Parody and Reference

Since the time My Little Pony began in the 1980s, it has kept a certain amount of popularity, and has therefore popped up in reference and parody many, many times over the years.

While a page like this can never be complete, and the instances can go from good to bad to ugly, or from really important to not as much, it can be of interest to see what the franchise has inspired and affected over the course of its existence.

Transformers and G.I. Joe

With My Little Pony and Transformers both being major Hasbro properties, they have been used in connection with each other and in crossover and references many times.

• May 31, 2007 - In Transformers: The Movie Storybook, Glen is shown at his computer with a G3 pony (possibly G3 Minty) on top of it. The artist originally thought the character was going to be a girl.

• June 10, 2007 - In the 2007 Transformers film, Ironhide crashes into a pool at a house. A little girl walks out of the house, thinking that it was the Tooth Fairy. She carries a large G3 Pinkie Pie plush with her as she goes outside and talks to Ironhide.

• June 19, 2014 - In Transformers: Age of Extinction, a CGI G4 Rainbow Dash model is held before it is transformed into a weapon.

• March 27, 2016 – In Transformers: Robots in Disguise season 2 episode 7 “Misdirection,” Russell Clay starts the episode showing the others magic tricks while dressed up in the same outfit as Starswirl the Bearded, beard and all, from G4.

• June 29, 2016 - In Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #13 The War Never Ends, G1 Moondancer, G3 Rarity, G4 Lyra Heartstrings, and G4 Twilight Sparkle (?), shown all in the G1 style, find Megatron.

See this article on the Transformers Wiki for these and a more extensive list.

G.I. Joe, also being produced by Hasbro, will occasionally be marketed beside My Little Pony.

• On G4's show Action Blast! during intervals is a segment called The Cobra Commander Show where G.I. Joe's arch-enemy Cobra Commander discusses his view on the world. One episode reveals that he likes to play with My Little Pony dolls and watch the My Little Pony cartoon series.

TV/Movie/Shorts References and Parodies

• June 27, 1986 - In Labyrinth, there is a scene where the Junk Lady is filling Sarah's arms with all the stuff in her room in order to distract her. One of the boxes she places on her has a sticker of G1 Bow Tie on one side and a sticker of G1 Peachy on the other. It's the same/similar design of sticker that can be seen here and here.

• November 28, 1987 - In Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures season 1 episode 11, "The Ice Goose Cometh/Pirates with Dirty Faces," a duck that was frozen in ice from the 1940s goes into a restaurant and tries to pay with a 1944 ration card, but is turned away since the year is now 1987. He sees several posters on the wall parodying franchises from the time that make no sense to him. These include: Jem, Robotech, GI Joe, the Smurfs, He-Man, Thundercats, Teddy Ruxpin, Gumby, and Pee-wee, and what looks like one parodying My Little Pony.

• October 18, 1989 - In psychological thriller Hider in the House, a man is squatting in the attic of the Dreyer's home, spying on them and trying to get involved in their lives. Halfway through the movie, he tucks in the daughter, Holly, while she's sleeping, and a G1 Speedy can be seen on her nightstand.

• 1990-1991 - In The New Adventures of He-Man, episode 52, "The Running of the Herd," the planet Equinos is under attack around the time of the Running of the Herd. The people there are centaur-like, so as Captain Wilkin is calling for help saying that they are being invaded, Skeletor cuts into the call and says "Woo-ee! You guessed it, My Little Pony!"

• March 10, 1991 - In Parker Lewis Can't Lose season 1 episode 20, "Randall Without a Cause," the episode starts with the guys at Sparky's at a table outside. Jerry Steiner is complaining to his friends about the cup they gave him: "It's okay, Jerry. The lady said you're going to get two He-Man cups next week." "But they shouldn't advertise, sir, if they're not going to deliver. I mean, My Little Pony mugs?" "What's wrong with it?" "Yeah, I already had the complete place setting."

• May 12, 1991 - Parker Lewis' sister Shelly also has a large My Little Pony collection. In "My Fair Shelly" (season 1 episode 25), Parker is trying to help her get a date, otherwise she will tell their dad about how he had messed up his dad's car's hood five years ago. He has a fantasy that she tells on him and their dad lets Shelly punish him with combing the hair on all of her ponies. "Oh no, not her My Little Pony collection. She has the largest one on the continent," he says, envisioning a cabinet opening to show that it is filled with G1 Sweetheart Sister and Ballerina ponies. His sister is then shown holding Posey Rose.

• September 17, 1991 - In Full House season 5 episode 1 "Double Trouble," Michelle starts her first day of kindergarten and she brings a My Little Pony lunchbox. This particular one is the Rainbow Curl one.

Much to Milhouse's horror, they plan on destroying it even more and/or selling it.

• 1989-present - The Simpsons - Being a long running show that has existed almost the entire time My Little Pony has, there have been a few references to My Little Pony. Notably, Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson, also was a voice actress for G1.

• February 4, 1993 - "Brother from the Same Planet" season 4 episode 14 - Milhouse brings a horse to show and tell. While this is a regular toy horse here, Milhouse is known for liking My Little Pony, as seen in other references.

• April 9, 2000 - "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses" season 11 episode 18 - Bart and Homer are digging through Milhouse's trash when they find a tattered blanket covered in images of what looks like G1 Shady, with "My Little Pony" underneath her.

• February 4, 2001 - "Worst Episode Ever" season 12 episode 11 - Milhouse and Bart are washing clothes at a laundromat. The boys are both in their underwear, and you can see Milhouse's underwear says "My Little Pony" across the top and features a pony with a fancy saddle below it, similar to a Merry Go Round pony but doesn't look like it is specifically one.

• May 4, 2014 - "Brick Like Me" season 25 episode 20 - Homer is buying a toy set called Perky Patty's Princess Shop from Comic Book Guy. Comic Book Guy assumes it is for Homer, and that Homer's insistence that its just for Lisa is an excuse. The art on the box for it looks similar to the G1 Dream Castle, and the assumption that grown men would be into it is a nod to bronies.

• September 25, 1993 - On Clarissa Explains It All, season 4 episode 12 "Babysitting," Clarissa is stuck babysitting a little girl named Elsie Soaperstein. She tries to keep the girl entertained with her favorite snack and some VHS's, pointing out one in particular called "My Little Unicorn / My Littlest Unicorn." Later on, when Clarissa and her brother are able to capture evidence of Elsie admitting to being trouble and always getting away with it, they put the VHS on the television, leading Elsie to comment "that stuff makes me puke."

Very worth the trade, Stephanie...

• November 26, 1993 - In season 1 episode 9 of Boy Meets World, "Class Pre-Union," Cory's little sister Morgan Matthews trades her mom's brownies, a tiara, and G1 Glow 'n Show Dazzleglow to Stephanie for Stephanie's dress, necklace, and hat (and her mom's car).

• My Little Pony has been used as part of Jeopardy! clues, answers, and even a category before. "Bronies" has also been used in both a clue and answer.

• February 21, 1994 - Business & Industry - $1,000 - "Brand names marketed by this toy company include My Little Pony, G.I. Joe & Mr. Potato Head."
• June 10, 2015 - Toys & Games - $800 - “Applejack & Pinkie Pie are 2 of the teensy equines in this toy line”
• July 27, 2015 - A category was called "My Little Pony Names." And the answers were all G1 names: Lucky, Slugger, Goldilocks, Barnacle, and Drummer.
• May 23, 2017 - A 'Little' in Title - $1,200 - “Every bro knows Twilight Sparkle & Pinkie Pie are characters in this ‘Friendship is Magic’ animated series”
• December 31, 2018 - About a Horse - $800 - “Voiced by Emily Blunt, a unicorn named Tempest Shadow pursued Twilight Sparkle & the rest of the Mane 6 in this film”
• September 24, 2019 - Who are they? - $1,600 - “Male fans of Rainbow Dash & the rest of the Mane 6”
• December 3, 2019 - Not-So-Easy Kids' TV - $400 - "A magical young unicorn & her friends live in Equestria on this TV show: 'Friendship is Magic.'"
• January 8, 2020 - A Sparkling Category - $800 - "Tara Strong gives voice to Twilight Sparkle in this animated series."
• March 23, 2021 - The Prancing Pony - $800 -"In an animated TV show set in Equestria, Twilight Sparkle & pals learn that this title thing 'is magic.'"
• July 11, 2023 - Cartoon Critters - $1,000 - “Rainbow Dash is a daredevil pegasus in this magical animated series”
• September 22, 2023 - Scotland - $400 - "A symbol of pride & untameability, & big with 'My Little Pony' fans, this national animal is a symbol of the push for independence."
• January 16, 2024 - Spelling Biz - $400 - "Bronies know this plaything debuted in 1983; you can't spell it without spelling..."
• September 11, 2024 - Books for Kids - $600 - "One offering in this series for kids is 'Twilight Sparkle & the Crystal Heart Spell.'"

