Funny / My Little Pony: A New Generation

• The opening scene is a traditional 2D animated sequence of the Mane 6 with some cheesy dialogue.... which then goes off the rails when Rarity (in Sprout's voice) suddenly declares that she's going to fry ponies' brains with her horn, gaining red eyes and jagged teeth in the process. Then it's revealed that it's just Sunny, Hitch, and Sprout as foals playing with some Mane 6 toys.
• As Phyllis and Argyle discuss which of them is brainwashing the youth of Maretime Bay, Sunny casually offers up a plate of fresh cupcakes. Sprout reaches for one but is stopped by Phyllis, while Sunny takes a bite and just giggles at how silly the whole argument is.
• The first time we see Sunny after the Time Skip is that of her with a messy mane after waking up.
• A Funny Background Event during Sunny and Hitch's Secret Hoofshake in which the birds that got attached to Hitch are likewise seen copying the duo Secret Hoofshake.
• At the CanterLogic demonstration, an earth pony shows off the "Earth Pony Balloon Escape Pack"... and quickly goes out of control and floats out an open window while screaming the whole time.
  Hitch: [nonchalantly] Yikes, that's going to be a lot of paperwork.
  • It becomes a Running Gag as he is seen in the background of several shots throughout the movie.
  • And his return in the very last scene before the credits, landing face to face with the three pony tribes now getting along, and turning around to see Sunny (who is now an alicorn) and her friends (including a unicorn and two pegasi). After taking a second to process this, he screams as the film cuts to the credits.
    • There's also something hilarious about the fact that Sunny's smile is shown to widen as he screams. You can just tell she's thinking "Yeah, there's a lot of explaining to do..."
• Also during the CanterLogic demo, you're expecting Sunny's interference to be preachy, but instead, it quickly becomes a slapstick Humiliation Conga for her as the machines treat her like a test dummy for the non-lethal defense weapons:
  Machines: (lift her picket sign away from her)
  Sunny: Give me that back!
  Machines: (drops her picket sign onto her head)
  Sunny: Ow!
• Izzy’s introduction. At first we see a bunch of ponies running away from a big shadow with tentacle-like hair, only to reveal said shadow belongs to an excited unicorn who greets Sunny.
  • While the Earth Ponies are panicking, Sunny is the only who stays chill (albeit incredulous) at the first sight of a unicorn.
  • Izzy at first thinks that they are running because they are playing hide and seek. Even after Sunny explains the situation, she treats the whole thing as a funny game, from waving at a scared pony (who freaks out and dives into the bay to get away from her!), to avoiding the traps by pronking around them like Pinkie Pie would.
• During the stampede, Hitch saves a foal and brings it back to a mare. Except...
  Hitch: Your son is safe now, ma'am.
  Mare: This isn't my kid!
  Hitch: [offscreen] You're welcome!
  • And as a Brick Joke, the kid was later seen with his real parents during Sprout's Angry Mob Song.
  • It is even funnier in the Greek version.
    Mare: I don't have a kid!
• After Sunny and Izzy escape one of the unicorn traps and Hitch tries to get Sprout to chase after them.
  Hitch: Deputy, to the lighthouse!
  Sprout: Uhh... [steps into one of the traps] Oh no, I appear to be trapped!
  Hitch: [sighs heavily] You gotta be kidding me.
• As Hitch with a megaphone orders Sunny and Izzy to come out of the lighthouse, Sprout chimes in that they have them surrounded. Cut to a wide shot showing that they're the only ones standing there.
• Just Sprout in general. He's such a cowardly idiot that even at his most threatening - when he got Drunk with Power after being made sheriff and actually became a rabblerousing dictator over Maretime Bay - his own stupidity and growing egomania causes him to keep embarrassing himself.
  • A Freeze-Frame Bonus of Sprout's desk shows he doesn't even have a proper name plate, just a folded piece of paper with "DEPOOTY" written on it.
  • The one order Hitch gave Sprout as he left was "Just try not to start a war while I'm gone, okay?" The next time Hitch sees Sprout, his deputy is preparing to start a war.
  • His Villain Song has him proclaim that “it's all gonna work out painlessly... if you follow my orders brainlessly!”. The punchline here is that most of Maretime Bay did decide to march lockstep with him after the song.
