There's no doubt in my mind that airing the season premiere of MLP on Doctor Who's 50th birthday was 100% intentional. I knew in the very core of me that it would. Of all the days this year - of all the Saturdays - they would pick November 23rd. There has to be as many bronies who are Whovians as there are furries who are bronies. The temptation to pander to that was just too overwhelming.
And they nailed it. While the episode stood on its own as a magnificent kick-off to a promising season,
I didn't add this to my main post articulating my theory that Derpy is Clara Oswald because it didn't fit with the flow of the feng shui. However, it's amusing enough that I've given it its own brief post.
In the 6th episode of the Doctor Whooves and Assistant series, the Doctor and Derpy get into a heated argument. Near the end, we get this exchange:
Derpy: You know what, maybe I DON'T want to have muffins with you!
Doctor: Oh, I see, so you only care about muffins then?!
Derpy: No I
Ah, Doctor Whooves. The equine who would be the Doctor. Through some alignment of the cosmos, an inconsequential pony living in a magic fairy tale word from a little girls' cartoon became associated with an extraterrestrial who travels the spacetime continuum like a hobo in a long-running British sci-fi series. God bless the Internet.
With mere weeks until the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who and the coinciding season 4 premiere of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, I would like to take this
