My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E18 The Show Stoppers: Difference between revisions

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After fixing up Applejack's old tree house to use as a clubhouse, the Cutie Mark Crusaders go through a typical day of trying anything and everything to find their passion in life and earn their cutie marks. It ends in the usual string of failures, but then the girls learn that the school is holding a talent show. They decide to put together an act, hoping that will lead to them earning their cutie marks.

Things go badly when the girls branch out from what they ''know'' they're good at and do what they want (but are ''no'' good at) instead: Apple Bloom, who's good at fixing things but feels that's too mundane, develops choreography with some badly-incorporated karate moves. Sweetie Belle, who has an ear for music and a wonderful singing voice but is prone to stage fright, makes the costumes and sets, resulting in a mess. Finally, Scootaloo, a great dancer and acrobat who wants to sing in a rock band, writes the music and lyrics, resulting in a wreck of [[Painful Rhyme|Painful Rhymes]]:

 

 

When the night of the talent show finally arrives, the Cutie Mark Crusaders put out a very enthusiastic and ambitious (but also [[Stylistic Suck|very bad]]) [[Hair Metal]] performance, with off-beat singing, clumsy dancing and collapsing props that leads to them getting laughed off stage. Worse yet, they didn't even earn their cutie marks!

There's at least one bright spot in all this: the girls manage to win an award...for [[Medal of Dishonor|best]] ''[[So Bad It's Good|comedy]]'' [[Medal of Dishonor|act]].

 

 

* [[Absentee Actor]]: Fluttershy is completely absent, while Rainbow Dash and receives only a non-speaking cameo.

* [[Informed Flaw]]: Compared to where the Cutie Mark Crusaders start out at, their performance isn't actually that bad. It's balanced to have enough good elements to flow well and be fun to watch while having enough failed elements to be funny.

* [[Lower Deck Episode]]

* [[Shout-Out]]: Scootaloo's angry [[Head Desk|head desking]] at her piano while shouting "Never, never, ''never!''" is a nod to the old "Don Music" sketches on ''[[Sesame Street]]''.

** The costumes the Crusaders wear at the talent show make them look a bit like the Misfits from ''[[Jem]]''.

* [[Staggered Zoom]]: During the quote at the top of the page.

* [[Stylistic Suck]]: The Crusaders' performance.

* [[Title Drop]]: Twilight's preferred method of address to the CMC. She seems to be emulating her mentor Princess Celestia, who refers to any group of ponies younger than [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|herself]] (i.e., everyone) as "my little ponies".

 

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