About
Smugdash, alternatively Rainbow Dash Dreamworks Face, refers to one of two amused facial expressions belonging to the character Rainbow Dash from the animated cartoon My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Both show her smirking with raised eyebrows and looking off to the side of the image.
Origin
The first face occurs in the episode “Daring Don’t”[1] in season four, released in December of 2013, after Rainbow Dash overhears the main villain Ahuizotl and eponymous character Daring Do exchanging taunts before they begin to fight over the possession of a critical plot device.
The second face originates from the proceeding episode, “Flight To The Finish”.[4]
Spread
As of August 2015, MLP image hosting site Derpibooru returns 388 results for Smugdash. Art community DeviantArt returns 13 results for “Smugdash”[2] and 408 results for “Smug Dash”,[3] though most of the latter consists of unrelated MLP images. Among the most popular varieties of the meme are crossovers with Twilicane, in which Twilight Sparkle’s face is replaced with Smugdash (examples below).
Smugdash is noted as being an MLP meme by TV Tropes[5]
Notable examples
