The Mentally Advanced Series is an Abridged Series of My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic, which is mainly written, voiced and produced by FimFlamFilosophy. Later episodes start featuring additional people doing voices and editing. The show features a more adult sense of humor than the original show, which include darker interpretations of the original characters that come from the brony community's fanon and from the team's own creations.Unlike most of the other MLP:FiM Abridged Series out there, the series starts with the third episode of the original series ("The Ticket Master"), which means every episode number mentioned here is the same as the original series number minus 2.Apart from the Abridged Series, the team also does the spinoffRainbow Dash Presents, which features re-imaginings of popular Friendship Is Magicfanfiction as narrated by Mentally Advanced's Rainbow Dash.Their Youtube channel can be found here.
This work provides examples of:
AbusiveParent: Princess Celestia to Twilight Sparkle.
Adorkable: Rainbow Dash in the spinoff Rainbow Dash Presents.
Ambiguously Bi: It is implied that Big Mac has had sex with Rarity, and in Spiderses he proposed having sex with Twilight. However he also mentioned he missed Caramel which leads us to...
Rarity says she should sleep around with some mares, just to be less monodimensional.
In Griffon the Brush Off, Rainbow Dash's double entendres intentionally make her sexuality, unclear.
Ambiguously Gay: Big Mac is implied to be "a certain colt-cuddling stallion" and in Rainbow Dash Presents: Spiderses, he wishes he could go back to Caramel. However,he initiates sex with Twilight within the same episode.
Bilingual Bonus: Snips and Snails. They mostly talk about food (Snips reads lines from a German recipe for Wiener Schnitzel, while Snails takes quotes from a Swedish recipe for Janssons Frestelse), but occasionally they'll say stuff that is downright hilarious (not matching the subtitles at all).
Lampshaded when Spike wonders why he always feels hungry after talking to them.
Blessed with Suck: Fluttershy gets mind-reading powers because of a curse. All the other ponies think it's cool, but she finds other's thoughts disturbing.
Chain of Deals: The plot of episode 9 (the Winter Wrap-Up episode). Twilight needs holy water from Pinkie, who wants vengeance on Fluttershy, who wants her hairbrush back from Rarity, who wants Applejack to lend her some farm hands for her work. It eventually falls apart when Twilight can't remember who wanted what or why.
Pinkie Pie:You were to procure misery from the miserable Fluttershy. An easy task, if Pinkie were to remark. Yes. But instead... YOU RETURN WITH A HAIRBRUSH!
Twilight:No! I know hairbrush fits prominently into the equation here!
Clothes Make the Superman: Subverted. Rainbow Dash thought that a hat would give her super powers, but it didn't.
Applejack: Maybe I should kick you all in your pretty face!
Rarity: You really think my face is pretty?
Crapsaccharine World: The world is bright, colorful, and populated by adorable animals. There's also a lot of Fantastic Racism going around, the government is both incompetent and corrupt, and the ruling god-queen is a twisted, malevolent, iron-hoofed tyrant who practices all manner of torture and racial genocide.
Crossdressing Voice: All the main characters are voiced by the same guy, who does not even try to make them sound female (except arguably Fluttershy).
Played With/Lampshaded when two of the rare male characters are obviously voiced by a girl.
Like Fluttershy, Rarity sounds slightly more feminine than the other cast members in the later episodes.
And in Rainbow Dash Presents: Spiderses we learn that Big Mac has a "girl's voice".
Rainbow Dash says a few in Griffon the Brush Off. One is that she's gay because she's so colorful, but she meant it in the "happy" way. Later she says she doesn't want anything to do with dicks.
Subverted when Twilight says Rarity it building a nest, and Applejack wonders if it's a Double Entendre. Then, Twilight starts talking about the stallions "plowing the field" and stuff to mess with her.
Drowning My Sorrows: Twilight everytime she is remembered of her traumatic childhood.
Early-Bird Cameo: Thrackerzod turns up in the Stinger for episode 7 claiming that it's never heard of the character Sweetie Belle
Everything Is Better With Primates: Rainbow Dash likes to put Primates into her stories in some way. First in Cupcakes she dresses as a gorilla. In Somewhere only We know her owner is an Orangutan, and in Rainbow Factory she hides it under the title of "Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla"
Follow the Bouncing Ball: A bouncing cupcake is used during Pinkie Pie's song in Rainbow Dash Presents: Cupcakes.
