The most glaringly obvious continuity errors are in "The Mysterious Mare Do Well". Three of the main set pieces are only used for that episode: The steep slope, the skyscraper, and the hydroelectric dam. There is also the mountain that the dragon sleeps in in "Dragonshy" and Spike climbs in "Secret of my Excess" that only appears in those two. Those continuity errors where so obvious I noticed them all on my first watchthrough; hard to care much when the episodes are so good though. I like the show at it's best when it's not afraid to get creative.

>>10750 >Three of the main set pieces are only used for that episode: The steep slope, the skyscraper, and the hydroelectric dam. The dam also made an appearance in "It's About Time." Applejack was filling in cracks in the cement with a trowel while Rarity sat beside her and cleaned Applejack as she worked. It is a memorable scene for being one of several suspiciously shippy moments bewteen the pair in the early seasons. One might also say of the construction site, that the building never got finished doe to the nearly catastrophic accident. A more flagrant technological ass-pull, I think, was the arcade cabinet in "Hearts and Hooves Day." The existence of the hospital in "Read It and Weep" was a borderline continuity error given the improvized MASH unit that had treated the victims of the "baked bads" in "Applebuck Season. I don't know if it counts as a proper continuity error, but one thing that always got me was the origin of Apple Bloom. In "Cutie manrk Chronicles" Applejack leaves the orchard to stay with her auntie and uncle in Bel-Air, but neither Apple Bloom nor her parents are present when Applejack leaves. So, either Apple Bloom's parents were still alive when Applejack left and just did not see her off or welcome her back when she returned for that matter, or they were already dead. If they were dead, though, where was Apple Bloom? You don't leave an infant alone in the barn. It is possible that possible that Apple Bloom's parents were alive at the time, and Apple Bloom herself had just not been born yet, but in that case, whey would they not see their other daughter off or welcome her back home?

>>10756 >The dam also made an appearance in "It's About Time." Sorry my mistake. That scene was cute. >don't know if it counts as a proper continuity error, but one thing that always got me was the origin of Apple Bloom. Very astute observation. Maybe Applebloom is Applejack and Big Mac's daughter and that's not a continuity error, it's a subtle implication of the truth that was covered up.

>>10757 >Very astute observation. Maybe Applebloom is Applejack and Big Mac's daughter and that's not a continuity error, it's a subtle implication of the truth that was covered up. Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.

I was philosophizing about random hyper specific details of MLP as usual when I though of something: There are some elements of the show that don't rely internally on Equestria but instead an understanding of our world. In particular remember when Fluttershy says "French haute couture, please" in season 1 episode 14 "suited for success"? She mentions it in another line in the episode too. Point is, these lines explicitly state that there is French fashion in the world of MLP which implies that France exists. As far as I can remember these two lines from Fluttershy are the only reference to France in the show, but I'd like to see it if any anon finds another. Not explicitly a continuity error but still an interesting anomaly.

>>10835 In "The Cutie Pox", Apple Bloom not only speaks french, she explicitly says that what she is speaking is french. "Sacré bleu! Plus de marques de cutie! [gasp] Qu'est-ce c'est?! Je parle Français?!"

>>10839 "Ma daughters sisters speakin' in fancy!" If we accept these as confirming the existence of France that of course opens up the whole unexplored question of what France is like in Equestria. Guess it's just one of those things like Vanhoover we won't ever know. I wonder if we missed any other references to it in the show, I know that Fleur de Lis has a French cutie mark and name, and Bonbon is French for candy, which is her cutie mark. Safe to say in a world where France is canon they are heavily implied to be from there.

>>10849 >If we accept these as confirming the existence of France that of course opens up the whole unexplored question of what France is like in Equestria. Maybe their France is just our France, and humans from France go to tiny horse land the same way that Megan did. >I know that Fleur de Lis has a French cutie mark and name, and Bonbon is French for candy, which is her cutie mark. And yet she speaks in a mid-Atlantic accent.

Lemon Hearts was an Alicorn in Season 4 Episode 10 but she is not depicted as an alicorn past this point and has no established royal duty.

>>11030 She wasn't the only one. Remember "Princess Erroria"?