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Back in 2010, it would’ve been impossible to believe that a cartoon show about teenage ponies would earn any fans over the age of seven. Cartoons in and of themselves weren’t so hot for the past 5 years, and very few like Phineas and Ferb and Adventure Time had stable fanbases, and even then, they were gender-neutral shows. Then came this show to prove that “it’s for little girls” can’t be a barrier between the audience and their liking of the show. Unfortunately, not too many shows have made such a leap into the mainstream. What was MLP:FiM’s secret? What did bronies love so much about it? Which are the greatest episodes in the series?
20. The Return of Harmony (Season 2, 2011)
This is the only 2-parter on the list, and there’s a good reason for that. I generally don’t like the grander story of this show, because not only are the Mane 6’s friendship used as a plot device instead of an actual dynamic, which I find to be disrespectful to the majority of episodes where their friendship grows, but they tend to get rather overdramatic and sappy. Thankfully, this episode has those problems, but not 100% of the time. It feels as though this is the first time their friendship was really put to the test, with Twilight seeing them at their meanest and most childish, with the strings being pulled by a villain who seemingly can’t be defeated. The unfortunate thing is that these episode’s problems have only intensified the more 2-parters they make, but nothing will take away the place this one has in my heart.
19. Power Ponies (Season 4, 2013)
Here we have an episode that could’ve been rather boring. You know, just another “Spike has to deal with being the useless one” episode that’s been done to death over the seasons. However, they decided to use a superhero template, making it one of the most unique and memorable episodes of Season 4. Although I’m not big on the superhero genre myself, I do think that the Power Ponies’ powers and designs are creative, and it has a world that could pass for its own show.
18. A Friend In Deed (Season 2, 2012)
Pinkie Pie can be a pain in the neck sometimes, and she is undeniably a pain in the neck here. However, this is her still trying to learn the boundaries of some ponies, especially one she’s never met before. Cranky, a cynical old donkey is the polar opposite of Pinkie Pie, which makes it a challenge to for them to get along. This leads to some of the silliest and most out-there jokes of Season 2, but it also has a bittersweet, heartwarming backstory that keeps me watching to the end. Plus it has the Smile Song. If you don’t like it, you clearly don’t like Pinkie Pie.
17. Too Many Pinkie Pies (Season 3, 2012)
What’s more of a pain in the neck than Pinkie Pie herself? How about 50 Pinkie Pies!? It’s amazing they could do this from an animation standpoint, and from a story perspective, it’s a well-rounded lesson for Pinkie Pie to learn. As a Pinkie Pie fan (she’s really the only thing in this show I consistently like if I’m being quite honest), there’s just so much to love here. I adore the fact that when the Pinkie clones themselves become too much for Ponyville to handle, the original Pinkie Pie falls into despair. Yeah there are some themes of “they have to essentially kill the clones!”, especially in the Elimination scene, but I think that’s overanalysing things.
16. Hearts and Hooves Day (Season 2, 2012)
If I could use one word to describe this episode, it’d have to be “cute”. I’m not really that big of a fan of Valentines Day specials (especially the SpongeBob one), but this one isn’t really sickeningly romantic as much as it’s adorably romantic. The interactions between the lovestruck Big Macintosh and Cheerilee are too precious to ignore, and it helps that the Cutie Mark Crusaders have a real dilemma on their hands here, as opposed to something like The Show Stoppers or Twilight Time. Speaking of Twilight, she’s the only one of the Mane 6 to appear in this episode. I think this is when the Cutie Mark Crusaders really started to become individuals instead of a group of childish obstacles that the other characters had to look out for.
15. The Ticket Master (Season 1, 2010)
This episode had a hard title to live up to. After the acclaimed Friendship is Magic 2-parter, this had to prove that bringing the series down to a simpler style could work, and I believe that it made me like the Slice of Life side of this show way more than its Epic side. The story is something rather simple. Twilight has to figure out who to give a ticket to, out of all her friends. This can sorta be seen as a metaphor for picking your favourite pony. At the end of the day, you have to respect them all equally, which is what Twilight learns. You simply can’t pick favourites sometimes. Now on with the list!
