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Postby Angel Beat (?) » Fri Dec 19, 2014 11:58 pm

A freaking lightweight. :gotcha:
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Postby PaulloDEC (?) » Sat Dec 20, 2014 12:42 am

Anyone played "A Story About My Uncle"? Looks like we might have an MLP fan on the team at Coffee Stain Studios:

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Not the most inspired reference ever, but there you go.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Dec 20, 2014 12:56 am

To this day I'm still surprised that single line became such a catchphrase. I mean, it's not like it's something Rainbow Dash ever said repeatedly. It was just a single joke in Suited for Success. Was there something especially appealing about it to the early fandom, or did it just get lucky in terms of how many people ran with it?
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Sat Dec 20, 2014 1:01 am

It was a hilarious line at the time, plus it had good delivery and it was in the middle of one of the best songs of season 1.

So of course the internet had to run that shit into the ground until it became unfunny :-I
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Sat Dec 20, 2014 2:30 am

The only thing that really annoys me about it is that people think it's a "catchphrase", i.e. something that Rainbow Dash is always saying or something. Like, that's how it will be described if it's ever mentioned in an article about the show or the fandom.
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Postby Frosthawk (?) » Sat Dec 20, 2014 3:37 am

This is a random aside, but thinking back on it, I think Luna's "forgive me if I withhold my enthusiasm" is my favorite line in the entire series.
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Postby Wylie (?) » Sat Dec 20, 2014 3:55 am

Headless Horse wrote:The only thing that really annoys me about it is that people think it's a "catchphrase", i.e. something that Rainbow Dash is always saying or something. Like, that's how it will be described if it's ever mentioned in an article about the show or the fandom.


We've talked before about how this show has studiously stayed away from anything that might become a "catchphrase" by any standard definition. I think the "20% Cooler" line became one inside that relative vacuum- people needed something like that, and it filled the bill.
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Sat Dec 20, 2014 4:05 am

Frosthawk wrote:This is a random aside, but thinking back on it, I think Luna's "forgive me if I withhold my enthusiasm" is my favorite line in the entire series.


It's such a great moment. "I finally figured out why you have so much trouble being liked! :yay:"
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Postby Wylie (?) » Sat Dec 20, 2014 4:11 am

Seven Seas wrote:The first thing I did when I saw that comic, the most important thing, was to scan it in great detail to see if any of those horses were actually ponies.

No dice.


There was a Pegasus in there.

It totally counts. :rainbert:
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Postby PaulloDEC (?) » Sat Dec 20, 2014 4:14 am

Wylie wrote:
We've talked before about how this show has studiously stayed away from anything that might become a "catchphrase" by any standard definition. I think the "20% Cooler" line became one inside that relative vacuum- people needed something like that, and it filled the bill.


The only recurring phrase I can remember bothering me was Fluttershy repeating her "yay" in "It Ain't Easy Being Breezies". Thankfully we haven't had too many others like that as far as I can remember.
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Postby Seven Seas (?) » Sat Dec 20, 2014 4:40 am

That's a good point, actually (and it also got repeated in May the Best Pet Win!). There have been several other callbacks like that in Seasons 3 and 4, not all of them in the script-- Rainbow Dash's :awesomedash: face in Daring Don't comes to mind. It honestly bothers me a bit when it happens, because it breaks immersion every time.

It strikes me that the Pinkie Promise could be a catchphrase-- after all, it's shown up in who knows how many episodes by now. But it's not a catchphrase, because the scriptwriters and storyboarders make a point of varying it a little every time it shows up, to the point where AJ and Pinkie can just pantomime the motions at each other in The Last Roundup and we all understand what they mean.
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Sat Dec 20, 2014 4:48 am

Or in Pinkie Pride, when she's promising something all super-serious-like and just smushes a cupcake into her eye almost as a reflex, without skipping a beat.



