Mini Re-Reviews: "Winter Wrap Up" & "Call of the Cutie" - Season 1 Episodes 11 & 12 · 10:56pm Nov 30th, 2019
TWILIGHT: "Winter Wrap Up, Winter Wrap Up, our song is so iconic that even the show itself referenced it twice in Season 4!"
TWILIGHT: "Winter Wrap Up, Winter Wrap Up, our song is so iconic that even the show itself referenced it twice in Season 4!"
APPLE BLOOM: "You know, I was being forced to do so much stuff with all them there cutie marks, that I couldn't even see half of them! There's a mallet, a fancy brush, two thin swords hitting each other... Man, am I glad I have just the one cutie mark now!"
PINKIE PIE: "...yeah, I don't really like looking back at this phase of mine either. Let me tell you, I was really wacko! If I saw any of my friends acting that way, I'd have them committed! Maybe let them out on weekends for a bit of fresh air."
[Rainbow pushes away with her foot a filled-out asylum form]
GRANNY SMITH: "Eh, what were we hugging for here again, Apple Bloom?"
APPLE BLOOM: "Don't ya remember, Granny Smith? I had a crisis of faith and didn't want to bring you to school, so I pretended to be sick, tried to speed up the harvest, controlled you while you were asleep, and faked a message from Uncle Apple Strudel!"
RAINBOW DASH:"Heh, looking back at this, Twilight, you might say that you needed help learning how to train your dragon!"
TWILIGHT: "Oh, sweet Celestia, reverse my alicornhood and kill me now..."
DISCORD: "Finally! Oh, you silly little ponies have no idea how infuriating it's been to sit on the sidelines while you all deliver uninspired opening zingers! Well, except for Pinkie, that meta one back for 'Feeling Pinkie Keen' and Twilight's response was gold. Now, I can show you all how it's really done - "
REMANE 5: "Surprise!"
RARITY: "Wha...! But, I... what are you all doing here? You're cutting into valuable screentime for me to chew the scenery! I was saving all that for the episode's last third!"
TWILIGHT: "Would you look at that, Spike! Our opening screenshot shows off that most useful of animation principles - smearing! Okay, it's mostly wind, but it counts! How often do you see that in Flash?"
SPIKE: "..."
TWILIGHT: "...you don't know what smearing is, do you?"
SPIKE: "...No..."
One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?
FLUTTERSHY: "It's exactly this kind of weirdness that put me off poison joke. Though sometimes I mix it into Angel's carrots when he's been misbehaving."
RARITY: "Do - You - Have - Any - Idea, how long it took me to clean my coat and mane of all this desert dust and bit of cacti! Twice as long as it should have, with Pinkie's words still ringing in my ears! Oh, darling, you'd better believe I let Rainbow Dash have it!"
RAINBOW DASH: "'Unicornia?' The name is Pegasopolis!"
DIAMOND DOG: "My... precious..."
RARITY: "Oh, please, not-darling, that reference is so overdone."
APPLEJACK: "...Y'know, I don't think the layout artist and animator of this here shot thought about the implications it has as a still image..."
APPLE BLOOM: "What d'ya mean, big sis?"
GRANNY SMITH: "Git outta here, you young whippersnappers, before those there creepy grins of yours give ma granddaughter the wrong impression!"
APPLEJACK: "What does this mean, Pinkie?"
PINKIE: "Not sure, but I've had this doozy every week on Saturday evenings for the last six or seven weeks. Maybe it means someone somewhere is writing up about our adventures?"
"Listen up, dweeb, it's not my fault they never brought me back after Season 5. That doesn't make me any less important then the other originally-one-time character from these pair of episodes! You got that, you pink puffball?"
TWILIGHT: "You see, Princess Luna? If you just show other ponies the real you, they'll learn to love you all the same!"
LUNA: "If you say so, Twilight Sparkle. And perhaps then we might enjoy the same level of popularity that you generate amongst your fans?"
TWILIGHT: "Huh? Luna, haven't you been on the internet?"
FLUTTERSHY: "You know what they say, my poultry friends. It's always the quiet ones. You don't want to know what I'll do when I get really angry. Let's just say a dragon made me angry, and he didn't like what I did."
TWILIGHT: "Hm. Feels like this would be a good point to insert a meta-joke about how I look very much like my future Princess self in this shot, with the glowing heavenly/demon eyes and everything. Here we go -"
APPLEJACK: "No, Twilight, no we're not doing that, sugarcube."