@@StarswirlStar haha lmao yeah thats fair I actually enjoy spike most of the time, especially his relationship with twilight Also yes discord is peak that is factual you are the best
@@P1nkMantis Haha, thanks -- Discord's very "aware" attitude in the writing is honestly why I watched Season 6 and above... If it wasn't for him, my journey with MLP probably would have ended with that season
I think racism with Zecora was handled a lot better because at the end of the episode, the mane 6 learn to not judge a book by its cover and to get to know someone before jumping to conclusions. Racism is rooted in fear; you can't predict what/who you don't know and historically, it has led to certain groups being lashed out on.
I also did think it was kind of clever that they had the ponies be intimidated by Zecora scratching the ground with her hooves. In real life, this is a common threat display in most ungulates, except the ones living in dry areas where they have to scratch the ground to dig for water. You know, like a zebra. It's a misunderstanding that weirdly checks out.
@@CyanideOwl You missed the whole point. You should honestly go watch the whole series again because you seem to be lacking in friendship and kindness.
I think my problem with 28 pranks later is that the lesson is “you shouldn’t prank if nobody is laughing” instead of “Treat people how you want to be treated” because some people are okay with jump scare pranks and some aren’t. But I agree that rainbow dash is wildly out of character here.
Or it can be argued that you shouldn't be pranking if people are simply laughing at as opposed to laughing with however all and all this episode at least for a brief actually made me hate Rainbow Dash however I don't think that the idea of the episode was necessarily terrible I think it's more of a matter of Rainbow Dash in particular acting way out of line and proportion and if it was some other pony or individual doing this type of stuff to people/ponies I would have been more so fine with it granted I'm totally fine with Rainbow Dash not being some perfect saint of a character but alot what was done by Rainbow Dash in 28 Pranks Later,seemed a little bit too carried away for a character like Rainbow Dash.
Tbh it's probably better it was specifically "Don't prank if the one getting pranked isn't laughing"/or as Rarity put it; her "needing to put in the effort of doing pranks the pony she's targeting ACTUALLY likes instead of what SHE THINKS is funny". Cause if it was said to "treat others how you wanna be treated" then I'm sure she would've went with "Well THESE pranks are what I'D WANT" which is exactly what she did,, SHE would have wanted others to prank her as much as she pranks them/to the same extent- Which is what everyone else DIDN'T want- But that's just what I thought! I def see where you're coming from tho!!
@@FiveStarEdgyness I think the others should have let rainbow know the pranks that they are okay with and which are not so it could be more specific,I don’t think telling her that she was basically a lazy pranker is enough,but this is a character downgrade,season one rainbow would never.
@@FiveStarEdgyness And not all pranks have to be enjoyable for everyone,you just have to know what people are okay with.Also the pranks rainbow dash are doing isn’t pranks,they are down right dangerous! She could have somebody killed! Remember In griffin the brush off,rainbow and pinkie pie pranked all of their friends,it was harmless and in good faith,and their friends even laughed,she even agreed not to prank flutters,why would she threaten her life now.Completely out of character,retconing,And that’s not rainbow dash.
I think the idea "treat people how YOU want to be treated" is flawed inherently because it lacks communication, as some have pointed out. I much prefer "treat people how THEY want to be treated", which is closer to what you were trying to say with certain people being okay with pranks and others not.
@@2bdaqueen268When rewatching MLP, I treat the episodes about Spike crushing on Rarity the same way I treat the Gravity Falls episodes about Dipper crushing on Wendy: if there's nothing else of interest going on, skip
I mean spike is the crude humor character. Constantly burping. Most annoying voice. Even more burping. Has a crush on an adult, glutton, and very power-hungry imo (cough cough, that one episode in the early seasons where he begged for stuff cause its his birthday, and when he did twilight's tasks for the kingdom and ruined that statue made of crystals) It ends up making me skip as many scenes that include him as possible.
The one that introduced Rainbowdash's parents is pretty bad. Once again, FIM displays the real problem that Dash's parents are overbearing and make their daughter, who is rightfully frustrated, the one to be in the wrong. They were setting off fireworks at her show, which could have seriously hurt someone, so they're lucky they only got a slap on the wrist for such a hazard. Worst part is how they guilt-tripped her, with Scootaloo even there to side with them. Like, they had one of her soiled diapers saved, no wonder she wanted to get so far away from them, they were constantly violating her boundaries.
@@chaoticneutral7976 yessss that was so frustrating. RD really was not in the wrong for setting boundaries at HER place of work I felt awful for both RD and Scoot there, her parents were pretty manipulative and both of them have awful parental figures in opposite ways. Absolutely depressing
Ikkkk right, that episode is my least favorite one ever, it shouldn't even exist in my opinion. And they didn't even apologize to RD. In fact, I hate her parents more than any other character in the show, and Scootaloo is one of my least favorite now too.
@@NickTheChocoMy mom keeps the first baby tooth I lost. It's not the same but still a little weird. Parents do crazy thinks to "remember their little baby".
The problem with 2,4,6 great is RD called cheerleading useless while back in season 1, Sonic Rainboom she literally wanted her friends to cheers for her and help Fluttershy to cheers for her
@@StarswirlStar absolutely depressing how they try to simultaneously mature them to make them mentors and regress them I know old habits die hard but LORD lmao
Yeah Rainbow Dash is one of my favorites and seeing her being so Toxically masculine makes me angry. It’s also not uncommon for lesbians or any female that doesn’t “identify with femininity” (tomboys, etc) to act this way and it hurts that it isn’t talked about enough. Now I’m not gay or transgender but I’m also not the shy girl type so I resonate more with Rainbow Dash and those episodes are just insulting.
@@cosmic_seabunny it breaks my heart because when she isnt being awful she is literally the best thing on the planet Absolutely loved her in Flutter Brutter She doesnt let anyone shit talk her friends I wish they didnt do such weird stereotypical decision making with her writing
@@P1nkMantis Agreed! I think someone the writers made a great example of a healthy more domineering female character is Sunset Shimmer! She has a lot of Tomboy moments and even some moments where she acts more “typically masculine” but she does it without being toxic or bringing down any of the characters. I hate to be that person but I think when the writers wanted to make her and Applejack end game they assumed they had to make her “stronger” or something of that nature. Stereotyping is a rookie writer’s worst weakness and I think they focused too much on making her the “gay character” and leaned into the non feminine side waaayyy too much! (Especially since there’s examples of good characters like that already.) The fact that it was only near the last season that these episodes happened just gives me that feeling, which sucks cause she’s a good character just the was and WAY more chemistry with AJ before hand. Just my speculation though.
@ hard agree I love love sunset and applejack, great examples of healthily “masc” or even like futch female characters Aside from rainbow rocks i fcking adore Equestria Girls rainbow because she comes off as less “toxic” and more like shes bantering with her friends. She just seems more natural there to me Ironic how the objectively worse written series in this francise writes Rainbow as more enjoyable than the main series Makes me think of what couldve been with main series her :( They did my girl so dirty
2:27 i never knew the reason people didn't like the episode was because of everyone else. I always hated it because of how Dash was acting. Like i felt so bad for fluttershy, she looked like she was going to have a panic attack, and she knows how sensitive she is, so like why did she do that 😭
@@kittycandy_art i agree i agree i agree i agree hard agree Many many people think its hypocritical for them to scare her when she didnt want to be but also like dont dish it out if you cant take it Only episode that made me cry out of anger cuz it hit so so hard as a kid with severe anxiety and relatively bad friends back when it aired
@P1nkMantis SAME, I don't understand why people would be mad at the others when they were literally just doing what dash was doing to them. I'm also really shy, and I get scared easily, I also hate getting pranked, so I'd be just as pissed with Dash. Dash really needs to learn boundaries, which is weird cause I feel like she always had boundaries, just not in that episode.
It bothered me that Rainbow Dash literally stated in a season 1 episode that Fluttershy can't take any pranks and refused to pull them on her, in fact Gilda going after Fluttershy was how Pinkie knew she was terrible. This is just a blatant contradiction, it's like Rainbow somehow *unlearned* things she already knew just for this lesson.
It's because a lot of people wants to relate more with Rainbow than the others. She is the cool, badass, and sporty one. The others are: farm girl, shy soft, nerd, crazy energetic, and fashion. Which have their fans, but rainbow is the favourite because she's the cool extrovert. And cool extrovert do pranks even if it's not funny for the pranked
The colonialism thing in MLP get worse when you think about it 😭 ponies being racist what the hell. The things that the show presents as good or ideal turn out to be horrible or poorly executed.