Running gags are one thing. They grow and mutate and take on a life of their own. Catchphrases are "Well excuuuuuuuse me, princess! :v: "
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Postby Sobana (?) » Sat Dec 20, 2014 4:48 am

Wylie wrote:
We've talked before about how this show has studiously stayed away from anything that might become a "catchphrase" by any standard definition. I think the "20% Cooler" line became one inside that relative vacuum- people needed something like that, and it filled the bill.

Which is really surprising for a cartoon so early in it's life span. Most cartoons give their characters catchphrases in the beginning to help distinguish them from other shows. Once they become popular enough they tend to drop them for better dialog. Such as The Simpsons and South Park. It seems like when Laura started this show she wanted such strong personalizes from the start she refused to have any catchphrases for them. Historically previous pony shows always gave their ponies catchphrases.
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Sat Dec 20, 2014 4:51 am

Good point; actually, come to think of it, we've got "Pinkie Pie, you are soooo random :rainbert: ". Its repetition in S1 felt like they were doing their best to create the next thing to print in pink sparkly heart-shaped letters on t-shirts and lunchboxes.
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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Sat Dec 20, 2014 5:11 am

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Makes sense, you can't directly generate a meme, but you can try to foster the creation of one. And since hasbro is such a merch driven company, the writers might have gotten a few notes here and there.



I forgot Conan was a writer on The Simpsons. The circle is compete. :-I
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Postby Doctor Zoidberg, Homeowner (?) » Sat Dec 20, 2014 5:13 am

I appreciate the relative lack of catchphrases. They're often overused as a replacement for an actual joke in most shows (see above :v: ). Although, the Simpsons did skewer itself with "Bart Gets Famous," which also gave us one of my favorite bits: when Conan tells a dejected Bart "Only I may dance."
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Sat Dec 20, 2014 5:17 am

Also "Summer of 4 ft. 2", where Lisa steals Bart's catchphrases and Marge says "You haven't said [ay caramba] in four years!" :iamapony:
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Postby Doctor Zoidberg, Homeowner (?) » Sat Dec 20, 2014 5:37 am

Oakley and Weinstein were good with little touches like that. I always appreciated how they tried to kind of blend the more down-to-earth, emotionally grounded approach of the Brooks/Simon/Jean/Reiss years with the more meta, over the top wacky humor that Mirkin brought in during his two seasons.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sat Dec 20, 2014 7:43 am

Of course, then you have those catchphrases that are used once every episode like "Don't be ridiculous". Glad MLP hasn't done that yet.
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Postby Sobana (?) » Sat Dec 20, 2014 11:12 am

ROBOT B9 wrote:Of course, then you have those catchphrases that are used once every episode like "Don't be ridiculous". Glad MLP hasn't done that yet.

But MLP has done catchphrases before, darling. :vogue:

...Just not in FiM.
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Postby Bumble-B (?) » Sat Dec 20, 2014 11:35 am

ROBOT B9 wrote:Of course, then you have those catchphrases that are used once every episode like "Don't be ridiculous". Glad MLP hasn't done that yet.



Does this count? :v:
(plus RD utters it a couple times in the main series)
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sat Dec 20, 2014 11:45 am

It's not really a catchphrase... :v:
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Postby Sobana (?) » Sat Dec 20, 2014 1:21 pm

Yeah, it's not really a catchphrase but more like her diction. They also made a complication of how many times they say yes in the series but I doubt that is considered a catchphrase either.
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Postby Bumble-B (?) » Sat Dec 20, 2014 1:41 pm

But isn't 'Awesome' Dash's thing? :thatsright: ... unless Pinkie said it once

Plus, these two seem to be more or less identical


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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Dec 20, 2014 1:56 pm

That face just doesn't look quite the same with the EqG version of Rainbow Dash. :nngh:
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sat Dec 20, 2014 2:02 pm

Sobana wrote:Yeah, it's not really a catchphrase but more like her diction. They also made a complication of how many times they say yes in the series but I doubt that is considered a catchphrase either.


