S6E23 Where the Apple Lies

...so I'm gonna say just one thing.

Where is Applebloom during this flashback?

She's either too young to remember all this, or she hasn't been born yet. If it's the former, where is she? She would have been so young that it seems unlikely she wouldn't pop up being cared for somepony while they all bop around the house. If it's the latter - where are mom and dad!? Yes, I get it, we're led to believe in the series that Applejack's parents are most likely dead, but they can't have died before having their own youngest daughter!

Oh dear, my brain exploded. How will I write now!?

Comments

[DbzOrDie]

Oh dear, my brain exploded. How will I write now!?

You will find strength in the fact that people rely on you to write? :)

[Oliver]

After much discussion, the best answer so far seems to be "Apple Bloom is being wet nursed by Braeburn's immediate family." That doesn't solve everything, because then we get a question "So where is Diamond Tiara?" :)

[jjrock7H]

You're correct. This doesn't make any sense, unless... Apple bloom is Big Mac and Granny Smith's love child! It all makes sense now! Why it even explains why Granny Smith's hips are "in need of replacing." Big Mac pounded her hips into dust! It's the new meta ftw.

[redsquirrel456]

I wanted just one line where granny yells at the kids to take apple bloom to day care, or maybe a scene of AB chilling in a crib suckling a pacifier nonstop or something. But it seems the truth behind AJ's family will stay as obtuse as scootaloo's...

[WishyWish]

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Exactly what I was expecting to see!

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I shipped Granny Smith with Braeburn once. She worked him over (well, inferred at least). I think I scared some people.

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I was assuming Diamond's parents haven't had her yet...but if she's the same age as Applebloom...agh! Parents!

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That's a bigger help than you know. And I'm on it, don't worry!

[Oliver]

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My best solution for the entire episode is kind of like this:

But I still think the best way to explain all the discrepancies is to think that this entire episode is a story told by Apple Bloom to a third party, like the rest of the CMC, about how she found out why Applejack never lies. Spoiled Rich is in it because Apple Bloom encountered her recently, but she was a wife, not fiancée, by that moment. Diamond Tiara turns out to be younger than Apple Bloom, because that’s how Apple Bloom would like it. Other random ponies turning up are there because Apple Bloom mentally populates Ponyville with ponies she knows. Big Mac never shuts up, because Apple Bloom would like to hear him talk more. The actual reason that bottled cider never goes to outside retail is something else entirely.

Did you notice that the entire story starts with a lie? “Your big sister lied so much when she was a filly, the whole family ended up in the hospital.” This is technically correct, because that’s where the story ended, and all the Apples present were in the same room at the time, but the normal meaning for the term is being afflicted with something.

So it’s still “Where the Apple Lies.” Just a different Apple. None of it is, strictly speaking, a lie – but there’s a lot of stretching and creative truth-telling to make the story more exciting.

[WishyWish]

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...I still want mommy and daddy.

[Oliver]

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“We must not wait for favours from Nature; our task is to wrest them from her.”
― Ivan Michurin