When you were partying, I watched the ponies. When you were having premarital sex, I studied the magic of friendship. While you wasted your days at the gym in pursuit of vanity, I cultivated my brony spirit. And now that the world is in disharmony and villains are at the gate, you have the audacity to come to me for help?
EP 8: Hard To Say Anything
Rating: 4 3 4
Callback to The Show Stoppers I think. Big Mac's about to make his fifth delivery this week to Starlight's village so the CMC decide to sneak a ride and be spies to figure out what's going on. They find out he's delivering to a pony named Sugar Belle and they both have a crush on each other. There's more of the bloom effect during a shot. Apple Bloom gets excited at this revelation.
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The CMC decide to help Big Mac and reveal themselves to him and he doesn't care they sneaked a ride all the way to the village. They try to convince him to ask her out which reminds me of the times people have asked me for advice on asking someone out or sought dating advice from me even though I'm the last person you want that kind of advice from.
So they have him go ask her out only for some loser from 2008 named Feather Fag or something to cuck him out of the opportunity by asking her out instead. It turns out Sugar Belle also likes this loser. Leave her, Big Mac, don't go after a bitch that's gonna be playing games with two stallions. She ain't gonna be loyal.
The CMC decide to conduct ops to get Sugar Belle to fall in love with Big Mac, the first being having Scootaloo steal Sugar Belle's saddlebags and Big Mac stopping her so he can seem heroic. Feather Fag ends up cucking him again by retrieving the bags before Big Mac can. Next they have Big Mac commit sexual assault in an attempt to woo her only for Feather Fag to abduct her before Big Mac can be put on a sex offender registry. Next they have him sing for Sugar Belle only to yet again be cucked by Feather Fag in song sequence that goes on too long. Songs aren't that good either.
Sugar Belle gets tired of both their shit and realizes being a two-timing whore was a mistake. Her shop was also destroyed in the wooing attempts so Big Mac and the CMC repair and upgrade it while Scoots distracts her and this works for some reason. Scoots also does a Scootaroll. The episode ends with Big Mac cucking Feather Fag for once. However, there are three mares that are all in love with him but he's too shy to talk to them and asks the CMC for advice. If you need to ask a child or me for dating advice, it's over. Just give up.
Alright episode worth 4 EV. 3 VB because there's nothing to vibe with. 4 DV because it's the start of Big Mac and Sugar Belle's relationship.
EP 9: Honest Apple
Rating: 4 2 3
Rarity's littering the town with flyers for her fashion contest thing. She states she's doing it because of how hard it was for her to break into the fashion industry and wants to give others the opportunity to enter the scene by having a fashion line of the winner's stuff in her shops. You guys think the Mox Coms can get me into the reviewer scene and be invited onto a podcast where we can whine about women and minorities in media?
Rarity then reveals Applejack will be one of the judges in the thing and explains she was chosen so she can judge stuff on its practicality. Apple Bloom dies.
Applejack at a point mentions "...what the pony community needs.". What the fuck do you mean "pony community"? Why not just say "community"? You're all ponies so adding the pony noun adjunct is completely arbitrary. The other judges, Hoity Toity and the German arrive and we learn Coco Pommel is doing fine in Manehatten. Her clothing line is some wack-ass shit though. Applejack rightly laughs at the stupidity of the dress she's shown.
They go meet the three contestants who are a Californian, a metrosexual, and a goth. Applejack criticizes the goth's dress for being too black and depressing. That's kinda the point, retard. Applejack keeps sperging out about practicality as Rarity realizes she was a fucking moron inviting Applejack to the thing.
Applejack eventually tells them they're all stupid and Rarity cancels the show. Rarity then takes Applejack to a pony named Strawberry Sunrise to ask for her opinion on apples in front of Applejack to which she says apples suck and strawberries are better. Applejack gets triggered by this and Rarity taunts her for getting mad at Strawberry's opinion. Then Applejack thinks she's been a cunt after this. Applejack then abducts the contestants and judges to keep the show on and apologises to them like a coward. At the actual contest, they all win in a generic tie ending.
Another alright episode that gets 4 EV. I give it 2 VB because I disagree with the message. The message is you shouldn't hurt people's feelings with your honesty but if honesty is gonna hurt someone's feelings, that's their problem. There's always gonna be people who are harsh with their honesty or criticism and people should become hardened to it, not avoid it. I find it annoying how so many people will cry about wanting only positive criticism when negative criticism can be more valuable. If you fuck something up and are ridiculed for it, that's better incentive to improve than being politely told you could improve on something. The ending where everyone wins is also stupid. No development so 3 DV.
