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1* AlternateAesopInterpretation: While the official moral is "Stealing is wrong", the general consensus is that a much stronger (and less [[CaptainObviousAesop blatantly obvious]]) one is "think about the consequences before you act." Granted, the second one does come up in the same letter, but it's still a little awkward.
2* AssPull: Pinkie's use of the potion that enhances a pony's special talent enables her [[spoiler: to travel through dimensions, despite the fact that Pinkie's special talent isn't the ability to alter reality, but throwing parties, or, more broadly, making other ponies happy.]] The sole possible explanation is that Pinkie Pie's fourth-wall-breaking gags were {{Flanderized}} into her defining trait.
3* AudienceAlienatingPremise: The {{Crossover}} aspect is an interesting example, because it was kept a secret for as long as possible, meaning viewers who weren't interested in it didn't feel alienated until after they spent their time watching the episode. Especially since it was advertised solely as a ''My Little Pony'' fan-episode. [[Main/{{Hatedom}} Some people have not quite gotten over it to this very day.]]
4* BigLippedAlligatorMoment:
5** In a way, most of the Townsville sequence. Really, after Pinkie retrieves Dash, no mention is made of the event's specifics and aside from Pinkie stealing Bloo, there is nothing else too out of the ordinary happening. RD could have gone ''anywhere'' and the results would have ended up the same.
6** The bit near the beginning when Twilight finishes the potion could also count; when she finishes it, it inexplicably bursts into a massive cloud of smoke with a trollface in it, which cackles before vanishing back into the potion. There's no explanation for why this happens, and neither Twilight nor Rainbow Dash comment on it.
7** The moments with the side characters during Dash's flight through Ponyville are amusing but they're never mentioned again, and most of them drag on for twice the length they should.
8* BrokenBase:
9** Fans of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' either see this as a nice tribute to the show, its creator Creator/LaurenFaust, and her husband Creator/CraigMcCracken, or are disappointed that for a fan made project that was supposed to be "accurate to the show", it ended up having a poorly paced plot that's similar to fanfiction and littered with cultural references and memes. The fact that the crossover aspect was a completely unexpected plot twist also didn't help.
10** The crossover parts in general. Loving tribute to Lauren Faust and to Craig [=McCracken=]? Or unnecessary waste of time that wasn't accurate to what the show would do?
11* {{Fanon}}:
12** Some fans felt the use of the Fanon idea of [[spoiler:Pinkie Pie's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0OKxomJeQw reality warping]]]] went against the concept of staying true to the show.
13** People have also criticized the Scootachicken joke, as it came without context, is focused on too long to be a FunnyBackgroundEvent, and ultimately is a huge non-sequitur for anyone who doesn't understand the joke--exactly how ''not'' to handle a reference.
14* HarsherInHindsight: The whole sequence where Rainbow Dash floats through the void from ''Creator/TheHub'' universes to the ''Creator/CartoonNetwork'' universes is this now that ''Creator/TheHub'' was cut short when Creator/DiscoveryInc wanted one of their channels back, especially because a lot of the shows used to represent ''Creator/TheHub'' universes ended up being CutShort because of it...
15* HilariousInHindsight:
16** The episode had been in production for quite a while when the Rainbow Dash Micro-Series comic came out. The comic also features a Double Rainboom, which damages Rainbow's wings. The comic only came out a few weeks before the episode premiered.
17** Ironically the officially licensed comic even went for the "Double Rainbow" meme, which the ReferenceOverdosed fan episode avoided (or at least downplayed).
18* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler:The destruction of Ponyville.]] It feels genuinely devastating and there are barely any jokes to lighten the mood. You're almost glad it's not treated as such a big deal when Rainbow gets back.
19* {{Padding}}: If you felt that the pacing was off, it was because the episode was an animation project for an art school, and one of the requirements was a 30-minute running time, which means they were forced to add ''eight minutes'' of padded scenes and filler to the 22-minute script.
20** The Derpy cutaway scene is ''far'' too long, completely destroying the momentum of the scene.
21** The opening shot of the episode is a solid 30 second long of Twilight mixing potion ingredients while making random facial expressions. It goes on for so long that it starts to feel like an OverlyLongGag, except there's no gag. It's just Twilight sitting and mixing ingredients. The reason for this is it was originally a promo to show off their production values, [[ThrowItIn which they then just decided to leave in the episode unaltered]].
22* PanderingToTheBase: Fans who didn’t like the episode accused Zackery Rich of focusing too much on many of its references to the shows memes, running gags and fanon interpretations.
23* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
24** The entire fanbase is built on interesting plots, unanswered questions, and giving spotlight to background ponies. This fanmade episode does not in any way take advantage of this.
25** Rainbow Dash accidentally [[spoiler:''obliterates Ponyville''! Characters are shown weeping over the wreckage and it is most certainly not played for laughs]]. This only exists as a reason for Rainbow Dash to get a punishment for stealing, and Twilight seems greatly irritated, more than anything (she's seen [[spoiler:one of her friends inadvertently level the town]] more than once before, after all).
26** Not to mention that some people who ''liked'' WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls section felt that the crew should have just made the episode a straight PPG/MLP crossover from the get-go rather than wasting the PPG material on a handful of gags with little plot relevance.

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