Same thing with Rarity and "darling", in my opinion.
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Postby Sobana (?) » Sun Dec 21, 2014 4:07 am

AppleCobbler44 wrote:But isn't 'Awesome' Dash's thing? :thatsright: ... unless Pinkie said it once

Plus, these two seem to be more or less identical

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I believe that is to show that those two characters are the same and thus share the same diction. :twiright:

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Same thing with Rarity and "darling", in my opinion.

Actually, "darling" is Rainbow Dash's catchphrase. :spoiler: She was clocked saying it over 100 times. If Rainbow Dash started saying "awesome" as much as Rainbow Dash said "darling" then I would concur that was her catchphrase as well.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sun Dec 21, 2014 7:54 am

I really wish that they do that gag if there's ever a body swap episode. Be a great little callback.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sun Dec 21, 2014 11:50 am

Wouldn't it be possible to reference that if we ever got an episode that was properly featuring Rarity and Rainbow Dash? That's still one of the least-used pairings of any two of the Mane Six.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sun Dec 21, 2014 11:59 am

That too would be a good opporunity. Really, I'm surprised they didn't slip something like that in Swarm Of The Century, it'd be the perfect time to do it.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sun Dec 21, 2014 12:31 pm

That was most likely because it was early S1. After all, I don't think we got an overt G3 reference (well, beyond stuff like Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash and a few others having their names and general appearances carried over G3) until the :horse: gag in TMPP.
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Postby Sobana (?) » Sun Dec 21, 2014 4:38 pm

I always thought that Fluttershy and Applejack were the least used pairing. Maybe even Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sun Dec 21, 2014 4:49 pm

Technically, we saw Fluttershy and Applejack in "Bats!"...but I'd like to see some more of that.
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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Sun Dec 21, 2014 5:18 pm

PhoolCat wrote: :shenanigans: HAPPY SOLSTICE!! :party:

:dwi: :unenthused:


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:prettywings: :"And a small reception to follow."

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:iamapony: :"It's just so cold out!"
:granny: "If I don't get a full night of sleep my lumbago starts up."
:byodood: :"We have a moon princess now?"
:snobtavia: ........ Zzzzzzzzzzz ........

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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sun Dec 21, 2014 5:21 pm

Sobana wrote:I always thought that Fluttershy and Applejack were the least used pairing. Maybe even Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy.

As ROBOT B9 pointed out, Bats! was ostensibly about those two, though the fact that Fluttershy had been turned into a horrible vampire for much of the episode kind of diminishes that. Still, it's something.

Rainbow Dash and Rarity, Rarity and Pinkie Pie, and Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy are the ones that I feel have been the least used.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sun Dec 21, 2014 5:32 pm

Oh, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we get a Pinkie and Rarity episode this season. :allears:
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Postby Marimo (?) » Sun Dec 21, 2014 8:21 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:That was most likely because it was early S1. After all, I don't think we got an overt G3 reference (well, beyond stuff like Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash and a few others having their names and general appearances carried over G3) until the :horse: gag in TMPP.

In HWE, Rarity played a princess, and she was planning on first calling the unicorn's land in Equestria "Unicornia".
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Postby Sobana (?) » Mon Dec 22, 2014 3:45 am

ROBOT B9 wrote:Oh, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we get a Pinkie and Rarity episode this season. :allears:

Pinkie and Rarity were paired off in "Putting your hoof down"
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Mon Dec 22, 2014 4:08 am

Sobana wrote:Pinkie and Rarity were paired off in "Putting your hoof down"

That episode was pretty much entirely about Fluttershy, though. However, that does go to show how little interaction they've really had over the series.
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Mon Dec 22, 2014 4:20 am

I do like when the animators pair off ponies who don't normally get screen time together just because the script didn't say not to. Example: Rarity and Rainbow Dash peering into the village well in Just For Sidekicks. :-P
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