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A thread to discuss My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and the tie-in media.

All of the usual forum rules apply. In addition, please remember that the thread is discussing a kids' show, and it's primarily focused on the work itself, not the fanfic — in particular, we don't want to see lewdness creeping in.

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I don't know WHAT the Hell happened (I blame shenanigans) but we're going to start from scratch. Post your feels for this awesome show again! Naow!

Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM

darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#37451: Jan 11th 2014 at 2:17:27 PM

How d she break the fourht wall?

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#37452: Jan 11th 2014 at 2:20:33 PM

@Dark: At the tail end she looks dead at the camera when she makes her comment about how the Apple Family are arguing, implying that she's talking directly to the audience.

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darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#37453: Jan 11th 2014 at 2:30:40 PM

How do we know it's not a bad flash angle screw up like as has happened?

storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#37454: Jan 11th 2014 at 2:43:32 PM

Story: I saw it, but as of recently, there's a good chance I wouldn't have.

Hey, welcome back to the thread!

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IkeAndMike Exists for some reason from Earth Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: Love is for the living, Sal
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#37455: Jan 11th 2014 at 3:04:21 PM

Hey. Just saw the episode. Predictable, but pretty good.

Wasn't expecting a river rafting trip. And it... kinda bugs me that they brought up the idea that Pinkie might be an Apple, but then didn't confirm or deny it at the end. Oh well.

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Bluespade from Fort Worth, Texas Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
#37456: Jan 11th 2014 at 3:06:58 PM

She's already been an honorary family member since season 2 anyway.

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IkeAndMike Exists for some reason from Earth Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: Love is for the living, Sal
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#37457: Jan 11th 2014 at 3:07:57 PM

Dark- she says "hey, look at me." It's clearly intentional.

[up] well she (and the others) never made a big deal about it. This time, it looks like it might be official, so Pinkie is really excited about the possibility of being an Apple.

edited 11th Jan '14 3:08:59 PM by IkeAndMike

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Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#37458: Jan 11th 2014 at 3:22:06 PM

Episode time!

  • Pinkie Pie: Jenga Master.
  • Isn't she reading that scroll upside down?
  • Holy nuts, that's a serious claim coming from Pinkie.
  • Oh god, AJ's face. XD To be fair, it's probably exactly how I'd react if Pinkie showed up on my doorstep with that news.
  • Fourth cousin twice removed by a fifth cousin.
    • So what does that make us?
    • ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
      • Seriously, though, how does that translate into relations?
  • This is the best family ever! Awwww... :3
  • Big Mac, we've seen you tow a house without flinching. What, do you keep your [[{Futurama}} Dark Matter]] reserve in that oven?
  • Ponyville has its own species of snail? Fascinating.
  • Dat Applejack smirk.
  • Applebloom is totally stealing this episode.
  • And now AJ's reading it upside down, too. When did they start sticking the little ribbon thing on the top of the scroll?
  • That breath in the middle was cute.
  • Okay, so clearly the twist here is going to be that they're not really related, but the Apples are still going to accept her anyway.
  • Delayed smile. Cute.
  • "Nooo..." XD
  • AJ's worried about impressing Pinkie? Girl, you could show Pinkie a slice of cake on top of a slice of pie and it would blow her freaking mind. You're seriously over-thinking this.
  • AJ, you do NOT doubt Big Mac's strength.
  • Instant apple trees. Well, I guess that puts a nail in the Bats! argument.
  • "Any cliche you can throw at me," best line.
  • You'd think that as often as they have to rebuild the barn, rebuilding the cart would be a snap.
  • YOU TRY THE PATIENCE OF BIG MACINTOSH, APPLEJACK.
  • Red eye. They put red eye in the photograph. Damn, that some attention to detail!
  • "...that doesn't answer my question, Pinkie."
  • Big Mac: zen master. ...in a duckie floaty ring.
  • The photo at the end was a great touch. I totally wasn't expecting the joke to keep going after the eagle.
  • "Gooooot it!" Brb, laughing forever.
  • Terrifying caves build character.
  • "Eeyu-hey!" Damn, this episode just keeps 'em coming. XD
  • Oh my god, that freaking eagle! XD XD XD
  • Maybe now that they've lost the placebo wheel, they can confront the reality that they never had any way of steering this raft to begin with and they've been at the total mercy of the current this entire time.
  • And here I was just thinking that it was amazing they hadn't gone over a waterfall yet.
  • And now the duck's back. Guess the eagle couldn't digest the wagon wheel.
  • And thus, Splash Mountain: Equestria was born.
  • Wet manes for everypony! ...not sure how the umbrella helped, honestly.
  • Consarn it, Big Mac! Y'all know if'n a first-born Apple says more than twenty words per episode, the family's ancient deal with the pony-devil for bountiful harvests will be broken!
  • Is that a f%&king jaguar? XD
  • Dustcat. XD
  • Another jenga master. Welp, that seals it, Pinkie's family.
  • Surprise mirror. Nice.
  • Is that Daring Do's hat? Daring Do is an Apple, too?
  • Ooh, terror cave picture! ...doesn't look that bad, actually.
  • There certainly seem to be a lot of donuts around the house. More subtle hints that Pinkie is indeed family?
  • Argue argue argue! Rabble rabble rabble!

