A crazy reference I found in Rainbow Rocks

[DiscordPerson 45]

Okay so all of you reading this should know the song from Rainbow Rocks "Awesome as I wanna be". But did you know that there is a secret reference hidden in the lyrics of the song to one of the episodes in the first season of MLP FiM? See, one of the lines in the song goes, "You wish you could be 20% cooler". In the episode 14, season 1 of Fim, the episode "Suited for Success", one of Rainbow Dashed lines goes, "It needs to be about 20% cooler". Did you catch this reference?

[Azure Dawn 203]

clearly this is a reference to the fan song of the same name, "20% cooler"!

[Otaku-sempai 489]

That's not so crazy. I thought that, maybe, you'd found some obscure pop-culture reference or something like that. 

Edited October 10, 2024 by Otaku-sempai

[DiscordPerson 45]

Well yes but it could have been any percentage. But they SPECIFICALLY used 20% since it was a reference to that line in the episode. I mean they could have used literally any other percentage but, they don't so it must have been at least somewhat deliberate. 

[Rafa Stary 3,148]

I definitely didn't notice it, but the line "20% cooler" gave me a idea, so thank you! 

[KPackratt 311]

4 hours ago, Rafa Stary said:

I definitely didn't notice it, but the line "20% cooler" gave me a idea, so thank you! 

I didn't notice it either until I discovered the extended version of the song from the sing along video from the official My Little Pony YouTube channel.

[ZiggWheelsManning 10,454]

The voice actress is a fan of the "20% Cooler" song?