Dark Qiviut

The Flim & Flam side plot is an utter waste of time.

1. Fluttershy becomes out of character, devolving into one of the most gullible customers in Rainbow Falls.
2. How they resolve it is forced. They force-act their way to out them, and everyone buys into it.
3. The moral of how one shouldn't get sucked into the commercialized greed of the holidays is standard, but handles it really plainly here. Other longtime specials, including How the Grinch Stole Christmas and A Charlie Brown Christmas, commented on the commercialization of Christmas decades ago with pristine execution
   
   And though I won't dock points for this, but it's kinda rich to have FIM parody commercialized greed when Hasbro spent a paltry $6.5 million for the FIM movie (which was internationally released). I don't know if Hasbro/Allspark's treatment of their animators was similar to Nitrogen Studios when Sausage Party was being developed, but given the notorious labor nature of animation in Canada, I won't be shocked if it's the same here.