Best and worst episode of each season of G4

[phantompone1148 126]

For me:

S1 Best: Cutie Mark Chronicles

S1 Worst: Owl’s Well That Ends Well

 

S2 Best: The Return of Harmony

S2 Worst: Dragon Quest

 

S3 Best: Magical Mystery Cure

S3 Worst: One Bad Apple

 

S4 Best: Twilight’s Kingdom

S4 Worst: Rainbow Falls

 

S5 Best: Amending Fences

S5 Worst: What About Discord

 

S6 Best: Stranger Than Fan Fiction

S6 Worst: Cart Before The Ponies

 

S7 Best: The Perfect Pear (I know generic pick)

S7 Worst: Honest Apple

 

 

S8 Best: What Lies Beneth

S8 Worst: Yakkity Sax

 

S9 Best: The Last Problem

S9 Worst: 2, 4, 6 Greaaat

[Courageous Thunder Dash 7,824]

Here goes! (By the way, the Mega Thread tag is reserved for special threads.)

Season 1 Best: Sonic Rainboom

Season 1 Worst: None Really

Season 2 Best: The Return of Harmony

Season 2 Worst: Mysterious Mare-Do-Well

Season 3 Best: Tie between Magical Mystery Cure and Wonderbolt Academy

Season 3 Worst: Just for Sidekicks

Season 4 Best: Twilight's Kingdom

Season 4 Worst: Somepony To Watch Over Me

Season 5 Best:  Tie between The Mane Attraction and The Cutie Re-Mark

Season 5 Worst: Princess Spike

Season 6 Best: Gauntlet of Fire

Season 6 Worst: (You guessed it) Newbie Dash

Season 7 Best: Tie between Discordant Harmony and The Perfect Pear

Season 7 Worst: Triple Threat

Season 8 Best: Tie between Sounds of Silence and School Raze

Season 8 Worst: Father Knows Beast

Season 9 Best: Tie Between The Ending of The End and The Last Problem

Season 9 Worst: 2, 4, 6 Greaaat 

[Lone Traveler 91]

For me:

S1 Best: Sonic Rainboom

S1 Worst: Boast Busters

 

S2 Best: Hurricane Fluttershy

S2 Worst: Dragon Quest

 

S3 Best: Sleepless in Ponyville

S3 Worst: One Bad Apple

 

S4 Best: Twilight’s Kingdom

S4 Worst: Somepony to Watch Over Me

 

S5 Best: Amending Fences

S5 Worst: What About Discord

 

S6 Best: Stranger Than Fan Fiction

S6 Worst: Applejack's Day Off

 

S7 Best: Health of Information

S7 Worst: Fame and Misfortune

 

 

S8 Best: Best Gift Ever or Hearth's Warming Club

S8 Worst: Yakkity Sax

 

S9 Best: Sparkle's Seven

S9 Worst: Growing Up Is Hard To Do

[baba_booey 4,302]

S1 Best: Suited for Success

S1 Worst: Boast Busters

S2 Best: Hurricane Fluttershy

S2 Worst: Putting Your Hoof Down

S3 Best: Sleepless in Ponyville

S3 Worst: One Bad Apple

S4 Best: Rarity Takes Manehattan

S4 Worst: Rainbow Falls

S5 Best: Lost Treasure of Griffonstone

S5 Worst: The Hooffields and the McColts

S6 Best: The Times They Are a Changeling

S6 Worst: Newbie Dash

S7 Best: The Perfect Pear

S7 Worst: Honest Apple

S8 Best: Molt Down

S8 Worst: Non-Compete Clause

S9 Best: The Last Problem

S9 Worst: 2, 4, 6, Greaaat

[Dark Qiviut 22,396]

S1:
Best: Best Night Ever. The Magic of Friendship in its purest form.
Worst: Bridle Gossip: Wanna write about racism? Not like this.

S2:
Best: Sisterhooves Social. A wonderful, plausible portrayal of sisters in fiction.
Worst: Dragon Quest. Sexist, xenophobic, stereotypical.

S3:
Best: Sleepless in Ponyville. First Scoot episode with one of the most heartwarming moments of the show.
Worst: One Bad Apple. How to write a bully episode? Not here!

S4:
Best: Testing Testing. Hilarious and full of heart.
Worst: Rainbow Fails. No explanation needed.

S5:
Best: Lost Mark. Best CMC episode!
Worst: Princess Spike. The quintessential Spikeabuse episode.

S6:
Best: The Times They Are A Changeling. Best Spike episode!
Worst: Newbie Dash. What MMC would've been if it was an atrocity.

S7:
Best: The Perfect Pear. FIM's masterpiece.
Worst: Fame & Misfortune. Worst written episode of FIM, period.

S8:
Best: Rockhoof & a Hard Place. Magic Sheep and No Second Prances written correctly.
Worst: Fake It. Second-worst FS episode, worst characterization of FS of the series, and Rarity is awful.

