YMMV / My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic S1 E21 "Over a Barrel"

• Accidental Innuendo: One scene has a continuity error where Rainbow Dash's wings abruptly spread out between shots. Given that the shot in between shows Pinkie Pie coming out in a showgirl outfit, fans quickly began interpreting it as a "wingboner".
• Alternative Character Interpretation: Did the bisons and settlers hated Pinkie's sharing song because it was awful, or because both sides felt like Pinkie was an outsider butting in and preaching to them without actually giving any useful solutions to their problems besides "just learn to share"?
• Broken Base: This is the second most controversial episode of the season after "Feeling Pinkie Keen,"^note Which shares the same writer. with many fans saying it presents an insultingly offensive simplification of the conflict between Native Americans and white settlers. Other fans believe that the story is not meant to be a direct parallel to the real-life conflict, and that the haters are taking things too seriously, and think the episode's just a good, humorous experience.
• Foe Yay Shipping: This episode gave quite a popular fan ship between Braeburn and Little Strongheart. It certainly helps that unlike most cases, they're not hostile to each other, and both were more than willing to see eye to eye.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Fluttershy's memetic statement "I'd like to be a tree" took on a decidedly dark edge in Season 7, where she's among the victims of a serious disease that ends with turning into a tree.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: The three-chord intro to "You Gotta Share" is the exact same one (transposed down a half-step) from The Who's "Love Reign O'Er Me."
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: While the episode tries to frame both the settlers and Buffalo as wrong for trying to fight, the fact that the Buffalo brutally demand the Settlers to get rid of their orchard rather than properly explaining about how their blocking their stampeding grounds makes them come across as entitled bullies. It’s no wonder the Settlers weren’t willing to compromise with them. The fact that Little Strongheart and some other Buffalo committed a theft of an apple tree doesn’t really help their case.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Little Strongheart has been mistaken for a male buffalo.

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