@@MouetteRoquefort I'M SO GLAD I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO NOTICED!!! you can really tell this show is made in the usa because as a non-american I was weirded out by episodes concerning race 😭 like what do you mean the ponies just went and settled in bison territory???? apparently Equestria isn't their home either? I found that so strange as a kid lol
@@MouetteRoquefort and the way all white ethnicities (white american, french, italian, etc.) are represented by ponies but POC-coded characters are other species... and then the show makes ponies "superior" to everyone (like you said in your comment, apparently only ponies who know about friendship and have to teach other races their pony ways 💀💀💀) like *what* also is it just me or does the portrayal of griffins give antisemitic vibes?
Over a Barrel may not seem the most pro indigenous episode, but it is important to take it in perspective with real life. The Buffalo have been campaigning for their land back for like a year, and they got full decision making power over it. In real life indigenous activists have been working for decades to achieve half as much, so when it is put into perspective it is actually a major victory. The major goal of the land back movement isn’t to just kick out everybody and take over, land back means that they want to own the land and have the use of that land be determined by them. The buffalo ended the episode with control of all the land, they are simply just leasing it out to the settlers in return for compensation. The only real thing that I’ve seen indigenous people take issue with is that everyone else gets to be a magical unicorn or a fire-breathing dragon; meanwhile, the indigenous fans are left as brown buffalo with feathers in their hair, though the episode only showed one tribe in it so it doesn’t mean that every buffalo has to look like that. I mean, they are shown to have natural brown fur, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t give your O.C fur dye and extravagant jewels.
I definitely do understand and its totally fine to like the episode, i just want to explain a little bit more of my reasoning While I understand the sentiment, my primary issue with the episode is it tackling a very serious topic in a much more trivial way than it needed to be. I dont mean that they sort of dumbed it down for kids. They do other episodes that tackle serious topics in really good ways This specific one was set up as though neither group was “in the wrong”, the settlers needed to survive and the issue was easily settled. It sort of perpetuates the little thanksgiving stories we’re told as kids in america about how the pilgrims and natives all ate together and it was very peaceful and nice I dont know how to word it, but what i do know is im a very very big american history buff and the colonization of this land was unfortunately atrocious, and as I stated in the vid, canada, which my little pony is based in, was as bad if not worse in the treatment of the natives Enslavement, 🍇, genocide, feudalism, I really do understand the sentiment but the settlers in the episode arent the kin of ancestors that came a long time ago and have nothing to do with what happened such as people in North America today, theyre first generation settler and I think they couldve gotten their moral in an episode that didnt involve a very very horrific part of our history
@@P1nkMantis i see what you’re saying i completely get that. i’m not too much into history but i do know the general things that did play out, tysm for expanding on what you said in the vid! i’m not great with words so i don’t wanna get too much into it but i see your point i do honestly think im biased cause mlp is my favorite show growing up though
that clip of discord eating paper fucked up my elementary school years since my friend dared me to eat paper and it caused a strange paper eating addiction
@@FrozEnbyWolf150-b9t it could be that, I've heard it often can be comorbid with autism and ocd which I have, but I haven't had paper eating troubles for 5 years so I probably won't worry too much
@@P1nkMantis I think I developed Pica and I had to think about the scene of Discord eating Paper so often.💀💀 I was honestly surprised to find out how many people could relate.
I have a lot of critique on Parental Glideance and other RD/ Scootaloo episodes I dunno. Obviously Scoot is a child and a somewhat neglected one at that, but RD is still valid in feeling her parents are too overbearing. The entire episode was pointing the finger at RD for being in the wrong but truthfully her parents need to understand or have at least taught her boundaries. And also, RD is not Scootaloo's guardian... it's not RD's job to always be the strong adult and rolemodel for her (I also do have critque about the Washouts episode..)
He and Rainbow both suffer the problem of being written so weirdly in most of their solo eps, and I honestly think it’s just because the writers don’t really know how to write them in a compelling way that’s not in a supporting role :(
Exactly! I really like Spike as well and like one episode around him, Power Ponies, but I feel like others are pretty meh? Edit: and I like the episode where Spike struggles to say no or just to tell Rarity what she’s doing is awful when she turns Ponyville into a huge crystal and golden city.
I kinda hate inspiration manifestation actually. I hate how they try to frame the lesson as "be honest with your friends" when spike was literally manipulated. @meeplol145
Like, the book controlled Rarity, someone spike loves and clearly looks up to. Of course he's going to listen to her. It almost seemed like the episode was blaming him for "not being honest" when he was placed in a tough situation.
You know during mare do well nobody talks about their ability to fly and do magic implying they are an alicorn but it's literally never brought up Like Dashie says "well at least she can't fly" then she sees mare do well fly after displaying magic and it's never talked about
as a native girl, the colonization ep always upsets me, but compared to other indigenous rep, this was much better as u can empathize with the buffalo and find the settlers wildly wrong and obnoxious. I hate that the buffalo had to share, but im happy that atleast they were treated with love and care in some parts of the episode
I hate 'the end in friend' so much, its like the writers realised they had completely neglected the rainbow dash/rarity duo so much so they just thought "lets just do 'look before you sleep' 2 electric boogaloo" but at the point in the series it makes no sense for the them to be acting that way 😭😭😭 not to mention there have been plenty of moments to show rd and rarity are still close friends despite the fact that they're so different/haven't been focused on. as a raridash fan it really hurt, especially after the great episode that was 'rarity investigates', which had some GREAT moments of the two together 💔
28 pranks later was probably the episode that scared me the most. In my opinion both sides were kinda bad. I think rainbow dash went too far but so did everyone else. Wouldn’t it be better if people idk just ignored her or that her friends didn’t want to be with her?
@@preo3514The crusaders weren't chasing people around or breaking into houses for a good laugh, they cared about what the others thought about her that was their motivation for doing the bad thing in the first place. And they are childs! Rainbow Dash is an adult harassing everyone around because that makes her laugh. Ignoring her won't stop her because she doesn't care about the others' reactions.
I am native American and the whole colonization episode ANGERS ME like if you’re gonna teach history DO IT ACCURATELY this doesn’t just apply to hasbro/mlp but schools aswell. I have heard that people are being taught more about my ancestors culture and history but clearly it isn’t enough.
I clicked for the thumbnail. Misogyny, colonization, S P I K E had my CACKLING. And now I shall stay for what I assume to be slayer commentary Edit: I’m only halfway done and you’ve earned a sub, I can see you doing great things in the future :D my only suggestion would be formatting this video as “bad to worst” instead of starting with the worst, as it helps retain watch time. Though since this was originally a full ranking video it makes sense why it didn’t end up that way
As much as with the scootaloo parents episode it would feel better to see them rightfully told they're wrong. For kids who are actually in this situation and watch the show, the last thing they'd want to see is a message to say their parents are horrible people. Maybe when they're out of the situation. But while they're in it? It's not comforting and it's barely validating. All it does it hurt
Over a barrel was literally the first episode i ever saw of mlp fim, its one of my favorites purely for the nostalgia factor. As a kid i never picked up on how bad it was (mainly cus i didn't know about american history, im not American) nowadays i can see its problematic but ill still hold it in a special place of my heart lol.
The fandom making Scoot an orphan has been so ingrained in my mind i forgot she has parents in the canon of the show. Especially in the context of a kids show, like the found family shes formed in Ponyvile is important and valid as any other family in the which is good to tell kids but also Scoot is like 10 years old at most right?? What her parents and aunts are doing to her is textbook child neglect, which is weirdly permitted by the show? You really shouldn't tell kids that your guardians living you for years on end is okay, they should have just made her an orphan or sm
"28 Pranks Later" is definitely based on MLP Tales "The Impractical Joker". I've never understood how Rainbow Dash could escalate from okay pranks in "Griffon the Brush Off" to mean-spirited pranks that caused some injuries to some of those ponies. Wishful thinking that a changeling impersonated her for several episodes. I think in too many episodes Spike is the butt of the joke and not really getting the credit he deserves. "Spike at Your Service" is the only time we see the Dragon Code and doesn't seem to apply to other dragons we see. And as for Rainbow Dash and AJ, they keep rivalling no matter what lessons they learn (or don't learn in the long run). I'm not even sure Dashie lives up to her element of loyalty. Personally I think that the mother pony in "Mysterious Mare Do Well" should be jailed for child negligence, letting her baby fall twice. Even though Dashie gets some slack in spite of her bragging, Trixie is not afforded the same slack and treated as an outcast. And why does Mare Do Well look like a changeling? "Over a Barrel" isn't the only time that seems indicate that ponies seem to think they are more important than any other creature.
Also my personal headcanon is that dashie is autistic, I see her a lot in myself as a diagnosed autistic person. She doesn't seem to pick up on social cues that well, acting disrespectful to her students because she doesn't like cheerleading. I feel like she genuinely doesn't mean to be rude but has issues putting on a mask for things she dislikes, like myself. I'm better now but as a younger girl I absolutely hated anything girly. I hated bright pink, dolls, and fashion. I remember my auntie gifting me a doll and I was very upset, as my special interest was dinosaurs (still is) and was VERY clear I did not want anything girly. Of course, I was seen as rude and a brat, but it's purely cus I couldn't mask being happy about something I hated. I'm rambling but yeah. I don't mind girly stuff now and actually enjoy it. I believe Dash has a hard time putting on a mask or understanding when she's being socially inappropriate (continuing to do pranks).
