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• The Adventures of Daring Do. Nice choice of a character. Fits very well for Rainbow Dash's tastes. Then again, even the Daring Do character was a recolored RD. But I didn't see the huge stone ball from Indiana Jones
  

Yeah, it was missing the obligatory rolling ball trap to escape, and the Indy Hat Roll. However, the vine swing representing the whip swing, and the whole mental preparation to grab the statuette were pretty good references ^^

She could fly just very slow and carefully, when she's running from the hospital she does fly a little, so I assume if she took it very slow and easy she coudl make it up to her house from one of the higher hills or atop a building

Or she enlisted the help of a friend to help carry her up there?

Sesame Street addressed death!? Wow Henson pushed the envelope on what was appropriate, though I have to admit it is an important subject and he did seem to really care about kids.

It wasn't planned, AFAIK, but one of the older human cast members, and a prominent one, named Mr. Hooper passed away, and it was decided that instead of letting his character fade into obscurity the best way to honour his legacy was to address it in a lesson.

Note that this episode happened way before I ever was born, so I'm going off what information I can find. The only cartoon I personally saw addressing tough issues was Arthur.

Before launching into the debate, I just noticed something.

In the episode (time code 07:37, give or take) just as Daring Do is standing up, she groans, and yet her mouth is voicing something. Anyone good at lipreading enough to read it? It looks like she's cursing to me.

Also, was anypony else disappointed that the obligatory Indiana Jones reference was missing?

Every time there's an adventurer that wears a hat, and they have to outrun a closing door, they MUST slide under the door, lose the hat, and grab it last minute. It was missing here, sadly.

Also, what kind of book is that if someone like Rainbow Dash can read it in one day?

While the scale suggests otherwise, I suspect it's meant to be an "airport novel" (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AirportNovel), a novel written to be cheap, relatively short, and full of enough action, immediately off the start, to keep the reader interested. Stuff like Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt books come to mind.

Well, I was incredibly excited for this episode and was not disappointed. It wasn't the greatest episode in the series but it reminds me of a few people I know personally, and its one of my favourite tropes when it comes to fiction: the athlete or whatever having a passtime they outwardly consider beneath them.

Eh...I would definitely not see drug use as something that this show can touch on. Alcohol, while not very likely, I could see happening. Drugs no...especially because Rainbow Dash IS already extremely skilled. If it was going to happen, set-up wise, I could see Rainbow Dash getting into a race of some kind, then a callback to Sonic Rainboom where its clear she cracks under pressure, learns about a mysterious, unnamed drink that calms the nerves, which she then ends up needing for almost every event she participates in (maybe some kind of triathlon or something).

However, I just think the whole concept of drug/alcohol abuse is a tad too grimdark for the world of ponies. And while subjects like death can be touched effectively (like the Sesame Street episode that did it), something like this is definitely something that adults would have to address on their own time with their child, IMO.

I don't see it happening due to the age of the target audience being low enough to not have any exposure to alcohol and the dangers of it.

Should it happen, however, I have faith that the writers could do it properly.

Roleplay Type: Mane RP

Name: Timbre Swing (Timbre pronounced tain-bruh, a French word for tone)

Sex: Male

Age: Stallion

Species: Unicorn

Eye Color: Blue

Coat Color: Muted green

Mane/Tail/Markings Color & Style: shaggy, unkempt mane and tail, both muted blue.

Physique: a bit taller than the average pony, and a bit on the thin side for a stallion as well.

Cutie Mark: Power of Music

Origin/Residence: Canterlot, but now he has no steady residence.

Occupation: Double bass player, swing musician, and scat singer.

Motivation: To enjoy life to the fullest, and bring back swing music where he can.

Character Summary: Timbre Swing was born in Canterlot to a Fancy family (but not THE Fancy family, as his father would jokingly remind people). Growing up was a mixed experience for him: half of the time people would either be fascinated by his accent, others would make fun of him for barely being able to speak Equestrian (which improved over time, though the thick accent remained). Still, Timbre made the best of it, and he has no regrets at all. Around the time he was about to pass into his colt stage, he learned he had quite an incredible talent, the one that earned him his cutie mark.

It had come out in a talent show, but originally he'd learned to do it on his own without knowing how remarkable it was. His mother would often play music as she worked in her workshop, fixing up instruments people brought on. As Timbre Swing often watched, he got to know the music. Eventually, the music would get him to hum, but the humming soon became more than humming. One day, he began attempting to imitate the trumpet with his voice, which at first was a bit rough and just caused him mother to chuckle and tell him to stop. But Timbre didn't...he kept practicing, and he had become so adept at scat-singing (though he had no idea that was its name) that he impressed his parents quite a bit when he was cleaning up the living room and scatting, improvising a tune of his own. Timbre decided to enter a talent show, putting his voice up against real musicians and singers. Though Timbre Swing didn't come out on top (but darn close), his energetic performance, which consisted of him dancing and improvising a song to a very basic tune played over record, resulted in his cutie mark. He didn't notice, so caught up in thinking ahead in his mind and reproducing the noises he needed with his lips, but everyone else did: at the climax of his performance, his cutie mark appeared mid performance, causing the crowd to cheer quite wildly for him. From that day on, he'd been refining his scatting ability, trying to become the best at it if he could.

