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A Math Question: · 6:37am Jan 27th, 2020
How many words of dialogue do you think are in all of the episodes of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic? How does the answer change if you include the movie, the holiday special, the various shorts, and the Rainbow Roadtrip special? How does the answer change if you include all canon Equestria Girls material? Bonus Round: How does the answer change if you include all lines of dialogue in the official comics and official books?
Have fun! I don't know the answer!
There are transcripts. It should be perfectly possible to answer this question with a little work.
From the latest transcript dump I took after the s9 finale, the total dialogue word count is about 69k words. I stripped obvious dialogue attribution, episode titles, sounds, and stage directions, but didn't vet everything added/remaining to a high degree, so this count is rough. From the titles, it looks like this dump is missing all but two movies, but it does include most (all?) of the ancillary EQG stuff like the Choose Your Own Ending shorts.
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How'd you get all the transcripts in one place?
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Downloaded from the All Transcripts page on the wiki. It takes a short while to load.
Meaningless fact: Pinkie is the second-most-mentioned of the mane six after Twilight, with Rainbow a possible close third. RD's numbers are possibly inflated a bit from mentions of rainbows that I haven't filtered out yet. Rarity and Fluttershy are a bit further behind. AJ is mentioned only about 10% less than Flutters. Pretty good for a background pony.
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Wow, this is a great resource and definitely won't be used to program neural networks to write crappy My Little Pony episodes.
A lot.
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