S6E15MLP commentary spoilers

S6E15MLP commentary spoilers

I just want to say, the opening, shows that we're somehow dealing with SEASON ONE Rainbow Dash and SEASON ONE Fluttershy rather than season 6 RD and Fluttershy! In particular when it was Pinkie Pie who explained to Rainbow Dash that pranking Fluttershy was off limits since she'd take it the wrong way. This makes this feel like a season 1 episode that they lost the script for, and then found and updated it for season 6.

That is all.

Yeah, this is definitely season one Rainbow Dash.

When did we see the filly scout uniforms before? They look way too similar to fanon stuff I've seen to be random chance. So when did we see the filly scouts uniforms before in the show?

Why isn't Sweetie freaking out at the cake? So the cake itself isn't a prank? And Sweetie, just use magic And Pinkie replaced her sewing machine with a cake? But where is her REAL sewing machine jerk?

"You really think Rainbow Dash is going to prank you in your sleep?" Season 1 RD? YES!!!! I see RD made use of Pinkie Pie's off screen teleporting.

Pranking CRANKY?! How stupid can you get!?!

I think RD is gonna have a long walk with Celly. How and did RD get that rock on Big Mac's track to begin with?

OW! A brick in a sandwich? HOW IS THAT CLEVER?!

Seriously, this is the 'Impractical Joker' from My Little Pony Tales. This is Patch, not Rainbow Dash.

Okay. Logic dictates this is a counter-prank, except how did Pinkie Pie get all her colors discorded like that?

And RD using the CMC as pawns? That's just bad taste. And are the CMC the only filly-scouts in Ponyville?

Spike is still a dragon at heart. And sorry I don't have much to say this episode, like I said, it feels like a S1 or S2 episode that got lost in time.


And shouldn't this episode be airing around Halloween instead?

And baby zombies. To be honest, nice to see an unholy plague that doesn't magically pretend kids don't get sick. (Even I'm still betting on this being a counter-prank).

Ya know, this is a parody of the Yoshi Cookies commercial for the NES. Or that's what it is to me.

And I suspect this is a counter-prank, because RD DIDN'T assume this was a counter-prank! That's always the biggest sign. In MLPTs, I think the writers did a better job because Patch's friends set up a decoy-prank ahead of time so Patch would fall for the second one and plus they played to Patch's weaknesses (such as wanting to believe UFOs were real).

Also notice how the zombies didn't stop for the cookies?

The 'and Rarity was a zombie' is a standard-issue horror movie twist.

Okay, I get the whole 'grand trick by the whole town to teach RD a lesson' motif. (I never liked this motif because way too much can go wrong, way too much can backfire on its own way, since it ALL relies on the person in question always acting exactly the way you want them to, and people aren't robots, RD might have panicked and called in the Guard, or gone crazy with shame and run off into the Everfree never to return). But how did they make themselves look sickly? Or was that supposed to be RD's fear addled mind?  



This does NOT feel like Mare-Do-Well 2.0, because Mare-Do-Well? RD was ENDANGERING ponies' LIVES with her 'grandstanding BEFORE saving the ponies' and so Mare-Do-Well had to step in. This episode? This feels over the top to get her a lesson.

Scootaloo was in on it? Geeze.

The MORAL I can appreciate, (Not everyone enjoys pranks, and you're just being selfish if you don't care if who you're pranking is just the butt of your joke), but the placement in the series could epically use some work (seriously, season 1 or 2 would have worked better with Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy's character development.) And Rainbow Dash SEEMS to be going the Patch route of not actually learning her lesson... but then since broadcast standards have changed since then, they have RD learn the lesson after all.

I'm neutral on this episode.