NOTES:  
In the comic, Moondancer has a hairstyle that is the same as Fluttershy’s, but in the series, her hairstyle is similar to Twilight Sparkle’s.

The whole problem with this is, Filly twilight is visible in the background of the image so MoonDancer would already be an older woman by the time they’re adults. Not in classes together.

@Pepsi_Al  
It was really less of an acknowledgement than just a couple of gags.

@dynamicv & TexasUberAlles: I suppose that’s true.
 
 
@TexasUberAlles  

Wouldn’t Flash’s presence in the first place be at least a form of acknowledgement towards Equestria Girls, period? I know it’s not a direct one, but still.

@Psyga315  
BBBFF  
I still say something like “forgetting to mention that she had a brother” was 100% in character for Book Nerd Horse; in fact, I don’t think it’s beyond the realm of posability that the sudden late appearance of Moon Dancer’s previously-unmentioned sister was a deliberate smirk by Larson in response to fans complaining about Shiny not having existed before being referenced in a musical number.
 
Personally, I just assume she’d mentioned her brother in-universe and offscreen before and it hadn’t been important or relevant enough to warrant inclusion in a story.
 
@dynamicv  
Flash Sentry  
He was never actually named onscreen, though I forget if Vince Tong was credited as “Flash Sentry” in the episode credits for the Season 5 Premiere. Even so, I’d argue– especially given the complete lack of knowing interaction between him and Twilight in Equestria– that Pony!Flash appearing on TV doesn’t actually imply a two way connection between show and movies any more than any of the other characters having Human World counterparts does; the only real difference is that he appeared in the movies first, and both Miller and McCarthy have confirmed that he wasn’t scripted in either of his TV appearances, but added during the animation phase of production. For such a connection to inarguably exist, someone in the series would have to directly reference events exclusive to the movies, and that hasn’t happened yet; Larson wanted to kindasorta sideways do so in Episode 100, but the scene was cut.

@TexasUberAlles  
As minor as they are, Flash Sentry’s appearances in the show make Equestria Girls two-way canon with the show.

@TexasUberAlles  

 
Though there were a few things that broke consistency. (BBBFF)

@Pepsi_Al  
they should have recognized her  
I know what a Xenomorph is and I’ve seen really awesome life size models of them at conventions, but I would still be pretty freaked out if I saw a live one pop out onstage at a town hall meeting and start shrieking at the audience, and I’m the sort of person who instinctively reacts to immediate physical threats by putting a weapon in my hand and dropping into a stance to use it without any conscious thought being involved. As far as the adults were concerned, NMM was an old nag’s tale, a fictional monster of myth and legend, so even without the 20/20 hindsight of applying mythos that were expanded upon in later seasons, it would still make sense for them to react with stunned terror to seeing a walking ghost story appearing in the flesh to threaten the literal daylight with destruction.
 
And again, fans always care more about details than the Suits, or even the actors.
 
@dynamicv  
it just involves interdimensional travel  
Aside from the whole High School AU thing, it’s not like the fanfic concept of an AU, no, but (so far at least, Faust Be Praised) it’s being kept as a completely separate continuity from the show, with no actual factual onscreen connection coming from the TV series; very much like the comics, it’s a one-way connection in that the movies take their cues from the show, but the show officially procedes as if the movies don’t exist. I like that arrangement just fine, as it keeps the filthy apes out of Equestria in the show.

@Pepsi_Al
 
I suppose that’s true, but if every pony was scared out of their wits I doubt anyone would speak up even if they did recognize her.
 
And isn’t the role of Nightmare Moon in her holiday to scare the kids? They didn’t show a lot of adult ponies doing the candy offering. Maybe the adults just didn’t believe what they were seeing?

@dynamicv: hat wasn’t what I was talking about, though. What I was thinking of was more or less the reactions of Ponyville’s civilians to seeing Nightmare Moon in the first place. If there was a holiday dedicated to her, they should have recognized her.

@Pepsi_Al
 
Technically Twilight’s big breakthrough in episode 1 was realizing that the myth of “Nightmare Moon” and the myth of the “Mare in the Moon” were referring to the same pony.
 

 
It seems to me the two myths didn’t foretell the end times until they were put together.

@TexasUberAlles  
But Equestria Girls isn’t an “AU” in the sense that it deliberately changes canonical facts of FiM, it just involves interdimensional travel. It’s also kinda but not quite “High School AU” because the ponies themselves are not the ones attending school, it’s this other set of characters who just happen to have the same names and color schemes. The personalities are different too because they aren’t ponies, don’t live in a magical world and are younger.

@TexasUberAlles  

The fact that nopony but Twilight seemed to know who Nightmare Moon even was, and yet there was a statue of her and a holiday practically dedicated to her, says otherwise. As does the fact that Twilight mentions that “Ponyville has been around for centuries” in “Winter Wrap-Up”, but yet, “Family Appreciation Day” establishes that Ponyvile was founded when Granny Smith was a filly. Minor inconsistencies? Maybe. But the fact that Hasbro doesn’t seem to have addressed either remains.

@Pepsi_Al  
Hasbro doesn’t check the show for consistency  
They most definitely do– various show/comic staff and Hasbro reps have confirmed this– it’s just that they’re a corporation and we’re otaku, and while both of those things are Grand Champeens at obsessing over trivial details, one of them is waaayyy better at obsessing over continuity than pinching pennies.
 
@RektPony  
if they treated comics as AU  
Gawd that would put to rest so much unnecessary fandom drama; it’s not like they don’t have EqG sitting right there as an example of how to integrate parallel universes into the franchise.

@RektPony: To be fair, Hasbro doesn’t check the show for consistency with itself either. And none of the inconsistencies present within the show have yet to be addressed.
 
Besides, I think Hasbro would only put a few comics into the “canon discontinuity” pile if anything among said comics clash with any future ideas for the show. So far, I don’t think they have, nor have I even seen any indications that they did so.

@Pepsi_Al  
Hasbro woudn’t care to check every detail for consistency with the show if they treated comics as AU. They are canon, but the show made no effort to acknowledge them, yet.

@RektPony: IIRC, Miller said that they pretty much are. Until Hasbro says otherwise at least in regards to particular ones, that is.

@TexasUberAlles
 
oh so I have a duck badge that automatically makes me an idiot, you think I asked for this thing smart ass

@James739  
Looks like Rektpony’s the one who got rekt

@James739  
you’re the one with the duck badge man you’re not supposed to be the one who makes the most sense

@RektPony  
you’re the one who wants to know you ask them, I don’t give a rats ass

@James739  
Mike Vogel, Biran Lenard and Jayson Thiesson know all about the comics. Ask them if they are canon if you wish. And they run the show.

@RektPony  
IDW just make the comic, the show staff nether know nor care what happens in it

Is this comic old? Whitley said that character designs in his Spike/Luna comic were approved by the show staff. Maybe they didn’t do that when Price made this comic but they do now…

@Background Pony #8E60  
Obviously, Moon Dancer was Twilight’s classmate and Moondancer is her G1 grandmother.