S06E14: Stranger Than Fan Fiction

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Re: S06E14: Stranger Than Fan Fiction

Postby Headless Horse (?) » Mon Aug 01, 2016 5:15 pm

You know what else it did: it made fan conventions out to be really cool.

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Selling licensed immersion experiences and featuring fully realized simulations of stuff from the stories, like it's Disneyland or the old Star Trek Experience (rip). The convention circuit couldn't ask for a better endorsement or bit of advertising.
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Mon Aug 01, 2016 5:23 pm

The only other Mane Sixer this week wished she could be at the convention too. :shock:

Pony sez: it's okay to be a nerd, and here's how to be a better and more accepting nerd.
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Postby DerFurShur (?) » Mon Aug 01, 2016 5:45 pm

Apparently Daring Do conventions are a good place to sell pots.
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Mon Aug 01, 2016 5:53 pm

And the give-no-fucks concession worker is still there in the upper right, scowling. :lol:
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Postby DerFurShur (?) » Mon Aug 01, 2016 5:56 pm

Having gone to many an anime convention I can confirm that food vendors give zero fucks.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Mon Aug 01, 2016 7:02 pm

Mechanical Ape wrote:And the give-no-fucks concession worker is still there in the upper right, scowling. :lol:

If you look closely during the scene when Rainbow Dash and Quibble Pants are arguing, you can see her finally crack a smile once the two of them stomp off in a huff.
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Postby Davyinatoga (?) » Mon Aug 01, 2016 7:09 pm

Carrots in hot dog buns?

Oh yeah, Ponies. Herbivores. Duh.
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Mon Aug 01, 2016 7:28 pm

Pinkie's opinions on hot dog eating contests notwithstanding :P
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Postby Auxiliatrix (?) » Mon Aug 01, 2016 7:43 pm

Headless Horse wrote:Pinkie's opinions on hot dog eating contests notwithstanding :P


Pinkie eats whatever Pinkie wants. :byopinkie:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Mon Aug 01, 2016 7:45 pm

I figure Fluttershy and Twilight Sparkle have eaten meat before. Fluttershy because some animals are obligate carnivores and she likely cooks for them, and Twilight because maybe she's had to attend fancy dinners with griffons and thus eaten some sort of meat-based dish out of politeness. :gotcha:
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Mon Aug 01, 2016 8:14 pm

Davyinatoga wrote:Carrots in hot dog buns?

Oh yeah, Ponies. Herbivores. Duh.

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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Mon Aug 01, 2016 9:08 pm

I think the carrot hot dogs go back to S2. I wanna say... Putting Your Hoof Down? A Friend In Deed?
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Mon Aug 01, 2016 9:08 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:I figure Fluttershy and Twilight Sparkle have eaten meat before. Fluttershy because some animals are obligate carnivores and she likely cooks for them, and Twilight because maybe she's had to attend fancy dinners with griffons and thus eaten some sort of meat-based dish out of politeness. :gotcha:

Twilight probably ate some meat in Dougworld. She seems the type who, when she's hungry enough, just stuffs food in her maw and asks what it was later.
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Postby Swift (?) » Mon Aug 01, 2016 9:40 pm

Mechanical Ape wrote:Actually, when I wrote that comment I was watching the bit where RD and QP nerd out about the # of arrow holes in the hat, right down to invoking unreliable narrator to wave off discrepancies, and yeah, I'm familiar enough with LOTR (or like to imagine I am) that I totally do that. That scene totally makes me feel like Quibble Pants; but not in a bad way, in a "I totally get this character in this moment" kind of way.:


Yeah, I certainly got a "do Balrogs have wings?" vibe from that whole discussion. :v:
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Postby Auxiliatrix (?) » Mon Aug 01, 2016 10:02 pm

Headless Horse wrote:I think the carrot hot dogs go back to S2. I wanna say... Putting Your Hoof Down? A Friend In Deed?


Other than Pinkie mentioning hot dogs in "Fall Weather Friends", I don't remember there being any carrot dogs besides the two screenshots already posted. My memory could be faulty, however. :-P

As for the characters eating meat, Pinkie does order pizza in Rainbow Rocks (if that counts), and there is a scene in the first movie where Twilight has a burger:

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However, the meat does look a little green and off to me. It is very possible that it is a veggie burger.


