S01:E03 - The Ticket Master

[terrib86 21]

I liked this episode, it shows true friendship when you can not pick which friend to go with. I loved Spike in this episode! He is very cute and likeable.

[FlyPie 86]

It was a pretty good episode.

[Officer Strike 152]

This i find hilarious because its happened to me before and the same thing happened! I had 5 friends and my mother gave me only two tickets. I was unsure who to go with.......and she actually pranked me and gave me the other 3 later on.

[best poni 1,518]

I like it, but I saw the ending from a mile away.

[Hederik 119]

Ponies aren't bad? Ohai...

Wait, what were my favorite shows?

Teach, Twilight senpai!

 

Obligatory unnecessary reminiscing rambling for roleplay access, part 2/5

 

Catching up to the show wasn't so bad. It was HORRENDOUS. What was I to do with myself before new ponies came out? Re-watching the episodes already out could only sustain me for so long... Thank the Spaghetti Pony for the all-talented brony music scene. Never before have I spent hours on end browsing music song after song like that. Even now approximately half the music that comes out of my speakers is at least pony-inspired.

 

... And then I said, "Oatmeal, are you crazy?"

 

There, topical. Pinkie Pie to the rescue!

[Kadae 655]

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Edited March 27, 2017 by Kadae

[Vera Veil 1,732]

ok I wasn't that big of a fan of this episode but I'm not saying I hate it, credits for Twilight for losing her temper though in all I would give this episode 7/10 I know this one seemed rush but I can't think on what to say both good and bad about it so I'll just rate it :/

[BrawnyCharger 511]

Watching the episode was a lot of fun but I think it was Pinkie's ticket song that did it for me. I was laughing so hard for nearly half an hour after seeing that scene. The build up for it was just so well done. This is what made me love the show.

[Altastrofae 933]

I thought Princess Celestia only gave two tickets, because she expected Twilight would only have made one friend. Unless she was planning for Twilight and Spike to go anyway. Still I find it very likely Princess Celestia really thought Twilight would make only a few friends or less.

 

Anyway, this is a really good episode.

No, I think Princess Celestia tricked Twilight into learning her first lrsson on friendship. If you recall, in episodes 1 and 2 Celestia is the one who allowed Twilight to stay in Ponyville to stay with her friends to further her studies. Twi even straight up says that she's just made so many friends. that would imply that Celestia knew there was more than one. Then after she gave the 6 tickets away she assumed that dear old Spike wouldnt wanto stay at home by himself. if you notice in later episodes as well, he has a very short attention span. He is a BABY dragon, after all...

[powerpuff-tsubasa 448]

the plot was straight up cringeworthy and stupid. couldnt twilight just ask celestia for more tickets?

[twiia 1,843]

Terrible, terrible, terrible, a really boring and overall terrible episode for me.

[SoulHarmony 43]

Was not a fan of this episode because the characters became like spoilt teenagers - One teenager had something and all the others claimed ownership of it and the teenager  

I suppose it was not too bad in general but I didn't enjoy it

[ToxicPunisher 0]

Story is progressing, I like it so far

Story is progressing, I like it so far

[Dawn Darkness 217]

I've watched half of the episode, and I agree with Twilight in this: choosing what friends to go with is hard.

[GrimGrimoire 4,973]

I've watched half of the episode, and I agree with Twilight in this: choosing what friends to go with is hard.

 

Yeah, it can be.

 

this episode was just average for me though. Although I liked it well enough, I just found the Mane 5's attempts to get her to take them with her tiresome in many regards. I get the premise for the show was all of that interaction and the comedy that ensued,  But I could feel Twilight's anxiety over it all and the displeasure it was causing her. I did like how it wrapped up though and linked up with other episodes in the season.

[cider float 2,537]

Despite how predictable it was still better than the newer episodes. Just funny to see all the ponies just kissing up to Twilight.

[DerpyApplejack 8]

Having watched 12 episodes so far, this is one of my favorites it's - sadly - relatable how people change their behavior towards you just for their own sake.

 

Looking back, I would probably have picked Applejack or Rainbow Dash to go with Twilight

[BloodDrops 762]

@@DerpyApplejack,

 

Way to necro post little blank flank.

