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Real-time notes from watching MLP episodes (starting with G1)

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Friendship Gardens

Generation 2 has no animated series. In fact they only have a single video-game. My Little Pony: Friendship Gardens, which is basically a relatively complex tamagotchi system where you are keeping a pony as a pet. I don't have the game, and from what I was able to find it doesn't run properly on current operating systems, glitching out regularly. So I'm not able to go into it for finding anything worldbuilding in it.   So, all I have is a tiny bit around the region the G2 is set in, is called
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Who's Responsible

Who's Responsible (G1.5 TV episode, September 25the 1992, 11 minutes)   Summary: Bright Eyes and the girls try to find the source of the pollution choking Ponyville's rivers.   Hey, this looks like one of the ice cream factories from the previous series.   It's a delivery van, you nitwit.   Clover can't read? That's interesting. She may have a learning disability of some kind. That sounds like a setup for a second season episode that never happened.   And that ends My Little Pony Tales
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Ponies in Paradise

Ponies in Paradise (G1.5 TV episode, September 25th 1992, 11 minutes)   Summary: Bright Eyes is chosen to be an exchange student, and has to deal with being in a foreign land without her friends to help.   More world stuff! Hopefully?   It's actually called 'Tropical Island'. That's disappointing.   So these are Polynesian ponies.   Ponies really don't do well with other cultures, do they?   ... why are they making bamboo spears?   They seem to be having problems making up their mi
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Just for Kicks

Just for Kicks (G1.5 TV episode, September 18th 1992, 11 minutes)   Summary: Starlight has a crush on Ace, the star of the soccer team. But Ace like Melody instead. Shenanigans!   This is the episode I watched a long time ago that turned me off MLP. My memory of it is the girl's only acceptable desire is to attract boys, and boys are universally portrayed as selfish, brainless jocks. The writer seemed to need to vent their own issues with the 'popular people' from when they were in school. B
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Bon Bon's Diary

Bon Bon's Diary (G1.5 TV episode, September 18th 1992, 11 minutes)   Summary: Teddy finds Bon Bon's diary, and tries to find the advantage.   Bon Bon's diary is one of those ongoing topics, I guess?   What grade is this? Simple multiplication tables? They were talking molecular chemistry in a previous episode...   Again, rollerskates not rollerblades.   People now need to learn about this. Don't write down something you want to remain secret. Don't post stuff to the internet that you d
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Gribet

Gribet (G1.5 TV episode, September 11th 1992, 11 minutes)   Summary: Sweetheart finds a injured frog, and nurses it back to health. She discovers that taking care of a wild animal is not as easy as she assumed.   This is the first nonsense word title, so I assume it's a name of a non-pony.   You don't eat *before* a picnic, silly.   Ah, this will be Gribet.   Sweetheart is obviously this generation's equivalent to Fluttershy.   Spot, not Gribet.   Two extra days in a splint isn't
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Happy Birthday Sweetheart

Happy Birthday Sweetheart (G1.5 TV episode, September 11th 1992, 11 minutes)   Summary: Sweetheart and the girls are entered into a synchronized swimming contest, and Teddy interferes causing them to forfeit. Sweetheart has to decide between the girls and Teddy as friends, on her birthday.   Back to the Nutcracker suite again? I guess once you have the rights to that performance, you use it to death.   Those look more like parsnips than carrots. Interesting.   Sunnyside team, so there's
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Send in the Clown

Send in the Clown (G1.5 TV episode, September 4th 1992, 11 minutes)   Summary: Clover feels she cannot live up to her sister Meadowlark's career as a ballerina, but an accident forces Clover into the role of Harlequin alongside Meadowlark in the Nutcracker.   Nutcracker. I wonder what got altered to make it ponified.   Not much, apparently, if they include the pas de duex between the Harlequin and Columbine dolls.   That's not right. That's the music from Trepak, the Russian Dance from A
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Birds of a Feather