Dee Dee becomes a Pony Puff pony in "Dee Dee's Tail" (season 2 episode 22 part 2)

• 1995-2003 - In the Cartoon Network show Dexter's Laboratory, Dee Dee and her friends are obsessed with the Pony Puff Princess and the Pony Puff ponies.

• February 24, 1997 - In The Brittas Empire season 7 episode 8 "Curse of the Tiger Women," Colin has a model Noah's Ark that he plans on floating in the pool with some toys from the kids for the animals. One of the children offers up a G1 Sweet Lily, which gets placed toward the front. Unfortunately, the ark and all the toys sink right away.

• July 11, 1997 - In A Simple Wish, Anabel is looking over the story of Cinderella in a storybook and telling herself she needs a fairy godmother when one named Murray appears in her room. She has a shelf of toys on her headboard and one of those toys is a G1 Scrumptious.

• October 4, 1997 - In Recess, season 1 episode 5, "First Name, Ashley," it comes out that Spinelli's first name is Ashley, which upsets her because all the Ashleys are girly. The other Ashleys try to make her girly, too, to not be an insult to their name, and one of the things they do is force her to watch a cartoon called "My Fuzzy Unicorn."

• In Arthur, Arthur's little sister D.W. is occasionally seen with a unicorn toy that has wings and a flank symbol. There are also moments in episodes where in her fantasies there are other unicorns with symbols.

• January 11, 1999 - In season 3 episode 10 "Attack of the Turbo Tibbles/D.W. Tricks the Tooth Fairy," D.W. is watching an ad on TV for the "My Fluffy Unicorn Clothes Horse, Horse Clothes Barn," which looks similar to G1 Peachy's Pretty Parlor and is full of clothes for the ponies.

Princess Sparkle on the vanity.

• 2003-2007 - On The OC, the character Summer Roberts has a G1 Princess Pony Princess Sparkle that keeps her name in the show. Summer's love interest Seth Cohen has a Breyer with the in show name of Captain Oats.

• 2003 - In the Christmas special for The Powerpuff Girls called "'Twas the Fight Before Christmas," the narrator is doing a spoof on 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, and mentions:

"A My Little Horsie with combable hair,

is on the top of the list of our honorable Mayor,"

as the screen shows a Ponypuffs My Little Mare - a pink pony with yellow hair, a pink symbol, and a pink comb.

• May 14, 2005 - In a scene in Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang there is a series of flashbacks about Harmony's childhood and in a brief scene in her room there is what looks like a G1 Tootsie on her nightstand.

• July 22, 2005 - In The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, season 1 episode 13 "Poor Little Rich Girl," London Tipton finds out her father lost money investing in a diamond mine with no diamonds. She is forced to leave her penthouse suite at the hotel temporarily and ends up staying with Maddie Fitzpatrick. As she is shown their room, a G3 Sweetsong jumbo plush is seen on the windowsill.

• October 14, 2005 - Cartoon Network's The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy had a parody of My Little Pony in "Ecto Cooler / Schlubs" that was called My Troubled Pony. The series was canceled before the ending was made, so Grim hunts Schlubs for gold bars to make an ending. The credits show Grim watching television, with the ending of My Troubled Pony on, drawn crudely with crayons by Billy.

• October 25, 2005 - In Gilmore Girls, season 6 episode 7 "Twenty-One is the Loneliest Number," Rory Gilmore isn't excited for her 21st birthday because of issues she is having with her mother, Lorelai, and her grandparents. She lets her grandma plan and run the party, which included her making a signature drink for Rory named after her. When Lorelai manages to show up with her fiance, Luke, they are given the drink and Luke drinks it and says "It tasted pink. I mean, like really tasted really pink. Like pink, pink. God, that's terrible. It's like drinking a My Little Pony."

• Robot Chicken is a show that makes adult shorts using mostly stop motion animation and familiar toys as their characters.

• May 14, 2006 - One of their skits from season 2 episode 7 "Cracked China," is called "Apocalypse Ponies," and features Pestilence Pony, War Pony, Famine Pony, and Death Pony.

• September 17, 2006 - From season 2 episode 11 " Adoption's an Option", a short called "Pegasus Abuse," involved the mythical winged horse Pegasus having his wings severed and turned into a My Little Pony-esque creature by a demented little girl (voiced by Cree Summer), who whipped him into accepting his fate, and his new name - "Sunny Muffins." This was a parody of a scene from the TV miniseries Roots, in which the African man Kunta Kinte is flogged into accepting his new name, "Toby."

• March 27, 2016 - From season 8 episode 13 "Triple Hot Dog Sandwich on Wheat," another short called "My Little Pony Phase" shows a modified G3 Pretty Pop with a tattoo on her flank where her usual symbol would be. Tara Strong, who voices Twilight Sparkle in G4, voices this character.

• August 25, 2006 - In Psych, season one episode 8 "Shawn vs. the Red Phantom," Shawn Spencer calls Juliet O'Hara from their boss' office and she sees him and shows him her notes on a case that she had scribbled on a notepad. She also doodles on her notes, so Shawn comments on them, including saying that "this horse at the bottom does not look like My Little Pony" when looking at what she explains was supposed to be a dog.

Veronica Mars "Mars, Bars" episode: 'Thug Life' My Little Pony tattoo

• February 20, 2007 - In "Mars, Bars," (season 3 episode 14) of the television show Veronica Mars, there is a jail cell scene where Veronica has a drawn-on tattoo of a My Little Pony with the words "Thug Life" written over it.

Looks like the Dream Castle (title needed)

• In one of the Cyanide and Happiness (adult animated comedy) shorts, a girl can be seen playing with dolls and a playset that looks a bit like the G1 Dream Castle.

Honestly would be a nice piece of merch...

• March 25, 2007 - In Disney's Meet the Robinsons, a running gag of sorts is that Bowler Hat Guy likes fantasy horses. He is seen with a unicorn binder, and meets up with DOR-15 at a fantasy horse themed diner where he drinks from a cup with a pegasus (who looks like Firefly) on it.

• October 19, 2007 - In sports comedy spoof The Comebacks, Lance Truman is introducing himself to Trotter in the locker room and Trotter tries to intimidate him, saying "This my team. This my turf. This," he turns toward the lockers, "this my, My Little Pony collection. Rainbow Dash, first edition, still in the box..." he continues, as the camera shows a fitted out locker with a G3 Crystal Rainbow Castle fully extended, several styling size G3 brushables (including the mentioned mint in box Rainbow Dash), and a few other G3 brushables in box.

• February 16, 2009 - On Nickelodeon's original movie Spectacular!, a scene shows the character Nikko Alexander passing his ex-band mates while in a "flashy" cowboy outfit. Nikko's ex-girlfriend says in response to his outfit, "I always wondered who wrangled My Little Ponies!" As a matter of fact, Venus Terzo who plays Marion Lane on Spectacular! was a voice actress in My Little Pony Tales and in some G3 animations, and Shannon Chan-Kent who plays Janet was a voice actress for G4 My Little Pony.

• October 6, 2009 - In The Wild Stallion, Hanna goes from Cleveland, Ohio, to Utah to take pictures of mustangs at Bear Mountain Ranch. C.J. and her brother Kyle start showing her some things around the place, and show her a trio of smaller horses. Hanna says "They're like those horses from the old My Pretty Pony cartoons, remember?" Kyle claims that they sucked, but C.J. liked them, to which Kyle says, "Well you would."

• April 24, 2010 - In My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend, Ethan is a struggling writer who meets Jesse at a coffee shop and begins to date her. After the first date, Ethan shows her around his place, and she identifies a Darth Vader figure as one by Kenner in 1977. When he gets impressed, she says: "Don’t be too impressed, I have a brother, remember? My Little Pony was more my thing... Yeah, and I had a favorite, Firefly, and she was pink with a turquoise mane, and I brought her with me everywhere. She was like a security blanket... Sadly, we lost Firefly on a family vacation."

