This is a fun episode on the surface, but I rather wish there was more underneath.īest quote: Pretty much everypony: "COOKIES!" But to make the episode work, Dash's development has to be regressed to a degree that I find a little hard to credit. I'm all for the idea that ponies still have flaws in their characters, and that Rainbow hasn't fully appreciated the reasons why Fluttershy shouldn't be pranked too hard until now. Plonk it down in S2 and it would have fitted in a good deal more naturally. So, why doesn't Apple Bloom have that tree badge?įundamentally, though, I think "28 Pranks Later"'s biggest problem is that it isn't really a S6 episode. I'd have found that a wonderfully satisfying plotline. But after going over the top, that was the lesson she learned in the episode – to be a little more subtle and nuanced, even though those aren't things that come naturally to Dash. For example, imagine if the reason Dash had pranked 'Shy at the start was that Rainbow believed her friend, having undeniably become braver over the seasons, was now tough enough to take a prank.
But I think it passes up the chance to be a great one. This isn't a bad episode this show has very few of those. This part of the episode also has some fine lighting effects and a truly outstanding score from William Anderson. There is the very welcome diversion of the CMC as Filly Guides (not Filly Scouts, interestingly) they look adorable in those uniforms.
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The fact that it's predictable doesn't matter too much, but in (say) "Party of One" the route to the obvious ending was still full of interest. The second half of the episode, dealing with the whole "Cookies!" zombification thing, is surprisingly boring. If only there'd been a one-second cutaway of Maud doing a deadpan wink.ĭash and Pinkie: most of the fandom. There is simply no way that Rainbow could have got that rock into the cart – she's not that strong.
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Another prank that doesn't satisfy, for a different reason, is the one with Big Mac and the rock. I'll give it a point for allowing AJ to lampshade it in-show as a feeble gag, but I didn't even find fart gags funny when I was seven years old. I'm sad to see that Friendship is Magic has finally succumbed to the fart joke. The sewing machine cake is fantastic, while Dash's scroll prank is genuinely hilarious (and a nice callback to "Griffon the Brush Off") and moving Applejack's bedroom into the pigsty is brilliant.
Indeed, "nice touches" are where this episode shines. Almost everything he does is golden, from his comforting of Fluttershy to his "I'm watching you" gesture to Rainbow much later on. It also sets up one of the episode's best running gags in the shape of Harry the Bear's performance. That does at least lead to a nice touch: Flutters having the initiative to call a castle meeting. I'd have expected her to be kinder to Fluttershy – if not straight away, then at least after Dash realised she'd badly upset her best friend. She's back in about Season Two mode here in terms of being, frankly, a bit of a jerk. On the other hand, I still can't quite get past the fact that Rainbow Dash's characterisation is unsatisfying. The episode certainly has its moments, and it's one of those that I've warmed to slightly after a second watch through and reconsideration of a few of my initial complaints. With zombies having been canon since Pinkie mentioned them way back in "Bridle Gossip", I was rather hoping that we'd get a fun yet just slightly scary episode. They had previously worked on Littlest Pet Shop, however. This time around we had a brand new writer to My Little Pony in the shape of F. In the last two weeks, we've had an episode I loved and an episode I. Was there a Cookie Monster joke in this ep? If not, why not?
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