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MLP: Bringing your hoof down
13 years ago
Howdy! I'm gonna be showing off my massive bronyism by typing down my thoughts, realtime, as I watch the latest episode! I may or may not make a regular thing with this.
Apparently this is going to be a Fluttershy episode. Power to that pegasus! The title implies that she might double her mass via backbone growth.
Some may say that she probably already has it on account of other events happening in her recent days. The dragon, the cockatrice and so on. But old habits tend to die hard.
OKay, starting!
Fluttershy's feeding.... Wow, she's feeding her animals a bunch of what look like Templeton pellets! I was in 4-H for ten years raising animals and I'd recognize those pellets instantly! Best dry food for a wide variety of animals.
And.... wow.... Angel bunny's being a bit of a dick.
Sorry, a REAL dick.
Sorry, a melodramatic dick.
Sorry, an abusive, offensive dick...
Why do I get the impression that if they were marries, he'd smack her six ways from Sunday while hollering 'MAKE ME A GODDAMNED SANDWICH, WOMAN!!!'
*HUff*
Anyway...
So, like a battered wife, rather than calling the cops... although, calling them to tell that your fluffy bunny is abusing you would probably get you laughed off the line... she agrees to try to make the salad.
Heh... COPS: Equestria.
COPS is filmed on location with the stallions and mares of Her Majesty's Peacekeeping Task Force. All ponies are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law!
SO Fluttershy goes to market to get the ingredients for Angel's salad.
And immediately gets trounced on as she tries to get asparagus and everyone cuts in front of her. She of course, in what little protest she puts up, is ineffectual in her attempts.
Rarity and Pinkie Pie notice this and begin to lend a hand.
Heh, the last one to get some asparagus, a... nerd pony who looks like a friend of mine (Not kidding either!) and... *SNRK* Rarity begins to use her feminine wiles.
Hey Rarity, you really want to get his attention, agree to play D&D with him!
SO Rarity flirts the asparagus back and pops it in Fluttershy's bag.
The tomato stand wants two bits for three tomatoes and Fluttershy pays, though she wonders why it's two now when it was one earlier. I'm not even gonna touch the economic hoobajoo that I could and I'm here to watch My Little Pony, not stand on a soap box. Pinkie Pie, master of the Weirding Way, gets the price back down to one bit and they both tell Fluttershy that asserting yourself can be fun.
I'm more passive-aggressive, though not so aggressive. I'm a diplomat, but an assertive one.
So Fluttershy needs a cherry, and in her openness, admits that she wants it badly.
The salespony is shrewd, telling her that she can have it for ten bits.
I've watched enough American Pickers and Storage Wars and read enough books on negotiation to know that you NEVER show your desire for something you want.
Fluttershy should've flapped up, told him that he's lucky that he's the only cherry stand there since that one cherry that's left has bruises and cherries totally went out of demand weeks ago. But she's there to relieve him of the burden of this tarnished cherry for one bit.
Wow.... she tries to flirt like Rarity did and...
*Laughs*
Watching Fluttershy try to flirt is a unique experience ^_^;;
She tries Pinkie's approach and botches...
Rarity and Pinkie tell her that the cherry isn't worth that much and then some other pony lays down two bits for the cherry, which the seller agrees to, then utterly castrates Fluttershy by calling her a doormat.
Wow...
'Dear Princess Celestia... um... if it isn't too much trouble... would you please send this really mean pony to the moon?'
'Dear Fluttershy, That punishment was a one-time only event. I never chose my sister's fate. The Elements did. Further, using an ancient weapon against a pony you have a minor disagreement with is wrong. You just need to settle things with him in a mature and calm manner.'
'Dear Princess Celestia... He called me a doormat...'
'Dear Fluttershy, I'll go open the Elements vault...'
So Fluttershy makes the salad, without the cherry on top and...
And... Angel apparently clobbered Fluttershy and threw her, the salad and the cookbook outside....
'Dear Princess Celestia... if it isn't too much trouble, Angel bunny could use the Elements used on him too...'
'Dear Fluttershy, you wish to send him to the moon as well?'
