I was playing on a Creative server at about 2 am one morning, and a friend of mine (the only other person on that early in the morning) was... relatively intoxicated at the time. He liked the show already because he browsed /b/ religiously, and we were talking about it. I always laughed at the reaction images but never actually considered watching the show (because, what. Little girl's show, right? Apparently not.), and when I mentioned it, he said, "You should watch the show, it's a total trip." I decided it wouldn't hurt to give it a chance, even though I hate most crap TV stations shove down our throats these days, and I was hooked on the show literally 30 seconds into the first episode. Watched the first 20 episodes in the span of a weekend, then was sad that I'd have to wait a week for the next to air. But, thanks to my friend, FiM is now one of exactly 4 shows I will turn a TV on to watch (with Mythbusters, Burn Notice and The Mentalist).