S06E20: Viva Las Pegasus

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S06E20: Viva Las Pegasus

Postby Wayoshi (?) » Wed Sep 14, 2016 4:58 pm

The Map sends Applejack and Fluttershy to Las Pegasus where they find Flim and Flam working in a resort called Gladmane’s.


This thread is for discussion of the episode. This episode airs at 11:30 AM Eastern / 8:30 AM Pacific on Saturday, September 17!

Official preview clips and images are okay to post, as is speculation about the episode.

Writers: Chris Wyatt & Kevin Burke

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Postby The Doctor (?) » Wed Sep 14, 2016 5:41 pm

I liked Flim and Flam before they got turned into generic evil businessmen.
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Postby Angel Beat (?) » Wed Sep 14, 2016 5:43 pm

Applejack and Fluttershy huh? Don't see those two together very often.
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Postby DerFurShur (?) » Wed Sep 14, 2016 5:44 pm

The Doctor wrote:I liked Flim and Flam before they got turned into generic evil businessmen.

So before the end of their first episode?
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Postby Aramek (?) » Wed Sep 14, 2016 5:55 pm

My mother, of all people, has asked numerous times "When is Flim and Flam coming back?". Well, it's finally happening.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Wed Sep 14, 2016 6:01 pm

The Doctor wrote:I liked Flim and Flam before they got turned into generic evil businessmen.

"before"? They always were, as far as I'm concerned. Hell, they even struck me as less evil in Leap of Faith than in SSCS6K.
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Postby DerFurShur (?) » Wed Sep 14, 2016 6:05 pm

In SSCS6K the only unique thing about them was that they apparently did make an invention that did what they claimed it could do.

It still doesn't change the fact that Flim and Flam themselves were later shown to be greedy and they're sole objective was to take over the apple supply in Ponyville to corner the market on cider. If the plan for Flim and Flam was for them to be morally gray or not typical cartoon swindlers then Larson should have written them to he open to working with the Apples, not laugh evilly while they're getting kicked off their farm after losing. But he didn't write them that way.
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Wed Sep 14, 2016 8:51 pm

Yeah, F&F have always been predatory jerks. Great singing voices, though! :flimflam:

I wonder how much -- if any -- actual gambling we'll be shown. Because I want to see some Rain Man ponies.
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Postby Octavia (?) » Wed Sep 14, 2016 9:15 pm

Aramek wrote:My mother, of all people, has asked numerous times "When is Flim and Flam coming back?". Well, it's finally happening.

I wish I could get anyone in my family other than my nieces to sit through an episode with me. :fluttersmith:
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Postby Applepie (?) » Wed Sep 14, 2016 9:30 pm

I had been waiting in ages for an episode like this.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Wed Sep 14, 2016 10:03 pm

Mechanical Ape wrote:I wonder how much -- if any -- actual gambling we'll be shown. Because I want to see some Rain Man ponies.

I doubt we'll see any. I know the European Union is really strict about depictions of gambling in video games, so I wouldn't be surprised if they're similarly skittish about depictions of it in children's cartoons. As such, it'd be easier for the show to not feature it at all, so that it'll be easier to export to European distributors.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Wed Sep 14, 2016 11:09 pm

Flim and Flam weren't really evil businessmen in their first episode. They had a machine that worked, and worked well. It made Cider just as good as the Apple Family, and in a fraction of the time.
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Postby DerFurShur (?) » Wed Sep 14, 2016 11:20 pm

Yeah and then they tried to make a bad deal with the Apples, abandoned their quality control protocols when they started losing, and then when presented with an opportunity to re-negotitiate with the Apples after proving their machine was legit they instead just laugh like villains as a family gets removed from their home and did so in font of the entire town.

Then they give their customers the shitty barrels so not only are they greedy but also kind of dumb too.

Hell I'm convinced now they probably stole the SSCS6K they're clearly too dumb to have made that themselves.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Wed Sep 14, 2016 11:25 pm

Octavia wrote:I wish I could get anyone in my family other than my nieces to sit through an episode with me. :fluttersmith:

It's 90% gentle ribbing besides.

"You watchin' that gay show again?" then she'll laugh.
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Thu Sep 15, 2016 8:38 am

What are the odds of Unicon bits being referenced in this?

Just like cash, but funner.
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Postby Skipper (?) » Thu Sep 15, 2016 9:41 am

Fizzbuzz wrote:I doubt we'll see any. I know the European Union is really strict about depictions of gambling in video games, so I wouldn't be surprised if they're similarly skittish about depictions of it in children's cartoons. As such, it'd be easier for the show to not feature it at all, so that it'll be easier to export to European distributors.

Is that really true? I know that for example in the Netherlands, online gambling is prohibited, but I haven't heard of any prohibitions regarding the mere depiction of it.