S9:
Best: Big Mac Question. Perfect capper to FIM's slice-of-life episodes.
Worst: Greaaat. No explanation necessary.

[Cash In 22,309]

S1 Best: The Best Night Ever

S1 Worst: The Show Stoppers

S2 Best: Hurricane Fluttershy 

S2 Worst: The Mysterious Mare Do Well

S3 Best: Magic Duel

S3 Worst: Spike at Your Service

S4 Best: For Whom the Sweetie Belle Toils

S4 Worst: Inspiration Manifestation 

S5 Best: The Cutie Map

S5 Worst: What About Discord?

S6 Best: Gauntlet of Fire

S6 Worst: Newbie Dash 

S7 Best: The Perfect Pear 

S7 Worst: Hard to Say Anything 

S8 Best: Road to Friendship

S8 Worst: Non-Compete Clause

S9 Best: Going to Seed

S9 Worst: 2, 4, 6, Greaaat

Edited November 13, 2021 by Cash_In

[Woohoo 34,136]

Season 1: 
Best: Suited for Success (Honorable mentions: Party of One, Best Night Ever, Applebuck Season)
Worst: Boast Busters (Dishonorable mentions: Owl's Well that Ends Well, Sonic Rainboom, The Show Stoppers) 

Season 2:
Best: Lesson Zero (Honorable mentions: Return to Harmony, Sisterhooves Social, Hurricane Fluttershy)
Worst: Putting Your Hoof Down (Dishonorable mentions: Baby Cakes, Dragon Quest, MMMystery on the Friendship Express) 

Season 3:
Best: Wonderbolts Academy (Honorable mentions: Apple Family Reunion, Magic Duel, Too Many Pinkie Pies) 
Worst: Spike at your Service (Dishonorable mentions: One Bad Apple, Magical Mystery Cure, Just For Sidekicks)

Season 4:
Best: Rarity Takes Manehatten (Honorable mentions: Twilight's Kingdom, Pinkie Pride, Testing Testing 123) 
Worst: Rainbow Falls (Dishonorable mentions: Bats, Somepony to Watch Over Me, Equestria Games)

Season 5:
Best: The Mane Attraction (Honorable mentions: Amending Fences, Brotherhooves Social, Castle Sweet Castle)
Worst: The Cutie Remark (Dishonorable mentions: Slice of Life, Princess Spike, Tanks for the Memories)

Season 6: 
Best: Gauntlet of Fire (Honorable mentions: Top Bolt, On Your Marks, Saddle Row Review)
Worst: To Where and Back Again (Dishonorable mentions: Newbie Dash, 28 Pranks Later, No Second Prances)

Season 7:
Best: The Perfect Pear (Honorable mentions: Parental Glidence, It Isn't the Mane Thing About You, Discordant Harmony)
Worst: Fame and Misfortune (Dishonorable mentions: A Flurry of Emotions, Hard to Say Anything, Honest Apple)

Season 8: 
Best: Sounds of Silence (Honorable mentions: What Lies Beneath, A Rockhoof and a Hard Place, Molt Down)
Worst: Fake It Till You Make It (Dishonorable mentions: The Mean Six, A Matter of Principals, Yakity Sax)

Still refuse to watch the rest of S9. 

[phantompone1148 126]

38 minutes ago, Cash_In said:

S4 Worst: Inspiration Manifestation 

how come you hate that episode?

[Cash In 22,309]

54 minutes ago, phantompone1148 said:

how come you hate that episode?

I don't hate it. I just don't like it as much as the others.

[Megas 27,625]

S1 Best - Best Night Ever. Still the best Season finale in the show, nothing grandiose, just the girls wanting to have a good time
S1 Worst - Owl's Well. The owl I always thought was lame and I didn't like how Spike was treated

S2 Best - Hurricane Fluttershy. Really makes you feel for her and want to see her succeed
S2 Worst - MMDW. This episode's badness is still kinda legendary especially so early. Unpleasant characterization+Blatant hypocrisy that ruins whatever point it was making.

S3 Best - Sleepless In Ponyville. Scootaloo finally gets an episode, RD takes Scootaloo under her wing and Luna gets some great characterization
S3 Worst - Keep Calm And Flutter On. Admittedly this one is biased, but one looking back now that the effects of the episode this was felt. This was where Discord was reformed which would wind up being one of the show's worst decisions

S4 Best - Testing Testing 123. Episode I personally felt the most. Even liked how they added a lot to the Wonderbolts, this was the most the show ever did for them
S4 Worst - Breezies. Breezies were one of the worst additions in the show(only topped by the Yaks), and the ending felt like some of the most shoehorned toy additions in the show not to mention really fucks with the capabilities of magic and Twilight's power imo

