My Review/Angry Rant of MLP: FIM season 9 episode 16 A Trivial Pursuit · 10:59pm Aug 27th, 2020
Grading Scale:
A (fantastic episode)
A- (an excellent episode with at least one flaw)
B+ (a great episode with a couple of flaws)
B (a good episode which still could have been better)
B- (a good episode with numerous flaws but still rewatchable)
C+ (a decent episode)
C (eh... it’s not terrible but not good either)
C- (it’s not worth rewatching although it does have good elements)
D+ (a bad episode with a few good things in it)
D (a really bad episode with wasted potential)
D- (a terrible episode with badly written characters and butchered moral)
F (horrible and unwatchable)
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(Groans angrily) This season just got worse and... worse... and... worse... AND WORSE!!!! WHY DOES THIS EPISODE EVEN EXIST!!?!?! Here we have another garbage, horrible, insipid, and vomit-worthy episode of this fucking season in Friendship is Magic. But not only was I annoyed, angered, and irritated to no end but also flabbergasted at how dirty they did Twilight in this pile of trash. To anyone who has the audacity to like... let alone love this episode, please give your reasons why you do because Twilight’s character was butchered, blended, and scrapped into a shittier version of Lesson Zero Twilight but all gone wrong. (Loads gun) It’s time to give this dumpster fire a good chastising!
God, I hate that smug look on her face. The episode opens with Spike getting out of his bed to start his morning business until he bumps into a creepy-faced Twilight. She jumps around like Wow Wow Wubbzy as she is so ecstatic about a game called Trivia Trot. She keeps telling Spike to ask her basic questions that really have no weight compared to the educated questions of the game. JUST SHUT UP ALREADY, YOU DONUT!!!!!!! GET OUT!!!!
(Shoots at Twilight)
So after she leaves, she arrives at the Trivia Trot where half of the Ponyville residents came to participate in the game as well. She stated that she always won the game every single time. (Growls in annoyance) NOOO!!! This has absolutely nothing to do with this season’s bullshit story arch!! We have now another pointless filler episode that gives no season 9 vibes or LAST season vibes at all!! Just like with Going to Seed, this has no place in the last season and should very well be in either seasons 1 or 2. NOT HERE!!!
Ughhh, so Twilight sees Mud Brier (Hey, he’s back! I want to see more of him!) with Maud Pie, Sunburst with... Cranky Doodle Donkey?? Umm... an odd paring but... okay. Rainbow Dash with Matilda, Applejack with Dr. Hooves, Fluttershy and Angel with Bulk Biceps (oh great... more shipping fuel 🙄), and Pinkie Pie with Twilight. And what does she call her team-up with Twilight? Twipie... (Facepalms) Writers, why do you keeping feeding the shippers? Just why?
Anyway, Twilight gets into a relentless panic about Pinkie jeopardizing her chance to win the game since she has never participated in the Trivia before. WHAT? Why? Why hasn’t she played the game before? Actually, screw that. The better question is this: WHY COULDN’T SHE JUST INSTRUCT PINKIE AS TO HOW THE GAME WAS SUPPOSED TO BE PLAYED?!? She should’ve just simply show Pinkie the ropes of how to answer the Trivia questions without messing things up! She was the expert in all that, right? So why didn’t she just tell her how it works instead of being so paranoid about Pinkie fucking things up???? She should’ve calmly said, “Pinkie, there will be some questions that you may not have the answer for; if you don’t know the answer, allow me to improvise without breaking the real rules.” COME ON!!!!! (Shoots at Twilight again)
And so the game begins! Of course, Pinkie just hastily gave the wrong answers when it was their turn which pushed them to last place. Has even Rarity played the Trivia Trot before? If she has, why couldn’t she just join Twilight? WHERE WAS RARITY IN ALL OF THIS?! She looks like the kind of pony who is “intelligent” and “elegant” enough to be paired with Twilight!! And once again, Twilight and Pinkie make the most over-the-top cringeworthy “meme” faces in the entire show. Oh. My. GOSH!!!!!!!! Burn those hellish faces with FIRE!! SOO RAW!!!