 

 

Blood Drops now likes you

[Tropico 226]

Just watched and oh God xD everypony is such an egoistic friend. So much interested for the ticket and its kinds hypocritical. Nice at the end of the episode they said sorry.

And the lesson learned and sent to Celestia is WTF???? 'If mah friends don't go I don't go either cause I can't enjoy without them' that's a pretty bad friendship lesson!

Also spike saying the gala is girly for girls and he doesn't wanna go wtf this show xD at the end we see that he likes to go but still pretends to not like it cause he's a boy and that gala is girly. What a message to kids.

If I remember correctly later seasons they fixed these two issues with a spike enjoying 'girly' things and a friendship lesson that tells that you need time to spend only with a friend of the gang without the other feeling bad. So at least they redeem the third episode of the show xD

I like more the newest episoded and seasons. Still I like this one. Loved rarity wanting to marry with Celestias nephew. (I guess it doesn't exist and it's just her imagination) also I laughed with the benny hill scene with that classic run/hide&seek and classic music xD so good

 

 

 

 

Best part is wen twilight walks into her house to find fluttershy cleaning, and wen asked if she was jus doin it for the ticket fluttershy says no!! Then looks at angel, then back at twilight n says "oh and yes we are jus doin this for the ticket!!" Baahaa funnies shit ever!!

 

 

hahaah ohmygod i laughed so much with this xD 

Edited February 24, 2017 by Tropico

[blackstarraven 142]

The only real problem with this Episode I have is I feel like its out of order...

Like this should be a few more episodes into the season.

Other then that, Its great.

[Rainbow Glitterswirl 220]

Is it just me or did you also find this episode to be a bit of a let down from the drama and action in the two part first episodes?

I was sitting here just now trying to get my best friend to be open to ponies and trying to get her hooked on it, and I just felt that after the setup episodes with, the climax and action, of them that the third episode was just too far of a drop. I give them credit for jumping right into the first friendship dilemma, the execution of the subject matter and the outcome, of TS choosing not to go when her friends couldn't, but I felt it may have been out of place. Does this make any sense? 

To summarize, for someone trying to get a friend hooked on ponies I feel that the first two episodes are action packed, attention grabbing and not what people come to expect from a show about ponies. Then to get to the 3rd episode and have it settle into the lessons so quickly I felt like it wasn't a good attention keeper. 

[Lucartini 104]

This episode was so stupid. Why didn't Twilight just ask for more tickets?

[JadeSerpent 7]

This is the episode that got me too become a real fan of the series! The characters were not annoying, and were super cute.

[Thrond 3,263]

This one's relatively simple and silly, but it's got a lot of the energy and charm which made me love the show and which I've been missing from some of the recent seasons. As far as I know Twilight literally just met these ponies, so the conflict doesn't have as much weight as it should, and the moral is kinda simple, but that doesn't really matter with some of the nice little moments here.

Favourite moment: "Twilight! It's raining."

Mostly charm, not so much substance, but hey, it makes me smile. And I really miss the electric guitars in the soundtrack. 

Score:
Entertainment: 8/10
Themes: 6/10
Characters: 7/10
Story: 6/10
Overall: 70/100

[blackstarraven 142]

 

(technically this is just me scripting for a you tube video)

The 2nd proper episode of the show. Ticket Master.

 

So I know more then one person In the community that point out, not totally invalid issues with this episode. But over all this is a pretty solid episode.

And I'm going to address the issue that people have with it before actually point out the issues I have with it.

But I just want to make it perfectly clear... I like this episode a lot. Like 4 out of 5 like it.

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First up: "The ponies are not acting in character or are acting "against there elements."

Second: "Twilight was being a bit dense in this episode."

Third: "Why didn't Celestia" Hail Princess Celestia! "Send enough tickets."

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I have pretty simple answers or at least thoughts on all of these.

1st: At this point in the show we don't actually know a whole lot about the characters, its actually rather hard to say what is and is not in character... and even with what we know later, none of them are really doing anything out of character.