Birds of a Feather (G1.5 TV episode, September 4th 1992, 11 minutes)   Summary: Bright Eyes leads her friends into the Old Woods to find the endangered Green Winged Songbird, and discover why this once plentiful bird is now so rare.   Not a bird person, but my uncle is, and he said there isn't anything resembling a green winged songbird in North America. I looked, and found a duck and an African finch, but that's it.   The Old Woods, that *nobody* has been to. Kinda mysterious for such a s
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Sister of the Bride

Sister of the Bride (G1.5 TV episode, August 28th 1992, 11 minutes)   Summary: Clover's sister is about to be married, but Clover becomes suspicious that the groom has other ideas.   According to my wife, that's not the way most brides think on their wedding day. I know it's not how the groom thinks.   Cheval is the groom. Cheval is actually horse in French.   Huge wedding ring to fit on the hoof.   Okay, Cheval is actually French.   That will be his sister, of course.   And so it
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Up, up and Away

Up, up and Away (G1.5 TV episode, August 28th 1992, 11 minutes)   Summary: A UFO is spotted at Pony Point, and Patch will do whatever it takes to catch it.   Pony Point, different from Pony Rock.   Okay, maybe not. This may be the same place, but looking at it from a different angle.   Dream sequence. There's some interesting bits, but because it's a dream sequence nothing usable for worldbuilding.   The wizard of Oz, who is a bit of an operator, isn't he?   Never actually been in a
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An Apple for Starlight

An Apple for Starlight (G1.5 TV episode, August 21st 1992, 11 minutes)   Summary: Starlight takes on the role of teacher when Ms. Hackney is ill. In an attempt to control her peers in the class, Starlight takes them on an ill-advised field trip where they need to use what they've learned in class to escape.   So the 'star' student gets to teach the class because the teacher is ill.   Starlight is awfully tan in the mirror.   Okay, this is all known as Ponyland.   Pony Rock.   Pinto C
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Princess Problems

It just occurred to me, that those of you bothering to read these might actually like an episode summary along with my 'live' notes. I was originally thinking that it's easy enough to look up a summary on the various wikis, so it just didn't seem like something that was particularly necessary for my purpose.   If you'd like that sort of thing, let me know. I'll backtrack through this blog when I can and put in summaries for prior entries as well.   Princess Problems (G1.5 TV episode, August
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Roll around the Clocks

Roll around the Clocks (G1.5 TV episode, August 14th 1992, 11 minutes)   Summary: Bright Eyes and Lancer want to participant in the Rollerskating competition, but they are too shy to ask each other out.   Rollerskating. In the early nineties inline skates were taking over from quad skates, which indicates the age of the creators here. They were unaware of the style change that was going on at the time.   Makeovers. This is the girly part of the show.   The boy section is just as girly. A
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Blue Ribbon Blues

Blue Ribbon Blues (G1.5 TV episode, August 14th 1992, 11 minutes)   Summary: Sweetheart and Teddy go to his family's farm to try to learn if there is anything to Teddy beyond his ability to upset other ponies.   Just happens to be harvest time. There's a co-winkie-dink.   So many things off with the harvest there. If you're using a combine harvester, which it looks like they are, you offload the grain directly to the elevator via an auger, you don't dump it on the ground. And the hay has t
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The Great Lemonade Stand Wars

The Great Lemonade Stand Wars (G1.5 TV episode, August 7the 1992, 11 minutes)   Summary: The girls need to buy a new teapot, and decide to try to raise the money by setting up a lemonade stand. The boys want to turn it into a competition instead.   Stick Forever Glue? They could deal with brand-naming Coke, but not Krazy Glue?   Two hundred jangles for a tea set at a porcelain store. Is this a full set with cups and saucers, or just the teapot + creamer and sugar bowl? Both are considered
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The Impractical Joker

The Impractical Joker (G1.5 TV episode, August 7th 1992, 11 minutes)   Summary: The girls decide to teach Patches a lesson in response to all her practical jokes.   Cup of flour, two tablespoons of sugar.... That's a weird ratio for a pie crust. One of my hobbies is baking, and for normal sized pie it's more like 2 1/2 cups of flour to one teaspoon of sugar. There's no flour in the lemon filling or meringue.   Interesting tower. It looks a lot like the watchtower in Desert View next to the
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Shop Talk