'Dear Princess Celestia... Um... no. The sun.'
After Angel violently sends Fluttershy facefirst into the mailbox, she notices an ad for a willpower seminar being held in the hedges of Ponyville.
So, invoking Celestia as her witness, she declares she won't be anyone's butt monkey ever again.
Fluttershy heads to the front of the row and.... gets hit *again*, this time by Bonbon who's probably pissed that Lyra's not here with her.
Jeez, I'm surprised the poor thing doesn't have a black eye by now...
The seminar seems to be run by goats. Goats on security, goats on tech...
The stage opens up and a minotaur steps out, doing air punches and kissing his muscles.
Yanno, I was wondering when, in the Monster Manual, they'd be getting to one!
I can hear Lyra from the far back now...
'But a minotaur is half-bovine and half.... I KNOW HUMANS EXIST!!!'
The minotaur introduces himself as Iron Will and that he's there to get them all to stop being a pushover in their lives.
He tells them that he has utter confidence in his program and that it's for free if it doesn't work for them. Wait... Dr. Whooves is there. What's he need assertiveness lessons for? He's stared Daleks down for pity sake!
He tells them... DITZY DOO! I spotted her! Yay!
He... heh... pulls a Mr. T and tells them he pities the fool who doubts his methods.
Don't be shy, look em' in the eye! He tells them.
Iron Will selects Fluttershy as a volunteer... Heh... this is gonna hurt, isn't it?
One of Will's goat helpers blocks Fluttershy's way and Will tells her that she has to get past him. What's she to do?
She says she'll politely step around him. WRONG! Gingerly tiptoe around him? WRONG! Go back home and try again tomorrow? WROOOONG!
If somepony tries to block, show them you RAAAAAWK!!!!!
She shoves Flutershy into the goat, knocking him over. Heh.
NEver apologize when you can criticize, he tells her and then hollers 'WHY DON'T YOU WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING?!' at the goat.
Iron Will watches with bits in his eyes as she gets a little more backbone.
He then holds up Fluttershy, declaring that if his techniques can work for her, they can work for anypony and Fluttershy gets.... wow... one of her cutest smiles yet! :D
Later, she's talking to herself in the mirror, then steps outside to find the... gardener she met at the Canterlot Garden...?... over-watering her petunias. She asks if he'd stop, he tells her to let the professional handle it, so she stands on the hose and waits for a buildup.
Heh. He's all wet.
Her victory laugh is... heartmeltingly adorable...
There's a couple of ponies hauling garbage.... It's Bonbon and Daisy this time... And they're talking to eachother, trying to tell jokes. Fluttershy asks if they'd move their carts that are blocking the bridge and when they don't respond, she kicks their wagons... and not, so angry she wants to kick something, kick. I mean Applejack would applaud her potential applebucking skills, kick. I mean Kicks MacGillicudy kick.... The garbage topples onto them and they take the hint...
Fluttershy goes to Sugar Cube corner and... wow.... more assertiveness!
Ooooh dear... Pinkie Pie told a joke and was laughing, and Fluttershy recited 'You laugh at me, I WRATH AT YOU!' and retaliated...
Oh dear... I wonder if Discord's effects on her still linger?
Fluttershy calls for a taxi after stepping outside and when someone else hops in, she recites 'Cut in line and I'll take what's mine!' and then... leaps into the taxi and kicks the offending pony's ass... Which is not to say she harmed his donkey. No, she just went American History X on him...
Oh dear... Fluttershy just used the TRADITIONAL ROYAL CANTERLOT VOICE on her animals...
She goes outside and finds that rather than the faithful Ditzy 'Derpy' Doo on mail route, it's a pony who's got a seeing problem. 'You apologize, I PENALIZE!' she recites, then stuffs him in a mailbox, slaps his ass with a stamp and walks off...
Jesus...
A tourist asks her for directions and she's about to oblige, but saying so makes her drop her mail. 'You make me lose, I BLOW MY FUSE!' she roars.... thought cutely... and hurls the tourist away, inadvertently showing him where he wanted to go.
