My Little Pony - Friendship Is Magic: Episode 304 - One Bad Apple

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One Bad Apple reminded me of a recent photo of the beloved with her two sisters and her cousin from California.  The three sis­ters look like the average Christian women they theoretically are, while the cou­sin can be described as more classically “hot”.  No doubt this cousin felt the same way that two-off Babs Seed does in this episode, as both city girls likely can’t believe that they are actually related to the freak shows in the country.  Babs arrives from New York to find that her blank flank sta­tus means she has something in common with the three uncoolest po­nies in town, who are then shocked when she jumps ship out of the blue.  They proceed to coldly bully the crap out of each other, and then just as quickly decide to pretend the entire episode didn’t happen.  This would have been a good development if Babs became a needed addition to the Cutie Mark Crusaders, but the show is over and it’s time for her to leave.  Seriously though, she’s totally going to start the Manehattan branch of the Cutie Mark Crusaders, because that will stop the bullying and end all of her problems.

My Little Pony - Friendship Is Magic: Episode 303 - Too Many Pinkie Pies

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Ai, yai, yai.  In a more stunning development than anything else that has happened on the show, the writer of the worst Pinkie Pie (and overall) episode returns from the dead to write the best one, even if that re­mains by default.  Dave Polsky was absent for the second season after penning two episodes, so it's unclear if this is a new script or a two-year-old unused one.  The episode itself offers no hints, since it contains a dose of rawness that has otherwise long since vanished.  If Too Many Pinkie Pies was a leftover, it’s one that should’ve been picked up over the many disastrous episodes made in its place over the first two seasons, even if Polsky didn’t explore the premise to the depths it could’ve gone.  The phil­osophical implications are likewise ignored, which was probably a good idea given the whole children’s show thing.  Disappointingly, Too Many Pinkie Pies isn’t as much “fun! fun! fun!” as it could have been, but Polsky finds enough to at least provide an enjoyable experience and end up with a decent lesson by the end.