I suppose in addition to issues with Spike episodes I have many issues with Discord episodes as well. Discord is a seriously toxic friend and yet they dismiss it because "he's learning" and "he did it with good intentions" it doesnt change the fact that he pushes his friends' buttons very intentionally. Sending them into panic attacks, putting the entire country in danger, or even just to stir up drama or single out another character for shxts and giggles (gaslighting Twilight and somewhat isolating Fluttershy on multiple occassions)
I cut some slack to Discord because this is literally the first time he experiences friendship. I see him like an overpowerful child in term of friendship, and children can be very cruel and destructive for their own amusement. But if that saves a bit the character, it doesn't save the episode because most of the time you can see the authors dismissing the "lesson learnt" part because they want to keep Discord as he is, more fun. So, he's a bit static compared to the others.
I can explain why the characters feels so different in later seasons and why it seems some of their growth are retconned or never called back to The original writing team was there only up to Season 3, afterward it was mostly people that came (even sometimes interns/apprentices) that wrote one or two episodes for a season and there was no more real continuity/coherence in character growth. Especially for details/callbacks to season 1 that they were probably not aware of. It sucks but it can somewhat "excuse" the writing, imagine writing for someone else's character that you are not entirely used to and wasn't there to know since the start.
17:12 I just want to mention a couple moments in The Mysterious Mare-Do-Well that conflict with this statement. Obviously, there's the Mane Six clearly seeing that Dash is irritated with their banter on their alter ego, and yet keep going on with it anyway. But the point I feel most people miss is, as Dash tries to feel better about the fact that she can fly, they (specifically Fluttershy) speed right past her in the air just to spite her for her comment.
Just in case someone didnt see the desc :] Just wanted to clarify a few things 1. As I stated some episodes on this list I actually enjoyed, but for whatever reason thought it was big enough of a let down to put in this video i.e. Equestria Games and Celestial Advice. The only episode of this show i genuinely hate is 28 pranks later (and the crystallizing but those didn’t make it on to the list) 2. If you like these episodes, that’s more than okay, that’s great :] I’m not trying to change anyone’s mind on something they enjoy, I just figured I’d add my inputs from the perspective of someone with both childhood nostalgia for the show but also as someone who at the time was very active in the Brony fandom and understood a lot of the controversies of the show. This analysis is mostly from a fandom perspective
13:35 We do see the buffalo in a place other then Return of Harmony, although it is very short. In S4E12, Pinkie's Pride, we see Cheese Sandwich at the edge of Appleoosa with the Buffaloes celebrating a party he presumable hosted. Twilight also accidentally teleports onto a herd in Twilight's Kingdom Pt2 And, some buffalo can be seen laughing at Trouble Shoes in Appleoosa's Most Wanted Apart from that, they do not appear anywhere else in the show, which is quite sad.
11:48 I think there would be some value in telling kids that some people are going to look down on certain hobbies, especially a lot of feminine ones, but I think the execution to it has to be done well to make a story like that work... and don't use a main character as the strawman for it. Maybe i'm too bleak but I think it can be a good lesson if you keep it light. Kids should know that not everyone is going to be a good person and despite that there will be people who support what you do even if not everyone does. I think it was stupid to ever use rainbow as the one for this though, Big one because shes a main character and the other because essentially what the wonderbolts do is intense aerial gymnastics. If the story really had to use her though... use her alongside someone else who can be the actual villain, have her be reluctant and clearly not really get cheerleading and you can tell she doesn't think it's a sport but she's more then happy to teach. Then make her episode lesson be that she realizes she should have stood up for the kids more against whoever the actual hypothetical villain is, whether she understands the sport or not, it is something the kids want to do and she supports them.
“Ironic for a Canadian cartoon,” well..natives all over turtle island experienced similar / the same things all over whether the USA or Canada or Latin America etc
I feel like with your rankings, I think if I had watch other shows, I'd probably agree with u But since I just started watching MLP this summer completely blind, I loved almost every single episode from this show because to me, it was so novel Even that fight between Twilight and Pinkie in the movie, but now with ur perspective I get why you'd dislike it; honestly, everything Season 6 and above felt like the series at its worst....especially "A Trivial Pursuit" :/ Especially that episode...... (I'm a huge TwiPie fan, personally) This was the first western TV show I watch completely, instead of YT videos for most of my childhood, haha (I'm in my early 20s now) Thank you for sharing ur thoughts about these, PinkMantis -- I honestly thought these episodes were just funny or simple "happily ever after" which maybe I'm braindead, because that is fun to me, but with ur perspective, I see things in a new light
@@StarswirlStar i totally absolutely adore this show with all my heart and i think the fact that even things i considered to be bad epiaodes at the time can still be thoroughly enjoyed Its just a testament to how amazing MLP was that at its lowest it was still a high tier cartoon Hope you enjoyed the vid :]
@@P1nkMantis I definitely get what u mean, and I remember when I saw a YT video mentioning MLP and then looked at it for the first time I'm a guy, so my first thought was its probably some girly "rainbow and sunshine" cartoon for little girls But then I saw someone uploaded the entire show and was amazed at the amount of episodes That and how curious I was made me take the plunge And here I am now, haha; I love MLP for its lore, a lot :) And a met a girl who loves MLP as much as me, she thinks its cool I just watched it for the first time...she wants to watch Equestria Girls with me, so I haven't touched it yet I did enjoy your video, cause we get to chat about the show we both appreciate so much!
2, 4, 6, Greaaat and The Cart Before The Ponies are the only two episodes I genuinely just didn't like/intentionally skipped over. Even the early Spike episodes (which were dog water btw) had their own charm to them/were worth watching. But I just don't like when the writers, who usually have the episodic format down to a science, just randomly make the characters insufferable for an episode. Like, these aren't just flaws (like being too competitive or not listening or how Twilight regressed a bit in the trivia episode, but had a reasonable reason i.e. the Trivia not being Princess related), they're different characters entirely. I also saw that some people didn't like the Rainbow Dash parents episode, I believe it was a good concept with pretty poor execution. The part where Rainbow snaps was entirely justified, but the writers really should have toned the parents down a bit so that they weren't genuine criminals lol (like the fireworks was just actually disproportionally dangerous compared to just them cheering). The message in the end was decent, the part where they cheered even when she came last to the point where her ego actually gets reflected in her abilities was both funny, concerning but also sweet. But like why did they have to shoot the Wonderbolts mid air immediately before this lesson was dropped? And then they try guilt trip you with Scootaloo and it's like... just let us feel the emotions, just do what you guys usually do, BE MATURE AND SUBTLE WE CAN TAKE IT.
@@lpsamyrose absolutely! If thats something people seem interested in id looove to, i have a good list of them, both ones i really enjoy and some i dont so much Thanks for showing interest, i really appreciate it
The trivia one is maybe the worst episode in the series imo because it absolutely ruins the season 9 arc. Throughout the series we see that twilight is an anxious, overthinking train wreck. It’s one of her biggest flaws. We see her gradually overcome this and in season 9 she’s finally got a grip on her anxiety as she prepares to rule Equestria. She’s calm and coordinated and has everything under control, and then out of nowhere she absolutely looses it over a game of trivia. All that build up gone. If you were to take out the newer characters and slip the episode into season one or two, it would be fine, if not a little mediocre, but in the context of season 9 it’s genuinely awful.
@@HelloHello0w0 oo fun question In Equestria girls i ship flutterdash and in tbe main universe i kinda crack ship her with lightning dust It started as a joke
@@P1nkMantis realll, I also love flutterdash in eg and also ship it for the most part in mlp fim but I definitely get shipping her with lightning dust, they just feel right together so I get it lol
@@Quackervoltz ur right but also which racism Episode (Also as much as dragon dropped pmo the scenes between twilight and spike made me very emotional and that counted for something in my book, but believe me in my original script it was waaaaay down there)
This show has a lot of episodes full of racism plots where racism isn't the problem to be solved; The problem is people resisting racism. Its a shame how the most recent generation show turned out because I was actually hoping they would do better with non-ponies this time around, show off how that multi-species equestria that was shown at the end of fim worked, but they didn't.
Ah yes, the worst things in the world: Colonization, Misogyny and Spike Edit: 28 pranks later is brutal, I'd never recover if I was Dash... But tbf, she deserves to be humbled sometimes or most of the time actually
My least favorite episode is parental glidance cause it has an awful ending, like RD wasn't even remotely bad in that episode. I absolutely hate her parents and scootaloo now though.