  • Sprout's attempts at being a dictator can count as well.
  • The Angry Mob Song, while definitely Sprout's Villain Song, and treated by the narrative as a sign that the Darkest Hour is upon us, is also plain ridiculous because Sprout has the other ponies sing increasingly stupid lyrics, and at one point it turns nonsensical and just becomes about finding rhymes for the word "mob."
    Sprout: Who are we?!
    Ponies: We're an angry mob!
    Sprout: What are we?!
    Ponies: We're an angry mob!
    Sprout: Look at that corn!
    Ponies: It's on the cob!
    Sprout: Look at that guy!
    Single Pony: Uh, my name's Rob?
  • Sprout's rather adversarial relationship with doors, with Sprout either repeatedly slamming himself on them or them slamming themselves on his face. It became enough of a Running Gag that it had became memetic even before the movie came out.
  • He's intensely jealous of Hitch: "What does he have anyway? Sure, he has a perfect mane, shredded abs, a paid-off mortgage!"
    • As he rants, he walks to a calendar of the wall that is a hunk calendar of Hitch, showing him dressed as a police officer. With each trait he lists off, Sprout tears the picture off the calendar, revealing Hitch as a fireman, a construction worker, and a sailor — every one in exactly the same pose, just a different outfit and background.
  • In Sprout's last scene, he sheepishly asks his mom if he was a good sheriff. Phyllis handles this as tactfully as possible.
    Phyllis: Oh, look, a flying dog. [runs away]
• Pretty much the entirety of Sunny and Izzy's first proper meeting, upon safely escaping to Sunny's home, is filled with humor, with both mares showing their energetic, excitable sides to each other.
  • Once things start to calm down, Sunny takes a moment to just stare disbelievingly at Izzy... which the unicorn takes to mean that Earth Ponies like staring contests, and gets right up in Sunny's face with eyes crossed. Then Izzy blinks, declares herself the loser in the same upbeat tone of voice, and casually walks over to Sunny's telescope while the Earth Pony herself finally finishes processing the last few minutes of her life.
    Sunny: There's a unicorn... in my house. THIS IS SO COOL! Wait, no, it's bad, very very bad! What have I done?
    Izzy: [looking at Sunny through the telescope] Wow, I've never seen an earth pony before. [leaving the telescope] We look exactly the same! Except for this part, of course. [gestures to her horn, getting very close to Sunny]
    Sunny: [ducks] Whoa, hey! [gently pushes Izzy's horn to the side] Be careful where you point that thing!
    Izzy: Why?
    Sunny: Well, I uh, um, sorta don't wanna get zapped by a wayward laser beam. But of course, you... know that already, you've probably been reading my mind this whole time! [staring at Izzy's horn] Isn't it supposed to glow, by the way? Or does that only happen when you levitate stuff?
  • Sunny then cuts off Izzy's nervous answer to run behind her counter and pull out her notebook, on which she has apparently written "142 Questions For a Unicorn". Sunny's excitement is palpable, and she only gives Izzy enough time to answer "where do you live" before going so rapid-fire with her questions that Izzy doesn't even get the chance to try to answer before Sunny's on the next question, culminating with Sunny suddenly gasping and asking Izzy to levitate a can of food. Izzy promptly spills the beans.
• Then, when Hitch and Sprout "have [them] completely surrounded", Sunny asks how sneaky Izzy is.
  Izzy: Uhh.... medium sneaky?
  Sunny: I can work with that! Okay, I'll distract them.
  • Izzy goes outside to try to reason with Sprout and Hitch. It doesn't go well.
    Izzy: Hi, guys! Now, I know what you're thinking...
    Sprout: AH! She's already reading our minds! Quick, before she fries our brains!
  • When Sprout runs aways, Hitch asks him where is he going:
    Hitch: W-What are you doing? Where are you going?
    Sprout: To get reinforcements!
    Hitch: We have reinforcements?
    • While this exchange is going on, Sunny tackles Izzy into the treeline. The noise Izzy makes is very funny.
• After escaping Maretime Bay, Sunny and Izzy stop running to have a brief talk. While Sunny is reeling from learning that her new Unicorn friend doesn't have magic, Izzy leans in veeeerrry close and... sniffs her. Sunny is, naturally, disturbed.
