That reminds me of South Park's terrible Pokemon episode where they did no research and concluded it was a fad that would die off as soon as adults started playing. Fast forward 25 years and Pokemon is still immensely popular and plenty of game ads feature entire families happily catching and battling Pokemon together.

Edited by GlitterCat on May 27th 2023 at 10:34:27 AM

So the G4 cast got a comic revisit doing a rendition of "Little Women".

https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic/3997555/my-little-pony-classics-reimagined-the-unicorn-of-odd-1

Wizard of Oz is next.

Edited by Antiyonder on May 27th 2023 at 11:13:43 AM

Big Mac’s thing is more the kind of person who doesn’t speak unless they have something to say.

Right, it's not like he can't talk, he's just generally very quiet.

to be fair it was more when pokemon was in the inicial super fad instead o becoming part of geek culture.

and yeah my gf told me mackintosh just speak freely in like two episode and become the quiet/monosyllable one soon after, it feel early weird installment

Big Mac’s thing is more the kind of person who doesn’t speak unless they have something to say.

The thing is that in most episodes, they do it in an incredibly contrived way so that he only has to say "Eeyup" and "nnope". That's not being quiet unless he has something to say, that's the universe conspiring for the sake of a gag.

Well, you answered your own question there. It's a running gag.

Reminds me of the My Little Pony in a Nutshell joke where he only says "Eeyup" vocally, but the subtitles show that he actually meant something eloquent.

Great. Now I can't tell if he borrowed that joke from Kingdom Hearts in a Nutshell where Donald's "Quack!", Goofy's "ES LEBE DEUTSCHLAND!", Xehanort's "KEYBLADE!", etc. would have long subtitles.

They look like they started around the same time.

Edited by Rytex on Jun 1st 2023 at 9:12:34 AM

I suspect that Translation: "Yes" goes back much farther than that. It's a pretty obvious type of joke.

confession,for a long time I thought Big mac was too big for a pony and thought he was a horse

Post of the Week #3561

Posted by Calnos on Sun, 28th Aug '11 7:05:51 AM - Post #15882 in the old thread

I know Prince Blueblood is supposed to be somewhat of a hate sink, but he is actually pretty funny (especially his line about common country food).

He is also a great send-up of Rarity's brand of "chivalry", turning the prince charming routine on its head by throwing all its expectations back at Rarity, which rather exposes how demeaning the whole process is for the male half of that trope. Blueblood does a great job of exposing how sexist the whole prince charming treatment is by expecting men to act as servants, holding doors open and covering puddles with their coats.

I think the lesson stuck with Rarity, too: she never tries to pull that sort of behaviour again.

Post of the Week #3562

Posted by Pykrete on Tue, 5th Mar '13 3:18:12 PM - Post #345587 in the old thread

He is also a great send-up of Rarity's brand of "chivalry", turning the prince charming routine on its head by throwing all its expectations back at Rarity, which rather exposes how demeaning the whole process is for the male half of that trope.

Wow, I never thought about it that way, but that's actually a good point.

Yeah, he does a pretty good job of showing that that particular brand of chivalry isn't fun when you're on the receiving end of it.

Found this under Master of One Magic:

• In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, all unicorns can learn magic, but most only learn basic telekinesis and spells related to their personal area of expertise. For example, Rarity's magic almost always relates to beauty and artistry.

Looking back, I can't remember anypony other than Rarity and Shining Armor (and Thestra in the comics) who fit the "only normally learn spells related to their cutie marks" (and Rarity's I don't recall being used outside it's debut episode, Shining only rarely afterward). In fact I think there were fewer such cases than the magical prodigies who were capable of using all magic. And Shining's questionable given Sunburst, who can't use spells on his own, was able to produce a (admittedly small) shield suggesting such is part of baseline unicorn magic as opposed to spells.

Would that thing about spells limited to cutie marks established in Season 1 be Early-Installment Weirdness or Aborted Arc given is hasn't seemed to follow with that (almost no non-prodigy unicorns displaying spells relating to their cutie mark)? Anything else this could fit?

It's actually explicitly mentioned in an early episode that this is how unicorn magic works. Most unicorns can only learn a few spells related to their talent, except Twilight, who is Special because her talent is literally learning new magic.

And yes, later seasons muddle this idea a bit, but that was definitely how it was canonized early on.

"This is how it is, except for most of the people I personally have to deal with."

It's more that new named characters have a tendency to be exceptions to the rule to make them more interesting, and over the years, more and more exceptions get added to the point where the rule doesn't seem clear, even though it still seems to apply to all non-named background characters.

I'm reminded of how in the Harry Potter verse, it is stated that most people are terrible at magic, to the point where high school dropouts George and Fred are able to make a business selling clothes with basic enchantments that basically every named character can do.

Edited by storyyeller on Jun 10th 2023 at 10:33:50 AM

Yeah, the original idea was pretty explicitly that unicorns have each a single special magic trick, but later seasons focus more on magic prodigies. I don't recall the specific episode or episodes where the original version was established, although I think it was something Twilight said?

At any rate, the shift from the original version to the way the later seasons focus almost exclusively on magic prodigies is probably worth noting in that context.

I'm pretty sure it was Trixie's debut, since everyone was wondering how Trixie could possibly do all that magic.

I'm pretty sure it was Trixie's debut, since everyone was wondering how Trixie could possibly do all that magic.

It was Boast Busters, but it comes from Spike and Twilight's discussion at the beginning of the episode before Trixie shows up.

Unicorn society is Klingon society. The moment Twinkie becomes the strongest unicorn alive, she automatically becomes a magnet to every other strongest unicorn who wants to take the title.