hello muddah, hello faddah

• I realize the CMC are a bit older, but I still feel this camp needs some sort of adult supervision. The lawsuit risks are like whoa.
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"Attend our camp! Earn your cutie mark and learn how to clear your thetans!"
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A CUTIE MARK KILLED MY FATHER• Jeez, everypony's a Wonderbolt these days.

• But Rumble's kind of awesome at being an asshole. Not saying he deserves a cutie mark in it or anything, but he's good.
• A filly named Kettle Corn has a cutie mark in haiku but her real passion is drawing circles. You know, this pony show gets kind of weird sometimes.
• Rumble rejects all you hold dear! But I like how they set up that he has a reason for feeling like this (even though we don't know for sure what it is yet).
• Nopony puts Rumble in a box!
• Hmm, his song
is pretty persuasive. Still, I won't know what to think till I hear the eurobeat remix.
• I like how they're highlighting how the cutie mark concept is actually kinda silly.
• A rival camp?! This can only end one way: HOT DOG EATING COMPETITION.
• Sorry Scoots, the mob has spoken.
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"So who's gonna eat all this jam?"
• I feel like this script is writing philosophical checks its grade-school ponies can't cash.
• Sweetie's been taking

lessons from Pinkie Pie.
• "I'm Thunderlane and this is my favorite day camp in Equestria!"

• Pipsqueak built a popsicle stick model of the castle. All right, Pipsqueak, I like you now.
• If I have a gripe, it's that we didn't get a gag or anything punchy to end the episode with, although Thunderlane's eyebrow wag was tres cool.
• They could've given Rumble his cutie mark at the end, but that would've been too easy. The point is not whether Rumble is proved right or wrong, the point is getting him over his anxieties.
I LIKED THIS ONE: I liked this one. A pretty nuanced look at its chosen topic, the antagonist is sympathetic and nobody's a jerk for no reason. Vincent Tong is MVP once again.

But I still think those kids needed a chaperone.