Rarity and Pinkie Pie see this and tell her she's taking it too far, that he did nothing to deserve that.
Fluttershy... proceeds to verbally *destroy* them... Tells them that their life's work, the both of them, is pointless, frivolous and it's throwing their lives away.
It isn't until she sees her vicious reflection in the puddle that she realizes she's been the wrong one on this.
They tell her that Iron Will's techniques of yelling at everypony aren't working. That she doesn't have to be nasty about her assertiveness.
In other words, the Cesar Milan approach. Not being aggressive, just dominant.
Iron Will shows up, saying he's there to collect his fee since he says the program's worked for her.
Iron Will knocks on the door and asks Fluttershy for what he says she owes since he heard on the street his training is working for her.
She tells him no. Pinkie Pie faints.
She tells him that he promised one hundred percent satisfaction or she pays nothing. She's not fully satisfied.
Good assertiveness!
She tells him 'No means no!' and he shrugs, decides not to make a scene and leaves, saying that 'No means no' would make a good catchphrase for his next workshop. Heh.
Fluttershy writes her letter to Celestia, saying that she can be assertive without being mean, all the while feeding her critters and when it comes to Angel, he's throwing a fit and she uses The Stare on him... heh. Yay continuity!
Well, good episode overall! Really good one, really!
Final thoughts: Good lesson, great laughs and seeing Fluttershy get into fights was just priceless!
Apparently this is going to be a Fluttershy episode. Power to that pegasus! The title implies that she might double her mass via backbone growth.
Some may say that she probably already has it on account of other events happening in her recent days. The dragon, the cockatrice and so on. But old habits tend to die hard.
OKay, starting!
Fluttershy's feeding.... Wow, she's feeding her animals a bunch of what look like Templeton pellets! I was in 4-H for ten years raising animals and I'd recognize those pellets instantly! Best dry food for a wide variety of animals.
And.... wow.... Angel bunny's being a bit of a dick.
Sorry, a REAL dick.
Sorry, a melodramatic dick.
Sorry, an abusive, offensive dick...
Why do I get the impression that if they were marries, he'd smack her six ways from Sunday while hollering 'MAKE ME A GODDAMNED SANDWICH, WOMAN!!!'
*HUff*
Anyway...
So, like a battered wife, rather than calling the cops... although, calling them to tell that your fluffy bunny is abusing you would probably get you laughed off the line... she agrees to try to make the salad.
Heh... COPS: Equestria.
COPS is filmed on location with the stallions and mares of Her Majesty's Peacekeeping Task Force. All ponies are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law!
SO Fluttershy goes to market to get the ingredients for Angel's salad.
And immediately gets trounced on as she tries to get asparagus and everyone cuts in front of her. She of course, in what little protest she puts up, is ineffectual in her attempts.
Rarity and Pinkie Pie notice this and begin to lend a hand.
Heh, the last one to get some asparagus, a... nerd pony who looks like a friend of mine (Not kidding either!) and... *SNRK* Rarity begins to use her feminine wiles.
Hey Rarity, you really want to get his attention, agree to play D&D with him!
SO Rarity flirts the asparagus back and pops it in Fluttershy's bag.
The tomato stand wants two bits for three tomatoes and Fluttershy pays, though she wonders why it's two now when it was one earlier. I'm not even gonna touch the economic hoobajoo that I could and I'm here to watch My Little Pony, not stand on a soap box. Pinkie Pie, master of the Weirding Way, gets the price back down to one bit and they both tell Fluttershy that asserting yourself can be fun.
I'm more passive-aggressive, though not so aggressive. I'm a diplomat, but an assertive one.
So Fluttershy needs a cherry, and in her openness, admits that she wants it badly.
The salespony is shrewd, telling her that she can have it for ten bits.
I've watched enough American Pickers and Storage Wars and read enough books on negotiation to know that you NEVER show your desire for something you want.
Fluttershy should've flapped up, told him that he's lucky that he's the only cherry stand there since that one cherry that's left has bruises and cherries totally went out of demand weeks ago. But she's there to relieve him of the burden of this tarnished cherry for one bit.