  Sunny: ...Whaaat are you doing?
  Izzy: You don't smell!
  Sunny: Thanks! Wait, what?
  Izzy: I was told all you Earth Ponies smell like rotten sardines, but you... do not!
  • Sunny naturally asks what else Unicorns say about Earth Ponies, and Izzy answers casually— while watching and following a butterfly around— that they're "lazy and not the brightest crystals in the forest". Sunny's expression goes straight to deadpan.
    Sunny: Charming.
    Izzy: Nope! Just those three.
• During "Looking Out For You", Izzy keeps getting distracted by a butterfly, with Sunny forced to rein her in no less than twice before they get on with their journey.
• When two pegasus guards, Zoom and Thunder, catch Sunny and Izzy outside Zephyr Heights, Thunder freaks out at the sight of an earth pony, only for Zoom to quickly write Sunny off by saying that earth ponies have very tiny brains. Sunny puts on an exaggerated scowl in response. But Thunder is still worried about Izzy, who has just the biggest, dopiest grin the whole time.
• Learning the full context behind the "tennis ball on horn" meme just makes it even funnier. It turns out that it is supposed to be a shield that disables unicorn horns which is enforced by the pegasus guards!
  Izzy: (looking at the ball) That's creative.
  • The best part is how it's built up. Zoom walks menacingly into the camera with her wings spread, Sunny and Izzy doing nothing to stop her... and then we hear a cartoony "pop!" Cut to the elevator, where Izzy is staring at the ball in fascination while Sunny is consulting her journal for her list of pegasus questions.
  • There is a bowl of fruit in the cell Izzy and Sunny are kept in. When they are freed, Izzy takes an orange from the bowl and leaves the tennis ball a.k.a. "shield" in its place, all the while quietly snickering like a sneaky filly stealing a cookie.
  • Even better, Thunder later tries to employ "the shield" on Alphabittle... by tossing it at him. It just bounces off the big stallion's forehead, barely anywhere near his horn, and he doesn't even react to it.
  • On the elevator, Sunny pesters Thunder with questions about pegasi just like she did to Izzy back at the lighthouse. This time, she's stopped from getting answers by Zoom, who tells her companion not to answer anything because Sunny and Izzy "might be spies". Thunder does, however, admit to collecting sneakers as a hobby.
• On the elevator up to Zephyr Heights, Pipp sends out a video to her fans. After the pegasus civilians give the "Pipp-Pipp-Hooray" farewell to her, Zoom, Thunder, and Izzy do it too, in sync.
• Izzy bowing to the royal family's pet dog, whom she initially mistakes as the ruler of the pegasi.
  • In the same scene, Izzy (almost literally) zipping her lips and nodding in perfect sync with Sunny when Zipp indicates that they shouldn't address her.
• After Queen Haven sees that some of her guards found an earth pony and a unicorn outside the city, she declares that nopony else should know about this. That's when Pipp starts a livestream showing the citizens Sunny and Izzy, who happily wave for the camera while Zoom and Thunder shoot “You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!” looks at Pipp. An irritated Haven grabs Pipp's phone and quickly reassures Zephyr Heights that the "nasty little ponies" have been captured to prevent a mass panic.
• Sunny and Izzy's mugshot when they are arrested in Zephyr Heights. Sunny has an annoyed expression on her face, while Izzy is her usual cheerful self.
• The sheer absurdity of having an enormous display screen running an arty, pretentious, black-and-white commercial mounted on the outside wall of the castle dungeon.
  • Followed immediately by the revelation that the cells are actually very comfortable, for some reason including such luxuries as a bowl of fruit, mud packs and eye cucumbers, and a massage chair. Izzy lampshades the fact that it isn't "dungeon-y" at all.
  • The ad itself uses some... interesting wording.
    Announcer: This princess smells....
• As Pipp comes down to the dungeon to see Zipp, Sunny, and Izzy, she has her guards play her a fanfare... on their phones. And also has them unrolling a carpet for her to walk down (and rolling it back up as she leaves).