Timbre didn't stop right there with music though. While working one day, his almost second-calling happened. He worked for an old antique store in his little section of Canterlot. While cleaning out the back room, he found a very old phonograph, with a dusty, but still intact record on the turntable. He retrieved the phonograph, cleaned it up, and set the record turning. He had never heard the kind of music that had come out of the record before...his mother usually played slow jazz and classical music, but the

that came from the record was something he'd never heard anywhere before. It was jazzy, but faster paced, loud...it was swing jazz. Of course, he'd known part of his name, Swing, came from a kind of music but his parents had never told him what it was specifically. And nopony he'd talked to had ever heard of it. He brought the record home from the antique shop and immediately set to work trying to learn more about it.

Timbre Swing eventually did. He learned that it was an old style of music not often listened to anymore, as most people listened to the pop, rock, and other kind of music. Timbre made it his unofficial mission to bring it back. But he knew he couldn't just use his scat-singing to do what he needed to do...he needed something else. So, Timbre saved up a while lot of money at work and eventually bought himself a beautiful used double bass...and subsequently taught himself how to play it. Now, Timbre could play a bass line and fill in the rest with his voice. He had his instruments, and he was ready for fame...and he wasn't even a stallion yet.

The moment he DID become a stallion, he said goodbye to his parents, stuck a black fedora on top of his head, stuck his double bass in its wheeled case, and made his way out into the world to make a name for himself, and swing music. His energy filled performances and excitable personality have earned him a small number of loyal fans, and how he's getting out of Canterlot to try and expand his fanbase.

Dapper Dan clapped with the crowd after the band played. They were skilled, that was without a doubt. He wished he had any kind of skill with an instrument. He could sing, sure, but Dan's singing really came into its own when he was mixed in with another three singers to create a quartet harmony, and as far as he could tell nobody like that was here in Appleoosa. He set his hooves down and tried to hold in a laugh as the white mare practically ran off stage to come meet him. He smiled and dipped his head, using his magic to sweep his newsboy cap from his head. "Hey there." he said pleasantly, sticking his hat back on his head. He smiled, noticing her cutie mark as her dress flared up. A boxing glove? Strange for a talented fiddle player, but he wasn't going to judge at all. Everypony's talent was their own, after all. And besides, he had no idea what it represented exactly...obviously fighting, but fighting meant many things.

"You're...Haymaker, right? You have some talent on the fiddle." he said with a warm smile. "I'm Dapper Dan." he added, holding out a hoof. He caught, over her shoulder, her two siblings looking over at them and speaking amongst themselves, but he didn't comment or try to make it too obvious, instead letting his green eyes wander back toward the mare's.

"Pleasure to meet you."

Yes, this definitely has me raising an eyebrow. I have met a few mentally disabled people, and one of my friends during elementary school was a child with Downs Syndrome. Never ONCE did it cross my mind that Derpy was meant to be an underhanded jab at that at all. I can also guarantee St. Germain did not intend for the character to be like that. The voice for Derpy only comes out as "slow" in her first line while she's bouncing on her cloud. For every other time she spoke, Derpy's voice reminded me of a good friend of mine, who isn't bright but is not mentally disabled at all (in fact this friend is basically the male version of Derpy. A bit clumsy, a little on the slow side, and walleyed, but a great guy nonetheless). Hopefully Hasbro realizes they're making a problem out of nothing, and recants on this.

Then id like for it to be switch for advertisement for an application in ether crossovers or FFA RP

All ya gotta do for that is just edit your original post, so that Type of RP is either Crossover (where RPs and RP characters are based in other works of fiction) or FFA (Free For All, which as the name suggests is free to do as you please, within reason, with characters and plots).

Read it and Weep's got a teaser clip up over here. No dialogue, but it kinda reveals pretty much why Dash would take a sudden interest to books. Maybe.

My excitement for this episode has just shot through the roof.

It also pleases me to know Indiana Jones references continue for yet another generation.

Interesting idea, however I just want to add my two bits on one thing. Being that she's for the main RP, you need to change any reference to Trixie unless TripleB (Brianblackberry) gave you permission for this. Without permission no previous relationships with cast ponies are allowed, sorry.

Edit: If you have permission for this then disregard my post and carry on ^^.

I was definitely Prance as well. As for the character, I was listening to a whole lot of French electroswing, and I kinda wanna make a French double-bass swing musician straight out of the 1920s, lol.

