@Background Pony #B87B
 
This, by the way, is one of the reasons why I argued that Applejack, not Twilight, is The Hero of the mane six’s Five Man Band.

Applejack’s actually pretty smart. She’s not book-smart, and in some ways is willfully ignorant, but in ensemble episodes that aren’t actually about her (most of them) she’s usually the first one to make pragmatic and competent decisions and suggestions something, besides Twilight. Plus she’s been shown to learn from her mistakes, which is a kind of intelligence.

Only good thing about this kind of folk… is their sense of honor. But even that can be abused enough to damn them and th rest of us.

Fuck education, get drunk, milk the townspeople of their money and guilt trip them into damning any and all competition.

@Lord Griffin  
Again, Rainbow and Applejack’s Elements seem mixed up to me.

@Solitude  
Pretty much. Especially since “one pony plus hundreds o’ apple trees” isn’t really that mathematical a problem.

Y’know, I always thought that ‘fancy mathematics’ line wasn’t meant to imply AJ wasn’t good at it but that she used it as a way to brush past Mac’s argument.

@DoomPony  
There was PLENTY she could have learned in that episode, she was just too silly to actually learn any of it.
 
According to Applejack, she “already knew” that she could count on her friends to help out when needed. This is pretty much BS or she wouldn’t have run out of cider on the first day. Remember, it was well established that she NEVER have enough cider to meet demands, so she has no excuse for not having recruited extra help prior to Flim and Flam even showing up. Also, it was TWILIGHT’S idea to have other ponies help out, not Applejack’s. She’s claiming credit for something that never even occurred to her.
 
Heck, even her lesson about taking your time to do things the right way is pretty much BS. The ONLY reason she beat Flim and Flam is because Twilight was able to play on their overconfidence. “Doing things the right way” would NOT have worked, and had they continued to do things that way, she would have lost the farm for sure.
 
Also, technically, Flim and Flam won; so there’s that.
 
Element of Honesty my pasty white flank.

Guys, really, but adding apples to pony IS fancy mathematics. It’s possible only if you create new mathematical model, but in normal one it’s impossible, as apple and pony are not numbers.
 
Do you really believe AJ can’t do simple math?

“Ah go to Tea Party meetings!”
 
Hopefully not.

Applejack is Geor Djububuya Bush.

That third one isn’t fair. She didn’t learn anything because she already knew.
 
I love the implications of French Math, though.

@Background Pony Number 17  
Being raised on a farm, there isn’t much call for edumacation and books. I wouldn’t say Applejack is dumb, she just doesn’t give a damn about things she regards as impractical.

When Applejack said Apple Bloom was speaking in fancy, I thought she said spanish at first.
 
Left me in stitches for a good hour or so.

@Background Pony Number 17  
At least we know she is literate.

@Mr. Horrible  
The writers don’t come right out and say it, but it’s pretty broadly hinted that Applejack doesn’t have much in the way of “book smarts”. There are plenty of examples of it in the show besides these.
 
Fortunately she seems to have most of the “horse sense” (pun fully intended) among the Mane Six, which helps make up for it.

@Deserter
 
didn’t Faust or someone say that Applejack is in charge of Day-to-day operations while Mac does everything else?

@Mr. Horrible  
I always thought Big Mac was the smart one in the family.

It suddenly dawns on me that Applejack might not be very smart.

I like how “fancy mathematics” is a tag here.