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We got the really cool "Duck Season/Rabbit Season" tribute in the latest episode of MLP, I have a feeling "Baby Cakes" was inspired by Chuck Jones' "Rocket Bye Baby". Even the Cake kids look like Chuck Jones babies..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzKm6jlR9Gw

I KEEP seeing this name pop up, I might just have to take a look at it...

You'll be glad you did. It reminds me alot about MLP. Both shows look cute and simple at first glance, but are far more than meets the eye! AT is a tad bit darker considering it takes place after the Apocalypse..Hmm. Just noticed all my favorite AT episodes were written by Rebecca Sugar. Wonder what she could do with MLP.

Why is that back pony not connected to the cart

I dunno. Maybe he was able to unlatch himself from the cart so he could sit down for a moment and then just hook himself back up before leaving. Ha! They forgot to collect their money!

Didn't Fox originally drop Family Guy off the network, and when it gained popularity on sister channels they brought it back?

Yeah, it was a hit on Adult Swim and it sold MILLIONS of DVDs.

Well, toys and DVDS! Look what happened to Family Guy. The ratings were usually pretty awful, but it sold a ton of DVDS. So the show was brought back...

If only they put out a MLP DVD worth buying!

The cuteness factor of this show always goes up when a pony is either defeated or overwhelmed, so they roll on their backs like puppy dogs. So cute.

Wonder what the Mare to Stallion ratio is in Ponyville. There's got to be 20 females to 1 male there, as you hardly ever see any guys running around. Not like that's bad or anything...

Are the ponies hooves actually hooves? Because Rarity's proven they can get pruney in a hot tub.

...So are they just flesh...?

Nah. She was just showing how long she was in the hot tub. And she must have been there very long to prune hooves!

The movie just got 20% more cooler since the very great and very underrated Billy Connolly will be playing the head dwarf, Dain Ironfoot.

I do like the name of this topic. I keep picturing one of those old 1940/1950's film strips. "THE FUTURE OF THE ATOM!". But you got Derpy in a white lab coat with a few test tubes at her side. WHERE WILL DERPY BE IN THE YEAR 2000? (Shows Derpy flying around with a jetpack and knocking BUILDINGS OF TOMORROW over.)

Ha! Only took one Rainbow Dash to defeat Starscream!

I'd prefer you DONT spoil it for me though I do ahve to ask, is it (1) serialized, and (2) is it really aimed at an older audience or is is just well-drawn kiddy fare?

It's basically one just really long story. So I guess it's serialized. If that's what you mean. If reminds me of MLP in a way. They took out all the crap that made the previous versions unwatchable and made it cool. And like MLP, the creators are very fan friendly. They have blogs and whatnot and encourage fans to chat it up with 'em. And 2..It's suitable for teens. There is violence, but not the bloody kind. People do die. On screen.

Also, somone mentioned the new Thundercats - I was wiating for the season to end since I was told it was serialized, but I got hooked on FiM before that so I never saw it, but I plan to when my FiM addiction addles a bit, likely in the summer or something. I've heard VERY mixed reviews, but a lot that say it's more "Anime-like" which is enough to pique my interest... (one person even went so far as to say its NOT aimed at kids...?)

Oooh! I'm a Someone now! Wooh! I've enjoyed it so far. It's the toon I WOULD HAVE loved when I was a kid. Don't want to ruin it for you, but it's alot of fun. You'll probably see a proper season 1 DVD of this before you see one for MLP.

I now have a decent Droid Optimus..er..prime..V..Good phone. Great camera and video recorder. Does everything well, but play games...BEFORE that, I had a VERY old phone, not 1, 2 or 3, but 4-Evers! I really must of had it for seven years. It didn't do anything well, except make phone calls, and it was sturdy as heck..I must have dropped it like a zillion times...From all sorts of distances. However, it did not survive my Derpy moment when I left it on top of my car for an entire summer day during a rainstorm. Derp.

Ha Ha! Look at you fellas talk'n about some girly show! Har Har!

