S07E08: Hard to Say Anything

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Re: S07E08: Hard to Say Anything

Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Sat May 27, 2017 7:06 pm

I was thinking Justin Bieber. :ponder:
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Sat May 27, 2017 9:01 pm

:wingsright: "Applejack, you should help Big Mac find a mare! Being an aunt is the best!"
:eyebrow: "... All right Twi, lemme explain how things work in a big family."
:twasnothin: "I've got more first cousins, second cousins, third cousins twice removed, and eighth cousins six times removed than you've got purple hairs in your mane. They all got little fillies an' colts of their own. And when we get together, I'm aunt to pretty much all of 'em."
:( "I got fifteen little cousins what call me Aunt Applejack --"
:angry: "-- four who call me Granny Applejack --"
:hilarious: "-- and little Apple Core who thinks I was around when rocks were invented."
:twasnothin: "Point I'm trying to make is, when you got a big enough family, you wear a lot o' hats and you don't sweat the details. We all love each other and we're whatever we need to be for everyone. We're all just smushed together like a great big ..."
:excite: "A great big apple pie?"
:eyebrow: "I was gonna say 'rat's nest' but sure."
:-I "Well, I sure felt the Canterlot/Ponyville cultural divide come down like a ton of bricks."
:twasnothin: "Heck, dependin' on how you read the tree, Babs Seed is technically my aunt and I got a great-granduncle who's still in the womb."

• Oh sure, Sweetie Belle's into costumes again. MY CONTINUITY :whine:
• I wonder if they officially renamed themselves "Starlight's Old Village".
• Big Mac blushes white, which is I guess the only way you could show that.
• Scootaloo knows about secret romantic getaways because Dad was a philanderer. :ngh:
• spyrate
• Oh jeez, that is one man-hungry look from Sugar Belle.
• She's not naming apple recipes, those are all the kids she plans to have with him.
Feather Bangs. This guy makes Trenderhoof seem like a catch. He makes Zephyr Breeze look mature and dignified. He must be destroyed.
• Honestly though, juggling with hooves is impressive. :ponder:
:ohboy: "This book I got outlines a sure-fire strategy! Step 1 is something called 'negging'."
• Sugar Belle even hammock-naps cutely! :flail:
• Sweetie Belle really likes his mane.
• A song for Sugar Belle!



• Sugar Belle is not having any of this.
• I mean, she seemed pleased with all the other nonsense, so -- :pinkieshrug:
• Vincent Tong as Feather Bangs. He voices Garble the dragon, right?
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Postby adiwan (?) » Sat May 27, 2017 9:27 pm

Mechanical Ape wrote:• I wonder if they officially renamed themselves "Starlight's Old Village".

I suggest the name "Glimmerville".
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Sat May 27, 2017 9:42 pm

QUIETude Village Image
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat May 27, 2017 10:18 pm

Mechanical Ape wrote:• Vincent Tong as Feather Bangs. He voices Garble the dragon, right?

And Flash Sentry, Prince Blueblood, and Pony Joe.

Three of these things are a lot like the others, three of these things are kind of the same....
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Postby Octavia (?) » Sun May 28, 2017 1:49 am

Some cute CMC moments this ep and I actually liked the boy-band-style song. :ohboy:
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sun May 28, 2017 9:10 am

Costumes are still fun, as long as your big sister isn't ruining them.
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Pirates run in the family.
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So close, but not a railroad.
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What could be going on with Big Mac? :ponder:
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Oh hey, it's Sugar Belle.
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Remember her? She's the Our Town pony who went from
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Her voice is about 50% more husky in this episode, though.

Oh my.
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Yes! Soon I will have all the apples!
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A personal touch.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sun May 28, 2017 9:14 am

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It's super effective!
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Honk!
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"My brother has a cru-ush!"