Some quick googling doesn't really yield any results.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Sep 15, 2016 11:41 am

PEGI, Europe's video game rating agency, specifically calls out depictions of gambling in its ratings. This apparently started becoming an issue in 2008-09 or so. The main case I know of regarding this is the Pokemon games; all of them from generations 1-4 featured a slot machine minigame of one sort or another, but starting in generation 4 the releases of one of the games had them removed in the European version, and the non-Japanese versions of another couple of games released in 2010 had the slot machine replaced with an entirely different minigame. They've been completely absent since then. My impression is that this was done so that Nintendo could more easily market the Pokemon games worldwide.
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Postby Skipper (?) » Thu Sep 15, 2016 12:35 pm

Seems you're right: any game containing gambling automatically receives an 18+ rating. It isn't hard to figure out why Nintendo wouldn't want that.

On the other hand, the European ratings for films and television don't seem to take gambling into account at all, only sex, violence, frightening images, coarse language, drug (ab)use and discrimination. So I guess gambling ponies wouldn't be a problem, EU ratings wise.

Still I'd expect Hasbro to steer well clear of such themes.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Thu Sep 15, 2016 1:55 pm

I hope there's horse racing betting. And horse doping.
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Postby Octavia (?) » Thu Sep 15, 2016 2:14 pm

Aramek wrote:I hope there's horse racing betting. And horse doping.

And horse euthanizing on the track :nngh:
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Thu Sep 15, 2016 2:15 pm

And pony Cirque de Soleil.

:flutterdear: "How are they doing that with their --"
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Sep 15, 2016 3:15 pm

Octavia wrote:And horse euthanizing on the track :nngh:

We still haven't seen an Equestrian glue factory, come to think of it.
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Thu Sep 15, 2016 3:27 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:We still haven't seen an Equestrian glue factory, come to think of it.

That's because everything's held together with hugs. :hug:
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Thu Sep 15, 2016 3:59 pm

:allears: I can't wait to hear that filly contest winner sing.

:bluh: Even though you can't make out a darn thing she's singing?

:glare: Hay...she's doing her own thing.
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:party: A pony, a plan, a canal...Panamare!
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Thu Sep 15, 2016 10:52 pm

That is the least telling preview I have ever seen in the history of ever.
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If I remember correctly, one of the show's staff told me that they weren't allowed to do any scenes with gambling and had to change a seasonal poster once because of that. But that was a few seasons back and it might have changed since then.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Sep 15, 2016 11:19 pm

Given stuff like this or Zephyr Breeze's line about how Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash had "literally helped save Equestria, like, a dozen times," it's nice that the show is really starting to acknowledge how the six of them actually matter in the world.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Thu Sep 15, 2016 11:53 pm

He's a hunka hunka burnin' pone.
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Fri Sep 16, 2016 2:15 am

"Friendship Connoisseur" is code for brony.
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Fri Sep 16, 2016 2:25 am

Skipper wrote:Seems you're right: any game containing gambling automatically receives an 18+ rating. It isn't hard to figure out why Nintendo wouldn't want that.

On the other hand, the European ratings for films and television don't seem to take gambling into account at all, only sex, violence, frightening images, coarse language, drug (ab)use and discrimination. So I guess gambling ponies wouldn't be a problem, EU ratings wise.

Still I'd expect Hasbro to steer well clear of such themes.


Discrimination? Does that count stuff like, you know, griffons? Or zebras?
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Fri Sep 16, 2016 6:43 am

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Discrimination? Does that count stuff like, you know, griffons? Or zebras?

No, only donkeys.
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Sat Sep 17, 2016 2:36 pm

This is the first time I got a Saturday off in forever so I left my significant other in the hotel room so I could come home and watch the episode live. Start in about an hour, yes?
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Postby Gloomy Rube (?) » Sat Sep 17, 2016 2:38 pm



That guy does a terrible etemon impression

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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Sep 17, 2016 2:52 pm

I thought he sounded very vaguely like Elvis.
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Sat Sep 17, 2016 3:26 pm

Shows about to start!
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Postby Octavia (?) » Sat Sep 17, 2016 3:31 pm

Already this episode makes me miss living in close proximity to Las Vegas. :wantitneedit:
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat Sep 17, 2016 3:32 pm

Dat scene transition. :lol:
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Postby Octavia (?) » Sat Sep 17, 2016 3:37 pm

Siegfried and Roy pones :vogue:
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat Sep 17, 2016 3:39 pm

AJ's getting slowly angry the moment she heard the voice but before she saw them was the cutest thing ever. Holy shit.
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Sat Sep 17, 2016 3:40 pm

Is this a remake of the comics issue about Flim & Flam no longer being friends over a marefriend?
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