I have a quick question. Based on the show itself, we know French is a language recognized in Equestria. Apple Bloom spoke it, and Applejack recognized it (as bein' fancy!), the Flim Flam brothers use the term "nonpareil", Fluttershy mentions "French haute-couture" in one episode (the one where Rarity is making their dresses), and when speaking with Sapphire Shores in an episode, Rarity uses an entire sentence in French. We have an expy in the RP for Russia (Stalliongrad), Germany (Germaney), and Italy (Itaily), but do we have one for France? I only ask because I have a character idea (Several, in fact) that I would want to come from a French-speaking background, so if we have a France that'd be great, or something equivalent. And no, it's not an essential background to the characters, but something I would like.

Also, the screenshot of the Crusaders looking at the potion glasses seems to imply that they've somehow mixed it up themselves, without Zecora being involved. That's good, because I really don't think Zecora would help them with that (except possibly on Trollestia's orders), and Apple Bloom has learned her lesson about stealing Zecora's herbs. Maybe they got the recipe from that book on the right of the shot.

I dunno, I could totally see Zecora helping out if the CMC gave her a good enough story to do it.

Whereas Flim and Flam knew exactly what they were doing when they offered the Apples an extortionate deal, and then goaded Granny Smith into a foolish wager when their deal was rejected. Sure, they didn't kill anypony, but they planned to drive a family out of business and off their land, in the name of making some quick bits. They can't even claim that financial hardship is forcing them to do it, because they could make plenty of money by working legitimately with the Apples, either as contractors or as honest competitors. They attempted to destroy a family's livelihood in the name of greed, and they didn't show the slightest bit of remorse in doing so. That's pretty dreadful.

And you know, that's what makes me like Flim and Flam. I really, really love villains like this, the conniving ones who try and get their way by manipulation and words, not brute force and terror (like NMM). It's a similar reason as to why I like Iago from Othello, to me they fit squarely in TVtropes' Magnificent [Expletive for illigetimate child here, which I doubt is boardsafe] category.

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Even though it looks like it'll end in some disaster ( like any other plan masterminded by the CMC ), I still d'awww

Is it okay to come out of the spoiler tags now or uh

I think we were clear from spoiler tags long ago.

That pic of Cherilee and Mac is ridiculously cute.

Because it's fun!

SPOILERCEPTION. We need to go deeper.

I really hope Hearts and Hooves actually ends well. I find shipping cute at times but seriously, I would love to see a proper canon couple. In addition, I love Big Mac and would love to see an episode where he gets great backstory. However, looking forward so much to Read it and Weep.

Some of us are afraid that FiM is starting to cater to our tastes as older fans, which might fundamentally change one of our reasons for liking it. Now discuss.

On the alcohol thing, for me its just a minor injoke. If others see it differently so be it. It's not really a debate for me, I just find it an amusing idea.

This line though..I don't think they will. They know their target audience and Hasbro makes sure of that. While yes there are subtle references that they know we're here (Derpy talking and being named, Derpy appearing constantly, Doctor Whooves, Lyra and the other BG ponies making appearances, pop culture references, etc), I doubt it'll go further than that.

[Note: a fundamental reason I watch this show is because it has characterization and writing quality reminiscent of old 90s cartoons I grew up on and miss dearly, so even if the references got more obvious so long as they kept that I'd be fine.]

I dont understand this nonsense about it being Alchoholic? Cider here is fresh pressed apples that is delicious and sold only in the fall...

NO alchohol whatsoever..

I would have to disagree since the mugs in the episode almost hint at the possibility. Plus, supposedly in European countries, most apple cider is alcoholic.

In the show, it's immature to say that it is 100% an alcoholic beverage. But the joke of apple cider being a spiked drink isn't that hard to understand.

But all they did was press apples and put them in barrels! They didn't ferment them or anything, it's obvious all their cider was is fresh squeezed perfect apples...

EXACTLY like they make it here.

Hate to burst everypony's bubble, but it couldn't have been hard cider, because it did not ferment. All of the apples put in were fresh, and it was served fresh.

It's not actually hard cider, but in my opinion there was a slight joke at it being alcoholic. Again, something only we can get through sublte jokes: the frothiness of the cider, the beer stein-esque mugs, the looks on pony's faces as they drink, etc. Sure, it probably wasn't written in the script as hard cider, but I'm sure it must have been an in-joke at some point. Remember MLP:FiM is filled with these kinds of things which only an adult might piece together and get a chuckle at.

To me, this comes down to two tropes:

http://tvtropes.org/...rapPastTheRadar (this article even has an MLP page)

http://tvtropes.org/...othyMugsOfWater

Finally, I think this episode had just the right level of "adult bonus". The adult viewers all know that cider is often alcoholic, making everypony's obsession with it just that much more amusing. I'm certain that the shot of Berryshine being so very disappointed at not getting any cider was an entirely intentional shoutout to fandom's portrayal of her, while being entirely harmless to young viewers.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the implication was totally intentional. Just look at the looks on the ponies' faces as they drink the cider, and the tap they have to pour from into the tankards: the barrels have spigots, but they're pouring from a separate tap almost like a beer tap. Also applejack (the drink) comes from cider, and they mention it taking time to make (implying fermentation). I think they definitely wanted it to be seen as alcohol for the adults.