• October 11, 2010 – In Martha Speaks, season 3 episode 1 “The Martha Show Part One,” Martha, Helen, and TD are approached by Laslo Huckey, who is looking for help hosting a new TV show. They start brainstorming ideas with their friends. Helen’s cousin Carolina joins them and tells them they need to think about merchandising for kids, leading into a fantasy sequence where they advertise “My Fluffy Puppy.” The logo has a rainbow similar to the G1 logo, the toy of Martha has her usual spots placed lower to where a pony symbol would be, and the music that plays is reminiscent of the My Little Pony theme, along with it just being a show with ads for a toy, complete with accessories. Tabitha St. Germain, who plays Martha, was also a voice actress for G3 and G4 My Little Pony characters.

• December 6, 2010 - In Castle season 3 episode 10 "Last Call," Richard Castle's daughter Alexis is super excited to see a friend of hers that she had lost touch with that had moved away at the end of elementary school but is coming over to stay with them temporarily. When the friend arrives, Alexis, her father, and her grandmother realize that the friend has become goth/emo, which they were not expecting. Castle gets called away to a case and is telling Kate Beckett about it, saying that "She used to be so adorable. I mean, what makes a girl, a little girl, who used to play hopscotch and My Little Ponies, suddenly pierce her eyebrow? It's like she's been assimilated by the leather overlords."

• MAD was a show with Cartoon Network that would animate parodies and references to many other movies, shows, and so forth. They referenced and parodied My Little Pony a few times. Tara Strong voiced parodies of her G4 character Twilight Sparkle and Pinkie Pie, and voiced Rainbow Dash in a Rainbow Dash focused one.

• September 26, 2011 - Cowboys & Alien Force / ThunderLOLcats (season 2 episode 6) - In "Cowboys & Alien Force," Jake Lonergan wakes up and realizes he has Ben 10's Omnitrix and goes into an Old Western style town. There he starts getting roughed up until they see that a My Little Pony bracelet on his other arm is lit up, and a herd of colorful ponies, including one similar to Rainbow Dash, swoop down on them from the sky and begin attacking. His bracelet can transform into a weapon that shoots rainbows, and he tried shooting at one in a G4 style hot air balloon. Random Silly Bands then appear on his arms, and these shoot lasers at this one woman, who vaporizes, but comes back, gets kissed by Jake, and turns out to be a pony parody of Applejack. In "ThunderLOLcats," they reference memes and internet culture, and a version of Rainbow Dash is seen flying around.

• February 13, 2012 - My Little War Horse / The Tonight Show with Jay Lion-O (season 2 episode 19) - Horses are being recruited for World War I, but not regular horses - ponies. Pinkie Pie ends up recruited and meets a parody of Rainbow Dash and Applejack and a drill sergeant parody of Fluttershy. It turns out that the other side employed unicorns, including a Twilight Sparkle. The whole time, Pinkie Pie just wants war to be over and for them all to be friends, and Twilight's character mentions how they "all just want to learn about friendship."

• April 16, 2012 - Addition Impossible / New Gill (season 2 episode 25) - There is a "My Little Pwny" segment that starts with a slight parody of the G4 opening sequence, and then shows parody versions of Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie that are bullying children.

• September 27, 2012 - Diary of a Wimpy Kid Icarus / The Adjustment Burro (season 3 episode 11) - It's a typical day in the Hundred Acre Wood when Twilight Sparkle crashes into Eeyore and makes him happy. The whole segment is a spoof of a movie trailer, where those two are in love, but the Adjustment Burro, a trio of donkeys, tries to separate them.

• April 1, 2013 - Linkong / Rainbow Dash & Bernstein (season 4 episode 1) - It's Wyatt Bernstein's birthday and he's been taken to a Build a Bestie (Build a Bear parody) which he's not too happy about because it's too girly for him. He does try to make a Bestie, and names traits he'd want like the Bestie being competitive and loving sports and pranks. When his Bestie pops out, it's Rainbow Dash. There is a montage of them watching "My Lil Pony" and going to conventions and such.

• November 11, 2013 - MAD's 100th Episode Special / MAD of Steel / Sanjay and Krang / Worst Show Ever (season 4 episode 22) - In "Sanjay and Krang," there are flashbacks of times Krang steered Sanjay wrong, and in one they are looking over their TV recordings and Krang says "let's erase some of these MAD episodes to make room for that show with the ponies."

• October 24, 2011 - In Tower Heist, the tower manager, Josh Kovaks, finds out the penthouse inhabitant Mr. Shaw had committed fraud and stolen all the money that he had promised he would invest, which included all the pensions of the tower employees. When this drives one of the other employees into the hospital, Josh gets angry and smashes up Mr. Shaw's prized car, getting himself, Charlie, and Enrique fired. He later hears that Mr. Shaw has a secret stash of money somewhere, and is determined to steal it to get the employees their money back. He goes around recruiting the others for the heist, when he sees Charlie at the Toys "R" Us working the ferris wheel that has the G3 MLP car. Enrique is played by Michael Peña, who voices Grubber in My Little Pony: The Movie (2017).

"I'm all out of love, I'm so lost without you..."

• October 28, 2011 - In season 7 episode 6 of Supernatural, "Slash Fiction," Sam and Dean have to change vehicles to stay undercover. Much to Dean's dismay, the vehicle they are in has a yellow Chap Mei fakie hanging in the front, which at some point gets grabbed and tossed into the back of the car.

• February 19, 2012 - The Cleveland Show season 3 episode 11 "Brown Magic," has Cleveland and Rallo arrested, and in their mugshot, Cleveland's card has "TSRDFSPPRAJOO2,” which are the initials of each of the Mane 6 in G4.

• April 14, 2012 - In "Cowboy Android!" season 1 episode 7 of The Aquabats! Super Show!, the episode starts with the team helping a group of miners that have a large, monstrous naked mole rat threatening them in the coal mines. The group ends up throwing dynamite at the mine, trapping the monster in the mine but leaving the miners stuck out. As they are driving off, the others get onto M.C. Bat Commander for not always having a plan, which launches him into the song "Wingin' It." For a brief second in one of the scenes where random faces are seen behind and around him, an animated G4 Pinkie Pie face makes an appearance to his right.

• June 6, 2012 - In “ShowTime!,” season 1 episode 13, the episode starts with “a junk-filled vacant lot,” and a wall covered in graffiti can be seen behind them. An animated G4 Pinkie Pie is layered over the graffiti in the third section from the left.

• June 27, 2012 - In episode 122 of Good Mythical Morning, "Bronies: The Controversy," Rhett and Link discuss a comment left by one of their fans to them that contained links to a John de Lancie interview, a fanmade music video, and a YouTube documentary by Saberspark on bronies. Link reveals that his daughter Lily watched My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and so he watched some with her and liked that it was something that they could potentially bond over.

• June 29, 2012 – One of the posters for the movie Jatt & Juliet features doodles of G4 characters. These can also be seen at the end of a trailer for the movie.

• October 10, 2012 - Modern Family season 4 episode 2 "Schooled," has Haley going off to college. When she sees her college dorm room, there are G4 bedsheets on her bed.

• November 12, 2014 - In season 6 episode 7 "Queer Eyes, Full Hearts," Haley tries to get a job with Gavin Sinclair, but he says her style is too "cutesy" for working with him and that she has no edge. She responds back with "Hey, I think it's weird you don't like cutesy considering half your clients at the Grammy's look like they just stepped out of a My Little Pony fever dream."

• Sean from Hot in Cleveland is a firefighter that happens to be a brony.

• January 2, 2013 - In season 4 episode 6 "Cleveland Fantasy Con," Joy Scroggs is dating Sean and is already unhappy that he's been trying to get her into Star Trek with him. When they are getting dressed up for the Con, Joy goes into the elevator dressed up as a princess and Sean comes in in a fursuit of a brown pony with multicolored hair. She doesn't recognize that it is him at first, but he takes off the head and explains to her that he is a brony who watches G4's show Friendship is Magic, and that he is dressed up as Prince Silver Saddle [not an actual character] from Equestria. This is too much for her and they break up.
• July 17, 2013 - Sean also shows up in season 4 episode 16 "Pony Up," where they reference the breakup and his interests and she tells him that she watched a few episodes with Elka Ostrovsky. At one point she mentions a fictitious plot and more fictitious characters from the show saying that Pinkie Dust has to pretend to be someone she's not to catch Thunder Tail.

