Elbow Grease

Elbow Grease is a Crystal Earth pony mare with a pink coat, pale light and light blue mane and tail, bright teal eyes, and a cutie mark usually of a fleur-de-lis. She has a speaking role in the episodes The Crystal Empire - Part 1 and Equestria Games. She is unnamed in the show, but she is named in merchandise and other media.__TOC__
==Design==
Elbow Grease shares her design with Fleur De Verre, "Arctic Lily", "", and "Esmeralda".
==Depiction in the series==
 Elbow Grease is one of the nine most frequently appearing Crystal Ponies, along with Sapphire Joy, Bright Smile, Crystal Beau, Fleur De Verre, Ivory Rook, Autumn Gem, "Night Knight", and "Rubinstein".
===Season three===
She first appears in The Crystal Empire - Part 1 during Princess Celestia's flashback of the Crystal Empire, shown to be in the forced servitude of King Sombra. Later in the episode, she is one of many Crystal Ponies having become depressed as a result of King Sombra's curse. She has a brief speaking role opposite "Night Knight". Hearing news of the Crystal Faire lifts her spirits and returns color to her coat and mane.
In The Crystal Empire - Part 2, Elbow Grease has other forms of fun at the Crystal Faire, like enjoying the petting zoo and watching Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy's jousting match. She helps power the Crystal Heart at the end of the episode.
Elbow Grease appears at the Crystal Empire train station in Just for Sidekicks, takes part in the cleaning of the Empire and has a mud bath at the spa in Games Ponies Play, and attends Twilight Sparkle's princess coronation in Magical Mystery Cure.
===Season four===
In Flight to the Finish, Elbow Grease appears in the stadium crowd at the Crystal Empire during the Cutie Mark Crusaders' flag-carrying audition. She also appears at the Rainbow Falls Traders Exchange in Trade Ya!, has a speaking role in which she asks Spike for his autograph in Equestria Games, and is seen in the crowd welcoming the dignitaries in Twilight's Kingdom - Part 1.
===Season five===
In The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 1, Elbow Grease appears in an alternate timeline in which King Sombra tales over the Crystal Empire as a member of a chain gang and subsequently as a member of his mind-controlled army. 
===Season six===
In The Crystalling - Part 1, Elbow Grease attends Flurry Heart's Crystalling ceremony at the Crystal Empire. In The Crystalling - Part 2, she and the other ponies attending the Crystalling are forced to evacuate the Crystal Empire as it is about to be hit by a blizzard after the Crystal Heart is shattered. She later returns to watch the Crystalling after the Crystal Heart is repaired, which saves the Crystal Empire and dissipates the blizzard. In The Times They Are A Changeling, she appears in the crowd cheering for Spike when he arrives in the Crystal Empire before it suddenly dissipates due to the Changeling rumor.
===Season seven===
In Celestial Advice, Elbow Grease makes a background appearance attending the Equestrian Pink Hearts of Courage medal ceremony for Starlight Glimmer and her friends in the Castle of Friendship.
===Season eight===
In The Parent Map, Elbow Grease briefly appears outside the Crystal Empire library.
===Season nine===
In The Beginning of the End - Part 1, Elbow Grease briefly appears running away from King Sombra.
===Appearances===
Times are approximate.
