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So, the Washouts, who display a flagrant disregard for safety, wear helmets. Whereas, the Wonder Bolts, who are sticklers for safety, don't wear helmets. Interesting...

No, Lighting Dust didn't die. It is likely that she ended up in a full body, wing, and hoof cast, eating through a straw though.

In the light of recent events, I stand corrected.

The memory stones are real!!

When they have pony ears, and tails, and they "pony up", and float/fly around shooting weaponized rainbows, they have cutie marks. You can't see them because they are under their clothes. When they go back to being normal the marks fade away. Except for Sunset Shimmer. She always has a cutie mark because she is a pony from Equestria.

His grandfather is Eeyore.?

WTF Hoity Toity? Are you a donkey? Why do you have donkey long ears even? If you aren't a donkey? Maybe Hoity Toity is a mule. That is the name for a horse (in this case pony) and donkey hybrid animal.

While you do have a point about helping someone who says they don't want help, that is just way too heavy of an interpretation of the moral here (in my opinion). Try this metaphor. Last October, when hurricane Matthew wrecked through, the following day, the people that had chainsaws were out clearing roads, and helping neibors with fallen trees in their yards. People with large deep freezers full of meat, fearing it would go bad with no electricity, began barbecuing, and inviting everyone in the neiborhood, others would join bringing corn, and other food. I had a large tarp I use when camping, I let someone nail it to their roof to cover a hole until it could be properly repaired. Nobody asked for anyone else's help. Nobody needed to. That's just what neibors, and communities do after a natural disaster. Even in preparation for a potential area is expecting severe weather, or fires areas not affected, will send crews, and resources to help cities that are. Towards the end, Prince Rutherford, says something along the line of, friends that you don't have to ask to help are the best kind. (I inferred from this that a good friend will help without having to be asked. However, Prince Rutherford's rejection of Pinkies offer to help earlier in the episode seems to be a direct contradiction to that). Maybe it was just the "natural disaster" nature of the episode that leads my thinking that direction. Yes! I totally did too!!

Let me see if I got this straight. Princess Twilights castle, and the cutie magic table/map thing happened when the mane six gave up the elements of harmony to save the tree of harmony because Tirek.And because of some intetense other stuff? (That SG had nothing to do with) Starlight glimmer gets cutie map missions now?W?T?F?!! Yes, we are all Twilight going "WTF?!" here. And it is a completely solid Celestia/ Luna episode that we have all been wanting! Switching ROYAL cutie marx , and it works...? Just wow! Oh Starlight Glimmer, how you make all the first four seasons irrelevant. A well written episode is appreciated, props to that! The Celestia/Luna part is FIM as it gets! I feel like I'm being forced to accept starlight g, and that pony still ain't my friend (all shady and control freakish)

Since nobody ever answered this; the bit of dialogue you missed was, in my opinion, one of the funniest lines in the episode. The set-up is that the CMC are wondering why Big Mac is going to "Starlights old village" (apparently that is it's only name) so frequently. Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo answer two different things at the exact same time, making an unintelligible noise, then slightly later, but as not to get lost in the unintelligible noise, we hear Apple Bloom answer "..to get away from the smell". So basically Apple Bloom theorizes that Big Mac is making frequent, out of town trips to " get away from the smell". Then all the CMC fall down laughing, which implies that there is actually something at Sweet Apple Acres emmiting a smell that one would want to get away from. Granny Smiths "old pony" smell? AJ's farts? We will never know. About the name "Feather Bangs", and you aren't the only one that missed this. The hair that falls over a persons forehead is referred to as " bangs" the style of his hair is a hairstyle known as "feathered" (feathered hair was very popular in the nineteen seventies. Think about Farah Fawcett's hair). And that's why having "feather" in his name has nothing to do with being a pegasus, or not. And "bangs" isn't being used as an innuendo for sex. It is just, as has been a point beaten to death already, extremely lazy ass writing!

Yes, going all the way back to the bison in "Over a Barrel". And he almost had the yaks until they learned that "music is a lie!" And if dragons had cutie marks the map probably would have sent him to Griffonstone.

The love the writers are showing for Spike this season is unprecedented! From his interaction with Starlight in the season opener, to Gauntlet of Fire, and now this. He is indeed not Hum-Drum, the bumbling sidekick just thrown in as a punching bag for weak gags that fall short. The time he has spent as Twilights number one assistant is shining through. All the friendship lessons that Twilight has learns over the years has not gone un noticed by Spike. We are starting so see that all those lessons Twilight learned (the ones that qualified her to be a princess) Spike has also taken to heart. Princess Spike not withstanding, Spike may even be a better Princess of Friendship than Twilight. Especially considering Twilight in "No Second Prances". 2016 the year of the dragon!

First "The Gift of Maud Pie", and now this! Rarity and Pinkie are proving to have really nice chemistry in the episodes they share. Also, nice to have an explanation for why we haven't seen the cutie map this season. I thought maybe it had gone the way of "the Journal of Friendship" did after season four. Pinkie sure knows good food when she smells it. (think the muffins in "Cutie Map part one, and the scones in "Lost Treasure of Griffonstone") She works in a bakery! But, she wasn't fashionable, or influential enough to draw in customers to the restaurant. Rarity, on the other hoof knows business. Her idea was to mimic the model of what she saw other successful businesses doing. Of course she was wrong in this instance. But, once she embraced the importance of uniqueness, she was able to not only use her influence to draw a crowd to the resturant, but was able to break the spell that Zesty had over Canterlot ponies! Even to the point of other restaurant owners refusing to conform to the standard that Zesty had set. I thought maybe she would have used her boutique to promote the restaurant, with maybe some samples, or bringing her employees lunch, and others smelling it and asking where the food came from. But watching her parade up and down the sidewalk wearing a sandwich board was amusing too. Oh yeah, and the song was good too! After a long track record of Rarity and AJ being a favorite pairing, their last two episodes together ("Made in Manehatten" and "AppleJacks Day Off") were not bad, but lacking that chemistry they had in earlier episodes. The Pinkie/ Rarity episodes seem to pick up where the AJ/ Rarity episodes left off.

The episode opens with the conflict of fluttershys brother unable to support himself, and living at home. Most of the episode is spent reinforcing the fact that Zephyr is an unemployable douche. Rainbow Dash, and fluttershy sing at him, so he graduates, and gets a degree in "mane therapy". Episode ends with him still living with his parents. And conflict resolved. Also, where does Rainbow Dash have room to criticize anyone for taking naps, as we have frequently been shown her doing just that ( although, in all fairness, Dash probably was taking a well deserved rest after a hard half day of work)