S07E19: It Isn't the Mane Thing About You

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Re: S07E19: It Isn't the Mane Thing About You

Postby The Doctor (?) » Sun Sep 17, 2017 2:39 am

They thought too hard about the whole "no magic" thing.

Should have just said it had to do with Zecora's potion. Either magic doesn't work on it, or that Twilight and Starlight don't know enough about her potions to know what kind of magic would be needed.


:pinkieshrug: Minor nitpick for the episode, I still loved it.
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Sun Sep 17, 2017 2:47 am

The Doctor wrote:They thought too hard about the whole "no magic" thing.

Should have just said it had to do with Zecora's potion. Either magic doesn't work on it, or that Twilight and Starlight don't know enough about her potions to know what kind of magic would be needed.


:pinkieshrug: Minor nitpick for the episode, I still loved it.


Well you can make moustaches appear, but manes? That'd be ridiculous.

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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Sun Sep 17, 2017 3:35 am

I'm surprised no one notices this, but, it took the most fashionable pony in the series season sevens to try a new hair style.
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Postby Adelor Lyon (?) » Sun Sep 17, 2017 10:50 am

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As I've mentioned, I was happily surprised how dense with background references and callbacks this episode was, but I missed this callback the first time I watched.
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Postby Niels Olof (?) » Sun Sep 17, 2017 11:09 am

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I do not recall seeing Rarity move like this before, but it is adorable.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sun Sep 17, 2017 12:47 pm

:allears: how neat would it have been with no time skip at the end, and punk Rarity staying around for a few weeks?
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sun Sep 17, 2017 2:20 pm

I thought this was going to end as a "Kids, don't destroy your dolls' hair" episode, but apparently not! Do they sell hair plugs for the toys yet?
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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Sun Sep 17, 2017 6:15 pm

Mechanical Ape wrote::excite: "You can't create manes with magic! That would be unrealistic!"
I can totally buy that Equestrian magic is just stupid like that.
Image "Hmmmm, well, I'd say magicing up a cool mustache-"
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Image "And darn near anypony can come up with a lousy mane spell, "
Image "Even Trixie."
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:shock: "But a fantastic mane? No way! No way! That's like one of Starswirl the Bearded's Unsolved spells!"
Image "I thought the Magic of Friendship was his big unsolved spell. And you cracked that nut wide open, right?"
Image "Oh, he had many unsolved spells. One of which was ... a decent haircut. Yeah. That hat wasn't just for show."
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Postby Niels Olof (?) » Mon Sep 18, 2017 5:27 pm

The amount of fan art being generated over this episode is amazing. My favourite so far:
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I'm now on my third viewing, and that is rare these days. This episode is remarkably good. Between Punkity and her guitar shredding in Honest Apple, Rarity has been killing it this season.
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Postby marshmallow (?) » Tue Sep 19, 2017 1:29 am

I thought the solution was gonna be Rarity coming to terms and just shaving it off. Bald is beautiful! Made me think of Charles Barkley telling LeBron to "come on home."
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Tue Sep 19, 2017 1:47 am

Honestly, when I first watched it I thought to myself "A lot has happened, it must be getting close to the end." Then I looked at the time realized I was only 5 minutes into the show. It was very entertaining.
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In G1, pony hair was magical. In fact, it would grow back almost instantly when you cut it. So ponies were stuck with the same style and length for their entire lives. Much to the contrary of the toys that represented them.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Tue Sep 19, 2017 2:02 am

The strange thing is, I thought this episode's detail that you just can't get good hair via magic was funny, but EqG's treatment of magic as something similarly arbitrary and illogical (particularly the lack of reason behind how and why they sometimes get their pony ears/wings/"tails") mostly just makes me roll my eyes. Maybe it's since in Equestria magic is a force that all ponies know about and have to deal with at least sometimes, but in Dougworld it's made out to be something new that basically didn't exist until the events of the movies, so perhaps I expect dougworlders to care more about it than ponies.
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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Tue Sep 19, 2017 3:46 am


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So many bouquets! How can I possibly choose?!


