Dr. Hooves

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Eyes	Pale, light grayish azure
Mane	Dark amber
Coat	Grayish amber
	Cutie mark; Hourglass

Time Turner
	File:Time Turner id.png; From the episode Call of the Cutie
Kind	Earth pony
Sex	Male
Other links	Dr. Hooves image gallery;

Time Turner is a background Earth pony with an hourglass cutie mark. The character's fan-given name, Doctor Whooves, was for a time adopted by the show's crew,^[1] and only later was the character explicitly given the name "Time Turner" in a 2012 set of trading cards. Between the cards' BronyCon pre-release and hobby store release, Hasbro notified one of their licensors, Mighty Fine, that the character is named Dr. Hooves.^{[citation needed]} Hasbro acknowledged the character's popularity in the Comic Con 2011 promotional poster, where he is explicitly posed in a way that his cutie mark is clearly visible.^[2] Time Turner shares his design with Lucky.

Depiction in the series

File:Time Turner is so splashy S02E17.png

Time Turner trampling in the mud, splattering all over the Cutie Mark Crusaders.

Time Turner appears in the background of multiple episodes. His only speaking role as an Earth pony is when he rejects Apple Bloom's offer of buying apples in Call of the Cutie, and gets pressured into buying one in return for getting her to leave him alone. He was placed in the scene by storyboard artist Sabrina Alberghetti for his colors and design.^[3]

"If I buy some apples, will you please leave me alone?"

— Time Turner to Apple Bloom

He makes a somewhat prominent appearance in Green Isn't Your Color, carrying Photo Finish's palanquin together with Twilight Sky. In The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000, he makes another somewhat prominent appearance where he is in charge of spinning the hourglass that starts the competition between the Flim Flam Brothers and the Apple family. During this scene he wears a green tie. He was intentionally placed into the scene by the storyboarding supervisor for the episode.^[4] Time Turner later appears a few times in Hearts and Hooves Day. He is seen running past Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle while accidentally splashing mud on them in the musical sequence. He reappears in Apple Bloom's imagination while running around in a panic, as well as in three village shots, once standing next to an unknown stallion and twice standing next to Derpy on the bridge. He also appears in It's About Time, laughing at Twilight's idea of time travel. His latest cameo was in A Canterlot Wedding Part 2, where he was seen running across the street from a changeling.

File:Time Turner running from changelings S02E26.png

Time Turner running from Changelings.

Re-use of design and color

Time Turner's character design and color scheme is sometimes used for other pony kinds. A Pegasus pony sharing his character model with a lighter version of his color scheme appears in Sonic Rainboom, Green Isn't Your Color, Hearth's Warming Eve, Hearts and Hooves Day, and Hurricane Fluttershy. Another Pegasus pony sharing his character model, color scheme, and cutie mark is featured in Sonic Rainboom. Rainbow Dash switches numbers with him when she tries to delay her performance in the Best Young Flyer competition. The character is voiced differently than in its previous speaking role. At the end of the second episode of season one, when Twilight Sparkle talks to Princess Celestia, there are several ponies with Time Turner's color scheme and design in the background.

Depiction in merchandise

Time Turner was first officially named on the My Little Pony trading cards unveiled in BronyCon 2012. He appears on a card together with Mayor Mare, and his description bills him as her official town timekeeper, "the pony responsible for keeping Ponyville's clocks in sync, setting the hourglass for cider competitions, and pretty much all things timey-wimey." The cards were designed specifically with the brony demographic of older fans in mind, and the writer-consultant for the set has said the consultants submitted "at least a dozen direct fandom nods".^[5] Time Turner appears in the 2011 Comic Con poster along with many other ponies from the cast.

Following the trading cards' July 2012 retail store release, the character has appeared as Time Turner on an August 2012 Mighty Fine T-shirt.^[6] Despite this, he still appears on multiple other Mighty Fine products as "Dr. Hooves"^[7] and as "Doctor Whooves".^[8]

Appearances

Times are approximate and taken from videos with no prolonged transition for commercial breaks.

Season one
1	19:57 when Pinkie Pie moves her head down then seen various times in the multiple ponies at 20:16.
2	20:22 then seen multiple times in the background.
3	2:28 in the line of ponies.
4	4:49.
5	none.
6	2:24 he is seen for the rest of Trixie's boasting, 20:06.
7	none.
8	none.
9	none.
10	none.
11	1:45 in the group of ponies, 2:49 and also 3:31, 4:40 and 4:49, 12:55 and appears most through the scene, 15:10 pushing a plow closest to the screen, two Time Turners at 19:31 and appears twice again in the next scene then again in 20:24.
12	5:22-5:45, making his famous scene.
13	6:41, 9:12.
14	13:19, there are multiple copies of them throughout Rarity's show.
15	none.
16	Pegasus at 14:22.
17	none.
18	14:42
19	none.
20	In place of "Papermoon" with his color scheme at 6:51, normal color scheme at the far left at 16:42, 17:18 and when Fluttershy gets thrown around by Twilight's magic, and again in the stage shot at 18:12.
21	13:39 through the rest of Pinkie Pie's song in the background, 15:51, 15:55 with the same mane style as Goldengrape, 17:06, 17:59, 18:03 in the doorway, 18:18, 18:57 for a second, 20:04, 20:30, 20:34.
22	none.
23	12:06, 12:21.
24	none.
25	none.
26

Season two
1
2	None
3	None
4
5	None
6
7	None
8
9	None
10	None
11	Part of the play
12	None
13	None
14
15	Spinning the hourglass 10.56, 11.14, 12.49- Standing next to Derpy in the crowd.
16	None
17	0:02+3:31 in Ponyville square next to Derpy, 3:55 splashing Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom with mud, 13:36 running around in a panic in Apple Bloom's imagination
18	5:34-5:39 watching the Pinkie Pie parade
19	In the crowd watching Iron Will.
20	4:01-4:18 listening to Twilight (laughing with the crowd for when Twilight said that she met her future self), 4:54-5:03 taking orders from Twilight
21	None
22
23
24	None
25
26	14:08 cornered by changelings in an alley, 15:04 Chased by a changeling