Family-Unfriendly Aesop: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', the Giggle at the Ghosties song has [[An Aesop]] about how you're supposed to laugh at your fears... So if a scary looking guy comes up to you [[Sarcasm Mode|you should laugh at him]].

** More accurately, it was about laughing at the scary things kids see in the dark.

*** The whole episode is somewhere between Broken aesop, Space Whale aesop and idiot plot since the only reason the Apple family could beat the Flim-Flam brother's machine was because they got help from another 5 ponies who worked to exhaustion, the machine would have eventually defeated them if there was no time limit, and the whole town was going to let a couple of strangers to take over the city's main food supply. Not to mention that the whole conflict could have been evaded if someone had the insane idea of negotiating a fair price for both sides.

** The episode ''Dragon Quest'' has one at the end. At the end of the episode, Spike adopts a phoenix he names "Peewee" after refusing to smash the egg when Teenage Bully Dragons make him go on a raid. This is supposed to parallel how Spike was adopted as an egg and raised by something outside his species (IE: Ponies). One tiny little problem. No one knew who Spike's parents were and it's explicitly stated that they just found him as an egg implying his parents either died or abandoned him long before Princess Celestia found him an gave him to Twilight Sparkle. Spike, on the other hand, is '''well-aware''' who Peewee's parents are and knows where they live (IE: The Everfree Forest). Plus, he had plenty of time to go after the Phoenixes and return their egg to them. So, erm, [[Unfortunate Implications|kidnapping is fine as long as you intend to raise the child as your own?]]