HOT TAKE But I really dislike the episode BATS (don’t remember the exact number). It’s basically the same as Over a barrel but done to Applejack and the Apple family. And if over A barrel is messed up (which it is) then so is Bats. And not to mention flutter shy was basically the one who said it was ok for the bats to do that, just like how in over a barrel pinkie sings that song. Applejack had every right to not want the bats there and not just because they DESTROYED her trees and produce but they destroyed the whole orchard and apples are one of the pony’s main food sources. And yes the bats had the potential to make the trees better but that would only happen once the trees grew from scratch again. But they still destroyed applejacks whole orchard and probably cost the pony’s a lot of food in apples. What really pisses me off tho is how everyone is so chill with them at the end of the episode and how they apologize to fluttershy for not listening to her sooner, when she basically defended colonization, if you wanna go there.
I knew a lesbian who kins Raindow and has violent to me when we were engaged.>///< So I dislike Rainbow a lot as I also find her Personality so annoying.
Nope! A platonic ship would be a close relationship between two people that aren't romantic, such as platonic partners! It doesn't have to be romantic. Platonic partners are a pair (or more) of people who aren't romantically interested in each other, but plan their lives out together, consider each other very close, and can even adopt kids if they choose to! They deserve more coverage in the media, since people barely know about them! ^vvv^
@BeesOfInk You didn't understand my comment I think. I was explain what the definition is of just a ship. In the second sentence I asked if "platonic ship" just means friendship. Based on your comment, that's definitely it then. It just means you like these characters as friends. Which doesn't really need a term, I think. The word ship comes from relationship. We've got that term in particular to describe mostly non canon relationships we're interested in.
@@HobieInTheBoxits a queer term, id suggest looking up queer platonic partners, but yes it is a very real thing and theres many similar terms but its not at all the same thing as just a friendship Besides that there have always been things like OT3, brotp, fotp, ext within fandom culture, so it actually is a thing people have been doing since the beginning of fandoms Let me put it this way I absolutely adore AppleJack and Fluttershys friendship. They are my two favorite of the mane 6. I do not “ship them platonically” thats an entirely different thign. I dont see them as potential platonic partners, i dont seem them as squishes, which is once again a queer term, ect ect
@@anthonyrausch5708 I mean it’s sort of implied in the very last episode of the series that Rainbow and Applejack have developed a relationship that’s more than just platonic
The “VERY LAST” episode of “MLP-FIM” is a “BRONY HEAD CANNON CIRCLE JERK”… Now i am not saying “APPLE JACK” and “RAINBOW DASH” can “FALL IN LOVE”; “GET MARRIED”; and “ADOPT” children…. But frankly we should not be “SPECULATING” and “DICTATING” there lives; No Pony has the right to “BUTT IN” on another “PONIES” personal business….. “PERIOD”!!!!! I don’t give “A FLYING PONY FEATHER” what “THE CANNON” is anymore This “SPECULATION NONSENSE” is just “GROSS NEGLIGENCE”… Believe what you want; but “THE ONLY” ponies that should know of “RELATIONSHIP STATUS” with-in “THE MANE 6 FRIEND GROUP” are “THE MANE 6” “PERIOD”!!!!!! 🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄
11:14 It’s really weird that you speak of Rainbowdash as if she is in fact, a canon lesbian, even though it’s never been established in the show. I just find it weird when people talk about their head canons, as if they are fact.
@@P1nkMantisfair enough. (Also sorry I deleted and reposted that comment a few times. I could not get edit function to work on mobile version and had to settle for just deleting and reposting the same comment but slightly corrected each time)
I guess this is what you think is canon but the voice actor for apple dash post art of their wedding and explains that the only reason they couldn’t put it in the show was because ✨Homophobia ✨
THE THUMBNAIL CENSORING SPIKE WITH HIS OWN NAME IM CRYING😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
@@quimicalkirby Being Spike is the worst atrocity you can commit
@@P1nkMantis ...Spike is my favorite character, lol; same with Discord, and Shining Armor -- I'm a guy, and just love the guy characters
@@StarswirlStar haha lmao yeah thats fair
I actually enjoy spike most of the time, especially his relationship with twilight
Also yes discord is peak that is factual you are the best
@@P1nkMantis Haha, thanks -- Discord's very "aware" attitude in the writing is honestly why I watched Season 6 and above...
If it wasn't for him, my journey with MLP probably would have ended with that season
same here. after rewatching it years later I appreciate him a lot more!
I think racism with Zecora was handled a lot better because at the end of the episode, the mane 6 learn to not judge a book by its cover and to get to know someone before jumping to conclusions. Racism is rooted in fear; you can't predict what/who you don't know and historically, it has led to certain groups being lashed out on.
I also did think it was kind of clever that they had the ponies be intimidated by Zecora scratching the ground with her hooves. In real life, this is a common threat display in most ungulates, except the ones living in dry areas where they have to scratch the ground to dig for water. You know, like a zebra. It's a misunderstanding that weirdly checks out.
I mean. The stereotype is there for a reason.
@@CyanideOwl You missed the whole point. You should honestly go watch the whole series again because you seem to be lacking in friendship and kindness.
@@CyanideOwl oh no no no no anyone commenting something racist on this channel is gonna get drawn pregnant >:|
@@CyanideOwlrope and chair
I think my problem with 28 pranks later is that the lesson is “you shouldn’t prank if nobody is laughing” instead of “Treat people how you want to be treated” because some people are okay with jump scare pranks and some aren’t. But I agree that rainbow dash is wildly out of character here.
Or it can be argued that you shouldn't be pranking if people are simply laughing at as opposed to laughing with however all and all this episode at least for a brief actually made me hate Rainbow Dash however I don't think that the idea of the episode was necessarily terrible I think it's more of a matter of Rainbow Dash in particular acting way out of line and proportion and if it was some other pony or individual doing this type of stuff to people/ponies I would have been more so fine with it granted I'm totally fine with Rainbow Dash not being some perfect saint of a character but alot what was done by Rainbow Dash in 28 Pranks Later,seemed a little bit too carried away for a character like Rainbow Dash.
Tbh it's probably better it was specifically "Don't prank if the one getting pranked isn't laughing"/or as Rarity put it; her "needing to put in the effort of doing pranks the pony she's targeting ACTUALLY likes instead of what SHE THINKS is funny". Cause if it was said to "treat others how you wanna be treated" then I'm sure she would've went with "Well THESE pranks are what I'D WANT" which is exactly what she did,, SHE would have wanted others to prank her as much as she pranks them/to the same extent- Which is what everyone else DIDN'T want- But that's just what I thought! I def see where you're coming from tho!!
@@FiveStarEdgyness I think the others should have let rainbow know the pranks that they are okay with and which are not so it could be more specific,I don’t think telling her that she was basically a lazy pranker is enough,but this is a character downgrade,season one rainbow would never.
@@FiveStarEdgyness And not all pranks have to be enjoyable for everyone,you just have to know what people are okay with.Also the pranks rainbow dash are doing isn’t pranks,they are down right dangerous! She could have somebody killed! Remember In griffin the brush off,rainbow and pinkie pie pranked all of their friends,it was harmless and in good faith,and their friends even laughed,she even agreed not to prank flutters,why would she threaten her life now.Completely out of character,retconing,And that’s not rainbow dash.
I think the idea "treat people how YOU want to be treated" is flawed inherently because it lacks communication, as some have pointed out. I much prefer "treat people how THEY want to be treated", which is closer to what you were trying to say with certain people being okay with pranks and others not.
I love how in the thumbnail Spike’s biggest crime is being Spike, little guy is absolutely hated by the writers.
Understandable, he could get reaaaaal grating at times especially when it came to Rarity
i absolutely love him tbh i get so shocked whenever i remember how much people dislike him 3:
@@2bdaqueen268When rewatching MLP, I treat the episodes about Spike crushing on Rarity the same way I treat the Gravity Falls episodes about Dipper crushing on Wendy: if there's nothing else of interest going on, skip
I mean spike is the crude humor character. Constantly burping. Most annoying voice. Even more burping. Has a crush on an adult, glutton, and very power-hungry imo (cough cough, that one episode in the early seasons where he begged for stuff cause its his birthday, and when he did twilight's tasks for the kingdom and ruined that statue made of crystals)
It ends up making me skip as many scenes that include him as possible.
@@TheBubbleEater tbh it wasn't spikes fault though it was his dragon urges
The one that introduced Rainbowdash's parents is pretty bad. Once again, FIM displays the real problem that Dash's parents are overbearing and make their daughter, who is rightfully frustrated, the one to be in the wrong. They were setting off fireworks at her show, which could have seriously hurt someone, so they're lucky they only got a slap on the wrist for such a hazard. Worst part is how they guilt-tripped her, with Scootaloo even there to side with them. Like, they had one of her soiled diapers saved, no wonder she wanted to get so far away from them, they were constantly violating her boundaries.