S5 Best - Amending Fences. I don't think I need to elaborate on this. It's great and emotional, and really succeeds in adding to what was initially a throwaway line
S5 Worst - Princess Spike. And episode so bad Jim Miller apologized for it, and honestly there a lot worse episodes I wish he did that for instead. It was a wakeup call to the writers commit to handling Spike better going forward

S6 Best - Stranger Than Fanfiction or Gauntlet of Fire. My opinion on S6 deteriorates each day, but it still has it's fair share of great episodes. I think the best would be either one of these. Patton Oswalt's a riot but Gauntlet of Fire was the episode Spike really needed after Princess Spike
S6 Worst - Newbie Dash. This episode just hates you. 5 years building up to RD being a Wonderbolt and it's spend on treating her like garbage. I refuse to believe someone looked at it and was proud of the final product unless they were assholes. The fact that Jim Miller publicly bailed Twitter the day before the episode even aired said it all. It's the episode that convinced me the writers hated RD and 28 Pranks Later coming out shortly after in the same season confirmed it

S7 Best - The family trio, Parental Glideance, A Perfect Pear and Once Upon a Zeppelin. All are really heartwarming. Admittedly I gravitate more towards Glideance and Zeppelin since they focus more on the parents relationship with their kids which I prefer
S7 Worst - Honest Apple. Making Applejack an asshole using her Element of Harmony feels kinda shitty

S8 Best - The Washouts. 5 seasons after Wonderbolts Academy of begging for Lightning Dust to come back and I was pretty happy with it.
S8 Worst - A Matter of Principals. Until S9 this was Discord at his worst, but what really sealed the deal was that he was rewarded for being an asshole

S9 Best - Sparkle's Seven. A better celebration of the show than Slice of Life was
S9 Worst - 246 Fuck Off. This garbage made me drop the show. Takes some of the show's worst episodes like Non Compete Clause and doubles down on everything everyone hated about it even they fucking knew full well everyone hates them and then ends with the writers smelling their own farts thinking they were really clever with that delivery. This episode pretty much confirmed that not only was the show I loved died back in S5, not only that I wasted the last few of years of my life(up to that point) putting up with it hoping it was gonna get back on track, but that they just couldn't care less, and that's a terrible feeling

Edited April 19, 2022 by Megas

[JMTV99 1,353]

Best S1 Episode: Cutie Mark Chronices

Worst S1 Episode: Boast Busters

 

Best S2 Episode: A Canterlot Wedding

Worst S2 Episode: Mare Do Well

 

Best S3 Episode: Sleepless in Ponyville

Worst S3 Episode: Spike at Your Service

 

Best S4 Episode: Twilight's Kingdom

Worst S4 Episode: Somepony Watch Over Me

 

Best S5 Episode: Amending Fences

Worst S5 Episode: Princess Spike

 

Best S6 Episode: Stranger Than Fan Fiction

Worst S6 Episode: Newbie Dash

 

Best S7 Episode: Perfect Pair

Worst S7 Episode: Fame and Misfortune

 

Best S8 Episode: Sound of Silence

Worst S8 Episode: Non-Compete Clause

 

Best S9 Episode: The Last Problem (only for the final song)

Worst S9 Episode: 2, 4, 6, Grade A Horseshit with Flies on the wall

Edited November 21, 2021 by JMTV99

[Sparklefan1234 170,623]

These are the "best" and "worst" episodes per-season, in my opinion:

 

S1 Best: Cutie Mark Chronicles, Best Night Ever, Applebuck Season and Winter Wrap Up

 S1 Worst: The Show Stoppers

 

S2 Best: It's About Time and Hurricane Fluttershy

S2 Worst:Putting Your Hoof Down,Ponyville Confidential and A Friend In Deed

 

S3 Best: Sleepless In Ponyville and Magical Mystery Cure

S3 Worst: Games Ponies Play

 

S4 Best: Testing Testing 123, Rarity Takes Manehattan and Pinkie Pride

S4 Worst: Twilight Time

 

S5 Best: Amending Fences, Castle Sweet Castle and The Mane Attraction

S5 Worst: What About Discord? and Tanks for the Memories

 

S6 Best: Gauntlet of Fire and Saddle Row Review

S6 Worst: Flutter Brutter

 

S7 Best: A Perfect Pear and It Isn't the Mane Thing About You and Forever Filly

S7 Worst: Honest Apple

 

S8 Best: Horse Play and Road to Friendship

S8 Worst: School Raze, A Matter of Principals and Father Knows Beast

 

S9 Best: Going to Seed and The Beginning of the End 1&2

S9 Worst: Dragon Dropped and The Last Laugh

Edited November 15, 2021 by Sparklefan1234

[phantompone1148 126]

21 hours ago, Sparklefan1234 said:

S3 Worst: Ponyville Confidential 

That’s a Season 2 Episode

[Sparklefan1234 170,623]

On 2021-11-15 at 1:39 PM, phantompone1148 said:

That’s a Season 2 Episode

 

I fixed it. Thank You, My Friend.