Edit- The burger Fluttershy grabs here (in the picture below) is different from another one that looks like a more traditional meat burger, so we can assume that even in their Equestria Girls forms, they may still be mostly vegetarian:

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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Mon Aug 01, 2016 11:01 pm

You don't think any of the fans will be upset when they find out A.K. Yearling skipped out on the convention, do you?
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Mon Aug 01, 2016 11:04 pm

You'd think Quibble would have noticed RD was a fan of the newer books, since she was cosplaying:

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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Mon Aug 01, 2016 11:49 pm

Pfft, as if Quibble Pants even bothers learning the titles of the new books, much less looking at their covers. All he needs to know is that they exist so that he can keep being proud of his own superior tastes. :twiright:
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Tue Aug 02, 2016 2:27 am

Highbrow Dash wrote:You'd think Quibble would have noticed RD was a fan of the newer books, since she was cosplaying:

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Thoroughly implausible. :snooty:
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Postby Davyinatoga (?) » Tue Aug 02, 2016 3:29 am

Can't wait to see the eventual cover of Tenacious D's Pick of Destiny with rewritten lyrics to recount the events of that book.
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Postby UnintelGen (?) » Tue Aug 02, 2016 3:35 am

Fizzbuzz wrote:Pfft, as if Quibble Pants even bothers learning the titles of the new books, much less looking at their covers. All he needs to know is that they exist so that he can keep being proud of his own superior tastes. :twiright:


Actually, to be a total Quibble Pants (Is that catching on? Is a that a Thingtm?) there's a few things wrong here. I'm pretty sure, and I mean I can't be bothered to check the episode at the moment, but I'm pretty sure the final book in the first trilogy is suppose to be Ring of Destiny... Which is clearly written (In smudgy-Not-English) on the cover of Dash's copy in the screencap. Which would mean there were only two books before Daring Don't... Which, of course, doesn't make a lick of sense but I imagine that whether or not the writers noticed, they reasonably didn't care. :pinkieshrug: This is what happens when you don't think far, far ahead. Like, unreasonably far.

This show ain't exactly air-tight with it's continuity, is it? :v:

Not only that, but Quibble also clearly demonstrates that he has knowledge of the future books, enough to critique them for the long walk to the bridge. He either hate-reads them or somehow knows the contents of the newer books from other ponies... Without something like access to the Internet.
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Postby Perrydotto (?) » Tue Aug 02, 2016 10:28 am

Completely adored this episode. It could have been so lame and cringey, but the writing, timing and fantastic performances really sold me on it. Absolutely brilliant. :allears:
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Postby LingEarth (?) » Wed Aug 03, 2016 3:29 pm

Much as I dislike Daring Do being real, this episode did good with the concept. And Quibble Pants. Quibble Pants was great. :3:
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Wed Aug 03, 2016 6:20 pm

Random note: This episode had a couple of faces with meaty gums for emphasis. I don't think I've ever seen that in pony before.

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Postby Sidotsy (?) » Wed Aug 03, 2016 6:43 pm

Horse faces.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Wed Aug 03, 2016 9:33 pm

We have indeed seen that before! But it's rare enough that it always feels like the first time.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Fri Aug 05, 2016 7:38 am

Quibble Pants is your one-stop shop for argument faces.

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Postby Master_Twig (?) » Mon Sep 05, 2016 6:16 am

SlateSlabrock wrote:Quibble Pants is your one-stop shop for argument faces.

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Seriously? How can you make a bunch of faces from this episode and not include this?

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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Mon Sep 05, 2016 7:51 am

Huh, must've forgotten to upload it. Image
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Postby Ransom (?) » Thu Dec 29, 2016 4:34 am

Finally saw this one all the way through and I enjoyed it a lot! Everyone has already said everything I could say excep: has anyone tried to expand upon lore from the Aztec style murals? Like the two alicorns fighting the snake refers to something Luna and Celestia did? Or their was a griffon/Pegasus war in the past?
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