@Background Pony #219B  
Also, do you really think Big Mac would have said that if it was true?

This is the sort of conversation that only truly close friends can have. I find it heartwarming to know that I have such friends.
 
“Hey, Gus?”  
“Yeah?”  
“If I killed someone, how would you take it?”  
“sigh Do you need help hiding a body?”

That was bloody awesome.

They say a good friend will help you get rid of a body. I don’t know what level of intimacy you have to have to casually drop something like that. Full-body fusion, maybe.

@Background Pony #B496  
@Background Pony #219B  
Good points, though I still feel some people are being way too hard on AJ, RD, and Rarity; yeah they messed up in this episode (and in a fairly sitcom-trope fashion), but we’ve seen plenty of other examples of where they show just how deeply they care for and support the CMC.

>oh boy, full color from fondubulbe!  
>oh boy, it’s cheerilee!  
>oh boy, it—  

@Background Pony #B496
 
You said what I wanted to say and better than I could have said it. This isn’t as dark as people are thinking it is. Also, though I doubt the artist had it in mind, southerners have had a long tradition of gallows humor. It’s not meant to be macabre or unfeeling, but more to lighten the mood of a depressing situation. Big Mac here gives a perfect example of it.

@Sr Pelusa  
Is there any other kind of insanity?

Boy, that mood whiplash. That hit me so hard, I think I need some ice.  

@Lupin Quill  
Which means Insane in the brain in French

That wham line, though XD

“Both of ‘em?”  
“Meh. I’ll tell you when to stop.”

“That’s why ah killed mine.”
 
https://youtu.be/DJ5r3oNFVeE

That got dark fast. lol
 
Geeze, Cheer’. AJ is a national hero!

That last panel
 

OMCelestia I love this.

Not having looked at anything else this artist’s done, I took Mac saying “that’s why I killed mine” as a joke, since his parents are dead and Cheerilee’s talking about parents so he’s lightening the mood a bit. It’s the sort of dark joke you’d only make with people you’re close with, I lost a parent and I can still joke about it with the right people.
 
If anything, that sort of joking effectively conveyed their emotional intimacy in this comic. It dovetails nicely with Cheerilee sprawled out and sad, telling Mac her introspective thoughts - in the show itself Cheerilee is always putting on a smile over barely suppressed sarcasm and the odd eye roll, it’s neat to imagine her opening up in private.

@Ping_chan  
…What kind of movies did you watch as a kid?

“That’s why I killed mine”
 

Wait, what? :-)

Reminder that foudubulbe is called foudubulbe.

Mood whiplash tag be needed.  
My occasional headcanon is that Mac’s parents abandoned him, AJ and AB with Granby Smith, shortly before her husband died.  
So he claimed they’d died as well, to give his sisters a slightly happier memory. In essence, he killed his parents. They’re dead to him.

@Ping_chan  
Or he was a selfish child and killed them for making him go to his room after doing something wrong.

@zidders  
Cropped it from a picture of battle units made by ficficponyfic.
 
Can’t seem to find the original at the moment.

@PonyPon  
Where did you find that mimic pic?