Screenshot from the Teen Titans Go! season 1 episode "Nose Mouth"

• 2013- - In the show Teen Titans Go!, the character Raven loves a show about colorful pegasi called Pretty Pretty Pegasus. Raven herself, and some of the pegasus characters at times, are voiced by Tara Strong, the voice actor for G4's Twilight Sparkle.

• Littlest Pet Shop is another related Hasbro property and many people that worked on G4 My Little Pony also worked on this show.

• April 20, 2013 - In season 1 episode 25 "Blythe's Pet Project," Blythe brings in a squirrel named Shivers who ends up stealing and stashing away the other pets’ belongings. She takes him to a park, and imagines him living happily there, going into a dream sequence with “My Small Squirrel.” The logo has a rainbow and the three multicolored squirrels she pictures are Lavender, Cotton Candy, and Multicolored Stripe (with rainbow hair like, and similar name to, Rainbow Dash). Brian Drummond who plays Shivers, and Kathleen Barr who regularly plays Mrs. Twombly and played Lavender the squirrel, are both My Little Pony voice actors.
• November 28, 2015 - Ashleigh Ball, who plays the main character Blythe Baxter, plays Applejack and Rainbow Dash in G4's "Friendship is Magic," and in season 4 episode 5 "Littlest Pet Shop of Horrors," Blythe's costume is a cowgirl riding G4 Applejack.

• July 9, 2013 - In Horrible Histories season 5 episode 11, in one of their Vile Victorians sketches, they do an advertisement for "My Little Pit Pony" with a girl playing with one. The ad mentions some of the horrible conditions for coal mine ponies, but in toy form, and mentions that the ponies come in three shades of black and grey. The girl asks her mom about getting a pink one, to which her mom says that it is pink under the coal.

• September 4, 2013 – In Totally Spies!, season 6 episode 1 “The Anti-Social Network,” the episode starts with Sam in the library talking about classes she is signing up for. Sam asks Alex what she wants to be when she grows up, since Alex isn’t sure what she wants. She mentions being “maybe a veterinarian or an animal psychologist... or a pony!” leading to a scene of her as a fantasy pony with an orange coat and purple tail, eating from a bucket filled with candy and surrounded by flowers and a rainbow. The voice actresses for the main trio changed over the seasons, but for the first two seasons, the voice actress for Alex was Katie Leigh, who was a voice actress in G1.

• September 23, 2013 - In Extreme Collectors season 1 episode 8 "Cadillac Ranch," there is a segment on Stephanie's My Little Pony collection.

• November 20, 2013 - In South Park, episode 8 of season 17, "A Song of *** and Fire," Kenny thinks he is Princess Kenny and has a makeshift throne. There is a pink unicorn head in a more realistic horse style with yellow/green hair on top of his throne, and to the audience’s left of it there is a standing blue pony in the G3 style with red hair and star symbols on their flank. (Other than the star symbol, the colors seem like a nod to Waterfire, which would be a nice reference with the Game of Thrones “ice and fire” parody title, though that could be coincidence.)

• January 10, 2014 - "Krumping and Crushing," season 3 episode 8 of Jessie, shows Zuri and Tony both watch "Power Ponies." They start chatting with Tony as they come back from the park, and Tony tells Zuri, about her bike, "Cool Power Ponies decal, by the way. I've got the same ones on my luggage cart." Then they both go off into a theme song about the ponies, ending with "...and her pony pals are sold separately."

• April 13, 2014 - Bob's Burgers season 4 episode 17 "The Equestranauts" is a whole episode parody of bronies and brony conventions.

• September 2, 2014 - In Rizzoli & Isles season 5 episode 12, "Burden of Proof," Rizzoli finds out the victim had a boyfriend and is waiting for one of her coworkers to search the victim's phone and laptop for more information. While she's waiting, she sees how the victim's phone is covered in rhinestones and mentions how she doesn't understand it, saying "Come on, it looks like Hello Kitty threw up on My Little Pony." In response, her coworker flips her own phone over, revealing that she also has a pink glittery phone case.

• September 24, 2014 - In Epic Ink season 1 episode 6 "The Girl with the Monster Tattoo," a client asks for a mix of apocalypse horses and My Little Pony for her tattoo which Heather is excited to do.

• October 21, 2014 - We The Economy created a series of short films about the economy, and one animated film they released was called "THE UNBELIEVABLY SWEET ALPACAS!" They are multicolored cartoon alpacas with their own flank symbols and pony names (Happy, Sunshine), and the setting they start out at is G4 Ponyville. They graduated and are going to work at a lollipop factory, but find that their work prospects aren't what they hoped for.

• November 10, 2014 - Season 4 episode 5 of Comic Book Men, "BronyCon," is about them going to a BronyCon.

• November 11, 2014 - In Storage Wars season 6 episode 2, "My Little Brony," a storage unit has a very tall plush of G4 Pinkie Pie and a container full of mint in box and loose G3 ponies.

The real problem here is that there weren't more ponies...

• November 22, 2014 - In Sonic Boom season 1 episode 6 "Fortress of Squalitude," Doctor Eggman wants to make his lair presentable for a magazine, and convinces Amy to help. At some point, she puts up a picture that features four ponies, three of which roughly resemble G4 Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie.

• December 25, 2014 - In the Doctor Who special "Last Christmas," Santa Claus says "My Little Pony" to prove he's the real Santa.

• May 3, 2015 - In the cold open for Brooklyn Nine-Nine season 2 episode 21 "Det. Dave Majors," Rosa Diaz wears a pink shirt to work and Charles Boyle gets upset that no one is picking on her for it but everyone had picked on him when he wore a tie with a little bit of purple, calling him Mr. Grapes for two years. Jake Peralta comments that if Charles had worn a pink shirt, he would "look like a My Little Pony with a gun." Rosa also joins in teasing Charles, calling him Strawberry Shortcake, before everyone teases him with "Mr. Grapes!" again.

• May 8, 2015 - Hot Pursuit is a movie about Officer Rose Cooper taking Daniella Riva to testify in court and enter witness protection, but their journey is far from simple while they keep underestimating each other. About midway through the movie, they steal a truck, but find out a guy with an ankle monitor was sleeping in the back. When they pull over and the guy confronts them, they try to explain who they are, with Riva adding that "I know she looks like she can't protect nothing because she looks like My Little Pony."

• Orange is the New Black made several references to My Little Pony.

• June 11, 2015 - "Tongue-Tied" (season 3 episode 7) - The women are talking about things they find weird while they are working on manufacturing underwear, and one of them mentions “Or those guys who are really into My Little Pony,” to which another responds with “Bronies.”
• July 27, 2018 - "I'm the Talking ***" (season 6 episode 4) - Aleida Diaz is talking to her daughter Dayanara at the prison through the glass, and when she realizes Daya will be in prison for life and is not doing well there, she shifts the conversation to mention how Daya’s hair “looks great. Like, real thick. My Little Pony thick.”
• July 26, 2019 - "Baker's Dozen" (season 7 episode 8) - Aleida is sent back to prison, much to her daughter Daya's dismay, and so during lunch Aleida sits down with her daughter's group at the cafeteria table and tells them: "Did she ever tell you about the time she started a gang? What were they called? Oh yeah, The Rarities, because she was real into those pretty ponies with the tattoos on their butts, and that was the name of her favorite one, Rarity. Except, it wasn't that rare 'cause you can get them at like at [sic] Kmart... But then she begged me to take her riding in the park, and then what do you think happens when I do? Allergic. She blows up like a brown Michelin Man." Halfway through her story, one of the group adds that: "Starlight Glimmer was my jam."