Season three	Season three
1 	3:44 - in King Sombra's servitude; 13:08 - passing by Fluttershy; 13:30 - talking with "Night Knight"; 13:44 - running away from Pinkie Pie; 14:06, 14:09 - listening to Rarity; 19:25 - walking toward the Crystal Faire; 19:31 - approaching the Faire; 19:33 - being led through the Faire by Applejack; 20:01 - having fun at the Faire; 20:41 - walking across the Faire with Ivory Rook; 20:51 - having fun at the Faire (with several duplicates)
2 	3:09, 3:18 - at the Crystal Faire; 3:35, 3:40, 3:42 - by Rarity's straw-weaving booth; 4:01 - watching Spike run off; 4:19 - walking with Ivory Rook; 4:39 - walking by herself; 5:34 - near the Crystal Faire petting zoo; 6:20 - being guided toward the jousting area by Applejack; 11:40 ~ 12:05 - watching Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy's jousting match; 13:17 - seeing King Sombra approach; 13:22 ~ 14:14 - in the circle of Crystal Ponies around the Crystal Heart; 16:12 - in the large crowd of Crystal Ponies; 16:31 - watching the barrier around the Empire fall; 16:39 - watcing the return of King Sombra; 16:54 - cowering in fear of Sombra; 17:02 - watching Sombra's magic spread across the Empire; 17:29, 17:36 - witnessing the return of the Crystal Princess; 17:42, 17:44 - seeing the return of the Crystal Heart; 17:56, 18:01, 18:05 - powering up the Crystal Heart; 18:46 - cheering for Princess Cadance; 18:58 - in the Crystal Empire happy again
Duplicates: one at 13:22, 13:50, 14:08, 17:36, and 17:44; several at 14:14, 16:12, and 18:46
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11 	18:20 - at the Crystal Empire train station
12 	3:23, 3:30 - cleaning up the Crystal Empire; 3:35 - walking through the Empire; 4:28 - getting out of the spa mud bath; 12:36, 18:35 - standing outside the spa; 16:06 - talking with Crystal Beau and "Rubinstein"; 20:32 - in the large crowd of Crystal Ponies (with several duplicates)
13 	19:06 - at Twilight Sparkle's princess coronation
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5 	20:20 ~ 21:26 - in the Crystal Empire stadium crowd
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22 	8:14 - at the Traders Exchange (mostly off-screen); 19:24, 19:42 - in the crowd at the Traders Exchange trial
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24 	9:52 ~ 10:34 - getting Spike's autograph; 16:39, 16:41, 16:55 - in the Games stadium crowd
25 	0:09 - walking through the Crystal Empire; 1:27, 1:39, 1:43 - in the crowd welcoming the dignitaries
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Duplicates: one at 0:20
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25 	13:08 - in King Sombra's servitude (re-used shot from The Crystal Empire - Part 1)
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Season six	Season six
1 	11:21 - walking behind Starlight and Spike; 13:49 - approaching the Crystal Empire palace; 18:07 - listening to Princess Cadance
2 	3:40, 5:30 ~ 6:09, 10:39 ~ 11:25 - in the crowd waiting for the Crystalling; 11:33, 14:43 ~ 15:00 - evacuating the Crystal Empire; 17:36 ~ 18:52 - watching the Crystalling ceremony
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16 	2:48 - crowding Spike
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Season seven	Season seven
1 	5:44 - standing behind the light green changeling; 5:55 - at a table with Caramel, Golden Harvest, Caramel and other Crystal Ponies
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Season eight	Season eight
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8 	0:03 - talking to Amethyst Maresbury
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Season nine	Season nine
1 	14:58 - running away from King Sombra
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==Merchandise==
 A mini-figure toy and collector card of Elbow Grease are included in the twenty-first wave of mystery packs. The collector card states about Elbow Grease, "She works hard with her pals."
In the Crystal Games expansion set of Enterplay's collectible card game, Elbow Grease is named on card #24 C, which lists the quote "Just because I've been tasked with keeping the Crystal Empire spic and span doesn't mean I have to dress down!"
==Other depictions==
===Storybooks===
Elbow Grease appears on pages 18 and 19 in the storybook Welcome to the Crystal Empire!
===Baby Flurry Heart's Heartfelt Scrapbook===
Elbow Grease appears in episodes 5, Saving the Crystal Empire, and 9, The Crystalling.
===My Little Pony (mobile game)===
Elbow Grease is a character in Gameloft's mobile game.
==Quotes==
==Gallery==
==See also==
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==References==
pl:Paradise
Category:Earth ponies
Category:Background characters