  • When Pipp first shows up at the dungeons, she asks Zipp what she’s doing there since their mom told them to stay away from Sunny and Izzy. Zipp then asks why Pipp is there, with Pipp matter-of-factly replying “for the content” and taking some selfies with Sunny and Izzy in the background. Izzy then pulls Sunny in a crushing sideway hug while posing for the selfies while Sunny asks Pipp why nopony else is flying.
• Hitch gives himself a fake mustache when infiltrating Zephyr Heights for no apparent reason other than he wanted it.
• The Running Gag of Hitch instantly gaining the Undying Loyalty of every animal that sees him, no matter how hard he tries to shoo them off. Birds, crabs, bunnies, Cloudpuff the dog, even a freaking rat in a back alley of Zephyr Heights. Fluttershy would be so proud of him.
• When the special effects start getting messed up while Pipp is singing, the spotlight lands on Hitch, who embarrasses himself trying to sing the song Pipp was singing while butchering the lyrics.
  Hitch: [awkwardly] Throwin' up, find a glove, flyin' around up above!
• When the ZBS newscast in Zephyr Heights breaks the news that the monarchy has been overthrown for deceiving the public about being able to fly, we get this gem from the news anchor, read with a totally straight face:
  News Anchor: [reading from a note] This just in. Queen Haven had been arrested for being a phony pony full of baloney!
• Even after being overthrown for deceiving her subjects over the whole "royals not being able to fly" thing, Queen Haven herself is still so obsessed over her image that she stops to pose gorgeously like a model while being perp-walked out of the castle and having her own mug shot taken.
• The Pegasus sisters display totally predictable, but still very amusing reactions to Sunny's declaration that they need to look like unicorns.
  Pipp: Yay, makeovers! I love makeovers!
  Zipp: [chuckling nervously] No... no, this is not... this is Not What I Signed Up For. No.
• Hitch basically embodies Funny Background Event during "Fit Right In", to say nothing of his contribution to the song itself. From suffering the most embarrassing parts of Izzy's makeovers, to his bafflement and clumsiness, all the way to shaking his unicorn butt in the opposite direction of the mares.
  • Hitch explaining the spooky stories told to earth ponies about unicorns, including grinding hooves into food... while Izzy presents a box of "Grinded Pony Hooves" and cheerfully gorges herself on them. According to the box, Grinded Pony Hooves contain 100% Whole Grain as their first ingredient and are an excellent source of vitamins and fiber.
  • Also during "Fit Right In", there's a part where Izzy teaches her friends basketball for some reason. They not only completely miss, but also come close to beaning her in the head.
    Izzy: ~This is how a Unicorn hoops! Hoops~. This is how a Unicorn— [dodges basketballs]
    Hitch: Oops!
    Sunny: Oh!
    Zipp: Jeez!
    Izzy: Stop!
  • When the girls are enthusiastically singing about bringing magic back to Equestria, Hitch sings, "If we fail, we'll go to prison!"
• Every unicorn, sans Izzy, is superstitious enough to believe that several "forbidden words" bring jinxes, and has a separate ritual for each word to counteract being jinxed. Most of these jinxed words make sense in context, but the one with no explanation at all is mayonnaise. Hitch even asks why mayonnaise is a forbidden word but Izzy puts her hoof over his mouth before he can finish the question and doesn't answer it.
  • Later, Hitch uses all four words in rapid succession in order to escape the tea place, and the entire room breaks into the rituals after a Beat. Even the large, menacing Alphabittle stops right in his tracks, shouting "Bing-bong!" with the rest of the unicorns and bouncing on his hooves, unable to do anything but yell at the group as they retreat.
  • During the confrontation with the pegasi and unicorns, Sunny says that nopony has any magic, and a unicorn says "Bing-bong" (as "magic" is one of the words).
• The fact that the giant robot that Sprout has built looks like a giant version of him. A literal monument to his ego. And the first thing he did upon getting in and activating it? Honking its horn like a glorified truck driver.
  • And the fact that he has a little bobblehead doll of himself on the dashboard.
• The bit where the pegasus guards hurl a tennis ball at Alphabittle and bean him right between the eyes is already a masterpiece of comedic timing, but what makes it especially amusing is the Actor Allusion. His voice actor, Phil LaMarr, is perhaps the most famous Boom, Headshot! in cinema history — the titular "Marvin" in I Just Shot Marvin in the Face.

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