Man, that one just kept the gags coming non-stop! The eagle and the jaguar take the cake, though. Seriously, I had to pause the video so I could finish laughing for both.

IkeAndMike Exists for some reason from Earth Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: Love is for the living, Sal
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#37459: Jan 11th 2014 at 3:22:20 PM

Can anyone here explain what a tulpa is?

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Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#37460: Jan 11th 2014 at 3:28:31 PM

I think it was a cheetah. But yeah the gags were great this ep.

Also as to the tree. Musical number. Not to be taken literally.

BornIn1142 from Estonia Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#37461: Jan 11th 2014 at 3:32:42 PM

Hey. Just saw the episode. Predictable, but pretty good.

It was the opposite of predictable. It avoided the obvious conflict of Pinkie being an overbearing pest about the new family dynamic and made the episode about something more interesting instead.

storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#37462: Jan 11th 2014 at 3:35:48 PM

The weather seemed to have gone haywire during that song. Seems the weatherponies aren't doing their job right.

Oh, yeah, I was wondering about that. Then again, AB was able to summon a storm cloud in Call Of The Cutie.

The wheel is gonna break.

If only Rarity could have come to fix stuff like that.

Also, anyone else notice the wheelduck flying by while they were looking at the waterfall?

I did, though it was too fast for me to see if the eagle was there too.

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Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#37463: Jan 11th 2014 at 3:36:50 PM

It was a joke, Sera.

No, the eagle wasn't there at the waterfall.

Tulpa. Apparently it's a Buddhist illusion created by mental power.

edited 11th Jan '14 3:38:27 PM by Wryte

storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#37464: Jan 11th 2014 at 3:39:32 PM

Big Mac tries to talk. Is interrupted

Yeah, at least there's evidence of him talking now, even if he never actually gets to say anything audibly.

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Bluespade from Fort Worth, Texas Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
#37465: Jan 11th 2014 at 3:40:57 PM

He has talked normally in the show, y'know. In one of the early season 1 episodes (the Applebucking one) and when he lectured the CMC in season 3.

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#37466: Jan 11th 2014 at 3:43:43 PM

Yeah that was a great episode. Nothing big, or major but, just some nice character stuff, and some amazing gags. plus a freaking great song.

Glad we agree.

So I missed it - is she related to them or not?

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#37468: Jan 11th 2014 at 3:48:22 PM

I just came up with a great plot point for Ponystuck.

