My Little Pony: Cleanup Is Magic

None of that is even Demographically Inappropriate Humor, much less Radar. Maybe "Holder's Boulder" is a Parental Bonus but I've never heard that expression so IDK.

Also this isn't the point but is Mudbriar meant to be a Sheldon Cooper expy? I thought he was just similarly autistic coded lol.

Yeah there's zero adult humor in FIM. It's not even like Fairly Odd Parents or Bluey where there's entire episodes dedicated to Mr. Seahorse and male pregnancy jokes. I'd argue there's more adult humour in Arthur of all things.

To cover everything the other post didn't cover:

• In the very first episode, the ponies are apparently having coconut rum bloody marys at Twilight's welcome party. While a bit of implicit drinking might itself be fine and even Twilight's apparent unsuccessful attempt to drown out Pinkie's talking with alcoholism, it goes further by having Spike, who is a "baby" dragon (and at most 13), appear later with a lampshade over his head acting drunk. In the next episode, he is conspicuously so tired he can't be awake to help save the world, unlike the rest who were also up just as much as him, with an excuse that he's "just a baby dragon". Parental Bonus.
• In "Feeling Pinkie Keen", Twilight has to rush to check on Fluttershy, and she puts Spike atop her by ramming him with her head. Thankfully, her horn stays a bit to the side. However, later in the episode, she has to pull the same maneuver to rescue him from a swamp, and her horn is nowhere to be seen as she races with him atop her head...while he has a shocked expression and his limbs splayed out, upper body rocking around, yet lower body firmly stuck in place. Possibly intentional◊, especially since it's not described like such in the script? Not Radar either way, though; just DIP.
  • Earlier in the episode, Twilight also rams him from the rear to scoop him up onto her head, which up until he's up there, looks like she's about to put her horn where his sun doesn't shine. Both of these are actually not in the script, as in the script, both times she just put Spike on her back like normal.
• In "The Cutie Pox", a pony version of the cast of The Big Lebowski makes a cameo appearance. Including a ponified Jesus Quintana - a registered sex offender. Making a Shout-Out to something above a show's target demographic is perfectly fine.
• "Pinkie Apple Pie" has a rather minor example in that Pinkie apparently keeps a specially-shaped-framed photo of Big Macintosh's butt in her scrapbook. Considering Animals Lack Attributes is in effect for the audience, but certainly not in-universe, this is a rather sneaky way to say Pinkie might be rather interested in him. Possibly intentional◊, but Parental Bonus at worst.
• "Appleoosa's Most Wanted" has a blink and you'll miss it moment where a cactus doesn't just get sat on by Troubleshoes, but apparently goes right up his buttcrack. Definitely happens◊, but I'm not sure if it's even an Ass Shove or just your typical "character sits on cactus and gets pricked". DIH at best, and completely age-appropriate humor at worst.
• In "Rarity Investigates!", Rarity questions three guards, and to Rainbow Dash's shock, is dressed in a very frilly way, sprawled on a couch seductively, then comes up and says softly, with a closeup shot, in a guard's ear that guarding can "get a bit...boring...". The guards don't really react much other than answering the question, but Rarity really seemed like she wanted to titillate them. Definitely intentional◊, but DIH at worst.
• "The Cutie Remark" really ups the darkness for the series overall with multiple timelines where the good guys didn't win, and while it does keep things pretty tame and not show the Inferred Holocaust that would happen each time (especially with the changelings in part 2), it does very briefly show a pony being strangled by one of Sombra's forces amidst more cartoonish fighting. Just trying to make the show seem darker than it actually is, and the aforementioned strangling◊ is incredibly non-graphic.
• "The Saddle Row Review" has a pony with a pacifier necklace dancing in a club. This is a direct reference to ecstasy use. Parental Bonus.
• "Flutter Brutter", in addition to seeing Fluttershy swear in-universe ("peeved", presumably treated as "pissed" in-universe, with ponies not thinking it appropriate to say around children), has a moment where Fluttershy is cleaning up several crumpled papers from her couch that her brother Zephyr Breeze was using to sleep on, with nothing prior indicating why. Considering as well that Zephyr, a lazy failure, barely spent time on the couch during the day and got out early, and the papers are about where his hind legs would be on the couch, they must've been for...nighttime purposes (little bit of ew given Fluttershy picks one up with her mouth). While she's doing this, there are two framed pictures of him, one holding a rose in his mouth seductively, and the other black and white with him in a seductive pose. Censored swearing in-universe is completely appropriate. The latter may be intentional (I myself can't think of any other reason why), but is too obscure to be Radar.
• In "Uncommon Bond", Starlight, desperate to rekindle her connection to her childhood friend Sunburst, takes him to the Mirror Pool, and promptly talks up the idea of them cloning themselves, while (seemingly) alone in the woods, with a slightly seductive manner of speaking. She acts like the irresponsible cloning was a joke when Sunburst doesn't seem to catch what she wanted to do with him. Maybe intentional, but DIH/Parental Bonus at worst.
• "The Mean 6" features clones of the Mane 6 who end up killed by the Tree of Harmony as it detects them as fake copies of the element bearers...by melting them. This was one of a handful of episodes that leaked in a pre-broadcast form, which showed a more intense melting. The final thing however isn't that much better. They all melt in a very cartoonish manner.
• "A Rockhoof and a Hard Place" features the titular character struggling to find work in modern society, and, after he's seemingly exhausted his options, he asks to be turned to stone, implicitly permanently. A character asking to be assigned to a fate impossible in real life is never going to be treated the same way as someone unloading a gun in their mouth.
  • This episode also sneaked in a genitals joke. Twilight flashes back to when she tried to get Rockhoof a job as a delivery pony. In said flashback, he yells that he's looking for Cranky Doodle Donkey, who, and I quote: "Has a rash in a very embarrassing place"...while a nearby mare acts shocked by this (as opposed to laughing at him or just being grossed out, suggesting she wants to be away from thinking about...certain things with him). DIH.
• "Father Knows Beast" sees the usual joke about nudity, but with a twist in that Twilight is rather freaked out by looking directly at Sludge's crotch as he took on a seductive pose (and a pink pillow is near his crotch). In the next shot, there's more bright pink objects near his crotch. Finally, when she is framed by legs, part of the background on the top of a door (which shouldn't be there) is in just the right spot to suspiciously resemble his male genitalia. Naked People Are Funny. The part about "bright pink objects" is nigh-incomprehensible to me, and while the Visual Innuendo may actually be intentional (as the doors are drawn slightly differently than they are in other shots), it's still nothing Radar-dodging.
• "The Beginning of the End's 2nd part" sees Sombra's return, and the Mane 6 eventually realize as they did in the first episode that the elements of harmony aren't just the physical items, but are within them. In the episode's script, Sombra's second blasting just has a flash of light, but in the actual episode...he's torn apart in a way you can briefly see his skin separate from muscle if you're paying attention. Looks like he's just disintegrating to me.◊
• "Dragon Dropped" is fairly innocent despite being about Rarity, an adult, being jealous that Gabby is taking Spike, a child, from her socially, even with how creepy she is about it (standing over him as he sleeps to wake him up and such). However, late in it slips in a very brief moment where Gabby and Spike are seen having milkshakes together, seemingly on a date, and Gabby digs out her cherry from her milkshake to let Spike pop it. Slipped in at the same time are Lyra and Bon Bon sharing the same drink with two straws (in a show that was hesitant to even show straight couples together outside of marriage). Ship Tease.
• In "Frenemies", Chrysalis is seen to still have the purple wooden remains of Mean Twilight, which in addition to being basically the skull of a former minion, is awfully phallic in shape for something for her to be holding close...and that's very different in shape to when it originally dropped to the ground. Seems like a big stretch to me◊, and even if it were intentional, not Radar-dodging.