14. Sleepless in Ponyville (Season 3, 2012)
For a while, and still now, Scootaloo has been my third-favourite of the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Apple Bloom has a surprisingly deep internal struggle and Sweetie Belle is a joy to watch (read onto Number 6 for more), but I didn’t really find Scoot’s fascination with Rainbow Dash to be that interesting until this episode. The way her fear of the forest is portrayed and how her imagination sees the ghost stories Rainbow Dash tells shows just how far she’s willing to go to impress Rainbow Dash, and the moral really helps make this one of the most satisfying Season 3 episodes.
13. The Mane Attraction (Season 5, 2015)
Here’s an episode that deals with the “Evolution is a B!tch” effect (at least that’s what I think it’s called). Essentially, Applejack had a friend at camp, Countless Coloratura, who was a singer, then she never heard from her for years, until she came back to Ponyville with a completely different look. Instead of being the humble country singer she was in her youth, Coloratura’s now a Lady Gaga-esque superstar with over-the-top songs and terrible management. In other words, she became a sell-out. Even her eyebrows became ads for Pizza Hut.
Admit it, you were a fan of something that just had to go off the deep end at some point, and I think this did a more subtle take on it than Stranger Than Fan Fiction. While that one dealed with fan opinion, this one deals with the dark side of the road to being a commercial shell of your former self, which various shows that last over 5 seasons tend to become. It’s like this episode was a cry for help, because let’s face it, the show had 3 finales by this point, and it had 2 more after this.
12. Sweet and Elite (Season 2, 2011)
Like The Ticket Master, this deals with yet another cliché moral in cartoons- the “I want to be noticed but I don’t want to be myself” type message. Rarity does have a good reason for thinking this though. She’s clearly on a higher level of class than her Ponyville friends, yet she doesn’t understand how one-dimensionally snooty the ponies in Canterlot are until it’s too late, because she wanted that lifestyle so bad. I guess one flaw that the episode has is that the rest of the Mane 6 act a little too zany at Twilight’s birthday, especially Twilight herself, but it was funny to watch nonetheless.
11. The One Where Pinkie Pie Knows (Season 5, 2015)
I feel as though Season 6 was a bit short on Pinkie Pie. She has significantly less screentime than the others, and in her own episodes she didn’t act as silly and childlike as before. I don’t know if it’s because the new tone doesn’t fit her, or if Andrea Libman is starting to get too old to get that squeak right (even her Fluttershy voice is starting to sound a bit tired), but I really savour Pinkie Pie’s moments in this episode. It’s a classic idea of not letting a secret out, and giving it to perhaps the pony who can most easily spoil a surprise. From her reactions to everything baby-related to her frustrations with the Easter Egg Hunt, this is too fun not to watch again.
10. Feeling Pinkie Keen (Season 1, 2011)
Perhaps the thing that makes Pinkie Pie so fun to watch, as well as most comedy characters, is her unpredictability. The Pinkie Sense is a metaphor for this. When Twilight can barely seem to understand it and its sporadic waves, she concocts many plans to try and prove it all to be phony, with no success. She just needs to understand that her friend can have things about her that she just can’t understand, and that doesn’t mean they can’t be friends with one another. I know this episode came under some heat for its apparent links to atheism, but that’s looking too deep. It’s like saying Eiffel Tower is phallic. I can see where you’re coming from, but that’s barely the original intention.
9. Amending Fences (Season 5, 2015)
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This episode’s one of the more interesting ones of Season 5. It revolves around Twilight going back to Canterlot to say hello to her old associates from before she became the Element of Magic. It’s an amazing concept and they really encapsulate that nostalgic feeling of a time long lost, despite it only being 1-2 years prior from Twilight’s perspective. It’s rather obvious, but you really get the feeling that Moondancer is the version of Twilight that never went to Ponyville; an antisocial bookworm who’s too irritated by her study duties to actually make friends. If you’re one of those bronies who doesn’t want to watch newer episodes because they’re “too different”, this is the episode that’ll ease you into the show again.
8. Party of One (Season 1, 2011)
Before this episode, Pinkie Pie was barely the most dimensional character of the show. Her common traits included being wierd and singing random songs. As Season 1 progressed, she became more than just an immature comic relief, and this solidified her as an eccentric party-planner with a fear of failing at her job to make people laugh. Ironically, seeing her descent into madness throughout this episode is hilarious, but it’s really a wonder how bronies back in the day found this to be one of the darkest episodes. Sure Pinkie reaches Ren Höek-levels of insanity (notice the similarities in spinart backgrounds?), but at least she never threatens to gouge anyone’s eyes out, and the less said about Cupcakes, the better.
