Just when you thought Twilight being an alicorn was just going to be ignored and forgotten, this episode came along and turned that all on its head. Dave Polsky, fresh off his success from "Rarity Takes Manehattan" was ready to tackle his first ever CMC episode. Yet this episode doesn't get talked about much either way, it seems to be among Season 4's forgotten episodes. Is there a reason for that? Well, let's find out.

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What little we did see of the School of Friendship in the episodes immediately prior to this one didn't bode well for it, it seemed to serve more as a plot restrictor since characters wouldn't be able to do things due to their need to teach. And yet the student/young six were not getting any focus at all. If not for what was being leaked far in advance, most people would've probably suspected Season 8 was going to be just like Season 7 and have no sense of direction at all for the longest time.

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Season 8 seemed to finally get a stand out episode with "Horse Play", a Princess Celestia focused episode. But even then it was far from universally praised. And it still seemed like the school and the student/young six were not being utilized all that much. When this episode premiered, fans initially hoped for some information to finally be shed on Starlight Glimmer's past, especially in light of Josh Haber issuing a statement that Starlight was a latch key kid (her parents were always away,

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Season 8 really went off the rails hard when "Non-Compete Clause" hit the airwaves, and it saw Applejack and Rainbow Dash sink to a low you never would've thought possible while also unintentionally proving the "antagonist" Neighsay right. And now, picking up the pieces was this episode by Nick Confalone that was both the second episode in the Guy's Night trilogy and the second episode in the SugarMac trilogy. But these days, even with the knowledge of what was to come for both trilogies

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So it was that, just after Season 8 wrapped up, we got treated to a special themed after Christmas when it wasn't even Halloween yet.

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The leaks returned with a vengeance for Season 9, episodes started popping up like wildfire online in full English. This was one of them. As for Season 9 as a whole, it had gone from an incredible villains only episode in "Frenemies" (which still holds up regardless of the Grogar twist), to an unwanted redemption of Garble in "Sweet and Smoky" to the flat out waste of episode slot that was "Going to Seed". So now a Starlight Glimmer focus episode of all things was tasked with getting the season

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Ah yes, this episode. I'll bet many of you have been looking forward to this one for quite some time. I mean, the fandom had been all but begging for years for Scootaloo to have a family she could come home to. And once the Ponyville Mysteries books revealed that she was being cared for by her aunts (which were gay), fans only further started anticipating the possibility of Scootaloo finally getting to have a family. But nowadays, everyone seems to hate this episode and hate the family

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Season 3 had a bit of a writing shake up occur when Amy Keating Rogers did not return (and neither did Charlotte Fullerton) but Dave Polsky did after having been absent during the enterity of Season 2. Dave had written two rather funny but really controversial episodes, though "Over A Barrel" at least had kind of faded away as Season 2's missteps took center stage. Polsky was in charge of a Pinkie Pie episode, and his handling of Pinkie Pie in "Over A Barrel" was far from the best. But was

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This and the next couple of episodes could be said to be a rather abrupt dry patch for the show, not necessarily as long lasting as Season 1's which lasted from "Stare Master" through "A Bird in the Hoof" but still a stretch marked by episodes that don't tend to be remembered very fondly (if at all). Amy Keating Rogers, now defined primarily by "The Last Roundup" and the still ongoing controversy about Derpy, penned this episode. Was Amy about to fall off her pedestal like Larson did or was she

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So, just as Season 6 looked like it was falling apart at the seems after a season that had seemed to mostly not be taking chances, it was time to bring it to a close. Apparently, they thought it'd be a good idea to let Starlight Glimmer get a two parter all to herself, an honor that had not been given to any other mane six member besides Twilight (or even to Spike). Considering Starlight's two focus episodes had been hotly contested and hadn't exactly made her look good, there was cause for

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For the third and final map mission of Season 6, we were going to be playing it safe once again and visiting the Wonderbolts academy with Twilight and Rainbow Dash. The two had last been paired up for "Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3", not exactly the best outing for either of them. And Season 6 had last focused on Rainbow Dash during "28 Pranks Later" which was not a good showing for her. To top all this off, it would be our first Wonderbolts episode since "Newbie Dash". So a lot was working against

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Although the twentieth episode to air, this episode was eighteenth in production order and became the last of the individual legend episodes involving a pillar. This would also be only the third time Twilight and Fluttershy would ever be paired up, though their team-ups prior had been less than noticeable. This time, they were being paired up under the duo of Sammie Crowley and Whitney Wetta who had previously penned "A Flurry of Emotions" back in Season 7's fanservice filled first half. But

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Coming out right in the middle of Season 9, we had this unexpected special to talk about. Apparently, word is that this "special" was originally a sequel to the 2017 movie and was subsequently salvaged and retooled for whatever reason (likely because a sequel would've been hard to justify when the movie took so long to come out due to its troubled production history). It certainly seems believable when you consider that this is the only other thing Toon Boom was used for, though the animation

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Despite this and "Dance Magic" and "Mirror Magic" being made part of the same story, different writers penned all three specials. This one was written by Noelle Benvenuti, who had been absent from the writing scene since the lackluster "Made in Manehattan" that we now know was changed from its original planned story involving Flim and Flam. A shame, rather. But more likely, real world problems were to blame for Noelle's abrupt absence, given that her mother died suddenly in 2014, not unlike the

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So it is that we come to the third and final act of this special, and what at the very least counts as the black sheep of the lot in the form of "Mirror Magic". Compared to the two previous specials, this one directly focuses on its villain, albeit one we've seen before. But hey, Queen Chrysalis' big return in "To Where and Back Again" seemed to be received quite well all things considered. And Meghan McCarthy demonstrated that reusing villains didn't have to be a death sentence given the way

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Well, Tell Your Tale finally decided to try to do something interesting, because the last episode showed Sunny's mom in a flashback. But they didn't even give her a name, let alone elaborate on what happened to her. And given the way Tell Your Tale progresses, I'm not expecting any follow-up anytime soon. Getting back to G4, Season 8 hit its first stumbling block only four episodes in, and the School of Friendship was already looking like a bad idea because it was a plot restricter rather than

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While we now know that this has to take place not just before Season 8 but before the events of the 2017 FiM movie, it first premiered in February of 2018, about a month before Season 8 of FiM hit the airwaves. Interestingly, the Discovery Family broadcast omitted several scenes that were later released as part of an "extended" version. As for the writer, it was none other than Nick Confalone, who apparently got the job of writing for FiM because he was friends with Josh Haber. He would be

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We've only two comics left to go before the re-reviews end. My reviews for all the main series comics that I did review after this I think still stand as they were, summing up the flaws and the things they did right. And the ones that I didn't cover I have no desire to cover because they're just that bad (if you though the bookworm arc was bad, "Siege of the Crystal Empire" is gonna like bad fanfiction. Same goes for the Accord arc or even the mismanaged "Ponies of Dark Water" arc). And we

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So after "Power Ponies" floundered, Season 4 needed to get back on track fast if it didn't want to end up stuck in the doldrums. Previous seasons had shown how it only took one bad or underwhelming episode to kill a season's momentum for a considerable period of time, given how Season 1 hit an abrupt dry spell after "Sonic Rainboom" that wasn't broken up for good until "Party of One", and Season 2's first half tumbled down hard with" Hearth's Warming Eve" with "Family Appreciation Day" and

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So, with the show's fourth season and the end of the micro series looming large over the fandom, "Neigh Anything" really didn't have much of a chance to hope to change the subject or stand out. But how did its second half go? Did it wrap up the arc decently, or did it just indicate that this was an arc done solely because no one had any ideas and needed to fill space? Well, let's find out.

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