Twilight Can be a Spazz. And is Spazzing and not thinking strait. (Which is really the answer to the Second point also)

RainbowDash Can be over competitive and stubborn.

AppleJack can be opinionated and stubborn.

Rarity can.... and normally is a total drama queen.

Pinkie is often thoughtless.

And Fluttershy... Well actually flutter shy really dose do much to pressure twilight in this episode. I actually think she kind of forgot that she actually was cleaning because she wanted the tickets.

#2: I actually just addressed that... Twilight was panicking and not thinking... she does that a lot.

#3: And this one... first off I would like to just say..

HOW DARE ANY PONY INSINUATE THAT OUR GODDESS EMPRESS DID SOMETHING WRONG OR INCORRECTLY...

Also. A point that I actually thought of the first time I watched the episode.

We don't actually know that Celestia was not sending tickets to everyone.

We just know that she sent twilight two tickets by way of spike... She might have been sending the others tickets in the mail.

She might have also just assumed that twilight would ask for more if she needed more.

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Now onto the thing I actually did have issue with....

 

All the ponies reasons for going to the ball are stupid.... Or at the very least not good reasons. even if they are not bad reasons.

Now before starting this list I'm going to point out that... Yes this is a kids show... and no not all of the ponies would know this, but at least one of them would.

But I use the test of my Nieces for this, and while they didn't point the flaws in all the ponies reasons, they point them out in some of them....

 

AppleJack: No pony pointed out to her that the event is catered? No Pony? Really? I mean come on.. I can see that she might not know that, or that she might still think there was a chance for some profit, but really? (7.5 on the dumb scale)

RainbowDash: This is less dumb and more... OK its dumb. I would think there was some kind of rule / law against interrupting a flight show... While this is dumb, its also very.... Rainbowdash.... (7.5 on the dumb scale)

The Pink one.... It hurts me to say this... but pinkie actually has a less stupid reason to go then most of the others. I mean she should really know that its not that kind of party. But she seams to have fun the 2nd time around,  when she does know what kind of party it is. (4 out the dumb scale... + 4 because she's the pink one)

Rarity: Wow... just wow rarity... even my four year old niece (At the time) Was like "That's a dumb reason to go." I mean there is no way that rarity should know that they stallion is a huge jerk. but just... Wow... I'm.. yikes... (10 on the dumb scale. The WORSE POSSIBLE REASON EVER!)

Fluttershy: OK so first up on this one.... Way to be rube Rarity... But I hate to say it, this is the biggest issue I have with the whole Episode.

If flutteryshy wanted to go see the garden... She could.. you know... Just ASK.. I'm sure that even if Celestia wasn't going to invite her she would have been like "Oh, hay your that friend of Twilights! You know one of the ones that saved the world.... Sure you can see the gardens on that night. I'll have a guard show you around so no one bothers you, it will be great."

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Which brings up the real issue... The Idiot ball....

If you don't know what a idiot ball is, go on other to TV Tropes and Idioms and look it up. Its a great website to kill time at... actually don't. I have most likely wasted a year of my life there...

Idiot ball: A moment where a character's stupidity fuels an episode, or a small plot line. If multiple characters have the Idiot Ball, it becomes an Idiot Plot. Temporary (or permanent) Genre Blindness is often a cause of this trope.

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And this IS a idiot episode.... But its a fun Idiot episode. Because in real life I have seen groups that do this.. I've been in groups that do this. Get so hung up on part of a problem that we don't see the answer looking at our teeth... HA! Pony pun.....

So over all, really fun early episode.

I must say however this episode does feel out of order. Like this feels like a light later episode and not the first one after the pilot. but I think it was put there to have more of a start - end feel to the season.

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Notes!

Alliteration: Wow... There is a lot of it in this episode. Grand Galloping Gala... All that P's in pinkies bit. "Girly Gala Gunk".

Pony Puns: Goodie Four Shoes! Well Wallop my Withers! 

I love what a bad Liar Fluttershy is...

I love the bit where Twilight eats the peddles... because... you know.. shes a pony...

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Rainbow Dash was napping.. very honest.

Edited February 13, 2018 by blackstarraven