@@chaoticneutral7976 yessss that was so frustrating. RD really was not in the wrong for setting boundaries at HER place of work
I felt awful for both RD and Scoot there, her parents were pretty manipulative and both of them have awful parental figures in opposite ways. Absolutely depressing
The fact that they framed her diaper creeped me out 💀. Like who the heck keeps their child's diaper in a frame
Ikkkk right, that episode is my least favorite one ever, it shouldn't even exist in my opinion. And they didn't even apologize to RD. In fact, I hate her parents more than any other character in the show, and Scootaloo is one of my least favorite now too.
Oh now i rmb that episode made me so mad…
@@NickTheChocoMy mom keeps the first baby tooth I lost. It's not the same but still a little weird. Parents do crazy thinks to "remember their little baby".
The problem with 2,4,6 great is RD called cheerleading useless while back in season 1, Sonic Rainboom she literally wanted her friends to cheers for her and help Fluttershy to cheers for her
@@dapa7752 real, she should know better than anyone that cheerleadings important in hyping up the performers
@@P1nkMantis I think the writers in Season 6 and onwards needed to regress the character's progress in order to keep the show entertaining... :/
@@StarswirlStar absolutely depressing how they try to simultaneously mature them to make them mentors and regress them
I know old habits die hard but LORD lmao
@@P1nkMantis So many franchises do that :/ Sadly
To be fair, there's a difference between cheering and cheerleading.
Cheering is just enthusiastic yelling.
Cheerleading is much more involved.
The thumbnail reminds me of that one pokémon video that censored the characters with "racist" "demon" and "woman"
woman 😭
Being too "woman"??
Which one??
Misogynia
@@estherhazina889 misty
@@500_moths_in_a_trenchcoat thank you)
Yeah Rainbow Dash is one of my favorites and seeing her being so Toxically masculine makes me angry. It’s also not uncommon for lesbians or any female that doesn’t “identify with femininity” (tomboys, etc) to act this way and it hurts that it isn’t talked about enough.
Now I’m not gay or transgender but I’m also not the shy girl type so I resonate more with Rainbow Dash and those episodes are just insulting.
@@cosmic_seabunny it breaks my heart because when she isnt being awful she is literally the best thing on the planet
Absolutely loved her in Flutter Brutter
She doesnt let anyone shit talk her friends
I wish they didnt do such weird stereotypical decision making with her writing
@@P1nkMantis Agreed! I think someone the writers made a great example of a healthy more domineering female character is Sunset Shimmer! She has a lot of Tomboy moments and even some moments where she acts more “typically masculine” but she does it without being toxic or bringing down any of the characters.
I hate to be that person but I think when the writers wanted to make her and Applejack end game they assumed they had to make her “stronger” or something of that nature. Stereotyping is a rookie writer’s worst weakness and I think they focused too much on making her the “gay character” and leaned into the non feminine side waaayyy too much! (Especially since there’s examples of good characters like that already.)
The fact that it was only near the last season that these episodes happened just gives me that feeling, which sucks cause she’s a good character just the was and WAY more chemistry with AJ before hand.
Just my speculation though.
@ hard agree
I love love sunset and applejack, great examples of healthily “masc” or even like futch female characters
Aside from rainbow rocks i fcking adore Equestria Girls rainbow because she comes off as less “toxic” and more like shes bantering with her friends. She just seems more natural there to me
Ironic how the objectively worse written series in this francise writes Rainbow as more enjoyable than the main series
Makes me think of what couldve been with main series her :(
They did my girl so dirty
I didn't understand anything about that comment.. 💀
2:27 i never knew the reason people didn't like the episode was because of everyone else. I always hated it because of how Dash was acting. Like i felt so bad for fluttershy, she looked like she was going to have a panic attack, and she knows how sensitive she is, so like why did she do that 😭
@@kittycandy_art i agree i agree i agree i agree hard agree
Many many people think its hypocritical for them to scare her when she didnt want to be but also like dont dish it out if you cant take it
Only episode that made me cry out of anger cuz it hit so so hard as a kid with severe anxiety and relatively bad friends back when it aired
@P1nkMantis SAME, I don't understand why people would be mad at the others when they were literally just doing what dash was doing to them. I'm also really shy, and I get scared easily, I also hate getting pranked, so I'd be just as pissed with Dash. Dash really needs to learn boundaries, which is weird cause I feel like she always had boundaries, just not in that episode.
It bothered me that Rainbow Dash literally stated in a season 1 episode that Fluttershy can't take any pranks and refused to pull them on her, in fact Gilda going after Fluttershy was how Pinkie knew she was terrible. This is just a blatant contradiction, it's like Rainbow somehow *unlearned* things she already knew just for this lesson.
It's because a lot of people wants to relate more with Rainbow than the others. She is the cool, badass, and sporty one. The others are: farm girl, shy soft, nerd, crazy energetic, and fashion. Which have their fans, but rainbow is the favourite because she's the cool extrovert. And cool extrovert do pranks even if it's not funny for the pranked
The colonialism thing in MLP get worse when you think about it 😭 ponies being racist what the hell. The things that the show presents as good or ideal turn out to be horrible or poorly executed.
"we going to make a school to teach friendship to all the others species because only ponies know how to make friends apparently"
@MouetteRoquefort "We gonna teach these savages friendship. We're their saviors!"
@@MouetteRoquefort I'M SO GLAD I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO NOTICED!!! you can really tell this show is made in the usa because as a non-american I was weirded out by episodes concerning race 😭 like what do you mean the ponies just went and settled in bison territory???? apparently Equestria isn't their home either? I found that so strange as a kid lol
@@epkoda like ponies are the only one with real towns an litteraly move the sun and moon x)
@@MouetteRoquefort and the way all white ethnicities (white american, french, italian, etc.) are represented by ponies but POC-coded characters are other species... and then the show makes ponies "superior" to everyone (like you said in your comment, apparently only ponies who know about friendship and have to teach other races their pony ways 💀💀💀) like *what*
also is it just me or does the portrayal of griffins give antisemitic vibes?
Over a Barrel may not seem the most pro indigenous episode, but it is important to take it in perspective with real life. The Buffalo have been campaigning for their land back for like a year, and they got full decision making power over it. In real life indigenous activists have been working for decades to achieve half as much, so when it is put into perspective it is actually a major victory. The major goal of the land back movement isn’t to just kick out everybody and take over, land back means that they want to own the land and have the use of that land be determined by them. The buffalo ended the episode with control of all the land, they are simply just leasing it out to the settlers in return for compensation. The only real thing that I’ve seen indigenous people take issue with is that everyone else gets to be a magical unicorn or a fire-breathing dragon; meanwhile, the indigenous fans are left as brown buffalo with feathers in their hair, though the episode only showed one tribe in it so it doesn’t mean that every buffalo has to look like that. I mean, they are shown to have natural brown fur, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t give your O.C fur dye and extravagant jewels.
that’s actually kind of an interesting point, kind of depressingly realistic for MLP
Yess thank you!!
omg thank you. i could never put it into words
I definitely do understand and its totally fine to like the episode, i just want to explain a little bit more of my reasoning
While I understand the sentiment, my primary issue with the episode is it tackling a very serious topic in a much more trivial way than it needed to be. I dont mean that they sort of dumbed it down for kids. They do other episodes that tackle serious topics in really good ways
This specific one was set up as though neither group was “in the wrong”, the settlers needed to survive and the issue was easily settled. It sort of perpetuates the little thanksgiving stories we’re told as kids in america about how the pilgrims and natives all ate together and it was very peaceful and nice
I dont know how to word it, but what i do know is im a very very big american history buff and the colonization of this land was unfortunately atrocious, and as I stated in the vid, canada, which my little pony is based in, was as bad if not worse in the treatment of the natives
Enslavement, 🍇, genocide, feudalism,
I really do understand the sentiment but the settlers in the episode arent the kin of ancestors that came a long time ago and have nothing to do with what happened such as people in North America today, theyre first generation settler and I think they couldve gotten their moral in an episode that didnt involve a very very horrific part of our history
@@P1nkMantis i see what you’re saying i completely get that. i’m not too much into history but i do know the general things that did play out, tysm for expanding on what you said in the vid! i’m not great with words so i don’t wanna get too much into it but i see your point
i do honestly think im biased cause mlp is my favorite show growing up though
that clip of discord eating paper fucked up my elementary school years since my friend dared me to eat paper and it caused a strange paper eating addiction
That sounds like pica, which is a type of ED. A lot of different animals can have it, from humans, to cats, to horses.
