Hello, humans! This is such an honor, to be named as representatives of Equestrian society to your strange magic-less ape world. Please, come and sit with us as we discuss such mainstays of Equestrian society as Jigsaw the pie-maker, eating worms with class, and the new savory scent of love from Hayburger. Hey, wait, where are you going?
Suggested talking points: Bank Scroll Exhibition, Home Alone Extended Universe, Deep Cover Secret Changeling Temp, Just Eat Some Dirt, Prench Fry Perfume, Upper-Class Lightning, Eyes in the Back of Your Butt
This is a crossover with the hit advice podcast for a modern era, My Brother, My Brother, and Me, and is not part of the Wibblyverse continuity. However, this is from a universe only a few degrees away from the Wibblyverse, so elements of it may pop up in that continuity as and when I feel like it would be funny.
The warning labels apply to nothing that actually takes place in the story (except profanity). This is just about three brothers hosting a radio show together, and the actual sex and violence is only discussed, as some of the questions they take and the answers they give can get pretty blue. If you've listened to the source material, it's pretty canon-typical.
Special thanks to question-submitters FanOfMostEverything (Just Eat Some Dirt), Darkstarling (Upper-Class Lightning), and Coyote de La Mancha (Eyes In the Back of Your Butt).
Always a fun spin on things, especially when it's deliberate.
I mean, we have an equivalent, but I still have numerous questions about the underlying framework of a version of Yahoo! without an Internet.
In any case, I was not at all expecting pony McElroys, but I look forward to seeing what you do with them. (Also, obligatory mention of the Oversaturated World's answer to the concept.)
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They apparently have radio, so who's to say they don't have internet?
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The decades between Marconi and ARPAnet? It's not exactly a direct step from one to the other.
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I . . . Know that. I was simply pointing out that if this story has one non-canon piece of tech, then why not another?
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Ah. Fair point.
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My concept of it was basically a huge system of public message boards spread across the continent -- corkboards and trees and the like where ponies could write messages and pin them up for others to answer. Of course, sometimes messages blow away, or the original posters never really get any answers, or they get lost in the shuffle, and anyone at all can write an answer, so it's a bit of a disaster. Just like the real Yahoo Answers, really.
I am far too excited to read more of this, even if it is just a highlights of MBMBAM. I want to see unique questions from the comments here, but that sounds like it could be a huge struggle to write. However you decide to handle it, I’m looking forward to reading it!
The use of Earth pop culture's a bit disconcerting, but the alternative is simultaneously creating and riffing on an entire cinematic history for Equestria.
Also, I do have to wonder how Spy vs. Spy vs. Spy fits into this.
Some branches of Equestrian covert ops have been known to go that deep. You didn't think Twilight's Canterlot friends were just visiting Lyra, did you?
I'm going to say Celestia's somewhere between indifferent to the constant invocation of her name and vaguely amused by it.
Would gem dice even be that expensive in Equestria? Given how they tend grow pre-cut, I wouldn't be surprised if all sorts of Platonic solids occurred naturally. (Also d10s.)
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TBH I hadn't considered that, but I imagine that the process of carving out the numbers would still be a fairly arduous process.
Pony McElroys? You've piqued my interest!
Are we sure another set of McElroys didn't find their way through a portal and decided to hijack the locals' show? Between this and treating dandelions as a joke food, I'm starting to wonder.
Yeah, there's a spine-chiller.
Something, something, orgasm of opportunity.
And just like that, they lost Princess Twilight. And I do feel like Rarity would have to physically restrain her from purchasing these fragrances, for the sake of romance and good taste.
This explains so much. And I think this may be the first time anyone's performed that particular crossover. Kudos.
Interestingly, Lobster used to be starvation food. And then used for prison food because it was so cheap. There were laws about how much of a prisoner's diet was allowed to be lobster. Similar to workers in Europe being fed salmon, and how Caviar can be peasant food.
Which makes sense really. Most of the best food all over the world comes from people desperate enough to eat ANYTHING and trying to make it palatable.
Heck, for a long time chicken was fancy upper crust food, because why would you kill a chicken for meat when you could have the eggs?
There's a whole fascinating history to what constitutes fancy food.
Some ponies moved on to doing stunts on massive clockwork mechanisms, but it just wasn't the same.
Delightful dive into a particular brand of madness. Thank you for it.
I literally have never heard of MBMBaM until now, and I love this.
That was when I started laughing. I didn’t stop.
Look, dude, if you’re not doing something with this, I will...
Deadlands was an awesome game.
Once again, you have made someone who has never heard of the thing you are parodying laugh anyway.
I can well imagine all the princesses and Discord listening to each broadcast, howling with laughter.
I got that one! I got that reference!
Oh, my. Thank you for that!
You didn’t.
YOU DID!
Oh, this was beautiful and delicious. Thank you so much for it!
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Go for it!
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Actually, 'Dadlands' was the one system on here whose name I didn't change. The concept is, you live in a valley full of Dads -- the Moms and the Kids vanished a long time ago, and now the world is divided into Dad Clans -- the Craft Dads, the Vacation Dads, the Sports Dads, etc. It's one of the wildest premises I've ever seen for a game, and the execution didn't disappoint.
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Oh, that does sound intriguing!
I did not know I needed pony McElroys in my life until I read this. I could picture them and hear them exactly saying this. Bravo good sir.
Come to think of it, if they’re our world’s McElroy analogues, do they send a monkey to college?