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Personally, I think they're all marvelous arrangements!


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YOU CAN'T SAY THAT! FLOWERS ARE SERIOUS BUSINESS!

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WOW That's a great idea!


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*stunned speechless*
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Postby Niels Olof (?) » Tue Sep 19, 2017 3:29 pm

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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Tue Sep 19, 2017 4:31 pm

Hey, it's that guy.
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Hey, it's that guy.
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Ow, my toof!
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Gleeeeaaaam
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They sell Rarity's vanity in this episode by having her brushing her hair 100% of the time she's not busy. Of all the "this feels like season 1" kinda things, this is probably the most season 1.
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So this guy sells fans, hammers, and yarn?
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Haaaiiir
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Do not touch the hair.
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Mirror to check on the hair
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There was a time when their only experience of a bakery was a CROW... bar... coming at them down a stringy corridor.
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Also, a lot of Image faces after the incident.
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Zecora's house is looking pretty.
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Fix it fix it fix it fix it!
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Crystal hair literally shatters when they remove it from its owner
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If magic can't grow hair, I am thoroughly unimpressed.
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And cloud hair doesn't move when worn by a unicorn.
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Hugs!
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Pony sits on couch
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"Is this VAIN magazine?"
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butt
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And no toy's hair was ever safe again.
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Tue Sep 19, 2017 5:24 pm

Oh gosh even Muffins went punk :allears:

Thank you episode for resisting a "hair today, gone tomorrow" pun. I know you wanted to but you held out and I respect that.
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Postby Adelor Lyon (?) » Wed Sep 20, 2017 8:43 pm

At the end, Rarity asks her friends if they're sure her mane has recovered. Applejack says, "It's been months." I can only imagine Rarity's been constantly asking about her mane several times a day, possibly every single day, for the past several months.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Wed Sep 20, 2017 10:41 pm

Adelor Lyon wrote:At the end, Rarity asks her friends if they're sure her mane has recovered. Applejack says, "It's been months." I can only imagine Rarity's been constantly asking about her mane several times a day, possibly every single day, for the past several months.

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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Thu Sep 21, 2017 12:56 am

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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Thu Sep 21, 2017 2:32 pm

:bwuh: Why’s everypony think she’s so great?
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I mean, look at me, I practically invented this look!
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Mon Oct 02, 2017 3:26 am

EEEEEE 💯 :ponydrugs:

Now this is the kind of S1-style pony comedy I yearn for.

Nice long runway where you can see the mixup coming from miles off, but of course it's not like it's any kind of mystery where the conflict is going to come from; the show's basically spoon-feeding it to you so it can get to the good stuff as quick as possible and spend as much time as possible there. And that good stuff is the montage of Twilight and Starlight tag-teaming their mane-replacing magic; the horrified shriek from that crystal pony, oh my god :awesomedash:

S1 references a-plenty, which is always a nice surprise, but you know what I actually liked most of all? That scene of Rarity and Pinkie heading to Zecora's through the forest. It was unhurried, it was atmospheric; it reminded me a lot of the scene of Applejack and Spike talking in worried hushed tones about whether something horrible has happened to Fluttershy at Froggy Bottom Bog. Those sorts of establishing scenes are the kind of thing the show would do in its infancy, when it's still trying to show us what kind of world it's living in and how much muddy slimy realism these candy-colored marshmallow horses live in. It hardly has a need to do that sort of thing anymore, and so it usually doesn't; but I really appreciated them taking the time for it here.

That, of course, and all the goofball wild-takey cartoon hijinks as world-shattering magic is brought to bear by thousand-year practitioners against the problem of a fucked-up hairdo. Resulting in streamers of multicolored hair shooting out the windows of the crystal castle.

*inhales deeply* Mmmh—aaaaahhhh.
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