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Twilight's Magic'
This brings a lot of questions, for as tiny and amusing of a moment this is. What sort of spell does Twilight Sparkle have in her "25" magic tricks that is causing monsters to change there desire and possibly digestive systems? I partly kid, but even without taking into account Boast Busters this spell that was cast here does get me thinking: what short of spells she can cast on the fly versus what sort of things she needs to read from a book before she casts it? 
 
Speaking of magic if I had the time, I wish I could keep better track of all the magic feats. Less so for a power leveling reason so much as trying to see what "rules" stick. For example, one thing I know that they were surprisingly consistent on through the years is how rare teleportation was. 

Rough cut of clip here, was trying to make perfect edit but didn't have the time.

Rarity and Paraspirtes
I find it interesting that Rarity was able to utilized them for help and was unfazed at their numbers increasing till she got grossed out. Does Rarity have a secret affinity for animals!?  

Applejack's plan succeeded' 
She drove the paraspirtes off out of Ponyville. Fluttershy just kept one. Funny enough, by creating chaos in Fillydelphia she still technically saved everypony the trouble from the damage caused from the town, even if they did cause havoc in Fillydelphia.

Fillydelphia's location
Has to be near Ponyville, even if we assume that the paraspirtes weren't rolled all the way there. This doesn't quite square with the map later (or maybe it does, considering how fast travel between places is). 

Celestia as an authority figure 
A lot of people point out on Celestia being a big deal authority figure with majesty and power in earlier seasons compared to later. I think this criticism is at least partly true (why partly? My memory of season 5 through 7 I consider weakest and I can come up with a defense even if I lean that direction). Celestia here is a big deal, but she also is an authority figure in the sense of a school principle or parant in how they are trying to avoid trouble from making a mess of things. It isn't a one on one but she serves a similar roll in this (and some other) episodes.

Twilight Sparkle's walk'
It is little moments like this again that stick out to me. Twilight Sparkle walking forward with trees moving on either side as opposed for just keeping a side profile shot zoomed in at different angles. I don't recall seeing many shots like this in shows that I would consider what FiM was being first stereotyped/stacked up against of the cheap flash animation variety. I stress I am no expert in animation though.