7. A Hearth’s Warming Tail (Season 6, 2016)
I feel completely comfortable saying that I don’t really like Starlight Glimmer that much. Her portrayals in Season 6 didn’t really do her style of character justice, and she worked much better as a villain with a reasonable problem. That said, A Christmas Carol is the perfect story for her. The story centres on Snowball Frost, a Scrooge who hates Hearth’s Warming so much she vows to make a..potion that’ll…end it? That isn’t explained that well, but at least the rest of the episode is much better. They show the past, present and future with varying degress of mood (evil character, sad past, happy present, scary future) which is a much better way of reforming Starlight than with The Cutie Remark. Couple this with some great songs, and you have a really good Christmas special.
6. Sisterhooves Social (Season 2, 2011)
Rarity and Sweetie Belle’s dynamic is glorious. I always had that older sister who tended to get irritated by my mere presence, despite me just wanting to have fun with her, and this episode made me, the Sweetie Belle to my sister, have fun watching how much of a little brat she is, and how slowly but surely Rarity can reach her breaking point. You can tell that the Cutie Mark Crusaders are meant to be rather young in this, compared to later where they seem like parodies of perfect children, and the younger they act in a scenario like this, the more I can laugh at the kid in me who acted like them once. You got all that, right?
5. Lesson Zero (Season 2, 2011)
Often when you wander into a fandom, there are certain episodes that you’re recommended to see first. For me, that episode was this one. It will always have a place in my heart as one of the perfect examples to make an episode about a character going insane. You see Twilight’s hair slowly get messier and her smiles grow more maniacal and uncanny, it has a small yet noticeable framing device of the clock slowly ticking as Twilight rushes to get a letter to Celestia, despite it being a perfectly normal day in Ponyville. It’s very much an episode that every brony can agree is at least notewrothy.
4. Inspiration Manifestation (Season 4, 2014)
This is an episode where Spike just works. I feel like, as the odd one out in the main cast, being younger and seen more as a companion than a friend, Spike’s episodes and morals tend to be out of place for the show unless it has to do directly with another one of the Mane 6. Although it’s still Ratity’s episode, she’s the villain against herself, the bread and butter of the conflict is mostly Spike asking himself where to draw the line between the possessed Rarity spreading her passion and crafting everything in her image just because. Having a spell that can make anything just appear is a particularly surreal and derranged idea, and you can see the stress getting to Rarity the longer she subjects her mind to the book.
3. Pinkie Pride (Season 4, 2014)
Like The Return of Harmony, this episode has something I’ve grown to dislike, which is guest stars popping in for one episode for a paycheck and some extra ratings. Though I will say I like Cheese Sandwhich, she seems like a great idea for a foil to Pinkie Pie who’s basically almost exactly like her. The arc Pinkie Pie goes through where she needs to figure out what’s best for her friends over how to celebrate for them really cements my belief that this should’ve been the last season. This is a good way to end Pinkie’s story, finally realising how much her friends mean to her, but instead the show’s been slowly dragged out with very little of its original charm of the characters having to learn intact.
2. The Saddle Row Review (Season 6, 2016)
However, that doesn’t mean that they can’t make the occasional stellar episode. This and the 4 other “DF era” episodes stand out from the rest of the topsy turvy Season 5 and the mediocre Season 6 because they give the Mane 6 something to worry about. The obvious leap in logiv here is to make an episode where everypony worries about everything, with a Modern Family-esque framing device of each of them having an inner monologue at the interview. Each joke, each scene and each character is wonderfully put together, and I think if the Mane 6 acted like this in every episode instead of being the “we’ve already had our story arcs done and are mostly perfect” shells they are now, the show would be much more fun to watch.
20. The Return of Harmony (Season 2, 2011)
This is the only 2-parter on the list, and there’s a good reason for that. I generally don’t like the grander story of this show, because not only are the Mane 6’s friendship used as a plot device instead of an actual dynamic, which I find to be disrespectful to the majority of episodes where their friendship grows, but they tend to get rather overdramatic and sappy. Thankfully, this episode has those problems, but not 100% of the time. It feels as though this is the first time their friendship was really put to the test, with Twilight seeing them at their meanest and most childish, with the strings being pulled by a villain who seemingly can’t be defeated. The unfortunate thing is that these episode’s problems have only intensified the more 2-parters they make, but nothing will take away the place this one has in my heart.
