Talk:Where the Apple Lies/@comment-4066758-20161012122116/@comment-32875194-20161013215052

As for Apple Bloom theories. It's actually very simple, since there are many working explanations for her, including the real one, but also explanations which fix this continuity error. (Really... some people overthink it way too much, coming up with weird stuff, including AB being AJ's daughter, secretly...)

The real answer: the writer didn't think it was important to the episode to even show her, so that's the only reason she wasn't shown.

Two explanations to fix this continuity error, in headcanon:

1. Parents are still alive, but they don't live there (maybe one of them isn't a farm type of pony and convinced the other one to live a different kind of life). They have AB being 1 y.o. during that time.

As for Diamond Tiara... Sometimes kids (for different reasons) might go to school 1 year later than it's common, so it would explain why they are in the same grade. Also, what if Filthy Rich is forced to marry Spoiled Milk after accidentally impregnating her. (But also, who said that ponies have the same laws as we do, to not have kids outside the marriage lol).

2. Parents are dead at that time, but AB (around 1 y.o. again) was at some of Apple family's relatives place at the moment.