Rating: 1 3 4
Derpy.
Rainbow Dash has been invited to some Rainbow Festival so the Mane 6 fuck off to the place. I have pretty much nothing to say about this special and normally I'd just make shit up but I couldn't think of a bullshit plot so I guess we're just gonna be mumbling our way through this crap. One thing to note however at the beginning is they start singing 100 bottles of "pop". This indicates the fuckers have a Midwestern dialect. Or they just chose pop instead of soda because pop is one syllable like beer. They could've just sung buckets of oats like Sweetie Belle did in Sleepless In Ponyville.
After they crash land outside the town they're going to, they find the town is completely silent until they come across one of the residents who turns out to be a Canadian. Or Minnesotan. I don't know the difference. The Canadian pony who's named Petunia Petals leads them into the hotel she owns. After the ponies sign a contract stating they choose their fates of their own free will, she leads them to some run down piece of shit room.
The next morning, they wake up and find the town's completely devoid of color. Audio error at 14:36, music switches without a proper transition. Later they come across another Canadian or Minnesotan or whatever you call those "people" named Sunny Skies and he turns out to be the one who invited Rainbow Dash to the nonexistent Rainbow Festival. After they meet another pony named Torque Wrench, Sunny tours them through the city which is just a ghetto. Framerate drop at 19:34. Eventually there's a song of Sunny explaining the town's history and crap which just sounds generic. Ending vocals are pretty decent though. It explains the town went to shit because like the average Minnesotan town, everyone began hating each other and boarded up their houses to defend against mostly peaceful protests. It's then explained how some rainbow generator helped keep the town together but ever since it broke, people have been protesting or something.
Less then one third of the way through, I have no more notes. Halfway through, we get to the only good part of this special, Kerfuffle. I would take a fucking bullet for this little horse.
During this scene, we learn Kerfuffle doesn't sell her own designs but builds upon Rarity's. Rarity tells her she should make her own designs instead of adding to others. Seems she doesn't understand the concept of derivative works or using existing shit to make better shit. She clearly makes proprietary fashion.
Next, Twilight goes to the library Petunia runs and asks if they have a magic section to which Petunia asks whether she wants the elemental, arcane, or theory section. This suggests elemental and arcane are the two magic systems of the world.
Yeah, I have nothing for the rest of the special. It sucks. Ending song sucks. At the Rainbow Festival, where your bores and lullays come true. At the Rainbow Festival, where you can't stay awake through.
The most boring thing in MLP I've watched so far. I remember liking this special back when it came out and I've seen a lot of people shitting on it. I wanted it to be good and shit on everyone who hated it but yeah, they're right. Not even a single funny part either. Due to these reasons, I must give it 1 EV. I like some of the characters but they have so little dialogue, I'm not giving any extra VB so it gets 3 VB. 4 DV only because we see a new place.
MLP Commentaries IndexWritten 2025-5-5 Published 2025-6-1