(WOW this moved fast) @Tigger, couple pages back: As a proponant of Babs being their, daughter, I'll feild this one:

One, we have no indication Babs' older sister is actually AJ's age. She could be as little as a single year older - a common age difference for siblings being merely a year or two. At that age, considering we didn't see AB in AJ's flashback we have no reason to assume that she was born but simply wasn't shown on-screen due to being too young, or what have you. Furthermore, I still hold to the notio nthat she coud have been referring to AJ as an unofficil big sister. IF AJ could just drop in on Aunt and Uncle Orange, we have to assume the families are close.

Two, Children don't always have the same accents as their parents(Assuming we ever heard Aunt and Uncle speak - I'd have to go back and check the episode to be sure). In fact, in a lot of cases it's quite uncommon. If the O Ranges moved to a different city, or even a different neighborhood, then Babs would exhibit a different accent. Even then, there's no saying that one accent would be unnaceptable amongst the other accents of high scoiety. There's a steryotype that certain accents are dumb, yeah, but a moment's thought tells us that's absurd.

Finally, we have no indication that Aun and Uncle Orange are themselves Upper Class Twits. Bear in mind, they took a young girl into their home. They didn't have to do this. They had no real reason to, aside from the fact that she was family. She may not even have been true family, but simply the child of a family friend. Not only did they take her in, they brought her to one of their events and tried to make her feel welcomed! This is not the behaviour of upper class twits. They and their lot may have been a tad ignorant to not know what a rooster was, yes, but they were not unkind or self-centred ponies at all, which is a heavy element of being an upper class twit.

Ultimately, considering the only relatives we know of in Manehatten are the Oranges(And that there seems to be little call for farmers in a metropolitan city), assuming that she's the daughter of the Oranges is wholly reasonable, perhaps even more reasonable than assuming she wasn't. Assuming that she's not their daughter leans, as I've demonstrated, on just as many assumptions one way or another. The simple fact of the matter is that it's not supported or denied by canon, and could therefore go either way. Any evidence to one or the other is circumstantial, if not outright invented for the purposes of fanon. In that situation, there's no question that's 'silly'.

Yeah, the only thing we know about Babs' parentage is that the writer hadn't thought about it when creating the character, and it it could go either way.

YES! Trixie rides into town on top of Crackle. "Twilight Soarkle! You may have a dragon, ut I have a bigger dragon!"

Twilight: Are we seriously doing this?

However it goes down, I'd be happy to see Crackle again. Hell, an episode centered around Spike and Crackle would be an easy recipe for hilarity.

Okay, if Trixie reappears, she needs to ride Crackle into town. If I wasn't already working on too much crap, I'd totally be up for writing a story about that.

edited 4th Dec '12 9:15:26 AM by JapaneseTeeth

While rapping.

And firing a glock in the air.

"Motherfucker, it's time for another duel! With your gun!"

edited 4th Dec '12 9:18:21 AM by Steventheman

Interesting.

All the CMC got their cutie marks sometime between season 2 and 3, but hide them because they're afraid of how the others will take the news.

Oh God, what have I started.

edited 4th Dec '12 9:19:10 AM by IrishZombie

When I was on /mlp/ I saw someone complain that "Dragon Quest" was sexist. Oh, the funny never ends.

What? I mean, I'm the first to say that that episode has issues, but where did they get that? I mean, yeah, the dragons are all dude, but that's because Spike is male.

BLAAAWRAGH!

edited 4th Dec '12 10:02:03 AM by VeniVidiPony

That WMG doesn't work. Cutie Pox already showed us how the rest of the CMC would react to one of their number getting her mark before them. Heartwarming favorably, as fate would have it.

edit: VVP, I think you might need to switch avatars for a bit. I'm starting to think that the current one is... affecting you.

edited 4th Dec '12 10:03:45 AM by Enlong

@Enlong: That was only in the immediate timeframe, though. It's entirely possible that if say, Apple Bloom got her CM, Scoots and Sweetie might be initially happy for her, but start to grow more bitter now that she has less reason to hang around with them.

Ahoy again. Handed the essay in. Now I wait.

And then Apple Bloom would vanish under 'mysterious circumstances' and Granny Smith would find her cutie mark in an envelope...

edited 4th Dec '12 10:17:56 AM by VeniVidiPony

Flutterdash. So canon.◊

Seems to me that, if anyone, Sweetie and Scoots are the least likely to hold that sort of grudge.

I mean, as of The Cutie Pox, it's kind of obvious that each of them are more happy to spend time with the other two and partake in wacky hijinx than frustrated by the lack of accomplishing the "main" goal.

Naw, the Mario Kart ship is far more canon. Flutters was just going along with it.

edited 4th Dec '12 10:19:38 AM by Enlong

Mario Kart Ship?

"Two-thirds Cutie Mark Potential Murder Investigator Crusaders! YAY!"

Come on, everyone knows Hummingbird Familiars are the best.

Double Dash.

Yeah, I'm wondering about adding Trixie as an example on the Unknown Rival page, but I'm not sure if that would be shoehorning or not. On the one hoof, Twilight obviously made a much bigger impression on Trixie than vice versa (I don't recall Twi ever mentioning Trix in the interim between "Boast Busters" and "Magic Duel"). On the other hoof, the Unknown Rival trope usually plays out with the one party not even recognizing their "rival", but Twi didn't have any trouble recognizing Trixie in "Magic Duel".

@Meta: I don't think it quite fits; Trixie's motivation is less a personal vendetta against Twilight and more wanting to salvage her reputation. Twilight was obviously involved in it, but I'm not sure that's her primary motivation. There are definitely elements of it though. Not sure whether it's enough to merit a mention.

Also, my season 1 box set came in today.

edited 4th Dec '12 11:03:25 AM by JapaneseTeeth

Sweet! Enjoy your pony!

by this point it's pretty much clear the CMC are freinds, and though it was being blank flanks that brought them together, it's not what their friendship is about by now.