Talk:Trade Ya!/@comment-4905253-20140411134906/@comment-32136229-20140411145303

The term "flanderization" is so misused these days (I know I have misused it at least a few times).

Flanderization, according to TV Tropes, is "the act of taking a single (often minor) action or trait of a character within a work and exaggerating it more and more over time until it completely consumes the character". Applejack's characterization, by that definition, cannot be called flanderization, because it's only confined to one single episode. A better description would be "character exaggeration", which is not something new for the show (see Twilight in Lesson Zero and Fluttershy in Putting Your Hoof Down).