I was more referring to the cane toads, but thinking back on Bats! it was pretty stupid(even though Flutterbat and the “stop the bats song” were good). The vampire fruit bats were basically like locusts, left unchecked they’d sucked all of Sweet Apple Acres dry.
@Trickquestion
See my comment below. If she’d only realized that letting them stay there was not ultimately the best thing for, you know, one of her best friends…
Well now I feel bad for liking that episode, jeez, sorry I ever found something cute. :/
I didn’t really care how or why it wouldn’t work in real life, or even thought about it, but now I can’t even think of the episode again without being depressed. Great.
@Trickquestion
It helps when you know at least a little about why the moral wouldn’t work IRL.
Also, some number crunching; A Vampire bat weighs around 40 grams, and can consume 25 millilters (A gram and a milliliter weigh the same amount) in 30 minutes, and must feed near constantly while awake in order to not die of starvation. The Grey-Headed Flying Fox Weighs up to 1 kilogram. Assuming Apple juice has an identical nutritional value to blood (which it doesn’t) and a similar nutritional requirement (which is impossible due to the Square cube law), a single Vampire Fruit Bat would consume nearly 550 Milliliters of apple juice in a single sitting. Because of the Square cube law and the fact that Apple Juice has a much lower nutritional value than blood, this means that one bat would need an entire tree to itself to feed it for one night.
Is there some directive in effect that this merchandise is limited to using only stock vectors and certain composition choices? Because that could get damning quickly to a graphics designer.
@Itsthinking
I was talking specifically about the fruit bat issue, because the sentiments expressed by Fluttershy are virtually identical to the environmentalists I mentioned, but I guess the Cane Toad problem is another good one.
@Mayojar77
Oh yeah, the assholes who want to protect cane toads. Please. If I were Applejack, I would have chased them away and not even bothered telling the rest of them.
The “advantage” that they had to the orchard is completely opposite to the point of an orchard where you want to grow things in rows and harvest it all at once. They are pests and nothing else.
And give people an inch, they’ll take a mile. I wouldn’t trust the bats having “their own section.”
I don’t give a rats ass about negativity of opinions of you guys’s episodes, but all I know looking at this, people/viewers will think that this show is gonna be Dora the Explorer or something…
Oh come now, everyone knows there’s only one bat fit for Rarara.
Oh fuck, they like weep for them too. I forget the name of them but the recording of them all crying is insane.
… The actual fuck? Ugh, I need more fish.
Not as bad as the people who hold candlelight vigils for trees.
@Itsthinking Pfah, cane toads? Those are some lightweight hippies ya got thur!
@Mayojar77 Speaking of vampire bats, I still want to ship Flutterbat and Rarity +
I was more referring to the cane toads, but thinking back on Bats! it was pretty stupid(even though Flutterbat and the “stop the bats song” were good). The vampire fruit bats were basically like locusts, left unchecked they’d sucked all of Sweet Apple Acres dry.
See my comment below. If she’d only realized that letting them stay there was not ultimately the best thing for, you know, one of her best friends…
Fluttershy.
Since she became stupid.
Someone who needed to apply the lesson of It Ain’t Easy Being Breezies to a situation that had significantly higher stakes.
Who in their right mind would wanna protect an invasive species? (As if I didn’t already know the answer.)
I didn’t really care how or why it wouldn’t work in real life, or even thought about it, but now I can’t even think of the episode again without being depressed. Great.
Cartoon logic!
It helps when you know at least a little about why the moral wouldn’t work IRL.
Also, some number crunching; A Vampire bat weighs around 40 grams, and can consume 25 millilters (A gram and a milliliter weigh the same amount) in 30 minutes, and must feed near constantly while awake in order to not die of starvation. The Grey-Headed Flying Fox Weighs up to 1 kilogram. Assuming Apple juice has an identical nutritional value to blood (which it doesn’t) and a similar nutritional requirement (which is impossible due to the Square cube law), a single Vampire Fruit Bat would consume nearly 550 Milliliters of apple juice in a single sitting. Because of the Square cube law and the fact that Apple Juice has a much lower nutritional value than blood, this means that one bat would need an entire tree to itself to feed it for one night.
Even in her single episode, Williams manages to make little sense.
@Itsthinking
Oh good, I’m not the only one who thought that episode was freaking stupid.
Mostly because parents wouldn’t buy dvds with the real tirek unless they themselves are bronies.
I believe the “directive” you’re looking for includes “laziness” and “lack of interest in source material.”
I was talking specifically about the fruit bat issue, because the sentiments expressed by Fluttershy are virtually identical to the environmentalists I mentioned, but I guess the Cane Toad problem is another good one.
@Mayojar77
@Ponynstuff320 (Toon-n-crossover
@K_A
Everyone just shut up and go back to the crappy DVD cover.
Oh yeah, the assholes who want to protect cane toads. Please. If I were Applejack, I would have chased them away and not even bothered telling the rest of them.
The “advantage” that they had to the orchard is completely opposite to the point of an orchard where you want to grow things in rows and harvest it all at once. They are pests and nothing else.
And give people an inch, they’ll take a mile. I wouldn’t trust the bats having “their own section.”