Is that guy's magazine upside down?
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Snort.
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A foolproof plan.
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Oh. It's you.
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"Big Macintosh? Never heard of him!"
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Noooooooo ooooooooooone
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sun May 28, 2017 9:22 am

You get your life advice from children's entertainment, Sweetie Belle? Ha ha, what a dweeb!
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:ohboy: That's perfect! Of course, we'll have to improvise without a dragon.
:anticipation: Huh. Too bad Spike isn't here. Not that he's very threatening.
:scootatrue: Image :smirk: Ha ha ha ha ha!
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:good: And then they rode off into the sunset.
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A wild Panty & Stocking With Garterbelt face approaches!
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What girl wouldn't want to wake up to this?
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....oh
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Hay gurl, have you seen how I pay for all of these elaborate last-second stunts? If you have, could you tell me?
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JUST MARRIED
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One more fairy tale story!
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sun May 28, 2017 9:33 am

Two can play that homemade sets game!
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How do lights work
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A visual joke that won't translate overseas.
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"I'm having some second thoughts about marrying a farmer."
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Baby, I can interrupt any confession!
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Didja Know?™
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This dude can do autotune effects and complex lighting and bird wipes, and I think he only has one unicorn in his posse, and he never uses his magic. How does he do it?!
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Is it the magic... of love?!
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"You are wasting our hand-painted backdrop!"
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Also, "Eye Love horseshoe U" is another visual joke that won't translate.

Big Mac isn't the only one having trouble coming up with rhymes on the fly.
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Uh, lemme think of something that rhymes with soooo-eeeee!
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This finally got too stupid for Sugar Belle.
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:wat: :shock: :fear: :aghast: :icky: :terrified:
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Ruined.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sun May 28, 2017 9:39 am

True love: a fairy tale.
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Combat roll!
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Oh! A heartfelt, personal gesture.
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And we're back to goofy faces.
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Snoot boops.
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This worked in a movie!
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Get outta here, Feather Bangs.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sun May 28, 2017 11:36 am

Do kids today still listen to boy bands? Like, the same sorts that were all the rage back in the late '90s? That's what Feather Bangs's musical sequence reminded me of, so I'm not sure if this was another one of FiM's throwbacks to then and the '80s or if pop music tropes are eternal.
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Postby Juju&Lulu (?) » Sun May 28, 2017 11:40 am

One Direction were huge when they were still together and that wasn't that long ago.

Also NBC is about to start a new reality show, Boy Band, to try and make a new one. So there's still some pop culture relevance.
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Postby Daring Do (?) » Sun May 28, 2017 8:03 pm

DerFurShur wrote:One Direction were huge when they were still together and that wasn't that long ago.

Also NBC is about to start a new reality show, Boy Band, to try and make a new one. So there's still some pop culture relevance.


But is One Direction the same kind of boy band?
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Postby Juju&Lulu (?) » Sun May 28, 2017 9:52 pm

They were a band of boys that danced and didn't primarily play instruments during their performances.

That's pretty textbook boy band.
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Mon May 29, 2017 6:17 pm


"So, big boy, what've you got that's not strictly ornamental?"

SlateSlabrock wrote:Is that guy's magazine upside down?
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"Oh Yotsuba, what adorable shenanigans are you up to this month -- AAAHHH HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN WATCHING, THIS ISN'T WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, IT'S POPULAR MECHANICS I SWEAR"
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Postby Applepie (?) » Mon May 29, 2017 7:18 pm

Average episode.
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 Headless Horse (?) » Mon Sep 18, 2017 3:17 am

Don't have a whole lot to say about this one—it's as stock a matchmaker plot as a cartoon could wish for, to the point where I thought for sure that it would go off in some weird other direction just to allay the clichéism a bit. You know, make Sugar Belle married or something. I don't know. Something. Fairy-tale gestures? We're going with that? I guess, but ... eh, okay.

The main innovation was Bieberpone, though, and I'm sure that's the thing they wanted to spend their energy riffing on. I have to say that his song was genuinely clever and well constructed. Quite possibly one of the most lyrically interesting songs the show has ever done, as a matter of fact. They really put a lot of effort into it, into a lot of complex rhyming and poetry, not to mention the staging and effects and stuff. If what they were trying to get across was that it doesn't matter how amazing and period-appropriate a grand romantic gesture is, it's so much wasted effort if you're not going to actually treat the target of your affections like a real person rather than a prize to be won. Which is kind of the message I was hoping/expecting them to emphasize, or to emphasize more than they did, this being 2017 and all. But eh. Pony might have been at the cultural vanguard a few years ago, but it's kind of been upstaged since then a few times. They're not gonna get too crazy.

That fuckin maneflip, though. Geeeeez
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