19. Power Ponies (Season 4, 2013)
Here we have an episode that could’ve been rather boring. You know, just another “Spike has to deal with being the useless one” episode that’s been done to death over the seasons. However, they decided to use a superhero template, making it one of the most unique and memorable episodes of Season 4. Although I’m not big on the superhero genre myself, I do think that the Power Ponies’ powers and designs are creative, and it has a world that could pass for its own show.
18. A Friend In Deed (Season 2, 2012)
Pinkie Pie can be a pain in the neck sometimes, and she is undeniably a pain in the neck here. However, this is her still trying to learn the boundaries of some ponies, especially one she’s never met before. Cranky, a cynical old donkey is the polar opposite of Pinkie Pie, which makes it a challenge to for them to get along. This leads to some of the silliest and most out-there jokes of Season 2, but it also has a bittersweet, heartwarming backstory that keeps me watching to the end. Plus it has the Smile Song. If you don’t like it, you clearly don’t like Pinkie Pie.
17. Too Many Pinkie Pies (Season 3, 2012)
What’s more of a pain in the neck than Pinkie Pie herself? How about 50 Pinkie Pies!? It’s amazing they could do this from an animation standpoint, and from a story perspective, it’s a well-rounded lesson for Pinkie Pie to learn. As a Pinkie Pie fan (she’s really the only thing in this show I consistently like if I’m being quite honest), there’s just so much to love here. I adore the fact that when the Pinkie clones themselves become too much for Ponyville to handle, the original Pinkie Pie falls into despair. Yeah there are some themes of “they have to essentially kill the clones!”, especially in the Elimination scene, but I think that’s overanalysing things.
16. Hearts and Hooves Day (Season 2, 2012)
If I could use one word to describe this episode, it’d have to be “cute”. I’m not really that big of a fan of Valentines Day specials (especially the SpongeBob one), but this one isn’t really sickeningly romantic as much as it’s adorably romantic. The interactions between the lovestruck Big Macintosh and Cheerilee are too precious to ignore, and it helps that the Cutie Mark Crusaders have a real dilemma on their hands here, as opposed to something like The Show Stoppers or Twilight Time. Speaking of Twilight, she’s the only one of the Mane 6 to appear in this episode. I think this is when the Cutie Mark Crusaders really started to become individuals instead of a group of childish obstacles that the other characters had to look out for.
15. The Ticket Master (Season 1, 2010)
This episode had a hard title to live up to. After the acclaimed Friendship is Magic 2-parter, this had to prove that bringing the series down to a simpler style could work, and I believe that it made me like the Slice of Life side of this show way more than its Epic side. The story is something rather simple. Twilight has to figure out who to give a ticket to, out of all her friends. This can sorta be seen as a metaphor for picking your favourite pony. At the end of the day, you have to respect them all equally, which is what Twilight learns. You simply can’t pick favourites sometimes. Now on with the list!
14. Sleepless in Ponyville (Season 3, 2012)
For a while, and still now, Scootaloo has been my third-favourite of the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Apple Bloom has a surprisingly deep internal struggle and Sweetie Belle is a joy to watch (read onto Number 6 for more), but I didn’t really find Scoot’s fascination with Rainbow Dash to be that interesting until this episode. The way her fear of the forest is portrayed and how her imagination sees the ghost stories Rainbow Dash tells shows just how far she’s willing to go to impress Rainbow Dash, and the moral really helps make this one of the most satisfying Season 3 episodes.
13. The Mane Attraction (Season 5, 2015)
Here’s an episode that deals with the “Evolution is a B!tch” effect (at least that’s what I think it’s called). Essentially, Applejack had a friend at camp, Countless Coloratura, who was a singer, then she never heard from her for years, until she came back to Ponyville with a completely different look. Instead of being the humble country singer she was in her youth, Coloratura’s now a Lady Gaga-esque superstar with over-the-top songs and terrible management. In other words, she became a sell-out. Even her eyebrows became ads for Pizza Hut.
Admit it, you were a fan of something that just had to go off the deep end at some point, and I think this did a more subtle take on it than Stranger Than Fan Fiction. While that one dealed with fan opinion, this one deals with the dark side of the road to being a commercial shell of your former self, which various shows that last over 5 seasons tend to become. It’s like this episode was a cry for help, because let’s face it, the show had 3 finales by this point, and it had 2 more after this.
