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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

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#64726: Apr 10th 2014 at 7:20:25 PM

Twilight asks her what makes her think she's qualified to help investigate. Pinkie says: "Because I have... A WALKTHROUGH!"

Ug, I hate how Pinkie is always shown egregiously breaking the fourth wall in fanworks. It was bad enough in Turnabout Storm.

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#64727: Apr 10th 2014 at 7:21:05 PM

It's Pinkie, she can get away with it.

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#64728: Apr 10th 2014 at 7:21:49 PM

Admittedly, it does serve some kind of purpose. She's basically the one delivering the tutorial. Still, it's a little blatant.

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#64729: Apr 10th 2014 at 7:25:23 PM

It's jarring because she never does that in the actual show. It's a horrible case of character exagerration.

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Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#64730: Apr 10th 2014 at 7:33:33 PM

But it's still rather consistent.

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#64731: Apr 10th 2014 at 7:35:17 PM

She doesn't do it in show because she's biding her time. You can't control what she chooses to do outside it.

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#64732: Apr 10th 2014 at 7:36:36 PM

@Ed Then again do we really want to know what she does offscreen?

edited 10th Apr '14 7:36:48 PM by Starscream759

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Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#64733: Apr 10th 2014 at 7:37:25 PM

What do you mean she doesn't do it in the show? What about the end of Over a Barrel when she pops out of the fade to black to interrupt Twilight's closing monologue?

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#64734: Apr 10th 2014 at 7:38:31 PM

[up]Oh she has shown her hand, but she knows now not to be impatient.

edited 10th Apr '14 7:38:46 PM by edvedd

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#64735: Apr 10th 2014 at 7:38:51 PM

Sometimes she plays with the visuals but she never explicitly refers to the fact that it's a show or anything like that.

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#64736: Apr 10th 2014 at 7:40:24 PM

@Wryte: At most she does a form of Leaning on the Fourth Wall or Painting the Medium. But she's never gone as far as say, directly referenced the fact that she's in a TV show. And I wouldn't necessarily say that playing with the Iris Out is even specific to her; I'm pretty sure Twilight has messed with it as well.

edited 10th Apr '14 7:40:57 PM by JapaneseTeeth

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#64737: Apr 10th 2014 at 7:41:24 PM

And I wouldn't necessarily say that playing with the Iris Out is even specific to her; I'm pretty sure Twilight has messed with it as well.
Yep. See the end of "Magic Duel".

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#64738: Apr 10th 2014 at 7:42:48 PM

Yeah, Pinkie is the most meta of the cast, but fanworks tend to greatly exaggerate the degree to which she's self-aware. It's not like she references things that happened "4 episodes ago" or anything like that.

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#64739: Apr 10th 2014 at 7:42:59 PM

I think there was also the ending to MMC.

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#64740: Apr 10th 2014 at 7:44:28 PM

Not to mention Spike physically popping Twilight's speech bubble in "Lesson Zero" or Discord causing ponies to run over the edges of the screen.

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#64742: Apr 10th 2014 at 7:50:58 PM

Now I'm up to the part where Pinkie's giving the tutorial for interrogations. While I realize this isn't what she means, whenever she says "interrogation", I imagine her being all cheery about a slightly less innocent form of interrogation. [lol]

edited 10th Apr '14 7:51:08 PM by IrishZombie

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#64743: Apr 10th 2014 at 7:55:24 PM

She'll pop balloons next to your head, she swears to Celestia.

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#64744: Apr 10th 2014 at 7:58:56 PM

Well she came close in Party of One.

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#64745: Apr 10th 2014 at 8:20:20 PM

Oh hi everypony. What's going on?

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#64747: Apr 10th 2014 at 8:23:18 PM

So nothing out of the ordinary?

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#64748: Apr 10th 2014 at 8:26:16 PM

@Orion Actually they were talking about Pinkie Pie. And thinking about it.....I want her to be here....I woke up from a miserable dream....sad

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#64749: Apr 10th 2014 at 8:36:43 PM

What's going on?

Well TPP Emerald is very close to beating the E Lite Four.

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#64750: Apr 10th 2014 at 8:58:32 PM

Relatively speaking.

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