Shop Talk (G1.5 TV episode, July 31st 1992, 11 minutes)   Summary: Gossip turns sour when Lance and Ace overhear the girls, and taunt Teddy about a rumor.   That hairdryer... and the jukebox in the background, are actually 50's tech. I don't remember big hairdryers like that still around in the 90's.   Here's another one I think I'm going to have personal issues with. It's looking like an episode about gossip.   I like Sweetheart. She's nice.   Yeah... Lance and Ace are saps.   Heh.
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The Play's the Thing

The Play's the Thing (G1.5 TV episode, July 31st 1992, 11 minutes)   Summary: Melody lets her lead role in the school play go to her head.   Yeah, that's about right for auditions. Been there, watched many do that.   Pegasis! Awwww. Special effect.   And that's where I normally end up in theatre. Putting together costumes and props. And being the third Viking from the left.   And that's how rehearsals normally go, too.   This green-haired pony again. She's the only TV personality in
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The Masquerade

The Masquerade (G1.5 TV episode, July 25th 1992, 11 minutes)   Summary: The girls are to attend a costume ball where they dress up as what they want to be in the future. Bon Bon feels that her dream isn't possible, and is too embarrassed to go.   Yeah, the pony brushing her teeth in the intro gets freakier each time I see it.   Masquerade party that evening? Only an hour or two to come up with costumes? Really? I mean, yes, I do that, but I have a room of my house devoted to period clothin
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Out of Luck

Out of Luck (G1.5 TV episode, July 24th 1992, 11 minutes)   Summary: Clover decides the teapot she found is a bad luck charm, and finds it impossible to get rid of.   Junkyard. You know, there were a lot of different kid's shows and books centered around romanticized junkyards back in the 70's and 80's. It was definitely a thing of the times.   'Jillion Jangles' Did they name the currency *just* for that joke?   That playhouse was just recently put together. It's not exactly a good job i
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The Tea Party

The Tea Party (G1.5 TV episode, July 17th 1992, 11 minutes)   Summary: While the girls try to decide whether to allow boys into their club, their stuff is stolen from the abandoned house they are using as a clubhouse.   Abandoned house being used as a playhouse by the young ponies. I remember doing that.   Gender segregation, more exaggerated than what's normal even in the 90's. This is another bit from when the writers were kids, likely in the 60's and 70's.   Elastics in their saddleba
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Stand By Me

Stand By Me (G1.5 TV episode, July 17th 1992, 11 minutes)   Summary: Teddy is put on trial by his classmates for stealing.   Ah. Memories. I remember how each new 'state of the art' boombox was taken so seriously.   Mohawk pony has a comb for a cutie mark, and the name 'Teddy'. Normally the names have at least *something* to do with their cutie-mark, but this time I'm not getting the connections. The haircut though is a pretty standard one for horses in RL, especially ponies. I'm kinda sur
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And the Winner Is

And the Winner Is (G1.5 TV episode, July 10th 1992, 11 minutes)   Summary: Clover wins tickets to a special concert, and has to choose between her friends to go with her.   This green hair pony seems to be re-occuring character.   Miss Hackney again. Actually does seem a lot like the G4 version.   A slide straight out of the school. Nope, no actual precident. That does not happen. Unless you're dealing with kindergartens in Los Angeles or something.   The ponies seem a bit whiny in gen
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The Battle of the Bands

The Battle of the Bands (G1.5 TV episode, July 10th 1992, 11 minutes)   Summary: Melody enters a Battle of the Bands, but forgets to find someone to babysit her younger sisters.   Technically 'sporange' rhymes with orange. It's a antique herbology term. Orange doesn't rhyme with anything else in English because it's one of the select words in English that is not sourced from Latin (through Norman French) or Germanic (through Saxon), instead coming from Sanskrit (through Persia): 'naranga' th
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