EP 10: A Royal Problem
Rating: 5 5 5
Starlight's called by the map to Canterlot. She arrives but forgot to pack her schizophrenia medication so she starts hallucinating Twilight as a music box ballerina. The next morning, Celestia makes Glimmy and Luna pancakes and Luna walks in looking like she's been contemplating killing herself and then takes a whole pineapple and just bites into it. Glimmy continues to have hallucinations and goes to meet with Luna who's mad about something.
Next morning, Luna walks in, levitates a banana to herself, unpeels it, and then eats the peel, dropping the actual fruit on the ground. I audibly said "What the fuck?" when I saw this. She still looks like she's on the verge of blowing her fucking brains out.
Glimmy confronts them both on being the friendship problem and tries to make them talk about their feelings or some gay shit like that but it doesn't work so she casts a spell on them that switches their cutie marks. After the switch, we see Luna's black splotches are actually part of her cutie mark as they now appear on Celestia. Or it's because a white moon on a white coat doesn't provide much contrast.
Starlight explains the spell lasts for 24 hours and has them switch roles to experience how hard each other's job is.
Glimmy is me thinking of funny jokes to add to these.
First, Luna takes on Celestia's duties. One is smiling and waving as she's driven through the city. But why though? It doesn't seem like any sort of special day so why would Celestia waste time and effort just being driven around? And it's not like she would do this because she's on the way somewhere because she's fully capable of just teleporting to places or flying. Also, a detail I noticed is Celestia and Luna's magical auras switch when they have each other's cutie marks. At a point, Luna has to meet some delegates to dispel rumors of timberwolves in the Whitetail Woods which seems unlikely considering I theorized timberwolves are rogue golems guarding the Everfree.
Sad pony hours.
After Luna's exhaustive day as Celestia, Starlight now has to follow Celestia. However, Glimmy passes out so Celestia puts her to bed. Celestia is bothered by having no one to talk to, suggesting she's a yapper. She decides to start dreamwalking so she can talk to ponies and this shows us dreamwalking is tied to Luna's cutie mark since it's been previously stated Celestia doesn't have the dreamwalking ability. Princess Derpy sighting:
In the dream realm, Celestia comes across Starlight's nightmare and then Nightmare Moon just fucking appears. Thinking she's gonna have to confront Nightmare Moon, she is instead confronted by her shadow self, Daybreaker.
Daybreaker confronts Celestia on her inner feelings of superiority. Then Daybreaker and Nightmare Moon begin fighting and Glimmy breaks down. Celestia finds Luna enduring a psychological hell and pulls her out for her help but she can't since only Celestia can dreamwalk right now. She stops the nightmare and she and Luna make up or something. Glimmy however is questioning reality since she hasn't had her meds in three days and just woke up from a traumatic dream. I actually wonder: Is it possible to develop trauma or even PTSD from a dream?
Very entertaining, goofy, and cool episode so it gets 5 EV. Notes tell me it picks up in second half which warrants the score. I give it 5 VB because of how cool this episode was especially with the psychological stuff. 5 DV because we learn more of the Alicorn Sisters' relationship and learn about their feelings.
EP 11: Not Asking For Trouble
Rating: 4 3 4
Pink Pony's been invited to Yakyakistan for a yak holiday. She also makes Twilight make her the official friendship ambassador to the yaks. I'm fucking tired of people's obsession with the arbitrary value of legal officiality. These idiots don't understand that something isn't magically true because a piece of paper says something. Go read Memes, Constructs, Illusions and Real Names Don't Exist.
Pink Pony arrives to find the yaks enjoying a calming fit of destructive rage and decides to join in the yak smashing by smashing a stick to which the yak prince has everyone stop and says "Pink Pony better check self before rek self." which is one of the best quotes in the entire series. He then goes on about how Pink Pony's destroying a sacred centuries-old twig, making Pink Pony panic. As she's panicking, the yak prince reveals he's trolling her epic style before smashing the stick. This was really funny and shows yaks can be great trolls.
Callback to Dungeons And Discords. The yak prince shows Pink Pony around the festivities but during another instance of calming rage stomping, an avalanche falls into the village. The yak prince then psyops everyone into thinking this is normal like the government psyoping the populace into thinking mass surveillance and regulation is a good thing.
The yaks refuse Pink Pony's offer to get foreign aid so she tries to conduct a counter psyop to convince them to accept it. When this fails, she instead sneaks out to Ponyville and gets the other ponies to conduct a foreign aid black op. After the op succeeds, the yaks realize accepting foreign aid benefits them and they forgive Pink Pony.
Yak shenanigans are pretty funny so this episode gets 4 EV. No vibe, getting it 3 VB. We see Yakyakistan and the relationship with the yaks progresses so 4 DV.
EP 12: Discordant Harmony
Rating: 3 3 3
Discord and Flutters are having a tea party and Discord decides to host the next one since he's never hosted one before. Discord also offers to snap some sugar cubes into existence only for Fluttershy to state she'll instead go buy some. Save the money, Fluttershy, just let him pop them into existence. This also implies Discord could completely ruin the economy if he really wanted to unless the law of conservation applies to his chaos magic and he's really just transferring energy and matter from some other place.