• June 26, 2015 - In adult comedy Ted 2, part of the plot involves a character named Donny who was working as a janitor at Hasbro and was obsessed with Ted, who was originally made by Hasbro in the movie's canon. Donny gets an executive to go with his plan to kidnap and try to replicate Ted. When the executive is first seen on the screen, there is vector art of Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks Applejack and Fluttershy on the wall behind him, and there are several G4 brushables, including a G4 Rainbow Power Twilight Sparkle, and other Hasbro toys along the wall as he walks down the hallway. Later in the executive's office, there is a prominent large G4 Pinkie Pie statue by the office door, and on the shelves behind his desk there are several boxed My Little Pony playsets, including the G4 Friendship Rainbow Kingdom Playset. A kidnapping and fight scene occurs at the New York Comic Con near the end of the movie, and there is a My Little Pony booth there. It can be seen as Ted tries to hide in the Transformers display next to it. In another scene, there is a large Power Ponies backdrop. During the fight itself, another large G4 Pinkie Pie statue is picked up and used to knock someone into a display.

• September 7, 2015 - In season 2 episode 15 of Gravity Falls, "The Last Mabelcorn," the girls are sent to find a unicorn and get unicorn hair for The Mystery Shack. The first unicorn they meet has G4 Rarity's cutie mark and Princess Celestia's color scheme, and is named Celestabellebethabelle. The title of the episode is also a play on The Last Unicorn, another popular story centered on a unicorn.

Rarity figurine in The Enchanted Parade

• Yoh Yoshinari is the creator of Little Witch Academia and was known for also being a fan of G4 My Little Pony. In the anime, there are a few scenes where figurines based on G4 characters can be seen in the background.

• October 9, 2015 - Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade involves Akko, Sucy, and Lotte getting in trouble once again and being told they have to organize a parade that is nothing but the local town making fun of and getting back at the witches. They also have to organize it with three other delinquent students: Amanda, Constanze, and Jasminka. When they meet back in the girls' room, after being told this, there is a figurine with Rarity's colors and hair style on the windowsill.

• October 23, 2015 - Jem and the Holograms has a flashback during "The Way I Was" where it shows the girls playing with a G1/Retro G1 Cotton Candy and the 2013 G4 Twilight Sparkle HasbroToyShop brushable with Swarovski crystals. The G4 brushable would not make sense for the time period the girls would have been in during the flashback.

• January 21, 2016 - In Mom, season 3 episode 9 "My Little Pony and a Demerol Drip," the episode starts with Christy on her third date with Fred, who is a much older man, and the father of Candace, who is always mean to her. They are playing a game where they mention a year and compare their lives at that time, so she asks him about 1985, and when it is her turn, she says, "Um... My Little Pony, training wheels, and massive amounts of Cap'n Crunch."

"Bro, this is MY little pony."

• January 22, 2016 - In a Studio C short called "A Friend's Dying Secrets," two characters are standing over their friend's open casket and find that he has a lot of things that are going to be buried with him, including, as one of the two says, "MY little pony," a G4 Rarity styling size brushable. The scene was even too much for the actors to hold it together as they start laughing and comment on it in the final cut.

• October 26, 2016 - In another Studio C short, "Horrible Roommate Halloween Costume," Adam dresses up as Twilight Sparkle and tells everyone that he's a brony and that it is his favorite character. James also dresses up in the same costume, but says he's "Shirley Temple's demented spirit animal," which is what another character had guessed Adam was earlier on. In the outro, Adam also mentions G4 Rainbow Dash.

• February 18, 2016 - In Game Theory's "Is Far Cry Primal Ubisoft's MISSING Link?" MatPat talks about what animals were domesticated in human history and parodies G4's logo with "My Little Mammoth: Friendship is Mammoth," and sings a few seconds of a parody of the G4 show's theme while playing an edited clip of the opening showing him and a mammoth in Twilight's hot air balloon.

• April 22, 2016 - In Patton Oswalt: Talking for Clapping (politics and maturity warning as it is stand up comedy), in the last 30 minutes he mentions how obsessed he is over Star Wars, and how involved he is in it. He mentions that his daughter is into My Little Pony, and that he just isn't able to get into a whole new realm right now, but as a joke goes into detail over the whole premise of the G4 show and main characters, and has even watched up to Crusaders of the Lost Mark (season 5 episode 18). He does mistakenly call Scootaloo Rainbow Dash's sister, and calls Apple Bloom, Apple Blossom. Patton Oswalt voices Quibble Pants in the G4 show, and in the episode Common Ground (season 9 episode 6), his real life wife, Meredith Salenger, and his real life daughter, Alice Oswalt, play a mother and daughter, named Clear Skies and Wind Sprint, alongside him.

• October 7, 2016 - In The Ranch, season 1 episode 17, "I've Come to Expect it From You," Rooster and Colt are having issues with their dad not trusting them to help on the ranch. Their mom gets Rooster a meeting with Ed Bishop, who tells him that the McConnell ranch was bought by a Hollywood guy whose 8 year old renamed it and “Now it’s ‘My Little Pony’ ranch” and offers him a job there. He does get a job there, and it gets mentioned again in episode 18 "The Cowboy Rides Away" and episode 20 "Merry Christmas (Wherever You Are)."

• December 5, 2016 - In animated adult comedy American Dad! season 12 episode 5, "Bahama Mama," Steve is putting his old toys in a donation box and Klaus mentions how they are all "popular trademarked toys," with all of them being parodies of old toys as Steve lists out G.I. Joels, Transchangers, My Tiny Baby Horse, Warm Wheels, Lettuce Field Gang Doll, Preteen Radiated Judo Bullfrogs, Giggle Me Elmer, Theo Ruxburgh, and Smorfs.

• April 27, 2017 - In the horror movie Stephanie, the titular character was watching the first Equestria Girls on TV when the channel was changed. It gets changed back to Hurricane Fluttershy (season 2 episode 22).

• August 9, 2017 - In Logan Lucky, Jimmy sees Sylvia at her mobile clinic and she gives him a tetanus shot. The bandage she uses is one with G4 Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy on a blue background.

• November 30, 2017 - In Pitch Perfect 3, the Bellas go on a USO tour. While they are at one hotel, Fat Amy makes a disparaging comment about family and leaves the others for a minute. She sees a childhood plush of hers and has a flashback to when she was a toddler with her dad and is wearing a shirt with G4 Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash. It doesn't make sense chronologically as she would have been a child years before G4.

"Your affection for inanimate objects frightens me." - Sheldon, to every My Little Pony fan probably

• Young Sheldon is set in the late 1980s, and Sheldon's twin sister Missy can occasionally be seen with My Little Pony toys in the background.

• January 18, 2018 - In season 1 episode 12 "A Computer, a Plastic Pony, and a Case of Beer," set in 1989 specifically, Sheldon unintentionally causes an argument between his parents when he wants a computer. At one point, Missy is holding a Sugar Apple in the car and mentions her by name as she rubs it in Sheldon's face that she got a toy when he didn't get his computer yet. Earlier in the episode, a Sherbet can be seen on top of a dresser by Missy and Sheldon's bedroom door when their mom goes to check on them.

• February 1, 2018 - "Law of the Jungle," season 6 episode 11 of Chicago Fire, has Herrmann bringing his daughter Annabelle to work and she watches the G4 episode Honest Apple (season 7 episode 9).

• May 10, 2018 - In Deadpool 2, when Wade is being introduced to Yukio and he sees her bright pink hair, he calls her "Pinkie Pie from My Little Pony."

Briar (Tara Strong, pink) and Bramble (Andrea Libman, purple) in DuckTales

• May 18, 2018 - In Disney's remake of the show DuckTales, episode "The Missing Links of Moorshire!" (season 1 episode 12), two kelpies that appear as pink and purple ponies show up. Named Briar and Bramble, not only are they colorful ponies, but they are also voiced by Tara Strong and Andrea Libman, who voice half of the G4 Mane Six. In fact, they are voicing kelpies in the opposite colors of the ponies they voice (Twilight Sparkle and Pinkie Pie).

• May 15, 2019 - Also, season 2 episode 14 is called "Friendship Hates Magic!" in reference to the title of the G4 show.

• July 10, 2018 - Season 3 episode 5 of Teachers, "Gender Bender," has teacher Deb Adler upset because she found out that the child she is having will be a girl, and she doesn't feel like she can relate to most girls. While on a bus going on a planetarium field trip, she tells fellow teacher Cecilia Cannon that she isn't into things that are pink and girly. Cecilia decides to drag her to the back of the bus where some girls were chatting so Deb could try to hang out with them, to which Deb says that it is a mix of My Little Pony and Bratz over there.

