# Smugdash Smugdash, also known as Rainbow Dash Dreamworks Face, is a pair of self-satisfied smirking expressions from Rainbow Dash in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. The screencaps came from two back-to-back Season 4 episodes airing in December 2013, and brony art communities on Derpibooru and DeviantArt turned them into a go-to reaction face and photoshop template. ## Origin The first Smugdash frame comes from "Daring Don't", the fourth episode of Season 4, which aired in December 2013[1]. Rainbow Dash pulls the smirk after eavesdropping on the villain Ahuizotl trading threats with adventurer Daring Do just before their fight over a plot MacGuffin[3]. The second, near-identical face shows up in the very next episode, "Flight to the Finish", giving fans two interchangeable versions of the same expression to clip and reuse[2]. No single artist is credited with coining the name; the term spread through fan tags on Derpibooru and DeviantArt as bronies started saving and remixing the screencaps[3]. - **Platform:** My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (source) / Derpibooru and DeviantArt (viral spread) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2013 ## Overview Smugdash, alternatively called Rainbow Dash Dreamworks Face, refers to two nearly identical smirks that Rainbow Dash pulls in back-to-back Season 4 episodes of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic[1]. Both frames show her eyebrows cocked, mouth pulled into a knowing sideways grin, and eyes flicked off camera in the exaggerated pose animation fans nicknamed after the DreamWorks cover-art squint[3]. Bronies use the screencaps as a reaction image for anything sarcastic, self-satisfied, or gotcha-flavored. A big chunk of the surviving art traffic is photoshop work rather than pure reaction posts, with the face pasted onto other characters or scenes[3]. The best-known variant is a crossover with the Twilicane meme, where Twilight Sparkle's head in the Twilicane image gets swapped out for Smugdash's smirk[3]. TV Tropes filed Smugdash under its My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic character memes page, grouping it with other single-frame Rainbow Dash reaction faces that circulated on brony art hubs[4]. ## How to Use Typical Smugdash posts drop one of the two screencaps as a reply when a comment or thread feels smug, sarcastic, or vindicated. A common convention among MLP artists is to photoshop the face onto other ponies or into unrelated scenes rather than post the raw screencap, with the Twilicane crossover being a recurring template[3]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Smugdash? Smugdash, also called Rainbow Dash Dreamworks Face, is a reaction image of Rainbow Dash from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic wearing a smug, eyebrows-raised smirk[3]. ### Where did Smugdash come from? The face comes from two consecutive Season 4 episodes, "Daring Don't" and "Flight to the Finish", which aired in December 2013[1][2]. ### What does Smugdash mean? It is used as a shorthand for smugness or sarcastic self-satisfaction, borrowing the DreamWorks-style raised-eyebrow squint that Rainbow Dash pulls in both frames[3]. ### How do you use Smugdash? Fans typically drop the screencap as a reaction image or photoshop the face onto other characters, with a common crossover pasting it over Twilight Sparkle in the Twilicane meme[3]. ### Is Smugdash still popular? It stayed a fixture inside brony art communities like Derpibooru and DeviantArt rather than crossing into general meme circulation, and TV Tropes lists it among the MLP character memes[4][5]. ## References 1. [http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Daring_Don't]() 2. [http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Flight_to_the_Finish]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/smugdash]() 4. [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Memes/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicCharacterMemes]() 5. [http://www.deviantart.com/browse/all/?section=&global=1&q=smugdash]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/smugdash Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library