@@FrozEnbyWolf150-b9t it could be that, I've heard it often can be comorbid with autism and ocd which I have, but I haven't had paper eating troubles for 5 years so I probably won't worry too much
@@FrozEnbyWolf150-b9t real, i got pica and i make jokes about how Discord eating whatever the hell he wants is everyone with picas dream
@@P1nkMantis
I think I developed Pica and I had to think about the scene of Discord eating Paper so often.💀💀 I was honestly surprised to find out how many people could relate.
@@FrozEnbyWolf150-b9t I have it :(
The cheerleading episode is especially strange because the rainboom episode showed how important cheer is to rainbow
I have a lot of critique on Parental Glideance and other RD/ Scootaloo episodes I dunno. Obviously Scoot is a child and a somewhat neglected one at that, but RD is still valid in feeling her parents are too overbearing. The entire episode was pointing the finger at RD for being in the wrong but truthfully her parents need to understand or have at least taught her boundaries. And also, RD is not Scootaloo's guardian... it's not RD's job to always be the strong adult and rolemodel for her (I also do have critque about the Washouts episode..)
@@royalvartist i do agree with that! Parental Glidence annoyed me because RDs feelings were definitely valid there too
It really bums me out that a lot of Spike episodes aren't that good since I actually really like him as a character!
He and Rainbow both suffer the problem of being written so weirdly in most of their solo eps, and I honestly think it’s just because the writers don’t really know how to write them in a compelling way that’s not in a supporting role :(
Exactly! I really like Spike as well and like one episode around him, Power Ponies, but I feel like others are pretty meh?
Edit: and I like the episode where Spike struggles to say no or just to tell Rarity what she’s doing is awful when she turns Ponyville into a huge crystal and golden city.
Fr though! Justice for Spike! Bro deserved so much more in a lot of his episodes!😭
I kinda hate inspiration manifestation actually. I hate how they try to frame the lesson as "be honest with your friends" when spike was literally manipulated. @meeplol145
Like, the book controlled Rarity, someone spike loves and clearly looks up to. Of course he's going to listen to her. It almost seemed like the episode was blaming him for "not being honest" when he was placed in a tough situation.
You know during mare do well nobody talks about their ability to fly and do magic implying they are an alicorn but it's literally never brought up
Like Dashie says "well at least she can't fly" then she sees mare do well fly after displaying magic and it's never talked about
@@luckyduckyfluffy9674 that’s always bothered me too lmao
as a native girl, the colonization ep always upsets me, but compared to other indigenous rep, this was much better as u can empathize with the buffalo and find the settlers wildly wrong and obnoxious. I hate that the buffalo had to share, but im happy that atleast they were treated with love and care in some parts of the episode
Share?, they are the owners and let the ponies live in the place by apple pie rent
I hate 'the end in friend' so much, its like the writers realised they had completely neglected the rainbow dash/rarity duo so much so they just thought "lets just do 'look before you sleep' 2 electric boogaloo" but at the point in the series it makes no sense for the them to be acting that way 😭😭😭 not to mention there have been plenty of moments to show rd and rarity are still close friends despite the fact that they're so different/haven't been focused on. as a raridash fan it really hurt, especially after the great episode that was 'rarity investigates', which had some GREAT moments of the two together 💔
funny how you put spike his own name on the thumbnail makes me think that the writers giving him the meg treatment from family guy
@@Foxy_editzs they really do
I love how, half the episodes are spike episodes 😭
Mostly Spike and Rainbow Dash episodes lmao
28 pranks later was probably the episode that scared me the most. In my opinion both sides were kinda bad. I think rainbow dash went too far but so did everyone else. Wouldn’t it be better if people idk just ignored her or that her friends didn’t want to be with her?
@@preo3514 they didn’t want to be around her, that was the issue. It was like borderline harassment
@@P1nkMantis wouldn’t it just be better to ignore her like what everyone did to the crusaders when they wrote the gossip news?
@@preo3514The crusaders weren't chasing people around or breaking into houses for a good laugh, they cared about what the others thought about her that was their motivation for doing the bad thing in the first place. And they are childs!
Rainbow Dash is an adult harassing everyone around because that makes her laugh. Ignoring her won't stop her because she doesn't care about the others' reactions.
I am native American and the whole colonization episode ANGERS ME like if you’re gonna teach history DO IT ACCURATELY this doesn’t just apply to hasbro/mlp but schools aswell. I have heard that people are being taught more about my ancestors culture and history but clearly it isn’t enough.
I clicked for the thumbnail. Misogyny, colonization, S P I K E had my CACKLING. And now I shall stay for what I assume to be slayer commentary
Edit: I’m only halfway done and you’ve earned a sub, I can see you doing great things in the future :D my only suggestion would be formatting this video as “bad to worst” instead of starting with the worst, as it helps retain watch time. Though since this was originally a full ranking video it makes sense why it didn’t end up that way
As much as with the scootaloo parents episode it would feel better to see them rightfully told they're wrong. For kids who are actually in this situation and watch the show, the last thing they'd want to see is a message to say their parents are horrible people. Maybe when they're out of the situation. But while they're in it? It's not comforting and it's barely validating. All it does it hurt
Yeah thats a really good point. I really wish they just avoided this episode all together
@@P1nkMantis I get that
2:47 LMAOO NOT THE LESBIAN DOSMESTIC VIOLENCE ALLEGATIONS 💀
( Hope you are doing better after those things happened :] )
Thank you, really appreciate it :) definitely been recovering, its been good :D
Happy thanksgiving if you celebrate btw
@P1nkMantis that good to know :DDD
( I don't celebrate Thanksgiving, but if you do happy thanksgiving :DDD)
Over a barrel was literally the first episode i ever saw of mlp fim, its one of my favorites purely for the nostalgia factor. As a kid i never picked up on how bad it was (mainly cus i didn't know about american history, im not American) nowadays i can see its problematic but ill still hold it in a special place of my heart lol.
Spike suffering at every opportunity because the writers love to torture him.
1:02, Upbeat happy music with the text saying your bro almost died, perfect 😎👍👍👍
@@AnthonyGotterminated IF he had died it’s definitely what he wouldve wanted
Probably wouldnt wanna be remembered through a MLP video tho lol
I once heard of a funeral that played upbeat celebratory music because it's what the dead person wanted
The fandom making Scoot an orphan has been so ingrained in my mind i forgot she has parents in the canon of the show. Especially in the context of a kids show, like the found family shes formed in Ponyvile is important and valid as any other family in the which is good to tell kids but also Scoot is like 10 years old at most right?? What her parents and aunts are doing to her is textbook child neglect, which is weirdly permitted by the show? You really shouldn't tell kids that your guardians living you for years on end is okay, they should have just made her an orphan or sm
The amount of r@c!sm hide in kid cartoons you get when you get older💀
Ah yes, the worst mistake ever... Spike.
"28 Pranks Later" is definitely based on MLP Tales "The Impractical Joker". I've never understood how Rainbow Dash could escalate from okay pranks in "Griffon the Brush Off" to mean-spirited pranks that caused some injuries to some of those ponies. Wishful thinking that a changeling impersonated her for several episodes. I think in too many episodes Spike is the butt of the joke and not really getting the credit he deserves. "Spike at Your Service" is the only time we see the Dragon Code and doesn't seem to apply to other dragons we see. And as for Rainbow Dash and AJ, they keep rivalling no matter what lessons they learn (or don't learn in the long run). I'm not even sure Dashie lives up to her element of loyalty. Personally I think that the mother pony in "Mysterious Mare Do Well" should be jailed for child negligence, letting her baby fall twice. Even though Dashie gets some slack in spite of her bragging, Trixie is not afforded the same slack and treated as an outcast. And why does Mare Do Well look like a changeling? "Over a Barrel" isn't the only time that seems indicate that ponies seem to think they are more important than any other creature.
Also my personal headcanon is that dashie is autistic, I see her a lot in myself as a diagnosed autistic person. She doesn't seem to pick up on social cues that well, acting disrespectful to her students because she doesn't like cheerleading. I feel like she genuinely doesn't mean to be rude but has issues putting on a mask for things she dislikes, like myself. I'm better now but as a younger girl I absolutely hated anything girly. I hated bright pink, dolls, and fashion. I remember my auntie gifting me a doll and I was very upset, as my special interest was dinosaurs (still is) and was VERY clear I did not want anything girly. Of course, I was seen as rude and a brat, but it's purely cus I couldn't mask being happy about something I hated. I'm rambling but yeah. I don't mind girly stuff now and actually enjoy it. I believe Dash has a hard time putting on a mask or understanding when she's being socially inappropriate (continuing to do pranks).
the one about spike learning that his dragon code is sadly basicly disproven in a episode in season 8 or 9
I suppose in addition to issues with Spike episodes I have many issues with Discord episodes as well. Discord is a seriously toxic friend and yet they dismiss it because "he's learning" and "he did it with good intentions" it doesnt change the fact that he pushes his friends' buttons very intentionally. Sending them into panic attacks, putting the entire country in danger, or even just to stir up drama or single out another character for shxts and giggles (gaslighting Twilight and somewhat isolating Fluttershy on multiple occassions)
I cut some slack to Discord because this is literally the first time he experiences friendship. I see him like an overpowerful child in term of friendship, and children can be very cruel and destructive for their own amusement.
