S06E10: The Saddle Row Review

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Re: S06E09: The Saddle Row Review

Postby RudeCyrus (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 3:45 pm

oh man that sweeping scene
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Postby Doctor Wheeze (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 3:46 pm

:excite: Sweep sweep sweep...

Lots of good character goofs so far in this one.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 3:53 pm

That "sweep sweep sweep" scene still gets to me.

:modesty: When you write this story, could you maybe skip the part where we locked Rarity inside the window display?
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Postby Quote (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 3:54 pm

10/10 episode. They really knocked it out of the park with this one.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 3:59 pm

>Mane 6, saviors of Equestria
>never-do-wells

Always.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 4:00 pm

Aramek wrote:I've been giddily laughing the whole time.

fuuuuck

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AUUUGHHH!!! :ponydrugs: :ponydrugs: :ponydrugs: :ponydrugs: :ponydrugs: :ponydrugs:
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Postby Octavia (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 4:00 pm

I adored this episode. I haven't laughed that much in a long time. :lol:

I loved the testimonials in the diner.
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 4:01 pm

This was a good, low key episode, a good way to shift gears from the more dramatic ones we've had lately. I like cameos, so it was nice to see Vinyl Scratch once more, as well as Coco Pommel. I really liked the J. Jonah Jameson pony.

The transition between the interview and boutique scenes worked well, I thought. The false ending was a nice touch.

I wish the car horn in the door had gone "Ah-OOOGAH". :starity:

I guess it makes sense that only Pinkie would be able to see Rarity's conscience (besides Rarity herself). The TMPP reference was good as well.

Twilight just wants an excuse to organize. :ponynet: And leave it to AJ to see the practical side of spoon clothing. Image

The episode had a good message of "solve the problem your own way" instead of trying to do what you think the person wants.
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Postby Adelor Lyon (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 4:01 pm

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Postby RudeCyrus (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 4:02 pm

Oh man that was a fun ep. This season has been great so far.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 4:03 pm

This was a really, really hilarious episode. Everything was great about it, with the interviews, characters doing their things, the chaos of it all. Bwa ha ha :lol:

Pinkie talking to good and bad "Rarity" was hilarious.

Also, Pinkie calls back to "Too Many Pinkie Pies". And apparently one of the Pinkie clones survived :-P
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 4:05 pm

Adelor Lyon wrote:[va credits]
Buried Lede, that's a great name for a reporter pony.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 4:09 pm

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Postby Rainbow Crash (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 4:12 pm

That was one of the funniest episodes of the series :lol:
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 4:15 pm

I don't think I want to see them co-opting the The Office format on a regular basis, but they really made it work this time.
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Postby Applepie (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 4:31 pm

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Not bad of an slice of life episode. :ponydrugs:
Pinkie Pie: So, you see this here? This, um, this is um, a big, round room. It's known for its roundness, and bigness, and did I mention that it's round?
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Postby Juniper Phoenix (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 4:33 pm

Just got back from watching it with friends, and we had a blast. This is easily my new favorite episode of the season so far. :awesomedash:
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 4:41 pm

This was kinda looking like a poor retread of Sweet & Elite, but whoever in the writer's room suggested the flash-forward interview trope as a framing device was dead on. While most S6 eps up until today were good/competent, you could say there was some staleness to them. A fresh story structure and continuous faces, gags, organic character one-liners in the cuts to interviews really propped this episode up into upper-tier.

The "conflict" was a bit hamfisted - it's not like what the Mane 6 were doing at first was wrong. Plaid Stripes is coddled by Mr. Stripes (mob boss's daughter trope here, for sure... Rarity what have you gotten into :v: ) and will have to learn that some other time, the raccoons were jerks lol, RD was doing her best at an impossible situation. Still their little touches at the end were cute enough.

Definitely the best S6 has offered so far, as well as Confalone's best.

SlateSlabrock wrote:I don't think I want to see them co-opting the The Office format on a regular basis, but they really made it work this time.


And I doubt they will. Haber even said on Twitter his 6 year old was having some trouble following the story structure here, and was inquiring if anyone else was not following. They took a risk outside of the target audience with this style, and it was fresh, but it wouldn't work long-term.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 5:04 pm

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Postby Big Boss (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 5:15 pm

Getting reeeaaal tired of all the shoehorning of scratch in these episodes, especially since saying 'DJ PON3" out loud is so stupid.
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Postby ſpectralunicorn (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 5:40 pm

Not really my kind of episode, but it wasn't bad.
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Postby Nicotico (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 5:43 pm

Big Boss wrote:Getting reeeaaal tired of all the shoehorning of scratch in these episodes, especially since saying 'DJ PON3" out loud is so stupid.


What if she's a changeling and the finale villain?
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 5:55 pm

It would be quite a plot twist.

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Postby Perpetual Lurker (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 6:06 pm

I haven't laughed so hard at an episode of anything in a long, long time. The whole interview framing device was genius. My favorite bit was the whole "sweep sweep sweep" gag.
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 6:48 pm

That was top notch. I'm glad they're willing to take chances like this, 6 seasons in :-P
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 6:58 pm

Big Boss wrote:Getting reeeaaal tired of all the shoehorning of scratch in these episodes, especially since saying 'DJ PON3" out loud is so stupid.

It's definitely something to talk about at this point. I'm not too bothered by it, but it does come across as pandering more than anything else in the show so far outside of Slice of Life. Vinyl Scratch is still her actual name in my head canon, and PON3 a stage name.