Edited by jandn2014 on Jan 12th 2024 at 12:46:53 PM

I wouldn't say no adult humor — the later seasons do include some Parental Bonus (mostly reference humor, not anything really inappropriate) and stuff to appease bronies, and there's a pretty blatant reference to body pillows in a convention episode, but other than that yeah, people look way too into things.

I think the bit about Big Mac's butt is Accidental Innuendo, as to me, it's more likely that she wanted a pic of him pulling the cart. The rest doesn't even feel like that, except the Rarity pose which does feel like Parental Bonus.

The "Zephyr Breeze masturbation" joke isn't even am actual masturbation joke, it's not like the Fairly Odd Parents at any rate. Besides, Zephyr Breeze seems like the type to be less into himself and more into RD.

The page image on Heartwarming.My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic appears to have been changed without discussion. That's bad enough, but if that was all there was to the situation, I'd just wait for a free slot in Image Pickin'. My concern is that the image as-is is broken; it instead appears as a link to a Recap page. Judging by the edit history, it's also the work of a Serial Tweaker. How should we fix this?

Edited by Riolugirl on May 5th 2024 at 3:00:41 PM

Most of those are definitely overreading things.

I agree the mayo thing is a bit weird, though. It's either a non-sequitor or a semen joke. There's not really any other explanation.

On Trixie seeming suicidal, just because Word of God denies it does not mean the subtext isn't there, and in that case, I'd say it definitely is. Wouldn't be the last time the show did similar subtext, either.

And the idea that there is zero adult humour is simply not true. There is an "I need a freaking drink" joke in the very first episode, for starters.

Edited by Redmess on May 5th 2024 at 4:10:35 PM

I just reverted it. IP isn’t needed to revert unilateral changes, and there’s no discussion to be had over a broken image (unless someone wants to upload the non-broken version).

Yes; just sent one myself.

Edited by jandn2014 on May 5th 2024 at 11:18:09 AM

Two things to note:

1.The caption you removed was part of the original image; I'll restore it as soon as possible. Done.

2. When I do the above, is it worth sending any notifiers to the troper who changed the image in the first place? Decided to send an image changes notifier.

Edited by Riolugirl on May 5th 2024 at 5:16:42 PM