12. Sweet and Elite (Season 2, 2011)
Like The Ticket Master, this deals with yet another cliché moral in cartoons- the “I want to be noticed but I don’t want to be myself” type message. Rarity does have a good reason for thinking this though. She’s clearly on a higher level of class than her Ponyville friends, yet she doesn’t understand how one-dimensionally snooty the ponies in Canterlot are until it’s too late, because she wanted that lifestyle so bad. I guess one flaw that the episode has is that the rest of the Mane 6 act a little too zany at Twilight’s birthday, especially Twilight herself, but it was funny to watch nonetheless.
11. The One Where Pinkie Pie Knows (Season 5, 2015)
I feel as though Season 6 was a bit short on Pinkie Pie. She has significantly less screentime than the others, and in her own episodes she didn’t act as silly and childlike as before. I don’t know if it’s because the new tone doesn’t fit her, or if Andrea Libman is starting to get too old to get that squeak right (even her Fluttershy voice is starting to sound a bit tired), but I really savour Pinkie Pie’s moments in this episode. It’s a classic idea of not letting a secret out, and giving it to perhaps the pony who can most easily spoil a surprise. From her reactions to everything baby-related to her frustrations with the Easter Egg Hunt, this is too fun not to watch again.
10. Feeling Pinkie Keen (Season 1, 2011)
Perhaps the thing that makes Pinkie Pie so fun to watch, as well as most comedy characters, is her unpredictability. The Pinkie Sense is a metaphor for this. When Twilight can barely seem to understand it and its sporadic waves, she concocts many plans to try and prove it all to be phony, with no success. She just needs to understand that her friend can have things about her that she just can’t understand, and that doesn’t mean they can’t be friends with one another. I know this episode came under some heat for its apparent links to atheism, but that’s looking too deep. It’s like saying Eiffel Tower is phallic. I can see where you’re coming from, but that’s barely the original intention.
9. Amending Fences (Season 5, 2015)
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This episode’s one of the more interesting ones of Season 5. It revolves around Twilight going back to Canterlot to say hello to her old associates from before she became the Element of Magic. It’s an amazing concept and they really encapsulate that nostalgic feeling of a time long lost, despite it only being 1-2 years prior from Twilight’s perspective. It’s rather obvious, but you really get the feeling that Moondancer is the version of Twilight that never went to Ponyville; an antisocial bookworm who’s too irritated by her study duties to actually make friends. If you’re one of those bronies who doesn’t want to watch newer episodes because they’re “too different”, this is the episode that’ll ease you into the show again.
8. Party of One (Season 1, 2011)
Before this episode, Pinkie Pie was barely the most dimensional character of the show. Her common traits included being wierd and singing random songs. As Season 1 progressed, she became more than just an immature comic relief, and this solidified her as an eccentric party-planner with a fear of failing at her job to make people laugh. Ironically, seeing her descent into madness throughout this episode is hilarious, but it’s really a wonder how bronies back in the day found this to be one of the darkest episodes. Sure Pinkie reaches Ren Höek-levels of insanity (notice the similarities in spinart backgrounds?), but at least she never threatens to gouge anyone’s eyes out, and the less said about Cupcakes, the better.
7. A Hearth’s Warming Tail (Season 6, 2016)
I feel completely comfortable saying that I don’t really like Starlight Glimmer that much. Her portrayals in Season 6 didn’t really do her style of character justice, and she worked much better as a villain with a reasonable problem. That said, A Christmas Carol is the perfect story for her. The story centres on Snowball Frost, a Scrooge who hates Hearth’s Warming so much she vows to make a..potion that’ll…end it? That isn’t explained that well, but at least the rest of the episode is much better. They show the past, present and future with varying degress of mood (evil character, sad past, happy present, scary future) which is a much better way of reforming Starlight than with The Cutie Remark. Couple this with some great songs, and you have a really good Christmas special.
6. Sisterhooves Social (Season 2, 2011)
Rarity and Sweetie Belle’s dynamic is glorious. I always had that older sister who tended to get irritated by my mere presence, despite me just wanting to have fun with her, and this episode made me, the Sweetie Belle to my sister, have fun watching how much of a little brat she is, and how slowly but surely Rarity can reach her breaking point. You can tell that the Cutie Mark Crusaders are meant to be rather young in this, compared to later where they seem like parodies of perfect children, and the younger they act in a scenario like this, the more I can laugh at the kid in me who acted like them once. You got all that, right?