Freeze Frame Bonus: Episodes usually have long messages to read in the credits, sometimes only for a few seconds. Video descriptions also have messages and anecdotes from the creator.
Rainbow Dash: Darn it, I've got my own songs, a lengthy script with over two hundred fifty lines of dialogue, several voice actors and the entire thing is hand-drawn and edited, frame by over one thousand frames! Seriously, I have more than one thousand pictures in this folder! BUT THEY SAID THEY'RE NOT GONNA TOUCH IT! Twilight Sparkle: Well, if they let everyone get by with that amount of effort, I imagine they'd be buried in thousands of submissions doing the exact same thing! They've gotta set standards.
High-Class Glass: Rainbow Dash imagines a rubber duck in a top hat with a monocle, 'cause he's rich.
'''I go by many names: Seaty Belt, Sweaty Belt, Treaty Teats... but you may call me... Thrackerzod!
Ill Girl: Aurora. Her wing keeps breaking off and she has Pony AIDS.
Insufferable Genius: Twilight, especially in the later episodes. In episode 10, she debates Apple Bloom to the point of tears, then fears she might be turning into Celestia.
Apple Bloom: Well, maybe I won't need the sciences! Maybe your science can't explain the reasons why I feel... and it can't explain all the big things, like what makes as angry... or in love... or full of hate about something! Twilight Sparkle: Your amygdala. Apple Bloom: My what? Twilight Sparkle: Your amygdala probably regulates a storage of emotional memories, which is why— Apple Bloom: What the heck is an amygdala? Twilight Sparkle: Oooh well, looks like someone knows less about science than science knows about her!
What makes it worse is Twilight started the debate by saying that someday Apple Bloom would get A Degree In Useless.
Battle of Wits. Twilight just wouldn't pull any punches, the bully.
Jerkass: Twilight. She can't stand any of the other ponies, only associating with them out of fear of Celestia.
Freudian Excuse: Said fear and bitchiness comes from Celestia constantly and mercilessly abusing her.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Twilight has moments where she is of decent moral fibre, such as apologizing to Apple Bloom.
Lip Lock: In the early episodes, FimFlamFilosopher openly admitted he had no idea what he was doing, so scenes were minimally edited, and the dialogue written to fit the preexisting lip-flaps, which sometimes leads to some... weird lines. Shrimps.
Light Bulb Joke: In the Winter Wrap Up episode, Rarity tells a racist light bulb joke about pegasi.
Loophole Abuse: Applejack figures out to cancel Twilight's Celestia-mandated slumber party by daring Twilight to do so in a game of Truth Or Dare.
Somewhat subverted in the earlier episodes when most of the ponies (except of course for Pinkie) sound alike. He varies the voices more as the series goes on.
Master Race: The unicorn ponies, who see themselves as the master race due to their magic powers and look down on the earth ponies and even the pegasus ponies.
Minion with an F in Evil: Rainbow Dash in Rainbow Dash Presents: Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla. However, she's supposed to be the one in charge of the Rainbow Factory, which technically makes her a Big Bad with an F in Evil.
Dragon-in-Chief: As a result, the Factory's day to day operations fall to chief engineer Surprise.
Surprise: Man, get over it! After a few of these, it's like nothing! Sure, you stay up late at night thinking about how your family would think of you, you wonder what Pony Hell's gonna be like, but other than that it's no big deal!
Obstructive Bureaucrat: Rainbow Dash is prone to complaining about all the paperwork she needs to submit in order to change the weather.
One of the Kids: Deconstructed. Rainbow Dash, by her own admission, isn't good with kids; not because she doesn't like them, but because she encourages and joins in on their shenanigans.