• October 4, 2018 - In S.W.A.T. season 2 episode 2 "Gasoline Drum," the team pulls a little girl out of a house, but have a hard time communicating with her at first because she speaks Turkish. But she likes and trusts Jim Street, so he uses his phone to help with translating and speaking to her. Later in the episode, she mentions something about "Peppermint Crunch and Banana Surprise and Peachy," which Jim thinks is her talking about food. Deacon comes in the room and tells him "Ask her about, um, Swirly Whirly and Cherries Jubilee," which works. Deacon continues by explaining to Jim: "See, your language skills are fine. You just have to learn how to speak seven year old girl. Those are My Little Pony characters."

• October 5, 2018 - In Double Dare season 1 episode 26, “Avocado Armpit vs. Bob 2,” one of the questions is: “Twilight Sparkle and Spike the Dragon are two creatures who share a ‘magical’ friendship in what line of popular toys?”

• October 22, 2018 - In DC's Legends of Tomorrow season 4 episode 1 "The Virgin Gary," the group goes to Woodstock in 1969 because history changed to say there was a massacre there. While there, Mick is the first to notice a white unicorn with magical rainbow hair. When the others come up and see it, Nate says that it is "Twilight Sparkle come to life." Ray and Nate then get excited that they are bronies, and tell Mick to "join the herd," which was a brony phrase.

• May 1, 2019 - In The Goldbergs, season 6 episode 22 "Mom Trumps Willow," Barry Goldberg complains about how his life is terrible being the middle child, saying that he even had to wear his older sister Erica's hand me downs: "Dad made me wear your My Little Pony overalls til I was nine!" Erica mentions that their dad was cheap, and their dad adds that he also just thought it was funny.

• June 24, 2019 - In The Amazing World of Gumball season 6 episode 43 "The BFFs," Darwin asks Gumball where he is going, and out of irritation he sarcastically answers "To the brony convention in Liechtenstein. Where do you think I'm going? I'm going to Fuzzy's house."

• Stranger Things is set in the 1980s and one of the main characters, Lucas Sinclair, has a younger sister Erica who is into My Little Pony.

• July 4, 2019 - During season 3, every scene with Erica at Starcourt Mall shows her with a My Little Pony bookbag. (This bag was actually also reproduced as part of the official merchandise crossover between the two franchises.) Only the straps are visible for the earlier episodes, but starting from episode 4, as some of the other characters are convincing her to help with their plans at Scoops Ahoy and she begins to join them, more of the bag is visible. In "E Pluribus Unum" (episode 6), she and Dustin Henderson have a whole conversation about how they are nerds, since she kept calling them nerds, and Dustin points out that My Little Pony's Rescue at Midnight Castle has all the marks of being something nerdy as well. In "The Battle of Starcourt" (episode 8), as Dustin and Erica are leading Murray through the vents that they were in earlier, they refer to that moment as the "My Little Pony thesis."
• May 27, 2022 - In season 4 episode 1 "The Hellfire Club," Erica joins their D and D campaign since Lucas is playing in a basketball tournament that night. She introduces her character as Lady Applejack, presumably named after the pony, especially after the conversation from season 3. In episode 4 "Dear Billy," Erica can be seen in her room right before Jason Carver shows up at her house on his quest to find Eddie, painting a D and D miniature orange, like Applejack's coat color, and on her wall is a My Little Pony poster.

• November 8, 2019 - Playing with Fire is about a group of smokejumpers that rescue three kids and have to watch over them until they can be reunited with their family. There is a running plot that most of them like My Little Pony, and clips from the first episode are shown here and there. At one point while watching one of these clips, Rodrigo Torres explains the plot of season 7 episode 23 "Secrets and Pies." He also has a moment where he sarcastically replies to John Cena's character with "no, in the kingdom of Equestria where everything is 20% cooler. Rainbow Dash." They all throw a birthday party for the younger girl, Zoey, and the entire party is G4 My Little Pony themed. When they are buying toys for her before the party, Mark Rogers is seen in the MLP aisle surrounded by toys and merch that came out in 2017-2018 (mostly G4, but also some G1 Retro) and John Cena's character picks up the MLP 5 Minute Stories book. His character also ends up wearing a Princess Celestia shirt.

• November 4, 2020 – In Bluey, season 2 episode 37 “The Quiet Game,” Bluey’s dad tells the girls to play the quiet game to make them be quiet, but he doesn’t realize he has to go to the store to get a birthday present for Muffin, who collects Moonlight Unicorns and would be upset if she gets one she already has. When he sees a wall full of them, the girls continue to stay quiet, so he tries to get one named Bramblehop, which the girls know isn’t the one Muffin wanted. They do charades to help their dad and the store employee figure out that it is one named Pendragon.

• 2021 (?) - There is a Judge Rinder episode that involves a court case where Miranda Worby's boyfriend is suing her for using his money to buy more storage for her pony collection, that exasperatingly is already everywhere in the house.

• June 29, 2021 - The opening scene of the Black Widow movie shows young Natasha trying to protect her little sister who was carrying a My Little Pony plush. This was notably anachronistic, as the opening scene was set in 1995, and the plush was a G4 TY Twilight Sparkle plush.

• August 21, 2021 - In Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Phoebe Spengler is talking to a kid named Podcast and asks him what his podcast is about. When she tells him that she might check it out, he pulls out a G4 Rainbow Dash flash drive that he apparently had his recordings on.

• October 22, 2021 - In adult animated comedy Inside Job, season 1 episode 5 "The Brettfast Club," the group is sent on a mission to Still Valley, Wyoming, the site of government testing back in 1984 that caused the local people to be mentally stuck in the 80s. To introduce them to the mission, there is a pile of 80s toys on the table, including two ponies.

• February 17, 2022 - In Peacemaker season 1 episode 8 "It's Cow or Never," the group is making plans in the woods for how to get one of Peacemaker's helmets to a barn, and he mentions having the helmet slide on a rope over to it. Vigilante says that it would be like Green Arrow, to which Peacemaker gets disgusted and says, "No, not like Green Arrow. That dude goes to brony conventions dressed as the back half of Twilight Sparkle..."

"Nice horsey, nice horsey!"

• May 16, 2022 - In Disney's live action movie Chip 'n' Dale: Rescue Rangers, during a scene where Chip and Dale are escaping through a convention hall, they get caught up in a herd of G4 My Little Ponies in the 2017 movie animation style.

• July 13, 2022 - In adult animated comedy Solar Opposites season 3 episode 5 "The Gargoyle Ray," CPS takes Terry and Korvo away, and, after seeing their strange behavior, decides to call someone in the government for some secret Project Dark Brilliance. The code he gives them over the phone is "My Little Pony Omega Code 3."

• August 14, 2023 - In season 4 episode 5 "The Birth-A-Day Present," Pupa is helping rescue several people, including a UPS worker who had a package for him. He opens the package after the monster they were fighting is defeated and pulls out two ponies.

• July 24, 2023 - The Patrick Star Show, season 1 episode 26, "Bubble Bass Reviews/Patrick's Prison Pals," shows Bubble Bass, who is an adult who lives in his mom's basement and does reviews and has been making critical videos of Patrick. The episode has various clips from Bubble Bass, and one of them is him holding up a "limited edition My Tiny Seahorse" which is a pink/purple seahorse toy with a cartoony face, curled blue mane, and two yellow shells for a symbol.

• November 8, 2023 - In The Santa Clauses season 2 episode 2 "Floofy," Mrs. Claus finds out Gary sold off some missing pages to pay for his gambling debts, to which Santa Claus responds "Gary loves to play the my little ponies."

• There was also an ad for the show at the same time that briefly mentioned "900 My Little Ponies."

• January 19, 2024 - In Love on the Spectrum season 2 episode 5 "Episode 5," Dani Bowman takes Adan Correa on a date to the Pasadena Comic Con. She shows off a G4 Rainbow Dash plush that she has right before she dresses up in a G4 Rainbow Dash cosplay and makes a few references to the character.

• January 28, 2024 - A number of My Little Ponies and merchandise items were shown on Antiques Roadshow, season 46 "Crystal Palace Park, London 3." At one point the camera zooms in on a different pony (Diary Pony) than the one being described (Princess Sapphire Variant III).

Looks like he needs more...