*Goes back to watching MLP*

I dunno. So far they took two series that I HATED when I as growing up. The Thundercats and MLP. Shows I wouldn't touch as a little kid...And they really did something great with 'em. Wonder what other shows they could bring back and ACTUALLY make something fun with...Hmmmm.

And the He-Man series that was done a few years ago wasn't that bad. Shame it didn't last long.

Looks like someone posted a direct link from that site. Funny. The strip above wasn't posted then... This is what the poster wanted us to see..

Still no changes for the episode on "Hub On Demand.", guess we'll just have to wait and see when Derby pops up again..

(Though honestly, the day they introduce guns, imo, is the day the shoot themselves in the foot and jump the shark. That will ruin the series for me...)

Nah. Guns won't run it for me. Guns are cool. Humans on the other hand. The day one of those two legged critters pops up in the show will be a real 'Jump the shark' moment for me.

I'm guessing it would be hard to hold and operate a gun with your mouth..so pies are always good for anything..Picnics...Rampaging buffalo....

This was mentioned in another thread, but I thought I'd bring it up here.

Over a Barrel, at the end of the "shootout" there was a moment that looked very much like the Chief was dead and not getting back up, the entire music shifted, the attatude of the characters changed, it was very somber and seemed like there was going to be no happy ending... I'd call that a very hard 'touch' on death there, so in retrospect I think even moreso that the team *could* handle death in a logical and well-constructed manner.

Yeah. TV Tropes had a bit on this one, they said, "At the end of the battle in the town, the way the apple juice from the pie that hits Chief Thunderhooves is dripping reminds this troper of a head wound causing blood to drip down the face."

The fact that he is a robot is completely irrelevant to children. To them, he is another person, a living being equal to or better than a human being. I think, therefore I am.

I was watching an episode the Batman; The Animated series with its commentary turned on, and one part Batman was fighting this robot replica of a police officer (Harvey Bullock). The creators (Forgot who was talking. maybe Paul Dini) pointed out that they were very limited on how they could show violence to humans, but when it came to robots, even robots that looked human, the sky was the limit! So they were able to show a human type robot having a rather gruesome death.

I've tried to get people to watch the show. TRIED, but they think of the previous lovey dovey hugs kisses pink pink Care Bear stare type shows and get a big NOWAY!!!. I've put up random clips and Epic Pie Time on my Facebook account and while it was mostly ignored, I did get a few smiles and knowing nods from those in my lists that do watch the show. Not outright "MY FAVORITE SHOW EVAR!!!11", but hints.

Furthermore, modern shows have higher expectations on being 'politically correct' - re: totally inoffensive and possibly really bland - than those of the 80s and early 90s. If you go further back, you'll find examples of discrimination and violence in 50s-70s cartoons that wouldn't get past any censorship board of the modern 00s or 10s era. Simply because it was done 20-30 years ago does not mean that modern censorship will consider it acceptable.

As someone who has watched a lot of toons during the 90's, some channels had stricter censorship laws/rules than others. When Batman:The Animated Series was on Fox Kids, they had some draconian type rules, some made sense (On screen deaths) to just silly (Could show homeless men, but no homeless women or children). The creators did a rather funny comic strip detailing what they couldn't show on Fox. Once the show moved to WB, they were able to make the toon closer to the funny books. They would have never made episodes like "Mad Love" or "Over The Edge" on Fox. Heck, you couldn't even say "Death" or "Dead" or 'Die" in most 90's toons. Note all the butchered anime episodes on CN. Nobody ever died. They were SENT TO ANOTHER DIMENSION!

And I agree. Probably won't see any on screen deaths on this show..But still, they've gotten stuff past the censors before..

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Radar/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic

"Sisterhooves Social" and "Baby Cakes" to be surprisingly hard-hitting and poignant, and if they keep up that sort of intensity, I don't think the show will be lacking at all for darkness or seriousness.

Yeah, and who in their right mind would ever think a show called MY LITTLE PONY would make a reference to one of the darker scenes in the movie, "Trainspotting"?