Rainbow Dash: This one time, I was supposed to be watching my cousin's kid, and her kid wanted to try eating ice cream for dinner! And, y'know, I thought, I'd never really tried that before! Kids have good ideas sometimes! But then I got all hyperactive, and I did a bunch of tricks to impress her, but then I crashed and broke both my wings and all four legs, and she started throwing up because she had too much ice cream... And when I woke up in the hospital, I wasn't allowed to watch my cousin's kids anymore. Apple Bloom: Your cousin's daughter got to eat ice cream for dinner?! That sounds fantastic! Rainbow Dash: It was great at the time!
Only Sane Pony: Apparently, Apple Bloom. Naturally she gets ignored.
Although it more she does what her children's books tell her is right.
Overly-Long Gag: Miss Blossomforth describing the criteria for failure in Rainbow Dash Presents: Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla.
Punch Clock Villain: In Rainbow Dash Presents: Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla, Dash makes it clear that she's only running the rainbow factory for the healthcare benefits.
Shaggy Dog Story: In ''Rainbow Dash Presents: Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla, it turns out that the factory employees could have produced rainbows from crayons and photographs, and therefore didn't need to kill so many foals. Also may count as an inversion of Shoot the Shaggy Dog
Shout Out: Thrackerzod's dubious claims of normalcy, and her preferred name, are a reference to a one-off villain from The Tick.
Dash makes the obligatory Cupcakes reference when being hounded by Pinkie in Griffon the Brush Off.
In "Rainbow Dash Presents: Cupcakes," one of the skulls on the wall is painted like The Joker. Later, Pinkie Pie sings part of the theme songs for SpongeBob SquarePants and the Power Rangers.
The Straight Man: Applejack has, by far, the most common sense out of any of the main characters.
To the point she doesn't even get her lines changed in the theme song!
Sweet Tooth: Apple Bloom's eyes light up at the mention of cupcakes, and she's willing to help Pinkie smuggle contraband cupcakes across the border in order to taste some. Earlier on, she is less than enthusiastic at the idea of selling apples, but throw in the promise of ice cream and she becomes rather too eager.
Apple Bloom: "Children have no empathy. I don't even care! Now give me some friggin ice cream!"
Doctor Whooves: "Ok, just take the money and leave me alone!"
Doctor Whooves leaves after throwing his money into Applejacks wallet... and without the apples.
Take That: In Episode 4 (the Boast Busters episode), the original MLP:FiM Abridged project that FimFlamFilosopher left is the butt of a few jokes.
Rarity: So what exactly is this show? Trixie: Okay, I really loved Peter Pan On Ice, so I'm going to make a parody of Peter Pan On Ice, but every character is Darth Vader. That's the hook. And because I love the show, I really wanna stay true to the characters. So I'm gonna be holding open auditions to look for people who are EXACTLY like Peter Pan if he were Darth Vader. None of this "I'm a good actor but I only sound kinda like Pater Pan who is Darth Vader", I need exactly like the character. Applejack: Well, that's just plain stupid. Trixie: Also, everyone gets to write. Applejack: Well, that's just plain stupider!
Rainbow Dash Presents: Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla refers to "Equestria Daily" as "Trixie Variety Show", given the site owner's liking of Trixie.
There's also mention in Dash's rant of someone named "Alclop Pones", a pretty thinly-veiled reference to the maker of another abridged series, SherclopPones.
Applejack: I bet Rarity knows best about getting facials.
Rarity: (throws mud mask at Applejack's face) Yeah, here's a tip: don't get it in your eyes, and seriously was that a burn, Applejack? Did I just get burned?
Twilight Sparkle: I think you just got burned, bitch!
Made extra funny from the fact that the word "lesbian" is also used to describe people from the island of Lesbos.
In Rainbow Dash Presents: Cupcakes, she talks about ponies "hugging" each other.
Vitriolic Best Buds: Twilight Sparkle and Applejack, besides the fact that they are constantly at each other throats, and the casual racist remark really do seem to get along better than the others.
Technically all the characters bar Spike and Big Macintosh have this, as all mares are voiced by men and the few stallions so far seem to have female voices.
Wide-Eyed Idealist: Apple Bloom, who despite (and perhaps because of) being a child, is the only member of the cast who tries to stick to principles (and, for that matter, basic pony decency).
You Just Told Me: How Rarity finds out about Applejack and Braeburn
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