never happened.]]Think about it, this episode came later in the first season as the fourth-to-last episode and outside of a few minor aspects mentioned or hinted at in some of the other episodes (such as Rainbow Dash having done the Sonic Rainboom before or Pinkie's hair going flat), nothing that was mentioned in this episode's stories has appeared elsewhere in the series, so [[UnreliableNarrator it's hard to be sure that ANY of these stories are reliable yet]]. Basically saying, until there's more proof that any of this actually happened, everything we know about their past is wrong. Fluttershy was never from Cloudsdale, Pinkie Pie was never from a Rock Farm, Applejack was never interested in the high-class life, Twilight never had parents, that kinda thing. There are afew different theories behind this claim, some of which will probably tie together:* The rock farm and Twilight's parents have appeared in other episodes, so those parts likely weren't fabricated ("Magic Duel" for the rock farm, Shining Armor's wedding [[spoiler: and Twilight's coronation]] for the parents)

* The entire episode was a dream that a curious Twilight Sparkle had consisting of wild theories about how each of her friends got their cutie marks that involved the Cutie Mark Crusaders going around and asking them. Her own cutie mark origin was different from how she remembered it as well. Upon remembering this dream, she would then go out to ask her friends how they got their cutie marks. Simply put, the creators tricked us with this episode and didn't even