Re: My Little Pony: Detractors We Will Tolerate and Love the Shit Out of You
My first exposure to this was via a guy at the gaming forum where I lurk who wrote up a recap of the pilot as though it were a Let's Play for an RPG. I watched the pilot via Bort's link and it turns out that a lot of stuff I thought he made up for comedic effect is actually in the show.
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Re: My Little Pony: Detractors We Will Tolerate and Love the Shit Out of You
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Brotherman posted a link in post #9 and Naru posted an HD link in post # 11.
Just beware of fakes ala the one in post #3; that's the first video I chose to watch in this thread and it did not enamor me of ponies! Fortunately I realized it was a parody and watched some of the real episode one.
Btw I only watched about 5 minutes from the middle of the real one but I got into it. I'll start over from the beginning later.
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My first exposure to this was via a guy at the gaming forum where I lurk who wrote up a recap of the pilot as though it were a Let's Play for an RPG. I watched the pilot via Bort's link and it turns out that a lot of stuff I thought he made up for comedic effect is actually in the show.
That is awesome! Any particulars on the "too funny to be true" bits?
Dragar, the episode I made Contra watch first, and the one I usually recommend is Bird in the Hoof.
Actually, while the bloggers are going crazy for this, I wonder at the bit at the end where they point out that the former POTUS has never lost on their program. The questions, unlike other episodes with less important contestants, have two options that can be clearly ruled out. If so Bravo on an excellent Presidential troll NPR!
And thus two of my favorite things are united.
Also funny, Kratos the Gluemaker has entered Fan Fic now.
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So a big to BroMan, Dragar, and Demi for posting about MLP in the animated shows thread and for this thrad. I was way too embarrassed to post about it here on my own, but now I feel more like
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Actually, while the bloggers are going crazy for this, I wonder at the bit at the end where they point out that the former POTUS has never lost on their program. The questions, unlike other episodes with less important contestants, have two options that can be clearly ruled out. If so Bravo on an excellent Presidential troll NPR!
And thus two of my favorite things are united.
I'm calling bogus! BOGUS! I've listened to other Not My Job segments for Wait, Wait, and I have to say they didn't even try to make the questions difficult. I was shouting at my computer OATMEAL, WHAT ARE YOU CRAZY? because of the really terribly obvious fake choices.
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So a big to BroMan, Dragar, and Demi for posting about MLP in the animated shows thread and for this thrad.
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I am still looking for a Rainbow Dash doll in the little five-dollar size. They have the remote controlled plane one, and they have a sort of slightly larger one. One of which is now puttied to the dashboard of our shiny new car.
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I was so glad to find more Bronies among the ers and was pleasantly surprised.
I guess I am one now too, after watching a few episodes with my daughter. She likes it, and it's a damn sight more enjoyable than a lot of the shows she finds on Netflix. My wife hates the animation style, but I'm trying to bring her around.
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Well, I tried. I'm left nonplussed. I think the only thing I admire about MLP genre is the plastic pony makeovers, of which some are very well done and clever. The cartoons have left me meh.
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Last night I watched the one Demi linked to and another one I plucked off the YouTubes at random (Rainbow Dash vs. ... the other one in various athletic competitions). Anyway yah, I like this show. It's like the cuteness overload thread for 22 minutes straight. Sometimes it seems like there's just so much cuteness in the world that I can't take it, like my heart's just going to cave in.
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I will add that as much as joining the herd threatens my masculinity, it is at least equally disturbing for a cynic like myself to embrace the unbridled (get it?!) positivity of the ponies. So there's that.
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Last night I watched the one Demi linked to and another one I plucked off the YouTubes at random (Rainbow Dash vs. ... the other one in various athletic competitions). Anyway yah, I like this show. It's like the cuteness overload thread for 22 minutes straight. Sometimes it seems like there's just so much cuteness in the world that I can't take it, like my heart's just going to cave in.
Something that I think is very clever is that the writers know full well how cute everything is, and is expected to be, and then break it for hilarious effect. Fluttershy is the most obvious example (you'll see!), but all the pones have character flaws that are not at all cute (although some are very cute).
I'd really suggest watching them in order now you're hooked seebs; some of the episodes with the youngsters have a definite chronology.
And if you're worried about your masculinity, remember there are many other bronies out there!
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Well, I tried. I'm left nonplussed. I think the only thing I admire about MLP genre is the plastic pony makeovers, of which some are very well done and clever. The cartoons have left me meh.
That's okay. We'll be here for you if you need us.
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Of COURSE I am watching them in order. I have carefully avoided looking at them out of order, THAT WOULD BE WRONG.
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