Wow.... she tries to flirt like Rarity did and...
*Laughs*
Watching Fluttershy try to flirt is a unique experience ^_^;;
She tries Pinkie's approach and botches...
Rarity and Pinkie tell her that the cherry isn't worth that much and then some other pony lays down two bits for the cherry, which the seller agrees to, then utterly castrates Fluttershy by calling her a doormat.
Wow...
'Dear Princess Celestia... um... if it isn't too much trouble... would you please send this really mean pony to the moon?'
'Dear Fluttershy, That punishment was a one-time only event. I never chose my sister's fate. The Elements did. Further, using an ancient weapon against a pony you have a minor disagreement with is wrong. You just need to settle things with him in a mature and calm manner.'
'Dear Princess Celestia... He called me a doormat...'
'Dear Fluttershy, I'll go open the Elements vault...'
So Fluttershy makes the salad, without the cherry on top and...
And... Angel apparently clobbered Fluttershy and threw her, the salad and the cookbook outside....
'Dear Princess Celestia... if it isn't too much trouble, Angel bunny could use the Elements used on him too...'
'Dear Fluttershy, you wish to send him to the moon as well?'
'Dear Princess Celestia... Um... no. The sun.'
After Angel violently sends Fluttershy facefirst into the mailbox, she notices an ad for a willpower seminar being held in the hedges of Ponyville.
So, invoking Celestia as her witness, she declares she won't be anyone's butt monkey ever again.
Fluttershy heads to the front of the row and.... gets hit *again*, this time by Bonbon who's probably pissed that Lyra's not here with her.
Jeez, I'm surprised the poor thing doesn't have a black eye by now...
The seminar seems to be run by goats. Goats on security, goats on tech...
The stage opens up and a minotaur steps out, doing air punches and kissing his muscles.
Yanno, I was wondering when, in the Monster Manual, they'd be getting to one!
I can hear Lyra from the far back now...
'But a minotaur is half-bovine and half.... I KNOW HUMANS EXIST!!!'
The minotaur introduces himself as Iron Will and that he's there to get them all to stop being a pushover in their lives.
He tells them that he has utter confidence in his program and that it's for free if it doesn't work for them. Wait... Dr. Whooves is there. What's he need assertiveness lessons for? He's stared Daleks down for pity sake!
He tells them... DITZY DOO! I spotted her! Yay!
He... heh... pulls a Mr. T and tells them he pities the fool who doubts his methods.
Don't be shy, look em' in the eye! He tells them.
Iron Will selects Fluttershy as a volunteer... Heh... this is gonna hurt, isn't it?
One of Will's goat helpers blocks Fluttershy's way and Will tells her that she has to get past him. What's she to do?
She says she'll politely step around him. WRONG! Gingerly tiptoe around him? WRONG! Go back home and try again tomorrow? WROOOONG!
If somepony tries to block, show them you RAAAAAWK!!!!!
She shoves Flutershy into the goat, knocking him over. Heh.
NEver apologize when you can criticize, he tells her and then hollers 'WHY DON'T YOU WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING?!' at the goat.
Iron Will watches with bits in his eyes as she gets a little more backbone.
He then holds up Fluttershy, declaring that if his techniques can work for her, they can work for anypony and Fluttershy gets.... wow... one of her cutest smiles yet! :D
Later, she's talking to herself in the mirror, then steps outside to find the... gardener she met at the Canterlot Garden...?... over-watering her petunias. She asks if he'd stop, he tells her to let the professional handle it, so she stands on the hose and waits for a buildup.
Heh. He's all wet.
Her victory laugh is... heartmeltingly adorable...
There's a couple of ponies hauling garbage.... It's Bonbon and Daisy this time... And they're talking to eachother, trying to tell jokes. Fluttershy asks if they'd move their carts that are blocking the bridge and when they don't respond, she kicks their wagons... and not, so angry she wants to kick something, kick. I mean Applejack would applaud her potential applebucking skills, kick. I mean Kicks MacGillicudy kick.... The garbage topples onto them and they take the hint...