• December 21, 2024 - In adult animated comedy series Helluva Boss, the character Blitzo is often hinted at having an obsession with horses and ponies, in reference to SpindleHorse, the animation studio behind the show. At the start of season 2 episode 12 "Sinsmas," as another character named Stolas wakes up in Blitzo's house, he sees plush, figurines, merch, and a cartoon show on television for their in universe ponies.

• December 23, 2024 - In Junior Taskmaster season 1 episode 8 "Balloon Carcasses," the next to last task was for the contestants to be in a room for a minute, leave the room, and then come back to the room and spot what has changed to it. As they are talking before the introduction of the recording of the contestants finding what changed, Rose Matafeo asks Mike Wozniak "What's up next, Mike Little Pony?"

• September 6, 2025 - In Wake Up Dead Man, a priest is killed while in a closet on stage and the detective Benoit Blanc and prime suspect and main character Jud are testing out a theory that the knife was remotely launched at the victim. They watch a baseball game recording and compare it to the timing of the murder to see if remote signals were sent. The police officer's desk that they are standing around has a large amount of figurines on it, including a G1 Retro mini Applejack and Twilight from the Rescue at Midnight Castle set and a G1 Retro Sweet Stuff and Fizzy. On the bulletin board there is also a puffy sticker for G1 Retro Sweet Stuff.

• October 26, 2025 - On Daisy May and Charlie Cooper's NightWatch episode 6 "Scottish Bothy," Charlie Cooper made his sister, Daisy May Cooper, his own homemade version of a Happy Meal “McCooper Style” and surprised her with My Little Pony figures as the Happy Meal toys. These figures are a G4 blind bag Pinkie Pie and a G3 Ponyville Rainbow Dash. “Oh my god! My Little Ponies! Not the first generation though," she says. “Oh my god. It can never be right” he replies, since he gave them to her as a surprise.

• January 25, 2026 - In UK's version of The Floor, season 1 episode 4, G3 EU exclusive McDonald's Happy Meal Cloud Dancer and Spring Treat are seen in the Toys segment between Ruby and Lynda.

Documentaries

• 2011 - My Little Obsession by MustbeJewel, who runs the Maryland Pony Meet, was a senior project sold in DVD form with one printing design from 2011 and a later revamped printing in 2024.

• 2012 - Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony

• 2014 - A Brony Tale

• November 15, 2019 - The Netflix documentary show The Toys That Made Us has a My Little Pony episode (season 3 episode 3) where they interview many people who brought My Little Pony to life and continued its success, including Bonnie Zacherle and other toy designers, Lauren Faust, and many more.

• September 30, 2020 - As they are showing home videos of the kids in American Murder: The Family Next Door, one of the girls is wearing a G4 pony shirt.

Game References and Parodies

• The Backyard Sports series of video games has a parody called "My Precious Pony." The character Maria Luna collects them, and part of her Meet the Players bio states that she has "one [sic] the largest 'My Precious Pony' collections in the Northern Hemisphere."

• Moshi Monsters had collectible six legged ponies called My Little Mutants in the game. There was a regular My Little Mutant, and there were three variants that were My Little Rainbow Star Mutant, My Little Pirate Mutant, and My Little Harry Trotter Mutant.

• January 30, 2014 – In Octodad: Dadliest Catch, the first location you go to after the wedding and Octodad’s home is Gervason’s Deli, and in the cereal aisle there is a pony plush that is the same color scheme and pony race as G4 Derpy/Muffins.

• May 27, 2014 - In the Watch Dogs series of games, cars can have keychains, on the keys in the ignition, of G4's Trixie and Rainbow Dash.

• November 10, 2015 - In Fallout 4, Wilson Automatoys produces a metal horse called Giddyup Buttercup. While the toy is modeled after a regular horse, going to Wilson Automatoys Corporate HQ and reading the terminal documents from Arlen Glass, Director of Product Development, shows that sales were declining so they were planning to make it more marketable in the same way My Little Pony was made collectible. In Arlen's main terminal, in the Sales Forecast, Arlen mentions "If our sales really are down, we need to expand our market. Premium editions. Collectible variations." In the Brainstorming document, he lists out

"Collectible Variants:

• Body/hair color variants. Identifying marks?

• 'Mythics' product line. Pegasi? Unicorns?"

It also mentions them making boy versions, or ones that were at least boy themed, and a premium Princess line.

In the Product Development Lab Terminal, the game references several lines and moments in the G4 show specifically:

• 10/14/77 - "I just don't know what went wrong." - A line spoken by Derpy/Muffins in The Last Roundup (season 2 episode 14).
• 10/17/77 - "Can't believe I skipped Marlene's recital to sit with a bunch of pink horses and watch paint dry." - A reference to a scene in Too Many Pinkie Pies (season 3 episode 3).
• 10/20/77 - "I can't afford to be tardy. Clock is ticking, Arlen. Clock is ticking." - A quote from Twilight Sparkle in Lesson Zero (season 2 episode 3).

• May 9, 2017 - In Injustice 2, when Harley Quinn faces off against Mr. Freeze, she asks him "Can you make me a pony?" and his response is "It will make the twilight sparkle." Both Harley Quinn and G4 Twilight Sparkle are voiced by Tara Strong.

• October 17, 2019 - Jackbox Party Pack 6 releases with Trivia Murder Party 2. One of the potential questions in the question bank goes: "Where would you find a My Little Pony's cutie mark? On their flank."

• October 15, 2020 - "My Little Pony" also exists in the Blather 'Round word bank, which released in Jackbox Party Pack 7.

• April 30, 2020 - The game Them's Fightin' Herds was originally created with G4 characters, but had to be changed after a cease and desist from Hasbro. Lauren Faust, who had created G4, helped them come up with new characters and helped with some of the development.

• October 12, 2022 - In Unusual Findings, which is set in the 1980s, one of the main characters, named Tony, loves ponies. When you first see him in his room, he has generic unicorn bedsheets and will mention that "the pony cartoon has its moments. And my grandmother thinks ponies are cool." If your character chooses to give ponies a chance instead of calling them lame, Tony continues with "and in season 2, things get much better with the first tooth pony babies and all. Megan really grew as a character." When they see Robert on the street, he mentions collecting pony trading cards, which Tony shows an interest in. Later, by an empty fridge, Tony mentions a "pony show episode where there's a magical fridge that has a secret compartment," and reveals that this one has one that contained a Pony and Co. Club ID. Late in the game, they find "a box of pony-themed adhesive bandages" in a medicine cabinet. And at the very end, Tony's friends tease him for wanting a pony wizard character just because it is a pony.

• 2024 - Love Archer: Cupids Arrow is a mobile game where you play as Cupid and shoot arrows at various people and creatures to mix them and create something new. Some of the creations and creatures are based on copyrighted characters. Mixing The Last Unicorn with an African American man creates Princess Luna.

People and Politics

• In 2005, when US President George W. Bush nominated Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court of the United States, political cartoonist Steve Sack drew a cartoon depicting Bush brushing a pony toy with false eyelashes under the title "My Little Crony," since it was recently after the dismissal of Michael D. Brown for failing to handle the Hurricane Katrina crisis.

• Radio talk-show host Laura Ingraham refers to former Senator John Edwards as "Silky Pony" and plays the My Little Pony theme music when discussing stories about Edwards.

• The CEO of Sun Microsystems, Jonathan I. Schwartz, was known for having a pony tail, and was therefore nicknamed "My Little Pony" by Dan Lyons of Newsweek. [3]

News

• April 1999 - The magazine Family PC featured a review for G2's Friendship Gardens video game.

• January 15, 2013 - In 2013, it was found that some beef products in Europe contained horse meat, and in response, a meme began going around joking about "My Lidl Pony."

• March 2014 - A viral news story was going around about a boy named Grayson Bruce who was being bullied for wearing a G4 Rainbow Dash bookbag.

• September 2015 - Not to be confused with the 2013 scandal, another news story went around about a man bringing in a Shetland pony into a Lidl in Ashford as a prank.

• July 20, 2024 - The Guardian featured an article about an exhibition by Hetain Patel that was called "Come As You Really Are," which featured several collections, including Miranda Worby's large pony collection.

• 2024 - The Strong National Museum of Play has a National Toy Hall of Fame, and in 2024 they inducted My Little Pony to it, along with Transformers and Phase 10.

