Re: S04E14: Filli Vanilli
It's okay on Rarity, but most anything looks nice enough on her white coat. That was more a pun on a certain S1 episode that also starred a certain yellow horse.

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Fizzbuzz
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Pinkie Pie wrote:We can't prank Fluttershy! I mean, she's so sensitive, it'll hurt her feelings - even our most harmless prank!
Aramek wrote:Nothing looks bad on Rarity.
Even in Magic Duel when she had the ugly dress poofed onto her. Looked good.
Even in Boast Busters when she had the ugly green hair poofed onto her. Looked good.
Foxfyre wrote:I really liked this episode! I didn't really watch certain parts of it, though, I was a little too afraid of something embarrassing happening so I kinda just listened to some parts.
...But Pinkie's 'you sound like a dude' comment means I'll probably never watch/listen to this episode againA lot of Pinkie's behavior seemed kinda bad, but for me that just went too far.
citric wrote:
The Doctor wrote:
While Pinkie was still a jerk this episode, I don't know if this is a fair thing to bring up. Fluttershy is made of much stronger stuff than she was in season 1.
Foxfyre wrote:I really liked this episode! I didn't really watch certain parts of it, though, I was a little too afraid of something embarrassing happening so I kinda just listened to some parts.
...But Pinkie's 'you sound like a dude' comment means I'll probably never watch/listen to this episode againA lot of Pinkie's behavior seemed kinda bad, but for me that just went too far.
I can imagine why hearing those specific words might be distressing to Foxfyre. A lot of the things Pinkie says in this episode don't make meFizzbuzz wrote:If it helps, remember that Fluttershy's voice had been straight-up magically changed. As I saw it, Pinkie Pie was just pointing out the obvious for whatever reason, not trying to make fun of Fluttershy for it. Is that the way it felt to you?
SoundMonkey44 wrote:Also pinkie stole Twys Cutie Mark, XD
Opposing Farce wrote:Really the weirdest thing about this episode to me, even aside from the Flutterguy callback that I'm sure people have discussed to death by now, is how little conflict there actually is. This is honestly kind of a structural weakness in the narrative, I think; in the vast majority of the episode the only real obstacles the characters have to overcome are really minor things that pretty much immediately get settled. There's an initial conflict between Fluttershy and Rarity that they come to an understanding about by the end of the first scene, and then there's no real conflict until Big Mac loses his voice and Fluttershy has to face her stage fright, which also gets worked around in about two minutes. Afterwards we get a good 7-8 minutes or so, basically a third of the episode, where nobody really has any competing interests or internal dilemmas: Fluttershy wants to sing, the other Ponytones want her to sing, Big Mac eventually starts to look a little flustered but nothing really comes of it. The central conflict of the episode only appears with Fluttershy's terrifying searchlight-eye pony heads during the climax, and at that point the show's only giving itself five minutes to address it.
Fizzbuzz wrote:The conflict was definitely there, it's just that the episode was never very direct with it. All through the second act, as Fluttershy and the others sang, we were all just waiting for the other shoe to drop. I think this structure really made for a great change of pace, with how it got all the usual stuff out of the way like that.
Fizzbuzz wrote:The conflict was definitely there, it's just that the episode was never very direct with it. All through the second act, as Fluttershy and the others sang, we were all just waiting for the other shoe to drop. I think this structure really made for a great change of pace, with how it got all the usual stuff out of the way like that.
Headless Horse wrote:
The more I think about this the more it cracks me up. Somewhere in town there's a pony who has a deer as a pet.
Headless Horse wrote:I thought it was actually the lack of a bigger, more overarching external conflict that allowed us to sort of peel away the layers and see the warring sides within Fluttershy herself being the source of the episode's real drama: she's willing to volunteer and self-sacrifice, even if it puts her directly in the line of fire of her own vulnerability. That's a remarkably grown-up thing for her to do.
Fizzbuzz wrote:I guess that's another hoofed mammal we can cross off of the "sapient in Equestria" list, then.
Headless Horse wrote:
The more I think about this the more it cracks me up. Somewhere in town there's a pony who has a deer as a pet.
Tears wrote:Just on the music front, I think the Smile song and the reprise of Flutters' song both had a similar little key shift right at the end (I don't know what you'd call that because I am not Octavia), on "from these happy friends of mii-iiine" and "you gotta find, you gotta fii-iiind".
Whatever that is I am a total sucker for it, because I get allfrom those parts of both songs.
PictishBeast wrote:
At one of the Comic-Cons, Jayson or Meghan said that "hoofed mammals" were like the "people of Equestria" in the sense that they were all relatively normal citizens with regional/cultural differences. The deer in this scene implies that deer are animal-intelligent (like Angel, Harry, Tank, etc.) instead of pony-intelligent (like buffaloes, donkeys, zebras, cows, etc.)
Probably just an animator adding an asset without really thinking about it, but I can't help reading into it anyway.
PREVIEW EDIT:Like what Fizzbuzz was saying.
Wylie wrote:
I'm not Octavia, but I don't have the Orchestra tag in my sig for nothin'. It's called "modulation", and it is scientifically designed to make you goat that point in the song. So, it works.
Passport Clean wrote:I find more peace in accepting the reality the writers present to me instead of "metagaming" every little event.
Fizzbuzz wrote:I guess that's another hoofed mammal we can cross off of the "sapient in Equestria" list, then.
PictishBeast wrote:EDIT: That Universal video that Headless linked above was fucking hysterical.
EDIT2: That Universal video was SO hysterical I researched it and it turns out it was written by Matt Stone and Trey Parker long before they did South Park.
Ransom wrote:They are sentient. He's an Equestrian immigrant looking for a roommate
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