At this current point in his production schedule, Discord was really trying his best in order to get a new episode out to his viewers so they wouldn’t be seen as ‘disappointed’ by the lack of content that he would provide for them. Unfortunately, not even all the chaos magic he had could prepare him for deadlines as he regrettably had to push back the release of the episode that he was preparing for next week. But… it did not mean that he couldn’t be about to provide any entertainment for his fans. So, with the free time that he had, he decided to prepare what could be seen as a small appetizer to tide them over.
Looking back at the camera in his studio now, he had a shortened version of the normal introduction play out on screen before waving to the camera. “Hello there, everypony. I’m Discord, the host of Last Week Tonight and right now, you might be thinking… hey, wait a minute, this isn’t how you would normally introduce your show. What’s the big idea?” He said, getting a small chuckle from the ponies that were in his studio audience as he let out a deep breath. “Well, unfortunately, we are off this week and don’t have a full on new episode for you… but that doesn’t mean that I can’t make mini episodes like these ones on the side to keep you entertained while you patiently wait for the next one. And the reason I wanted to make this episode was that one story got a lot of ponies attention is this.”
“Many ponies across Equestria are now raising eyebrows at Neighbraska after their tourism commission recently revealed their new tourism slogan. Which says ‘Neighbraska. Honestly, it’s not for everypony’.”
Despite the fact that his studio audience was much smaller than normal, it was still enough to get a laugh out of his audience as Discord rubbed his eyes for a moment. “You heard that right… Neighbraska, a place that looks to be where they hide dead bodies in the overgrown wheat fields… is catching the attention of ponies because of a brutally honest tourism slogan. And normally, you would only see something being brutally honest when its revealed in the beginning of a parody trailer from another dimension like this.”
That was followed by a extremely short clip where the audience heard a sound file that said ‘The following is rated H for honest’ before redirecting the attention back to Discord. “And it’s not just the slogan itself that has been catching attention, it's also the reasons for the slogan in particular. Because they hired consultants to help them and what they found out was that many ponies don’t consider it to be a luxurious travel destination. Which is honestly true… but just because it’s honest doesn’t mean it would make you feel less anxious. You wouldn’t be less anxious if you saw a slogan in front of Tartarus prison that says ‘Tartarus. Expect to be murdered here’.”
His audience laughed at the image of the tourism slogan put on a billboard at the gates of Tartarus as he looked back and straightened out his tie. Preparing the next thing to say as the draconequus snapped his talon to make the picture disappear. “Despite this though… personally, I like the approach that they’re taking with this. Because at some point in their lives, everypony goes to that one place where they think they will have a good vacation at, only to realize that where they were staying was either not what they were expecting or worse then that. My only complaint though… is why hasn’t anypony else thought of this idea?”
That got his audience a bit confused as each member looked at one another. “Think about it… if some towns had done something like this before a while ago, think of all the ruined vacations that could’ve been prevented if someponies looked at a brochure for a place, saw the slogan and were like ‘Yeah, maybe we should keep looking’,” A picture of two ponies looking at a brochure with really disturbed faces was then shown before it disappeared again. “So… with that in mind, we decided to call in some help for this. Because we thought that, as a public service and to help out the students at Twilight’s school of friendship, we worked together to come up with some more brutally honest slogans on well known cities and towns in Equestria as well as outside of it. So please, go ahead and take a look.”
And now… a list of painfully honest and uncensored tourism slogans of places all across Equestria.