Oh yes... >:)

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darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#37469: Jan 11th 2014 at 3:49:32 PM

No, the records turned out to be too smudged to make out. So it could go either way, though hints seem to imply Golden Delicious is part of the pie clan. Also that GD is Mac's voice actor, if you noticed, though you probably didn't. He makes a passable female voice, who knew?

storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#37470: Jan 11th 2014 at 3:50:42 PM

Did you see how far away from her it was while taking that last picture?

Plus it wasn't even visible in the actual photo.

I can't help it! I am the direct result of a man thinking too hard on how the universe works, it's just what I do!

I've been thinking about it a lot too lately, thanks to trying to write a Sci-Fi based fanfic. The problem is that there's just pretty much no possible coherent explanation for most of the stuff that goes on. Literary Agent Hypothesis explains away the sight gags, but even the parts that are explicitly canon are impossible to explain on a scientific basis.

to prevent the more cynical among us from assuming there was some kind of falling-out between Pinkie and the rest of the Pie clan.

It made me think a lot of Sisterhooves Social too. At least that's the last time someone joined the family, and they seemed outwardly perfect.

Also, I love how Big Macintosh was randomly talking about skydiving for some reason.

I thought he was explaining the function of her parachute vest. Seems pretty logical to me.

Huh, so apparently there's actually a picture of things they saw in the cave in Pinkie's scrapbook.

I noticed that too, but I only remember seeing one, and it wasn't anything scary.

Yeah, the "pulling an object out of the bottom of the stack" thing implies that she is related.

What?

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Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#37471: Jan 11th 2014 at 3:54:30 PM

[up]First Pinkie pulls the scroll out of the bottom of the stack, without them falling. Then Goldie does the same to a stack of books.

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#37472: Jan 11th 2014 at 3:54:53 PM

Who voices Goldie, by the way? I forgot to check the end credits. Goldie's voice is also really androgynous to me; I can't tell if the character is supposed to be male or female.

She looked female to me. Though the name reminded me of Voldemort's nickname.

I don't see it. She's perfectly fine how she is, still reacting just fine, given her rather unique view on things.. no don't see the issue.

I don't see it either. I mean she didn't join the family infighting, but why would she? It was all just a fun roadtrip for her.

So was there any indication where they traveling along the trip? Any new spots on the map?

They showed a map, but the only thing recognizeable on it was Cantlerlot. Presuambly, they were going somewhere to the south.

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#37473: Jan 11th 2014 at 4:03:13 PM

Yeah, I thought the humor was pretty much spot-on throughout. And we finally got a good Applejack episode. About time

This, so much.

I could see it for other members of the mane cast, but I doubt she'd be excited about being related to somepony she doesn't already know

She knows every pony in Ponyville.

she seemed so happy a lot of the time. I think she was gone for a few weeks and came back to tell us about her trip to Japan, though forgive me if that was another poster

I don't know about Japan, but I do remember her talking about a trip to China. She got to see a panda and said her life is now complete, which is really Harsher in Hindsight.

Quick, without looking: which of the characters in the photo in the new opening has had the least screen-time? It's the Mayor.

I was going to say Photo Finish, but I guess she did show up breifly in Rarity Takes Manhattan. Snips and Snails were in Flight to the Finish, Zecora was in the opener... wow you're right! I should have noticed, given how much I talk about the Mayor.

How do we know it's not a bad flash angle screw up like as has happened?

Well she's really close in the foreground and the rest of the scene goes out of focus IIRC. There's no way it wasn't intentional.

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DeathCloud Since: Apr, 2009
#37474: Jan 11th 2014 at 4:28:51 PM

So who believe that Pinkie is related to Apples? Because I do.

Another good episode and another great catchy song.

WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#37475: Jan 11th 2014 at 4:31:28 PM

[up][up] I was just talking in general. It hadn't actually occurred to me she hasn't shown up in this season at all yet. I'm hoping her inclusion in the photo means she'll get to do SOMETHING this season.

edited 11th Jan '14 4:31:39 PM by WillKeaton


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