There are absolutely no episodes in season 1 that can rival the

>>30859442
>quality
If you mean purely by an animation standpoint, sure. Otherwise this episode was shit.

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>>30859442
28 Pranks Later is atrocious and one of the worst episodes in the entire series. I'm not a Dashfag, and I have a hard time understanding how there can be any with episodes like this. One of the common complaints about S6 is new writers not caring to watch previous seasons and making characters flat and OOC. 28PL is a prime example of that. It was written by some newbie who couldn't come up with a conflict other than "Rainbow Dash is retarded, never learns anything and fucks things up again". Her sudden obsession with pranking all of Ponyville comes out of nowhere, as her mischievous side was pretty much forgotten about for several seasons. This is dumb, uncreative and plain lazy writing. RD pranking Fluttershy is terrible, not just because she specifically refused to do that in S1, but also because it degrades Fluttershy's character. Most writers try and write her like she's a grown person now, not being afraid of anything and everything. But then people like that newfag come in and ruin any semblance of character development others are trying to build by making her a total coward once again. There's also a faux farting joke, and another joke downright repeats a similar gag from S1. 28PL is terrible on many levels.

>>30859487
Dash is very competitive and her friends challeneged her do better a pranking, so that explains why Dash wanted to up the ante a bit. Most of her pranks were pretty harmless too, like giving rarity free cake.

Dash never had a problem with pranking fluttershy, she wanted to do so in season 1, but didn't only because pinkie pie told her it would be a bad idea. Fluttershy had a right to be scared as she had no idea that the creature flying towards her was actually dash, she could have been in serious danger.

>>30859473
The episode was really good though, I don't see why people dislike it.

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This episode gave us fillyscouts so I have to let it off the hook. Sorry /mlp/, but that's just how it works

>>30860071
To be fair, they were in the comics first and the fillyscouts appeared in just for sidekicks (albeit the CMC weren't a part of them yet).

>>30859442
I didn't enjoy this one very much.

>>30859442
You're right
Not even S1's Spike episode could even touch how bad this episode was

>>30860071
I both hope and dread that they're gonna introduce this in EqG cause then my dick would explode.

>>30859442
Sure, if you completely ignore previous character development, think the impossible standard it sets for a "good prank" is reasonable, and ignore the glaring hypocrisy of the main six treating free cake as a more severe offense than deliberate emotional manipulation.

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Obvious troll is obvious.

There was one thing I could always say about MLP for years up until this episode: "MLP doesn't have fart jokes." Even in the season 3 finale Fluttershy's whoopie cushion didn't even make a fart noise.

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>>30860071
You mean these?

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>>30862143
There was no character development ruined by this episode.