But if that saves a bit the character, it doesn't save the episode because most of the time you can see the authors dismissing the "lesson learnt" part because they want to keep Discord as he is, more fun. So, he's a bit static compared to the others.
@@lou9635 I like your take on Discord!
Well he is the lord of chaos if he isn't chaotic he will start disappearing
the mane 6 regressed a lot in the late seasons sadly :/
Can we please talk about how this video is exactly 22 minutes 22 seconds
I can explain why the characters feels so different in later seasons and why it seems some of their growth are retconned or never called back to
The original writing team was there only up to Season 3, afterward it was mostly people that came (even sometimes interns/apprentices) that wrote one or two episodes for a season and there was no more real continuity/coherence in character growth. Especially for details/callbacks to season 1 that they were probably not aware of.
It sucks but it can somewhat "excuse" the writing, imagine writing for someone else's character that you are not entirely used to and wasn't there to know since the start.
The use of Gypsy Bard in a video about controversial MLP episodes is comedy gold
All the dragon racism episodes jus
😭Eugh
17:12 I just want to mention a couple moments in The Mysterious Mare-Do-Well that conflict with this statement. Obviously, there's the Mane Six clearly seeing that Dash is irritated with their banter on their alter ego, and yet keep going on with it anyway. But the point I feel most people miss is, as Dash tries to feel better about the fact that she can fly, they (specifically Fluttershy) speed right past her in the air just to spite her for her comment.
The Spike Slander Is Real 😂
@@eva-naiyatorian8573 i love the guy but maaaan the writers dont
Just in case someone didnt see the desc :]
Just wanted to clarify a few things
1. As I stated some episodes on this list I actually enjoyed, but for whatever reason thought it was big enough of a let down to put in this video i.e. Equestria Games and Celestial Advice. The only episode of this show i genuinely hate is 28 pranks later (and the crystallizing but those didn’t make it on to the list)
2. If you like these episodes, that’s more than okay, that’s great :] I’m not trying to change anyone’s mind on something they enjoy, I just figured I’d add my inputs from the perspective of someone with both childhood nostalgia for the show but also as someone who at the time was very active in the Brony fandom and understood a lot of the controversies of the show. This analysis is mostly from a fandom perspective
13:35 We do see the buffalo in a place other then Return of Harmony, although it is very short. In S4E12, Pinkie's Pride, we see Cheese Sandwich at the edge of Appleoosa with the Buffaloes celebrating a party he presumable hosted.
Twilight also accidentally teleports onto a herd in Twilight's Kingdom Pt2
And, some buffalo can be seen laughing at Trouble Shoes in Appleoosa's Most Wanted
Apart from that, they do not appear anywhere else in the show, which is quite sad.
@@WyvernoftheStars ah, thank you, must’ve missed them. Thanks for letting me know, ill keep an eye out for them on ny next watch through :D
i love how much spike episodes are in here lmao
i have a very love hate relationship with his character
11:48 I think there would be some value in telling kids that some people are going to look down on certain hobbies, especially a lot of feminine ones, but I think the execution to it has to be done well to make a story like that work... and don't use a main character as the strawman for it.
Maybe i'm too bleak but I think it can be a good lesson if you keep it light. Kids should know that not everyone is going to be a good person and despite that there will be people who support what you do even if not everyone does.
I think it was stupid to ever use rainbow as the one for this though, Big one because shes a main character and the other because essentially what the wonderbolts do is intense aerial gymnastics.
If the story really had to use her though... use her alongside someone else who can be the actual villain, have her be reluctant and clearly not really get cheerleading and you can tell she doesn't think it's a sport but she's more then happy to teach. Then make her episode lesson be that she realizes she should have stood up for the kids more against whoever the actual hypothetical villain is, whether she understands the sport or not, it is something the kids want to do and she supports them.
Spike: *gets censored with his name*
Love your use of discord he's so funne
4:54 yeah that bit was interesting- it seems to show horns are like guns …
GYPSY BARD IN THE INTRO IS SOO BASED made this entire video 100% cooler
“Ironic for a Canadian cartoon,” well..natives all over turtle island experienced similar / the same things all over whether the USA or Canada or Latin America etc
@@liudoesthings lol as i put on the thing i was being sarcastic cuz canadas crimes were totally horrific
@ sorry I didn’t see that 😭
@@liudoesthings dont worry bout it :]
@@P1nkMantis And they still treat indigenous and brown people horribly over there 🤷🏾♂️
I feel like with your rankings, I think if I had watch other shows, I'd probably agree with u
But since I just started watching MLP this summer completely blind, I loved almost every single episode from this show because to me, it was so novel
Even that fight between Twilight and Pinkie in the movie, but now with ur perspective
I get why you'd dislike it; honestly, everything Season 6 and above felt like the series at its worst....especially "A Trivial Pursuit" :/
Especially that episode...... (I'm a huge TwiPie fan, personally)
This was the first western TV show I watch completely, instead of YT videos for most of my childhood, haha (I'm in my early 20s now)
Thank you for sharing ur thoughts about these, PinkMantis -- I honestly thought these episodes were just funny or simple "happily ever after" which maybe I'm braindead, because that is fun to me, but with ur perspective, I see things in a new light
@@StarswirlStar i totally absolutely adore this show with all my heart and i think the fact that even things i considered to be bad epiaodes at the time can still be thoroughly enjoyed
Its just a testament to how amazing MLP was that at its lowest it was still a high tier cartoon
Hope you enjoyed the vid :]
@@P1nkMantis I definitely get what u mean, and I remember when I saw a YT video mentioning MLP and then looked at it for the first time
I'm a guy, so my first thought was its probably some girly "rainbow and sunshine" cartoon for little girls
But then I saw someone uploaded the entire show and was amazed at the amount of episodes
That and how curious I was made me take the plunge
And here I am now, haha; I love MLP for its lore, a lot :) And a met a girl who loves MLP as much as me, she thinks its cool I just watched it for the first time...she wants to watch Equestria Girls with me, so I haven't touched it yet
I did enjoy your video, cause we get to chat about the show we both appreciate so much!
2, 4, 6, Greaaat and The Cart Before The Ponies are the only two episodes I genuinely just didn't like/intentionally skipped over. Even the early Spike episodes (which were dog water btw) had their own charm to them/were worth watching. But I just don't like when the writers, who usually have the episodic format down to a science, just randomly make the characters insufferable for an episode. Like, these aren't just flaws (like being too competitive or not listening or how Twilight regressed a bit in the trivia episode, but had a reasonable reason i.e. the Trivia not being Princess related), they're different characters entirely.
I also saw that some people didn't like the Rainbow Dash parents episode, I believe it was a good concept with pretty poor execution. The part where Rainbow snaps was entirely justified, but the writers really should have toned the parents down a bit so that they weren't genuine criminals lol (like the fireworks was just actually disproportionally dangerous compared to just them cheering). The message in the end was decent, the part where they cheered even when she came last to the point where her ego actually gets reflected in her abilities was both funny, concerning but also sweet. But like why did they have to shoot the Wonderbolts mid air immediately before this lesson was dropped? And then they try guilt trip you with Scootaloo and it's like... just let us feel the emotions, just do what you guys usually do, BE MATURE AND SUBTLE WE CAN TAKE IT.
MLP after mischaracterizing my favorite characters and turning them into complete assholes (Rainbow Dash. What have they done to you)
It feels like reading warrior cats all over again and watching my favorite characters get ruined by writers
@@cinnamonpuppi me when i enter the mischaracterizing MLP characters competition and the show writers walk in
Would you talk about more controversial episodes, i really like how you explain the issues
@@lpsamyrose absolutely! If thats something people seem interested in id looove to, i have a good list of them, both ones i really enjoy and some i dont so much
Thanks for showing interest, i really appreciate it
@@P1nkMantis yeah this video is what made me discover your channel today and learning you're going to talk about it more, I've subbed
@@hearmeout1767 thank you so much :D
@@P1nkMantis you're welcome
Honestly i think the beginning of the end, matter of principals and that episode of the trivia are unsufferable
yeah I rewatched the beginning of the end recently and it was honestly painful and kinda cringe
Yeah prettt fair
The trivia one is maybe the worst episode in the series imo because it absolutely ruins the season 9 arc. Throughout the series we see that twilight is an anxious, overthinking train wreck. It’s one of her biggest flaws. We see her gradually overcome this and in season 9 she’s finally got a grip on her anxiety as she prepares to rule Equestria. She’s calm and coordinated and has everything under control, and then out of nowhere she absolutely looses it over a game of trivia. All that build up gone.
