My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

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Personally, I'm a big fan of the show. Completely different from the old series and somehow extremely hilarious :lol:

Here's an episode for you to watch before judging it.



EDIT: I forgot to add the fact that I liked the new animation graphics and morals learned.
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Evil Brony putting tv show topics in the wrong forum. :noway:
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This amazing thread has been moved to the Harlequin Theatre! \:D/
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We don't pay for cable anymore = no more Hub = no more ponies. :( or maybe :D
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Young&Mighty wrote:Personally, I'm a big fan of the show. Completely different from the old series and somehow extremely hilarious :lol:

Here's an episode for you to watch before judging it.



EDIT: I forgot to add the fact that I liked the new animation graphics and morals learned.
You're 19 and you like My Little Pony?
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19 year old guys watching My Little Pony is cool. :yes:
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Lee wrote: You're 19 and you like My Little Pony?
There is a pretty big contingent of My Little Pony fans who are guys in high school and college. They are called Bronies and rule over large portions of the internet. :(
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The Top Crusader wrote:
Lee wrote: You're 19 and you like My Little Pony?
There is a pretty big contingent of My Little Pony fans who are guys in high school and college. They are called Bronies and rule over large portions of the internet. :(
Whoa. :shock: This is very odd...
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Lee wrote:
The Top Crusader wrote:
Lee wrote: You're 19 and you like My Little Pony?
There is a pretty big contingent of My Little Pony fans who are guys in high school and college. They are called Bronies and rule over large portions of the internet. :(
Whoa. :shock: This is very odd...
Not really. ;) I know lots of older people who like little kid things.
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I had a purple My Little Pony lunchbox and thermos when I was little. :inlove: *fond memories*
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Personally, I was quite judgmental of the show myself before I started watching it. I cringed at the theme song and skip it every time I watch a new ep, but other than that, it's awesome. Way better than the previous generations.
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BobbyCow wrote:
Lee wrote:
The Top Crusader wrote:
Lee wrote: You're 19 and you like My Little Pony?
There is a pretty big contingent of My Little Pony fans who are guys in high school and college. They are called Bronies and rule over large portions of the internet. :(
Whoa. :shock: This is very odd...
Not really. ;) I know lots of older people who like little kid things.
...and I am one of them. ;) Except I'm not sure whether that counts. I'm only 15...
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A little history about the franchise in the medium of animation, for reference:
Once upon a time, there were My Little Pony dolls. You can thank a designer named Bonnie Zacherle and the toy company Hasbro for that. They had soft, brushable manes, cute little marks on their flanks, and tremendous appeal to little girls.

Then, in the early 1980s, someone decided to make a TV special to promote the line. It's all sugar, rainbows, laughter and a gentle female chorus for the first two and a half minutes, and then horrible dragons descend from the sky oh what.

In time, there was a cartoon series. It was an odd mix of cutesiness, adventure, rainbows, and finding ways to respond to horrible threats to Ponyland every other week. Bigger fans than I can give you more on the details if you're interested.

It was followed by another cartoon series called My Little Pony Tales, much of which can be described as an animated quarter-hour sitcom centering around middle schoolers except they are ponies. (I've gotten the impression that this somehow left the biggest mark on how the cartoons are perceived.)

Meanwhile, the ponies moved on to a second "generation" of dolls. You might think that they would match up with Tales, but they didn't actually have a cartoon series based on them. Weird. Come to think of it, Transformers did the same thing.

Around 2003, "Generation 3" sprung up, and with it came a series of animated movies (mostly in the 45-to-60-minute range) which... well, they were cutesy, simple, I understand that they were popular with the female 3-8 age group...
...and now this is happening.

In late 2010, a cartoon called My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic premiered, along with a cable channel called the Hub, "Generation 4" of the toys, and...

You know what, I could try to describe what sets it apart from the rest of the pack, and I probably will at some point in the thread. However, if you think that you have room for the ponies in your life, I recommend that you look up the first episode, "Mare in the Moon", and draw your own conclusions. (I wouldn't normally suggest this, but the show's own creator linked viewers to a pirated video of the first episode on Youtube "in case you don't get the Hub", and that seems to have worked out pretty well.)
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I've watched a couple of episodes, and this show is actually quite entertaining. :- My cousin, a self-professing female Brony, also explained the cheerfully authoritarian nature of Princess Celestia's reign, the pony race's enslavement of bovine-kind, and the previous war between the unicorns, pegasi, and earth ponies. :yes: I find myself increasingly fascinated with pony society.
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I find it so weird that I just got back from a church retreat where I became good friends with a female brony who draws them obsessively and then I discover this thread.
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Amethystic wrote: female Brony
They are called pegasisters when they're girls.

I know this guy who's a total brony. He has a sketchbook and 95% of his drawings are of those ponies! I'm not even kidding. He started this sketchbook in like January and that's all he's drawn. I, personally, think it's weird, but to each his own.
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Wow, I thought the "brony" thing was a joke when it was first posted above, but no. The Bronies just got their own 4chan board a couple days ago. Creepy. I'll have to find the MLP/Big Lebowski episode. (I didn't post a link to the article I found about it due to language. And, well, the language in the original movie itself.)
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Lee wrote:
The Top Crusader wrote:
Lee wrote: You're 19 and you like My Little Pony?
There is a pretty big contingent of My Little Pony fans who are guys in high school and college. They are called Bronies and rule over large portions of the internet. :(
Whoa. :shock: This is very odd...
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darcie wrote:Wow, I thought the "brony" thing was a joke when it was first posted above, but no. The Bronies just got their own 4chan board a couple days ago. Creepy. I'll have to find the MLP/Big Lebowski episode. (I didn't post a link to the article I found about it due to language. And, well, the language in the original movie itself.)
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The Top Crusader wrote:AIO need a 4chan board. :(
Adventures in Odyssey desperately does not need a 4chan board.

In case anyone doesn't know, 4chan is a very large message board (or, more specifically, "image board") that has long since become infamous for being a sort of breeding ground for the worst the Internet has to offer. It does other things, but that kind of thing stands out.

...and I thought My Little Pony got their own 4chan board at least a year ago. They actually have an interesting history together. A surprising number of people credit 4chan with making the new cartoon so popular to begin with.
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