My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - Season 6 Episode 6: "No Second Prances" (SPOILERS) · 4:00pm Apr 30th, 2016
Trixie's back, bitches. Deal with it.
We open with Twilight trying to give Starlight a friendship lesson involving setting the table. Which fails on several levels.
Starlight still has a lot to learn.
So, Twilight and Starlight are having dinner with Celestia, but there's a catch: Starlight has to go out and make a new friend and bring them to dinner.
Pinkie tries to help Starlight make a friend. First, she introduces her to Mrs. Cake. It doesn't go well because Starlight makes a giant fancy cake with her magic and Mrs. Cake gets mad at her. Instead of, you know, offering to hire her.
Applejack introduces Starlight to Big Macintosh. Since he doesn't speak much, Starlight casts a spell to make him a blabberer. He runs off in alarm and Applejack gets furious at her.
Next up, Starlight visits Rarity. All Rarity has to offer is fashion advice.
Rainbow Dash wants to introduce Starlight to Spitfire. Starlight's never even heard of the Wonderbolts, which instantly tanks that idea.
Fluttershy, animals, nope.
Starlight despairs of making a friend, and is stressed out because of how hard it seems to be to make a friend in the friendliest town in Equestria. She stops by the spa to destress, and meets a pony from out of town.
Starlight returns to the castle, excited about her new friend. Twilight is a bit taken aback to meet Starlight's new friend: Trixie.
Twilight still has some lingering resentment of Trixie, it seems. Trixie is back in town on a new magical stage show tour.
Twilight has reservations about Starlight and Trixie being friends, given their shared history of jerkassery. Starlight points out what a hypocrite Twilight is being.
Trixie is setting up her magic show stage. Ponyville ponies are muttering and grumbling and glaring at her, which makes her sad.
Sad Trixie is sad.
I love Starlight's snark in this chapter when Twilight is being a little creepy.
DJ-PON3 got named on screen for the first time in this episode!
Twilight's busybodying and hypocrisy gets on Starlight's nerves, and Starlight calls her out on it.
I hate to say it, but I'm actually with Starlight on this one.
Trixie tells Starlight that she wants to do a very dangerous stunt involving being chewed up by a manticore. Starlight offers to help her cheat on the trick using her teleportation magic.
Starlight vents to Trixie about Twilight's lack of trust in her. Trixie plays the guilt trip card--dick move, Trixie--to force Starlight to choose between helping her with her magic show or going to Twilight's dinner party.
Celestia's bored face is the best. 
When Starlight is nowhere to be found, Twilight goes looking for her--and finds her with Trixie. She's...not happy.
When Trixie gloats about Starlight choosing her over Twilight, Starlight gets upset and runs off in tears.
Bad Trixie.
But Trixie actually wanted to be Starlight's friend, and she's broken up about it. Trixie goes on stage, depressed and rambling.
Trixie is such a drama queen. 
Twilight realizes how badly she screwed this up, and apologizes to Starlight, telling her she should have room to make her own decisions and choose her own friends. Starlight shows up in the nick of time to help Trixie survive her deadly trick.
After the show, Twilight apologizes to Trixie, making herself a new friend in the process.
At the very end of the episode, we get the BEST PART OF THE WHOLE EPISODE:
Cranky Doodle: "How do you get your hair to do that all the time?"
Celestia: *annoyed sigh*
Oh god that was a fun episode.
wow
I hope this means Trixie will appear more often in the future.
That said, those two are perfect for each other, they both have a lot to learn about friendship.
I was very disappointed with Twilight this episode. Right up until she was freaking out around Celestia, I'd believed her attitude to be a friendship lesson, a test of loyalty.
Uh, I think they forgot somepony, or 4.
Poor Big Mac.
Way to ruin the moment by trying to one-up Twilight, Trixie.
3907479 Eeyup.
Applause, applause, applause
I'm surprised Angel Bunny liked Starlight.
There were fun parts and Best Pony, but I really hope every Starlight episode won't consist of Twilight learning not to micromanage.
I honestly consider this to be the best episode of the season so far.
And it also continues this season's trend of somehow being even better than season 5
Engh. I felt like this was a continuation of the Alicorn-Worf effect by different means. Instead of the Alicorn Curse, we have ... Twilight forgetting all of her progress in dealing with forgiveness, oh, and the end of the Alicorn Amulet but not the rest. I've been pretty happy overall with the season, and there were some good moments today, but... I dunno. I give this one a "Meh" on a scale of Booo! to Woot! :)
3907494 Eeyup.
Angel has a crush.
