Worst MLP Episodes?

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Boast Busters, Look Before You Sleep, The Mysterious Mare Do Well, Putting Your Hoof Down, Dragon Quest, Babs Seed, Princess Spike (my least favorite episode of the entire series), 28 Pranks Later, Newbie Dash, Yakkity-Sax, All Bottled Up, A Matter Of Principals, 2 4 6 Greaaat, A Flurry Of Emotions. These are the ones I can think of from the top of my head.
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Yakity Sax. But that’s just the worst episode. It’s not the final three episodes. Even Yakity Sax is good enough for me to at least consider it an episode. So yeah. Yakity-Sax is the worst episode.
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No one considered Fame and Misfortune as the worst episode? I don’t, but I was wondering if anyone hates it that much.
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I have the feeling that a thread like this existed years ago, but I don’t mind writing my thoughts again.
 
I really don’t like Too many Pinkie Pies. It was the start of the downhill of who used to be my favourite character in the show. Party Pooped wasn’t very good either, with a pretty disturbing ending. I’d freak out if someone has files of every single detail I like, dislike or do, let alone everyone in a town. The gift of a Maud Pie was also very uncomfortable, with sudden details of Pinkie that didn’t feel like it was the same character I loved in the first place when I discovered the show.
 
But the worst episode I’ve watched in the entire show was Every little thing she does, from the season 6. In that episode, after watching Starlight’s desire to redeem herself since the ending of season 5, here we watch her with the “f*ck all that” attitude. At the end of the day, I don’t think that the Starlight we saw in this episode is the same we’ve seen in the ending of season 5. Her desire to finish her friendship homework as quick as possible doesn’t fit with her desire of redemption. And now that I mention it, it doesn’t make sense that a unicorn that was able to manipulate an entire town now is clumsy at doing that.
 
If somebody asked me why I don’t think Starlight is a good character, I bring this one up.
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My Little Pony - 1992 Edition

The worst and most scariest MLP episode to me is Beginning of the End. I don’t even want to think about watching it again, due to getting PTSD and almost crying during the scene when King Sombra possessed all the ponies in Ponyville on the second part. The way that all the ponies had eyes that were glowing a bright green frightened me, and it almost made me throw up. The fact that also Rarity was worrying about Sweetie Belle while locked in that crystal cage, and seeing Sweetie Belle being possessed by that spell that King Sombra had cast on her and the rest of the ponies in Ponyville made me nearly get a panic attack. I have always hated every villain that hasn’t been reformed in MLP, but this episode made me hate King Sombra even more. I never have been scared while watching MLP FiM before, and I thought it was a show that would never scare me but I don’t think I will recover from the anxiety and PTSD caused from the traumatic event of watching that episode. If there is a way to help me to get out of this mental state, please let me know.
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I rate Daring Doubt as the worst episode of the show for how much it ruins Daring Do by dragging her down and painting her as the “real” villain all along and tries to frame the two villains as being misunderstood despite their past actions saying otherwise. While the moral itself isn’t bad, I really don’t think it was applied well in the episode considering what they had to do to “teach” it. Not to mention, while Ahuizotl and Caballeron got happy endings, AK/Daring’s reputations as a hero and author are now completely ruined thanks to her adventuring being demonized. But hey, screw her right? What’s worse, since this is the last Daring Do episode, we’ll never see if her reputation gets fixed or not.
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Despite Beginning of the End being the worst out of all the MLP episodes, I also hate the episode Frenemies. The entire episode centred on some bullshit about the villains working together to defeat Twilight Sparkle and taking over Equestria. I hated how the episode didn’t focus on a single protagonist, and the focus on Queen Chrysalis, Cozy Glow and Lord Tirek angered me and made it a waste of a watch. When I watch MLP FiM I expect to see every episode focus mainly on the protagonists and not a single episode that focuses only on the antagonists.
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Putting your Hoof Down  
The Mysterious Mare-do-well  
The Cutie Re-Mark  
28 Pranks Later  
To Where and Back Again  
Honest Apple  
The Last Crusade  
2-4-6-Great  
A Trivial Pursuit  
The Last Problem
 
