reference was the Batman-style Mare Do Well posters in The Mysterious Mare Do Well- it was just so badass.

[Skullbuster 1,906]

Skyrim came out nov 11 2011

 

Dragon shy came out nov 26 2010

[GrooveBroove 680]

Skyrim came out nov 11 2011

 

Dragon shy came out nov 26 2010

 

Skyrim ripped off MLP CONFIRMED

[Envoy-in-exile 101]

Blinded by 1s and 0s

[Akemi Homura 7,680]

The CMC.

 

This.

 

[Yellow Diamond 7,564]

Looney Toons:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXpjy3Zxv_A

Edited February 12, 2012 by Thereisnospoon303

[Eenohay 318]

Dragonshy came out about a year before Skyrim, you are sounding like these teenage girls who claim their favorite pop artirsts songs where stolen by rock legens.

 

Anyways, I love lucy in the last roundup, indiana jones in read it and weep and the rest that were mentioned in this thread

[Big Bill Hell 123]

Rarity pulls an Icarus at the best young fliers competition.

[FinalGamer 192]

My mind is STILL blown over this Trainspotting reference from Baby Cakes, probably THE most adult reference in the show. Seriously, drug trips. Wut.

 

 

 

Edited February 12, 2012 by FinalGamer

[Radiance64 7,051]

Wow, I love pretty much all of these references.

[cuteycindyhoney 13,284]

"A Dog and Pony Show" references "The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry.

 

The best way to get kidnappers to let you go, is to make their lives a living hell!

 

LOL!

[PhonyBrony 275]

Dodge Junction in the Last Roundup is based off of Dodge city, one of the famous towns from the western US. Its the setting of an old radio show from near the 40s called "Gunsmoke."

[Smokin'HotRarity 182]

darth vader scream and gollum dog

 

alice in wonderland also

 

batman and chocolate rain

Edited February 12, 2012 by glitterlicious

[Envoy-in-exile 101]

Skyrim ripped off MLP CONFIRMED

 

 

Also The Best Night Ever episode - Cinderella reference.

 

There's an Indiana Jones type character in S2e16

Read It and Weep

[Twi Rubix 726]

In "A Bird in the Hoof", there was one time where Angel was holding a clock, and Fluttershy said:

"You're late? .....*Gasp* for a very important date?"

Edited February 14, 2012 by TwilightRubix

[Klopp 2,050]

I forgot the episode (I think suited for sucess), but there was one time where Angel was holding a clock, and Fluttershy said: "You're late? .....*Gasp* for a very important date?"

 

That would be The Episode "A Bird in the Hoof", she was late for the party with Princess Celestia, which is where she met the supposedly ill-kept Phoenix, Philomena. One of my favorite Episodes ( No, not just cause it focuses is on Fluttershy )

 

I tend to remember silly things like that

 

Also, I believe this is what Glitterlicious was referring to in the post above.

[Eenohay 318]

Rarity pulls an Icarus at the best young fliers competition.

 

Oh yeah, I remember than since I saw her fly around with those wings I knew that something like that was gonna happen

[I used to be a stranger 7,989]

The hors'oerderves bit in the song Becoming Popular riffs off of a similar hors'oerderves action that takes place in the 1971 movie about the World War II General starring George C. Scott, Patton.

 

Rainbow Dash boinking her ball against the wall in Read it and Weep when she's in hospital is also a reference to a World War II movie; to one of the several Confinement scenes in The Great Escape.

 

All of the Flim Flam Brother's song in The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000 is three different flavors of Meredith Wilson's The Music Man.

 

Pinkie Pie saying "I am just about to be brilliant!" in Hearth's Warming Eve is a direct quote from the Gene Kelley musical Singin' in the Rain.

 

The Manticore scene in Friendship is Magic part 2 is basically summarizing Aesop's Fable known as "Androcles and the Lion" into less than 45 seconds.

Edited February 14, 2012 by Blue

[FinalGamer 192]

Well how about some art references? Salvador Dali is one artist who pops up quite a bit in the show, at least three times in season two alone.

 

The bunnies with long legs in "The Return of Harmony Part 1" are quite similar to Salvador Dali's "The Elephants" or "The Temptations of St. Anthony".

 

Rainbow Dash's pet-related nightmare from the start of "May The Best Pet Win" which is a reference to Dali's "Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening".

 

 

 

And lastly, the art gallery in "Sweet and Elite" has THREE classic art references, the most prominent being the central painting, which actually combines TWO Dali paintings into one.

Firstly, "The Persistence of Memory" (his most famous work being that one with the melting clocks)

And secondly, either "El Sueno/The Dream" OR "Butterfly Landscape" (for the crutch supports).

 

 

Awesome eh? OH, also, just for a bonus.

 

Equestrian Gothic = American Gothic

 

[Envoy-in-exile 101]

From a FB brony group:

Oh look, it's Plato's Republic, taught in MLP to indoctrinate children, as proven in Hearth's Warming Eve.

The governing caste = Unicorns

The protective caste = Pegasi

The productve caste = Earth Ponies

 

The philosophic ruler = Princess Celestia.