Holy shit! How did I miss that?!

Sometimes I love this show. Other times, I love it completely to pieces.

How did I not see this?

I knew this scene was referencing something! I just couldn’t place it until now

@FanOfMostEverything  
Eh, I don’t think pyrotechnics and rocketry are as closely related as you seem to be implying. I mean, the Chinese invented gunpowder and fireworks more than a thousand years ago, but nobody on Earth had working full-sized rockets until Wernher von Braun invented the V-2 under the generous funding of Nazi Germany. Granted, America MIGHT have been able to make working rockets a bit earlier in the 20th century IF we had taken Robert H. Goddard and his ideas a bit more seriously. Heck, we wouldn’t even have NASA if we didn’t scoop up von Braun and a whole mess of other Nazi scientists with Operation Paperclip in the aftermath of World War II.
 
I suppose the point I’m trying to make is that I have doubts Equestria currently has anything close to functional rocketry by its present point in time, but I wouldn’t put it past Germaney/Germaneigh.

@Joshua  
Its funny because I was indeed wrong but, even you are now lol.  
At first glance a LOT of people, myself included, thought it was Scorpion. Most still do think its him.  
However I’ve done some research and the pony in question mostly resembles Ermac from MK9 NOT MK3.

@SomecallmeGaz  
REALLY? Because looking back at Lunar Eclipse, I can CLEARLY see a MK3 Ermac.

@Joshua  
Actually it was scorpion, the design looks nothing like ermac

@441TheSecond  
No it was scorpion, btw you left caps lock on.

@filflat  
They’ve referenced Game of Thrones.

@Wyvrex21  
At the very least, they’re acquainted with the concept of rocketry, but we’ve known that since Trixie was using fireworks. Whether they’ve scaled it up is uncertain.

@Joshua
 
@Zeryurijin
 
@Joshua
 
Remember My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Issue #4?
 

 
Pepperidge Farms Remembers

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I knew there was something interesting going on here.

@441TheSecond  
Dude, calm down. We KNOW that’s Ermac.

@SomecallmeGaz  
ERMAC! THAT WAS ERMAC!

HOW THE FLYING FUCK DID I MISS THAT REFERENCE?!

“That’s weird. Usually, the Smooze gets off at the second floor.”

@Joshua  
care to share a few? (The only one i dont believe is the holy hand grenade one, that one is stretching it)

@SomecallmeGaz  
Oh trust me, it has more references than you could POSSIBLY muster.

@filflat  
They referenced mortal kombat waaay back in the nightmare night episode, when a pony dressed up as scorpion, so it doesnt come as a surprise. Besides mlp is now just a glorified easter egg hunt.  
@Joshua  
I’ve not seen passed the end of season 3, as the show died on me and got dull but, i’m hearing this episode had a lot of things in it.

I’m so glad I wasn’t the only one that got this!

@Joshua  
how about John Waters’s Pink Flamingos?

@filflat  
Fortunately, it’s slime instead of blood. But I DO wonder what ELSE they could reference. Evil Dead? Jurassic Park? Dare I ask, Team Fortress 2?