5. Lesson Zero (Season 2, 2011)
Often when you wander into a fandom, there are certain episodes that you’re recommended to see first. For me, that episode was this one. It will always have a place in my heart as one of the perfect examples to make an episode about a character going insane. You see Twilight’s hair slowly get messier and her smiles grow more maniacal and uncanny, it has a small yet noticeable framing device of the clock slowly ticking as Twilight rushes to get a letter to Celestia, despite it being a perfectly normal day in Ponyville. It’s very much an episode that every brony can agree is at least notewrothy.
4. Inspiration Manifestation (Season 4, 2014)
This is an episode where Spike just works. I feel like, as the odd one out in the main cast, being younger and seen more as a companion than a friend, Spike’s episodes and morals tend to be out of place for the show unless it has to do directly with another one of the Mane 6. Although it’s still Ratity’s episode, she’s the villain against herself, the bread and butter of the conflict is mostly Spike asking himself where to draw the line between the possessed Rarity spreading her passion and crafting everything in her image just because. Having a spell that can make anything just appear is a particularly surreal and derranged idea, and you can see the stress getting to Rarity the longer she subjects her mind to the book.
3. Pinkie Pride (Season 4, 2014)
Like The Return of Harmony, this episode has something I’ve grown to dislike, which is guest stars popping in for one episode for a paycheck and some extra ratings. Though I will say I like Cheese Sandwhich, she seems like a great idea for a foil to Pinkie Pie who’s basically almost exactly like her. The arc Pinkie Pie goes through where she needs to figure out what’s best for her friends over how to celebrate for them really cements my belief that this should’ve been the last season. This is a good way to end Pinkie’s story, finally realising how much her friends mean to her, but instead the show’s been slowly dragged out with very little of its original charm of the characters having to learn intact.
2. The Saddle Row Review (Season 6, 2016)
However, that doesn’t mean that they can’t make the occasional stellar episode. This and the 4 other “DF era” episodes stand out from the rest of the topsy turvy Season 5 and the mediocre Season 6 because they give the Mane 6 something to worry about. The obvious leap in logiv here is to make an episode where everypony worries about everything, with a Modern Family-esque framing device of each of them having an inner monologue at the interview. Each joke, each scene and each character is wonderfully put together, and I think if the Mane 6 acted like this in every episode instead of being the “we’ve already had our story arcs done and are mostly perfect” shells they are now, the show would be much more fun to watch.
- The Best Night Ever (Season 1, 2011)
An event that had been built up for the entirety of the first season is transformed into the worst night of each of the Mane 6’s lives. Twilight finally gets to hang out with Celestia, but is stuck shaking hooves at the entrance. Rarity meets the prince of her dreams, only to find he’s a snooty jerk. Rainbow Dash gets to meet the Wonderbolts, but can’t get their attention for more than 10 seconds. Applejack starts her own business, but the buffet inside keeps anypony wanting her food. Pinkie Pie gets to have the greatest party ever, but everypony frowns upon her for not behaving like a proper mare. Fluttershy gets to explore the royal gardens, but gets herself wound up trying to see any animals. Everything hits a weakness to the characters that won’t make them look back on this night with bad memories, but rather funny memories about the ponies they once were, the ponies we grew to like, and the ponies we symbolise with the birth of a pop culture phenomenon.
Statistics
4 Season 1 episodes
6 Season 2 episodes
2 Season 3 episodes
3 Season 4 episodes
3 Season 5 episodes
2 Season 6 episodes
18 episodes feature Twilight
17 episodes feature Pinkie Pie
17 episodes feature Rarity
17 episodes feature Applejack
16 episodes feature Fluttershy
16 episodes feature Rainbow Dash
7 episodes feature the Cutie Mark Crusaders (as a group)
Thoughout this, I’ve stressed that the show has declined in quality in Season 5 and 6, and personally, I see no way of stopping it. This is a show with character development that’s had several finales and is running out of ways to make its main characters feel as genuine as they once were, because unfortunately now they’ve learnt and done too much and nothing should be a challenge to them anymore. The sad truth is there’s no way the show’s going away anytime soon. It still makes a ton of money for Hasbro and its target audience don’t care about the whole story as much as we do. I doubt the future of the series is good, but that doesn’t mean that the first 3-4 seasons aren’t still animated classics.