While Pinkie was taking snacks and bathroom breaks, Twilight felt that Pinkie is holding her back from winning the competition, but she didn’t want to hurt her feelings. Really, Twilight? Well, allow me to give you one teeny tiny advice: Tell her... the TRUTH!!!!!!!
Have you never learned your previous lessons, Twilight?! Remember how you were dishonest to Celestia from Horse Play by telling her that she was a great actress whereas she was a terrible one? Now you’re afraid to be honest with Pinkie of how you feel and want to take the easy way out? No, I don’t care if it’s a “character flaw” because she should learn that by now. These writers clearly didn’t know what to do with her, did they? DID THEY?!???
So you know what Twilight does instead? It was by far the worst part of the whole episode: she actively attempted to get other players to be disqualified from the game especially to the point where she blatantly made up rules to get them disqualified. That was where she manipulated Pinkie to break an established rule that got her kicked out of the game. (Slams the table angrily)
YOU IDIOTIC DONKEY!!!!!!!!
I’ve never been this enraged at a character before (which was repeated again in the finale). You mean to tell me that she is supposed to be the new ruler of Equestria? The very mare who is supposed to take the place of Celestia and Luna? The very candidate who is supposed to be the Princess of Friendship and the representative of Equestria’s future??? The future ruler of Equestria, ladies and gentlemen!! If you thought Rainbow Dash’s character regression was horrible from the last episode, this episode did exactly that as well. This episode made me actually hate Twilight even more than I should.
Yeah, yeah, we know the typical friendship formula. Twilight apologizes, Pinkie brushed it off like it never happened, we hear a good moral accompanied by atrocious execution, and everybody is happy at the end. Hahahahaha!!! (Laughing sarcastically) (Shoots at Twilight again)
This episode was horrible... just horrible. It was full of absolute cringe, overboard humor, and nonsense. I give it another F. I wish Grogar was featured in this episode to slaughter them all to save myself pain and agony. I shot enough bullets today, and I hope I didn’t kill your ears with my screaming and yelling. But I’m not going to stop. You will see more of my wrath again.
Peace.
Wasn't even funny seeing Twilight spaz out.
I found it funny that I was thinking about this episode today. But over all this episode is bad. I don’t mind it if this episode was in season 5 or 6 but over all not my favorite episodes out there
5343794
I agree. Season 9 may be a bad season it have some good episodes in it
Heh... you know... in a meta sense of way.... I like to think that Celestia and Luna were watching this episode and realizing that Retiring and passing the Ruling down to Twilight was probably not their best intention in the slightest.
How's that, Prince? :)
5343844
Not a bad idea.
Btw, call me Mr. J for short.
5343849
Yep =3 If anything, that does need to realize of course. (And yes, my sentence kind of trailed off a little since I couldn't figure out what to say next. ^^')
That will work. :)
5343844
I will find that funny if they did that in the season like they deside not to retire. It would make the season a bit better to watch
5343851
Indeed :) Besides, who doesn't love a bit of good meta humor that can be done right? :)
5343852
Agree! Only wish they done the season better since most to all of the episode is hard for me to watch
5343852
Infact I would watch season 6 than season 9 and I don’t ever like season 6
5343854
Yep =3
5343855
Heh, the one thing that would be changed in the Season 6 finale? Reforming Chrysalis. I just don't like her being a loner of being the only evil changeling left. ;-;
I agree this was by far the worst episode of season 9.
5343857
I not a huge fan of Chrysails being reform. Unless they done the story right and is a good read of her being reform I don’t mind it. but over all I don’t like the idea for her being reform. But that just me.
5343867
It's fine for your opinion. :)
5343916
Thank
5343917
You're welcome. :)