3907486 You said it.
3907537 Very fun episode
3907552 You also made me think of that song.
3907554
3907531 Seems to me that it was more of a case of Twilight being twilight.
3907571 What?
Fun episode. I admit Twilight was being a bit of hypocrite to worry about Trixie, though not entirely unjustified, but Trixie didn't really help herself by guilting Starlight and bragging about her "victory". I've always wondered what you think of Trixie yourself Moth, since you show her in different lights in your different stories. I personally see her as a fun character because of the different ways she can be portrayed, anything from annoying to evil to tragic.
3907588 I live for the applause-plause, live for the applause-plause
3907590 I view Trixie as an eccentric drama queen.
3907586 The thing is, this isn't the Twilight who's lived through Amending Fences, just as one example, or who hadn't really learned much from Party of One about the need for friendship to grow through interaction, etc. It's... I guess it's just not the level of maturity I had come to expect from her at this point; it felt like a revert to S1 personality.
3907605 I haven't really caught up with past episodes yet and I only started watching the live stream around the time of Countess Coloratura's episode so I don't have a proper idea of what Twilight's S5 personality really is.
That said, it does seem like she's reverted to sometime around the Smarty Pants incident in terms of personality.
3907594 Live for the way you scream and cheer for me. The Applause, Applause, Applause.
It's a good thing this episode called Twilight out on her hypocrisy, but I'm still not entirely sure what the point of Trixie's brief gloat was for other than to create drama.
I will quote what I posted on Spacebattles:
Until next time...
Anon e Mouse Jr.
3907654 Well said.
Do you guys think that she gets asked this question a lot?
3907719 Probably.
So, let me get this straight. Had Starlight not shown up, Trixie would have literally been eaten alive.
Not to make light of this, but... could Trixie be suicidal?
Not that impressed by this episode.
The moral was kind of butched up, when one realize Twilight was right the whole time. TRixie was only using Starlight to further her own goals and her own agenda, and Twilight felt REALLY off in this episode, with her constantly trying to use Starlight to impress Celestia. Honestly I think the only pony I liked in this episode was Starlight herself, as the other two main-characters in this episode had taken the stupid-pill.
3907473 Yup.
So, Starlight Glimmer suffers from a massively excessive amount of talent, and an inability to interact with others except via manipulation, dominance, or subjection. She's like the English stereotype of "the Boche, always either at your throat or at your feet".
Where did she learn all her magic? There's a strong suggestion in what we've been shown that she's almost entirely self-taught. Apparently prodigious talent and a remote provincial library can put you on part with the Princess' personal protege, who grew up inside the Royal Archives.
Why isn't Trixie intimidated by Starlight's incredibly OP magic? Well, for one thing, by this point Starlight has stopped trying, and is just leading with her guilt and common ground w/ Trixie as formerly evil unicorn rivals of Twilight. She's not trying to make a friend, she's just doing it. Desperation and flopsweat aren't endearing, although apparently exchanging tales of evil plots is.
3907473 sadly its only a matter of time before somepony makes a ship fic.......
..........this season seems to be the shipping season huh? i mean gimmer ahd starburst tender taps and apple bloom ember and spike ......and now starlight glimmer and trixie.......
have we learned nothing from silver quil?
3907586 this is a better friendship story than Twilight's?
So...no comment on the hearts over Angel's head after Starlight got done petting him?
I'm gonna be one of the few guys, probably the only one here, that didn't like this episode. I'm sorry, but the way Twilight was portrayed (having the same anxiety about Celestia's arrival just like in Season 1 and her not trusting Trixie even though the two of them parted ways NOT on a negative note), how rushed this episode felt, the really dark implication in that Trixie was most likely committing suicide when she decides to continue her act WITHOUT Starlight Glimmer, and how they suddenly were making Trixie evil and petty almost at the last minute (almost like the writer was like "Oops, we gotta make Twilight look good. Um.....make Trixie evil for a moment!").
I'm sorry, but this episode is definitely my least favorite so far this season.
3907494 We just saw Starlight use a magic mind control spell in the previous episode, I wouldn't be surprised if Starlight cast a charm animal spell on Angel while Fluttershy was fetching the carrots.
Your optimism is very refreshing.