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My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Live Reactions & Discussion)

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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

Sydxelia Are you into... Vinyl? from Cranberry World Since: Nov, 2010
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#47301: Feb 8th 2014 at 11:45:33 AM

My favorite line: "Who's ow-er next...maw-dell for the fashion shaowww?" Tabitha's delivery was just so perfect. [lol]

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#47302: Feb 8th 2014 at 11:51:03 AM

Well we now officially have a love rectangle, though I doubt we'll ever hear from Trenderhoof again. There was one part there where Rarity was freaking out that reminded me so much of her stint as Wendy O./Kootie Pie Koopa. Though the highlight absolutely has to be Rarity trying to mimic Applejack's accent. You just can't top that. Unless Applejack had tried a "high society" accent at the end too.

edited 8th Feb '14 11:51:26 AM by WillKeaton

Blissey1 insert title here from a random Pokècenter Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I know
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#47303: Feb 8th 2014 at 11:51:54 AM

old pones!

oh man, even Dinky shush'd Pinkie...

and there's the head inflation from the preview clips

horray rarity!

lookin good, spike. lookin real good...

small town chique? I was sure she was going to say charm...

I really don't like the name trenderhoof. I see what they were trying to do there, but I don't like it.

a travel writer?

and there he is

ok, rarity freaking out is pretty great

OMG A FARM!

is it just me or does trenderhoof walk really different from other ponies?

ouch, rarity. I feel for spike.

oh gods is he ever obnoxious.

and he's not even so much as looking at her.

a song?

no, not a song.

huh, spike is actually getting more than a bit of focus this episode.

chickenjack

eeenope

Hickity confirmed

"Funnay"?

oh hey, a title drop

and the tables have been turned

GASP! not the clothes!

trenderhoof, no. go away.

wait, the most interesting pony in equestria?

okay, good episode! plenty of rarity hysterics, and spike got some screentime!

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Sydxelia Are you into... Vinyl? from Cranberry World Since: Nov, 2010
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#47304: Feb 8th 2014 at 11:55:07 AM

"Twilight's First Day" has updated. waii

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JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#47305: Feb 8th 2014 at 11:59:21 AM

I really wish we could make an exception to the "no embeddings gifs" rule, because this would make a perfect "ABANDON THREAD" macro.

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Sydxelia Are you into... Vinyl? from Cranberry World Since: Nov, 2010
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#47306: Feb 8th 2014 at 12:00:42 PM

@ JT: "I must go. My planet needs me."

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JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#47308: Feb 8th 2014 at 12:26:15 PM

Just caught the episode. Pretty funny overall. Rarity doing the fake accent was hilarious.

Also, the Mayor talks! She hasn't gotten a talking role since what, The Last Roundup? I was beginning to wonder when she'd show up again.

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Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#47309: Feb 8th 2014 at 12:27:57 PM

Mayor joined Big Mac in They Actually Talk Sometimes Club?

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#47310: Feb 8th 2014 at 12:30:52 PM

Just finished the episode, Rarity as a country pony. Do I really need to go on there? Hilarious stuff and that Trenderhoof? He was a bit of a douche there.

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storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#47311: Feb 8th 2014 at 12:32:41 PM

I wonder why A.J wasn't interested in the first place. wild mass guessShe's married to her work.wild mass guess

I thought one of the most interesting parts was where AJ says that nopony likes farming that much, even her.

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Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#47312: Feb 8th 2014 at 12:36:49 PM

I think AJ wasn't interested at all because she figured right from the start the dude was faking his farm interest. It's a bit subtle and only truly obvious at the end, but he's been doing the same thing Rarity's been doing - faking a persona for his crush. AJ saw right through that.

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#47313: Feb 8th 2014 at 12:37:33 PM

Oh song! I.... suppose we'll just listen to this song that came outta nowhereOOH IT'S NOT a song. .... maybe he just wanted to recite a poem. Okay we'l....... act like that never happened

I was surprised by that too. For a moment, I really thought there was going to be a song.

One other thing noone's mentioned: Why were Rarity's tears black? It was realyl distracting.

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kegisak Element of Class Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
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#47314: Feb 8th 2014 at 12:38:50 PM

I figure she just either wasn't attracted to him, or it was just kind of a progression - he first talked to her by bothering her while she was working, and in doing so kinda revealed he obviously didn't know much about it and was just kinda out there...