If you were to take out the newer characters and slip the episode into season one or two, it would be fine, if not a little mediocre, but in the context of season 9 it’s genuinely awful.
You know, despite the fact that rainbow is suposed to be a loyal friend, she's toxic and horible to be with with the look of those episodes.
amber pillow ily for amber appreciation
@@eeeEEEeeeEEEEEE-eeeeeee shes the absolute best literally my awakening
The way a lot of them are spike or rainbow dash omg. Cause yeah in a more simple way, RD and spike are rather nasty characters.
Spike gets the excuse of being a baby dragon, Rainbow Dash tho...
Poor Spike 😭😭 but great video, I agree with a lot of your points!!
Also just a silly question but who do you ship Rainbow Dash with if at all? :3
@@HelloHello0w0 oo fun question
In Equestria girls i ship flutterdash and in tbe main universe i kinda crack ship her with lightning dust
It started as a joke
@@P1nkMantis realll, I also love flutterdash in eg and also ship it for the most part in mlp fim but I definitely get shipping her with lightning dust, they just feel right together so I get it lol
Nah but Spike at Your Service being on here over the other racism episode and Dragon Dropped is crazy
@@Quackervoltz ur right but also which racism Episode
(Also as much as dragon dropped pmo the scenes between twilight and spike made me very emotional and that counted for something in my book, but believe me in my original script it was waaaaay down there)
i just found this channel. i love this show and i love how you went over everything, will be watching more 🥰🥰🥰🥰
I always think about that buffalo and pies episode
This show has a lot of episodes full of racism plots where racism isn't the problem to be solved; The problem is people resisting racism. Its a shame how the most recent generation show turned out because I was actually hoping they would do better with non-ponies this time around, show off how that multi-species equestria that was shown at the end of fim worked, but they didn't.
I’m so sorry my cat managed to dislike the video, she didn’t like dashie slander ig
Ah yes, the worst things in the world: Colonization, Misogyny and Spike
Edit: 28 pranks later is brutal, I'd never recover if I was Dash...
But tbf, she deserves to be humbled sometimes or most of the time actually
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@@Lovebug2458 spike.
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200 comments and thousands of likes in less than 4 days?
Kudos. You are doing great!
@@natewilson6760 :D I appreciate it
My least favorite episode is parental glidance cause it has an awful ending, like RD wasn't even remotely bad in that episode. I absolutely hate her parents and scootaloo now though.
I get dash was too much or OOC but 28 pranks later kicks ass lol . She did learn.
HOT TAKE But I really dislike the episode BATS (don’t remember the exact number). It’s basically the same as Over a barrel but done to Applejack and the Apple family. And if over A barrel is messed up (which it is) then so is Bats. And not to mention flutter shy was basically the one who said it was ok for the bats to do that, just like how in over a barrel pinkie sings that song. Applejack had every right to not want the bats there and not just because they DESTROYED her trees and produce but they destroyed the whole orchard and apples are one of the pony’s main food sources.
And yes the bats had the potential to make the trees better but that would only happen once the trees grew from scratch again. But they still destroyed applejacks whole orchard and probably cost the pony’s a lot of food in apples.
What really pisses me off tho is how everyone is so chill with them at the end of the episode and how they apologize to fluttershy for not listening to her sooner, when she basically defended colonization, if you wanna go there.
A friendship is witchcraft song?! In the year of 2024?!?!?!???
I couldn't watch Equestria Games because the secondhand embarrassment was so bad lmao
I love 28 pranks later !
I never knew anyone that hated it .
No like I know spikes a kid but he makes me so mad
I knew a lesbian who kins Raindow and has violent to me when we were engaged.>///< So I dislike Rainbow a lot as I also find her Personality so annoying.
@@Love_dustbunny im so sorry
"Revenge isnt good at all" thats just objectively wrong. Revenge is a good natural thing
Starlight glimmer is the one thing I DON'T like and is the problem as well
Aw, no Rockhoof in a Hard Place or Dragon Dropped?
@@trashlord3214 dragon dropped was gonna be in there and i ran out of time i had so much shit to say about it too
I hope your brother is alright :(
@@st4rri_ari thank you I appreciate it
I hope your brother is doing okay 0:59
@@HiddenSpiritTVshow I appreciate it :)
4:11 yeah that’s definitely not how you say that word
Poor spike 😂
I hope you and your brother are doing well
I appreciate it :)
@P1nkMantis Anytime
Ah, I see you’re a fellow Discord enjoyer ( ✧≖ ͜ʖ≖)
Personally I enjoyed 28 Pranks Later. Eh, just me?
i love how awful dash is 🫶
Valid opinion.
14:33
Platonic ship?? Isnt that just friends? Shipping means the romantic fantasy between 2 or more characters.
Nope! A platonic ship would be a close relationship between two people that aren't romantic, such as platonic partners! It doesn't have to be romantic.
Platonic partners are a pair (or more) of people who aren't romantically interested in each other, but plan their lives out together, consider each other very close, and can even adopt kids if they choose to! They deserve more coverage in the media, since people barely know about them! ^vvv^
@BeesOfInk
You didn't understand my comment I think. I was explain what the definition is of just a ship. In the second sentence I asked if "platonic ship" just means friendship. Based on your comment, that's definitely it then. It just means you like these characters as friends. Which doesn't really need a term, I think.
The word ship comes from relationship. We've got that term in particular to describe mostly non canon relationships we're interested in.
@@HobieInTheBoxits a queer term, id suggest looking up queer platonic partners, but yes it is a very real thing and theres many similar terms but its not at all the same thing as just a friendship
Besides that there have always been things like OT3, brotp, fotp, ext within fandom culture, so it actually is a thing people have been doing since the beginning of fandoms
Let me put it this way
I absolutely adore AppleJack and Fluttershys friendship. They are my two favorite of the mane 6. I do not “ship them platonically” thats an entirely different thign. I dont see them as potential platonic partners, i dont seem them as squishes, which is once again a queer term, ect ect
@@P1nkMantis Thank you very much, your wording is excellent!! ^vvv^
the mysteries mare do wall is shite and crap and anyone who even likes it i will never trust them
Lmfao fair
5:38 i like it because i like being in canterlot .
They shouldve showed canterlot more! It was such a fun place
@@Ickymunches i agree
0:54 - Just take “AS MUCH” time as you need;
When you got “9 SEASONS” to go through……
Pacing is a “NECESSITY”……
“GOOD LUCK”!!!!!!
🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄
2:51 - I do not just “ASSUME” she is a “LESBIAN” because “RAINBOW”
That is “HER BUSINESS” not ours to “SPECULATE ON”…..
Bro why do you type so weird
@@anthonyrausch5708 I mean it’s sort of implied in the very last episode of the series that Rainbow and Applejack have developed a relationship that’s more than just platonic
The “VERY LAST” episode of “MLP-FIM” is a
“BRONY HEAD CANNON CIRCLE JERK”…
Now i am not saying “APPLE JACK” and “RAINBOW DASH” can
“FALL IN LOVE”; “GET MARRIED”; and “ADOPT” children….
But frankly we should not be “SPECULATING” and “DICTATING” there lives;
No Pony has the right to “BUTT IN” on another “PONIES” personal business….. “PERIOD”!!!!!
I don’t give “A FLYING PONY FEATHER” what “THE CANNON” is anymore
This “SPECULATION NONSENSE” is just “GROSS NEGLIGENCE”…
Believe what you want; but “THE ONLY” ponies that should know of “RELATIONSHIP STATUS” with-in
“THE MANE 6 FRIEND GROUP” are “THE MANE 6” “PERIOD”!!!!!!
🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄
@@anthonyrausch5708 ok
WHAT PROBLEM DO YOU HAVE WITH SPIKE WHY IS HE CENSORED BY HIS OWN NAME 😭
@@Calicopawzzz LMAOOO ahahahah no hes good the creators just dont write spike centered episodes well
@P1nkMantis good cause i thought for a second you hated a literal baby dragon for zero reason
11:14 It’s really weird that you speak of Rainbowdash as if she is in fact, a canon lesbian, even though it’s never been established in the show. I just find it weird when people talk about their head canons, as if they are fact.
I was just joking about that, wasnt meant to be taken seriously, though she is pretty explicitly sapphic
@@P1nkMantisfair enough.
(Also sorry I deleted and reposted that comment a few times. I could not get edit function to work on mobile version and had to settle for just deleting and reposting the same comment but slightly corrected each time)
@ dont worry about it :]
I guess this is what you think is canon but the voice actor for apple dash post art of their wedding and explains that the only reason they couldn’t put it in the show was because ✨Homophobia ✨
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1:45 - 1:54 no😊
Onkie doki
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