My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

There are these 6 ponies, right, and they live in this village. And they're all friends and stuff, and they all go off and do things like save the whole damn town and learn shit about Friendship and all that. It's pretty basic kid's TV stuff, simple morality tales for the young.

So yeah, pretty normal for kiddiewinks cartoon time, but it has a deeper hook that attracts, well, me. I guess it's the same thing that attracts other people as well, but judging by the comments they leave under the YouTube videos they're all cunts, retards and freaky fucking perverts. Fuck those guys, seriously.

Oh yeah, the hook. The thing that sets this show apart from the rest of the bilge water on TV, I think I know what it is. Pinkie Pie. Or Rainbow Dash. Whatever, one of the characters will implant itself deep in the heart of your conscious being. Mine's Applejack, because she has a hat, but there's more to it than that. Actually no there isn't that was a lie right there. That's what makes this show great, it's a pony with a hat.

If you can go ten seconds in this show without noticing a pun, you're either totally fucking retarded or watching the credits or title sequence. Actually now that I think about it there probably are puns in there as well and I haven't noticed them because I'm too always busy singing along or dancing or something.

There's an episode where some pony shows up in the village with this pissy little magic show and all the two retard ponies are looking at her all wall-eyed because she can summon a fucking sparkler. The clever ponies call her on her bullshit, as they should because seriously she's crap, and what does she say?

"It seems we have some Naysayers in the audience"

Naysayers, like, Neigh Sayers. Get it? Right there, that's a quality pun. And it's more of the same all the way from here to Hell.

What happens in the episode is a travelling magician (Trixie) arrives in Ponyville where she generally acts like a terrible show off and boasts about how amazing she is at magic. The idiot ponies then decide to test her by bringing a huge ghost bear into town so that Trixie can vanquish it, like she said she could. Long story short, she doesn't, Twilight then saves the day and Trixie runs off into the night.

Of course, it is actually Trixie's job to drum up support for her business, and that means a degree of exaggeration (not to say that's a good thing, but it's hardly unreasonable when you consider her ability to feed herself is on the line) to draw a crowd and make a living. So, she's not so much being a jackass, as much as she's just trying to earn some money.

And then the crowd try to one up her, why? If you don't like the show you are allowed to walk away. But no, that's not good enough, they have to prove they are just as good as a professional entertainer. Trixie's work relies on her credibility as a magician, so by trying to show her up they aren't actually cutting her ego down to size, they're trying to cost her money and ruin her business.

Then it all really goes to shit when the ghost bear shows up. Note how Trixie is spending the night, in a tiny little wooden box on wheels which earlier in the day served as the stage for her show. She lives in a shitty little cabin, that's all she can afford. And by the end of the episode, she doesn't even have that as the ghost bear smashes it to pieces. When she runs away, she takes nothing with her, it's clear she's left with nothing in the world.

And she has no way of getting anything back. Think about it, her career as a travelling magician relies entirely on her reputation as a great magician, which she no longer has now thanks to the ponies of Ponyville. Because it's not enough to not like a show, you have to fuck over the performer's whole life because they were trying to earn some money.

Get ready for an episode in season two where Trixie is begging on the street.