The funny part is that the lady who made Friendship is Magic happens to be married to one of those very people you mentioned, and very much shares his sense of humor.
Still, I hope we can all agree with the premise, "Don't be gratuitous about it. Unless it's funny."
Also I'm disappointed nobody brought up this.
No, no, a thousand times no
kids shows do not need prison
wash this idea from your brain
This is pretty much the worst idea.
[insert pretension here]I think the past three decades have already wrung out enough public "Just Say No" stuff to kill an army of horses. As for teen pregnancy... y'know, when I came to that part of the post, I wondered if you're serious or being sarcastic. But I digress.
Anyhoo, if it makes sense and can work in the setting, I'm fine with a prison episode in a kids' show. Avatar The Last Airbender did it well (twice! though granted, that's more the exception than the rule). The Powerpuff Girls had a few (though it played it more for laughs most of the time).
...actually, now that I think of it, there's plenty of kids' shows that have had prison episodes. Most of them are prison BREAK episodes, though.
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.That's another thing, since breaking out of prison is a crime itself, you'd think the idea of protagonists doing so would be especially edgy; yet that's what Toy Story 3's main characters did (though granted, they weren't locked up for crimes in the first place) and that didn't stop it from getting rated G.
edited 3rd Feb '12 10:43:41 AM by HiddenFacedMatt
"The Daily Show has to be right 100% of the time; FOX News only has to be right once." - Jon StewartOnly if they're Women In Prison episodes.
Trump delenda est
I know! Maybe they could use the prison episode as a cliffhanger for the next season, and tell the kids that the poor ponies will rot in prison forever, their beady little pony eyes staring out between the bars, if they don't buy enough My Little Pony merchandise before the next season!
...okay, no more Penny Arcade for me when high.
More seriously, the problem is that most children's shows aren't Tom And Jerry-esque shorts anymore, and a Prison Episode is likely to just add Darker and Edgier without actually adding content. I encourage Greg Weisman to do it once or twice, and Craig Mc Cracken can do it all he wants for the lolz (because his shows mostly are more-or-less pure gag shows), but My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic is not a show that would benefit from a Prison Episode, in my opinion.
I despise hypocrisy, unless of course it is my own.