

Sweetie Belle says “victoryful” is not a word, and Scootaloo indignantly asks her, "What are you, a dictionary?"Ĭheerilee interrupts their bickering by describing a statue of a " draconequus," a creature with “the head of a pony and a body made up of all sorts of things.” She asks her students to guess what the statue represents.

When Scootaloo remarks how cool a cutie mark representing victory would be, Apple Bloom snidely says that Scootaloo is not "victoryful" at anything. Cheerilee points out statues representing friendship and victory. Her class consists of Apple Bloom, Diamond Tiara, Scootaloo, Silver Spoon, Snails, Snips, Sweetie Belle, and Twist. The episode begins with Cheerilee taking her students on a field trip in the "world-famous" Canterlot sculpture garden. The friends fight in front of the statue of Discord. The scene when Discord manipulates Rarity and discovers her "diamond" reappears in A-Dressing Memories. I don't know if Big McIntosh and Granny Smith have enough butter for all that popcorn." A line that "got cut early on, and with good reason" ("Doesn't really fit 'in universe.'") was Rainbow Dash saying "Get off that cloud and put 'em up! I'm not afraid of you! Come on, Marquess of Queensbury rules! Let's go!" instead of "Get off there and put 'em up! Come on! Let's go!" Larson has stated that Applejack was to have said a line that was cut from the episode, "Hope everything's ok back in Ponyville. Lauren Faust notes that the episode's writing was completed before the series premiered, and was not created or altered as a reaction to the fanbase. This was done to shorten the production hiatus and to keep on as many of the show's staff as possible. The show's director, Jayson Thiessen, has stated that while the two episodes were produced at the tail-end of the first season, they were always supposed to be part of season two.