Book and Comic References and Discussions

• 1993 - In Ellen Seiter's book Sold Separately, there is an entire chapter dedicated to the beginning of television cartoons for girls in the 1980s. While other properties like Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake are mentioned, the focus is on My Little Pony. In particular, it mentions Mattel's attempt at a similar toy in Little Pretties, and a look into episodes "Mish Mash Melee," "Baby, It's Cold Outside," and "The Glass Princess." The overall commentary being that different tropes existed in media specifically targeted at young girls as opposed to in media targeted at boys or a general audience.

• April 1, 2012 - In a FoxTrot comic called "Game of Ponies," Jason sits down to watch season two of Game of Thrones, but is surprised when the announcer says Hasbro was involved, and he sees the Game of Thrones characters riding G4 Pinkie Pie, Applejack, and Twilight Sparkle, who have different cutie marks. It turns out it was an April Fools prank.

• February 27, 2013 - In a Cyanide and Happiness comic, by Dave McElfatrick, a bully is upset because weird kids are now standing up for themselves, saying "This is why you now have grown adults who openly obsess over things like cartoon ponies."

• 2016 - My Lil Pony Tale is a picture book, written by Bonnie Zacherle herself, about her own inspiration for and experience with My Little Pony.

• April 1, 2017 - Ponyville Confidential: The History and Culture of My Little Pony, 1981-2016 by Sherilyn Connelly took a critical look at bronies and the general public's criticism of My Little Pony being too girly or too commercial.

• January 1, 2018 - Brands We Know: My Little Pony is a children's nonfiction book by Sara Green that gives a overview of the My Little Pony franchise.

• March 12, 2018 - From Howard Hughes to My Little Pony: 21 True Casino Stories includes a brief mention of men being entertained by women dressed as G4 characters.

• December 2018/ 2019 - My Little Pony Pioneer: Bonnie Zacherle is a children's nonfiction book by Megan Morgert-Spaniol that gives a short biography of Zacherle and a large section of it involves My Little Pony throughout its run.

• September 11, 2019 - Meet the Bronies: The Psychology of the Adult My Little Pony Fandom took a look at various trends within the brony community.

• October 2020 - In Courtney Changes the Game, when her step sister Tina is introduced in chapter 1, it mentions that the girls used to get along better and would even "play My Little Pony." The story is set in 1986.

• July 1, 2025 - In J. B. Ryder's Us Before Them, in the introduction he says "During the summer, I began plotting out the second book (aka I listened to Discord by the Living Tombstone on repeat while imagining edits of a single, partially irrelevant character)," referring to the popular fanmade song.

Collector-Driven Guidebooks

Guidebooks by Debra L. Birge

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  My Little Pony Around the World (2003) (ISBN: 0-7643-1749-0)

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  The World of My Little Pony: An Unauthorized Guide for Collectors (2000, 2008 for 2nd) (ISBN: 978-0-7643-2878-7)

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  The World of My Little Pony Nirvana Collector's Guide Book

Guidebooks by Summer Hayes

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  The My Little Pony G1 Collector's Inventory (2008) (ISBN-10: 0978606310, ISBN-13: 9780978606312)

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  The My Little Pony G2 Collector's Inventory (2010) (ISBN-10: 0978606329, ISBN-13: 9780978606329)

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  The My Little Pony G3 Collector's Inventory (2007) (ISBN: 978-0978606350)

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  The My Little Pony 2007-2008 Collector's Inventory (2009) (ISBN-10: 0978606361, ISBN-13: 9780978606367)

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  The My Little Pony 2009-2012 Collector's Inventory (2013) (ISBN-10: 0982400322, ISBN-13: 9780982400326)

Other guidebooks

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  The My Little Pony Collector's Inventory: a complete checklist of all US ponies, playsets and accessories from 1981 to 1992 (2005), by Heather DePonia (ISBN: 978-1-4116-2165-7)

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  My Little Pony Collectibles (October 15, 2018), by the people behind MLP Merch (ISBN: 978-1-4456-8342-3 print, 978-1-4456-8343-0 ebook)

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  Restoring My Little Pony (2024), by RetroGeekCrafts (ISBN: 978-1-4452-5777-8)

Music References and Parodies

• January 9, 2018 - In OH MY GIRL's music video for "Secret Garden," the girls are shown in different situations where they are working and waiting and dreaming. One of them is in a classroom with a birdcage prop, and a G1 Glory, G1 Baby Tiddly Winks, and a G4 Fluttershy can be seen behind her.

• January 12, 2018 - In TWICE's "Candy Pop" music video, a girl is bored in her room and she sees an animated version of TWICE in a candy themed world on the TV. TWICE sees her looking down and crash a van in her room to join her. On the TV stand by the left corner there is a G1 Glory and G1 Baby Tiddly Winks. When they all start dancing, one goes to a shelf across the room from the TV and there is a G4 Rainbow Power Styling Strands Fluttershy there, that one of them is seen in the background dancing with moments later.

• July 6, 2018 - In the music video for "Bed" by Nicki Minaj and Ariana Grande (explicit warning), there is a scene where Nicki is wearing a bedazzled retro G1 one piece swimsuit from Moschino featuring G1 Curly Locks.

• June 21, 2024 - The Living Tombstone added their remix of the fanmade song "Discord" to a vinyl record titled "Internet Childhood."

Miscellaneous References and Parodies

• Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro, released an April Fool's joke revealing that the newest d20 RPG setting would be an adaptation of the My Little Pony setting to a role-playing game.

• Something Positive referenced My Little Pony in a similar way on May 28, 2008.

• For April Fool's Day in 2006, the front page on Slashdot.org (a popular news site) was redesigned in the fashion of My Little Ponies.

• A parody of "My Little Pony," known as "My Little Pwny" has appeared on many gaming forums, including Bungie.

• A Perry Bible Fellowship comic strip by Nicholas Gurewitch, titled "Gamblin Man," features a My Little Pony look-alike named fancy-dancy magic-prancy running in a real-world horse race, but flying away in mid-race.

• 1994 - In an ad for the Lion King video game being bundled with a Sega Genesis or Game Gear, a boy asks his dad to get him either one and the game, with the dad getting confused as he goes through the store and thinking it was "Mega Pegasus for Reindeer" as he ends up at a display for "My Precious Pegasus" with an elderly lady.

• 2013 - At Vance Air Force Base in Oklahoma, each class can design their own patch. Class 14-05 created a patch based off G4, and it says "My Little Pilot: Flying is Magic."

• 2015 - G4 My Little Pony will sometimes be paired with the Indianapolis Colts. Super Bowl XLIX had an ad for “Together We Make Football” and their #SuperBowlRally that featured random scenes of people, famous celebrities, and animated characters cheering. In one scene, the G4 Mane 6 are shown in uniforms for the Indianapolis Colts.

Comic posted on Instagram

• December 14, 2025 - The Seattle Seahawks beat the Indianapolis Colts 18 to 16. To celebrate, the Seahawks posted an image by Shen Comix featuring #11 Jaxon Smith-Njigba outrunning G4 Applejack, Twilight Sparkle, and Rainbow Dash, the last of which while doing a Sonic Rainboom as well, on both their Instagram and Twitter/X.

• October 31, 2016 - The hosts on The View dressed up as various characters for Halloween and Paula Faris dressed up as Twilight Sparkle.

• September 21, 2017 - Moschino, with Jeremy Scott as creative director, created My Little Pony clothes for the fashion runway in Milan for Milan Fashion Week in their Ready to Wear Spring/Summer 2018 show. All of these were retro G1 styled.

• In the "Daydreams" puzzle by Toynk, there is a group of G1 ponies and the G4 Retro Rainbow Main Six set seen toward the bottom left.

• February 20, 2026 (?) - 2026 USA Olympic figure skating gold medalist Alysa Liu mentioned in an interview that she liked My Little Pony (and Winx Club), with her favorite pony being Rainbow Dash, and both the Kayou US Instagram (Feb. 23) and My Little Pony Instagram and Facebook (Feb. 24) official accounts paid tribute to her, with My Little Pony's post adding the caption "Rainbow Dash always fangirling over her fav athlete."

See Also

• Conventions and Culture

References

Note that the original draft of this page mentioned some or all of the references originally here as "stolen from Wikipedia." Anything added after that, was not. :) And edits have been made to the original list.