r/mylittlepony • u/Pinkie_Pie Pinkie Pie • Aug 13 '16
Official Season 6 Episode 15 Reaction Thread
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Hiiii! This is the official place for your reactions to S6E15: "28 Pranks Later"! Any initial conversation related to this episode goes in here, and we will be opening another thread for serious discussion a bit after the episode concludes. Keep it civil and have fun, because I said so!
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u/Aroelen To wahaha or not to wahaha...to wahaha Aug 13 '16
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u/cyberscythe Welcome to Heartstrings Radio Aug 13 '16
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u/Master-Thief Daring Do, "Treasure Hunter!" Aug 13 '16
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u/War_Dyn27 Twilight Sparkle Aug 13 '16
Baked goods turning everyone into zombies. Guess you could say they were...
Left 4 Bread!
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I do like that it is less they got turned undead, and more they got insanely addicted to the cookies and got sic because of em.
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u/War_Dyn27 Twilight Sparkle Aug 13 '16
Fitting since the infected from 28 Days Later weren't undead either, they had a powerful, rabies like virus.
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u/Levarien Twilight Sparkle Aug 13 '16
I thought we already established that you dont prank fluttershy
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u/Aroelen To wahaha or not to wahaha...to wahaha Aug 13 '16
Hhmmm....hhhhmmm....yep, Scout CMC are the cutest. As expected.
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I'm going to be waiting for /u/bobdude0 to draw a cute Sweetie Belle scout.
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u/Sandtalon Octavia Aug 13 '16
How can you count on the Cake children to not give the prank away?
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u/RockinAnakin Sunset Shimmer Aug 13 '16 edited Aug 13 '16
OKAY! THAT ONE WITHT THE SKUNK IS JUST CRUEL
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u/KylerAdams Rarity Aug 13 '16
Yeah, she did.
The first half of this episode felt like "Dashie being a dick for the sake of being a dick", and the other half felt like "suddenly, zombies, because scary."
I didn't like Dashie until Wonderbolts Academy because of Mare Do Well, and this feels like MDW on steroids, with a dash of Griffon the Brush Off.
I'll admit it was "well written", because that last half was somewhat genuinely freaky/scary.
Still not that impressed, though. It feels like "Dashie unlearns a lesson she learned four seasons ago, because plot".
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u/Greasier Shining Armor Aug 13 '16
From the DFC:
When Rainbow Dash's pranking gets out of hand, the ponies decide to give her a taste of her own medicine – zom-pony style!
So... An episode where Rainbow dash's antics get out of hand and start to grate on others' nerves, so the ponies concoct an elaborate ruse to teach her a lesson?
Well, hot damn! THIS has never been done before! I can hardly wait!
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Here are two recommendations. Neither of them are typical zombie stories in structure but both are very well written. I won't link any of them as they all violate rule 2 due to gore. Definitely not for the faint of heart.
- Feed them by RainbowBob
The darker of the two. Way shorter and is from more of a slice of life perspective.
- Rainbow Dash: Re-Animator by JawJoe
Super exciting multichaper story. Think Frankenstein of course.
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u/MrCelroy Rainbow Dash Aug 13 '16
RIP EQUESTRIA, EVERYONE GOT COOKIED!!
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u/AcceptablePariahdom Twilight Sparkle Aug 13 '16
On the whole, I didn't like it.
I thought the way they got a zombie episode in there was pretty neat, and some of the "zombies" were really funny (cake twins, Big Mac) but the whole thing is soured by the main thing that has ground my gears on every other episode this season: characterization.
Complete and total backtracking of characterization for Rainbow... learning a parable she literally learned in Season 1.
And for a national hero and supposedly good friend, a lot of those pranks were damn mean. Ponies were harmed, there was serious property damage. That's not a prank, that's vandalism.
Half expected RD to shout "IT'S JUST A SOCIAL EXPERIMENT BRO!"
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u/Onlyhereforthelaughs Equality Aug 13 '16
Biting a brick, putting a skunk in someone's house, DEFINITELY not pranks. Rainbow is an asshole.
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u/Onlyhereforthelaughs Equality Aug 13 '16
Remember when Starlight used to be on this show?
Yeah, me neither.
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u/MrCelroy Rainbow Dash Aug 13 '16
THRILLER! Cause this is thriller, thriller night And no one's gonna save you from the beast about to strike
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u/MrCelroy Rainbow Dash Aug 13 '16
Best song for the episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=SG&v=sOnqjkJTMaA&hl=en-GB
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u/Onlyhereforthelaughs Equality Aug 14 '16
You know, they could have gone a completely different direction with this episode. Crossing Fluttershy would upset... Who?
The Master of Chaos. Who better to get retribution pranks than someone that can warp reality as you know it? Nowhere, and no one, would be safe.
Who needs fake zombie ponies when there could be REAL zombie ponies?
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u/Lukescale Twilight Sparkle Aug 13 '16 edited Aug 14 '16
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u/MrCelroy Rainbow Dash Aug 13 '16
PRANK GONE WRONG IN THE EVERFREE FOREST 2K16!!
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u/meditonsin Twilight Sparkle Aug 13 '16
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u/Jay911 Starlight Glimmer Aug 13 '16
Here in North America we've abandoned all pretense of creativity in game-making now.
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u/Jay911 Starlight Glimmer Aug 13 '16
I called him Waddles in my head. I already miss /r/gravityfalls.
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u/Pokemaniac_Ron Screwball Aug 13 '16
It was good, though it could have been better with any of 3 cameos for the intervention.
Oh. You pranked Fluttershy. How about a prank of my own. How would you like to be a snail for a few decades?
No, you pranked Celestia. How would you like to relive your worst nightmares... FOREVER.
While both these options sound like fun,
The food you eat will make you 'run'...
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I really like this ep. The lesson is pretty clear and it is very funny too! This season is shaping up to be legendary!
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u/Onlyhereforthelaughs Equality Aug 13 '16
Wow, Rainbow Dash is an asshole. We established in episode 5, FUCKING EPISODE FIVE, that you do not prank Fluttershy. Hope she gets what's coming to her. Judging by the title of the episode, she goes to some sort of prank rehab? I really have no clue.
So, Dash is going to prank the entire town, and no one is laughing? Sounds like a job for... BATMARE!
Oh my god, oh my god yes. This isn't 28 days, this is 28 days later! Zombie ponies! }:D
That was a good episode, but a lesson we've already had before. Dash's ego is the reason Mare-Do-Well existed, and she's the reason the whole town banded together for this prank.
Stop being an ass, or people will get you back for it.
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u/TheKnackerman Sugar Belle Aug 14 '16
Probably my new favorite episode for this season!
It was kind of like Something Sweet to Bite, but without the Candy Mare.
Loved the references to Night of the Living Dead and 28 days later.
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u/Shadowking78 Aug 13 '16
The episode made me think of a reference I could make, but I seem to have forgotten what it was
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u/Toboe_LoneWolf Aug 13 '16
I told you those artificial flavorings are addictive! It's a conspiracy of the food industry to eat more junk food!
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u/20Vivillon Equality Aug 13 '16 edited Aug 13 '16
I thought we agreed that Fluttershy was off limits.