Plus, slightly racist?(I love the work ethic of Earth Ponies)

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#47316: Feb 8th 2014 at 12:42:02 PM

I think AJ wasn't interested at all because she figured right from the start the dude was faking his farm interest. It's a bit subtle and only truly obvious at the end, but he's been doing the same thing Rarity's been doing - faking a persona for his crush. AJ saw right through that.

I think it was the other way around. Remember that Trenderhoof didn't see AJ until after he started gushing about the farm. He crushed on AJ because she fit his romanticized notions of farming. He didn't fake an interest in farming because of AJ.

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#47317: Feb 8th 2014 at 12:44:05 PM

wild mass guessAJ wasn't interested in Trenderhoof because she knows Trenderhoof is Big Mac's type, and she's been down that road before. Nothing good exists down there.wild mass guess

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#47318: Feb 8th 2014 at 12:44:51 PM

I see it more as she isn't interested in Trenderhoof because why would she be? Randomly crushing on ponies is not the normal state of affairs.

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#47319: Feb 8th 2014 at 12:45:48 PM

I guess the question would be better phrased as "Why she instantly decided to be as far away from him as possible"

edited 8th Feb '14 12:45:53 PM by Luminosity

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#47320: Feb 8th 2014 at 12:46:10 PM

@Kegisak: He struck me kinda like someone who had good intentions, but very little actual understanding. Though it's kinda hard to say given we know so little about the differences in culture between the pony races. He's basically Innocently Insensitive to a max; he wants to be complimentary but doesn't really understand it, and tries to sound like he knows what he's talking about. Sort of like someone who visits Mexico and gushes about how Taco Bell is their favorite restaurant.

He genuinely is into farming, but he tends to think of it in such a romantic and idealized manner that it bears little resemblance to what day-to-day farm life is actually like. AJ doesn't dislike him on principle, she's just annoyed that he's following her around while she's trying to get stuff done.

edited 8th Feb '14 12:47:36 PM by JapaneseTeeth

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#47321: Feb 8th 2014 at 12:47:21 PM

I just watched it and liked it a lot, especially the humor of Rarity and Applejack trying to imitate each other! [lol] About the only thing is that as was mentioned, it ended rather abruptly, but it's not that big of a problem to me. Plus I like the whole "be yourself" lesson thing. I think I especially like that they did it in a way that is opposite the usual way that lesson plays out, where someone tries to be fancy and realizes that being fancy doesn't suit them, like Applejack in the Cutie Mark Chronicles. Instead, it's acknowledging that being fancy and into fashion is, for Rarity, being genuinely herself. I think the best thing is showing how Applejack and Rarity's relationship has grown since Look Before You Sleep. In that one, they kept trying to get the other one to change and were both kind of saying "Why can't you be more like me?!" but in this one they both noted that Rarity acting like Applejack and Applejack acting like Rarity is unnatural.

@storyyeller: I assumed that the "black tears" was her make-up running, since she'd be the type to wear eyeshadow and mascara.

@possible racism: That is a rather odd thing for Trenderhoof to say. It's actually the first time we've ever heard anypony use stereotypes like that, at least outside of the Hearth's Warming Eve play. I would assume that there may be some racial stereotyping between the three groups but that ponies who do so are pretty rare or at least it's rarer than racial stereotyping unfortunately is in real life. Especially since we've seen plenty of high-class Earth ponies (such as the infamous Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon) and no one comments on them as being unusual for Earth ponies, so maybe ponies like Trenderhoof who would make remarks like that are rare but they do exist.

edited 8th Feb '14 12:52:29 PM by Rainbow

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#47322: Feb 8th 2014 at 12:48:17 PM

Yeah, I think this episode shows that they do have a better understanding of each other, even though when they try to trade roles it doesn't quite work.

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#47323: Feb 8th 2014 at 12:48:43 PM

Yeah to me she came off as saying "OK, I'm sure your nice and all, but I have work to do." which reminds me not that we'd ever want to, but AJ could have stopped the plot in it's tracks by telling trend she's not interested.

Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#47324: Feb 8th 2014 at 12:54:15 PM

He genuinely is into farming, but he tends to think of it in such a romantic and idealized manner that it bears little resemblance to what day-to-day farm life is actually like.

But then if he's been trying to get into farming to live his own delusional dream and not for the sake of somepony else, Rarity telling him the lession is kinda weird, because then that's not the lesson he needs to learn.

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#47325: Feb 8th 2014 at 1:01:19 PM

I assumed that the "black tears" was her make-up running, since she'd be the type to wear eyeshadow and mascara.

I thought that too, but I didn't see any eyeshadow so I was confused.

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