: Symbolically, it is a psychological test of submission. Physically, it is a dangerous hallucination where the player actually walks off a cliffside structure in the real world, fully entering the grip of Faith’s territory.

: The master scam artists, the Flim Flam Brothers, arrive in Ponyville selling a miracle curative tonic.

: Applejack knows the tonic is a complete placebo (it does nothing). However, she watches her elderly grandmother, Granny Smith, experience a massive psychological placebo effect that relieves her chronic aches and allows her to swim again.