Crazy parents . . . · 4:25pm May 20th, 2017
I've been catching up on the three episodes I've been missing as they premiered (will do this for three days!)
The episode under examination is Parental Glideance. Scootaloo in it discovers Rainbow Dash's parents and then tells them that she has now advanced to the Major League - Wonderbolts, that is. This is something Rainbow Dash is appalled at because she feels that it would embarras her. Scootaloo can't figure out why but Rainbow Dash then proceeds to be applauded by her parents in EVERY SINGLE THING SHE DOES . . . even if it's a small task such as hanging a towel up.
We begin to suspect the parents, helpfully nicknamed Bow Hothoof and Windy Whistles before I bothered to watch the damn thing, probably had one too many sips of coffee or drunk some especially hard Apple Cider a few minutes before Scootaloo bumped in to them. I cracked up at several lines that the parents spoke MOSTLY out of the fact that most reasonable parents in real life are not THAT enthusiastic about their kid no matter how highly they think of him/her.
Well whaddya know, it turns out that they also cheered her on for taking a bath, or being an also-ran in a competitive race (before she got better at it). Then Scootaloo tells her that she wished she had parents like hers and then she tells him that they gave her a belief in self-confidence. She then holds a special meeting on the Wonderbolts' race track to apologize to them. She passes on her report . . . but the teacher could do without a moldy sandwich.
This was a fair episode that provides some great laughs (especially where her parents are concerned) but they end up burying that all-too-common (and never aging) "you must believe in yourself all the time" storyline. Good lesson but we've seen it way too often. Since it was unprepared to teach that lesson, this show requires another episode that IS prepared to teach that lesson.
(3/5)
Mini-review: Funny parents and little else