He begins panicking since Fluttershy's never been to his house before. He goes to buy the supplies for the tea party and at each store, he transforms the supplies by affecting them with his chaos magic. He then pays by snapping the money into reality. Hopefully he's just teleporting it from a pocket dimension he keeps his money in or something or else Equestria could have a massive inflation issue if he keeps doing this. Also look at the screenshot below. Doesn't the environment look too minimalistic for this show's style? Derpy sighting also.
Next he goes to a party store which reminds me of how people would send me pictures of MLP crap they saw in a store and say "This reminds me of you.". Here's one of those pictures and notice Rainbow Dash has two pairs of wings.
At this point, I also realized there was too much self-monologuing. He comes across Pinkie who tells him to make Fluttershy feel comfortable which sends him into a panic thinking Flutters would hate his chaotic tea party so he calls in a team of Discords to de-chaos his house and at a point, it shows some of them playing cards. I couldn't find any possible hidden meaning in the numbers though and the suites are ordered incorrectly. More interestingly though, we see them later holding smart phones. So does Discord know of their existence because of visiting other universes?
During a conversation exercise, he's practicing talking to Fluttershy and the Fluttershy is himself in a Fluttershy costume which is pretty goofy.
The time for the tea party finally arrives and Fluttershy thinks it fucking sucks. Discord then begins fading away so Fluttershy has to fuck shit up to save him. This implies it might be possible to kill him if you could somehow trick him into making things normal.
Episode gets boring at parts and the constant self-monologuing and singing ginseng gets annoying so it's getting 3 EV. Nothing to vibe with so 3 VB. No real development so 3 DV.
EP 13: The Perfect Pear
Rating: 6 4 6
Apple Bloom's in the market and comes across a new stand where an old head who apparently used to live in Ponyville before leaving and now returning gives her some pear jam for free. She takes it back to the Apple farm where Applejack and Big Mac freak the fuck out and hide it before Granny can walk in. Turns out there's some feud between the Apple and Pear families but they don't know why and they can't ask Granny because she'll just get mad like a religious parent getting mad at their child for questioning having blind faith so they go ask Goldie Delicious about it.
Next day, they arrive and Goldie begins telling them the story of the feud. Turns out there used to be a pear farm ran by the Pear family right next to the Apple farm but they hated each other. She explains the only two who didn't fight were an Apple named Bright Macintosh and a Pear named Pear Butter. We then find out those were the Apple siblings' parents' names and the siblings panic at the revelation they're half Pear. Goldie gives them another lead which is their father's old buddy who can tell them more stories.
They go to him and he tells a story of the shenanigans he got up to with Bright Mac. In the story, teenage Bright Mac commits destruction of property against the Pears and confesses so Pear Butter wouldn't be falsely accused of the act. If only there were more people like Bright Mac, maybe it wouldn't be so easy to just accuse people of crimes and ruin their reputation over things they didn't do. After his story, he sends them to Mrs. Cake who apparently knew Pear Butter.
At Sugarcube Corner, we learn Mrs. Cake used to be named Chiffon Swirl before she tells her story with Pear Butter who is the reason Mrs. Cake got her cutie mark. She then tells how they used to bake together and stuff but oh my god is Pear Butter fucking adorable!
Bloom effect again. Then a song that's pretty good. After the song, Bright Mac leads Pear Butter to a rock that has their cutie marks in a heart carved into it. This reminds me of the time I was hiking with two people and we came across a thing that had a shitton of these couple's initials things and one of the people I was with asked something like "How many of them do you think are still together?" and I remember saying like three percent to which one of them said they thought the same amount.
So then we learn the Pears were gonna move away and Mrs. Cake tells them to go to the embezzlement master herself, Mayor Mare to continue the story. When she's done falsifying documents, she explains how she officiated Bright Mac and Pear Butter's wedding. Then in the story, Granny and Grandpear arrive to find them married and they get pissed and Pear Butter stays with the Apples. Also notice how Grandpear is still called Grandpear here even though he isn't a grandfather yet.
After that story, the siblings go to Grandpear himself who explains he's over his anger and crap. They then confront Granny and she and Grandpear resolve their problems with each other. They all then go to the tree who's seeds were planted by Bright Mac and Pear Butter at their wedding and the episode ends.
Very engaging episode to the point I believe it's worth 6 EV. I give it 4 VB because I like Bright Mac and Pear Butter's characters and Pear Butter is very cute. 6 DV because we learn about the Apple siblings' parents and more of other characters' pasts.
MLP Commentaries IndexWritten 2025-3-7 Published 2025-4-1