S01:E46 - Sparky's Sick

[Misty Shadow 7,057]

12 hours ago, Steve Piranha said:

I love the controversy the fart joke is causing within the fandom 

I know, it's like, guys, toilet humor is a staple of cartoons. You think even one of the greatest cartoons of all time was devoid of it? 

Also, notice how this is one of the most talked about Tell Your Tale episodes in a while...don't you think the show makers seeing this much conversation generated by one bathroom joke will make them feel encouraged to give us even more humor like this? 

[Solar Power 234]

21 hours ago, CloudMistDragon said:

FiM beat G5 to the punch on gross-out humor with Spike's dirty feet, Rainbow's revolting pie

What's Spike's dirty feet and Rainbow's revolting pie?

[Steve Piranha 28,722]

2 hours ago, Solar Power said:

What's Spike's dirty feet and Rainbow's revolting pie?

Don’t remember Dashie’s pie but Spike’s feet were at the beginning of Spike at your Service

[Misty Shadow 7,057]

3 hours ago, Solar Power said:

What's Spike's dirty feet and Rainbow's revolting pie?

Explained below by Steve. Reiterating just for clarity, Season 3's Spike at Your Service.

27 minutes ago, Steve Piranha said:

Don’t remember Dashie’s pie but Spike’s feet were at the beginning of Spike at your Service

.Season 7's Secrets and Pies.

The irony in my defense of G5 here is that it is making me feel like the bigger G4 fan here. Not bragging, I am just oddly amused. 

[BastementSparkle 20,310]

I think the difference between G4's gross out humor and G5's is just that G4 seemingly did it less often. There's only a couple of examples of it across 9 seasons. The Spike's feet joke, the gross pie, Baby Cakes, one or two instances of a pony really having to pee and a whoopee cushion joke is all I remember. Meanwhile this is already the third time I think we've had fart jokes in Tell your Tale. I do in fact remember some people complaining about the bits of toilet and gross-out humor in G4 when it happened but it wasn't really common enough to bother anyone much.

I don't mind toilet humor, I'm desensitized to it and can find it funny if the joke is good enough. I don't think it's funny in G5 but also am not majorly bothered by it, but it's probably the frequency of it that's annoying some people.

[Splashee 28,537]

20 hours ago, CloudMistDragon said:

Also, notice how this is one of the most talked about Tell Your Tale episodes in a while...don't you think the show makers seeing this much conversation generated by one bathroom joke will make them feel encouraged to give us even more humor like this?

 

If they hate us enough, they could just go back to making G3.5 shorts.
 

I am still staying away from TYT because I don't like the art style (and don't want to contribute to views), but I was thinking about giving it a try since it had so many episodes compared to MYM that it is trying to compete against it. This episode changed my mind completely.
The toilet humor has never been fun for us grown ups, but it is a very popular things for children. It is the children that will decide if this is the humor going forward, and not us. They are the views.

[Misty Shadow 7,057]

5 hours ago, Splashee said:

 

If they hate us enough, they could just go back to making G3.5 shorts.
 

I am still staying away from TYT because I don't like the art style (and don't want to contribute to views), but I was thinking about giving it a try since it had so many episodes compared to MYM that it is trying to compete against it. This episode changed my mind completely.
The toilet humor has never been fun for us grown ups, but it is a very popular things for children. It is the children that will decide if this is the humor going forward, and not us. They are the views.

I think you're misunderstanding the comment I made. It's not that they "hate us". The vast majority of the jokes in TYT are already not toilet jokes. However, if a toilet joke can get this many people talking about the show, it could encourage them to do more toilet jokes to help the show get more attention. 

And while yes, the children are indeed the target demographic...adult stuff has toilet humor in it too. Hi, Beavis and Butt-head, Family Guy, and South Park. There's no escape. 