and the worst episode of them all is The Ending of the End. I think we can all agree on why that episode sucked ass.
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I get sad everytime I remember Non Compete Clause, I just can’t. It’s like the AJ and Dash straight up hate each other, there’s nothing friendly there, not even in the end of the episode were they were suposed to remember that being friends with each other comes first than some stupid teacher prize. I got the impression the person who wrote the script never saw a single episode and just batted an eye at some notes. “Humm… ok, teacher of the month… subborn farm pony… the blue one gotta be best at everything… all right, say no more. I got this!”  
Applejack’s Day Off is almost as bad and I rather pretend it doesn’t even exist in the first place. Honor mentions to Three’s a crowd and Road to Friendship
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the person who wrote the script never saw a single episode
 
Kim Beyer-Johnson. NCC was her first writing credit for FiM. She also wrote Rainbow Roadtrip, and I don’t remember RD and AJ ever interacting in that. Their other credits are Triple Pony Dare Ya (NCC in two minutes), The Great Escape Room (Haven’t seen it but the synopsis suggests it’s very mediocre), Ail-icorn (MLP recressed to comedy), and Sweet and Smoky (Infamous character derailment episode).
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@Wiimeiser
 
I really enjoyed Triple Pony Dare Ya, must have watch it a gazillion times already. It’s even hard to believe that the same person wrote both things…  
About the Great Scape Room and Ail-Corn I find them funny - and much better than that one about Rarity’s hair :p
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The Last Crusade was a nerve-racking episode, but here’s my review of it. The entire episode was just a bunch of anxiety and stress for the Cutie Mark Crusaders themselves and for me when I watched it. The title of the episode was clickbaity because it wasn’t actually the last crusade, seeing at the very end that Scootaloo gets to stay with the Cutie Mark Crusaders in Ponyville. However it was only a reference I would imagine to the Indiana Jones movie that’s under the same name. When I was watching that episode I did feel very anxious and depressed before the episode became to a plot twist at the end. If Scootaloo actually left Ponyville, I probably would have passed out and collapsed on the spot. Scootaloo belongs with Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom, the Cutie Mark Crusaders aren’t just friends, they love each other with all their hearts. Thankfully though Scootaloo didn’t leave and she gets to stay with Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom in Ponyville. One thing that I kind of liked about the episode is that we now know that Scootaloo has parents and is not an orphan like so many bronies and pegasisters have speculated over the years. I also liked how Scootaloo’s father has an Australian accent and the characteristics of Steve Irwin and Crocodile Dundee. Not only does Scootaloo’s father have an Australian accent, but Scootaloo’s Aunt Holiday has a New Zealand accent if you actually payed attention to her voice.
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I hated newbie dash because it felt like 22 minutes of sh*t telling all the kids watching it “ if someone bullies you, you shouldn’t stand up for yourself because at the end it will turn out everyone else is being bullied too”. It was a very bad influence on children
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Without any order:
 
-Too many pinkie Pies  
-Bats  
-Tank for the memories  
-The gift of the Maud Pie  
-Every little thing she does  
-To where and back again  
-All bottled up  
-Rock solid friendship  
-A royal problem
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It’s been awhile since I had watched the episode but my least favorite episode would be Parental Glideance.
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Father knows beast. Everything about it from start to finish was absolute garbage. Complete irredeemable garbage. Shame too, whatever faults the latter seasons had, they sure did introduce a lot of family we’d wanted to know more about. Instead, we got this steaming pile for spike’s turn. I know they were going for the blood doesn’t matter, love does message but they did it so poorly, they might have been better off just not making the ep in the first place. Plus, read the room hasbro, how the heck celestia got a dragon egg was something this fandom’s been interested in since S1. Way to dodge the question there with Sludge’s lies.
 
Good thing sparkle’s seven did a better job with whole the spike’s family thing.
 
And the plot was so predictable, anyone with a brain could see it from a mile away. Mlp does a good job at times of taking cliche’d plots and making them something good. Not here though. This sucked.
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