Every Ponyville pony showed last week, so giving that a pass, the other blatant Vinyl sighting was Prances. Thus it could just be a Confalone thing. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby Adelor Lyon (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 7:17 pm

I don't mind seeing DJ, but it's time for the cast to call her "DJ," kind of how characters refer to each other as "Twilight" or "Dash" or other shortenings. I've never cared for pronouncing the "three" in her name and always said "DJ Pony." The "three" really doesn't roll off one's tongue very well.

They played the normal theme during the credits again (only the second time this season?); they should've played DJ's bass beat and had Twilight and company saying "Sweep, sweep, sweep" on top of it.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 7:26 pm

To be fair, the only ones to actually verbalize "dee jay pone three" is Twi and Rarity, both of whom would be way out of touch of how to actually say it.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 7:31 pm

Man, just a couple days ago I was thinking of how The Simpsons once did an episode in a format like this ("Behind the Laughter"; I think it was the finale of the 11th season) and that this sort of thing would never work within FiM's structure, but then this episode came along and it was hilarious. It was a great departure from the more serious past episodes involving all six of them trying to solve something and just causing more trouble, like Castle Sweet Castle or The Best Night Ever, and just having something a bit sillier in general makes for a good breath of fresh air. And it really was silly, considering it ended with a family of raccoons serving fancy hors d'oeuvres at a boutique's grand opening... but this is a show about magical cartoon horses, so of course it's okay to do silly stuff. Anyway, great stuff.
Big Boss wrote:Getting reeeaaal tired of all the shoehorning of scratch in these episodes, especially since saying 'DJ PON3" out loud is so stupid.
Wayoshi wrote:It's definitely something to talk about at this point. I'm not too bothered by it, but it does come across as pandering more than anything else in the show so far outside of Slice of Life. Vinyl Scratch is still her actual name in my head canon, and PON3 a stage name.

The name itself could be Hasbro wanting to push trademarkable toy names first and foremost. Ancillary material such as the comics and trading cards can more easily get away with calling her Vinyl Scratch, but for the few times her name gets dropped in the show, Hasbro will want to use the name that's gonna be there on toy shelves. Case in point, Coco Pommel was also only referred to as "Miss Pommel" in both Rarity's lines and the credits, and that's the name Hasbro has used for her in the toys lately. (This was especially curious since she was still called by her full name in Made in Manehattan.)
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 7:47 pm

I don't think it's "pandering" per se, but name-dropping too often can be kind of annoying, and you can almost hear them pronouncing the ™ at the end. Especially so often here in the beginning of the season.

Anywayyyy,

So much for that weird title.
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Comeuppance!
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Pictures of ponies!
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Dust ponies
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Awkward Earth Pony logistics!
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Raccoons!
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Actually, they've changed the raccoon designs:
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Do the Roomba Rhumba!
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Gee willikers! Dust, my favorite!
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All the clothes are made of spoons!
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Poor Coco Miss Pommél.
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Is... is that a pacifier?
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SKREEEEE
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something something giant hat
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Actually... have we ever seen pegasi wear clothes while flying?
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Princess powers, activate!
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It's beautiful, but... I don't think they assigned anyone to redecorate the store. :wat:
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This is a black tie event!
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 7:52 pm

Maybe next time don't leave everything for the very last day, Rarity.

She's so used to everything working out perfectly because of the magic of friendship, that she's getting lazy :v:
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Postby Sidotsy (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 8:03 pm

I really need a pic of Rainbow and AJ hoof-bumping.

And this was a pretty good episode, I certainly laughed a lot and the outcome was really adorable. I think I was tempered a little by the annoying neighbors part, because that's something I've been dealing with for the past year. I do like to think that AJ helped Plaid Stripes set up a spoon-wear shop next to that weird hat shop she kept mentioning.

sweep sweep sweep.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 8:04 pm

SlateSlabrock wrote:Actually... have we ever seen pegasi wear clothes while flying?
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Do the Wonderbolts and their flight suits count? :v:

Bit of an animation error there, too. It looks like the darker streak of the window glass got layered behind Rarity.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 8:11 pm

Sidotsy wrote:I really need a pic of Rainbow and AJ hoof-bumping.

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Postby Sidotsy (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 8:14 pm

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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 8:16 pm

Hey, you know how we saw another Pinkie in the other booth after Pinkie Pie was referring to what happened in TMPP? What if that was not an escaped clone, but is instead one of the changelings we've been seeing this season, just in a disguise?

(okay it's really just a gag, but still)
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Postby Octavia (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 8:25 pm

SlateSlabrock wrote:Is... is that a pacifier?
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It's a rave thing. Ecstasy makes you grind your teeth, and pacifiers supposedly help prevent that. :spike101:
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 8:47 pm

I like the look of the tall pony Rainbow Dash hired.


Was a great episode.

Octavia wrote:It's a rave thing. Ecstasy makes you grind your teeth, and pacifiers supposedly help prevent that. :spike101:


So, pony-ecstasy is a thing in the show now?
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 8:58 pm

You need to float horse teeth IRL, though.

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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Sat May 21, 2016 9:00 pm

I gotta say, the narrative structure this had was surprising.

I mean, they could have easily done it in a more traditional way. They could start off establishing that an interview is going on, then set things up a little and imply things went wrong... And then they just switch to the flashback with some of these short cuts here and there. It'd be largely similar but totally approachable for the target audience. It wouldn't be that different from last week, actually.

This on the other hand, was kind of The Office. They didn't even bother with a "2 days earlier" disclaimer or anything to make things clearer, it went "conclusion -> interview -> actual episode events, with funny bits from the interview in between".

Maybe I'm just underestimating kids? But either way, it was amazing :allears:
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