[Sparklefan1234 161,557]

@The Nth Doctor

I don't know if this counts as the same kind of joke:

 

 

Edited February 27, 2023 by Sparklefan1234

[okapillon 148]

On 2023-02-25 at 3:59 AM, BastementSparkle said:

I think the difference between G4's gross out humor and G5's is just that G4 seemingly did it less often. There's only a couple of examples of it across 9 seasons. The Spike's feet joke, the gross pie, Baby Cakes, one or two instances of a pony really having to pee and a whoopee cushion joke is all I remember. Meanwhile this is already the third time I think we've had fart jokes in Tell your Tale. I do in fact remember some people complaining about the bits of toilet and gross-out humor in G4 when it happened but it wasn't really common enough to bother anyone much.

I don't mind toilet humor, I'm desensitized to it and can find it funny if the joke is good enough. I don't think it's funny in G5 but also am not majorly bothered by it, but it's probably the frequency of it that's annoying some people.

What are the two other instances of pooty humour?

Edited February 27, 2023 by okapillon

[RDDash 18,837]

Eh, I've seen better episodes then this.

[Solar Power 234]

On 2/24/2023 at 2:56 PM, The Nth Doctor said:

Those instances aren't crude in the same way that the fart joke in Sparky's Sick was.

[Rushing cash 824]

Not gonna lie, I thought most of the episodes lately were mediocre, this one is definitely one of the worst TYT episodes so far as far as I am concerned. I don't think anything important plot related will happen until the next chapter in MYM so I don't expect anything particularly interesting from misty and Opaline until then. Also, yeah I think they are overdoing the toilet humor with sparky at this point. 

[Splashee 28,537]

On 2/24/2023 at 11:33 PM, CloudMistDragon said:

What episode is that from? And also, who is that bat?

[Steve Piranha 28,722]

On 2023-02-28 at 5:18 PM, Splashee said:

What episode is that from? And also, who is that bat?

His name is Echo, one of the Wildsiders

 

I’ve just remembered this 

[Ashen Pathfinder 16,151]

Honestly; I didn't think the episode was that bad, or even that mediocre. Yeah, it's far from the greatest, but in the end...it was just cute fun.

Yeah, could've done without the fart joke, but that's a meh thing to me. Poor Misty tho. D:

[Misty Shadow 7,057]

On 2/27/2023 at 9:55 PM, Solar Power said:

Those instances aren't crude in the same way that the fart joke in Sparky's Sick was.

They are doubling down on the crude/gross aspect of the lowbrow jokes, but that happens in many shows with time, the crude humor gets cruder. 

2 hours ago, Ashen Pathfinder said:

Honestly; I didn't think the episode was that bad, or even that mediocre. Yeah, it's far from the greatest, but in the end...it was just cute fun.

Yeah, could've done without the fart joke, but that's a meh thing to me. Poor Misty tho. D:

Yeah, it's not terrible or well below average, it's just alright. Formulaic, flawed, and doesn't really feel worth the two-week wait, but fair-quality. 

[CastletonSnob 3,023]

Sparky might be the worst character in the entire MLP franchise.

And before you say, "Svengallop" or "Spoiled Rich", I can think of 2 reasons why Sparky is worse:

1) At least Svengallop and Spoiled Rich were only in a couple of episodes, and Svengallop was ultimately a throwaway character who didn't affect the story, and Spoiled Rich became essentially a background character after her debut. Sparky is in nearly every episode, and is VERY important to the story due to his connection to Hitch and his dragonfire being a source of power for Opaline.

2) Svengallop and Spoiled Rich are characters who are SUPPOSED to be hated, and they fill their roles very well. Sparky is supposed to be cute and endearing, and he fails miserably at that role.

[Megas 27,038]

I'm not one to be above lowbrow toilet humor, but the issue here I feel is that these kinds of jokes feel out of place for something like MLP(in the rare instances when FiM did it, I hated it when they did it there too)

[Solar Power 234]

On 2/28/2023 at 10:18 PM, Splashee said:

What episode is that from? And also, who is that bat?

The episode is The Rarest of Occasions.

[Toastypk 920]

At this point someone needs to take video from this episode and edit in audio from Terrance and Phillip from South Park.

We're getting pretty close to that point after this.