Fluttershy goes to Sugar Cube corner and... wow.... more assertiveness!
Ooooh dear... Pinkie Pie told a joke and was laughing, and Fluttershy recited 'You laugh at me, I WRATH AT YOU!' and retaliated...
Oh dear... I wonder if Discord's effects on her still linger?
Fluttershy calls for a taxi after stepping outside and when someone else hops in, she recites 'Cut in line and I'll take what's mine!' and then... leaps into the taxi and kicks the offending pony's ass... Which is not to say she harmed his donkey. No, she just went American History X on him...
Oh dear... Fluttershy just used the TRADITIONAL ROYAL CANTERLOT VOICE on her animals...
She goes outside and finds that rather than the faithful Ditzy 'Derpy' Doo on mail route, it's a pony who's got a seeing problem. 'You apologize, I PENALIZE!' she recites, then stuffs him in a mailbox, slaps his ass with a stamp and walks off...
Jesus...
A tourist asks her for directions and she's about to oblige, but saying so makes her drop her mail. 'You make me lose, I BLOW MY FUSE!' she roars.... thought cutely... and hurls the tourist away, inadvertently showing him where he wanted to go.
Rarity and Pinkie Pie see this and tell her she's taking it too far, that he did nothing to deserve that.
Fluttershy... proceeds to verbally *destroy* them... Tells them that their life's work, the both of them, is pointless, frivolous and it's throwing their lives away.
It isn't until she sees her vicious reflection in the puddle that she realizes she's been the wrong one on this.
They tell her that Iron Will's techniques of yelling at everypony aren't working. That she doesn't have to be nasty about her assertiveness.
In other words, the Cesar Milan approach. Not being aggressive, just dominant.
Iron Will shows up, saying he's there to collect his fee since he says the program's worked for her.
Iron Will knocks on the door and asks Fluttershy for what he says she owes since he heard on the street his training is working for her.
She tells him no. Pinkie Pie faints.
She tells him that he promised one hundred percent satisfaction or she pays nothing. She's not fully satisfied.
Good assertiveness!
She tells him 'No means no!' and he shrugs, decides not to make a scene and leaves, saying that 'No means no' would make a good catchphrase for his next workshop. Heh.
Fluttershy writes her letter to Celestia, saying that she can be assertive without being mean, all the while feeding her critters and when it comes to Angel, he's throwing a fit and she uses The Stare on him... heh. Yay continuity!
Well, good episode overall! Really good one, really!
Final thoughts: Good lesson, great laughs and seeing Fluttershy get into fights was just priceless!
Ol'Squeaks was a little confused to the moral actually...
-Fluttershy is encouraged to be assertive by Rarity and Pinkie. And by assertive they both mean rather disturbing things. Pinkie seems to think it means argue loudly until you get what you want.
Rarity seems to think it means flirt and lie O_o
-Fluttershy fails at both so she goes to a class and learns to be assertive, and by assertive the class means downright callous and belligerent.
-Fluttershy tries being cruel and violent AND she gets everything she wants as well as being applauded by her friends!
-Then she steps over the line...apparently. Although what really seems to happen is she finds the VERY few inhabitants of Equestria who are not acting like jerks to her, like practically every other pony in this episode for no reason.
-She is convinced she's a monster when she sees herself angry...so she over adjusts and threatens to lock herself away.
-Her trainer comes up demanding his money. Rarity and Pinkie treat HIM like the cause of all this even though it was them from the beginning!
-The trainer demands his money. Fluttershy politely but firmly tells him off and he leaves without argument.
-FLUTTERSHY then writes a letter, when really the two to learn a lesson should have been Pinkie and Rarity who instigated Fluttershy's feeling unhappy about herself, steered her wrong, and applauded her meanness UNTIL it effected THEM.
-And in the end Fluttershy's proof of assertiveness is to use her stare...which she could already do anyway.
Overall funny, sweet, and entertaining, but somewhere along the line the moral got REALLY twisted in the Capn's opinion ^^;
Probably tax season or the like.
Those clouds don't move themselves after all!